WELL, GOOD: U.S. carried out secret cyber strike on Iran in wake of Saudi oil attack.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the operation took place in late September and took aim at Tehran’s ability to spread “propaganda.”

One of the officials said the strike affected physical hardware, but did not provide further details.

The attack highlights how President Donald Trump’s administration has been trying to counter what it sees as Iranian aggression without spiraling into a broader conflict.

Wasn’t Trump supposed to be the bumbler who got us into wars everywhere?

SHE’S JUST TALKING ABOUT RUSSIANS TO COVER UP THAT SHE’S ON THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT’S PAYROLL. See, I can do it too.

Flashback: Russians! Under my bed!

Related: During all the Russia hacking hype, China is rising in influence: While Russia’s role in the 2016 election dominates the news, China’s spying and alarming influence within our borders is too little noticed.

MEDICINE: PDE5 Inhibitors Like Viagra, Cialis Associated With 35% Reduction In Colorectal Cancer.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Quid pro nothing: Trump accusers don’t care about the facts.

Related: Schiff caught tampering with another witness.

Against precedent, and under the cover of secrecy, he’s holding hearings to impeach President Trump, loudly stating that he’s doing it secretly to make sure the Trump-linked witnesses don’t coordinate to get their stories straight.

Turns out it’s him who’s doing the coordinating, and secrecy is his vehicle. Based on news like this, it turns out all that secrecy wasn’t really about Those Bad Witnesses who might plot to get their stories straight as each hears and responds to the next one.

It’s actually about Schiff’s own coordinatings — which is an entire panoply of manipulating witnesses in different ways to advance his “narrative.”

On the one hand, Schiff browbeats and distorts the words of the witnesses who don’t say what he wants in his secret basement hearings, and then on the other, in still more secrecy, he coordinates for the best advantage with the ones who will say exactly what he wants them to say.

Secrecy see, allows him to get what he wants both ways.

This whole thing stinks.

SNOPES WAS TOO BUSY ATTACKING THE BABYLON BEE TO GET THIS RIGHT: Viral liberal hoax claims Chick-fil-A backed a law to execute gay people. “How sad is it that we have to fact-check the fact-checkers? Unfortunately, though, many ostensibly neutral fact-checkers have become too obviously infected by liberal bias for us to take them at their word. Snopes is the latest fact-checker to do its readers a massive disservice. This time, their dereliction of duty concerns the smearing of Chick-fil-A. The story here is an audacious liberal hoax that accused the delicious fast food chain of supporting anti-gay death penalty laws in Uganda.”

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Not much was told about their motivation in the media.

The farmers gave harsh climate change and environmental protection laws as their primary goal, also complaining about being treated as lower class scum by media elites.

The media ran with the latter.

Of course.

And do read the whole thing.

WILL THEY SOLVE THIS SHORT OF ROPES AND LAMPPOSTS?

DON’T GET COCKY: Elizabeth Warren the front-runner? That’s great news for Republicans.

I HAD MISSED THIS: About a mile of new wall built each day along Mexico border, Pentagon says. Weird that it’s not getting much coverage.

THE MASTER AT WORK: Trump Trolls Dems With His Announcement of His Doral Resort as G-7 Summit.

BREAKING: Impeachment Witness Says He Tried To Warn About Ukraine Influence — With Biden.

Another torpedo circling back.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Worth breaking this bit out, I think:

Impeachment, as it turns out, cuts any number of ways. In their attempt to prove that Donald Trump tried to strongarm Ukraine into digging up dirt on Joe Biden, House Democrats dug some up on their own. The Washington Post reports that a career State Department officer tried to warn officials in the Obama administration about the conflict of interest that Hunter Biden’s work created in Ukraine and with efforts to target corruption. When those warnings reached the Vice President’s office in early 2015, Biden’s team shut them down.

This is serious.

TYLER O’NEIL: Sondland Testifies: No Quid Pro Quo in Ukraine Call, Trump Policy. “I knew that a public embrace of anti-corruption reforms by Ukraine was one of the pre-conditions for securing a White House meeting with President Zelensky. My view was, and has always been, that such Western reforms are consistent with U.S. support for rule of law in Ukraine going back decades, under both Republican and Democrat administrations. Nothing about that request raised any red flags for me, Ambassador Volker, or Ambassador Taylor.”

CONGRATULATIONS TO COL. JULIAN “GHOST” CHEATER who is getting his brigadier general stars pinned on this hour.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Why does UNC have such a high sexual assault rate? Because it defines nearly everything as sexual assault.

YOU STAY CLASSY, DEMS: Trump Posts Lovely Tweet About Elijah Cummings, Still Gets Attacked By Media And Left. “How would they have responded if it had been Trump who passed?”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Schools celebrate ‘International Pronoun Day’ with ‘ze’ buttons, advice on pronoun ‘privilege.’

Remember, when taxpayers don’t want to fund this stuff, it’s because of “anti-intellectualism.”

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump Rallies Bigly and Stress-Free in Dallas. “While watching the response he was getting at the rally, I was also perusing a variety of news feeds, and I was once again struck by the stark contrast between the media hysteria and the enthusiasm of the regular Americans who flocked to the president in Dallas. It all seemed so familiar.”