HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: College Republicans Get In Huge Trouble for Posting ‘I.C.E. I.C.E. Baby’ Signs.

STOCKHOLM SYNDROME?: CUNY Law Fed Soc co-president: Disruption of Blackman can be a “learning moment”

GET ME OUT OF HERE:  Attorney General Sessions is being criticized for establishing a policy under which Immigration Administrative Law Judges will be evaluated in part on their efficiency in deciding cases (even though I understand this is a common basis for evaluating ALJs across the federal bureaucracy).  Interestingly, when I visited immigration detention centers for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the most common complaint of detainees was that the decision making system was taking too long. No one I spoke to had any serious complaints about conditions at the detention centers.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot: Hillary: “They were never going to let me be president.”

That’s when Robby [Mook], drained and deflated, watching the results with his team in a room down the hall from Hillary’s suite, labored into the hallway of the Peninsula to break the news. Hillary didn’t seem all that surprised. ‘I knew it. I knew this would happen to me….’ Hillary said, now within a couple of inches of his face. ‘They were never going to let me be president.’”

Who’s “they”? According to Chozick, Bill Clinton thought it was … the New York Times?

“After the election, Bill would spread a more absurd Times conspiracy: The publisher had struck a deal with Trump that we’d destroy Hillary on her emails to help him get elected, if he kept driving traffic and boosting the company’s stock price.”

● Chaser:

There is an expectation among Democrats that establishment old media organizations are de facto allies — and will rebut political accusations and serve as referees on new-media excesses.

“We’re all that way, and I think a part of it is we grew up in the ’60s and the press led us against the war and the press led us on civil rights and the press led us on Watergate,” [Bill] Clinton said. “Those of us of a certain age grew up with this almost unrealistic set of expectations.”

— “New Media A Weapon in New World Of Politics,” the Washington Post, October 6, 2006.

GREAT MOMENTS IN SELF-AWARENESS: Stephen Colbert Throws Stones in Glass House, Laments ‘What Have We Become’ with Trump Sex Obsession.

BAD NEWS FOR ME SINCE I DON’T EVEN HAVE A SPLEEN: ‘Sea Nomads’ Are First Known Humans Genetically Adapted to Diving. “Most people can hold their breath underwater for a few seconds, some for a few minutes. But a group of people called the Bajau takes free diving to the extreme, staying underwater for as long as 13 minutes at depths of around 200 feet. These nomadic people live in waters winding through the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia, where they dive to hunt for fish or search for natural elements that can be used in crafts. Now, a study in the journal Cell offers the first clues that a DNA mutation for larger spleens gives the Bajau a genetic advantage for life in the deep.”

IT’S COME TO THIS: David Axelrod pours ice-cold water on DNC’s lawsuit, and the Dems won’t like it.

As Glenn has said, “All the Democrats have to do is not be crazy, and they can’t even do that.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment.

If only there had been some sort of warning available.

JOHN ELLIS: The 6 Most Overrated Restaurants.

Not to give too much away, but there’s never going to be anything too exciting about boneless, skinless chicken breasts.

ONCE AGAIN I OVERHEARD A DISCUSSION (this time on a flight from San Diego to Chicago) about how to encourage more minority students into STEM fields. This seems to be everywhere these days. Once again the answer can be found in Want to Be a Doctor? A Scientist? An Engineer? An Affirmative Action Leg Up May Hurt Your Chances. Note that the logic applies not just to affirmative action beneficiaries, but to legacy beneficiaries, athletes or anyone who is admitted to a competitive school on the basis of a special preference.

UNEXPECTEDLY: D.C. Legislator Who Said Jews Control The Weather Allegedly Donated To Anti-Semite Farrakhan’s Event.

Earlier: Holocaust Museum tour by lawmaker who said Jews control the weather does not go well.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Barbara Bush-bashing professor has Fresno State scrambling to keep its donors.

Related: Rod Dreher writes that “today, I am much less sympathetic to Randa Jarrar than I was when she first spouted off. I still lean towards not firing her. But boy, is she ever a poster child for left-wing academic privilege and arrogance. If the university president fires her for pranking the crisis hotline, I won’t be sorry.”

ANDREW KLAVAN: “This is a country of 325-million people. If two guys getting tossed out of a coffee shop is news, then things in Donald Trump’s America must be going pretty damned well.”

Read the whole thing.

BREAKING: ISIS Threatens ‘Satanic’ CNN, Universal Studios Hollywood, NASA.

ABOUT TIME: Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel to face no-confidence vote from his own deputies.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is It Time to Buy an Aston Martin DB7?

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UH OH: Justice Department reviewing whether Comey leaked classified information.

The Justice Department’s inspector general has opened an investigation into whether former FBI Director James Comey leaked classified information when he sent memos to a friend of his outside of government that were then sent to reporters.

The Wall Street Journal reported that before sending the memos, Comey removed information that he knew was classified. But when he left, the FBI upgraded some additional information to classified, and the IG is now reviewing the memos.

Comey gave his friend Daniel Richman, a former federal prosecutor who is now a law professor, four memos, people familiar with the situation said. . . .

Last year, while testifying before Congress, Comey told lawmakers that he gave the memos to a friend to share with media because he didn’t want to do it himself.

“My judgment was, I need to get that out into the public square,” Comey said during his hearing last year. “I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. Didn’t do it myself for a variety of reasons. I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.”

The memos were given to Congress this week.

Not looking good for Comey.

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OOPS: Government Accidentally Releases Documents on “Psycho-Electric” Weapons.

ANOTHER REASON TO SUPPORT SMALL GOVERNMENT: Uganda’s President Wants to Ban Oral Sex, Says the “Mouth is for Eating.”

CHANGE: Will Marijuana Industry Overtake Beer As Legalization Spurs Innovation?

Whether marijuana sales ever overtake beer, we’re still living in a golden age of beer production and experimentation.

UNIMPRESSIVE: Fall 2018 flu vaccine will be 20 percent effective, study predicts.

HAVING LIVED IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, I CAN ONLY WISH THEM A SARCASTIC “GOOD LUCK WITH THAT.”: ISIS Threatens to Set Seattle Ablaze.

WORST. LAWSUIT. EVER. As David Bernstein pointed out here, the DNC filed a lawsuit against, well, everybody they don’t like. I’ve read the papers and the legal term for this Complaint is “batsh*t crazy.” Leaving out the fact that they’ll never be able to properly serve most of the defendants, the key thing is if they get a judge inclined to stick to Second Circuit law, this complaint has to be dismissed. The days when you could file a thin Complaint just in the hopes of getting discovery are long over.

The Court has adopted widely a doctrine called “Iqbal/Twombly” which means that mere allegations of facts don’t cut it: there has to be enough factual foundation in the Complaint to make a plausible claim. Every “factual” allegation of consequence in this Complaint is unproven speculation. The Iqbal doctrine requires a complaint to allege facts that, if proven, would support the relief requested and to show that the alleged facts are “enough to raise a right to relief above the speculative level, on the assumption that all the allegations in the complaint are true (even if doubtful in fact).”

This case is more than a publicity stunt. It’s become clear even to the most ardent Trump haters that there’s simply no evidence of Russian “collusion” and the focus moved to Stormy Daniels. This is an effort to reanimate the “Russian collusion” narrative.

Of course, because it’s in a judicial pleading, any re-reporting on it is absolutely immune in libel, and its being filed at all is a news peg, so it’s pretty much Tom Perez’ gift to MSNBC and others, allowing them and others to re-tell the “Russia collusion” story as if it had more credibility.