OFF THE COAST OF CRETE: A Stinger missile live fire exercise — an Avenger air defense vehicle launches the missile from a seaside position on the island of Crete.

WAPO POLL: Alabama race is neck and neck, with voters divided over Roy Moore allegations, poll finds. A generic R should have a comfortable lead in Alabama, so the allegations are hurting him.

If Alabama sends Roy Moore to the Senate, I think it will be for the same reason Caligula sent a horse: As a gesture of contempt.

HMM: Kim Jong Nam Had Antidote In Bag When He Died In Nerve Agent Attack.

WHY IS CONGRESS SUCH A CESSPIT OF SEXUAL PREDATION? Democrats Call For Rep. Ruben Kihuen To Resign After Sexual Harassment Claim. I can’t help but notice, though, that the Dems are a lot quicker to call for resignations from minority members like Kihuen or Conyers, than from a white guy like Al Franken. Sad!

MICHAEL BARONE: European Bureaucrats Attack Multicultural Sandwich.

If you want to know why a majority of voters in Britain and large numbers in many other European countries are disgusted with undemocratic micro-regulation by the European Union, take a look at this article from thelocal.de.

An EU Parliament committee is holding up approval of the use of phosphate in frozen döner kebab, a popular sandwich in Germany. This, even though phosphate was approved for use in pork chops and bratwurst. “There is a clear case of discrimination against döner,” thundered the tabloid Bild. “This could ring the death knell for the entire döner industry in the EU,” claimed the chairman of the Federal Association of Döner Producers, which claims that 110,000 jobs in Germany depend on the döner industry.

The health spokesman of the Christian Democratic party said that if someone consumed döner all year, they would ingest the amount of phosphate in 1.5 liters of Coke.

We need a culture of tarring and feathering intrusive, officious bureaucrats.

SERGEANT SCHULTZISM: FBI Releases Documents Relating to Bill Clinton-Loretta Lynch Tarmac Meeting.. “The documents show an FBI that demonstrated a studied indifference to the potential impropriety of the meeting.”

TED KENNEDY’S DEAD, BUT HE FINALLY WON HIS BATTLE TO PROTECT HIS ESTATE’S OCEAN VIEW: R.I.P., Cape Wind.

Flashback: A funny video from back when the Daily Show was still willing to go after lefty heroes.

THESE REPORTS STOPPED REGISTERING EVEN AS MERE BACKGROUND NOISE WEEKS AGO: Trump denies that Tillerson is on his way out.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Get Ready for Concealed Guns in All 50 States: House panel approves law that will allow firearms-owners to cross any state line with a hidden weapon.

WELL, REALITY IS DISCRIMINATORY: Court Says Two Women Cannot Conceive a Child, Same-Sex Divorcee Shouts ‘Discrimination!’

OH, THAT FAKE NEWS: ABC Issues Major Correction after Botched Flynn Report That Led to Dow Plunge.

AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Want to Raise Boys to Become Good Men? Stop Calling Them Predators-in-Training.

SENATE PASSES GOP TAX BILL AFTER MARATHON VOTING SESSION.

Related: Senate Republicans approve plan to allow drilling in Arctic refuge with tax legislation.

Faster, please.

UPDATE: Sweeping tax reform passes the Senate: GOP scores major victory in 11th-hour vote for $1.5 trillion bill after Democrats said they had no time to read the 500-page, ‘scribbled’ small print.

Nancy Pelosi could not be reached for comment.

OOPS: Study blames law enforcement for the injuries and death at the Charlottesville protests. “This represents a failure of one of government’s core functions — the protection of fundamental rights.” I don’t think it was an accidental failure, either. I believe the Department of Justice should consider prosecuting the relevant officials.

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JOHN ZIEGLER: Slow Down and Look at the Al Franken Evidence. “Unlike Harvey Weinstein allegations, the story wasn’t vetted: Tweeden’s story jumped from the web page of low-rated talk news station to big news organization’s front pages without close scrutiny. Almost every major news media outlet essentially ‘copied and pasted’ her allegation as if it had already withstood some sort of journalistic inquiry, when it had not. . . . I don’t know what happened in the Tweeden/Franken situation, but there are plenty of questions that should have been answered before the allegations against Franken were everywhere.”

#FAKENEWS: ABC: Our hugely damning report about Trump and Flynn earlier might have gotten one tiny detail wrong. Sheesh.

GOOD NEWS FOR MY LIFESTYLE: Coffee habits could lengthen lifespan.

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SHOCKER: “These new FBI documents show the FBI was more concerned about a whistleblower who told the truth about the infamous Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting than the scandalous meeting itself.”

THE FLYNN PLEA: Andrew McCarthy is unimpressed.

The Lawfare Blog is less unimpressed.

David French says There Is No Evidence of ‘Collusion’ in Michael Flynn’s Offense Statement.

I don’t know what’s going on myself. I do think that this will either end with a fizzle, or with an enormously divisive prosecution, possibly producing a constitutional crisis.

SHOT: CW’s ‘Supergirl’ Swipes at Trump with Nazi Comparison: ‘Make America Aryan Again.’

CHASER: Supergirl And Flash Showrunner Fired Due To Sexual-Harassment Allegations.

The more virtue-signaling, the less virtue.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: I Cooked A Frozen Turkey (Not Fake News).