It’s Monday, October 28th, 2019…but before we begin, this story by one Robert Gearty at FOX got us thinking:

Feminist author Naomi Wolf’s new book canceled after accuracy questioned

“Feminist Naomi Wolf’s new book has been canceled by its U.S. publisher after questions of accuracy were raised in Great Britain. (Months ago!) Wolf’s dispute with Houghton Mifflin arose after the book “Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love” was published in the U.K. and a BBC interviewer in May challenged her research (see video above.) on sodomy executions in Victorian Britain, according to reports. (What does the writer mean, “according to reports”; as the Tucker segment above proves, there’s irrefutable video evidence of it!) The book delves (inaccurately delves!) into the persecution of homosexuality during that era.

…Wolf has acknowledged some errors in the book but contended they were fixable…

…The AP reported that publishers rarely fact-check books, citing time and expense.

Wolf…has had her scholarship challenged before. In “The Beauty Myth,” she wrote that anorexia caused the deaths of 150,000 women a year, a number widely regarded as inflated.“

Again, not simply “inflated”, but GROSSLY inflated.

Which, given the season…as well as the term “gross”…got us thinking about Hilly and Willy and Barry and Biden…Clapper and Comey and Kerry and Brennan…along with every other hypocritical Progressive (ad nauseam, ad infinitum) who’s ever made a dishonest buck foisting a fiction-filled fable upon a clueless public.

Far be it from the AP to get a story right, but Hells bells, forget the time and expense; had they been fact-checked, none of the aforementioned works of fiction would ever have been published! 

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, the WSJ‘s Kim Strassel compels us to…

Behold the Lord High Impeacher

The failure to vote on an inquiry allows Schiff to make up the rules as he goes along.

“Rep. Elise Stefanik was informed this week by Republican House Intelligence Committee staffers of a new diktat from Chairman Adam Schiff. It made the New York Republican’s jaw drop.

Democrats had informed Republicans that, from here on out, the committee would produce a single, printed transcript of every interview it conducted as part of its impeachment inquiry. Only members of the three committees involved in the purported inquiry would be allowed to view that printout, and only in the presence of a Democratic staffer. Ms. Stefanik—an elected member of Congress who sits on the Intelligence Committee—will be babysat while reading by an unelected employee of the Democrats. (It’s not like she’s reading the original Steele Dossier!)

“It’s outrageous, and it’s an abuse of power,” Ms. Stefanik said in an interview. “Every constituent across this country deserves to have their members have access to all the facts.”

Welcome to impeachment, Schiff-style. Democrats keep their witnesses locked behind secure doors, then flood the press with carefully sculpted leaks and accusations, driving the Trump-corruption narrative. (With the willing participation of a pliant Press!) And so the party goes, galloping toward an impeachment vote that would overturn the will of the American voters—on a case built in secret.

Conservative commentators keep noting that Mrs. Pelosi’s refusal to hold a vote on the House floor to authorize an official impeachment inquiry helps her caucus’s vulnerable members evade accountability. But there’s a more practical and uglier reason for Democrats to skip the formalities. Normally an authorization vote would be followed by official rules on how the inquiry would proceed. Under today’s process, Mr. Schiff gets to make up the rules as he goes along. Behold the Lord High Impeacher.

Democrats view control over the narrative as essential, having learned from their Russia-collusion escapade the perils of transparency. They banked on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation proving impeachment fodder, but got truth-bombed. Their subsequent open hearings on the subject—featuring Michael Cohen, Mr. Mueller and Corey Lewandowski —were, for the Democrats, embarrassing spectacles, at which Republicans punched gaping holes in their story line.

Mr. Schiff is making sure that doesn’t happen again…

…Mr. Schiff has intimated he will eventually make some things public. But Democrats’ barring of Republicans and the White House from this “fact finding” stage ensures what is presented later will be a one-sided narrative. How could any senator vote to convict based on such a rigged proceeding?…”

And she uses the term “Mr.” in front of Schiff’s name loosely…in the same vein as a loose stool.

Next up, writing at NRO, Matthew Continetti records how short the journey was for Chicago’s new mayor as she traveled…

“‘The fact is there is no more money. Period,’ says Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot.

She’s talking about the teachers’ strike that has paralyzed her city’s public schools — enrollment 360,000 — for the past week. The public employee union is demanding more: more money for salaries (only eight states pay teachers more than Illinois), more support staff(Illinois ranks first in spending on administrators), more teachers per student. Their cause has attracted national attention. Elizabeth Warren joined the picket line.

Which is ironic. Lightfoot is not some stingy Republican. Nor is she a centrist Democrat like her predecessor Rahm Emanuel. She’s as progressive as you can get. But she now finds herself in the same position as many of her political brethren: facing criticism for failing to reconcile the contradictions in the left’s agenda.

Lightfoot has discovered that there is no limit to the appetite of the constituencies generated by government spending. She has learned that the special interests bargaining for higher benefits also desire policies that make such benefits unattainable. I hope she’s taking notes...”

This is the very embodiment of what no one has ever said better than Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady, a woman of truly prodigious wisdom and intellect, as well as her predecessor, Winston Churchill, one of our personal heroes, flawed though he was:

In other words:

And if you wondered why the passing of John Conyers was not greeted with the same adulation as the equally-crooked Elijah Cummings, this explains it:

Though his history of sexual predation and rampant corruption didn’t prevent Rashida Tlaib from singing his praises:

One thing can at least be said of contemporary Progressives: they recognize the principle purportedly pronounced by another of our heroes, Benjamin Franklin:

Though we’ve no idea whatsoever what a sandy, Caribbean beach has to do with a statement Franklin would have made in Philadelphia.

In an update on a story we recently read regarding a crazed Lone Star State pediatrician looking to force one of her twin sons to undergo sex-transfer procedures, courtesy of Ed Harvey, Breitbart provides this rather conclusive video:

James Younger at 3 Years: ‘Mommy Tells Me I’m a Girl’

We’re only half-kidding when we suggest this woman deserves the William Wallace Special: she should be hanged, drawn, quartered and her head displayed on a pike to dissuade anyone else contemplating similar acts of evil against a child.

Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:

Then there’s these four unconnected comics from Ed Hickey…

…along with these from Balls Cotton:

Though had Snoopy made such an unwanted sexual advance in these politically-correct, woke times, he likely either have been neutered or put down…or both!

Finally, as we’d like to catch a bit of Game 5 of the Series(or, as we predicted following the Nats’ bats going silent Game 3, Houston going up 3-2 on their way to joining the ’85 Royals, ’86 Mets and ’96 Yankees as only the 4th team in World Series history to comeback from a 0-2 deficit), we’ll call it a day with a two-part (you can access Part 1 and Part 2 here) lengthy-but-well-worth-your-time offering on the nuts and bolts of the Ukraine “scandal from NRO’s Andy McCarthy.

WeI’ll close by saying, “Go Nats”, but, we don’t think they’re going anywhere but back home Tuesday night.

Magoo