ANDREW KLAVAN: Two Op-Eds Draw A Stark Portrait of Left vs. Right.

On the left: self-serious, self-righteous, angry-faced harridans who want to destroy you for disagreeing with them. They call you names, they shout you down, they riot if you try to speak, they try to get you fired or run you out of business. On the right, we laugh a lot and argue constantly.

Brooks says progressives are winning because they have managed to silence dissenting opinion. In his speech at CPAC, Shapiro declared the right is winning precisely because: “The era of political correctness is over.”

Suppression of opinion, or free discussion? Which way forward do you think Americans will ultimately choose?

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NBC: The FBI’s secret warrant to surveil Carter Page should scare all Americans and spur reform: A secret, non-adversarial system of judicial review is an insufficient check to our intelligence agencies and law enforcement.

SHOCKER: The Hill: Australian diplomat whose tip prompted FBI’s Russia-probe has tie to Clintons.

FLASHBACK: Pajama Boy Redux: The Male in Modern Society.

OPEN THREAD: Enjoy each other’s company.

DRAMA IN REAL LIFE: Former Trump Advisor Sam Nunberg: I’m Tearing Up My Subpoena From Mueller On Live TV. I literally have no idea what’s going on here.

VIDEO: Korean Girls Try American Barbecue.. “10/10 — no, 20/10 — maybe 100/10. I envy Americans.”

WEIRD, ALL THE BEST PEOPLE ASSURED ME IT WAS ECONOMIC ARMAGEDDON: Dow closes 336 points higher as trade-war worries ease.

OUCH: Nation Surprised To Learn Oscars Happened Last Night.

NEED A DATE? Get a dog. But this is kind of sad: “As more young adults postpone marriage and children and remain single for longer, he said, they may view their pets as one of the more stable and long-lasting aspects of their life.”

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN LOOKS AT STATE SECESSION: Rural California wants a divorce from rich California.

LAW PROFESSORS AS PLAINTIFFS: “Several other things stand out about these cases. First, although a few early decisions do exist, these types of actions did not really take off until fairly recently. Second, the defendants in these cases are not always employers—sometimes, they are outside parties. Third, law professors generally do a poor job assessing their chances, for they lose much more often than they win. And fourth, many law professors are guilty of a shocking level of thin-skinnedness.”

DEMOCRATS, YOU SHOULD RUN WITH THIS, IT’S A CAN’T-LOSE STRATEGY: Female candidates offer chance to end ‘toxic testosterone’ of patriarchal power structure.

Nothing says diversity and inclusion like writing off half the electorate as hormone-poisoned.

THE ART OF THE DEAL: Trump says tariffs will come off if new NAFTA deal is signed.

SPACE: The Falcon 9 rocket may reach 50 launches on Tuesday.

UM… NYC ‘Sperminator’ Has Fathered 26+ Kids by Donating Sperm in Some Pretty Weird Ways.

CHANGE: A U.S. Aircraft Carrier Is Docking In Vietnam For The First Time Since The War.

Related: Xi May Scare Asia Back Into Washington’s Orbit.

Years ago I wrote that a rising and possibly belligerent China would cause her neighbors to draw to the US like iron filings around a magnet, and that it would take concerted effort on our part to screw that up. Which is exactly what we got eight years of under the previous Administration.

THIS WILL END WELL: Country Music Executives Slammed The NRA In Push To Oust Huckabee.

LOST AND FOUND: We’ve located the USS Lexington after she sank 76 yrs ago.

SHOT: Conservatives Are Losing the Culture War Over Guns.

-Peter Beinart, The Atlantic.

CHASER: Oscar Ratings Down Double Digits, Eye All-Time Low In Early Estimates.

-Nellie Andreeva, Deadline Holywood.

FRAUD: Busted: London Mayor caught faking celebrity endorsements in anti-knife campaign.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN LOOKS AT STATE SECESSION: Rural California wants a divorce from rich California.

DAVID SOLWAY: The Media and Joe McCarthy. “The name and the man serve as reminders that muck-raking leftists and elite conservatives are not always that different, that the Fourth Estate cannot be trusted, that the Fifth Estate is almost entirely a gutter institution, and that the only antidote to the intellectual and emotional subversion practiced by the FNM is perpetual skepticism and diligent study.”

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