SPACE TO DESTROY: Jack Dunphy on Why Baltimore Police Have ‘Stopped Noticing Crime.’

CAN THEY HAVE GUNS, TOO? Duke Law professor says women should kill their rapists. It’s fine — and even laudable — to kill someone in self-defense if they’re trying to rape you. But if you’re giving this sort of advice on a campus like Duke’s it’s important to point out that it’s not okay to kill someone as a “rapist” just because you regret the sex later.

YES, THAT’S WHAT MAKES THEM UNFORGIVABLE: The worst thing about Trump’s outbursts on Brexit and Nato? That he’s right.

HEH: NATO Rejects ‘Obsolete’ Label in Telegram to Trump.

YALE LAW FAILS THE KAVANAUGH TEST: Conor Friedersdorf is right that neither the law school’s official fawning press release nor the literally hysterical response from left-wing law school affiliates puts the law school in a particularly good light. But law school officials, at least, really had no choice; the school put out an equally fawning press release the last time a Yale alum was nominated to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor. The school would have faced credible charges of partisan discrimination if it had been less effusive about Kavanaugh.

THE LEFT’S CULTURE OF HATE: Antifa groups tweet threats, smears targeting GOP.

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WE STILL HAVEN’T FOUND OUT THE NAMES OF THE JOURNALISTS THEY WERE PAYING: Fusion GPS Targets Jim Jordan.

#THERESISTANCE IN A NUTSHELL:

HOW TO BUILD A MOUNTAIN RANGE: Rise of the Andes. “…the Andes did not rise gradually over the last 45 million years, but lurched skyward in dramatic pulses.” Good read.

LIGHTNING LIVE FIRE OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO: An F-35A Lightning II test fires an air-to-air missile over the Gulf of Mexico.

HIS LEGACY HAS VANISHED, LIKE TEARS IN RAIN: Top Georgetown prof hits Obama, ‘little practical use’ to blacks.

He’s described as the “widely celebrated” Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson, one of the nation’s 100 most influential African Americans, and he’s been making news on a new book tour by bashing President Trump. . . .

“Obama was a big disappointment to many of the black people who looked to him for leadership. With race, just as he had done with foreign policy, he led from behind,” he wrote.

If he’d governed in accord with his breakthrough 2004 speech, he’d have been one of the all-time great presidents. But it turns out, that speech was just bullshit.

FIFA ASKS, HOW CAN WE MAKE SOCCER EVEN MORE BORING? FIFA Tells World Cup Broadcasters To Stop Zooming In On ‘Hot Women’ In The Stands.

WE SHOULD PROBABLY JUST SELL THE WHOLE THING OFF — IT’S A RELIC OF WHEN OPEC HAD US BY THE THROAT: Trump Weighs Tapping Strategic Oil Reserve.

TWO GRAY LADIES IN ONE!

● Shot: The Quiet Death of Racial Progress. How can we stop backsliding toward inequality?

—Headline and subhead on new column by David Brooks in the New York Times.

● Chaser: Does the word “Caucasity” — used in the NYT today — express the idea of whiteness as a problem?

—Headline, Ann Althouse, January 31st.

● Hangover: ‘Pinch’ Sulzberger, then publisher of the New York Times, told a crowd at the Metropolitan Museum in 1994 that “alienating older white male readers means ‘we’re doing something right.’”

—New York magazine, November, 1991.

THEN, IF HE’S RE-ELECTED, HE’LL SAVAGE BUSINESSES FOR DOING THE SAME THING: Bill Nelson’s Campaign Avoiding Taxes, Health Care Costs on Campaign Staff.

Democratic senator Bill Nelson (Fla.) has been avoiding common campaign expenses such as paying payroll tax and providing benefits such as health insurance by staffing his reelection effort solely through contractors, a rarely used and frowned-upon tactic.

Nelson’s filings with the Federal Election Commission so far this cycle contain no disbursements for payroll or salary, nor payments for payroll taxes that come along with having salaried workers. Also missing are any payments for health insurance, which campaigns provide to full-time employees. . . .

A campaign finance expert who discussed Nelson’s disclosure with the Washington Free Beacon called the structure “completely uncommon.”

“Campaigns do have tons of contractors, that’s not uncommon, what’s completely uncommon is to have no employees,” the expert said.

The campaign filings of Nelson’s fellow incumbent Democrats running in tight races back up the claim.

A review of filings this cycle for 10 other Democrat reelection campaigns—senators Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Joe Manchin (W.V.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Jon Tester (Mont.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Debbie Stabenow (Mich.), Bob Casey (Pa.), and Bob Menendez (N.J.)—found Nelson to be the odd man out.

Each of the 10 campaigns disclosed payments to salaried workers as well as the costs associated with them, such as payroll taxes and payroll processing fees. Each campaign also discloses payments to health care companies such as United Healthcare to pay for their employees’ insurance—Casey’s Pennsylvania campaign appears to provide dental coverage as well.

Payroll costs add up. The McCaskill campaign, for example, has thus far this cycle spent $38,444 on health insurance and $256,441 in payroll tax.

Florida governor Rick Scott, Nelson’s likely Republican opponent in November, launched his campaign during the most recent cycle and won’t provide his first filing until later this month. His campaign, however, tells the Washington Free Beacon it has salaried employees, provides them health insurance, and pays payroll tax.

Benefits for thee but not for me.