WELL, GOOD: American Airlines Resolves Pilot Shortage.

ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Why did Flynn lie and why did Mueller charge him with lying? “People who lie to the FBI generally do so because, if they told the truth, they would be admitting to a crime. But the two conversations that Flynn falsely denied having were not criminal. He may have believed they were criminal but, if he did, he was wrong. . . . The second question is why did Mueller charge Flynn only with lying? The last thing a prosecutor ever wants to do is to charge a key witness with lying. A witness such as Flynn who has admitted he lied — whether or not to cover up a crime — is a tainted witness who is unlikely to be believed by jurors who know he’s made a deal to protect himself and his son.”

IT BEGINS: Google’s AI Built Its Own AI That Outperforms Any Made by Humans: Should we be worried?

GOP SENATOR MIKE ROUNDS: Passing Tax Reform Without Reading Full Bill Different Than Obamacare Passage.

STILL A GOOD IDEA! Flashback: Abolish the TSA.

CHARLOTTESVILLE POLICE CHIEF: “Let them fight.” That turned out badly.

WELL, YES: GOP senator says tax cuts must be followed by ‘structural changes to Social Security and Medicare.’

I THINK IT’S INEVITABLE: Should Platforms Like Google And Facebook Be Regulated?

THE GOP LITERALLY JUST MURDERED EVERYONE TO DEATH: 5 Absurd Overreactions to the Senate Passing Tax Reform.

THE FBI IS HAVING A BAD YEAR: New Documents Reveal FBI’s Clinton Coverup.

IT’S A POLITICAL-CLASS MELTDOWN: Democratic fundraiser Matthew Lieberman charged with racially motivated gun crime in St. Louis. “Veteran Democratic fundraiser Matthew Lieberman has been charged with multiple felony gun crimes after allegedly firing a handgun and shouting racial slurs at eyewitnesses at two businesses Tuesday. Lieberman pointed a handgun at someone at the Amoco gas station on Skinker Boulevard and Highway 40 (Interstate 64) while using racial epithets just after 11 p.m. Tuesday, according to court documents. He then allegedly fired multiple shots at the building from his car. . . . Lieberman, who is white, heads two fundraising firms: Majority Strategies LLC, and RAL Strategic Investment Group LLC. He’s been a longtime fundraiser for Democrats in Missouri, including former St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay.”

THEY TOLD ME IF TRUMP WERE ELECTED, WE’D SEE A RETURN TO SEGREGATION. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Evergreen State’s student newspaper includes no-whites-allowed opinion section: ‘For people of color by people of color.’

THERE’S STILL TIME TO SHOP Cyber Monday Deals Week.

U.S. NEWS: The Inevitability of Kamala Harris.

I remember when she was defending fake confessions:

What prosecuting attorney Robert Murray did was produce a translated transcript of the defendant’s interrogation to which he had added a fraudulent confession. The defense attorney got a copy of the audio tape of the interrogation, but it “ended abruptly.” Eventually, Murray admitted to falsifying the transcript, presumably in the hopes of either coercing a plea deal, or ensuring a victory at trial.

When the trial judge found out, charges against the defendant were dismissed. Incredibly, the State of California, via Attorney General Kamala Harris, decided to appeal the case. The state’s key argument: That putting a fake confession in the transcript wasn’t “outrageous” because it didn’t involve physical brutality, like chaining someone to a radiator and beating him with a hose.

Well, no. It just involved an officer of the court knowingly producing a fraudulent document in order to secure an illicit advantage. If Harris really thinks that knowingly producing a fraudulent document to secure an illicit advantage isn’t “outrageous,” then perhaps she slept through her legal ethics courses.

Or maybe she was just warming up for the Senate.

WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? Black Dems see bias in response to sexual harassment cases.

IMPORTANT ADVICE FOR CELEBRITIES: Nobody Wants to See your Dick — A Guide to Handling your Newfound Wealth and Influence.

Useful, but it’s interesting to contrast this kind of stuff with the endless vagina-celebration we see.

THE THIRD-WORLDING OF CALIFORNIA CONTINUES APACE: San Diego opens giant tent to contain hepatitis outbreak.

BYRON YORK: Nunes blows up, threatens contempt after FBI stonewalls House on Russia investigator demoted for anti-Trump bias.

House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes has issued an angry demand to the FBI and Department of Justice to explain why they kept the committee in the dark over the reason Special Counsel Robert Mueller kicked a key supervising FBI agent off the Trump-Russia investigation.

Stories in both the Washington Post and New York Times on Saturday reported that Peter Strzok, who played a key role in the original FBI investigation into the Trump-Russia matter, and then a key role in Mueller’s investigation, and who earlier had played an equally critical role in the FBI’s Hillary Clinton email investigation, was reassigned out of the Mueller office because of anti-Trump texts he exchanged with a top FBI lawyer, Lisa Page, with whom Strzok was having an extramarital affair. Strzok was transferred to the FBI’s human resources office — an obvious demotion — in July.

The Post reported that Strzok and Page exchanged text messages that “expressed anti-Trump sentiments and other comments that appeared to favor Clinton.”

Word of the messages and the affair were news to Nunes, even though the committee had issued a subpoena that covered information about Strzok’s demotion more than three months ago.

It’s like Mueller was hiding something. Because he was.

U.S. NEWS: “In case anyone still doubts it, the deep state is real.”

IT’S CALLED “DESTROYING THE EVIDENCE:” NBC News is erasing all memory of Matt Lauer.

THE BANK ACCOUNT CAN’T BE EMPTY; THEY STILL HAVE SOME CHECKS LEFT:  Dems Are Shocked to Learn that Federal Government Runs a Deficit. Or, if you prefer “if you never balance your checkbook, you never have to admit to debt.”  But what I really like is their idea that they’re entitled to all of our money and that somehow not taking as much money from us as they are now means they’re “adding to the debt.”  No, what is adding to the debt is unconscionable spending.  Stop acting like drunken sailors on shore leave.  And stop putting your hand in my pocket, too.

ANOTHER ANONYMOUS-SOURCE REPORT PROVEN FALSE, BUT THE CORRECTION NEVER DISSEMINATED. THE LEFT IS PLAYING WITH FIRE:  What’s the Flynn investigation all about? [Plus ABC’s “clarification”/correction].

ALIENS AMONG US:  The American Republic.