Byron York: 25th Amendment chatter: Dems, pundits mull ways to remove Trump.  If you want to see a civil war, just keep it up with these plans to “get rid of” Trump. That our “ruling class” continues to indulge in these despite the obvious danger demonstrates more than anything else that it is unfit to rule.

I’VE ALWAYS SAID THIS: Terrific Idea.  And with more of THIS there'd be less of the above.

Remember when I mentioned this a few days ago?  GOP Leaps on Congressional Review Act to Kill Obama Rules: Little-used law now wielded to tremendous effect, but could see legal challenges.

OH, I THINK THEY JUST PULLED AHEAD OF HER ON THAT FRONT: Law professors seek to have Kellyanne Conway disbarred for bringing “shame upon the legal profession.”

Here’s the actual letter, complete with the names of the law professors who have disgraced themselves. But if you want to establish a rule like this for all lawyers in the public eye, well, enjoy it. Sauce for the goose, and all that.

THE TRUMPOCALYPSE BEGINS: Virginia brewery releases Oreo flavored beer.

BLAME DANA LOESCH: Americans Are Eating So Much Bacon That Reserves Are at a 50-Year Low.

WAIT, AZTECS ATE AT CHIPOTLE? New Evidence Links the Collapse of Aztec Society to a Deadly Salmonella Outbreak.

Iceland’s president wants to ban pineapple on pizza.

Perhaps President Gudni Johannesson should focus on more serious issues, like putting a stop to Chicago-style so-called “pizza.”

He has since apologized for the over-reach.And somewhere I heard about Peeps flavored Oreos but I have NO confirmation so it might be fake news.

DAVID HARSANYI: Democrats are more likely to believe the Russians installed Donald Trump into the presidency than Republicans are to have ever believed Barack Obama was a Muslim.

Who fact-checks the fact-checkers?  From a New York Times article:

(Another end-of-year fact-check, while we’re at it: Mr. Trump claimed during the campaign that the homicide rate in his new home in Washington rose by 50 percent. In fact, it fell by 17 percent in 2016.)

Then-candidate Trump said, in July 2016:

Homicides last year increased by 17% in America’s fifty largest cities. That’s the largest increase in 25 years. In our nation’s capital, killings have risen by 50 percent.

“Last year” as of July 2016 — 2015 — homicides in D.C. did rise by 54 percent, from 105 in 2014 to 162 in 2015. They then fell in 2016 to 135, which is to say they were down 17 percent from 2015, but up 28 percent from 2014.

So, really, Trump correctly stated (not just “claimed”) that the homicide rate in D.C. rose by 50 percent from 2014 to 2015. “In fact,” it did rise by that much. But some of that decline turns out to have gotten reversed in 2016, so that the homicide rate in D.C. rose by only 28 percent from 2014 to 2016.

WHEN IT BECAME POLITICALLY INCONVENIENT FOR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Why Did the Bureau of Justice Statistics Stop Publishing the Data on Interracial Crime?

 FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Number Of Americans Renouncing Their U.S. Citizenship Hit All-Time High In 2016 (Up 26% From 2015). Will President Trump Make American Citizenship Great Again?

It’s as if the paleface speaks with a forked tongue or something.

Teacher have outsourced grading at two Michigan public schools that are “teacher-powered,” reports Education Week Teacher.

“Letting great educators open up schools is much more cost effective than increasing spending by billions of dollars,” argues Neerav Kingsland in More Money or More Charter Schools? in Education Next.

Milwaukee’s school voucher program will save taxpayers half a billion dollars in the long term, writes Jason Crye, executive director of Hispanics for School Choice.

Teacher Melts Down in Front of Class, Walks Out—Then Tries to Get Job Back.

AND: Chicago High School Pushes Left-Wing Racist Seminar Despite Parents’ Concerns.

Parents need to remember their position in big city public education, which is to pay their taxes and shut up.

Barack Obama’s Press Freedom Legacy. “As journalists often note, the Obama administration has prosecuted more leakers under the 1917 Espionage Act than all former presidents combined.”

Is James O’Keefe About To Smoke CNN? Tells Hannity He’s Set To Release “Hundreds of Hours” Of Newsroom Footage “Wikileaks Style.” Why should journalists be immune from investigative journalism?

Well, when you have people like Mika Brzezinski saying that it’s “our job” to “control what people think,” a little transparency is in order.

Related: MTV News reporter admits joining anti-Trump protests.

And, just to be clear, neither is the Leftovers ... InstaPundit Is Not A News Service.

Shot: “I hope that New Yorkers can be as open-minded and accepting of my new status as a conservative man as they’ve been about my sexual orientation.”

—“I’m a gay New Yorker — and I’m coming out as a conservative,” Chadwick Moore, the New York Post, Saturday.

Chaser: “21 percent of L.G.B.T. people are or lean Republican. What are they thinking?”

—The New York Times, Saturday.

I’M SURE THE PRESS WILL DEMAND THAT HE DISAVOW THIS ENDORSEMENT IMMEDIATELY, RIGHT? David Duke Endorses Keith Ellison For DNC Chair.

THIS IS WHY THEY THOUGHT THE TEA PARTY WAS ASTROTURF. BECAUSE THAT’S HOW THEY OPERATE. ‘Indivisible,’ With Ties to George Soros, Sows Division Against Trump, GOP Lawmakers. “Democrats who used to work on Capitol Hill are helping to disrupt Republican lawmakers’ town hall meetings across the country through a nationwide effort to oppose and ‘resist’ President Donald Trump’s agenda.”

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER: Neil Gorsuch Needs 60 Votes.

FLASHBACK:

They don’t call it “the Reid Option” for nothin’.

But they MEAN well:  GRANDSTANDING AHOY! HP Pressures Law Firms To Engage in Discrimination.

KAROL MARKOWICZ: Lefties keep showing off their civic ignorance.

Last week, cable news personality Sally Kohn tweeted what she called a “straightforward” plan that would eject Donald Trump and install Hillary Clinton into the presidency: “1. Impeach Trump Pence; 2. Constitutional crisis; 3. Call special election; 4. Ryan v Clinton; 5. President Clinton.”

Anyone with middle-school knowledge of the presidential chain of command should know that impeaching both Trump and his vice president would not, actually, lead to a “constitutional crisis” or a “special election.” It would lead directly, do not pass go, do not collect $200, to President Paul Ryan. Whom Clinton would be welcome to challenge in the next election.

Kohn is far from alone in broadcasting her ignorance of the political process. Our so-called “elite” seems to be in desperate need of a remedial civics class.

My head hurts.  So does my stomach.

GF:  "Once you abolish the DoEducation, THAN what?"

Me:  "Put it back in the Dept. of Human Services"

GF:  "THEN what ?  Let poor inner-city kids fail?"

Me:  "Um.... no.  But since we've been doing the same thing for the last 30 years, and it's PRODUCED those failing inner-city schools, how 'bout we try something different?"

GF:  "Like what?"

Me:  "You tell ME?  What do YOU want to try that isn't more of the same?

GF:  "You don't care.  At least I'm fighting."

Me:  "Fighting who, for what, how?  Near as I can tell you have NO ideas.    You just want to fight.  So fight. And when you 'win', whatever that means, what will YOU do next that's different from the last 30 years AND saves those innercity kids?"

Tears.  And exeunt.

 and fwiw this is our 5000th post!

ALVEDA KING: Why didn’t Sen. Warren read the letter when my aunt Coretta said immigration would be bad for the African-American job market?

CLEANSING: More Coptic Christians Murdered the Past Two Months Than Admitted as Refugees During Obama’s Presidency.

TOP CALIFORNIA DEM: ‘Half of My Family’ Could be Deported by Trump Order.

Lawmakers and their families don’t have to follow the laws, right?

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: Headteacher is forced to work from home following death threats from Muslim parents over her ‘offensive clothes’ amid fears there is a ‘Trojan Horse’ plot to ‘Islamicise’ the school.

IF THEY’D DONE THIS UNDER OBAMA IT WOULD HAVE BEEN RACIST AND THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN HITLER: Report: 180 Federal Employees Sign Up for Workshop on Civil Disobedience.

DIDN’T HILLARY HAVE ONE OF THESE? Schumer vows ‘Democratic firewall’ to protect banking regulations.

INEQUALITY UNDER THE LAW: 10 Thoughts Under my Fedora Sanctuary Cities, Sanctuary Clubs, Sanctuary Statehouses et/all.

MICHAEL WALSH: Obama Bureaucrats Disconsolate Over Regulation Repeal.

I can’t seem to find my sad face.

AS STIMULUS CHIEF JOE BIDEN SAID, “CORRUPTION IS JUST ANOTHER FORM OF TYRANNY.” Obama Stimulus Funds Went to California Dam in ‘Good Shape,’ But Not Oroville.  We have far more government than we need, but a hell of a lot less than we pay for.