CHANGE: District Judge Generally Rejects Plea Bargaining. “In both opinions, I stated that it is the court’s function to prevent the transfer of criminal adjudications from the public arena to the prosecutor’s office for the purpose of expediency at the price of confidence in and effectiveness of the criminal justice system.”

I’d send him a copy of my Ham Sandwich Nation piece, but I think he’s already got it.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN IS ON CHUCK SCHUMER’S PHONY FEDERALISM: Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren are all for state autonomy — when the GOP’s in charge. “If hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, then Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has delivered a whopping tribute to the constitutional doctrine of federalism.”

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AMY ALKON: The Physically Safer The World Gets, The More Authoritarian We Get About Emotionally “Unsafe” Things.

FORCED MORATORIUM? North Korea’s Nuclear Test Ban: Practical As Much As Political.

North Korea’s nuclear test site at Punggye-Ri has hosted six nuclear tests since 2006. The latest test in 2017 was of a thermonuclear device. Although it is difficult for outsiders to get a detailed assessment of conditions at the site, there are strong reasons to believe that Punggye-Ri is unusable for future nuclear tests.

The local geology has possibly been altered by this sequence of underground explosions, making the area unstable. The ability to stage further tests and keeping the radioactive material sealed is now compromised. North Korea has no other established testing zones in its own territory, and finding a suitable site for a future one would be difficult. North Korea’s geography limits these options.

If the nuclear testing ban holds, one major fear for the near-term will be defused. North Korea had earlier floated the idea of an atmospheric nuclear test over the Pacific Ocean, probably using a missile-delivered warhead.

Last year, I wrote on The Interpreter that a Pacific test would be one way to get around the aforementioned limitations of North Korea’s underground test site. But the environmental and security implications of such a test would be catastrophic.

To say the least.

BECAUSE THERE ARE NO LONGER ANY OVERRIDING GEOPOLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR PLAYING FOOTSIE WITH ANKARA’S PRIDE: Why President Trump Should Recognize The Armenian Genocide.

KEN WHITE: Dear DNC: We Need To Talk About RICO.

FASTER, PLEASE: Researchers ID protein that can be activated to treat heart disease.

TURNABOUT: Antifa Members Arrested for Refusing to Remove Masks. “An anti-Klan statute nabs a new generation of violent Leftists.”

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BUT OF COUSE: Starbucks’ ‘unconscious bias training’ isn’t enough, protesters say.

“The actions of the Starbucks corporation are totally unacceptable,” Philadelphia Councilman Kenyatta Johnson told protesters Sunday. “We know they said they’re going to move forward and specifically focus on a training that deals with unconscious bias, but that’s a one-day training.

“We want to see how they’re going to change their culture as it relates to racial insensitivity and also diversity and inclusion as it relates to making sure that everyone who comes to a Starbucks store that lives in the city of Philadelphia should feel welcome,” he added.

On a long enough timeline, the Left always eats its own. Always.

HEH. THAT DOES SEEM TO FIT: James Comey as Walter Mitty.

WELL, LOOK HOW IT TURNED OUT FOR ANTHONY WEINER: “Joy Reid Claims Newly Discovered Homophobic Posts From Her Blog Were ‘Fabricated’”:

“How is that queers became the odd ones out at such a momentous turning point in history? By pushing an agenda of stupid issues like gay marriage.”

Reid is claiming that someone “hacked” her blog and added the remarks later, although as Mediaite points out, the sentiments expressed by the allegedly “faux” author sound in line with those she admitted having previously published.

She should have wiped her server, you know, with “like a cloth.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘Your kids masturbate’ and other provocative lines from Fresno State professor’s talks.

In one clip featured in the video, Jarrar is discussing Fresno’s agriculture industry and says “a lot of the farmers now are Trump supporters and just f—ing stupid.” In another, she says she can’t stand “the white, hetero patriarchy.”

Also in the video, Jarrar criticizes what she sees as Democrats’ inaction on political issues, pointing to “resistance fighters” in the 1960s and ’70s who hijacked planes.

“I don’t give a f—. I’m buying guns. I’m an American. I’m buying guns,” she says in one video clip. “The other side is, like, doing some stupid s—. I’m gonna do some stupid s—. I’m tired of, like, being the bigger person — literally am usually — but, like, I’m also just tired of the left being, like, f—ing stupid and being like, ‘No we have to like be gentle’ … no, don’t be f—— gentle.'”

She sounds like a potential danger to others or herself.

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FORMER NEW BLACK PANTHER CHAIRMAN: ‘You Don’t Like Us, Mr. Trump? Then Hand Over the State of Florida.’

Maybe he’d settle for Old California.

CAMPAIGNING: Corker says he won’t oppose Democrat seeking his Senate seat.

Outgoing Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee is sticking by his decision not to campaign against the Democrat seeking to fill his seat.

Corker says he considers the Democrat, former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen (BRED’-uh-sen), a “friend.” Corker backs Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn but says he won’t oppose Bredesen.

Maybe politics is beanbag, after all.

SO IT’S COME TO THIS: A YouTuber was fined $1,100 for posting clips of his girlfriend’s dog giving a Nazi salute.

These are Heinlein’s Crazy Years — we just live in them.

THE SINS OF THE GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHERS: Dream Democrat Agenda Includes Reparations.

The desire was stated in the invitation for a Monday reception during the annual spring gathering, which was attended by top Democratic Party officials such as DNC chairman Tom Perez, former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, and Reps. Raul Grijalva (Ariz.) and Mark Pocan (Wis.).

The reception, “Way to Win: 2022 Victory Party,” was presented as a look forward at what’s possible if Democrats can be effective in coming elections.

“It’s 2022 and we are celebrating policy victories across the nation: Medicare for All and Free College, and next on the agenda is Reparations,” the group projected, according to an invitation to the event.

The GOP should absolutely run with this, and hard.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN IS ON CHUCK SCHUMER’S PHONY FEDERALISM: Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren are all for state autonomy — when the GOP’s in charge. “If hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, then Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has delivered a whopping tribute to the constitutional doctrine of federalism.”

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RAND PAUL: Putting forward a plan for Congress to balance the budget.

The Senate rules say that if the leadership and the Budget Committee don’t report out a budget by April 1, any senator can do it — so that’s exactly what I’m going to do this week.

I will introduce a FULLY BALANCED budget that includes spending cuts, entitlement reform, and a plan to bring our fiscal house in order. No more trillion-dollar deficits. No more adding to the $21 trillion debt with reckless abandon.

Instead, here are some of the highlights from my balanced budget plan.

My budget will balance in FIVE years, without touching Social Security. It repeals the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 and its trillion-dollar deficits and instead uses the Penny Plan to balance.

What does that mean? It means that next year we will spend 1 percent less than we spend this year, and for the next five years, until balance is reached between revenues and spending. After that, the budget will begin to grow again at one percent per year instead of cutting.

Sounds simple, right? Would you be able to do with 99 percent of what you had previously spent if you needed to? Washington will scream and holler, but these are the facts. We are $21 trillion in debt. The deficit is growing again. And it takes only a 1 percent cut per year for a few years to reverse this and to balance.

I’d rather make those cuts permanent after five years, with the savings split 50/50 between tax cuts and debt reduction. But even Paul’s baby steps are too much for Washington to take.