WELL, THAT WOULD EXPLAIN A LOT:

● Shot: Former Trump Operative: The Donald Never Wanted to Be President.

● Chaser: A Few Trump Fans Suddenly See the Man They’ve Been Defending.

● Hangover: Quite possibly 2017-2020, and now with Judge Scalia’s death, potentially far longer.

AT THE CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION MASQUERADING AS A POLITICAL PARTY, HISTORY CERTAINLY RHYMES:

● Clinton superdelegate disbarred while awaiting prison sentencing.

—Jazz Shaw, Hot Air, yesterday.

● Lewinsky scandal ends as Clinton is disbarred.

—The London Guardian, October 1st, 2001.

(Classical reference in headline.)

CHEER UP: 12 Ways Humanity Could Destroy The Entire Solar System.

Currently only three or four of them are, however unlikely, technologically possible.

THEY CAN’T EVEN MAKE THE TRAINS RUN ON TIME: DC Metro may shut down entire rail lines for months.

Entire rail lines in Washington’s Metrorail subway system could be shut down for months at a time to conduct repairs, the transit system’s leaders acknowledged Wednesday.

Board of directors Chairman Jack Evans raised the possibility during a Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments conference, saying there is not enough time to complete work during nights and weekends, according to The Washington Post.

“So in order to do repairs that are necessary, it may come to the point where we have to close the entire Blue Line for six months,” Evans said. “People will go crazy. But there are going to be hard decisions that have to be made in order to get this fixed.”

When you spend decades running a transit system as a jobs-program for connected incompetents, this is what you get.

ARE MOST FEDERAL BUILDINGS WIDE OPEN TO TERRORIST ATTACKS? It’s hard not to think so, thanks to a highly disturbing Inspector General report that found “serious security” lapses likely at thousands of federal facilities across the country because General Services Administration bureaucrats have ignored an important national security directive for at least eight years!  

The directive told GSA to stop using easily counterfeited security badges that are unique to specific federal installations. Such badges are issued to employees and contractors to allow holders easy access to facilities like ports of entry, federal courthouses, computer data centers and laboratories.

“Unauthorized access to a federal facility increases the risk of a security event, such as an active shooter, terrorist attack, or theft of government property, as well as exposure of sensitive and proprietary information,” the IG reported. Even worse, the IG added, is that GSA “does not centrally monitor the management of building badges issued by its staff.”

How serious is this? Well, an ISIS attack against the federal courthouse in Rochester was only recently thwarted by the FBI.

Next question: Will anybody in government be fired for this?

CRAZED, OUT OF CONTROL FASCISTIC CEO LECTURES WORSHIPFUL MINIONS: Spare Me Your Hypocritical Journalism Lecture, Mr. President, Jack Shafer writes:

The last person in the world who should be lecturing journalists on how to do journalism is President Barack Obama. Yet there Obama was Monday night at a journalism award ceremony, yodeling banalities about the role of a press in a free society, moaning over the dangers posed by “he said/she said” reporting, and—to the delight of the assembled audience—attacking Donald Trump in every way but name. The press-heavy crowd, convened by Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications to give the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting to Alec MacGillis, clapped at Obama’s 30-minute address, encouraging his best Trump-baiting lines about “free media” and the dangers of “false equivalence.”

What they should have done is bombard Obama with rotten fruit or ripped him with raspberries for his hypocrisy.

Why would his operatives with bylines insult their boss — particularly when they wish to aid in the smooth transition to a successor from the same side of the aisle?

What, you thought based on its headline this post was about somebody else? Well, it’s an easy mistake to make.

BUT OF COURSE: Hillary Supporter Started RNC Open Carry Petition – “The purpose of the petition was to expose a perceived  ‘hypocrisy’ on the right.”

Straight out of the playbook of Hillary’s schoolgirl crush, Saul Alinsky.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: American University law faculty members disgrace themselves.

GEORGE KORDA: ‘Don’t know much about history’ is, sadly, true for many Americans.

There’s a problem when American citizens are asked such questions as who was the first president of the United States, who won the Civil War, or are asked to describe ISIS; and the answers come back along the lines of Abraham Roosevelt, the French, and a British rock group.

Americans’ obliviousness of their governmental institutions and their country’s past runs deep, as illustrated by a survey conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. It was unveiled in Sept. 2014 with a news release titled “Americans know surprisingly little about their government, survey finds.”

“The survey of 1,416 adults, released for Constitution Day (Sept. 17) in conjunction with the launch of the Civics Renewal Network, found that:

*”While little more than a third of respondents (36 percent) could name all three branches of the U.S. government, just as many (35 percent) could not name a single one.

*”Just over a quarter of Americans (27 percent) know it takes a two-thirds vote of the House and Senate to override a presidential veto.

*”One in five Americans (21 percent) incorrectly thinks that a 5-4 Supreme Court decision is sent back to Congress for reconsideration.”

In 2000, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni found that seniors from America’s colleges and universities were graduating with, “alarming ignorance of their heritage and a profound historical illiteracy…four out of five—81%—of seniors recently surveyed from the top 55 colleges and universities in the United States received a grade of D or F on history questions drawn from a basic high school curriculum…Seniors could not identify Valley Forge, words from the Gettysburg Address, or even the basic principles of the U.S. Constitution.”

The 2014 National Association of Educational Assessment also revealed unhappy results. Only 18 percent of eighth grade students scored “proficient” in U.S. history, as reported in April 29, 2015’s U.S. News & World Report.

It’s not necessary to go just by statistics and articles. Ask a middle or high school student you know a series of basic U.S. history questions. Do they know what the three branches of government? Can they name the vice president? Can they identify the countries the U.S. fought in World War II; what the Emancipation Proclamation accomplished; what was the Cold War, or much of anything else about U.S. history?

Tennessee U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander has for years pushed for more emphasis on teaching U.S. history and civics. The Every Student Succeeds Act, championed by Alexander this year passed Congress and was signed into law by President Barack Obama. The most publicized provision of the bill placed decisions about Common Core with the states and out of the federal government’s hands.

The legislation also dealt with history and civics education. One item: the Presidential Academy for American History and Civics Education Program, originally introduced by Alexander, was reauthorized. The Presidential Academy’s program includes giving students and teachers an opportunity to visit Washington, D.C. and learn about American history and civics.

But who will be doing the teaching?

AS A LEGENDARY COMMUNITY ORGANIZER ONCE SAID, PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: UK Cops Wreck Man’s Home Over Anti-Islam Post… But He Has Epic Surprise for Them.

ISIS MAKES THE EU MORE ANTI-ISRAEL, Evelyn Gordon writes at Commentary:

Israel, against all odds, showed no sign of collapsing; it kept getting stronger despite decades of unrelenting attacks. So to Europe, it must have seemed the perfect solution: The crocodile could keep attacking Israel forever, and Europeans would be permanently safe. All they had to do was make sure the beast remained fixated on Israel by maintaining a steady drumbeat of anti-Israel outrage.

Yet now, suddenly, that tactic no longer works – and like any weakling confronted with a bully, Europe is cravenly trying to divert the bully’s attention back to his former victim.

Read the whole thing.

YOU HATE HUMANS SO MUCH, YOU OFF YOURSELF FIRST: Do Humans Have a Moral Duty to Stop Procreating?

OH, HAI SHOCKED FACE, I CAN HAS YOU: Another Climate Alarmist Admits Real Motive Behind Warming Scare.

THIS EXPLAINS A LOT: What Can A Billionaire Buy That Most People Can’t?

THE SPECIAL SNOWFLAKES ARE MAKING US INTO: Entitlement Society.

ONE BAD DECISION IS NO EVIDENCE OF A PATTERN, APPARENTLY: Egyptian hijacker’s ex-wife wants nothing do with him.

IT’S THE NAIL-BITERS AGAINST THE BED-WETTERS: And you need a heart of stone not to die laughing. San Francisco State University Investigating ‘Cultural Appropriation’ Incident Captured on Video

IF IT WEREN’T FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS, DEMOCRATS WOULD HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL: Israel Rejects Effort by Democrats to Launch Legal Probe of Jewish State.

IF I HAD OPPOSABLE THUMBS I WOULDN’T NEED HOOMANS: What’s Going On In Your Cat’s Head?

SO NO MORE SQUEEZING THE MELONS: This groundbreaking technology will soon let us see exactly what’s in our food.

FAILED LIBERAL PREDICTIONS, ONE IN A LONG SERIES: Left-wing fantasy ‘Escape From New York’ turned out to be so, so wrong about everything.

DON’T BE GOOGLE: Why do the feds want Google to control your TV?

DOG BITES MAN: Spring Break: The Worst Time To Be A Hotel Maid In Florida. I mean, who could have seen this coming?

But they do mention this: “Though the H-2B visa—for which Florida and Texas are top destinations—is designed to supplement industrial-sector firms that cannot find enough ‘qualified’ U.S. workers, critics say the rules are so lax the system has become a back door for unregulated, but nominally legal, migrant labor.” Do tell.

IT’S ABOUT WHAT YOU’D EXPECT: How Belgian prisons became a breeding ground for Islamic extremism.

WELL, IF I LIVED IN SWEDEN, I’D WANT THAT TOO: Swedish MP wants to make summertime permanent.