THERE ARE OTHER CULPRITS THAN GUNS: Failing to Prevent a Preventable Massacre.

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#METOO’S LATEST: Womansplaining Megan Barry’s Affair With A Married Subordinate.

EMBRACE THE POWER OF “AND:” Jimmy Kimmel: A Moron Or Just A Bigot?

WITH DNC IN MIND, CITY BANS CARRYING URINE, FECES:

An NBC Bay Area Investigation reveals a dangerous concoction of drug needles, garbage, and feces lining the streets of downtown San Francisco. The Investigative Unit surveyed more than 150 blocks, including some of the city’s top tourist destinations, and discovered conditions that are now being compared to some of the worst slums in the world.

The “now” is a nice touch.

As Harry Stein quipped in his 2000 book, How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (and Found Inner Peace), you can tell if you’ve already joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy when “Someone’s going on about how fantastic San Francisco is, and it suddenly hits you that’s one place on earth you never want to live.” When I was visiting both San Francisco and Manhattan during the pre-de Blasio era, I often thought how much cleaner and safer New York seemed to be. But Manhattan seems increasingly eager to to go head to head with San Francisco in their Red Queen’s Race to the bottom.

San Francisco’s last Republican mayor left office in January of 1964.

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THESE WILL STILL WORK AFTER AN EMP ATTACK: Multi Point 2 Lead Pencils 10 PK.

OPEN THREAD: Bring the witty repartee for which InstaPundit comment threads are known!

AMERICA’S SINGLE WORST CONSTITUTIONAL OFFENSE, BY A POPULAR DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT WHO STILL LARGELY ESCAPES BLAME: A Date That Should Live in Infamy.

On February 19, 1942 — seventy-four years ago today — Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. With the stroke of his pen, the man who had earlier snubbed Jesse Owens after the Berlin Olympics used his executive powers to order the imprisonment of over 100,000 persons of Japanese ancestry (as well as thousands of German and Italian ancestry) for the duration of World War II.

Most of the internees were natural-born American citizens, whose “crime” was having a parent or merely a grandparent with Japanese blood. It was an act of naked, aggressive racism that damaged people and families, including my own, for generations.

Well, Democrats like big, dramatic civil-rights violations, as proof that they’re Doing Something about a problem.

SUZANNE VENKER: The Desperate Cry Of America’s Boys.

JOHN HAWKINS: What Liberals Don’t Understand: A Serious Attempt at Gun Confiscation Could Lead to Civil War.

CHANGE: Poll: Most Americans now support GOP tax law.

SKYNET SMILES: U.S. Army: New plan… how about some robots with guns?

NEVER, BECAUSE THAT MIGHT MAKE WOMEN FEEL BAD ABOUT THEIR LIFE CHOICES, WHICH IS FORBIDDEN: When Will We Have the Guts to Link Fatherlessness to School Shootings?

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Plus, deals on Men’s Watches. A few years ago I bought Glenn a really nice Tag Heuer watch. He wears it on dressy occasions, but most of the time he wears a Timex Ironman because it’s so cheap it’s disposable, and he likes the indiglo light.

WEIRD, ALL THE EXPERTS TOLD ME THAT THE TAX BILL WOULD ONLY BENEFIT A HANDFUL OF BILLIONAIRES: Smucker’s Announces $1000 Tax Cut Bonuses for Employees, $20M Added to Employee Pensions.

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FLASHBACK: Charles C.W. Cooke: An Open Rant Aimed at Those Who Would Repeal the Second Amendment.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot: When It Comes to Sexual Assault and Rape, Why Aren’t Women Believed?

—Headline, Yahoo News UK, December 16th, 2017.

● Chaser: How an Alt-Right Bot Network Took Down Al Franken.

—Headline, Yahoo News UK, today.

As Iowahawk tweets, “Now it can be told: he was lured into a honey trap by Natasha X-11, the Kremlin’s secret ultra bootybot.”

Note that the article on Franken is by Newsweek’s Nina Burleigh, who famously told Howard Kurtz in 1998 that “I would be happy to give [Bill Clinton] a blowjob just to thank him for keeping abortion legal. I think American women should be lining up with their Presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs.” Propping up Clinton’s White House during his impeachment hearings is an understandable maneuver for a Democratic activist with a byline; does Burleigh believe that Franken’s career in politics can be resuscitated?

Update: As Glenn tweets, “So #MeToo is a Russian influence op? Now it all makes sense.”

Heh, indeed comrade.

AT THIS POINT, IT’S HARDLY AN EARTHSHAKING IDEA: Humans will actually react pretty well to news of alien life.

PROGRESSIVES RUIN EVERYTHING THEY TAKE OVER: WSJ: Tech Workers Plan On Leaving Silicon Valley In Droves.

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Trump vs. Oprah: The Matchup We Deserve?

A DATE THAT SHOULD LIVE IN INFAMY: “On February 19, 1942 — seventy-four years ago today — Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. With the stroke of his pen, the man who had earlier snubbed Jesse Owens after the Berlin Olympics used his executive powers to order the imprisonment of over 100,000 persons of Japanese ancestry (as well as thousands of German and Italian ancestry) for the duration of World War II.”

NOT AT MY HOUSE, THERE ISN’T: There really is a tequila shortage.

THIS IS DISTURBING: Surgical Tools Could Be Spreading Proteins Linked to Alzheimer’s. But this report is at most suggestive, and nowhere near dispositive.

TONI AIRAKSINEN: Connecticut Professor Latest Victim of ‘Microaggression’ Claim.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: NYU Prof: ‘MAGA Maggots’ ‘Feasting On The Corpses Of Murdered Schoolchildren.’