WELL, LEFTISM IS JUST NEUROTIC NONSENSE:  Leftist Writer Says Patriotic War Movies are Just “Masculine Nonsense.”

MUCH SHOCKED.  SO MY FACE:  Hillary Clinton Shielded Top Adviser In Spite Of Sexual Harassment Claims.

NO.  PROBABLY NOT EVEN THEN:  You Can Have my Meat When You Pry It from My Cold, Dead Hands.

THIS IS THE DAUGHTER OF A FRIEND:  And she sings beautifully.

POLITICIANS ARE HYPOCRITES: Three minutes: Watch Kirsten Gillibrand go from demanding zero tolerance for sexual misconduct to stammering about Bill Clinton.

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K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Easy-pass policy fails students. To be fair, the policy was never there for students’ benefit.

I DO NOT TRUST THE INTERNET OF THINGS*: Google Sells Out of Creepy New Always-On Camera That Recognizes, Watches Your Family.

* To coin an Insta-phrase.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: The 2018 Grammys Ratings Were an Unmitigated Disaster.

JOHN HINDERAKER: Are The Democrats Fighting A Civil War? In a way, they never stopped.

OPEN THREAD: Post, read, and enjoy!

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON IS RIGHT ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF SLEEP: Sleepy U.S. teens are running on empty. Sleep deprivation is an invisible public health crisis.

TRANSPARENCY: House Intelligence Committee votes to release controversial GOP surveillance memo.

UPDATE: And note something that’s being spun away in coverage:

UNEXPECTEDLY! Exxon Mobil to invest $50 billion in US over 5 years, citing tax reform.

UNEXPECTEDLY: CNN’s Jeff Toobin Regrets Being Too Tough On Hillary Clinton in 2016: ‘False Equivalence’ to Trump.

Flashback: An internal memo written by ABC News Political Director Mark Halperin admonishes ABC staff: During coverage of Democrat Kerry and Republican Bush not to “reflexively and artificially hold both sides ‘equally’ accountable.”

Two guesses as to which side of the scale Halperin was pushing down on with his thumb back in October of 2004.

Just think of the media as being Democratic operatives with lavaliers, and it all makes sense.

CHUCK SCHUMER, MEET CHUCK SCHUMER: Brendan Kirby at LifeZette found an interesting speech on immigration issues delivered by the present Senate Minority Leader in 2009. Schumer said things then that Schumer today would condemn as racist. If he’s intellectually honest, that is. Why are you vigorously shaking your head and saying “No, he’s not!!!!”?

THEY DON’T MIND A CORRUPT AGENCY WHEN IT’S CORRUPT ON THEIR SIDE: Why aren’t the Democrats horrified by the corruption at the FBI and DOJ?

JIM TREACHER ON HILLARY CLINTON: PRESIDENT OF WOMEN. She’s spent her entire life showing solidarity with her sisters. Just ask Juanita, Paula, Kathleen, Gennifer, Monica…

WELL, THERE’S NOTHING TO LIKE ABOUT THAT: Virus looks like flu, acts like flu, but it’s not influenza.

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Also, savings in Sexual Wellness.

BLOCKING KOREAN CASH: Joe Pappalardo: The CIA’s Shadow War Against North Korean Smuggling. The Trump Administration seems to be trying a lot harder on this front than its predecessors.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:

● Shot: Do Millennials Hate Real Men, And Real War, And Real Sex, And Real Life?

—Headline, Red State, yesterday.

● Chaser: The Question that Reveals the Heart of the Culture Wars: What is a man?

—Headline and subhead, column by David French at NRO, today.

● Hangover: Millennials Want Spain To Change Their Word For Black Because ‘It’s Racist.’

—Unilad, January 22nd.

Fight over the word all you want  – just try taking my Negroni cocktail from my cold, drunk hands.

PAUL CASSELL: In Supporting the Gymnastics Victims, Judge Aquilina Got It Right. “When sentencing a justly-convicted criminal, the judge is perfectly entitled to be the voice of the community she represents—a community that was no doubt shocked by the magnitude of Nassar’s crimes.” I dunno, it still seemed to me that she was mugging for the cameras.

TOY STORY, THE EARLY YEARS: At the 24th annual Florida Toy Soldier Show, These toy soldiers came ready to fight — but time is running out on their value:

Anybody interested in larger-scaled obliteration of the human race could visit the table of retired University of Maryland business school professor Jim Spina, who was selling a mint-in-box Gilbert Atomic Energy Laboratory set from the early 1950s.

The lab, made by a company that specialized in sciency playthings like chemistry sets, was created at the behest of the U.S. government’s Atomic Energy Commission, which “wanted to prove nuclear energy was so safe you could play with it at home,” said Spina, chuckling mordantly.

The lab — complete with four radioactive ores! — sold for $50 when it was new, not exactly a budget toy. (Gasoline was 14 cents a gallon, to give you a sense of scale.) But Spina was asking $7,500 for his, and seemed pretty confident he’d get it. “I’ve had a lot of interest,” he said. “But you’ve got to find the right guy.” And how to tell the right guy? “The one with $7,500 to spend,” Spina explained with the canny instincts of a business-school professor.

Heh, indeed.

(H/T: Virginia Postrel.)

MORE ON MCCABE:

As recently as last week, Mr. McCabe had told people he hoped to stay until he was eligible to retire in mid-March. Instead, Mr. McCabe made his intentions known to colleagues on Monday, an American official said, and will immediately go on leave.

In a recent conversation, Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, raised concerns about a forthcoming inspector general report examining the actions of Mr. McCabe and other senior F.B.I. officials during the 2016 presidential campaign, when the bureau was investigating both Hillary Clinton’s email use and the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia. In that discussion, according to one former law enforcement official close to Mr. McCabe, Mr. Wray suggested moving Mr. McCabe into another job, which would have been a demotion.

Instead, the former official said, Mr. McCabe chose to leave.

In a message to F.B.I. employees on Monday afternoon, Mr. Wray said he would not comment on “specific aspects” of the inspector general review.

Sounds like that IG report just might live up to the hype.