SHOCKER: Saudi Airman May Have Become Radicalized Before US Navy Base Attack.

THE DOCTOR IS IN: Theodore Dalrymple on Britain’s Vanishing Culture & Character (Video).

Exit quote: “Where everyone is a bohemian, no one is a bohemian.”

JEEZ, WHERE YA BEEN, HOMER? THE WHOLE STEEL INDUSTRY’S GAY: Italian mob open to gay members, as long as they don’t ‘parade it in public.’

(Classical reference in headline.)

YOU DON’T HAVE TO FALL IN LOVE, YOU JUST HAVE TO FALL IN LINE:

● You know you’re not legally required to like Jeremy Corbyn in order to vote for him right?

—Headline, the London Grauniad, December 2nd.

● Don’t vote Tory because you don’t like Jeremy Corbyn – nobody is asking you to go on holiday with him.

—Headline, the London Independent, December 4th.

As Kate writes at Small Dead Animals, “If You Can’t Convince, Then Try Begging.”

(Classical reference in headline.)

ROGER SIMON: Suppose They Threw an Impeachment and Nobody Came?

RED YELLOW JOURNALISM: When it comes to covering Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism, mainstream outlets are having a hard time telling the truth.

According to a report published earlier this month, 84% of British Jews feel that Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is a “threat specifically to Jews.” Two-thirds of Labour supporters hold at least one anti-Semitic view, the frequent, public expression of which since Corbyn’s ascension four years ago has caused the party to come under investigation by Britain’s Equalities and Human Rights Commission (making Labour the only political party, after the avowedly racist British National Party, to face such an inquiry). Most chilling is a poll commissioned by the Jewish News finding that half of British Jews would “seriously consider” leaving the country if Corbyn becomes prime minister after next week’s general election. In the words of the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism’s Gideon Falter, “British Jews are considering leaving the country on a scale unprecedented since medieval times.” This is a very disturbing moment for British Jewry, but it is also, I might argue, an even more threatening moment for Britain itself.

Which is why I am baffled that The New York Times, which prides itself on fearlessly reporting the truth, would in this case overtly and obviously obfuscate it.

Why? Just substitute Labour for Democrats, and the Gray Lady’s bias makes perfect sense.

DIVERSITY IS AS SCIENTIFIC AS CHIROPRACTY: Physiology instructor booted from chiropractic college after ridiculing diversity. Okay, actually, probably not.

OUT SOON FROM MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE BEN BARTON: Fixing Law Schools: From Collapse to the Trump Bump and Beyond.

AMID MEDIA’S RECESSION PANIC, US ENDS DECADE WITH ROBUST, BOOMING JOBS NUMBERS:

The final jobs report released in the 2010s shows the economy is both vibrant and growing.

This may or may not come as an unwelcome surprise to those who have spent the last several months warning that a recession is right around the corner.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that employers added an astounding 266,000 jobs in November, pushing the unemployment rate down to 3.5%, its lowest point since the year astronauts first walked on the moon.

The U6 unemployment rate, which is a broader measure of real unemployment, registered at 7.2% in November, which is on par with numbers reported over the summer. The labor force participation rate meanwhile held steady at about 63.2%, while wage growth actually increased by 3.1% over the last year.

In other words, it is an excellent report that “crushes” all earlier expectations, especially in the “jobs added” category. In fact, to put Friday’s numbers in perspective, Bloomberg News’s rosiest estimates predicted 180,000 new jobs. The actual number surpasses even those expectations.

This is good news for everyone — everyone, that is, except for the people who have cheered both explicitly and implicitly for a recession as a means to oust President Trump from office.

Democratic Party operatives with bylines typically get a case of what Virginia Postrel dubbed “Depression lust” in 2008 when there’s a Republican in the White House, and an election is coming up. Sure, it’s battlefield preparation for their presidential candidate, but their economic gloom is also driven by the contractions of their own industry: Media layoffs: 7,700 jobs cut this year at CNN, BuzzFeed, newspapers, and more.

HERO: U.S. Naval Academy graduate died relaying crucial information to first responders.

IT CONTINUES: Hong Kong sees biggest protests since democrats’ election boost.

STANDING UP TO BIGOTRY: DOE launches investigation into Georgetown for alleged anti-male discrimination. “The Department of Education is investigating Georgetown University after allegations of sex discrimination made in an official inquiry by the National Coalition for Men. Allegations include, but aren’t limited to; unfair preferences for women in hiring processes and endorsement of clubs and initiatives that exclude men.”

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IS INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY EVEN POSSIBLE IF WE’RE ALL JUST A BUNCH OF DOMINOES? Dominoes have no choice about how or when they fall, they just react. Without free will, we’re kidding ourselves about preserving individual freedom because we’re merely matter in motion, acting and reacting according to material forces.

This is the fundamental dividing line separating Right and Left. As with its Marxism root, identity politics makes us all slaves of our group, based on ethnicity, gender, income level, etc. Conservatives and libertarians know individuals have free will, and make choices for which they are responsible. But making choices requires reasoning, which is an attribute of agency. See where this is going?

TIGHTENING THE SCREWS: Trump calls for World Bank to stop loaning to China.

REP. AYANNA PRESSLEY WANTS TO MAKE A FEDERAL CASE OUT OF SCHOOL DISCIPLINE (AGAIN):  New bill seeks to re-establish federal control over school discipline policy.  This is a battle I have already fought (and I thought I’d won when Education Secretary DeVos withdrew the Obama-Era “Dear Colleague” Letter on school discipline). Please let’s not do this again.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Bernie Sanders Campaign Wishes “Best” to BDS “Jew Money” Staffer.

HOW WEIGHT TRAINING Changes The Brain.

HMMMM: Maybe Democrats don’t want an impeachment.

GOT WOKE, MADE OTHERS BROKE: Goldman Sachs may get $2B fine over star-studded 1MBD fraud: report.

But their pronouns were perfect: The problem with Goldman Sachs’s preferred pronouns. Accepting ‘ze/zir’ is accepting the idea that sex is mutable and gender is innate.

SOMETIMES, MOST OF THE TIME, WHATEVER: Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell is a seething reminder that sometimes the “fake news” label is accurate.