THEY ALSO SERVE WHO MESS WITH THE NARRATIVE: Call to Semi Action: Screw with a CSGV Poll.

I HOPE THEY DO. CUTTING OUT ALL THIS NONSENSE IS THE ONLY WAY THE ECONOMY RECOVERS: Congress Pushes to Counter Obama Labor Reforms.

THE SCARY SIDE OF ACADEMIA: Read the Gender Studies Papers That Inspired the ‘Penis Causes Climate Change’ Hoax.

SIRI SAYS YOU DON’T NEED SOME LAME GRADUATE STUDENT TO MANAGE YOUR DIGITAL LIFE: Do you need to hire a virtual assistant?

TURNS OUT DESIGNERS NEED THE FIRST LADY MORE THAN THE FIRST LADY NEEDS DESIGNERS: Melania Trump’s ‘revenge’ on designers who won’t dress her.

TEXAS REPS THREATEN SHOOTOUT: Texas State Rep Reports Protesters to ICE; Guess What Happened Next?

INTERESTING: On the Veteran Portraits of George W. Bush.

I DON’T KNOW.  THIS ESL SPEAKER FELL IN LOVE WITH ENGLISH IN HER FIRST YEAR: English is not normal.

A TRAILER PARK CALLED CAMELOT: Mark Steyn on the larger imagination of JFK, self-admitted “Despoiler of Women.”

(Classical reference in headline.)

SAVAGES AND THE WASHINGTON POST ARE EASILY IMPRESSED BY THE WORDS OF CHILDREN: Why Would 8th Graders Diss Paul Ryan?

BECAUSE THANKS TO THEIR PARENTS AND TEACHERS, THEY’VE EXISTED IN A HYPER-POLITICIZED WORLD THEIR ENTIRE LIVES: “Why Would 8th Graders Diss Paul Ryan?”, asks and answers my fellow Insta-co-blogger Sarah Hoyt.

OUCH: Transgender Professor in South Carolina Attacks Feminists as ‘Cockroaches.’

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HONESTLY, I’D JUST AS SOON PASS: This is what it’s like to be struck by lightning. “Of every ten people hit by lightning, nine will survive to tell the tale. But they could suffer a variety of short- and long-term effects. The list is lengthy and daunting: cardiac arrest, confusion, seizures, dizziness, muscle aches, deafness, headaches, memory deficits, distractibility, personality changes and chronic pain, among others.”

THE ATLANTIC REVIEWS BEN SASSE’S NEW BOOK: The Disappearance of Virtue From American Politics.

It’s not a bad review, and Sasse’s book sounds quite interesting. However, not surprisingly, there appears to be zero self-awareness in the author or her editors in the role the Atlantic itself played in the disappearance of virtue in American politics when its Website was home to Andrew Sullivan, the Hercule Poirot of World-Class Uterus Detectives.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Silicon Valley is trumpeting A.I. as the cure for the medical industry, but doctors are skeptical.

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“TEXAS POLITICS IS NEVER BORING:” Texas State Rep Reports Protesters to ICE; Guess What Happened Next?

KURT SCHLICHTER: Liberals Are Shocked To Find We’re Starting To Hate Them Right Back. “That’s not a good thing, not by any measure, but it is a real thing. Liberals have chosen to coarsen our culture. Their validation and encouragement of raw hate, their flouting of laws (Hi leakers! Hi Hillary!) and their utter refusal to accept democratic outcomes they disapprove of have consequences. What is itself so surprising is how liberals and their media rentboyz are so surprised to find that we normals are beginning to feel about them the way they feel about us – and that we’re starting to act on it. If you hate us, guess what? We’re going to start hating you right back. . . . We don’t like the new rules – I’d sure prefer a society where no one was getting attacked, having walked through the ruins of a country that took that path – but we normals didn’t choose the new rules. The left did. It gave us Ferguson, Middlebury College, Berkeley, and ‘Punch a Nazi’ – which, conveniently for the left, translates as ‘punch normals.’ And many of us have had personal experiences with this New Hate – jobs lost, hassles, and worse. Some scumbags at an anti-Trump rally attacked my friend and horribly injured his dog. His freaking dog.”

And don’t miss his new novel, Indian Country, out today.

HYPOTHESIS: THERE’S A COVERUP, AND WHAT THEY’RE COVERING UP MUST BE PRETTY BAD: Criminal probe on Capitol Hill staffers remains eerie.

The criminal probe into a cadre of Capitol Hill techies who worked for dozens of Democratic lawmakers remains shrouded in mystery, months after their access to congressional IT systems was suspended.

It’s still not clear whether the investigation by the Capitol Police into the five staffers, who all have links to Pakistan, involves the theft of classified information.

The staffers are accused of stealing equipment and possible breaches of the House IT network, according to Politico, which first reported on the investigation in February.

A spokeswoman for the Capitol Police refused comment last week in what she described as an ongoing investigation.
And now, at least one of the staffers, Hina Alvi, has fled to Pakistan, according to The Daily Caller.

Alvi, 33, who was based in Virginia, worked for Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Queens) since 2008, making $126,225 last year, according to public records.

Her husband, Imran Awan, 37, also worked for Meeks in the past. In addition to his wife, Awan put forward his brothers Jamal, 23 and Abid, 33, to work in IT operations on Capitol Hill. He also recommended Rao Abbas, 37. The group worked for 25 members of Congress at different times since 2004, public records show.

In the midst of the criminal probe, Imran and Abid Awan are now being accused of more wrongdoing, this time by a member of their own family. Last month, their stepmother accused them of threatening her in order to force her to sign a power of attorney to gain access to assets in Pakistan.

In court papers filed in Fairfax County, Samina Gilani alleges her stepsons of wiretapping her phones, threatening to kidnap family members in Pakistan, and preventing her from seeing her dying husband in a Virginia hospital unless she granted them power of attorney. She also accused them of trying to remove her as the beneficiary of her husband’s $50,000 life-insurance policy. Her husband, Mohammad Ashref Shah, died in January, and the insurance payout is being disputed in court.

And in a recent twist in the criminal probe, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) demanded that Capitol Police Chief Matthew Verderosa return equipment belonging to her office that was seized as part of the investigation — or face “consequences.”

Stay tuned.

FASTER, PLEASE: ‘This is not the end’: Experimental therapy that targets genes gives cancer patients hope. “In August 2014, Joho stumbled into Hopkins for her first infusion of the immunotherapy drug Keytruda. She was in agony from a malignant mass in her midsection, and even with the copious amounts of OxyContin she was swallowing, she needed a new fentanyl patch on her arm every 48 hours. Yet within just days, the excruciating back pain had eased. Then an unfamiliar sensation — hunger — returned. She burst into tears when she realized what it was. As months went by, her tumor shrank and ultimately disappeared. She stopped treatment this past August, free from all signs of disease.”

IT’S A TRAP: American Knife and Tool Institute Introduces Interstate Transport Act. The question is: Why? “Earlier this month AKTI announced the introduction in Congress of the Interstate Transport Act (ITA – S. 1092), which turns out to be a watered-down and dangerously ineffective alternative to the latest version of the Knife Owner Protection Act (KOPA – H.R. 84), conceived and authored by Knife Rights, which was introduced on the opening day of this congressional session. Both bills ostensibly aim for the same goal, “to protect the right of law-abiding citizens to transport knives interstate, notwithstanding a patchwork of local and State prohibitions.” KOPA would actually do just that, while the ITA fails miserably in that, and worse, actually endangers knife owners traveling the country. The question is, Why? . . . When compared to this year’s iteration of KOPA, AKTI’s ITA bill sucks. It is a terrible bill for knife owners as they would still be subject to arrest and prosecution. Why in the world would an industry organization promote a dangerously flawed bill that fails to accomplish its stated goal of safe transit for knife owners?”

SARAH HOYT: Joining the Freedom Gang.

THIS WHOLE DIESEL THINK IS LOOKING A BIT SCAMMY: General Motors Accused of Rigging Diesel Pickup Truck Emissions: A class-action suit alleges 2011-2016 Chevy and GMC pickups of causing environmental damage potentially exceeding VW’s cheating TDIs.

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