NEWS YOU CAN USE: Even the mighty shotgun has some shortcomings. “A shotgun is a short-range tool, ideal for ranges of 40 yards and closer when loaded with standard 00 buckshot loads. While it’s true that hunters can sometimes down game at 70 yards or slightly farther, their shotguns, magnum loads and sights/scopes have been optimized for longer ranges, and therefore are not optimized for shorter ranges that are vastly more common for defensive purposes. Certainly, a shotgun can be used at longer ranges with slugs in a pinch, but expecting 100-yard groups smaller than 6 inches with your 18-inch-barreled home-defense shotgun is wishful thinking.”

If I’m shooting people at 100 yards, I’m not doing home defense anymore.

ORBITAL MECHANICS MAKE THAT DIFFICULT: Why can’t we just launch all of Earth’s garbage into the sun?

DOUGLAS HOLZ-EAKIN ON CUTTING ENTITLEMENTS.

SPACEX PRESIDENT PREDICTS RAPID INCREASE IN STARSHIP LAUNCH RATE: “It’s going to be hard to catch us, but I certainly hope people try.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:

Let’s check in on Rosie O’Donnell two weeks after the election… pic.twitter.com/GHmSdWlAJZ

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 18, 2024

THAT’S BECAUSE THEY DON’T SPANK THEM: Poll: Many parents struggle to manage kids’ anger.

IT’S THE ONLY CHOICE IF YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR CITIZENS AND THE PLANET: Italy and Czechoslovakia Plead for Nuclear Energy.

WSJ REPORTS: Trump to Pick Howard Lutnick as Commerce Secretary: Cantor Fitzgerald chief executive has been a key transition adviser to president-elect.

A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES: Health care organization launches ‘Stop RFK War Room.’ “Democratic-aligned health care advocacy groups are putting together a strategy to fight Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to be HHS secretary.”

Plus: “Woodhouse acknowledged that while some of Kennedy’s ideas might have broader support — like his efforts to ban certain food additives — his views on vaccines and his plans to cut the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration are ‘too dangerous’ to take his nomination laying down. ‘Just because Hannibal Lecter has a couple good ideas on something, doesn’t mean I want to invite Hannibal Lecter to dinner,’ he said.”

Good to see that Democrats have abandoned their over-the-top demonization of opponents post-election. But I suspect this is mostly a grift, to give consultants and operatives a new source of funds post-election. Especially if Kamala’s operation winds up stiffing them, as seems likely. . . .

STAND UP AGAINST BIGOTED INDOCTRINATION: ‘Indoctrinating’: U. Oklahoma’s mandatory critical race theory course may violate state law: OU’s education program under fire for course that discusses social justice and ‘critical whiteness in education.’

OH, GROW UP: Leaders of California universities and colleges issue statement addressing ‘anxiety’ after Trump victory.

THIS IS THE DUMBEST TIMELINE: Apparent AI Hallucinations in AI Misinformation Expert’s Court Filing Supporting Anti-AI-Misinformation Law.

OF COURSE NOT. DEMOCRATIC HACKS ARE PRESUMPTIVELY QUALIFIED:

How much transportation was in Pete Buttigieg’s bio? How much healthcare was in Xavier Bacerra’s bio?

Surely you complained about those too, right? https://t.co/yYL4VdxZ2K

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 19, 2024

What a ridiculous and unfair smear of President Trump's nominees.

60 Minutes had no issue with Rachel Levine, Xavier Becerra, or Merrick Garland.

The American people gave President Trump a mandate and see right through this. https://t.co/4bfFZ2HjfO

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) November 18, 2024

FAST AND FURIOUS: Trump Announces Former Rep. Sean Duffy as Transportation Secretary.

ERICK ERICKSON: Prosecute These Threats to Democracy.

Late yesterday, the Pennsylvania state Supreme Court again sided with Dave McCormick, ordering counties not to count undated ballots.

It is essential to note this is the second time the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has had to intervene to force Democrats to follow the law. Democrats in the state openly admitted they would break the law to count ballots that they had no proof were legitimate.

The incoming Department of Justice should prosecute the individuals involved and should consider RICO.

It was a brazen, brazen act for Democrats to defy a Supreme Court ruling in an effort to steal an election. After four years of screaming about Donald Trump being a threat to democracy, the Democrats have become the threat they claimed Trump was.

Become?

I ALREADY SUPPORT HIM, YOU DON’T HAVE TO SELL ME:

BREAKING: The Pentagon is reportedly legitimately concerned that Pete Hegseth if appointed Secretary of Defense will immediately defund the close to $86 BILLION spent on DEI initiatives in the Pentagon. pic.twitter.com/zGoBgFnFcl

— Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) November 19, 2024

Millions or bilions, it does damage beyond just the waste of money.

EXPERTS AT PARROTING THE PARTY LINE ARE NOT ACTUALLY EXPERTS: Gun Control ‘Expert’ Seriously Beclowns Herself Before Congress. “This wasn’t some random anti-gunner talking to the media. This was the litigation director for Giffords, Esther Sanchez-Gomez, and we got this little nugget from her. A stabilizing brace gives a pistol more power and more lethality? What the hell are they smoking in the Giffords offices, anyway?”

Video at the link.

FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT: Republicans dig in and dispatch hundreds of lawyers to Pennsylvania’s Senate battle.

DON SURBER: Media discovers Republicans buy sneakers too. “I expect commercials to lose their wokeness as well. More than half the country is white. They buy shoes too.”

They have a lot to make up for:

Yes, the legacy (formerly mainstream) media just literally lied relentlessly https://t.co/1NC8T39o5J

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 19, 2024

CDR SALAMANDER: How to Get the Navy’s Groove Back.

CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT: DOJ Apparatchiks Told to Lawyer Up and Flee the Country. Why?

The resume-burnishing appears to extend to main Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (housed under the DOJ), and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia office, which oversees the government’s ongoing prosecution of January 6 protesters. Anonymous “sedition hunters” who have aided the FBI in targeting and identifying hundreds of J6ers deleted their social media accounts over the weekend for fear of reprisal; the FBI reportedly paid the “sedition hunters” as FBI informants to help their pursuit of Trump supporters.

But the corrupt operatives in the DOJ are doing more than just looking for new jobs—some are looking for attorneys. The surprising nomination of former Representative Matt Gaetz as attorney general sent terror waves throughout the DOJ; Gaetz resigned his Florida House seat last week to prepare for a nasty confirmation fight and avoid release of a House Ethics report into debunked allegations about Gaetz’s conduct.

“Inside the Justice Department, some employees who had braced for the possibility of other names that had surfaced early in the transition were appalled when Trump made the Gaetz announcement,” CNN reported on Sunday. “One career official described hearing audible cries of ‘oh my God’ echoing down the hallway inside DOJ’s headquarters.”

NBC News also revealed that DOJ officials “wept” over Trump’s resounding victory. Why? Because they know their turn under the harsh lights of federal interrogators is coming next. “Multiple current and former senior Justice Department and FBI officials have begun reaching out to lawyers in anticipation of being criminally investigated by the Trump administration. The selection of former Rep. Matt Gaetz…to lead the department has sharply increased the sense of alarm.” One unnamed former top DOJ official admitted he “is bracing for a potentially long and costly legal battle, as well as the possibility of protracted congressional investigations.”

Creepy NeverTrumper and faux conservative Matt Lewis told MSNBC this morning reports that DOJ/FBI staffers are lawyering up demonstrates Trump’s desire to “weaponize” the department. “I think it’s real,” Lewis said about the likelihood of charges against corrupt government officials. . . .

In fact, their criminal exposure is so serious that one longtime Democratic operative is advising top targets to leave the country. Mark Zaid, an attorney who represented self-described Ukrainian “whistleblower” Eric Ciaramella, prompting the first impeachment of Trump in 2019, just told both CNN and Politico magazine that government officials worried they will be pursued by a Trump DOJ or Republican Congress should travel “outside of the country” right around Inauguration Day.

Weaponize? It’s already a weapon.

CHANGE: Boston Police report from anti-abortion ‘Men’s March’: 17 people arrested after ‘unlawful, riotous, tumultuous assembly’: The counter-protesters ‘began pushing back at officers.’

The “extremely riotous” counter-protesters at the anti-abortion “Men’s March” over the weekend were reportedly told several times to disperse and stop blocking the permitted march before cops started making numerous arrests, according to the Boston Police report.

A march against abortion rights — which billed itself as an event to “abolish abortion and rally for personhood” — started outside of a Planned Parenthood in Boston and drew counter-protesters clad in clown gear.

The counter-protesters — called the “Clown March… to greet them with a joyful display of resistance” — marched to Kenmore Square, where they blocked the path of the permitted “Men’s March.”

“Upon the convergence, each group was screaming/shouting at each other and the opposing (blocking group) at times turning their rage at officers by threatening them, screaming fighting words, and attempting to agitate them,” the Boston Police report reads.

“It should be noted that these officers at the scene were tasked with protecting the First Amendment Rights of all, maintaining order, protecting the lives of the individuals from all sides, as well as arresting any violators,” the police report states.

After some time, the counter-protesters were ordered by the police incident commander to stop blocking the path of the permitted march.

“Superintendent Cahill ordered the large group several times to end their unlawful, riotous, tumultuous assembly,” the police report reads, later stating, “The crowd refused all orders and continued their tumultuous behavior.”

Cops began to try to physically move the crowd off the street, and clear a safe path for the march.

“This unruly crowd collectively began pushing back at officers, elevating their disorderly and unlawful activity to assaultive,” the police report reads. “This crowd created an extremely hazardous and offensive condition for officers and the individuals of the Men’s Rights Group who were attempting to pass by. After an exhaustive effort, Officers were able to eventually gain enough control to allow the march to proceed through Kenmore Square and towards their destination.

Protesters for non-lefty causes having their civil rights protected against lefty activists? You’re feeling the change of the guard.