SOME GOOD REPORTING ON THE FRENCH RIOTS AT ¡No Pasarán! “Whether it was related or simply a coincidence, the crowds had started chanting Macron ! Démission!’ (Macron resign!) when the bombardment started.”

Plus, from a couple of days ago: How Fake News Has Misrepresented the Yellow Vest Revolt in France. “It is not wrong to say that the demonstrations were caused by the government’s decision to raise gas prices. What is missing is that this is just one of several draconian measures dating back half a year, i.e., ‘tis the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. For the past four to five months, the French government has done nothing but double down on bringing more and more gratuitous oppression and more and more unwarranted persecution measures down on the necks the nation’s drivers and motorcycle riders. In fact, the imposition of ever harsher rules has been going on for the past decade and a half or so — whether the government was on the right or on the left — and that is why the choice of les gilets jaunes (the yellow jackets) by the demonstrators is particularly ironic. . . . This year, as mentioned, Emmanuel Macron’s government has doubled down on the repressive measures.”

THERE SEEMS TO BE SOMETHING WRONG WITH OUR BLOODY DRUGS TODAY: 3rd blood pressure drug recalled in recent weeks over impurity.

FLASHBACK: Dan Rather’s Failed, Fake News Ambush of Bush.

Under the tutelage of Roger Ailes and Lee Atwater, Bush ran a savvy campaign in 1988 as effectively, the third term of President Reagan. Without their help in 1992, Bush seemed to be phoning his reelection bid in, acting as if he didn’t care if he won or lost.

Related: “Appearing as a guest on Saturday’s Today show on NBC to discuss the passing of former President George H.W. Bush, MSNBC contributor and historian Jon Meacham made a point of praising the former President for going left on some issues like taxes in defiance of the Republican party’s conservative base. Correspondent Andrea Mitchell also saw raising taxes as a bright spot on Bush’s presidency and talked up the notion that it improved the economy…After noting that Republicans never had control of either house of Congress while Bush was President, Meacham added: ‘But what he did with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Clean Air Act, the budget deal, as President Clinton will tell you, set the terms of properity of the 1990s.’”

That last quote is awfully rich, considering Clinton attacked Bush from the right for raising taxes. Or as they say at the Delta house, you f***ed up – you trusted us.

YES: Genetically Modified People Are Walking Among Us: And, so far, they’re just fine. America needs a sober debate about the pros and cons of Crispr instead of a paranoid ban on the technology.

And don’t leave the debate to the “bioethicists,” who have grand ambitions but a lousy track record.

FLORIDA, MAN: Brenda Snipes “unresigns” from office. Seriously?

CHANGE: When War Veterans Return to Iraq—This Time to Go Skiing.

IS PARIS BURNING? ‘This is the start of a revolution:’ Paris rioters steal police assault rifle, torch dozens of cars and vow to ‘stay in the streets until Christmas’ as fuel protests continue into the night and spread across France — and even to Holland.

UPDATE: France in Flux.

(Classical reference in headline.)

NOW OUT FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: Wildfire (Kelly Turnbull Book 3).

ESP-NPC: Why Does ESPN Hate Christmas and America?

UM, DOESN’T HE SAY THE SAME TO STRAIGHT PRIESTS? Be celibate or leave the priesthood, pope tells gay priests.

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ROGER SIMON: The Russia Probe Has Nothing to Do with Russia.

NARRATOR: THEY DID. Dear Progressives, Do Not Whitewash Marc Lamont Hill’s Anti-Semitism.

ACTUALLY, HATE SPEECH IS FREE SPEECH AND ONLY IDIOTS AND COMMIES ARGUE OTHERWISE: Temple University chairman rips Marc Lamont Hill amid calls to fire him: Hate speech isn’t free speech. But what Hill said, while free speech, was also hate speech. It was, in fact, a formula for genocide. Still, goose/gander and all that:

Whatever the answer, it makes me laugh to see a dopey left-wing canard like “hate speech” being used against someone for pushing radical-left propaganda like “free Palestine from the river to the sea.” Maybe the chairman’s using the term for that reason, because he thinks it might help campus lefties grasp why Hill’s comments were “problematic,” to borrow another liberal buzzword. Either that or he’s using the phrase to try to teach them a lesson, showing them how “hate speech” prohibitions can be used as a sword against them too, not just their enemies, and should therefore be avoided.

Heh.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Peter Thiel predicts ‘reformation’ of higher education in speech to student journalists.

“Universities today are as corrupt as the Catholic Church of 500 years ago,” Thiel said.

During his speech, he spoke of an academia that has shut down debate, excommunicated conservative scholars, and insisted a college degree is the only way to “salvation,” that being a good job and solid future.

“The reformation is going to happen,” Thiel added, noting it won’t come from within, but from the “outside.”

One way or another.

SEGREGATION TODAY, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Princeton students complain about white peers ‘invading’ ‘POC places.’

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GEORGE H.W. BUSH: The Last WASP President?

TRUMP HYSTERIA: Was an Entire Class Evacuated Because a Student Was Wearing a MAGA Hat? People who say Trump is mean, childish, and impulsive sure tend to act mean, childish, and impulsive when his name comes up.

LT (JG) GEORGE H. W. BUSH: A photo taken in 1944 of Navy pilot Lt. j.g. George H. W. Bush in his Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber. The former president led a full life. May he rest in peace.

BYRON YORK: Remember Prague? In Michael Cohen plea deal, Mueller says nothing about key collusion allegation.

When news broke that Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about his 2016 meetings concerning the failed Trump Tower Moscow project, the chattering class instantly began talking about the failed Trump Tower Moscow project.

Of course that was news. But it turns out the Cohen plea agreement also made news in what it did not cover. Specifically, it spoke volumes — without saying a word — about a key allegation of the Trump dossier, the charge that Cohen traveled to Prague to arrange secret payments to Russian hackers attacking the Clinton campaign. The accusation is the heart of the collusion allegation, and Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller’s deal with Cohen strongly suggests that prosecutors have not found evidence to support it. . . .

This is why Cohen’s Trump Tower Moscow plea agreement with Mueller is important for the dossier: The plea shows that Mueller closely scrutinized everything Cohen told Congress. And it has long been clear that Mueller and his team are not shy about charging Trump-Russia figures with making false statements. It’s also clear that Mueller found evidence that specific assertions in Cohen’s statements to Congress were false — the ones concerning Trump Tower Moscow — and that he charged Cohen with lying. So if Mueller had evidence that Cohen’s definitive denial of the Prague story, in the same document, was false, it seems reasonable to conclude that Mueller would have charged Cohen for it. Yet in the charges against Cohen, Mueller said absolutely nothing about Prague.

Last April, McClatchy published a blockbuster story with the headline “Sources: Mueller has evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016, confirming part of dossier.” The story was the subject of a lot of talk among Resistance types. But one notable thing about the McClatchy scoop was that other news organizations never duplicated it, as is common when one outlet breaks a big story. Now Mueller, with vastly more resources and investigative power than any news organization, hasn’t either.

For more than a year, a number of Trump-Russia investigators on Capitol Hill have maintained that none of the dossier’s substantive allegations are true. The new plea deal between Cohen and Mueller is more evidence to support that.

But the dossier’s only purpose was to get a special counsel appointed to go after Trump, and they got that.

For those interested in going deeper regarding special counsels and lying to Congress, I recommend Peter W. Morgan’s The Undefined Crime of Lying to Congress: Ethics Reform and the Rule of Law, 86 Northwestern U. L. Rev. 177 (1992). And here’s a New Yorker piece by Jeffrey Rosen. Excerpt: “Perjury traps have become a popular tactic among independent counsels: if they can’t prove the alleged crime they were appointed to investigate, they indict suspects for lying to investigators. But the traps are effective only because independent counsels have succeeded over the past few decades in expanding the lying laws far beyond their historical roots.”

IF IT WEREN’T FOR FAKE HATE CRIMES, HOW MANY HATE CRIMES WOULD THERE BE? Black college lacrosse player, 21, is arrested for spraying N-word and swastika graffiti targeting HIMSELF and other minority students in two incidents that terrorized the campus.

A black college lacrosse player has been arrested in connection with two incidents of racist graffiti found in a dorm on the Goucher College campus in Maryland.

Fynn Ajani Arthur, a 21-year-old from Brunswick, Maine, was charged with two counts of malicious destruction of property on Thursday night in Baltimore County.

His arrest came after graffiti aimed at black and Latino students was found on the second floor of a campus dorm, one floor above where similar graffiti had been found on November 14, Goucher College administrators said in a statement.

Both incidents that shook the Towson campus involved backward swastikas and targeted specific individuals, according to the statement.

Thursday’s graffiti depicted swastikas, the letters ‘KKK’ and appeared to include the last names of four black students, including Arthur. The previous graffiti reportedly said all ‘n*****s’ on campus would be killed.

I now start with the assumption that incidents like this are fake. The demand for Nazi/White Supremacist hatred far exceeds the supply.