I HAVE A STORY IN THIS:  Those in Peril (The Phases of Mars).

PINCHES BRIDGE OF NOSE.  LOOK, BLONDES ARE TELLING OCASIO-CORTEZ JOKES:  How Dumb Is Ocasio-Cortez?

HE’S NOT WRONG:  “Bait and switch” prices are still going strong.

DUH:  Big Study: Video games do -not- cause violence.

SOCIALIST IS AS SOCIALIST DOES. IN HER IDEAL STATE EVERYONE PRETENDS TO WORK, AND THE GOVERNMENT PRETENDS TO PAY THEM:  Ocasio-Cortez: let’s help the workers by losing them some potential jobs.

A BIT OF COMEDY FOR YOUR FRIDAY NIGHT:  Smollett Story Collapses Along with Liberal Virtue Signaling.

OKAY, FIRST IT IS A NATIONAL EMERGENCY. DEFENDING THE BORDERS IS ONE OF THE ACTUAL, LEGITIMATE FUNCTIONS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, AND THE ENDLESS “CARAVANS” ORGANIZED BY COMMUNIST FRONTS ARE AN ATTACK ON OUR BORDER.  SECOND, YEAH, IT’S TOO MUCH POWER IN THE HANDS OF THE EXECUTIVE. THIRD AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, WHY IS OUR GOVERNMENT DOING THINGS LIKE MEDDLING WITH HEALTH CARE AND NOT ITS BASIC, CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES OF DEFENDING OUR BORDERS?  What Does A National Emergency Actually Mean?

IF THEY’RE GOING TO BE A NATION STATE WITH AN OPEN BORDER, WHAT THEY’RE GOING TO BE IS PART OF MEXICO. AND WE WILL TOO, UNLESS WE PUT THE WALL PAST CALIFORNIA:  California To Be Nation-State To Thwart Trump.

POSSIBLY WELL PAST ENOUGH:  Enough Is Enough.

FASTER, PLEASE:  Miracle anti-aging pill nearer reality after breakthrough.

HE WAS LOOKING FOR MISSING SOCKS:  Mountain lion peers out from behind family’s washing machine.

GIVING NEW MEANING TO THE QUICK AND THE DEAD:   Female bodies block slow sperm, research finds.

PAUL RAHE ON the Tenth Circuit and breasts.

OH DEAR:  OCASIO-CORTEZ THINKS NEW YORK SHOULD TAKE THE “$3 BILLION” IT WAS “WILLING TO GIVE AMAZON” AND INVEST IT IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.  She doesn’t realize that was money Amazon was going to bring to the area.  New York was simply agreeing not to take it away.

STACY MCCAIN: San Francisco and the Winter of Hate.

QUIETLY ARMED: It’s A Family Affair.

CORNELL STUDENTS SCANDALIZED BY 90-YEAR-OLD’S USE OF WORD “NEGRO”: This is the kind of stuff that makes me wish it were legal to spank the little brats.

USA TODAY: An illegal immigrant killed my daughter. Trump’s right — we must complete the border wall.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend!

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Cher Splashes Cold Water on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Celebrity Cult. “Are 25 Thousand New Jobs (Plus Thousands of Ancillary Jobs) Not a Good Idea For The Ppl Of NY?!”

Since AOC believes that the world is ending in 12 years, to paraphrase a dowager New York (carpetbagging) socialist, really, at this point, what difference does it make?

FASTER, PLEASE: Moon Rush: NASA Wants Commercial Lunar Delivery Services to Start This Year.

MISSING FROM THIS STORY — ANY REFERENCE TO THE FACT THAT MEL WATT IS A DEMOCRAT: Mel Watt misused federal post, tried to ‘coerce’ worker into relationship, report says.

UPDATE: Well, sometimes shaming works. Now it says “Watt, a Democrat” at the end.

BUT ENOUGH ABOUT NEW YORK POLITICIANS: Orangutans make complex economic decisions.

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THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP: I’m Old Enough to Remember When Democrats Loved Unilateral Executive Actions on Immigration.

Flashback to my discussion of U.S. v Spawr Optical. More here.

UPDATE: Wielding A Pen And A Phone, Obama Goes It Alone.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Seen on Facebook: