ANDREW KLAVAN: We Hear You, Angry Republicans!

FOR THIS CROWD, THAT’S NOT A BUG, IT’S A FEATURE: Ed Morrissey: Obamacare Is Wide Open to Fraud – and They’re Not Going to Fix It. I mean, it’s not like most of those fraudsters vote Republican.

GET YOUR SHINEBOX, DONNY: If Cruz and Rubio want to win, they need to go full-alpha on Trump tonight.

Steve Green will be drunkblogging tonight’s slugfest. Should be fun.

Related: Debate Preview Update: Yep, Telemundo’s Arrarás Preparing To Be Awful.

IN EUROPE, THE OPTIMISM IS JUST OVERWHELMING: Norway wants to deny all refugees if ‘it all breaks down.’

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg is proposing emergency legislation that would allow Norway to deny entry to all asylum seekers who do come directly from countries in conflict.

Solberg said that the legislation would only be implemented in an emergency situation and would protect Norway from the deteriorating situation within the Schengen region and the mounting strain the Swedish asylum system is facing from the current refugee crisis in Europe.

Under her plan, asylum seekers entering from Russia or other Nordic countries would be immediately rejected if they are not coming directly from areas of conflict.

The legislation would go against the UN Refugee Convention and has therefore faced strong criticism, but Solberg said it would only be implemented in the face of a complete breakdown of Sweden’s asylum system, which took in 163,000 asylum seekers in 2015 and expects an additional 100,000 this year.

A lot of Americans have been saying the Swedish system is in danger of collapse. This is a little more authoritative.

UPDATE: From Agence France Press: #BREAKING: EU warns migration system could ‘completely break down’ in 10 days.

SO MUCH FOR THAT OBAMA TROLL EFFORT: Gov. Brian Sandoval (R-NV) Declines Consideration for Supreme Court Opening.

BIG HEALTH BENEFITS from even small weight loss?

Obese individuals who lose as little as 5 percent of their body weight can improve their metabolic function and reduce the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and heart disease, a new study has found.

Many current treatment guidelines urge patients to lose between 5 percent and 10 percent of their body weight in order to experience health benefits, but the recommendations were based on earlier studies that didn’t distinguish between participants who lost only 5 percent of their weight and those who lost more.

Losing 5% is a lot easier than losing 10%.

ACE OF SPADES ON HIS “EASY EMBARGO OF TWITTER:”

I have 47,000 followers. That’s a pretty good number of followers. I see no reason why I should spite myself while I spite Twitter.

So I will promote my site on Twitter. I will use it, but I won’t let it use me. I will use it as a soulless corporate branding device and promotional platform. If I write something I like, or if i wish to use my decent reach to promote, I’ll do so.

What I won’t do is provide them free content. Any platform requires content, after all. This site would be a much poorer experience were it not for the thousands of people commenting here, adding their own takes and opinions and diversions and links to stories.

It would just be one post from me or a coblogger every hour, and a lot of dead air.

That is what I intend to give twitter: A post I think deserves promotion, and then dead air.

Read the whole thing.

I THINK IT’S PAST TIME TO END THE FEUDAL-STYLE EXPLOITATION THAT MARKS MODERN UNIVERSITIES: New Overtime Rules Hit Higher Education: “The Obama administration’s proposed rules would extend overtime protections to millions — including many postdocs and other employees in higher ed. Would the plan provide overdue relief or be a financial disaster for colleges and universities?”

GEE, MAYBE START BY TELLING YOUR WIFE TO STOP REFERRING TO HALF THE COUNTRY AS A “CONSPIRACY?” Bill’s Twist on Donald’s Slogan: ‘Make America Whole Again.’

Related: Chuck Todd: Hillary Will ‘Long For The Days Of Ken Starr When Running Against Trump:’

Host Joe Scarborough told Chuck Todd, “I will tell you who is horrified right now. Bill Clinton is horrified at the prospect of every time Hillary Clinton bringing up women’s issues, Donald Trump puts out an Instagram ad and by the end of the campaign Bill Cosby and Bill Clinton are synonymous.”

Todd said, “There are two things that the Clinton’s people believe are true. Number one, that they can beat Donald Trump and they think that they can potentially beat him by a fairly large margin. And that it’s the last person they want to run against. They simultaneously believe both things.”

Does she contradict herself? Very well, then she contradicts herself. Her Maoist pantsuits are large; they contain multitudes.

More: Hillary Clinton loses it while arguing with a Black Lives Matter protester in S.C.

IF WE CAN’T HAVE SMOD, HE’S THE NEXT BEST THING: CNN Compares Donald Trump to ‘Death Star.’

Remember, this is the same network that once got the vapors over its guests using a word like “crosshairs.” But now comparing Trump to a planetary killing machine* is perfectly fine.

Related: “New York Times columnist Ross Douthat apologized for joking about Donald Trump’s presidential campaign ending in an assassination attempt.”

Paul Krugman, always on the lookout for “eliminationist rhetoric,” call your office.

* To be fair, one that’s on the side of the angels, but still.

MEANWHILE, BACK AT LENA DUNHAM’S ALMA MATER: Oberlin Professor Claims Israel Was Behind 9/11, ISIS, Charlie Hebdo Attack:

Joy Karega, an assistant professor of Rhetoric and Composition, shared a graphic shortly after the Charlie Hebdo shooting last year of an ISIS terrorist pulling off a mask resembling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The terrorist has a tattoo with a Star of David and the acronym “JSIL” – presumably a Jewish version of ISIL/ISIS. The picture includes graphic text implying that the murder of cartoonists was a “false flag” conspiracy designed to stop French support for Palestinians. In the accompanying status, Karega wrote, “This ain’t even hard. They unleashed Mossad on France and it’s clear why.”

Related: David Bernstein of the Volokh Conspiracy spots “a Facebook post by a recent Oberlin alumna, clearly a political progressive herself, recounting…multiple students [who] dismissively referred to the Holocaust as ‘white on white crime,’ as if the ‘progressive’ students there found it impossible to conceive of horrific racist violence outside the parameters of paradigmatic examples of racist violence in the United States.”

Gee — where would Oberlin students get such thoughts?

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Mythbusting the 5-Second Rule.

“WHILE THERE IS A NARRATIVE THAT THE RICH ARE FLEEING CALIFORNIA, THE REAL FLIGHT IS AMONG THE MIDDLE-CLASS.”

Found via BattleSwarm Blog, which has a “Texas vs. California Update” that’s well worth reading the whole thing. Note this:

I had a guy working for me (in the Bay Area) making $200,000 a year, struggling to pay his bills,” company CEO Triant said. “In lots of places in the country you’re living high on the hog on $200,000. … As far as work life balance and employee morale, we have absolutely seen a remarkable increase since moving here; it’s night and day.”

The firm still keeps a small Bay Area office, and Triant speaks fondly of his hometown of San Diego and California in general.

But when it comes to building a company and running a business, he has found a new home in Texas. “I want my employees to be able to have a good quality of life, live in a city with low crime rates, good schools,” he said. “And that’s what we’re doing here.”

Go southwest, young struggling Yelp worker!

LESE MAJESTE: Hillary Heckled — Again — By Black Lives Matter.

BIAS BY OMISSION: Networks Hyped Perry Indictment in 2014; Silent on Dismissal.

I’d insert the old “where does he go to get his reputation back” line here, but the only person whose reputation was torpedoed was Rosemary Lehmberg, the district attorney for Travis County, thanks to the Streisand Effect.

Related: “Come at the king, you best not miss:”

Heh, indeed.™

MELISSA CLICK, PROFESSOR WHO TRIED TO “MUSCLE” A STUDENT JOURNALIST AT A PROTEST, has been fired.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: 30% Of Law Schools Would Fail Proposed New ABA 10% Attrition Accreditation Standard.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: The Trump Wave And The Brexit Boom: Preference Cascades Now Led From The Bottom Up.

THEY COULD START BY NOT FINAGLING SOCIAL NETWORKS TO GET DEMOCRATS ELECTED: What Role Should Silicon Valley Play in Fighting Terrorism?

YEAH, I SAID THIS A LONG TIME AGO, BUT WHATEVER: Jeb’s Downfall Proves Political TV Ads Don’t Work Anymore.

SKYNET SMILES: The Next Generation of Boston Dynamics’ ATLAS Robot Is Quiet, Robust, and Tether Free.

THERE’S A LOT OF TALK ABOUT REFORMING THE SUPREME COURT CONFIRMATION PROCESS, so here’s a proposal of mine from the 1990s. Bottom line:

I propose that the Senate put together its own list of candidates for each Supreme Court vacancy, and forward that list to the President. This list would constitute the “advice” portion of the Senate’s constitutional role. The President could then do one of two things-she could select a nominee from the list, who would be presumed competent based on the Senate’s earlier screening and would be given approval according to some sort of accelerated procedure (much as in “fast track” trade legislation), or she could select someone not on the list, in which case the confirmation process would take place as usual.

Under this process both sides would be encouraged not to be too political in their selections: if the Senate loaded its list with ideologues, the President would ignore it, forcing the Senate to undergo the traditional confirmation process. On the other hand, the President also would be encouraged to avoid ideologues and give the Senate’s list serious consideration, and to select from it so long as its candidates were reasonable, in order to escape the agonies of the full-blown Senate confirmation process as it has become. Furthermore, if the President did not select from the list, there would be a basis for comparison, as people (and Senators) could decide whether the President’s candidate met the same standards as the members of the Senate’s list.

Not going to happen this go-around, I expect, but there you are. I’m not as convinced that avoiding “ideologues” is as good an idea as I thought then, but hey: Recycling is good, right? (Reposted, because I understand my proposal is actually getting some traction, or at least attention, this week).

GOAL: CUSTOMIZABLE DRONES DELIVERED OVERNIGHT. The Army Wants 3D-Printing Build-a-Drone Workshops.

WELL, WHEN THE CANCER CELLS ARE TIRED, THEY JUST WANT TO HAVE A PROTEIN SHAKE AND GO TO BED: How Exercise Can Lower Cancer Risk.

TO BE FAIR, A LOT OF US FEEL THIS WAY: Turkish Officials Say They’ve Given Up On Obama Administration, Are Waiting On Successor.