THE SUSPENSE AIN’T EXACTLY KILLING ME: AOC to Endorse a Fellow ‘Democratic Socialist’ for President.

DON’T GET COCKY: Moody Election Model Has Some Very Bad News for 2020 Democrats.

THE REAL TRICK WILL BE FINDING AN ECONOMICAL WAY OF COLLECTING AND REUSING THEM: A new radar system will track 250,000 tiny pieces of space junk. It may help prevent snowballing collisions that could cut off our access to orbit.

BLUE STATE BLUES: California prison whistleblower says state tried to create phony data on inmate care.

The whistleblower who accused California prison leaders last year of providing false and misleading data to a federal court on how the state handles inmate psychiatric care made his first public appearance Tuesday, standing behind his claims and saying corrections officials concocted “utter statistical garbage” in some cases.

Dr. Michael Golding, the chief psychiatrist at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation headquarters, testified in Sacramento federal court Tuesday about what he said were repeated instances to gin up phony data the state needed to present to U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to prove they were making progress on improving psychiatric care in the prisons.

Golding, who compiled and sent a scathing, 161-page report on psychiatric care in the prisons to the federally appointed receiver in October 2018, said there had never been anything secret about his views that corrections officials were trying to produce “extraordinarily misleading data” to come into compliance with court orders.

More at the link.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Debate Knives Come Out for Lizzie. “Elizabeth Warren hit the stage for Tuesday’s Democratic debate as the front-runner for the first time and, as many suspected, with the spotlight came an increased level of attacks from her rivals.”

Kruiser had me at “heap big target.”

GOD IS ON THE SIDE OF THE HEAVY ARTILLERY: Bringing in the big gun: Army paves way for ‘strategic cannon.’ “US aims for test of artillery prototype with range of over 1,000 miles by 2023.”

CHANGE? Mexican Senate set to pass bill to legalize marijuana in next few days.

GOOD LUCK WITH BOTH OF THOSE: United States imposes sanctions on Turkey; Erdogan calls for NATO help in Syria.

THEY DIDN’T FORFEIT ANYTHING. THE DEMOCRATS DROVE THEM AWAY. Calling All Ohioans: Don’t Forfeit Swing-State Status.

THE STUPID NEVER ENDS: Cal Fire Moves to Dismantle Ham Radio System, Endangering Lives Amid Blackouts and Wildfires.

FROM THE DEBATE DRUNKBLOG:

IT’S SHOWTIME: Drunkblogging the October Democratic Debate.

I don’t usually make predictions, so let’s just say I’m hoping that tonight is the night one of the moderators says, “Raise your hand if you’d institute a dictatorship of the proletariat,” and 12 hands go up.

13, actually. Bernie would raise both hands.

Much more to come…

TO BE FAIR, IT’S EASY TO CONFUSE A PROGRESSIVE JUDGE FOR A RADICAL ACTIVIST: Liberal Supreme Court Short List Packed With Radical Activists, Short on Actual Judges.

UH-HUH: After power is restored to large swath of California, PG&E claims shut-off prevented wildfires. “While the utility says the outage might have prevented wildfires in several northern counties — and the company showed photos of downed power lines as evidence — it certainly caused millions of dollars in damage to closed businesses, generator-less households and others in places where the weather never lived up to the predicted conditions.”

Well, what else were they going to say after all that?

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update. “Biden and Warren tie in Iowa, another debate looms, Harris continues to plummet, LBGTCrazy, indestructible Bernie is back on his feet, Yang is the new Ron Paul, and Beto is coming after your church.”

THIS SHOULDN’T HAVE TO BE SAID, BUT THAT’S THE AGE WE LIVE IN: 5 Reasons ACT for America Is NOT an ‘Anti-Muslim Hate Group.’

LONG OVERDUE: The American crackdown on Chinese intelligence. “Trump appears to be following the strategy used during the Cold War of blocking US and western technology to the Soviet Union, a policy that contributed to the 1991 collapse.”

This is from Bill Gertz, so lots of good stuff at the link.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG. Iranian-American Businessman Coordinated With UAE Monarch to Target Iran Critics, Lawsuit Alleges. “Lawsuit suggests Wall Street Journal journalist also caught up in smear operation.”

FLASHBACK: US Navy expelled Vice-President Biden’s son after positive cocaine test.

HMM: Joe Biden Has Corporate Democrats in Panic Mode. “The Democratic Party’s most powerful donors are running out of options in the presidential race. Their warhorse Joe Biden is stumbling, while the other corporate-minded candidates lag far behind. For party elites, with less than four months to go before voting starts in caucuses and primaries, 2020 looks like Biden or bust.”

Much more at the link.

BRYAN PRESTON: We Teach Nothing, We Know Nothing — and That Could Cost the United States Everything.

Texas fought a whole revolution over just this idea — centralist government or federalist (republican) government. Thankfully the latter won. But hardly anyone is aware of this, and the left will rewrite that story the first chance they get and turn it into a war over race and class — not ideas. The left won’t forget the Alamo, they’ll just remember it incorrectly. Or do we think the same forces denouncing Jefferson now don’t have designs on the Alamo, Gettysburg, Mount Vernon, Yorktown… wherever the American story can be destroyed? Of course they do. They’ve already attacked the national anthem and the Betsy Ross flag.

Because millions know nothing, warnings about what’s happened in the past or now don’t work. Thomas Jefferson is worse than that Cambodian dictator they’ve never heard of. The National Basketball Association should’ve been more specific with the “national” part of its branding. Which nation do they belong to now? This past week they’ve enforced speech codes on behalf of Maoist communist China. Golden State (social justice) Warriors coach Steve Kerr, an outspoken critic of the United States, refused to criticize China’s abysmal human rights record. They’ve been joined by Apple and Blizzard. Right now, Hong Kong may be the most important city in the world. But too many Americans who know nothing don’t understand that, and are happily selling it out for Chinese money.

Why, it’s almost as though there’s a method to this madness.

HAPPY TENTH BLOGIVERSARY to Lawrence Person’s BattleSwarm Blog.

Keep bringing the good stuff.

THE MOST HATED MAN IN FLORIDA? ‘Mr. Israel Cannot Get His Job Back,’ Several Families Of Parkland Victims Send Message To Florida Senators.

The parents of Alex Schachter, Alyssa Alhadeff, Nick Dworet, Meadow Pollack, Jaime Guttenberg and Joaquin Oliver said that Israel failed before the Parkland shooting, in terms of training and staffing the Parkland district, during the shooting, as gauged by the response of a handful of BSO deputies and after the shooting in terms of changes made at the agency.

Guttenberg said Scott Israel’s attempt to return to his former position as Broward County Sheriff is a slap in the face to the victim’s families.

“The former Sheriff of this county has made himself a victim of the Parkland shooting,” Guttenberg said. “No. The people who died are the victims. He wants his money back. And you know what, he doesn’t deserve it. He failed.”

Indeed.

LIBERTY: Operation Hope founder: ‘I grew up in Compton’ — without capitalism, ‘I wouldn’t be who I am.’

‘TIS A PITY THEY CAN’T BOTH LOSE… OR COULD THEY? Elizabeth Warren Steps Up Her Criticisms Against Facebook’s Ad Policy.

Other than the headline, I’d recommend against reading this IBT piece.