REGULATORS ARE GOING AFTER E-BIKES NOW. But there are a few signs of sanity.

UNEXPECTEDLY: California’s Legal Weed Is So Heavily Taxed and Regulated That the Black Market Might Survive.

MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE: “Great Read” Says Twitter’s CEO About Article Advocating Eradication of the Right.

ED MORRISSEY REVIEWS CHAPPAQUIDDICK:

At nearly every turn in the film, Ted has a choice between the truth and his “version” of it, and every time he makes the wrong choice. In the end, faced with a decision about remaining in public life, he tells Gargan in a final betrayal that Moses had a bad temper and Peter betrayed Jesus, and yet both still led the people of God.

“Moses had a bad temper,” Gargan shoots back, “but he never left a girl at the bottom of the Red Sea.”

That scores a direct hit, as does Chappaquiddick in general. For those familiar with the details, there is an inexorable air to it that might leave one with the feel of a true-crime re-enactment, but the performances are powerful enough to make it worth seeing in the theater.

Read the whole thing. 

Related: NewsBusters rounds up some of the worst of the DNC-MSM’s takes over the years in their service as Ted Kennedy’s PR machine.

MICHAEL WALSH ON THE GWOT: What Price Victory? What Cost ‘Infinite War?’

THEY WERE HOPING TO USE THE OTHER PARKLAND KIDS TO DISTRACT FROM THEIR FAILURES: Parkland shooting hero blames sheriff and superintendent for failing to prevent massacre.

A student who was gravely wounded after being shot five times while shielding classmates during the Florida high school shooting in February criticized the county sheriff and school superintendent Friday saying they failed the victims by not arresting the shooter before the massacre.

Anthony Borges, 15, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., was hailed a hero after he used his body to protect the lives of 20 others students after accused gunman Nikolas Cruz opened fire at the school on Feb. 14, 2018, killing 17 people.

He was released from the hospital Wednesday after suffering wounds to the lungs, abdomen and legs.

Borges’ attorney read a statement from the teen during a news conference criticizing Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel and Superintendent Robert Runcie for the massacre. Borges, too weak to talk, sat silently in a wheelchair with his right leg propped up. His statement specifically attacked the Promise program, a school district and sheriff office initiative that allows students who commit minor crimes on campus to avoid arrest if they complete rehabilitation. Runcie has said Cruz, a former Stoneman Douglas student, was never in the program, but Borges and his attorney, Alex Arreaza, said school and sheriff’s officials knew Cruz was dangerous.

Deputies received at least a dozen calls about Cruz, 19, over the years and he spent two years in a school for children with emotional and disciplinary problems before being allowed to transfer to Stoneman Douglas. Last year, records show he was forced to leave after incidents – other students said he abused an ex-girlfriend and fought her new boyfriend. Weeks before the shooting, both the FBI and the sheriff’s office received calls saying Cruz could become a school shooter but neither took action.

Runcie and Israel “failed us students, teachers and parents alike on so many levels,” Arreaza read for Borges, who sat next to his father, Roger. “I want all of us to move forward to end the environment that allowed people like Nikolas Cruz to fall through the cracks. You knew he was a problem years ago and you did nothing. He should have never been in school with us.”

Nope, but arresting him would have hurt their numbers. And their numbers were more important to them than the kids.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Sociology conference obsesses over hatred of Trump. “The program for the conference features numerous crude drawings of President Trump, depicting him as a diaper-wearing infant enamored with nuclear weapons and the Ku Klux Klan.”

OTHERWISE KNOWN AS A “MEDIA CONTACTS LIST?” DHS Compiling Database of Journalists and Media Influencers. This article does its best to make it sound sinister, but I’m not convinced.

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THINK OF THEM AS DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Newspapers Care Much More About Bashing Sinclair Than Criticizing an Unconstitutional Attack on Free Speech.

WHY DOESN’T TRUMP JUST ORDER THE FBI TO COMPLY: Threatening legal fight, Nunes demands document that kicked off FBI Trump-Russia investigation.

COLLEGE STUDENTS DON’T KNOW MUCH: Columbia Student Offended by Professor Who Said Negro Was Correct Term in the ’60s: “I didn’t pay attention in class after that.”

A Columbia University student was angry with her sociology professor for saying it was appropriate to use the term negro when referring to people of color while discussing the 1960s. She wrote to the professor, explaining to him that negro was an offensive and outdated term, but he failed to adjust his vocabulary. “I didn’t pay attention in class after that,” the student, Maria Martinez, told The Columbia Daily Spectator.

Here’s some context: The professor is Todd Gitlin, a longtime leftist activist who served as president of Students for a Democratic Society in the early ’60s. He teaches a course in American studies.

“It is in fact true, a matter of historical record, that African Americans in the ’50s and ’60s wanted to be called ‘Negroes,'” Gitlin told The Spectator. “Denying that practice would be a falsification of history.”

It’s too bad she’s occupying a seat that might instead be occupied by someone willing to learn.

NUKE THE SITE FROM ORBIT; IT’S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE: Brad Thor and Michael Ian Black had a nice, polite conversation on guns last night. Then Twitter threatened to ban Brad Thor over it.

THINK OF THE PRESS AS DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Reminder: The press blamed Christian conservatives for the Pulse nightclub shooting. It was a vicious smear.

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COLD CIVIL WAR UPDATE: Sohrab Amari: Harvard Declares War on Orthodox Christianity.

Harvard is now determined to ostracize, censor, and ultimately root out orthodox Christianity from a university that was founded to train ministers in the Puritan tradition. That is the inevitable conclusion to be drawn from the school’s little-noticed decision this year to suspend and defund the largest evangelical fellowship on campus.

The fellowship, Harvard College Faith and Action (HCFA), ran afoul of the school’s progressive dogmas last September when it asked one of its student leaders to step down from her post. The student was in a same-sex relationship, which meant that she had “an irreconcilable theological disagreement pertaining to our character standards,” as the HCFA’s co-presidents told the Harvard Crimson in February. The HCFA’s character rules on premarital sexual activity apply to students of all orientations, the co-presidents insisted, but their pleas fell on deaf ears. Egged on by a ravenous progressive mob, the Harvard administration suspended the group in February, and last month the Undergraduate Council voted to cut its funding.

The move is of a piece with the wider progressive crackdown against liberty on campus. But for orthodox Christians and other people of tradition, the episode has a deeper, and darker, meaning. For several years now, orthodox Christians, Catholics especially, have wondered whether it is still possible to come to peaceable terms with the liberal state. The debate has usually been framed in terms of intellectual history and genealogy, pitting thinkers who believe that today’s PC despotism is a perversion of the liberal tradition against those who argue that illiberal liberalism of the kind on display at Harvard is, in fact, the fullest expression of the liberal idea.

Sell your cloak and buy a sword.

DON’T GET COCKY, KIDS: Republicans not alarmed by bad poll result for Blackburn in Tennessee.

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