HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, RACISM EDITION: Facebook flags Georgia TA who bashed ‘crappy white people.’

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NAVY LIGHTNING OVER CALIFORNIA: Two Navy F-35C Lightning IIs fly in formation over the California desert. The F-35C is the “aircraft carrier” version (catapult launched) of the F-35 Lightning II.

JONAH GOLDBERG: The poisonous double standard over ‘stolen election’ complaints.

When Republicans suggest Democrats are up to no good, it is universally decried as a paranoid, craven or “openly authoritarian” attempt to delegitimize an election. When Democrats suggest an election was stolen, it’s a grave warning of a crisis that should require “international election monitors,” in the words of Dan Rather.

When Republicans graciously concede, as Rep. Martha McSally did in Arizona, it’s an example of decency and civility. “I give McSally credit for a graceful concession. But let’s be clear: It only stands out because of the moral sludge of Trumpism in which any show of grace or honorable conduct is shocking,” tweeted Josh Marshall, the editor of the Talking Points Memo. “When you lose, you don’t lie about it or attack the voting process. You concede & move on.”

But when Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, a three-term Democrat, refused to concede and move on, insisting that Scott was trying to steal victory, liberals didn’t call him a sore loser. And when Abrams refused to concede in Georgia and (still) refuses to say that Kemp is a legitimate governor, it’s hailed as heroic speaking truth to power.

It’s as if they have no principles other than power.

JOURNALISM: Newsrooms continue to cut jobs, struggle with diversity. They struggle with honesty, too, but that’s less of an institutional priority these days.

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#NARRATIVEFAIL: Actually, even California says Trump is right about the wildfires.

MATT WELCH: Americans don’t trust their government, its institutions, or each other. This is not a good place to be.

We are careening dangerously from a high-trust to a low-trust society. We trust one another less, we trust government and other mediating institutions less. This trend, which like many of our pathologies predates and arguably helped give rise to the Trump presidency, has ominous consequences.

High-trust societies have lower transaction costs, lower crime rates and less corruption. People are nicer and better behaved when they’re reasonably confident that the local grocer won’t steal their credit card information and the IRS won’t audit them based on their politics.

To maintain a high-trust society requires a measure of self-discipline, and even self-sacrifice regarding short-term gains, on the part of its political class. Our political class is no longer capable of those, it seems. The costs of abandoning that are high, but since the political class mostly won’t bear them, it doesn’t care. And never will, unless it is made to.

POWER LINE’S THANKSGIVING IN PICTURES: Decline and Fall of the Romaine Empire Edition.

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NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON: MA governor brings back civics education in public schools.

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CALL ME SILLY, BUT I AGREE: On Not Opening Doors.

OF COURSE THEY DO:  Major Media Ignore Dem Rep’s Nuke Comments.

IT IS NOT NEW. IT IS SERIOUS. 2018 IS THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS:  America’s Cold Civil War.

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THE TAXMAN IS HUNGRY … AND NOT GOOD AT MATH:  Sales Taxingly Amazing Tacos.

YEAH:  Anti-Vaxers vs. Math.

LEADING FROM HER BEHIND:  Hillary Lectures Europe on Immigration.

IOW she’s learning to swim or she’ll sink like a stone. For the times they are achanging.

SERIOUSLY, ISN’T THIS LIBERAL FINGER PUPPET WELL PAST HER 15 MINUTES OF FAME:  #MurphyBrown Threatens ICE Agents And Defends Illegal Immigration.

PICO AGGRESSIONS:  Charlie Brown’s Thanksgiving Table Is Not Racist.

COULD ISRAEL’S ‘GOOD NEIGHBOR’ POLICY WORK FOR THE MIGRANT CARAVANS?

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