QUESTION ASKED: How Is Syria Still Using Chemical Weapons?

DO NOT TRUST CONTENT FROM SUSAN RICE: In January, Susan Rice Assured NPR the Obama Admin Removed Chemical Weapons From Syria.

Related: PolitiFact Retracts ‘Mostly True’ Ruling That U.S. Removed ‘100 Percent’ of Syria’s Chemical Weapons. “Subsequent events have proved John Kerry wrong.” Don’t trust content from John Kerry, either

NEVER FORGET: Vogue’s Fawning Profile of Asma Al-Assad. The link to the Vogue story in that piece is now dead, but here’s an archived copy.

CNN NARRATIVE FAIL: Syrian Refugee Slams Clinton, Obama; Praises Trump.

The look on CNN host Brooke Baldwin’s face is priceless.

2015 FLASHBACK: World Begs U.S. To Use Military Force in Syria So They Can Bitch About It Later.

FIRE THEM: U.S. Women’s Hockey Boycotting Championships Over Equal Pay.

BRAIDS AREN’T FOR WHITE GIRLS: Student Allegedly Attacked Female Basketball Player Because Her Hairstyle Was ‘Cultural Appropriation.’ 

Why You’re Not Allowed to Say Roger Federer is a Better Tennis Player than Serena Williams 

ESPN Tells Hosts To Get More Political, Then Replaces Black Conservative Who Got Political.  Rush Limbaugh, whose firing marked the start of ESPN’s slow transformation into MSNBC with a more interesting B-roll, could not be reached for comment.

I BLAME A PERVASIVE CULTURE OF INEQUALITY AND MISOGYNY: World Champion Women’s Soccer Team Loses to High School Boys’ Team 5-2.

and since I forgot to post my March Madness bracket:

OUCH:

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: What Is the Alt-Left?   I remember describing the Critical Legal Studies movement to a judge when I was in law school. “Crap,” he said. “I thought that shit died with Marcuse.”

ROGER KIMBALL: “What if?” The Evelyn Farkas Fracas.

JOHN HINDERAKER: One More Sign That Liberals Have Lost Their Minds.

OUCH:

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: What Is the Alt-Left?   I remember describing the Critical Legal Studies movement to a judge when I was in law school. “Crap,” he said. “I thought that shit died with Marcuse.”

ROGER KIMBALL: “What if?” The Evelyn Farkas Fracas.

JOHN HINDERAKER: One More Sign That Liberals Have Lost Their Minds.

yes I know it's really Monday.

ILLICIT LICIT BANKING: The IRS took millions from innocent people because of how they managed their bank accounts, Inspector General finds.

The “crime” is handling your cash the way a drug dealer might, even if your business is nothing but legitimate.

CHANGE: Using The Tax Law To Punish Sanctuary Cities And States.

TWO PAPERS IN ONE!

● As a Trump protest, theaters worldwide will screen the film version of Orwell’s ‘1984.’

—Headline, the L.A. Times, March 28th.

● How Trump supporters survive in blue California: ‘You kind of keep your head down.’

—Headline, the L.A. Times, March 31th.

Like Walter Cronkite and his biographer (and fellow lefty) Douglas Brinkley before them, wait ‘til the L.A. Times discovers what IngSoc is an abbreviation for.

NEVER CHANGE, NYT:

Egypt’s previous authoritarian leader, Mohamed Morsi, was also a leader of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and the praised choice of former U.S. President Barack Obama — which is something NYT reporters Peter Baker and Declan Walsh chose to omit from their story.

It would help, Messrs. Baker and Walsh, in a story about changing course, if your readers were informed what the previous course was.

GOOD POINT:

NOTE TO THE NEW YORK TIMES: No, Bartnicki v. Vopper won’t protect you if you yourself actually solicited the illegally publicized material.

WELL, HOW MUCH OF THE GOVERNMENT WE HAVE WAS EVER REALLY CONSENTED TO? Americans No Longer Believe in the “Consent of the Governed.”  I have a pen and a phone!

the school where I subbed last week does not allow acces to Angelfire!  I'll be there next week too.  Money'sgood ..... food's OK, students are good .... secondary language is Mandarin as opposed to Ebonics or Spanglish ... low thug quotient.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Ohio School Plans to Offer Course on Fake News and Critical Thinking.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: More of the Education World Should Look Like This.

I know this feeling.  Had high schoolers last week who didn't know Steve Martin or Tom Hanks!  How can this BE?  HOW A GENERATION LOST ITS COMMON CULTURE: “My students are know-nothings. They are exceedingly nice, pleasant, trustworthy, mostly honest, well-intentioned, and utterly decent. But their brains are largely empty, devoid of any substantial knowledge that might be the fruits of an education in an inheritance and a gift of a previous generation. They are the culmination of western civilization, a civilization that has forgotten nearly everything about itself, and as a result, has achieved near-perfect indifference to its own culture.”

“THEY’RE SUPER-CEREAL, YOU GUYS:” Actual tweet by PETA: “Did you know that milk has long been a symbol used by white supremacists?”

MEET THE SCIENTIST WHO’S BUSY DEBUNKING FOOD MYTHS.

IS THERE NOTHING IT CAN’T DO? How Beer Jump-Started Civilization — And Writing Itself.

A MAN’S GOT TO KNOW HIS LIMITATIONS: Denver man dies while attempting doughnut-eating challenge.

BECAUSE THEIR SANDWICHES ARE FRIGHTENINGLY JUICY AND CRISPY? University’s LGBT Students ‘Fear’ Arrival Of Chick-fil-A.

From last month:  Donna Brazile Finally Admits She Passed Debate Questions to Hillary Clinton Campaign.

Why Isn’t Hillary Clinton in Jail?

Because laws are for the little people, and while Hillary might be many things, she certainly isn’t one of those.

WHEN RACE-AND-GENDER DIVISIVENESS BITES BACK: “I knew just what one of my graduate students meant when I asked her how millennial feminists saw Hillary and she said ‘a white lady.'”