SELF-AWARENESS FAIL: Paul Krugman says America has a problem admitting when it’s wrong.

Hey, did I miss a Krugman apology for his egregious election-night market prediction?

I’D FORGOTTEN THERE WAS ONE: Boycott of N.C. Over Bathroom Bill Dies With a Whimper.

Sarah Hoyt ... long but readable:  POOR RICH PEOPLE: Financial Stupidity.

THE NATURAL ENDPOINT OF SOCIALISM: Venezuela is out of food, out of medicine, and running out of gas. That’s right: “The country with the largest proven oil reserves in the world is now running out of gasoline.”

TO BE FAIR, THAT’S OF A PIECE WITH HER CORPORATE MANAGEMENT HISTORY: “Ms. Sandberg’s effort is a stunt based upon a grotesque misinterpretation of statistics and ignorance of economics.” It’s also illegal

SELF-AWARENESS FAIL: Paul Krugman says America has a problem admitting when it’s wrong.

Hey, did I miss a Krugman apology for his egregious election-night market prediction?

I’D FORGOTTEN THERE WAS ONE: Boycott of N.C. Over Bathroom Bill Dies With a Whimper.

Sarah Hoyt ... long but readable:  POOR RICH PEOPLE: Financial Stupidity.

THE NATURAL ENDPOINT OF SOCIALISM: Venezuela is out of food, out of medicine, and running out of gas. That’s right: “The country with the largest proven oil reserves in the world is now running out of gasoline.”

TO BE FAIR, THAT’S OF A PIECE WITH HER CORPORATE MANAGEMENT HISTORY: “Ms. Sandberg’s effort is a stunt based upon a grotesque misinterpretation of statistics and ignorance of economics.” It’s also illegal

SHE BLINDED ME WITH PSEUDOSCIENCE: J Scott Armstrong: Fewer Than 1 Percent Of Papers in Scientific Journals Follow Scientific Method. “Fewer than 1 percent of papers published in scientific journals follow the scientific method, according to research by Wharton School professor and forecasting expert J. Scott Armstrong. . . . ‘People just don’t do it.'”

House Approves Bill to Force Public Release of EPA Science.

Science is the unfettered pursuit of truth, subject to public scrutiny, debate, and peer review.

You don’t want to be against science, do you?

LIFE IN 2017: “Trigger warning: for the rest of this explanation, I’m going to call people who ovulate ‘women’ and people who ejaculate sperm ‘men’ because I’m just not woke enough to explain the the details of impregnation in non-gendered language.”

ALTERNATE HEADLINE: MSNBC ANCHOR DECLARES THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO BE AN ABJECT FAILURE. Chris Hayes: For Blacks, America’s a Gulag, BLM Are Founding Fathers.

Leonard Bernstein could not be reached for comment.

OH SHUT UP: College Student Explains Why Milk Is Racist.

THAT INCLUDES ARIANNA AS WELL, RIGHT? HuffPo Writer Warns: All White People are on the “Racism Spectrum Until Further Notice.”

OF COURSE THEY DO: Minimum Wage Activists Call Tipping Racist. “However, there is little historical evidence for the argument.”

When has that ever stopped them before?

WHITE SUPREMACY: YOU’RE REALLY DOING IT WRONG! Ayaan Hirsi Ali cancels Oz visit after being threatened, called “white supremacist(!)”.

THIS IS CNN: Trump moves agenda forward even as Russia controversy swirls.

If Trump weren’t still pursing his agenda, CNN would have gone with something like “Trump agenda mired in Russian swamp.”

HONESTLY, I THINK YOU COULD SELL T-SHIRTS WITH THIS DESIGN IN AMERICA. TO TRUMP SUPPORTERS.

DON SURBER: Investigate ObamaGate: The abuse of presidential power by Barack Obama and his minions is Watergate on Steroids.

HOW NICE: Trump donates first-quarter salary to National Park Service. “Spicer handed a check for $78,333.32 for the National Park Service to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Spicer said the paycheck starts from Jan. 20, when Trump took office, until now. At Monday’s briefing, Zinke said the donation will go to the maintaining historic battlefield sites.”

IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN THEY DO IT: From China With Love.

Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign received millions of dollars in illegal contributions from Chinese donor that were channeled through the Democratic National Committee, according to a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Reform

IS THERE ANYTHING THEY CAN’T DO? How Alcohol and Caffeine Built Civilization.

THE KOREAN WAR ISN’T OVER — AND THAT’S A DANGEROUS FACT: My latest New York Observer column.

THEY SPELL IT “INTELLECTUAL” BUT I THINK THEY MEAN DELUSIONAL:The ‘Postmodern’ Intellectual Roots of Today’s Campus Mobs. These people who never read or understood the tragedies that attempts at changing history with stories have brought about, from the various Chinese book burning frenzies, to the pseudo-mythology of Wagner, to the Cultural revolution, would consider themselves our intellectual superiors, because they know in which choir to sing and they’ve memorized every word.  This is not going to end well.

THE GRAVY TRAIN STOPS HERE: GOP wants to eliminate shadowy DOJ slush fund bankrolling leftist groups.

TRANSPARENCY: State Supreme Court Says California Officials Can No Longer Hide Documents In Personal Email Accounts And Devices. It’s not like they’re the Obama Administration or something.

In real life, what do “Progressive” politicians do to create unnecessary problems for themselves to avoid solving the simpler more mundane problems they were elected by taxpayers to solve? Invoking another neurotic controlling Manhattan lefty, Victor Davis Hanson warns that they employ “the Bloomberg Syndrome:”

THE BIGGER AN AGENCY BECOMES, THE LESS ATTENTION ITS BASIC MISSION GETS: EPA has been neglecting clean air to freelance on climate change.

IRS COMMISSIONER IS SHOCKED, SHOCKED: I’m only surprised he hasn’t borrowed my shocked face, yet. IRS has 7,000 unreleased documents related to conservative and Tea Party targeting.

THESE PEOPLE ARE PATHETIC: The Place for Tax Woes: Nine MSNBC Personalities Had Tax Liens Filed Against Them.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE! While IRS Made Conservative Groups Wait, Satanic Club Granted Tax-Exempt Status in 10 Days.

GIVEN THE SPLC’S OVERWHELMINGLY PARTISAN POLITICAL NATURE, AND ITS ROLE IN ENCOURAGING ACTUAL HATE CRIMES, THIS SEEMS REASONABLE. FAIR To IRS: Remove Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Tax Exempt Status.

AND NO ONE IN THE GOVERNMENT WILL LOSE THEIR JOB: 100,000 Taxpayers Compromised In Hack Of FAFSA Tool At IRS.

DUH. HAVING FAILED TO MAKE US DISARM IN THE FACE OF AN AGGRESSIVE USSR, THEY CONTINUE THEIR WAR AGAINST AMERICA: The Doomsday Clock is a Measure of Liberal Hysteria, not Armageddon.

Life in Trump's America:  Giving Up a Seat for a Soldier Makes Drexel Professor Want to ‘Vomit.’ “A radical Drexel University professor who once wished for ‘White Genocide’ for Christmas and hoped to ‘Abolish the White Race’ is under fire again. This time, he said he wants to ‘vomit or yell about Mosul’ after someone gave their seat to a uniformed soldier.”

Syria updates soon

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 16 Reasons Not To Live In California.

This story just keeps giving:  IF YOU PUT GOVERNMENT IN CHARGE OF THE SAHARA DESERT, IN FIVE YEARS THERE’D BE A SHORTAGE OF SAND: PepsiCo is pulling its products from Philly stores because of the city’s ‘soda tax’ Or maybe this was the endgame all along.

ANOTHER REASON TO REVISIT BAKER V. CARR? Politically and economically, you can think of New York as actually two states, maybe three, lashed together.

WELL DONE: Dem Mayor Vetoes $15 Min Wage Bill. The “Fight for $15” movement faced a setback Friday after Baltimore Democratic Mayor Catherine Pugh vetoed legislation which would have raised the city’s minimum wage to $15 per hour.

GALLUP: Sharply Fewer Democrats Say They Are Proud to Be Americans. Well, to be fair, fewer Americans are proud to be Democrats, too.