DONALD TRUMP, JOHNNY CARSON AND A VICUNA COAT: Trump is standing by Corey Lewandowski, but the billionaire candidate’s loyalty to his employees has its limits.

As John Podhoretz notes, “Amazing story. Aside from the Trump horror, completely validates portrait of Carson by Henry Bushkin.”

ELDERLY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SUFFERS UNEXPLAINED MEMORY LOSS: Hillary Clinton Admits The Job Market Stinks But Blames George W. Bush (Video).

Fact check: President Bush left office over seven years ago; even her husband understands that America is suffering from “the awful legacy” of his successor’s policies.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Cheating Incidents Blemish NCAA’s Marquee Event. These are academic scandals, not athletic scandals, though administrators would like you to believe otherwise.

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SOCIALIST KLEPTOCRACIES ARE MORE ALIKE THAN THEY ARE DIFFERENT: Venezuela today looks like Zimbabwe 15 years ago.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Scripps students protest Madeleine Albright as speaker because she’s a ‘white feminist.’

Of course, if Rutgers in 2014 is any indication, the screaming campus garbage babies* at Scripps would probably scream even louder if Condi Rice was a speaker. Or if someone simply wrote the wrong name in chalk on a sidewalk.

Each year of reverse therapy sessions at Scripps, where ordinary kids are given Clockwork Orange-style Ludovico Treatments that leave them with hair-trigger sensitivities to new ideas and speakers costs their parents $47,378.

* Classical reference.

MAYBE THEY COULD SELL “WAR ON COLLEGE MEN BONDS” TO FINANCE IT? Senators want more money for campus sex police.

Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, Tim Kaine, Claire McCaskill and Mark Warner have written a letter calling for increased funding for the Department’s Office for Civil Rights, which has been investigating schools for alleged violations of the anti-sex discrimination law known as Title IX. The senators are requesting a budget of $137.7 million for OCR. Last year, the office’s budget was $100 million, which means the senators are asking for a nearly 30 percent increase in funding for this one department.

Here’s how we got to this point, put as simply as possible: In 2011, OCR sent out a “Dear Colleague” letter that vastly expanded the definition of Title IX and what schools needed to do in order to comply with the statute. Because of the broadening of the statute, schools have been accused of violating students’ rights under Title IX and have come under investigation by OCR. Now OCR is requesting more money to investigate these schools because it has become overwhelmed.

It should be abolished.

NEW YORK: How Mayor de Blasio sells us out. “While his rhetoric seems intended to serve himself — and the truth be damned — his policies clearly have been calculated to advance the priorities of individuals and organizations whose own goals are at odds with the best interests of New York City.”

CLINTON’S SENATE ACCOMPLISHMENTS? GIVE DIANE FEINSTEIN A WEEK TO THINK OF ONE.

Lulz – accomplishments haven’t been necessary to be president since 2008.

Related: Who says Clinton accomplished nothing in the Senate?!

21st CENTURY WARFARE: Cameron Warns ISIS Plans to Use Drones Armed With Dirty Bombs to Attack the West.

JOEL KOTKIN: Singapore’s Midlife Crisis.

Lee Kwan Yew, one of the great political architects of our time, died a year ago, but the regime he established in Singapore remains entrenched in power. In fact, the parliamentary elections last year—to the surprise and consternation of Lee’s critics—enlarged his People’s Action Party (PAP) majority in Parliament from a record low of 60 percent to close to 70 percent. Despite talk of a “new normal” defined by more competitive politics, the city-state’s norms remain very much as they have been for the better part of a half century. Voters have their reasons for remaining in thrall to the PAP. The party’s cadre of well-educated civil servants has turned the Republic of Singapore into arguably the best-run city on the planet, a place of almost surreal efficiency. Thanks to its reputation for cleanliness, safety, and prosperity, Singapore is attracting growing numbers of immigrants from around the world. In 2013, the International Monetary Fund estimated Singapore’s per-capita GDP to be $78,000, making the average Singaporean wealthier than the average American.

Yet, despite clear support for the regime among the electorate, many thoughtful Singaporeans look to the future with foreboding. One major worry is that the city-state has reached maximum capacity, with 5.3 million people crammed onto a flood-prone island of just 225 square miles. The newcomers have driven up home prices and displaced natives. Talk among the city’s planning and business elites about luring even more immigrants—raising Singapore’s population to roughly 7 million by 2030—has generated a growing sense of unease among the usually well-behaved local residents in this most orderly of places. Even amid their prosperity, Singaporeans are now among the most pessimistic people in the world, alongside the understandably dour residents of Greece, Cyprus, Slovenia, and Haiti. Some have voted with their feet—almost one in ten Singapore citizens now lives abroad, and according to a recent survey, half of Singaporeans would leave if they could.

I’m beginning to think that, as much as elites everywhere seem to want immigrants, the actual citizenry is less enthused.

DISPATCHES FROM EUROPASTAN. Police: Brussels Airport Employs At Least 50 ISIS Supporters.

VIRTUE-SIGNALLING ALERT: Why I Quit Yale Basketball: “I quit Yale basketball in order to change the way we think about and play basketball.”

Looks like you failed. Plus: “My decision to leave the team was the culmination of a long road from the rough streets of inner-city Boston to the Ivy League, one in which I discovered how often sports empowers white men and demonizes women, LGBTQ people, and people of color.” Sorry, unless you add “Islamophobia” and “xenophobia” to this, you’re woefully behind the curve.

SHELTERING IN PLACE, UNDER LOCKDOWN IN THE US CAPITOL: Claudia Rosett writes that she was in the US Capitol building Monday afternoon, “when U.S. Capitol Police shot an armed man in the Capitol Visitor Center, and the entire place went under lockdown.  I did not see the shooting. I was in another part of the building, where we did not even hear the gunfire. But what happened was, to say the least, thought-provoking. So I’ll share a few of the thoughts it provoked.”

Read the whole thing.

THE REVOLT OF THE PUBLIC, AND THE RISE OF DONALD TRUMP:

If, as I suspect, Trump is a blunt objet trouvé, an accidental instrument wielded by the public against the political institutions of the industrial age, then two additional propositions are likely to be true. First, the public’s temper has moved much closer to nihilism than anyone not wholly deranged by conspiracy theories could have imagined. Second, the disintegration of the institutions of American democracy has proceeded much faster than I, at least, would have thought possible.

The trouble with such assertions, of course, is that we’re dealing with a fast-evolving, vastly complex set of human relations, caught in the fever heat of political conflict, amid the muddle of events. Analysis is hardly likely to be conclusive. What follows, then, is not finished analysis, and is only indirectly another attempt to classify Trump as if he were an exotic new species of insect blown in from the rain forest.

My subject is the sickness of democracy in our country, which appears to have taken a dangerous turn for the worse since I wrote the last pages of The Revolt of the Public.

I’ve been saying for years that we have the worst political class in our history. Why should the electorate be better?

FREE SOUP:  So, a book I wrote many years ago and which was mishandled has reverted to me, and it will come out on Monday, indie.  To promote it, I put a short story in the same universe free on my blog. First Blood – Free, Complete Short Story.

ANOTHER COUNTRY EMBRACING REALITY: Adani’s Carmichael coalmine leases approved by Queensland. Maybe some day we’ll do it too.

WHICH, LIKE EVERY OTHER KIND OF SOCIALISM JUST PLAIN DOESN’T WORK: Obama’s solar socialism.

NEWS YOU CAN USE IN MIDDLE EARTH: Food In The Hobbit

ONLY NOW DO THEY THINK OF THIS? The Jayvee hard at work: ISIS and a dirty bomb.

IT’S ALL MEANS TO THEIR UNJUSTIFIABLE ENDS: The Left Lets the Veil Drop.

THIS HEADLINE IS PERFECT WITHOUT “FUEL”: De Blasio gets in middle of Hillary-Bernie fossil fuel feud.

WHAT PART OF “THEY ARE BAD PEOPLE” WASN’T CLEAR? Islamic State planted thousands of mines in Palmyra: Syrian army.

FEDERAL AID, AKA THE TIES THAT BIND: North Carolina Law May Risk Federal Aid.  Perhaps states should enter a 12 step program to get off the federal drug.

LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: 10 states where the middle class is dying.