HMM: Bombshell: Strzok Told Congress Robert Mueller Never Asked Him About Anti-Trump Texts. “It’s like the special counsel didn’t even care…”

NEWS YOU CAN USE? The Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ranked.

#SNOWBOMB UPDATE: Officials say stay the hell home, more or less.

WOW: Smartphone Stops Arrow When Absurdly Lucky Man Tries to Photograph Attacker.

WINNING: At a 10-year high, wage growth for American workers likely to keep accelerating.

As I keep saying, if Trump can continue to deliver on jobs and wages to the Obama-to-Trump voters who took a chance on him in 2016, it might make him almost unassailable in 2020.

BRUCE BAWER: A Dissident’s Testimony: Vladimir Bukovsky’s ‘Judgment in Moscow’ Now in English. “Is his message what America’s ‘useful idiots’ need to hear?”

If they could listen, the wouldn’t be useful and they might not be idiots.

ROBERT SPENCER: Ilhan Omar, Leader of the Democratic Party. “The anti-Semitic Congresswoman has hypnotized the Democrats, if not the world.”

BUT SOCIALISM OR SOMETHING: The U.S. Now Has More Millionaires Than Sweden Has People.

MAKE ARMS SALES GREAT AGAIN: Taiwan Mulls F-16 Viper Fighter Purchase From the US.

According to unconfirmed Taiwanese media reports, the Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF) had expressed interest in procuring up to 66 Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon Viper (V) Block 70 multirole combat aircraft. F-16V fighters are equipped with an Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar system, upgraded avionics, and a high-volume, high-speed data bus, among other things.

Notably, Taiwan is in the process of upgrading its F-16 A/B fleet to the F-16V variant. The first four retrofitted F-16A/B fighters, upgraded by Taiwan’s state-owned Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC), were handed over to ROCAF at an airbase in Chiayi county in southwestern Taiwan in October 2018.

The program, codenamed Phoenix Rising Project, was launched in 2016 with the purpose of upgrading 144 ROCAF A/B Fighting Falcon combat aircraft to the F-16V configuration by 2023.

What I want to know is, what’s under those new bulges on each side of the top of the airframe?

(Photo courtesy of Lockheed-Martin.)

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Oops! They did it to Manafort again and much, much more. “Short-lived Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was sentenced yesterday in Washington D.C., to an additional 3.5 years for a bunch of crimes unrelated to the RUSSIA collusion scandal.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. If socialists really wanted to help people they’d be capitalists.

SURPRISING EXACTLY NO ONE: Rashida Tlaib Gets Behind Academic Boycott of Israel.

EVERGREEN HEADLINES: It’s Time For Conservatives To Choose: Fight Back Or Surrender.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Navy Wants 10-Ship Unmanned ‘Ghost Fleet’ to Supplement Manned Force.

“These are 200- to 300-foot [vessels], 2,000 tons. I’m not sure what the final hull form will be, that’s what we are using today in terms of what the Ghost Fleet buy will be,” Rear Adm. Randy Crites, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for budget, said on Tuesday during a press budget briefing.

Unlike the small unmanned craft the Navy has experimented with in the past, the 10 large USVs the Navy wants to buy are the size of a small warship. The corvette-sized USVs are being developed to field different types of sensors and, eventually, vertical launch system (VLS) cells for a variety of guided missiles. However, it’s unclear how the unmanned systems will fit into the larger Navy force structure, how they will be measured as part of the battle force, how they would function with other platforms and what requirements for the Navy the systems would fulfill.

Load them up with antimissile missiles and make them the Navy’s version of the Air Force’s “loyal wingman” program.

GOOD LORD: Daycare in Michigan Shuttered for Stabbing Kids with Thumbtacks.

FRONT RANGE SNOW BOMB: 97MPH gusts reported at the Colorado Springs airport, 40+ sustained winds here on Monument Hill, with 75-85MPH gusts.

And this is our trampoline and the top third of what used to be our tallest tree.

We’re hoping the big one next to it doesn’t take out the master bedroom, or maybe the kitchen or breakfast nook. If the winds don’t die down in the next few hours, Melissa and I will be camping out in the living room tonight.

If you look closely in the background, you can see where our backyard neighbors lost their tallest tree in toto.

DUMB: FDA Issues E-Cig Flavor Ban.

SURPRISING EXACTLY NO ONE: Google Exec Finally Admits to Congress That They’re Tracking Us Even with ‘Location’ Turned Off.

OLD SCHOOL: Jay Leno Rips Late Night TV For One-Sided, Mean Spirited Politics.

YOU KNOW YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT, RIGHT? Slovenian woman accused of insurance fraud after sawing off her hand.

BREAKING: Facebook Crashes, Leaving Users Unable to Access Their Accounts.

It’s a blessing, really.

BLUE ON BLUE: Spoiled Students Insist Uber-Left Sarah Lawrence Is Racist Because Tuition Is Expensive.

If prices are somehow racist, then enact policies which stimulate prosperity rather than dependency.

MAKE THEM PLAY BY THEIR OWN RULES: Media Matters President Wrote Blog Posts About ‘Japs,’ ‘Jewry’ And ‘Trannies.’

Media Matters President Angelo Carusone is currently leading a boycott campaign against Fox News host Tucker Carlson, a co-founder of The Daily Caller News Foundation, in an attempt to get him fired.

Carusone and Media Matters, which openly pine for the destruction of Fox News, have justified the left-wing boycott campaign by pointing to a number of statements that Carlson made on a radio shock jock show between 2006 and 2011.

But Carusone has his own track record of inflammatory statements. Carusone’s now-defunct blog included degrading references to “trannies,” “jewry” and Bangladeshis.

Carusone posted a lengthy diatribe in November 2005 about a Bangladeshi man who was robbed by “a gang of transvestites,” as Carusone described it. Carusone was offended that the gang was described as “attractive” in an article.

“Did you notice the word attractive? What the fuck is that doing in there? Is the write[r] a tranny lover too? Or, perhaps he’s trying to justify how these trannies tricked this Bangladeshi in the first place? Look man, we don’t need to know whether or not they were attractive. The fucking guy was Bangladeshi,” Carusone wrote. “And while we’re out, what the hell was he doing with $7,300 worth of stuff. The guy’s Banladeshi! [sic]”

Charming fellow.

Just to be safe, we need an in-depth investigation of every comedian who has ever told “The Aristocrats” joke, and anyone who ever laughed at it.

TO BE FAIR, HE SAYS A LOT OF DUMB THINGS: Sam Donaldson Says Tucker Should Be Treated Like Serial Sexual Harassers Charlie Rose and Matt Lauer.

OF COURSE THEY DO: Tlaib, Liberals Ignore Pelosi on Trump Impeachment. “Liberal firebrands plan to continue impeachment push, despite speaker’s concern about dividing the country.”

Old School Democrats: “The Republicans made a huge mistake impeaching Clinton.”

Young Turk Democratic Socialists: “And we’re going to repeat it!”

Pelosi and Schiff seem to be honestly (on the political scale) trying to prevent their party from doing something stupid and, worse, unpopular. But that doesn’t mean their rearguard action against the youngest and most radical members of their caucus will be successful.