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SUPPORT FOR BORDER WALL PLUNGES TO 38%: “Oh, Trump’s moved the Overton Window, all right. Just in the wrong direction,” Ace of Spades writes, adding. “You may not be interested in Political Correctness, but believe me amigos, Political Correctness remains very, very interested in you.”

Read the whole thing.

ANDY McCARTHY: European-style Islamic Enclaves in the United States?

ACTUALLY, IT’S ALL POLITICAL SPEECH: Chalkings at Michigan Endorse Trump, Attack Islam. “The University of Michigan is debating chalkings on the Diag (the central quad on campus) that mixed message of support for Donald Trump (‘Trump 2016’) with messages such as ‘Stop Islam,’ ‘Build the Wall’ and ‘Stop the Rape of Europe,’ The Detroit Free Press reported. Many of the images were posted to social media. Muslim students wanted the university to wash away the messages, but university officials said that their rules permitted chalkings. The students then washed away the messages themselves, except for the ‘Trump 2016’ message, which they said was clearly political speech and so should not be removed.”

Still, they handled it better than the students at Emory.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Exclusive Ben Shapiro Video: ‘No One Cares if You Majored in Lesbian Dance Theory.’

Well, some people actually do care, in that it’s an extremely good sorting technique for HR staffers checking — and then immediately discarding — résumés.  Plus this:

Asked to explain why the university system is “weighed so much to one side,” Shapiro said that leftist activism has been expanding its influence on campus for decades – but, that it is coming back to bite the liberals who were once student activists, but now are in positions of authority:

“Well, because the college campuses were taken over in the ‘60s by the left, and they’ve never let up since then. The only thing that is somewhat funny about all of this is that all of the administrators who were thrown out of the buildings in the 1960s were replaced by the protesters, and those protesters are now the administrators.

“Now, they’re going to be tossed out and replaced by the next generation of protesters. In other words, the revolution always eats its own.”

And speaking of the revolution devouring its own, you’ll never guess what is this “Academic group’s shocking reaction to speech codes!”

AN EASY CHANCE FOR THE GOP CONGRESS TO PROVE ITSELF: Senators want more money for campus sex police.

Several Democratic senators are requesting additional funds for the Education Department to continue policing the sex lives of college students.

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 40 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.

The “Dear Colleague” letter sent by OCR in 2011 did not go through the required notice-and-comment period that past letters had gone through. This prompted Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., to demand that OCR justify its overreach. OCR failed to do so to Lankford’s liking. . . .

Also, just one Republican — Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada — signed onto the letter requesting an increase of funding for OCR. Republicans have so far, in very limited numbers, been the only ones standing up for the due process rights of students accused of crimes on college campuses.

So there’s an opportunity for others. Unless they’re stupid.

OBAMA: A UNITER, NOT A DIVIDER! Al Sharpton and Jack Dunphy, PJM’s man on the beat share a rare bipartisan consensus, though obviously for different reasons. First up, Officer Dunphy:

Murder rates are soaring in Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Baltimore and elsewhere as the police in those cities, acutely aware of the politics of the moment, attune their behavior so as to minimize risk – not the risk to life and limb, which they accept and prepare for as part of the job, but the risk to their livelihood that arises when the tactical decisions they make in the blink of an eye are viewed through a political prism for months or even years.  There is no amount of training that can prepare a cop for that risk; there is only the choice to avoid it.

* * * * * * * *

Crime is up and will go higher.  Don’t expect this to change any time soon.

—“Confirmed: Demoralized Cops Equal Higher Crime,” Dunphy’s latest article at PJM.

Read the whole thing, it goes without saying, which makes for quite a juxtaposition with:

● SHARPTON: I FEAR FOR THE STREETS AFTER OBAMA LEAVES…

Headline, the Drudge Report yesterday, which Drudge juxtaposed with another headline that Al is likely losing no sleep over: “CHICAGOLAND: City off to deadliest start in two decades…”

If Al is losing any sleep (after his nightly visits to the swank Grand Havana Room cigar club and restaurant 39 stories above Fifth Avenue), it’s that he’ll have very little White House access under a Cruz or Trump administration.

Incidentally, the Venn diagram between the two power-suited, implausibly coiffured New York blowhards is a fascinating one, considering that Sharpton’s public debut was in the late 1980s having seemingly nightly television dust-ups with liberal poseur Morton Downey Jr. In 2016, Trump’s gutter brand of faux-conservatism seems very much like a continuation of Downey’s show.

LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: 200 imprisoned based on illegal cellphone tracking, review finds. “Lawyers in Baltimore have identified as many as 200 people who were sent to prison based on evidence police gathered with the help of a powerful cellphone tracking tool that a state court has now ruled was used illegally.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Embarrassment a fine art for John Kerry.

WELL, YOU CAN PREDICT THAT SHE’LL BE A LYING INCOMPETENT: Clinton Offers Predictability in an Erratic Political Year: Underlying message is ‘Everything will be okay.’ Did she tell Chris Stevens that?

THE HILL: Five ways Trump will attack Clinton. “Nothing will be out of bounds.”

WORLD WAR III BEGAN WHEN A MAN NAMED ALBERT SHANKER GOT HOLD OF A NUCLEAR WARHEAD: Donald Trump says Japan and South Korea could have their own nuclear weapons.

(Classical reference in headline.)

ELON MUSK INTRODUCES THE NEW TESLA 3:

Standing before a collection of new Model 3s, Musk reminded the audience that the car represented the culmination of a long-held dream to bring affordable, zero-pollution vehicles to the world’s highways.

Musk began his pitch by pointing out that CO2 levels and global temperatures were at record highs, and said the Model 3 would be a solution to that problem.

“Zero pollution?” Where does he imagine the electricity for the batteries comes from?

THOMAS DEWEY, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Cruz jokes about running over Trump with a car.

(Classical reference in headline.)

THE TRUTH IS BAD ENOUGH: Clinton: ‘I’m so sick’ of Sanders campaign lying about me.

Hillary Clinton on Thursday accused Bernie Sanders’s campaign of lying about her in a heated exchange with an environmental activist.

“I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me. I’m sick of it,” the visibly angry Democratic presidential hopeful said, pointing a finger in a woman’s face, in a video posted by Greenpeace.

The exchange came as the woman pressed Clinton on taking donations from the fossil fuel industry and asked if she would reject their campaign contributions in the future.

“I do not have — I have money from people who work for fossil fuel companies,” Clinton responded, before calling the rival campaign’s claims lies.

Clinton’s campaign has accepted sums from fossil fuel companies. According to a Huffington Post report from July of last year, most of her campaign’s largest bundlers at the time were lobbyists for the industry.

Same old crap, same old Hillary.

SAVED YOU A CLICK:

Shot: Why the Second City is First in Population Loss.

—Chicago’s PBS affiliate, WTTW, Tuesday.

Chaser: Chicago off to deadliest start in nearly two decades.

—The Chicago Tribune, yesterday.

Reminder: Chicago’s last Republican mayor left office before Al Capone entered federal prison in 1932.

LIVE AT THE CNN WISCONSIN TOWN HALL, IT LOOKED JUST AS ROUGH FOR TRUMP AS ON TV.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: For the first time in history, more people are obese than underweight.

Behind the global spike is greater access to cheap food as incomes have risen. “It’s been very easy, as countries get out of poverty, to eat a lot, and to eat a lot of unhealthy calories,” said Majid Ezzati, the study’s senior author and chair of global environmental health at Imperial College London. The price of fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grains are often “noticeably more than highly processed carbohydrates,” he said.

A person who has a body-mass index higher than 30, or weighs at least 203 pounds and is 5-foot-9-inches tall, is considered obese. The world population’s average weight has increased by about 3.3 pounds (1.5 kilograms) per decade since 1975, the researchers estimate. Excess weight raises the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic conditions.

BMI is a BS measurement — as Glenn has noted before, bodybuilders with practically zero body fat have “unhealthy” BMIs.

But most interesting is the story’s assertion that “The world may have too much food” and the implication that it’s better to be poor and starving than middle class and overweight.

While “fat and happy” might not be an ideal condition, surely it beats the historical alternative.