ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is Lincoln bringing back a Continental with suicide doors?

JOHN HAWKINS: Christine Blasey Ford Is the Poster Girl for Fake Sexual Assault Allegations. “So why did Sports Illustrated choose Ford to hand out an award?”

Gotta maintain that narrative, John.

BABY, IT’S HOT IN HERE: The definitive, final word on “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” — until next December.

NICE: Navy Achieves New F-35 Fighter Jet Milestone on USS Carl Vinson.

The Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 147 “Argonauts” completed carrier qualifications Wednesday, a final requirement for the commander of Joint Strike Fighter Wing (CJSFW) to endorse that the squadron has met its safe-for-flight operations certification, the Navy said in a release.

“The safe-for-flight operations certification (SFFOC) is the final step for VFA-147’s transition from the F/A-18E Super Hornet to the F-35C Lightning II,” the release said.

“This process ensures a squadron is manned with qualified personnel to implement maintenance and safety programs in support of fleet operations. All transitioning squadrons are required to complete this certification prior to independently conducting flight operations,” it said.

The Vinson is about to get some interesting new capabilities.

WELL, GOOD: I’m a gay conservative and I refuse to ‘shut the f–k up,’ Deadspin.

Many progressives are truly beginning to believe that gay men who hold conservative or libertarian views are not just wrong, but traitorous. Living on a liberal college campus in Massachusetts, I’ve personally encountered this attitude many times. It is sick, sad, and fundamentally regressive.

This particular Deadspin article serves as a case study of how identity politics is an assault on individualism. Thiesen dismisses a gay Barstool writer as a “traitorous queer,” and laughs off the Trump-supporting Silicon Valley tycoon Peter Thiel as just some rich gay cashing in on the Republican Party’s supposed bigotry.

Basically, Thiesen is saying that gay men have to think with their genitalia, and that their sexual preferences strip them of the same right to reason we afford everyone else. This is ignorant, and frankly, blatantly homophobic.

It isn’t homophobia/sexism/racism/assault/rape/lawbreaking when lefties do it.

WE FINALLY FOUND THAT COLLUSION: Financial Bounty Hunters Testify: Clinton Foundation Operated As Foreign Agent.

The Clinton Foundation “began acting as an agent of foreign governments ‘early in its life’ and throughout its existence. As such, the foundation should’ve registered under FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act),” he said. “Ultimately, the Foundation and its auditors conceded in formal submissions that it did operate as a (foreign) agent, therefore the foundation is not entitled to its 501c3 tax-exempt privileges as outlined in IRS 170 (c)2.”

Doyle, who was also outlining a litany of violations by the foundation, noted that currently there are approximately 1.75 million nonprofits in the United States that annually generate nearly 2 trillion dollars, which is 9 percent of the U.S. GDP.

“Who’s minding the store, looking out for the donors and minding the rule of law,” said Doyle.

“On that note, we followed the money so we made extensive spreadsheets of their revenues and expenses, we analyzed their income statements and we did a macro-review of all the donors, which is a very (jumbled) sort of foundation,” said Doyle. “Less than 1/10th of one percent of the donors gave 80 percent of the money. So we follow the money.”

Read the whole, damning thing.

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Wiped, Like With a Cloth and Much, Much More. “Wow. Is anyone at the federal agencies concerned about the RUSSIAN money that flowed into the Clinton Foundation prior to the Uranium One sale? Anyone? Bueller?”

ALL IN THE FAMILY: Maxine Waters’ Campaign Debt to Daughter Jumps $90,000.

More accurately, the Waters campaign steered an additional $90,000 to her daughter.

“WHAT ARE YOU REBELLING AGAINST?” “HOW MUCH MONEY HAVE YOU GOT?” Far-left extremists are raising money on Patreon to “inspire insurrection.”

Far Left Watch has done a good job of collating what violence-inspiring lefties are getting away with on Patreon, so you’ll want to click over. But first, this:

Patreon is back in the news following another round of what appears to be an ideological purge from their platform. In the last few days the accounts for Milo Yiannopoulos, Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad), and James Allsup were all terminated. These individuals all have different belief systems and principals and have been vocal critics of each other but their common denominator is a very vocal and effective critique of the far-left and their creeping authoritarianism.

Following the termination of these accounts, many people speculated that Patreon was selectively enforcing their Community Guidelines in order to target right-of-center influencers.

But of course.

WELL, IT’S A GOOD THING SHE DOESN’T HAVE TO FACE THE VOTERS UNTIL… EVER: Melania Trump’s poll numbers plummet.

OH: German journalist Billy Six ‘charged with espionage’ in Venezuela.

Venezuelan rights group Espacio Público says Mr Six, who writes for right-wing newspaper Junge Freiheit, has been charged with espionage and rebellion.

Relatives say he was arrested more than three weeks ago while reporting on Venezuela’s economic crisis and the mass migration it has triggered.

Diplomatic officials have reportedly not been allowed to see him.

Six did not make Time magazine’s Person of the Year list, despite being a journalist imprisoned by a brutal regime on questionable charges.

UGH: Fentanyl now America’s deadliest drug, federal health officials say.

It’s the first time the synthetic opioid has been the nation’s deadliest drug. From 2012 to 2015, heroin topped the list.

On average, in each year from 2013 to 2016, the rate of overdose deaths from Fentanyl increased by about 113 percent a year. The report said fentanyl was responsible for 29 percent of all overdose deaths in 2016, up from just 4 percent in 2011.

Overall, more than 63,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2016, according to the report, which was prepared by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s an average of 174 deaths a day.

Whatever happened to just quietly drinking your troubles away?

MATT MARGOLIS: Why Allegations of Campaign Finance Violations Won’t Bring Down Trump. “Obama is guilty of worse, and nothing happened to him.”

Double standards, Matt. Double. Standards.

PAULA BOLYARD: Gov. Kasich, the Lives of Millions of Babies Are in Your Hands with the Heartbeat Bill. How Will You Choose?

21ST CENTURY PARENTING: Florida Company Markets Ankle Monitors to Parents of Teenagers.

Maybe it’s easy for me to say this because my oldest is still (barely) a preteen, but at some point not only do parents have to let kids off the leash, but the kids have to know they’re off the leash.

LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO: How Taylor Swift Really Knew You Were Trouble When You Walked In.

She used facial recognition scanning at a recent concert to spot known stalkers.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Huawei Is the Doorway to China’s Police State. “The free world should be worried about the creation of a police state under the technology umbrella of Huawei.“

And if you missed it this morning, my latest PJMedia column details just how deeply weird the intrigue with Huawei has gotten.

CHANGE: Trump Admin. to Slash Support for UN Peacekeeping Missions in Africa. “Bolton calls missions ‘unproductive, unsuccessful, and unaccountable’”

He left out rapey.

SEASON OF GIVING: Hundreds of Gold Star families sent to Disney World by Gary Sinise Foundation.

I’LL TAKE MY EARTHLY PLEASURES HERE ON EARTH, THANKS: Killing and Dying for the ‘Houris’: Islam’s Heavenly Whores. “All jihadi groups claim to be motivated by an afterlife of sexual reward.”

OH: Protesters hosted a queer dance party outside the housing complex of White House senior adviser Stephen Miller on Wednesday night.

TOLERANCE: 11-Year-Old Boy Had to Change ‘Trump’ Last Name After Being Relentlessly Bullied at School.

MEET THE NEW BOSS, SAME AS THE REALLY OLD BOSS: Pelosi Agrees To Term Limits, Secures Votes To Be The Next Speaker.

Was there ever a doubt?

ANALYSTS: TRUE. Chuck Grassley Says Russia ‘hysteria’ overshadows China threat.

At a Judiciary hearing today on Chinese espionage activities, Grassley (R-Iowa) said the media hysteria over Russia neglects “China’s efforts to overtake the United States as the world’s preeminent superpower in all phases of society.”

His remarks come as the Trump administration plans a major push this week to punish China over its intellectual property theft and amid increasing tensions between Washington and Beijing over charges against a top Huawei executive.

But Republicans, including President Donald Trump, have also sought to downplay the effects of Russia’s 2016 election interference campaign by increasingly pointing to China as a malign force on the world stage.

That’s Politico‘s Tim Starks, still hanging tight to that slender COLLUSION! reed.

UM, NO. Tijuana Migrants March to US Consulate; Demand $50,000 to Go Home.