PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Swarthmore Backs Down.

Swarthmore College has vacated the findings of a campus judicial process that led to a lawsuit that charged the college with gender-based discrimination against male students accused of sexual misconduct.

The federal judge in the case then agreed to a joint motion from the college and the student (identified only as John Doe) to dismiss the lawsuit, one of several filed by men under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The suits charge that colleges — facing intense pressure from female students and the U.S. Education Department to crack down on sexual assault — are violating the rights of male students accused of misconduct.

The dismissal of the case does not address the Title IX complaint, but it does represent a dramatic shift for Swarthmore, which has been fighting off the lawsuit and defending the conduct of its investigation and findings in the case.

One of my former law students who practices law in Nashville tried to run one of the HAVE YOU BEEN FALSELY ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT? ads I’ve mentioned in the Vanderbilt student paper. They refused to run the ad, apparently because they didn’t want to encourage people to sue Vanderbilt. Without opining on whether that constitutes illegal sex discrimination, I suggested that he try a couple of bus-shelter ads around the campus. These campus policies are pure gold for trial lawyers. . .

GIVE SARAH PALIN A CALL — SHE CAN EXPLAIN IT FOR YOU. Katie Couric Doesn’t Know What “Eschatology” Means.

POLITICO SAYS THAT GOP CANDIDATES DON’T GET IT when trying to get tech money.

Actually, I’d say that if they’re trying to get tech money, they really don’t get it. First, these companies are Dem allies and that isn’t likely to change. Second, there are more votes to be had running a populist campaign against the New Oligarchs of Silicon Valley than any donations could possibly buy. A winning GOP campaign would attack the plutocratic oligarchs of the super-rich and the welfare-chiselers of the non-working poor, on behalf of the 75% of the country in between.

Related: “The typical American family makes less than the typical family did 15 years ago, a statement that hadn’t previously been true since the Great Depression.”

Also: Middle Class Americans Hardest Hit By ObamaCare: “The hardest-hit: the middle-class. Americans with an annual household income of between $30,000 and $75,000 began delaying medical care over costs more in 2014, up to 38 percent in 2014 from 33 percent last year; among households that earn above $75,000, 28 percent delayed care this year, compared to just 17 percent last year. The lowest-income section, some of whom can take part in Medicaid and who are more likely to qualify for significant premium and cost-sharing subsidies on an Obamacare exchange, are less likely to delay care this year.”

There’s your electoral gold. Don’t be distracted by the fool’s gold of tech money.

COLOR ME SKEPTICAL: Moneyball For Government.

RAPE AND OTHER SEX CRIMES down by half since 1990s.

ED DRISCOLL: Back To Blood.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Gallup: Under ObamaCare, Record Numbers Of Americans Foregoing Medical Care Because Of Cost. “One in three Americans has put off seeking medical treatment in 2014 due to high costs, according to Gallup — the highest percentage since Gallup began asking the question in 2001. Thirty-three percent of Americans have delayed medical treatment for themselves or their families because of the costs they’d have to pay, according to the survey. Obamacare, of course, had promised that it would help make health care more affordable for everyone, but the number of people who can’t afford a trip to the doctor has actually risen three points since 2013, before most Obamacare provisions took effect.”

OBAMA’S LEGACY AS NIXON’S LEGACY: Obama Builds Environmental Legacy With 1970 Law.

FROM THE NEW YORK POST, more on how Ivy League “diversity” quotas target Asians.

It helps to remember that when affirmative-action programs were advanced, the nation and the wrongs being addressed were very different.

Much of the civil-rights focus of the 1950s and 1960s was to open up institutions that had been arbitrarily and unfairly closed to African-Americans. And the categories involved were basically black and white.

Today we live in a much different America. Jim Crow has long been outlawed, and even the definition of diversity has changed with the growth of, for example, America’s Latino and Asian communities.

The old racial categories will be even more difficult to defend as intermarriage further erodes what were once clear divisions.

The progressives haven’t progressed past 1968.