ROGER SIMON: Jussie Smollett Will Be the New O.J.

INVESTIGATE THIS: 2020 Democrats Are Using a Donation Portal Known for Accepting Fraudulent Donations. “Cory Booker’s campaign accepted a donation from ‘Iam Spartacus’ using a bogus address.”

2019: The Year of the Single-Stack Pistol?

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YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER GIF: The Top Twenty Mueller Report Memes.

WHY COLLEGES LIKE TRUMP’S CAMPUS SPEECH ORDER: That sure isn’t what their lobbyists are saying, but I hope I’m wrong and Bauerlein is right!

UPHILL BATTLE, BUT INTERESTING: Bronx Republican says she plans to run against AOC since Amazon deal collapse.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Media Won’t Abandon Russia Story Because It’s All They’ve Know For Two Years And It’s Good For Business.

Short-term, sure. Longterm I think they’re destroying themselves and the entire infotainment industry.

TRUMP’S NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARATION FOR A BORDER WALL SURVIVES AFTER HOUSE FAILS TO OVERRIDE VETO.

PROSECUTOR WHO DROPPED CHARGES AGAINST JUSSIE SMOLLETT EXPLAINS DECISION: ‘We Didn’t Exonerate Him.’

Mediaite notes that New York Times Julie Bosman tweeted that Assistant state attorney Joe Magats said “he saw no problems with the police investigation or the evidence against Smollett. The charges against Smollett were dropped in return for his agreement to do community service, he said, and for forfeiting his bond to the city of Chicago.” Magats is quoted as saying “Here’s the thing — we work to prioritize violent crime and the drivers of violent crime. Public safety is our number one priority. I don’t see Jussie Smollett as a threat to public safety.”

The Chicago Tribune adds, “Calling it ‘a whitewash of justice,’ Mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted the decision, emphasizing repeatedly that a grand jury had chosen to bring 16 counts of disorderly conduct against Smollett. ‘From top to bottom, this is not on the level,’ Emanuel told reporters at an afternoon news conference.”

As Jim Treacher writes, “This has never been about justice. It’s about social justice.”

BUT OF COURSE: Twitter Bans User For Laughing At Rachel Maddow’s Tears Of Despair Over Mueller Report.

I still read Twitter, because it’s an excellent source for evidence of our growing Idiocracy, but I’m not on Twitter any longer. I’m done providing that antisocial media outlet with free content, and it’s just plain nice not spending a chunk of each day swimming in a cesspit.

LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: ‘Horror, fear, despair’: Venezuela’s oil capital shattered by ‘tsunami’ of violent looting.

“El demonio,” says Betty Méndez, a local shopkeeper, by way of explanation for the wave of looting and unrest that convulsed Maracaibo earlier this month.

Most, however, describe the mayhem in psychiatric terms: a collective breakdown that shocked this lakeside city to its core and offered a terrifying glimpse of Venezuela’s possible future as it sinks deeper into economic, political and social decline.

“Horror, fear, despair,” said María Villalobos, a 35-year-old journalist, weeping as she relived three days of violence that many here call la locura – “the madness”.

“I thought it was the start of a civil war.”

That’s exactly what the wreckers, hoarders, saboteurs, Trotskyites, kulaks, Yankee Imperialists, counterrevolutionaries, and Jews want you to think.

RAHM EMMANUEL BLASTS DECISION TO LET JUSSIE SMOLLETT WALK:  Calls it a “whitewash of justice.”

NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS: Buyer Beware: Seafood ‘Fraud’ Rampant, Report Says.

FLASHBACK: President Michael Avenatti? Never say never!

That’s courtesy of CNN’s Chris Cillizza, who has had a terrible, horrible, no good very bad week. And it’s only Tuesday.

(Hat tip, Longtime Sharp Instapundit Commenter™ “HA.”)

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ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is it going to be another two-to-six years of ORANGE MAN BAD from an infotainment industry hellbent on self-destruction?

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: The brain starts to register gender and age before recognizing a face, researchers find.

COMING SOON FROM MARK LEVIN: Unfreedom of the Press.