UH-HUH: If You Think Elizabeth Warren Is Lying, You’ve Never Been a Woman in the Workplace.

Elizabeth Warren’s path to presidential candidate began with a fateful firing. It’s a story the Democratic senator from Massachusetts has told often on the campaign trail: In 1971, after her first year of teaching as a speech pathologist with the Riverdale Board of Education in New Jersey, Warren got pregnant and was subsequently let go. “By the end of the first year, I was visibly pregnant, and the principal did what principals did in those days: wished me luck, showed me the door, and hired someone else for the job,” Warren said at a town hall in Oakland this past June. Her teaching dreams dashed, Warren went on to law school, professorship, and public service.

But as Warren surges in the polls, people are attempting to contradict her story. Citing records…

Citing records? How uncouth.

Just because some, or even many instances were true, doesn’t mean Warren isn’t lying. And all the evidence suggests that she is.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ:

Well, it couldn’t happen to a nicer would-be sultan — a shame about Europe, but with a few exceptions it’s been too long since they took seriously their own defense.

ONE HAND WASHES THE OTHER: Hillary’s Publicist Pressured Ronan Farrow to Drop Harvey Weinstein Story.

I’M SAVED: After 5 Years Of Trials, Doctors Create Human Liver From Scratch.

ANDY LEVY: The Marvel-less Mr. Martin. “The legendary director of ‘Goodfellas’ doesn’t think comic book movies are ‘cinema’ — and people lost their damn minds.”

NATURAL MAN-MADE DISASTER: Californians Stockpile Booze and Ice as PG&E Imposes Catastrophic Power Outages to Prevent Wildfires.

MIDDLE-CLASS JOE: Joe Biden’s Family Has Been Getting Rich off his Political Career for Decades.

SOUNDS GOOD TO ME:

But I expect that, if nominated, Warren will “suddenly” become aware of all this, and break her promise.

FLASHBACK TO 2008 (From Ed): Obama tarnished by rejecting public funds for election fight. Candidate reneges on vow to stick to state-set limit.

BAN FEET: FBI: More people killed with knives, hammers, clubs and even feet than rifles in 2018.

GRUNGE-ERA RELIC: Trump administration expected to announce exit from ‘Open Skies’ treaty.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Dem Donors Leak to Press: ‘He’s a Weak Front-Runner.’ “Anything can happen in a field this wide, and Biden seems remarkably hale for a man of his age and with his history of health problems. But right now his presidential campaign has the stink of death around it.”

UH-HUH: Twitter says users’ phone numbers provided for security ‘inadvertently’ used for ad purposes.

I’d rather lose access to my various online accounts than give out my phone number, so I don’t.

SAD: Chicago is losing its black middle class. Can it get it back? “The prevailing attitude among black people in Chicago is that, to move up, you’ve got to move away.”

HARSH, BUT FAIR:

HE FIGHTS: White House Slams Dems’ ‘Illegitimate and Unconstitutional’ Impeachment Inquiry.

WELL: Whistleblower Had ‘Professional’ Tie to a 2020 Democratic Candidate.

AND THIS TIME IT WILL WORK: California Passes Rent-Control Law Amid Homelessness Crisis.

California will cap rent increases under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom said he would sign Tuesday, the most significant piece of housing-related legislation in a year that also saw the shelving of a measure to relax zoning and spur more construction.

Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, said he would sign the bill into law at a ceremony in Oakland, Calif. The governor has said the rent caps and tenant protections are necessary to help people being squeezed out of their homes. The law limits annual rent increases at 5%, plus the rate of inflation, and adds some barriers for landlords seeking to evict people.

“They will provide California with important new tools to combat our state’s broader housing and affordability crisis,” Mr. Newsom said when the rent measure passed the legislature Sept. 11.

The Housing Gnomes’ three-step plan works like this:

1. Make construction more costly, and also cap prices.

2. ???

3. Housing for everyone!

Fortunately, I have a huge supply Unexpectedlys for use as the steps play out.

PROCUREMENT BLUES: Bradley Replacement: Army Risks Third Failure In A Row.

Experts fear the Army has undermined a top priority program, the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle, by disqualifying one of the only two remaining competitors for not delivering its prototype on time.

“I cannot believe that is the reason,” said a baffled Thomas Spoehr, a retired three-star who headed the Army’s program analysis & evaluation office. There must be, he told me this morning, some more profound problem driving this decision: “Nobody wants to have this major program go forward with only one competitor.”

The news was broken by our colleague Jen Judson on Friday and confirmed to us by several sources. The Army declined official comment. Manufacturer Rheinmetall could not physically ship their Lynx-41 prototype from Germany to the US — which is strange, since they’ve managed to do so before — by the October first deadline. While some Army officials were willing to offer them an extension, the recently created Army Futures Command refused.

That leaves General Dynamics, offering an all-new design we describe below, as the sole competitor for the Engineering & Manufacturing Design (EMD) contract to be awarded early next year. A crucial caveat: Winning EMD does not guarantee General Dynamics will win the production contract, which will be awarded in 2023 in a competition open to all comers.

But any 2023 contender would have to refine their design at their own expense, without the constant feedback from the Army that comes with being on the EMD contract.

I hope there’s nothing fishy going on here, but this doesn’t smell quite right.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: War on Impeachment Wednesday. “The Dems have been flailing ever since Grandma Nan decided to get on board. Trump and company are probably creating an environment for the opposition to commit more unforced errors, which will no doubt happen.”

OPERATION MOUNT HOPE: How the CIA stole a Russian Hind-D gunship in the dead of night.

PRIVACY: Senator proposes mandatory labeling for products with mics, cameras.

The bill, dubbed the Protecting Privacy in our Homes Act, would mandate a new kind of labeling on goods that include Internet-connected microphones or cameras. The proposed law does not define what kind of labels would need to be appended but rather would order the Federal Trade Commission to put in place specific regulations “under which each covered manufacturer shall be required to include on the packaging of each covered device manufactured by the covered manufacturer a notice that a camera or microphone is a component of the covered device.”

Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) introduced the bill to the Senate. “Consumers face a number of challenges when it comes to their privacy, but they shouldn’t have a challenge figuring out if a device they buy has a camera or microphone embedded into it,” Gardner said. “This legislation is about consumer information, consumer empowerment, and making sure we’re doing everything we can to protect consumer privacy.”

The buyer can’t beware if the buyer is unaware.

CHANGE: Elizabeth Warren Leads Joe Biden For First Time in RCP Polling Average.

Related: Donors express frustrations over Biden.

I’ll have more on this later over at VodkaPundit.

THIS IS TO BE EXPECTED: Forget Facebook, Google. Now your work could also follow you in secret.

OH FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD: Not Even Mar-a-Lago Is Safe: Trump Org Bows to Far-Left Demand to Cancel Conservative Event.

HMM: Did Former DNI James Clapper Implicate Barack Obama in Trump Spying Scandal?