YEAH, WHO WOULD WANT PEOPLE TO THINK THEY CAN FEND FOR THEMSELVES?  Teachers Union Boss: Guns in Schools Harm Community with ‘Fending for Themselves’ Mentality.

I WISH I COULD SAY I WAS SHOCKED:  New O’Keefe Video: Federal Employee Works for Socialists at Government Job.

OUR IMAGINED BETTERS NEVER TIRE OF LECTURING US: Revenge of the Celebrity PSAs: The Kavanaugh Edition.

HIGHLIGHTING THE PUERILE PETTINESS OF LEFTIST FEMALES AND WHAT PASSES FOR THEIR MINDS: Can the Ford v. Kavanaugh story get any more bizarre?

ENOUGH OF THIS FABULIST’S TEN MINUTES:  Ford’s ridiculous demands.

NOT HARD ENOUGH:  Grassley Pushes Hard On Kavanaugh Accuser.

IT’S ALMOST AS THOUGH THEY HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE…  Democrats Do Not Want FISA Documents Made Public.

YEAH, BUT THE LEFT ALWAYS DOES THIS TO POLITICAL OPPONENTS.  BOTH THE DDR AND THE USSR FILLED MENTAL HOSPITALS WITH DISSIDENTS:  French Court Orders Mental Evaluation For Marine Le Pen.

WHERE HUMANS GO, LAW MUST FOLLOW:  The Fine Print that Comes with Maezawa’s Lunar Tourism.

THE HUBRIS OF OUR ELITES:   The Postmodern Establishment Wants to Exterminate the Experience of Art.

SCRAPPLEFACE: Kavanaugh Accuser Demands Trump Act ‘More Trumpy.’

It’s satire, but considering how restrained the White House has been in response to insanity kicked off by Dianne Feinstein, is it really?

OUCH:

DANIEL HENNINGER: What Democrats Have Become.

Consider the spectacle: Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination for the U.S. Supreme Court, the embodiment of a modern rule of law, is being decided in the Senate by the medieval practice of trial by ordeal, such as surviving immersion in fire or ice. Trial by ordeal was outlawed by the Lateran Council in 1215.

Or worse, the standards of the mob in the Roman Colosseum, turning thumbs up or down on the combatants. Though unlike the Senate Democrats, the Roman mob at least had an open mind.

Incidentally, the standard trope that Donald Trump has degraded our politics? We don’t need to hear that anymore. Or about the moral certitudes of the religious right.

Is there a sadder figure in the modern Democratic Party than Sen. Dianne Feinstein? Elected to the Senate in 1992, Mrs. Feinstein has produced a creditable career. Her above-it-all reputation was never quite deserved, but she has at least performed with dignity.

Now, seeking re-election at 85, she is getting heat from the progressive-dominated Democratic Party in California, the world capital of identity-only politics. By withholding from the committee the accusatory Ford letter that came into her possession nearly two months ago, Sen. Feinstein ensured the nomination’s descent into such a hapless, cynical moment. This will be the most remembered event in Sen. Feinstein’s career.

The Kavanaugh nomination, “given what we know,” has come down to an undiscoverable accusation. The defeat of a Supreme Court nominee on this basis would be a victory for a level of conscious political nullification not seen in the U.S. for a long time. Republicans in the Senate shouldn’t allow it, and voters in November should not affirm it.

This is a joke. Hold the vote tomorrow.

OBVIOUSLY, BRETT KAVANAUGH IS TO BLAME: Woman on vacation reportedly finds dead tortoise in her vagina. “She apparently had no idea how the reptile ended up where it did.”

CULTURE OF SEARCH-ENGINE CORRUPTION: Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Trump Travel Ban. “Days after the Trump administration instituted a controversial travel ban in January 2017, Google employees discussed ways they might be able to tweak the company’s search-related functions to show users how to contribute to pro-immigration organizations and contact lawmakers and government agencies, according to internal company emails.”

GOT INTO MY OFFICE THIS MORNING AND FOUND A COPY OF KURT SCHLICHTER’S MILITANT NORMALS. I read the manuscript and blurbed it thusly: “The governing classes’ worst nightmare is the voters waking up to what’s been done to them. Kurt Schlichter’s Militant Normals is an insightful, prescient, and frequently downright hilarious look at what’s happened, and what comes next.”

OPEN THREAD: Because your thoughts matter.

JULIE KELLY: Ladies, We Don’t Need To Be Part Of Your Group Therapy. “By ‘we,’ I mean America. And by ‘this,’ I mean some form of forced group therapy session for adult women who cannot move past an ugly event from their teen years and feel the need to relitigate it in public nearly four decades later. A serious vetting process for a Supreme Court nominee has suddenly devolved into the GenX version of ‘The Big Chill.'” (Bumped).

FLASHBACK: Gramscian Damage. Read this post — or reread it — and then look around.

NEW O’KEEFE VIDEO: FEDERAL EMPLOYEE WORKS FOR SOCIALISTS AT GOVERNMENT JOB: He doesn’t do his job — but he does the social media for the Democratic Socialists of America while on his federal job.

Well, that’s one way of moonlighting for the DNC-MSM’s farm team.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: BILL CLINTON’S FORMER ‘WAR ROOM’ DIRECTOR QUIETLY ADVISING KAVANAUGH ACCUSER.

MR. SIMPSON, THIS IS THE MOST BLATANT CASE OF FRAUDULENT ADVERTISING SINCE MY CASE AGAINST THE NEVER-ENDING STORY! Man who ate 100 plates of sushi banned from all-you-can-eat buffet.

(Classical reference in headline.)

GREAT MOMENTS IN RELIGIOUS INTERSECTIONALITY: South Carolina churches to offer gluten-free Communion bread.

But what is gluten?

EDWARD R. MURROW: “We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law.”