DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Pro-Flag-Burning Prof Calls Child-Having Jordan Peterson A ‘White Nationalist’ ‘Incel.’

A professor who has called Dr. Jordan B. Peterson an “incel” wrote a post Sunday saying that she “will not be silenced.”

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania philosophy professor Wendy Lynne Lee seemed not to be aware of the existence of Peterson’s wife and kids when she called him a “misogynist incel” on Twitter. An incel, or involuntary celibate, is shorthand for a man who has trouble attracting sexual partners and often checks out of the dating scene.

The annual cost to attend Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania for in-state residents is $23,406. For out of state residents, $34,264. Parents and students, choose where to spend your money wisely.

Meanwhile, at $13.99 for the Kindle edition, Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life remains #1 most read on Amazon.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Tax preparers’ loss is America’s gain.

ISN’T IT WEIRD, THOUGH?

WHEN YOUR PLANET IS SHRINKING THIS FAST, IT’S TIME TO GET MORE PLANETS: Hypersonic-Enabled Militaries In The 2030s.

STEPHEN KRUISER: Luxury Hotels Deluged with B-List ‘Instagram Travel Stars’ Demanding Perks.

IT’S BEEN A BAD YEAR FOR THE FBI AND THE DOJ: ‘Holy smokes’! OIG report on FBI’s Hillary investigation HAMMERS Comey (and look at this Strzok/Page text).

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Netflix film crews ‘banned from looking at each other for longer than five seconds’ in #metoo crackdown.

HE ISN’T WRONG: Bernie Sanders Says Liberals Are Turning the “Radical” into the “Mainstream.”

SELL YOU A PILL THAT PROMOTES DEPRESSION, THEN SELL YOU AN ANTIDEPRESSANT — IT’S A GREAT BUSINESS MODEL! More than a third of American adults take prescription drugs linked to depression, study says. “More than a third of American adults are taking prescription drugs, including hormones for contraception, blood pressure medications and medicines for heartburn, that carry a potential risk of depression, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. . . . The work is part of a provocative and growing body of research that documents how polypharmacy — the use of multiple prescription drugs at the same time — has risen in the United States. The number of Americans taking at least five prescription drugs at the same time rose sharply between 1999 and 2012, and the elderly are particularly at risk for dangerous interactions between drugs.”

The drugs can also be godsends, of course, but it’s worth paying attention.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN OFFERS GENTLE CORRECTION TO FELLOW LAWPROFS on Trump and the state of Europe. “Perhaps, one reason that some of our allies’ governments are ‘alienated’ is that Trump appeared quite serious in telling our allies to meet their 2%-of-GDP defense commitment—a NATO policy. It is a policy which is only being met by about 5 of NATO’s 28 members. See http://time.com/4680885/nato-defense-spending-budget-trump/. It might surprise some on this listserv that some Americans are alienated by our forever footing the defense bill (including the all too real human costs) on behalf of the free riders of Europe.”

IT BEGINS: Comey Broke From FBI Procedures in Clinton Probe, Watchdog Finds. “Horowitz examined actions taken by top officials before the 2016 election, including the handling of the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was secretary of state. The inquiry expanded to touch on an array of politically sensitive decisions by officials including Comey and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch.”

JOSEPH MICALLEF: An Assessment of the Islamic State in 2018.

According to the Pentagon, ISIS has been expelled from 99 percent of the territory it controlled in June 2014. As of June 2018, ISIS controlled a small triangle of territory south of Deir ez-Zor and to the west of the Euphrates Valley; a pocket in Iraq west of Al Hadar; and a third pocket east of Al Suwar, along the Syrian-Iraqi border.

In addition, much of its senior leadership, including many of its most experienced field commanders, have been killed or captured, although its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, remains at large. His death has been announced on several occasions, most recently by Russian military forces but, in the absence of any confirmation, he is presumed to still be alive.

According to unconfirmed reports, the Pentagon has been given six additional months, possibly longer, to finish final operations against ISIS in eastern Syria. It’s estimated that the ISIS militants in the two remaining pockets number several hundred fighters. With little prospect of escape, they are expected to fight tenaciously.

“And then die” is strongly implied.

KEVIN WILLIAMSON: WATCH WHAT YOU SAY. SOMEONE ELSE IS. How the social justice mob decides who goes down, and who doesn’t:

Part of the answer is found in what Iggy Pop had in common with Pat Buckley, his sometime dinner-party hostess in Gstaad: fashion. Weinstein is out of fashion. Weinstein may have been a fearsome figure in Hollywood, but he also has long been a figure of fun. Tom Cruise gave the second-best performance of his storied dancing career as the Weinstein-inspired Les Grossman in the closing credits of Tropic Thunder. It was not a loving parody. It’s been a long time since Polanski’s was a name to conjure with, and his épater la bourgeoisie sexual-outlaw shtick is out of fashion in a Hollywood that as a matter of social norms might be characterized the way Gilbert Osmond described himself in Portrait of a Lady: not conventional, but convention itself. The soi-disant radicals of Hollywood Anno Domini 2018 remind me of the ladies in “Nasty Woman” t-shirts I see shopping at my local Whole Foods, checking out the $59.99/pound wild-caught river salmon while Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes is on the gently modulated in-store sound system singing: “I pray every single day for a revolution,” as if the Hollywood multimillionaire who went on to produce Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” and Pink’s “Get the Party Started”—and the crowd at Whole Foods—wouldn’t be the first one up against the wall come the revolution. I’ve got some bad news for you, Sunshine: You aren’t fighting the Establishment. You are the Establishment.

Read the whole thing.

THE “MISHANDLING” ALWAYS SEEMS TO GO IN ONE DIRECTION: Zuckerberg Admits Mishandling Controversy in Labeling Conservative Pundits as ‘Dangerous.’

JUST DON’T MENTION THE WAR: Europe’s ‘Axis of the Willing’ attempts to seal the borders.

(Classical reference in headline.)

BUT HE HAS A DATE THAT NIGHT. WITH A GIRL FROM CANADA. THEY MET AT NIAGARA FALLS. YOU WOULDN’T KNOW HER. Alec Baldwin: If I Ran for President against Trump, ‘I Would Win.’

ALWAYS SOMETHING BREAKING US IN THREE: Man behind plan to split up California likes chances in November vote.

MAKE THE NAVY GREAT AGAIN: House Approves $22.7B for Shipbuilding.

The bill supports a $22.7-billion shipbuilding budget for the Navy and $20.1 billion for new Navy and Marine Corps aircraft.

The shipbuilding line includes three Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), three Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers (DDG-51), two Virginia-class attack submarines (SSN-774), two John Lewis-class fleet oilers, an Expeditionary Sea Base and a fleet tug.

The spending bill also supports $2.9 billion for advanced procurement of the Columbia-class nuclear ballistic missile program, $41 million for the LCU landing craft replacement program and $507.8 million for the Ship-to-Shore Connector program.

The aviation spend includes $1.9 billion for 24 F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighters, $1.1 billion for 13 MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft and $1.8 billion for 10 P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.

The bill also sets aside $9.4 billion for 93 F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters, split between the Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.

I’d say, “Faster, please,” but it seems they already got the message.

CYBER-ATTACKS ON BANKS:  When everything’s connected, that means everything’s connected. That’s not always a wonderful thing.

DON SURBER: NYT columnist attacks Trump for fulfilling his wish.

MICHAEL BARONE: Will We Get Tired Of So Much Winning? “It has been a week full of wins for Donald Trump — at least from the perspective of those who share Trump’s view of the way the world works, and perhaps even for some who don’t.”

My favorite part has been all the commentators seamlessly pivoting from “Trump’s unhinged tweets will provoke World War III!” to “It’s a disgrace that Trump is speaking so diplomatically about a dictator like Kim!”

COLD WAR II: Brit arrested over suspected Chinese plot to steal secrets of £100million RAF stealth fighter jet.

He was quizzed in connection with the alleged Chinese plot after his arrest in an “ultra-discreet” swoop by officers from Scotland Yard’s SO15 counter-terrorism command at his home on Tuesday – but released on bail hours later.

Mr Jones, who describes himself as a “visiting professor” in “gas turbine combustion” at the Aeronautical Uni­versity of Xian, central China, was held on suspicion of brea­ching the Official Secrets Act.

Section One of the Act, rel­ating to national security, ca­rries a maximum 14 years’ jail.

Last night a source said: “China and Russia are determined to steal state ­se­crets by any means. Any arrest of this type is highly significant.”

14 years seems light.

THERE’S THAT WORD AGAIN! Weekly Job Claims Unexpectedly Fall. And retail sales are unexpectedly up.

IT’S COME TO THIS: The Nation: The Mueller Indictments Still Don’t Add Up to Collusion.