POLL: 37.5% of Republican Students Feel ‘Unsafe’ on Campus; 55% Hide Their Political Views from Friends. “President Trump’s executive order to deny funding to colleges that suppress free speech is clearly needed.”

IF THEY REALLY HURRY, WE CAN GET BACK THERE IN TIME FOR THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LAST MOONWALK: American Astronauts to Return to Moon Within 5 Years, Pence Pledges.

COMMUNIST FRONT CORPORATION: How Microsoft found a Huawei driver that opened systems to attack.

Huawei MateBook systems that are running the company’s PCManager software included a driver that would let unprivileged users create processes with superuser privileges. The insecure driver was discovered by Microsoft using some of the new monitoring features added to Windows version 1809 that are monitored by the company’s Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service.

First things first: Huawei fixed the driver and published the safe version in early January, so if you’re using a Huawei system and have either updated everything or removed the built-in applications entirely, you should be good to go.

The interesting part of the story is how Microsoft found the bad driver in the first place.

Given Huawei’s track record, the really interesting part of the story might be what Microsoft didn’t find, and what Huawei didn’t then “fix.”

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: #LiberalPrivilege, #DossierTruthers and Much, Much More. “I happened to have Martha MacCallum’s show on last night and one of her guests was barking moonbat Eric Swalwell (D-CA). My jaw dropped when Swalwell asserted that nothing in the salacious and unverified dossier had been proven ‘not factual.’ Actually, not much in the dossier has been proven factual. There’s a difference but the left is using a new legal standard. ‘Can you prove you are not guilty?’ Can we prove Trump didn’t collude with RUSSIA? I don’t know, has it been proven ‘not factual’ that Eric Swalwell isn’t buggering little boys?”

Make them play by their rules.

HARDBALL: ‘Now We’re In Charge’: Democrats Lock Out Republicans On Bipartisan Bills.

Democrats like Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) express no interest in anything but pushing ahead with Democratic legislation – and after 25 years of being mostly in the House minority, Doyle thinks it is high time.

“I don’t have thin skin about this, but when they were in charge, they had the rules,” Doyle told Politico.

“Now we’re in charge, and maybe some of them don’t understand that yet.”
Republican Richard Hudson expressed frustration with Democrat Bobby Rush for altering a bill the two had co-authored to introduce new workforce training programs. Rush has effectively removed Hudson from planning this bill.

“He reintroduced it, and he’s added all this money to it, and didn’t consult me,” Hudson told Politico.

Just like Harry Reid’s Senate, the new Democratic House majority acts as though they’ll never be the minority again.

WELL, WE KNOW WHO RUNS THE COMPANY: Apple-backed Southern Poverty Law Center wracked in turmoil, called a ‘con’ for ‘bilking gullible liberals.’

YOU MIGHT THINK THIS WOULD BE OBVIOUS TO LAWMAKERS SWORN TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION, BUT NO: Colorado’s Dave Kopel to U.S. Senate committee: “Red Flag” laws must fully respect due process.

Colorado constitutional scholar David Kopel today testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary on the implementation of “Red Flag” gun confiscation laws in the states. Several U.S. senators, including Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, are exploring the idea of giving federal grants to states to implement such laws. Kopel is research director at the Independence Institute*, a free market think tank in Denver, and adjunct professor of constitutional law at Denver University’s Sturm College of Law.

“My testimony will urge that funding be given only to states that fully respect due process. Which definitely does not include Colorado’s HB 1177,” said Kopel.

House Bill 1177 is the Colorado version of a “Red Flag” law, rapidly making its way through the legislature. The bill would establish an Extreme Risk Protection Order, or “ERPO,” system to allow police to seize guns from those considered a threat to themselves or others, based on claims from police, roommates, and ex-spouses and other former romantic partners, among others.

“One crazy ex” is becoming the new standard of justice in Colorado.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: SPLC Won’t Say If President Was Paid On Way Out The Door.

HMM: A mysterious syndrome that makes marijuana users violently ill is starting to worry doctors.

For nearly a decade, the Australian woman had experienced sudden and severe episodes of nausea and vomiting in connection to using the drug. Before that, she’d smoked safely for years with no symptoms. In 2004, a team of emergency room physicians in the country detailed Mrs. X’s experience anonymously alongside a handful of similar cases that happened in the same region that year. In nearly all of them, patients described an illness that cropped up suddenly, often after decades of normal marijuana use. Piping hot baths were their only relief. The Australian physicians dubbed it “cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome,” or CHS.

Although the Australians’ report raised some red flags locally, most experts continued to believe that cases like Mrs. X’s were rare across the globe. Until a spate of similar reports begin to crop up elsewhere.

Now, several recent studies from emergency room physicians across Europe and the US are beginning to suggest that CHS could be a lot more common than previously thought.

I think if I felt this way after enjoying a scotch or martini, I’d give up the sauce after a lot less time than ten years.

MICHAEL LEDEEN: Make No Mistake: The Mueller Investigation Was All About Flynn.

By the time he was made head of DIA, Flynn had a real problem with the intelligence community, first because he had marginalized them, and for another reason: Flynn was determined to do a full-scale analysis of the (many) secret missions that had not been carried out over the years, and he wanted an accounting of the considerable funds allocated for them.

So there were many high-ranking intelligence officials who were out to get Flynn. You can see them at work long before there was a hint of Russiagate, when the target was not yet Donald Trump. But then things got worse for the IC, when Flynn was named to head DIA. By then, the FBI was fully engaged in the anti-Flynn campaign, paying people like Stefan Halper to surveil Flynn’s behavior in Great Britain. This produced the fanciful accusation (impossible, for anyone who knew the general) that Flynn had flirted with a good-looking Russian historian. This may have been the start of the “collusion” allegations.

Needless to say, read the whole thing.

TYLER O’NEIL: Chicago Prosecutor ‘Throwing Police Under the Bus’ on Jussie Smollett, Following Obama’s Lead.

SHE’LL THAW YOUR TUNDRA: Porn actress says ‘I’m with you’ and plans to run for governor in Russia.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG. No Crisis At the Border? – Mexican Cartels Using Grenade Launchers Near Texas Border.

INVESTIGATE THIS: 2020 Democrats Are Using a Donation Portal Known for Accepting Fraudulent Donations. “Cory Booker’s campaign accepted a donation from ‘Iam Spartacus’ using a bogus address.”

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER GIF: The Top Twenty Mueller Report Memes.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Media Won’t Abandon Russia Story Because It’s All They’ve Know For Two Years And It’s Good For Business.

Short-term, sure. Longterm I think they’re destroying themselves and the entire infotainment industry.

BUT OF COURSE: Twitter Bans User For Laughing At Rachel Maddow’s Tears Of Despair Over Mueller Report.

I still read Twitter, because it’s an excellent source for evidence of our growing Idiocracy, but I’m not on Twitter any longer. I’m done providing that antisocial media outlet with free content, and it’s just plain nice not spending a chunk of each day swimming in a cesspit.

LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: ‘Horror, fear, despair’: Venezuela’s oil capital shattered by ‘tsunami’ of violent looting.

“El demonio,” says Betty Méndez, a local shopkeeper, by way of explanation for the wave of looting and unrest that convulsed Maracaibo earlier this month.

Most, however, describe the mayhem in psychiatric terms: a collective breakdown that shocked this lakeside city to its core and offered a terrifying glimpse of Venezuela’s possible future as it sinks deeper into economic, political and social decline.

“Horror, fear, despair,” said María Villalobos, a 35-year-old journalist, weeping as she relived three days of violence that many here call la locura – “the madness”.

“I thought it was the start of a civil war.”

That’s exactly what the wreckers, hoarders, saboteurs, Trotskyites, kulaks, Yankee Imperialists, counterrevolutionaries, and Jews want you to think.

FLASHBACK: President Michael Avenatti? Never say never!

That’s courtesy of CNN’s Chris Cillizza, who has had a terrible, horrible, no good very bad week. And it’s only Tuesday.

(Hat tip, Longtime Sharp Instapundit Commenter™ “HA.”)

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is it going to be another two-to-six years of ORANGE MAN BAD from an infotainment industry hellbent on self-destruction?

LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: Venezuela suffers second blackout within a month.

BRING IT ON: U.S. Senate Republican wants a special counsel to investigate Trump probe.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update.

THE ONION: Man Who Spent Last 2 Years Drawing Pictures Of Trump And Putin Making Out Beginning To Realize Just How Wrong He’s Been.

I usually enjoy The Onion, but good satire has to have some small element of believability.

DEB HEINE: Mueller Took a Vicious Parting Shot at Trump with Cop-Out on Obstruction. “If Trump was not guilty of a crime, what was he supposed to be obstructing anyway?”