CNN: GOTTA DOX SOMEBODY. CNN Washes Out Its Own Role in Outing Hannity’s Legal Chat with Michael Cohen.

As Joseph A. Wulfsohn writes at the Federalist, Let’s Apply The Sean Hannity Standard To ‘Objective’ Journalists With Hidden Political Ties.

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but this double standard is overwhelming. Hannity makes his pro-Trump, pro-Cohen bias clear. Meanwhile, Jim Sciutto, George Stephanopoulos, Glenn Thrush, Mark Leibovich, and John Harwood pretend to be neutral players despite their ties to Democrats. If Hannity is going to face such scrutiny, so should these so-called “objective” journalists.

Indeed.™

WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT EXPERTS? Experts Say We’re All Showering Too Much.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Fresno English Professor Celebrated the Death of Barbara Bush on Twitter.

And it gets worse:

But as bad as what she said about the former first lady, THIS is what’s really awful. She actually gave out a telephone number to Arizona State University’s “dedicated crisis line” and passed it off as her own.

In-state cost of tuition at Fresno State is $20,361. Out of state is $32,241. Parents and students, choose where to spend your money wisely.

SJWs AT SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION BLACKLIST BEST-SELLING AUTHOR JOHN RINGO. Sarah Hoyt on Conservatives and Conventions.

Get woke, go broke.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Civilian tourniquet use associated with six-fold reduction in mortality.

I carry one in my car. They’re not expensive. Also Quik-Clot gauze.

ASK THE RABBI: Why Don’t Jews Believe in Original Sin?

RATS ON THE WEST SIDE, BEDBUGS UPTOWN: “De Blasio’s rat-killing demonstration is a complete disaster.”

ACCUSING THE EVIL WRECKERS AND SABOTEURS OF HAVING A FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS, 21st CENTURY EDITION: The Dark Side of the Starbucks Stand-Down.

In more rational times, Starbucks would discipline the manager responsible, notify the rest of its employees that discriminatory behavior will not be tolerated, and be done with it. After all, no one reasonably  believes that Starbucks — a company that consistently competes for gold in the corporate Woke Olympics — turns a blind eye to systemic racism. No one reasonably believes that the company’s founder is anything other than committed to racial equality.

But we live in hysterical times, and hysterical times call for hysterical measures. So Starbucks hasn’t just publicly apologized. It hasn’t just sent its CEO to meet with the men and personally apologize. It’s ordering a national stand-down at more than 8,000 company-owned stores and forcing more than 175,000 employees to undergo “racial bias” training, including training in so-called unconscious bias.

Starbucks employees, welcome to the world of Orwellian junk science.

Read the whole thing.

(Classical references in headline.)

JIM TREACHER: Mocking Dead Women Is Wrong, Unless They’re Republicans.

THAT AUTO MAKE ‘EM THINK: The Senate voted 51-47 (with Sen. Manchin of West Virginia siding with the GOP) today to disapprove CFPB action restricting auto loan financing practices. This is important for several reasons. First, the action circumvented notice-and-comment, being a guidance document rather than a rule. Secondly, the CFPB was forbidden from regulating auto loans by the Dodd-Frank Act that created the CFPB. Thirdly, the guidance was several years old, which normally means that the Congressional Review Act doesn’t apply. In this case, however, the CFPB never bothered to submit the guidance for review, so the CRA clock was still ticking. My colleague John Berlau congratulates Sen. Moran (Kansas) for bringing this up here.

Of course, if an agency doesn’t bother to follow the law and submit its rules and guidance to the Congress, the rules probably shouldn’t be valid anyway.

STOP ME IF YOU THINK YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE: Morrissey says Loony Left calls everyone racist to change the subject.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: College Professor ‘Happy To Be Retired’ After Dealing With SJWs.

TONY HELLER: Thirty Years Of The James Hansen Clown Show. “It has been thirty years since CO2 hit 350 PPM and NASA’s James Hansen warned that the Midwest was going to burn up and dry up.”

You’ll want to read the whole, schadenfreudelicious thing.

AS IF THE EPA COULDN’T GET ANY WORSE: It actually indulges in useless testing on animals with our tax dollars, something the EPA itself admits is slow, costly, and ineffective, and competing with private industry testing. White Coat Waste is on the case. Of course, it’s all about emissions testing.

REVIEW: 2018 Mercedes-AMG GLS63. I have a non-AMG GLE and like it a lot. This, on the other hand. . . .

AT AMAZON, save in Arts Crafts and Sewing.

Plus, spring savings in Jewelry.

DAVID SOLWAY: Intentional Communities Fail. “Millennials, take heed. Every experiment in utopian socialism known to history has failed.”

Nobody knows best for everybody.

“CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW…”: California Progressives Launch (Another) Attack on Free Speech.

On Sunday evening, New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait published a piece asking why more disgruntled Republicans don’t punish their party by switching sides. Chait notes that the “strongest defense against the election of an extreme or unfit leader is for his more mainstream partners to defect en masse.” Yet with few exceptions, Never Trump Republicans — especially Never Trump social conservatives — were steadfastly Never Hillary and remain (as Chait calls it) “Never-Democrats.” Why?

I’d suggest the answer lies in the words “extreme” and “mainstream.” Chait’s premise implies that Republicans have gone extreme, yet more-sensible conservatives are strangely refusing to join a mainstream opposition. Yet that’s not how the world looks from the right side of the aisle. From there, it looks as if the Democratic party is responding to Trump by galloping away from the center, doubling down on the very policies and ideologies that led Evangelicals to vote en masse for Trump as a form of simple self-defense.

It’s interesting, for example, that Chait makes the argument just as the California State Assembly is set to vote on a bill that would actually — among other things — ban the sale of books expressing orthodox Christian beliefs about sexual morality.

Yes, ban the sale of books.

What should Californians do with all those unsold books — burn them?

BUT WE SLOWED DOWN BECAUSE REASONS: The US used to advance so fast that countries could only copy what the US did 20 years before.

THAT’S A MIGHTY BIG IF: Stormy Daniels to donate to Planned Parenthood in Trump and Cohen’s names if she wins case.

COSMIC ROULETTE: NASA Basically Missed a Huge Asteroid That Passed Unnervingly Close to Earth.

Related: Happy Asteroid Day! Plus: Combating The Asteroid Threat.

PROPAGANDA: Taliban Spreading Rumor That Trump Has Ordered ‘Massacre’ of Civilians.

PRECIOUS GEMS: These diamonds are tiny, flawed, and may come from a long-lost planet.

A new study published in Nature Communications today offers a dramatic origin story for the meteorite. Based on materials found inside the diamonds nestled within, researchers think this may be the remnant of a long-lost planet or planetary embryo; one that was still in its infancy when the chaos of the early solar system obliterated it.

In this case, the diamonds aren’t the most important part of this story. They’re just the heavy-duty packaging for much more precious cargo held inside. While a jeweler might see a bit of rock trapped inside a diamond as a flaw, to a geologist it is precious. Because of their strong crystal structure, diamonds can preserve minuscule bits of material that would otherwise disappear under the relentless changeability of the universe over time.

Researcher Farhang Nabiei—of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland—was looking at the relationship between the diamonds and the layers of graphite surrounding them when he started wondering about the small pockets of substances trapped within.

Upon closer inspection, he found that the material inside the diamonds could only have been formed at incredibly high pressures—much higher than anything the meteorite would have been subject to as it crashed toward Earth. These diamonds must have held the weight of an entire world — literally.

Read the whole thing — this is an amazing find.