but I just recently saw it... actor Sir Michael Caine caused a furor a few weeks ago. Caine’s crime? Admitting that he had voted for Brexit. “For me,” Caine said, “it was about freedom. I’d rather be a poor master than a rich servant.”

In a single sentence, Caine summed up the entire case for Brexit — and several centuries of the sheer groundedness and common sense of the ordinary Briton.

That Time New York's Department of Education Decided to Teach Kids What an 'Oreo' Is

#NARRATIVEFAIL: The Unheralded Mettle of For-Profit College Students. “Much of the discussion of higher education’ proprietary sector assumes that its member schools enroll students who are academically marginal and lack other options. That’s far too simplistic, a new study concludes

The future of college may not include going to class or earning a degree, writes AP’s Maria Danilova. “Education startups are offering alternatives — from boot camps, to one- or two-year tracks, to accredited degree programs — and their founders say these options will give students a more relevant education in today’s job market, and at a lower price.”

 Guess they have lot's of extra money:   In ‘act of non-cooperation,’ Los Angeles Unified School District bolsters protections for immigrant students, families.

MARY KATHARINE HAMM: You May Like Obamacare, But Don’t Forget About The People It’s Hurt.

MY HUSBAND WOULD HAVE DIED WITH OBAMA CARE: A woman compares ObamaCare denials and deceits to what the private insurance market provided for her husband.

Take some time and apply some thought when reading this:  SO WHY DIDN’T WE JUST PASS THIS? The Bill To Permanently Fix Health Care For All. I especially like this: “All customers must be billed for actual charges at the same price on a direct basis at the time the service or product is rendered to them.”  Near as I can tell, this proposal offers almost zero opportunities for graft. So there’s your answer.

Related: The Healthcare Confusopoly.

UNEXPECTEDLY!  Aetna exiting all ACA insurance marketplaces in 2018.

FORMER PRESIDENT SELFIE STICK: The Audacity Of A Monumental Library.

So, the Obama Presidential Library Is Really Ugly. “A discarded Chinese take-out box. The backside of a Star Wars sand crawler. The Washington Monument with the interesting bits lopped off.”

OBAMA WASTING NO TIME SETTLING INTO THE HECTORING JIMMY CARTER PHASE OF HIS POST-PRESIDENCY:

● Obama now lecturing America on food waste and eating meat, gets fact-checked by his former chef.

● Barack Obama Jets to Milan to Deliver Climate Change Speech, says there that Climate Change ‘Created by Man’ and ‘Can Be Solved.

● Crucial for Americans to Resist ‘Hate,’ Obama Says in Rare Address.

That last item is pretty rich coming from a guy who before his last State of the Union address, met with a rapper who featured an illustration of a gang posing with a recently murdered judge in front of the White House on his then-most recent album.

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Was the American Revolution such a good idea  “We could have been Canada,” Adam Gopnik says. Well, there’s a Canada right up there for anyone who wants it.

Wait. I thought the Civil War was inevitable and no President could have averted it.

When Confederate Statues Are Removed, Are We Unfairly Erasing History?  Read the comments too.  Some thoughtful commentary there.

OKAY, I’M JUST SPITBALLING HERE, BUT — THAT THEY HAD SHOES? What Does This 5,500-Year-old Shoe Found in a Cave Tell Us About Ancient Armenians?

THERE’S A NON-TRIVIAL CHANCE THE ANSWER IS “NEVER:” How long until another Industrial Revolution would have taken place?

VIDEO OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN: MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle Claims Being a Woman Is a Preexisting Condition.  There’s video. It happened.

Dan Pfeiffer’s smug lecture about ‘fake’ vs. ‘real’ scandals gets DESTROYED.

TODAY, THE ROLE OF PAULINE KAEL WILL BE PLAYED BY MICHAEL KINSLEY in the New York Times, who asks, “Is It Possible There Is Nothing Nice to Say?”

THERE ARE TWO AMERICAS. ONE INSIDE THE BELTWAY, THE OTHER OUT: “People are tuning the media out. Credibility is largely gone.”

TO BE HONEST, STORIES LIKE THIS ARE ENOUGH TO MAKE ME VOTE TRUMP 2020 NO MATTER WHAT HE DOES BETWEEN NOW AND THEN: SNL Cast Members ‘Sobbed’ Over Trump Victory, Had No Idea What to Write.

FAKE LAW: How Trump-hatred warps the judiciary. “Just as fake news spreads ideologically motivated misinformation with a newsy veneer, fake law brings us judicial posturing, virtue signaling, and opinionating masquerading as jurisprudence. And just as fake news augurs the end of authoritative reporting, fake law portends the diminution of law’s legitimacy and the warping of judges’ self-understanding of their constitutional role.”

related:  CAN WE RELITIGATE OBAMACARE WITH OBAMA’S MOTIVES IN MIND? Judges Who Fret Over Trump’s Motives Are Ignoring US Judicial History.

and: Hawaii Attorney Admits That Any Other President Could’ve Constitutionally Created Trump’s Travel Ban.  A nation of men, not laws, in other words.

THAT WORD AGAIN: The Constitution: Treason Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means. One of my Con Law trivia questions: name the only three crimes mantioned in the Constitution ... and which is the only one defined therein?