DUE PROCESS: IT’S NOT JUST FOR JIM ACOSTA AND MICHAEL AVENATTI! Title IX regulation would mandate cross-examination, use same evidence standard for students and faculty.

I’m actually not convinced that Title IX either requires or empowers universities to regulate student (or faculty) sexual behavior at all. All the actual statute says is this: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” Everything else has been a superstructure of interpretations and arguments far-removed from this language or its original purpose.

HMM: ‘Active criminal investigation’: No big deal, just Florida Dems lawyering up as feds and state investigate possible voter fraud. “Yeah, OK. Are we to believe that staffers just decided on their own to send out these altered forms?”

ACTUALLY, NINA HARTLEY IS A LOT MORE THAN JUST A FORMER PORN STAR.

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HOIST TRAINING IN A CLOUD OF DEBRIS: USAF pararescue teams conduct hoist training from an Army Chinook helicopter. Photo taken Nov. 5, 2018 at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.

THE ACLU NO LONGER EVEN PRETENDS TO BELIEVE IN CIVIL LIBERTIES: American Civil Liberties Union, RIP.

DEMOCRAT: After threatening to nuke Americans who refuse to give up their guns, Rep. Eric Swalwell laments lack of progress on gun debate.

CHANGE: On top: Best economy in 19 years, highest confidence in 14.

A remarkably low 13 percent are calling President Trump’s economy a problem as confidence is hitting a 14-year high, and seven in 10 said 2018 is a good time to find a quality job.

The key points from Gallup’s just-published economic survey:

Economic Confidence Index at +31 in November, remaining at its highest since 2004.
55 percent rate current economic conditions positively.
Record-tying 68 percent say it is a good time to find a quality job.

“It has been nearly two decades since Americans have been as positive about the U.S. economy as they are now,” Gallup said.

Good.

HIDE THE DECLINE: When the Scientific Consensus Is Corrected by a Skeptic.

HMM: McCarthy, other Republicans back Ratcliffe to be next attorney general. “Ratcliffe, a former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, is one of several people mentioned as possible contenders to succeed Jeff Sessions, who resigned under pressure from Trump last week. Other names in the mix include Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.”

I like Janice Rogers Brown. Or Randy Barnett!

NEO HAS NEWS YOU CAN USE: Evacuation plans: the best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men (Part I).

UNDERSTANDABLY: Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, writing from prison, urges Mitch McConnell to move the criminal justice reform bill.

As readily accessible inside as outside the prison library, these observations aren’t new. What is new comes from the firsthand account that Blagojevich offers. It is his writing about the sad-eyed mothers holding the hands of their sons, his telling of the incarcerated fathers unable to hug their children, his account of an older inmate unable to mourn his wife at her funeral.

“For the past nearly seven years, I have served time with well over a thousand inmates. I have come to know many of them. While almost all of them are in one way or another guilty of the crimes they are here for, and should most certainly be held accountable, I have been surprised by what I’ve learned,” Blagojevich insists. “A large number of these men are not bad men. I believe a lot of them if given another chance can do good.”

And when you remember that the sentencing changes in the law are not retroactive, you realize that the legislation he is pushing isn’t likely to help Blagojevich. He isn’t writing to improve his own conditions.

Read the whole thing.

BILL GERTZ: Trump Demands China Remove Missiles in South China Sea.

AMERICA’S NEW PAPER OF RECORD:  ‘We Would Be Delighted To Have Hillary Clinton Run In 2020,’ Says Democratic Party Chair As Several Laser Dots Dance Around On Forehead.

FORGET IT JACK, THE REAL STRATEGY IS ALWAYS FRAUD. THE REST IS WINDOW DRESSING:  Secretive Liberal Donor Network Plots 2020 Strategy in DC.

Unfortunately not all Democrats are as transparent as the Florida —-show.

WELL, THEN THE DOJ IS WRONG:  DOJ Set To Declare Bump Stocks As ‘Machine Guns’.

WHEN REPUBLICANS WIN IT’S CHEATING.  WHEN DEMOCRATS CHEAT IT’S WINNING. HOW LONG WILL WE TOLERATE THIS?  Hillary Clinton yells ‘fraud’ in Georgia after the vote recount doesn’t go Abrams’s way.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE CANNIBAL FEAST OF THE LEFTIST CLIENTS:  A Cold Winter for White Women.

YOU KNOW, IF THEY JUST DITCH THE LITTLE RED BOOK SOMEONE CONVINCED THEM WAS THE REAL GOSPEL, THINGS WILL BECOME MUCH CLEARER:  The Bishops In Their Labyrinth.

ER. SO THE DATES WERE THAT BAD IN THAT BAR?  One of the oldest lesbian bars on the East Coast is to be demolished. The city wants to put in a dog park.

Hey, at least it’s not a paper bag distribution center.

EWWWWWW:  Celine Dion’s Video Of New Clothing Line For Kids Is Orwellian.

YOU KNOW, THIS GAVE ME ONE OF THOSE SCARY FEELINGS LIKE “AND HERE?”  I DON’T LIKE WHERE WE’RE HEADED AND I’M HAVING TROUBLE SEEING A WAY OUT. AND NO, I DON’T MEAN TRUMP. I MEAN THE PARTY WHO HATES HUMANS BUT PARTICULARLY AMERICANS:  Eerily prescient 1907 poem by Stefan George: “Der Widerchrist”.

WHEN THE MASKS ARE DOWN, EVERYTHING BECOMES SO CLEAR:  True Colors.