WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE PUBLIC’S RIGHT TO KNOW? Anonymous Individuals Fight Possible Unsealing of Details Related to Alleged Epstein Sex Ring.

SPACE: Boeing delays by months test flights for U.S. human space program: sources.

REMEMBER THIS? Police release more records in Las Vegas massacre.

There were no new revelations among the more than 750 pages of documents, and authorities have not determined a motive for the 2017 carnage that killed 58 people and injured more than 850 others at an outdoor concert.

Police and the FBI have each concluded investigations, saying 64-year-old shooter Stephen Paddock acted alone and was not inspired by any outside group or ideology.

FBI profilers determined Paddock — a high-stakes video poker player and former accountant — might have been seeking infamy and trying to follow in the criminal footsteps of his bank robber father, who made the agency’s most-wanted list in the 1960s.

Police said the 35th batch of material released since May under court order in a public records lawsuit will be the last.

There’s still so little there, there.

NO. Gillibrand: Give Social Security to illegal immigrants.

WELL, GOOD: Reworked nasal flu vaccine as effective as shot for kids.

JIM STOVALL: Don’t all them “elite” colleges, call them Major Brands.

The journalists and commentators have consistently used the terms elite colleges or elite universities. They have done without any critical assessment of the terms themselves, and therein lies a problem — possibly The Problem. We are in the habit of thinking about certain colleges or universities as “elite” or “better” or something that they are not. A student at one of these places is no more likely to get a good or an excellent education than a student at any state university or small liberal arts college.

My four decades of experience in academia, as well as my common sense, tells me that.

The faculty and facilities in the places we term as “elite” are no better — and sometimes much worse — than you would find at most large state universities. Many undergraduate courses in so-called elite universities are taught by graduate students — not by high-powered professors — as they are at state universities with good graduate programs.

He’s right, of course.

FUNNY HOW THE PRESS WILL JUST TAKE A LIE AND REPEAT IT FOREVER: Trump Didn’t Call Neo-Nazis ‘Fine People.’ Here’s Proof. And no refutation will make them stop.

BUT CNN IS WORKING HARD TO CATCH UP! Data Show MSNBC Has Been Robert Mueller’s Biggest Fan.

READER BOOK PLUG: From reader Erik D’Amato, The Little Book of Left-Right Equivalence: 350 Mutual Blind Spots, Dueling Hypocrisies, Double Flip-Flops and Other Uncanny Parallels Between the Two Tribes of Today’s America.

JOE PAPPALARDO: Can the U.S. Save Alcantara, Brazil’s Cursed Spaceport?

CHANGE? Erdogan’s government in panic over risk of electoral defeats.

The campaign of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government for the March 31 local elections will go down in history as the most polarizing campaign with the most virulent and offensive rhetoric that Turkey has seen under the Justice and Development Party (AKP). In no election before has the government employed religion and religion-based polarization so blatantly. The campaign has been marked also by unprecedented threats to opposition leaders and candidates as well as an apparent intent to not accept election results. Government spokesmen have virtually competed to delegitimize the opposition, seeking to keep their base intact by scaring voters with a demonized portrait of political opponents. The main cause of this extraordinary political syndrome is Turkey’s plunge into economic recession, which, coupled with a rising cost of living and growing unemployment, has raised the specter of the AKP losing the elections in big cities.

Longterm, the religious aspect is the most troubling. Ataturk’s secular Turkey is dying, and an Islamist-fied Turkey might be in the making.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Can Trump Win Again in 2020?

DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY: No, the Electoral College Is Not a ‘Shadow of Slavery’s Power.’

Compromises were made in America’s early years because North and South couldn’t agree on whether to continue the institution. Just as obviously, virtually all Americans today wish that slavery had never existed. It’s a part of America’s heritage that is clearly at odds with America’s founding principles.

That does not mean, however, that the Constitution and its presidential election process are simply a “relic of slavery.” The discussions at the Constitutional Convention were shaped more by the delegates’ study of history and political philosophy, as well as their own experiences with Parliament and the state legislatures. They wanted to avoid the mistakes that had been made in other governments. They sought to establish a better constitution that would stand the test of time.

George Washington expressed this conviction, felt so strongly by the founding generation: “[T]he preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of government,” he concluded, “are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.”

His words echoed an argument that James Madison had made about a year and a half earlier. Only a republic, Madison had written, “would be reconcilable with the genius of the people of America; with the fundamental principles of the revolution; or with that honorable determination which animates every votary of freedom to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government.” He thought the experiment worthwhile. The Constitution met these criteria.

Read the whole thing.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Who Still Buys Wite-Out, and Why? Correction fluids have improbably outlasted the typewriter and survived the rise of the digital office. “The sticky, white fluid and its chief rival, Liquid Paper, are peculiar anachronisms, throwbacks to the era of big hair, big cars, and big office stationery budgets. They were designed to help workers correct errors they made on typewriters without having to retype documents from the start. But typewriters have disappeared from the modern office, relegated to attics and museums. Even paper is disappearing from the modern office, as more and more functions are digitized. But correction fluids are not only surviving—they appear to be thriving, with Wite-Out sales climbing nearly 10 percent in 2017, according to the most recent public numbers. It’s a mystery of the digital age.”

ALSO IT DOESN’T TASTE GOOD: Kale is now one of the most pesticide-contaminated vegetables.

SPENGLER: To Protect Muslims Against Terrorism, Stop Muslim Terrorists. “Root out the terrorists who kill other Muslims–starting with the terror state of Iran.”

ROGER SIMON CHARTS SIGNAL-TO-NOISE: Trump Should Forget about McCain Already.

OH: Top Prosecutors Leave Mueller Team After GOP Reps Complain to AG Barr. “Reps Jordan and Meadows questioned the independence of Zainab Ahmad and Andrew Weissmann as both were involved in discussions with Bruce Ohr in 2016.”

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Journalists Are Ignorant and Silly, But At Least They’re Smug About It.

THAT WAS DIFFERENT THEN BECAUSE SHUT UP: Biden Called Court Packing a ‘Bonehead Idea’ During 1983 Hearing.

MIZZOU DEATH SPIRAL CONTINUES: Mizzou fires white police officer for once dressing up like Flavor Flav. I think he’s got a race-discrimination claim, if they wouldn’t fire a black officer for doing that.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO… DO THAT: Preschool Teacher Punished Kids By Making Them Stand Naked In A Closet.

DON’T WORRY, BERNIE AND AOC WILL PUT A STOP TO THIS: We’ve Got Affluenflammation!