TWO BBCs IN ONE:

● Shot: BBC’s Katty Kay Deems Climate Change ‘The Most Pressing Issue of Our Time’ That Shouldn’t Be Partisan.

—NewsBusters, Monday.

● Chaser: Top Gear’s new hosts named as Paddy McGuinness and Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff — Matt Le Blanc will step down as host following the new series.

—The London Independent, October 22.

IT’S COME TO THIS: “BuzzFeed was forced to issue a correction and delete a tweet because their writers and editors are so young they had no clue 1. who Smokey Bear was and 2. what Smokey Bear actually did.”

NO. You can buy Christmas lights for your beard.

MEET THE NEW BOSS… It’s been exactly a year since Robert Mugabe resigned, but Zimbabwe is still the house that Bob built — and the new president has done little more than paper over the cracks.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Airport And Hotel WiFi Is Much Safer Than It Used To Be.

TOO CLOSE FOR THE MARGIN OF LAWYER: Mia Love Is Out In Utah, McAdams Turns Her Seat Blue.

(Classical reference in headline.)

BRITAIN: WHERE HOMEWORK GETS YOU A VISIT FROM THE COPS. This is utterly horrifying, and totally destructive to academic freedom. But it’s not exactly a strain to imagine clicking on the “wrong” link at a college even in America might get you a visit from the campus “bias response team” in the very near future.

CREEPING SHARIA: Ban on female genital mutilation ruled unconstitutional.

“THE CRIME OF PUNISHMENT”: Reading Karl Menninger’s 1966 book—which argues that all punishment is cruel and useless—is itself punishment. But maybe you should take the time to read a bit about it anyway.  (Yes, it was the Sixties, but Sixties ideas, along with lava lamps, seem to be back in style.)

REPRESENTING DICTATORS IS FINE WHEN DEMOCRATS DO IT: Espy Paid Off $267,000 Tax Debt Shortly After Lobbying for Ivory Coast Despot: Mississippi Senate candidate downplays ties to African strongman accused of crimes against humanity.

WHY PEPPERDINE STAYS PUT when wildfires rage.

DOWN BUT NOT OUT: ISIS Threat Invoking Christmas Market Attack: ‘Retribution’ Coming on New Year’s Day.

CHINA’S XI HAS NEVER BEFORE FACED SUCH AN OPPONENT: When Chinese Communist Party officials allowed an unprecedented level of economic freedom beginning in 1978, they likely had no idea that four decades later it would produce somebody like billionaire Guo Wengui.

Worth an estimated $28 billion, the exiled Guo announced he is creating the Rule of Law Fund and establishing it with an initial budget of $100 million.

“Guo announced the creation of the fund, which will also be used to finance investigations into Chinese government financial activities and those of its supporters in the West, at press conference in New York City on Tuesday,” according to Washington Free Beacon’s Bill Gertz.

“The former Chinese insider also revealed in a presentation for reporters details on the disappearance, imprisonment, or death of 56 prominent Chinese nationals, including the mysterious death in July of Wang Jian, one of China’s wealthiest business leaders.”

Guo also promised the fund will investigate and expose Chinese spies operating in the U.S. and their corporate enablers. The Left’s George Soros may have finally met a Right match.

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: The NYT Has an ‘Angry Uncle Bot’ to Help You Navigate Thanksgiving with Your Family.

In less than a month, the left has gone from melting down over the NPC meme to building their own.

RACISM, STRAIGHT UP: Missouri Democrat Says Oval Office ‘Needs to be Fumigated’ After Kanye West Visit.

QUESTION ASKED… Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?

…and answered, by Chanel’s new line of “imperceptible” makeup for, well, boys?

(Hat tip to Kevin Furr on Facebook.)

NOT ALL HATE IS CREATED EQUAL: University clears professor who wrote on Facebook about hating white people.

UPDATE: #MeTooByTSA spotlights TSA abuse; screener arrested for felony sexual battery after pat-down.

Airline passengers this Thanksgiving can look to the trending hashtag #MeTooByTSA and the valid citizen’s arrest of ex-TSA screener Michael Gerard Polson for felony sexual battery, to help draw attention to inappropriate, overzealous and excessive force searches by TSA screeners.

While we all want good airport security, the abundance of admitted striking of passengers’ genitals by TSA screeners is not being tracked by TSA. Just like the MeToo movement, #MeTooByTSA seeks to draw attention to abuses of authority, for which TSA admits to paying screeners $250 cash bonuses after they strike or abuse passengers ( https://bit.ly/2Tj5N4s ), encouraging abuse of passengers!

TSA’s excuse in court even cited by the federal court as implausible is that TSA screeners claim to still not know that they should not hit or strike compliant passengers’ testicles or genitals!

There’s nothing funny about official abuse.

CORPORATE VIRTUE SIGNALLING PART DEUX: This time it’s AirBnB deciding to make the world a better place by succumbing to the BDS crowd. The New York Post reports that:

Airbnb says: No Jews allowed. The apartment-sharing service has sided against Israel by banning and delisting the apartments of peaceful Jewish civilians living in Judea and Samaria. And that’s not even the worst part[…] No, the worst part is that Airbnb has singled out Jews, and only Jews, as the one group in the world that is worthy of such censure. That’s what makes its boycott a naked act of corporate anti-Semitism.

With any luck, people will stop doing business with AirBnB. As the Professor says:
“Get Woke, Go Broke.”

OH DRY UP, LOSERS: Thanksgiving a ‘celebration’ of ‘genocide,’ say campus groups.

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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: LA’s Skid Row Voter Scheme and Much, Much More. “So it’s obstruction of justice because Trump had conversations with his advisors about prosecuting Clinton and Comey but didn’t do it? Remember, the Obama administration actually DID THIS. Obama went after the Trump campaign for Hillary with the ‘insurance policy’ and used a salacious and unverified garbage dossier to spy on everyone involved in the Trump campaign.”

That’s different because shut up.

THIS SEEMS PRUDENT: Trump administration paying undercover informants in migrant caravan.

DHS spokeswoman Katie Waldman, in a statement to The Hill, declined to comment on the “sources or methods” that DHS uses to gather intelligence on the migrants. But she added that it would be “malpractice for the United States to be ignorant about the migrants.”

“We have an obligation to ensure we know who is crossing our borders to protect against threats to the Homeland and any indication to the contrary is misinformed,” she added.

And as Jazz Shaw noted on Twitter, “I bet it was dirt cheap, budget-wise.”

WHAT’S FUNNY IS THAT MOST OF THESE SUDDENLY CRITICAL STORIES REALLY COME FROM THE (ALMOST CERTAINLY FALSE) BELIEF THAT FACEBOOK COST HILLARY THE ELECTION: The Decline and Fall of the Zuckerberg Empire. But this is pretty true: “Other tech giants have managed to escape the opprobrium directed at Facebook because they have obviously useful services. Amazon delivers things to your house. Google helps you find things online. Apple sells actual objects. Facebook … helps you get into fights? Delivers your old classmates’ political opinions to your brain?”

But now do Twitter on this metric.