THE HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE, as illustrated by Dilbert.

WHERE PENS AND SWORDS ARE CONCERNED, MY PHILOSOPHY IS THAT YOU SHOULD OWN PLENTY OF BOTH, AND BE ABLE TO USE WHICHEVER ONE SEEMS BEST SUITED TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES: Eugene Volokh on Pens and Swords.

MILO YIANNOPOULOS: Where The British Left Went So Horribly Wrong. “There is really no place today for a party funded and effectively dictated to by the trades unions. But in seeking to reinvent itself and recapture relevance, the Left concocted a bizarre mixture of old-fashioned socialism and bleeding-edge American social justice, fomented in tired old Tory hatred and the politics of envy and grievance. In other words, because Labour doesn’t have an interest group to protect any longer, it has reimagined itself as a party with a higher moral purpose. Yet the morality it aspires to appeals to few outside of the media and universities and its economic principles have not been deployed since Soviet Russia.”

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PRESSURE: 113 Republicans back lawsuit against Obama’s immigration actions.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK ASLEEP: FBI Has ‘Interesting’ Reaction to ISIS Death Threats Against Woman for Muhammad Cartoon Contest. Just as people who support the regime are excused from paying taxes, people the regime dislikes can’t expect much in the way of protection.

SCOTT JOHNSON: Obama Corruption: From The IRS To The DOJ.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Speak Free, Or Die.

OBAMA-McCONNELL THE NEW ODD COUPLE?:  That’s what Senate Majority Leader McConnell told an audience today in Boston.  Apparently, President Obama is passing sweet little handwritten notes to his new beau, McConnell.  They both strike me as a couple of Felixes, though.

FASTER, PLEASE: New Blood Tests May Transform Cancer Care.

FASTER, PLEASE: Organic Electronics Deliver Pain-Canceling Molecules. “Researchers invented an implanted bioelectronic device that delivers therapeutic drugs to rats’ spinal cords with unprecedented precision, reducing pain without side effects, according to a study published today in Science Advances. The researchers say that by delivering lower doses of pain medication in a more targeted way, side effects that often accompany traditional administration of pain medications can be avoided.”

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LIE ABOUT RAPE! (CONT’D): My son’s life was ripped apart by a woman who falsely cried ‘rape’… twice: Police knew Oxford student was a fantasist – so why did they believe her? “‘She had a history of mental illness, depression, attention-seeking behaviour and lying. Most shocking was that this was the second time she had falsely accused a man of rape.’ It took a jury at Winchester Crown Court just an hour to clear her son when the case was heard in January. Even though the woman’s claims were entirely false, she is guaranteed anonymity by the law, unlike Hilary’s son.”

Because doubting her has political risks. Ruining a man’s life does not. Just ask Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) who continues to smear a Columbia student as a rapist even though he was cleared by the university and police, and even though his accuser, Emma Sulkowicz, has become a campus joke.

JOURNALISM: SO A GUY TRIES TO SHOOT GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, and the press reports it as George Zimmerman involved in shooting. Well, he was involved, by being shot. Remember when Gabby Giffords was involved in a shooting?

ABORTION SCIENCE DENIERS:  Jonathan Tobin has a piece in Commentary pointing out the obvious anti-science position of defenders of late-term abortions.

[A] new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine illustrates that those decrying the effort to oppose late term abortions as a right-wing “war on women” are not only on questionable moral ground but also disregarding scientific facts about premature babies. According to the Journal, it is now clear that babies born at 22 or 23 weeks into pregnancy have a decent chance to survive if given treatment. Those born at 23 weeks are even more likely to live with half doing so without significant problems. This is good news for families but as even the New York Times tacitly admitted in its story about the report, it is bad news for those on the left who have been fighting efforts in state legislatures to ban late term abortions.

Toobin doesn’t discuss it, but advances in care for very premature babies has pushed back the point of “viability”–survival outside the mother’s womb–that the Supreme Court has designated as its Maginot Line in its abortion jurisprudence since Planned Parenthood v. Casey.  As the point of viability moves backward–now around 22 weeks’ gestation–the States’ ability to ban abortions expands. It has not expanded so far, however, as to sustain laws that ban all abortions after 20 weeks’ gestation, as the Ninth Circuit recently held in Horne v. Isaacson, with the Supreme Court denying review.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LIE ABOUT RAPE! U. Minnesota Student Who Claimed Dorm Rape At Knifepoint Is Lying, Cops Say. But is she being punished? Nope:

Another University of Minnesota official, Katie Eichele of the Aurora Center, “a safe and confidential space” for victims of sexual assault, suggested that no one should judge the unidentified student who made the armed rape allegations police don’t believe.

“The victim-survivor is the most important person in all of this, and supporting what it is they’re going through and what they may want in the process,” Eichele told the newspaper.

Well, when you lie about being raped, you’re not a “victim/survivor.” You’re a perpetrator. But acknowledging that would harm the campus victim-industrial complex.

SAFETY: Two concealed handgun permit holders, both volunteer firemen, stop mass public shooting.

THE SCREWFLY SOLUTION: Study: Use of GM mosquitoes against dengue proves effective.

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PETER BERKOWITZ: The Left’s Crusade Against Free Speech.

FEMALE SERIAL KILLERS: More Common Than You Think: “The details of the women’s crimes differed notably from those committed by men. Nearly all of the women in Harrison’s study had killed people whom they knew, often targeting their husbands and children. Male serial killers, in contrast, appear much more likely to kill strangers. Whereas the most common motive for male serial killers is sex, female murderers were most often driven by money; almost half of the women in Harrison’s sample killed for financial gain. And poison was by far their preferred method; male murderers are most likely to shoot, strangle, or stab their victims.”

HEH:  Antarctic ice so thick scientists have trouble getting there.  You know, because of global warming climate change.

WHEN DOCTORS Google their patients.

FROM CARLY FIORINA’S BOOK, Rising To The Challenge:

California is now the home of 111 billionaires, with assets greater than the entire gross domestic product of all but 24 countries in the world. It’s also home to the highest poverty rate in the country. In between, the middle-class that survives is largely composed of government employees–the very bureaucrats who have milked the middle class of the private economy into virtual extinction.

Yep. Some people are criticizing her for layoffs at HP. I’d like to see similar layoffs in the federal government.

TED CRUZ, BRINGING US TOGETHER: Mark Halperin’s Terrible Ted Cruz Interview Unites Left and Right in Mockery. The most damning part for Halperin, though, is that basically nobody actually watched the show.