DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ HIRES ONLY THE BEST: ‘Like a Slave:’ Three Muslim Women, At Least One Of Them Bloodied, Called Police on Imran Awan.

Multiple women in relationships with Imran Awan, the indicted former IT aide for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, have recently called Virginia law enforcement and alleged being abused by him, police reports obtained under Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act show.

Officers found one of the women bloodied and she told them she “just wanted to leave,” while the second said she felt like a “slave,” according to Fairfax County Police reports obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group. A third woman claimed she was being kept “in captivity.”

The third woman is Awan’s stepmother, Samina Gilani, who said in court documents that Awan invoked his authority as a congressional employee to intimidate immigrant women, in part by telling them he had the power to have people kidnapped.

All but two of the nearly two dozen Democratic women Awan worked for in the House declined to comment on the police reports.

Wasserman Schultz, the former Democratic National Committee chairwoman, refused to fire Awan for months after his Feb. 2, 2017, banishment from the House computer network due to his being a suspect in a criminal investigation by the FBI and U.S. Capitol Police into a major cybersecurity breach.

Wasserman Schultz said that “as a mother, a Jew, and a member of Congress,” she wanted to defend his rights, a sentiment echoed by Rep. Marcia Fudge, an Ohio Democrat. Rep. Gregory Meeks, a New York Democrat, and Wasserman Schultz also claimed allegations against Awan might stem from Islamophobia. All three women are Muslim.

Awan’s attorney Chris Gowen, a former aide to Bill and Hillary Clinton, has blasted journalists covering the investigation. The press “should be reminded that Imran Awan is a husband and a father, not a political pawn,” Gowen said.

He’s a lot of things, and some of them we don’t know about yet. But I have suspicions.

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Condensed for the High Holidays.

YES, ASSET FORFEITURE HAS GONE TOO FAR: Has asset forfeiture gone too far? Truck seizure case sparks outrage, a call for change.

VIRGINIA POSTREL: If you leave your kids alone, it’s not predatory strangers who are a risk. “A California study found it’s moralizing do-gooders who are most likely to make mischief.”

Do-gooding is rarely done for the benefit of the being-done-good-to.

EVER SINCE TRUMP APPEARED, LATENT PHALLOPHOBIA HAS BECOME BLATANT PHALLOPHOBIA: ‘The View’ co-host: Trump making ‘phallic reference’ with ‘rocket man’ talk.

Actually, the “Rocket Man” reference leads to “burning out his fuse up there alone,” which is an apt characterization of Kim Jong Un’s domestic political situation. But I don’t expect denizens of The View to get this.

UPDATE: A much deeper analysis from Ann Althouse, including a Robert Heinlein quote that I had forgotten!

“No, she’s absolutely right,” said Zeb, patting the enormous pistol at his hip. “This is a penis substitute. After all, if I could kill at a range of thirty meters with my penis, I wouldn’t need to carry this thing around, now would I?”

In my defense, it’s from Number of the Beast.

JEFF DUNETZ: Anti-Semite Supporter Keith Ellison Compares Illegal Aliens To Jews Under Nazi Control.

Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, the vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, evoked the Holocaust on Monday, comparing illegal immigrants in the U.S. to Jews in Nazi Germany.

“I’m going to tell you right now, I’m one of them people who believes you should give your neighbors sanctuary.

(…)If you ask yourself, ‘What would I do if I was a Gentile in 1941 if my Jewish neighbors were under attack by the Nazis? Would I give them sanctuary?’ — you might be about to find out what you would do. Will you pass that moral test, or will you fail it? This is the time for people who truly have faith and belief in their hearts to step up and demonstrate.”

It is always disgusting when someone uses the Holocaust to score political points, but it particularly sleazy when Congressman Ellison does it. After all, the guy supports anti-Semitic organizations such as Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam and the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood.

Jeff adds, “There are many more examples of Ellison’s, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic actions, plus his connection to Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas associated groups such as MAS, CAIR, and ISNA. (MAS even paid for his Haj to Saudi Arabia).”

Well, if anyone knows Nazi tactics, it would be the Muslim Brotherhood and by extension its many offshoots around the Middle East.

FABULOUS: Alarmed by Islam, Europe’s Gays Are Moving to the Right.

JASON RILEY: Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Politics of Contempt: The polemicist attributes Trump’s election to ‘white supremacy,’ and liberals can’t get enough.

The great jazz musician Miles Davis was known for his boorishness, especially toward his white fan base. Davis would play his trumpet with his back to the audience and curse at people between sets. “If somebody told me I only had one hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man,” he once told a newspaper reporter. “I’d do it nice and slow.” His admirers ate it up.

Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new essay on Donald Trump in the Atlantic magazine brought Davis to mind. Mr. Coates, who couldn’t be more highly regarded among the left-liberal intelligentsia, doesn’t have anything especially new or interesting to add to the never-ending debate on the left about how Mr. Trump got elected. As ESPN anchor Jemele Hill and countless other liberals have done for the past 10 months, he blames white racism.

If you don’t have time to read Mr. Coates’s lengthy article, just browse Ms. Hill’s controversial tweets from last week, in which she insisted that the president is “a white supremacist” and that his “rise is a direct result of white supremacy. Period.” Ms. Hill’s argument is no different and no less sophisticated than Mr. Coates’s, and she demonstrates a better economy of words.

His schtick is tired, but it’s paid off for him. And there’s always been a place for race-baiting in the Democratic Party. Plus:

But what’s most striking about Mr. Coates’s article, and the reason it recalled Miles Davis, is the borderline contempt he displays for his admirers and fellow travelers on the political left. The author’s primary targets are the “white pundits and thought leaders” whom he deems insufficiently anti-Trump. Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, along with journalists and academics who sport impeccable left-wing credentials, are taken to task for indulging alternative explanations for Mr. Trump’s win. In Mr. Coates’s telling, there is no acceptable way to view the Trump phenomenon other than through a racial prism.

Not everyone is letting Mr. Coates get away with this bullying. One of his victims, George Packer, who writes for the New Yorker magazine and who will never be mistaken for George Will, pushed back (gently) in a reply that was published on the Atlantic’s website. Mr. Packer was gobsmacked by the suggestion that he was playing down racism in a pre-election New Yorker essay about the economic anxieties of working-class whites. “I didn’t excuse or extend comfort to anyone,” Mr. Packer writes in his response. “Analysis isn’t justification—unless you think, as Coates does, that the entire subject is illegitimate for scrutiny because it’s an evasion of the truth about white supremacy.”

Mr. Packer almost certainly gives Mr. Coates too much credit. Mr. Coates has little use for analytical reasoning and even less interest in changing anyone’s mind on racial matters.

Well, actual racial reconciliation would threaten the whole feedlot.

SOUNDS LIKE FAKE NEWS TO ME!  People who say they trust their gut are more likely to fall for fake news.

YOU SHOULD BE CONCERNED:  Internet <3 Censorship?

FORTUNATELY THEY’RE DESTROYING THEIR OWN CREDIBILITY:  The National Nervous Breakdown, and How to Exploit it Ruthlessly.

THE URGENCY OF DOING SOMETHING BEFORE WE’RE CERTAIN IS APPARENTLY NOT URGENT AS THEY URGENTLY THOUGHT:  Climate change not as threatening to planet as previously thought, new research suggests.

PROTECTING YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS:  Why Firearm Preemption Laws Are Smart Policy.

ENABLING IS NOT KINDNESS:  Pain is a Teacher.

VIRTUE SIGNALING IS NO LONGER WORKING:  Mean Words and Fake Jokes.

SURE, LET’S BAN THE NON-EXISTENT THREAT:  It’s not like it will retaliate. Portland Comic Con Bans Pretend Nazis Along With Common Sense.

OUR BANKRUPT MEDIA:  Vietnam, Trump and the Media.

I QUESTION THEIR METHODOLOGY:  Liberals and conservatives deny science equally: study.

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SHE FURTHERED GENOCIDE ABROAD, AND DID CREEPY STUFF AT HOME, TOO: Samantha Power sought to unmask Americans on almost daily basis, sources say.

SO YESTERDAY, I POSTED ON LAW SCHOOLS’ DECISIONS TO ACCEPT THE GRE AS WELL AS THE LSAT AND ADDED: “I’m pretty sure this is just about getting more warm bodies while finagling the U.S. News rankings.”

But perhaps I was too cynical. A friend and former law dean writes:

A few points on the LSAT and GRE. First, the GRE is much, much easier to take – you could probably sign up tonight and take it within a few days somewhere near your home. The LSAT has just gone from 4 to a whopping 6 administrations per year. That’s much harder to take.

Second, many juniors take the GRE but relatively few take the LSAT (more commonly taken senior year). By targeting juniors with GRE scores at the appropriate level, law schools can reach a large pool of potential students. That’s perhaps its biggest value to schools.

Third, there are a few grad students at many universities who develop a late interest in law. Arizona, the first school to take the GRE, says most of the first group of GRE applicants were people already in PhD programs who decided they wanted to add a law degree. They might have taken the LSAT but why make them spend the time and money to do so?

Fourth, it is not much of a US News move since US News already added GRE scores (scaled to put percentiles at the same level as LSAT ones) into the median LSAT portion of the rankings last year (when AZ was the only school to take it). So the GRE scores “count” for the rankings. The only way it would help a school is if GRE scores were higher than the same person’s LSAT. Color me really, really skeptical about that – they are different tests (starting with math being on the GRE but not the LSAT) but scores are likely to be pretty correlated. We’ll know more when ETS releases its national validation study of the GRE for law schools but I doubt too many high GRE test scores would map onto low LSAT scores (or vice versa).

Well, okay. That makes sense, though this is an area where it’s hard to be too cynical. But maybe not impossible!

SO I FINISHED E.C. WILLIAMS’ LATEST, Assault on Zanzibar, the fourth book in his Westerly Gales series. Excellent and highly recommended. I just hope he doesn’t take as long for his next book. . . .

YET ANOTHER ARGUMENT FOR ALCOHOL: A Third of Vegetarians Eat Meat When They’re Drunk.

I REMEMBER WHEN HE LIED TO CONGRESS ABOUT SPYING ON AMERICANS, TOO: Remember When James Clapper Categorically Denied Any Wiretap Against Trump Campaign?

MUCH MORE SWAMP NEEDS TO BE DRAINED. State Dept. Resettlement Director: Refugees are Net Gain for U.S. Economy.