YES. NEXT QUESTION? Alexa, Are You Exploiting Me?

I think we need a statutory fiduciary duty of loyalty for personal digital assistants, with their creators held liable for any departures therefrom.

THE NEW OPENNESS: Dem. senator threatens to call police on a reporter.

JOE PAPPALARDO: What Happened When I Trained with Air Force Human Performance Specialists.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Oklahoma gun bill to remove permit and training requirements clears House vote.

IT’S ALWAYS A PROBLEM WHEN THE NORMALS FIND OUT WHERE THEIR MONEY IS GOING: University of Iowa cancels white privilege workshop amid scrutiny, concerns.

A SELF-SERVING “INSURANCE POLICY:” Andrew McCabe Says He Opened Trump Probes in Case He Was ‘Fired,’ Confirms 25th Amendment Talks.

Flashback: Victor Davis Hanson: How can Americans now trust the intelligence agencies shown to be corrupt in the very recent past? And the law enforcement agencies.

NO. Calls for unrepentant former London schoolgirl-turned ISIS bride to be BANNED from Britain – as nine-months-pregnant teenager, 19, begs to come home to have third baby on NHS.

Jihadi bride Shamima Begum was just 15 when she and two classmates Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase travelled to Syria in February 2015 but speaking from a refugee camp after the caliphate’s collapse she said: ‘I don’t regret coming here – now all I want to do is come home to Britain’.

Begum is the only known survivor of the three friends from Bethnal Green and her two children died of disease and malnutrition before the age of one as the caliphate fell apart around her.

The schoolgirl claims she lived a ‘normal life’ in ISIS’ capital Raqqa and was ‘not fazed’ by the brutal execution of its enemies, recounting how she once found an ‘an enemy of Islam’s’ decapitated head in a bin.

But with her third baby now due any day, she has decided to quit and now wants to ‘live quietly’ back in the UK and ensure her baby survives with the help of the NHS.

Those devoted to the destruction of Western Civilization sure don’t mind reaping its benefits when it suits them. And all too often they’re allowed to.

WELL, GOOD: A Cure for HPV, Using Light. Bravo!

CHANGE: Airbus says it will stop producing the world’s largest passenger jet, the A380.

Patrick Ruffini noted on Twitter: “Another prestige project of European state capitalism that couldn’t survive the free market.”

VIRGINIA AND MORE: Democrats’ Racist Chickens Come Home To Roost. “Old habits die hard. And some habits never die at all, they simply change shape. Such is the case of the Democratic Party and racism – it’s their domain, always has been, and moreover it is their currency. (Just look at the anti-Semitism rampant in the freshman class of Democrats in Congress and how those Members are treated as stars.)”

BAD BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT: Amazon pulls out of $3 billion deal to bring HQ2 to NYC. “For Amazon, the commitment to build a new headquarters requires positive, collaborative relationships with state and local elected officials who will be supportive over the long-term. . . . We do not intend to re-open the HQ2 search at this time. We will proceed as planned in Northern Virginia and Nashville, and we will continue to hire and grow across our 17 corporate offices and tech hubs in the US and Canada.”

POSTMODERN ROMANCE: ‘Everyone is poly,’ no one is serious, and other reasons dating in San Francisco is awful.

I spent about six years actively dating around the Bay Area. In that time I dated, for varying amounts of time, three self-described indie rockers, an amateur hockey player, an elementary school teacher with a drinking problem, a yoga teacher who didn’t drink alcohol (or consume processed sugars and carbohydrates of any kind), an English teacher living in his mom’s in-home daycare, and a skateboarding enthusiast who worked as a manager at a tech company.

These budding relationships ended for various reasons. At least three of the aforementioned men were still in love with their exes. One said he couldn’t handle the pressure of texting me “witty responses,” and thus could not go on seeing me. Most of the rest were “not looking for something serious.”

I attributed these failures not to the region in which I was dating, but to the fraught Millennial dating landscape as a whole. Perhaps I was wrong in thinking this, according to a popular San Francisco Reddit thread, posted just in time for Valentine’s Day.

What a sad state of affairs.

OH: Roger Stone Files Motion Alleging Special Counsel Released Indictment to CNN in Violation of Court Order. “CNN was ‘provided an unfiled, draft copy of the indictment the Court had ordered sealed’.”

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Covington Catholic Teen’s Lawyers Intend to Sue Native American Activist Nathan Phillips.

STILL #1 ON SSRN: My piece (written with Peter W. Morgan), Crime Follies: Overcriminalization, Independent Prosecutors, and the Rule of Law.

OVER AT VOLOKH, a brief defense of D.C. Circuit nominee of Neomi Rao against tendentious criticisms of her student writings.

THE INTELLECTUAL DIVERSITY ACT: How To Stop The Censoring Mobs On Campus.

PEAK OIL: Texas crude oil production breaks 1970s record. “Texas oil wells produced more than 1.54 billion barrels of crude in 2018, beating the previous record of 1.28 billion barrels set in 1973, TIPRO reported in its annual ‘State of Energy Report’ early Monday morning.”

“ZIONISTS” SUPPRESSING FREE SPEECH AGAIN? Elder of Ziyon: Detroit imam says Jews prostitute their women to gain power. Don’t worry, no antisemitism to see here, I’m sure if you gave the imam a chance to apologize, he’d say he meant “Zionists paid by AIPAC,” not “Jews.” Claims of antisemitism are just the Zionists trying to suppress free speech on behalf of Israel.

WHAT’S THIS, BRADY, PATS WIN BECAUSE HIS WIFE IS A WITCH? I am not making this up. Go here.

TRANSCRIPT AND AUDIO: Florida Senator Rick Scott blasts Rep. Omar as anti-Semitic to Hugh Hewitt, tells Hewitt ‘It is going to be fun to watch’ Democrats vote on their own Green New Deal Resolution.

HOW DARE THEY: GOP Pounces By Allowing Democrats To Vote On Their Own Resolution. “Mitch McConnell seizes on actual liberal positions to paint Democrats as radicals.”

If you think this is an exaggeration of the illogical position of Democrats and their Green New Deal, I give you Sen. Ed Markey.

This week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he’s was going to put the Green New Deal up for a vote. Or, here’s how the Associated Press put it: “McConnell wields Green New Deal as bludgeon against Dems.” Now, of course, such a vote would be a political stunt; because the Green New Deal, introduced last week by Markey and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is, in many ways, a political stunt.

“This isn’t a new Republican trick,” tweeted Markey, who co-sponsored this non-binding resolution that will save the planet, “By rushing a vote on the #GreenNewDeal resolution, Republicans want to avoid a true national debate & kill our efforts to organize. We’re having the first national conversation on climate change in a decade. We can’t let Republicans sabotage it.”

If I’m reading Markey correctly, Democrats don’t merely want to rearrange the global economy is ways which would return billions to poverty and strip Americans of their ability to travel, eat what they like, and otherwise infringe on our civil rights and pursuit of happiness. But first they want to bore us to death talking endlessly about it.

HIGHER EDUCATON BUBBLE UPDATE: EXCLUSIVE REPORT: UCLA doles out $3.2 MILLION annually on diversity salaries.

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