HMM: At least one Democratic senator set to return Tony Podesta’s campaign cash.

GOOD LORD: Green Beret killed by strangulation reportedly turned down illegal money from Navy SEALs.

BYRON YORK: Did dossier trigger the Trump-Russia probe? “The FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump-Russia affair shortly after receiving the first installment of an anti-Trump dossier from a former British spy working for the Hillary Clinton campaign. What congressional investigators want to know is whether that was a coincidence or not.”

Hint: Not.

LEADERSHIP: Army Veteran Saw a ‘Lone Man’ at Arlington on Veterans Day — Who It Was Defines What It Means to Serve America.

GOP SENATOR CORY GARDNER: Senate Should ‘Vote to Expel’ Moore if He Wins.

AND ANOTHER ONE: George H.W. Bush apologizes after sixth woman alleges groping.

CAITLYN FLANAGAN ON BILL CLINTON: Feminists saved the 42nd president of the United States in the 1990s. They were on the wrong side of history; is it finally time to make things right?

Let us not forget the sex crimes of which the younger, stronger Bill Clinton was very credibly accused in the 1990s. Juanita Broaddrick reported that when she was a volunteer on one of his gubernatorial campaigns, she had arranged to meet him in a hotel coffee shop. At the last minute, he had changed the location to her room in the hotel, where she says he very violently raped her. She said she fought against Clinton throughout a rape that left her bloodied. At a different Arkansas hotel, he caught sight of a minor state employee named Paula Jones, and, Jones says, he sent a couple of state troopers to invite her to his suite, where he exposed his penis to her and told her to kiss it. Kathleen Willey said that she met him in the Oval Office for personal and professional advice and that he groped her, rubbed his erect penis on her, and pushed her hand to his crotch.

It was a pattern of behavior; it included an alleged violent assault; the women involved had far more credible evidence than many of the most notorious accusations that have come to light in the past five weeks. But Clinton was not left to the swift and pitiless justice that today’s accused men have experienced. Rather, he was rescued by a surprising force: machine feminism. The movement had by then ossified into a partisan operation and it was willing—eager—to let this friend of the sisterhood enjoy a little droit de seigneur.

The thing is, going after him now — when they don’t need him anymore, and when they’re trying to hustle Hillary off the political stage for 2020 — doesn’t make up for what they did then. Rather, it underscores it.

SHOCKER: Germany Is a Coal-Burning, Gas-Guzzling Climate Change Hypocrite.

WEIRD HOW THAT WORKS: Money in politics apparently isn’t so bad when Democrats win.

I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Justice Dept. to Weigh Inquiry Into Clinton Foundation.

The department, in a letter sent to the House Judiciary Committee, said the prosecutors would examine allegations that donations to the Clinton Foundation were tied to a 2010 decision by the Obama administration to allow a Russian nuclear agency to buy Uranium One, a company that owned access to uranium in the United States, and other issues.

The letter appeared to be a direct response to Mr. Trump’s statement on Nov. 3, when he said he was disappointed with his beleaguered attorney general, Jeff Sessions, and that longstanding unproven allegations about the Clintons and the Obama administration should be investigated.

Any such investigation would raise questions about the independence of federal investigations under Mr. Trump. Since Watergate, the Justice Department has largely operated independently of political influence on cases related to the president’s opponents.

That’s rich.

STEPHANIE GUTMANN: Future Sex: A Brave New World.

As the frenzy to report sexual offenders continues, with Louis CK now excommunicated from the entertainment world, I feel like I’m watching one of those global scourge movies – like Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion or World War Z, which is about a zombie apocalypse. We’re up to the scene where the white coats from the Center for Disease Control are gathered in the massive control room full of wall-sized maps and screens. ‘It’s just hit the UK’, mutters one.

By the end of those movies the contagion has been cured and society has begun to rebuild. So, when will this one end? Feminist writer Rebecca Traister says grimly ‘there are indications it is just beginning’. But perhaps the more important question is what will society look like after the witch-hunters have created a world in which finally ‘women can feel safe’.

I’m going long on sexbot-manufacturer stocks. But one likely outcome is a world where society decides that women are too fragile for mixed workplaces.

JOEL KOTKIN: Robert Iger For President? To Many Democrats, The Mouse May Look Like A Louse.

Few global companies enjoy as much public good will as the Walt Disney Company. The entertainment giant regularly ranks highly on lists of the most admired or trusted companies, including ones from Forbes and Fortune.

CEO Robert Iger, who reportedly is being encouraged to run for president in 2020, would be able to use the company’s image to his advantage on the campaign trail, according to The New York Times. Of course, Disney representatives say he’s not running; if so, one has to wonder why Iger is hinting at it so often, as reported in such other mainstream publications as the Guardian and The Hollywood Reporter.

Iger’s progressive positions on gun control, immigration and the Paris Accords certainly are in harmony with the Democratic base. But Iger may have a more difficult time explaining away his company’s treatment of his theme park workforce on his watch, and some of the communities where they live. . . .

Workers at its theme parks in Orlando and Anaheim complain of low wages and exploitative management practices that belie the company’s squishy clean image and could pose a threat to any attempt by Iger to campaign as a progressive Democrat.

Out of the 36,000 unionized Disney workers in the Orlando area, 23,000 make less than $12 an hour and only 3,000 make over $15 an hour, according to labor union officials. To afford a one-bedroom apartment in the Orlando area, a worker would need to be paid $15.87 an hour, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition. Workers complain that management is miserly with raises even for longtime employees.

Earlier this year Disney was forced by the U.S. Labor Department to pay $3.8 million in back wages to over 16,000 employees in Florida because it had deducted a uniform fee that had caused workers’ compensation to fall below the minimum wage, as well as failed to pay them for work performed before and after their shifts. . . .

The logic used to defend Disney may be persuasive to friendly political operatives, business groups and, no doubt, Iger’s own shareholders, to whom the company returned $2.3 billion in dividends last year. Iger, who took in $44 million in compensation last year, will have a tougher time explaining the labor issues to the Bernie Bros.

Last year during a presidential campaign rally in Anaheim, Sen. Sanders lashed out at Iger for pocketing such a massive paycheck while paying poverty wages to so many. He particularly attacked the company for laying off 250 of its Orlando tech employees, replacing them with foreign H-1B visa holders from an Indian outsourcing firm. Some of the cashiered workers were asked to train their replacements before hitting the streets.

Sounds like the perfect Gentry Liberal.

COVERING THE IMPORTANT STORIES: Justice League’s Amazonian Costumes Upsetting Fans.

And by “fans” the Hollywood Reporter means shrewish angry SJWs:

The fierce women of Themyscira are much more covered up with armor in Wonder Woman than in Justice League, fan site The Golden Lasso points out in an article posted over the weekend. Twitter user @Rosgakori, who tweeted the story, also posted a side-by-side image of each film’s cast, with the warriors in Justice League revealing much more of their abs.

Man, the “Progressive” left morphed into a cross between the network TV censors of a half century ago and John Ashcroft so slowly, I hardly even noticed. Perhaps the Amazonians should don burkas. They’re all the rage with radical feminists these days.

Related: Mattel announces first Barbie to wear a hijab.

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WHEN GLORIA ALLRED WENT AFTER ROY MOORE, I THOUGHT HE MIGHT HAVE TURNED THE CORNER. BUT NOW THERE’S THIS: Gadsden locals say Moore’s predatory behavior at mall, restaurants not a secret. Of course, one of the “young girls” was a 20-year-old waitress, and some of this story is just revisiting stuff CNN already reported.

THE INSTA-WIFE: The Hate I Learned From The New York Times.

GIVEN THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE CHARGES, I THINK THAT’S OBLIGATORY: Sessions considering second special counsel to investigate Republican concerns, letter shows. “Attorney General Jeff Sessions is entertaining the idea of appointing a second special counsel to investigate a host of Republican concerns — including alleged wrongdoing by the Clinton Foundation and the controversial sale of a uranium company to Russia — and has directed senior federal prosecutors to explore at least some of the matters and report back to him and his top deputy, according to a letter obtained by The Washington Post. . . . The list of matters he wanted probed was wide ranging, but included the FBI’s handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, various dealings of the Clinton Foundation and several matters connected to the purchase of the Canadian mining company Uranium One by Russia’s nuclear energy agency. Goodlatte took particular aim at former FBI director James B. Comey, asking for a second special counsel to evaluate the leaks he directed about his conversations with President Trump, among other things.”

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: From One Frenzy To The Next. “America is in another of its Salem moments. Frenzy is almost a living, breathing monster. It moves from host to host, fueled by rumor, gossip, and self-righteous furor. The Greeks knew well of the transitory nature of these mass panics. They claimed such fits were inspired by the Maniae, the three daughters of Night who were the goddesses of insanity, madness, and crazed frenzy. We’ve seen all three of them in action throughout the past year.”

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ANN ALTHOUSE: “The answer to my question — does the New Yorker article mention Bill Clinton? — is no.”

FLASHBACK: Why I Wear A Poppy.

JOHN KASICH: It’s time for lawmakers to get into a room and figure out some sort of solution on gun control.

I’m so old, I can still remember when Kasich presented himself as a libertarian-leaning Republican. Although to be fair, these days that does seem like an awfully long time ago.

THE INSTAWIFE: I Believe it: Vegetarian Men More Depressed.

SHOCK: More Than Half of California Pregnancies Unintended.