TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 991.

BEST TROLL EVER? Ted Cruz Just Poked Trump’s Massive Ego With a Pin.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Drive In The Snow, In A Regular-Ass Car, Without Freaking Out.

You are not actually required to lose your goddamn mind just because snow is falling. It is not the apocalypse. Neither physics nor society have been cancelled by it. It is not sulfuric ash. There are no abominable snowpeople stalking through it. It will not dissolve your body if it touches you. It is frozen water. You can drive in it, you can walk in it, you can stand in it long enough to help a fellow motorist get the fuck out of your way, you can ball it up and throw it at people who treat it like it’s the end of the goddamn world. It is snow.

Accordingly, driving a car home in the snow is still driving a car. This probably seems like snarky, unhelpful advice, but actually it’s not! Many drivers seem genuinely to believe that, when the road has snow on it, using an automobile to get from one place to another becomes a fundamentally different activity, with weird obscure properties that you don’t know, and so you creep along at two miles-per-hour with the brake pedal halfway depressed the entire time and, like, your goddamn hazard lights on, gripping the wheel in white-knuckled terror, as though at any minute, for no reason whatsoever, your car might decide to hang a 90-degree left turn and plunge into a ravine.

It’s not going to do that! It’s just a car. You know how to drive one of those. You just have to do it a little bit more carefully now.

And when you approach an uphill stretch, speed up. You need the momentum. That’s one of my pet peeves. If you stop at the bottom to get your nerve up, you have already failed.

UNEXPECTEDLY: The murder capital of Britain is revealed to be a sleepy Lincolnshire town – which is also home to the highest increase of migrants in the country.

THAT’S FUNNY. JUST A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO ANYONE WHO RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT THIS WAS A RACIST AND PROBABLY A NAZI. EU in “panic” as migrant crisis threatens borders.

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CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN: Last Year Police Tried to Stop Children From Sledding on Capitol Hill — This Year Had Quite a Twist.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘I Lift, Bro’: Prof MELTS DOWN About Conservative Event, Tries To Pick Fights With Students. His name is Robert Weide. He is an assistant professor of sociology.

JUNK SCIENCE: New Olympic Policy Will Allow Men To Compete As Women (and Vice Versa). “It means what you think it means: THE TOTAL RUINATION OF BEACH VOLLEYBALL.”

And more. Read the whole thing.

HERE ARE THE RESULTS OF LAST NIGHT’S INSTAPUNDIT READER POLL:

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Either Carry a Big Stick—Or Shut Up! “If the Obama administration cannot keep speak softly and carry a big stick, then at least it should keep quiet—and quit egging on those it cannot or will not deter.”

RICK PERRY endorses Ted Cruz.

IT’S LIKE MARS ATTACKS. THEY WANT THEM TO DIE. What do activists want from students accused of sexual assault?

Schools should not be able claim they are merely adjudicating school policy when they are in fact adjudicating an actual criminal offense. And given that the campus process frequently punishes the accused despite reasonable doubt (many such cases are not prosecuted in criminal court for this reason), it is unreasonable to go beyond expulsion to imposing the death penalty on an accused student’s future educational prospects.

What do campus activists want? One accused student told Buzzfeed what many others have felt: That activists and administrators want them to die.

“At first I thought they didn’t want me to participate in campus activities. Then I thought they didn’t want me to graduate,” the student said. “Now they don’t want me to have a job or be part of society. Do they want me to commit suicide? Is that what they want me to do? What is the endgame?”

Remember, these “campus activists” aren’t nice people who are just a bit overzealous. They’re nasty, awful, horrible people. They don’t mean well. They’re full of hate, and they want people to die.

AND NOT LOOKING MUCH WORSE FOR WEAR: The Coxless Crew complete 9,200 mile rowing voyage across Pacific, in pictures.

THEY NEVER SHOULD HAVE STARTED A FIGHT WITH MILO YIANNOPOULOS: Twitter announces major executive shakeup. Seriously, once they went full-SJW, it was pretty much a given that their stock price would tank.

ROGER KIMBALL ON MONTGOLFIER TRUMP: “Montgolfier Trump is currently aloft and riding high. It’s only a matter of time until the bubble bursts and he plummets to earth. How much time?  That, alas, is beyond my powers of prediction.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘Oppression Studies,’ Actual Oppression Coming to American University. It’s the fourth-best school in the DC metro area (5th if you count Maryland). This doesn’t help.

THE HILL: Clinton vows to win nomination to keep Bloomberg out of race.

Democratic primary front-runner Hillary Clinton on Sunday vowed to win her party’s nomination for president to “relieve” former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg of any thoughts of running for president.

“The way I read what he said is if I didn’t get the nomination, he might consider it,” Clinton said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Well, I’m going to relieve him of that and get the nomination so he doesn’t have to [run].”
“He’s a good friend of mine, and I’m going to do the best I can to make sure that I get the nomination, and we’ll go from there,” she added.

Bloomberg is reportedly considering a third-party White House bid if race comes down to Democratic primary candidate Bernie Sanders and Republican primary front-runner Donald Trump.

Maybe Bloomberg wants to throw it into the House by ensuring that nobody gets 270. Then the House could pick him over Trump. Problem is, would they do that? Seems doubtful. If the decision was the Senate’s and the GOP nominee were Cruz, then he might have a chance. . . .

WATCH MARCO RUBIO’S BEAUTIFUL, AMERICA-LOVING ANSWER TO A LITTLE GIRL’S QUESTION ABOUT THE FUTURE (Video).

GOOD LORD:

A new video released by the ISIS terror group late Sunday shows nine of the extremists who carried out the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris beheading and shooting captives, as well as training with weapons while plotting the carnage that left 130 dead in the French capital.

The 17-minute video shows the extent of the planning that went into the multiple attacks in Paris, which French authorities have said from the beginning was planned in Syria. The video was provided online by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi websites.

The video does not contain any footage of the attacks themselves, but is assembled from material shot before the men left for Paris, as well as news and amateur videos. The video did not specify where the nine men were filmed, but it was believed to have been in ISIS-controlled territory in Syria.

The video also contained threats against landmarks in London.

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I’VE GOT A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS: The GOP in 2016 Looks a Lot Like the Dems in 2004.

WASHINGTON POST: BERNIE SANDERS SAYS HILLARY CLINTON IS RUNNING A “DESPERATE” CAMPAIGN.

You’d be desperate, too, if you thought the best way to avoid prison would be to get elected to a position where you could pardon yourself.

ANDREW MCCARTHY: WHAT IF TRUMP WINS? I expect I’ll vote for whoever the nominee is. Trump’s not my first choice, but I’d certainly support him over the two socialists, Hillary and Bernie, or the control-freak billionaire Bloomberg if he enters the race.

Meanwhile, for those alienated from the Presidential race — regardless of the reason — I encourage you to get involved in Congressional and state races. You go to an election with the party you have, but there’s no reason that has to be the party you have in two, or four, or eight years.

FRED SIEGEL ON THE HOUSE DIVIDED:

Trump is both a reaction to and expression of liberal delusions. [Arthur] Schlesinger’s fears have largely come to pass; we’ve become what he called a “quarrelsome spatter of enclaves.” Schlesinger was too much a part of the elite to imagine that the class he always thought of as representing the best of the future would come to be despised by a broad swath of Americans for its incompetence and ineffectuality. But what Schlesinger saw on the horizon seems to have arrived, with no sign of abating: we are in the midst of a soft civil war.

Read the whole thing.

What Ayn Rand once dubbed a “Cold Civil War” in the early 1960s has in recent years become increasingly hotter. But if elites had been more competent civil servants and less eager to gin up class and race wars, they might not have caused conditions to go from Defcon-3 to Defcon-Trump.