THE ABORTION TRUTH THAT LIBERALS CAN’T DENY — BUT TRY TO: “Maybe the makers of ‘The Big Bang Theory’ don’t watch ‘Meet the Press.’”

Related: Hillary Says She Wants More Questions About Abortion. Here Are 10 She Won’t Answer.

WHY OBAMA IS UNTEACHABLE: “Mr. Obama’s distrust of America’s motives throughout history was learned from [radical Palestinian activist Edward Said]. Couple that with the anti-American vitriol of Mr. Obama’s longtime pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and you produce inevitably Mr. Obama’s personal ideology,” Jed Babbin writes. “It is only by this analysis can we account for Mr. Obama’s actions since he became president.”

Read the whole thing, which helps place headlines such as “Congressman blasts Obama admin for not designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist org” into context.

Related: As Austin Bay noted last month, Obama Needs to Get Over His Self-Serving Guilt Trip.

THE BITTER FRUITS OF ONE-CHILD POLICY: China’s Grieving Parents Demand Compensation.

“I don’t have any hope anymore,” said Zhou Ru Xian, whose 24-year-old daughter died in 2013.

Zhou was among those at a Beijing protest highlighting the issue on Tuesday. Hundreds of police officers later herded many of the demonstrators onto buses.

The anger of such parents has intensified since the government last year announced it was reforming the one-child policy and giving couples the option of having a second baby. For decades, such an offense brought serious punishment including jail time, fines, or forced sterilization.

Critics claim changing family planning laws now may not be enough to stave off a demographic crisis in China. The population is expected to peak at 1.45 billion by 2050, when one-in-three Chinese will be over the age of 60 and a shrinking workforce may be unable to keep up.

Florida is this country’s most popular retirement destination, yet “only” about one in five people there are 65 or older.

DAN MITCHELL: Bernie Sanders Is Crazy even by Left-Wing Standards.

Completely unrelated: Roger Simon: I Know Best: How Moral Narcissism Is Destroying Our Republic, If It Hasn’t Already.

PULLING NO PUNCHES: Bernie Sanders’ Scathing Attacks On Hillary Invigorate Brooklyn Crowd.

ANGELA MERKEL’S ROAD TO MORAL SURRENDER.

As Mark Steyn writes in a related essay titled “Where the Streets Have No Jokes:”

You can take the girl out of East Germany, but you can’t take the East Germany out of the girl. In the Eighties, Angela Merkel, was a board member of the FDJ — the “Free German Youth”, the kiddie wing of the one-party state — and the local secretary in charge of “agitprop”. So she has a deep understanding of how art and even humble jokes must serve the needs of the regime — in this case, kissing up to the new sultan.

She’s taking a wrecking ball to the liberal values of postwar Germany, but hey, she made Time magazine’s “Woman of the Year” last year. I hope the tradeoff was worth it, both for her and Europe’s future, or the lack thereof.

NOW OBAMA IS USING REGULATORY “DARK MATTER” – THINK BLOG POSTS – TO RUN OUR LIVES: New report out today from the Competitive Enterprise Institute documents yet another disturbing way President Obama and the federal bureaucracy are doing end-runs around democracy.

“Agencies are increasingly using these informal documents to create official regulations with consequences, like recent U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) guidance claiming landlords and home sellers who don’t rent or sell to convicted criminals are violating the Fair Housing Act,” reports Katie Watson of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group.

“These guidance documents are “purportedly not legally binding,” but they still “cajole and intimidate” people and businesses into complying with the agency, CEI said. Most new rules never reach the attention of the media or Congress,” Watson said. Go here for more.

MARC THIESSEN: Trump’s ‘voterless’ election myth.

This is dead wrong. In both Colorado and Wyoming, all registered Republican voters in the state had the chance to vote and participate in the delegate selection process.

The Wyoming Republican Party website explains the process clearly: “Delegates to the state convention are elected by the county conventions. Delegates to the county convention are elected by precinct caucuses in their respective counties. Any person registered to vote Republican as of the call for precinct caucuses in a given precinct may vote in that precinct’s caucus” (emphasis added).

In other words, there is a whole lot of voting going on. All Republicans in Wyoming had the chance to go to their precinct and vote for delegates who support their preferred candidate. And they did so in record numbers. In Laramie County, for example, the lines ran out the door on Super Tuesday, and turnout was up almost 400 percent compared with 2012. “The lines outside, they are amazing,” said Glen Chavez, a first-time caucus-goer. “If you’ve never taken part in something like this, get involved. If you want to make the difference, you make the change.”

The same was true for Colorado.

Read the whole thing.

“Voterless election” makes for great clickbait and angry social media chatter, but it just isn’t true.

THE NEW MINIMUM WAGE AND THE NEW WORKING CLASS POOR: “Why have California and New York state moved to implement a $15 minimum wage? They say that it’s to provide workers with a ‘living wage’…lost in all the hoopla is that raising the minimum wage is not only a poverty trap, but really a disguised income redistribution.”

Read the whole thing.

WAS IT OVER WHEN THE PULITZER BOARD BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?

Shot: “Poll: Getting facts right key to Americans’ trust in media,” read a tautological AP headline Sunday.

Chaser: “Pulitzer board recognizes paper for coverage of shooting death that wasn’t a shooting death…The recognition [for the Baltimore Sun] is nice, but it was national news that [Freddie] Gray reportedly died as the result of spinal injuries sustained during a ‘rough ride’ in the back of a police van after police allegedly failed to secure him properly with restraints.”

THE COST OF GIVING IN TO LEFTIES: 50 jobs eliminated as University of Missouri cuts hit cleaning, maintenance operations.

The University of Missouri will be shaggier and dirtier and faculty will be responsible for taking their own trash to dumpsters under the plan for cutting 50 jobs in campus operations detailed in an email memo sent Friday by Vice Chancellor Gary Ward.

Landscaping operations will be cut back so sidewalk edges are trimmed no more than twice a year and only in the most visible locations, Ward wrote. After Saturday football games, the debris left by tailgaters will not be picked up until Monday, he wrote.

“This frees up custodians to assist with recycling, which, previously, has been a volunteer effort,” Ward wrote.

The plan to save $5.47 million in the MU Operations division that employs 842 people exempts the MU Police Department and MU Environmental Health and Safety. Ward warned it likely means slower response time for maintenance issues, less overtime and slower snow removal.

In the email, Ward warned that “we will be unable to sustain the level of service for which you have become accustomed. I do not anticipate that changes beginning July 1, 2016, will inhibit the academic mission at Mizzou, nor is it my intention for that to ever happen.”

Ward’s email is his response to a March 9 directive for a 5 percent cut to general fund budgets from interim Chancellor Hank Foley. The directive imposed a hiring freeze and warned there would be no salary increases.

The Columbia campus is trying to cover $22 million of an expected $32.5 million shortfall because of declining enrollment and new commitments such as the new Division of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity, spokesman Christian Basi said.

Shocking.

THIS DOES APPEAR TO BE A POPULAR STRATEGY: If You Have No Good Intellectual Arguments, Accuse Your Opponents of Being Shills.

The stupidest, lamest, and couldn’t-be-more-mistaken charge often leveled at those who find great merits in free markets (such as me and my colleagues at GMU Economics and the Mercatus Center, and my dear friends at institutions such as the Cato Institute and the Hoover Institution) is that we’re “bought off by” or are “paid shills for” rich business people.

Such a charge or belief reflects an utter misunderstanding of economics and of how economies operate. Currently successful business people have a material interest in stifling at least some market competition and in themselves receiving handouts and special privileges from the state; these business people have no material interest in universally competitive markets or in efforts to keep the state so small and limited that it gives to no one any handouts or special privileges. And yet despite the fact that my colleagues and I are forever pointing out how fine-sounding policies – such as minimum-wage legislation and tariffs – actually harm mostly the poor and unjustly benefit mostly the rich by suppressing competition and channeling to the rich other people’s funds, we are lazily supposed by feeble-minded (if often highly schooled) people as being shills for the rich.

Such a charge or belief reflects also an utter misunderstanding of politics and the state. The feeble-minded or intellectually lazy people who suppose that giving greater power to the state is the best means of ‘saving’ the poor and weak from the predations of ‘the rich’ and powerful are, well, feeble-minded or intellectually lazy.

Alternatively, they’re shills for crony-corruption and are engaged in projection.

IT IS MY SHOCKED FACE YOU’RE SEEING: Democratic AGs, climate change groups colluded on prosecuting dissenters, emails show.

21ST CENTURY DILEMMAS: Was your favorite rapper invited to the president’s criminal justice reform meeting or dissed?

Shot:

Chaser: Rapper Rick Ross’s Ankle Monitor Goes Off During Minorty Youth Empowerment Program at White House. “According to TMZ, Ross’s ankle monitor, which he must wear as a condition of his release on kidnapping and assault charges last summer, beeped loudly shortly after the president concluded a speech. Ross was arrested in June 2015 on kidnapping, aggravated assault and aggravated battery charges after allegedly pistol-whipping a man who had been doing repair work on his house. The kidnapping charge was added after it was alleged that the man was physically prevented from leaving Ross’ house.”

HUH – WHO KNEW THE SENTENCES IN THE LEFT’S PC PURGATORY COULD BE SO BRIEF?

Shot: John Kasich Runs into the PC Police.

— John Fund, NRO, Sunday.

Chaser: John Kasich Is Kind of a Jerk and MSNBC Loves Him.

— Stephen Kruiser, PJ Media, last night.

STANDING ATHWART HISTORY, STIFLING THE ECONOMY: Oregon manages to stop construction of huge LNG export terminal, costing thousands of jobs. “U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, and state Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scappoose, had also come out against the project. Wyden said he was ‘relieved’ to hear the project would not move forward.”

Of course, the left has enjoyed standing athwart history for quite some time now.

HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THAT WHAT’S MISSING FROM YOUR LIFE: Is musketeers fighting vampires in a world in which those in authority have betrayed the people?  Sword and Blood. And there’s a short story set in the world, if you need an introduction to it: First Blood.

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE: Estonian Report Details Russia’s ‘Hybrid Threat’ to Europe.

DO THESE PEOPLE ACTUALLY HEAR THE WORDS COMING OUT OF THEIR OWN MOUTHS?  And how do they manage not to die laughing? Obama’s Security Advisor: ‘Promoting Sustainable Development’ Will Help ‘Defeat ISIL’s Ideology’.

HILLARY FOR JAIL 2016! State Department Consents to Depositions Over Clinton Email Server.

INTO YOUR WORDS, INTO YOUR THOUGHTS: The Left Is Coming for You Next.

NEXT STEP THE STRONGLY WORDED LETTER! U.S. protests after Chinese military jet lands on South China Sea island.

IT WAS ALWAYS WISHFUL THINKING: The Global World Hits a Snag.

A WEAK PRESIDENT MAKES A STRONG PEOPLE PREY: (And now he’s running to the Russians for help.  This will end well.) Obama Asks Putin to Help Halt Assad Offensive in Syria.

BESIDES HE’S IN VIOLATION OF THE “DON’T HAVE A NAME THAT SOUNDS LIKE A CHARACTER IN A BAD NOVEL” ACT OF 1984:  Oral argument in DAPA case highlights the need to block Merrick Garland.