WE CERTAINLY CAN’T HAVE THAT: Parents Furious Over ‘Misogynist’ Dating Assignment That Encouraged Girls to Be ‘Lady-Like’

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE:

No.

MISSING NO MORE: FBI arrests wife of Orlando nightclub killer Omar Mateen.

The charges against his wife, Noor Salman, included aiding and abetting his attempts to support ISIS, as well as obstruction of justice.

FBI agents from the bureau’s San Francisco field office picked up Salman outside her home in Rodeo, Calif., law enforcement sources said.

Salman is set to make her initial appearance in federal court Tuesday in San Francisco. She had moved to Contra Costa County after the shooting.

The charges were filed in the Middle District of Florida – the jurisdiction in which the nightclub massacre took place. Following her initial appearance, the plan is to fly Salman back to the Middle District of Florida where she will continue through the judicial process.

WELL, GOOD: Conservative Professors at Wake Forest Speak Out.

IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK: Air Force Academy cadets marching in Trump inaugural parade must commit to the left.

“Turn your head all the way to the left,” Master Sgt. Nicole Haun told the formation of cadets during practice. “Snap it.”

Haun is the school’s top expert in military drills and ceremony.

“We’ve been practicing this whole week,” she said. “I don’t think anything will go wrong.”

Still, a few cadets did an involuntary head shake at the left-turn order. In all the marches they’ve been on they’ve learned to respond to the command “eyes right” – the usual location for military reviewing stands where cadets turn to honor their superiors.

“Eyes left is no different from eyes right,” Haun said. “It’s just in reverse.”

Hubbard and his classmates were too excited at the prospect of greeting the new commander in chief to fret over the neck turn.

“It’s pretty cool,” Hubbard said.

Indeed.

WHY NOT? New Excuse for Hillary Election Loss: Grocery Checkout Lines.

IT’S THEIR NATURE: How Venezuela’s corrupt socialists are looting the country to death.

“Corrupt” is redundant.

QUESTION ASKED: Was MLK’s Dream Sincere, or a Con?

CHANGE: Rand Paul previews ObamaCare replacement plan focusing on lower cost policies.

Paul suggested Sunday that the replacement plan will include more low-cost insurance plans

“One of the key reforms that we will do is, we’re going to legalize the sale of inexpensive insurance,” he told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “That means getting rid of the ObamaCare mandates on what you can buy.”

Paul last week announced some of the early details of the plan on Fox News’ “Special Report” with Bret Baier.

Paul said his plan borrows from previous GOP replacement plans and appears to have consensus among congressional Republicans.

“The ideas that we’ve taken for the replacement bill come from other Republicans’ bills,” he told Fox.

Paul said Sunday the plan also will include health saving accounts and tax credits to help customers save money.

Imagine that: Health insurance which acts like insurance.

MAD DUCK: Oman accepts 10 Gitmo inmates at Obama’s request.

Oman confirmed on Monday morning that it had accepted the 10 inmates upon a request by Obama himself.

“To meet a request by the US government to assist in settling the issue of the detainees at Guantanamo, out of consideration of their humanitarian situation, 10 people released from that prison arrived in the Sultanate of Oman for a temporary residency,” Reuters reported, quoting a statement by the sultanate’s foreign ministry.

The statement did not disclose the names or the nationality of the prisoners.

It doesn’t take much imagination to figure out why not.

THE ART OF THE DEAL: ‘One China Principle’ Not Negotiable, China Tells Trump.

Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters that anyone attempting to use Taiwan’s status in a negotiation would be “smashing their feet by lifting a rock.”

“Not everything in the world can be bargained or traded off,” Hua told reporters at a daily briefing.

“Whoever attempts to harm the one-China principle out of any motive or uses the principle as a bargaining chip will definitely be facing broad and strong opposition from the Chinese government and people, as well as the international community,” Hua said.

Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Friday that “everything is under negotiation, including ‘one China.'” It was the latest sign that Trump could shake up the U.S.-China relationship, particularly regarding Taiwan, which China considers a core national interest.

We used to recognize the Chinese government on Taiwan as the sole legitimate government of One China.

Just sayin’.

NOT FADE AWAY: Obama and His Movement Prepare to Challenge President Trump.

Community agitators gotta agitate.

ROSS KAMINSKY: Today’s Blood Libel: A Democrat Specialty.

This race libel has been on full dismal display in recent days from the venomous President Barack Obama, the venerable Representative John Lewis, and the venal Senator Cory Booker.

In his not-a-moment-too-soon “farewell address,” following a remarkably out-of-touch call for economic growth through — wait for it — more unionization and higher taxes on successful individuals and corporations, Obama turned to the issue of race.

He offered this premise for what purported to be a deep thought: “After all, if every economic issue is framed as a struggle between a hard-working white middle class and undeserving minorities…” What follows this clause is irrelevant because this introduction disqualifies the statement, if not the speaker, from consideration as a serious or honest person.

Read the whole thing.

MAD DUCK: With days left in office, President Obama ushers in dozens of policies.

In the final days before President Obama leaves office, administration officials are rushing to complete dozens of tasks that will affect millions of lives and solidify the president’s imprint on history. But in many cases, their permanence is uncertain, and President-elect Donald Trump is already pledging to undo some of them after taking office.

“He is clearly using executive power aggressively and trying to do as much as possible in his final days,” Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer said in an email. “It is clear that a president who was once reluctant to use the power of his own office has changed his heart, especially now that he sees a radically conservative Congress and Republican president-elect are getting ready to dismantle much of what he has done.”

President Pen-and-Phone was reluctant?

And which is more radical: A popularly elected Congress passing bills for a president’s signature in a constitutional manner, or an outgoing executive during his last hours in office acting as a sort-of one-man autopen machine?

“I HAVE A DREAM.”

THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN AMERICAN HISTORY, MAYBE THE WORLD: Pelosi blames Bush for $9 trillion in debt added under Obama.

Is there anything he can’t do?

SELF-DEFENSE: Beloved 78-year-old Texas Landlord Takes Out Would-be Robber.

SIXTY YEAR ITCH: The Lost Footage of Marilyn Monroe.

MAD DUCK: In Rush To Regulate, Obama EPA Issues Edict Ahead Of Schedule On Efficiency Standards.

FASTER, PLEASE: Search begins for universal influenza vaccine.

The smallpox vaccine was the first to use the “empirical paradigm” of vaccinology – the same strategy we largely use today. It relies on a trial-and-error approach to mimic the immunity induced by natural infection.

In other words, vaccine developers believe the body will mount an antibody response to something in the inoculation. But they don’t focus on which specific patch of the virus is causing an immune response. It doesn’t really matter if it’s a reaction to a small patch of HA that many strains share, for instance. When using an entire virus as starting material, it’s possible to get many different antibodies recognizing many different parts of the virus used in the vaccine.

The seasonal flu shot generally fits into this empirical approach. Each year, epidemiologists forecast which flu strains are most likely to infect populations, typically settling on three or four. Researchers then attenuate or inactivate these strains so they can act as the mimics in that year’s influenza vaccine without giving recipients the full-blown flu. The hope is that an individual’s immune system will respond to the vaccine by creating antibodies that target these strains; then when he or she comes into contact with the flu, the antibodies will be waiting to neutralize those strains.

But there’s a different way to design a vaccine. It’s called rational design and represents a potentially game-changing paradigm shift in vaccinology.

The goal is to design some molecule – or “immunogen” – that can cause effective antibodies to be produced without requiring exposure to the virus. Relative to current vaccines, the engineered immunogen may even allow for more specific responses, meaning the immune response targets particular parts of the virus, and greater breadth, meaning it could target multiple strains or even related viruses.

This season’s bug moved so quickly that it hit me and one of my sons before we could get in for our already scheduled flu shots.

SHOW-ME THE AMMO: Missouri Legislator Offers to Loan Firearms to Constituents.

HECKUVA JOB, BARRY:

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Millennials are falling behind their boomer parents.

With a median household income of $40,581, millennials earn 20 percent less than boomers did at the same stage of life, despite being better educated, according to a new analysis of Federal Reserve data by the advocacy group Young Invincibles.

The analysis being released Friday gives concrete details about a troubling generational divide that helps to explain much of the anxiety that defined the 2016 election. Millennials have half the net worth of boomers. Their home ownership rate is lower, while their student debt is drastically higher.

If Millennials ever wake up to how badly they’ve been robbed and by whom, the political reckoning will be earth-shattering.

ANALYSIS: FALSE. If The Comey Letter Sank Hillary, It’s Her Own Fault.

It can’t be her fault — because strong, independent woman or something.

CLASS ACT: The Bush Sisters Wrote the Obama Girls A Letter.