AND THE SKY IS MADE OF CHEESE AND PEPPERCORNS:  Live from Comeyworld.

WHAT  PART OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT ISN’T WRITTEN IN ENGLISH, YOU GOOFBALLS?  Mandatory Rest Spaces For Tents Considered On The Streets Of Portland.

THE ADULTS COME HOME:  Barr is on the case.

YEP:  IG Report Damning to FBI Integrity and Competence.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Impeachment Circus Leads To Bad Charges.

PRETTY MUCH:  Russia Has Won So Far, Thanks to Democrats.

JERSEY CITY MAYOR SAYS GUNMEN ‘TARGETED’ JEWISH GROCERY STORE AT CENTER OF SHOOTOUT.

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THE POLICE AREN’T THERE TO PROTECT US FROM CRIMINALS. THE POLICE ARE THERE TO PROTECT CRIMINALS FROM US. After shop burglarized, owner kidnaps suspected thief and smashes hands with hammer.

SCHIFF SHOW FAIL: Dem Rep. Collin Peterson Leaning Against Voting for Articles of Impeachment: ‘Too Divisive.’

HER DIAGNOSIS SEEMS 100% CORRECT: Kristy Swanson Wrecks Fellow Actress Alyssa Milano After ‘Bad Panic Attack.’

ROBERT MCMANUS: After the Pensacola jihad, can we finally break with the Saudis?

But other things have changed over the past decade, as well, perhaps not the least being that America has all but achieved energy independence since then. It no longer must abase itself before Middle Eastern oil potentates, including, if not especially, the Saudis.

The whole mob has had inordinate influence in the West since the end of World War II and not just the West. Both Japan and China largely depend on the Mideast for oil, and that matters a lot.

As does stability in the Mideast. There is no need to be reckless.

But there is also no need to continue the pretense that Saudi Arabia is in any meaningful way capable of protecting itself from its regional enemies — a task America has undertaken to the tune of two conventional Mideast wars in the last 30 years and a special-operations oriented presence in Afghanistan that has persisted for almost two decades.

The training of Saudi military personnel is part of the charade, and while bringing an end to the practice would largely be symbolic, it also would be noticed.

More to the point is the need to inform Riyadh that America will no longer tolerate its long-standing and well-documented practice of funding Islamist radicals who agree to stay out of Saudi Arabia but who nevertheless work elsewhere to destabilize the West.

Yep.

BAD RATINGS FOR THE SCHIFF SHOW: Quinnipiac: Opposition to impeachment and removal reaches 51%, highest number since September.

WORST. HOMOPHOBIC. PRESIDENT. EVER. Senate confirms openly gay Trump nominee to 9th Circuit. “The Senate confirmed President Trump’s ninth judicial nominee to the liberal 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, elevating Patrick Bumatay, an openly gay Filipino man, to the federal bench over objections from his liberal home-state senators.”

So do Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris hate gays, or Filipinos?

UPDATE: From the comments:

“53-40 party-line vote”

40 Democrats voted against a gay person of color.

Thank God we have Trump to roll over such bigotry in the name of diversity.

NOBODY LIKES A SHITHOLE CITY: Oracle Is Moving Its Massive Conference Out of San Francisco. Are Dirty Streets to Blame? My question is, why are leftist activists obsessed with making it easy for people to piss and shit in the streets?

HOW DARE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL CRITICIZE THE PRESS FOR ITS SHAMEFUL BEHAVIOR!

But, absurd privilege aside, you can see why the NYT misses its laid-off copy editors. Here’s one of its star reporters writing a statement that makes no sense. “Barr doesn’t restrict his commentary to the agency he oversees, but also to press coverage.” What does that even mean? He restricts his commentary to the agency he oversees and press coverage? Get me rewrite, stat! This is Matt Yglesias-level writing.

She’s getting eaten alive in the replies, too. And not just by grammarians.

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WORST. NAZI. PRESIDENT. EVER. Trump to Sign Order Targeting Anti-Semitism on College Campuses: The president’s action will protect Judaism under civil rights law and empower the Education Department to withhold money from institutions that tolerate anti-Israel movements.

Seriously, Trump is such a failure, he can’t even be Hitler right. Impeach! Meanwhile, since it’s the NYT, it’s about Trump targeting “what he sees as antisemitism” on campus.

WOW: Northrop Grumman donates jet to Anne Arundel for Maryland’s first high school aviation program.

I wish someone would donate a jet to me. Or even just a Netjets membership.

THE TWELVE DAYS OF CONGRESS: Tis the season for impeachment? Courtesy of “Obviously Shot on an iPhone by Think Tank Amateurs” Media, a temporary division of the R Street Institute.

GOING WOBBLY: Some Democrats are shrinking from impeachment, and want a censure vote against Trump instead.

UPDATE: Virginia Democrat Faces Constituents’ Wrath Over Her Support for the Impeachment Inquiry.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Seen on Facebook:

WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT ACTUALLY ABOUT GUN SAFETY: Judge Discovers Gun Safety Groups Don’t Offer Gun Safety Classes.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Cut out Washington noise: Let’s pay respect to the men who died last week serving the U.S.. “My fellow Knoxvillian Alex Haley used to say, ‘Find the good and praise it.’ And rather than write about the impeachment clown show or other aspects of Washington dysfunction, I’m going to follow his advice.”

GOOD: Family of NAS Pensacola shooting victim ‘floored’ by massive military salute.