IT’S COME TO THIS: Will Sean Hannity Save (or Destroy) Hollywood?, asks Roger Simon.

RACISM VS. SEXISM: A Clemson University student senator is being called a racist for proposing a motion to impeach a black student government official accused of sexual harassment.

Hoffman is seeking an impeachment trial for Vice President Jaren Stewart following revelations that Stewart was fired from his job as a Resident Assistant after he was accused of “theft, trespassing, strong-arming, intimidation, and sexual harassment,” according to an incident report released by FitsNews.

Yet Hoffman’s fellow senators, members of the audience, and media outlets alike accused him of having racist motivations, blaming the call for impeachment on Stewart’s recent decision to protest the Pledge of Allegiance during an official meeting.

“I cannot stress enough how this situation has nothing to do with the flag protest or contain all racial motivation at all. Such a narrative is without evidence and completely untrue,” Hoffman countered, noting that Stewart was vice president of CUSG at the time of his termination from his RA position.

Nevertheless, some students explicitly accused Hoffman of having racist motivations, with student Khayla Williams stating, “you said this is not about race, sir. I highly doubt that.”

“The fact is Jaren is our representation on this campus. It goes back to he’s black,” she elaborated. “He is black and he is in charge, man. That’s the reality.”

Boy, it’s just one embarrassing story after another out of Clemson.

OHIO MAN UNEXPECTEDLY WORKING FLORIDA MAN’S TERRITORY: Feds Indict Ohio Man for Possession of Stolen Missile Warning System, Other Weapons.

STUART TAYLOR, JR.: What Betsy DeVos Gets Right About Campus Sexual Assault. “The Obama Administration’s actions on campus sexual assault were a textbook example of regulatory overreach.”

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TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): When A Man Is Too Drunk To Consent.

OUT: CULTURAL APPROPRIATION. IN: GENDER APPROPRIATION. Sam Smith Can’t Ever Know What It Feels Like To Be A Woman.

Well, turnabout is fair play: There are a lot of people out there womansplaining how men should feel and act.

WAIT, IS THAT ALLOWED? CNN Praises Trump’s ‘Pitch Perfect’ Opioid Speech: ‘He Deserves Credit.’

IT’S ALWAYS NICE to make Twitchy.

And I like this comment: “I like how we NOW need to be prudes because the media/entertainment/political class are such depraved jackasses incapable of self-control.”

CHANGE: Trump to announce pick for Fed chair next week. “Trump has said he is considering keeping current chairwoman Janet Yellen, whose term expires in February. But he has also mentioned Federal Reserve governor Jerome Powell and Stanford University economist John Taylor as potential replacements.”

FEAR AND LOATHING ON HILLARY CLINTON’S GRIEVANCE TOUR:

A few weeks before Election Day last year, Clinton challenged Donald Trump to say that he would unconditionally accept the results on Nov. 8. It was a perfect gotcha question for someone of Trump’s temperament and he spent days hemming and hawing and publicly weighing various nightmare hypotheticals, but eventually he said that he maybe kind-of would.

It is now clear that someone should have asked Clinton the same question.

Clinton still isn’t accepting “the legitimacy of the election,” as she put it.

Elections are only legitimate when the Democrat wins.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: U. of Arkansas System Considers Changes to Ease Tenured-Faculty Firings.

he University of Arkansas system is considering proposed changes in its tenure policy that could make it easier to fire professors and, faculty members say, chip away at academic freedom.

A key concern, they say, is language in the proposal that outlines when professors may be fired for cause. It includes a “pattern of disruptive conduct or unwillingness to work productively with colleagues.” That language, some faculty members say, effectively means collegiality — or the lack thereof — can be used as a reason to dismiss a professor.

Things that will indicate a lack of collegiality: Voting for Trump, an NRA bumpersticker, failing to stand during the Diversity Pledge.

MY FRIENDS DO THE STRANGEST THINGS:  What Happened? Or I Suffered For This Blog Post, And I Have To Share.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Kent State Socialist Group Suggests Gulag for Dissenting Voice.

ABOUT TIME:  Ted Cruz Calls on Colleagues to ‘Shut Up and Do Your Job’.

THEY’RE NORMAL PEOPLE, FILLED WITH CONCERN FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS:  And other fables.  Dem Lawmakers Want to Ban Gas-Powered Vehicles in U.S. by 2035. Maybe by then the American people will have Banned Dem Lawmakers?  Hey, I can dream.

UNEXPECTEDLY!  First Read of 3rd Quarter GDP at 3.0%, Beating 2.5% Expectation.

IT IS, IN FACT, MORE OR LESS AS WE EXPECTED:  From Russia with Lies.

NOW THE FEMINISTS ARE JUST GETTING CREEPY:  Stop with the Groping Stories. George H.W. Bush is Not About to Become Woke.

WELL THAT IS CERTAINLY … INTERESTING:  Fusion GPS and the Washington Free Beacon .  I suppose it’s a good thing they do some research, unlike the mainstream media, but I think like the Romney campaign they might have what I’d call “the problem of consultants.” I.e., before hiring someone they didn’t investigate all of the someone’s potential ties or quite likely tainting.  Which makes their good will effort at research…. not very bright.

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KIMBERLEY STRASSEL: The Coming Russia Bombshells: A judge may order Fusion GPS to give House investigators its bank records.

The confirmation this week that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid an opposition-research firm for a “dossier” on Donald Trump is bombshell news. More bombshells are to come.

The Fusion GPS saga isn’t over. The Clinton-DNC funding is but a first glimpse into the shady election doings concealed within that oppo-research firm’s walls. We now know where Fusion got some of its cash, but the next question is how the firm used it. With whom did it work beyond former British spy Christopher Steele ? Whom did it pay? Who else was paying it?

The answers are in Fusion’s bank records. Fusion has doggedly refused to divulge the names of its clients for months now, despite extraordinary pressure. So why did the firm suddenly insist that middleman law firm Perkins Coie release Fusion from confidentiality agreements, and spill the beans on who hired it?

Because there’s something Fusion cares about keeping secret even more than the Clinton-DNC news—and that something is in those bank records. The release of the client names was a last-ditch effort to appease the House Intelligence Committee, which issued subpoenas to Fusion’s bank and was close to obtaining records until Fusion filed suit last week. The release was also likely aimed at currying favor with the court, given Fusion’s otherwise weak legal case. The judge could rule as early as Friday morning.

If the House wins, don’t be surprised if those records include money connected to Russians. In the past Fusion has worked with Russians, including lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who happened to show up last year in Donald Trump Jr.’s office.

FBI bombshells are also yet to come. The bureau has stonewalled congressional subpoenas for documents related to the dossier, but that became harder with the DNC-Clinton news. On Thursday Speaker Paul Ryan announced the FBI had finally pledged to turn over its dossier file next week.

Assuming the FBI is comprehensive in its disclosure, expect to learn that the dossier was indeed a major basis of investigating the Trump team—despite reading like “the National Enquirer,” as Rep. Trey Gowdy aptly put it. We may learn the FBI knew the dossier was a bought-and-paid-for product of Candidate Clinton, but used it anyway. Or that it didn’t know, which would be equally disturbing.

It’s been an exceptionally bad year for the FBI.