FORMER NFL GREAT BURGESS OWENS VERSUS HILLARY CLINTON On Black Lives Matter, and the Answer To the Liberal Race Narrative.

FLASHBACK: NETWORKS WORRIED ABOUT RELEASE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WHEN IT HURT OBAMA.

Worried, actively suppressed – in any case, just think of the media as Democrat operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.

MESSAGE TO BEIJING: The US Navy visits Vietnam. It’s the first Cam Ranh Bay port call in 21 years.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE. Columbia Student: I Was Reported to Gender-Based Misconduct Office for Calling Myself Handsome.

And yes, “the Gender-Based Misconduct Office” really does sound like a cubicle farm deep in the basement of the Ministry of Information.

(Via Anna Z.)

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U.S. SUPREME COURT REJECTS WISCONSIN PROSECUTORS’ JOHN DOE APPEAL.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by three Democratic district attorneys seeking to revive a criminal investigation into Gov. Scott Walker’s recall campaign — effectively ending the legal wrangling over the four-year-old probe.

The decision marks a major victory for Walker and his Republican allies, who mounted a vigorous challenge to the secretive, so-called John Doe II investigation that involved investigators issuing dozens of subpoenas and seizing equipment and millions of documents from those under investigation.

In a statement Monday, Walker said the U.S. Supreme Court, Wisconsin Supreme Court and other judges have all reached the same conclusion — “that this investigation by prosecutors was without merit and thus must be ended.”

“I applaud the individuals and organizations who fought for and successfully defended their First Amendment rights against political opponents who wanted to silence them,” Walker said.

Eric O’Keefe, president of the Wisconsin Club for Growth, the tax-exempt organization at the center of Walker’s political operation to stave off the 2011 and 2012 recalls, called the case “a politically motivated attack and a criminal investigation in search of a theory.”

He told a conservative radio host Monday that Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm, whose office launched the investigation in August 2012, should be removed from office.

“We call upon the prosecutors to admit their wrongdoing and close their files,” O’Keefe said in a statement. “They should end their desperate rear-guard action, surrender these unlawfully seized materials, and submit to the lawful authority of the court system.”

It was Gangster Government all along.

RIDE THE MARK CUBAN RECURSION: “Cuban: Paying taxes ‘most patriotic thing you can do as wealthy person’”…to help fund the government your TV channel insinuated blew up the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Related: “Trump was smart on his taxes,” writes Jonah Goldberg in USA Today. “Do any of you willingly give more money to the IRS than you’re legally obliged to?”

IT’S FITTING THAT THIS ELECTION IS MARKED BY panic over unverified clown sightings.

LEONARDO DICAPRIO: Climate change deniers shouldn’t hold public office.

“The scientific consensus is in and the argument is now over,” DiCaprio said at the White House’s South By South Lawn event.

“If you do not believe in climate change, you do not believe in facts, or in science or empirical truths and therefore, in my humble opinion, should not be allowed to hold public office.”

DiCaprio screened his film “Before the Flood,” a documentary about climate change. Ahead of the screening, he spoke on a panel with President Obama.

Shut up, he explained.

I’m curious to know how much denial it takes to fill up the gas tank of a private jet.

POLL: Clinton Gains In New F&M Pennsylvania Poll.

GLOVES OFF – THE MEDIA IS LIBERALISM’S ACHILLES HEEL, Kurt Schlichter writes:

The Arizona Republic, which is apparently a desert brochure, supports Hillary. “Unprecedented!” Yet everyone in Arizona shrugs – the Republic went pinko long ago. Then weary travelers in Marriots across America found that USA Today is opposing Trump. Why the editors of a periodical whose sole purpose is to help out-of-town hotel guests find out when the local TV station is rerunning The Simpsons believes their anti-kudos will move the needle is unclear. But the rest of the media is reeling in delight – “Trump’s lost USA Today! Game over, man. Game over!”

The liberal establishment survives only because it controls the mainstream media propaganda machine. It’s one of the three legs of the stool that keeps the Democrat Party stable – the other legs are deadbeats and creepy weirdos with money like Hillary.

So let’s kick out that leg. Let’s go right at the media poohbahs, those puffed-up hacks and self-important dorks who are desperately trying to keep a grip on power as their own incompetence plus the relentless advance of technology conspire to consign them to much-deserved irrelevance.

Related exit question: Can You Trust The Press? New video from Prager University:

“When success is measured mainly in terms of ‘clicks,’ the outrageous beats the sober just about every time. Inserting opinion, even in the middle of a news story, is a way in which journalists can distinguish themselves. And in mainstream media outlets, those opinions overwhelmingly tend to be liberal. This might not be so bad if journalists acknowledged their bias. But they almost never do. Yet the bias is obvious.”

Just think of the MSM as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.

More: Creative Destruction: US Newspaper Jobs Are More Than 50,000 Below 1947 Levels.

OBAMACARE IS COLLAPSING: Hilary Pleads the Fifth, and Obama takes his victory lap after winning the Cloward-Piven 500, with no mention of uttering, repeatedly, one of the most egregious lies in American political history.

WELL, PEOPLE SAY BILL CAN’T BE TRUSTED, BUT THIS SEEMS ABOUT RIGHT: Video: Bill Clinton Trashes Obamacare At Event, Calls It ‘Crazy System.’

Former President Bill Clinton attacked President Barack Obama’s signature health care legislation Monday, calling it a “crazy system” that “doesn’t make any sense” during a Michigan campaign event for Hillary.

“It doesn’t many any sense. The insurance model doesn’t work here,” Clinton said about the government-run marketplaces Obamacare set up. Clinton said that Obamacare “works fine” for people with “modest” incomes or who are eligible for government subsidies, or Medicare. But he added that, “the people that are getting killed in this deal are small business people and individuals who make just a little too much to get any of these subsidies.”

I’m so old, I can remember when saying things like this made you a racist tool of Big Healthcare.

THE INFANTILE SIDE OF JOAKIM NOAH:

This off-season’s big free agent acquisition of the New York Knicks, Joakim Noah, unintentionally demonstrated once again the fatal flaw with modern liberalism: it doesn’t live in the real world.

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The question is not are the West Point Cadets worthy enough to dine with Joakim Noah. Rather, is Joakim Noah worthy enough to dine with the West Point Cadets?”

Read the whole thing.

TO ASK THE QUESTION IS TO ANSWER IT: Has 2016 turned into most trivial US election ever?

GET READY FOR THE NEO-NEOCONSERVATIVES:

For Daniel Patrick Moynihan, it was the racism charges that broke the camel’s back. His famous 1965 report on the pathologies of black culture landed him in a hornet’s nest. “I was not a bigot,” he wrote later, “but the good guys were calling me a racist, while here was this fellow Buckley saying these thoughtful things. Glazer and I began to notice that we were getting treated in National Review with a much higher level of intellectual honesty.”

Moynihan was just one of many erstwhile-liberals who was startled to find a rare bastion of sanity in National Review. That trickle of refugees from liberalism would prove critical to getting William Buckley’s fledgling conservative movement off the ground. Having once regarded themselves as liberals, many neoconservatives had managed to attain influential mainstream positions that traditionalists of Russell Kirk’s persuasion would likely have found difficult. They were invaluable for raising the movement’s profile. At the same time, their experience and background made them savvy to policy. They would lay the groundwork for conservative policy developments over the next several decades.

As today’s conservative movement braces for four years under a corrupt, autocratic president, we should note this silver lining: As in Moynihan’s time, liberalism is in terrible shape. Present-day progressivism enjoys a cultural dominance that is somewhat reminiscent of 1960s liberalism. Despite that, the Left is demoralized, paranoid, and intellectually exhausted. Despite legions of high-profile supporters, the Democrats seem unable to win the loyalty of the most anti-traditional generation in American history.

The time is ripe for recruiting a new crop of ex-liberals. Who’s ready to get mugged by reality?

Of course, the mugging may not be enough to return some completely to reality – as William F. Buckley said after Moynihan died in 2003 at age 76, the Cassandra-esque New York Democrat “always said the right thing and always voted the wrong way.”

But why do I need to “get ready for the Neo-Neocons,” when I’ve known the original Neo-Neocon for over a decade?

SHARING A MEGADONOR WITH HILLARY: Exclusive: Here’s The Clinton Foundation Conflict Of Interest That Politifact Hides.

DIG AND DIG, BUT THERE’S NO PONY TO BE FOUND THERE: Fixing Twitter will be a huge challenge for anyone who buys it.

(Classical reference in headline.)

QUESTION ASKED: Would Russia Attack & Invade the Baltics?

After conducting an exhaustive series of wargames wherein “red” (Russian) and “blue” (NATO) forces engaged in a wide range of war scenarios over the Baltic states, a Rand Corporation study called “Reinforcing Deterrence on NATO’s Eastern Flank” determined that a successful NATO defense of the region would require a much larger air-ground force than what is currently deployed.

In particular, the study calls for a NATO strategy similar to the Cold War era’s “AirLand Battle” doctrine from the 1980s. During this time, the U.S. Army stationed at least several hundred thousand troops in Europe as a strategy to deter a potential Russian invasion. Officials with U.S. Army Europe tell Scout Warrior that there are currenty 30,000 U.S. Army soldiers in Europe.

The Rand study maintains that, without a deterrent the size of at least seven brigades, fires and air support protecting Eastern Europe, that Russia cold overrun the Baltic states as quickly as in 60 hours.

It’s impossible to say if Russia would do such a thing, but 60 hours to destroy NATO must be awfully tempting.

SHOCKER: Treasury Talks Out Of Both Sides Of Its Mouth: Blasts EU For Changing State Aid Law And Undermining Business, While It Changes 385 Debt/Equity Regs And Undermines Business.

THE UBER-PC NO FUN LEAGUE STRIKES AGAIN: NFL penalizes Redskins for ‘shooting a bow and arrow’ hand gesture.

MEGAN MCARDLE: Trump’s 1995 Return Shows Good Tax Policy at Work.

Why did people see scandalous tax avoidance in this case? At issue is the “net operating loss,” an accounting term that means basically what it sounds like: When you net out your expenses against the money you took in, it turns out that you lost a bunch of money. However, in tax law, this has a special meaning, because these NOLs can be offset against money earned in other years. You can use a “carryforward” to offset the losses against income made in future years (as many as 15 future years, under the federal tax law of 1995). You can also use a “carryback” to offset those losses against income you made in past years (three in 1995, which when added to the 15-year carryforward term, gives us the 18 years the Times refers to).

To judge from the reaction on Twitter, this struck many people as a nefarious bit of chicanery. And to be fair, they were probably helped along in this belief by the New York Times description of it, which made it sound like some arcane loophole wedged into our tax code at the behest of the United Association of Rich People and Their Lobbyists. They called it “a tax provision that is particularly prized by America’s dynastic families, which, like the Trumps, hold their wealth inside byzantine networks of partnerships, limited liability companies and S corporations.”

Every tax or financial professional I have heard from about the New York Times piece found this characterization rather bizarre.

Read the whole thing.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Duke offers men a safe space to consider their “toxic masculinity.”

On the homepage link to his story, Jazz Shaw adds, “No go and think about what you’ve done. Or might do. Or something.” Or what you didn’t do, as the case may be:

Parents and alumni, choose where to send your checks accordingly.

ALWAYS A SAFE BET WHEN DEALING WITH LOUISIANA NORTH: Bet on Jersey’s politicians to waste the gas-tax windfall.

(Classical reference in headline.)