I FIND THE ATTACKS ON HER VERY WEIRD: “If the measure of a political journalist is the vehemence, vitriol, and histrionics from partisans unhappy with the unassailable facts revealed by your work, then Salena Zito has got to be at the top of her game right now.”

The attacks seem aimed at making sure lefties disregard her reporting, which will make them feel better but also reduce the likelihood of them winning elections. So I guess they must be coming from Trump-supporting Russian bots.

TIME-WARNER-CNN-HBO’S MEMORY HOLE KEEPS ON GETTING BIGGER: CNN pulls Asia Argento episodes of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.

AND YOU SAW ITS “BIPARTISAN” FACE AT THE MCCAIN FUNERAL: Joel Kotkin: America Is Moving To Oligarchical Socialism.

Particularly since Donald Trump’s election, the leaders of corporate America — especially in tech and finance — have merged with the Democrats. They appeal to progressives by advocating politically correct views on immigration, gender rights and climate change, while muzzling conservatives both inside and outside their companies.

Stiff antitrust enforcement would help.

THE GRAND TOUR’S RICHARD HAMMOND AND HIS WIFE WERE GASSED AND ROBBED IN HOLIDAY VILLA IN FRANCE. “Gas raids have been reported in the holiday region, which attracts rich and famous holiday-makers.”

RECUSAL REQUIRED: 28 U.S.C. 455: “Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”

Related: CNN: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Became The Face of the Trump Resistance. So in any case involving the Trump Administration, her impartiality might reasonably be questioned, right?

Also:

Unless they have a book to sell, Supreme Court justices rarely give interviews. Even then, they diligently avoid political topics. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg takes a different approach.

These days, she is making no secret of what she thinks of a certain presidential candidate.

“I can’t imagine what this place would be — I can’t imagine what the country would be — with Donald Trump as our president,” she said. “For the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be — I don’t even want to contemplate that.”

It reminded her of something her husband, Martin D. Ginsburg, a prominent tax lawyer who died in 2010, would have said.

“‘Now it’s time for us to move to New Zealand,’” Justice Ginsburg said, smiling ruefully.

So recusal wouldn’t seem to be out of the question.

BOTH SIDES NOW:  John Fund on John McCain.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Apple, Google, et al. Strike a Blow against the College Cartel.

DON SURBER: Why We Don’t Care, Katy Tur.

Republicans have a long history of sacrificing candidates at the altar of appeasement over one of these media-driven fake scandals.

Then came Obama. His political mentor was an unrepentant terrorist. His religious mentor — the man he dedicated his book “The Audacity of Hope” to — said America deserved 9/11.

Most of the media didn’t care.

Why should we care if President Trump said something the media doesn’t like?

The people who hyped the breakdown of norms under Obama are now offended that Trump can ignore those norms.

WASHINGTON: “There are, after all, disparate realities — one inside the holy halls of the National Cathedral, where powerful people mourn the death of civility; and another in the surrounding city, where many of those same powerful people drive nails ever deeper into its coffin. And there is a greater juxtaposition still — this one between the virtue-signaling, convention-worshipping insiders of Washington and the mad-as-hell, burn-it-down voters in the provinces. This might not be Donald Trump’s town, but it’s still his country.”

ONE HYDROGEN BOMB CAN RUIN YOUR WHOLE DAY:  This time last year, North Korea was exploding a hydrogen bomb.  Or least that’s what its maximum leader said (and most of the experts think it’s true).  Don’t forget about that, okay?