WHEN IMPEACHMENT IS LOSING: CBS Correspondent: Dems Not Exhibiting ‘Minimum Standard of Fairness.’

APPARENTLY, THEY’RE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY VOTERS: Who are these racists and sexists that won’t support female candidates of color? “The only people voting in the primaries (and being regularly polled) are Democrats and left-leaning independents. If you think there’s an entrenched problem with racism, Democrats should look in the mirror.”

Plus, this crazy alternative hypothesis: “Maybe she didn’t catch on because she was just a poor candidate who ran a terrible campaign.” But everyone in the media loved her and wanted her to be president, so that can’t be it.

“YIKES, NOPE, DENIED”: University of Scranton just stands by as student government denies recognition to conservative group.

YOU WON’T GET PREGNANT, BUT THEY’LL ROB YOU OF LIFE’S PLEASURES: Your birth control pills may be making the part of your brain responsible for sex drive and appetite smaller. You know, when Shanghai Lil wouldn’t use the pill (“she said that it just weren’t natural”) she may have been onto something.

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NEVER TOO WOKE: Pete Buttigieg Under Fire for Ringing Bell for ‘Homophobic’ Salvation Army That Helps Gay People.

DON SURBER: THE CREEP STATE.

THE ONE THING YOU ABSOLUTELY NEVER WANT TO BE SUB-PAR IS A GRENADE LAUNCHER: Grand Junction company to pay $1M for selling Army subpar grenade launchers.

IT’S NOT THE CRIME, IT’S THE COVERUP: Hospitals Sue Trump to Keep Negotiated Prices Secret. “The nation’s hospital groups sued the Trump administration on Wednesday over a new federal rule that would require them to disclose the discounted prices they give insurers for all sorts of procedures.”

Trump could always just ban price discrimination, and require them to charge the same price to all comers. I mean, if they’re so against disclosure. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration hits the right note: “Hospitals should be ashamed that they aren’t willing to provide American patients the cost of a service before they purchase it.”

FASTER, PLEASE: NRO advancing space technology, developing tactics to defend satellites.

PREGNANT WOMEN OFTEN TURN FIRST TO THEIR MOMS FOR ADVICE: “Many believe their mom’s advice is as good or even better than medical recommendations. ‘And often for good reason,’ said study author Danielle Bessett, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Cincinnati.”

WINNING: The Average FICO Credit Score Rises To 706 For The First Time In History.

BEST. BABY SHOWER. EVER. Couple Buys a Baby Bouncer for Friends, Finds a Semiautomatic Rifle Inside Instead.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Aspirin may reduce risk of death from certain cancers. I think it was P.D. Mangan in Dumping Iron who speculated that aspirin, etc. helps lower cancer risk by promoting small amounts of intestinal bleeding that lower iron levels, since lower iron is associated with less risk of cancer. (And also with lower risk of cardiovascular death).

THE PROSPECT OF DEMOCRAT TRAUMATIC INJURY TO THE METATARSALS: Why I Still Don’t Think Trump will be Impeached

IT’S WHAT THEY DO: The Deep State-Media Steam Calliope Tries To Shape Expectations Of Next Week’s DOJ IG Report.

I GOT THE MUSIC IN ME: The Best Way to Save Dying Coral Reefs: Bring Out the Loudspeakers.

IT’S LIKE THE WATERGATE HEARINGS, BUT BY MORONS:

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: ICE MELTS OUTDOORS IN FLORIDA EVEN IN WINTER. Greta Thunberg’s ‘How Dare You’ climate rebuke literally just melted in Miami.

COCAINE MITCH, ROGUE SENATE LEADER: ‘Is she trying to make him sound cool?’ Nancy Pelosi takes a new shot at Mitch McConnell: ‘Rogue Leader? With Star Wars coming in two weeks? there’s no way Cocaine Mitch doesn’t run with this.’

WHY IT’S FAIR TO TALK ABOUT A “COUP:” ‘The Interagency’ Isn’t Supposed to Rule: The Constitution gives the president, not a club of unelected officials, the power to set foreign policy.

When the war on terror opened, with all the secret activity it required, professional cadres in the diplomatic corps, the military and the nation’s many intelligence agencies were able to transform interagency cooperative agreements that had existed since the Cold War into a de facto agency—a largely informal and virtual bureaucracy—with the assumed power, if need be, to determine and execute a foreign policy at odds with the intent of the president and Congress.

Last month’s testimony before the Intelligence Committee shed light on this club whose members are a permanent shadow government credentialed by family histories, elite schools and unique career experiences. This common pedigree informs their perspective of how America should relate to the world. The dogmatists of the interagency seem to share a common discomfort with a president who probably couldn’t describe the doctrine of soft power, doesn’t desire to be the center of attention at Davos, and wouldn’t know that Francis Fukuyama once decided that history was over.

The impeachment hearings will have served a useful purpose if all they do is demonstrate that a cabal of unelected officials are fashioning profound aspects of U.S. foreign policy on their own motion. No statutes anticipate that the president or Congress will delegate such authority to a secret working group formed largely at the initiation of entrepreneurial bureaucrats, notwithstanding that they may be area experts, experienced in diplomatic and military affairs, and motivated by what they see as the best interests of the country.

Given their track record, all of those qualifications are open to doubt. But what’s really behind the Deep State outrage at Trump is captured by this blog comment: “This charade is being conducted for many reasons. One reason seems to be that we cannot allow the deplorables to elect a POTUS.”

RULES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: California campaign watchdogs say they want the ability to donate to candidates. “California’s campaign watchdog agency has suspended a longstanding policy banning its members from contributing to federal candidates after one commissioner donated to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid.”

“Watchdog.”

MORE DEMOCRATS PONDER WHY THEIR PARTY IS A CESSPIT OF RACISM:

● The View’s Sonny Hostin Pouts Kamala Harris Faced ‘Unprecedented Sexism, Racism.’

● Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) on Kamala Harris dropping out: “Very difficult for a woman of color” to win the Democratic primary.

● WATCH: White Black Lives Matter activist ignites brawl at black event for Buttigieg.

● Cory Booker Implies Democrats Are Racist For Not Putting Him On December Debate Stage.

Regarding that last item, at Power Line, Paul Mirengoff explores “Cory’s Complaint:” “The six Dems who have locked up places on the debate stage are Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Tom Steyer. On this list are two women, a gay male, and a Jew. Clearly, it is a diverse group. To say that it contains ‘no diversity whatsoever’ is to read women, gays, and Jews out of the identity politics game. Heretofore, only Jews have been read out. Two more candidates — Andrew Yang and Tulsi Gabbard — aren’t far from qualifying for the next debate. They are of Asian origin. Does Booker deem Asian-Americans non-diverse? What Booker means is that there may be no black and Latino candidates on the debate stage. Kamala Harris would have been, but she dropped out of the race. Whose fault is that?”

MSNBC blames itself, apparently.

TODAY’S NON-SHOCKING NEWS ITEM: Fans of Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren Oppose Free Speech, Want Jail Time for Speech Offenders.