THOSE IMPEACHMENT ARTICLES WILL MAKE GREAT STUMP PROPS FOR TRUMP:

But whether it’s two articles or 20, the outcome seems certain to be the same thing — acquittal in the Republican-controlled Senate.

The House’s impeachment hearings did nothing to convince voters or GOP lawmakers to support Trump’s removal from office.

And there’s a good chance that Trump will now be waving those articles of impeachment at his campaign rallies in a bid to fire up his base.

Trump wants a full-out impeachment spectacle, and that’s just what Democrats are giving him.

It dovetails perfectly with his “no more mister nice guy” re-election campaign theme. He can hold the impeachment articles up during campaign speeches, and say, “I’m a tough guy – but if they can do this to me, imagine what they can do to you. This is why I want to drain the swamp and reform Washington.”

OH: Uploaded Ring footage reportedly provides location to the square inch. “Neighbors data proves extra-revealing as Amazon police partnerships accelerate.”

HOW LONG WILL IT BE BEFORE SOMEONE ACCUSES LOW-DOSE ASPIRIN OF BEING RACIST?:  New study finds low-dose aspirin helps prevent cardiovascular events in whites, but not blacks.

CHANGE: The Bot Decade: How AI Took Over Our Lives in the 2010s: There’s no turning back. The Butlerian Jihad begs to differ.

MORE LEFIST THUGGERY: Masked moviegoers interrupt showing of ‘No Safe Spaces’ documentary, police called. “Police officers responded to a call on Friday when Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager’s free speech film, “No Safe Spaces,” was allegedly interrupted by two masked men who some customers felt were looking to intimidate moviegoers. The filmmakers are chalking up the incident to evidence as to why the movie is important in the first place.”

As with others who disrupt events, they should be sued for damages, both as a civil rights violation and as a simple tort inflicting financial losses. Being sued is unpleasant, tedious, expensive, and gives you a higher profile than masked thugs generally want. And it’s an easy winner.

On the other hand, I suppose we should just thank them for their Trump2020 get-out-the-vote work.

COLORADO: Decreasing oil and gas permits impacting Weld County businesses, local governments.

According to an analysis by FOX31, in 2017-2018, state regulators approved around 350 permits each month.

However, since the passage of SB 181 in April 2019, permits have been averaging around 148 a month — a decrease of more than 50 percent.

Weld County is seeing the impact.

In 2017, 2,466 new permits were approved by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

By comparison, through October of this year, 1,470 new permits were approved for Weld County, with 880 being approved before SB 181 was signed into law.

Some in the area are concerned about the impact on the local economy.

“Some” apparently doesn’t include the Democrats who passed SB19-181 on a strict party-line vote.

Weld County produces about 90% of the state’s oil and gas.

GOOD QUESTION:  Mother Jones channels Charles Murray:  Why do we pretend that one-parent families are no big deal?

THEY TAKE CRITICISM . . . POORLY. The Clint Eastwood Film ‘Richard Jewel’ is an Indictment of the Media, and They are not Happy About It.

MASCOT, ANOINTED: Time Magazine Selects Exploited Child Greta Thunberg as ‘Person of the Year.’

During WWII, Henry Luce, the centrist Republican who created Time magazine in 1923, dubbed the 20th century “The American Century.” During the Mercury missions, he signed the astronauts to exclusive contracts to tell their stories to sister publication Life, because he knew the future when it arrived. In sharp contrast, his successors are reactionary Luddites who lack the guts to smash their own machinery. (Ironically, market forces have done a superb job of lowering Time’s carbon footprint in recent decades.)

As for Greta and her handlers, Dominic Green of Spectator USA wrote that “the Thunberg phenomenon is apocalyptic religion for rich whites.” She’s yet another example of what Thomas Sowell dubbed “Mascots of the Anointed,” from his 1995 book, The Vision of the Anointed. And likely with a similar shelf life; as Glenn wrote in September, “Poor kid — she’s just a younger, more vulnerable Cindy Sheehan, and like Sheehan will be discarded as soon as she’s no longer of use. In the meantime, her moral theatrics have grown tedious.”

No wonder Trump trolled her after her UN visit with this:

JEFF JACOBY:  The “Brezhnev Doctrine” as applied to the American welfare state. 

THEY’RE FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND THEY’RE HERE TO HELP: US senators on encryption back doors: “We will impose our will” on Apple and Facebook.

A decades-old debate: Government officials have long argued that encryption makes criminal investigations too hard. Companies, they say, should build in special access that law enforcement could use with a court’s permission. Technologists say creating these back doors would weaken digital security for everyone.

But the heat is on: “My advice to you is to get on with it,” Senator Lindsey Graham told the Silicon Valley giants at today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. “Because this time next year, if we haven’t found a way that you can live with, we will impose our will on you.” Apple and Facebook representatives at the hearing came under fire from senators in both parties, while Manhattan district attorney Cy Vance, one of the biggest advocates of back doors, was treated as a star witness.

Sod off, all of you.

WHY ARE “WOKE” CORPORATIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF MISOGYNY AND ABUSE? Nike’s Dark Alliance With a Man Accused of Terrorizing Women Athletes.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER LIST: These Reporters All Lied About the Steele Dossier, Carter Page and FISA Warrants.

THE BLACK HEBREW ISRAELITES WERE THE GROUP THAT INITIATED THE COVINGTON HIGH CONFRONTATION: Gunmen who stormed kosher store in Jersey City identified as David Anderson and Francine Graham. Anderson was a follower of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement. There were postings connected to Anderson’s social page with anti-police and anti-Jewish writings – WNBC.

Flashback (From Ed): NY Times Goes Easy On Racist Black Israelites: Less ‘Alarming’ Than ‘White Guy In Maga Hat.’

UDPATE (FROM GLENN): From the comments: “Ahh, I wondered why there was a mass shooting and it wasn’t all over NPR.”

BIDEN PAID MEN WORKING FOR HIM MORE THAN WOMEN ON HIS STAFFS FOR 34 YEARS: So why would anybody expect him to change in 2021?

UM, THANKS? AOC Compares Mothers to Dogs in Paid Family Leave Hearing.

WASHINGTON BLADE: SHOCKER: Senate confirms Trump nominee as highest-ranking out gay judge.

This is only shocking to people so bigoted that they believe Republicans must be bigots.

IT’S NOT OKAY TO BE WHITE: Iowa State promises major new diversity initiatives, including ‘cultural humility training.’

If humility is needed, it’s humility on the part of puffed-up university administrators, who are terrible at what they do, but probably aren’t fit for anything better.

HMM: Former DOJ official: Durham’s reaction to IG report means ‘he’s got the goods on somebody.’

Durham’s inquiry has had a broader scope than Horowitz’s, including a focus on foreign actors as well as the CIA, while Horowitz’s concentrated on the Department of Justice and FBI.

Prior said that, unlike Horowitz, Durham is not limited in scope to the existing DOJ or FBI officials. He said the striking statement by Durham Monday means “he’s got the goods on somebody.”

“Durham can subpoena former employees, former DOJ members; Durham can go and look at what the CIA was doing, what the [National Security Council] was doing, what foreign countries were doing. Durham’s scope is so much bigger,” Prior said.

Well, go get ’em.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Leftist students storm classes of profs they disagree with as part of ‘art’ project. The photo says it all about the value of a Yale education today.

I’m reminded of one of my now-retired Tennessee colleagues, a former Marine whose class was “occupied” during the 1960s. He picked up the occupiers and bodily pitched them out, with help from his TA, also a former Marine. I’m sure that would count as genocide or something today. But I’m frankly tempted to offer a bounty for such conduct at Yale. . .

CREDIT WHERE IT’S DUE: Spartacus makes a calm statement about yesterday’s murder of Jersey City police Detective Joe Seals and Jewish civilians but refrains from turning it into a political “anti-NRA” screed. First, now is not the time. Second, I’m willing to bet good money that the perpetrators were not NRA members, and even go so far as to say the weapons used were obtained in violation of already-existing law.

That said, we know the Jewish supermarket was targeted, yet nobody has released the names of the perpetrators so far.
I’m guessing it’s those damned Presbyterians again.

**UPDATE: Police say the shooters were from the “Black Hebrew Israelite movement.” Same nice folks who confronted the Covington Kids in DC.

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AMAZINGLY LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PERPETRATORS: Investigators believe that the gunmen in a Tuesday shootout at a kosher supermarket in New Jersey deliberately attacked the store, though there was no immediate word on their suspected motive.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Our Intellectual Betters Are Actually Dumber and Worse. “The leftists in the media and Washington who fancy themselves our intellectual superiors are, for the most part, a collection of uninspired dullards floating around in a world that’s a toxic mix of lowered expectations and financial connections.”

He’s too kind.