NOT THE NAME OF A B-MOVIE: Then They Came for the White Women.

Clarice Feldman:

Since the left cannot — oh you know why — attack Black or Latino voters, they’ve aimed their bile at white women voters. To paraphrase Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller: First they came for the White Men, and I did not speak out. Then they came for the White Women.
…
With the women should vote for a woman (Hillary) and white men are all rapists (Kavanaugh) tactics having failed, the left is now turning against white women as the enemy.

Among their new enemies? Nancy Pelosi.

Do read the whole thing.

HIGHER EDUCATION AS DEMOCRAT SUPER-PAC: UC Boulder pushes Thanksgiving mascot & pipeline ‘talking points,’ ‘conversation guides.’ “UC Boulder’s toolkit included a ready-made letter people could send to schools with ‘harmful’ or ‘offensive’ Native American-themed mascots.”

AT AMAZON, Fresh Deals on Top Rated Products.

Plus, Shop Top Gift Ideas.

And, Shop Amazon – Best Selling Products – Updated Every Hour.

Also, browse the Kindle Deals of the Day.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Why President Trump Should Channel Teddy Roosevelt And Bust Some Trusts.

A VERY BIG QUESTION: Will China’s economic slowdown lead to a major crisis?

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Another Illegitimate GOP Election and Much, Much More. “Do you notice that whenever there are close elections possibly resulting in a recount, the narrative the media and its left wing puppet masters trumpet is that the winner, if a GOPer, is illegitimate? Are there any consequences for these people for undermining the faith in our election system?”

It’s only undermining our faith when a Republican muses about it. When a Democrat actually does it, that’s fine.

PROFESSOR JACOBSON: Acosta got his press pass back, but his media colleagues will pay the price: Court ruling permits White House to promulgate press conduct and discipline rules, something the White House is eager to do.

PLOWING MINES: Tankers from the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division participate in a “mine plow” exercise at Rodriguez Live Fire Complex, South Korea. The two M1A2s in the picture have mine clearing blade attachments.

A BALANCED ASSESSMENT OF GEORGE SOROS: Jamie Kirchik: The Truth about George Soros.

One sentence summary: Soros did a lot of good in promoting democracy and the rule of law in post-Communist Europe. He has done a lot of harm in the U.S. by being a shrill partisan who funds extremists.

IS FASORP FOR YOU?  Yes, I know that “FASORP” is not a lovely name.  But you may like the organization anyway.  It stands for “Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences.”  Here’s how the FASORP web site explains itself:

FASORP is a voluntary membership organization that litigates against race and sex preferences in academia.  Its members include faculty, alumni, and students of many different universities.

We encourage you to join our organization if you share our commitment to meritocracy and our opposition to the corrupt and discriminatory practices that subordinate academic merit to diversity considerations.  There is no charge to become a member of FASORP, and your membership will expand the range of universities that FASORP can target for lawsuits.  Membership in FASORP is strictly confidential and will not be shared with anyone.

You can also use this website to submit evidence of race and sex discrimination in academia.  You can submit incriminating emails, audio recordings, and documents that expose race or sex preferences in faculty hiring or the selection of law-review members.  Simply drag and drop the files into the box at the bottom right of the screen.  E-mail files should be converted to .pdf before submitting.  You may also relate anecdotes of reverse discrimination that you or others have witnessed.  If you wish to submit your evidence anonymously, you can omit your name, e-mail, and identifying information in the other boxes, and if you choose to submit anonymously there is no way for anyone to trace or identify the source.

We are especially interested in evidence and anecdotes related to our pending litigations against Harvard Law Review and the NYU Law Review.  But we welcome the submission of any evidence that could lad to future litigation.

I’ll write about FASORP‘s litigation against the Harvard Law Review and the NYU Law Review very soon.

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: With Facebook at ‘War,’ Zuckerberg Adopts More Aggressive Style.

Mr. Zuckerberg’s new approach is causing unprecedented turmoil atop Facebook, driving several key executives from the company, according to people familiar with the matter. At times, it has created tensions with his longtime chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg. The June meeting and strains with Ms. Sandberg haven’t been previously reported.

The 34-year-old CEO believes Facebook didn’t move quickly enough at key moments this year and increasingly is pressing senior executives to “make progress faster” on resolving problems such as slowing user growth and securing the platform, said people familiar with the matter. Mr. Zuckerberg also at times has expressed frustration at how the company managed the waves of criticism it faced this year.

On Friday, that tension was on display when, during a question-and-answer session with employees at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., he blasted a fresh round of critical news coverage as “bullshit,” according to the people familiar with the remarks.

One employee at the session asked if Facebook could deter leaks by publishing an internal report about how frequently offenders are found and fired. Mr. Zuckerberg said Facebook does fire leakers, but the root cause was “bad morale” perpetuated by attacks in the media.

It sounds like Zuckerberg is in denial.

IF YOU MISSED IT ON FRIDAY: Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA): If Americans Fight Against Gun Confiscation, Feds Can Nuke Them.

I eagerly await Paul Krugman’s harsh condemnation of this reactionary elliminationist rhetoric.

NEWS YOU CAN USE? When to Shoot a Nuclear Bomb With Your Gun.

While at an air base almost certainly located in what was then West Germany, Agnew saw little evidence that nuclear weapons were under strict American control, as Congress expected.

At best there was what he later called a “token custodial arrangement” that he witnessed when he saw nuclear bombs hanging under West German aircraft with only the supervision of a young, lone American G.I. on the flight line.

“What are you going to do if these guys come running out and they’re going take off and no one has told you that it’s all right?” Agnew asked the soldier.

The soldier said he didn’t know what to do.

“What you ought to do is just shoot the bombs,” Agnew told him, counting on the high probability that bullets would disable the weapons. “Shoot those things and don’t worry about it.

A security plan that calls for shooting The Bomb—and crossing your fingers for luck might—sound like a scene straight out of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove.

But Agnew’s recollections are just some of dozens about the often fragile nature of nuclear weapons safety and security in a documentary produced by the Sandia National Laboratories for internal use and recently made public under the Freedom of Information Act.

Much more at the link.

DAVID HARSANYI: Here’s The Anti-Semitism The Media Doesn’t Want To Mention.

MARK PULLIAM: Profiles in Absurdity: Jim Acosta as First Amendment ‘Hero.’

ON THIS DAY IN 1993, A JURY OF HIS PEERS ACQUITTED DALE AKIKI, A VOLUNTEER NURSERY SCHOOL ASSISTANT AT HIS CHURCH, OF CHARGES OF CHILD ABUSE AND KIDNAPPING: I guess that means justice was done. Except that it wasn’t. Dale Akiki should never have been tried in the first place. He spent 2 ½ years in jail awaiting trial.

But let me back up for a minute. When daycare moral panic of the 1980s hit, I didn’t have any trouble keeping my head. Many of the allegations of sexual and Satanic ritual abuse were obviously false. Sometimes they were utterly fantastic—like the allegations of the McMartin Preschool children that they rode in hot-air balloons, saw witches flying and were taken through underground tunnels beneath the preschool. I remember people saying, “Children don’t lie about these things” (presumably they meant the sexual abuse, not the witches and tunnels). But that’s a joke. Children lie about everything, especially when they think they are telling adults what they want to hear.

Then came the Dale Akiki case. Despite my earlier skepticism, when I first saw the local television coverage of the Dale Akiki trial here in San Diego, my initial kneejerk reaction was (to my great shame), “Good grief, they finally got one.” Why? Because Dale Akiki was unusual looking. He was born with Noonan syndrome, a congenital disorder that sometimes results in a large head and drooping eyelids and a number of other developmental problems. Also the television crew held the camera a sharp angle (the “Dutch angle”), so as to emphasize his unusual appearance. I was an idiot.

But not for long. When the local news reported on the prosecution’s evidence the following day, it was not very impressive. I thought to myself, “Well … maybe they’ll get to the real evidence tomorrow.” But they didn’t. And the next day was no better. Eventually, the prosecution rested. They didn’t have anything on this poor guy—just a bunch of implausible accusations by nursery school children who had been prodded into making accusations by therapists convinced that Akiki was a monster. The children accused him of bringing an elephant and a giraffe to class, killing them as a warning to the children not to tattle. They also accused him of dunking them in toilets, drinking blood, and killing a human baby. Sheesh. Fortunately, there was evidence of therapists’ coaching in the form of videos of the interrogations.

I was terrified that the jury would convict. But, unlike the juries in some of the other daycare cases, the 12 San Diegans on that jury did their job right. Bless them.

Why did the District Attorney allow the case to go forward, despite recommendations to the contrary from prosecutors experienced in child abuse cases? He was being pressured by Jack Goodall, then-CEO of Jack-in-the-Box. Convinced of Akiki’s guilt, Goodall—a contributor to the D.A.’s campaign—urged him to assign the case to a different prosecutor. (Yes, that sort of thing happens in America.) The job went to Mary Avery, who was the founder of the San Diego Child Abuse Foundation. Goodall and his wife were the largest financial contributors to that organization.

By the way, San Diego voters did their job right too. The D.A. lost re-election in 1994, largely due to the Akiki case.

But here’s the part of the story I like best: During his incarceration, the deputies at the jail got to know Dale Akiki. They thought he was a sweetheart of a guy, and they knew intuitively that he was being railroaded. Twenty of them pooled their resources and had a limo ready to take him from the courthouse on the day of his acquittal. Purr.

FAKE NEWS: Trump ‘Not Considering’ Extraditing Erdogan Foe Gulen in Bid to Ease Turkish Pressure on Saudi Arabia. “NBC News reported the Trump administration had explored whether it could extradite Gulen, as a way to persuade Tayyip Erdogan to ease pressure on Saudi Arabia over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.”

OUT ON A LIMB: No, Condi Rice Shouldn’t Be Considered For Cleveland Browns Head Coach.

VIDEO: Venezuela turns to urban ranching during crisis. “A socialist commune in Venezuela has irked its neighbors after turning a backyard in a wealthy neighborhood into an urban cattle pasture and slaughterhouse in order to sell below market-rate meat during a crippling economic recession.”

“Recession,” Reuters, really?

WELL, EVERYONE RESPONSIBLE IS A DEMOCRAT, SO ACCOUNTABILITY IS RIGHT OUT: Who made key mistakes in Parkland school shooting? Nine months later, no one held accountable.

JOHN STOSSEL: How the Government Fails to Help the Mentally Ill (Video).

Related: De Blasio Dithers on Mental Illness: New York City needs serious change, not another police-blaming task force.

FLASHBACK: Africans are being sold at Libyan slave markets. Thanks, Hillary Clinton.

BLUE ON BLUE: Here Come the ‘Justice Democrats.’ “Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is threatening to primary incumbent Democrats who don’t agree with her radical agenda.”

JOEL KOTKIN: Jeff Bezos Is Right at Home in the D.C. Swamp, but Amazon Might Have Bit Off More Than It Can Chew with the Big Apple.

It turns out that tech oligarchs aren’t much better than old dogs at learning new tricks. By splitting his much coveted supposed second headquarters between New York City and greater Washington D.C., Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is repeating what worked for him in Seattle while saying “yes, sir” to power.

Technology firms were once seen as outsiders, mostly located far from the traditional East Coast power centers. Now, as they gradually take control of every industry once coveted by the old establishment—media, finance and retail—firms like Amazon are handing out consolation prices to their new subjects.

The move to Washington amplifies the already clear message that Bezos, passionately against the Trumpian draining of the Washington “swamp,” wants to be a big player there, operating from the 27,000 square foot mansion—the biggest house in Washington—he paid $23 million to buy and another $12 million to renovate. He already controls the dominant local mouthpiece, the Washington Post (which broke the “news” that he was the “anonymous” buyer” of the former Textile Museum he’s made into a one-family house), and has located his key profit-making enterprise, cloud services, in part in a new campus in suburban Fairfax. And Amazon already owns one of the largest lobbying operations in Washington.

Time for some antitrust enforcement?

Plus: “If Amazon had moved to a heartland city, Bezos would have made a statement not only to his employees but to the middle of the country, where the tech industry is often seen as another enforcer of the progressive groupthink. Instead, he genuflected to the preferred locations and conventional wisdom of the overclass.”