FEMALE PRIVILEGE: Student who stabbed boyfriend may avoid jail as it would ‘damage her career.’

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Reverse Aging and Become Whoever You Want to Be. If this experiment is true, then the fact that restaurants and malls still play Boomer music from 50 years ago should be helping to keep Boomers young.

I WONDER IF HE’LL LOOK AT HILLARY’S URANIUM DEAL? Former FBI Director Robert Mueller chosen as a special counsel to lead Russia probe.

SO IF YOU’RE UNHAPPY WITH WHAT’S GOING ON, AND HOW THE MEDIA IS GOING AFTER TRUMP, WHAT DO YOU DO? You can push back against the media, of course. But otherwise the most useful thing for most folks is probably to pick a house race in a close district and work on it. If there’s a Dem majority in 2018, they’ll probably try to impeach Trump, which would be a disaster for the country no matter how it turns out. Helpfully, the Democrats at Swingleft.org have identified some close races. Even if you don’t live close to the district, you can make phone calls or donate.

CLAIM: More people than ever before are single – and that’s a good thing.

ROBERT SPENCER POISONED AFTER GIVING ANTI-JIHAD SPEECH IN ICELAND: “I learned my lesson. And the lesson I learned was that media demonization of those who dissent from the Leftist line is direct incitement to violence. By portraying me and others who raise legitimate questions about jihad terror and Sharia oppression as racist, bigoted ‘Islamophobes’ without allowing us a fair hearing, they paint a huge target on the backs of those who dare to dissent.”

That does sum the environment the media and college campuses have created in much of the west, sadly.

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GREAT MOMENTS IN PROJECTION.

Shot: “What Does Barack Obama Really Think of Donald Trump? ‘He’s Nothing But a Bullsh–ter.’”

—People magazine, today.

Chaser:

Every now and then in Renegade [a history of Obama’s 2008 campaign by leftwing journalist Richard Wolffe — Ed], a moment arrives when it seems Obama might reveal something, some tiny thing, about himself. “You know, I actually believe my own bullshit,” Obama told Wolffe with a smile. But what for a nanosecond seemed like candor—would the candidate actually examine his own B.S.?—was just another talking point, as he explained to Wolffe that he truly wanted to bring change to America for better health care, for better schools, and especially for “the kid on the streets.”

There’s much about this quote that’s revealing. First, there’s the serious message Obama is trying to deliver within the joke about bs: “I truly believe that I can make people’s lives better.” But if he really does believe that, then why insert a subtle disclaimer (it’s all “bullshit”) inherent in the casually deprecating tone that seems to negate its seriousness and casts an ironic and juvenile eye on the entire enterprise?

—“Believing his own bullshit,” Neo-Neocon, November 30th, 2013.

NICK GILLESPIE: All This Impeachment Talk Is Pure Trump Derangement Syndrome. “For god’s sake, they wanted him impeached even before he was the Republican nominee.”

The Crazy: There’s a lot of that going around. But it’s still dangerous.

Plus: “Short-termers such as Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz are already subpoenaing whatever memories James Comey jotted down during his generally mediocre-to-awful tenure as head of the FBI. Comey is the guy, we should recall, who tried to strong-arm Apple into undermining its phone encryption even though it was able to crack the San Bernadino’s phone just fine, who gave Hillary Clinton aides immunity and allowed them to destroy their laptops, and recently attacked the First Amendment because it gave Wikileaks space to publish authentic-if-purloined documents. The best thing you can say about Comey is that he’s no Louis Freeh or J. Edgar Hoover, which is the textbook case of damning with faint approbation.”

SO BARBARA OAKLEY HAS A NEW BOOK OUT, Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential. It’s about learning and career-change later in life, something she knows a lot about firsthand.

Here’s an interview with James Taranto:

Learning beyond the classroom is the subject of her new book. She defines a “mindshift” as “a change in your outlook that occurs through intensive learning”—such as her own mastery of math and engineering. The book is filled with advice for people who are considering a career change or who seek to develop “an attitude of lifelong learning,” even in retirement.

“I got to travel all around the world and meet people who had made these kind of interesting, really sort of mind-boggling changes,” she tells me. One of them is Ali Naqvi, a Pakistani professional golfer turned marketing executive with Ogilvy & Mather in London. “He’s found that his past, which seems to be completely disconnected, is actually very relevant to what he’s doing.” Some of the ways are obvious—Ogilvy “does a lot of sports marketing, and he understands that world”—and others less so. “When you make a mistake in golf, you have to let it go, and move ahead, and do not think about these past mistakes,” she says. “He trained himself in that, and he’s found that it’s very helpful in the business world.”

Mr. Naqvi was like the younger Ms. Oakley, in that “he couldn’t do math either, then, through MOOCs and so forth, he learned.” That enabled him to master search-engine optimization, “the most mathematical of all the marketing stuff.”

Another of her case studies is Mr. Sejnowski, her MOOC co-instructor. In the late 1970s he was a theoretical physicist studying relativity at Princeton, the “bastion” of the field. His future seemed bright, but he worried that the capital costs of physics research—building supercolliders and the like—were so great that, in Ms. Oakley’s words, “there’s not going to be a way to really make progress in his lifetime.” He switched to neuroscience. “Everybody was like, ‘You’re nuts. Why on earth would you give up something like that?’ ” she says.

In her book, Ms. Oakley draws on Mr. Sejnowski’s expertise: “That allows me to talk about what’s going on from a neuroscientific perspective about, for example, how 1,400 new neurons are born every day in the hippocampus, and here’s what you can do to help nurture them. Learning actually serves as a sort of trellis to allow those new neurons to survive and thrive and grow.”

She also interviewed ordinary people who’d made a “mindshift.” Claudia Meadows was a bus driver who suffered from depression. She “hit bottom and decided to use learning to try to get herself really out of it—not just drugs and so forth, but to really try to reprogram her brain. And by golly, she did it.”

How do you strengthen your mind as you age? Some of the answers are what you’d expect. Physical exercise helps encourage neuron growth. Some forms of meditation improve creativity, while others sharpen focus. In one study, “reading a book for around 3½ hours a week was shown to extend the lifespan . . . by something like two to three years.” Learning a foreign language “gives a workout to the very centers of the brain that are most affected by the aging process, so it’s super healthy.”

Others are surprising. “Action videogames are incredibly helpful in keeping you sharp,” Ms. Oakley says. “They’ve been shown by research—top-notch research—to make a big difference in your attentional centers.” Videogames even improve eyesight. “You can drive better; you’ll catch if some little animal is darting in from the side,” she says. “Fine print on a medicine bottle—you can see it better if you’re working with these action videogames.”

I read her book in manuscript when I blurbed it — it’s very interesting.

ISN’T EVERYONE? UMich Student Says Minorities Are Oppressed by Wood Paneling.

WHERE WERE THE D.C. POLICE? Erdogan’s Goons Bring Turkish Violence to American Soil.

Also, why is the New York Times covering for Erdogan? “It also belies the blameless passive construction used by the Times and others in describing the attack. The women and old men being repeatedly kicked while lying defenseless on the ground were not ‘engaged in a violent confrontation.’ Erdogan’s entourage, many of whom are visibly armed, used violence on American soil with impunity while the police did nothing to stop it.”

Violent thugs attack peaceful protesters while the police do nothing? Where do they think they are, Berkeley? Well, D.C. is a Democratic-run town.

IMPRESSIVE: This 18-year-old designed the world’s lightest satellite.

An 18-year-old from India built the world’s lightest satellite — and NASA’s going to send it into space.

Rifath Shaarook created a 4-centimeter (1½-inch), 3D-printed cube that weighs 2¼ ounces, making it lighter than an iPhone.

“We built it completely from scratch,” he told India’s Business Standard. “It will have a new kind of on-board computer and eight indigenous built-in sensors to measure acceleration, rotation and the magnetosphere of the Earth.”

Smaller, please!

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The AFL-CIO exists to launder union dues into the campaign war chests of the Democratic Party.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Yale dean once championed cultural sensitivity. Then she called people ‘white trash’ on Yelp.

As I asked a decade ago, Why Is “White Trash” An Acceptable Phrase In PC America?

I’M NOT SURE THIS COUNTS AS NEWS OR EVEN AS NEW: Keith Olbermann Had a Breakdown, Wants Trump to Resign.

CHANGE: President Trump Is Sticking With the Iran Nuclear Deal.

As I’ve written here before, the Iran Deal is probably the most difficult (if not impossible) “accomplishment” of the Obama Administration to unravel. The benefits to Iran were almost all front-loaded, so about the best that can be hoped for now is that Iran lives up to its obligation to do a better job of pretending to hide its nuclear weapons program.

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GUESTS, LIKE FISH… Armenian Witness to Bloody Protest: Erdoğan Regime Violence ‘Has Now Been Exported Here’

WELL, GOOD: New blood test is more accurate in predicting prostate cancer risk than PSA.

MELISSA MCCARTHY HARDEST HIT: Fox News’s Kimberly Guilfoyle is openly gunning for Sean Spicer’s job.

BEWARE THE “INTERNET OF THINGS:” New Report Highlights Dangers of Hacked Factory Robots.

ROBERT SPENCER: I Was Poisoned After Giving Anti-Jihad Speech in Iceland.