DON’T TRUST CONTENT FROM KATIE COURIC: Couric: ‘Misleading’ Scene Will Remain in Controversial Gun Doc.

Whom the Gods destroy, they first make host of the CBS Evening News.

Related: Katie Couric, Stephanie Soechtig doc ‘Fed Up’ also accused of deceptive editing.

THIS IS COOL: Quadrotors Learning to Surf Urban Winds for Huge Performance Boosts. “By modeling how wind blows around dense concentrations of buildings, quadrotors can plan intelligent trajectories to seek out tailwinds and avoid headwinds, boosting their efficiency and potentially leading to both higher speed and longer range.”

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

• Sorry Liberals, A Violent Response To Trump Is As Logical As Any.

—Headline, the Huffington Post, Monday.

• What Changes Will We Make After the Giffords Shooting?

—Headline, the Huffington Post, January 15, 2011.

As Rod Dreher writes in response to the Huffington Post’s recent call for violence, “Remember this when right-wing mobs shut down Democratic events. Remember this when President Trump gets elected on a law and order platform, positioning himself as the only thing standing between law-abiding Americans and these violent left-wing hysterics. What’s going to happen to these Social Justice Warriors when they find that the general public is not as spineless as college administrators?”

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UCSD Official: Satirical Anti-Safe-Space Publication ‘Crosses the “Free Speech” Line.’

HAS A PATTERN OF JOURNALISTIC DECEIT INVOLVING KATIE COURIC BEGUN TO EMERGE? A new Couric editing scandal — and an attempt to cover it up?

Related: Austin Bay on Katie Couric’s “Maculate Deception.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Larry Page is secretly building Flying Cars: Google co-founder has quietly invested £70 million in two start-ups.

2019 is only two and a half years away; get cracking, fellas.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION* APOCALYPSE: Generation Snowflake feminists are creating a culture where women are terrified of being offended.

* And the parenting apocalypse as well.

Intersectional feminism – is there no one it can’t drive insane?

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: The Real Reason Why There’s a Tiny Hole in Airplane Windows.

MARK RIPPETOE on training and pregnancy.

STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHO DRUDGE LIKES IN THIS RACE.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: How Do you Tell Massachusetts from North Korea?

Heh. To be fair, they’re both places where John Kerry would feel equally at home.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Oklahoma Police Get New Tool for Warrantless Seizure of Your Cash.

RON FOURNIER: Hillary Clinton’s Truth Problem. “The CNN interview suggests how tone deaf Clinton has become about ethics, specifically concerning how she and her husband blurred the line between her work as secretary of state and their family foundation.”

Hillary: No truth, no problem!

YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT, REDUX: Pelosi Claims Government Created the iPhone, Not Steve Jobs or Apple.

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF OFFICIAL OPPRESSION? Chicago’s Jail Kept Inmates Locked Up for 218 Years Too Long.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1127.

RAGE FOR THE MACHINES: Minimum Wage vs. the Carwasheros — New York’s new $15 wage floor pits man against machine.

THE LEFT DOESN’T JUST EXCUSE VIOLENCE AGAINST ITS ENEMIES, IT INCITES VIOLENCE AGAINST ITS ENEMIES: Time for the Left to Stop Excusing Violence Against Trump Supporters.

“My nose is broken. I have bruises and scratches all over. I got knocked in the head a lot,” San Jose’s Juan Hernandez, 38, told me. He suffered a mild concussion. That’s the price Hernandez paid for attending the infamous Donald Trump rally in San Jose last week at which protesters were seen burning flags and Trump hats, pelting a supporter with an egg and mobbing people who were doing what civics teachers tell students citizens are supposed to do. For his trouble, Hernandez was called names, beaten and bloodied. For dessert, he got to hear politicians suggest it was the fault of his candidate that thugs beat him up. When liberals are on the receiving end, this is known as blaming the victim.

Hernandez does not fit the stereotype of a Trump supporter. He is gay (and a proud member of Log Cabin Republicans) with Mexican roots.

If the parties were reversed, the coverage would be all about gay-bashing and racist attacks on Hispanics.

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I CAN’T BELIEVE THE DEMOCRATS NOMINATED SOMEBODY WHO RAN A SCAM UNIVERSITY AND IS FACING LAWSUITS: Jonathan Turley: The Clinton University Problem: Laureate Education Lawsuits Present Problem For Clintons. “While largely ignored by the media, the Clintons have their own university scandal. Donald Trump has been rightfully criticized and sued over his defunct Trump University. There is ample support for claiming that the Trump University was fraudulent in its advertisements and operations. However, the national media has been accused of again sidestepping a scandal involving the Clintons that involves the same type of fraud allegations. The scandal involves the dubious Laureate Education for-profit college and entails many of the common elements with other Clinton scandals: huge sums given to the Clintons and questions of conflicts with Hillary Clinton during her time as Secretary of State. There are distinctions to draw between the two stories, but the virtual radio silence on the Clinton/Laureate story is surprising.”

Well, actually it’s entirely predictable.

HILLARY’S VICTORY: The Machine Prevails.

Over at Vox, Ezra Klein showers Hillary Clinton with praise for what he says are her “extraordinary,” and under-appreciated, political skills. She may not inspire much enthusiasm at the grassroots, she may not suck the oxygen out of a room, and she may not bring crowds to their feet, Klein says, but she is an expert practitioner of the art of elite coalition-building—of winning over Democratic interest groups, donors, and power brokers—and that, ultimately, is what matters. . . .

Put aside the questionable assertion that courting political elites is an inherently “feminine” quality, and that outsider-populism is “masculine.” That may or may not be true, but it is tangential to a more important point that Klein’s essay inadvertently highlights: Hillary Clinton is a machine politician. Her capture of the Democratic nomination depended on the extraordinary and unprecedented engine of influence-peddling—of “honest graft”—that she and her husband have labored to build and maintain ever since they left the White House in 2001. . . .

The Clinton machine had enough reach to clear the field of credible establishment opposition before the race began, and keep anxious Democrats on the sidelines when the former First Lady started to face ethical questions (many of which, like her Goldman Sachs speaking fees, and the dubious Clinton Foundation-State Department connection, can be considered collateral damage of machine-style politics). Finally, the network of elite Democratic interest groups and kingmakers that the Clintons had carefully cultivated over the years was loyal enough to help put down the Sanders uprising. From the teachers’ unions to immigrant interest groups to LGBT and gender activist organizations, the machine’s clients delivered.

The graft isn’t actually “honest.”

SEAN TRENDE: Trump, and the Punditry’s Scary Groupthink.

I believe that most people in my Twitter feed, left and right, don’t know many genuine Trump supporters, if any. I can count two, maybe three among my Facebook friends, and I went to high school in Oklahoma. It’s the exact problem I discussed back in January: There’s a cosmopolitan vs. traditionalist divide that runs through our politics, with cultural cosmopolitans running both parties.

The fact that Trump is so firmly positioning himself against those cosmopolitans, more so than any national politician since Ronald Reagan, makes it difficult to evaluate his campaign, and deprives us of the conversation we need, because for the first time in a long time, a major party candidate isn’t really trying to curry favor with opinion leaders.

None of this is to say that Trump will win. I would not at all be surprised if Trump implodes before autumn, or next week for that matter. Clinton really could bring home the Sanders voters, and the remaining NeverTrumpers could prove intransigent. President Obama’s popularity could continue to rise. Democrats will undoubtedly sharpen their attacks. All other things being equal, I still think there’s probably a 70 percent chance of Clinton winning.

But I will confess it is really difficult to sort out how much of this is a dispassionate analysis of the data.

I have no idea who will win, or how good Trump’s chances are, but I agree about the pundit groupthink. And I confess to being amazed at how many people seem to think Trump is Hitler. He’s basically running a 1970s rust-belt Democrat campaign, which is getting traction because in the current economy, a lot more of America feels rust-beltish.

But if Trump is Hitler, it means our elites of politics and journalism rubbed shoulders with Hitler, stayed at his beach place, flew on his jet, and sponsored his TV shows for decades without noticing. Which doesn’t say much for our elites of politics and journalism either.

ANDREW McCARTHY: Trump and the Judge: Cynical Politics, Not Law and Not Racism.

“Trump verbally attacked Judge Curiel not in court but at a political rally. The distinction is significant,” Andrew writes.

Read the whole thing.