I’D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR: Newsweek’s Former Owner Faces Fraud Charges.

Two publishing companies, IBT Media, which owned the magazine, and Christian Media, a faith-based online publisher in Washington, were charged with trying to defraud lenders by pretending to borrow money for sophisticated computing services.

Instead, most of the money was funneled back to accounts controlled by the two media companies and their principals — Etienne Uzac, a co-founder of IBT, and William Anderson, Christian Media’s former chief executive and publisher — and unnamed co-conspirators, the indictment said. It said some of the money had been used to cover the magazine’s operating expenses.

And where did the rest of the money go?

AND AGAIN: ‘Why does Twitter hate gay Conservatives’? @GayPatriot suspended again for being the ‘wrong type of gay.’

MUST HAVE HIT IT PRETTY CLOSE TO THE MARK TO GET HIM ALL RILED UP LIKE THAT: Another CNN host lost his cool when a panelist called leftist protesters a ‘mob.’

GEORGE KORDA: Bredesen’s Kavanaugh gamble: Better never than late?

FREDDY GRAY: Trump’s luck and the Democratic death wish. “The President’s fumbling opponents keep snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.”

Trump has great fortune (I don’t mean money). Every time he is due to fail, his antagonists find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The Republicans who opposed him in 2016 endlessly managed to trip over each other. Hillary Clinton was obviously the best opponent any Republican nominee could dream of. The winds of fate helped Trump preside over an economic mega-boom. And now, a virulent feminism, which demands more than justice, has given him an arguably undeserved reprieve in time for the midterms. It does so while screaming about sex and genitals in a manner that is far more off-puttingly vulgar than anything Donald Trump, for all his locker room talk, could ever manage.

Some believe Trump is a strategic genius — the President himself certainly thinks so. But even the greatest brain could never have anticipated quite how dramatically the Kavanaugh story would change the political script in his favour in October.

I commented elsewhere yesterday that I haven’t seen depressed Republicans come out of their stupor so quickly and with such passion since the birth of the Tea Party. On Kavanaugh, the Left overplayed its hand with such self-destructive passion that you can’t help but wonder if they despise themselves even more than they despise everyone else.

FASTER, PLEASE: Chuck Grassley, Senate Republicans aim to confirm more than 40 judges before midterms.

THE ATLANTIC: Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture. That’s because it’s a uniquely intense combination of viciousness and stupidity. Which people get: “Among the general population, a full 80 percent believe that ‘political correctness is a problem in our country.’ Even young people are uncomfortable with it, including 74 percent ages 24 to 29, and 79 percent under age 24. On this particular issue, the woke are in a clear minority across all ages.”

Plus: “For the millions upon millions of Americans of all ages and all races who do not follow politics with rapt attention, and who are much more worried about paying their rent than about debating the prom dress worn by a teenager in Utah, contemporary callout culture merely looks like an excuse to mock the values or ignorance of others.”

Which is why Trump is so smart to run against it, and maneuver the Dems into defending it. (Bumped).

BAKE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT, TOO: Britain ‘Gay Cake’ Ruling Shows the U.S. How to Defend Religious Freedom AND LGBT Rights.

THE JOURNOLIST IS HOPPING: Supercut of television reporters telling people to not use the “mob” word cut with video of the mob.

Earlier: The text version of the supercut, featuring print reporters getting vaporish over what Brooke Baldwin of CNN called “the m-word.”

Related: Here Are The People Who Called The Tea Party ‘The M-Word’ — Or Worse.

BUSTED: Staffers for TN Senate Candidate Phil Bredesen Caught on Tape Admitting he lied about Supporting Kavanaugh.

James O’Keefe strikes again.

DOMESTIC TERRORISM: Feds bust New York man for alleged plot to detonate massive bomb in D.C. on Election Day.

Prosecutors say 56-year-old Paul Rosenfeld planned to detonate the explosive in Washington, hoping to kill himself and draw attention to his political beliefs.

According to court papers, over the past two months, Rosenfeld allegedly sent letters and text messages to a Pennsylvania resident detailing his plan to detonate the bomb on the National Mall to draw attention to the “sortition” political system, in which government officials are randomly selected.

The Pennsylvania resident alerted the FBI and police pulled Rosenfeld over Tuesday. After waiving his Miranda rights, Rosenfeld admitted his plan.

He told agents he ordered large quantities of “black powder” online and built small test explosives before constructing the 200-pound explosive device in a plywood box in his basement. He said he installed certain components in the device to ensure that he was killed in the blast.

On Wednesday, FBI technicians removed the bomb from his basement and transferred it to a safe location.

Good work, FBI, police, and the local tipster.

IF IT WEREN’T FOR FAKE HATE CRIMES, HOW MANY HATE CRIMES WOULD THERE BE? Student charged for allegedly making false anti-LGBT threats against herself.

REPUBLICANS SEIZE! Republicans Seize On ‘Angry Mob’ Mantra To Keep Their Midterm Base Fired Up.

Forget it, Jake — it’s NPR.

IT’S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN! Media Say ‘Time Is Running Out’ to Save Planet 30 Years After Previous Warning.

“In a simpler time, not so long ago, environmentalists talked about saving forests for hiking, streams for rafting and clean air for the pure enjoyment of breathing it,” the Los Angeles Times reported in October 1989. “Now, as the 1990s approach, the talk has turned to the science of survival—saving forests for oxygen, keeping streams from spreading toxic pollutants, cleaning the air to avoid catastrophic global warming.”

At the end of the 1980s the message was the same. They just called it “global warming.”

“The threat of environmental cataclysm is replacing nuclear holocaust as the most frightening menace to civilization,” the LA Times said, warning we must stop polluting or else.

“By many measures, time is running out,” the environmentalist group Worldwatch Institute warned. “Oceans would rise, deserts would spread, forests would die. People would starve,” the LA Times said.

Sounds familiar, probably because we’ve heard it regularly in every decade since. We heard it in 1992. And 1993. And 2007. And 2017.

Classical reference in headline. Although in this awesomely bad version, it sounds more like “The Vinyl Cow Town:”

WOW: U.S., Russian Astronauts Make Emergency Landing After Failed Space Launch.

The rocket was carrying U.S. astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin. Footage from inside the Soyuz showed the two men being shaken around at the moment the failure occurred, with their arms and legs flailing.

The rocket was launched from the Soviet-era cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. A Reuters reporter who observed the launch from around 1 km away said it had gone smoothly in its initial stages and that the failure of the booster rockets must have occurred at higher altitude.

Russian news agencies reported that the crew had safely made an emergency landing and were in radio contact and that rescuers were en route to pick them up.

Glad they made it safely back to Earth.

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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Eric Holder Wants to Kick You and Much, Much More. “Eric Holder, the only Attorney General of the United States of America to be held in Contempt of Congress, wants his deranged, maniacal hooligans on the left to get more physical with their political activism.”

BLUE WAVE: Texas: Cruz 54, O’Rourke 45. But the GOP shouldn’t get cocky. There are weeks to go, and weeks are like years in today’s politics.

AMERICAN AND JAPANESE CARRIERS UNDERWAY: The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter destroyer JS Izumo participate in an exercise in the Pacific.

ALEXANDRA DESANCTIS: The Kavanaugh Fight Exposed Feminism’s Identity-Politics Problem.

During the 1960s and ’70s, second-wave feminists promoted their agenda of sexual liberation, and third-wave feminists radicalized further by propounding turn-of-the-century gender theory, a realm of sociology that seeks to explain the entire female experience through the lens of patriarchy and oppression. Now, feminists have fully assimilated the ideas that were once en vogue only in academic departments, and today’s feminism is nearly identical to the most militant form of progressivism. In large part, this compact was the natural fruit of the feminist movement’s emphasis on sexual license, a priority that the Democratic party has embraced for decades, most notably in its support for unlimited abortion, the ultimate guarantor of consequence-free sex.

This alliance between feminists and the Left has materialized politically in an especially potent way over the last decade. In 2012, Barack Obama ran for his second term on the promise of providing government-funded contraceptives. He made good on his vow by compelling employers to subsidize birth control regardless of their religious belief. In 2016, Hillary Clinton ran for the presidency on a Democratic platform that, for the first time in history, vowed to erase the Hyde Amendment and allow taxpayer dollars to directly facilitate abortion procedures.

With their social agenda thus wedded to the progressive movement, feminist thinkers have taken a nosedive into corrosive identity politics, asserting their influence based on the notion that all women necessarily share their viewpoint, that women as an identity group (and a voting bloc) are united in a fight against patriarchal oppression. Feminist claims to political power are therefore premised on the fiction that all women are shackled by men and that all women should be united around one liberating platform — the progressive one.

Identity politics is descended from Marx’s concept of “false consciousness,” which is a fancy way of saying that if you don’t fall into line with your victimhood group, then you aren’t a real person. That kind of thinking has been used to justify all kinds of injustices, from petty snipes at conservative women, blacks, and gays, all the way down to atrocities like Holodomor and the Holocaust.

THEY TOLD ME IF TRUMP WERE ELECTED PRESIDENT, WE’D SEE OPEN RACISM BECOMING ACCEPTABLE IN POLITE SOCIETY. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! CNN Segment Calls Kanye ‘Token Negro’, ‘Attention Whore’, and ‘What Happens When Negroes Don’t Read.’

NEWS FROM THE U.K.: UK supreme court backs bakery that refused to make gay marriage cake. “A Belfast bakery run by evangelical Christians was not obliged to make a cake emblazoned with the message “support gay marriage”, the supreme court has ruled, overturning a £500 damages award imposed on it. The unanimous decision by the UK’s highest court was greeted as a victory for free speech but condemned by gay rights groups and the Equality Commission of Northern Ireland as a backward step in combating discrimination.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Accelerated Army New Next-Generation Combat Vehicle Will Launch Drones.

While the particular configuration and technology woven into the new combat vehicle is still a subject of Army-industry collaboration, there is widespread consensus that the future armored platforms will be able to sense and destroy enemy vehicles and drones at much farther ranges, make use of active protection systems, leverage emerging AI and command and control systems.

Army developers also say the new vehicle will use more automation and – perhaps of greatest significance – fire lasers and the most advanced precision weaponry available.

Three industry teams have already built demonstrator vehicles: General Dynamics Land Systems, BAE Systems and a Rhienemetall-Raytheon team.

General Dynamics Land Systems, which has now unveiled its NGCV Griffin III demonstrator vehicle, intends to work with Army developers on requirements, weapons systems and technologies as they evolve.

Built with a 50mm cannon on a GDLS turret, the Griffin III integrates Active Protection Systems technology, laser warning systems and drone operations.

The timeline looks a little optimistic, but beyond-visual-range kill capability will eventually come to every major combat vehicle in the Army’s inventory.

JAMES O’KEEFE VIDEO REVEALS Bredesen Endorsement of Kavanaugh Was A Sham, according to campaign workers.