INEVITABLE: Hitler Learns Bruno Ganz Has Died.

WELL, I’M A FIFTY-SOMETHING GUY AND CAN DO FIFTY-SOMETHING PUSHUPS, SO I GUESS THAT’S GOOD: Number of push-ups men can do in a row may indicate heart health. “If you’re a 40-something guy and can’t do 40 push-ups in a row, maybe it’s time to do something about it. A new study suggests the number of push-ups a middle-aged man can perform might be an indication of his overall heart health.”

But I dunno if I’ll be able to do 80-something pushups when I’m 80-something.

JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Fangirls? TV Reporters from CBS, CNN and NBC Help Kamala Harris Pick Out ‘Amazing’ Coat.

WELL, GOOD: This Simple Advance in Medicine Has Already Saved a Million Lives.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: How the Media Failed Again on the Jussie Smollett Hoax.

WELL, THEY COULD LOBBY FOR LOWER STATE AND LOCAL TAXES: No relief in sight for taxpayers denied deductions for state and local taxes. I know, that’s crazy talk, right?

HACKS GONNA HACK: Plagiarist Jill Abramson used Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal to rise to power at New York Times.

CHANGE: Here’s where Trump could order up 234 miles of new border wall.

AN AWFUL LOT OF MEDIA NARRATIVES ARE COLLAPSING LATELY: The Collapsing Collusion Narrative Week at Legal Insurrection.

HARSH, BUT FAIR:

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Cal State slams the brakes on Title IX proceedings after courts repeatedly rule against universities.

REST IN PEACE, W.E.B. Griffin. His The Corps series is my favorite, although all his work is good. I’m told that for a lot of young folks in the military, most of what they know about the 20th Century history of American arms comes from his books.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Campus carry bills make headway in WV, SD.

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HARSH BUT FAIR:

UPDATE:

And the press, and a lot of Democratic politicians, gleefully fanned the flames of hatred for partisan advantage based on what was pretty obviously a hoax.

Flashback: Ellen Page Cries as She Suggests Mike Pence Is to Blame for Jussie Smollett Attack.

HILARIOUS:

In CASE YOU MISSED IT: Russian hostile meddling backfires in northern Europe. (My latest Creators Syndicate column — bumped.)

RELATED: For deep background on Russian dirty tricks, “gray area warfare” techniques, narrative warfare and the Kremlin’s goals, see Chapter 4, Cocktails from Hell: Five Complex Wars Shaping the 21st Century. Recommended reading for Russian trolls getting paid a pittance for lurking on the internet and attempting to sow “comment discord.”

MINE CLEARING: U.S. Army 1st Cavalry Division armored engineers conduct a dramatic (and highly explosive) combat assault exercise in Grafenwoehr, Germany.

PAUL BEDARD: Where Trump won: Historic ICE funding, triple wall miles, killed ‘poison pills.’

Republicans are pushing back on reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., beat President Trump in the latest budget shutdown fight, claiming that Congress approved historic funding levels for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, added miles to the border wall, and erased the cap on criminal illegal immigrants that can be jailed.

Insiders who worked on the deal said that compared to going along with a spending continuing resolution, the GOP scored several wins, though it did not reach the $5.7 billion funding Trump wanted for the wall.

“I know the conventional wisdom is that he lost on the wall in this package. But he gained … under impossible conditions,” said one insider on background.

He also reprogrammed several billions of dollars of funding outside his emergency declaration, which should be immune from any court challenge.

Related: Jeff Greenfield: Why Trump’s Going to Win on the National Emergency.

THE SELF-MUZZLING OF THE FREE WORLD: “30 years after Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a death warrant for Salman Rushdie over his novel The Satanic Verses, it remains the case that individuals in Western, cosmopolitan, liberal cities live under threat of murder simply for the words or images they produce.”

AS I’VE BEEN SAYING FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS ON THIS BLOG, PEOPLE DON’T APPRECIATE THE SCOPE AND SWEEP OF PRESIDENTIAL EMERGENCY POWERS UNTIL A PRESIDENT THEY DON’T LIKE DOES SOMETHING THEY DON’T LIKE: Lawprof Michael Krauss: President Trump May Be On Solid Legal Ground Declaring An Emergency At The Border.

Related: Jonathan Turley: Why Trump will win the wall fight.

PHOTOGRAPHY IS NOT A CRIME, except when it is: “One such case would be if you are a foreign student found wandering around snapping pictures of the antenna farms of an interagency intelligence facility located on a Naval Air Station. Especially if you’d walked past a bunch of fences and “KEEP OUT: THIS MEANS YOU” signs to get there.”