OH COME ON. CAN WE NAME THEM AFTER POLITICIANS INSTEAD? OCCASIONAL CORTEX, BERNIE SANDERNISTA, ETC:  On Valentine’s Day, Feed Your Ex To An Animal.

THE FAULT IS NOT ON THIS POOR IGNORANT SUCKLING. IT’S ON OUR CULTURE WHICH FAILED TO MAKE SURE HE — AND POSSIBLY HIS PARENTS — KNEW BETTER BY TEACHING HIM ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT:  No Sweet Cheeks, It’s NOT Ok That Conservatives Aren’t Welcome On College Campuses.

I DON’T BELIEVE HER:  Ilhan Omar Apologizes for Jew Hatred, Promises to Make it Less Obvious.

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GRASSROOTS DEMAND FOR ACTION: Sheriffs storm Capitol Hill to demand border wall, ICE funding.

CHANGE: “The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-seven percent (47%) disapprove. Trump’s highest level of approval since shortly after his inauguration.”

TALKING VALENTINE’S DAY WITH CAPTAIN CAPITALISM.

THERE ARE A LOT OF PLACES WHERE PEOPLE ARE UNHAPPY WITH UNELECTED ELITES: Yellow vest riots spreading from France to Latvia.

Related thoughts here.

OPEN THREAD: We live in interesting times.

CBS TOUTS ‘FESTIVE ATMOSPHERE’ AS IRAN MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF REVOLUTION:

On Monday, CBS This Morning took time to mark the 40th anniversary of Iran’s brutal Islamic regime seizing power. Rather than point out four decades of human rights abuses, including the taking of American hostages, reporter Elizabeth Palmer instead noted the “festive atmosphere” of celebrations in Tehran and seemed to blame the United States for “toxic” relations with the dictatorship.

After co-host Bianna Golodryga noted that “hundreds of thousands of people in Iran filled the streets today to mark the 40th anniversary of the country’s Islamic revolution,” Palmer reported from the Iranian capital and declared: “In spite of the lousy weather, there’s quite a festive atmosphere at this anniversary parade.”

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Palmer is known for sympathetic coverage of Iran. Back in October, she portrayed the authoritarian nation as a victim of the “bullying and belligerent United States.”

CBS is busy rehabbing Ralph Northam’s reputation, so why not the mullahs as well?

SORRY, NOT SORRY: Ilhan Omar Has Already Learned The Fine Democratic Art Of Apologizing Without Really Apologizing.

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WELL, THAT’S AN HONEST HEADLINE: Ilhan Omar Apologizes for Jew Hatred, Promises to Make it Less Obvious.

VIRGINIA CLOWN SHOW UPDATE: Ralph Northam Not Familiar with Birth of a Nation?

BuzzFeed News first reported that advisers had pushed Northam to read “The Case for Reparations,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’ seminal essay in the Atlantic, and Roots by Alex Haley. Since he began reading those texts, Northam has also been urged by his advisers to watch parts of D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film The Birth of a Nation, which shook the country with its racist and disturbing view of black Americans after the Civil War. (Northam was not previously familiar with the racist depictions in the film, an adviser said.) The actors lampooning black people were played by white actors wearing blackface.

You’d think Northam would be more up to speed on the favorite film of a pioneering “Progressive.”

ANTISEMITES ARE A MAINSTREAM DEMOCRAT CONSTITUENCY NOW:

BRUCE BAWER ON GERMANY, Where “Anti-Americanism is As German as Apple Strudel.”

Their ancestors fought wars of conquest, and they understand that; but they’ll never be able to fully process the fact that Americans actually fought a war to free them from a psychopathic dictator whom they had followed, in mindless obedience, to the gates of Hell. Imagine knowing that and having to live with it! How could a proud and arrogant people in such a situation not find their thankfulness toward the nation that saved them being twisted into a ghoulish hatred?

Read the whole thing.

VIRGINIA CLOWN SHOW UPDATE: Virginia Democrats Announce They Would Only Resign For A Real Scandal Like Getting Caught Wearing A MAGA Hat.

GENERATION SHIPS: To Start Life at The Nearest Star System, This Is How Big a Spaceship We Would Need. “Interestingly, even if we double the length of the spaceship, we find a structure that is still smaller than the tallest building in the world – Burj Khalifa (828 m; 2716.5 ft).”

I should note that an Orion nuclear spacecraft that size is quite practical, and could achieve velocities sufficient to limit the travel time well below the design parameters used here.

SORT OF. NBC “professional journalist” Marianna Sotomayor makes an awkward attempt to “clarify” her insanely off-base tweet that proves Ben Rhodes was right. They just don’t know anything.

VIRGINIA CLOWN SHOW UPDATE: Virginia Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax’s Law Firm Places Him on Leave, 4 Staffers Resign Following 2nd Sexual Assault Allegation.

SO IT OCCURRED TO ME, if measles can erase the immune system’s memory, then might it be useful to treat autoimmune diseases? Though obviously, figuring out the mechanism would be better . . .

HELICOPTER PARENTING: Towson University police warn of woman seeking date for her son.

I like to think of the Insta-Wife’s approach as more “close-air-support parenting.” Normally she just loiters, but if there’s a serious problem she swoops in and obliterates it.

MOVE FASTER ON THAT VACCINE PLEASE: Nearly 100 children dead from Ebola in DRC as crisis worsens.