OUT: I AM NOT A CROOK. IN: I AM NOT A RACIST. Governor Northam Assures Virginians He Supports Killing Babies Of All Colors.

KIAS ARE UNDERAPPRECIATED: The 2019 Kia K900 Is Far Better Than It Has a Right to Be.

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STILL A FEW BUGS IN THE SYSTEM: Winter Is Wreaking Havoc On Electric Vehicles.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: First Responders in Space: How Satellites Save Lives During Natural Disasters.

DEMOCRACY DIES IN SELF-CONGRATULATION: Was the Washington Post’s Self-Congratulatory $5.25 Million Super Bowl Ad Warranted?

THAT SOUNDS BAD: Scientists Are Warning of a Future Parkinson’s Pandemic, And We Can No Longer Ignore It.

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OH NO, WILLIAM & MARY WON’T DO: William & Mary Cancels Northam Appearance amid Yearbook Scandal.

(Hat tip, Will Collier.)

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 5 Simple Tricks for Staying Warm When It’s Deadly Cold.

THIS IS CNN: Gladys Knight gets a standing-O after dropping a mic on Don Lemon’s attempt to shame her for singing the National Anthem at Super Bowl LIII:

Watch how [Lemon] tries to scare her by implying she could lose her career. So sick. This is how the left is trying to bully everyone into submitting to their hatred. They will make sure they destroy your career & your livelihood unless you bow down to their divisive ideology.

Who will America’s Hall Monitor doxx next?

ALEXANDRA DESANCTIS: Democrats Overplay Their Hand On Abortion: In New York and Virginia, state governments are working to loosen restrictions on late-term abortion—and giving the anti-abortion movement an opportunity. “It is unsurprising that abortions this late in pregnancy are vastly unpopular with the American public. Gallup polling from 2018 found that only 13 percent of Americans favor making third-trimester abortions “generally” legal, and only 18 percent of Democrats shared that position. Women reject late-term abortion at an even higher rate than men. A Marist survey from earlier this year found that 75 percent of Americans would limit abortion to, at most, the first three months of pregnancy, and majorities of Democrats and those who describe themselves as pro-choice agreed.”

This is why I think Trump should suggest we adopt a “more European” approach to the issue. Aside from the fun in watching lefties’ heads explode at having this “all civilized countries do it my way” argument thrown back at them, it’s also a political winner.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Why aren’t illiberal universities challenged? It’s high time academics started standing up to the campus thought police.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Conlawprof and Other Academic Writing on Northern Ireland and the EU.

THE VIRGINIA CLOWN SHOW CONTINUES: “McAuliffe was the governor of Virginia just before Northam, and Northam was his lieutenant governor, so McAuliffe could not avoid vouching for the man he was there to denounce. And with Northam having made such a fool of himself saying one thing and then another, it was important for McAuliffe to sound competent and lucid as he put together the argument that Northam has to go. That didn’t happen.”

DEAR NFL: DECLINE IS A CHOICE. Super Bowl Ratings Hit 10-Year Low In Historic NFL Game & Patriots’ Win.

OKAY, MAYBE IT WASN’T STOLEN VALOR, BUT HE AT LEAST BORROWED SOME WITHOUT PERMISSION: Ralph Northam, “doctor during the Gulf War,” on guns: “I witnessed the damage these guns can do firsthand as an Army doctor during the First Gulf War.”

Actual truth: “He was a child neurologist working at the Army’s Landstuhl Hospital in Germany.”

HARSH, BUT FAIR:

But that’s different, because shut up.

BRAZIL: Jair Bolsonaro faces congressional test for radical reforms. “Brazil’s president attempts pension and tax overhauls that have eluded his predecessors.”

Since he took office on January 1 he has used decree powers to relax restrictions on gun ownership and to make it easier for government officials to deny access to information, previously guaranteed by a 2012 freedom of information law.

Mr Bolsonaro’s supporters say they will quickly push ahead with reforms.

“Our whole project is a liberal project,” said Luciano Bivar, president of Mr Bolsonaro’s party, the PSL. “We will push for an open market economy, all the liberal reforms, with a lot of force.”

Among Mr Bolsonaro’s electoral promises was a plan to do away with Brazil’s separate system of labour courts and another to simplify the country’s labyrinthine municipal, state and federal tax systems into single national rates of income and value added tax.

I like the cut of his jib.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Gavin McInnes sues the SPLC.

The full complaint is here.

ON STEVE STIRLING’S RECOMMENDATION, I just finished Walter Jon Williams’ The Accidental War. It takes place in the Praxis universe, and it’s quite good.

THE CRISES ARE CONSTANTLY CHANGING, BUT THE SOLUTIONS ARE ALWAYS THE SAME: New Food Policy Report Calls for a Global War on Meat and Sugar.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: ‘Soak the Rich’ Resonates with Majority of Americans.

#JOURNALISM:

Well, you know, as Jim Treacher said in a tweet I’m finding a lot of occasions to invoke lately,

Or, if you prefer:

UPDATE: Standards: