EVERYTHING OBAMA TOUCHES: ‘Beating the odds’ model was college dropout.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: If You Don’t Want To Study White Writers, Don’t Major In English.

SUE THEM INTO BANKRUPTCY: Cities Rushing To Restrict Airbnb Are About To Discover That They’ re Violating Key Internet Law.

CSULA Staff call Ben Shapiro a “ neo-Nazi,” Conspire to Block Conservative Speakers (Video).

Neo-Nazi? You keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means.

Though given the state of the 21st century academia, it would be fun to ask the modern campus crybully Jonah Goldberg’s response when smeared with the N-word: “Aside from the murder and genocide, what exactly don’t you like about National Socialism?” As Jonah has written, “I’ve never met a real social-welfare state leftist who could answer [that] question without having to think real hard.”

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JAPAN REVISITS ITS DARKEST MOMENTS WHERE AMERICAN POWs BECAME HUMAN EXPERIMENTS: One Japanese doctor has dedicated himself to ensuring the vivisection of eight US airmen by his fellow countrymen is not forgotten.  The Consience of a Knife is worth watching

UPDATE: The Obama Narrative Goes to Hiroshima, Claudia Rosett writes

 I use this all the time - drives Progressives BATTY!  Advocate Libertarian Philosophy with This One Trick! (It's the Socratic Method)

The IRS Warned the Obama Administration That Its Decision to Pay Obamacare Subsidies to Insurers Was Illegal

long, but ... MEGAN MCARDLE: Obamacare, Executive Power and the Rule of Law.

ED MORRISSEY: It’s Time to Blame Obamacare for Losing So Many Full-Time Jobs.

TRUMP IS ALREADY HAVING AN IMPACT, helping the Boston Globe learn to worry about executive powers.

YOU KEEP USING THAT WORD; I DO NOT THINK IT MEANS WHAT YOU THINK IT MEANS: ‘Objectively’? This snippet from a WaPo piece on Hillary is ‘perfectly wrong in all ways’ [screenshot].

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Cotton: Rhodes Is a ‘Chump,’ Obama’s National Security Team Consists of ‘Yes Men and Fan Boys.’

WHY, IT’S LIKE THE MSM ARE DNC OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES OR SOMETHING: Nets Love Talking About Flint…Until Dem Mayor Accused of Corruption.

EVERYBODY’S FAVORITE BAGMAN: Why Hasn’t Obama Fired Ben Rhodes?, Claudia Rosett asks and answers.

WELL NOW, ISN’T THAT SPECIAL?: Federal judge slams DOJ lawyers for lying to the court on immigration deportations.

An interesting opinion from Judge Neil Gorsuch on the 10th Circuit, Caring Hearts Personal Home Services, Inc. v. Burwell — and, as usual with Judge Gorsuch’s opinion, easy and enjoyable to read, even when it’s about administrative law. An excerpt (some paragraph breaks added):

ANN ALTHOUSE: Why I didn’t blog Adam Liptak’s “Donald Trump Could Threaten U.S. Rule of Law, Scholars Say.”

In fact, an obvious riposte popped into my head immediately: All Presidents threaten the rule of law! That’s supposed to cause you to understand the levels of my annoyance at the headline. I don’t like the “could,” since mere possibility is already built into the word “threaten.” Any governmental power can be abused, so there is always a threat. Don’t back off and portray the threat as mere potential. The threat is omnipresent.

Let me just quote James Madison, Federalist 51:

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

The other level of annoyance is, as my riposte makes clear, that the headline singles out Donald Trump. What about Barack Obama? What about Hillary Clinton?

Yes, what about them? Well, they’re less constrained than Trump would be by the media and the Deep State.

IT WON’T TAKE. SOCIALISTS ARE ALERGIC TO HISTORY: Bernie Sanders says “Cubans never rose against Castro”–here’s a quick history lesson.

HEH: Salon Editors: We Should Have Let The Axis Win. 

WE’RE GONNA PARTY LIKE IT’S 1929: James Lileks discusses the Outer Limits with a liquor store clerk and finds himself in the Twilight Zone:

TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL: HAMILTON. What’s better than seeing the hottest show on Broadway? Creating a forever memory.

Of course — this being Hillary “reset” Clinton — there’s a problem:

KATIE COURIC ACCUSED OF DOCTORING INTERVIEWS IN ANTI-GUN FILM.

Speaking of which, when you’ve lost the Washington Post…:

[Writer/producer/director Stephanie Soechtig — Couric is credited as executive producer — explained away the edit by claiming] “My intention was to provide a pause for the viewer to have a moment to consider this important question before presenting the facts on Americans’ opinions on background checks. I never intended to make anyone look bad and I apologize if anyone felt that way.”

So editing out a crucial segment of interview dialogue is an artistic pause for audience reflection? Why didn’t Rose Mary Woods think of that defense?! But then, as with Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes before them, Couric (Rather’s successor for a time at CBS) and Soechtig have just discovered that whom the gods destroy, they first make Nixonian.

Related: Katie Couric “did more faking in that one hour documentary than I did my entire first marriage…”

Heh, indeed.™

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-RUN INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF LAWLESSNESS? Katie Couric’s Anti-Gun Producers Repeatedly Violated Federal Gun Laws.

 and finally

D.C. Denies That It Ordered Cops to Ignore a Court Order Requiring them To Not Reject Gun Carry Permit Requests for Lack of "Good Reason"

THE GREEN WAR AGAINST THE WORKING CLASS: “To the left, the families whose lives are ruined are collateral damage to achieve their utopian dream of saving the planet. The Stalinists who now run the green movement believe the ends justify the ruthless means.”

Related: Hillary Flip-Flops on Coal, Now Wants Coal to Prosper.

EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: World’s Largest Solar Plant Sets Itself on Fire.

An appropriate metaphor for the last seven years.

SHOE, MEET OTHER FOOT: Greenpeace, which has called for RICO investigations of many companies, now facing RICO suit.

I wonder if any state attorneys general will be named later. And expect a sudden onslaught of worries about RICO’s extreme reach.

Of COURSE he does: Clinton Adviser, Nobel Prize Winning Economist Endorsed Venezuelan

But the media isn't biased: AND YET CHAVEZ WAS TREATED AS A HERO, AND PINOCHET IS STILL TREATED AS A VILLAIN: 5 Ways Capitalist Chile is Much Better Than Socialist Venezuela.