CHRISTIAN TOTO: Tina Fey ‘Blames’ Fallon for Trump’s Election. “Liberals cannot forget how Fallon yukked it up with Trump weeks before Election Day.”

Does that mean we can pin the blame for Bill Clinton on Arsenio?

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: The Hill: Gun crackdowns have already led to too many federal abuses.

A TALE OF TWO HATE CRIMES: A hoax unraveled and a plot foiled. “It is worth noting that law enforcement got their suspects in both cases. And as Reilly notes: ‘There is no epidemic of people just attacking their fellow Americans.'”

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R.I.P. TO A TRUE HERO: The man who invented Gaffer Tape dies at 92.

I ordered a roll in his honor. You can never have too much!

ADMISSION AGAINST INTEREST. Part one: Van Jones Praises Conservatives on Criminal Justice Reform: ‘You Are Stealing My Issue!’

Part two: Trump made the right call to walk out of Hanoi, says … Susan Rice.

OPEN THREAD: Bring it.

NEWS YOU CAN USE? The Ten Best Country Songs from the Past Ten Years.

IT’S BEEN OBVIOUS FOR A WHILE, BUT NOW IT’S OBVIOUS TO EVERYONE: The moral catastrophe of Justin Trudeau: What Jody Wilson-Raybould described today is a sickeningly smug protection racket and it should make us all question what we’re willing to tolerate.

The “sickeningly smug” part was especially obvious.

I WOULDN’T MIND HAVING AN MG-42 MACHINE GUN. Ammo bill kind of expensive, though.

ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU TO BE INDICTED FOR BRIBERY. As Rick Moran asks, “Do you think the fact that it’s six weeks before the election had anything to do with the timing of the announcement?”

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED. Well, one way or another:

● Shot: Are the Dems Committing Suicide?

—Steve Hayward, Power Line, today.

● Chaser: Ilhan Omar: Let’s talk about the influence in this country that says allegiance to a foreign country is okay.

—Allahpundit, Hot Air, today.

● Hangover: Rep. Tlaib Blows Up Cohen Hearing: It Was a ‘Racist Act’ for a Republican to Bring a Black ‘Prop.’

— Paula Bolyard, PJ Media, yesterday.

● The D.T.s: The Coming Socialist President? Just because Democrats are lurching leftwards doesn’t mean they’re going to lose in 2020.

—Robert W. Merry, The American Conservative, Tuesday.

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Does Anybody Actually Believe Kim Jong-un Knew Nothing About Otto Warmbier?

VIDEO: Freeman Dyson and Gregory Benford: Forseeing the Next 35 Years—Where Will We Be in 2054?

A STORY RIPPED FROM TOMORROW’S HEADLINES: Why My Wife And I Decided To Abort Our Unborn Gay Son. This will happen a lot more than people expect, and it will probably become routine in many parts of the world.

UPDATE: Yes, the piece is satire. And yes, it’s also predictive of something that will happen.

P.D. MANGAN: Metabolic Syndrome: How Food Companies and Health Officials Made Us Sick.

SO CONTAINERIZE THE BATTERIES: Electric Container Ships Are Stuck on the Horizon: Batteries still can’t scale up to power the world’s biggest vessels
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WELL, GOOD: Testicular cancer treatment may not doom fertility.

GIRL THERE’S A BETTER LIFE FOR ME AND YOU: Bay Area residents ditching high cost of living and moving away, San Francisco’s KRON-4 reports.

Billionaire GOP contributors and libertarian-types like the Koch Brothers really need to get going on Glenn’s Welcome Wagon idea.

(Classical reference in headline.)

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL POLAR BEAR DAY!: A new report finds that there are more polar bears around today than at any time since they were protected by international treaty in 1973. As Guido Fawkes reports, the numbers are so high that Inuits have been pleading for their own protection from violent attacks by the not-so-cuddly critters.