ASHE SCHOW: He Was Found Not Guilty In Court Of Sexual Assault. His School Still Expelled Him.

Saifullah Khan, an immigrant who grew up in an Afghanistan refugee camp, won a full scholarship to Yale University. He would later be accused of sexually assaulting a female classmate in 2015 – an accusation that, in a rarity for campus accusations, actually resulted in a criminal trial. During that criminal trial, Khan was found not guilty, based on video evidence that showed him an his accuser walking arm-in-arm and smiling, as well as key-card evidence that supported his story that the woman invited him back to her dorm after he left, and then asked him to check on her friend who was actually too drunk.

Activists, working on emotion and not evidence, concluded that the system failed (because women, we’re told, never lie about sexual assault), and demanded Yale expel Khan anyway, ignoring the evidence in his favor.

Despite being found not guilty in a court of law, Khan still had to go through a campus tribunal, where he was not granted full due process rights (Yale is a private university and has more leeway in denying constitutional rights to students).

Show them a man, to misquote Lavrentiy Beria, and under Title IX they’ll find a crime.

TYLER O’NEIL EXCLUSIVE: Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Green New Deal’ Would Cost More Than the GDP of Most Countries. “3,600 times the cost of the border wall.”

IT AIN’T OVER YET: Sears chairman given more time to save company, keep it out of liquidation.

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That’s unfair to Herman and Lilian Munster, who were a lovely, loving couple.

NO. NEXT QUESTION? Can Democrats Explain Why The Border Wall Is ‘Immoral?’

I THINK THEY MEANT “DISCREETLY”: Navy Quietly Fires 20 Hyper Velocity Projectiles Through Destroyer’s Deckgun. “The test, conducted by the Navy and the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office as part of the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2018 international exercise, was part of a series of studies to prove the Navy could turn the more than 40-year-old deck gun design into an effective and low-cost weapon against cruise missiles and larger unmanned aerial vehicles.”

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Which Captain Marvel Is Better, and Why Is It the One Who’s a Man?

ROUND TWO: PragerU Lawsuit Claims Google, YouTube Violated Calif. Law on Free Speech, Discrimination. “At least 80 videos remain restricted.”

BECAUSE THEY CAN: Why Single Women Are (Way) More Likely to Own a Home Than Single Men. “In the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas, single women are almost twice as likely to be homeowners as single men.”

A new report by the online loan marketplace LendingTree has found that single women own far more homes than their male counterparts. The study revealed that in the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas, single women are almost twice as likely to be homeowners as single men. Single women in New Orleans, for example, own 27 percent of all homes compared to only 15 percent for single men. Multiple cities boasted disparities of over 10 percent. Interestingly, there were no cities in which single men outpaced single women. This is a surprising trend, the author noted, “given the average woman in the U.S. only makes 80% of what the average man does.” For those familiar with the economics of gender, however, the results of LendingTree’s report are not surprising in the least.

The decision to marry and have children has a profound impact on earnings. Though the average man makes more than the average woman, the disparity is reversed when looking at unmarried women versus unmarried men. Based on data compiled from 2,000 urban communities, one study found that the median salary for young, unmarried, childless women is about 8 percent higher than men with the same characteristics. Other cities experienced pay gaps in the double digits, sometimes reaching as high as 20 percent. Further research has shown that unmarried college-educated women between the ages of 40 and 64 earn an average of 17.5 percent more than their male peers.

Because the patriarchy.

IT’S AN EXTRAVAGANZA OF SECURITY THEATER AND SHUTDOWN THEATER TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME: TSA official warns of shutdown impact on security operations at California airport.

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump’s Oval Office Speech and Much, Much More. “Chuck and Nancy, aka your parents after you spilled Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers on the new carpet in the living room Saturday night back when you were in high school, gave a response to Trump.”

I DO NOT TRUST THE INTERNET OF ROADS: The ‘Internet of the Road’: CDOT to implement new technology along I-25.

It’s called V2X, or Vehicle to Everything, and it’s essentially a new cellular network. Colorado Department of Transportation is calling it the “Internet of the Roads,” and it’ll let cars communicate with signs and traffic signals to help with safety and alerting drivers.

Amy Ford, Chief of Advanced Mobility at CDOT said, “Imagine Waze on super steroids, do something very fast and very instantaneous.”

Colorado Springs residents will see V2X in the Interstate 25 gap between Monument and Castle Rock, the 18-mile stretch of road which is currently under construction to be widened. The gap will now also feature this safety technology upon completion by 2021.

It has some immediately clear benefits, according to Ford.

“An ability to listen to and allow us to talk to those vehicles. for instance, being able to tell someone, ‘Hey you are coming up into a work zone you need to slow down now;’ or for that matter, for them saying ‘My airbag went off’ and it sends that information to CDOT, and we are able to deploy emergency service personnel,” said Ford.

And the gap is only the beginning.

If they figure out a way to use V2X to force left-lane hogs over to the right, I might come around to it.

21ST CENTURY CRIME: Almost $500,000 in Ethereum Classic coin stolen by forking its blockchain.

The heist was the result of carrying out what’s known as a rollback attack, which allowed the attackers to reorganize the Ethereum Classic blockchain, Coinbase security engineer Mark Nesbitt said in a blog post. From there, the attackers were able to “double spend” about 88,500 ETC, meaning they were able to recover previously spent coins and transfer them to a new entity. As a result, the coins were effectively transferred from the rightful recipients to new entities chosen by the attackers.

“We observed repeated deep reorganizations of the Ethereum Classic blockchain, most of which contained double spends,” Nesbitt wrote. “The total value of the double spends that we have observed thus far is 88,500 ETC (~$460,000).”

Rollback attacks are often referred to as 51-percent attacks, because, in theory, they require an attacker to control a majority of the CPU power generating a blockchain. Such an arrangement violates a core requirement of any blockchain-based currency: it allows a single entity to write the contents of its universal shared transaction history.

That sounds like a problem with Ethereum in particular, not crypto in general. But with crypto as in anything else, it remains caveat emptor.

BIG BUSINESS SMILES: New York City’s Minimum Wage Increase Is Crushing Small Businesses.

I LOVE THE INTERNET: Schumer and Pelosi’s response to Trump’s address becomes instant meme sensation on Twitter.

PRIVACY: LA Sues Weather Channel For Illegally Selling Private Data Of Mobile App Users.

“For years, TWC has deceptively used its Weather Channel App to amass its users’ private, personal geolocation data — tracking minute details about its users’ locations throughout the day and night, all the while leading users to believe that their data will only be used to provide them with ‘personalized local weather data, alerts and forecasts,’” the complaint reads.

The data serves no weather-related purpose, but was only collected in order to allow TWC to turn a profit, the complaint reads. The data was sold to at least 12 third party websites over the past 19 months.

The Weather Channel app has about 45 million users, according to the complaint.

TWC intentionally obscures this information” in a 10,000-word privacy policy “because it recognizes that many users would not permit the Weather Channel App to track their geolocation if they knew the true uses of that data,” the complaint goes on to say.

The lawsuit is seeking an injunction prohibiting TWC from continuing to collect and sell the data, along with civil penalties of up to $2,500 per violation.

“Free” weather apps have proven to be notorious abusers of personal data.

HONEYPOT: Natalia Veselnitskaya Charged in Federal Court with Obstruction of Justice. “Related to her work for Prevezon, a Russian holding company.”

WE’RE LIVEBLOGGING THE POTUS ADDRESS AT THE PJM LIVE BLOG: Well, some — one — of us might be drunkblogging it.

DELIGHTFULLY PERVERSE INCENTIVES: Missouri holds gun buy-back event, hilarity ensues.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Castro grandson under fire for flaunting decadent lifestyle: yachts, fine dining, luxury suites and more.

THAT’S ONE WELL-BUILT SUV: Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen Drives Off 3rd Floor of Hollywood Parking Garage, Lands on Roof. “The driver, amazingly, survived.”

BRUCE BAWER: Big Microphones, Cold Moet: Watching the Golden Globes From Europe.

Hollywood will be pleased to learn that somebody somewhere was watching.

DEBRA HEINE: ‘AOC Owns the Cons’? New Never-Trump Website off to a Shaky Start.

BUT OF COURSE: On 1st day, Gov. Gavin Newson proposes free healthcare for illegal immigrants under 26.

As Adam Baldwin quipped on Twitter, “Free.”

What we need is a sanctuary state for middle class net taxpayers.

DAVID HARSANYI: Yes, Anti-Zionism Is The Same As Anti-Semitism. “In practice, anti-Zionism is the most consequential form of anti-Semitism that exists in the world today.”

Now, of course, merely being critical of the Israeli government isn’t anti-Semitic. No serious person has ever argued otherwise. I’ve never heard any Israeli official or AIPAC spokesman ever claim that Israel is a “stand-in for Jews writ large,” nor have I ever heard an Israeli prime minister profess to speak for all Jews. (We have the ADL for that.) Israel has featured both left-wing and right-wing governments, and like governments in any liberal democracy, its leaders can be corrupt, misguided, or incompetent. Israelis criticize their governments every day.

However, opposing “Zionism” itself — the movement for a Jewish homeland — is to deny the validity of a Jewish claim to a nation altogether. It puts you in league with Hamas and Hezbollah and the mullahs of Iran. The Palestinian Liberation Organization’s 1968 charter states that “Judaism, being a religion, is not an independent nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single nation with an identity of its own; they are citizens of the states to which they belong.” This, it seems, is now also the position of a number of Democrats.

If your goal is to kill as many Jews as possible, it’s smart to start somewhere with large numbers of them.