LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT CHECKERS AND EDITORS:

As of the time of this post, the link does indeed go to a 404 page:

Even the Times’ fellow leftists at Slate are dunking on the hapless Gray Lady: New York Times Editorial Board: For President, Warren—and, Uhhhh, Also Klobuchar. A split decision is no decision at all:

The indecisiveness might have felt less grating if the Times hadn’t put so much effort into turning the endorsement into a spectacle in its own right. The promised inside look at how the Times made one of its most ostensibly important decisions of the year turned out to mean viewers spent an hour watching the paper crumble under the weight of its own self-importance. But hey, at least the ratings were probably good.

And while the Times may have offered a double endorsement, there was only one real winner tonight. Congratulations, to this guy:

There is no way any satirist can improve upon real life for its pure absurdity, to paraphrase the late Tom Wolfe.

UPDATE: Back and to the left. Back and to the left:

SUPER BOWL 2020: 49ers run wild on Packers for NFC title, set up Super Bowl matchup with Chiefs.

BULDING A WALL, AND THE MEXICANS WILL PAY FOR IT: Mexico halts Honduran migrant caravan at Guatemala entry point.

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DON SURBER: WaPo shocked to learn Trump is the commander in chief.

Despite all the pearl-clutching over Trump’s “dopes and babies” line, he wasn’t really saying anything that Tom Ricks didn’t say in 2012. But that’s different because shut up. Quoth Ricks: “Looking back on the troubled wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many observers are content to lay blame on the Bush administration. But inept leadership by American generals was also responsible for the failure of those wars. A culture of mediocrity has taken hold within the Army’s leadership rank—if it is not uprooted, the country’s next war is unlikely to unfold any better than the last two. . . . To a shocking degree, the Army’s leadership ranks have become populated by mediocre officers, placed in positions where they are likely to fail. Success goes unrewarded, and everything but the most extreme failure goes unpunished, creating a perverse incentive system that drives leaders toward a risk-averse middle where they are more likely to find stalemate than victory.”

The difference is, Ricks is a member of the establishment in good standing, and Trump is Orange Man Bad.

WHY ARE LEFTIST INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF MISOGYNY AND CORRUPTION? Grammy insiders say Deborah Dugan ousted over bombshell memo she sent to HR. “Insiders tell Page Six they suspect the Grammys fired its first-ever female boss in an attempt to silence her — after she wrote a bombshell memo alleging misconduct inside the organization, including sketchy voting practices, financial mismanagement and conflicts of interest.” I was a member for over 15 years, but let my membership lapse. Nothing that’s happened since has caused me to regret that.

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ONE OF MY KNOXVILLE FRIENDS IS WORKING WITH FORENSIC TRAINING SOURCE TO RAISE MONEY WITH THESE T-SHIRTS. She writes: “This organization is pretty fascinating. The instructors that work for them are all current or retired police officers who moved up through the rankings to become crime scene investigators. They have been brought in to court as expert witnesses on several high profile cases such as the Chris Kyle American Sniper case. Just fascinating people. What I have learned is that it’s scare how much these specialized trainings are needed and how important they are to actually finding the truth. So many agencies from all over the United States want the training, but can’t get it approved into their budgets.” 100% of the proceeds will go toward training. (Bumped.)

WHO ARE YOU KIDDING, SCHUMER IS INCAPABLE OF SHAME: Charles Schumer’s 1999 letter about impeachment comes back to bite him.

MOCKERY IS FUN, BUT THEY MAKE IT SO EASY: Conservative Street Artist Mocks Ex-Royals Meghan and Harry in Latest Hit.

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MICHAEL GOODWIN: Democrats’ ‘unfixable’ extremism uses Trump as an excuse. “Given Pelosi’s position, these extraordinary accusations are unprecedented in modern times. Yet such vile extremism is the new normal on the left, which uses Trump as an excuse for its own abnormal conduct.”

We’ve seen it before: “It’s just this war and that lying son of a bitch, Johnson.”

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend with style.

LIBERAL NIGHTMARE: Trump Could Appoint Half Federal Judiciary.

NUKE THE SITE FROM ORBIT; IT’S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE: A Modest Proposal for Dealing with Star Wars Episodes VII-IX.

SPACE: How the tiny exoplanet-hunting ASTERIA satellite showed scientists what cubesats can do. Small sats are going to be huge.

GREAT MOMENTS IN DISPASSIONATE MEDIA OBJECTIVITY: Verified Journalist on Twitter Calls Police on Target Manager Over a Toothbrush: Backfires Spectacularly.

OLD AND BUSTED: Florida Man.

The New Hotness? Rhode Island Man! Police: Rhode Island man accidentally shot his scrotum while in bed.

DANA LOESCH: A Note for Fellow Second Amendment Supporters Rallying in Virginia. “Do not be baited. Do not be provoked. You are at an extraordinary moment in history and the rest of us in states, counties, and cities across the country (all of us dealing with rights grabs like you, some at stages earlier than others) are watching you, praying for you, and depending on you. How you choose to use your time and impact your community will send shockwaves throughout the rest of the country. Do not be distracted from your good work by bad actors sent to incite, antagonize, and sabotage your efforts. Stay relentlessly focused. Speak truth and ignore every provocation tomorrow. That is not the day for it.”

It’s clear that Northam is praying for violence.

SUPER BOWL 2020: Chiefs punch ticket with win over Titans.

A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Florida Teenager Who Allegedly Lied About Sexual Assault Will Face Charges. “The girl, whose name has not been released, faces two counts of ‘false reporting of a crime to police,’ WWSB reported. The first count relates to her initial claim of sexual battery and the second refers to another claim she made about a physical assault a few days later. . . . Police determined something just wasn’t right about the girl’s story – they couldn’t find any witnesses or video of the alleged incident despite it taking place in broad daylight.”

NO, THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY: Nothingness Has Friction, And The Fastest Spinning Object Ever Made Could Measure It.

THE DEVIL HATES TO BE MOCKED: ‘Babylon Bee’ CEO: ‘How funny is it that CNN is coming after us for spreading disinformation?’

HARSH BUT FAIR:

But if Kristol is having an identity crisis, perhaps these recent Insta-links will assist in narrowing down his ideological triangulation.

NO WONDER DEMOCRATS ARE SO ANGRY: Under Trump, America May Be Its Strongest Since the End of World War II.

THIS IS EXCELLENT, AS IT WILL REDUCE PRIVILEGE AND INEQUALITY IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION: Harvard Law Students Avoid Applying For Clerkships With Trump-Appointed Judges. More openings for state-school Federalist Society members. Did I mention that I’m the Federalist Society advisor at UT Law?

From the comments: “A federal judge without a Harvard Law School graduate clerk is likely a better judge. When they are ready to take off their diapers and leave mom’s basement, they should apply.”

Related: To Reduce Inequality, Abolish The Ivy League.

NEW AT REASON TV: The Failure of LBJ’s Great Society and What It Means for the 21st Century. Nick Gillespie interviews Amity Shlaes on her new history of the Great Society and its (malaise-ridden) aftermath:

INJECTING PARANOIA AND HATRED INTO AMERICAN CULTURE: Ethnic Studies 101: Playing the Victim. Remember, all this stuff has its origins in cultural Marxism and it hasn’t done — nor was it intended to do — anything to make America better for minorities or anyone else.

THEY’RE NOT EVEN TRYING TO HIDE IT ANYMORE: Virginia Democrat Delegate Imagines U.S. Military Crushing Citizen Gun Supporter.

NO. GO AWAY. Evidence Shows Whooping Cough Is Evolving Into a ‘Superbug’, Scientists Warn.

SAUL ALINSKY SMILES: WA Legislator Wants to Give Seattle What It Asks For.

This is the Gorge Dam, one of those Seattle City Light-run dams that brings electricity to the Social Justice Warriors of Seattle.

The story above describes how the proposal would let the Skagit River run free as it did in the early 20th century. This story just made me smile, and I am interested in hearing how the Seattle contingent in the State Legislature responds to it. Tit-for-tat; you want to take eastern Washington back to the 19th century, maybe you should contemplate western Washington being returned to the 19th century.

Oh, and the Senator who proposed this bill is a Republican from Ferndale, a town in western Washington just south of the Canadian border. Thanks, Senator Ericksen!

“Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules…”

OPERATION CHAOS: THE NEXT GENERATION. ‘I’m voting for Bernie:’ Hugh Hewitt reveals he will back Sanders in Democratic primary.

CANCEL CULTURE COMES FOR APU: Simpsons actor Hank Azaria says he will no longer voice Apu.

After 31 seasons (arguably 20 too many), isn’t it time for the show itself to be cancelled in the traditional TV industry sense of the word?

IT’S LIKE COUNTRY VEGAS: Dear Diary: Every Time I Visit Nashville I’m Drunk The Entire Time And Get Nothing Accomplished. “Like I said, we’re going there for ‘work,’ but always find a way to fill each and every moment with alcohol and excuses to drink.”

FAUXCAHONTAS SPEAKS WITH FORKED TONGUE: Warren: I’m The Only One Running With Executive Experience.

SPENGLER: How fragile is Iran’s regime?

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OH, YOKO! Conservative Street Artist Sabo Mocks Ex-Royals Meghan and Harry in Latest Hit.

EVOLUTION IN ACTION: The Male Warrior Hypothesis: Testosterone-related Cooperation and Aggression in the Context of Intergroup Conflict.

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GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Megxit! Ex-Prince Harry Got Woke, Now He’s Broke…

JEFF DUNETZ: Peter Schweizer Does It Again With New Book, Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite.

SKYNET SMILES: AI-Designed ‘Living Robots’ Crawl, Heal Themselves.

AN UNDERRATED PROBLEM: Sepsis causes more deaths worldwide than previously thought.

Related: Vitamin C infusion may reduce sepsis death risk. It sounds like this is just vitamin C, not the vitamin and steroids cocktail that has been so successful elsewhere.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Second U.S. baby to be born from a dead donor’s uterus is delivered.

THEIR APPEAL IS BECOMING MORE SELECTIVE: Women’s March Draws A Smaller, But Passionate Crowd.

ALTERNATIVE HEADLINE: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION MOVES TO MAKE SCHOOL LUNCHES EDIBLE AGAIN. Trump administration proposes further rollbacks of school lunch standards.

Related: The Trump Administration Moved To Roll Back Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Program On Her Birthday. How dastardly. On her birthday!!!

SUCCESS: SpaceX Aces Crew Dragon Launch Abort Test. “The uncrewed test, known as an in-flight abort (IFA) test, is the last major hurdle SpaceX needed to clear before Crew Dragon can begin to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS).”

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The Elephant in the Room: A Fat Woman in Academe. “In spite of the growing attention given to body positivity and fat acceptance movements, Bobbi Reidinger writes, weight-based discrimination affects the levels of power and influence afforded such a scholar.”

ADVERSARY TECHNOLOGY: Apple’s Siri says Israeli president is ‘President of the Zionist occupation state.’ I saw this on Facebook last night, and several of my friends confirmed it, though by the time I got there it had been “corrected.”

It’s a difficult world, where you can’t be sure that your devices actually work for you. In this case the weakness wasn’t Siri itself, but Siri’s reliance on the unreliable Wikipedia.

APPLE’S SIRI TELLS YOU ISRAEL IS A “ZIONIST OCCUPATION STATE“: As of 10am, only i24News and The Post-Millenial have covered this at all. Apple’s Siri scrapes Wikipedia for “answers” about public figures. So it appears that last night one of the SJW crusaders who call themselves Wikipedia editors decided to change the entry for Israeli President Rivlin as follows:

The entry was fixed about an hour after it was noticed. The Post-Millennial news blog dug into the story and asserts that the vandalism (not a “hack”) occurred in the SJW world of Wikipedia editors.

Not a word from “major” legacy media as of 10am. You can bet your bottom dollar if they called Nancy Pelosi a pedophile or called Oprah a drug addict, this would be a much more “important” story.

Yes, most of us know that usually only stupid people rely on Wikipedia as the central foundation for a theory or factual statement. Yet, others make a career of it. AOC used Wikipedia to smear Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller in public, relying on Wikipedia to slanderously describe the publication as “White Nationalist.”  It’s not. Not even close. (Disclosure: I provide media law advice to TDC).

There ought to be a full investigation, but major legacy media is fixated on whether or not Prince Harry can continue to call himself “Prince.”

**UPDATE: At least Newsweek catches up.

FIGHT THE POWER: Public university sued for shutting down student protest against gun-free zones.

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CLARICE FELDMAN: The “Trump Grabbed Schrodinger’s Pussy” Theory. “He is not only the cause of all known phenomena in the universe but the cause of all potential phenomena as well.”

SPACE: Watch live today! SpaceX launching big Crew Dragon test flight @ 10 am ET.

IT’S COME TO THIS: 44 profs at Catholic university demand school apologize for screening pro-life film Unplanned.

PAUL BEDARD: On edge: Unarmed Virginia gun protesters ask armed friends to ‘watch over us.’

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ROGER KIMBALL ON THE PRIMARY: Democrats Consume Themselves.

WHEN HACKS CAN’T EVEN HACK RIGHT.

Trump campaign pointing out sad, prayerful, heavy-hearted impeachment moment between Nancy Pelosi and Bill Maher. https://t.co/CG4jLxXDmh

— Byron York (@ByronYork) January 19, 2020

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DUMBEST HOT TAKE OF 2020: Trump voters motivated by racism may be violating the Constitution. Can they be stopped? Of course, the year is still young. But the nonstop desire of lefties to beat Trump by doing anything other than simply winning an election speaks volumes.

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OF COURSE HE DOES: Senator Biden Paid Men More Than Women, Now Blames Pay Gap on White Men.

BUT IT WAS NICELY AUTOGRAPHED: Pelosi’s Pen not Mightier than Trump’s Sword.

INDEED: Kathy Bates on MeToo: ‘In my day, if you went to a guy’s hotel room, you knew why you were going.’

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BUT I’M SURE IT’S TRUMP’S FAULT SOMEHOW: Puerto Rico governor fires emergency director after aid is found sitting in warehouse. “Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced fired the island’s emergency management director on Saturday, after a video showing aid sitting unused in a warehouse went viral on social media. Some of the aid has allegedly been sitting in the warehouse since Hurricane Maria struck in 2017.”

OPEN THREAD: This is your time.

“STUMBLES.” Donald Trump Stumbles Into a Foreign-Policy Triumph.

UPDATE: From the comments: “We musn’t underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.”

SPACE: Elon Musk is still thinking big with SpaceX’s Starship Mars-colonizing rocket. Really big.

THEY WEREN’T “MISTAKES,” THEY WERE CRIMINAL MISCONDUCT AND PEOPLE NEED TO GO TO JAIL: The FBI Wants To Treat Carter Page Warrant Mistakes Like Training Problems. A Court Adviser Says That’s Not Enough.

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LEARN TO CODE: Harry and Meghan drop royal duties and HRH titles. “The couple will also no longer formally represent The Queen. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex intend to repay £2.4m of taxpayer money for the refurbishment of Frogmore Cottage, which will remain their UK family home, the statement added.”

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A governor whose medical school yearbook photo is him wearing a Klan hood has *cages* put up several hundred feet from a Virginia civil rights monument ON Martin Luther King Jr Day to contain citizens trying to exercise their freedoms of speech and assembly…

And the liberal masses still support him.

You can’t make this up.

They’ve never minded cages . . . for their opposition.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: How five members of Joe Biden’s family got rich through his connections.

PEOPLE DON’T KNOW IT, BUT PAUL EHRLICH’S WORK WAS ACTUALLY A LONG-RANGE PSYWAR ATTACK DESIGNED TO BLOCK CHINESE DOMINANCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: China’s Birthrate Hits Historic Low, in Looming Crisis for Beijing. “It’s a society where nobody wants to get married and people can’t afford to have children.”

There was some collateral damage, as far too many Americans were dumb enough to believe Ehrlich’s work, but that just made it more persuasive to the Chinese. And still less damaging than a global thermonuclear war would have been. A rare 21st Century win for the CIA . . . .

AN “UNEXPECTEDLY” BRIEF TIME-OUT: Twitter mistakenly suspends and later reinstates Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

IF IT DOESN’T, IT MEANS THE PREFERENCE CASCADE IS UNDERWAY: ‘Will This Kill My Career?’ Actor Laurence Fox Comes Out as Pro-Trump.

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WELL, YES: Critical Race Theory is Rooted in Cultural Marxism. And the goal is not the well-being of black people, or of America.

I HOPE THIS FIZZLES, BUT WHO KNOWS: China reports new virus cases, raising concern globally before key holiday. “China reported four more cases of pneumonia believed to be caused by a new coronavirus strain, causing rising concern globally that a disease health officials do not yet fully understand could spread during a key holiday period. . . . Though experts say the new virus does not appear to be as lethal as SARS, there is little known about its origins and how easily it can spread. Thailand and Japan have confirmed new cases of the virus earlier this week, stoking worries globally as many of the 1.4 billion Chinese people will travel abroad during the Lunar New Year holidays that begin next week.”

Related: Q&A: Will I be screened for coronavirus at the airport?

THIS WOULD SERVE BIG TECH RIGHT AFTER ALL ITS SHILLING FOR THE DEMOCRATS: Joe Biden wants to revoke Section 230.

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WHY THE LEFT KEEPS LOSING:

In these pages in October I suggested that British politics had reached a Hobbesian moment. Voters demanded a government, not anarchy presided over by a gibbering rabble. The clean-out in the Commons followed from this imperative. The single most important lesson of the previous three and more years is the abject incompetence of Britain’s centrist political class. Their comical despair today comes from their inability to grasp the part they played in the debacle that has engulfed them.

Sounds familiar.

HEH:

Congratulations, you’ve just invented the vaccine.

GO VOLS: UT Cheer Team earns National Championship.

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#JOURNALISM: The New York Times is against biased textbooks not published by The New York Times.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Conservative group has enough, sues New Jersey school over ‘unconstitutional’ policies.

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SPACE: SpaceX delays Crew Dragon abort test launch to Sunday due to bad weather.

HERE’S AN AGENCY THAT COULD USE A THOROUGH RE-STRUCTURING:  The Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) was supposed to ensure that federal contractors do not discriminate.  Alas, in the Orwellian world we live in, it instead ensures that they do.