GOOGLE: A HIVE OF HATEFUL PROGRESSIVISM. “You’re being blacklisted by people at companies outside of Google.”

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WINTER IS HERE: War in Korea Would Be ‘Game of Thrones-Like,’ Top Marine Says.

Speaking to deployed Marines at a base in the Middle East while on a Christmas tour of deployed units, Gen. Robert Neller sought to temper their enthusiasm at the potential of a future ground fight.

“Ever been to Korea? Korea sucks,” he told the troops bluntly. “The people are wonderful; the country is tough.”

At a number of stops on the trip, Neller addressed the major threats outlined by the Defense Department: Russia, North Korea, Iran, China, and violent extremism. Among the four nations, he noted, North Korea is the only one that can be assessed to have both capability and intent to take violent action.

Some of the Marine Corps’ most physically demanding bilateral training takes place in South Korea, where troops are subjected to freezing winter conditions, terrain climbs, and long hard marches in the cold.

And the memory of Battle of Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War — nicknamed “the Frozen Chosin” — serves as proof of the toll the elements can take on a fighting force.

“It’s mountainous. Hot in the summer, cold in the winter. There’s hills, narrow passes, very difficult,” Neller said. “We have to think about how we fight.”

“It would be ‘Game of Thrones’-like,” he said. “And a lot of people would get hurt. I might be wrong, but it’s a very complicated issue.”

The terrain reduced US/ROK logistical and firepower advantages, helping to produce the stalemate which persists 65 years later.

ELIZABETH NOLAN BROWN: The Phony Feminism of Kamala Harris: Harris only cares about other women’s rights when those rights don’t conflict with her career ambitions. “Kamala Harris has long positioned herself as a feminist crusader. But both as attorney general of California and now as a member of the U.S. Senate, she has actively championed policies that deny women’s agency, ratchet up female incarceration, and endanger those most vulnerable to sexual abuse. Along the way, she has shown an utter disregard for civil liberties and constitutional law—a tendency she will now get to take to the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee.”

And I remember when she was defending fake confessions.

What prosecuting attorney Robert Murray did was produce a translated transcript of the defendant’s interrogation to which he had added a fraudulent confession. The defense attorney got a copy of the audio tape of the interrogation, but it “ended abruptly.” Eventually, Murray admitted to falsifying the transcript, presumably in the hopes of either coercing a plea deal, or ensuring a victory at trial.

When the trial judge found out, charges against the defendant were dismissed. Incredibly, the State of California, via Attorney General Kamala Harris, decided to appeal the case. The state’s key argument: That putting a fake confession in the transcript wasn’t “outrageous” because it didn’t involve physical brutality, like chaining someone to a radiator and beating him with a hose.

Well, no. It just involved an officer of the court knowingly producing a fraudulent document in order to secure an illicit advantage. If Harris really thinks that knowingly producing a fraudulent document to secure an illicit advantage isn’t “outrageous,” then perhaps she slept through her legal ethics courses.

Well, she’s a California Democrat, so. . . .

FREE SPEECH: Court Vacates Ban on “Memes” That Depict Local Community Activist: Richard Rynearson’s online criticisms of Clarence Moriwaki, the court held, were protected by the First Amendment, and thus couldn’t justify an antistalking order.

There is no right not to be mocked.

WHERE TRUMP HAS SURPRISINGLY STRONG SUPPORT: Black Men and Hispanic Men.

“The outlier here isn’t [black] men … it’s [black] women, where you have near-universal disapproval of Trump,” said Cornell Belcher, a Democratic pollster who studies African American voters. Still, black men are one of the few groups for which Trump’s 2017 average approval rating significantly exceeds his 2016 vote share.

Among Hispanics, men were also much more likely than women to express positive views about Trump. Among Hispanic men older than 50, Trump’s approval— strikingly—exceeded 40 percent. But at least three-fifths of Hispanic women in every age group (including both those with and without a college degree) disapproved. Trump’s 2017 approval rating slightly exceeded his 2016 vote share among Hispanic men, and was slightly below it among Hispanic women.

Stay tuned.

I AM MICRO-CONCERNED:  When does ‘micro-cheating’ cross the line?

BLIND TO THE PAST:  Culture and Stress.

THIS WILL END WELL:  Scientists Create First Functioning Human Muscle from Skin Cells.

STRUGGLE SESSIONS:  ‘White Racism’ Class Will Come Complete With Armed Guards.

YEAH, THAT:  What could make a difference in Iran, and why it would be so hard to achieve it.

POT, KETTLE:  Who’s Senile?

CHINA IS A BEAUTIFUL LACQUERED VASE WITH CRACKS UNDERNEATH:  How Little “Ice Boy” Shamed the Chinese Communists.

BAH! MOOSE AND SQUIRREL:  Newest Outrage in the Diversity Wars: Cartoon Villains with Accents.

THE PARTY OF BILL CLINTON PROTESTS SEXUAL MISCONDUCT:  Dem Congresswomen Plan Black-Garbed Protest at Trump’s State of the Union and It’s Ridiculous.

A MORE HONEST HEADLINE IS SURVIVAL RATES HIGHER FOR GIRL INFANTS THAN BOY INFANTS:   Women better at surviving crisis situations than men: study.

TYPICAL INSTANCE OF BAD HEADLINE – THEY ONLY STUDIED BRITS, BUT THE HEADLINE IMPLIES UNIVERSALITY:  Men get way more leisure time than women, data shows.

I SUSPECT SHE’S NEVER BEEN TO FRANCE:  I tried ‘not dating’ like a French woman.

CNN CAN’T STOP SAYING ‘SHITHOLE’ ON THE AIR, including Chris Cuomo on Donald Trump: ‘This Is Who He Is: SH*THOLE.’

This is CNN.

UPDATE: Clay Travis tweets, “Me using the word ‘boobs’ on CNN is offensive and unacceptable on television. 2018: CNN uses the phrase ‘shit hole’ a thousand times on TV in one night.”

Heh, indeed. And it’s not like CNN hadn’t lost it before tonight.

NOW OUT, AND EDITED BY OUR OWN CHARLIE MARTIN: Jackal and the Space Slavers. Charlie writes: “It’s space opera, funny and a little sexy. Start of a series and I really like it.” (Bumped).

WINNING: Chrysler To Invest More Than $1 Billion in Michigan and Give $2000 Bonuses in Response to Tax Reform.

RAGE AGAINST THE SHAMPOO: Model Emily Ratajkowski Savaged by SJWs for Saying Hair Is ‘Fundamental’ to Beauty.

IT’S AN OPEN THREAD: Thread away!

LAW PROFESSOR SCHOOLS SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND (D-NY):

EXCELLENT NEWS: Huge reserves of water ice discovered on Mars could speed manned missions.

IN RESPONSE TO A TWEET ABOUT HOW UNFAIRLY THE FBI IS BEING TREATED UNDER TRUMP, SOMEONE TWEETED THIS: “Nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000. . . . the cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death.”