The media’s blindness to Bernie’s socialist extremism is telling.

Remember, people on the right are “crazed” and “full of hate.” People on the left are “idealistic” and “full of passion.”

Ex-NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer being investigated for assaulting woman.

Curiously, at least in the initial version of the Daily News’ article, Spitzer’s party goes “unexpectedly” unmentioned.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Voters: Media Bias Worse Than Big Money in Politics.

Well, as Prof. Tim Groseclose’s research has found, without the influence of media bias, American politics overall would look like Texas or Kentucky politics. This is every bit as much an exercise of unearned political power as any political contribution.

ELIJAH CUMMINGS TRIES TO FLY COVER FOR THE IRS, JIM JORDAN SHOOTS HIM DOWN:

“The problem now is that our committee is in a mindset where we are just trying to get the IRS,” Cummings said.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio.), chairman of the Oversight subcommittee on administrative rules, fired back.

“We’re not trying to get the IRS. The IRS was trying to get conservative Americans who were exercising their First Amendment, free speech right,” he said. “Twenty-three hearings is a pretty small price to pay when you’re trying to protect fundamental liberties in the Constitution, for goodness sake.”

Jordan said the hearings are warranted because the IRS has engaged in a pattern of destroying records and documents.

If they did nothing wrong, why are so many hard drives “mysteriously” crashing and disappearing?

SHIKHA DALMIA: What To Do About Flint? Evacuate The Residents And Turn it Into a Landfill for Liberal Good Intentions; Liberals simply won’t quit blaming privatization for the government-made disaster. Well, it’s not like they can blame unaccountable public employees. That would threaten the whole feedlot.

LET THEM DRINK PERRIER: Emails: Despite knowing of lead in water, EPA planned to let Flint keep drinking it into 2016.

Man in the High Castle: FINALLY: NEW LEFT-WING CULT GETS ITS OWN WEIRDLY SINISTER ICONOGRAPHY. Allahpundit has further thoughts on Shepard Fairey’s creepy Bernie Sanders logo. As Allah writes, “the design is actually a terrible representation of his candidacy, precisely because it’s so cold and graphically stark:”

In a long tradition of Donk Candidate brothers: BERNIE’S BROTHER: MEDIA CAN’T DECIDE IF CLINTON IS ‘TERRIBLE RAPIST’ OR ‘NICE RAPIST.’

Hillary Clinton: Citizens United Is Tragic for America Because It Allowed People to Criticize Me  I.m coverig this in my OGT tutoring this month and I always point out that had CU gone the oter way the government could burn books and movies that said bad things about it.  Shaping the electorate one or two you test-failing mind at a time.

BUILDING A BRIDGE TO 1995: Hillary Reaches Base With AOL Login Page Ad.

Earlier: Hillary Clinton Puzzled by the Phrase ‘Went Viral,’ and “Like with a cloth or something?”

If Hillary had an (R) after her name, these gaffes would be framed as her supermarket scanner moment, or her inability to use email. (If only.) We’ll know the media is as serious as they were in 2008 about taking her out when they start painting her as out of touch. Or as Stephen

In the meantime, as John Nolte of Big Hollywood likes to say, “Democrats sure got it good.”

WATERGATE’S CARL BERNSTEIN ON HILLARY: “The vast right-wing conspiracy didn’t put the server in her damn closet. She’s going to have to get by this thing, and she’s going to have to acknowledge a terrible misjudgment it seems to be here.”

Related: Spillage: Up to 30 accounts on Hillary server interacted with top-secret data.

More: “When Hillary accidentally hits Reply All, she doesn’t muck around.”

 GO WATCH NOW:  DAMN IT FEELS GOOD TO BE A CLINTON! [embed width=400]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FECIYlo3KRY[…

Lisa Jackson, the former Environmental Protection Agency administrator who was caught using an email account under the pseudonym ‘Richard Windsor,’ sits on the board of the Clinton Foundation, the charity of Hillary Clinton, of HDR22@clintonemail.com fame.”

First, a change in procedure.  Dropped Rotten Tomatoe movies from the list.  It was weird.  There was stuff in their top ten that just isn't top ten material.  Hard Days Night.  interesting Beatles flick but just no.  in no world is it a top ten movie of all time.  So I've reduced my number of movies a bit but we'll still be re-watchig some damned good stuff.

We're also continuing our slog through the Star Wars series.  It's February so we get Attack of the Clones.  I had it at #1200 or so.  Rewatched and rerated.  it's now 5437 on my list.  25 out of 100.  Flickchart users give it a 2315. 

From IMDB:

It goes from high speed, high altitude car chases, to boring, forced angst by the fireplace. To say that Christensen and Portman have no chemistry is to say that the Middle East might be facing some political problems. Their romance is about as believable as grass growing on the moon. Maybe they could have done better if the script hadn't been written with crayons.

I thought these prequels were about Anakin's spiral downward from the path of balance into the Darkside. Is that ever going to happen or are we going to be forced to watch a third episode of video game previews for the Game Cube? We were given a lackluster hint with the slaughter of the Sand People but that barely cuts it. It wasn't even shown, thereby castrating the power of the scene. We just have to hear Anakin whine about it for about three seconds. Usually, when someone butchers a whole village of men, women, and children there's a whole lot more soul searching going on afterward. Of course, Lucas goes the pansy route and glosses over the whole thing. Most people I've talked to didn't even remember the scene until it was brought up to them.

I'm probably one of the few people completely disgusted witht the Yoda fight at the end with the unimpressive Darth Sarumon (Lee plays the exact same character in LOTR: former wizard turned evil lackey=former jedi turned evil lackey). It's almost as if instead of a hand being up Yoda's posterior they've inserted a heroin suppository. Lucas has, in a brief half-minute, meaningless fight scene, destroyed the mystery of Yoda. The entire fight was unwarranted. If Yoda can raise ships from swamps and hold big chunks of pillar in the air, why can't he just pick up Count Poopoo and bang him against the wall a few times, soften him up a little, so to speak. Why? Because Lucas has toys he must abuse, that's why.  (I agree here a TON.  These should've been three dimensional battles but were largely fought with two dimenstionalS&t)

There were far too many real world references, as well. Death sticks=cigarettes. Lame. Fifties diner in a galaxy far, far away, complete with sassy robo-waitress. Lame. This is supposed to be far removed from our world in the aforementioned galaxy far away. All I missed was the Fonz.  It might have been an improvement.

I REMEMBER WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO SAID THIS WERE RACIST XENOPHOBES: Secretary Of State Kerry: Migrant Wave Poses “ Existential Threat” To Europe.

I've ranted on the basis of this one before:DONALD TRUMP IS SO DUMB HE DOESN’T KNOW WMD WERE FOUND IN IRAQ.

Got to use this one in a discussion with a LWW earlier this week: OUCH: Hillary and Bernie both complain about excessive CEO pay, but the average CEO makes less in a year than Hillary’s speaking fee for an hour. 

When Starbucks meets Sharia:

A person attempting to be a Starbucks customer was waylaid by the 6th century. Thinking she would get her java at the Riyadh Starbucks, instead she received some tall extra-fat Sharia and encountered a sign which she promptly tweeted. Outside the coffee shop was a notice that read in English and Arabic, “Please no entry for ladies only send your driver to order thank you.”

Read the whole thing — and file it away for the next time Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz dares to hector his customers on race and diversity.

Haven't done a "Violence From the Left" lately, maybe I need to bring it back: Purdue staffer resigns after allegedly threatening to rape pro-lifers.

ERIK WEMPLE ON HILLARY AND HER PRESS SYCOPHANTS: Corrupt journalism doesn’t pay. Nor does abetting it. And he names Marc Ambinder in the first sentence.

GRANDMA STILL LEARNING HER WAY AROUND STRANGE NEW TECHNOLOGY CALLED THE INTERNET: Hillary Clinton Puzzled by the Phrase ‘Went Viral.’

“You went viral?” Mrs. Clinton said to the man’s friend. “That sounds like some kind of disease.”

Earlier: “Like with a cloth or something?”

 ‘Worth a thousand words’: One ‘disgraceful’ photo sums up Hillary perfectly. Bill Ayers approved!

AND IN THE LAND THAT BROUGHT YOU DIXVILLE NOTCH, TO BOOT: The Spirit of Dick Tuck Lives! 

Scientist Ruthlessly Debunks One Of NOAA’s Central Climate Claims.  And oh, yeah, this: First Ever Snowfall on Okinawa Island, Japan.  (Video)

Climate Models Are NOT Simulating Earth’s Climate – Part 1

Initialization practices disqualify UN IPCC global circulation models from use for most climate change forecast purposes

Record Missouri flooding was manmade calamity, not climate change, scientist says

I'm tutoring for the OGT Social Studies section so I'm covering the Econ section.  Don't know what's worse - what The State expects the kids to know or what they DO know.

CHART OF THE DAY: Don’t Tell Bernie, But Capitalism Has Made Human Life Fantastically Better:

The Right Kind of Class Warfare: Workers vs. Looters.

finally:  The WaPo is today reporting a study by the California Legislative Analyst Office (LAO) that reports the apparently astonishing fact that increasing the supply of a good tends to lower its price.Who knew!??!

WELL, HE DID HONEYMOON IN THE USSR: Bernie Sanders’ hellish health-care ‘paradise’.

BERNIE, I THINK YOU NEED TO GO ON A FACT-FINDING TOUR OF FALLUJAH: Sanders: if we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Flint.  Also:  We didn't DESTROY Fallujah.  We DID screw up Flint!