HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Maryland Prof claims she was dismissed for pro-Israel, anti-BDS views. “Landa claims that she was ‘ostracized’ by colleagues for taking a public stand against the BDS movement, and that an administrator removed her from teaching a class she had helped create because she took a 10-day trip to Israel.”

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CROSSING THE IMJIN: 1st Cavalry Division Abrams tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles cross the Imjin River in South Korea. Fine photo for Memorial Day.

PAUL BEDARD: Weekly Trump Report Card: Another week of promises kept, but divisions widen.

POWERLINE’S 16TH BLOGGIVERSARY: 16 Years, 16 Thoughts.

BLUE WAVE: Dem money floods Calif. primaries to avert electoral disaster.

POLITICAL SPYING: Trump campaign vet: Informant used me to get to Papadopoulos.

Sam Clovis, a former national co-chairman of the Trump campaign, is one of three Trump figures known to have been contacted by FBI informant Stefan Halper during the 2016 presidential campaign. Clovis received an email, out of the blue, from Halper, whom he did not know, on August 29, 2016 — after Halper had been in touch with Carter Page and just before he contacted George Papadopoulos.

Page and Papadopoulos were peripheral, sometime, volunteer Trump foreign policy advisers, but they are key figures in the investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to rig the 2016 election. Clovis, who is not suspected of any wrongdoing, has testified and been interviewed for a total of 19 hours, by his own count, before special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators, before Mueller’s grand jury, and before the House and Senate intelligence committees.

During all that testifying, Clovis never knew about Halper’s connection to the FBI. Only recently, from news reports, has Clovis learned about Halper’s true role. And that has prompted Clovis to re-play his brief and seemingly inconsequential encounter with Halper in light of a wealth of new information.

If the parties were reversed, we’d already be hearing cries of “constitutional crisis” and demands that the FBI be disbanded.

TO BE FAIR, HE’S NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAWER HIMSELF. Knives are too sharp and filing them down is solution to soaring violent crime, UK judge says.

EVEN WITH ENDLESS WARS, VETERANS ARE BECOMING RARE IN U.S.: Something important to think about today. There are fewer of them, but what they do for all of us is as vital now as ever.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: 2018 Grad Decries Political Correctness At Stanford Law School.

At Stanford Law School, no more than three of approximately 110 full-time faculty publicly identify as conservative or libertarian. (By way of contrast, Stanford Law School touts on its webpage 23 full-time faculty under the inartful rubric of “minority.”) As a consequence, many of my classmates will graduate having never engaged with a law professor whose worldview and convictions track those of nearly half the voting public.

It would require nothing less than willful blindness to presume this state of play does not affect the education that students receive. Probably for obvious reasons, my classmates demonstrate little willingness to identify publicly with anything associated with conservatism or, God forbid, President Trump, no matter how trivial. By way of extraordinary example, the Law School Republicans will soon cease to exist as a student organization because — after a campaign of intimidation and opprobrium — not one underclassman would volunteer to serve on its board next academic year.

An almost unspoken agreement seems to exist among many students that all of us will soon be fabulously successful, so long as everyone remains a “team player” and nobody rocks the boat too earnestly. Political, moral, and religious convictions are, for the most part, accessories best deployed for instrumental purposes, rather than values to be espoused or explored for their own sake. In much the same manner that all respectable people may speak or dress or eat a certain way, students at Stanford Law School have come to believe — and not entirely without reason, given their surroundings — that all respectable people should think the same way. …

For the past two years, I have repeatedly beseeched the dean of Stanford Law School to follow the example set by the leaders of my undergraduate alma mater — the University of Chicago — and publicly affirm the centrality of viewpoint diversity to the aims of education. Each time, she has refused, citing squeamishness at the prospect of overstepping her portfolio. Yet during that same period, she has nonetheless offered schoolwide commentary on public topics as diverse as the violence in Charlottesville, the rescission of DACA, and the Trump administration’s efforts to ban transgender individuals from military service.

Beyond the Office of the Dean, Stanford Law School has staged programs aimed at helping students to #resist more effectively, celebrating International Workers’ Day and offering advice on “progressive lawyering” in the Trump era. Professors have sent schoolwide emails condemning anyone who supported President Trump as either an outright racist or an enabler who is #complicit. One professor even saw fit to join a student/alumni Facebook group for the purposes of criticizing the Law School Republicans.

When the taxpayers get tired of supporting this narrowmindedness, they’ll be accused of “anti-intellectualism.”

IN FLANDERS FIELDS:  Why Red Poppies on Memorial Day?

SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM:  More than 228K pounds of Spam recalled.  (I’m reading a WWII era mystery and someone just waxed wishful about spam!)

SURE THING. I’M ALWAYS SHOCKED THAT GIRL REMEMBERS TO EXHALE:  Zero Situational Awareness: Chelsea Clinton Attacks Trump for Being Anti-American.

NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT NOT TO BE OFFENDED:  Opinion: Free Speech Falls Again.

THE MORE THE MASKS COME OFF, THE BETTER:  For years, “liberal privilege” has been the ability to pretend to be non-partisan and middle of the road.  They’re fast squandering that.  For which we should be grateful.  Why Conservatives Shouldn’t Fear That Obama-Netflix Deal.

DISNEY BEING DISNEY:  Why ‘Solo’ Is Paint-By-Numbers ‘Star Wars’ Fan Fiction.

USING OLD TACTICS:  In England, Gandhi is Spelled Yaxley-Lennon.

WE AIN’T SCANDINAVIA:  Why Government Doesn’t Scale.

IS IT A BAD THING TO ROLE PLAY DEFENSE/COUNTER-ATTACK IN SCENARIOS?  Someone is actually making an ‘active shooter’ video game.

NEWS YOU CAN USE:  Congrats, class of 2018: How to land a job, when you’re ready.

I REMEMBER WHEN PUBLISHERS STARTED DOING THIS IN THE OUGHTS:  Studios are now looking for actors who are Insta-famous.  Let’s say it’s not a good sign, okay?

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Campaign contributor helped Obamas score Netflix deal.