NEWSEUM GIFT SHOP MERCHANDISE DRAWS DELIGHTFUL HOWLS OF PAIN FROM THE MEDIA: “If you really want to see the liberal mob howl, just go into a place they think that is their private ghetto and have a little fun.”

POLITICO: I’m a Liberal Feminist Lawyer. Here’s Why Democrats Should Support Judge Kavanaugh.

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: The Last Straw Man Edition.

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: The New York Times Has the Right to Hire Racists. “As it turns out, Jeong also hates cops and men. She even hates Paul Krugman! See? She’s gonna fit in at the Times just fine.”

Heh, indeed. Read the whole thing.™

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, DIVERSITY-PROBLEM EDITION: Testing a Beckerian-Arrowian Model of Political Orientation Discrimination on the U.S. Law Professor Labor Market: Measuring the “Rank Gap”, 2001-2010.

I BET THEY DO: Boston College wants to avoid jury trial for dean telling Title IX adjudicators how to rule.

WINNING: Workers Hardest Hit by Recession Are Joining in Recovery.

Related: The US manufacturing job market hasn’t been this strong in over 20 years.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UCLA makes students pay classmates to promote ‘social justice.’

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B-52 PACIFIC OCEAN PATROL: OK, two B-52s and a lot of blue.

THE ANTI-TRUMP MELTDOWN: Mika’s Right—Somebody’s Coming Unhinged.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Efforts to blacklist conservatives at UVA persist.

For the second time in seven days, the University of Virginia has pushed back against critics of the hiring of President Trump’s former legislative chief and an effort to blacklist conservatives from the school founded by former President Thomas Jefferson.

In a statement from the school’s Miller Center, a nonpartisan affiliate that specializes in presidential scholarship, Alice Handy said the university is sticking to its decision to appoint Marc Short as a senior Miller Center fellow despite the protest resignations of two educators.

“While the current administration certainly has created a fair amount of controversy, and despite the intense response to this appointment from both sides, we support the decision to bring Marc Short on as a senior fellow at the Center and feel he will bring valuable insights to our work,” she wrote.

Good.

SHOCKER: Facebook Uncovers Web of Accounts Spreading Disinformation to Influence Election . . . in Favor of Democrats.

NICE: Maori Group Holds Apology Ceremony Over New Zealand’s Opposition to Israel at UN. “Increasing numbers of Māori have become more vocal and active in their support for Israel.”

LITERALLY HITLER: Trump gives thumbs up to prison sentencing reform bill at pivotal meeting.

A senior White House official described the president as “positively inclined” toward the compromise proposal. The source said Trump told GOP senators to “do some work with your colleagues” and “let’s see where the Senate is and then come back to me with it.”
“We passed the First Step Act through the House, and we’re working with the Senate to pass that into law. And I think we’ll be able to do it,” Trump said in public comments Wednesday at a meeting with inner city pastors, according to a transcript from the White House.

The compromise offer was presented to Trump at a meeting with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.).

Jared Kushner, a senior White House adviser and Trump’s son-in-law; Shahira Knight, the new White House legislative affairs director; and White House chief of staff John Kelly also attended the White House meeting.

Attendees described Trump’s support for the initiative as a positive development for the effort to reduce mandatory-minimum prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.

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Also related: Pastor praises Trump as ‘pro-black’ at prison reform event.

He compared Trump to his predecessor, Barack Obama, the nation’s first African-American president, and said: “This president actually wants to prove something to our community, our faith-based community and our ethnic community.”

“The last president didn’t feel like he had to,” he added, saying of Obama: “He got a pass.”

On oh, so many things.

RACISM? WHAT’S THAT? WaPo Wonders: “Is It Okay To Make Fun Of White People Online?”

Suddenly the Post considers Infowars and Dice as reliable political analysts? That’s certainly news.

Any weapon to hand. Think of them as lefty operatives with bylines and you won’t go far wrong.

THIS IS PROBABLY TRUE, BUT IT’S NOT MUCH OF A DEFENSE: Vox: Sarah Jeong was just talking the way most people on the left talk about white people.

Maybe we should treat people on the left the way people on the left say we should treat Nazis.

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SURE, THAT’LL DO IT: Teachers’ Unions Plan to Become ‘More Political, Not Less Political.’

ON MY MUST READ LIST: Coming Feb.12, 2019 W.W. Norton & Co., “Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou.” If you like great writing or cajun food or thoughtful insight into cultures other than your own…this is a guaranteed must read. Besides, Ken Wells can write like a house afire.

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BUT ALL THE BEST PEOPLE ASSURED ME THEY WERE “SCANDAL FREE:” Six Times the Obama Administration Should Have Appointed Special Counsel.