CHANGE: Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the Trump administration will reject requests for asylum on the basis of domestic violence or gang violence.

IN THE MAIL: They Took My Prostate: Cancer Loss Hope.

From Emmy Award-winning TV animation writer and longtime InstaPundit reader John P. McCann.

OPEN THREAD: All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no threading there.

BEN SHAPIRO INTERVIEWS JONAH GOLDBERG (Video): “When does nationalism go too far? Is the ‘Never Trump’ movement still alive? Jonah Goldberg joins Ben Shapiro this week to discuss the first 18 months of Trump’s presidency, and how he’s shifted the culture since the election.” Plus plenty of discussion on Jonah’s new book, The Suicide of the West, a great read.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Twitter All Work With Left-Wing Southern Poverty Law Center.

DAVE REABOI ON JORDAN PETERSON: “I don’t think it’s at all an accident that [Peterson] became famous talking about his resistance to a law that would criminalize the use of (‘wrong) pronouns. People are pretty easy-going, but it didn’t take a genius–or a conservative!–to see where this leads:”

Once a non-SJW-indoctrinated “normal” listens to JBP, the absurdity of the SJW nonsense is so apparent, it’s like finally turning on the subtitles to a film in a language you don’t understand. “Oh, this movie is actually a comedy?!”

What [Peterson] presents in his lectures is deep, yet so basic, it’s indicative of how we need to start, essentially, from scratch in putting back together the best of this Prior Culture because–other than JBP–we’ve got nobody else with a platform who’s doing it.

And as Ace of Spades (who collated Reaboi’s Twitter thread on Peterson) writes, “The Washington Post decided, it seems, to validate Reaboi’s belief that we are not one country, but two countries divided by a common geography, with this article, asking why shouldn’t ‘we’ hate all men?”

Read the whole thing.

Amazingly, Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life remains #1 most read on Amazon.

THE GUILD PROTECTS ITS OWN: Network News Silent as Bill Maher Roots for Recession; Hyped Rush’s ‘I Hope He Fails’ Remark.

Evergreen:

SPENGLER: Trump Could Be One of America’s Great Foreign Policy Presidents.

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THE PHILIPPINES RECONSIDERS CHINESE DOMINATION: Long post, but the first three paragraphs summarize the headline.

ELIZABETH PRICE FOLEY: Those who tout Trump’s ‘obstruction’ misrepresent the concept.

DR. HELEN: Hate Has No Home Here?

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: “If you’re wondering why you passed so many dead corpses laying on the side of the road while you drove to work this morning, that’s just the repeal of net neutrality taking effect. It’s official: according to the FCC, starting this morning there is no more net neutrality.”

How bad is it? FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is taking the Internet all the way back to the way it was in the stone knives and bearskins era of (checks article for date of net neutrality passage)…2015. But maybe I should dust off my TRS-80 and 300 baud Hayes Smartmodem just in case.

HMMM. Kudlow: Trump Lashed Out at Canada as Show of Strength to North Korea.

BUYER BEWARE (AMAZON.COM SERVICES): So back in February I bought a new garbage disposal from Amazon.com. Amazon.com Services offered a reasonable price for installation at the time of purchase, and I thought I’d try it rather than use my regular plumber. After all, it’s Amazon! Great customer service! What could go wrong? Well, ninety-five days after installation, I noticed water under the sink. The unit had obviously been leaking for a while, because there was some mildew, too. Contacted Amazon, but they would do nothing because their 90-day “happiness guarantee” had expired. They did give me the contact info for the contractor, who responded that they only warranty work for Amazon for 90 days. The fact that it’s obvious the leak had been going on for a while meant nothing to either party, though it surely would have to a contractor with whom I have an ongoing relationship. So, lesson learned. That was my first and last Amazon.com Services experience.

TOO MUCH POLICING IN BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS OR TOO LITTLE?:  The Left argues that blacks are over-policed and over-incarcerated.  But now the Washington Post shows that in some black neighborhoods, murders are common, but arrests are comparatively rare.  Which is it, guys, too much policing or too little?

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ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Twitter CEO Caves To Liberal Backlash, Says He Was Wrong To Eat Chick-Fil-A.

Which seems odd, considering the good work they’ve done during crises. “Chick fil A employees in Orlando showed up for work on Sunday, departing from the normal hours the fast food chain keeps in order to prepare food for first responders and people donating blood to victims of the shooting at gay nightclub Pulse,” USA Today reported. In December, the chain’s restaurant in the Atlanta airport opened Sunday due to the “massive power outage at the airport, [when] restaurant employees came to the rescue for thousands of stranded — and hungry — travelers,” a local TV affiliate reported.

One of the leftists attacking Jack Dorsey was Democratic operative with a byline Soledad O’Brien. “Don’t look now, but Soledad O’Brien has a Chick-fil-A problem of her own,” Twitchy notes.

A LITTLE HONESTY GOES A LONG WAY: The Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan doesn’t let Obama off the hook, and reminds the paper’s #ResistClub members that the scooping up of reporters’ data had some precedent from “The Most Transparent Administration Ever”:

“But Trump’s anti-press bluster aside, there’s a clear blueprint to follow — courtesy of Barack Obama, who once claimed that he would be the most transparent president ever but proved to be no friend to press rights.”

To be fair, this shouldn’t be a case of “whattaboutism.” Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it. I’ll be publishing a column on this, and adding some personal reportorial perspective, as well as a little history. This practice goes back to at least Ike and JFK, and it is Trump’s open declaration of dislike for the press (as opposed to the secret dislike held by previous administrations) that has people particularly freaked out.

BILL CLINTON: Norms of ‘What You Can Do to Someone Against Their Will’ Have Changed.

HIGHER MINIMUM WAGES INCREASE POVERTY IN POOR NEIGHBORHOODS, STUDY FINDS.

Unexpectedly.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Surprising Voices Now Claim Globalization Was a Mistake. “Some supporters are admitting they knew it was a con all along.”

Speaking from his hotel suite by Lake Zurich, billionaire patron of liberal causes George Soros lamented the fate of the globalized world. “Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong,” he said:

His favored presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, lost to President Donald Trump, whose “America First” platform runs counter to the globalism Soros embraces. Trump, he said, “is willing to destroy the world.” The European Union, which Soros once hoped would be so successful that he could end his charitable work in the region, is contending with the impending loss of Britain and a rise of anti-immigrant sentiment. And Soros himself has emerged as a political target in elections from Hungary to California, where his donations have been used as a cudgel against the causes he supports.

Though Soros defiantly vowed to double down on his efforts despite setbacks, Reihan Salam of The Atlantic is willing to consider the alternative: maybe globalization itself, or at least the way it was implemented, was a big mistake. Salam argues it facilitated Beijing’s entry into corporate networks which now constitute “Chimerica,” the meld of multinational corporations with “China-centric supply chains” that, like Frankenstein’s monster, Washington can no longer rid themselves of.

As always with Richard’s stuff, read the whole thing.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Climate Change Can Be Stopped by Turning Air Into Gasoline. A Harvard professor says his company should be able to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, at industrial scales, by 2021.

Faster, please.

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