BUT I’D BEEN TOLD THAT MEN CAN GET PREGNANT: ‘You’d See More Abortion Clinics Than Starbucks’ if ‘Men Could Get Pregnant,’ VA Senate Democratic Leader Says.

AWFUL: Texas gun control activist shoots her three children dead.

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Democrats Launch Effort to Win 2020 Election… in Court. “Democrats have launched a multi-state effort in courts across the nation seeking to tinker with the rules of the 2020 election to help oust President Donald Trump from the White House. These lawsuits are the latest in a longstanding push to use the courts to alter election rules, all in the name of ‘civil rights.’ The lawsuits are funded by dark money sources, and not-so-dark money sources such as George Soros’ Open Society Institute.”

ANALYSIS: ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Andrew Cuomo: ‘We Didn’t Have Hurricanes’ Before Climate Change.

THE MEME’S THE THING: Five Times The Media Falsely Accused Trump of Sharing ‘Doctored’ Images/Photos.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY: Are You Ready for President Florida Man?

CYBERWAR: Text editor releases ‘Free Uyghur’ edition, gets swamped with Chinese spam.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Rachel McKinnon Is a Cheat and a Bully. “Rachel McKinnon — the so-called defending “world champion” of women’s track cycling — is a man. I’ll repeat that so my meaning cannot be misconstrued. He is a man.”

First, by pretending that McKinnon is not a man, we have allowed him to cheat at sports at the expense of his female competitors. Because McKinnon being a man is directly relevant to the argument that he should not compete against women, in calling him something other than a man, we obfuscate that argument — and all for the sake of a very recently invented set of blasphemy norms (e.g. “misgendering” and “deadnaming”) that don’t apply to us non-believers.

Second, by pretending that McKinnon is not a man — but rather a vulnerable woman — we have forsworn all expectations of accountability and decency. The most egregious example of this, and the precise moment I decided to stop lending McKinnon special courtesies, was when he lauded the terminal illness of a young woman, Magdalen Berns, whom I held (and still hold) in great esteem.

Berns believed strongly that men cannot be women. As she lay on her deathbed in Scotland, at the age of 36, surrounded by her loved ones, McKinnon tweeted that he was “happy” when bad people died, that this feeling is “justified,” that Berns is a “trash human,” and further advised his followers “don’t be the sort of person who people you’ve harmed are happy you’re dying of brain cancer.” By contrast, here is a characteristically civil, clear and courageous quote from Berns: “it’s not hate to defend your rights and it’s not hate to speak the truth.”

Men can be so rude sometimes.

Read the whole thing.

THEY’RE UGLY AND CONSUME HUGE AMOUNTS OF REAL ESTATE FOR MEDIOCRE ENERGY PRODUCTION: Germany’s Giant Windmills Are Wildly Unpopular.

It’s getting harder to get permission to erect the turbine towers. Local regulations are getting stricter. Bavaria decided back in 2014 that the distance between a wind turbine and the nearest housing must be 10 times the height of the mast, which, given the density of dwellings, makes it hard to find a spot anywhere. Wind energy development is practically stalled in the state now. Brandenburg, the state surrounding Berlin, passed a law this year demanding that wind-farm operators pay 10,000 euros ($11,100) per turbine each year to communities within 3 kilometers of the windmills.

Wind projects are also often rejected or stalled because they’re deemed to interfere with military communications, air traffic control or broadcast radio stations.

Besides, local opponents of the wind farms often go to court to stall new developments or even have existing towers dismantled. According to the wind-industry lobby BWE, 325 turbine installations with a total capacity of more than 1 gigawatt (some 2% of the country’s total installed capacity) are tied up in litigation. The irony is that the litigants are often just as “green” as the wind-energy proponents — one is the large conservation organization NABU, which says it’s not against wind energy as such but merely demands that installations are planned with preserving nature in mind. Almost half of the complaints are meant to protect various bird and bat species; others claim the turbines make too much noise or emit too much low-frequency infrasound. Regardless of the validity of such claims, projects get tied up in the courts even after jumping through the many hoops necessary to get a permit.

German nuclear energy production — zero emission, zero carbon — has been cut in half in recent years.

ANOTHER TORPEDO READY TO CIRCLE BACK? Polls Suggest Impeachment Will Help Trump Reelection in Swing States.

HMM: The DNA database used to find the Golden State Killer is a national security leak waiting to happen.

COLORADO: Multiple Democrat candidates accepting county party money in ‘nonpartisan’ municipal races.

IN MY EXPERIENCE YOU DON’T EVEN HAVE TO BE WORKING OUT: Using Curse Words Can Help Combat Pain, Improve Your Workouts.

THAT MEANS IT’S WORKING: Results Are In: Common Core Is Making American Kids Dumber.

VIDEO: Former CIA Boss Celebrates Impeachment: ‘Thank God for the Deep State!’

VIDEO: Newtown, Connecticut, Woman Disrupts Beto O’Rourke, Challenges Views On 2A.

FROM THE BIRTHPLACE OF ENGLISH LIBERTY: Homeowners who refuse to install a smart meter will face a huge hike in energy bills, minister warns.

The Government wants 85 per cent of homes to have a smart meter to monitor power usage by 2024 – but the rollout has been plagued by delays.

However, climate change minister Lord Duncan told the business, energy and industrial strategy committee those who refused a smart meter would soon ‘find the stick’ of rapidly rising bills. He said the cost of maintaining a traditional meter would increase as the rollout progressed because it would be more expensive for suppliers to do manual readings.

He added: ‘Once you get to the point of moving down from 15 per cent to 10 per cent to 9 per cent and so forth, the expense of maintaining these relic meters will be very high.’

BS. Any savings generated by smart meters won’t be going back to consumers. Britain will jack up prices on older meters in order to force compliance, and to increase surveillance and control over Britons via smart meters.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Impeachment and a House Divided Perhaps Forever.

There isn’t an adult of sound mind in this country who sees all of this playing out in a way that sees a bunch of Republicans finally deciding that the president needs to go or the Democrats finally admitting defeat in their attempts to prematurely oust him.

Face it, we don’t like each other much anymore, the Right and Left in America. We’ve been heading towards this for a while. I blame Hillary Clinton, partially because she’s so adept at being unlikeable, but mostly because I believe she is more than likely Satan’s latest incarnation on Earth.

Just my opinion.

Granny Maojackets has spent the last three years fortifying herself with boxes of Franzia and remaining in the public eye to make sure Democrats continue to believe that the result of the 2016 election was illegitimate.

Her flying monkeys in the mainstream media have made sure that the message keeps buzzing in the air.

Read the whole thing.

I’d just add that every time Hillary Clinton speaks in public, she gnaws at the social fabric and institutions of this country. And maybe whenever she speaks in private, too.

HMM: Sen. Joe Manchin says he won’t vote for Bernie Sanders if he is the Democratic nominee.

HEAP BIG: Warren’s no top-dollar fundraiser pledge includes big caveat.

Fowler and other Democratic leaders say Warren isn’t being honest about her fundraising plans if she were to become the party’s nominee. They say she can’t tell voters she is personally shunning big-dollar fundraisers while simultaneously headlining state and national party events at which she would raise millions of dollars from major donors supporting her bid for the White House.

“What I hope she understands is that after a candidate becomes the nominee, the DNC is their campaign and their campaign is the DNC,” said Rufus Gifford, Barack Obama’s 2012 finance chairman. “There is not a distinction that you can draw.”

Surprised?

BIG BROTHER: ACLU sues FBI, DOJ over facial-recognition technology, criticizing ‘unprecedented’ surveillance and secrecy. “The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday sued the Justice Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI for records detailing their use of facial-recognition software, arguing that the agencies have secretly implemented a nationwide surveillance technology that threatens Americans’ privacy and civil rights.”

CYBERSECURITY: WhatsApp hacked to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies.

Sources familiar with WhatsApp’s internal investigation into the breach said a “significant” portion of the known victims are high-profile government and military officials spread across at least 20 countries on five continents.

The hacking of a wider group of top government officials’ smartphones than previously reported suggests the WhatsApp cyber intrusion could have broad political and diplomatic consequences.

WhatsApp filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Israeli hacking tool developer NSO Group. The Facebook-owned software giant alleges that NSO Group built and sold a hacking platform that exploited a flaw in WhatsApp-owned servers to help clients hack into the cellphones of at least 1,400 users.

While it is not clear who used the software to hack officials’ phones, NSO says it sells its spyware exclusively to government customers.

Even allies eavesdrop on each other all the time. But you’re supposed to be extra-careful to not get caught at it, or put at risk a good relationship. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.

AND THEY WEREN’T EVEN COY ABOUT IT: Impeachment Has Been Their Plan All Along.

SO YOU’RE ADMITTING THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENT IS INCAPABLE OF PERFORMING BASIC FUNCTIONS: Firms like Facebook should resurface San Jose streets.

BECAUSE OF COURSE: Georgetown Welcomes Back Prof Who Doxxed Men, Called for ‘Deaths’ of GOP Senators.