NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL GIRL POWER: These Moms Are Taking Up Guns To Fight The Taliban And ISIS.

The Afghan National Police have resorted to arming and training local women to fight the Taliban and Islamic State militants. In many cases, the women had lost their sons, husbands and other loved ones to the ongoing violence.

“If we fear Daesh [ISIS] and the Taliban today, our future will be ruined tomorrow,” one unnamed woman told Al Jazeera.

Female members of the Afghan National Police train the local women in small arms and basic tactics, specifically in the northern reaches of Afghanistan.

“Every week, around 40 or 50 people join,” said Najiba, a female police officer.

It’s not like they’d been denied government-funded orgasms or anything serious like that, but it’s good to see them fight for some of their rights.

SOME REVIEWS MAKE MY DAY:Sarah Hoyt’s Darkship Revenge.

FASTER, PLEASE: News about cancer research that could be very, very important.

IN THE EMAIL FROM DANIEL HUMPHREYS: Fade (Paxton Locke Book 1).

OF COURSE THEY DO! Want Bigger Boobs? Japan Has A Non-Surgical Idea For You.

IN THE EMAIL FROM STEVE RUSKIN: America’s First Great Eclipse: How Scientists, Tourists, and the Rocky Mountain Eclipse of 1878 Changed Astronomy Forever.

Ruskin is an historian of astronomy and wrote the book to compare the upcoming 2017 “Great American Eclipse” to the country’s first “great eclipse.”

THEY’LL ONLY LEAD TO MORE VIOLENCE: Stop with the False Equivalencies.

HE WAS THE CIVILIAN PILOT WHO REPORTED THE PHOENIX LIGHTS INCIDENT: Kurt Russell reported UFO sighting decades ago.

WOULDN’T ANY DEATH FROM WHIPPED CREAM QUALIFY AS A FREAK ACCIDENT? Fitness model killed in freak whipped cream accident.

NOT TO MENTION FOR A SANE RELATIONSHIP: How sober dates are better for romance.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Papa Pat Rambles.

NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINE TODAY: Democrats Seethe After Georgia Loss: ‘Our Brand Is Worse Than Trump.’

When exactly are Democrats not seething?

UPDATE: Again with the rage and the seething: In Trump Era, the Mean Streak of the Celebrity Liberal Is Out of Control.

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-MONOPOLY INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF INTOLERANCE? Going on Fox News cost me my job, professor claims.

A DOGWHISTLE TO INCITE VIOLENCE? “Attacking Trump is not enough,” a senior Democratic aide said late Tuesday, speaking on the condition of anonymity to speak frankly about strategy.”

Is this a dogwhistle for more violent attacks and assassination attempts against Republican lawmakers? If the roles were reversed, that would be the narrative, I have no doubt. Perhaps our moral betters might want to re-think words like “attack.” The heightened language of politics-as-war is the ugliest thing I’ve seen since forever.

I GUESS I PICKED THE WRONG WEEK TO QUIT SNIFFING GLUE-FILLED MONSTROSITIES: Microsoft Surface Fails Repairability Test, dubbed “glue-filled monstrosity” by tech Website.

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TRUE CRIME: Man Steals Mummified Human Toe from Bar … Wait, What?

DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN: Again, another picture is worth a thousand words. You know, the real irony is that these brave, fearless, empowered women always seem to burst into tears when things don’t go well. I don’t mean to sound misogynistic, but the added irony is that a woman won this race.

JUST THINK OF THE AP AS DEMOCRAT OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE:

Hodgkinson also visited the office of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose campaign he had worked on as a volunteer, and was in email contact with the two Democratic senators from his home state.

As conservative journalist and video maker John Tabin tweets, “Amazing how a simple switch in party affiliation can turn a headline into a minor detail” that was buried 11 paragraphs into an article astonishingly headlined, “FBI: Gunman who shot congressman had no target in mind.”

TOO COZY, OR FLAT OUT CORRUPT? The AP reports that Jay Solomon, the Wall Street Journal’s Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent has been sacked:

The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday fired its highly regarded chief foreign affairs correspondent after evidence emerged of his involvement in prospective commercial deals — including one involving arms sales to foreign governments — with an international businessman who was one of his key sources.

The WSJ is staying mum on details, and the AP takes pains to be fair that “It was not clear whether Solomon ever received money or formally accepted a stake in the company”, but it underscores the temptation reporters face when they get too cozy with sources. This is not the first time the WSJ has faced this problem.

**Update: The “editors” at Yahoo News (giggle) don’t know the difference between the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. HINT: These buildings are not even in the same city. Layers and layers of fact-checkers, you know.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Ohio congressman wants concealed carry for D.C. lawmakers.

KILL, JOYS: New York Democrats Push Measure To Smother Vaping Industry.

The proposal, which passed through the state Senate Monday, amends New York’s Indoor Clean Air Act to include electronic cigarettes. Under the new rules, e-cigarettes are viewed no differently than any other tobacco product, despite research showing the devices eliminate up to 95 percent of the risks associated with smoking, reports WIVB.

The legislation expands the state ban on vaping in certain areas to include restaurants, bars, offices and any other public, indoor space. Vaping advocates are slamming state Democrats over the bill, which they argue will dissuade adult smokers from using the devices to quit.

“Every time New York State lumps vaping together with smoking, they are basically telling the smokers it is the same thing, don’t bother, and it is not not the same thing,” Andrew Osborne, vice president of the New York State Vaping Association, told WIVB. “Vaping is a breakthrough technology that smokers can use to literally save their own life.”

It’s fair to conclude that New York Democrats want people to die young.

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: BuzzFeed’s “FOIA Terrorist” Jason Leopold learns that A Bunch Of CIA Staff Got Fired For Stealing Snacks From Vending Machines:

The thefts took place starting in the fall of 2012 and continued through March 2013, according to a declassified Office of Inspector General report from October 2013. The report is one of hundreds only recently released to BuzzFeed News through a Freedom Of Information Act lawsuit filed in 2015.

Granted, the thefts only totaled about $3,314.40, but it makes one wonder why they would go to such an elaborate plan and effort just about the same time ̶T̶r̶u̶m̶p̶ ̶a̶n̶d Putin were busy “hacking our democracy.” Priorities, I guess. I mean, hey, free Snickers bars.

FED UP: Democrats aren’t ready to show Nancy Pelosi the door, but…

OH FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD: Mom Asks Baby’s Consent Before Picking Him Up…Because Rape or Something.

Waah means waah.