DO TELL: We were wrong to try to ban racism out of existence, says former equality chief.

A former equality chief has branded his years working to stamp out racial discrimination as ‘utterly wrong’.

Writer and broadcaster Trevor Phillips said efforts made under the Blair government turned anti-racism into an ‘ugly new doctrine’.

Mr Phillips is the former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and has waged a 30-year campaign to tackle issues around discrimination and equality.

In an upcoming Channel 4 documentary, called Things We Won’t Say About Race That Are True, he says attempts to stop prejudice instead encouraged abuse and endangered lives as well as contributed to the rise of parties like Ukip.

Well, they also contributed to Labour’s ability to remake Britain’s immigration laws — and thus electorate — while silencing critics with cries of racism. Which, I suspect, was the main point.

THIS WHOLE “CHOREPLAY” THING IS BASED ON IGNORANCE, as science indicates that only “manly” chores get you laid. The science is settled: “The less gender differentiation, the less sexual desire.” You don’t want to be a science-denier, do you?

I think that what we’re seeing with pieces like this one by Sheryl Sandberg and LeBron James is foreplay for a Hillary campaign, science be damned. Meanwhile, guys, do you want to support a candidate for President who will have you washing dishes instead of getting laid? If you do, then Hillary’s your gal!

But, like Chelsea Clinton says, if you want true equality, you need to put a man in charge, not her mom. . . .

UPDATE: From the comments: “Excuse me but why is the COO of a major tech company taking to the pages of the New York Times to tell the opposite gender how to get laid? Why is this appropriate at all?”

IT’S ALL ABOUT OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRAFT AND POWER: Fresh Out of Bankruptcy, City Announces Multimillion-Dollar Housing Project. Public housing projects are just Democratic Party voter-farms whose construction allows contracts to go to favored players. Of course they’re a priority.

FLASHBACK: Comparing Japanese-Americans’ protestations of loyalty in World War II with Muslim-Americans post 9/11. To be fair, the America of the World War II era expected more in the way of patriotism.

HOLMAN JENKINS: How the Oil Export Ban Chokes the Fracking Boom: The energy renaissance was fun while it lasted, but age-old Washington laws and lobbyists may finally prove its undoing.

Oil is overflowing U.S. storage facilities partly because of the 40-year-old export ban. The wave of bankruptcies and layoffs that many have predicted for the U.S. energy sector may finally be coming, but less because of the distressed price of oil than because producers will have to stop producing if they have nowhere to send their output. Today’s oil export ban was part of a spasm of nonsensical responses to the 1970s, all of them producing disasters on their own different schedules. Price controls on gasoline, the first stooge, quickly failed amid long lines at gas stations. Fuel-economy rules for auto makers, the second stooge, persist to this day, and played an unsung role in driving the auto industry into bankruptcy by forcing it to lose billions trying to compete in the small-car market with the Japanese.

The third stooge of 1970s energy policy, the ban on U.S. oil exports, is now getting ready to produce its own unique pratfall. Thanks to the fracking boom in Texas and North Dakota, America is producing more light sweet crude than domestic refineries can handle. Oil producers were already being denied a premium of $12 a barrel by not being allowed to export this oil. Soon the only option may be to shut down production altogether.

Oil has been one of the few boom industries in Obama’s America, creating a disproportionate share of new jobs. Among many stupidities, very light petroleum known as a condensate can be exported if it happens to come out of a gas well. If the same material comes out of an oil well, it can’t be exported without special permission. Ultra-light crudes account for a high proportion of booming Eagle Ford Shale production in Texas. Such crudes are especially coveted by Asian refiners, which means domestic producers are leaving a large premium on the table.

Who wins? Domestic refiners get artificially cheap oil to run their plants. An industry mythology claims consumers also benefit thanks to cheaper gasoline. Don’t buy it. Gasoline flows freely in and out of the country, so its price is set by the world market.

Clearly, comrades, rather than opening up crude oil exports, we must close the Gasoline Export Loophole!

ON THE ETHANOL STANDARD, TED CRUZ GOES TO IOWA AND HAS A SISTER SOULJAH MOMENT. Good. It’s a pathetic payoff.

SARAH HOYT CONTINUES: Cake Or Death?

ED DRISCOLL: Not Anti-War, Just On The Other Side.

WILL ROBOTS KILL LABOR UNIONS? Possibly in the private sector. But the main area of union growth in recent decades has been in the public sector, where efficiency doesn’t matter, and maintaining an army of reliable voters on the public payroll is key. Robots don’t help there.

LOOKING AT HEALTH BENEFITS OF BLOOD DONATION: I generally give twice a year. I hope that it’s good for my health, but that’s not really why I do it.

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A CROSSFIT-LIKE WORKOUT ROUTINE FOR FIREMEN:

We work 24-hour shifts. You could be here at the station and go from a dead sleep state to running into a burning building. The National Fire Protection Association says that we have to be at a fire within five minutes of the alarm. So you go from a resting heart rate to about 150 beats per minute in five minutes.

When you go to a regular gym and do 20 minutes of walking on the treadmill and then do a back and biceps routine, your heart rate is never really climbing. But functional fitness training involves full body movements and it involves an up-tempo. About halfway through our workouts, your heart rate is at max effort level. But you still have to dig deep to finish. It’s just like in a fire. We max our heart rates when we’re fighting a fire, and even when your body is telling you to stop, you have to keep going if the fire’s not out. . . .

When we go to a fire scene, everything is a full body motion. There are no bicep curls or triceps kickbacks at a fire ground. But there’s a lot of squatting. There’s a lot of farmer’s carries with ladders and different tools. There’s a lot of bear crawling when the heat drops us to the ground. So all these functional-fitness-style full body exercises mimic what we’re doing in fires.

The story has links to their workout, if you’re interested.

BLUSTER: Mom of UFC Champion Ronda Rousey Has Advice for Daughter Who Boasts She Could Beat ‘100%’ Of Men.

SKIN IN THE GAME: How to Stop Overzealous Prosecutors: Make them answer for the cost of incarceration.

THIS HAS BOTH UPSIDES AND DOWNSIDES: Scientists Can Now Read Your Memories: Researchers have mapped rats’ memories, and humans could be next. Upside: Mind-uploading. Downside: Mind-rape.

NEUROMUSCULAR EFFICIENCY for the Strength-Lifter.

SEE, I WAS EXPECTING THAT IN THE 21ST CENTURY, PICKUP TRUCKS WOULD COME WITH DEATH LASERS. AND FLY: When Lockheed Fired Its Death Laser at a Pickup Truck, This Happened. But, then, the 21st Century is disappointing me in a number of ways, so far.

SPACE: NASA’s Dawn Probe Enters Orbit Around Ceres.

I SUSPECT THE POWDERED SUGAR IS MORE DANGEROUS: Dunkin’ Donuts to remove nanomaterial from powdered doughnut recipe. But hey, it’s supporting a “non profit” based on pressuring companies to remove things.

FLASHBACK: Want true equality? Support Gender Tax Parity!

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 667.

NATIONAL JOURNAL: The New, Scary Question Facing Democrats: If Not Hillary Clinton, Then Who?

That’s a question that Democrats may have to begrudgingly ask themselves in the coming weeks, as a New York Times story about Clinton’s email use during her time as secretary of state—compounded with earlier reporting on the Clinton Foundation—roil Clintonland.

Clinton’s allies are already insisting the email story—that Clinton exclusively used her personal email address while at the State Department—is a nothing-burger. It isn’t news. It will blow over after conservatives have had their 48 hours of outrage. After all, it’s unclear whether Clinton actually violated any rules! Move along, nothing to see here.

But the story doesn’t make the Democrats’ only current hope look good. The news fits perfectly into the narrative that Clinton’s opponents are already trying to create: that she and her husband are secretive, less-than-scrupulous career politicians who are more interested in preserving their own power than being held accountable to American voters. In other words, that they are a real-life Frank and Claire Underwood.

But less competent, and less charming.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Indictment: Mendham teacher had sex with 1 student, ‘improper’ relationships with 3. “Nicole McDonough, 32, of Mount Olive, who is also known as Nicole L. Howell, is accused of having a “physical sexual relationship” with one student, and having improper ‘communication’ and ‘fraternization’ with all three, according to a statement issued by Morris County Prosecutor Fredric Knapp and Mendham Borough Police Chief Pasquale Libertino. McDonough has been suspended from her job since her arrest on Dec. 30 during the school’s holiday break. At that time, she was charged with just one count of official misconduct for allegedly engaging in sexual intercourse with one student in May and June of 2014, according to a criminal complaint signed by Morris County Prosecutor’s Detective Bruce LaFera. . . . McDonough did this, the indictment says, ‘with the purpose to obtain a benefit for herself, specifically emotional, mental and/or physical sexual gratification.'”

I blame today’s pervasive culture of female sexual entitlement.

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