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MEDIA-FOSTERED HATE: Prosecutors: Hundreds of threats made against Covington High students.

Related: There was a lot of ugly racism at the Lincoln Memorial last Friday, but the media missed it.

Oh, they didn’t miss it:

CHARLOTTE ALLEN: The craven Catholic-intellectual inferiority complex that led them to follow the secular media like lemmings to trash the Covington teens.

HERE’S THE SIX PRESUPPOSITIONS THAT PRODUCE IDENTITY POLITICS: If the lunacy that is rampant in the media, on the campuses, entertainment and Fortune 500 corporations seems beyond rationality, read this on the six key premises behind Critical Theory. Won’t make it go away but it helps make sense of senselessness like snowflakes,”triggers,” Chris Cuomo, white privilege, AOC, “safe spaces” and, sadly, so much more.

OPEN THREAD: Discuss the news of the day, such as it was. Or talk about The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Your choice.

ONE WOULD NEED A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH: BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce. Sometimes, a crap product doesn’t sell. Go figure.

I’VE SAID IT BEFORE AND IT BEARS REPEATING: Lifting Weights As You Age Cuts Your Risk Of Early Death By 46%.

WHILE EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT COVINGTON: Trump nominates 51 judges at once, enough to fill one-third of all court vacancies. “One, Naomi Rao, was picked to replace the opening left when federal appeals court Judge Brett Kavanaugh won a seat on the Supreme Court.”

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HIPSTERS ARE BAD FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER LIVING THINGS: Emergency declared near Portland for measles outbreak in anti-vaccine hotspot.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Allergic to Penicillin? You May Not Be: Nineteen out of 20 people who have been told they are allergic to penicillin are not truly allergic to the drug. “Though an allergy can develop at any age, penicillin allergies are often first recorded in childhood, when penicillin is the No. 1 antibiotic prescribed, she said. If a child on penicillin develops a rash or other symptom and it is erroneously attributed to the drug, the allergy label sticks, often for life. . . . There is no question some people have potentially life-threatening allergic reactions to penicillin, but the label appears to have been applied far too broadly, experts say. About 10 percent of Americans report having a penicillin allergy, and the rate is even higher among older people and hospital patients, 15 percent of whom have a documented penicillin allergy.”

ARE EL CHAPO AND THE DRUG LORDS THE MEXICANS TRUMP MEANT WOULD PAY FOR THE WALL? Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) and 14 other House GOPers are pushing a bill entitled the “Ensuring Lawful Collection of Hidden Assets to Provide Order Act,” EL CHAPO Act for short.

“It takes the money, the billions that El Chapo made crossing the border illegally, and it takes that $14 billion and uses it to pay for the wall,” according to Cruz. Brooks says “it kills two birds with one stone” by paying for the wall without tax dollars and ends the partial government shutdown.

The idea of some portion of the drug lords’ ill-gotten gains going to fund a wall that helps put their enterprises out of business has its appeal, but there are problems. Go here for more.

And then there’s this from The Daily Caller’s fine investigative reporter, Luke Rosiak. He obtained a copy of an internal report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) that says “President Donald Trump may have the authority to use Department of Defense resources to build a wall without obtaining congressional approval or declaring a state of emergency.” Does Pelosi know about this?

HOW MUCH MORE BEFORE THEY DON’T COUNT AS NEGLECTED DISEASES? Neglected-disease research funding hits record high.

MYSTERY SOLVED! NBC ‘DATELINE’S’ TOP COLD-CASE DETECTIVE TALKS: J. Warner Wallace is known as that program’s “evidence whisperer” because of his phenomenal success in applying sleuthing skills to the toughest cold cases, those involving homicides that have gone unsolved for decades.

If anybody knows a fraud, a fake or a liar when he sees it, Wallace does. So why is the guy a fervent Christian? Does NBC know about this?

BREAKING: How having tattoos affects your sex life, according to scientists. A survey by researchers from the University of Miami has revealed that people with tattoos are more likely to take risks — and this has an effect on their sex life.

As Jonah Goldberg wrote years ago, “I need a study to tell me this?”

ILHAN OMAR (D-MN) ENDORSED SOMALIA’S NEW PRESIDENT. FOUR DAYS LATER, OMAR’S BROTHER-IN-LAW HAD A POWERFUL JOB IN HIS ADMINISTRATION: “Nancy Pelosi placed Omar on Foreign Affairs, so she will soon be in the middle of vital national security legislation regarding the Middle East.”

Meanwhile, back in the USA, “As of this morning, the [Minneapolis] Star Tribune has made no mention of Omar’s libelous tweet falsely defaming the boys of Covington Catholic. It hasn’t reported Omar’s defense of the so-called Black Hebrew Israelites hate group. It hasn’t bothered to let readers know that Omar published the Covington Catholic libel to some 450,000 followers who shed their brain cells to keep up with her. It hasn’t noted Omar’s deletion of her libelous tweet yesterday without retraction, explanation or apology.”

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