“WHEN SHE SAYS, ‘ARIZONA,’ IT LOOKS LIKE SHE SMELLED A FART, RIGHT?” Wait, Another 1?! Kyrsten Sinema can’t hide her disgust for Arizona in 2018 video.

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AMERICA’S LONGEST WAR: Taliban Try to Kill U.S. Commander Days After Lauding Talks with U.S. Envoy. “Three Americans wounded in attack after high-profile meeting in Kandahar; police chief who escaped nearly 30 assassination attempts killed.”

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Don’t Want Rosacea? Drinking Coffee Might Help.

BLUE WAVE? Dem congressional candidates raise over $1B in record haul.

This would be a great time to step away from the computer screen and volunteer for a vulnerable local candidate.

SPACE: Rocket Lab Chooses Wallops Island, Virginia as American Launch Site.

BECAUSE SHE DOESN’T EXPECT TO TAKE THE SENATE BUT HAS TO RUN LEFT IN HER REELECTION BID: Feinstein wants Kavanaugh sexual misconduct investigation reopened if Dems take Senate.

CHANGE MORE OF THE SAME: UK and EU agree to extend Brexit talks after summit ends with no results.

CHANGE: July 2018 Massachusetts Bar Exam Results Are The Worst This Century.

I WISH SHE COULD QUIT US: Dear God, Hillary Clinton. Please, Just Go.

Hillary’s continual pursuit of limelight and headlines ensures that the image of the Democratic Party remains an outdated, outmoded, and frankly despicable for far too many voters. This comes at a time when leading Democrats are attempting to focus voters’ attention on the future—2020, and beating Trump—and jostling for the role as the new party leader.

It also undercuts Democrats’ positioning as the only party that really cares about #MeToo and that will fight for survivors, a contrast Dems are only too keen to spotlight in the wake of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court and ongoing allegations about President Trump’s treatment of women. Only sheer partisan convenience could allow someone to insist that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony is credible while downplaying the numerous allegations of mistreatment (and worse) made by women against Bill Clinton.

For the Democratic Party, about the best that can come of this latest Clinton revival is that no matter how unpalatable any of its leading lights—Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Sen. Cory Booker, or others—are individually, they’ll look like downright appealing the longer Hillary hangs about.

I’m pretty sure Liz Mair is saying all this like it’s a bad thing, but it’s difficult to find fault with her headline plea.

BRIDGET JOHNSON: Twitter Dumps Data on Millions of Tweets, Accounts Linked to Russian, Iran Operations. “The Russian trolls farms ‘tried to inflame everybody’ and often ‘pushed both sides of divisive issues’.”

Well, of course. Russian meddling isn’t about preferring one side or candidate over the other, it’s about sowing discord and discrediting whoever is in power. In that, the Kremlin can’t believe its good luck that the American Left has been so eager to help those efforts along.

On brief reflection, the Kremlin is probably used to it.

PREVENTING THE RISE OF “FASCISM”: “I can think of no better way of doing this than excising the entire alt-right from YouTube.” Sorry, but that means you’re not thinking. If your response to aggrieved people is to add some entirely legitimate grievances to their list, it’s time to reexamine your strategy.

A LIBERTARIAN MANIFESTO: Mark Rippetoe: The “Corporate Culture” of The Aasgaard Company.

SEEMS LIKE A GOOD TIME TO REVISIT ONE OF MY OLDER COLUMNS:

While we were mesmerized by the president and CNN’s Jim Acosta trading petulant barbs, Carlos Domínguez Rodríguez, a 77-year-old political reporter in Mexico was stabbed in his car by masked men 21 times as his family watched in horror.

PAULA BOLYARD: Thanks, Common Core: ACT Scores for Class of 2018 Worst in Decades. “It’s not like we weren’t warned.”

THE NEW CIVILITY: Soros-backed group fires operative after arrest over alleged battery against GOP campaign manager.

American Bridge 21st Century announced Wednesday night that it had fired one of its operatives a day after he was arrested and accused of battery against the female campaign manager for Nevada GOP gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt.

In a statement, American Bridge said that Mike Stark had been relieved of his duties “effective immediately.”

American Bridge was founded in November 2010 by David Brock, who also founded liberal watchdog group Media Matters. The group’s largest donor is liberal billionaire George Soros, who contributed more than $2 million between 2015 and 2016. Soros is still involved with the group, most recently donating $300,000 in February, and $80,000 last year.

Stark, 50, was arrested by Las Vegas city marshals Tuesday evening after 31-year-old Kristin Davison said he grabbed and twisted her arm, refusing to let go.

I keep reading that Trump is bringing fascism to America, but it always seems to be Democrats wearing the brown shirts.

THEY TOLD ME IF WE ELECTED DONALD TRUMP, OPEN RACISTS WOULD FEEL FREE TO RALLY ON CAMPUSES. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Activists at Yale rally in support of racially discriminatory affirmative action.

THE NATIONAL DEBACLE THAT IS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES UNABATED: US weekly jobless claims fall, while continuing claims drop to the lowest level since 1973.

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2. Indiana Senate: Sen. Joe Donnelly (D) vs. Mike Braun (R)

In September, this race was looking increasingly challenging for Republicans to win. Donnelly’s low-key, pragmatic demeanor had given him a consistently narrow advantage over Republican Braun, while the GOP attacks were all over the map without any coherent theme. Donnelly, who was one of three Democrats to support Justice Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, was seen as a likely supporter of Kavanaugh—a move that would burnish his moderate reputation.

Then, immediately after the contentious Kavanaugh hearings, Donnelly announced his opposition to the nominee. It gave Braun a rallying cry in the race, and boosted his partisan support. The race is still razor-tight, according to operatives in both parties. Polls in Indiana close at 6 p.m. local time; early results will foreshadow which side holds the advantage in the battle for the Senate.

Tennessee Senate, too, and for similar reasons.

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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: The Media Helps the Khashoggi Story Along and Much, Much More. “Erdogan is a bad hombre so believe his security apparatus at your own intellectual peril. The political backdrop of this ‘scandal’ is Iran/Turkey/Qatar vs U.S./Israel/Saudi Arabia, guess which side the media is on? Ben Rhodes’ echo chamber is alive and kickin’. Always remember how the media is helping this story along.”

TRUMP THREATENS TO CLOSE BORDER WITH MEXICO: The president is tweeting this morning, saying he will send the military and close the southern U.S. border if the latest caravan of migrants from Honduras and Guatemala is allowed to continue unimpeded through Mexico. There is a faint odor of genuine national crisis in this.

GREYHOUND TRAP: A C-2A Greyhound lands on the carrier USS Harry S. Truman.