THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Another anti-Semitic Democrat? Valerie Plame announces congressional run.

Related: Leftist Darling Valerie Plame Wilson Is A Bit Of An Anti-Semite. She recently deleted several anti-Semitic tweets, including this one from 2017:

In 2014, Plame Wilson tweeted a link to an article by the same author entitled: “Why I Dislike Israel.”

“Well put, Mr. Giraldi,” she wrote in a tweet linking to the piece.

Also memory holed, along with a tweet apparently linking to yet another article by Philip Giraldi, that reads “I never heard this story about 9/11: The Dancing Israelis.”

I know this is a rhetorical question, but will any journalists ask her about these tweets?

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: AOC and Bernie Have a Brilliant New Idea for Banking.

There are dumb ideas and then there’s whatever this is.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders have teamed up to introduce the idea of “non-profit banking services” done via the post office, where sub-prime loans would be given out to people who are terrible credit risks, thereby causing high default rates. Because absolutely nothing bad could come of that.

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Handing out loans to high credit risks is how you get a crash like we had in 2008.

Yet, here’s AOC and Bernie suggesting that not only should banks give out junk loans, but that the Postal Service should be doing the lending. That’s the same Postal Service that lost $3.6B last year alone. Now these two socialists want them to take on even more losses via giving out bad loans? It’s completely insane.

Cloward and Piven, the next generation.

BEING CHRISTIAN ISN’T THE SAME AS BEING “NICE.” Yes, Christians Can Support Trump Without Risk to Their Witness.

UPDATE: From the comments: “I wasn’t hiring a pastor. I was hiring a Patton.”

Also: “One of the strangest phenomena of the Left has been its certainty that Christianity is simultaneously everything it hates, and only what it likes.”

ARE SCHOOL CURRICULA BREEDING SCHOOL SHOOTERS? A reader emails:

I am curious whether anyone is looking at prevalent trends in English curricula and their impact on vulnerable kids.

I’m the mother of a 15 year-old boy who attends a (very white, very suburban) 7-12 private school. This year the school removed 1984 from the curriculum and replaced it with Parable of the Sower because – as my son’s English teacher (inaccurately) put it – it was written by a white male and featured a white protagonist. No Shakespeare for 10th graders this year: room had to be made for The Handmaid’s Tale.

This follows a pattern of feeding the students a steady diet of modern dystopian horrors that began with Ender’s Game (pre-seventh summer reading) and continues apace. The classics are blessed with irony, humor, and hope. The current curriculum – at least, at my son’s school – is bleak and depressing. My son used to love reading. Now I can barely persuade him to pick up a book in his free time.

I have nothing against modern literature, but my own healthy teenager admits these books drag him down. The essays the kids are required to write are also along the what-does-this-say-about-our-own-future variety. I find myself wondering if the net effect of the English and Science (all climate change, all the time) program is to take many otherwise hopeful young people and turn them into nihilists.

Is anyone looking at this? I have raised it with the school and the administration thinks I’m the crazy one. Of course, I rely not on facts and figures, but on my own fiftysomething reaction to the steady drumbeat of depressing modern fiction the kids are being fed.

Well, a constant diet of that sort of stuff certainly doesn’t help. I’m increasingly coming to think that entrusting your kids to professional K-12 educators verges on child abuse.

SOVIET COMMUNISM–THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING: Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism:

The messaging emanating from today’s far-left anti-Zionist camp is strikingly similar to the messaging of the Soviet anti-Zionist campaigns. From the claims of Zionist collaboration with the Nazis in the Holocaust, to the idea of Zionism as an inherently racist and oppressive ideology, to the concept of Israel as a settler-colonialist state that engages in genocidal behavior and apartheid – all of these ideas were part and parcel of the Soviet anti-Zionist narrative.

An important essay on a much-neglected topic. Read the whole thing.

ASIDE: When I was a senior in college in 1988, a classmate went to the USSR on a peace tour. When he came back, he wrote an essay about the trip for the school paper. He mentioned that he had met with “Soviet Jewish leaders” and that while some reform was in order, the Jewish population of the USSR was generally content and didn’t want to leave. Within three years, given the opportunity, over a million of them left. This particular useful idiocy has stayed with me…

WHAT’S HER SECRET? High School Senior Admitted To All 115 Colleges She Applied To, With $3.7 Million In Scholarship Offers.

OUCH: “One of the Democrats today — it’s a he — sleepy person — said that he heard from a lot of foreign leaders, and they want him to be President. Of course they do…” “… so they can continue to rip off the United States. Of course, they do. Of course. I think if I heard that, I’d never vote for him. And then you have Bernie. Bernie. Then you have Bernie. You got some real beauties. Crazy Bernie. You got a choice between Sleepy Joe and Crazy Bernie. And I’ll take any of ’em. Pick somebody, please. Let’s start this thing. Let’s start it. Pick somebody! We have a young man, Boot-edge-edge. Boot. Edge. Edge. They say: edge, edge. He’s got a great chance, doesn’t he? He’ll be great. He’ll be great. Representing us against President Xi of China. That’ll be great. That’ll be great. I wanna be in that room. I wanna watch that one.”

Plus: “It’s funny, it seems like he’s rambling and just gesturing at passing thoughts, but the argument against his opponents is very clear and very well thought out.”

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Chicago Cubs Ban Fan for Flashing ‘White Supremacist’ Sign, Otherwise Known as the OK Symbol. “Here’s a picture. Out of consideration for the sensitivities of the audience, NBC has thoughtfully blurred out the offending hand gesture.”

PETE BUTTIGIEG MAKES SURPRISE IN-KIND CONTRIBUTION TO THE TRUMP 2020 CAMPAIGN: Buttigieg Attending Fundraiser Hosted By Film Director Who Said Every Trump Voter ‘Is A Low Life Piece Of S***.’

They told me that Trump’s election would usher in a dark era of incivility in America, and they were right!

SHAKEDOWN STATE: How an uprooted oak tree cost California couple $600K.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 25 of the Best Cheap Used Luxury Cars You Can Buy.

BAN ALL THE THINGS! Beverly Hills Could Become First City in U.S. to Ban Sales of Tobacco Products.

HIGH SCHOOL HEROES: Riley Howell, Kendrick Castillo, Joshua Jones, Brendan Bialy.

JUST NBC THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF BIAS: NBC’s Richard Engel Pushes Anti-Jewish Blood Libel In Iran Report.

I HAD BEEN ASSURED BLOCKCHAIN MADE THIS KIND OF THING IMPOSSIBLE: Bitcoin hackers steal over $40M in ‘well-orchestrated’ cyber breach.

LARRY ELDER: Trump’s ‘Infrastructure’ Plan Versus Obama’s ‘Stimulus’: What’s the Difference?

COLLUSION: FBI’s Steele story falls apart: False intel and media contacts were flagged before FISA.

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UNEXPECTEDLY: Disney’s ‘Tolkien’ Movie Cuts Out the Christian Faith That Inspired His Life and Work.

SMART DIPLOMACY: U.S. seizes North Korean ship suspected of violating U.N. sanctions.

MEH. LEAVE IT UP. SUNSHINE IS STILL THE BEST DISINFECTANT. It Took Facebook Nearly A Month To Remove The Video Of Brian Sims Trying To Doxx Teenage Girls.

GOOD QUESTION: Could Machine Learning Be the Key to Earthquake Prediction?

MAY I SEE YOUR LICENSE AND REGISTRATION AND ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE, PLEASE? A couple shot a porn film in a Tesla on autopilot while there were ‘a lot of cars driving by.’