SHOT: The Best ‘White Supremacist’ Minority Protests From the Virginia Gun Rally You Won’t See on the News.

CHASER: NBC Reporter Deletes False Tweet Claiming Gun Rights Event Is ‘White Supremacist Rally.’

MY NEPHEW ALREADY DID: Why you might catch the flu twice this season.

THIS GENERAL IGNORANCE REGARDING THE EVILS OF COMMUNISM IS NOT AN ACCIDENT: Bernie Sanders’ Staffers Don’t Know the Dark Side of Soviet History.

THANKS, HILLARY: Russia’s Role in the Libyan Civil War Gives It Leverage Over Europe.

WHAT’S THE FIRST STEP? Is It Time For Twelve Steps For the Legacy Media?

MEDICAL ERRORS KILL MORE PEOPLE THAN GUNS: Woman diagnosed with tennis ball-sized brain tumor after being told she had mental illness.

BLUE STATE BLUES: California’s AB5 Leaves Women Business Owners Reeling.

Aimee Benavides has built a thriving career as a translator and interpreter while homeschooling her nine-year-old daughter, who has autism, and 11-year-old son, who is heavily involved in STEM enrichment classes. What makes it all possible is the home-based business she started in 2010, after leaving a full-time job in the court system.

It isn’t easy to juggle it all. Sometimes she starts work at 5:30 am to get her work done—or brings her son to the school board meetings where she takes on evening projects. “The times I don’t take my son with me, they ask, ‘How is your son?’” she says.

Still, Benavides would not trade the flexibility of self-employment for a traditional job. Benavides’ business allows her and her husband, an IT professional, to afford the cost of living in Fresno, Calif., while still permitting them to manage their family responsibilities.

Benavides is one of a number of self-employed women in California who are speaking out in opposition to AB5, a union-backed law aimed at preventing misclassification of gig workers that took effect on January 1.

You will be made to conform, comrades.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Impeachment Then and Now (video).

DEMOGRAPHICS IS DESTINY: China’s Birthrate Hits Historic Low, in Looming Crisis for Beijing.

About 14.6 million babies were born in China in 2019, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. That was a nearly 4 percent fall from the previous year, and the lowest official number of births in China since 1961, the last year of a widespread famine in which millions of people starved to death. That year, only 11.8 million babies were born.

Births in China have now fallen for three years in a row. They had risen slightly in 2016, a year after the government ended its one-child policy and allowed couples to have two children, a shift that officials hoped would drive a sustained increase in the number of newborns. But that has not materialized.

Experts say the slowdown is rooted in several trends, including the rise of women in the work force who are educated and don’t see marriage as necessary to achieving financial security, at least for themselves. For Chinese couples, many cannot afford to have children as living costs increase and their jobs demand more time and energy. And attitudes have shifted.

“It’s a society where nobody wants to get married and people can’t afford to have children,” said Wang Feng, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. “On a deeper level, you would have to think about what kind of society China will become, not just demographically, but socially.”

Eno Zhang, a 37-year-old engineer in a tech company in Beijing, said he had argued with his parents for 10 years about his decision not to have children. They have since given up, he said.

“I value my spiritual life and hobbies,” Mr. Zhang said. “Children will consume too much of my energy. This is something I cannot accept.”

Actually, having children is a vote of confidence in the future.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: AOC Demonizes Business Owners: They’re Lazy Slave Owners, Employees ‘Literally Dying.’ Complete with an Obama-esque “you didn’t build that” moment:

Ocasio-Cortez made the extreme remarks when she was asked why successful business owners were “the enemy of health care.”

“Well, you didn’t make those widgets, did you?” Ocasio-Cortez began. “Because you employed thousands of people and paid them less than a living wage to make those widgets for you. You didn’t make those widgets.”

“You sat on a couch while thousands of people were paid modern day slave wages, and in some cases real slave, real modern-day slavery, uh, depending on where you are in terms of food production,” Ocasio-Cortez claimed.

Related: AOC Steps in It Again, Claiming Dems Are a ‘Center-Conservative’ Party, Not ‘a Left Party.’

From Stalin’s point of view, that would be correct. And speaking of “modern-day slavery:” Project Veritas: Another Bernie Organizer Praises Soviet Gulags, Dreams of GOP in ‘Re-Education Camps.’

All the Democrats have to do is not be crazy, and they can’t even do that.

EVERYTHING IS PROBLEMATIC: The Academy Overweights Co-Authored Articles, To The Detriment Of Women, Faculty Of Color, And Faculty With Surnames That Fall Later In The Alphabet.

YOU GOT TO KNOW WHEN TO FOLD ‘EM: Jerry Nadler Suggests Having No Impeachment Witnesses Preferable to Hunter Biden Testifying.

I SAW THIS LAST NIGHT, SHRUGGED, AND WONDERED FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME WHAT HAPPENED TO DRUDGE: CNBC Implies Trump’s Fundraising Numbers Are Abysmal. Drudge Joyfully Runs With It.

“That blogger was our last hope.”

“No, there is another.”

HARSH, BUT FAIR:

I’M BEGINNING TO THINK THAT BERNIE’S CROWD HAS A PROPENSITY TOWARD POLITICAL VIOLENCE: Breaking: Second Paid Staffer Praises Gulags.

Imagine if Trump staffers were on camera talking about plans to drop communists from helicopters.

JOE BIDEN UPDATE: Banana Republic, American-Style: Angola Is Here. “Because this is the banana-republic era of American politics, the news from Angola hardly sounds foreign at all. With the impeachment drama in full swing and Donald Trump’s enemies wailing about the impropriety of his actions vis-à-vis Ukraine, it is strange that so many in Washington are so studiously not talking about Hunter Biden, or indeed about other Bidens and other members of politically connected families who have grown wealthy through questionable means.”

I suspect the press isn’t talking about this because they know that so many members of the ruling class — from both parties, no doubt — have similar skeletons in their closets that exposing them all would upend politics in a way the press wouldn’t like.

THE NARRATIVE HAS BEEN FAILING A LOT LATELY: NARRATIVE FAIL: Minorities, LGBT Community, Women Show Up In Force At Pro-Gun Rally.

PROOF, HOW DOES IT WORK? Joy Behar Blames Trump For Racial Division, Cites Two Fake Stories To Prove Her Point.

SOUNDS LIKE A CONSPIRACY TO INTERFERE WITH CIVIL RIGHTS: College Republicans accuse university of threatening to sue off-campus venue to stop their event.

I’M BEGINNING TO THINK THAT THE NET EFFECT OF THE NEWS MEDIA IS PERNICIOUS: Australia: Media more destructive than fires.

COCAINE MITCH: GOP senators considering ‘kill switch’ option should impeachment trial spiral out of control.

THE DEMS’ LONG KNIVES ARE OUT FOR BERNIE (AGAIN): Hillary Clinton on Bernie Sanders: “Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him.” Though to be fair, if she’d really wanted to hurt him, she would have endorsed him.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, DOUBLE STANDARDS EDITION: A&M hosts accused anti-Semite, Nation of Islam sympathizer for MLK Day event.

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