BAN ALL THE THINGS! Having solved all other problems, Los Angeles to ban fur sales.

MEANWHILE, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD: US F-35 fighters fly first ever combat mission.

Thursday’s mission took place against Taliban targets in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, when more than one F-35 flew from the USS Essex amphibious assault ship.

“It was a successful strike,” the official told AFP.

The planes deployed were the F-35B variant, used by the Marine Corps and capable of taking off from a short runway and landing vertically.

It’s nice to have that kind of striking power on a “mere” amphibious assault vessel.

NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Grassley Staff Called ‘B*tch,’ ‘Racist Trash,’ ‘Piece of Sh*t,’ Told ‘I Hope You Get Raped.’

SO FIGHT BACK WITH THE SAME TOOLS THEY USE: Fired-Up Lindsey Graham Blasts Dems: ‘I Feel Ambushed.’

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D. C. MCALLISTER: Welcome to the Destructive Age of Male Guilt.

Funny, but I don’t feel very welcome.

CHUCK TODD: Ford Is a ‘Victim of the Democrats Playing Politics.’

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Wearable defibrillator lowers sudden cardiac death, but only when you wear it.

MADELEINE KEARNS: ‘False Memories’ Are More Common Than You Think.

GOOD: Ajit Pai slams cities and towns as FCC erases $2 billion in local fees: FCC orders cities and towns to slash permit fees for 5G equipment.

KEN STARR: ‘I Believe Brett Kavanaugh.’

PAUL SPERRY: Ford’s polygraph expert has been a subcontractor of the Democrat law firm representing Ford in DC. Hanafin’s a “progressive” from Boston who says that when administering polygraphs on “victims” like Ford u automatically “believe them” & don’t ask them specific questions.

More to come, I’m sure.

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PAULA BOLYARD: Keep in mind that Ford was only asked two questions during the actual polygraph test after being interviewed at a hotel by the technician.

Apparently this is SOP for the FBI, but given that there is “no consensus about the accuracy of polygraph tests,” maybe it’s best not to waste too much time on them.

PROBABLY IN PART A SIDE-EFFECT OF AN AGING POPULATION. ALSO, THE FLU SHOT WAS PRETTY CRAPPY LAST YEAR. 80,000 died of the flu last winter in the U.S., the highest death count in decades. On the other hand, there’s this: “CDC officials do not have exact counts of how many people die from flu each year. Flu is so common that not all flu cases are reported, and flu is not always listed on death certificates. So the CDC uses statistical models, which are periodically revised, to make estimates.”

OUT SOON, AND PERFECTLY TIMED, FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: Militant Normals: How Regular Americans Are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy.

BILL CLINTON’S RAPE ACCUSER JUANITA BROADDRICK IS AT KAVANAUGH HEARING AND HIGHLIGHTING DEMOCRAT’S “BELIEVE WOMEN” DOUBLE STANDARD.

And on the other side of the aisle, “A celebrity sighting in the Blasey Ford hearing: Alyssa Milano.”

Not in her Handmaid’s Tale costume, alas.

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DISASTER RELIEF: I Drove a Pickup Full of Supplies to a Town Flooded by Florence, and Here Is What I Saw.

SCRAPPLEFACE: U.S. Rep. Robert Francis ‘Beto’ O’Rourke said he’ll serve at least six years in a federal facility that houses the U.S. Senate, maybe longer, with only occasional “time off for good behavior.”

UP-TO-THE-MINUTE (OR NEARLY SO) UPDATES ON THE KAVANAUGH HEARING at the PJMedia Live Blog.

Update: “Feinstein is paving the way to prohibit questions on Ford’s character yet in he/she said cases, it is one’s impression of character that is the determining factor. There’s nothing else to go by when you have to unsubstantiated claims.”

Feinstein is no dummy. She’s trying to rule out in advance the only meaningful questions.

More: “The very first question, and Ford broke in to retract her previous written allegation that there was another “bystander” to the assault. She now says she misused the word, and that the “bystander” was actually downstairs — and therefore not a witness to anything.”

In fact, Ford has corrected her previous written allegations three or four times in just these first few minutes.

Fear of Flying:

And: The big lie.

From the comments: “She’s avoiding anything that would get her on perjury. She’s only certain on matters which cannot be proved one way or another.”

(Bumped.)

TWO NETWORKS IN ONE: CNN’s Jake Tapper Argues There’s ‘No Contemporaneous Corroborating Evidence For Any Of The Charges’ Against Kavanaugh.

Meanwhile: Jeffrey Toobin Of CNN: Mothers Worried About Their Teenage Sons is ‘Nonsense.’

That’s pretty rich coming from the doxxing network.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Tucker Carlson on Monday: Is Christine Ford Claiming a Fear of Flying Just to Delay Senate Hearing?

Fast-forward to today:

UPDATE: