ANALYSIS: TRUE. The TSA Is in the Business of ‘Security Theater,’ Not Security.

BUT OF COURSE: House Judiciary Committee Democrats are considering investigating Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh for perjury.

Will the Senate Judiciary Committee have the cojones to punch back twice as hard and investigate Kavanaugh’s accusers for the same?

AT AMAZON, save on Men’s Watches.

WEIRD BUT COOL: Funky mirror turns electric field into a magnetic field with missing pole: The mirror image of a frozen electric charge becomes a magnetic monopole.

A PRODUCT PEOPLE WANT TO BUY FOR A PRICE THEY’RE WILLING TO PAY: What Big Media Learned This Week.

HE MEANS THE OTHER GUY, NOT MADURO’S THEFT OF AN ENTIRE COUNTRY: What has happened in Venezuela is a coup.

I tried to pick an excerpt, but this Oscar Guardiola-Rivera opinion piece is so juicy with Guardian-level lunacy that you might just want to read the whole thing.

IT’S THE DEEP SEVENS, AND YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW: Scientists Drilled a Mile-Long Hole in the Antarctic Ice: What’s at the end of the hole could tell scientists what will happen to the continent over the next few decades.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Chad Prather Fights ‘Pushback’ for Conservative Views. “Some comedy clubs refused to book the star of Blaze TV’s new show ‘Humor Me’.”

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Kamala Harris Vows to ‘Eliminate’ Private Insurance Market. “Let’s eliminate all of that,” said Harris, who announced her 2020 presidential candidacy this week, “let’s move on.”

Related: Kamala Harris 2020: You Can’t Keep Your Plan, Your Car Is Banned, and If Your Kids Miss Class I’m Sending You to Jail.

More: Twenty Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Harris.

HOW FAR WILL THE DEEP STATE GO TO PROTECT ITS OWN? You won’t know the answer to that question until you know how congressional leaders in both parties, including now-former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, actively protected (or simply looked the other way) former House IT aide Imran Awan and his unvetted network of Pakistani family and friends serving more than 40 House Democrats, including many on the intelligence, armed services and foreign affairs committees.

It’s all detailed in “Obstruction of Justice” by Luke Rosiak of the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF). Am I biased about this book? You bet I am because I was Luke’s editor when he first started covering this unbelievable but true saga and for many months thereafter. This one makes Watergate look like mere child’s play. And after you read it, you will want to call your senators and your congressman and ask them why they aren’t doing something about this national security scandal.

THIS IS CNN:

● Shot: “Former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum suffered a political and legal setback on Friday after the Florida Commission on Ethics found probable cause he accepted gifts during out-of-town excursions with lobbyists and vendors and didn’t report them. The Ethics Commission voted to find probable cause on five separate allegations involving trips Gillum took to New York City and Costa Rica in 2016, months before he launched his bid for Florida governor.”

—The Tallahassee Democrat, Friday.

● Chaser: Andrew Gillum to become CNN commentator after Florida loss.

—The Washington Examiner, today.

● Hangover: “And we eagerly await CNN’s newest political commenter to delete this incorrect tweet:”

—Twitchy, today.

WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Overload: A City That Opened Its Doors To Asylum Seekers Has Come To Regret It. “So what’s the lesson here? America remains a generous nation that’s willing to help those who are truly in need provided they follow the rules. But once the word gets out that the doors are open, you can quickly be overwhelmed.” There are probably two billion people who would move here if they could. That’s a lot of people.

DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY:

Not surprisingly, James Lileks, who has been blogging since 1997 (and who has periodically had his content ripped off by BuzzFeed), has some thoughts, beginning with, “No.”

Related: Current BuzzFeed Employees Demand Paid Time Off for Those Recently Laid Off.

GERMS: Tom Maguire has thoughts on Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax.

THEY HATE YOU, THEY REALLY HATE YOU: Google May Face RICO, Defamation Lawsuits Due to SPLC Partnership, Lawyers Say. Google will pay employees to work for the SPLC for up to six months.

WANT TO HELP POOR PEOPLE AND SOAK THE RICH? Change the tax treatment of fringe benefits. “One indefensible policy involves superior tax treatment for employee fringe benefits, such as health insurance and retirement benefits, which operates to harm lower income people. It is well known that our tax system treats people who have to purchase their own health insurance differently than it treats people who receive employer provided health insurance. If one’s employer provides health insurance, the employee need not pay tax on the value of the insurance, even though this is a valuable fringe benefit. By contrast, if one does not receive employer provided health insurance, then one has to take one’s wages, pay taxes on them, and then pay for the insurance from those wages. Thus, the employer provided health insurance is tax-free but the individually purchased health insurance is taxed. This is indefensible. It is both economically inefficient and treats people who work for small companies, which are much less likely to provide health insurance, worse than those who work for larger companies. Many of these people at the smaller companies earn less income.”

Changing this would help Trump’s constituency at the expense of affluent Blue-state voters, which is probably why Democrats haven’t been pushing this sort of change.

BREAKING: Dads Dressing in Drag ‘For the Children’ Is Not Good Parenting.

ROGER SIMON: Howard Schultz Could Actually Win the Presidency.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: ABA House Of Delegates Again Rejects 75% Bar Passage Within 2 Years Accreditation Standard, 79% to 21%; Final Decision Rests With Council.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: The End Is Nigh (Not Really).

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Former Cuyahoga Falls High School counselor sentenced to prison for sex with student. “Easter said the student, who is now 20, was 17 and Sparrow was more than double his age — 35 — when they had a sexual relationship. She said Sparrow was aware of the student’s age, problems at home, and ‘fragile mental state,’ which made him more vulnerable.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, B-SCHOOL EDITION: The ‘Magnificent 7’ Business Schools All Report Declines In Applications.

RUN ALL THE CANDIDATES! Eric Holder Considering Candidacy Seriously.

STUART TAYLOR, JR., FOR REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: Harvard, the New York Times and the #MeToo Takedown of a Black Academic Star. “This article, and Harvard’s Office for Dispute Resolution, have made a near-pariah of the youngest black professor ever tenured at Harvard University, a man born into poverty who is still much admired among many former female and male subordinates and other people who know him well – and who see the attacks on him as tinged with racism and ‘#MeToo’ overreaction. . . . The Harvard report seems to be a case of what could be called harassment inflation.”

Weird how fewer men are willing to work with or mentor women, post-#MeToo.