DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: David Thompson writes, “If a survey suggests that the rate of serious sexual assault on the typical American campus is higher than the rate of rape, murder, armed robbery and assault combined in Detroit, the U.S. city with the highest murder rate, and higher than in war-torn areas of the Congo where rape is used as a weapon, and at a time when the rate of rape in general is in marked decline, then there’s probably something wrong with the methodology. And if someone’s definitions of rape and serious sexual assault include inept and unwanted flirtation, intoxicated consensual coupling and post-coital embarrassment, and refers to people who are pretty sure they hadn’t in fact been raped, then there may be something wrong with the person using that definition.”

Related: Caroline Kitchens, Senior Research Associate at the American Enterprise Institute, asks at Prager University, Are 1 in 5 Women Raped at College?

AS A WISE COMMUNITY ORGANIZER ONCE SAID, PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: “Jason Riley, a conservative columnist for the Wall Street Journal, will speak at Virginia Tech once the school issues him a public, written apology… Riley said he appreciated that [Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business Dean Robert Sumichrast] acknowledged that he was invited and then disinvited. He said in the conversation Sumichrast also offered to issue an apology on the school’s behalf, something crucial Riley said because he felt like Tech administrators had been characterizing him ‘as a liar.’”

Well, they were; here is Riley’s original written invitation, which VT rescinded when the college discovered that — ZOMG! — Riley is a black conservative:

“Riley said he was happy with the outcome. However, he was disappointed because he believes it took media backlash — the issue was discussed on Fox News Wednesday night and in a Riley column in the Wall Street Journal — for him to actually receive the invitation.”

FEDS HIRED A CREDIT CARD FRAUD FELON FRESH OUT OF PRISON, NOW HE RUNS A BIG VA PURCHASING UNIT: Trust me, friends, the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group’s Luke Rosiak did not make up this story that captures pretty much everything that is wrong with the Department of Veterans Affairs (and probably the federal bureaucracy in general as well).

“Almost immediately after Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate #11109-017 completed a 14-month sentence for using sensitive credit card data on his previous employer’s computer system to steal $70,000, he was hired by the Department of Veterans Affairs in a position that ultimately led to his present job — running an office racked with credit card fraud and bribery problems,” Rosiak writes this morning.

Really, you owe it to yourself this morning to read the whole story, which you can do right here.

THOMAS SOWELL: An Unmitigated Disaster — Donald Trump will be the next Herbert Hoover.

So he’d govern as a continuation of the current Hoover?

ANALYSIS: TRUE. California: The Ultimate Nanny State.

Related: California Democrats Brand John Wayne ‘Racist,’ Reject Marking Day in His Honor.

That’s what happens when a once all-American state is fundamentally transformed. Somewhere in hell, the ghosts of the Frankfurt School old boys are chuckling at this development.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Sasse Advocates Single-Term Third Choice to Clean Up ‘This Messy Moment.’

WELL, HILLARY DID BRAG THAT SHE’D PUT COAL MINERS AND COAL MINES OUT OF BUSINESS: West Virginia Is No Longer Clinton Country.

West Virginia is shaping up to be a terrible state for Hillary Clinton.

Polling shows Bernie Sanders with a sizable lead in there, meaning its Democratic primary on Tuesday is likely to extend a presidential nominating contest Clinton had hoped to wrap up by now.

Clinton has been hurt by her March promise to put coal miners out of work with her environmental policies. She apologized for her choice of words, but they still threaten to drag down her support across coal country.

In a general election match-up against presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump — who has seized on the coal comments — Clinton will be an underdog in West Virginia, which has voted for Republican presidential candidates since 2000.

Generalized contempt for the white working class probably isn’t a plus, either.

REMINDER: HILLARY’S SERVER IS THE SMOKING GUN. Is Donald Trump a Security Risk?

(Classical reference in headline.)

AN INCONVENIENT REVIEW: After 10 Years, Al Gore’s Film Is Still Alarmingly Inaccurate.

IT’S TIME WE THE PEOPLE REMINDED OUR SERVANTS OF WHO WE ARE AND WHO THEY ARE: The Royal Age of Gotcha

DEAR DIOSDADO: We’re not a banana republic yet.  You’re going to LOVE our discovery laws. Venezuela’s Diosdado Cabello Sues WSJ Over Cocaine Allegations.  (BTW, his name means “G_d given hair.”  If I named a character that…

SO MUCH HOT AIR: Gore, Ten Years Later.

NOT SINGERS. I’M SURE THAT’S AGAINST THE LAWS OF WARFARE. AND THE SEA. AND DECENCY: For some reason, China just sent a bunch of magicians and singers to the South China Sea.

WE’RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE: Beyond the grassy knoll.

NOW FOR THE REALLY IMPORTANT THINGS:  … well, in my circles. And the new Han Solo is…

THE CHILDREN’S CRUSADE CONTINUES: Illegal Immigration Booming.

IT’S OKAY.  NO ONE SANE BELIEVED THEM: White House admits it played us for fools to sell Iran deal.  Fool us a hundred million times, definitely shame on us.

THOSE MEAT DRESSES DON’T BUY THEMSELVES: Hillary Supporter Lady Gaga Paid $21,000 By Clinton Campaign.

ALL IS PROCEEDING AS I HAVE FORESEEN: Trump Taps Clinton, Obama Donor as National Finance Chair.

NAH.  THEY JUST WANT TAXES: FDA Wants More Lung Cancer.

WELL, THERE’S NOTHING WRONG A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE WON’T FIX: Biotech Company Granted Ethical Permission To Attempt To Use Stem Cells To Reactivate The Brains Of The Dead.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Liberals’ Kids Get the Golden Ticket While Yours Get Scraps. Great photo.

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: D.C. ‘Terror Analyst’ Still Thinks Muslim Brotherhood a ‘Firewall Against Violent Extremism.’

REVIEW: 2016 Lexus RX450h F Sport AWD. I have a 2011 RX450h AWD (though not the F-Sport) and like it a lot. I much prefer its more understated styling, inside and out, to what Lexus has done to the new models.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “For the last seven years the American public has been living through a postmodern narrative crafted by an extremely gifted and unspeakably cynical political operative whose job is to wage digital information campaigns designed to dismantle a several-decade old security architecture while lying about the nature of the Iranian regime. No wonder Americans feel less safe—they are.”

—“Obama’s Foreign Policy Guru Boasts of How the Administration Lied to Sell the Iran Deal,” Lee Smith, the Weekly Standard.