#NOTALLWOMEN:  Heather Locklear arrested for domestic violence.

TAXPAYERS WANT CRUMBS? THIS IS HOW YOU GIVE TAXPAYERS CRUMBS!  Cuomo’s denial on NY’s awful taxes.

IN OTHER NEWS, SCOTTISH MEN ALSO BANNED FROM CONCEALED CARRYING:  CNN Analyst Suggests Women Can’t Carry Guns Because They Wear Skirts, Dresses.

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SHE’S A DISGRACE IN SO MANY WAYS: Renowned Professor Outraged After Being Accused of Saying Nice Things About Israel: Harvard’s Catharine MacKinnon correctly noted the Israel Defense Forces’ ethics. But when a colleague accused her of praising the Jewish state, the celebrated scholar went on the attack. “In most academic circles, especially the ones inhabited by Catharine MacKinnon and Laura Finlayson, the accusation that one is acting as a useful idiot for George W. Bush is a scarlet letter, as depraved as liking child pornography or torturing animals. But the allegation that she is a handmaiden of American imperialism is not what prompted MacKinnon to write a letter to the editor. No, it was the fear that readers of the London Review of Books might mistake her for having even the slightest sympathy for the Jewish State which stirred the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at Michigan Law and James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School to action.”

ENDORSED. Funk Legend George Clinton on Cultural Appropriation: ‘We’ve Got to Get Over This Sh*t.’

LEFTISTS VERSUS THE PEOPLE: “Do they really hate ordinary people that much? Yes, they do. For liberals, the distinction between the “dumb masses” and their enlightened selves renders life meaningful. Disdain for ordinary folks is not just an ancillary trait of liberalism. It is fundamental to the its nature.”

OPEN THREAD: Thread away!

SOUNDS LIKE A ROBERT LUDLUM NOVEL: Roger Kimball: The Schiff Obstruction.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Counterattack Hard Against Liberal Attacks on Our Gun Rights and Other Civil Liberties.

TRUMP ON SCHOOL SHOOTING: ‘I’d Run in There Even if I Didn’t Have a Weapon.’

NOBODY WANTS TO BAN GUNS YOU PARANOID WINGNUT! Also: House Democrats introduce bill prohibiting sale of semi-automatic weapons.

IT SEEMS LIKE ONLY YESTERDAY THAT “MANSPLAINING” WAS BAD: CNN ANALYST: WOMEN CARRYING GUNS IS NOT PRACTICAL. “On February 24 CNN law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes asked the question, ‘For a woman, where are you going to hide that gun during the day?’ He continued with another question, ‘If you wear a dress, if you wear a skirt, are you going to have to wear a jacket everyday with a belt and a holster the way a detective on duty would do?’ Yes, he actually asked those questions on national television in 2018.”

I learned of this on Facebook from Tamara Keel, who was mightily amused.

WHEN COMPANIES GET POLITICAL, SOMETIMES POLITICS BITES BACK: Delta’s tax break may not take flight after Georgia Senate blocks it. And so much the better because this looks like it was just a special-interest payoff anyway.

If I were a member of Congress, I’d endorse the newfound enthusiasm for leadership by young people by introducing legislation requiring car rental companies to rent to all licensed drivers on the same terms, regardless of age. . . .

SARAH HOYT: “This week the Catholics were assaulted with a letter from the United Conference of Catholic Bishops.” And Sarah is not impressed:

I am an immigrant, from a Latin country. I came here, 33 years ago, with twenty kilos of clothing, my education, and nothing much having spent my entire savings to secure the ticket to join my then boyfriend in North Carolina. We got married a couple of weeks later, and I applied for a green card. I did not apply for citizenship for five years, though I worked very hard at acculturating.

As part of this bias, I must tell you that acculturation is hard. Very hard.

Read the whole thing.

NEWS YOU CAN USE (WELL, SOME OF YOU): 21 Things Fiftysomethings Wish Twentysomethings Knew. Some of these are BS, though. Honestly, I think it’s a bigger mistake to overthink having kids than the reverse; I thought the opposite in my 20s. And my body feels better than it did in my 20s, though that’s more a function of what kind of shape I was in in my 20s than of where I am now. . . .

VIDEO: Blogger R.S. McCain Says Tech Giants are ‘Deplatforming’ Conservatives Every Day. “People need to wake up.”

JACK DUNPHY: Dimwit Florida Sheriff Was ‘Once a Proud Member of Team Obama.’

THEY TOLD ME THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: Sliced & Diced: The Inside Story Of How An Ivy League Food Scientist Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral Studies. “Brian Wansink won fame, funding, and influence for his science-backed advice on healthy eating. Now, emails show how the Cornell professor and his colleagues have hacked and massaged low-quality data into headline-friendly studies to ‘go virally big time.'”

THOUGHTS ON THE IMPEACHMENT OF ANDREW JOHNSON.

THE PERILS OF “NEOLIBERALISM:”

One nation comes in for particular scorn: Chile, because of the Pinochet dictatorship that succeeded the coup that toppled leftist hero Allende back in 1973. Milton Friedman and other free marketeers advised the Pinochet government about how best to get their economy going again, but Friedman also advised China around this same time, and somehow that never draws a complaint from the left. Anyway, Pinochet ultimately relinquished power and re-established free elections (anyone think Allende would have ever done that?), and today Chile’s economy is one of the strongest in the world.

How strong is it? The New York Times reported recently: ““The Chilean government, facing skyrocketing rates of obesity, is waging war on unhealthy foods with a phalanx of marketing restrictions, mandatory packaging, redesigns and labeling rules aimed at transforming the eating habits of 18 million people.”

Contrast this with Venezuela, where the equivalent of the Allende government has held power for nearly 20 years now, and the population is on the verge of starvation. Think Venezuelans might want a bit of neoliberalism right about now?

Heh. Read the whole thing.™

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Let’s Lower the Voting Age to Six Years Old.

CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST: Madonna Slams Modern Hitmaking in Instagram Post. “Can you help me now please!!” she wrote. “Remember when i made records with other artists from beginning to end and I was allowed to be a visionary and not have to go to song writing camps where No one can sit still for more than 15 minutes.” She then added several flame emojis and the words “coming soon.”

This is ironic, given that Madonna’s video-first approach to hit-making drove one of the last nails in the coffin of quality popular songwriting.

GUIDE: Top Throwing Axes. “Axe-throwing is the latest craze sweeping the nation. Austin, Boston, and Brooklyn, not exactly hotbeds of edged-tool use, have all seen axe-throwing BYOB establishments open in the past few years. The industry is beginning to respond to the trend, and BladeHQ show us some of the top throwing axes out there.”

DURBIN ON TRUMP: ‘His Goal is the Deportation of DREAMers.’