THOUGHTCRIME MUST BE PUNISHED, COMRADE: Ole Miss professor proposes expulsion, criminal penalties for students reported for ‘bias.’ Jail for “uncivility?” The left would suffer terribly under that rule if it were applied evenhandedly. But they’ll be sure not to let that happen!

WHY ARE DEMOCRATS TEACHING EVEN CHILDREN TO HATE? Shocking moment school bus bullies pummel 14-year-old boy leaving him hospitalized with head injuries ‘because he’d worn a Trump 2020 hat.’

IT COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH WORSE: Shooters were targeting 50 children in yeshiva next to grocery store, Jersey City mayor says.

EIGHTY YEARS AGO TODAY: Battle of the River Plate.

Heavily outgunned, two British light cruisers and one heavy cruiser, under the command of Commodore Henry Harwood, basically psyched German Captain Hans Langsdorff into scuttling the pocket battleship Graf Spee and then taking his own life.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Political diversity in professors dwindling: Report. And it’s not like it was ever that great. But how can an industry that represents maybe 10-20% of the population expect to serve — and, more importantly, be supported by — the rest?

YES, THEY ARE: Fitness expert Jillian Michaels: We shouldn’t ‘glamorize’ obesity; but are colleges doing it anyway?

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: UK Tells Its Leftist Loons to Bugger Off. “To the horror of leftists worldwide, people who don’t think like they do have once again spoken in an election. The rubes from the hinterlands got their knuckles off the ground just long enough to send the anti-Semitic Jeremy Corbyn and his Labour libs to defeat.”

Hail, Britannia. Or maybe “Hale Britannia.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Washington Examiner: The FBI didn’t commit ‘errors and omissions.’ It abused its power. “The FBI sought a warrant to wiretap a U.S. citizen and, in effect, a U.S. presidential campaign, based on a shoddy Democrat-funded pile of conspiracy theories known as the Steele dossier. The dossier’s allegations against then-candidate Donald Trump were based on ‘multiple layers of hearsay upon hearsay,’ and the document also took seriously comments made in jest. In other words, the origins of the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign was exactly as partisan and shoddy as Republicans said it was, according to the information released by the Justice Department’s inspector general.”

MUCH-NEEDED, NO DOUBT: UC-Berkeley Offers Classes On ‘Adulting’ As Part Of its ‘Democratic Education’ Program. Some of these courses sound useful, many seem to have nothing to do with adulthood.

HOW DARE YOU! Poll Finds Most People Would Rather Be Annihilated By Giant Tidal Wave Than Continue To Be Lectured By Climate Change Activists.

Headline by the Babylon Bee, America’s Newspaper of Record, contained in this Power Line item by John Hinderaker which is headlined: “No One Actually Believes the Global Warming Hype.”

Just ask Al Gore, who tacitly declared his brand of radical environmentalism Mission Accomplished in return for a big paycheck from Qatar, the Biggest of Big Oil, and as Hinderaker notes, Barry and Michelle, who paid “$15 million for an estate on Martha’s Vineyard, just feet above sea level. Do as I say, not as I do.”

CALIFORNICATION: 5 Unsettling California Tax Rules.

Just Dealing With Californians Can Mean Taxes. This one is a shocker, even by California standards. California is sending tax bills to plenty of nonresidents who just do business with Californians. Consider gig economy workers who work remote, and many other people out there. Take the case of Blair S. Bindley, OTA Case No. 18032402 (May 30, 2019). He lived and worked in Arizona, writing screenplays that he sent to studios in California and elsewhere. Since some of his customers were located in California, the state said his business — which was just him — had to pay taxes in the Golden State.

There’s no one so greedy as a tax collector.

ONCE I WOULD HAVE LAUGHED AT THIS, BUT NOW I’VE LEARNED THAT THE CONSTITUTION IS A LIVING BREATHING DOCUMENT THAT MUST ADAPT TO THE TIMES: Mike Huckabee: Trump will be eligible for a third term due to the illegal attempt to oust him as president.

MARK JUDGE: Clint Eastwood, Richard Jewell, and the Rush to Judgment.

ANDY NGO: Antifa’s Deadly Year Shows the Extremism on the Far Left.

IT’S NOT OK TO BE WHITE: These Four Women Thought Forming an All White ‘Squad’ Was a Good Idea.

IN CASE YOU FORGOT, THE IMPEACHMENT CLOWNSHOW IS STILL UNDERWAY, SORT OF: ‘Nadler’s integrity is zero’: Ranking GOP House Judiciary member erupts after ‘violation of trust’ that postponed impeachment vote.

CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY THAT, AS WITH 2016, YOU DON’T REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT’S GOING ON:

But the short answer is that there’s not actually a big market for kooky far-left anti-semitic whackadoos outside the academic world. In fact, the great mass of the public worldwide rejects the ideas of the academic-supported left, and votes against them when it is allowed to. For which we should all be grateful.

Flashback: Britain’s Jeremy Corbyn: I got my ideas from Bernie Sanders.

Plus, some explanatory thoughts from Arthur Chrenkoff. “With both the mainstream and the social media full of jubilation or alternatively tears about the British general election results, let me sound a characteristic Daily Chrenk note of caution: what we have witnessed yesterday was the most left-wing Labour leader since Clement Atlee being defeated by the most left-wing Tory leader since Ted Heath. It’s the testament to the crazy times we live in – not to mention how far left the left has moved – that Boris Johnson is considered some sort of a hard right populist xenophobe. The reality is quite different.”

CHANGE: Boris Johnson is cheered back into Downing Street after Tory landslide sweeps Britain.

Related: All the Brexit Defectors lost their seats.

PRESIDENT CHRIS EISGRUBER TO THE PRINCETON COMMUNITY: “The Spirit of Truth-Seeking.”

IT’S LIKE A ROOMFUL OF ELAINES.

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— Nick Ciarelli (@nickciarelli) December 13, 2019

About as diverse as an MSNBC anchors’ retreat.

HMM: House Democrats gave Trump ‘everything he wanted’ on a $738 billion defense bill while on the brink of impeaching him.

Previously: Democrats, White House announce deal on new North American trade agreement.

Forget the impeachment theatrics, which really are little more than a sideshow to keep the base riled up. Because when it comes to serious issues like trade and defense, House Democrats sure are negotiating as though they believe Trump will be around a while longer. Like, five years longer. They wouldn’t give a lame duck “everything he wanted” on anything.

Meanwhile, Charles Blow is resetting expectations lower: Impeachment in the House Is the Victory.