HOW OBAMA & THE LEFT VIEW ISRAEL & THE JEWS IN ONE PARAGRAPH: “If you haven’t heard about this murdered American. If you wonder why the butchering of this peace activist and civil rights warrior’s has not produced outrage, it’s because for all the good [Richard Lakin] has done, he committed the ultimate crime. He dared to be a Jew on a bus in Israel. His crime is was his very existence and as far as today’s left and this president is concerned, that is unpardonable.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, SHAMELESS HYPOCRISY EDITION: University wants due process for itself, but not its male students.

The University of Virginia and Virginia Democrats lobbied the Education Department to provide the school due process, something not afforded to its own students.

Specifically, the university wanted due process and fair treatment from the Education Department as it investigated the school for violations of the anti-gender discrimination law known as Title IX. But when the school conducts Title IX investigations of students accused of sexual assault, such due process is nowhere to be found.

It’s a clear case of “due process for me, but not for thee.”

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, urged the department to be fair to the school, fearing that the university would be denied “very basic requirements of due process.” He also worried about an “unfair or unjust process,” according to documents obtained by the Washington Post.

Two other state Democrats, Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, also pleaded with the department and asked that it give McAuliffe’s concerns “careful consideration.” As these top Democrats were making their case, the university itself requested fairness.

It’s easy to see why the politicians and school officials thought the investigation would not be conducted fairly. At one point, the department’s Office for Civil Rights, which oversees Title IX investigations, drafted a resolution agreement for university officials to sign. This agreement is a commitment from the school to overhaul its policies and procedures relating to sexual assault, sexual harassment and other Title IX-related accusations.

The thing is, according to U.Va. President Teresa Sullivan, the agreement was sent for signing before the school even knew the results of the investigation. How was the school supposed to update its policies if it didn’t even know what it was doing wrong?

While OCR appeared to be playing a game of “gotcha,” it is rich that Sullivan, U.Va. administrators and Democratic politicians were harping about due process and fairness. . . .

And then there’s Sullivan. This is the woman who throughout the Rolling Stone gang-rape debacle treated the accused fraternity as guilty, even after she acknowledged that the story was false. She punished the fraternity even when she knew all along that the accusation in Rolling Stone was false. See, Sullivan had access to the report from the accuser in that story. She knew it was a lie all along, yet when the story came out, she rushed to punish the fraternity. She maintained that facade even as the story crumbled.

Tar. Feathers.

ED MORRISSEY: Collapsing Obamacare Co-ops Signal Big Trouble to Come. It was a lousy program, rammed through by Democrats via abuse of procedure on a party-line vote. Now it’s failing. And the press will try to blame Republicans when it does. . . .

A JOURNALISM STUDENT RESPONDS TO A JOURNALISM DEAN’S BOGUS REPORT: My response to Dorothy Bland’s column, “I was caught ‘walking while black:’”

I believe Dorothy Bland fabricated the situation into something that it never was and certainly never intended to be. The dash cam video shows the cordial interactions and between two Corinth police officers and Dorothy. They simply bring to her attention that she’s walking on the wrong side of the road impeding traffic which is a safety hazard. In the police chief’s response article Debra states, “Impeding traffic is a class C misdemeanor, and it is our policy to ask for identification from people we encounter for this type of violation.” The police officers had valid reasoning for all their actions. The issue wasn’t race. The issue was Ms. Bland walking in the street vulnerable to being hit by a vehicle that she would’ve never seen coming.

I am not blind to the fact that racial profiling happens on a daily basis in this country. It absolutely happens, and it’s a sad reality. Dorothy’s reaction to this could very well be fueled by all the incidents that legitimately depict racial profiling, but her case seems like a desperate plea for attention. As a prominent leader who represents UNT I would expect Dorothy to respect the officers enough to know they were merely protecting her. The dash cam footage shows nothing but a polite interaction, which is far from the column she wrote for the Dallas Morning News. . . . I’m not sure what will happen next but as a journalism student I’m agitated that Dorothy holds the position of our dean. After the way she’s handled herself, she is undeserving of the title. Although she’s bringing poor attention to my university, I will not let her discredit the degree I worked so hard for.

It advanced a preferred Democratic narrative, so it’s “journalism” enough.

FASTER, PLEASE: Will Democrats’ Populist Obsession with Inequality Be Their Downfall?

KEVIN WILLIAMSON: ObamaCare Is Dead.

ROLL CALL: CQ Roll Call Survey Finds House GOP Staff Deeply Skeptical of Own Leadership. “The Republicans’ House majority, 246 strong, is the biggest the GOP has enjoyed since 1929. But House Republican aides stand apart from their counterparts in the Democratic Party and in the Senate in their skepticism about party leaders, a new CQ Roll Call survey of Hill staff members shows.”

Well, Republicans everywhere — including the grassroots Tea Party folks who provided that majority — are skeptical, too. It’ll be up to Paul Ryan — and those he leads — to prove that skepticism unfounded.

GOT TO LAUGH TO KEEP FROM CRYING: Semi-retired president now experimenting as stand-up comedian to mask his own failures.

It’s a show about a show about nothing — sort of like the later series of Seinfeld episodes telling the fictitious story about how its pilot was picked up by NBC.

ONE OF THESE HEADLINES IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS:

● Desperate lives of women domestic workers exposed to appalling exploitation, physical violence and sexual abuse in Qatar.

—The London Daily Mail, April 22nd, 2014.

● Qatar’s foreign domestic workers subjected to slave-like conditions.

—The London Guardian, February 26, 2014.

● In Qatar Speech, Michelle Obama Complains About Growing Up as a Girl in America.

—The Weekly Standard, yesterday.

THAT’S BECAUSE WE LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE “STYLISH” AND “LEFTY” ARE PRESUMED TO BE SYNONYMS: Margaret Thatcher: Not Stylish Enough For the Victoria and Albert Museum.

SOMEBODY SABOTAGE THE HVAC AT EPA HEADQUARTERS: Gina McCarthy Is Coming For Your Air Conditioners.

Seriously, pranksters with a sense of humor could have a lot of fun with the eco-hypocrites.

CHANGE: Four Years After Complaining About Romney’s Wealth, MSM Now Obsessed with Rubio’s Lack of It.

Lack of wealth? My god, the man owns a motorboat — for the racially-obsessed MSM, that practically makes Rubio a Miami Vice character.

Speaking of which, the Federalist charts 6 Of The Most Racist Things The Media Has Said About Marco Rubio.

They’re going to need a lot more server space by the time 2016 rolls around — and infinitely more if Rubio wins the nomination and the presidency.

“OUTSIDE THE NEIGHBORHOOD HITLER STORE, GAZA MANNEQUINS DISPLAY THE LATEST MUST-HAVE FASHION ACCESSORY FOR PALESTINIAN YOUNGSTERS – KNIVES.”

Such lovely people. I can’t understand why anyone would think they’re in any way anti-Semitic.

Incidentally, how close is the Hitler Store to Gaza’s legendary Roots Club?

THOMAS FRIEDMAN, HARDEST HIT: China Massively Undercounts the Amount of Coal It’s Been Burning.

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: White Progressives Are The New Racial Purity Police.

Woodrow Wilson, call your office.

THIS IS YOUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. THIS IS YOUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON DRUGS: Taxpayers pay $249k to determine if monkeys on cocaine make good decisions.

But talk about wasting money — as Frank J. Fleming tweets, everybody knows the answer to this: “Monkeys on cocaine don’t make good decisions. They make GREAT decisions.”

Better than those who approved this experiment, of course.

HEALTH: Big and deadly: Major foodborne outbreaks spike sharply.

Major foodborne outbreaks in the United States have more than tripled in the last 20 years, and the germs most frequently implicated are familiar to most Americans: Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria.

In the most recent five-year period — from 2010 to 2014 — these multistate outbreaks were bigger and deadlier than in years past, causing more than half of all deaths related to contaminated food outbreaks, public health officials said Tuesday. A wide variety of foods were involved, ranging from vegetables and fresh fruits to beef and chicken. Some had never before been linked to outbreaks, such as the caramel apples, tainted with Listeria, that led to an outbreak in which seven people died and 34 were hospitalized in late 2014. . . .

CDC Director Thomas Frieden said the latest multistate outbreaks are more dangerous because they involve deadlier germs. “On average, there are about two per month, and they can be big and they can be lethal,” he said during the briefing. . . .

Imported foods accounted for 18 of the multistate outbreaks. Foods from Mexico, including mangoes and papayas, were the leading source in those events, followed by foods from Turkey such as pine nuts, tahini, and pomegranate seeds.

I’d like to see the CDC spending more time on issues like this, and less on things like gun control and playgrounds.

THE PROGRESSIVE STORY HITS A SNAG: “Try as it might, even the Communist Party of China could not make one plus zero add up to two,” Richard Fernandez writes at the Belmont Club. “This is an important factor to bear in mind for those conditioned to think Progressives will inevitably triumph, or worse, that the Republicans will stop them.  It is the sheer power of reality which wins in the end. What stands in Gramsci’s way are consequences, not John Boehner.”

Read the whole thing.

ERIC S. RAYMOND: From Kafkatrap to Honeytrap. “The short version is: if you are any kind of open-source leader or senior figure who is male, do not be alone with any female, ever, at a technical conference. Try to avoid even being alone, ever, because there is a chance that a ‘women in tech’ advocacy group is going to try to collect your scalp.”

GPS: An Assault On Manhood? “GPS challenges one of the few remaining areas of male excellence: navigation.”

WHERE WERE THE BLACK NEUROSURGEONS IN 1915? Damon Linker: Where are all the conservative university professors?

More seriously: Higher Education is in big trouble. It can’t survive by treating half (or more) of the country as mentally defective.

EVERYTHING IS PROBLEMATIC: Looking for something to be offended by? Check out Harvard Law School’s logo.

HMM: Bernie Sanders Now Says There Are ‘Valid Questions’ About Hillary’s Damn Emails. No more Mr. Nice Guy, I guess, now that she’s called him racist and sexist.

CULTURAL DIFFERENCES: Picasso’s muse sparks anger by claiming there are fewer rapes in France because women smile at wolf whistlers. “If a man whistles at you and you smile, that oils the social wheels and eases the tension between the classes and sexes … It’s a kind of give-and-take that acknowledges that the other person exists, so in that sense it’s not treating another person as an object. To take offence all the time makes every relationship disagreeable.”

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Advice To The Koch Brothers: Invest in Media, Not Politicians.