PROGRESS TOWARD ACCOUNTABILITY: Circuit Court Overturns Immunity For Law Enforcement Officials Who Sent An Innocent Man To Prison For 22 Years.

AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT BE WORTH TRYING: Jobs: The best way to fight poverty.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: One Year Since Chewing Breakfast Bar Into Shape of a Gun, 9-Year-Old Just Hopes to Clear His Name. Why would a conscientious parent put his kids in the hands of such evil?

IT’S COME TO THIS: No one defends Obama foreign policy these days. “From the left you have Maureen Dowd, who sounds more like Charles Krauthammer. . . . Also from the left, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) sounds like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) when she bashes Secretary of State John Kerry’s apartheid comment.”

FOR SOME, IT’S A DREAM: Kurt Schlichter: The Nightmare Of A Defenseless America.

FORMER RAHM EMANUEL AIDE FOUND IN PAKISTAN with a fake Mexican passport and a huge wad of cash.

BRITAIN: Subway removes ham and bacon from nearly 200 stores and offers halal meat only after ‘strong demand’ from Muslims.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Thomas Sowell: Demonizing The Helpers: Charter schools provoke the ire of those who have failed students up to now.

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PEELING THE ONION OF OBAMACARE FAIL (CONT’D): House committee claims only two-thirds of federal ObamaCare enrollees paid first premium by April 15. The White House knows the true number, and they’re not talking. Which should tell you something.

HEY, THEY DON’T CALL IT “STATE-CONTROLLED MEDIA” FOR NOTHING: Rahm Emanuel Faces Questions On “Chicagoland” Involvement.

JOHN HINDERAKER: Jay Carney Lies About The Benghazi Email.

This email deals directly with the administration’s response to the Benghazi attack, and should have been produced long ago in response to requests by Congressional committees. Today reporter Jon Karl of ABC asked Carney why the Rhodes email is only now being made public. Carney squirmed painfully, and claimed that the email wasn’t produced because it isn’t about Benghazi, but rather about conditions in the Arab world generally. . . .

Carney’s answer is ridiculous. Of course the email bears more broadly on conditions across the Middle East, but it relates most specifically to Benghazi. Why was Susan Rice appearing on every Sunday morning talk show? Because four Americans were killed in Benghazi. Why was the administration’s top political team gathering to prepare her for those appearances? Because four Americans were killed in Benghazi. Why does the email begin with the stated goal of conveying that the Obama administration is doing everything it can to protect its people abroad? Because four Americans were killed in Benghazi. Why is the group talking about “bringing people who harm Americans to justice”? The only place where Americans were harmed was Benghazi. Obviously, the email relates to Benghazi. And equally obviously, its reference to “underscor[ing] that these protests are rooted in an internet video, and not a broader failure of policy” was intended to deflect blame for the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi. . . .

Which was it, a planned attack by terrorists, or a protest over an internet video? The administration’s top political team, including David Plouffe and Dan Pfeiffer–not to mention Jay Carney himself!–gathered in order to prepare Rice to lie in response to that question.

Carney’s claim that the Rhodes email did not need to be produced because it didn’t have to do with Benghazi is one more in a long series of desperate falsehoods dating back to September 11, 2012, when President Obama and his administration decided it was better to lie to the American people than to risk defeat in the upcoming election.

President Asterisk, indeed.

“BRUTAL HONESTY” from men, on feminism. Well, we want a national dialogue or something, right?

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Hey, let’s charge tolls on Interstate Highways.

SLATE: Donald Sterling Is a Vile Racist: But even a horrible human being doesn’t deserve to have his property stripped away. “A private citizen whose private thoughts were audio-taped (perhaps illegally) has been told he can no longer own his private property because of the thoughts that were revealed on that tape. These thoughts were loathsome to be sure, but didn’t advocate anything illegal and didn’t call for any violent or even literally hurtful actions.” Sorry, that’s pre-Obama Era thinking. Now, anyone who offends the collective is fair game.

Though given that, at this point, Sterling doesn’t have much to lose, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him strike back. The ex-Mistress is an obvious target for a lawsuit, since her recording was illegal in California, I believe. And if, as I saw some talking head saying on CNN this morning, the NBA’s charter doesn’t specifically address this kind of thing, he might be able to sue them for civil rights conspiracy: Combining to punish him for free expression. The damages might be large, and the litigation would be extensive and involve a lot of discovery, and a lot of closely held NBA financial information would probably become public.

I’d do it, if I were him, but I was always a Samson-in-the-temple kind of guy. And if I were an 81-year-old billionaire who’d been savaged in public for weeks, I’d probably be more inclined to do so.

UPDATE: This analysis from Sports Illustrated misses the civil rights conspiracy angle, but is otherwise pretty sound. Note this:

Sterling suing may lead to pretrial discovery, which could be designed in part to embarrass other owners and NBA officials of any bigoted remarks or beliefs on their part. Keep in mind, if Sterling is ousted because of racism, he would likely demand that evidence showing that other owners and officials are also racist be shared. He would use such information to portray his penalty as unwarranted and contradicted by the conduct of those who ousted him. Sterling might request emails and other records from owners and officials that depict them in a negative light. Sterling has owned the Clippers for 33 years, which suggests that he has had many interactions — including private conversations with league officials and owners. If there are other owners who are racist or bigoted, it stands to reason Sterling knows who they are.

There’s a gold mine out there. And they’ll have to be worried that there are tapes, since apparently the NBA is one big Watergate. “The NBA is starting to resemble the Watergate era now that it is known that current Celtics assistant coach Dan Erman was fired from the Golden State Warriors for taping private conversations by coaches and players. The Warriors termination of Erman comes on the heels of Clippers owner Donald Sterling being fired for having his private conversation recorded, which unveiled his racial bigotry.”

SPENGLER: Why Liberals Don’t Care About Consequences. “If you corner a liberal and point to a disaster that followed upon his policy, at very most he will say–-with a tear in the eye and a quivering upper lip–-‘We did the right thing.’ It’s all about having done the right thing according to the dogma of the ersatz liberal religion. Liberalism has nothing whatsoever to do with policy and its real-world consequences. Instead of finding one’s salvation on the path of traditional religions, liberals look for salvation in a set of right opinions–-on race, the environment, income distribution, gender, or whatever.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: 2014 Grads Are Optimistic About Their Prospects; Businesses Not So Much. “A recent Gallup-Lumina survey found that a scant 11% of employers strongly agreed that educational institutions were graduating students with the skills and competencies their particular business required and a further 17% strongly disagreed with that statement. The general public also has doubts about how prepared grads are for the challenges of working life. A 2012 Gallup survey found that only 54% of Americans felt that college grads are at least somewhat ready to tackle on-the-job responsibilities.” And yet college costs keep climbing.

IGNORE IT? THEY’RE PART OF IT: NYT Op-Ed Authors Ignore Bloat in Legal Education.

THE COLLEGE FIX: Meet the Poster Child for ‘White Privilege’ – Then Have Your Mind Blown. All that “check your privilege” talk is just a silencing/shaming technique intended to cut off debate. This is an eloquent response, but “don’t be an asshole” is an entirely adequate one.

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REASON TV: What We Saw At The Donald Sterling Protest.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Using A Mossberg 500 Shotgun To Calculate The Value Of Pi.

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TRANSPARENCY: US government to put all of its spending data online.

DEMOCRATIC SENATE BLOCKS FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE BILL. See, I can do the MSM headline thing when I want. . . .