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SUPERCILIOUS BRITS ARE NOT AT THEIR BEST WHEN ADDRESSING THIS TOPIC: Hit Me with Your Best Shot: The Economist’s Epic Fail on Guns. “On April 4, The Economist mocked the NRA and Second Amendment supporters with a column that turned out to be an epic fail because it was built on numbers from a debunked Everytown for Gun Safety study, an erroneous claim that ‘armor piercing’ M855 ammo endangers police, and a not-so-veiled attempt to undercut the push to arm women for self-defense on college campuses.” Bloomberg’s astroturf anti-gun groups are the “Jackie” of the firearms debate — always ready to exploit the class prejudices and political biases of gullible, agenda-driven reporters.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Surprise! Some colleges still accept free speech. But it is a shame that’s newsworthy.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 697.

MORE CRITICISM OF TERESA SULLIVAN AND THE UVA ADMINISTRATION FOR INJUSTICE ON THE FAKE RAPE STORY: “The University of Virginia is, I think, also responsible for not thoroughly investigating and sort of going beyond what would be responsible for an administration to make sure that justice is served. I think they have failed on pretty much every level.”

Yes, as I said last night, Teresa Sullivan took the word of a music-and-drugs tabloid and, without any independent investigation of her own, punished the victims and stood by while they were subjected to mob justice. These were students under her care, and she betrayed them in the interests of politics and PR.

Related: Rolling Stone author apologizes — but not specifically to the fraternity that her story accused. Sullivan hasn’t apologized to them either.

UPDATE: From the comments, the term “Scottsboro Feminism.”

HOUSING BUBBLE STILL BROKEN: Stuck With a House That Can’t Be Sold: Even though the housing market is improving, some owners with troubled properties won’t see relief anytime soon.

When you ask 29-year-old Anthony Walker about the home he owns, his response is a chorus of resigned sighs. It’s not quite the reaction you’d expect from one of the few in his generation who has managed to achieve homeowner status. But the property that Walker co-owns with a good friend and former roommate is deeply underwater. That means that since he purchased the property, the value has slipped so much that the house is worth less than total mortgage debt taken out to buy it. As time passes, he’s growing increasingly doubtful that he’ll ever see the property’s value back in the black.

It’s a predicament that more and more owners of less expensive starter properties are facing. Homes that were bought for a “reasonable” price at the top of the market are now floundering in negative equity, and according to Svenja Gudell, the director of economic research at the real-estate data firm Zillow, there’s a good chance that such properties will never be worth the mortgage debt owed on them. “In the lowest third of the housing market, not only are you more likely to be underwater, but homeowners tend to be very deeply underwater,” says Gudell. “It will take a really long time to lift some of those homeowners out of negative equity. And some of them will never reach positive equity.”

The Insta-Wife and I are big real-estate window-shoppers, and we’ve noticed that you get a lot more for the same money in a lot of places that we look at than you got a few years ago, despite claims of a recovery.

PEOPLE BLAME POVERTY, BUT THE PERPETRATORS OF TERRORISM TEND TO BE SPOILED CHILDREN OF THE ELITE: Kenyan official’s son identified as one of the gunmen in last week’s massacre. “The news about Abdullahi came as Garissa’s Christian residents celebrated Easter Sunday. Garissa’s minority Christian population has been on edge since the news broke that Christian students were the primary target of the Thursday attack. Tensions ran particularly high as Easter Sunday services opened throughout predominantly Christian Kenya. And yet, the pews of the Catholic church in Garissa were full, packed with residents coming to worship and mourn in the aftermath of Kenya’s worst terrorist attack in almost two decades.” Buy a gun.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Two William Mitchell Law Profs Sue Over Abrogation of Tenure in Merger With Hamline Law School.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Surprise! Some colleges still accept free speech. But it is a shame that’s newsworthy.

“I HAVE MY OWN THEORY WHO KILLED DAN:” Murdered lawprof Dan Markel’s father speaks to the media for the first time.

MORE ON THE ROLLING STONE DEBACLE, from Erik Wemple at the WaPo, who was instrumental in exposing the fraud. “Rolling Stone’s behavior seemed consistent with a purveyor of bias.” Do tell.

Plus:

Credit Rolling Stone with opening its files to Columbia, an act of transparency that included a 405-page archive of Erdely’s materials. Not enough media organizations put their blunders into the hands of smart and disinterested parties like Coronel, Coll and Kravitz. Yet the team faced a stiff-arm when it came to inquiries about the legal review that “A Rape on Campus” had undergone. The magazine’s outside counsel said it “would not answer questions about the legal review of ‘A Rape on Campus’ in order to protect attorney-client privilege.” Makes sense: Rolling Stone, at this point, understands how many reputations it has trashed.

I’m sure the lawyers are already in negotiations.

ISN’T IT FUNNY HOW HIGHER ED DISCRIMINATES AGAINST GROUPS PERCEIVED AS THE BEST PERFORMERS? Smash the ‘Bamboo Ceiling’ of Racial Quotas. “One Indian American says he overcame anti-Asian bias and got into med school by claiming he was black.” Well, race, like gender, is just a social construction, so if you feel like a black woman today, you are a black woman today, and anyone who disagrees is a bigot.

BYRON YORK: Scott Walker: The GOP’s Great Unknown.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is the leader in some national polls for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. He’s also the least-known candidate in some surveys. There could be a relationship between those two factors.

Start with the new Fox News poll, done the last few days of March. Pollsters gave respondents, all registered voters, a list of seven Republican candidates — Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Walker and Ben Carson. “Please tell me whether you have a generally favorable or unfavorable opinion of each one,” the pollsters asked. And then they added, “If you’ve never heard of one, please just say so.”

Forty-three percent of respondents said they have never heard of Walker — the highest of any GOP candidate except Carson, with 54 percent. In addition, ten percent said they “can’t say” their opinion of Walker. (Bush’s never-heard-of number was eight percent, with ten percent “can’t say.”) Walker’s total was 27 percent favorable, 21 percent unfavorable, with a combined 53 percent never-heard-of or can’t-say. . . .

For a candidate who starts out with little national recognition, a campaign is a long process of telling voters who he is. With the general public — and all three polls cited above were of the public, not just Republicans — Walker is still a mystery for a large number of people. Even some Republicans who know of Walker and like him base their opinion on what they know about Walker’s stand against public-sector unions in Wisconsin, and little beyond that. Despite all the attention the media has paid to the campaign so far, Walker is still starting out when it comes to explaining to voters who he is and why he’s running.

Well, the politically-aware know a lot. The low-info types probably don’t know anyone beyond Jeb and Hillary.

IF THE GOP WERE SMART, THEY’D JUMP ON THIS BY DISALLOWING FOOD STAMP PURCHASES OF MEAT: Federal report: Vegan diet best for planet. “A federal panel that helps set federal dietary guidelines is recommending Americans eat less meat because it’s better for the environment, sparking outrage from industry groups representing the nation’s purveyors of beef, pork and poultry.”

On the other hand, given the track record of federally-set dietary guidelines to date, I think I’ll have a steak tonight.

ROSS DOUTHAT: Interview With A Christian. “After watching the debate about religious freedom unfold over the past week, I decided to subject myself to an interview by an imaginary — but representative — member of the press.” Well, it’s a lot smarter than that Gary Tuchman CNN florist interview that they were — rightly — mocking on Red Eye.

JONATHAN TURLEY: Critics of Indiana’s religious freedom law are trying to have their cake and eat it, too. “In their rush to support same-sex rights, they’ve been too quick to dismiss legitimate questions about free speech and expression.” I think it’s mostly about the joy of bullying the proles from flyover country.

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: Charles Murray: Let’s Render Some Federal Codes Unenforceable.

IS THERE AN AMMO FUND I CAN DONATE TO? What the U.S. Can Do to Help Christians in the Middle East.

SCOTT JOHNSON: Nine years later, Tom Cotton’s letter to the Times. The NYT’s outing of the SWIFT program, which was both legal and very useful, was an act of spite, one characteristic of their Bush-era coverage.

THEY RUIN EVERYTHING: How Campus Progressives Ruined Liberalism for the Rest of Us.

I have some confessions to make: I am a liberal. I am pro-choice. I favor the legalization of gay marriage and marijuana. Given supreme authority, I would drastically cut our military budget and use the money to institute a single-payer healthcare system (certainly not something many of my colleagues at the Independent would agree with). I even voted for Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, in the last presidential election. However, despite my overwhelmingly liberal political leanings, the progressive movement – particularly as I’ve seen it manifested on college campuses – has made me embarrassed to identify myself as a liberal.

Well, the embarrassment is justified. Plus:

To question the guilt of Darren Wilson was to be a racist, and to question the veracity of Sulkowicz’s story was to be a sexist rape apologist. Doing either of these things would almost certainly get you branded as a conservative. As a liberal who did both of these things, I have been appalled by the irrational mob mentality displayed by my fellow liberal students at events like the Ferguson protest and the “Carry That Weight” march in support of Sulkowicz. I am struggling to come to terms with this new reality wherein sticking to an objective view of the facts is considered a conservative trait. The campus left’s complete unwillingness to adjust their opinions of these cases to fit with the facts shows a thought process completely devoid of reason.

Reason and facts might interfere with a political goal. So safer to stick with emotion and tribalism.

AT LEAST THEY WEREN’T INVESTIGATING SCOTT WALKER’S SWEATER PURCHASES: Fact-Checking The Fact Checkers: Politico Stumbles In Its Super-Sleuthing. It’s like they’re still trying to protect Jonathan Gruber.