FROM THE NEW END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT TO PLAY “CIVILIZATION VI”: “The information we collect may include personal information such as your first and/or last name, e-mail address, phone number, photo, mailing address, geolocation, or payment information. In addition, we may collect your age, gender, date of birth, zip code, hardware configuration, console ID, software products played, survey data, purchases, IP address and the systems you have played on. We may combine the information with your personal information and across other computers or devices that you may use.”

The reviews on Steam are coming in fast and furious, with many users saying they have or will uninstall the game. I just did.

It’s a shame, too — the Civ series is one of the few computer games I’ve really enjoyed over the years.

THINK PROGRESS: American Jews must stand with Ilhan Omar.

Chutzpah, defined.

THE NEW OPENNESS: Dem. senator threatens to call police on a reporter.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Oklahoma gun bill to remove permit and training requirements clears House vote.

NO. Calls for unrepentant former London schoolgirl-turned ISIS bride to be BANNED from Britain – as nine-months-pregnant teenager, 19, begs to come home to have third baby on NHS.

Jihadi bride Shamima Begum was just 15 when she and two classmates Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase travelled to Syria in February 2015 but speaking from a refugee camp after the caliphate’s collapse she said: ‘I don’t regret coming here – now all I want to do is come home to Britain’.

Begum is the only known survivor of the three friends from Bethnal Green and her two children died of disease and malnutrition before the age of one as the caliphate fell apart around her.

The schoolgirl claims she lived a ‘normal life’ in ISIS’ capital Raqqa and was ‘not fazed’ by the brutal execution of its enemies, recounting how she once found an ‘an enemy of Islam’s’ decapitated head in a bin.

But with her third baby now due any day, she has decided to quit and now wants to ‘live quietly’ back in the UK and ensure her baby survives with the help of the NHS.

Those devoted to the destruction of Western Civilization sure don’t mind reaping its benefits when it suits them. And all too often they’re allowed to.

CHANGE: Airbus says it will stop producing the world’s largest passenger jet, the A380.

Patrick Ruffini noted on Twitter: “Another prestige project of European state capitalism that couldn’t survive the free market.”

POSTMODERN ROMANCE: ‘Everyone is poly,’ no one is serious, and other reasons dating in San Francisco is awful.

I spent about six years actively dating around the Bay Area. In that time I dated, for varying amounts of time, three self-described indie rockers, an amateur hockey player, an elementary school teacher with a drinking problem, a yoga teacher who didn’t drink alcohol (or consume processed sugars and carbohydrates of any kind), an English teacher living in his mom’s in-home daycare, and a skateboarding enthusiast who worked as a manager at a tech company.

These budding relationships ended for various reasons. At least three of the aforementioned men were still in love with their exes. One said he couldn’t handle the pressure of texting me “witty responses,” and thus could not go on seeing me. Most of the rest were “not looking for something serious.”

I attributed these failures not to the region in which I was dating, but to the fraught Millennial dating landscape as a whole. Perhaps I was wrong in thinking this, according to a popular San Francisco Reddit thread, posted just in time for Valentine’s Day.

What a sad state of affairs.

OH: Roger Stone Files Motion Alleging Special Counsel Released Indictment to CNN in Violation of Court Order. “CNN was ‘provided an unfiled, draft copy of the indictment the Court had ordered sealed’.”

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Covington Catholic Teen’s Lawyers Intend to Sue Native American Activist Nathan Phillips.

PEAK OIL: Texas crude oil production breaks 1970s record. “Texas oil wells produced more than 1.54 billion barrels of crude in 2018, beating the previous record of 1.28 billion barrels set in 1973, TIPRO reported in its annual ‘State of Energy Report’ early Monday morning.”

HOW DARE THEY: GOP Pounces By Allowing Democrats To Vote On Their Own Resolution. “Mitch McConnell seizes on actual liberal positions to paint Democrats as radicals.”

If you think this is an exaggeration of the illogical position of Democrats and their Green New Deal, I give you Sen. Ed Markey.

This week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he’s was going to put the Green New Deal up for a vote. Or, here’s how the Associated Press put it: “McConnell wields Green New Deal as bludgeon against Dems.” Now, of course, such a vote would be a political stunt; because the Green New Deal, introduced last week by Markey and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is, in many ways, a political stunt.

“This isn’t a new Republican trick,” tweeted Markey, who co-sponsored this non-binding resolution that will save the planet, “By rushing a vote on the #GreenNewDeal resolution, Republicans want to avoid a true national debate & kill our efforts to organize. We’re having the first national conversation on climate change in a decade. We can’t let Republicans sabotage it.”

If I’m reading Markey correctly, Democrats don’t merely want to rearrange the global economy is ways which would return billions to poverty and strip Americans of their ability to travel, eat what they like, and otherwise infringe on our civil rights and pursuit of happiness. But first they want to bore us to death talking endlessly about it.

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: You need to pass funding bill to know what’s in it and much, much more. “I don’t know what’s in it and the authors don’t want you to know either. They want this sack of sh!t signed ASAP no questions asked so we can discover the poison pill ex post facto.”

COCAINE MITCH FEELS THE NEED, THE NEED FOR SPEED: Republicans back Senate rule change to speed confirmations of Trump nominees.

PRIVACY: Selling 911 location data is illegal—US carriers reportedly did it anyway.

“The Motherboard investigation has uncovered what appears to be a clear violation of what the FCC required” in orders released in 2015 and 2017, Public Knowledge Policy Fellow Dylan Gilbert wrote. The 2017 order refers to data in the National Emergency Address Database (NEAD), saying that “the data in the NEAD and any data associated with the NEAD may not be used for any non-911 purpose, except as otherwise required by law.”

In order to use that database, mobile carriers “must certify that they will not use the NEAD or associated data for any purpose other than for the purpose of responding to 911 calls, except as required by law,” the FCC’s 2015 order states.

Section 222 of the Communications Act is the US law that requires carriers to protect CPNI, and it says that carriers may not use or disclose location information “without the express prior authorization of the customer.”

“The location of a customer’s use of a telecommunications service also clearly qualifies as CPNI,” the FCC said in a 2013 declaratory ruling.

“The Federal Communications Commission, led by Chairman Ajit Pai, needs to act immediately to enforce what appears to be a clear violation of the FCC’s rules against the selling of A-GPS data with third parties,” Gilbert wrote.

This kind of thing won’t stop until the punishment is commensurate with the crime. To that end, I humbly suggest a fine of triple the money collected from data sales, to be distributed to wireless customers whose data was sold.

OH: Money in politics? Ilhan Omar will fly to LA for fundraiser with … terror-tied CAIR.

ONE CAN HOPE: Iran Trembles As Venezuela Starts To Teeter.

Venezuelans, with help from world capitals led by Washington, seem close to toppling the oppressive, corrupt regime that misrules them. Don’t be surprised if Iran follows a similar course. There, less visible but widespread protests continue to cast doubt on the mullahs’ grip on power.

In both cases, once-strong popular regime support has vanished. Tumbling oil prices and sanctions aside, corruption and mismanagement have transformed two of the world’s leading petroleum ­exporters into basket cases.

The mullahs, like Venezuela’s socialists, are more interested in exporting their revolution abroad than helping their people. Both run police states with sham elections that lend a veneer of democratic legitimacy. No wonder the two are such close friends.

The late Hugo Chávez saw the potential in a Caracas-Tehran alliance early on. He would pop up in Tehran often, merging the Latin-tinged “Yankee Go Home” with the Persian “Death to America” chants.

Daily direct flights between ­Caracas and Tehran were soon established. Tehran’s Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, and other Iranian operatives use Venezuela for money laundering. Iranian officials seeking to evade American sanctions can easily obtain Venezuelan passports.

Now the two regimes find themselves in the same boat.

One also has to wonder what might have been had Barack Obama not sat on his hands during the 2009 protests, or had chosen to continue squeezing the regime in 2014-15 instead of bailing the Mullahs out.

WILL THE STICKER ON THE BACK OF MY CAR SUFFICE? If You Want to Do Business with Los Angeles, You’ll Need to Disclose Any Ties to the NRA.

BRUCE BAWER: A Transgender Hero Breaks Ranks. “I believe that gender identity is a fraud perpetrated by psychiatry, the likes of something the United States and other nations hasn’t experienced since the lobotomy era. As a result, I have returned to my male birth sex.”

BLUE ON BLUE: BuzzFeed votes to unionize after layoffs.

CHANGE? Venezuela’s Guaido says he’s working to restore ties with Israel. “Self-declared president says he’s also open to relocating Venezuela’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.”

UNEXPECTEDLY: Panera Bread’s Socialist ‘Pay What You Want’ Experiment Fails Miserably.

FAKE NEWS: News Outlets Take Pete Hegseth’s Joking as Serious, Won’t Correct Hand Washing Stories.

TO ASK THE QUESTION IS TO ANSWER IT: Why Did the Media Fail to Investigate Virginia Democrats?

I FIND YOUR LACK OF SELF-AWARENESS… DISTURBING: Sheriffs in Washington State Are Receiving Death Threats Over Their Refusal to Enforce Gun Control.

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: A raw deal, crazy train derailed and much, much more. “I don’t think Trump knows how he has been played by ‘our’ party. He could have passed immigration reform and appropriated money for the wall when the GOP held the House and Senate. But the GOPe dragged their feet, made future promises that didn’t pan out and hemmed and hawed because they don’t care why the people elected Trump and they don’t really want immigration reform. Failure theater, business as usual for the GOPe.”