TRUE: “Trump 2016” is not an act of violence.

THANKS, OBAMA: How the Government Stole Sex: Screw morality—the state is now intervening in American bedrooms under the mantle of stopping sex discrimination.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: How PC culture is killing higher education: Universities like Emory trivialize education by rewarding politically correct student dictators.

IGNORANCE ON PARADE: The NYT editorial board thinks AR-15s fire in ‘rapid bursts.’

IT’S LIKE THE WHOLE THING IS BASED ON LIES: Climate Campaigner Bill McKibben’s Misleading Anti-Fracking Crusade.

A SHOOTING AT THE CAPITOL VISITORS’ CENTER: “He said police believe the man acted alone, adding that there is no reason to suspect terrorism.”

UPDATE: RAW FOOTAGE: Inside the Capitol During Shooting.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Identified as a black minimum-wage activist. Another violent Tea Partier!

SALENA ZITO PRESENTS: A brief history of smears against presidential candidates’ wives.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: As SAT was hit by security breaches, College Board went ahead with tests that had leaked.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO — OH, HELL, WHATEVER: Woman accused of having sex with dog in Cherokee Co. I’m guessing that the dog consented, though. They’re not notably choosy.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: How PC culture is killing higher education: Universities like Emory trivialize education by rewarding politically correct student dictators.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Cuomo Faces Loud Backlash Over Push to Cut State’s CUNY Funding. The question is, does he get more political benefit from putting the money elsewhere?

EXERCISE AS an anti-aging technique.

IT’S NOT JUST EMORY: This is from Harvard:

In a class I attended earlier this semester, a large portion of the first meeting was devoted to compiling a list of rules for class discussion. A student contended that as a woman, she would be unable to sit across from a student who declared that he was strongly against abortion, and the other students in the seminar vigorously defended this declaration. The professor remained silent. In a recent conversation with peers, I posed a question about a verse from the Bible. A Harvard employee in the room immediately interjected, informing me that we were in a safe space and I was thus not permitted to discuss the controversial biblical passage. And these are just stories from the past three months.

Cost of attending Harvard College: $64,400 per year.

UPDATE: From the comments: “And some people think Trump University was a ripoff.”

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: C.D.C. Offers Guidelines for Delaying Pregnancy After Zika Exposure. “Women who have had symptoms of the virus or tested positive for it should wait at least eight weeks after their symptoms first appeared before trying to get pregnant, the agency said. Officials recommended that men who had symptoms should wait six months before having unprotected sex. The virus has been known to live longer in semen.” First Ebola, now this.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: I Think My Dog’s a Democrat. (Video.)

Related: “Should Animals Be Doing More For The Animal Rights Movement?”

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SIMPLE JUSTICE BLOG: Tennessee State Rep. Martin Daniel Gets It. “Daniel’s explanation is that he believes in America. He has faith that our freedoms will prevail against the terrorists’ viewpoints. He’s not afraid that, if the constitutional right to free speech prevails on campus, ISIS will win the debate. For this, he was called a terrorist sympathizer, because representative governance demands that all groups be represented, including the idiots. Of course, Daniel’s bill had nothing to do with a pending threat of ISIS’s booth on career day, and the argument against it was a red herring. Rather, the bill was directed to the very real problem, one that is happening openly, of rampant censorship on campus.”

And the people who were calling him an ISIS sympathizer were modern-day McCarthyites, whose real agenda was defending that campus censorship.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: How PC culture is killing higher education: Universities like Emory trivialize education by rewarding politically correct student dictators.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Make Someone Fall In Love With You. This seems like a lot of work. I always just relied on being my adorable self.

AND YET HIS PANTS ARE STILL SHARPLY CREASED: How President Obama Made Syria An Unfixable Quagmire.

JONATHAN HAIDT: Victimhood Culture Explains What Is Happening At Emory.

GONE TO TEXAS: If you missed it this weekend, here’s another link to”Gone to Texas” at Ed Driscoll.com, documenting my recent move from California to the D-FW Metroplex area, and the events leading up to it.