EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL. Actual AP Headline: “As Trump rises, Clinton preaches love and kindness:”

At NewsBusters, Tim Graham notes:

The Associated Press isn’t being shy about which party it favors with this headline: “As Trump rises, Clinton preaches love and kindness.” On its site, U.S. News & World Report took it the natural step further: “As Donald Trump rises with his harsh rhetoric, Hillary Clinton preaches love and kindness.” Reach for the Rolaids.

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This is not the first time Lerer and Thomas have carried Clinton water. After the Benghazi hearing in October, their dispatch began with, well, love and kindness:

Hillary Rodham Clinton turned an 11-hour congressional grilling into a campaign call to action on foreign policy, using a make-or-break appearance before the Republican-led Benghazi committee to display a commanding, presidential presence under a barrage of questions.

Iowahawk takes a more sober look at American under attack from ISIS and other forms of radical Islam and responds, “You’re confused, Grandma. This isn’t Woodstock, it’s Altamont.”

(Via Hot Air.)

THAT SHOULD GIVE HIS POLITICAL CAREER A NICE BOOST: White House Takes A Slap At Tenn. Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey’s Statement On Immigration.

GOD KNOWS, IT’S HELD ME BACK: Being Handsome Can Actually Impede A Man’s Professional Progress.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: College Endowments Are Flourishing Again — And Critics Are Taking Note.

That column got the attention of Malcolm Gladwell, the best-selling author, who took to Twitter and National Public Radio to complain about how taxpayers were subsidizing the income of hedge funds and private-equity funds through elite-college endowments. “I was going to donate money to Yale,” he tweeted. “But maybe it makes more sense to mail a check directly to the hedge fund of my choice.”

Mr. Gladwell also called attention to research by the Nexus Research and Policy Center, which found in an April report that taxpayer subsidies for the elite private institutions dwarf subsidies for public institutions when you consider that endowments aren’t subject to tax. The report found a per-student subsidy at Princeton University of more than $100,000, compared with a per-student subsidy at Rutgers University, a nearby public institution, of just $12,000. …

An often-cited benefit of endowments is the cushion they provide during downturns. But Brian Galle, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center who studies endowments and taxation, testified at the hearing that Harvard has taken its “rainy day” account to an absurd extreme. The endowment could cover Harvard’s entire budget for 12 years.

I think it’s time to repeat my call for common-sense educational reforms to reduce inequality:

What is to be done? Well, in the name of ending inequality, I have a few modest proposals.

We should eliminate the tax deductibility of contributions to schools having endowments in excess of $1 billion. At some point, as our president has said, you’ve made enough money. That won’t end all major donations to the Ivy League, but it will doubtless encourage donors to look at less wealthy and more deserving schools, such as Northern Kentucky University, recently deemed “more inspirational than Harvard” in the London Times Higher Education magazine.

We should require that all schools with endowments over $1 billion spend at least 10% of their endowment annually on student financial aid. That will make it easier for less wealthy students to attend elite institutions.

We should require that university admissions be based strictly on objective criteria such as grades and SAT/ACT scores, with random drawings used to cull the herd further if necessary. That will eliminate the Ivy League’s documented discrimination against Asians.

Since inequality is the most pressing social problem we face, except maybe for climate change, I think that these reforms should get front-burner treatment from the next Congress and President.

THE ATLANTIC: “Donald Trump’s noisy complaints that immigration is out of control are literally true.”

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 946.

IT COLLIDED WITH REALITY. ALSO SOME OF THEM ARE GETTING OLD ENOUGH TO WORRY ABOUT THEIR KIDS’ SAFETY. What Happened To Millennial Dovishness?

Since President Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign, part of the received wisdom about Millennials has been that they would push American public opinion on foreign policy in a more non-interventionist direction. Several surveys in the last few years have supported this notion: A 2011 Pew report found that Millennials were significantly more dovish than older generations, and a 2013 poll on Syria found that “opposition to unilateral airstrikes peaks among young adults.” Earlier this year, the Cato institute hopefully speculated that Millennials “may have internalized a permanent case of ‘Iraq Aversion.’”

But Millennials’ views on ISIS are complicating this narrative. A new poll from the Harvard Institute of Politics finds that 60 percent of Millennials support the use of U.S. ground troops against the Islamic State. The IOP only surveyed Millennials, so it’s impossible to directly compare this finding to the attitudes of older generations, but 60 percent is a higher level of support than most surveys have found among the general public. A CNN/ORC poll released earlier this week found 50 percent support for ground troops among Americans aged 18-34, roughly in line with the 53 percent support registered among the general public.

The press is always proclaiming the transformative power of a new generation — and it’s always going to be “transformative” in the same way — but then the young stupid voters become older, less-stupid (or at least, less-inexperienced) voters. But what does it say about the press that it’s always cheerleading for transformations that appeal only to ignorant youth?

HE’S A GREAT VA NURSE (OTHER THAN THAT MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE!): Department of Veterans Affairs officials returned a 240-pound nurse to work despite his being charged with manslaughter in the beating death of a 70-year-old veteran in a VA hospital. The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Team’s Luke Rosiak reports the case provides evidence that VA manipulates administrative leave data so Congress can’t see what’s really happening. Just – cough, cough – like secret waiting lists to see doctors – cough, cough.

ALSO, FACEBOOK WAS PROMOTED BY THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY AS A MEANS OF KEEPING TABS ON PEOPLE: Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook Reassures Muslim Users. Keep posting, guys. It makes you easier to keep track of.

YOU CAN KEEP YOUR DOCTOR, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR PLAN: Unless your Obamacare co-op goes bust, as have 14 of the 23 established at a cost of $2.4 billion in 2011. Many of the co-ops going under, reports the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Team’s Richard Pollock, lack insurance to pay patient and care-provider claims in the event of bankruptcy.

Among the uncovered is New York’s Health Republic, the largest of the Obamacare co-ops, which got $265 million from the government to launch. Sara Horowitz, Health Republic’s founder, worked with Obama years ago at a left-wing New York activist group.

Twenty percent of the doctors treating Health Republic customers are now owed $100,000 or more. Odds are they won’t even get pennies on the dollar. You can keep your doctor … if you happen to run into him or her in the Obamacare health insurance poor-house now under construction.

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ANALYSIS: TRUE. America’s Most Dangerous Demagogue Lives In The White House.

There’s a demagogue loose in the land. He uses immigration and the war on terror to drive a wedge into the American populace. He traffics in absurd conspiracy theories about foreign influence, he mocks his political opponents, and he inspires friends and allies to lash out, lawlessly, against them. He compares patriotic Americans to jihadists, and he endangers our national security with his reckless rhetoric.

I’m speaking, of course, about the President of the United States. It’s been amusing to watch the media hyperventilate over Donald Trump’s comments when it has largely cheered or ignored our own president’s rhetoric — rhetoric that’s inspired serial violations of First Amendment freedoms, and been used as justification for executive overreach and deadly mistakes at home and abroad.

We knew of Barack Obama’s contempt for his political opponents in 2008, when he famously mocked Hillary Clinton’s blue-collar supporters, calling them “bitter” and saying they “cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them.” But this was small potatoes compared to the rhetoric he’d employ once he was elected.

Worst President Ever. Or at least since that racist Woodrow Wilson.

I’D COMPARE THIS TO MINORITY REPORT, BUT THAT HEADLINE MIGHT BE A TRIGGERING SAFE SPACE VIOLATION. “Allegations of Yale ‘white girls only’ frat party rejected,” Jazz Shaw writes. “But where do we go from here?”

Are we now at the point where all the students should be required to wear body cameras similar to what we’re doing with police? For that matter, do all Americans need to be wearing a body camera each time they step foot outside their homes to ensure that they never do or say anything offensive or, conversely, to defend themselves against false accusations? Or perhaps I should horrify the Libertarians by suggesting that each and every inch of every campus be under the monitoring eyes of fixed cameras complete with high end audio recording so the record can be checked each time an accusation is brought forth.

As we prepare students for adulthood, we’ve traditionally tended to treat them like adults and expected them to monitor their own behavior. Those days are gone, however, so we’ll need a new system of conflict resolution for our special snowflakes. Failing that, the colleges will continue to essentially shut themselves down.

So, an education apocalypse, to coin a phrase.

SO, NOT A CLOCK THIS TIME? Middle schooler’s homemade ‘IED’ turns out to be actual IED; Student faces charges.

Earlier: If you see something, say something. And get sued for $15 million.

THIS PARTICULAR MORAL PANIC APPEARS TO BE SUBSIDING: Newsweek highlights the ‘other side’ of campus sexual assault debate.

Newsweek has generally provided positive coverage for those insisting campus sexual assault is rampant at American colleges and universities. They’ve written uncritically about severely flawed studies alleging that one in three men would rape if they could get away with it (debunked here) and one in four or five women allegedly being sexually assaulted while in college (debunked here).

But on Thursday, the magazine published an article that tells the other side of the campus sexual assault debate — the side where accused men (and a couple of women) have no due process rights and are branded as rapists without being able to properly defend themselves.

Newsweek’s Max Kutner told the story of Paul Nungesser, who was accused of raping mattress-toter Emma Sulkowicz and of other sexual misconduct by some of her friends. In each instance, Nungesser was cleared of wrongdoing (including one accusation that was less plausible than Sulkowicz’s). He was even interviewed by police in relation to Sulkowicz’s accusation, but the investigation went no further. . . .

Newsweek also tells the story of several other men who have been accused but who paint a much different picture of what occurred during the alleged rape. For one accused student, S. Tim Yusuf, the accusation against him in 1992 paved the way for a landmark court case cited by many accused students now.

Yusuf had been accused of sexual harassment, but was able to provide evidence that he wasn’t anywhere near his accuser at the time of the alleged incident. The school didn’t allow him to submit that evidence and suspended him for one semester. Twenty years later, and schools are still refusing accused students the ability to provide evidence in their defense, or if it is allowed, that evidence is then twisted as evidence of wrongdoing.

Newsweek also spoke to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s Samantha Harris, who suggested that previously, women who made sexual assault accusations were not taken seriously, but that now, “a growing number of people are starting to be concerned that the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction.”

Well, that’s because it has. And it’s not so much “swung” as “shoved by man-hating feminists trying to create a ‘war on women’ narrative for Hillary.”

WHY LIBERALS TALK ABOUT GUNS: “Guns. They’re what liberals talk about so they don’t have to talk about evil.”

Read the whole thing.

IT’S AS IF OBAMA JUST DOESN’T CARE ABOUT PROTECTING AMERICA: Whistleblower: Feds Shut Down Terror Investigation That Could Have Prevented San Bernardino Attack.

Philip Haney said that in 2012 as an agent with U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s National Targeting Center, he opened an investigation into a Sunni Islamic group called, Tablighi Jamaat, a subset of the fundamentalist Deobandi movement.

But Haney said that just a year into the investigation it was shut down State Department and the Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

The reason the investigation was quashed? Because the federal government did not want to profile Islamic groups, Haney told Kelly.

If they’d been Baptists, that never would have happened.

PREDICTION: Rand Paul about to get booted from main GOP debate.

WAPO FACT CHECKER: Democrats’ misleading claims about closing the no-fly list ‘loophole.’ To the Democrats, anything that stops them from doing whatever they want to you is a “loophole.”

OFF-MESSAGE: Democratic Congresswoman: “Between 5 And 20%” Of Muslims Willing To Use Terrorism To Institute Caliphate.

California Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez said on Wednesday that “between 5 and 20%” of Muslims “have a desire for a caliphate and to institute that in any way possible,” including the use of terrorism.

“But certainly, we know that there is a small group, and we don’t know how big that is — it can be anywhere between 5 and 20%, from the people that I speak to — that Islam is their religion and who have a desire for a caliphate and to institute that in anyway possible, and in particular go after what they consider Western norms — our way of life,” Sanchez said on “PoliticKING with Larry King.”
Sanchez, who is running for Barbara Boxer’s open Senate seat, added that this group of Muslims was “willing to use and they do use terrorism.”

Donald Trump was unavailable for comment. Oh, who am I kidding? He’s never unavailable for comment!

TIME MAGAZINE GETS ONE RIGHT: Angela Merkel’s “Person of the Year” award from Time “has a valedictory feel,” the Weekly Standard notes. “Merkel’s 2015 actions were certainly bold, but the consequences may be dire.”

Indeed; as we quoted on Wednesday in our own post on Merkel’s “Person of the Year” award:

STREET ARTIST SABO STRIKES AGAIN: Signs declare Hollywood a “Jihad Free Zone,” courtesy of Sabo, who previously created the subversive image of a heavily-tatted up Ted Cruz and “Undocumented Democrats say Dump Trump” ads among numerous other brilliant Photoshops:

“If you truly love your family, your friends, your co-workers, yourself, you will make your area a “safe space” from Islamic terrorism by getting one of these signs,” the artist writes.

He notes the design is “officially” his fastest-censored design to date.

“Santa Monica, LACMA and Beverly Hills have declined my services by ripping down my ‘safe zone’ posters,” he notes.

Huh – that seems odd; simply putting up a sign that declares an area free of violence has never failed to stop violent criminal behavior in the past. In any case, as Don Surber quips, “That is better protection than Obama and Congress have given us.”

Related: “CAIR issues Islamophobia watch over gun shop’s ‘Muslim Free Zone’ signs;” no word yet how the pretzel logic they will deploy to attack the multiple layers of subtext in Sabo’s latest offering.

TO BE FAIR, HE LIES A LOT SO THIS IS NOTHING SPECIAL: House report: Obama officials misled public on Bergdahl swap.

A yearlong investigation by the House Armed Services Committee has concluded that the Obama administration broke the law in swapping five Taliban members for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl — and went out of its way to hide the negotiations as they were happening.

The report said the administration broke a law requiring it to give members of Congress 30 days’ advance notice of any detainee transfers from the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, where the senior Taliban leaders were held.

It also found that it misled reporters and lawmakers about a potential prisoner exchange. Congress was instead notified just hours before the May 2014 transfer took place.
Bergdahl, who is facing charges of desertion, had left his base in Afghanistan in 2009, and was subsequently captured and held hostage for five years.

“At the time, there were rumors that on-again, off-again talks about a prisoner exchange, which had broken down several years earlier, might be underway again, but the administration repeatedly suggested to reporters and to Congress that nothing significant was going on,” the report found.

The report also found that the administration kept some defense officials who would normally work on transfers out of the loop. The administration has said it feared a leak of the swap would scuttle the deal and could endanger Bergdahl’s life.

I feel like there’s more going on here than we’ve been told.

SCOTT ADAMS: The Trump Immigration Surprise – the Trap is Half-Sprung.