NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL FEMINISM: Escape From the Life of Julia.

FEWER BEATINGS AND ARRESTS? What Castro’s passing means for a rising generation of Cuban artists.

THE CHICAGO WAY: North Side beer bar drops MillerCoors over Trump.

Melani Domingues, owner of The Green Lady on North Lincoln Avenue, announced Wednesday on Facebook that she would sell off her last five cases of Miller Lite and Miller High Life for an inflated cost of $6 per bottle, donate all profits to Planned Parenthood in the name of Vice President-elect Mike Pence and then stop patronizing the company.

Domingues said she only recently became aware of the July fundraiser co-hosted by Pete Coors — who sits on the board of Molson Coors, the parent company of MillerCoors — and it struck her as an outlet to take a stand on Trump’s surprising win and what she feels has been an avalanche of negative discourse coming from the Republican Party.

“I’m not trying to judge anyone for what they do, but as a publican and a citizen, this is how I can stand up and be counted and model behavior for my 5-year-old girl,” Domingues said Thursday morning. “I’ve been struggling over the last few weeks with what to say to her when she asks how can so many people vote for someone so mean. I say that a lot of people are trying to figure that out.”

Domingues overcharging for bland beer then giving the profits to Planned Parenthood using the name of someone who opposes abortion in order promote “model behavior” to her young daughter hardly strikes me as nice.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1303.

HISTORY: Oldest living Pearl Harbor survivor recounts ‘Day of Infamy’ to Colorado Springs students.

Retired Navy Lt. Jim Downing joked with the kids at Lewis-Palmer Middle School about the fragility that comes with being a 103-year-old Pearl Harbor survivor. He asked one girl to help him stand from his powered scooter. She pulled, and came away with a rubber hand.

But Downing, who will spend Wednesday in Hawaii and plans to give a speech at Pearl Harbor, had a more serious lesson for the students. Preventing the next Pearl Harbor, he said, is their responsibility.

“Keep America so strong that no tyrant will ever be tempted to attack us,” said Downing, who is believed to be the oldest living survivor of the attack that plunged America into World War II.

Indeed.

Read the whole thing.

ROGER SIMON: ‘Panic in Progressive Park’ — What If Trump Is Actually Good? “Reason for the panic — the dawning realization, repressed and often unrecognized though it may be, that Donald Trump may even a be a good president, possibly a great one. Then what?” He certainly seems to be off to a strong start. And the Mattis pick is inspired.

And I was briefly in DC this week, and noticed a palpable reduction in smugness among its denizens compared to the last time (pre-election) I was there. . . .

BOY THE DEMOCRATS SURE DID GIVE PRESIDENT TRUMP A LOT OF POWER (CONT’D): Starting January 20, Donald Trump Can Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages to the Entire Nation.

To be honest, I’d pay money to see this text go out: “Loser Senate Democrats still won’t confirm great man Peter Thiel to Supreme Court. Sad!”

And, once again:

HMM:

Source close to transition told me key Romney hurdle was chemistry, now @realdonaldtrump tells @foxandfriends re dinner: "a good chemistry"

— Ed Henry (@edhenry) December 2, 2016

KIMBERLY STRASSEL: Democrats Send Their Regrets.

Cue Sinatra and “My Way.” That’s how former Senate leader Harry Reid, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and President Obama ruled for eight years. They planned each charted course, each careful step. Now, they’re not finding it so amusing.

Mr. Coons is regretting giving up his tool to stop Donald Trump’s march of reformers. It’s a cabinet parade of charter-school-lovers, and law-and-order prosecutors and tax-cutters and ObamaCare-slayers, of the sort to give a good Delaware liberal night sweats. There was a day when not one of these nominees could have hoped to squeeze past a Senate filibuster. But Mr. Reid did it his way, and Mr. Trump keeps tweeting.

Former veep candidate Tim Kaine in October threatened that Republicans would be really, really sorry if they tried use what filibuster tools were left against a Hillary Clinton Supreme Court nominee. If Republicans “stonewall,” then a “Democratic Senate majority will say we’re not going to let you thwart the law,” he declared in October. Incoming Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is now regretting that belligerence, and insisting that the Supreme Court filibuster is inviolate, and that his party never did kill it, you know, and that should count for something, and . . . blah, blah, regrets.

It would be hard to stall the confirmation process, at least after Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s regretful September news conference, the one where she stood tall and hit Republicans for refusing to confirm Mr. Obama’s end-of-the-road nominee, Merrick Garland. “This is not just some TV show [like] ‘Eight is Enough.’ Eight is not enough on the United States Supreme Court,” she railed. She’s joined in regret by the activists behind those trendy Twitter campaigns: #weneednine. #doyourjob. Bring on Mr. Trump’s own Tweetbomb: #likeyousaid.

They have a lot to regret. They’ll have much more.

(You might find a way past WSJ’s paywall here.)

EXCLUSIVE: DNC Chair Candidate Rep. Keith Ellison Met with Hamas Fundraiser Mohammed al-Hanooti.

COMEY’S FBI NEEDS TO INVESTIGATE VIOLENT DEMOCRATIC TANTRUMS

THEY TOLD ME IF DONALD TRUMP WERE ELECTED, WE’D FACE AN EXPLOSION OF SEXISM WORLDWIDE. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Canadian Students Push for Daily Man Ban at Campus Gym.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Campus Censorship: Some folks on the right may feel that turnabout is fair play, but that’s dangerous.

ABOUT THAT JOBS REPORT… Labor force participation ticks down.

It remains stuck at levels not seen since 1978, when Jimmy Carter was President.

Of course, even during Carter’s Administration the trend for labor participation was upward.

If only someone had warned us that Obama would prove to be worse than Carter.

JAYVEE: IS group to step up attacks on Europe.

The European police force says more foreign fighters will try to come back to Europe, and “several dozen” capable of attacks could already be there.

Their tactics could include car bombs, kidnappings and extortion, it said.

But the report plays down the likelihood of attacks on critical infrastructure, such as nuclear sites.

It says that IS militants now prefer soft targets, and there is now a greater emphasis on “lone actors” such as the perpetrator of the lorry attack in Nice in July.

It warns that some Syrian refugees in Europe may be vulnerable to recruitment by extremists who infiltrate refugee camps.

While Barack Obama stayed focused on his “necessary war” in Afghanistan, the action had moved to the desert where Iraq and Syria meet.

THE REST OF OBAMA’S LIFE WILL BE SPENT TRYING TO SHIFT BLAME FOR HIS FAILED PRESIDENCY: Obama Tries to Pin His Syria Policy on Trump: But the current humanitarian and geopolitical disaster under Assad is the result of specific decisions in the last six years.

But despite the unending string of foreign policy debacles, my memories of the Obama era will always be summed up by this iconic photo from the very earliest days of Hope & Change:

CHANGE: Alone and unpopular, France’s Hollande throws in the towel.

French President François Hollande said on Thursday he would not seek re-election next year, bowing to historically low approval ratings after a troubled term in power.

The withdrawal means the 62-year-old Socialist leader is the first president of France’s fifth republic, founded in 1958, to step aside after only one term.

“I have decided that I will not be a candidate,” a stony-faced Hollande said in a solemn televised statement from the Élysée Palace in Paris during which he defended his record.

He conceded that he was unable to unite his deeply divided Socialist Party behind his candidacy ahead of the presidential election in April and May next year.

Socialism will be more popular next time, with the right people in charge.

JOURNALISM: Magazine behind UVA rape hoax begs Obama to do something about fake news.

The man responsible for publishing one of the greatest media hoaxes in recent memory thinks it might be a good idea if the government provided the press with subsidies to help it fight fake news.

Jann S. Wenner is the co-founder and publisher of Rolling Stone magazine, which published a story on Nov. 19, 2014, alleging that “Jackie,” a student at the University of Virginia, had been gang-raped as part of a fraternity initiation.

The report was proven to be totally false, however, and “Jackie” a wild fabulist, but not before UVA suspended the fraternity and the university itself suffered a major blow to its reputation.

Wenner defended the since-retracted story and its author, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, right up to the bitter end.

In an interview published this week, Wenner wondered aloud in a conversation with President Obama whether the federal government should provide media with subsidies to help them combat the rising tide of fake news stories on social media.

The Rolling Stone publisher asked, “So how do you think we go about stitching the country back together?”

Well, for starters you could quit lying, Jann.

CIVIL RIGHTS: Democrats promise to kill any national conceal carry reciprocity agreement in the senate.

Imagine having this debate over which places you could speak freely in, and in which other places you had better watch yourself.

Oh, wait…

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: 10 to 15 Law Schools Could Close If Enrollment Keeps Shrinking, Higher-Ed Market Analyst Says.

THEY’LL GET CLEAN AFTER JUST ONE LAST FIX: Saudis Wager On Higher Oil Prices to Drive Economic Diversification.

In its thrust toward diversification, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ de-facto leader needs to monetize massive reserves of crude oil. That means building up targeted noncrude sectors such as refined petroleum products, petrochemicals and minerals mining. From there, the kingdom would help finance a push into other sectors, such as tourism, manufacturing and financial services.

That goal helped to drive the Saudis toward pushing for substantial output restraints at the cartel’s meeting in Vienna this week. It was a step the kingdom has for decades avoided, as it pursued market share at the expense of prices.

A trip on Tuesday by Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz to a coastal industrial town helps illustrate the country’s commitment to its recently mapped economic path. The king made his first visit as monarch to the oil-rich Eastern Province this week to attend events marking a string of multibillion-dollar investments by local and foreign companies in petrochemical and mining projects.

Petrochemicals and mining? That isn’t a whole lot of diversity.

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CLUE, VAN? Van Jones: Dems ‘have a problem with elitism.’ “Liberals and Democrats, we see ourselves as champions of the poor and downtrodden. . . . But we have somehow let a little camp of elitist-sounding, snobby people come into the party, and it’s obnoxious. They talk down to people, and everybody hates it.”

He means the Clintonites, here, and this is really just a round in the intra-Democrat civil war. Not that it isn’t still true.