HILLARY’S SECURITY DISEASE INFECTS REST OF STATE DEPARTMENT, TOO: Foggy Bottom’s Bureau of Energy Resources was created during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State. The bureau’s purpose was to be the department’s heartbeat for energy diplomacy and security issues. But Katie Watson of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group says State’s Inspector General found an amazing level of disregard for keeping sensitive and classified information out of the wrong hands. The laxity is so widespread in the bureau that nobody checks if secured government equipment is being taken out of the office at the end of the day.

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THIS WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN A POSITIVE REVIEW: The Mercedes-AMG S65 Coupe Perfectly Encapsulates the Seven Deadly Sins: Something wicked this way comes. A turn in Lucifer’s personal ride.

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And shop the Amazon Emergency Prep Store. Plus, Emergency & Long-Term Storage Food Deals. When bad things happen, it’s good to have food.

Plus, Generators and Portable Power for Storm Season. Or if a generator isn’t practical, consider an inverter.

There will be more winter storms. And when they’re over, it’ll be time for spring and summer storms!

DISCOVER THE ONE WEIRD TRICK OF THE TRUMP AND SANDERS CAMPAIGNS.

SURE, THAT’S A PROVEN FORMULA FOR PREVENTING BAD BEHAVIOR: University Of Texas Wants To Run Itself Like the NFL.

SHIKHA DALMIA: What To Do About Flint? Evacuate The Residents And Turn it Into a Landfill for Liberal Good Intentions; Liberals simply won’t quit blaming privatization for the government-made disaster. Well, it’s not like they can blame unaccountable public employees. That would threaten the whole feedlot.

ADVICE FOR PARENTS OF SMALL CHILDREN: Don’t Be Afraid Of Dirt.

Dr. Maya Shetreat-Klein has a message for the parents of small children: Don’t be afraid of dirt.

She is a firm believer in the idea that children in Westernized countries today grow up in a world that can be too sanitized. They spend less time outdoors exploring nature and more time in front of screens than they did two decades ago. They eat foods that are heavily processed. Many do not know what it’s like to taste fresh, seasonally grown foods plucked from a garden with nutrient-rich soil.

Dr. Shetreat-Klein, a pediatric neurologist in New York and an instructor at New York Medical College, explores these themes in a new book, “The Dirt Cure: Growing Healthy Kids With Food Straight from Soil.” The book delves into research that suggests that spending time around farms, parks and other green spaces can benefit children in surprising ways, protecting against allergies, enhancing immune function and potentially even improving attention span and academic performance.

Outside play and dirt are good for kids.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Exoskeleton Makes Robotic Roach Flexibly Squishy.

ANDREW McCARTHY: Huma Abedin and the Tangled Clinton Web.

She’s had a rough month — give her a hug!

IF, THAT IS, THEY’RE STILL AROUND BY SUMMER: Twitter Is Gearing Up To Interfere In The Election.

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JUST FRESH MEAT FOR THE A-10s: Watch a Russian Tank Battalion in Full Attack Mode.

USA TODAY EDITORIALIZES ON HILLARY AND WALL STREET: It’s hard to recast yourself as a populist after you’ve fed at the trough.

KAMALA HARRIS: The Next Obama? She’s got more of a record than he had, and it’s pretty bad.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Sanders and Trump are selling magic.

Take Sanders’ New Hampshire victory speech. It promised the moon: college education, free; universal health care, free; world peace, also free because we won’t be “the policeman of the world” (mythical Sunni armies will presumably be doing that for us). Plus a guaranteed $15 minimum wage. All to be achieved by taxing the rich. Who can be against a “speculation” tax (whatever that means)?

So with Trump. Leave it to him. Jobs will flow back in a rush from China, from Japan, from Mexico, from everywhere. Universal health care, with Obamacare replaced by “something terrific.” Veterans finally taken care of. Drugs stopped cold at the border. Indeed, an end to drug addiction itself. Victory upon victory of every kind….

Sanders’ magic potion is socialism; Trump’s is Trump.

Someone should write a book about how that works.

MOST ASTUTE TAKEAWAY FROM DEM DEBATE: Black Lives Don’t Matter to Clinton and Sanders–Only Black Votes. The self-proclaimed “Conservative Black Chick,” Crystal Wright, has an oped in The Telegraph that documents the vomit-inducing racial pandering of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton during last night’s Democrats’ debate:

Sanders’ solution to his black and brown problem is to break bread with Sharpton in Harlem. The good Reverend Al, who hasn’t given a sermon since I can recall, never met a racial riot or protest he didn’t want to incite.

How insulting to black people that Sanders thinks all he has to do is meet with a buffoon like Sharpton to secure the black vote. As I wrote in my new book Con Job, Democrats “don’t grant blacks permission to be free-thinking individuals”. We’re merely supposed to follow the orders of a profiteer like Sharpton.

Not that Sanders is any better than Clinton, who in 2008 spoke in a “black” accent at a campaign event at a black church in Charleston. Democrats in general take the black vote for granted and insult blacks as political dummies. . . .

The fact is Hillary will say and do anything to get elected and black votes matter to Hillary more than black lives ever will. It’s outrageous for any black American to vote for Hillary. They’d be voting for their demise. . . .

What’s so sad is the black vote can be won or bought so easily with these optical illusions from Democrats like Hillary and Bernice. No other race in America but blacks votes solidly for one party and allows themselves to be politically manipulated like stuff animals. . . .

THE REPUBLICANS SHOULD TALK ABOUT THIS: Jonathan Macey: The Rise Of Crony Capitalism. “We may think that corruption is a problem of poor nations, but there is a great deal of crony capitalism in the United States. . . . A strong, independent judiciary is thought by scholars to be an antidote to both wholesale and retail crony capitalism. Evidence of this is somewhat mixed. The U.S. boasts a legitimately strong and independent judiciary, but crony capitalism certainly exists in this country, and appears to be on the rise.”

This could be a big issue for the GOP. Hillary can’t talk about crony capitalism because she’s neck-deep in it, and Bernie can’t talk about it because that would be a tacit admission that non-crony capitalism might be okay.

I SHOULD NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT BY ACCIDENT, BUT WITH THE STRONG SUPPORT OF FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATORS: Liberal intolerance is on the rise on America’s college campuses. I hope that, at the state and federal levels, we’ll see legislation protecting free speech on campus — and providing accountability for universities, and university employees, who suppress it or allow it to be suppressed.

Related: At St. John’s University, Violence And Threats Over A Trump Sticker.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Socialism not as hot as its spokesman: The young voters flocking to Bernie Sanders may find his rebel status more alluring than his ideas.

DON’T DO STUPID SH*T: U.S. Allies Now Fighting CIA-Backed Rebels

Iraqi militias who once fought ISIS with U.S. help are now working with Russian and Iranian forces to crush American-backed rebels in the strategic Syrian city of Aleppo, two defense officials have told The Daily Beast.

At least three Shia militias involved in successful battles against ISIS in Iraq—the Badr Brigade, Kata’ib Hezbollah, and the League of the Righteous—have acknowledged taking casualties in fighting in south and southeast Aleppo province. U.S. defense officials confirmed to The Daily Beast that they believe “at least one” unit of the Badr Brigade is fighting in southern Aleppo alongside other Iraqi militia groups. Those groups are backed by Russian airpower and Iranian troops—and all of whom are bolstering President Bashar al Assad’s Syrian Arab Army.

It’s almost as if nobody over there trusts us anymore.

WITH A BULLET! My Second Amendment Limitations paper from Georgetown is now #1 on the SSRN all-new-papers chart.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1009.

HILLARY’S NEVADA PROBLEM: Jon Ralston explains to Chris Cillizza.

I don’t consider those polls reliable or recent. The Clinton folks are saying it could be close and distorting Nevada’s demographics (suddenly we are as white as Iowa and New Hampshire!) because they are worried about the Bernie surge. And I think they should be. Team Clinton has an infrastructure advantage, and its staff here is first-rate and knows the state. Some worked here in ’08. They also arrived six months before Team Sanders, whose folks do not know the state nearly as well. But he is outspending her on TV — this may be changing — and same-day registration on Feb. 20 may allow a lot of new, Sanders voters to change the course of the election. Hillary knew a long time ago she would need a firewall in Nevada; that’s why she set up here so early. The firewall isn’t breached yet, but it may be buckling soon.

Clinton is relying on outsized support from minority voters in Nevada and South Carolina to put a stop to the Sanders Surge, but all may not be proceeding as she has foreseen.

MILO 1, SCREAMING CAMPUS GARBAGE BABIES 0: The fight for ‘tolerance’ at Rutgers hits a new low.

We feel bad for the janitors who had to clean up after the latest low from Rutgers University’s champions of tolerance.

To disrupt a guest’s speech, a dozen kids smeared themselves in fake blood — splattering other students and much of the room in the process — while shouting “black lives matter” and other deep slogans before storming out.

Several dozen more protesters remained, to keep up the harassment (“This man represents hatred”) throughout.

Fine, the speaker was a bit of a flamethrower — Milo Yiannopoulos, an often-rude writer for Breitbart News. But he has his own multicultural bones, as a gay Brit.

The school paper, The Daily Targum, chatted with a lead protester. “Freedom of speech is a responsibility,” junior Nyuma Waggeh explained. “You should use your privilege to be responsible for one another.”

That’s it: Shows how precious the “privilege” is by shouting down another group’s invited guest and making a big mess for someone else to clean up.

Shouting down opponents and leaving messes for others to clean up is the essence of leftism.