WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE WORLD DOESN’T CARE HOW YOU FEEL? Sorry, you can’t change the world by wearing a T-shirt.

IN THE EMAIL FROM ARLAN ANDREWS: Silicon Blood.

I SHOULD JOLLY WELL THINK SO: Is there really a right to self-defense?

MAY 8, 1942: The harrowing story behind the WWII heroes being honored by Trump.

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CHANGE: FBI report finds officers ‘de-policing’ as anti-cop hostility becomes ‘new norm.’ Well, if gang members kill each other, I can live with that. If gang members try to kill you, shoot them.

THE 40th ANNUAL DALLAS INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL IS THIS WEEKEND: I’ll be wandering around there at various times this weekend taking photos for a future PJM piece; stop by and say hi if you’re there as well. Ted Nugent will be there as well closing the event on Sunday night. That’s not him holding a 1959 Gibson Les Paul in the photo below from 2015.

THE GOOD NEWS: OUR IMMIGRANTS ARE CATCHING UP TO MARIN COUNTY. THE BAD NEWS: OUR IMMIGRANTS ARE CATCHING UP TO MARIN COUNTY. Measles outbreak in Minnesota sickens dozens. “An outbreak of measles in Minnesota has sickened more than 30 children in recent weeks, primarily in the state’s large Somali-American community, where many parents avoid the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine because of unfounded fears that it causes autism.”

But maybe this whole thing is just a bit of disguised anti-immigrant activism: “With Somalis, we know that it’s a community that’s been targeted for misinformation from the anti-vaccine community and so that’s a bit distressing.”

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FAKE NEWS, EURO EDITION: Police ‘Bribed’ the Media to Cover Up Frightening European Immigrant Crime Statistics.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Heterodox Academy Guide To Colleges.

MANY RESTAURANTS LIST CALORIES ON THEIR MENUS. What About Salt?

Well, you want to know which foods have the most salt so you can eat them and lower your blood pressure.

FAKE NEWS: No, the AHCA Doesn’t Make Rape a Preexisting Condition. “None of this is true. Like, not even a little bit. And the fact it’s not just being shared by shady social-media activists and their unwitting dupes but by ostensibly-legitimate media outlets is another sad indictment of press standards these days.” (Bumped).

ANDREW KLAVAN: Thanks, GOP!

TOO MUCH SMUGNESS: Why Can’t The Left Win? My advice: Try being less-horrible people.

BUT OF COURSE: Scientists ‘More Confident Than Ever’ In Global Warming After Studying The Lack Of It For 15 Years.

DEALT OUT: Russian Syria No-fly Zone Deal Bans U.S.-led Coalition Aircraft.

KRAUTHAMMER: In Less Than Seven Years, We Will Be In A Single-Payer System.

The Republicans, as I explain at the link, fell into the Democrats’ trap eight years ago.

OLD AND BUSTED: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” “Like firefighters who run into a fire, journalists run towards a story.”

New hotness: Washington Post Reporter Warns Journalists To Avoid Tucker Carlson’s ‘Dunk Tank.’

But of course. Given Carlson’s nightly ability to demolish leftwing shibboleths and those who claim to believe them, as William F. Buckley quipped when asked why Bobby Kennedy was declining repeated requests to appear on Firing Line, “Why does baloney reject the grinder?”

STEPHEN MOORE: All You Need Is Growth.

As sure as the cuckoo clock chimes at midnight, the left is bloviating that Donald Trump’s tax plan will blow a $5 trillion hole in the deficit. Many of the people complaining loudest were in the Obama administration and helped preside over a $9 trillion tidal wave of new debt. Now they are fiscally chaste. Sure.

They maintain that a tax cut has to be paid for by corresponding tax increases on someone else. But raising taxes on Paul to pay for a tax cut for Peter negates the positive effects of the tax reduction. This also incites powerful interest-group opposition to the tax bill and makes it less likely that it will happen — which is exactly why the left is insisting on revenue neutrality. They want to torpedo the tax cut.

Steve Forbes, Larry Kudlow, Arthur Laffer and I recently signed a statement urging President Trump to drop revenue neutrality because it is a trap. We called for a net tax cut, and implored him to make the cut immediately. Kudos to Trump for getting this right.

Repeat after me: Washington has a spending problem, not a revenue problem.

BAD NEWS FOR THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: Mark Green withdraws as Army secretary nominee. I don’t know him, but everyone I know in Tennessee who does know him thinks he’s a great guy. The issues aren’t huge, and aren’t surprises, and if Trump didn’t want to back him through the inevitable Dem pushback he shouldn’t have nominated him.

WHAT’S THEIRS IS THEIRS. WHAT’S YOURS IS THEIRS, TOO. Nancy Pelosi Says Letting People Keep Money They Earn Is Stealing.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: 4 Reasons Stephen Colbert Isn’t Going Anywhere.

NEAL POLLACK: Berkeley protests put the obedience back in civil disobedience.

It’s a funny and insightful piece, which will be seen as neither funny nor insightful by those most in need of its humor and insights.

I AGREE, HE’S A DISGRACE. HE SHOULD RESIGN AND LET PRESIDENT TRUMP APPOINT A REPLACEMENT. James Comey Says Real Journalists Check With The Government Before Publication.