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NEW CIVILITY WATCH: MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Jokes, Then Apologizes About Choking Sarah Sanders….While Bemoaning Incivility.

Going to Welker on the topic of Sanders ducking questions about Sadler suggesting McCain’s take on Gina Haspel’s CIA nomination didn’t matter because he’s “dying anyway,” Wallace quipped: “Kristen Welker, how do you resist the temptation to run up and wring her neck? Why can’t she just say if a staffer said that, we’re going to get to the bottom of it and she’ll be fired?”

After the show, Wallace apologized in a tweet.

It’s a common figure of speech, but in January of 2011, MSNBC went all-in to turn Sarah Palin’s common figure of speech and her clip art into the stuff of assassination porn, and Chris Matthews regularly compares everyone to the right of Obama with Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and occasionally to change things up, the Khmer Rouge and Kim Jong-Un. As Kurt Schlichter likes to say, the left isn’t enjoying having to play by the rules they established.

NEWS YOU CAN ABUSE: I Want My MTV! How to Make a Rock Video Without Ever Leaving Your Editing Room.

If it’s the first of a two-part article series; next week I take a deeeeep dive into writing and recording the music.

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: University Of Minnesota Increases Law School’s Annual Subsidy To $12 Million Amidst Declining Applications, Enrollment (On Top Of $40 Million Subsidy Since 2012-13).

ESCAPE TO NEW YORK, THE LONG WAY AROUND, DECEMBER 1941 TO JANUARY 1942: The California Clipper’s first four legs were easy – from Pan Am’s San Francisco seaplane terminal to LA to Honolulu to New Caledonia to New Zealand. But between New Caledonia and New Zealand the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

Pan Am HQ had escape plans for its planes and personnel in the Pacific if Japan and the U.S. went to war – plans approved by the military since the military said the big, long-range Boeing seaplanes were military assets. Pan Am Clipper pilots were given Top Secret envelopes which they were told to open if they received a radio code word.

The California Clipper’s escape route went west — Darwin, Java, Sri Lanka and other exotic destinations on the way to New York City’s La Guardia seaplane terminal. Hint on points in between: The plane landed and took off from the Nile and Congo Rivers.

This is a four part story and a fun read.

HEY, KIDS, WHAT TIME IS IT? Time To Eradicate HTLV-1, World Health Organization Is Warned.

EVERGREEN HEADLINE: The Left’s End-Run Around the Constitution.

THIS IS #RESIST? TRUMP HATERS LOVE INSTAGRAM PIC SHOWING AYATOLLAH READING MICHAEL WOLFF’S FIRE AND FURY.“I’m so glad that so many of you find the Instagram post of a dictator who imprisons, tortures, and kills innocent people to be hilarious because you hate Trump so much. Perhaps I would have a sense of humor if this were Macron or Merkel — but get a grip…it’s not.”

Shades of the efforts by those who hated President Bush to rehabilitate the reputation of Saddam Hussein.

SARAH RUMPF: Richard Overton, America’s Oldest Veteran, Is Cooler Than You. “The WWII veteran turned a stunning 112 years old today, and will be celebrating at his home with his favorite whiskey and cigars, surrounded by the friends and family who are determined to allow him to live as independently as he can for as long as possible.” There’s a GoFundMe to help with that.

CHANGE: Trump unveils plan to lower drug prices.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Kevin Williamson proffers “Advice for Incels:”

In the 1960s and 1970s, there were some social disruptions touching marriage and family life. It was, they told us, a “sexual revolution.” The thing about revolutions is: Somebody loses. The so-called incels are some of the losers in that revolution, though not the only ones or, socially speaking, the most significant ones. (Those would be the abandoned single mothers.) But their situation is worth considering.

With the name “incel,” they speak more truth than they know. Despite the common misunderstanding of the word, “celibate” does not refer to someone who abstains from sex. “Celibate” refers to someone who forgoes marriage — the part about not having sex is implied, at least in the Christian world, give or take an Alexander VI or two. “Chaste,” at the same time, doesn’t quite mean what people think it does: It refers principally to the abstention from extramarital sex, which in the case of the celibate means abstention from sex categorically. But chastity is part of marriage, too, describing a reverent attitude toward sex. In the Christian view (which is to say, in the view of Western civilization until ten minutes ago), the procreative act is the means by which men and women in union with one another participate in God’s creative work. “Chastity” means a lot more than mere abstinence. Chastity isn’t some kind of genital veganism.

There has been some pretty elevated stuff written on that subject, and if you want to take that particular high road, then Professor Robert George of Princeton is your guy. But consider the low road, too. There’s another conclusion, maybe a little bit cynical, that could be drawn from this: If you are a sexually frustrated young man, the smart play would be to join a church.

Seriously. Join a church.

Read the whole thing.

A HISTORY OF THE SHAVING RAZOR.

HIT BACK TWICE AS HARD: Gun Manufacturers Fire Back at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Halt Sales.

THIS WILL END WELL: Starbucks adopts open-bathroom policy following the arrests of two black men and a third who said he was denied use of the restroom.

“Starbucks, in other words, has just announced its stores are not stores primarily, but are now privately-funded shelters and bathroom facilities for the homeless,” Ace wrote last month. “You don’t have to spend a slim dime in the store to sit as long as you please and use the bathrooms. That’ll be great for Starbucks’ business. Their yuppie douchebag clientele love the homeless in the abstract, but we’ll see how much they appreciate their coffee shops being jammed with them, close-up-like, occupying most tables and chairs. I don’t even want to defend Starbucks; I want them to have the full taste of Social Justice Warrior progressivism. If this is the company’s ideology, then they should live that ideology to the full.”

Oh, they will. As I added at the time, by appeasing the mob, Starbucks’ management have walked into a box canyon. Get woke, go broke? It’s going to be fascinating to see what happens next.

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK: Major investment firm AllianceBernstein packs up for Nashville, taking more than 1,000 high-paying jobs with it.

The Nashville Tennessean had some good news for its readers this week: AllianceBernstein (AB), a global money-management firm with nearly 3,500 employees and half a trillion dollars in assets, will bring 1,050 well-paying jobs to the capital of the Volunteer State. New Yorkers, though, could be forgiven for not realizing that Nashville’s gain was their loss; no New York newspaper prominently featured the story of a major investment firm forsaking Gotham for Music City. New Yorkers’ natural reaction, if they did hear of the news, might be: who needs ‘em, anyway? The city is already straining under a record population, record employment, and record tourism. Yet the reasons AB executives cited for the move should worry New York. New York is no longer a high-cost city with high-value amenities; rather, it is increasingly a high-cost city with low-value public services, most notably transportation infrastructure.

How could that have happened under a mayor who compares himself to Edison, Ford, and Gandhi?

WHAT A LONG, STRANGE TRIP: The Plane that Accidentally Circumnavigated the World. “After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, the crew of Pan Am flight 18602 were forced to do something almost impossible: return to America the long way round.”

Great read.

VIOLENCE AT BERKELEY: “In the report, conservatives are active, provoking and triggering. The left-wing activists who set things on fire appear in passive voice, that great grammatical machine for sanitizing the indefensible.”

SPACEX: Liftoff!

BLUE ON BLUE: NBC Head of Human Resources to Resign Amidst Matt Lauer Fallout.

But as the NYT’s Katie Rosman noted on Twitter, “The only person at NBC to take a fall for the mismanagement of Matt Lauer is … a woman.”

BECAUSE WHY NOT: 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan: Diamond for the Rough. Maybe I should start a GoFundMe.

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JOHN HAWKINS: 5 Ways Liberals Create Racism. “How the Left has dragged America backward on race over the last decade.”

Or as the original Ezra Klein said, “Divide and conquer – first. But then, unite and rule.”

FIRST THEY TAKE YOUR GUNS, THEN THEY TAKE YOUR SPEECH: UK Proposes Prison Time For Offensive Online Posts.

SHE SEEMS ECCENTRIC, THOUGH: This late actress had the best rent deal in NYC.