THIS RECIPE DOESN’T SOUND BAD, but I imagine Meghan Markle actually made Insta-Chicken, because when you’re aiming for a royal proposal you don’t mess around.

WAIT, YOU MEAN OBAMA’S DACA ENCOURAGES ID THEFT BY ILLEGAL ALIENS? Yes, that’s exactly what Dale Wilcox of the Immigration Reform Law Institute contends and he’s got the data to prove it. As Glenn famously says, read the whole thing.

ANGELO CODEVILLA: Living With Politics As War.

Whoever was surprised by the hate-fest against the National Rifle Association and conservative Americans in general that followed the Parkland, Florida school shooting must not have been paying attention. Over the past half-century, a ruling class formed by our uniformly leftist educational system and occupying the commanding heights of corporate life, governmental bureaucracies, the media, etc. accuses its targets of everything from murder and terrorism to culpable psycho-social disorders (racism, sexism, and so forth).

Leaders, marchers, and rioters speak from identical scripts. They do not try to persuade. They strengthen their own side’s vehemence. They restrict opponents from speaking on their own behalf, and use state and corporate power to push them to society’s margins. While demanding deference to themselves, they mention right-leaning Americans and their causes only to insult and de-legitimize them.

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WHO WOULDN’T BUILD THEIR OWN GUNDAM, GIVEN THE CHANCE?   This engineer built the fully armed giant robot of his dreams.

MALTHUS IS DEAD.  AND I FEEL FINE:  The End of Peak Oil.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  As Expected James Comey Book Is Shaping Up To Be Anti-Trump Whine.  Someone give that man some cheese, already.

EVERYTHING HAS A PRICE:  Antidepressants: is the cure worse than the disease?

THE LEFT’S HATRED ONLY WITHERS THEMSELVES:  “Hate Chicken” and “Cow Shadenfreude”: The New Yorker Takes Aim At Chick-fil-A.

THINK LONG AND HARD BEFORE:  Putting your kids in public school.  Liberals reproduce by indoctrination.

MAYBE THE EYEBROWS YOU WANT AT 20 WON’T BE SUITABLE TO YOU AT 50 – SO WHY MAKE THEM PERMANENT?  The dark side of microblading.

WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN OPTIMISTIC ABOUT IMPROVING OURSELVES:  The reason Americans are obsessed with advice.

PENGUIN, WHAT?  STOP THE WORLD, I NEED TO STEP OFF:  Penguins might just be nature’s most perverted animals.

JON CALDARA: To Boulder’s anti-gun bigots, I will not comply with your hate law. Passive non-compliance at a minimum. Active non-compliance if provoked.

JOURNALISM: Kennedy Lied, People Died-and the Media Covered it Up. “I refer, of course, to the Bay of Pigs freedom-fight, 57 years ago this week.”

CBS NEWS: Voters could decide whether to split California into three smaller states.

Say, did I mention I have a paper on state-splitting?. It’ll be published in the Notre Dame Law Review, but you can read it now. It’s short and punchy.

OPEN THREAD: Display your usual mastery of the form.

THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: ‘We’re Out of Options’: Doctors Battle Drug-Resistant Typhoid Outbreak.

BRAZIL IS HAVING A BAD DECADE: Brazil yellow fever vaccination campaign far short of goal. Remember when they were touting Brazil as the next superpower? They do that every decade or two, always to be frustrated by . . . the realities of Brazil. It should be a much richer and more impressive country, but the culture just won’t support that.

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ANNALS OF LEFTWING AUTOPHAGY: #BoycottStarbucks trends on Twitter after video shows arrest of two black men at Philadelphia location.

Amid outrage, Starbucks issued a statement online, writing, “We apologize to the two individuals and our customers and are disappointed this led to an arrest.”

During a Facebook Live statement uploaded Saturday afternoon, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross described the incident. He said the men were “trespassing,” because they were non-paying customers who wanted to use the bathroom. When Starbucks employees asked the men to leave, they refused and the police were called. He said the officers “did absolutely nothing wrong.”

However, several on social media disagreed and #BoycottStarbucks soon became a trending topic on Twitter Saturday. Many called the arrest racist and discriminatory.

Starbucks’ CEO (now executive chairman) Howard Schultz, a self-proclaimed “life-long Democrat,” floated the idea of having his baristas lecture customers on racial tolerance, trashed Trump, openly endorsed Hillary and afterwards, vowed “to hire thousands of refugees after President Donald Trump’s first executive order that temporarily banned travel from seven mostly-Muslim nations.”

Naturally, in response, #BoycottStarbucks is trending today, as the revolution eats its own – and washes the remains down with really mediocre coffee.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Police and the Feds Can Now Unlock Your iPhone without Apple’s Help.

I WAS TOLD THIS WAS IMPOSSIBLE: Congressional Budget Office: Trump Tax Cuts Are Boosting Growth And Mostly Paying For Themselves. “Last June, the CBO said GDP growth for 2018 would be just 2%. Now it figures growth will be 3.3% — a significant upward revision. It also boosted its forecast for 2019 from a meager 1.5% to a respectable 2.4%.”

UPDATE: Unexpectedly! “Those who lack any understanding of how the world works are continually surprised.”

AS A LEGENDARY COMMUNITY ORGANIZER ONCE ADVISED, GET IN THEIR FACES, AND PUNCH BACK TWICE AS A HARD: College’s ‘no whites allowed’ pool party postponed after backlash.

ITS ORIGIN AND PURPOSE, STILL A TOTAL MYSTERY: ‘Allah hu Akbar’ Shouting Woman Threatens to Blow Herself up at Cannes Festival.

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