WHY IS NBC LYING ABOUT ELIZABETH WARREN? In a story headlined Trump Again Derides Elizabeth Warren as ‘Pocahontas,’ NBC’s Daniel Arkin writes: “President Donald Trump returned to one of his most derogatory insults Friday, referring to Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren as ‘Pocahontas’ — a jab at her Native American ancestry.”

Now I’m sure that Arkin knows that this isn’t a jab at her “Native American ancestry,” but at her fake Native American ancestry. So why pretend otherwise? To make Trump look bad. Which I guess explains why more people trust Trump than the media after 100 days.

UPDATE: From the comments: “Warren = fake Indian. Arkin = fake journalist.”

HAVE YOU HUGGED A FRACKER TODAY? Poland Finds A Friend In US Shale.

American shale gas is, at long last, penetrating into Eastern Europe. Poland just purchased its first cargoes of U.S. liquified natural gas (LNG), an important milestone in Europe’s quest to reduce its dependence on Russian energy imports. . . .

Europe has a gas problem, and America is helping to solve it. The continent has long relied on Russia for its natural gas supplies, and currently sources roughly a third of those hydrocarbons from Russian companies—predominantly Gazprom. That gas comes with conditions, though. Moscow has used contract terms and prices to coerce its European customers, offering cushy deals to countries it sees as friendly to the Kremlin’s interests, and hiking prices or, in the case of Ukraine, halting supplies altogether when a country crosses it.

For years, this seemed to be Europe’s fate, as the continent had few other options for overland pipeline suppliers to help it meet its natural gas demand. The advent of LNG changed that, however, by allowing any country with a port to import super-chilled natural gas on board ships from suppliers all around the world. After Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Europe began to accelerate its development of LNG import infrastructure as a way to help reduce its dependence on Gazprom.

Faster, please.

#NARRATIVEFAIL: The Unheralded Mettle of For-Profit College Students. “Much of the discussion of higher education’ proprietary sector assumes that its member schools enroll students who are academically marginal and lack other options. That’s far too simplistic, a new study concludes. . . . Contrary to common stereotypes, the two researchers say, their subjects generally saw their experience with a for-profit college as positive, and said little that traced their decision to enroll in it to poor academic performance in high school. Generally, they framed their enrollment in a for-profit as having stemmed from a desire to gain confidence, reach their potential, take charge of their lives, and shed social labels associated with a lack of a college degree.”

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Married Mom Accused of Raping Teen at School.

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WHY ARE DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS SO FULL OF HATE AND VIOLENCE? Elizabeth Warren On Republicans Attempting To Repeal Obamacare: ‘I Would Like To Cut Them Open.’

SHOCKER: London terrorism suspect a former ‘humanitarian activist.’

I LIKE THE CUT OF THEIR JIB:

The amount of lefty-bedwetting it has inspired is . . . delicious.

NOT SO IMPRESSIVE: The Media’s First 100 Days.

Reporters are spending the day prattling about how short President Trump has come up in his first 100 days, but why should they have all the fun?

In that same 100 days, a new Morning Consult poll released Friday said that more people are trusting of the White House than the media to tell them the truth.

The poll also said that more than half of Americans think the media are out of touch and that 48 percent think the media have been harder on him than on past presidents. (The other 52 percent must not recall the time Julie Pace of the Associated Press asked Obama in 2014 if he had a good night’s sleep.)

What’s the opposite of “success?”

Everyone knew Trump, a celebrity businessman with no political experience, would be on a steep learning curve after his surprise win in November, so that he hasn’t passed any major legislation in 100 days means nothing.

The press, however, isn’t new to this and it’s done worse in the same amount of time. But even after two years of journalists confessing they “missed something” in Trump’s rise, the national papers, networks and news websites have done nothing different and even when they have, it’s been dumb.

Think of them as Democratic Party operatives with bylines and it all makes sense.

DEMOCRATS IN DISARRAY: The Hill: Dems struggle with abortion litmus test.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who appeared at an event last week with Omaha mayoral hopeful Heath Mello, defended his support for the Nebraska Democrat with the anti-abortion voting record, arguing that not all Democratic candidates will share the same views.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) echoed that sentiment, saying someone can be part of the Democratic Party and also be anti-abortion rights. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) sounded a similar tone, saying Democrats are a “big-tent party.”

DNC Chairman Tom Perez has sent confusing signals on whether candidates need to be in lockstep with the party on abortion rights.

In response to the controversy, Perez first issued a statement saying that he stands by the party’s platform, while also noting that it’s his job to back candidates who will win support from voters in their areas.

He followed up with another statement last week, saying that every Democrat should be pro-abortion rights — a stance Perez said is “not negotiable” and shouldn’t vary by city or state, according to The Huffington Post. Hogue applauded Perez’s comment, which was viewed by some as a reversal from his earlier statement.

I think the strategy will be to lie about your position if you’re running in a purple district, then to “grow in office” immediately after election.

JOIN THE CLUB, DONALD: Trump ‘disappointed’ in congressional GOP.

A BIG WIN FOR THE INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: Indiana Governor Signs Bill Untangling Hair Braiders from Licensing Laws.

WHY ARE BLUE-STATE JUDICIARIES SUCH CESSPITS OF “RAPE CULTURE?” “A state judge freed a previously deported Uber driver accused of rape on light bail even after a prosecutor insisted that federal immigration agents were drafting a detainer and asked for high bond to hold him, according to a court recording obtained by the Herald. The stunning tape of Tuesday’s hearing reveals Newton District Court Judge Mary Beth Heffernan cutting the arguments short before a defense attorney could even counter the prosecution’s $100,000 bail and GPS-monitoring demand, interjecting, ‘Twenty-five hundred dollars cash.'”

They’re fine with going easy on accused rapists, so long as they come from Democrat-voting demographics.

YES, BUT IT SPEAKS VOLUMES ABOUT THE PARANOIA OF ITS MAKERS: Sorry: ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ tells us nothing about Trump’s America.

BECKET ADAMS: This USA Today characterization of government shutdown threats is nonsense. “USA Today badly bungled its timeline this week of the White House’s back-and-forth with Democratic leaders over a possible shutdown of the federal government. Instead of presenting the issue as one where Democrats issued the threat, and then seemingly backed off after President Donald Trump vented about it on social media, USA Today suggested Thursday that talk of a government shutdown has been primarily of the president’s own doing.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: College Speaker Whines About Prison but Fails to Mention That She Tortured and Killed a Man.

WEIRDLY, VANITY FAIR IS MORE UPSET BY THIS PROSPECT THAN I AM: With what he says is a $12 million stake from secret investors, the former Breitbart tech editor is launching Milo Inc., a live-event touring company, dedicated to making progressives’ lives a “living hell.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Andrew Klavan on the Cruelty of the Academic Left.

MSNBC’S JOY REID LOSES IT WHEN BUSH CHIEF OF STAFF CRITICIZES OBAMA, LOBS CHEAPSHOTS AT BUSH:

REID: Let me ask you because the same — similar criticism was made of the boss that you worked for George W. Bush, that he came in with no fixed ideology, and so he was easily swayed by the strongest voices in the room —

CARD: See —

REID: — namely the neoconservatives, which is why we wound up in Iraq.

CARD: Wow. That is —

REID: Isn’t that a fair — isn’t that a logical case to make?

CARD: First of all, your myth — your creation was a myth. That’s not the way it really was and I worked with President Bush. He had strong grounded values and he did not want to go to war.

REID: Was he a neoconservative when he came in? Was he a neoconservative because that’s who wound up being the loudest voice in the room.

CARD: No, but he — he knew who the neoconservatives were and he came to office with strong views and an expectation and then he had to deal with the world as it was, now how he wanted it to be and that’s what every president has to deal with. That’s a natural reality.

Oh the comedy gold that would have resulted if Andy Card asked a simple question in response to Reid’s ridiculous “Was he a neoconservative when he came in?” query about Bush #43: I can’t answer that Joy, without first defining our terms. So, what’s your definition of a neoconservative?