THE PENNY DROPS: To her credit, actress/SJW Alyssa Milano is one of the few “feminists” of late to recognize the anti-Semitism baked into the Left, at least the leadership of the “Women’s March.” Tablet Magazine reports:

“Any time that there is any bigotry or anti-Semitism in that respect, it needs to be called out and addressed. I’m disappointed in the leadership of the Women’s March that they haven’t done it adequately,” Milano said in an interview with The Advocate when she was asked about the march leader’s relationship to the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan. Milano said she would decline to attend the next Women’s March.”

Better late than never.

THERE’S A RECKONING COMING, WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT:

“Asia Bibi was convicted in 2010 of insulting the Prophet Muhammad during a row with neighbours, and many are calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty following her acquittal.”

Sooner or later *real* feminists and honest human rights advocates are going to have to stop turning a blind eye to radical Islam (note qualifier “radical”) and stop being afraid of being called “Islamophobic” by CAIR and Linda Sarsour and The Guardian. Note that Sharia Law prevents women from staging counter-protests, speaking out against this…under pain of death.

Not unrelated: there will always be a Time for Choosing.

HEADLINE OF THE YEAR: I guess The Washington Post has hired the wizard from “The Princess Bride”, seeing how they must have been only “mostly dead”.

BONUS: “Real Journalism Matters”

NPR EDITOR SAYS SHE WAS RAPED: Good reminder that journalists — even accomplished ones — are not our moral superiors. (Can you hear me, Charlie Rose, Jeff Fager, Glenn Thrush, Matt Lauer, Bill O’Reilly, Mark Halperin?)

MY DAILY CALLER COLUMN THIS WEEK: SELF-SERVING POLITICIANS RAISE A THREAT TO INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM, AND THE MEDIA DOESN’T CARE TO COVER IT.

Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill has demanded a special prosecutor to investigate the use of James O’Keefe’s undercover or hidden camera techniques to address matters of indubitable public concern…It’s pretty clear why McCaskill is upset. In one video, a McCaskill staffer says that the senator downplays her support for gun control. Another staffer suggests she is downplaying her support from former President Barack Obama. In another video, McCaskill is accused of trying to hide her support from Planned Parenthood. Fairly or not, she is painted as a disingenuous hypocrite.

It goes deeper than the medias’ dislike for James O’Keefe. It goes to the heart of pet causes and biases in the newsrooms.

(Bumped up.)

MY DAILY CALLER COLUMN THIS WEEK: SELF-SERVING POLITICIANS RAISE A THREAT TO INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM, AND THE MEDIA DOESN’T CARE TO COVER IT.

Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill has demanded a special prosecutor to investigate the use of James O’Keefe’s undercover or hidden camera techniques to address matters of indubitable public concern…It’s pretty clear why McCaskill is upset. In one video, a McCaskill staffer says that the senator downplays her support for gun control. Another staffer suggests she is downplaying her support from former President Barack Obama. In another video, McCaskill is accused of trying to hide her support from Planned Parenthood. Fairly or not, she is painted as a disingenuous hypocrite.

It goes deeper than the medias’ dislike for James O’Keefe. It goes to the heart of pet causes and biases in the newsrooms.

OCCASIONAL CORTEX SPEAKS: I know many folks deny or excuse Soros being a Nazi collaborator, but in either event, characterizing him as if he were a Holocaust survivor is just facepalmingly stupid.
(BIAS DISCLOSURE: I grew up with people who had numbers tattooed on their arms.)

WE WILL BE THE ARBITER OF WHAT FACTS ARE IMPORTANT, YOU IGNORANT PEASANT: How very insightful of The Washington Post to carefully neglect telling readers that KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest was a delegate at the 1868 Democratic Convention. More surprising yet is the reporter, Lisa Rein, () claims to have a degree in History.
#KeepOurReadersIgnorant

WISHING HER PEACE AND COMFORT: Sad news for the legal community, the country and honest feminists. Wishing Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, comfort and peace.

A RANDOM RANT:

Let me get this straight. Saudi Arabia sponsored the 9/11 hijackers, stones rape victims to death for being unchaste, hangs people for being gay…and NOW you’re upset with them?
What changed?
Oh….

SURELY THERE MUST BE A WAY TO DRAG TRUMP INTO THIS: Jerry Wolkowitz, a freelance photographer who prosecutors say was brutally beaten and assaulted because of his race, has died six months after the attack in the parking lot of his apartment.

“The investigation determined that the defendant targeted the victim because of his race,” Swendeman said at the time, adding that Hubbard, who is black, and Wolkowitz, who is white, did not know each other.”

SEEMS LIKE A GOOD TIME TO REVISIT ONE OF MY OLDER COLUMNS:

While we were mesmerized by the president and CNN’s Jim Acosta trading petulant barbs, Carlos Domínguez Rodríguez, a 77-year-old political reporter in Mexico was stabbed in his car by masked men 21 times as his family watched in horror.

IS THERE NO LIMIT TO THIS MAN’S EVIL?

“With the president’s signature Thursday, the Music Modernization Act is officially the law of the land. As we celebrate the harmony and unity that got us here, we applaud the efforts of the thousands of performers, songwriters, and studio professionals who rallied for historic change to ensure all music creators are compensated fairly when their work is used by digital and satellite music services,” Neil Portnow, President and CEO of the Recording Academy said in a statement.”

UNHINGED, MUCH? No surprise to IP readers, but you have to wonder when will Democrats realize that they need to put a leash on some of their people. Avenatti is taking a little bit of flak, rightly IMHO, but this is way over the top.

(I’m opposed to doxxing, so I redacted the phone number).

JOURNALISTS KEEPING THEIR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT: According to my research, the meaningless “toilet paper stuck to Trump’s shoe” item was republished thousands of more times than one of their own being murdered in a Saudi consulate.

That’s just sick.

CONGRATULATE ME! I was finally blocked by a privileged old white male Ivy League lawyer whose firm smeared Monica Lewinsky and Kathleen Willey beyond the scope of decency, are big DNC donors, and of course pump out shit-tons of anti-Kavanaugh posts, but more than happy to take $6.75 million defending sex traffickers of underaged women!
You gotta love the law racket!!
#MeTooUntilItAffectsMyIncome

BRAVE LITTLE SJW’S (But not at their own expense):  So a flock of screaming women descended upon the Yale Club in NYC to protest Kavanaugh’s n̶o̶m̶i̶n̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶  mere existence:

“Asked why the DSA planned the protest to wind up in front of the Yale Club, Paradis said it was because “Kavanaugh is really a symbol of elite power that feels impunity, not just to sexually assault women but to take away rights from women, working class people, and to destroy democratic representation in this country.”

But it’s been a dirty little secret of the left that Yale itself is named after a man who made a fortune in the slave trade working for the East India Company. Which leads one to wonder while the Yale faculty and many alums — our moral and intellectual betters — are busy posturing about “injustice”, why aren’t they tearing down statutes of Eli Yale and demanding the name be changed to Audre Lorde or Angela Davis University? I mean, is there no greater oppression of women, working class people, and to democratic representation than slavery?

My bet? Because the market value of the coveted Yale degree would turn to dog poop in 15 minutes. Boola boola, indeed.

LIBEL LAWYER LIBBY LOCKE NAILS IT: One of the lawyers who held Rolling Stone accountable for their agenda-driven smear on a college administrator sees commonalty with the bizarre attacks on Judge Kavanaugh.

 “Within hours of being accused of an unsubstantiated and uncorroborated three-decades-old assault, Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s reputation as a highly respected jurist with an unblemished personal record was permanently damaged. Many rushed to declare Judge Kavanaugh guilty merely because he had been accused. Democrats all too happily called for him to withdraw his Supreme Court nomination, while his accuser’s lawyer basked in the left’s glory for slowing a Supreme Court nomination that seemed a sure thing.”

As the Professor says, “Read the whole thing.”™

HOW THE CHEESE-EATING SURRENDER-MONKEYS PLAN TO CONTROL YOUR SPEECH: And they are going to get away with it, I’m afraid. My column in The Daily Caller explains:

“[T]he EU is trying to flex its censorship muscles around the world. Unfortunately, the EU has decided to redesign the information superhighway with a series of landmines, speed bumps and exit ramps to Speech Jail.”

IRONY, AS SEEN ON FACEBOOK: Two “progressives” trying to get around The Washington Post‘s paywall. Yeah, I’m pretty sure all this socialism talk is about free stuff.

“SHUT UP”, THEY EXPLAINED: Politico reporting that “Paul Manafort’s pro-Ukraine campaign reached the top of the White House, with one of the members of his lobbying effort meeting President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in 2013, according to new court documents released Friday.”

Court documents and filings with the Justice Department previously revealed some of the members of Manafort’s Hapsburg Group and showed that they met with dozens of members of Congress, congressional staffers and Obama administration officials. But Friday brought the first indication that the campaign stretched to the top of the U.S. government.

Be careful what you ask for.

HOW MANY LEFTIES DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A LIGHT BULB? That’s not funny! Actually this fellow on the Australian Broadcasting System *does* have a sense of humor…and a lot of common sense:

“Don’t get me wrong, I love left-wing values and hope that one day they’ll win out across the globe. It’s just that on that day, I don’t want any left-wing people alive to see that happen. Why? Because we’re f*cking useless.”

SEE? SOCIALISM WORKS! It’s magic! Material goods just appear out of thin air!

WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN? My column this week about the abandonment of self-appraisal by modern media.

“But I think President Trump’s greatest mistake is calling the press “the enemy of the people.” When you look at the way journalism has abandoned their promise of self-accountability, it may be more accurate to say that “the press is the enemy of the press.” As far as credibility goes, these are mostly self-inflicted wounds. To be sure, Trump has cleverly milked this populist view for all it’s worth, but there are a lot of moving parts to the all-time low esteem in which journalists are held.”

CREDIT WHERE IT’S DUE: Heaven knows, PEN International often sounds like it was written by the old TASS editors, and they often have trouble with allowing viewpoints that differ from theirs (libertarian, conservative) but when they’re right, they’re right. PEN’s Chief Executive Officer Suzanne Nossel wrote in Foreign Policy magazine that:

In demonstrating that a company as mighty as Google was unable to resist the allure of the Chinese market, despite the terms of entry, Beijing will advance its campaign to remake global internet governance on its own terms. The utopian notion of an internet that unifies people across borders, fosters the unfettered flow of information, and allows truth and reason to triumph is already under attack on multiple fronts. The trade-off, to date, has been that countries insistent on controlling the internet have had to forfeit access to the world’s most powerful and innovative online services in favor of local providers.

To be fair, Google is not the only company to sell its soul to China for filthy lucre. Faux social justice warriors Apple and Starbucks come to mind, as does Bloomberg, who happily agreed to filter out delivery of news to China that made the government uncomfortable, despite a spate of editorial resignations.