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ISRAEL: Prime Minister Netanyahu to Be Indicted for Bribery. “With the election six weeks away and Likud trailing in the polls, many are questioning the timing of the announcement.”

Ya think?

FASTER, PLEASE: NASA is going back to the future with nuclear rockets.

RUN ALL THE CANDIDATES! Beto Won’t Challenge Senator Cornyn’s Re-election Bid, Expected to Announce 2020 Bid.

HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): Ex-transgender man now wants to live as sexless ALIEN and has had nipples removed.

A REVIEW OF THE MEATLESS “IMPOSSIBLE BURGER.” “It’s a completely acceptable, fairly satisfying burger, but the company is already trumpeting the taste-merits of its upcoming Impossible Burger 2.0, which, in addition to being gluten-free, will taste like what one food writer said was “‘well massaged Kobe ribeye.'” But nutritionally, it’s inferior to beef.

NEW BLOGS: My friend and conservative political consultant/commentator Kelly Maher left Denver for the Colorado countryside a while back, and has turned her experiences into a new lifestyle blog, RealBestLife.

Lots of good stuff there. Check it out.

ROGER KIMBALL: The Decline and Fall of Classical Studies.

THE POWER OF THE WALK-AWAY: Kim Jong Un willing to sit down with Trump again, North Korea state media says.

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will raise their baby as ‘gender fluid’ and will avoid any stereotypes, according to friends.

Peter Hitchens, call your office: The next update to The Abolition of Britain just wrote itself.

HOPES FOR A FULL AND SPEEDY RECOVERY: The Sheldon Adelson I got to meet.

HELL, THEY DEPRESS ME: Millennial depression on the rise, study says.

HMM: U.S. offers $1 million bounty in hunt for bin Laden’s son.

ANDREW BREITBART, GONE SEVEN YEARS: WE MISS YOU FRIEND.

Related: Andrew Breitbart on Hollywood: Interrupted. From 2005, my first interview with Andrew.

HOW DO YOU “HIT A ROCK” ON A FROZEN LAKE? A Tesla Burned to a Crisp on a Vermont Lake. We Walked Out There and Found It.

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: Navy Declares Initial Operational Capability for F-35C Joint Strike Fighter.

THIS IS CNN: CNN didn’t disclose Democratic Party ties of questioners in Sanders town hall.

“Though we said at the beginning of the Town Hall that the audience was made up of Democrats and Independents, we should have more fully identified any political affiliations,” the cable news network said in a statement.

The outlet has come under fire for presenting the questioners on Monday’s episode as everyday voters, without mentioning that some are local party officials or work for politically connected firms.

Among those who quizzed the socialist presidential hopeful was Baltimore County Democratic Party Chair Tara Ebersole, who was identified on the episode only as a “former biology professor,” and Charles County Democratic Central Committee Chair Abena McAllister, who was described as “an active Democrat,” according to Mediaite.

Yunjung Seo was introduced as a college student, but neither host Wolf Blitzer nor the on-screen chyron mentioned that she is an intern at Democratic fundraising outfit the Katz Watson Group, according to her LinkedIn page.

And Shadi Nasab was also presented as a college student, even though her LinkedIn page says she is an intern at DC lobbying firm Cassidy and Associates.

So, the questioners weren’t much different from CNN staff.

OOPS: Democrats’ anti-Trump tax cut talking point just collapsed — tax refunds are up this year.

TWICE AS MANY WOMEN AS MEN DOING STUDY-ABROAD PROGRAMS:

That’s a strange use of the word “outcome.” And who decides what is “gratifying” and “memorable”? Everything that you do takes the place of something else, so you’re always “missing out” on something. It seems that the female perspective is offered as the one that counts.

You could just as well say, The outcome is that many women are missing out on what for many is one of college’s most gratifying and memorable experiences… because they’re not devoting themselves to a demanding STEM program.

This is another manifestation of something that I’ve often noted in journalistic reports of gender difference: Whatever is true of the female will be presented as good.

True. My hypothesis, aside from the STEM one above: People do study abroad in hopes of meeting new sexual partners. Men, heavily outnumbered on campus by women, don’t have to go abroad for that. Women, with a shortage of men on campus, do.

GREAT: The Feds’ Favorite iPhone Hacking Tool Is Selling On eBay For $100—And It’s Leaking Data.

Cellebrite isn’t happy about those secondhand sales. On Tuesday, two sources from the forensics industry passed Forbes a letter from Cellebrite warning customers about reselling its hugely popular hacking devices because they could be used to access individuals’ private data. Rather than return the UFEDs to Cellebrite so they can be properly decommissioned, it appears police or other individuals who’ve acquired the machines are flogging them and failing to properly wipe them. Cybersecurity researchers are now warning that valuable case data and powerful police hacking tools could have leaked as a result.

Am I reading this correctly, that police are reselling hacking tools for private gain?

UNEXPECTEDLY: Network that employs Al Sharpton really struggling to admit that Ilhan Omar’s just an anti-Semite.

The socialism of fools, indeed: Why is the left (both in America and abroad) such a cesspit of anti-Semitism?

SPENGLER: ‘The Insider’s Guide to the Hebrew Bible.’

Claremont Review of Books is the “brainiest and best” among conservative publications, I’ve claimed previously on this page, and it is a privilege to contribute. The new issue has must-read essays by Charles Kessler on Trump in 2020 and Michael Anton on draining the swamp. It also presents my review-essay on a landmark edition of the Pentateuch in five volumes, with thousands of explanatory notes by the leading Orthodox Jewish authority of the 20th century, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik. He is known to Christian readers through his essay “The Lonely Man of Faith.” This magisterial work fairly might be called the insider’s guide to the Hebrew Bible. Clarement Review has generously unlocked the article for a limited time as a courtesy to PJ Media readers.

Clarement Review has generously unlocked the article for a limited time as a courtesy to PJ Media readers.I’m what we Jews call a “ba’al teshuvah,” a “returnee,” that is, observant later in life. I was brought up in a secular home and remained an atheist until my mid-30s. Not until the age of 40 did I attend synagogue weekly. Ten years ago I joined an Orthodox synagogue and became observant, after I encountered the work of Rabbi Soloveitchik. Reading the first pages of his book And From There You Shall Seek I fell off my chair–literally. I suppose one would call it a conversion experience.

You can read Spengler’s entire review here.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: House Dems explode in recriminations as AOC threatens to put moderates on “a list.”

But are there enough moderates to hit 57 on “the list?”