DON SURBER: A party run by children.

AOC and her ilk want reparations. Now! AOC and her ilk want open borders. Now! AOC and her ilk want their student loans erased. Now! AOC and her ilk want gun confiscation. Now! AOC and her ilk want the end of coal, oil and gas. Now! AOC and her ilk want whatever they want, and they want it now.

They view America as genocidal, racist, sexist, Islamophobic and ignorant.

The problem is most Americans know the facts. They not only reject her views but laugh at them.

Nevertheless, Democrats are stuck with delivering on these nutty promises.

Read the whole thing.

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump Fires His Leaking Pollsters. “Do you ever see these kinds of shenanigans coming from the Democrats: people supposedly ‘on their side’ sabotaging their candidate or their president with leaks? No, we see people ‘on their side’ lying under oath to protect their candidate, we see them smashing phones to hide evidence, deleting emails after they were subpoenaed, or even using the government surveillance apparatus in the service of ‘their’ side. Maybe the internal saboteurs aren’t really on our side? It’s worth a thought.

NEWS YOU CAN USE? How to Make Jim Acosta Cry.

YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION: Denver council member wins with promise to impose communism ‘by any means necessary.’

WOW: Researchers convert Type A blood to universal donor blood in scientific breakthrough. “The new study could double the amount of universally accepted blood available for transfusions.”

Give blood if you can — more is always needed.

A PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION: Fired Black Law Professor May Sue D.C. Law School.

THEY’LL PUT Y’ALL BACK IN CHAINS: Beto Tells Black Leaders They Need Protection ‘From their Own Country.’

O’Rourke has gained a special insight on race relations, having spent years as a mock-Hispanic.

BATTLESPACE PREP: Pinterest Blacklists PJ Media, Other Conservative Sites and This Is Just the Tip of the Censorship Iceberg.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: It’s Florida Man Friday!

AMELIA HAMILTON’S ‘GROWING PATRIOTS’ PODCAST: Episode 18: The Trouble Begins.

Not a bad way to introduce your kids or grandkids to the Revolutionary War.

HEALTH: The Real Gender Gap in Heart Disease.

The graph demonstrates that over the last few decades the number of women dying from heart disease has been significantly higher than men dying from heart disease. In the year 2000 alone the gap is the most impressive, with 70,000 more women dying than men. The problem with this chart is that it is completely misleading.

Mortality in this case is best judged by death rates that take into account age and the population at risk rather than the crude number of deaths. The following table assembled from the CDC database for heart disease deaths by gender and age group for the year 2000 paints a more descriptive picture. The number of men dying from heart disease exceeds women in almost every age group. It’s not even close.

The absolute number of men dying in the prime of their lives is staggering. Between the ages of 35 and 64, 92,000 men die every year, which is twice as many men as women, and equivalent to those who died in the Korean War and Vietnam War combined. Even after the age of 75 when more women die than men in total, men die at higher rates because there simply are far fewer men left alive.

My dad died at 41 of heart disease, which taught me the hard way to pay close attention to my health — especially heart health. Everyone should.

FASTER? PLEASE! US Air Force flight tests hypersonic missile on B-52 bomber.

PROJECTION? House Democrat Complains About ‘Sex-Starved’ Male Colleagues Talking About Abortion.

DAVID SOLWAY: Time to Leave Western Civ Behind: Looking for a Place to Emigrate.

HMM: Chinese auto sales post worst-ever monthly decline as trade war intensifies.

GENEVIEVE WOOD: Why the Declining Marriage Rate Affects Everyone.

Decades of statistics have shown that, on average, married couples have better physical health, more financial stability, and greater social mobility than unmarried people.

Other studies show that the children of those couples are more likely to experience higher academic performance, emotional maturity, and financial stability than children who don’t have both parents in the home.

The social and economic costs of family breakdown are paid by everyone.

Studies show divorce and unwed childbearing cost taxpayers over $110 billion each year. But the real victims are children.

Children raised in single-parent homes are statistically more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol, exhibit poor social behaviors, and commit violent crimes. They’re also more likely to drop out of school.

And when it comes to fighting poverty, there is no better weapon than marriage. In fact, marriage reduces the probability of child poverty by 80%.

So what can and should be done?

Much more at the link.

(Hat tip, Chris Wray.)

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Democrats Announce Who Will Make Political Balloon Animals at the Debate.

HE SEEMS NICE: AOC spokesman tweets, then deletes, F-bomb rant against potential GOP challenger.

PREPARING THE BATTLESPACE FOR 2020: Twitter Escalates Censorship of Conservative Media.

FASCINATING: Critical Projection: Insights from China’s Science Fiction. “The nature of ‘New-Wave’ SF very much reflects China’s complexity and its future aspirations. Hopes and fears are intertwined and framed by a sense of destiny. Over the past 12 years, the themes of China’s SF canon have moved away from concerns of everyday life to far loftier, and literally celestial, aspirations. Cixin Liu’s short story, The Sun of China, captures a sense of a nation capable of realising its own goals rather than have its place in the world determined by others. This resonates with a national vision which has been expressed in terms of Jintao’s ‘Chinese Dream’, the more philosophical aspects of Xi Jinping‘s ‘Belt and Road’ initiative, and the Chang’e lunar programme. China casts itself as an agent in its future and seems to have the ideological and financial capital to realise its visions.”

JUST THINK OF THEM AS DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVE WITH BYLINES… BECAUSE THEY ARE: ‘How to lie by omission’: James Taranto and Jeryl Bier obliterate media’s 2014 vs. 2019 ‘internment camp’ spin in 2 maddening threads.

TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED: Fear of a blue Texas: New GOP group to spend millions registering Republicans.

HE’S LITERALLY HITLER™: Tim McGraw Says Americans Should ‘Quit Demonizing Each Other.’

HEH: Study: Hate Clicks Are A Major Source Of Web Traffic And Also ‘The Princess Bride’ Is A Trash Movie That Only Stupid People Like.

FLASHBACK: Two Obama-Era Officials Violated Hatch Act But Weren’t Removed from Office.