JIM TREACHER: Now It’s D.C. Firefighters Who Are ‘Racists’ for Playing the Circle Game. “Journalists call themselves ‘firefighters.’ Then they malign actual firefighters who’ve done nothing wrong. And they wonder why we all hate them.”

DOJ IS INVESTIGATING COMEY’S ROLE IN LEAK OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT DURING CLINTON-EMAIL PROBE.

TYLER O’NEIL: SPLC Demands Big Tech Silence Conservatives in the Name of Fighting White Supremacist Terror.

As always, the left demands those it disagrees with “Shut Up.”

NO, STATELY INSTAPUNDIT MANOR IS NOT FOR SALE: $14.5 million Knoxville mansion up for auction.

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A QUESTION NO ONE IN THE MSM IS ASKING: Various Democrats are all over the media today saying that the fact that the GAO found that Trump acted illegally re spending appropriated funds means he should be tossed out of office. Does this mean that Obama, whom the GAO found illegally defied Congress in ordering the Defense Department to send five Guantanomo prisoners to Qatar in defiance of duly-enacted legislation prohibited Obama from expending any funds on such action, should have been removed from office as well? If you can find me a Democratic House member or Senator who denounced Obama for that move, I’ll concede that he is sincerely interested in presidential lawfulness and the separation of powers.

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Home surveillance captures rare footage of five mountain lions together in California.

BOLSHIE BERNIE: Just came across an interview with Bernie Sanders from The Progressive in 1988, in which he suggests that Castro’s Cuba has a superior economic system to the U.S.:

Q: But apart from the Soviet Union, it seems that in more democratic countries—France, Spain, Italy—socialist parties in power are almost indistinguishable from conservative administrations. Socialism doesn’t seem to be working in those countries either.
Sanders: Fair enough. But take small countries like Norway or Sweden. Give them credit for creating decent health-care systems, decent housing for their citizens. good educational opportunities. media that are of an appreciably higher quality than our own. That may not fit some definitions of socialism, but it’s a significant improvement over what exists in the United States, isn’t it?
And what about Cuba? It’s not a perfect society. I grant, but there aren’t children there going hungry. It’s been more successful than almost any other developing country in providing health care for its people. And the Cuban revolution is only thirty years old. It may get even better.

But don’t get him wrong: “I’m not a communist, so no one has ever heard me defend the Soviet Union, for example, as any kind of model for other countries. I suppose that those people who did see the Soviet Union in that way are having some big problems these days.”

AS LONG AS THERE ARE EXAMS, THERE WILL BE PRAYER IN SCHOOL: Trump Protects School Prayer: ‘We Will Not Let Anyone Push God From the Public Square.’

BE NEITHER TOO LATE NOR TOO SOON: Success of knee replacement depends on timing, study says.

DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES SEETH WHEN REPUBLICAN CALLS REPORTER DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVE WITH BYLINE: Journalists Rage After Arizona Republican Martha McSally Calls CNN Reporter a ‘Liberal Hack.’

But he’s one of the very few John McCain-approved CNN reporters!

Curiously, as Jim Treacher notes, CNN’s Jake Tapper “sat there like a big dope while Scott Israel blamed Dana Loesch for the failures of his own department. That was less shocking to you than a senator calling one of your pals a hack.”

IT’S AS IF THEY WERE ALL A BUNCH OF MOBSTERS OR SOMETHING: Fifty Years Ago, the Murder of Jock Yablonski Shocked the Labor Movement: The conspiracy to kill the United Mine Workers official went all the way to the top of his own union.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Pro-Bernie-Sanders subreddit ‘is indefinitely suspending the hosting of all content produced by CNN.’

Earlier: Sanders Supporters Shocked to Find Bias at CNN. “Did these people actually believe the cable network was in the news business?”

Presumably, they’ll be going full Salon shortly, and call for a nationalizing, and socializing, of the news media.

TO BE FAIR, LEFTIES ALWAYS WANT VIOLENCE, EITHER TO INTIMIDATE THEIR ENEMIES OR TO SMEAR THEM: Gun groups: Virginia Democrats want violence to disrupt, ‘smear’ gun control protest.

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FROM AMERICA’S NEW NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Somber Impeachment Ceremony Concludes With The Impeachment Dancers.

LOVE LETTERS: Nancy Pelosi’s Impeachment Pens Look Like Bullets.

CHANGE: US drinking more now than just before Prohibition. Well, I’m certainly drinking more than I was before Prohibition.

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SHE SHOULD; THE AUTHORITIES LET HIM OFF AWFULLY EASY. Woman files $5 million suit against officer who broke into her home, yelled racial slurs.

THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP: The GAO Ruled Obama Broke The Law in 2014, But No One Called for His Impeachment.

To be fair to them both, if it’s true that the average American unwittingly commits three felonies a day, then it’s probably impossible for any American president to conduct his foreign policy with breaking more than a few stupid laws.

Congress needs to get into the business of repealing stuff, but as Ayn Rand wrote:

“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against… We’re after power and we mean it… There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”

I think Trump understands it, but fortunately in his case, it makes him much more difficult to deal with.

UPDATE: Biden’s Threat To Withhold $1 Billion from Ukraine Violated the Law.

DRIVING HISTORY: If You Can Find a Better Car Than Lee Iacocca’s Personal Chrysler LeBaron, Buy It. “This 1986 Chrysler K-car convertible has amazing provenance, and it’s going up for auction this week.”

Not that it was a great car, but a wood-paneled convertible K-car with just 20,000 miles and no rust would have some serious nostalgia value.

USE IT OR LOSE IT: Less sex may bring on earlier menopause, researchers say. “The findings of our study suggest that if a woman is not having sex, and there is no chance of pregnancy, then the body ‘chooses’ not to invest in ovulation, as it would be pointless.”