IF FOR NOTHING ELSE, FOR THE REBOUND OF THE POPCORN INDUSTRY, BUT YEAH: Thank God for Trump.

DEEP STATES WILL; BUT IT’S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT THE TIMES THEY ARE ACHANGING: The French Deep State Fights Back?

MALE RANGES: From “Animal House” to “Zulu”?

#FASHIONABLE LIES: Five Myths of the Debate over Trump’s Refugee Executive Order.

NEUTRALIZING THE LEFT: How to Defeat Weaponized Empathy.

AH, PROGRESSIVES, IF THEY CAN’T CHANGE THE FACTS, THEY CHANGE THE STATISTICS: Violence is spiking in NYC schools – even if the city denies it.

AND COBBLER’S KIDS GO BAREFOOT: I’m a porn star and it’s hard having sex with my wife.

BECAUSE THE INSIDERS HAVEN’T DONE THAT GREAT A JOB? Why we need an outsider like Betsy DeVos as education secretary.

PERHAPS THE BEST THING FOR MEN, WOMEN AND EVERYONE ELSE IS NOT TO CONCENTRATE SO MUCH ON LOOKS?  NAH. THAT’S CRAZY TALK. Enough with the Humble-Bragging “Body Positivity” Selfies.

ARE YOU EVEN ALLOWED TO SHOW GROWN-UP, DEPENDENT MEN ON TV? The secret magic of TV’s best new show.

THE MEDIA’S FALSE FIRESTORM: The Gag Order That Wasn’t.

INCLUDING BARACK OBAMA, HILLARY CLINTON, AND JOE BIDEN: “Every single one of these Senators voted to confirm Neil Gorsuch in 2006.”

NBC WANTS TO BE ‘THE NEXT FOX NEWS,’ INSIDERS SAY.

Shouldn’t be much of a problem for NBC, right? As the network’s then-president assured viewers (apparently with a straight face) in mid-November of 2004 after George W. Bush defeated John Kerry, “No one understands this NASCAR nation more than Brian [Williams].” Brian’s tanned, rested and ready to return from the racing circuit, from Iraq, even from the Philippines!

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THEY ALWAYS ESCALATE. WELL, WHEN IT COMES TO DOMESTIC ENEMIES, ANYWAY. Byron York: Dems escalate anti-Trump offensive.

NEW YORK TIMES: Why Liberals Should Back Neil Gorsuch. “I am hard-pressed to think of one thing President Trump has done right in the last 11 days since his inauguration. Until Tuesday, when he nominated an extraordinary judge and man, Neil Gorsuch, to be a justice on the Supreme Court. . . . I believe this, even though we come from different sides of the political spectrum. I was an acting solicitor general for President Barack Obama; Judge Gorsuch has strong conservative bona fides and was appointed to the 10th Circuit by President George W. Bush. But I have seen him up close and in action, both in court and on the Federal Appellate Rules Committee (where both of us serve); he brings a sense of fairness and decency to the job, and a temperament that suits the nation’s highest court. . . . Right about now, the public could use some reassurance that no matter how chaotic our politics become, the members of the Supreme Court will uphold the oath they must take: to ‘administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich.’ I am confident Neil Gorsuch will live up to that promise.”

UPDATE: Link was wrong before. Fixed now. Sorry!

ILYA SOMIN: “Judge Neil Gorsuch is a well-respected jurist and a better Supreme Court nominee than I expected from Donald Trump.” Ilya’s biggest concern is that Gorsuch is too big a fan of judicial restraint, and insufficiently willing to strike down unconstitutional laws.

UPDATE: Ted Cruz likes Gorsuch.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Eugene Volokh: Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch on religious freedom.

Sasha Volokh: Neil Gorsuch, fortunately. “Generally, I don’t have any expectation that Trump will do the right thing, so I’m unexpectedly pleased that — of the three judges who were apparently on Trump’s short list — Judge Gorsuch is probably the best on civil liberties issues.” Well, live and learn.

Plus: “Oh, and — what’s the best Gorsuch line? ‘Ours is not supposed to be the government of the Hunger Games with power centralized in one district, but a government of diffused and divided power, the better to prevent its abuse.'”

MORE: A reader sends this suggestion: “Mitch McConnell should announce that he does not think there is any basis for a filibuster of Gorsuch, and that if the Democrats filibuster him, the majority will eliminate the filibuster not only for Sup Ct appointees but for legislation as well.” I predict the Dems will keep their powder dry this time.

SHOT: Schumer: We Need A Mainstream Nominee.

CHASER: Rachel Maddow: Judge Gorsuch is a mainstream choice.

My only objection to Gorsuch: Another Ivy-Leaguer.

ORRIN HATCH: Like Scalia, Gorsuch has shown steady devotion to Constitution.

SO AT THE ADVICE OF SOME INSTAPUNDIT READERS, and with the idea of providing some distraction after my father’s passing, I bought a Nikon D500. I’ve only had the chance to play with it a little bit, but the low-light performance is nothing short of amazing. I took a picture of my backyard when it was so dark I could hardly see anything, and at ISO 32,000 it was crystal clear.

It’s true that my decade-old D300 is a great camera by any objective measure, but things have come a long way. I’ll post some reports later.

FLASHBACK: Bill Clinton warns of “the large number of illegal aliens” coming into America, and explains his crackdown.

UPDATE: From the comments: “My sister-in-law Mary Wilson sent me this clip, and I forwarded it to Glenn (who probably received it from a hundred other people as well….) Mary’s comment was ‘Donald Trump should televise this Bill Clinton speech from 1995 and then simply state “I’m Donald Trump and I approve this message.”‘”

IT’S FUNNY, but when you read this David Frum apocalyptic take on Trump’s “autocracy,” the future he fears sounds a lot like the FDR administration’s policies as described in Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change.

THE TRUMPOCALYPSE BEGINS: Virginia brewery releases Oreo flavored beer.

FOR A GUY WHOSE ADMINISTRATION IS ALREADY UNDER SIEGE AND IN DISARRAY AND ALL THAT, President Trump seemed awfully relaxed tonight, didn’t he?

WHY IS THE HILLARY WING OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCH A CESSPIT OF SEXUAL PREDATION? Prosecutors Weigh Child-Pornography Charges Against Anthony Weiner. “Federal prosecutors are weighing bringing child-pornography charges against former Rep. Anthony Weiner over sexually explicit exchanges he allegedly had with a 15-year-old girl, according to people familiar with the matter. . . . In recent weeks, according to some of the people familiar with the matter, attorneys for Mr. Weiner have had discussions with federal prosecutors in Manhattan in hopes of dissuading them from bringing charges, or at least from bringing the most serious one: production of child pornography, which carries a 15-year mandatory minimum prison sentence upon conviction. . . . It isn’t known what images prosecutors have found in the course of the investigation. Federal child pornography laws are broadly written, and lawyers who have defended people charged with child pornography say certain types of images could receive lighter treatment under the law, such as photos of nude minors who aren’t engaging in sexually explicit activity.”