BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: 14 states hit record-low unemployment.

Florists Just Killed Louisiana's Effort at Eliminating Florist Licenses

No.  NO. NO! THE GIG ECONOMY: New court ruling could force Uber, Lyft to convert drivers to employees.

“CRUMBS CHRONICLES” DOCUMENTS HOW TAX CUTS ARE BOOSTING REAL FAMILIES: LifeZette’s Michelle Blood is talking to individuals and families in Flyover Country and hearing lots of stories about the blessings of getting bigger paychecks. Are you listening, Nancy Pelosi?

Boosted By Tax Reform, Businesses Increased Capital Investments By 39% In the First Quarter of 2018.

WORST. RACIST. EVER. Hispanics Score Under Trump. “Among Latinos, the jobless rate has only registered below 5 percent for seven months total – in the history of this country. Six of those months have occurred with Donald Trump in the White House, including the April report released last week.”

HE USED TO BE HITLER. THEN HE WAS AN INCOMPETENT TODDLER. NOW THIS FROM THE AP: Trump uses page from ‘smart policymaking 101’ on health care.

YES, BUT AS A NAZI, HOW DOES HE COMPARE WITH EVERY* PREVIOUS REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT? Johnny Carson and David Letterman Producer Peter Lassally: Trump’s America Reminds Me of What It Was Like Living in Concentration Camp.

Curiously though, he’s free to make the comparison on national TV without fear of reprisal. As Tom Wolfe wrote, paraphrasing the late German intellectual Gunter Grass, “You American intellectuals—you want so desperately to feel besieged and persecuted!”

* At least dating back to Coolidge.

Amazon Transformed Retail. Can It Transform Health Care Too?

BY PASSING THE BILL SO WE COULD FIND WHAT WAS IN IT:  Health Care: How in the World Did We Get Here?

HEH: Local Man Takes Advantage Of 3-Hour DMV Wait To Pen Blog Post Arguing For Government-Run Healthcare.

CHANGE: Dems fume as Trump pushes low-cost, ObamaCare alternative health plans.

Moving through the pipeline: ED MORRISSEY: 20 States Sue To End ObamaCare — And They Might Have A Point.

Are Health Advocates Finally Wising Up About the Nature of Risk?: New at Reason

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE: Obamacare Medicaid Scandal: 21,904 Truly Needy People Died While Waiting Behind 13 Million Able-Bodied Adults.

MICHAEL WALSH: Fallout Continues as Obamacare Collapses.

BREAKING: UNWORKABLE INSURANCE SCHEME STILL UNWORKABLE. States scrambling to avert Obamacare sticker shock after Dems balk at stabilization effort.

Science Magazine is doing its job. North American human-giant ground sloth interactions in the terminal Pleistocene. Remarkable footprints found in White Sand National Monument.

THE LAST SLAVE: Zora Neale Hurston’s Interview Found.

FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, EUGENICIST: New Documents Reveal FDR’s Eugenic Project to ‘Resettle’ Jews During World War II.

700,000 YEAR OLD STONE TOOLS IN THE PHILIPPINES: Someone butchered a rhinoceros in the Philippines hundreds of thousands of years before modern humans arrived — but who?

WELL, NEXT TIME i GO OVER, I’LL HAVE TO TRY THIS:   Unearthing Portugal’s Wine of the Dead, a Relic From the Napoleonic Wars.

BUT I THOUGHT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED:  3.5 Billion-Year-Old Fossils Challenge Ideas About Earth’s Start.

sick, right?

AS A LEGENDARY COMMUNITY ORGANIZER ADVISES, GET IN THEIR FACES AND PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: This S.C. Pawn Shop’s New Sign Trolling Dick’s Sporting Goods Over AR-15s Is Right on Target.

A Simple Piece of Common Sense Gun Legislation the Will Actually End Mass Shootings

NO, BECAUSE SMOKERS WOULDN’T STAND UP FOR THEMSELVES BUT GUN OWNERS WILL: Petula Dvorak: Can Americans ditch guns the way we ditched cigarettes?

College Athletes Aren't What Make College Football Profitable

SECURITY THEATER OF THE ABSURD: TSA Actually Frisks Woman for Doing Texas Tech’s ‘Finger Gun’ at Houston Airport.

WEIRD COINCIDENCE: Kneeling NFL Teams Fail To Make Playoffs.

21ST CENTURY GENDER: Transgender high school wrestler, 18, on testosterone and waiting for reassignment surgery is set to win the girl’s state title for the second time -before he joins a MENS college team.

MARK RIPPETOE: The Olympic Games: Time to Stop. 

JOURNALISM: How NBC Flubbed Its Coverage, Reported The Wrong Gold Medalist, Then Botched The Correction Of One Of The Most Stunning Upsets In Olympic History.

WOW: Former slave and two-time Olympian becomes an airman.  Full story — and it’s an impressive one — at the link.

“How do you get so many highly-cited papers speaking so confidently about every little sub-sub-detail of a phenomenon, if the phenomenon never existed in the first place

Mid-Ocean Seismicity Portends Global Cooling.  Scott Adams tweets: “How many heads would explode if global temperatures head lower during the Trump administration?”

BUT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED, DAMMIT! Climate change is ‘not as bad as we thought’ say scientists.

SCIENCE: “A 2011 analysis of 52 claims made by nutritional epidemiology tested in 12 well controlled trials found that not one of the 52 claims—0%–could be confirmed.”

REMEMBER THIS WHEN THEY TELL YOU THE SCIENCE IS INFALLIBLE: DNA Blunder Creates Phantom Serial Killer. 

TO ERIC HOLDER, A CITIZENSHIP QUESTION ON THE CENSUS IS VOTER INTIMIDATION, BUT TWO JACK-BOOTED THUGS WITH BILLY CLUBS SHOUTING RACIAL EPITHETS IN FRONT OF A POLLING PLACE AREN’T:

DONNA BRAZILE: Democratic Party Told Me ‘Shut up, Donna’ and ‘I Said Hell No.’ “‘They will drive right past you and will come after you in the last 48 hours of the campaign,’ former DNC chief warned African-American voters.”

JUST NBC THE REVERSE RACISM: Things get hot when a white panelist is told not to quote Martin Luther King: I will ‘every single day. And you won’t stop me.’

APPARENTLY, THEY’RE DEMANDING SPACES THAT ARE SEPARATE, BUT EQUAL, TO COIN A PHRASE: Students Demand ‘POC-Only’ Spaces at New York’s The New School.

LET ME SHOW YOU MY SHOCKED FACE: “Watch: Roomful of Rich, White NYC Parents Get Big Mad at Plan to Diversify Neighborhood’s Schools.”

TO ERIC HOLDER, A CITIZENSHIP QUESTION ON THE CENSUS IS VOTER INTIMIDATION, BUT TWO JACK-BOOTED THUGS WITH BILLY CLUBS SHOUTING RACIAL EPITHETS IN FRONT OF A POLLING PLACE AREN’T:

DONNA BRAZILE: Democratic Party Told Me ‘Shut up, Donna’ and ‘I Said Hell No.’ “‘They will drive right past you and will come after you in the last 48 hours of the campaign,’ former DNC chief warned African-American voters.”

JUST NBC THE REVERSE RACISM: Things get hot when a white panelist is told not to quote Martin Luther King: I will ‘every single day. And you won’t stop me.’

APPARENTLY, THEY’RE DEMANDING SPACES THAT ARE SEPARATE, BUT EQUAL, TO COIN A PHRASE: Students Demand ‘POC-Only’ Spaces at New York’s The New School.

HEH: The fix was in. The 2016 election was rigged — and Donald Trump won anyway.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Students Hate Quotes from Trump’s State of the Union, Until Realizing They Are Obama’s.

CHANGE: Number Of Americans Renouncing Their U.S. Citizenship Fell In 2017, The First Decline In Five Years.