ANDREW MCCARTHY: Special Counsel Mueller is building a report, not a case.

No prosecutor builds a case the way Mueller is going about it. What prosecutor says, “Here’s our witness line-up: Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos, Alex van der Zwaan, Rick Gates, Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen. And what is it that they have in common, ladies and gentlemen of the jury? Bingo! They’re all convicted liars.”?

It’s been a scam from Day One. Plus: “Our main interest is in the crime we authorize prosecutors to investigate; we are not looking to have prosecutors manufacture crimes through the process of investigating — even if we agree that people should not be permitted to lie to investigators with impunity. With respect to the president and ‘collusion,’ Mueller does not have a crime he is investigating. He is investigating in hopes of finding a crime, which is a day-and-night different thing.”

NOBODY SAW THIS COMING: How the caravan crisis boomeranged on the Latin American left.

NOT ALL THAT QUIETLY: Brittany Hunter: The ACLU Is Quietly Abandoning Civil Liberties.

They’re basically just a Democrat super-Pac now.

IF YOU THINK THIS SOUNDS ASTONISHINGLY CORRUPT, YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF FOR BEING SO NEGATIVE:  Al Sharpton sells his life story rights for $531,000–to his own charity.

PARTY OF SCIENCE: Believe women? Neil deGrasse Tyson addresses sexual misconduct allegations, ‘special handshake.’

OPEN THREAD: Comment like it’s Saturday Night.

IT WOULD MATTER MORE IF THE FLU SHOTS WERE BETTER: Only 60 percent of U.S. seniors got flu shots this season, survey says. I’m a big believer in keeping your shots up, and I got a flu shot this year. But I never have any side effects, and some people do. When you weigh those side effects against the rather unimpressive performance of the vaccine, I think it’s reasonable for some people to give it a pass.

HMM: Top US naval commander in Middle East found dead. “While his death is being investigated, officials say there is no evidence of foul play at this time.”

KYLE SMITH: Hollywood Is a Sex-Grooming Gang.

When you see a lot of movies and TV shows, you do a lot of wondering about what happened behind the scenes. Why did that actress get so many parts? Why did this one rise so quickly? Why did that one disappear? Wasn’t that nude scene gratuitous? Put on the magical sunglasses and you see the ugliness. Salma Hayek said Weinstein came to the set of her 2002 film Frida and threatened to shut it down unless she filmed an out-of-nowhere nude lesbian sex scene to put in the picture. Dewy young things are apparently told that this sort of thing is “the price of admission” by the male producer-director-agent nexus. Judging by her subsequent choices, I’m guessing the privately educated 21-year-old Reese Witherspoon wasn’t thrilled to be told to go nude for the 1998 film Twilight. She came to Los Angeles to act, not to strip. But, hey: price of admission. Now those images are out there, forever.

Read the whole thing. And as Smith goes on to note:

“Nobody knows anything” was the Hollywood mantra popularized by the late screenwriter William Goldman. Yet in a town that does nothing more assiduously than it does gossip, we’re expected to believe nobody knew anything about what was happening in Les Moonves’s office, and in Harvey Weinstein’s, and in Bryan Singer’s? It beggars belief. They knew. They all knew. The men knew. The women knew. The potted plants certainly knew. Nobody said anything. They didn’t want to jeopardize their next gig.

Which means all of these people knew:

WELL, GOOD: New drugs, decades in the making, are providing relief for migraines. “The recent shift in migraine treatment comes from a change in understanding what causes them, he said. Migraine had previously been considered a blood vessel problem. It was ‘really a nerve problem,’ he said.”

I’m lucky that for me CoQ10 is an excellent preventative, and for those few that still slip through a solid dose of Advil is usually enough.

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MICHAEL WALSH: Where’s the Outrage? Look in the Mirror.

Read the whole thing.

I’M TEMPTED TO GO BACK ON TWITTER JUST SO I CAN RETWEET THIS. (Via David Thompson).

LIFE IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC: Landlord Tells Harvard Student to Move Out Over Legally Owned Guns: Roommates searched room for guns after finding MAGA hat.

ON THIS GHASTLY DAY IN 1974, NOT ONE, BUT TWO BOEING 727s CRASHED IN THE USA: Although winter weather figured in both, the accidents—TWA Flight 514 (92 fatalities) and Northwest Airlines Flight 6231 (3 crew fatalities, no passengers onboard) were otherwise unrelated.

Air travel safety has much improved since then. That’s great. But don’t let the industry get complacent …

#HIMTOO? Fox, National Geographic Investigate Neil DeGrasse Tyson Following Sexual Misconduct Allegations.

JUST LIKE THE NEANDERTHALS APPARENTLY FOUND HOMO SAPIENS IRRESISTIBLE: Help, I Can’t Stop Hooking Up With Trump Supporters.

WHEN CONSERVATIVE WOMEN ON CAMPUS ARE TREATED LIKE SPECIMENS:

To the liberal mainstream, conservatives who are young, female, or part of an ethnic minority are anthropological curiosities. They’re strange because they exist. Every day, newspapers and magazines celebrate young Americans who live their lives as experiments in redefining social, economic, familial, and biological reality. But when you stumble upon a college student like Caitlyn McKinney, who says “I don’t know how it’s liberating for women to let men see them as just another hookup. I want someone to actually think I’m special and love me”—you’ve come across a discovery on par with the mythical giant squid.

These conservative women are routinely derided on campus, and [Nancy Jo Sales of Vanity Fair] does a good job of detailing it. But maybe if the media treated them as something other than oddities, things would be a little easier for them.

Ahh, the good old “conservatives in the mist” DNC-MSM journalism template.

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DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Columbia University Seminar to Promote ‘Inclusive Grading.’

THE ORANGE MAN WRECKED MY MARRIAGE: Hear The Lamentations Of Unstable Leftist Women.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Depression: Electrical stimulation can ‘significantly’ improve mood.