YOU MEAN, HE DIDN’T ACT OUT RASHLY? Top Five Steps Trump Has Taken To Prepare The U.S. Military For Whatever Comes Next.

Exit Question: How would you tell the difference between “retaliation” for the Suleimani killing, and whatever attacks on us Suleimani already had in the works?

YOU CAN SEE WHY THE LEFT WANTS TO SILENCE THE BABYLON BEE: Democrats Grasping At Straws To Impeach Trump Now Regret Banning Straws.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Why the Jersey City official who called local Jews ‘brutes’ has not resigned. Joan Terrell-Paige’s staying power “comes from a mix of neighborhood support and circumstance. Local politicians and residents have spoken out in her defense, while her opponents are powerless to oust her as an elected official. At its meeting last week, the board took no action to remove her. Her term runs through the end of the year.”

ENDORSED: Mike Rowe for California Governor 2022.

LIFE IN THE LAND OF PLENTY:  On this day in 1964, LBJ declared the War on Poverty.  Alas, it turned out lack of money was not really the root of the problem.

THEY’RE NICER THAN MY FIRST THREE APARTMENTS COMBINED, AND I HAD TO PAY FOR THOSE MYSELF: Here’s a Look Inside LA’s New $600,000 to $700,000 Condos for the Homeless.

Easy call: They’ll be less nice once there’s poop everywhere.

I TURNED MY GRADES IN BEFORE CHRISTMAS: Why Does It Take So Damn Long To Grade Law School Finals? But thanks to reduced class sizes, I don’t have as many exams to grade as I used to. When I taught Con Law (then about 75 students) and Torts I (then about 55 students) in the Fall, that left me with 400+ handwritten bluebooks to grade. This fall I had 40-something exams, plus some seminar papers, to grade, and of course now everything is neatly typeset, not scrawled. But even in the old days I got them graded by January 2nd, because that was our deadline.

SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “At this point in history, is it wise to take foreign policy advice from people who walked around in broad daylight with knitted pussies on their heads?” The answer is “no,” by the way. And not just at this point in history.

FROM KEN LIZZI:  Boss (Falchion’s Company Book 1).

A city governed by wizards can still have an underbelly that is governed by crime lords. Out-of-work mercenary, Falchion, arrives in the city of Groft and signs on with the boss of the organized crime outfit. But when Falchion’s distaste for the work angers the Boss, his only move is to become the Boss himself. Even if he succeeds, Falchion will have more trouble in store, trouble that his sword alone may be unable to cut through, for there is a connection between the underground criminal organization and the wizards in their lofty towers, and no one received wizardly permission for a change in leadership.

SURE. WE KNOW THE BEE IS SATIRE. WE ALSO KNOW IT OFTEN CAPTURES THE TRUTH IN A FAKE BUT ACCURATE WAY. AND COME ON, THE DEMS HAVE IT COMING. THREE CHEERS FOR AMERICA’S NEW PAPER OF RECORD. I MEAN, WHAT OTHER ONE DO WE HAVE? THE NYT? THE WP? DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH. THAT’S THE BEE’S JOB:  Democrats vs. The Bee.

WHY NOT BOTH?  Treasonous, Or Just Stupid?

OH, IT WON’T CALM THE SPASTIC COWARDS ON THE LEFT, WHO’D RATHER BE SLAVES THAN FIGHT ENEMIES WHO WANT TO ENSLAVE US. BUT THE ONLY THING THAT WILL HELP THEM IS MILK, COOKIES AND A TEDDY BEAR. AND SINCE THEY’RE ABOUT 2 YEARS OF AGE MENTALLY, WE ASK THEY STOP TALKING UNTIL THEY GROW UP:  Trump sends out a masterful tweet to calm the nation.

WOKE COOKIES? SOUNDS…. HORRIBLE ACTUALLY:  New Girl Scout cookie flavor comes with a surprise message.

AT LEAST THE MASKS ARE ALL OFF:  War Powers Resolution is Revenge for Suleimani Killing.

SO, WHAT I’M HEARING IS “DAY ENDING IN Y?”  Hillary Clinton And ABC Peddle Fake News About Australian Wild Fires.

I’M OF TWO MINDS, HERE. ON THE ONE HAND, THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE. ON THE OTHER HAND PERHAPS THAT’S A MUCH BETTER ALTERNATIVE THAN THEIR DOING THEIR WORK OF INTERFERING WITH OUR LIVES?  Epidemic of Government Employees Watching Porn on Taxpayer Time.

WELL, THEY ARE THE CALIPHATE NEWS NETWORK, AFTER ALL!  CNN Gives Platform To Spokeswoman For The 1979 US Embassy Hostage-Takers To Push Iran Propaganda.

DUH. AND IN THE CASE OF COLORADO THAT’S NOT COUNTING OTHER DIRTY TRICKS LIKE VOTE BY FRAUD MAIL WHICH ALLOWS THE DEMS TO HARVEST UNVOTED BALLOTS AND OTHER HAPPY FUN SCAMS. WHY DO YOU THINK ONCE A STATE GOES VOTE BY MAIL IT STAYS PERMANENTLY BLUE? OR THAT THE FIRST THING THE DEMS DO AS SOON AS THEY CAN IS MAKE THE STATE VOTE BY MAIL?  HINT, IT’S NOT A COINCIDENCE:  Watchdog Group Tells 5 States of Millions of Extra Voter Registrations.

As for motor voter, it was a poison pill to representative government and Bill Clinton should be burned in effigy for inflicting such a thing on this nation. We won’t have trustworthy elections until it’s repealed. When anyone can register without showing proof of citizenship and in fact while showing a valid passport for another country, it’s a bad law. One that disenfranchises citizens by diluting their vote. There ain’t any amount of pruning of people who moved, etc. that will compensate for the mac truck holes in that very very very bad law.

Meanwhile, lie to pollsters. Tell them you’re all in for whatever clown emerges from the leftist clown car. And then vote at the last minute and in person. If they don’t know how many votes they need to manufacture, they might lose again.

YEP. DON’T LIKE IT? GET THE UN OUT OF THE US (AND THE US OUT OF THE UN.) I HEAR MOGADISHU IS LOVELY THIS TIME OF YEAR:  The Trump Administration Is Right To Block Iran’s Foreign Minister From Addressing UN.

THEY CHOSE… POORLY: Iran Fires Retaliatory Rockets At U.S. Bases In Iraq.

Seriously. If our mush heads on the left would stop convincing the Iranians we’re all pushovers, Iran wouldn’t make these mistakes.

NO MATTER HOW MUCH THE REE BRIGADES SCREAM:  No, Trump’s Justifications For Soleimani Attack Aren’t Contradictory.

SINCE 1979. IT’S ABOUT TIME WE ENDED IT, AND THERE’S ONLY ONE WAY TO END IT. AND NO, IT’S NOT SURRENDER AND BUYING THEM OFF. THAT’S OBAMA’S BRAND OF CRAZY. AND IT DOESN’T WORK. ONCE YOU PAY THE DANE GELD, YOU’LL NEVER GET RID OF THE DANE:  Whether You Like It Or Not, The United States Is At War With Iran.

AND EVEN MORE SO WITH THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS:  Farrell: Soleimani’s Death Highlights The Need To Fortify Our Southern Border.

IRAN’S HAVING QUITE A NIGHT: Earthquake strikes Iran near nuclear plant.

NOT ALL SOMALIS ARE ANTI-SEMITIC CRYPTO-NAZIS: Leila Shukri Adan: Ilhan Omar doesn’t speak for us. “We respect our Jewish neighbors who have befriended us here. Israel is a democracy and an ally. Omar’s anti-Semitism is not organic to our community.”