BREAKING: Senate Votes Against Witnesses and Documents.

Related (From Ed): Senate Sets Wednesday Acquittal Vote In Trump Impeachment Trial.

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PURE IMAGINATION: Willy Wonka Prequel to Feature a Woman as Title Character?

THEIR FAITH IN THE PUBLIC IS TOUCHING: Corona says it’s not concerned about customers confusing the beer with the virus.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Elizabeth Warren Vows to Let a ‘Young Trans Person’ Choose Her Education Secretary.

NIGEL FARAGE GIVES LBC A TOUR OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ON HIS LAST DAY IN STRASBOURG (Video):

Exit quote from this LBC (“Leading Britain’s Conversation”) video: “Somehow in 20 years they haven’t corrupted me, but that’s because I lived a pretty louche lifestyle already.”

Related: Brexit news: Union Jack flag comes down as Britain’s time in EU comes to an end.

STACY MCCAIN: The News They Won’t Report.

RETROACTIVELY WOKE IS THE WOKEST WOKE: ‘Right Side of History’: Taylor Swift Regrets Not Opposing Trump in 2016, New Documentary Reveals.

REPORT: New Concealed-Carry Pistols from SHOT Show 2020.

BUMPED WITH UPDATE AT BOTTOM:

LAWS ARE FOR LITTLE PEOPLE: Hilary Edition. As Tyler O’Neil has reported, Clinton has twice refused to accept service of Tulsi Gabbard’s defamation lawsuit, trying to weasel her way out of a legal battle.

The New York Post also reported that:

[Gabbard’s lawyer] said their process server first attempted to effect service at Clinton’s house in Chappaqua on Tuesday afternoon — but was turned away by Secret Service agents. The agents directed the server to Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, who on Wednesday claimed at his Washington, DC, firm, Williams & Connolly, that he was unable to accept service on Clinton’s behalf.”

Here’s the thing. She had her Arkansas law license reinstated last May. But the Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct state that:

Rule 8.4. Misconduct.
It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to: (a) violate or attempt to violate the rules of professional conduct, knowingly assist or induce another to do so, or do so through the acts of another; (b) commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects; (c) engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation; (d) engage in conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice; (e) state or imply an ability to influence improperly a government agency or official; or to achieve results by means that violate the Rules of Professional Conduct or other law; or (f) knowingly assist a judge or judicial officer in conduct that is a violation of applicable rules of judicial conduct or other law.

Seems to me that dodging service of a complaint might violate sections (c) and (d), no?

**UPDATE: Someone explained the law to The Smartest Woman Ever:
“A lawyer for Hillary Clinton has finally accepted legal documents in connection with a $50 million defamation lawsuit filed by 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, the Hawaii congresswoman’s lawyer told Fox News on Thursday night.”

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FOR PJMEDIA/TOWNHALL VIP MEMBERS: The Truth About Trump’s Middle East Peace: It’s the Foundation of an Anti-Iran Coalition. “Trump’s ‘Peace to Prosperity’ plan only looks like the latest, doomed-to-fail attempt to end the struggle between the Israelis and the Palestinians. What it really does is lay the foundation of an enlarged (and more cooperative) anti-Iran coalition. That’s why this time, finally, the Arab states are signing on to a peace proposal.”

It’s a brilliant plan, and I have all the details and analysis at the VIP link.

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OR YOU COULD JUST TAKE A BREAK FROM THE HEAVY NEWS: Florida Man Friday: One of Our States Is Missing. “The day may come when Florida Man fails to amuse, but it is not this day.”

IT’S A RIDDLE WRAPPED IN A MYSTERY INSIDE AN ENIGMA; BUT PERHAPS THERE IS A KEY: Lawmakers want to know why people are leaving New York state.

Related: N.Y. Schools Chief Richard Carranza Can’t Quit Calling Parents ‘Racist.’

More: Mounting Presence of Homeless People Recalls Grand Central Station’s Troubled Past.

DELTA, AMERICAN AND UNITED SUSPEND FLIGHTS BETWEEN US, CHINA.

TRUMP’S SUPERPOWER REALLY IS GETTING HIS OPPONENTS TO REVEAL THEIR INNER DUMBASSERY:

ALSO: Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to mockery:

On the flip side, Trump has made politics more fun for the rest of us than it’s been in decades.

It’s all over but the lamentations of the women Democrats, Progressives, and NeverTrumps.

YUK. Man’s intense headaches caused by tapeworm in his brain.

WAS IT OVER WHEN MSNBC BOMBED PEARL HARBOR? MSNBC Pundit: If Acquitted, Trump Will ‘Shut Down Voting’ in California!

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Omar Paid Additional $215,000 From Campaign Coffers to Alleged Boyfriend’s Firm.

LAWS ARE FOR LITTLE PEOPLE: Hilary Edition. As Tyler O’Neil has reported, Clinton has twice refused to accept service of Tulsi Gabbard’s defamation lawsuit, trying to weasel her way out of a legal battle.

The New York Post also reported that:

[Gabbard’s lawyer] said their process server first attempted to effect service at Clinton’s house in Chappaqua on Tuesday afternoon — but was turned away by Secret Service agents. The agents directed the server to Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, who on Wednesday claimed at his Washington, DC, firm, Williams & Connolly, that he was unable to accept service on Clinton’s behalf.”

Here’s the thing. She had her Arkansas law license reinstated last May. But the Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct state that:

Rule 8.4. Misconduct.
It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to: (a) violate or attempt to violate the rules of professional conduct, knowingly assist or induce another to do so, or do so through the acts of another; (b) commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects; (c) engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation; (d) engage in conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice; (e) state or imply an ability to influence improperly a government agency or official; or to achieve results by means that violate the Rules of Professional Conduct or other law; or (f) knowingly assist a judge or judicial officer in conduct that is a violation of applicable rules of judicial conduct or other law.

Seems to me that dodging service of a complaint might violate sections (c) and (d), no?

TWITTER AT ITS WORST: WAPO JOURNALIST CANCELS KOBE BRYANT.

My latest, on Sunday’s train wreck launched by the Washington Post’s Felicia Sonmez, over at Ed Driscoll.com.

(Bumped.)

CHANGE: Development of a novel topical formulation of glyceryl trinitrate for the treatment of erectile dysfunction.

FASTER? PLEASE! Scramjet-Powered Cruise Missile Emerges As New U.S. Priority.

ENDGAME: Murkowski will vote against calling witnesses.

BERNIE SANDERS IN 1972: U.S. Actions in Vietnam ‘Almost as Bad as What Hitler Did.’

To be fair, describing America in Vietnam as “almost as bad as what Hitler did” and George Wallace as “sensitive to what people feel they need” weren’t the craziest things that Sanders believed in 1972. And yet, as this Boston Globe headline from late last year notes, “Bernie Sanders hasn’t changed — and his supporters love that.”

Related: The Unbearable Anguish of a Bernie-Trump Election.

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VERY LITTLE, VERY LATE: Least Liberal 2020 Dem Drops Out in Order to Stop Bernie Sanders in Iowa.

WE NEED NEW ANTIBIOTICS, AND ALTERNATIVES LIKE PHAGES: Strep throat could become untreatable, researchers warn.

EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: Meghan Markle lookalikes cope with lost work post-Megxit.

(Classical reference in headline.)

HMM: Something to potentially watch: Cosmos 2542, a Russian inspection satellite, has recently synchronized its orbit with USA 245, an NRO KH11.

This is a Twitter thread forwarded to me by Charlie Martin, and it’s worth your time.

PREPAREDNESS: We don’t have enough face masks. Too many things run on just-in-time inventory systems. That’s fine when things go well, but not when things are rotten. Systems that are important when things are rotten should have robust stockpiles of necessities.

PROSTATE NEWS: I’m Going Through Treatment for Cancer. This Is How I Still Have Sex.

DON SURBER: Paying The Price For Hating Trump. Some of my lefty Facebook friends were wondering why it is that the Democrats keep doing exactly the thing that helps Trump. I didn’t answer them, but the answer is Twitter. It amplifies the woke white lefty activists, who are neurotic (at best), driven by feelings, and incapable of thinking strategically.

VIDEO: Endless queues emerge as Hong Kongers race to stock up on masks and sanitiser.

#DOOM: Time To Panic? More Chinese Restaurants Handing Out Fortune Cookies That Just Say ‘Death By Coronavirus.’

BREXIT: A Glorious Victory For Democracy.

HOW IT ALL WENT RIGHT: The great Brexit wound has almost healed.

REDRAWING THE MAP: CBS Host on PA Focus Group: If You’re Team Trump, This Is Very Good News for You.

I was writing about the Dems troubles with PA for our PJMedia/Townhall VIP members six weeks ago, but it’s nice to see CBS News catch up to where the puck has been.

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ROGER SIMON: Misuse of Whistleblower Law Created the Impeachment Farce.

BUSTED: Joe Biden Argued Against Witnesses in 1999 Impeachment Trial Memo.

DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS BORIS: A Texas-Size Defeat for the E.U.: Brexit Is Here.

IN THE MAIL: The Laws of Human Nature.

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INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW: Revealed: Rand Paul’s Question That Chief Justice Roberts Refused to Read.

PENNSYLVANIA STAYS RED IF HE’S THE NOMINEE: Sanders introduces bill to ban fracking.

WHY ARE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA STUDENTS SO RACIST? Students at the University of Florida are protesting the presence of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on campus.

BOOKMARKED FOR JANUARY, 2030: We have only a decade to save Earth’s biodiversity: that’s why all of us should care.

NOSE, MEET FACE: Some law students don’t want to clerk for Trump’s judges. Conservatives are reaping the benefits. Plenty of smart, capable students from top-notch state law school Federalist Society chapters. This should help offset the judiciary’s class bias.

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SOHRAB AMARI: Two losses for transatlantic twits: Brexit finally happens, impeachment collapses. “How much punishment must liberal elites on both sides of the Atlantic endure before they learn not to try to undo the will of voters? That such trickery only invites fiercer and more decisive popular backlashes?” I dunno, but keep the punishment coming until they’ve learned their lesson well.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: On a Scale of Mao to Stalin, How Bad Would President Bernie Be? “What’s most disturbing is Sanders’ dismissiveness of the Legislative Branch. It’s as if he wants it gone entirely, which is not unusual for those leaning to the commie side of things.”

SECURING THE LZ: U.S. Marines provide security for UH-1Y Venom helicopters during an exercise on San Clemente Island, Calif. Photo taken January 15.

WOW: Cayman Earthquake Was One Of Biggest In Caribbean History.

PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS “FOUR YEARS TO SAVE EARTH:” Climate doomsayers keep putting sell-by dates on their credibility.

(Classical reference in headline.)

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WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Twitter users can now report election misinformation tweets.

Bots and spammers will abuse the hell out of this “feature.”

SMART DIPLOMACY: Twenty-three nations embrace Trump peace plan, 7 in Middle East.

THE HILL: Senators expected to acquit Trump; witness push falls short.

JOHN MCWHORTER: The 1619 Project Depicts an America Tainted by Original Sin. In this worldview, redemption for the founding seems impossible.

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NIGHTMARE IN PARADISE: Coming soon to your town, too!

WE’RE PREPARED, BUT STILL HOPING FOR THE BEST: U.S. warned to prepare for worst on coronavirus.

THERE’S A LIFE LESSON IN SUNDAY’S SUPER BOWL: When the final gun sounds on the 49ers and Chiefs in the Super Bowl, there will be no doubt about the outcome. That’s because the purpose of the game for each team was clear at the kickoff – score more points than the other guys. Frank Turek sees a valuable life lesson in that simple fact.

BTW, since my Houston Texans didn’t quite make it to the big show, the Chiefs are my favorite, but I have a strong feeling the Patriots are going to be wishing they had kept Jimmy Garoppolo as Tom Brady’s backup. Is there a life lesson in that for the Pats?

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Coronavirus deaths spiral as U.S., others warn against travel to China.

Plus, Health Experts: Human-to-Human Spread of New Virus Worrying. “World health officials expressed “great concern” that a dangerous new virus is starting to spread between people outside of China, a troubling development as China and the world frantically work to contain the outbreak.”

Also: Singapore Will Bar Entries From China.

And: How Bad Will the Coronavirus Outbreak Get? Here Are 6 Key Factors.

More: Myanmar turns back China Southern flight over coronavirus fears.

Plus: To mask or not to mask: confusion spreads over coronavirus protection.

LOOK TO AFGHANISTAN FOR IRAN’S NEXT MOVE AGAINST U.S.: That’s the suggestion from Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the U.S. top commander for the Middle East. Makes sense, as Iran could then take “credit” for the U.S. withdrawal that seems imminent.

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MOVE THE OVERTON WINDOW: GOP Rep. Pushes to Lower Handgun Purchase Age to 18.

MITT ROMNEY, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Utah lawmaker files bill to allow recall of sitting U.S. senator.

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: Top 8 Reasons Trump Already Won Impeachment.

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HEH: TN lawmaker introduces resolution recognizing CNN, Washington Post as ‘fake news.’

The beauty is, this is like what the left does: It doesn’t even matter if it passes, or even gets voted on. The point is to generate the headlines. Republicans seem to be learning how to play this game.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK: IF YOU CAN’T MAKE BAIL THERE, NO PROBLEM: Suspects accused of running $7M fentanyl ring released without bail.

Flashback: Unexpectedly! Bail ‘Reform’ Turns Into a Bonanza for Repeat Offenders.

BORIS BYPASSES THE BEEB: Boris Johnson Cuts Out Mainstream Media, Will Address Nation via Social Media for Brexit Day.

LAMAR! Key GOP Senator Announces Impeachment Witness Vote. Game Over?

Related: RINO Senator Susan Collins Announces She’ll Vote in Favor of Calling Witnesses.

AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD: Elizabeth Warren Vows National Manhunt To Find All The Writers Of The Babylon Bee.

IN THE MAIL: The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It).

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Read His Letter: Joe Biden Argued Against Impeachment Witnesses In 1999.

BREAKING: Key GOP Senator Announces Impeachment Witness Vote. Game Over?

DOMESTIC TERRORISM:

Good luck with that. The Greens who tried this in London got beaten. New Yorkers will probably toss them on the tracks ahead of an oncoming train.

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SHOCKER: Today I Learned That Not Everyone Has An Internal Monologue And It Has Ruined My Day.

RUTHIE BLUM: Trump’s game-changing speech of the century. “In a complete about-face from Obama – who made good on his campaign promise to woo the Islamic world and delivered a pandering address at Cairo University to a Muslim Brotherhood-heavy audience – ‘The Donald’ went to Israel. This turned out to be more than symbolic, as Trump proceeded to undertake a series of unprecedented moves that served what he saw, rightly, as mutually beneficial to America and Israel, and healthy for the world at large. . . . To describe this as a breath of fresh air following eight years of the polluted atmosphere created by the Obama administration would be a gross understatement.”

Side with civilization against the barbarians. This shouldn’t be hard, but for much of our political class — and even more of Europe’s — it goes against the grain.

Plus: “For the first time in his career, Abbas’s tantrums didn’t work. Team Trump responded to his snub by shrugging and treating him like the tiny fish in the miniature pond he actually is.”

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I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: NASA: Earth-Crossing Asteroid That Could Explode Mid-Air To Approach Tomorrow. But — spoiler — it’s not going to hit the Earth tomorrow. “According to CNEOS, 2020 BZ4 is not in danger of hitting Earth during its upcoming visit. This asteroid is expected to cross Earth’s path on Jan. 31 at 9:48 a.m. EST. During this time, the asteroid will be about 0.01452 astronomical units away from the planet’s center, which is equivalent to around 1.3 million miles. Its next near-Earth intersection is expected to happen on Jan. 13, 2021.”

OPEN THREAD: Make it march, we’re minus on minutes.

JIM TREACHER: CNN Calls Out U.S. Coronavirus Task Force for… Lack of Diversity? “Look, if it weren’t for the Wright Brothers, a couple of white guys, that virus would still be stuck all the way over in China. White people got us into this mess, and now we’re supposed to trust them to get us out of it?”

THIS IS WORSE, AND CHINA IS MORE FRAGILE TODAY: Why China can’t recover quickly from the coronavirus outbreak like it did with SARS.

BREAKING: UN SAYS CORONAVIRUS IS NOW A ‘GLOBAL EMERGENCY.’

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Bigelow Aerospace sets sights on free-flying station after passing on ISS commercial module.

IMPEACHMENT IN A NUTSHELL.

UPDATE: Heh.

EZRA LEVANT TELLS THEM TO STUFF IT (Video).

WHY ARE DEMOCRATS SO EAGER TO WRECK THE GLOBAL ECONOMY? Or: Putin Puppet, Unmasked: Elizabeth Warren’s Fracking Ban Would Harm the Environment.

As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:

If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:

Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.

“Yep,” Glenn added in December. “You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats.”

After the Democratic presidential candidates’ apocalyptic-themed “climate change” town hall on CNN in September, Bryan Preston wrote, “If you like Venezuela, voting for any of them will bring you a whole lot of Venezuela. Thank you, CNN, just for letting these people talk. Do it again next week? Please?”

UPDATE: Bernie Sanders introduces bill to ban fracking.

FORGET IT, SHE’S ROLLING: Pelosi Says Trump Can’t Be Acquitted Because the Senate Trial Isn’t a Trial, or Something.

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: Top 8 Reasons Trump Already Won Impeachment.

CHANGE: Feds Back Off Jailing Michael Flynn After Stunning New Evidence That Gov’t ‘Lied’ and ‘Framed’ Him.

I THOUGHT WE WERE PRETTY SURE ABOUT THIS: Whether we can contain coronavirus depends on whether it’s communicable before symptoms appear.

Related: Pilots Union Files Suit to Halt American Airlines Flights to China Amid Coronavirus Outbreak.

Also: Nigeria to Quarantine Chinese Returnees. Nigeria’s infectious-control disease game is strong. They did very well containing Ebola.

Plus: Passenger being screened for coronavirus quarantined after trying to leave military base, health officials say.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: We Made Pizza. We Made Robots. Why Not Robot Pizza?

ADAM SCHIFF THROWS TEMPER TANTRUM ABOUT HIS STAFF GETTING ‘SMEARED’ BY REPORTS ON THE ‘WHISTLEBLOWER.’

BERNIE SANDERS PRAISED GEORGE WALLACE AS ‘SENSITIVE’ IN 1972:

Seven years after Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to George Wallace as “perhaps the most dangerous racist in America today,” a young Bernie Sanders praised the segregationist Alabama governor.

In an interview with the Brattleboro Reformer in 1972, Sanders, then 31, said Wallace “advocates some outrageous approaches to our problems, but at least he is sensitive to what people feel they need.”

Sanders, now a Vermont senator and 2020 Democrat, said, “What we need are more active politicians working for the people.”

The 1972 remarks surprised the interviewer at the time, who wrote that “even though [Sanders] has been labeled a ‘leftist radical’ by some persons, Sanders had some praise for [Wallace].”

To be fair, describing Wallace as “sensitive to what people feel they need” wasn’t the craziest thing that Sanders believed in 1972. And yet, as this Boston Globe headline from late last year notes, “Bernie Sanders hasn’t changed — and his supporters love that.”

Related: The Unbearable Anguish of a Bernie-Trump Election.

VIA THE MAGIC OF FACEBOOK MEMORIES, a recipe from the late, lamented Karl Bock, better known in the blogosphere as “Chef Mojo.”

Bock Stew

3 pounds of beef chuck, cut into 1 inch cubes
¼ cup of vegetable oil
4 large, sweet onions, chopped
6-8 cloves of garlic, crushed & minced
1 stick of butter cut in half
¼ cup of flour
1 14 oz. can of small dice tomatoes
1 pound crimini mushrooms, quartered
1 T. sweet paprika
2 t. salt
2 t. fresh ground black pepper
1 t. dry thyme leaf
1 t. ancho chili powder
½ t. rubbed sage
2 bay leaves
3 12 oz. bottles of good quality beer

Pat the beef cubes dry with paper towels.

In a large dutch oven over medium high heat, brown the beef in batches with the vegetable oil. Get some good color on those cubes. Set the browned beef aside and pour out any oil in the pot.

Add half a stick of butter, the onions and garlic and reduce the heat to low. Scrape up the glaze as the onions sweat, and keep cooking until the onions are nice and caramelized. Should take around 20 to 30 minutes.

In another small pan over medium heat, melt the remaining butter, and when is starts to bubble, add the flour and whisk it in. Reduce heat to low and cook the roux until it turns a nice butternut brown. This should take about 30 minutes.

When the roux is finished, add it to the dutch oven. Return the beef and its juices to the dutch oven and add the mushrooms, herbs and spices. Stir all the ingredients together.

Slowly add the beer, stirring it in.

Preheat oven to 350°.

Turn up the heat to medium high and bring the pot to a boil while stirring. Reduce heat to a simmer. When the oven is ready, cover the dutch oven and put it in the oven for 2 hours.

Take the dutch oven out of the oven and put it back on a burner. Over medium low heat, reduce the liquid until it’s a nice sauce like consistency.

Serves 8 to 10 people.

This recipe pretty much screams for mashed potatoes, but I also like it with roasted potatoes. I’ve also added flat dumplings to the stew to great effect.

A note on the beer:

Use the same sort of beer you like to drink. This recipe works best with lagers and lighter ales. My favorite beer to use in this recipe is Shiner Bock, hence the recipe name. But use what you like with a mind to good quality beer.

And while we’re at it, here’s my recipe for Lamb and Guinness Stew.

And don’t forget the Insta-Chicken.

And it’s not my recipe, but this slow cooker salsa chicken is good on a cold night.

ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE: How To Bias Education Reporting. “Choice Media’s Bob Bowdon tells reporters how to infuse bias into their education reporting. For example, an inner-city charter school’s test data should be compared to state average, rather than to nearby district schools with similar students, he advises. Most readers won’t realize that state averages include more educated, affluent families, or that urban parents are evaluating local options. To make a state’s charter sector look bad, lump together schools that serve at-risk students with schools with mainstream students, Bowdon writes.”