THE ENEMY WITHIN: Oberlin College Students Erect Memorial to Palestinian Islamic Jihad Terrorists.

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BUT OF COURSE: First transgender Rhodes scholar named in diverse 2020 class. My guess is that Cecil Rhodes would be less offended by the transgenderness than by the slavish trendiness, but hey, I never knew the guy.

BALTIMORE: Five Interesting Things About Catherine Pugh’s Alleged Misdeeds.

I love this Amazon review of Pugh’s book:

OPEN THREAD: The weekend’s over, but the holiday weekend isn’t far away.

COCAINE MITCH IS MAKING CHRISTMAS GREAT AGAIN: Deck the Halls with Mitch McConnell, Fa la la la la, la la la la; You Better Act Fast – This Offer Won’t Last.

“It features alternating photos of the smiling Senate Majority Leader wearing a Santa Claus hat and what else, snowflakes…Order yours here! CNN’s Jake Tapper tweeted a photo of the paper with the caption, ‘This is real.’”

Damn straight it is. Cocaine Mitch is definitely dreaming of a white Christmas.

HER PLAINTIVE CRY: “I MATTERED IN 2015!” Feminist Tries To Cancel Disney’s ‘The Mandalorian’ Over Lack Of Female Characters, Gets Wrecked. “Career radical feminist, Anita Sarkeesian, tried to ‘cancel’ Disney+’s hit new Star Wars property, ‘The Mandalorian’ earlier this week but met with a wave of pushback by Star Wars fans and social media users who’ve grown tired of Sarkeesian’s woke crusade against nerd culture.”

HMM: Many Chinese manufacturers are behaving as though they have no future. Symptom: “a new mood among many Chinese businesspeople that they are at the end of the long Chinese boom and that there’s no reason not to burn their bridges with non-Chinese firms, because they’re not going to be doing business with them for much longer no matter what.” This is self-fulfilling, as it just encourages more companies to move their supply chains.

WELL:

Stay tuned.

CHANGE: Hong Kong elections: tsunami of disaffection washes over city as pro-Beijing camp left reeling by record turnout and overwhelming defeat.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. “Rats, raptors and Californian liberals make a formidable political alliance.” A bill would make it harder to control California’s thriving rats.

FEDS MOVE TO LOOSEN MOVIE DISTRIBUTION RULES, WHICH COULD HURT INDIE THEATERS:

The Justice Department is moving to terminate legal rules that have governed the movie industry since the late 1940s, a step that could shake up how movies are distributed and the terms on which they hit the big screen.

The department’s antitrust division has concluded that the rules, laid out in long-ago legal settlements known as the Paramount consent decrees, have outlived their usefulness in a world where the movie business has changed considerably.

“As the movie industry goes through more changes with technological innovation, with new streaming businesses and new business models, it is our hope that the termination of the Paramount decrees clears the way for consumer-friendly innovation,” Makan Delrahim, the department’s top antitrust official, said at an American Bar Association conference in Washington, D.C. on Monday.

I’m OK with this, provided the Hollywood tax cuts are also repealed.

JUST SAW MY FIRST MIKE BLOOMBERG FOR PRESIDENT AD, and it seems designed to make you think that he, not Rudy Giuliani, was mayor at the time of 9/11. (Yeah, it says “after 9/11,” but while showing pics of the day after 9/11). Kinda cheap, but I’m sure some consultants made a lot of money.

UPDATE: Heh.

NOVEMBER OF 2019 IN THE MOVIES: Sexy replicants invade Los Angeles city streets.

November of 2019 in real life: FedEx delivery robots invade New York City streets. But DeBlasio is not happy:

“First of all, @FedEx, never get a robot to do a New Yorker’s job. We have the finest workers in the world,” Hizzoner wrote. “Second of all, we didn’t grant permission for these to clog up our streets. If we see ANY of these bots we’ll send them packing.”

Having failed miserably as a presidential candidate, DeBlasio is no doubt trying to line-up his post-mayoral career as an opinion writer at Vox.com by pandering badly to notorious robophobe Matthew Yglesias.™

FEMINISM’S POISONOUS FRUIT: Woman Murdered Her Three Sons Fearing They Would Abuse Women When They Grew Up.

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MICHAEL BARONE: The Democrats’ Impeachment Pseudo-Event.

The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events is the title of a 1960s book by historian and Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin. Pseudo-events, he wrote, are staged solely to generate news media coverage. Real events, in contrast, involve independent actors and have unpredictable outcomes.

It’s not difficult to say which category the House Democrats’ impeachment hearings belongs in. It’s a classic pseudo-event stage-managed to prod sympathetic media into running predictable stories. Inconvenient questions from Republican members are blocked. Even the name of the original “whistleblower” is concealed, though no law requires that, and the stage managers know who he is.

Yet on the front pages and cable news, this pseudo-event is crowding out two genuine events of potentially world-shaking importance and uncertain outcome.

Indeed. Of course, to be fair, this is with the full and knowing cooperation of the news media.

Related: While Everyone Is Distracted By Russia, Chinese Spying And Influence Runs Wild. But it’s not just China.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot: We Are All Socialists Now.

Cover story of Newsweek’s February 16 2009 issue, back when the opinion magazine was still owned by the Washington Post. 

● Chaser: Washington Post Prints Blatantly False Article: ‘Barack Obama, Conservative.’

—NewsBusters, today.

Democracy dies in gaslighting. Exit quote from Tim Graham of NewsBusters: “Doesn’t someone in [the Post’s Outlook section] have more intellectual integrity than to publish this pratfall of an article? But this is apparently [David] Swerdlick’s modus operandi. He can defend Obama from the right, and defend Obama from the left. He really should be working for Obama.”

Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and it’s obvious that he is.

BREAKING: Navy Secretary Richard Spencer Resigns Amid Controversy Over Navy SEAL.

WELL, GOOD: We’ll eat 46 million turkeys this Thanksgiving, plus 5 more holiday factoids. How many legs of lamb?

ABSOLUTELY:

FIGHT THE POWER: Hong Kong Democracy Backers Win Big as Voters Flock to Polls. This won’t make a big difference, as the councils aren’t that important, but it makes clear what’s what, and it’s a loss of face for Xi and the Chinese government.

CALIFORNIA DREAMING: E. coli outbreak alert: Do not eat any romaine lettuce from Salinas, California, CDC says.

TO BE FAIR, HE COULD BE RIGHT, but this says more about the sorry state of the Democratic Party, not the sorry state of Moore: Michael Moore Says He’s Now The Mainstream Democratic Party: ‘I Am The Center.’

Flashback: Michael Moore: Iraqi terrorists are “minutemen”, American troops must shed blood.

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CHANGE: Pro-govt giants decimated in Hong Kong polls.

Stay tuned.

DOGS CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE.

OUT ON A LIMB: As It Turns Out, Socialist Politicians Can Be Crooks Too. “Case in point: Three members of the ‘Squad’ — that eclectic group of freshmen congresswomen who claim allegiance to socialism and socialist policies — are all under investigation for committing financial crimes either before or after they took office. The Daily Caller has a summary of what Reps. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilham Omar are accused of — less than a year after they took office.”

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK: Newark mayor effectively bans NYC’s homeless-export program.

It took quite a while, but Newark is finally getting its revenge on John Lindsay’s reelection campaign, which featured at least one commercial whose theme was basically, “sure he’s a lousy mayor, but hey, at least you’re not living in Newark:”

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THEY’RE THE PARTY OF ILHAN OMAR NOW: 106 House Dems to Pompeo: Reverse settlement announcement ‘immediately.’

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HOW THE GREAT TRUTH DAWNED:

For all prisoners, the first discovery was of unprecedented evil, evil they could never have imagined and in as pure a form as possible. One way Solzhenitsyn conveys this evil is to compare it with earlier supposed embodiments of it, especially the tsarist regime, which, throughout the Western world, was regarded as the symbol of pure oppression. Solzhenitsyn reflects: From 1876 to 1904, a period when Russian terrorists killed many top officials, including Tsar Alexander II, the regime executed 486 people, or 17 per year. From 1905 to 1908—including the period of the revolution of 1905—executions “rocketed upwards” to 2,200, or 45 per month before coming to an abrupt halt. Although terrorists in those years killed more tsarist officials than that—were more sinning than sinned against—such brutality “astound[ed] Russian imaginations, calling forth tears from Tolstoy and indignation from Korolenko.” Of course, from 1917 to the death of Stalin in 1953, 2,200 was about the number of people killed on an average day.

* * * * * * * *

Why is it, Solzhenitsyn asks, that Macbeth, Iago, and other Shakespearean evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses, while Lenin and Stalin did in millions? The answer is that Macbeth and Iago “had no ideology.” Ideology makes the killer and torturer an agent of good, “so that he won’t hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.” Ideology never achieved such power and scale before the twentieth century.

And that socialist ideology would eventually pour out of the Soviet Union, to be aped by Germany’s National Socialism and Mussolini’s socialist-inspired fascism. As Tom Wolfe wrote in his 1996 article, “Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died,” in 1882, Nietzsche declared that “God is Dead.” And as a consequence, “predicted (in Ecce Homo) that the twentieth century would be a century of ‘wars such as have never happened on earth,’ wars catastrophic beyond all imagining. And why? Because human beings would no longer have a god to turn to, to absolve them of their guilt; but they would still be racked by guilt, since guilt is an impulse instilled in children when they are very young, before the age of reason. As a result, people would loathe not only one another but themselves. The blind and reassuring faith they formerly poured into their belief in God, said Nietzsche, they would now pour into a belief in barbaric nationalistic brotherhoods.”

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DO WE NEED TO START DISCUSSING JOE BIDEN’S ANGER ISSUES? Biden, Graham Dispute Over Request for Hunter Biden Docs Gets Personal.

(Classical reference in headline.)

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Adam Schiff Ran Against Impeachment in First Campaign for Congress.

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Green Terror Grips Canada in Cultic Madness.

Related: “[Historian Yuri] Slezkine’s most valuable insight is to treat the Bolsheviks as members of an apocalyptic millennial cult, without God. He draws parallels in Christian history between them and religious movements that sought to build heaven on earth, no matter how many so-called evildoers had to be liquidated to do it. If you think of the Bolsheviks as religious fanatics, their bizarre, cruel acts make a lot more sense. And to be frank, so do the words and deeds of the social justice cultists of our own time and place.”

(Classical reference in headline.)

SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: For 2020 candidates, eating tacos is the kissing babies of stumping for Latino votes.

HOMEBUYERS PROMISED ‘PARK VIEWS’ FROM NEW DEVELOPMENT GET BRIGHT BLUE PLASTIC LAKE INSTEAD (Video):

Based on the video, it looks like the residents have the beginnings of either a fine miniature golf course, or an excellent training facility for G.I. Joe…

ADDRESSING THE VITAL SHORTAGE OF WHITE, MEDICARE-ELIGIBLE DEMOCRATS IN THE RACE: Bloomberg makes his campaign launch official.

CHANGE: U.S. begins deporting asylum seekers back to Guatemala under new policy. “The procedure seems to have been successful.”

SO DID HE BACK DOWN, OR WAS I SUCKERED BY FAKE NEWS? U.S. Navy Secretary says he did not threaten to resign in dispute with Trump. “The U.S. Navy Secretary said on Saturday he did not threaten to resign amid a disagreement with President Donald Trump over whether a Navy SEAL convicted of battlefield misconduct should face a board of peers who may oust him from the elite force. . . . Spencer said Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher should face a board of peers because ‘the process matters for good order and discipline,’ Reuters reported on Friday. On Saturday, Spencer said ‘good order and discipline is also obeying orders from the president of the United States,’ and he said that he hopes ‘to contribute going forward’ in his role.”

‘FORD V. FERRARI:’ MALE BONDING, ‘FAST AND FURIOUS’ STYLE, IN THE ‘MAD MEN’ ERA. My review of the new film, which is well worth seeing on the big screen, both for its brilliant racing sequences, and to cheese off the SJW woke scolds who object to its petrol-fueled macho theme.

(Bumped.)

WELL THAT WAS DUMB. BUT WHY WOULD ANYONE DO THAT? Chick-fil-A Put an Obama and Hillary Supporter in Charge, but Dumped Christians. “Money for social justice and Muslim refugees, but not for the Salvation Army. . . . The donations were coming out of the Chick-fil-A Foundation. The Executive Director of the CFA Foundation is Rodney D. Bullard, a former White House fellow and Assistant US Attorney. Some may have mistaken him for a conservative because he was a fellow in the Bush Administration, but he was an Obama donor, and, more recently, had donated to Hillary Clinton’s campaign while at Chick-fil-A.”

Personnel is policy.

WITH HELP FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, OF COURSE! How Stalin Hid Ukraine’s Famine From The World.

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ROGER SIMON ON THE HARVARD-YALE DEBACLE: Abolish the Ivy League Already.

FIGHT THE POWER: Michelle Malkin calls local, federal politicians ‘anti-American’ at pro-ICE rally — In Boston.

Related: Howie Carr: ICE is cool with me, and should be for anyone tired of illegal immigration. Most people feel that way, which is why the establishment has to pretend only racists do.

WE NEED A COMPLETE AND TOTAL SHUTDOWN OF APPLE TV UNTIL WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON THERE: Alt-History For All Mankind Lauds Feminist ‘President’ Ted Kennedy.

This plot-point sounds awfully derivative of Robert Harris’ 1992 alt-history novel Fatherland, which used Ted’s dad, “President Joseph P. Kennedy,” as a supporting player. No word yet if in For All Mankind’s alternative history, ‘President’ Ted Kennedy still enjoyed his share of “waitress sandwiches” with his fellow Democrats.

Meanwhile, back on this planet earth: From Chappaquiddick to Tranquility Base in One Weekend. Fifty years later, a look back at a moon landing and a vehicular homicide that epitomized the age.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, “DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION” EDITION: A professor joined the Trump administration and faced systemic bias when she returned, lawsuit says.

Whitney Bailey’s career at Oklahoma State University was going great – until the professor accepted an appointment to the Trump administration.

When she returned to campus after her public service, Bailey says she faced political discrimination from administrators, whom a review committee found had engaged in “systematic failure to follow university policy” regarding Bailey. It resulted in her also losing paid gigs she put on hold for public service.

Bailey filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the taxpayer-funded institution, as well as its provost, dean, department and assistant department heads, News 9 reports. The officials were in charge of her promotion request when Bailey returned.

Good. Punch back twice as hard.

IN A TIME OF DECEIT TELLING THE TRUTH IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT: Women can make children, but only men can make men.

(Via Ace of Spades; classical reference in headline.)

SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! PSU women’s center holds meetings ‘solely’ for minority students.

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ANDREW YANG, VICTIM OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY/MEDIA RACISM:

Why are Democrat leaders and the news media so racist?

GREAT MOMENTS IN PROJECTION: CNN’s Don Lemon Insists Trump Supporters Are Mental.

Flashback: CNN’s Don Lemon Asks If a Black Hole Could’ve Swallowed Malaysia’s Flight 370 (Video).

ROGER KIMBALL: The Ukraine blame game: There was never anything in the great Ukrainian quid pro quo. It was props and stagecraft. “The unfolding deep-state effort to remove Donald Trump from office diffuses an acrid aroma of paranoia, partly because of its ever-expanding cast of enemies.”

CALIFORNIA IS ‘WINNING’ ITS WAY INTO THE STONE AGE: Reuters’ “Explainer:” California faces decade of ‘unique’ wildfire blackouts.

(Classical reference in headline.)

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GET WOKE, GO BROKE: “Sony Pictures knew by the time midnight rolled around on November 14, only five hours after its first showings, that they had a monumental turkey on their hands with the new version of Charlie’s Angels.”

SCHIFF SHOW FAILS: Poll finds sharp swing in opposition to impeachment among independents. “The new poll found 49 percent oppose impeachment compared to 34 percent who support it. In October, 48 percent of independents polled supported impeachment, against 39 percent who opposed. Since October, Emerson has found Trump’s job approval rating jump by 5 points, from 43 percent to 48 percent.”

Related: Poll: Trump Approval Rating Hits Net Positive As Support For Impeachment Plummets.

ROGER KIMBALL: Trump’s Disruptive Energy vs. the Deep State. “With just about any other president, the deep state’s victory would be all-but-assured. With Trump, hedge your bets.”

WELL, THAT’S THE GOAL: The move to cancel Gauguin could kill off Western culture.

WOMXN FOR WARREN: “This points to a huge problem for Warren and the various elites invested in her. They’re in a bubble. If you’re surrounded by Latinx and Womxn people who unironically use terms like Latinx or Womxn, you might get convinced that this is the way normal Hispanic and black people talk and think. I’m not saying that blacks and Hispanics are politically conservative. We know that, as a conventional or statistical matter, most aren’t. But their liberalism is the traditional liberalism of the Democratic Party circa 1985 or 2005: More generous entitlements, more public works programs, perhaps more set-asides for minorities in government contracts. In other words they’re FDR, Truman, Mondale, or Obama Democrats. Some may even be Jesse Jackson Democrats. They’re not Noam Chomsky Democrats.  If Warren thinks she’s going to win over black women in South Carolina by talking about intersectionality, she’s in for a rude surprise.”

Read the whole thing.

I’D FAVOR MAKING GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR BAD DECISIONS: California Regulators Shut Down a Distillery for Serving Alcohol.

“While Type 74 license states that distilleries can only serve up to 1.5 oz. of alcohol per person per day, we are allowed to have private events, in which the drink restriction is waived,” Blinking Owl explains. “It is under this section of code which many small distilleries in the state have found a much-needed revenue source by hosting private events or functions. To that end, we segregated private events with wristbands, something we believed the public was accustomed to and well understood the meaning of, and we subsequently operated in a manner we understood to be in complete compliance.”

That seems eminently reasonable. But what seems eminently reasonable to a business often strikes regulators—who are interpreting the same, oftentimes poorly worded regulations that businesses are, but with an eye to punishing scofflaws—as something entirely different. Just how the temporary closure came about demonstrates this fact.

Before making his first undercover visit, according to his account, ABC trade enforcement officer Eric Gray did not speak with anyone at Blinking Owl about being part of a private party. When he arrived at the distillery, he was served one drink and was told Blinking Owl could not serve him another legally. He paid and left.

Before his next visit, Agent Gray called Blinking Owl. He was told this met the requirements for being considered a private party. After arriving at the distillery, Blinking Owl confirmed Gray had called ahead to be placed on a private party guest list and was served a second drink.

It was this second visit that caused Agent Gray to conclude Blinking Owl had violated ABC rules, allegedly “by exceeding the amount of 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits that is permitted to be served per person per day by selling two separate cocktails to Department Agents that contained 1.5 ounce in each drink.”

For this purported transgression, the state chose last week to punish Blinking Owl by forcing the distillery to close for 25 days.

But we can at least make clear that Eric Gray seems like kind of a jerk.

Plus: “These laws largely serve no purpose other than to ensnare small business owners and produce fines for agencies that struggle to justify their own existence.”

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: As School District Implements Busing Over Near-Unanimous Opposition, Chinese Immigrants See Communism. “The Howard County, Maryland, school board voted to implement a massive, 1970s-style busing program Thursday, despite overwhelming opposition. After one vote failed, members went into a back room, and when they came out, one of the members who voted ‘no’ was crying. They did a do-over and she changed her vote. Board member Jennifer Mallo lectured to constituents who voiced displeasure, saying it was a ‘privilege’ that they got to witness the meeting, admonishing them not criticize her on social media, and complaining about her salary. Immigrants from China and the former Soviet Union said that what they were witnessing reminded them of the totalitarian regimes where they grew up.”

OK, SNOWFLAKES: Harvard-Yale game delayed at halftime by student protest. The desperation with which they’re trying to make themselves feel important is deeply sad.

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EVERYONE LAUGHED AT ERIC SWALWELL, BUT NOW IT’S A TREND: LeBron James farts at fans after they ask for his autograph. Okay, not a good trend, but . . .

VACATION PLANNING: 8 Cool Destinations That Future Mars Tourists Could Explore.

HERESY: ‘Ford v Ferrari’ shows how masculinity can make the world a better place. Also true.

MAKE FUN OF ELON IF YOU WANT, BUT HE KNOWS HIS MARKET: Tesla already received 146,000 Cybertruck pre-orders worth over $8 billion.

WHEN YOU’RE A CELEBRITY, THEY LET YOU DO IT: D.C. Attorney General declines to charge Jane Fonda for Friday protests.

AND FOR THE POST, THIS IS AN UNALLOYED EVIL: Washington Post: ‘Impeachment will make the president hellbent on the destruction of the civil service.’

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Not just the president.

HONG KONG: A friend who lives there writes:

Just returned from voting for my District Councillor.
(Voting for District Council doesn’t really amount to much – their job is about garbage pickup, etc. – but this is an opportunity for people to have their voices be heard, albeit at a minimal level).

In every other election, I have gone in the afternoon and there are maybe 3 or 4 people in line.
I show up just after 8 am this morning and the line goes out the room – a least 100 deep.
I see a building neighbour, a fellow Foreign Correspondent Club member, a Chinese International School parent / friend, and C H Tung (first Chief Executive).
(I was tempted to go to CH Tung and say, “this voting concept seems to be pretty popular” – but I refrained).

I asked if it is alway this crowded in the morning as I usually vote in the afternoon.
About 5 people all chirped up saying basically, “Oh no, not at all. I think we all know how we feel about the matter”.

And the line was longer when I left than when I arrived.

Maybe I’m wrong, but I suspect that the pro-Government candidates are going to lose quite badly in most parts of Hong Kong today.
People are mad and want their voices heard – not dismissed.

Just my “on the ground” observations.

Good to know.

MAXIMIZE THE DRAMA: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, four-time cancer survivor, is back in the hospital. I feel like the writers are just throwing everything in at once this season.

OK, MILLENNIAL: One-Third of Young Americans Say Complimenting a Woman’s Looks is Sexual Harassment.

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YEAH, BUT BACK THEN IF YOU WORRIED ABOUT RUSSIAN SPIES YOU WERE CALLED A MCCARTHYITE AND SHUNNED BY ALL DECENT PEOPLE: Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project: His Soviet code name was Godsend, and he came to Los Alamos from a family of secret agents.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot: Chris Matthews Asks Tulsi Gabbard: ‘Why Are So Many Democrats War Hawks?’

—PJ Media, today.

● Chaser: “On May 1, 2003, Richard Perle advised, in a USA Today Op-Ed, ‘Relax, Celebrate Victory.’ The same day, exactly five years ago, President Bush, dressed in a flight suit, landed on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln and declared an end to major military operations in Iraq — with the now-infamous ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner arrayed behind him in the war’s greatest photo op. Chris Matthews on MSNBC called Bush a ‘hero’ and boomed, ‘He won the war. He was an effective commander. Everybody recognizes that, I believe, except a few critics.’ He added: ‘Women like a guy who’s president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It’s simple.’”

—“Five Years Ago: How the Media Gushed Over ‘Mission Accomplished,’” the Huffington Post, May 1, 2008.

OUTREACH TO THE OTHER PARTY? TREASON! Democrats furious as video of Buttigieg saying nice things about Tea Party emerges.

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg faced some strong criticism online after a 2010 video of him speaking at an Indiana state Tea Party event resurfaced this week, with critics of the South Bend mayor accusing him of “sidling up to racists” and saying he’s “absolutely done.”

In his remarks to the group, which came during his unsuccessful 2010 run for Indiana state treasurer, Buttigieg discussed how he understood the economic concerns of the Tea Party voters and candidates.

“There are some, especially in my party, who think that the Tea Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party,” Buttigieg said at the time. “But there are many others who believe that the Tea Party is motivated by real concerns about the direction of our government and the responsiveness of our government to citizens—and above all, a frustration with business as usual. That is what motivated me to run,” he continued. “And so, while we may come from often very different perspectives, I believe we might have a lot in common on that front.”

Responding to the resurfaced clip, Jodi Jacobson, an editor and analyst, called the clip “unreal.”

“@PeteButtigieg literally sidling up to racist Tea Partiers. And he’s got it wrong: @GOP is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Tea Party,” she tweeted.

The Tea Party movement was not racist in the least, particularly by comparison to today’s Democratic Party. And as for the GOP being a wholly owned subsidiary of the Tea Party — if only!

OUT ON A LIMB: Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell Paints Press As ‘Reckless, Corrupt, Immoral.’

IMPEACHMENT: The Empire Strikes Back. “It is no accident or coincidence that the only three presidents who have fundamentally challenged the administrative state—and questioned its song sheet, the ‘U.S. government policy community consensus’—have been dogged by ‘scandal’ and threatened with impeachment: Richard Nixon by Watergate, Ronald Reagan by Iran Contra, and now Trump. (Whatever you think of Bill Clinton’s impeachment, it was emphatically not driven or supported by the administrative state, which protected him at every turn.) Trump would likely take this as small consolation, but it’s a measure of how much he’s feared that his enemies are running this play against him now, rather than simply trying to defeat him next year. Which more than suggests they doubt they can.”

BRINGING NEW MEANING TO BILL WHITTLE’S LINE, “if Republicans had to run unopposed, they’d lose every time.” How Republicans Won Phase One Of Impeachment.

Related: Why Democrats’ impeachment push is about to get a lot harder.

The cockiness; it is still best to eschew it, of course.

THE PLANE WHO WENT TO CHICAGO: The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course: A company once driven by engineers became driven by finance. “On the tarmac, Condit stepped out of the jet, made a brief speech, then boarded a helicopter for an aerial tour of Boeing’s new corporate home: the Morton Salt building, a skyscraper sitting just out of the Loop in downtown Chicago. Boeing’s top management plus staff—roughly 500 people in all—would work here. They could see the boats plying the Chicago River and the trains rumbling over it. Condit, an opera lover, would have an easy walk to the Lyric Opera building. But the nearest Boeing commercial-airplane assembly facility would be 1,700 miles away.”

Move your company HQ to a city run by grifters and crooks, then lose your bearings and values? Who could have seen that coming?

Executive offices should be in the factories, and you should have to walk through the shop floor to get to them.

SHOWING UP TO RIOT: “Enjoy your New Rules. When you want to go back to the Old Rules, let me know. I’d like that. Until then, hey, consequences, player.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Watch The Intellectuals.

I’m not interested in hearing Ann Coulter speak, but I am very, very much interested in fighting the mob culture that seeks to shut down speakers like Ann Coulter, in part by howling curses at, and attempting to humiliate, Americans who are interested in what she has to say.

If you think this is going to stay in Berkeley, you’re mistaken. This mob action might not spread to places outside of the coasts, but here’s what’s going to happen: those young people who join the mobs, they are going to graduate and move into the institutions of American life. They are going to carry their militant illiberalism, including their contempt for free speech and open discourse, into those institutions, and are going to do their damnedest to institutionalize them. One thing I have learned from the past few months spent studying Soviet-bloc communism: watch the intellectual class. It is a very big mistake to think that what they say and do only matters in the shadow of the ivory tower.

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I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY THEY’RE PICKING THIS FIGHT WITH TRUMP. BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT THEY’RE DOING. Navy Is Said to Proceed With Disciplinary Plans Against Edward Gallagher.

There is precedent for presidents intervening in military justice matters. John F. Kennedy stopped the punishment of an Army Reserve soldier who was court-martialed for bad-mouthing him. Abraham Lincoln infuriated some of his generals by regularly combing through court-martial orders for Union troops who were charged with desertion and other crimes and scrawling impromptu one-line orders for leniency, like “Let him fight instead of being shot.”

But experts say the constitutional arrangement of civilian control over the military can become strained when a president disregards the counsel of generals and admirals, or never seeks it in the first place.

Well, that’s one way it can become strained. Another is when people inferior to the President set themselves up in judgment over his orders, and publicly challenge them. Lt. Col. Vindman is apparently not alone in this.

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DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Harvard-Yale football game delayed for 48 minutes due to on-field protest over climate change. Climate change so powerful, it caused CBS to do the time warp in their article’s lede:

The annual Harvard-Yale football game Saturday was briefly delayed due to protesters on the field at the Yale Bowl. The protest, which caused a 48-minute delay, began following the second quarter of the game at the Yale Bowl when more than 150 people stormed the field with signs. The protesters, led by students and alumni of both schools, were demanding the colleges stop funding of fossil fuel companies.

Exit quote: “Years ago the players would have cleared them out themselves.”

‘AMERICA’S MAYOR’ RESPONDS TO BIDEN, BOLTON: Rudy Giuliani responds to, well, pretty much everything that’s been said about him lately, including the former Vice President and the claim he expected to profit on a Ukrainian energy firm. Things got a little testy between Giuliani and Fox News’ Ed Henry, something that seems to be happening a little more frequently between Fox anchors and Trumpers.

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DESPERATE CLEVELAND BROWNS DRAFT JUSSIE SMOLLETT AS DEFENSIVE LINEMAN: Myles Garrett and the Excuses That Fall Flat.

The NFL suspended Garrett indefinitely, adding that the suspension would be, at minimum, for the rest of the year. The league also gave multiple-game suspensions to several other players who participated in the fight.

Thursday, while appealing to the league to lessen his suspension, Garrett claimed Rudolph called him a racial slur just prior to the brawl.

Garrett encountered quite a bit of skepticism over this claim. He never mentioned it at all in any interview over the past week, and his post-game statement declared that he had made “a terrible mistake,” and selfishly “lost his cool,” and apologized to Rudolph.

Meanwhile, not surprisingly: Mason Rudolph isn’t taking Myles Garrett’s racial-slur accusation well.

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