RUSSIAN ASSETS: Top 2020 Dems Want to Do Putin’s Bidding, Ban Fracking.

INTERFERES WITH GRAFT: The Air Force Tried to Operate Efficiently — But Apparently That’s Not Allowed.

SEAN DAVIS: ANTI-TRUMP IMPEACHMENT THEATER IS ‘WATERGATE COSPLAY’ FOR DEMOCRATS.

Which makes perfect sense — today’s leftist college kids are engaged in cosplay versions of the ‘60s rebellions they read about on college campuses. In 2017, Steven Spielberg released The Post, his bookend to All the President’s Men, as a nudge for the swamp to relive 1973.

Though without the polyester shirts, hideous napkin-width neckties and lapel collars the length of a B-58’s wingspan, and perhaps, with a very different ending: Jonathan Turley Tells Disappointed CBS Hosts: Impeachment ‘Designed to Fail.’

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Eugenics Supporter AOC Accuses Trump of Supporting Eugenics.

Hey, you know which other proto-environmentalists went all-in supporting eugenics?

BUT OF COURSE: 60-Plus and Body Positive: The New Motto of This Boomer Woman.

ALL THREE NICHOLAS SANDMANN LAWSUITS TO GO FORWARD — WAPO, CNN, NBC.

TO BE FAIR, THEY’RE NOT ACTUALLY MEANT TO: California’s Restrictive Gun Laws Still Can’t Prevent Shootings.

I REMEMBER WHEN MONEY IN POLITICS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE BAD: Bloomberg Prepares Huge TV Blitz, Reserving $30 Million in Ads. Prediction: This won’t move the needle nearly as much as the political consultants (who take a cut of ad spending) are promising.

#JOURNALISM: “You mentioned that you were totally surprised when you found Project 1619 in your Sunday paper. You are one of the leading historians of the Civil War and slavery. And the Times did not approach you?”

THIS. IS. CNN. Chris Cuomo Called His Mom on Live TV to Debunk Trump. It Embarrassingly Backfired.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. “The misery, the injustice, doesn’t exist in spite of all the social justice activism, it exists because of it. And truthfully, as my own subtext from the preceding paragraphs indicates, it doesn’t actually exist at all. The world, this city, as I walk around in it, is simply not in its actions a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic place. But my God it feels like it, and the activists (or the media, but I repeat myself) won’t have it any other way. What does exist, in a fetid curtain as thick as the sad salmon hauled from the poison Duwamish, is the idea of injustice. The haunting spectre of it. And they have all – high and low, black and white, gay and straight, on and on – risen up in their holy alliance against it, not realizing how adept they have been, all the while, at creating their own need for it. Students are rewarded for writing about it. They are given extra credit for attending poetry readings about it. Their social capital portfolios are almost wholly dependent upon the growth of it. Resist and you’re in. Don’t and you’re dead. It’s a sinister little perpetual motion machine, eating from its own toilet to survive, and knowing on some instinctive, subconscious (dare I say invisible?) level, that achieving its stated purpose would only eliminate its only fuel source.”

“How oppressed they would feel if someone took their oppressors away!”

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NOW I WANT A CHALUPA: Drop The Chalupa On Obama/Hillary – DNC Ukraine Operative Visited WH 27 Times.

DON SURBER:

Instead of using a picture of Peggy Noonan to illustrate this post, I decided to use one of a politically savvy woman. Kim Kardashian got Donald John Trump to ditch 3 decades of Lock Em Up advocacy to promote and sign into law the first federal prison reform in my lifetime

Noonan at the Wall Street Journal is useless as George Will, Max Boot, Jennifer Rubin and the rest of the Washington Post.

They are relics of 20th century commentary in which newspaper columnists regularly got away with leaving out major portions of story to make their case. . . .

In the 21st century, columnists must offer actual proof to make their case because the truth seeps out online.

Well, where’s the fun in that?

Related: Peggy Noonan Reminds Us Why Trump Won.

Of course, all the public evidence makes her claim false. It’s hard to believe Trump “muscled” or “extorted” or “bribed” the Ukrainians when they didn’t even know the aid Trump allegedly withheld had been delayed. By the way, wasn’t it Trump, not the credentialed Obama, who sent Ukraine the Javelin anti-tank missiles that Obama withheld? Instead, Obama sent them blankets, no doubt worrying over the “reset” with Russia and keeping his promise to Vladimir of more foreign policy “flexibility.” And how exactly does Noonan know what Trump was thinking, or whether he was so worried about the self-imploding Joe Biden? You want to see some “muscling” and quid pro quo, watch the video of Biden bragging about holding up a billion dollars in aid if Ukraine didn’t quash an investigation of the dodgy Ukrainian company Burisma, which was paying his son $50-80,000 a month.

So it has been since the day Trump became a candidate. The bipartisan ruling caste closed ranks and started fighting off the barbarian invader.

Yeah, how’s that going?

HA HA! “DEMANDS.” China demands Trump veto bills on Hong Kong.

CHANGED MY HAIRSTYLE, SO MANY TIMES NOW, DON’T KNOW WHAT I LOOK LIKE: The moment a Chinese spy decided to defect to Australia: Staring at his own face in a false passport triggered something in Wang Liqiang. After five years as a Chinese spy he was at risk of losing himself. So he decided to defect to Australia.

But there’s something going on. Chinese spies are being found out, abroad and in the United States, in surprising numbers. That means there are even more of them out and about, of course. But for the Chinese, it raises the question of how many we knew about before, and how many we fed bogus information to.

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TEACH WOMEN NOT TO HOUND PEOPLE INTO SUICIDE: Boston College student pleads not guilty in boyfriend’s texting suicide case.

BLUE ON BLUE: Harris Slams Buttigieg for Claiming Being Gay ‘Connects’ Him to Black Voters.

I REMEMBER WHEN ELECTED CIVILIAN CONTROL OF THE MILITARY WAS A KEY AMERICAN VALUE: Defying Trump, Navy Secretary backs effort to revoke tridents from Eddie Gallagher and other SEALs.

UPDATE: From the comments: “Pretty bizzare to to publicly criticize the Commander in Chief in the name of ‘good order and discipline’!” That’s different because shut up.

FIX THE MEDICAL GAP! Men less likely to see primary care provider than women.

Or as has been said: “Although women tend to love the notion of government control more than men do, it is women who will be told they’ll have to cut back. On treatments. And years. You know we’ve been taking more than our share.”

“CLEAR VIOLATION:” Complaint: Virginia Dem Violated Ethics Rules.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Dem. Rep. Alcee Hastings, who faces House ethics probe, paid his girlfriend more than his chief of staff.