OH: Doctor Created 3D-Printed Euthanasia Machine That Can End Life Painlessly.

The 70-year old doctor developed the Sarco capsule in The Netherlands, where people have been able to legally end their lives with the assistance of a doctor since 2001. Use of the machine, however, does not require help from a doctor.

“In my opinion—and when it comes to the Sarco-a doctor is not necessary. There are still certain conditions that people need to meet before they are considered, like being of sane mind. This is determined by an online questionnaire,” Nitschke said.

The device is made up of a reusable machine base and a capsule that can serve as a coffin after detaching. These parts can be created using a 3D printer and can be assembled anywhere.

Nitschke said the coffin uses liquid nitrogen, which can be legally bought. The fluid will start to flow once a person takes a seat inside the machine. The person will then start to feel disoriented within two minutes, a feeling the doctor said is comparable to having too many drinks. The person will then lose consciousness a few minutes later and die in about five minutes.

The capsule also comes with an emergency window in case the person changes mind.

What if the person is already unconscious when placed into the device by someone else?

OOPS: New York Times forced to heavily amend another supposed K.T. McFarland ‘scoop.’

HEALTH: We May Have Underestimated Just How Bad It Is to Be Overweight.

TOLERANCE: Nancy Pelosi to California Republicans: ‘You Don’t Belong Here.’

Here in Colorado, we could use a few more California conservatives to balance out all the California progressive invaders who turned my once-fine state deep purple.

IT’S ALL ROTTEN: Another Democrat revealed to have used congressional sex harassment ‘slush fund.’ Twist: It was harassment by a donor.

TO ASK THE QUESTION IS TO ANSWER IT: Why weren’t Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills charged when they lied to Peter Strzok and the FBI? “Whatever Strzok’s role here and notwithstanding Mueller’s insistence on ousting him, he’s going to be a major political headache for Mueller as this plays out to its inevitable surreal conclusion, with the special counsel getting fired or Mike Flynn, Jared Kushner, Don Jr et al. getting pardoned. Or both.”

DAVID HARSANYI: How Democrats Corrupt English To Create Hysteria.

How did so many liberals convince themselves that tax reform (a rare cut that is, according to sometime-reliable Washington Post factcheckers, only the eighth largest in history) signals the implosion of American life? Everyone tends to dramatize the consequences of policy for effect, of course, but a Democratic Party drifting towards Bernie-ism is far more likely to perceive cuts in taxation as limiting state control and thus an attack on all decency and morality. Taxation is the finest tool of redistribution, so it’s understandable.

There is a parallel explanation for the hysterics. With failure comes frustration, and frustration ratchets up the panic-stricken rhetoric. It’s no longer enough to hang nefarious personal motivations on your political opponents — although it certainly can’t hurt! — you have to corrupt language and ideas to imbue your ham-fisted arguments with some kind of basic plausibility.

Liberal columnists, for example, will earnestly argue that Republicans, who at this moment control the Senate, the House of Representatives, and White House thanks to our free and fair elections, are acting undemocratically when passing bills. As you know, democracy means raising taxes on the rich. Just ask all the folks who told us democracy died over the weekend.

But the most obvious and ubiquitous of the Left’s contorted contentions about the tax bill deliberately muddles the concept of giving and the concept of not taking enough. This distortion is so embedded in contemporary rhetoric that I’m not sure most of the foot soldiers even think it’s odd to say anymore.

“You never want a serious crisis go to waste,” Rahm Emanuel once said out loud. The “even if you have to manufacture it” was merely implied.

NOT FOR A GENERATION, AT LEAST: Mueller’s FBI Will Never Recover Its Good Name.

BUT OF COURSE: ‘Foreign Policy’ Names Chelsea Manning Top ‘Global Rethinker’ for 2017.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): These are the foreign policy “experts.” Is it any wonder people are talking about the death of expertise?

THE GODFATHER AT 45: Why It Endures.

If The Godfather (1972) had come out a decade earlier than it actually did, audiences would have resisted it. You can imagine viewers asking: How are we supposed to get wrapped up in the internal disputes of this band of amoral brigands and murderers? Who is the good guy here? Doesn’t the film celebrate evil, or at least condone it? Why is Michael Corleone’s depravity rewarded instead of punished at the end?

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By 1972, the sense that America was not necessarily being run on the square had serious traction. The Pentagon Papers had been published the year before. Vietnam seemed to be rife with dishonor. At one point, Kay says that, unlike Vito Corleone, “Senators and presidents don’t have men killed.” It’s a view nearly everyone shared in 1962, but by 1972 the audience’s sympathies were with Michael, who responds that Kay is being naïve.

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TONIGHT WE’RE GONNA PARTY LIKE IT’S 1982: A Band Without a No. 1 Hit Is Outselling Bruno Mars and Ed Sheeran.

Depeche Mode, the British synth-pop group formed in 1980, is having one of the most remarkable tours in modern music and its most-successful concert run ever. The band sold 1.27 million tickets through the first nine months of 2017, more than Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber or Bruno Mars — much younger pop acts at the peak of their fame.

In October, the band became the first act to sell out four consecutive shows at the Hollywood Bowl, an open-air theater in the hills of Los Angeles that’s hosted everyone from the Beatles to Luciano Pavarotti. Now Depeche Mode is back on the road for its second tour through Europe this year and will head to Latin America in 2018. Not bad for a group whose album sales peaked more than 20 years ago.

“Every time we go out and tour, we’re playing to more people,” said Martin Gore, 56, the band’s guitarist and lead songwriter. “It’s just incredible at this stage in our career.”

I wonder how much of their renewed success is due to Gen X nostalgia, and how much is is due to Millennials with nothing better to listen to.

NOT SO FAST ON THAT NATIONAL CONCEALED CARRY RECIPROCITY BILL: Legislation mandating 50-state recognition of concealed carry permits is making its way through Congress, much to the delight of gun owners and Second Amendment defenders. But Rep. Thomas Massie, R-KY, tells LifeZette’s Jim Stinson the proposal contains a bad bargain.

“They’re going to get a little bit of gun control in the mix with it,” Massie told Stinson. “States and federal agencies will be coerced to put more names in the database.” How can that be? Well, the Senate version of the proposal is co-sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York. They want to give $625 million to states to expand the National Instant Criminal Background Check (NCIS) database.

Stinson reports that Massie “is perplexed as to why Republican leadership in the House and the Senate is rushing to enhance NICS, when former President Barack Obama used the system to bar gun ownership based on what Social Security reported to the database on mental disabilities. Massie said he even suspects concealed carry could be stripped out of the final bill, the apparent aim of Feinstein and Schumer all along.”

Stinson said Gun Owners of America (GOA) opposes the Senate measure. The NRA backs the House version of the proposal.

TRUMP TO MOVE U.S. EMBASSY FROM TEL AVIV TO JERUSALEM, HYPOCRITES WORLDWIDE HARDEST HIT: The U.S. State Department, European diplomats and “moderate” Palestinian officials all claim that any future peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians must be based on the 1948 armistice lines. In 1948, Israel was in full control of the Western half of Jerusalem, and established its capital there. By contrast, the original U.N. partition plan, rejected by the Arabs, would have placed all of Jerusalem under international control. If everyone supposedly recognizes the 1948 armistice lines as a starting point for negotiations, why shouldn’t the United States recognize at least the Western half of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, regardless of whether Israel claims the whole city, as it does? Locating the U.S. embassy in West Jerusalem does not prejudice any claims the Palestinians have in future negotiations to East Jerusalem. So according to what diplomats worldwide purport to believe, moving the U.S. embassy is completely proper, and the loud opposition to such a move suggests that these diplomats have never really accepted the 1948 lines as the basis for negotiations as they claim.

STEVEN MOORE: Democrats are now the party of the rich — so why not tax the rich?

TAXPROF: The IRS Scandal, Day 1671: Lois Lerner’s Secrets. Forget it. The public has a right to know.

EVERGREEN ADVICE: Christmas Shopping for the Man in Your Life? Check Out Goop. Actually, Don’t.

I DIDN’T KNOW PRIMOGENITURE AND ENTAIL APPLIED TO CONGRESSIONAL SEATS: Conyers announces retirement, endorses son to succeed him.

As always, IowaHawk nails it:

“INDEPENDENT” COUNSEL: More Anti-Trump Messages Reportedly Sent By Members Of Mueller’s Team: “A Lot More Is Going To Come Out.” Plus:

To review: veteran FBI agent Peter Strzok, working under James Comey, headed up both the Clinton email investigation and the Trump-Russia probe before Mueller’s special counsel was created to take the reigns. Strzok – who was responsible for changing the FBI’s opinion of Clinton’s mishandling of classified info from “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless,” – had an extramarital affair with FBI lawyer Lisa Page while the two were working on the Clinton “matter.” During the investigation, Strzok sent Page anti-Trump / pro-Clinton text messages, which resulted in the dismissal of both Strzok and Page from Mueller’s Trump-Russia probe. Strzok now works in the FBI’s HR department.

Strzok’s conduct during the Clinton email investigation and any other politically charged cases he’s worked on, are now being investigated by the DOJ’s Office of Personel Management the results of which, per Sara Carter of Circa, will be coming out in December and January.

Moreover, as we reported earlier today, House Speaker Paul Ryan accused the DOJ and FBI of “stonewalling” the House Intelligence Committee’s wide-ranging subpoena related to the “Trump dossier,” along with the fact that the FBI appears to have willfully tried to conceal the reason for Strzok’s reassignment from the committee.

Meanwhile, upon being blindsided with this information and publicly embarrassed, Intel committee chairman Devin Nunes was understandably less than pleased.

Will Mueller be found in contempt of Congress?

ADRIANA COHEN: The Smoking Gun of FBI Bias. There’s nothing “independent” about this investigation.

WELL, GOOD: After Push on Taxes, Republicans Line Up Welfare Revamp Next.

A spokesman for Mr. Ryan said the goals for 2018 would be set at a conference retreat in January. But Mr. Jordan, a head of the conservative House Freedom Caucus who often has the ear of the president, has argued in recent weeks that the issue is one of the most winning ones with Mr. Trump’s voters and should take center stage next year.

He said he and fellow conservative Rep. Mark Meadows (R., N.C.) had made a pitch to the president to pursue welfare as an issue in a meeting in the early summer.

“He gets it,” Mr. Jordan said. “I think there are lots of folks across the country who get it, but particularly in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, folks understand that they’re working hard, doing what’s right for their family, and there are folks who can work, and won’t work, and they’re getting their money.”

Democratic lawmakers have indicated they are ready for a fight, in which they will argue proposals to change assistance programs are a sign of misplaced priorities by Republicans who favored the rich in the tax overhaul.

“Republicans are already saying ‘entitlement reform’ and ‘welfare reform’ are next up on the docket,” said Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) in a Senate floor speech. “But nobody should be fooled—that’s just code for attacks on Medicaid, on Medicare, on Social Security, on anti-hunger programs. The story will be that America can’t afford these programs.”

Up until now, touching Medicare/Medicaid or Social Security has been considered political suicide. But now that the Entitlements Explosion has begun, leaving them unreformed is national suicide.

YES, THAT WOULD BE AWFUL: In the WaPo, worries that Trump may be creating an economic boom.

STACY McCAIN: How Joy Reid’s Homophobic History Illustrates Vox Day’s Third Law of SJWs.

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FINALLY, SOME GOOD NEWS: Federal judge rules that bikini baristas and their ‘art form’ can stay.