GRETA SNUBBED BY NOBEL PEACE COMMITTEE:

Who did win the celebrated Nobel Peace Prize? Ugh, some African dude who didn’t skip school, get on the cover of Time magazine, or even travel by yacht. The only thing this guy accomplished was ending a 20-year war. How do you sell that lame story on “Morning Joe?”

How dare you!

ANTI-GUN SENTIMENT SHRINKS DICK’S: Dick’s CEO Says Anti-Gun Policy Shrank Company by a ‘Quarter Billion Dollars.’

SAN FRANCISCO, HOSTAGE TO THE HOMELESS:

For the last three decades, San Francisco has conducted a real-life experiment in what happens when a society stops enforcing bourgeois norms of behavior. The city has done so in the name of compassion toward the homeless. The results have been the opposite: street squalor and misery have increased, even as government expenditures have ballooned. Yet the principles that have guided the city’s homelessness policy remain inviolate: homelessness is a housing problem; it is involuntary; and its persistence is the result of inadequate public spending. These propositions are readily disproved by talking to people living on the streets.

It’s Heather Mac Donald, so read the whole thing.

IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE SATIRE, BUT IS IT REALLY? Elizabeth Warren Recalls How She Lost Her Teaching Job When Her Fake Mustache Fell Off Revealing She’s A Woman.

LARRY ELDER: The Rise of Young Black Conservatives. “These young people did not think of themselves as victims. They recognized their good fortune as Americans living in a country of opportunity where their own future will be bright if they work hard. “

JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: The Media Bend Over Backward to Protect Elizabeth Warren from the Washington Free Beacon’s Damaging Scoop.

WHICH IS ON PURPOSE, AND STUPID: Californians Learning That Solar Panels Don’t Work in Blackouts. “That’s because most panels are designed to supply power to the grid — not directly to houses. During the heat of the day, solar systems can crank out more juice than a home can handle. Conversely, they don’t produce power at all at night. So systems are tied into the grid, and the vast majority aren’t working this week as PG&E Corp. cuts power to much of Northern California to prevent wildfires.”

It’s almost like they don’t want you to be independent.

LIZ WARREN WILL BE A TERRIBLE NOMINEE. AND SHE’LL PROBABLY BE THE NOMINEE. Warren’s same-sex marriage quip captures what some find exciting — and others distressing — about her.

About 90 minutes into Thursday’s forum on LGBTQ issues in Los Angeles, a gay rights leader posed a question to Sen. Elizabeth Warren: How would she respond if a voter approached her and said, “I’m old-fashioned, and my faith teaches me that marriage is between one man and one woman?”

Warren (D-Mass.) responded with a theatrical seriousness. “Well, I’m going to assume it’s a guy who said that,” she deadpanned, pausing a beat for the audience to catch the joke. Then she added, “And I’m going to say, ‘Then just marry one woman — I’m cool with that.’ ”

She finished with a zinger: “‘Assuming you can find one.’ ”

How dare she assume his gender. But there’s also this:

After landing her punchline, Warren turned, took a few steps and smiled broadly as the room exploded in laughter. Her response went viral online, and by Friday afternoon, Warren’s campaign team, which rarely brags about such things, was crowing that the clip had garnered more than 12 million views on Twitter.

The glitterati gushed. “The single greatest response to this question, in or outside politics,” wrote actress Minnie Driver. “Made my day,” added actress Alyssa Milano. Javier Muñoz, who recently played the title role in the smash musical “Hamilton,” posted seven emoji of clapping hands.

But Republicans and some Democrats warned that the quip at the CNN-sponsored forum would play poorly among a big swath of voters.

“It’s about telling people who don’t agree with you that they are backward by definition,” said Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic strategist who advised Bill Clinton’s presidential reelection campaign. The line was a “stab” to those who don’t agree with her, he said, and “it is a battle cry for men to turn out against Elizabeth Warren.”

Yes. If you don’t want to be made to care, you’ll want to vote against Elizabeth Warren.

Plus: “Still, one issue for Warren could be how such comments play with black voters, some of whom are socially conservative. Warren probably will need to appeal to African Americans to secure the Democratic nomination and win the White House, but has so far made few inroads with the black community.”

AT AMAZON, bestsellers in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense.

ICYMI, LIARS AND LEAKERS ABOUND: Defense Intelligence Agency worker arrested on charges of leaking top-secret information to reporters.

THAT WOULD BE GOOD. GOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY, WHICH HAS NO WARRANT IN THE CONSTITUTION, IS THE GREATEST EXAMPLE OF JUDICIAL ACTIVISM EXTANT: Supreme Court May Be Preparing to Consider Several Major Cases on Qualified Immunity.

SPENGLER: Trump may have secured re-election today: President’s decision to call armistice in trade war with China could be milestone on his way to second term.

MATT TAIBBI: We’re in a permanent coup: Americans might soon wish they just waited to vote their way out of the Trump era.

This is going to end with Trump having a Yeltsin-on-the-tanks moment, isn’t it? If so, we just need to be sure it isn’t followed by a Putin.

TRADE WARS ARE FUN AND EASY TO WIN: Cramer on Trump vs. China: ‘Hate him or like him, he has them where he wants them.’

UPDATE: From the comments: “The Chinese must have decided Trump is going to be re-elected.” Don’t get cocky. Until election day, they assumed Hillary would win. But yes, I think that’s one of the things this means.

OPEN THREAD: It’s Friday night.

THE NBA IS TRASH. The NBA’s China Problem Gets Worse After 2 American Arenas Eject Hong Kong Supporters.

WE HAVE A SIT-DOWN DINNER EVERY NIGHT. I insisted on that from the time our daughter was born, and we still do it. How America Lost Dinner. The Insta-Wife recently admitted that my approach was a good one.

OKAY, THE MATT LAUER STUFF MAKES MORE SENSE: NBC News Chief Noah Oppenheim’s Harvard Writings on Women and Sexual Assault Horrify Staffers. He’s a journalist, but he doesn’t know it’s “free rein,” not “free reign.” He should be fired for that alone.

JOHN HINDERAKER ON LEFTIST ASSAULTS ON TRUMP SUPPORTERS: Last Night, We Saw Fascism In The Streets.

REMEMBER, TRUMP IS THE CRAZY ONE:

NEW YORK SUN: A Star Is Born in the Battle Over Trump’s Tax Returns.

A star is born. The big news in appeals court ruling in the House’s subpoena for President Trump’s tax records is not that the court supports it, though that’s no small thing. It’s the dissent by the newly minted appeals judge on the D.C. Circuit, Neomi Rao. She reckons that the way House is going after Mr. Trump violates the constitutional prohibition against bills of attainder.

Brava, your honor. The chief editorial writer of the Sun has been singing this song since Senator Biden and his Judiciary Committee colleagues launched their attack on Justice-to-be Clarence Thomas. The prohibition on bills of attainder, in which a legislature condemns an individual, are flatly prohibited, both to the state and federal governments. They’re as un-American as titles of nobility.

Judge Rao cuts through the House’s humbug about how this investigation is being made pursuant to the legislative power — as if what the House wants is better laws regulating the president. If that had been its interest, of course, the House would have been trying for generations to pass laws cramping our presidents. The judge gets that the claims to a legislative purpose are gossamer.

The judge quotes a memorandum by the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Elijah Cummings, a major figure in Congress. The memo, Judge Rao noted, said the committee was investigating “whether the President may have engaged in illegal conduct” and notes that this information would inform “its review of multiple laws and legislative proposals under our jurisdiction.”

What the judge sees in that is the committee announcing “two distinct investigations” — “one to explore allegations of illegal conduct by the President; and another to review multiple laws and legislative proposals within the Committee’s jurisdiction. Yet, she notes, the committee “justifies both inquiries under the legislative power,” and, she adds, the court’s majority accepts that framework.

She, however, does not. Congress’s legislative powers, she notes, are “limited and enumerated.” In America, “legislative power does not include the exercise of judicial power to determine the guilt or innocence of individuals.”

The full opinion, which I have not read, is here.

Related: Ed Whelan:

I have not been able to sort through the competing arguments to assess who has the stronger position. Many other folks, however, were able to launch vehement attacks against Judge Rao within minutes of the time the opinion was issued. None of the criticisms I saw provided any evidence that the attackers had actually read Rao’s dissent. So I figure that it would be useful to present a summary of her major arguments.

Enjoy.

HMM: Shepard Smith leaves Fox News Channel. He was probably the viewers’ least favorite anchor, but this seems rather . . . sudden.

UPDATE: “He was escorted out by security, per sources.”

UPDATE (From Ed): “From a Fox News spokesperson: ‘Shep’s exit from the building was planned and executed by Shep with Fox’s complete approval and the full support of FOX News – he was not remotely escorted out.’”

More (From Ed): “NBC News reporter Jo Ling Kent has deleted her erroneous tweet claiming that Shep Smith was escorted out by Fox News security.”

(Updated and bumped.)

EW. Professional Cyclist Shares Shocking Pictures of His Leg Muscles. I’ll stick with lifting, thank you.