ABC PANEL LAUDS WOLFF’S GOSSIP DESPITE AGREEING ONLY ’50 PERCENT’ TRUE.

As David Harsanyi writes at the Federalist, Don’t Let Wolff’s ‘Fire And Fury’ Normalize ‘Fake But Accurate.’

EVERGREEN HEADLINES: We’re still better off with Trump than Clinton.

Michael Goodwin:

One result is that reports of his imminent demise have been near-constant ever since he came down the Trump Tower escalator in June of 2015. Those predictions have been nonstop — and always wrong.

Of course, this time could be different. Or maybe the next time will. Or maybe not.

Meanwhile, his is turning out to be an enormously consequential presidency.

So much so that, despite my own frustration over his missteps, there has never been a day when I wished Hillary Clinton were president. Not one.

Indeed, as Trump’s accomplishments accumulate, the mere thought of Clinton in the White House, doubling down on Barack Obama’s failed policies, washes away any doubts that America made the right choice.

Left unsaid? Whatever Trump’s flaws, Clinton would have robbed the country blind.

JAMES TARANTO INTERVIEWS MORRIS FIORINA: Moderate Voters, Polarized Parties.

Most observers of American politics predict 2018 will favor the Democrats. The party has a good chance of taking control of the House in November, and even a Senate majority is within reach, although Democrats are defending three times as many seats in the upper chamber as Republicans are.

Here’s a safer prediction: If the Democrats do triumph on Nov. 6, they and their supporters will emerge triumphalist, proclaiming their majority permanent and President Trump a lame duck. Ten months in advance, Morris P. “Mo” Fiorina has a bucket of cold water to throw on such claims.

Mr. Fiorina—no relation to 2016 presidential candidate Carly Fiorina or her husband—is a 71-year-old Stanford political scientist and author of a new book, “Unstable Majorities: Polarization, Party Sorting and Political Stalemate.” As the title suggests, he believes the U.S. has entered an era in which no party can hold a majority for very long. “We can change our pattern of government every two years,” he tells me on a recent visit to the Journal’s offices, “and we started doing that.”

Did we ever. The party controlling the House, Senate or White House changed in seven of the nine elections between 2000 and 2016—the only exceptions being the presidential re-election years, 2004 and 2012. “I sort of trace it back to ’92, the end of the Republican presidential era, and then ’94 is the end of the Democratic congressional era,” Mr. Fiorina says.

Hmm.

WELL, IF A PLOT LINE FROM JOHN RINGO IS GOING TO BECOME REAL, I’M GLAD IT’S THIS ONE: Haint Blue Launches Beer that ‘Fights Terrorism.’

VARIOUS AUTHORITIES HAVE LET HER GET AWAY WITH AN AWFUL LOT: Ex-Professor Deborah Frisch Jailed Again.

When last we reported on notorious cyberstalker Deborah Frisch, the deranged former psychology professor had been arrested in Bend, Oregon, on fugitive warrants from Colorado. Frisch had failed to appear at a November court hearing on two felony charges related to her continued harassment of Jeff Goldstein. In 2006, Frisch made national headlines when she resigned from her position at the University of Arizona after using her school computer to post obscene threats to Goldstein and his family. Since then, she “has accumulated a fantastic record of legal troubles” including stalking charges in Oregon. . . .

More than a year later, it seems, Frisch’s modus operandi is unchanged, but some people still haven’t figured this out. On Dec. 29, a judge in Deschutes County, Oregon, signed Frisch’s release from jail, despite the fact that Frisch was a fugitive being held on a no-bond warrant pending extradition to Colorado. Almost immediately, Frisch was back on Twitter, posting messages that Goldstein considered threatening to himself and his family. She posted messages aimed at Goldstein, his wife and the school their children attend. Goldstein was understandably shocked by the Oregon judge’s decision to release Frisch. . . .

Finally, however, it seems Colorado officials convinced authorities in Oregon that they had been wrong to release Frisch, but when police showed up to arrest her Friday, she evidently caused such a scene that she was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. She will reportedly be arraigned at a court hearing Monday.

The question is, what can be done with Frisch, who clearly has a psychotic fixation on Goldstein and has been harassing him for 12 years? Frisch seems unable to restrain herself from this type of behavior.

What, indeed? As a middle-aged woman with an academic background, I think she’s been treated more kindly by the legal system than others with similar records might be.

ENJOIN THIS! According to the New York Daily News, WikiLeaks shared the complete text of a new book containing explosive allegations about President Trump before deleting its post on Twitter. But the publisher will find out that suppressing publication is — surprise! — like playing “whack-a-mole”, and links to the book (oddly, without page numbers, suggesting these are page proofs) are popping up everywhere.

Will Wolff’s publishers start filing suit and serving subpoenas to unmask the infringing uploaders? Or will they just send DMCA “take down” notices to the ISP’s? Stay tuned.

THINK OF THE PRESS AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES AND YOU WON’T GO FAR WRONG: The Sudden Hazing of Lindsey Graham: The media loved him when he rebuked Trump. Not so much now, when he questions the DOJ’s and FBI’s handling of the Russia investigation.

JEFF DUNETZ: If President Trump Is Mentally Unstable, Let’s Hope It’s Contagious.

NBC: Oprah is OUR future President.

It’s not playing well everywhere: “So remind me: which network killed Ronan Farrow’s report on Harvey Weinstein?”.

Meh, they’re already walking that back and starting to rehabilitate him.

Plus:

Remember, they don’t have standards, beyond “whatever gets us power.”

WHAT IS IT ABOUT DEMOCRATS AND INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE? Senate candidate from Texas wants to make year of ‘service to country’ mandatory.

UPENDING LONG KNOWN “FACTS”:  Parrots and Falcons — Long-lost Cousins.

THREE YEARS?  GIVE ME THIRTY:  You can look three years younger by doing ‘face yoga’.

SO IXNAY ON THE AXSPRAY:  It turns out that smell is the way to a woman’s heart.

OH, GOOD:  Mount St. Helens Is Rumbling Again With 40 Earthquakes …

SAME AS THE LEFT ALWAYS DOES:  Lying For Money and Power.

QUICK! LIGHT THE VIRTUE SIGNAL:  #GoldenGlobes: Seth Meyers’ Monologue Is Hot Mess Of Political Virtue Signaling.

IT’S NOT TROUBLING.  IT’S SOCIALIST.  IT’S BEEN TRIED MANY TIMES BEFORE.  ITS NEVER WORKED:  Iceland’s troubling Equal Pay Standard.

THE MEDIA CONTINUES TO IMITATE THE DOGS WHO BARK AS THE CARAVAN PASSES. SCOTT ADAMS SERVES UP HUSH PUPPIES:  Scott Adams Says Trump Isn’t Crazy, He IS a Genius. Here’s Why.

IF THEY KICKED OUT EVERY CREEP AND PERV THERE WOULDN’T BE ENOUGH REMAINING TO VOTE THE AWARDS:  Academy members now regret banning Weinstein so hastily.

IT’S A ONE-STOP INSECURITIES SHOP:  Of course ‘Goop for Men’ sells erectile dysfunction pills.

HELLOOOOOOO 21ST CENTURY!  Woman receives bionic hand with sense of touch.