THEY DON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOU OR YOUR FAMILY’S SAFETY: Democrats reject push to alert ICE when illegal immigrants fail firearm background checks.

DOG BITES MAN: Ilhan Omar To Fundraise For Islamic Terror-Linked Palestinian Organization.

THIS ONE DOESN’T SEEM TO BE A HOAX, BUT LET’S SEE IF IT GARNERS JUST ONE PERCENT OF THE ATTENTION JUSSIE SMOLLETT GOT: Man Pulls a Gun on Sam’s Club Customer Wearing MAGA Hat.

TRUMP SHOULDN’T ASSUME IT’S DEAD. Victor Davis Hanson: Autopsy of a Dead Coup.

ROGER SIMON: Smollett and AOC: Dems Reach New Heights of ‘Magical Thinking.’

DON’T YOU WANT SOMEBODY TO LOOT? DON’T YOU NEED SOMEBODY TO LOOT? DNC Chair Perez: ‘Absolutely’ You Can Be a Democratic Socialist and Capitalist. “Perez is caught between the Looney Tunes Democrats and the Perpetually Outraged Democrats.“

Socialists, “democratic” or otherwise, can’t survive long withot a capitalistic host to feed off of. The reverse is not true of capitalists.

APACHES IN BELGIUM: 1st Infantry Division AH-64 Apaches using Belgium’s Chievres Air Base as “an intermediate staging area” for operations further east.

SARAH HOYT: When Everything Is Political, Nothing Works.

FREE WILLY: Ex-congressman Weiner released from prison after sexting scandal.

K.C. JOHNSON: Four Reasons to Support the DeVos Title IX Rewrite.

HMM: The Chinese Military Speaks to Itself, Revealing Doubts.

A large body of evidence in China’s official military and party media indicates the nation’s senior civilian and uniformed leaders recognize significant shortcomings in the warfighting and command capabilities of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). However, most of this evidence is not translated into English for public consumption and is not considered in much of the foreign analysis of China’s growing military capabilities. This situation is not new, but goes back for decades.

Yet, the increasing scope and frequency of these self-critiques during the tenure of Xi Jinping as chairman of the Central Military Commission casts doubt over the senior party and military leadership’s confidence in the PLA’s ability to prevail in battle against a modern enemy. Furthermore, the limitations illustrated by these internal assessments will likely moderate China’s near- and mid-term national security objectives and the manner in which they are pursued. This lack of confidence in PLA capabilities contributes to Beijing’s preference to achieve China’s national objectives through deterrence and actions short of war.

Lots to chew on at the link.

All right-thinking people thought the Soviet Union was invincible, right up until Reagan’s “win win, they lose” policies started to bear fruit.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the Left’s Manic Pixie Dream Girl —- Once you see it, you can never unsee it.

BUT THE NARRATIVE: Obama’s Border Patrol Chief Says Trump Isn’t Making Up Border Emergency.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: VIDEO: GW students say ‘Colonials’ mascot too offensive.

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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: McCabe spins on “60 Mins,” race hoax, and much, much more. “When are the jackboots and stormtroopers going to bust into this lying dirtbag’s house in the dead of night to arrest him? He’s accused of lying to the feds, just like Roger Stone and Paul Manafort. Andrew McCabe, whom you might remember from Strzok/Page text message fame for hosting some sort of meeting to scheme up an insurance policy against Trump winning the presidency, went on 60 Minutes last night to pimp out his new book. Remember as you read about the interview or watch the interview that McCabe was fired for lying to the FBI.”

YES, PLEASE: DeSantis wants grand jury to investigate Broward school system over Parkland failures.

YOU MAY NOT RECALL JOHN THOMPSON BUT DRUG DEALER RAYFUL EDMOND DOES: Thompson coached the Georgetown Hoyas to the NCAA national basketball championship in 1984. Patrick Ewing was Thompson’s star player that illustrious season.

Edmond during the same years was building the cocaine empire in the nation’s capital that eventually landed him in prison. Quin Hillyer reminds us in the Washington Examiner of the one time those two men met and why we should care 35 years later.

PETTY: Germany warns it will stop extradition of its citizens to UK after Brexit.

DID PAT CADDELL FORESEE TRUMP’S VICTORY?:  We are in “pre-revolutionary moment,” he said in 2015.

ENDGAME: Russia’s Gazprombank freezes accounts of Venezuela’s PDVSA.

Russian lender Gazprombank has decided to freeze the accounts of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA and halted transactions with the firm to reduce the risk of the bank falling under U.S. sanctions, a Gazprombank source told Reuters on Sunday.

While many foreign firms have been cutting their exposure to PDVSA since the sanctions were imposed, the fact that a lender closely aligned with the Russian state is following suit is significant because the Kremlin has been among Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s staunchest supporters.

“PDVSA’s accounts are currently frozen. As you’ll understand, operations cannot be carried out,” the source said. Gazprombank did not reply to a Reuters request for a comment.

PDVSA brandished the story as “fake news” on its Twitter account in capital red letters, but did not reply to a request for comment.

RELATED: Guaido says thousands of Venezuela volunteers begin preparing US aid entry.

The big question now is whether Maduro is smart enough to settle for a comfortable exile, or if he or his supporters will try to fight it out.

MORGAN CHALFANT: Five things to watch as Barr takes the reins of Justice, Mueller probe.