‘CLASSY:’ JOE BIDEN SNAPS AT REPORTER AFTER BEING ASKED ABOUT HUNTER’S PATERNITY TEST.

During a press gaggle on Thursday, Biden, 77, was asked to comment on the court filing. Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked, “I’m wondering if you have a comment on this report and court filing from Arkansas that your son Hunter made you a grandfather again.”

Biden was outraged. He dismissed the question, responding, “No. That’s a private matter. You’re a good man. You’re a good man. Classy.”

Hunter Biden, 49, agreed to take a DNA test to reaffirm his denials that he fathered a child with 28-year-old Lunden Roberts. Robert’s child made Biden a father of four. His other children, Naomi, 24, Finnegan, 19, and Maisy, 18, were from his first marriage with Kathleen Buhle.

Joe has done this throughout his career as a public servant, whenever he’s asked a question that is not DNC-approved. As I asked earlier: Do We Need To Start Discussing Joe Biden’s Anger Issues?

UPDATE: “You know what the saddest part of this video is?”, asks Benny Johnson of Turning Point USA. “The reaction of the other reporters. Not a single journo has the slightest curiosity about Hunter Biden — one of the most consequential people in politics today. The same cowards who covered up Epstein.”

Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and both their reaction and Biden’s makes perfect sense.

ANSWERS TO THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What exactly did the Mt. St. Helens eruption do to cars?

“Because of air filter devices, police cars in Moses Lake, Wash., appear to be from out of this world.”

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Bob Menendez: You’re Damn Right I’m Going to Take Your (Toy) AR-15 Away. “I suppose the senators want us to rest safe, knowing that they won’t sit still for one minute longer while ‘F15.06 subcommittee for ASTM F589-17, Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Non-Powder Guns’ remains hopelessly out of date. Perhaps under the revised version of ASTM F589-17, children’s toy guns will come in no color other than hot pink, have a nine-inch-diameter fake flower permanently plugged into the barrel, and feature a billboard-style sign sticking up from where the sights would be, with ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!’ embossed in glow-in-the-dark block letters. Because, weeeeee, fun.”

Read the whole thing, if you don’t mind me saying so myself.

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OF SYCOPHANTS AND CHILDREN: One of the many reasons to love Issues & Insights is its no-nonsense refusal to go with the flow of mainstream media adulation of Greta Thunberg and similar teen scolds telling the rest of us how evil we are for not heeding AOC’s prophesy of ecological doom in 12 years. Here’s a sample from today’s offerings:

“The world can’t help but know about Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish scold who seems to have dropped out of school to travel the world and impudently lecture her elders about how they have let her down. Though this girl knows nothing about climate other than it exists around her, and less about the world, adults nod in agreement as she rants, hand her multiple honors and awards, and have sworn they have been inspired as well as properly chastised by her.”

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OH FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD: Teen Charged with Hate Crime for Posting Photo of Friend Captioned ‘Slave for Sale.’

ECONOMIC WARFARE SEEMS TO BE HIS FORTE: Thanks to Trump, the Mullahs Are Going Bankrupt.

UPDATE: From the comments: “Democrats talk a good game about soft power, but Trump is actually doing it.”

HE PROBABLY COMMITTED SUICIDE OUT OF GUILT AT INVADING THEIR PRIVACY. YEAH, THAT’S THE TICKET. Jeffrey Epstein’s A-list guests were secretly filmed in every bedroom and TOILET in his home, accuser claims.

NEW YOU CAN USE: The most useful gadgets to have in your bag while traveling.

They left off my indispensable item: Retractable charging cables. The spring never lasts as long as I’d like, but they’re just so handy that I always keep a couple of backups.

LONGEVITY: Rapamycin Anti-Aging Medicine: An Update with Alan S. Green, M.D.

FROM AMERICA’S NEW NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Impeachment Inquiry Canceled After 5 Episodes Due To Low Ratings.

What was I just saying about that?

BIBI NETANYAHU INDICTMENT: Israeli Attorney General Indicts PM on Bribery, Fraud Charges.

DIRTY LAUNDRY: Dispatches from the Ukraine Corruption Investigation.

OPERATION CHOKE POINT CONTINUES: New Gun Control Bill Encourages Financial Institutions to Report ‘Suspicious’ Firearm Transactions.

WELL, GOOD: Donald Trump likely to sign US’ Hong Kong democracy bill, sponsor Marco Rubio says.

HMMMM: Epstein guard willing to “cooperate” in probe.

Given the endless parade of “Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself” memes swamping social media, you can’t see a headline like this without wondering precisely what sort of “cooperation” Officer Noel might be prepared to offer. Some of the comments in response to the linked article have already made reference to various powerful people once again “getting nervous” and speculations about Noel’s safety are sure to follow.

I’m rather dubious of that line of thinking, however, and for two reasons that seem equally valid. First of all, the two officers charged in the incident could only play this one of two ways. The first is to keep your mouth shut and have your attorney put on the best defense possible, hoping to win over the jury. The other is to be as cooperative as possible in the hope of getting a favorable plea bargain and avoid the trial entirely. It could very well be that Noel’s lawyer is going for the latter, not seeing much hope of a not guilty verdict.

Stay tuned. And remember to follow the winter advice of my local veterinarian:

HUNTER BIDEN’S FIRM GOT $130M IN FEDERAL BAILOUT LOANS: It was purely coincidental that Daddy just happened to be Vice President.

CHINA DYSTOPIA: The Chinese Govt Is Scanning Churchgoers’ Faces, Fingers.. “Those believers who do not have their biometric data in the system will not be allowed into churches in the future.”

CHANGE: Trump Now Beating Democrats in Wisconsin as Support for Impeachment Plummets.

DON’T DO THIS: Russian ‘Popeye’ has 3 pounds of ‘dead’ muscle removed after DIY bodybuilding injections. You’re not building your body when you inject oil into your muscles to create fake size.

THIS WAS QUITE ENTERTAINING: Joe Rogan Interviews Matt Taibbi. “Taibbi may be a lefty, but he’s willing to call bullshit when he sees it, including on the Epstein murder ‘suicide’ and the lack of any center in today’s hate-click driven media.”

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THEN SHE MUST BE PRETTY SURE THE UNCHOSEN DEM NOMINEE IS ALREADY A LOSER: Nancy Pelosi Is Already Attacking the Legitimacy of the 2020 Election.