THE HIGH COST OF HIGH TAXES: JPMorgan Weighs Shifting Thousands of Jobs Out of New York Area. “Despite more than two centuries of history in a city synonymous with the global financial industry, JPMorgan is quietly shrinking its workforce there. The bank’s been building up its presence in other locations and is now considering relocating several thousand New York-based employees out of the area to help rein in costs ahead of a possible economic downturn, according to people with knowledge of the bank’s strategy.”

As Arthur Schwartz quipped on Twitter, “Well done, @NYGovCuomo. Who are you going to tax when they’re all gone?”

WE CAN HOPE: Northwestern Lawprof Stephen Presser: Trump’s Vindication May Lead to Restoration of the Constitution. “The impeachment and removal effort, nakedly political as it is, is doomed to failure. This is because the president’s exercise of diplomatic relations is protected by the Constitution itself, and as even the great liberal criminal law scholar Alan Dershowitz has made clear, it cannot possibly amount to a high crime or misdemeanor. Moreover, the signs are now evident (from the fact that 50 Republican Senators have condemned the secretive and one-sided proceedings now underway in the House), that a Republican-controlled Senate will never vote by a two-third’s majority to remove Mr. Trump.”

HE BURNED A LOT OF BRIDGES WITH PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN THOSE THINGS: Paul Ryan Launches Free-Market, Upward Mobility Nonprofit.

PLAUSIBLE:  CNN Uncovers Evidence Hero Dog Sniffed Dozens Of Butts Back In College.

WELL: Judge reopens Covington Catholic teen’s $250 million lawsuit against Washington Post.

YOU MUST HAVE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH LIKE AN HYENA. I, ALAS, DON’T:  Entertainment Media’s New Foe: ‘The Movie Man Wave’.

GOOD:  Judge Reopens Nicholas Sandmann lawsuit against Washington Post.

PELOSI REALLY SHOULD LIMIT HERSELF TO ONE BOTTLE OF GREY GOOSE A DAY:  House to Hold Vote to Formalize the Procedures of the Impeachment Inquiry.

YES, THAT HAS BECOME OBVIOUS:  Under Obama, there came to be a cancer in the Pentagon.

THIS MONTH HAS BEEN SO CRAZY I CAN’T REMEMBER IF I LINKED THIS BEFORE. IF NOT, IT’S STILL WORTH READING: SACRIFICING ART-AND EVERYTHING ELSE-TO THE CLIMATE CHANGE CULT.

YEAH, I KIND OF ASSUMED EVERYTHING!  What the NY Times got wrong about slavery in the US.

OH DEAR LORD:  Heroic Murderous Bastards.

WELL, IT’S NOT LIKE SHE COVERED HERSELF!  NBC Covers for Katie Hill. (Badabum-ching!)

SEE? THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH THE LACK OF HEADS ON PIKES. WHEN YOU PUT THEIR HEADS ON PIKES, THEY RARELY COME BACK:  James Comey is Back and He’s as Narcissistic as Ever.

OH DEAR LORD!  Evolving Whiteness According To The Woke NYT.

AGAIN WITH THE SHOCKED FACE. BECAUSE OCCASIONAL CORTEX ISN’T DUMB AS ROCKS!  AOC Says Climate Change Is Only Reason Why California Has Wildfires.  (Apologies to rocks!)

MY FACE! LOOK HOW SHOCKED IT IS! SELF PROCLAIMED NATIONAL SOCIALIST SAYS HE WANTS TO STOP AID TO ISRAEL? I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. I MAY NEVER RECOVER:  Sanders Threatens to Withhold Israeli Security Aid.

HE ONLY NOTICED THIS NOW?  Axelrod: Biden in ‘Candidate-Protection Program’ .

OH? NOW THE ENTANGLEMENTS SPARK CONCERN? BUT NOT WHILE DADDY WAS EXTORTING QUID PRO QUO FROM UKRAINE FOR BABY BOY?  Hunter Biden’s China Entanglements Spark Concern in Senate.

NO. IT WAS WRITTEN IN MARXISM. HASTE ISN’T POISONOUS:  WaPo: Headline Calling ISIS Leader ‘Austere Religious Scholar’ Was ‘Written in Haste’ .

BRINKSMANSHIP: Maybe they hope it will be voted down! Suddenly, House Democrats want a formal vote on impeachment. “My first thought was, the Democrats are in trouble, they know the impeachment inquiry is dragging them down, and they want the vote to fail. But here’s how Nancy Pelosi put it.”

Plus: “To get a no vote, some Democrats will need to vote no, but there are 31 House Democrats in districts that Trump won in 2016 (and 55 districts with Democratic representatives that the GOP is targeting in 2020). If the Democrats want a no vote, there could be a way for some of those threatened Democrats to stage some political theater about their independence and their somber judgment that the American people would be best served by concentrating our attention on the next election and vote no.”

SUICIDE MISSION: Roger Kimball: Kamikaze Schumer Wants to Repeal Private Health Insurance. “The more voters know about the New York senator’s initiative and his heavy-handed efforts to push the agenda of the far-left wing of the Democratic party, they more vigorously they will reject it.”

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DON SURBER: Why Babylon Bee is the most important conservative site. “In his Rules for Radicals, Saul D. Alinsky said, ‘Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.’ Conservatives finally have a site that masters that. Plus it is funny.”

AMERICAN THINKER: Free Flynn, Jail Clapper and Brennan.