RICHARD GRENELL: Naming and shaming bad reporters, and encouraging you to do the same.

JOURNALISM: Politico Flails About in Pathetic Attempt to Explain What Could Go Wrong for Scott Walker.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 701.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Destrehan High School teacher accused of having sex with 16-year-old accepts plea deal.

Shelley Dufresne, one of two former Destrehan High School teachers accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student, has agreed to a plea deal that will allow her to avoid any prison time or having to register as a sex offender, at least for now.

The St. Charles Parish District Attorney’s Office and Dufresne’s attorney, Deanne Williams, announced the deal during a status conference Thursday morning at 29th Judicial District Court in Hahnville.

Dufresne, 32, was facing one felony count of carnal knowledge of a juvenile, which carried a potential sentence of up to a decade in prison and a $5,000 fine. The charge stems from an alleged sexual encounter with the teenager at a home in Montz.

As part of the deal unveiled Thursday, Dufresne pleaded guilty to one felony count of obscenity and received a deferred sentence of three years in prison, three years of active probation and a $1,000 fine.

I rather doubt that a male teacher would have gotten such a good deal, but I may be wrong.

JOURNALISM: New York Times Kicks off NRA Convention Coverage with Massive Lie. They have to lie, because if they didn’t, they wouldn’t have any sort of argument at all. But now that they’ve been caught, let’s see if (and how) they correct.

CHANGE: What will sex education sound like when the government sees a need to encourage young women to get pregnant? From the comments:

I think most people would rather be parents than not be parents. In a totally freely chosen scenario, birth control would be used to prevent births before the parents are ready and after the parents have enough children (2 or 3 most of the time).

In the developed world, childraising is hard, it’s expensive, and it is severely over-regulated by government and overly constrained by societal expectations.

If we want more children, we have to foster a society where there is less second-guessing of parental choices and an economy where the average couple can have one parent stay home if they want and have an affordable support system if they both want to work.

Yes, I’ve written on this problem before.

BY INSTINCT, MOST COLLEGE ADMINISTRATORS ARE TOTALITARIANS: Colleges Rush to Violate Free Speech, Due Process in Response to Speech Controversies.

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Number Of Law School Applicants Has Bottomed Out, But Quality Of Applicants Continues To Plummet. “In short, the wrong sort of applicants are applying. … The only places that have seen an increase in applicants are those scoring a 144 or lower. Applicants scoring a 145 to 149 are largely flat. In contrast, applicants with a high score of 165 or higher are down double-digits, with the steepest decline among the most elite applicants.”

DAVID DRUCKER: “Round one in the battle of anti-Establishment Republican presidential candidates goes to Sen. Ted Cruz.”

Related: Hillary Slipping Against . . . Entire Republican Field. “In head-to-head matchups, every Republican candidate effectively ties her in Colorado and almost all Republicans effectively tie her in Iowa.”

Plus: “Hillary Clinton’s favorable rating from the American public currently stands at 48%, which is similar to her 50% reading last month, but is down from 55% last summer and from 59% a year ago… Not only is this Clinton’s weakest favorable rating of the past year, but it is the lowest since 2008 when she was competing in that year’s Democratic primary elections.”

Don’t get cocky, kids.

Also: Journalistic white-knighting and Rand Paul interviews: “Cillizza appears to see his female colleagues as the weaker sex in desperate need of his macho mansplanatory wonkery.”

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Report: Hillary changed stance on trade deal after donations to Clinton Foundation.

OBAMA’S PRECURSOR: Deval Patrick: “A terrible manager who left a disaster behind.”

SOCIAL MOBILITY: Single black female BA seeks educated husband: Race, assortative mating and inequality.

The stubborn race gaps in our society, especially those facing black Americans, are one of the greatest equity challenges of the 21st century. This is not just an issue of inequality at any point in time — it is an intergenerational problem. The United States’ social mobility problem is in large part a reflection of the truncated life chances of black children: not only in terms of lower rates of upward mobility from the bottom rungs of the income ladder, but also the much higher risk of downward mobility from higher up the distribution. Most black children born into families in the middle quintile will fall into one of the two income quintiles below as adults, for example, according to recent work by Scott Winship.

There are a complex set of factors at work here, including school quality, wealth gaps, criminal justice, college access, neighborhood segregation and discrimination. But assortative mating — or lack of it — may play a role too. Marriage rates in the black community are low and falling. Black women are the group who are least likely to “marry out” across race lines. Black men are the second least likely race/gender group to gain a college education, after Hispanic men. The combination of these factors means that black women who get a college education are less likely to find a college-educated husband. It can be seen as good news that they are willing to ”marry down” in terms of education — rather than not marry at all — but, other things being equal, marrying down will make it more difficult for them to achieve and maintain a middle-class standard of living than if they married college-educated partners. It may also make it harder for them to help their children surpass or at least maintain their status on the income ladder.

The interaction between gender, race, education, and marriage helps to explain the replication of social status. Even if black women rise up the ladder, in part because of their efforts to acquire more education, one of the key mechanisms for maintaining that higher status for the next generation — assortative mating — is less available to them.

Interesting that this is presented primarily as a problem for women.

OUCH: I survived a gang rape. That’s why I think Rolling Stone’s retraction of its fabricated gang rape story is nowhere near enough.

THIS IS A COUPLE OF DAYS OLD, BUT IT’S PRETTY FUNNY: Dana Perino explains why guys in Washington are undateable.

Most of the guys didn’t look like they’d ever worked outside a day in their lives — soft hands, limp handshakes, pale skin, and pudgy middles.

Pajama boy in Joseph A. Banks.

KIRSTEN POWERS: Gay marriage debate’s sore winners: Liberals should be celebrating in good cheer, not by muzzling opponents for wrongthink. Honestly, a lot of them would rather muzzle opponents for wrongthink than win on policy. The muzzling isn’t a means, it’s an end.

AN UNHEALTHY AGENCY: If IRS Agents Horrify Their Own Families, Maybe They’re Doing it Wrong.

Well, the Service has been especially thuggish and dishonest over the last 6 years or so….

DEROY MURDOCK: With Anti-Semitism on the March, Jewish Republicans Welcome Senator Ron Johnson to New York.

From the horrific expansion of the Islamic State to an impending U.S.-Iranian deal that will do little to quash the ayatollahs’ atomic ambitions, Jews the world over have mounting reasons to worry. Obama’s ongoing, kindergarten-like tantrum over the re-election of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hardly reassuring. All of this may explain why American Jews increasingly are leaning toward the Republican party and its policies that unapologetically defend Israel and hammer radical Islamic terrorism. In contrast, Obama gives the Jewish state the back of his hand and refers vaguely to “violent extremists” rather than specifically to the Muslim zealots who gleefully kill Jews, Christians, and virtually anything that moves and is not militantly Islamic. (As demolished antiquities from Afghanistan to Mosul can attest, these fanatics even destroy inanimate objects.) A recent Gallup poll found that Jewish support for the Democratic party has fallen from 71 percent in 2008 to 61 percent in January. Pew Research indicates that 68 percent of Jews surveyed backed the Democrats in 2012, compared to 61 percent today.

Honestly, given Obama’s record, it’s amazing that the Democrats are in double-digit territory.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

Chart: Student debt (held by the federal government) as % of total consumer credit – pic.twitter.com/h0Y8Xlj1Wy

— SoberLook.com (@SoberLook) April 8, 2015

OUCH: Wisconsin: This is what democracy looks like. “After Wisconsinites vote to amend the state constitution to change how the state supreme court’s chief justice is selected, Shirley Abrahamson sues in federal court to keep her position under the old provision.”

AFTER SEEING HER GO ALL CATHARINE MACKINNON ON “SEXUAL HARASSMENT” A WHILE BACK, I’M UNIMPRESSED WITH THIS: Megyn Kelly to Rand Paul: You’re coming off as pretty thin-skinned in your interviews, you know.

STACY TABB SAYS THEY’RE GOOD PEOPLE: Patriot Coffee Roasters.

WHEN WOMEN OUTPERFORM MEN IT’S BECAUSE WOMEN ARE WONDERFUL! AND MEN NEED TO BE MORE LIKE THEM. WHEN MEN OUTPERFORM WOMEN IT’S A TERRIBLE PROBLEM THAT MUST BE ADDRESSED: Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women. “‘Men negotiate harder than women do and sometimes women get penalized when they do negotiate,’ she said. ‘So as part of our recruiting process we don’t negotiate with candidates. We come up with an offer that we think is fair. If you want more equity, we’ll let you swap a little bit of your cash salary for equity, but we aren’t going to reward people who are better negotiators with more compensation.'”

REMINDER: In 2009, Barack Obama “Joked” About Siccing The IRS On His Enemies.