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LEFTIST POLITICAL VIOLENCE: Police release video of ‘person of interest’ in Heller threat.

Las Vegas police have released a video of a person of interest in the investigation into a threatening note that was left on the door of Sen. Dean Heller’s (R-Nev.) district office.

Police described the individual as a white adult male between 50 and 60 years old wearing a black baseball cap, shorts and a collared shirt.

A threatening note telling Heller to vote against the legislation was found taped to the door of his district office on Sunday.

The Nevada Independent reported the note warned Heller that the individual would loser their healthcare if the senator voted for the ObamaCare repeal and replace plan, and Heller would die in return.

I hope they find this person, and give him free government healthcare in prison.

TRUMP TURNS ON SESSIONS, A TRAGIC TRUMPCARE AUTOPSY, AND RUSSIA-RUSSIA-RUSSIA: Liz Sheld is on travel, but Tyler O’Neil has all that and more in today’s morning brief.

PROCUREMENT: DARPA, BAE Systems Developing Small Unmanned Underwater Vehicles to Hunt Enemy Submarines.

Well, good. Small and quiet, air-independent propulsion subs like China is building can be tough and dangerous to root out of coastal waters.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Toni Airaksinen: Prof alleges rampant anti-Christian discrimination in academia.

Maranto claims that religious discrimination impacts Christians at all rungs of academia, from undergraduate students to tenured professors, but says that “compared to racial and gender discrimination, this kind of religious discrimination gets little attention from researchers,” whose disinterest in the subject he considers revealing in and of itself.

Maranto told Campus Reform that he believes Christians face an unusual level of religious discrimination in academia, especially compared to observant followers of religions like Islam or Hinduism, remarking that “we’re not at all critical of those traditional faiths, but we are often very critical of traditional Christianity, and I think there’s a double standard there.”

Well you have to discriminate against some people, or you’re not being inclusive.

UNEXPECTEDLY: San Francisco Transit Shielded Criminals Over Fears of Racist Public, Now Rapes, Sexual Assaults on the Rise.

VIDEO: Bernie Sanders Claims He Never Said Republicans’ Health Plan Was Going to Kill People.

As Ken Layne said, “We can fact-check your ass.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: My University Treated Me Like A Criminal Over A Joke.

For the past six years, I have taught an undergraduate course on international economics at Johns Hopkins University. Most of my students thought it was a very good course. So I was shocked when, on December 6, 2016, I was met at the door of my classroom by Johns Hopkins security personnel and barred from entering.

The next day, I received a letter from my dean suspending me from my teaching duties—just three classes before the end of the semester.

What had I done to cause such a reaction by the administration? I had told a joke when discussing off-shoring, the practice of firms shifting work abroad, often in search of lower wages. Here it is:

An American loses his job due to his work being off-shored. He is very depressed and calls a mental health hot line. He gets a call center in Pakistan where the call center employee asks, “What seems to be the problem?” The American responds that he has lost his job due to the work being sent overseas and states, “I am really depressed and actually suicidal.” The call center employee says, “Great. Can you drive a truck?”

The lecture on off-shoring took place several weeks earlier. The stated reason for my suspension was that three students (out of 68) complained that my joke had created a “hostile learning environment” in the class. That’s a charge most college administrators now take with the utmost seriousness.

At the time of my suspension, the investigation into those complaints by Johns Hopkins’ Office of Institutional Equity (OIE) had not even started, but still the administration somehow concluded that my teaching had to be terminated immediately.

I believe that the real reason I was barred from class and suspended was that in response to being informed two weeks earlier that a complaint had been made, I had noted the Orwellian characteristic of the OIE.

Two points: Of course it’s Orwellian, but you’re not supposed to rub their noses in it. Second, they didn’t treat him like a criminal. If he were an actual criminal, they’d probably have offered him a scholarship.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE: Fmr. U.N. Amb. Power Emerges As Central Figure In Obama Unmasking Investigation.

OF COURSE THEY DO: Group that Protested NRA Over ‘Violent’ Rhetoric Embraces Convicted Cop Killer.

THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD TO PUBLICATION: How Did We Get to This Point?

EVERYONE IS A LOSER FOREVER IN THE VICTIMHOOD STAKES: That Didn’t Take Long.

IS THIS MORE OR LESS EMPOWERING THAN FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION AND WIFE BEATING?  ‘Halal sex’ guide aims to empower Muslim women in the bedroom.

HEY, IT’S THE LEAST YOU CAN DO:Not Enough Sex? Stop Having Threesomes With the Government.   You don’t know where that government has been, nor the diseases it’s carrying.  Next thing you know, you’ll wake up with Hoof ‘n Mouth disease.

INDEED:Why McCain’s Glioblastoma Will Be the Fight of His Life.

WELL, I’VE TRIED EVERYTHING ELSE: Stop snacking and eat a big breakfast if you want to lose weight.

“PRO TIP: REPLACE ‘BOOK’ WITH ‘WEDDING CAKE:’” D’oh! Bookseller’s dilemma backfires big time when just one word is replaced.

THE LEFT’S ‘HAMBURGER PROBLEM’ IS NOT GOING AWAY, Kyle Smith writes at NRO:

Progressives have a problem: They ladle unto every decision, even the most mundane and trifling one, an unattractive glop of gooey political significance. They can’t resist warning the rest of us that we’re abetting the destruction of the planet every time we, say, tuck into a Quarter Pounder.

Josh Barro is a recovering ex-Republican who is now a member of a niche political group: the non-crazy Democrats. He coined a cute phrase — “the hamburger problem” — to describe the relentless politicization of everything by progressives and Democrats. He writes, “Democrats’ problem isn’t that they’re on the wrong side of policy issues. It’s that they’re too ready to bother too many ordinary people about too many of their personal choices, all the way down to the hamburgers they eat.” He cites nonstop Democratic hectoring on, inter alia, the team name of the Washington Redskins, the way men sit on subway trains, and even some Americans’ choice not to abide by China’s one-child standard as the reasons why the party is today as electorally wobbly as Rocky Balboa in the 15th round. Yet the GOP’s success puzzles him still, because so many core Democratic cultural ideals (notably, gay marriage and marijuana decriminalization) poll more and more strongly.

When John Stuart Mill called the British conservatives “the stupidest party,” it stuck. Today the Democrats are the Annoying Party. The Left thinks Americans are picturing Mary Poppins when they talk about the nanny state; in truth, they’re thinking of Nurse Ratched. The prospect of a new set of nuisances being dreamed up and lashingly enforced by Hillary Clinton is what led voters to roll the dice with an Atlantic City grifter.

Related: Rod Dreher on the left’s “Law of Merited Impossibility, which states: ‘It will never happen, and when it does, you bigots will deserve it.’”

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REPORT: John McCain, 80, diagnosed with malignant brain tumor.

UPDATE: ‘A warrior at dusk’: Meghan McCain issues powerful statement on learning of father’s brain tumor.

MORE: At PJM, Charlie Martin on “Why McCain’s glioblastoma will be the fight of his life.”

CULTURE OF LAWLESSNESS: LEFTIST JUDGES TURN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW INTO A SHAM. Though to be fair, there hasn’t been much pushback from judges on the right, either.

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SARAH HOYT: Not Enough Sex? Stop Having Threesomes With The Government.

DRUG EXPIRATION DATES: Largely meaningless.

BRITAIN’S EXCLUSIVE CLUB FOR ROUGH MEN: Great title, good read.