INSERT KEITH OLBERMANN JOKE HERE: A Simple Poop Transplant Could Fix a Debilitating Brain Disease, Study Shows.

GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT: Former Google, Facebook Execs Launch AI Human Resources Firm to ‘Remove Human Bias.’

WHEN CAN A UNIVERSITY read faculty email?

WHAT A WASTE: Dick’s Sporting Goods to destroy all unsold assault-style weapons.

I’m starting to warm up to the phrase “assault-style,” since it’s a tacit admission that the rifles only look like assault weapons.

TRUMP’S GOING TO BRING US WORLD PEACE, AND MSNBC WILL TELL US IT’S JUST A PLOY TO DISTRACT FROM SEAN HANNITY’S LAWYER: North Korea Removes Major Obstacle to U.S. Negotiations, South Says. “Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, has removed a key obstacle to negotiations with Washington by no longer demanding that American troops be removed from South Korea as a condition for denuclearizing his country, the South’s president, Moon Jae-in, said Thursday.”

INSHALLAH: Iran earthquake: NUCLEAR ALERT as huge quake strikes power plant.

JONATHAN TURLEY: Comey Book Tour Paints A Far Worse Picture of Comey Than Trump Does.

CRIME OF THE CENTURY: Canadian who posted drug smuggling trip on Instagram sentenced to prison.

NIKKI HALEY: Russian Nerve Agent in UK Harbinger of ‘Frightening New Reality.’

SO ADAM SCHIFF HAS A BILL TO OVERSEE PRESIDENTIAL PARDONS, and despite what I see some folks on Twitter opining, it seems entirely within Congress’s powers. In fact, it sounds like he (well, his staff) read my Congressional Control of Presidential Pardons piece.

HMM: Cohen drops libel suits against BuzzFeed, Fusion GPS.

IF IT WEREN’T FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS, THEY’D HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL: Heckled law prof: CUNY Law would have sicced cops on pro-life protest of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But right-leaning students should act to heighten the contradictions here.

I FEEL THE NEED… USAF Announces Major New Hypersonic Weapon Contract.

The $928 million contract will cover the “design, development, engineering, systems integration, test, logistics planning, and aircraft integration support of all the elements of a hypersonic, conventional, air-launched, stand-off weapon,” according to information released by the Air Force.

In a statement, Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said the program has been dubbed the Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon. It is “one of two hypersonic weapon prototyping efforts being pursued by the Air Force to accelerate hypersonics research and development,” she said. “The Air Force is using prototyping to explore the art-of-the-possible and to advance these technologies to a capability as quickly as possible.”

The second program is the Tactical Boost Glide program, which the Air Force is working on with DARPA. The service plans to have a prototype ready by 2023.

Faster, please.

THIS MAY BE A DISTRACTION FROM BREXIT: British PM Teresa May is calling on world leaders to join her in banning plastic straws, cotton buds and coffee stirrers. From the comments: “Will I be arrested and charged for being in possession of a straw?” Given the way Britain is going, the answer is probably yes…

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE (SCHOOL SAFETY EDITION): Wyoming district allows armed staff in area cited by Betsy DeVos. “The 4-2 vote by the Park County School District No. 6 board in Cody came after more than six months of discussion and debate.”

The sounds you hear are not gunfire, but of heads exploding.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Scripps College is standing by its decision to host two Venezuelan diplomats for a speech about the communist country’s “grassroots initiatives.” Hey, it’s not like it’s Milo Yiannopoulos or Kevin Williamson or something.

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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Deep Staters Referred to DOJ and Much, Much More. “Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and 10 other congressman sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions recommending a criminal investigation into such extra-constitutional, bureaucrat, actors as Loretta Lynch, Hillary Clinton, James Comey and Andrew McCabe.”

BLOWBACK: “That’s the complicated thing about Starbucks: Its racial diversity policy has always been aimed at its white audience, and that’s why this is such a crisis, right?”

Closing on May 29, when this scandal would otherwise be long forgotten, is a big mistake. But the response to these things has to be understood not so much as a business decision by the firm as a whole, as the product of internal competition for power within the firm. The result will be more influence, and an established, hard-to-get-rid-of institutional fiefdom, for the woke warriors. That’s what it’s really all about.

BLUE ON BLUE: Andrew McCabe swipes at James Comey: He’s not telling the truth.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: This week’s Creators Syndicate column. Wars for the Minerals Your Cell Phone and Prius Need. OK, you don’t have a Prius. Neither do I. So send the link to one of the pious with a Prius.

ANDREW MCCARTHY: The Outrageous Outing of Sean Hannity, Cont’d. “This adds fuel to the fiery contention that, where President Trump is involved, investigations are driven by politics, not law enforcement.”

Well, that’s because they clearly are.

GUNNERY PRACTICE, SIXTH FLEET: The USS Ross fires its 5-inch gun (April 10, 2018).

HISTORY AND MOVIES: My weekly column at The Daily Caller is up.

Most tellingly, Podesta refers to Kopechne’s death as “a footnote to history.” Jason Clarke, who played Kennedy in the film said the film “doesn’t try to sensationalize” the accident that Kennedy failed to report for 10 hours. A young woman’s death at the hands of a U.S. senator is more than a “footnote to history.”