MEH. I SAY BURN IT TO THE GROUND. Fears of Chaos Mount Over Obamacare Case.
But all this “chaos” talk is just an attempt to frighten the Court into not doing anything. And hey, why not? They successfully bullied Chief Justice Roberts on ObamaCare last time.
THE HILL: Republicans suspect the White House is hiding ObamaCare fallback plan. “Some Republicans say they simply do not believe that the Obama administration isn’t developing a fallback plan in case the Supreme Court dismantles a piece of the healthcare law this summer. Sylvia Burwell, the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), has repeatedly said there is no plan B if the high court rules that subsidies for insurance cannot be distributed through the federal exchange HealthCare.gov.”
Well, everything else they’ve said about ObamaCare has been a lie, so it’s a safe bet.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Foreign governments gave millions to Clinton foundation while Clinton was at State Dept. “The Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars from seven foreign governments during Hillary Rodham Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, including one donation that violated its ethics agreement with the Obama administration, foundation officials disclosed Wednesday. . . . Foreign governments and individuals are prohibited from giving money to U.S. political candidates, to prevent outside influence over national leaders. But the foundation has given donors a way to potentially gain favor with the Clintons outside the traditional political limits.”
So when she brags about all the air miles she logged, bear in mind that most of them were probably racked up while going to ask people for money.
SEX POLICE: Sexual violence law specialist threatens SUNY over affirmative consent. “Any school that determined whether an incident occurred by applying the affirmative consent standard is asking for trouble, because, number one, it’s inconsistent with Title IX, and two, because it’s a worse standard. It’s an unconstitutional standard. . . . My feeling is that it’s a lawsuit that is going to be easy to win.”
Note, however, that her problem is that she thinks “affirmative consent” isn’t hard enough on men.
FROM ANN ALTHOUSE, an old-fashioned Fisking of the hapless Dana Milbank. “And you’d be a better man, Dana Milbank, if you didn’t pose as if you were saying something nice about Scott Walker and inviting him to a higher level of civil discourse.” The list of things that would make Dana Milbank a better man is nigh-infinite.
IF ONLY THE GOP WERE THIS TRICKY: Democrats Fear an Ambush on the Senate Floor.
THE OMEGA MAN. And I don’t mean Charlton Heston.
BUT SHE DOES IT SO WELL: Sarah Hoyt: It’s Not Easy To Be Me.
“HE SHALL TAKE CARE THAT THE LAWS BE FAITHFULLY EXECUTED.”
CAPITULATION: Breaking stalemate, Senate votes 98-2 to debate ‘clean’ DHS bill. Well, unless they’re planning something tricky in the conference committee.
MARK RIPPETOE: A Very Simple Mathematical Truth For Successful Strength Training. “Few things could be simpler: use a few exercises that work as much of the body at one time as possible, find out how strong you are now on these exercises, and next time you train, lift a little heavier weight. Just a little. It’s the same process you used to learn to read, to play the guitar, to get a suntan, and to finish your master’s thesis. It’s the same process used to build an airplane or to evolve a more complex organism. It’s the accumulation of adaptation – the enemy of entropy – and it can be done by quite literally everybody.”
UPDATE: Link was wrong before. Fixed now. Sorry!
I’D CALL IT ADOLESCENT SOCIALISM: What Is the Philosophical Perspective of Star Trek?
FROM LARRY CORREIA, another Book Bomb.
A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Mass. Gov. Baker forces Obamacare architect Gruber off board. “
YOU WERE EDUCATED BY THE STATE, COMRADE. YOU CAN’T JUST TAKE THAT EDUCATION AND GO WHERE YOU WILL: Proposal would have grads who leave Illinois repay state aid.
NOBODY TOLD YOU LIFE WAS GONNA BE THIS WAY: Your job’s a joke, you’re broke, your love life’s DOA.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Jobs data cannot prove that college is a “good investment.”
Simply being employed in some job doesn’t mean that a college graduate is receiving any added compensation—any “return” on his degree. Many graduates are working in jobs where their education is mostly if not entirely irrelevant. For example, roughly half of the people driving for Uber are college graduates, but they aren’t paid any more on account of their educational credentials.
All that the favorable job statistics for college graduates tell us is that having a degree positions you better in the job market compared with people who do not have those credentials. Many employers who need workers for jobs that require only basic abilities and a decent attitude now screen out people who don’t have college degrees. Companies looking to hire for positions such as sales supervisor and rental car agent, for instance, often state that they’ll only consider applicants who’ve graduated from college. What they studied or how well they did is largely beside the point.
The college degree has become so ubiquitous that many companies know they can fill their needs without interviewing applicants who are presumably less capable and somewhat harder to train just because they haven’t been through the college mill. Consequently, people without degrees are increasingly confined to the shrinking, low-pay sectors of the labor market—unless they can succeed in one of the remaining fields where ability counts for everything, such as entrepreneurship, sports, and entertainment.
Pointing to the better employment prospects for people who have a college degree is irrelevant to the cost-versus-benefit debate. . . .
The individual who studies, say, chemical engineering and thereby acquires the essential background for a career in that field probably gets a splendid return on the time and money spent on college. But on the other hand, the individual who leaves high school with weak skills and scant interest in academic work, enrolls in school with low standards (perhaps a “party school”), chooses an easy major and breezes along to a degree four or five years later is likely to end up working in a low-skill job that an intelligent high schooler could do. That person, even though employed, is getting a negligible return—possibly even negative—on his college investment.
Higher-ed folks pushing college nowadays sound more and more like real estate people saying that there’s never been a better time to buy a house.