THESE ARE HIS STANDARDS, AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE THEM… WELL, HE HAS OTHERS: Harvard Law Prof Who Wanted to Unleash a Liberal Supreme Court Now Wants to ‘Abolish’ the Court.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Blacks’ Loyalty To The Democrat Party is Insane — Not Kanye West.

West has been cruelly targeted by very powerful liberal celebrities. Actor Chris Evans, for example, recently ripped West as someone “who doesn’t know history, doesn’t read books, and frames their myopia as virtue.”

Equally dismissive, left-wing comedian Jimmy Kimmel has maliciously mocked West as “an irrational madman.” And countless other liberal elites have vented that West is “mentally ill,” “illiterate,” and “unwell” for daring to reject their “progressive” view of the world.

Leaving aside the fact that white conservatives would be lambasted as racists if they made similar disparaging comments about any black person, what is particularly disturbing to watch is the zeal with which many African Americans have also rushed to attack West. Bucking group-think isn’t popular in Black America, and Kanye is learning the hard way.

Rapper Snoop Dogg has accused West of being an “Uncle Tom” for supporting the President. And CNN host Don Lemon openly giggled while panelists on his show branded West a “token negro” who should be traded “in the racial draft” because black folks have “had it with him.” More recently, Lemon has accused West of putting on a “minstrel show” and of “embarrassing Americans, but mostly African-Americans.”

The Democrats can’t afford many black defections and remain a viable party, so defectors are treated harshly as examples to the others.

I suspect the attacks from West’s fellow black celebrities are done out of fear — fear of being discovered as having gotten rich and famous, in part, by selling out black interests to the Democratic machine.

READINESS: F-35 jets back in the air, Lockheed Martin says. “After the US and Israel grounded their F-35 fleets, Lockheed Martin said that it is working to resolve the issue.”

TOO LATE: Politico Wag Mocks the Puffery: ‘Stop the Press Before It Profiles Beto O’Rourke Again.’ “Politico magazine media writer Jack Shafer is not your typical lefty media type, as demonstrated by his Thursday piece ‘Stop the Press Before It Profiles Beto O’Rourke Again.’ Shafer calls out his colleagues for overdoing the Beto ‘buzz,’ and then underlines his agreement with the conventional wisdom that O’Rourke’s opponent Ted Cruz is a terrible human being.”

Just once I’d like to see a left-leaning critique of the media without the “Yes, but…” aimed at the right.

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump, Hillary on Sunday TV and Much, Much More. “I’m guessing that the Democrat party doesn’t have any control over Clinton, Inc. There is just no good reason for these two to showcase themselves after Hillary lost the presidency.”

LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: Venezuela Economic Crisis Leaves Kids Without Food.

Remember, if you’re opposed to socialism it’s because you’re uncaring.

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: Colorado to Address Unfinished Business From Civil War.

The 13th amendment of the U.S. Constitution abolished most forms of slavery when it was ratified in 1865. But it allowed for slavery or involuntary servitude as a “punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”

Colorado voters will consider a proposed change to the state constitution that would shorten Section 26 of Article II to read, “There shall never be in this state either slavery or involuntary servitude.” The Nov. 6 ballot proposal, known as Amendment A, requires a simple majority to pass.

Twenty-two other states have similar provisions in their constitutions allowing slavery or involuntary servitude for those who committed crimes, while most others make no mention of slavery. Rhode Island is the only state that prohibits slavery in all instances.

Colorado could be the first state to abolish slavery by amending its state constitution, said Nathan Woodliff-Stanley, executive director of the ACLU of Colorado.

This seems like like “unfinished business” and more like feel-good virtue-signaling, but I don’t suppose extra-abolishing slavery can do any harm.

HILLARY CLINTON: Bill should “absolutely not” have resigned over Lewinsky scandal.

The former secretary of state said she disagrees with those who now say he should have stepped down.

“In retrospect, do you think Bill should’ve resigned in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal?” correspondent Tony Dokoupil asked.

“Absolutely not,” Clinton said.

“It wasn’t an abuse of power?”

“No. No.”

Not when a Democrat does it, certainly. Or as Emily Zanotti quipped on Twitter, “‘Believe all women’ lasted all of six days.”

It will come back just as soon as it’s needed.

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook Says Russian Firms ‘Scraped’ Data, Some for Facial Recognition.

PATTI SOLIS DOYLE: What Democrats need to do to win.

First, stick to the facts, because they still matter to independents. Focus on Trump’s rhetoric, which has divided our country more than any time I can remember. Focus on how the GOP tax cuts helped the rich and passed costs onto our children. Focus on Trump’s hard-line attitude toward immigration, which has caused our government to rip children away from their mothers at the border and place them in pens. (There are still more than 200 children who have not been reunited with their parents.)

Focus on how Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs have hurt American manufacturers and strained relations with our allies. Focus on how with Kavanaugh’s appointment, Trump has successfully turned the Supreme Court into a conservative political entity for the next generation — and, in the process, thumbed his nose at victims of sexual assault and harassment everywhere.

Second, as Democrats have been doing for the last two years, channel anger in productive ways. Protests, advocacy and civil disobedience can be remarkably effective. We’ve seen how this can energize voters in the special elections that Democrats have already won, and in the incredible over-performance by Democratic voters across the country.

Making sure your elected officials know where you, as a citizen, stand is the hallmark of our democracy. But forcing Ted Cruz and his wife out of a Washington restaurant doesn’t do anything except garner sympathy for the senator from Texas. However, making your case directly to a pivotal vote in the Senate may result in a long-sought-after FBI investigation of a Supreme Court justice nominee.

When your ostensibly sane voices are still trying to sell Trump as a baby-ripper, Antifa as “effective,” and Brett Kavanaugh as an alcoholic gang-rape leader, your party’s relationship with reality has grown distant and troubled.

It might also be the case the Doyle and the rest of the Democratic machine are just selling what they think will rile the base up most — but again, at what cost in moderate, independent, and just plain old sane voters?

“DESPITE”: Despite Taylor Swift’s Endorsement of Bredesen, Blackburn Up Big in TN.

Members of the entertainment industry have overplayed their hands so many times and in increasingly awful and obvious ways that you have to wonder if even well-liked stars can win more votes than they’ll alienate.

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Scientists Attempt to Clone Mice From Poop.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Teacher Who Claimed Stephen Miller Ate Glue as a Kid Has Been Suspended.

The teacher who claimed this week that controversial White House aide Stephen Miller ate glue as a kid has been suspended from her job. Miller—now the mastermind behind Donald Trump’s most hardline immigration policies—was an odd kid, according to comments from veteran teacher Nikki Fiske. She recounted this week to The Hollywood Reporter: “He would pour the glue on his arm, let it dry, peel it off, and then eat it. He was a strange dude.” The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District has placed her on “home assignment” while it decides what to do about the matter. A school-district spokesperson said they were concerned about “her release of student information.” Fiske also said of Miller, then aged 8: “I was always trying to get him to clean up his desk—he always had stuff mashed up in there.”

Benjamin Svetkey had the “as told to” byline on the original Hollywood Reporter story. Makes you wonder what he was doing in third grade.

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: ABC Regrets Firing Roseanne Over Bad Tweet?

THE NEW CIVILITY: Susan Rice’s Conservative Son Allegedly Assaulted at Stanford.

YES: A Future Where Everything Becomes a Computer Is as Creepy as You Feared.

ALBERT MARREWA: The Kavanaugh Smear War Broke My Decades-Long Support For Feminism. “All these years I silently stood by and watched third-wave feminism (with assistance from the radical left) methodically take a sledgehammer to Western society as a whole, and males in particular. Foolishly, I hoped things would eventually turn around, only to see things get worse over time. Yet it wasn’t until I witnessed the Me Too movement snowball into an all-out, anti-male witch hunt that I realized good men were in real trouble. Astonishingly, after having been an advocate for women my entire adult life, I quickly learned I was still considered the ‘enemy,’ simply for being a man.”

Males are still OK; it’s masculinity which feminists have decided is a crime — “castration culture,” Glenn has taken to calling it.

BLUE WAVE? Polls Show Crushing Midterm Defeats For Dems And A Maintained Republican Senate Majority In The Cards.

BLUE ON BLUE: South Carolina Democrat Says Sanders Would Be ‘Doing Us All a Favor if He Just Got Lost.’

On Wednesday, only one day after Sanders announced he would be hitting the campaign trail for Democratic candidates on the ballot this year, high-ranking members of the South Carolina Democratic Party made it known that not everyone welcomed the senator’s visit, the Associated Press reported.

Amanda Loveday, a former executive director of the South Carolina Democratic Party, indicated that Sanders’ decision to journey to South Carolina ahead of the midterms struck her as “selfish,” especially as the senator is speculated to be weighing another run for the White House in 2020.

“I just think it’s extremely selfish of Bernie Sanders to think he could walk into South Carolina without an invitation from a candidate and think he’s going to be welcomed with open arms,” Loveday said. “It’s hard for me to think of an actual, legitimate Democratic candidate who would stand on stage with him here.”

There are at least a few Democrats worried about the direction their party has taken.

DIVERSITY IS THEIR STRENGTH: Migrant celebrates Swedish citizenship by raping woman and tells her: ‘Now I can do what I want.’

I DON’T LIKE THE SOUND OF THESE HERE ‘BONCENTRATION BAMPS’: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reveals Her Plan to Overthrow the Supreme Court.

21ST CENTURY CRIME: Bitcoin miner sent to prison for stealing electricity from train network in China.

HEALTH: Bogus homeopathy data published in top journal sparks outcry, facepalms. “Editors at a respected scientific journal are reconsidering their decision to publish a study, which claims that a homeopathic dilution of poison oak can reduce pain in rats, after online critics pointed out that the study is rife with bogus, sloppy, and low-quality data.”

DAVID HARSANYI: Yes, Democrats, It’s a Mob.

If Holder had been honest, he would have said, “When they win a presidency via the constitutionally mandated route and the duly elected president nominates a Supreme Court justice with a 12-year exceptional record on the bench and then the duly elected Senate follows all the rules and precedents set by Democrats — offering numerous hearings and investigations along the way — and confirms that nominee, we kick them, because we’re frustrated.”

There’s nothing wrong with “fighting” in politics. We don’t need to be hypersensitive about every metaphorical overindulgence (unless it’s Donald Trump; then we must take it literally, seriously and hysterically). But the problem is that Democrats have a bad habit of acting as if every political setback they experience is caused by some act of criminality. This instigates lots people to act like a bunch of children — or worse.

Democrats do it because they think it’s working for them, but there’s a chance to prove them wrong, peacefully, on November 6.

FLASHBACK: Manchin Wanted to Use Opioid Funding on Personal ‘Governor’s Helicopter.’

That’s OK, maybe West Virginia voters are big on helicopters, too.