NEWS YOU CAN USE? How to block Facebook and Google from identifying your face.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: Guess How Much San Antonio Has Spent To Keep Chick-Fil-A Out Of The Airport? “$315K in legal fees alone and there are still several investigations ongoing with other invoices yet to be received.”

UGH: China Quarantines Second City As Experts Warn It’s Already Too Late To Stop Virus.

HUNTER HAS THAT OTHER COURT APPEARANCE, ANYWAY: ‘I Think It’s Off the Table’: Schumer Shoots Down Possibility of Bolton-for-Biden Witness Swap.

ROCK BOTTOM: WaPo’s Rubin Completes Descent Into Self-Parody, Swooning Over Schiff’s ‘Brilliant’ Legal Skills.

MAYBE IT’S MAYBELLINE: Silly Feminist, Screenshots are Forever! Dem Hack Deletes Tweets Mocking Kellyanne Conway’s Looks.

JUST DO IT: Civil War Redux? Some Virginia Counties May Want to Secede to Join West Virginia Over Gun Control.

Where is Glenn’s paper on state secession which is always looking steadily more timely?

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Debunking Trump’s Impeachment with One Simple Thought Experiment.

Let’s pretend that Joe Biden had a different name. No, better: Let’s pretend that Joe Biden had a different letter after his name. Let’s pretend he’s Joe Biden (R), former Vice President under George W. Bush.

In that case, what would the Democrats be doing differently? Literally everything.

Instead of impeaching Trump, they’d be praising him (although perhaps reluctantly) for his non-partisan willingness to look into Republican malfeasance. Adam Schiff would hold months worth of hearings, looking back into the Bush Administration in ways he’d never dare look back into Obama’s. The Democrat-controlled press would be 24/7 Biden! Biden! Biden! Jerry Nadler would have to go back to, I dunno, eating mayonnaise with an ice cream scoop.

Read the whole thing, if you don’t mind me saying so myself.

I have a second column today for PJMedia/Townhall VIP members. Want to know what Hillary Clinton would really say, if she dropped the mask long enough to dish the dirt over a box or two of chardonnay? Here’s your chance: Hillary Clinton: Off the Hook.

And here’s your thrice-weekly reminder that if you’ve been thinking of becoming a VIP member, the VODKAPUNDIT promo code is still good for a nice little discount.

YES. AND FOR THE SAME REASON THE SCORPION STUNG THE FROG. Did Adam Schiff Purposely Mislead America About The Parnas Texts?

A DOWN PAYMENT: Clinton Corruption Update: What’s $1 Million Between Friends?

IF ANYTHING CAN TURN VIRGINIA RED AGAIN IN TIME FOR NOVEMBER, THE DEMS HAVE FOUND IT: VA Legislators Pass New Gun Control Day After 2A Rally.

HE REALLY WAS THE WORST: Thanks, Obama: Iran Thinks Kidnapping U.S. Hostages Is a Money-Making Strategy.

SHOT: CBS Bets Big on ‘Star Trek: Picard’ to Boost Streaming Business.

CHASER: Patrick Stewart Says ‘Star Trek: Picard’ A Response To The ‘F***ed’ World Of Brexit, Trump.

Insulting half your audience before the show even airs is rarely a recipe for success.

BOEING: Starliner’s thruster performance receiving close scrutiny from NASA.

The NASA release did not mention thruster performance, but an agency source told Ars that engineers are looking closely at the performance of the Starliner propulsion system. In addition to four large launch abort engines, the service module has 28 reaction control system thrusters, each with 85 pounds of thrust and 20 more-powerful orbital maneuvering thrusters, each with 1,500 pounds of thrust.

During the post-flight news conference Jim Chilton, Boeing’s senior vice president of the Space and Launch division, said the service module thrusters were stressed due to their unconventional use in raising Starliner’s orbit instead of performing one big burn. As a result, the company had to shut down one manifold, which effectively branches into several lines carrying propellant to four thrusters. “We even shut down one manifold as we saw pressure go low ’cause it had been used a lot,” he said.

The NASA source said eight or more thrusters on the service module failed at one point and that one thruster never fired at all.

And from the comments:

I will give Boeing a semi-pass on this one. The thrusters were used in a manner they would never be used during a mission, so it’s probably not surprising they had issues after that. However, it is concerning that one thruster never fired at all. That is certainly not acceptable, and unfortunately, may be yet another failure of Boeing’s quality assurance culture. In light of this additional finding, there is absolutely no way they should be allowed to do a manned flight without a successful unmanned demo. Considering Dragon had yet another great flight adds more fuel to that argument. If SpaceX can do it, why can’t Boeing?

Good question.

FORMER BILL CLINTON ADVISOR MARK PENN: Democrats Need to End This Partisan Impeachment.

History, it seems, does repeat itself. George Washington’s farewell address about the excesses of partisanship was never truer than today. As America’s only truly independent president, Washington predicted that the growth of factionalism would undermine the execution of our laws and that the “alternate domination” of one party over another would lead to efforts to “exact revenge” and “raise false alarms.”

Let us not forget that the Trump administration suffered through a two-year special counsel investigation based almost entirely on opposition research from the other party, and that this imbroglio stems from the other party believing it had now in turn found information that would turn the political tables. It is all exactly as George Washington foretold.

Read the whole thing.

BREAKING: Adam Schiff Deliberately Misrepresents Impeachment Evidence AGAIN!

“CRIMINAL FRAUD” HAS A NICE RING TO IT: Protesters in Puerto Rico Call for Governor’s Resignation After Aid Found in Warehouse.

TYLER O’NEIL: ‘Hate Group’ Lawsuit Clears Hurdle, Judeo-Christian Group Warns SPLC ‘Day of Reckoning’ Is Coming.’

Tyler has been on top of the SPLC story since before it was a story.

HE’S WEAKENING OUR DEFENSIVE MILITARY ALLIANCE BY ASKING THE OTHER MEMBERS TO BEEF UP THEIR DEFENSES: Trump reprises NATO spending complaints at World Economic Forum.

SHE’S BEEN MARRIED TO BILL FOR HOW LONG? Hillary Clinton Pleads Ignorance About Harvey Weinstein Despite Multiple Warnings. “‘How could we have known?’ Clinton asked, despite multiple women saying they warned the campaign.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Spare Us the Wrath of the Commie Beta Bernie Bros. “Marty here wants to get armed and learn how to shoot so he can go subjugate those of us who are already armed and know how to shoot. As strategies go, this one is a little lacking and lagging behind.”

OH: Biden Says Only Felons Should Be Deported And He Doesn’t ‘Count Drunk Driving as a Felony.’

“You aren’t allowed to be here.”

“What’s the penalty for that?”

“You get to stay here.”

Economists call this a perverse incentive, but Democrats just call it policy.

THIS IS FAR FROM THE WORST PROBLEM WE COULD HAVE: US Cyber Command was not prepared to handle the amount of data it hacked from ISIS. “Operation Glowing Symphony was a success, but Cyber Command operators were not prepared for the amount of data they found in hacked ISIS accounts and servers.”

SLOWER, PLEASE: Chinese Virus Is Spreading Between Humans, Prompting Outbreak Fears.

THE PARTY LINE: No Slam ‘Debunk’: Analyzing the Dems’ Repetitive Impeach Text.