HOW DARE HE!  Professor draws rage for telling students to work hard and avoid partying.

VETERANS ARE EXPERIENCED IN DEALING WITH INEPT BUREAUCRACIES:  This untapped entrepreneurial community is not where you’d expect.

IF IT ISN’T, IT SHOULD BE:  Is Hollywood Support Now a Liability for Democrats?

IN THE EMAIL FROM STEPHANIE OSBORN:  Division One: Tour de Force.

THEY’RE AFRAID SHE’LL BE CONFUSED WITH ALL THE PRETEND REPORTERS ON THEIR PAYROLL:  New York Times accuses woman of pretending to be reporter.

KEEPING WOMEN IN LINE:  Feminist attacks on Taylor Swift reveal something very ugly about the movement.

THE GAME IS CALLED SMEAR THE VICTIM:  The Spin Doctor is in the House.

I TRIED TO LINK THIS TWO DAYS AGO BUT THE SITE KEPT GOING DOWN ON ME.  IT’S STILL IMPORTANT:  LEST WE FORGET!  The Bolshevik Century.

GOOD ENOUGH FOR GOVERNMENT WORK:  80% Failure Rate Would Get All Of Us Fired. Not The TSA!

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CHANGE: Space reforms coming: 2018 NDAA drops legislative bombshells on U.S. Air Force.

For the military space world, the big headline from Capitol Hill Wednesday was that the final version of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act does not, at least for now, require the Pentagon to create a new “space corps.”

This might seem like a victory for the Air Force. Senior leaders had fought back the House space corps provision that would have effectively taken away from the Air Force its ownership of military space.

It’s a hollow victory, however. The 2018 NDAA is big on Pentagon reforms, across the board, but it hammered the Air Force especially hard.

The NDAA conference report blasts the Air Force for a “broken national security space enterprise,” strips key authorities from the service and shifts much of the management of military space to the deputy secretary of defense.

The leaders of the defense committees said in a statement they are “proud of the bipartisan process that led to this conference report, which took hard work and thoughtful collaboration from members on both sides of the aisle.”

Hmm.

JOHN HINDERAKER: What Will Mitch McConnell Do About the Democrats’ Disgraceful Senate Blockade?

OH MY: George Takei Accused of Sexually Assaulting Former Model in 1981. “The accuser, Scott R. Brunton, who was 23 at the time of the alleged incident, claims that Takei took advantage of him when he was most vulnerable.”

WAIT, WHAT? Report: Charlotte air traffic controller arrested for possession of ‘weapon of mass destruction.’

FLASHBACK: The Obama Whisperer: No one has understood Valerie Jarrett’s role, until now. “When I asked a longtime source who left the Obama White House years ago for his impressions of Jarrett, he confessed that he was too fearful to speak with me, even off the record.” With so many czars, there was bound to be a Rasputin.

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JAMIE KIRCHICK: Everybody Hates Nazis!: The symbolic politics of anti-Nazism in the age of Trump.

None of this is to downplay the toxicity of these deranged individuals, one of whom killed a young woman in Charlottesville (and wounded many others) by driving his car into a crowd of people. But some perspective is in order. The fact that there are real pedophiles who molest children does not imply that there is an epidemic of pedophilia in America or that local nursery schools are run by pedophiles who engage in satanic rites. Similarly, the fact that there are 400—or even 10,000—people who call themselves neo-Nazis in America is regrettable and dangerous in every single instance. It’s also normal. . . .

And yet ever since Donald Trump assumed the presidency, an increasing number of serious people seem to believe that they are engaged in a twilight struggle against Nazis, just like Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca. The hysteria began with the label Trump’s political opposition adopted for itself, “The Resistance,” a moniker that, unless you are burying weapons in the forests of Poland or hiding in the basements of French country houses, one has no right to assume.

But it gives meaning to their otherwise empty lives, and makes them feel virtuous enough to forget that they’ve been covering for Harvey Weinstein for decades.

UH-OH: ROY MOORE DIDN’T HELP HIMSELF IN INTERVIEW WITH SEAN HANNITY. “This Roy Moore interview is an example of why defense attorneys tell our clients to STFU.”

UPDATE: Audio: Sean Hannity’s full interview with Roy Moore.

DO TELL: Nudging can also be used for dark purposes: The path of least resistance can easily direct people to do the wrong thing.

Policy wonks have nudged people to sign up for organ donation, to increase their pension contributions — and even insulate their homes by coupling home insulation with an attic-decluttering service. All we have to do is make it easy for people to do the right thing.

But what if you want people to do the wrong thing? The answer: make that easy; or make the right thing difficult. Messrs Thaler and Sunstein are well aware of the risk of malign nudges, and have been searching for the right word to describe them. Mr Thaler likes “sludge” — obfuscatory language or procedures that accidentally or deliberately encourage inertia. Voter ID laws, he says, are a good example of sludge, calculated to softly disenfranchise. Meanwhile Mr Sunstein has written an entire book about the “ethics of influence”.

And as we are starting to realise, Vladimir Putin is well aware of the opportunity that behavioural science presents, too. Rumours circulate that the Russian authorities are keen recruiters of young psychologists and behavioural economists; I have no proof of that, but it seems like a reasonable thing for the Russian government to do. I am willing to bet that not all of them are working on attic-decluttering.

You know who’s an expert at nudging? Satan. Just sayin’ . . . .

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Sharyl Attkisson explains Why No One Trusts the Mainstream Media.

(Via Maggie’s Farm.)

CATFISHING HUNTER: Teen Girl Posed For 8 Years As Married Man To Write About Baseball And Harass Women.

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MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR, MINNEAPOLIS VERSION: At City Journal, Power Line’s Scott Johnson asks, “Why take Somali ‘community leaders’ on an exclusive airport-security tour?”

A sidebar to the story of the ISIS-affiliated Somali men convicted on terrorism charges last year in federal district court in Minneapolis: one of the men who pleaded guilty and cooperated with the prosecution had worked on the tarmac at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport (MSP) and could have done serious harm. So had the one who turned informant and was never charged in the case. When his FBI interlocutors persuaded him to turn, he had a question for them: “Can I get my job at the airport back?”

That’s not all. In his March 29, 2016 Star Tribune story, Stephen Montemayor reported in passing that local imams and Muslim “community leaders” had received a “behind-the-scenes security tour” in February last year at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport (MSP). Montemayor mentioned the tour when he noted that Hassan Mohamud—also known as “Sheikh Hassan,” an imam working as a legal assistant for one of the defendants—had been “uninvited” from the tour.

What was that tour for Muslims only all about?

Read the whole thing.

HAVING SOLVED ALL OF ITS OTHER PROBLEMS, New York phases out ‘ladies and gentlemen’ greetings on the subway in favor of politically correct gender-neutral terms including ‘passengers’ and ‘riders.’

Comrade de Blasio instructs all Inner and Outer Party members and groundhogs to update Newspeak Dictionaries accordingly.