THEY ONLY TALK ABOUT IT WHEN THEY AREN’T RUNNING FOR OFFICE: Democrats’ Sudden Amnesia about Obamacare’s Many Ills.

MEGAN MCARDLE: Better Health Care for Less Money? It’s Not Easy.  Making it better and cheaper is hard. Making it worse and more expensive is as close as your nearest politician.

THIS IS THE PART OF OBAMACARE THE GOP “CAN’T” REPEAL: Obamacare Regulations Drove Up Premium Costs By Up to 68%.

NBC NEWS: Seven Ways the Trump Administration Could Make Obamacare ‘Explode’

They left out the eighth way: Enforce it as written.

PRIORITIES: California budget guts middle-class aid, keeps scholarships for illegals.

GOVERNOR MALLOY FORCES COPS TO CHOOSE JOB SECURITY OVER PUBLIC SAFETY, Jack Dunphy writes:

It appears that Gov. Malloy would not endorse the deportation of our hypothetical killer, and that he would support disciplining any police officer who sought to bring it about.

 

NOT FAKE NEWS: Sorry Liberals, Ellison and DWS Remained Seated During Roughy Two-Minute Standing Ovation Honoring Fallen Navy SEAL’s Widow.

SOME YEARS AGO, SACRAMENTO DECLARED WAR ON POVERTY, AND POVERTY WON: California Democrats’ Never-Ending War on the Poor.

Related: California exports its poor to Texas, other states, while wealthier people move in.

Presumably they’ll cost less than $15 an hour to operate and won’t fall under the ObamaCare employer mandate.

They’ll also keep much closer tabs on customers’ buying habits.

I DUNNO, IT’S TERRIFIC MARKETING: Organic food isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, study suggests.

 FASTER, PLEASE: Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Reign of Terror Is Nearly Over.

No.  Just NO. Thick Mint Stout Is Your Unofficial Girl Scout Cookie Beer.

Forget potatoes: New Texas vodka uses black-eyed peas instead.

THEY TOLD ME THAT IF TRUMP BECAME PRESIDENT, NARROW-MINDED CONFORMISTS WOULD SHUT DOWN VITAL RESEARCH — AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Threatening Violence, Trans Activists Expel Un-PC Research At Medical Conference.

THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: Flashback. The New York Times Uses Science to Predict Trump Election 2016 Loss.

ROBERT TRACINSKI: Scott Pruitt Is Absolutely Right About Carbon Dioxide.  I’d just add that the EPA was fine at its original mission of cleaning up America’s air, water, and our unparalleled scenery. But then its mission became saving the world, and for a free people, there’s nothing more dangerous than a government agency hellbent on saving the world.

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Staring at boobs may give a boost to male lifespans. Sure, the research is shaky, but why take chances?

YOU WANT MORE TRUMP? BECAUSE THIS IS HOW YOU GET MORE TRUMP:

It’s getting harder to hold schools accountable for performance writes Lane Wright on Education Post. The Education Department’s new ESSA guidelines don’t require states to give each school a single, overall score for performance.  Instead of a proposed A-F school grading system, Michigan will use a dashboard with different measures of school quality but no overall grade, reports Michigan Live.

but in California ... After three years without a school accountability system, California Superintendent Tom Torlakson lauded the California School Dashboard as “a high-tech report card for our schools.”  The new color-coded system “paints a far rosier picture than in the past,” reports the Los Angeles Times.

So they're just getting better at hiding failure.  But take some comfort: How Do Unschoolers Turn Out?

OH SHUT UP: Iowa High School Kids Attacked for ‘BLATANT Racism’ of Wearing Red, White, and Blue.

Colin Kaepernick update: some teams ‘genuinely hate him:’   If only the NFL had a commissioner who hadn’t tacitly approved of that clown show, he could have saved Kaepernick from himself.

“Here’s what a ‘socially conscious’ NCAA bracket looks like, explains sports journalist,” CNN tweeted earlier today.

How will America survive four to eight years not having a president who reveals his NCAA bracket?

Authorities charged a Hampshire College student with assaulting a member of Central Maine Community College's basketball team over a dispute about cultural appropriation. Really.  The Hampshire student, 20-year-old Carmen Figueroa, allegedly started a fight because the basketball player had braided her hair in a manner that upset Figueroa. She walked up to the visiting player—during a basketball game—and demanded that the player remove the braids from her hair, according to masslive.com.