WELL, WELL: Early Comey memo accused Clinton of gross negligence on emails.

An early draft of former FBI Director James Comey’s statement closing out the Hillary Clinton email case accused the former secretary of State of having been “grossly negligent” in handling classified information, newly reported memos to Congress show.

The tough language was changed to the much softer accusation that Clinton had been “extremely careless” in her handling of classified information when Comey announced in July 2016 there would be no charges against her.

The change is significant, since federal law states that gross negligence in handling the nation’s intelligence can be punished criminally with prison time or fines.

That’s certainly one reason why it’s significant. It’s like the fix was in.

WOULDN’T IT BE KINDER TO JUST CASTRATE THEM?  Behold, ugly Christmas rompers . . . for men.

NEWS YOU HOPEFULLY CAN’T USE:  Brain Tissue Amplifies Waves.

NEWS YOU (UNFORTUNATELY) PROBABLY CAN’T USE:  What living in space does to your body.

TEACH WOMEN HOW NOT TO… BE SOMETHING OTHER THAN HUMAN:  Social worker accused of keeping mental patient as sex slave.

SHIELDING KIDS FROM UGLY TRUTHS DOESN’T DO THEM ANY FAVORS:  Why parents should talk to their children about terrorism.

IF YOU’RE DRUNK AT LEAST YOU HAD SOME FUN:  Sleep deprivation impairs you as much as being drunk: study.

IT’S LIKE ANCIENT ROME:  Or Game of Thrones. Purge of Saudi princes, businessmen widens, travel curbs imposed.

IT’S NOT THE GUN, IT’S THE GUY:  Good Guy With a Gun May Have Saved Lots of Lives in Texas Church.

THIS IS FOR THE FISHES:  Fake News About Koi: Why No One Trusts the Press.

LOOKING BACK:  Esquire’s Oral History of the Night America Became Great Again.

MORE THINGS MY FRIENDS DO TO THEMSELVES:  Honestly, at this point I don’t know whether to cheer her on or put her on a suicide watch. What Happened: Grit and Gratitude (It took grit and I’m not grateful.)

SO I HEAR:  The Science Fiction is Settled.

BLINDED BY TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME:  Action, Meet Consequence – a Lesson for Juli Briskman.

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KURT SCHLICHTER: Democrats Drive Toward the Cliff and Hit the Gas.

DEMOCRACY DIES IN DOXXING: Oops: Daily Beast journalist posts Rand Paul’s home address after alleged assault.

As Auric Goldfinger would say, “Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.’”

And it’s far from the third time the media have doxxed someone with an (R) or believed to have (R) after his name.

DON SURBER SAYS TRUMP’S FIRST YEAR WAS “SPECTACULAR.” “The stock market soared. The economy rebounded because after eight years of Marxism, capitalism was back, baby, and kicking down the door. K Street is dead. Long live Main Street.”

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Texas Massacre Hero, Stephen Willeford, Describes Stopping Gunman.

THE SUPER-WOKE PIECE AMERICA HAS BEEN WAITING FOR: Weinstein, White Tears and the Boundaries of Black Women’s Empathy.

OUCH: “Twice in one week the party of science has criticized Trump for failing to call for the execution of two men who are already dead.”

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ANNALS OF FAKE NEWS: Erik Wemple: CNN, others hyperventilate over President Trump’s perfectly fine fish-feeding.

That’s apparently what CNN was doing when it published a story Monday under the headline, “Trump feeds fish, winds up pouring entire box of food into koi pond.” How is that newsworthy? Well, it’s newsworthy if Trump acted like a boor and pounded the precious koi with an overabundance of food. Such appears to be the case if you look at the video below, which starts with a shot of Trump, alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, flicking spoonfuls of food from a wooden box into the koi pond below. Then the shot narrows to Trump himself, and he empties the entire box.

Another instance of presidential boorishness abroad? As Mediaite pointed out, that’s how it played out among some media types. There’s that CNN headline, for starters, which places outsize significance on the president’s handling of the box. Jezebel headlines, “Big Stupid Baby Dumps Load Of Fish Food On Japanese Koi Pond.” The New York Daily News: “Photo of Donald Trump dumping fish food into koi pond during Japan visit draws Obama comparisons.” And more than one prominent journalist wrote tweets fixated on the fish-food box-dump.

A wider shot of the proceedings, however, shows that Trump was merely following the lead of his host. . . . So Trump was acting as a responsible guest, merely following the actions of Abe.

They’re like middle-school girls.

BYRON YORK: Spinning in circles on the Trump dossier.

THIS IS PRETTY MUCH THE 21ST CENTURY I’VE COME TO EXPECT: Woman Who Married Herself Cheats On Herself.