WAIT, I THOUGHT DIVERSITY WAS OUR STRENGTH: White Flight: German Families Abandoning ‘Diverse’ Schools. In a virtue-signaling, preference-falsification environment, people will say all the right things. But what they do when their kids are at stake is more revealing.

THANKS TO FRACKING, THAT TSUNAMI SHOULD BE DRYING UP SOON: ‘Tsunami of money’ from Saudi Arabia funding 24,000 Pakistan madrassas.

While other people talk, the frackers are doing more to save Western Civilization than those allegedly charged with its preservation. And all despite the hostility of the Obama Administration, and many other Western governments.

UH OH: COLBERT KING IN THE WASHINGTON POST: Clinton email scandal: Why it might be time for Democrats to draft Joe Biden.

Kinda destroys Hillary’s claim that this is just a bunch of VRWC FUD.

Meanwhile, Joe’s tanned, rested, and ready.

ROGER SIMON AT GOP DEBATE HQ: It’s a Google Debate — We Just Live in It.

If you prefer your debate coverage a little less formal — and a lot less PC — than Google’s presentation, Steve Green and his trititanium* liver will be drunkblogging it tonight.

* Classical reference.

MY BROTHER DOES A SONG TO THE TUNE OF “COCAINE,” ENTITLED “ROGAINE:” Researchers making progress on understanding why people lose their hair as they age.

Something like this:

When it’s hair you lack and it ain’t comin’ back, Rogaine,
When you’re not quite bald, but you’re not wall-to-wall, Rogaine.
Rub it on, rub it on, rub it on — Rogaine.

Not sure how J.J. Cale would react. . . .

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Unicef Report Finds Female Genital Cutting to Be Common in Indonesia.

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: Iraqi migrant rapes a 10-year-old boy at a swimming pool in Vienna and tells police it was a ‘sexual emergency’ because he hadn’t had sex in months.

All the talk about “rape culture” seems to exclude the one the West’s leaders are eagerly importing.

I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN DEMOCRATS ONCE BELIEVED IN THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. Madeline Albright: ‘There’s a special place in hell’ for women who don’t back Clinton:

“A lot of the younger women don’t think — that think it’s been done. It’s not done. And you have to help. Hillary Clinton will always be there for you,” Albright said. “And just remember — there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.”

Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick, Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers all likely agree with that last sentence.

ROGER SIMON: Fear, Loathing and the Secret Service on the Campaign Trail.

The mad voter checks in from deep in the heart of media ground zero in Manchester, New Hampshire.

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: Here’s the First New DeLorean Commercial Since 1982.

AT AMAZON, fresh Lightning Deals, with new ones every hour.

Plus, deals in TV, Audio & Video.

NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE: The paper on Second Amendment Limitations that I presented at the Georgetown Second Amendment symposium in November. In it, I suggest that some previously accepted limitations on Second Amendment rights may be crumbling under lower-court scrutiny.

Download it early and often!

(Bumped.)

UPDATE: This is a nice endorsement.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Five Questions Women Should Ask Before They Get a Gun.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: PUERTO RICO ATTEMPTS TO PLUNDER WASHINGTON. “The economic giveaways and corrupt political cronyism allowed Puerto Rico to live beyond its means for decades. But the day of reckoning has finally arrived and Puerto Rico’s booty has been squandered. As viewed from the economic crow’s nest, financial ruin lays ahead…Puerto Rico has a small population of only 3.6 million people, nearly eleven times smaller than California. Yet, with $72 billion in debt, Puerto Rico nearly matches the Golden State’s state-funded debt of $97 billion. Walt Disney’s beloved pirate, Jack Sparrow, from Pirates of the Caribbean, said it best: ‘The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.’”

Be savvy and read the whole thing, mateys.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: De novo protein design space extends far beyond biology.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Why Are There New Editions of Tabletop Roleplaying Games?

Sometimes it is kind of about the money. But not always, Moe Lane writes.

OF COURSE, INSTAPUNDIT READERS HAVE KNOWN FOR YEARS THAT BMI IS A BOGUS MEASUREMENT WHEN APPLIED TO INDIVIDUALS: Some 54 million ‘overweight’ or ‘obese’ Americans are actually healthy, say scientists.

Watch the Mr. Olympia, and every one of those ripped bodybuilders with 3% bodyfat is “obese” according to BMI.

WELL, HILLARY DID TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OFF: New research shows why rest after a concussion is critical.

PLEASE CLAP: Is New Hampshire the End of the Road for Jeb?, Roger Simon asks.

Related: Jeb’s Super PAC May Have Hinted the End Is Nigh.

THE DANGERS OF HAIR TOURNIQUET SYNDROME.

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: America’s Economic Freedom Has Rapidly Declined Under Obama.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1003.

THEIR POLICIES DON’T BEAR DETAILED ANALYSIS: Sanders and Clinton Get Substantive. That’s Where They Go Wrong.

In previous debates, we got bogged down in the need for a new Glass-Steagall. Since the old Glass-Steagall hadn’t actually gone away, and no specific aspects of the theoretical new one were described, this had the ethereal, almost theological flavor of monks discussing how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. To put it in math-esque terms: The possible set of policies included in the phrase “new Glass-Steagall” was so large as to include nearly all possible outcomes, good and bad.

Last night, on the other hand, Clinton decided to stop mucking about with vague promises to bring Wall Street to heel. Instead, she claimed that she was a financial regulator of rare foresight and rarer steely will, hated and feared by the denizens of New York’s financial district. Presumably we are supposed to see that $675,000 she was paid by Goldman Sachs to make three speeches less as a warm gesture between close friends, than as the bags of gold left outside the city gates for the Visigoth king who is threatening to sack the place.

“But what I want people to know,” said Clinton, “is I went to Wall Street before the crash. I was the one saying you’re going to wreck the economy because of these shenanigans with mortgages. I called to end the carried interest loophole that hedge fund managers enjoy. I proposed changes in CEO compensation.”

Finally, specifics! And yet — this was a somewhat surprising claim. Those of us who were writing about financial regulation in 2007 do not recall Hillary Clinton as a fiery crusader against the financial industry. We remember her as being — like all New York senators — rather friendly to the place.

So I went looking for the support for this remarkable statement. Politifact rated a similar statement as true, based on some speeches she gave in 2007, and a plan she put forward in 2008. It is hard, however, to read this collection as a “warning that Wall Street is going to wreck the economy.” It would be more properly termed “Grousing about consumers who can’t afford their bubblicious subprime mortgages,” and vague remarks about transparency and oversight.

Well, Politifact.

MEDIA BIAS IN TWO PICTURES.