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SO HE CULTURALLY APPROPRIATED HIS NAME “BETO” FROM HISPANICS, BUT USED HIS WHITE PRIVILEGE TO GET OUT OF THIS: 1998 Police Report: Witness Claimed Beto O’Rourke Tried To Leave The Scene Of His DWI Accident.

The Anthony Police Department and DPS reports differ as to whether O’Rourke was heading east or west on the interstate, but both agree that he struck a truck going in the same direction and crossed a grassy median into the opposite lanes.

Police said O’Rourke then attempted to leave the scene but was stopped by the same motorist he had just passed. The unidentified motorist “then turned on his overhead lights to warn oncoming traffic and to try to get the defendant (O’Rourke) to stop,” the report says.

The DPS report described O’Rourke as having “glossy” eyes, slurred speech, smelling of liquor, and almost falling to the ground as he got out of his car.

Has anybody asked Mothers Against Drunk Driving if they have any comment on this?

UPDATE: Okay, I just asked them. We’ll see if there’s a response.

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BRAVE SIR ROBERT RAN AWAY: Police Report: Beto O’Rourke Tried to Flee Scene of Drunk-Driving Crash.

The Houston Chronicle notes that “police reports of the September 1998 incident — when the Democratic Senate candidate had just turned 26 — show that it was a more serious threat to public safety than has previously been reported. State and local police reports obtained by the Chronicle and Express-News show that O’Rourke was driving drunk at what a witness called ‘a high rate of speed’ in a 75 mph zone on Interstate 10 about a mile from the New Mexico border. He lost control and hit a truck, sending his car careening across the center median into oncoming lanes. The witness, who stopped at the scene, later told police that O’Rourke had tried to drive away from the scene.”

IT’S COME TO THIS: New film about Neil Armstrong … won’t show him planting the American flag on the moon.

MORNING THOUGHTS FROM TAMARA KEEL:

This morning, in light of recent events, Bobbi replied to my “I’m headed out” with “Do you have a gun?”

She was asking out of genuine concern, and so I did not reply sardonically with “I’m wearing pants, aren’t I?” or “Am I in the secure area of an airport?”

But I’m not carrying a gun because I’m afraid. I’m carrying a gun because carrying a gun is what I do. If I’m dressed, there’s a Gen4 Glock 19 on my person, whether I’m at home or out and about.

I carry a wallet in case I need to buy something. I carry a flashlight in case I need to see something. I carry a knife in case I need to open something. And I carry a gun in case I need to stop someone from trying to grievously harm me.

This doesn’t mean that I walk around thinking everyone’s trying to grievously harm me, any more than it means I think everyone’s a dark place that needs a flashlight shone on them.

Indeed.

THAT MIGHT SAVE A FORTUNE IN DEVELOPMENT COSTS: Lockheed Pitching F-22/F-35 Hybrid to U.S. Air Force.

“You’re building a hybrid aircraft,” David Deptula, a retired Air Force lieutenant general who is now dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. “It’s not an F-22. It’s not an F-35. It’s a combination thereof. That can be done much, much more rapidly than introducing a new design.”

The new variant — similar to one Lockheed is pitching to Japan — would incorporate the F-35’s more modern mission system and “other advancements in the stealth coatings and things of that nature,” according to a person familiar with the proposal.

“There’s a lot of potential in this idea,” Deptula said. “I’m not sugesting that we jump right into it and embrace it, but from the Japanese perspective when they are looking at and willing to invest in this kind of an alternative as opposed to trying to build an indigenous aircraft that’s not going to get close to what an F-22 can already deliver. It’s a smart move on their behalf.”

There are legal barriers to exporting F-22 technology, but if Congress were to loosen those, getting Japan on board would mean a bigger production run and ought to reduce flyaway cost per plane.

BOOK ‘EM, DANNO: U.S. Soldier Who Pledged Allegiance to ISIS Pleads Guilty for Supporting Terror Group. “Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang wanted to ‘kill a bunch of people’ in Honolulu or Waikiki.”

THIS IS CNN: How to prepare for ex-President Trump.

Someday, Donald Trump will become ex-President Trump. After a guilty plea from his longtime “fixer,” Michael Cohen, alleging that Trump directed the commission of federal crimes, perhaps that day will arrive sooner rather than later. But whether it’s a week, 18 months or more than six years away, we need to start preparing now. That’s because, for all of the threat to our democracy Trump poses as president, he may pose an even bigger one as an ex-president.

No one knows how Trump will leave the Oval Office. Maybe he’ll resign. Maybe he’ll be impeached. Maybe he’ll be voted out in November 2020 — or maybe he’ll leave at the end of two terms in January 2025.

If Trump were a real danger, shouldn’t we be preparing for El Presidente for Life Trump, instead?

Anyway, the Deep State’s ongoing effort to delegitimize 2016’s free and fair election is a genuine concern — and Joshua A. Geltzer’s opinion piece here is yet another small example of just that.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: College deems students’ 9/11 ‘Never Forget’ posters a bias incident for highlighting Islamic terrorism.

A group of conservative students at Ripon College have been told their 9/11 “Never Forget” posters violate the school’s bias policy, citing the fact that its imagery is exclusively focused on Islamic terrorism.

At a meeting Tuesday between members of the Young America’s Foundation and the campus bias response team, a school official said the posters focus “relentlessly on one religious organization, one religious group, one religious identity–in associating that one religious identity with terrorist attacks which go back far before 9/11 and after 9/11–creates for some students here an environment which they feel like they are not able to learn,” according to an audio recording of the meeting obtained by YAF.

A school official said the posters create an “environment” where “students from a Muslim background would feel singled out” or “harassed,” according to the recording.

“There is nothing that this poster, in particular, adds to the conversation about 9/11, or about the politics of terrorism, or about national security or responses to it that couldn’t be done easily and more constructively without it,” one administrator reportedly said.

Remember, if you’re upset by this, it’s because you’re an “anti-intellectual.”

WAIT, SO THE PRO-CHILD-ABUSE LOBBY IS COMING OUT AGAINST TRUMP? Midterms 2018: Nuns to protest Donald Trump’s tax cuts outside Mar-a-Lago resort ahead of crucial vote.

PROCUREMENT: The Navy Is Fixing a Serious, Six-Year-Old Bug in the F-35 Fighter Helmet.

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s pilot helmet is unlike any other. Made of kevlar and carbon fiber, the helmets are an extension of the aircraft sensors and control system and one of the first to employ augmented reality in military equipment. The helmet mounted display projects all of the information that used to be presented in cockpit-mounted heads-up displays (HUDs) including air speed, heading, altitude, and more. At the same time the pilot can see in all directions—including straight down—through a network of six infrared cameras facing outward in all directions. The helmet display can even overlay the aircraft flight path over the pilot’s field of vision, including ground targets and air defense threats detected by other friendly forces.

Getting all of that data in the F-35 pilot’s face is extremely useful: The pilot can look in all directions and still have critical information in his or her field of view. (Older HUDs were a step up from having to look down at gauges and dial on a control panel but are still fixed to front.) There is one enduring problem, though—the helmet mounted displays leak light. According to pilots, a green glow spills out of the helmet, preventing pilots from seeing the lights of an aircraft carrier at night. Military.com reports that the problem is serious enough the Navy restricts pilots with less than fifty landings in the F-35 from carrier night landings.

A carrier that can’t land its planes at night fights at a serious disadvantage. It’s good to see this problem addressed just as the F-35C is finally becoming operational with Carrier Air Wing 7.

FEMINIST TOOL: So much for ‘believe all women’! Jill Filipovic reverts to ‘the Bill Clinton Standard’ on Keith Ellison.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Task Force Suggests ‘Compulsory Social Justice Training.’