DON’T BE RIDICULOUS. IT IS WELL KNOWN WHEN WE LEAVE THE DEMOCRAT RESERVATION THEY CONFISCATE OUR VAGINAS: Kellyanne Conway Would Be A Feminist Hero If She Were A Democrat.

MEANWHILE IN THE CULTURE WARS: Cracks Appear Here and There.

2016, MAN: Sofía Vergara sued by her own embryos.

THEIR PRINCIPAL CHARACTERISTIC IS SURPRISE: Suppose It is a Black Swan?

THE ONLY WAY TO WIN IS TO REFUSE TO PLAY: Virtue Signalling: Game Theory’s Cheat Code.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Sting: Obama Isn’t Doing Enough To Fight Climate Change.

— CNSnews.com, September 22, 2014.

● Sting to headline NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards in Las Vegas.

— NASCAR.com, November 10, 2016.

As the Professor is wont to say, I’ll believe global warming is a crisis, when the people who say it’s a crisis start to act like it’s a crisis themselves. Sting getting a huge payout from NASCAR would be almost as bad as Al Gore getting a huge payout from Big Oil.

Oh wait…

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO TORTURE, MURDER: Woman arrested in boy’s death was convicted in torture case.

HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT PEOPLE ARE PUSHING BACK AGAINST LEFTIST IDIOCY A LOT HARDER LATELY? Mike Rowe is firing back after a critic said the American flag was nothing but “a mere symbol.”

A 40-FOOT FALL, A SEVERED SPINE, and a recovery via strength training.

AT AMAZON, 12 Days of Deals — Day 3.

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Plus: Save on Outlander Collector’s Editions – Seasons 1 & 2.

SO THE WASHINGTON POST’S PETULA DVORAK WRITES ON “FAKE NEWS” AND COMMITS . . . FAKE NEWS:

Five years ago, it wasn’t fake news but an equally careless use of words that helped incite an equally terrible burst of violence.

Supporters of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin put out a map with crosshairs targeting the districts of 20 House Democrats and urging folks: “Don’t Retreat, Instead — RELOAD!”

Then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was on that map and criticized it as soon as it was posted online and her office was vandalized.

“We’re on Sarah Palin’s targeted list, but the thing is that the way she has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district,” Giffords told MSNBC at the time. “When people do that, they’ve got to realize there’s consequences to that action.”

On Jan. 8, 2011, the consequences were chilling: Jared Loughner showed up with a gun outside a Tucson supermarket where Giffords was greeting constituents and killed six people and injured 20 more, including Giffords.

Still, as the funerals were being held and Giffords was in intensive care, Palin’s supporters insisted that crosshairs were never a reference to guns.

Words matter.

So do blood libels by established “mainstream” journalists pretending to write about “fake news.” This is a disgrace. Using the term “consequences” suggests that there was an actual connection between the events, that Jared Loughner was inspired to shoot by Palin’s map. As I wrote at the time in the Wall Street Journal:

The critics were a bit short on particulars as to what that meant. Mrs. Palin has used some martial metaphors—”lock and load”—and talked about “targeting” opponents. But as media writer Howard Kurtz noted in The Daily Beast, such metaphors are common in politics. Palin critic Markos Moulitsas, on his Daily Kos blog, had even included Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s district on a list of congressional districts “bullseyed” for primary challenges. When Democrats use language like this—or even harsher language like Mr. Obama’s famous remark, in Philadelphia during the 2008 campaign, “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun”—it’s just evidence of high spirits, apparently. But if Republicans do it, it somehow creates a climate of hate.

There’s a climate of hate out there, all right, but it doesn’t derive from the innocuous use of political clichés. And former Gov. Palin and the tea party movement are more the targets than the source. . . .

So as the usual talking heads begin their “have you no decency?” routine aimed at talk radio and Republican politicians, perhaps we should turn the question around. Where is the decency in blood libel?

To paraphrase Justice Cardozo (“proof of negligence in the air, so to speak, will not do”), there is no such thing as responsibility in the air. Those who try to connect Sarah Palin and other political figures with whom they disagree to the shootings in Arizona use attacks on “rhetoric” and a “climate of hate” to obscure their own dishonesty in trying to imply responsibility where none exists. But the dishonesty remains.

To be clear, if you’re using this event to criticize the “rhetoric” of Mrs. Palin or others with whom you disagree, then you’re either: (a) asserting a connection between the “rhetoric” and the shooting, which based on evidence to date would be what we call a vicious lie; or (b) you’re not, in which case you’re just seizing on a tragedy to try to score unrelated political points, which is contemptible. Which is it?

And with her outrageous smear, Ms. Dvorak illustrates why the traditional media no longer have the moral authority, and resulting trust, to police the debate as she’d like them to. They’ve pulled this kind of dishonest stunt too many times. Though with WaPo already facing lawsuits you’d think they’d be a bit more careful.

UPDATE: So this seems to be some sort of organized media campaign: Earnest Forced To Cite First Amendment FOUR TIMES, As Press Corps Insists White House Censor News.

And journalists wonder why they’re not trusted or respected anymore . . . .

HEALTH: A Mimosa a Day Might Save Your Life Because Guess What: Scurvy Is Back.

For what it’s worth, there hasn’t been a single case of scurvy reported at the Green family residence since we instituted Margarita Fridays back in 2011.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Homeless shelter employee arrested on accusation of having sex with teen. “Danielle Adams, 28, was arrested Wednesday, Nov. 23, on charges of second-degree sex abuse and furnishing alcohol to a minor after she allegedly had sex in the shelter with an at-risk teen under her care. According to the Hillsboro Police Department spokesman Lt. Mike Rouches, Adams was an employee at Safe Place, a Hillsboro homeless shelter that caters to homeless youth. Adams worked a graveyard shift at the shelter. The shelter, located at 454 S.E. Washington St., in Hillsboro, serves teens between age 12 and 19 who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.”

HILLARY’S SUPPORT COMES FROM “THE LOSER STATES:” The Blue State Depression:

When I say the blue states are in a depression, I don’t mean the collective funk they are in because they lost the election to Donald Trump.

I’m talking about an economic depression in the blue states that went for Hillary. Here is an amazing statistic. Of the 10 blue states that Hillary Clinton won by the largest percentage margins — California, Massachusetts, Vermont, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, Illinois, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Connecticut — every single one of them lost domestic migration (excluding immigration) over the last 10 years (2004-14). Nearly 2.75 million more Americans left California and New York than entered these states.

They are the loser states. They are all progressive. High taxes rates. High welfare benefits. Heavy regulation. Environmental extremism. Super minimum wages. Most outlaw energy drilling. The whole left-wing playbook is on display in the Hillary states. And people are leaving in droves. Day after day, they are being bled to death. So much for liberalism creating a worker’s paradise.

Now let’s look at the 10 states that had the largest percentage vote for Donald Trump. Everyone of them — Wyoming, West Virginia, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Kentucky, Tennessee, South Dakota, and Idaho — was a net population gainer.

This is part and parcel of one of the greatest internal migration waves in American history as blue states especially in the northeast are getting clobbered by their low tax, smaller government rivals in the south, southeast and mountain regions.

By the way, pretty much the same pattern holds true for jobs. The job gains in the red states carried by the widest margins by Mr. Trump had about twice the job creation rate as the bluest states carried by Hillary.

Read the whole thing.

2016, MAN: Trailcam photos of naked, tripping man who thought he was a tiger.

RED LINE: Syrian rebels in talks with U.S. about surrender in Aleppo, evacuation.

The lesson our Nobel Peace Prize-winning President taught the world is that using chemical weapons pays.

FLASHBACK: My 2010 Nashville Interview With Andrew Breitbart. Note his discussion about the “contempt” that people in media and politics have for middle America. And note his comments on charges of “racism” at 12:31. Plus the later discussion of a European “Tea Party” movement.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Lab-grown meat may be meal of the future.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: University Student Demands We Shouldn’t Take Finals Because Trump’s Election Has Been Stressful.

Trump? You kids don’t know what real worry is like – when I was in school, our final exams were taken in the shadow of atomic war, nuclear winter, disco, and Fred Silverman’s NBC programming. Not to mention what was on the other channels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32mUKvMFJEA

POST-TRUTH MEDIA SHOULD LOOK IN THE MIRROR: Fine post by Steven Hayward at Powerline.

To the contrary, speaking of “fake news,” I recall a certain prominent journalist—I’d rather not repeat his name—who trafficked in a wholly fake news story about a president, and whose forged documents were defended as “fake, but accurate.” So the media doesn’t have a lot of standing to complain about “fake news” just now, let alone a “post-truth” world they helped create.

Read the whole thing. A month ago I wrote a column that argued our biased media is America’s most grave strategic weakness. Points made in that column dovetail with Hayward’s post.

NEW FRONTIERS IN EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION: Blacks vs. Mexicans.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Here’s What Happens After Guy Fieri Visits A Restaurant.

HEH.

Ben Carson, where white guilt ends. https://t.co/1O3HcFr6E0 pic.twitter.com/7Tc22icbHR

— Lou Perez (@LOUontheSUBWAY) December 6, 2016

CURRENTLY $1.99 ON KINDLE: Amity Shlaes’ The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression.

ASKING THE QUESTIONS NOBODY CARES ABOUT: Is craft beer still too white?