Friday morning roundup

Not much time to delve into any of these developments substantively right now, but their sum total has the effect of - well, making one want to crawl back into bed.

The Most Equal Comrade says that the UK and France are mainly to blame for Libya becoming a failed state - and for his own backing off from the chemical-weapons red line he set for Syria's Assad regime. Yessir, that's some deft handling of the Special Relationship right there.

David French at NRO has been as fierce and valiant as anybody in exposing Squirrel-Hair's true nature, so it's rather bracing to read his conclusion that last night's debate only moved the needle insofar as it increased the likelihood that S-H gets the nomination by yet another increment.

This item is going to have legs:

A former aide to Russian President Vladi­mir Putin who was found dead in a Dupont Circle hotel room in November died of blunt force trauma to the head, the D.C. medical examiner’s office said Thursday.

Mikhail Lesin, 59, also suffered injuries to his neck, torso and upper and lower extremities, the medical examiner said in a statement. The medical examiner had not concluded whether the injuries were the result of a crime, an accident or some other means.

Breitbart gets accused a lot of being in the tank for Squirrel-Hair and a glance at any day's stories there provide ample substantiation for the charge (although it has its outspoken anti-S-H figures as well, particularly Ben Shapiro), so this whole Michelle Fields dustup adds, shall we say a layer of complexity to the narrative.

Steve McCann at The American Thinker has concluded that it's time for conservatism's funeral.

Looks like the sun's coming up. Is it too early to start cocktail hour?