PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: Breitbart News planning lawsuit against ‘major media company.’

“Breitbart News Network, a pro-America, conservative website, is preparing a multi-million dollar lawsuit against a major media company for its baseless and defamatory claim that Breitbart News is a ‘white nationalist website,’” the statement reads.

“Breitbart News cannot allow such vicious racial lies to go unchallenged, especially by cynical, politically-motivated competitors seeking to diminish its 42 million monthly readers and its number one in the world political Facebook page. Breitbart News rejects racism in all its varied and ugly forms. Always has, always will,” the statement continues.

“The diversity of the company’s news coverage and its staff continue to embody Andrew Breitbart’s colorblind, distinctly American commitment to ‘E pluribus unum’—out of many, one.”

Well, to be fair, nowadays support of colorblindness and a melting-pot mentality counts as racism.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: This world-first brain implant is letting a ‘locked-in’ woman communicate: Paralysis is about to get a whole lot less lonely. Also, faster, please.

THE CLINTONS AND THE LONG GOODBYE TO ARKANSAS: “She cut her ties to the state when they left for Washington,” says Tim Griffin, the Republican lieutenant governor. “She chose not to live here. You had a choice between a Republican from New York who wants to boldly change Washington and a liberal from New York who represents the status quo. I mean, that’s a no-brainer.”

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-DOMINATED INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF MISOGYNY AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION? Washington Post Staff Angry After ‘Inappropriate’ Election Night Stunt at Paper’s HQ. “If you couldn’t gather from the quote, a woman at the paper’s casino-themed, MGM-sponsored Election Night party was wearing napkins as she served guests and staffers. They were encouraged to remove the napkins.”

IRA STOLL: Affordable Care Act’s Unpopularity Helped Trump Win 2016 Election: What was Obamacare, in the end, but an arrogant overreach by an elite out of touch with the rest of America?

Flashback: This one never gets old.

NOW THEY ASK: Will America Now Have a Pravda? With Breitbart.com’s Steve Bannon now in a seat of White House power, Donald Trump will have a weapon no president has ever wielded, Jack Shafer claims at Politico.

• CTRL-F David Rhodes, zero mentions.
• CTRL-F John Dickerson, zero mentions.
• CTRL-F Stephanopoulos, zero mentions.
• CTRL-F Sharpton, zero mentions.
• CTRL-F Andrea Mitchell, zero mentions.
• CTRL-F Tavis Smiley, zero mentions.
• CTRL-F Katie Couric, zero mentions.
• CTRL-F Bill Moyers, zero mentions.
• CTRL-F Gwen Ifill, zero mentions.
• CTRL-F Candy Crowley, zero mentions.
• CTRL-F Martha Raddatz, zero mentions.
• CTRL-F Jeffrey Goldberg, zero mentions.
• CTRL-F JournoList, zero mentions.

And while I’m not at all sure the late Andrew Breitbart would approve of what’s become of his site over the past year, surely he would get a chuckle over the notion that’s now on the level of mandatory consumption, as Pravda was for Soviet citizens.

HUH. WHAT’S CHANGED THIS YEAR? Thanksgiving Invites Now Ban ‘Political’ Talk. Why Not in 2008, 2012?

THAT MANY? Trump Wants To Deport As Many Undocumented Immigrants As Obama Already Has. “Much of the protesting of Trump’s election has been motivated by his stated plans to deport “two…even three million” people, but as President Obama leaves office with extraordinarily high approval ratings, the legacy of his administration regarding deportations isn’t receiving the same kind of scrutiny as Trump’s prospective policies. Put simply, President Obama presided over the deportations of over 2.5 million people—that’s more than the previous two administrations combined over a period twice as long—and by far the most of any administration ever.”

I THOUGHT YOU HAD TO AT LEAST BUY A TICKET BEFORE YOU COULD EXERCISE YOUR HECKLER’S VETO: More than half of arrested anti-Trump protesters didn’t vote in Oregon.

SAFE SPACES, ARKANSAS EDITION: Bowen School Of Law Offers Post-Election Counseling To “Upset” Students.

A law school spokeswoman also did not return my request for comment. However, I’m going to go out on a limb and say there would’ve been no “counseling services” at Bowen if Hillary had won. Conservative students probably would’ve just had to work through the grieving process of no border wall being built by the incoming Clinton Administration on their own. I think it is fair to call the law school’s decision an extraordinary failure of judgment — implying, as it does, that a taxpayer-funded school should pick sides institutionally, and react to elections with Republican outcomes by supplying grief counseling and perhaps, later, provide a kind of imprimatur to other electoral outcomes.

Robert Steinbuch, a law professor at Bowen who has previously defended Trump at our humble blog, said in an interview that — in his over ten years of employment at Bowen — the only times he can recall counseling being offered to law students was after a student had committed suicide. Steinbuch said those instances were “obviously tragic situations” where on-campus counseling was justified. However, Steinbuch doesn’t believe the tragedy of a student committing suicide is the equivalent of a Republican being elected to the Presidency.

I guess the law school administrators feel otherwise.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Roger Goodell Is Bad For The NFL and America.

Related: Colin Kaepernick said he did not vote in Tuesday’s presidential election:

On Sunday, after the San Francisco 49ers lost 23-20 to the Arizona Cardinals in Glendale, Arizona, Kaepernick defended his action.

“You know, I think it would be hypocritical of me to vote,” Kaepernick told reporters. “I said from the beginning I was against oppression, I was against the system of oppression. I’m not going to show support for that system. And to me, the oppressor isn’t going to allow you to vote your way out of your oppression.”

IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, a very favorable review of my colleague Maurice Stucke’s book (coauthored with Ariel Ezrachi of Oxford), Virtual Competition: The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy. Excerpt:

“Virtual Competition” displays a deep understanding of the internet world and is outstandingly researched. The polymath authors illustrate their arguments with relevant case law as well as references to studies in economics and behavioral psychology. There are almost 100 pages of endnotes. But the writing is clear and lucid, and the text is sprinkled with wonderful illustrative vignettes. There is the story—a “joke in IT circles”—of the man who excused himself in the middle of an important business meeting because he noticed several advertisements for alarm systems popping up on his smartphone. He was convinced that his house had just been burgled. And the story of the man who complained to Target because his high-school-age daughter was receiving promotions for baby clothes and cribs: “Are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant?” Later he apologized. “It turns out there’s been some activities in my house I haven’t been completely aware of. She’s due in August.”

The most controversial issue raised by the book concerns what governmental responses and intervention are appropriate. One view would be that any regulation should be “light touch.” An attempt to overregulate is likely to stifle innovation and interfere with the most dynamic sectors of our economy. On the other hand, the super-platforms have enormous power, and as they expand their data advantage and market power they will increase their competitive advantage. The two largest mobile super-platforms, Apple and Google (Alphabet), are the world’s most valuable companies in market capitalization. Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft are not far behind. “We cannot assume that the digitized hand will always protect our welfare,” say Messrs. Ezrachi and Stucke. At the very least we need to ask ourselves if the 20th-century regulatory framework is appropriate for the 21st-century digital economy. “Virtual Competition” is a very useful step in that direction.

You know, given that President-Elect Trump has said he wants more antitrust regulation for Internet businesses, he could do worse than appointing Stucke to head the Antitrust Division at Justice.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1286: Rep. Jordan Says He Will Continue To Push For IRS Chief’s Impeachment.

FASTER, PLEASE: Yes, Trump’s Going to Dump the Iran Deal.

MEGAN MCARDLE: There’s No Shame In Joining The Trump Administration.

I don’t see a moral obligation for anyone to serve in a Trump administration. But people who opposed Donald Trump, on both the left and right, should commit right now to one thing: We will not tar good people for joining the Trump administration. Their motives will not be questioned, and if things do turn out as some of his critics fear, the people in his foreign and domestic policy apparatus will not suffer guilt by association. It is just too important that Trump have good advisers.

Trump will be the least policy-savvy president in history. He has built no ideological framework for future policies, much less a set of detailed proposals. He has few advisers, in part because so many of the usual contenders have come out against him.

Now he is going to have to have advisers. He is going to have to staff regulatory agencies. He is going to have to decide about policy priorities, and push legislation to advance them. If smart, competent people refuse to be a part of that, because they think it’s likely that they will suffer permanent stigma from having joined his team, then Trump’s administration will still do all those things — but it will do them poorly, and the nation will suffer. . . .

When I tweeted a much shorter version of this thought this morning, I was beset by angry progressives talking about “Vichy” and “quislings” and saying that they wanted the Trump administration to fail as spectacularly as possible. While I understand the grief that those people are feeling, America, and the world, cannot afford this kind of thinking. There are things more important than political fights. One of them is making sure that the man in charge of the world’s biggest rich economy, and its biggest nuclear arsenal, has smart and sober-minded people around him. We all need to do everything we can to make sure that’s the case.

No, like everything nowadays it’s all about the feelz.

DON SURBER: Do Not Underestimate Keith Ellison. Hey, Surber was right when he said this about Trump.

SHELLACKING: Democrats Got Wrecked Again in State Legislative Races, and it Matters More Than You Might Think. “In Minnesota, Republicans erased a 38-28 Democratic majority in a single election and will enter the 2017 session with a one-seat majority in the state Senate (they flipped the state House in the 2014 midterms). Aside from Donald Trump’s shocking win in the presidential race, the outcome in Minnesota might have been the biggest surprise of election night, but it fits within a national trend. Democrats are struggling to hold legislative majorities, even in typically blue-ish states like Minnesota. In red or purple states? Forget about it.”

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OUT: AMERICA NEEDS A NEW ERA OF CIVILITY AND LESS GUN TALK. IN: WRITER OF TAXI DRIVER EXPLICITLY CALLS FOR ARMED VIOLENCE AGAINST TRUMP:

Film director and writer Paul Schrader, who used to be somebody many years ago in Hollywood, has taken to Facebook to call for “violent resistance” to protest the election of Donald Trump. Actually, the keyboard guerilla has gone to the extent of claiming to be willing to take up arms. Schrader claims to be enraged by “alt.right nut jobs” but as you can see in his Friday (ironically Veteran’s Day) Facebook post, Schrader is obviously living out his violent fantasies in an alt.world:

I have spent the last five days meditating on Trump’s election. Upon consideration, I believe this is a call to violence. I felt the call to violence in the 60’s and I feel it now again. This attack on liberty and tolerance will not be solved by appeasement. Obama tried that for eight years. We should finance those who support violence resistance. We should be willing to take arms. Like Old John Brown, I am willing to battle with my children. Alt right nut jobs swagger violence. It’s time to actualize that violence, Like by Civil War Michigan predecessors I choose to stand with the black, the brown and the oppressed.

Travis Bickle ponders, you talkin’ to me?

PEN AND PHONE: Trump’s Broad Powers to Revoke Tax Regulations Issued By the Obama Administration.

REMEMBER WHEN EVERYONE SAID HE WAS RUNNING A FAKE CAMPAIGN WITH NO TV ADS? Social Media Campaign Helped Win It For Trump. “A wave of negative tweets, Facebook posts, YouTubes and other social media aimed at Hillary Rodham Clinton helped turned enough voters against the Democrat to switch close states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Florida for President-elect Trump, according to a new analysis. Statistical evidence showed that the anti-Clinton campaign gave Trump a 1 percent advantage, and that was enough to shift a handful of states.”

PORKBUSTERS UPDATE: House GOP Weighs Proposal to Bring Back Earmarks.

One week after Donald Trump won the presidency on a promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington, House Republicans will vote on a proposal to bring back earmarks.

The vote will take place Wednesday when House Republicans meet to adopt their rules for the next Congress. The House earmark ban dates to 2010 when the GOP won control of the chamber.

Now, a trio of Republican lawmakers wants to return to the practice of earmarking, which became synonymous with government waste and pork-barrel spending during the GOP-controlled Congress of the early 2000s.

Reps. John Culberson of Texas, Mike Rogers of Alabama, and Tom Rooney of Florida are listed as sponsors of the amendment, a copy of which was obtained by The Daily Signal.

Pathetic. Maybe these guys need to hear from people, especially constituents, about this? I didn’t think I was going to have to pull that PorkBusters logo out of deep storage, but hey, eternal vigilance, right?

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ANALYSIS: TRUE. Obama: Dems Need To Reflect On Election Loss.