HE SHOULD PROBABLY JUST SWITCH PARTIES; THE REPUBLICANS WON’T GIVE HIM THIS KIND OF CRAP: 2020 Dem Hopefuls Oppose Manchin Becoming Energy Committee Ranking Member.

OH FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD: It’s Now Racist To Ask Students To ‘Be Respectful In Class.’

Anita Moss, a senior lecturer of biology at the University of Texas-San Antonio (UTSA) was investigated after she called police on a repeatedly disruptive student, according to the College Fix. Moss, who is white, had been telling Paige Burgess, who is black, all semester to be less disruptive and to take her feet off of chairs.

The problem started when another student, Apurva Rawal, put out a tweet making it seem like Moss had flipped out and called the police just because a student had her feet up in class. He sent a video of the police removing the student.

Even though Moss was cleared of racial discrimination and had positive reviews from students, she was removed from class for the semester. The racial bias investigation was not the only investigation going on. Her demands for proper classroom etiquette were also reviewed, and led to her removal, the Fix reported.

Incentives matter, and these incentives suck.

YA THINK? ESPN returns ‘SportsCenter’ to its roots: ‘I think we miscalculated a little bit.’

DIRTY MONEY: Rashida Tlaib Misrepresented Soros Stipend in Financial Disclosures: Congresswoman-elect did not disclose name of source and wrote a lesser amount than given.

KAROL MARKOWICZ BRINGS THE SMACK: “The future is female,” Gillibrand tweets. Observes Karol: “Gillibrand has two sons, who apparently aren’t part of the future their mother imagines.” Yep. She’s a bad mother. Or just a political opportunist who’ll say anything without believing it if she thinks it’ll help her. Sad that I kind of hope it’s the latter.

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook “Whitelisted” Apps Got Access To Your Data And Activities — With Or Without Consent.

So who got the data? Companies like Netflix, Lyft, AirBNB and others, and it wasn’t just limited to specific users. The apps also got access to the data of friends of users, people who not only didn’t consent but also didn’t use those apps. This continued for whitelisted apps even after Facebook publicly declared it had stopped. “If people don’t feel comfortable using Facebook and specifically logging in Facebook and using Facebook in apps, we don’t have a platform, we don’t have developers,” a Facebook spokesperson said of the policy change at the time.

Yeah, Facebook management says a lot of things.

BRINKSMANSHIP: Christmas Shutdown Threat Will Come Down to Border Talks Between Trump, Chuck and Nancy. “Dems want another continuing resolution, arguing that lack of planning or use of non-wall security funds shows that a wall is ‘a throwaway idea to fire up his base’.”

NOT BOWING TO POLITICAL PRESSURE: U.S. News Rejects Democratic Senators’ Demand To Change Its Rankings Methodology.

DO EEEEEET:  House Republicans Ask Trump to Declassify ‘Damning’ Obama DOJ Emails.

QUEERS WHERE? IS THIS LIKE SHEEP IN WOLFLAND?  Bookworm Beat 12/6/18 — the super quick edition.

THEY’RE MAKING MY HEAD HURT SO BAD THEY SHOULD PAY FOR THE IBUPROFEN:  Minnesota Professor Says The Virgin Mary Got #MeToo-ed.

SHE…. WHAT?  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Thinks Stopping Climate Change Will End Racism.

IT’S MORE DIFFICULT THAN YOU THINK:  Don’t Just Sit There. Fight Back.

SO, BOG STANDARD COMMUNIST:  Occasionally-Cortex: watch her double down!

GOOD QUESTION:  And Then What?

THERE’S BACON CANDY; THERE’S BACON FLOWERS; THERE’S BACON PATTERN UNDERWEAR. THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS BACON TRIGGERS:  Senator Orrin Hatch Brings Bacon To The PETA Fight.

OF COURSE SHE DOES:  Kamala Harris Pleads Ignorance Regarding Staffer Sexual Harassment Case.

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WHY ARE LEFTY DOMINATED PROFESSIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF ABUSE AND MISOGYNY? 60 Minutes A Cesspit of Abuse: “Mr. Hewitt, who created the program in 1968 and produced the show for 36 years, is a journalistic legend. But investigators revealed that CBS continues to pay out a settlement to a woman who claimed that Mr. Hewitt sexually assaulted her on repeated occasions and destroyed her career. The settlement, reached in the 1990s, has been amended multiple times, including this year. In total, CBS has agreed to pay the former employee more than $5 million.”

OPEN THREAD: It’s your time.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Tiny Satellites Pose a Swarm of Opportunities — And Threats.

JOHN NOLTE: Conformity Killed the Weekly Standard.

The easiest way to sum up the failure of the Weekly Standard is this: Why would anyone on the right offer financial support to the Weekly Standard when CNN will call us a racist for free? And why would anyone on the left offer financial support to the Weekly Standard when CNN will call us a racist for free?

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No, the Weekly Standard as a whole only became interesting to watch as it fell into the establishment media’s classic trap, the old siren song of, Betray your base and we’ll love you…

And then your base abandons you, the music stops, and just like Megyn Kelly, you discover you’re the one without a chair.

As Glenn wrote yesterday, “The basic problem is that NeverTrumpism is a niche market even within the political class.”

LOCOMOTIVE “4141” PAINTED LIKE AIR FORCE ONE CARRIED GEORGE BUSH TO HIS FINAL RESTING PLACE: Union Pacific unveiled the locomotive in 2005 and it conveyed the rich history of Presidential trains as it transported the late 41st President to his final resting place at his library in College Station, Texas.

IT’S COME TO THIS: School Principal Bans Candy Canes Because The J-Shape Might Mean Jesus.

WE LIVE IN A GOLDEN AGE OF MUSCLE: Nothing screams “America” like giving a 707-hp muscle car another 90 horsepower.