MICHAEL WALSH DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE A FAN OF ROOKIE SENATOR MITT ROMNEY: Meet the New Willard, Same As the Old Willard.

THIS IS JUST AN EFFORT TO PROVIDE MORE CANNON FODDER FOR LEFTIST CAUSES: Students could skip school to protest under board proposal. “The Washington Post reports that Montgomery County’s school board is expected to approve the proposal as early as January. The proposal is considered to be one of very few in the country that would allow students to take up to three excused absences per year to participate in protests or other forms of civic engagement during the school day.”

NOEMIE EMERY ON 1968: The Year of the Grisly Election.

MONICA LEWINSKY SAYS BILL CLINTON ENCOURAGED HER TO LIE UNDER OATH: ‘I Did Feel Uncomfortable About It.’

Lord Acton could not be reached for comment.

THIS STORY CASTS HEFNER AS “PARANOID,” BUT THIS ACTUALLY SOUNDS SENSIBLE AND CONSIDERATE TOWARD OTHERS: Hugh Hefner dumped casket of sex tapes into the sea. ““Hugh explained that he didn’t want anyone’s lives, marriages or careers to be destroyed by what he had In his library.”

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DO TELL: Europe needs to get a handle on immigration or it could elect its own Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton warns.

SILLY QUESTION: ‘HOW DID REPUBLICANS LEARN TO HATE THE NEWS MEDIA’? At NewsBusters, Tim Graham writes:

For a healthy dose of how liberals write unintentional humor, see this Columbia Journalism Review article: “How did Republicans learn to hate the news media?” CBS MoneyWatch blogger and former Wall Street Journal investing editor Larry Light claims Republicans have a “prejudice” against the news media, as if there is no evidence….like you’ve never, ever spent a day on NewsBusters.

He wrote: “My father didn’t want to hear any evidence that contradicted his views, and neither do today’s Republican media haters. The hallmark of a prejudice is that you don’t have to prove it: You just know it.”

Light travels through history, from the media exposing Joseph McCarthy and Barry Goldwater, to forcing Richard Nixon from office, and then leaping ahead of George H.W. Bush’s last-minute “Annoy the Media” slogan in 1992. Nowhere in those decades is there any evidence of media favoritism, apparently. Just “prejudice” and hate.

Here are Light’s comments on the media and Goldwater:

[A]t the 1964 Republican National Convention, former president Dwight Eisenhower got a rousing crowd reception when he condemned “sensation-seeking columnists and commentators” who “couldn’t care less about the good of our party.”

His reference was to media coverage of the extremist views held by the Republican nominee, Barry Goldwater, who called for making Social Security a voluntary program and proposed deploying nuclear weapons in Vietnam. Though Goldwater came across as much more amiable than the ever-seething Trump does today, and he didn’t lash out at the press publicly, when he lost the election to Lyndon Johnson by a huge margin, his supporters were indignant at how the press had treated him.

Yes, other than Walter Cronkite and Daniel Schorr describing Goldwater as a crypto-Nazi on the CBS Evening News, why would Republicans loathe the media after the 1964 election?

POPPING THE PILL: Severe mental health side effects of contraceptive pill revealed in new BBC documentary. “I went from being fine to having suicidal thoughts within six months.”

CHINA IMPLEMENTING DYSTOPIAN PLAN TO RATE PEOPLE BASED ON SOCIAL BEHAVIOR.

That’s not creepy at all. Though to be fair, it’s not that first time that China has tried such a system.

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I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE ALL SOCIALISTS NOW: We’re all toxic now — that ‘toxic’ is the word of 2018 speaks to a growing mistrust of one another.

THE FRUITS OF H1-B VISA ABUSE: Study: Over 20 years, Silicon Valley workers’ median wage has fallen by 14%. Words that don’t appear in this Piketty-drenched article: “H1-B,” “Immigration,” “Visa.”

IT’S COME TO THIS: Kimmel Scolds Celebs for Nonstop Trump Bashing.

IT’S NOT TOO LATE: The U.S. Navy Could Have Had a Submarine Aircraft Carrier.

RIP: NICOLAS ROEG, DIRECTOR OF ‘THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH,’ ‘THE WITCHES,’ DIES AT 90.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Actually, even California says Trump is right about the wildfires.

To be fair, California has actually heard of Smokey the Bear.

FEINSTEIN CRITICIZES TRUMP NOMINEE KENNETH KIYUL LEE FOR HIS “CONTROVERSIAL” POSITION ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION … except that Lee’s position is more in keeping with that of the majority of Americans than Feinstein’s. As Paul Sniderman and Thomas Piazza, experts in political opinion, wrote a number of years ago, issues like preferences in college admissions are “politically controversial precisely because most American do not disagree about [them]. The distribution of public opinion on … affirmative action (understood as involving either preferential treatment or racial quotas) … is unmistakable … In the country as a whole, affirmative action in employment or in education is opposed by four in five, or more.” (Italics in original.) That opposition continues.

Just before Grutter v. Bollinger, I wrote an article that argued: (1) Obviously, public support for race discrimination shouldn’t count for squat when it comes to determining its constitutionality; (2) But on the other hand, if the public opposes race discrimination (as it does in the case of race-preferential admissions policies), that should pretty much foreclose a finding by a court that a “compelling” need for it. What’s so compelling about an argument that most Americans don’t buy?

Alas, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor must not have read it….

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NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says ‘People Are Going To Die’ If Climate Change Isn’t Addressed.

As Mike LaChance of Townhall tweets, “I thought everyone already died from the repeal of net neutrality.”

TAXPROF: Another IRS Free Speech Scandal.

TO BE FAIR, I DON’T THINK THE IDEA OF GEOENGINEERING TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING IS A “DOPEY” IDEA, but I think we’d be needing a much clearer and more present danger to start anything. At present, I think it would be equally prudent to be preparing for global cooling and short growing seasons. At present, both are possibilities, and we don’t know enough to say for sure.

SUNLIGHT IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT: School alters whiteness workshop description following College Fix inquiry.