INDEED!  THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Study Finds GOP Cares About Voter Fraud, Dems Care Only if It Hurts GOP.

OF COURSE HE DOES:  Video: Professor Urges Students to Break Laws.

I’M HUMAN I WRITE ABOUT HUMANS.  UNLESS THESE ‘MINORITIES’ AREN’T HUMAN, IT’S UNLIKELY THEY’RE SO DIFFERENT FROM ME I CAN’T UNDERSTAND THEM.  OH, ALSO, NOPE, I WILL NOT CATER TO THE WHIMS OF THE MENTALLY ILL:   The Volunteer Auxiliary Thought Police.

STEP ONE, REMOVE MARXISTS FROM POWER:  Finally: Signs of a real economic recovery for the US.

IOW OLD WOMEN AND UGLY WOMEN WANT TO HANDICAP THE COMPETITION.  THIS WILL WORK ABOUT AS WELL ON YOUNG WOMEN TODAY AS IT DID ON ME WHEN I WAS YOUNG:  Social Justice Warriors Want Women to Ditch Their High Heels.

RACHEL ALEXANDER: Trump’s Sneakily Successful First Year.

KURT SCHLICHTER GOES OUT ON A LIMB: I Predict That 2018 Will Either Be a Disaster or It Won’t Be.

THE FIRST OPEN THREAD OF 2018! So should I continue these? I ran ’em through the holidays because some people get depressed then. But are they worth doing regularly?

I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED TO HEAR THAT PUTIN MIGHT HAVE DOUBLE-CROSSED SOMEONE: Iran Charges Russia With Selling Out its Air Defense Secrets to Israel: The Islamic Republic says Russia sold codes to Israel that neutralize its air defenses.

If true, this bodes poorly for the Iranian government, not only because Putin fleeced them, but because he assesses their situation as one in which he can fleece them with impunity. Alternatively, the Israelis figured it out on their own but successfully duped the Iranians into blaming Putin, which doesn’t make the Iranians look good either.

RESPONSE FROM ONE OF MY WHITE-WOMEN FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK: “PISS OFF.” Dear White Women, Here’s Your New Year’s Resolution.

TROLL LEVEL: CLAY TRAVIS. Outkick the Coverage Dunks On CNN and Boobs Baldwin On New Year’s Eve.

THE VOLUNTEER AUXILIARY THOUGHT POLICE: “Major elements of our society have gone mad; the problem is that they insist on taking the rest of us around the bend with them, and we don’t want to go. This dynamic explains much of our 21st century public life, and it largely accounts for the fact that Donald Trump is our president.”

Read the whole thing.

SCIENCE MARCHES ON: Research on Threesomes.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: 2018: What could possibly go right? Five possibilities.

LACK OF INTEGRITY AND LOSS OF CREDIBILITY HAVE CONSEQUENCES: The IRS Scandal, Day 1698: Fallout From Tea Party Targeting Allegations Has Neutered IRS Oversight Of Nonprofits.

As I’ve said before, if the individuals responsible had been held accountable, the institution as a whole wouldn’t be suffering.

NEWS YOU HOPE YOU’LL NEVER HAVE TO USE: North Korea’s anthrax threat.

AMAZING HOW OFTEN THOSE LEFTY TORPEDOES HAVE CIRCLED BACK AROUND ON THEIR CREATORS: I Helped Popularize The Term “Fake News” And Now I Cringe Every Time I Hear It.

2018 WILL BE THE YEAR FEMINISTS TARGET LITTLE BOYS: “2017 isn’t just the year feminism failed women. It is the year feminism failed men. Even more sadly, it is the year feminism encouraged mothers to fail their boys.“

NOBODY’S READY FOR THE KILLER ROBOTS.

KIM JONG UN IS FAT, BUT HIS COUNTRY IS STARVING: Kim Jong Un Just Flipped The Script On Talks With South Korea, And The Big Question Is Why. Well, little Rocket Man is pretty mercurial. But if I had to guess why, I’d point you to this November post from Don Surber on how North Korea is too hungry to fight a war.. Generally, before launching a war countries build up big stockpiles of ammo, food, and fuel. North Korea probably has plenty of ammo sitting around, but I’m not sure they can spare enough food or fuel to build up a stockpile. Germany was scraping the bottom of the barrel to build up stocks for the Ardennes Offensive (the Bulge) and it was — despite years of war and bombing — much richer and better-fed than North Korea is today. (And the stocks it scraped up weren’t enough to win). Maybe Kim realized that. He’s crazy, but that doesn’t mean he’s utterly stupid.

ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE: NASA readies Clipper mission to Europa.