HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Big Money, No Debt: The Blunt New Pitch for Blue-Collar Workers.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Court Docs: Prosecutors Ask To Present Evidence That NXIVM Sex Cult Leaders Illegally Bundled Money For Hillary Clinton Campaign. “Prosecutors have asked to present evidence in the NXIVM sex cult racketeering trial showing that NXIVM leaders including Nancy Salzman and Clare Bronfman illegally bundled money for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign by compelling members to donate to Clinton and then reimbursing the members.”

Dinesh D’Souza got jail time for that, and he wasn’t using sex slaves.

JON CALDERA: The Colorado legislature snatched your Trump tax cut.

Your Colorado income tax is based solely on your “taxable income” from your federal 1040 form. For your Colorado state income tax form you take your federal taxable income and multiply by our flat income tax rate, 4.63 percent.

But, for most folks, that federal taxable income actually goes up because there are now fewer allowed itemized deductions. For instance, you can only deduct so much interest from a home loan. This larger taxable income isn’t an issue because the new income tax rates are so much lower, your overall federal tax bill goes down.

But when you use that same, now larger, federal taxable income number for your state taxes, your state tax bill goes up because, wait for it, the Colorado state legislature didn’t lower the state tax rate to adjust for the new Trump Bump. A bill to do so passed out of last year’s Republican controlled Senate to, of course, die in the Democrat controlled House.

So, this year you get to pay for yet another tax increase you didn’t get to vote for.

Fortunately, there is a safety valve in our Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) to make sure excess revenue, like that coming from the Trump Bump, goes back to you the taxpayer in a refund. When the state takes in more revenue than what it did the previous year, plus inflation and population growth, it has to refund that money back to you.

So, the Trump Bump should still be refunded back to you. But, wait for it, it won’t.

Because Democrats.

And do read the whole thing.

FLASHBACK: IRS Apologizes For Aggressive Scrutiny Of Conservative Groups.

JULIE KELLY: Adam Schiff: The Media’s Pin-Up Doll. “There are times that even The Onion—the popular satirical newspaper—can’t compete with the outlandish coverage produced by allegedly legitimate news publications. Newsweek magazine’s front-cover swoon over Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) this week is one such example.”

KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON: Ilhan Omar: A Hostage Situation.

The Democrats are in a political pickle. They would very much prefer that the Jew-hating caucus shut up, and they are not crazy about the fact that the public face of the Democratic party is, at the moment, risible and demented amateurs such as Representative Omar and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, i.e., the people who are even crazier than Senator Sanders. But intersectionality is a jealous god, and they cannot simply tell Representative Omar et al. to sit down and clam up. All they can really do is to try to raise the price of criticizing the nut cutlets on the Democrats’ menu by insisting that criticism of Representative Omar is an attack on Muslims as such, that criticism of Representative Ocasio-Cortez is an attack on Latinas who don’t know how a bill becomes a law, that criticism of Robert Francis O’Rourke is an attack on . . . whatever it is that “Beto” is pretending to be this week. The New York Times et al. are reliable allies on that front.

This is, incidentally, what all those fake hate crimes are really about: Redefining criticism of Democratic politicians and constituencies as violence. When there isn’t enough violence to make that case in a sufficiently dramatic fashion, then violence can simply be invented — and, if the case of Jussie Smollett is anything to go by, the cost of doing so is pretty low. When’s the last time you heard of a prosecutor dropping a 16-felony indictment in exchange for a firm handshake?

That’s a neat trick, really: to be the hostage and the hostage-taker at the same time.

All is proceeding exactly as Mel Brooks has foreseen.

THINK OF THEM AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES AND YOU WON’T GO FAR WRONG:

IT’S JUST A FRIENDLY LOBBYING ORGANIZATION FOUNDED TO FIGHT ANTI-ISLAM SENTIMENT AFTER 9/11: CAIR Official Said He Wished Hitler Was Still Around To Murder Jewish People.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: UAW Scandal Hits Chattanooga: Labor watchdog uses official’s guilty plea to campaign against unionization.

‘MERICA: FOIA Request Confirms Zero Standard Capacity Magazines Turned In to NJ State Police.

When New Jersey passed a law making these magazines illegal in 2018, there was a debate on whether the gun owners of the state would hand in their magazines. When the law went into effect at the end of last year, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Attorney General Gurbir Grewal celebrated it as a victory against gun rights advocates.

AmmoLand news reached out to departments across the Garden State and the New Jersey State Police to see how many magazines were turned in for destruction. Local departments were quick to confirm that they did not receive any magazines turned in by the citizens of New Jersey. The State Police would not comment on the record on the number of magazines turned in by residents.

Their silence speaks volumes.

ADRIAN VERMEULE: Liturgy of Liberalism.

BECAUSE SHUT UP, PROLE: Transgender Privilege: Why Must We All Be Forced to Bow to It? “People do not get to be something just by saying so.”

It’s true. I’m still not George Hamilton.

I’M JUST GOING TO GET AHEAD OF THE SPIN AND ANNOUNCE THAT THE MUELLER REPORT SUPPORTS EVERYTHING I ALREADY THOUGHT. And if the redactions were removed, it would support everything I already thought even more.

AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD! WITH BONUS UNHINGED-EYES PICTURE OF GREY-GOOSE PELOSI (IT’S LIKE THE CRAZY FOLLOWS YOU AROUND THE ROOM!):  Leftists Demand That All Criticisms Of Trump Cease Until He Stops Getting Death Threats.

TO BE FAIR I ALSO CAN’T STAND TO SEE CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. HUMANS (ADULTS AT LEAST) HAVE SOME UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT’S GOING ON. ANIMALS JUST SUFFER.  OTOH I CAN’T UNDERSTAND WHY THE LEFT IS ALWAYS MORE WORRIED ABOUT CRUELTY TO ANIMALS THAN CRUELTY TO PEOPLE. WOULD THEY LOVE THEMSELVES BETTER IF THEY WORE LITTLE BUNNY EARS OR SOMETHING? BECAUSE I’D CONTRIBUTE TO THAT FUNDRAISER.  BUNNY AND KITTEN EARS TO END THE SELF-HATRED AND LOATHSOME DUPLICITY OF THE LEFT. COME ON. WHO’S WITH ME (BESIDES IT WILL MAKE THEM LOOK FUNNY):  North Korea mean to animals! [sob!]

YEAH. I’D SAY AT SOME POINT THEY’VE OBFUSCATED ENOUGH:  Omar’s ‘some people did something’ echoes Obama.

FACTORIES OF INDOCTRINATED ILLITERATES:  Our Expensive, Manipulated Public High Schools.

OH, DEAR LORD:  Snopes: Fact-Checker of Jokes.

WHY DO YOU THINK THEY’RE FINANCED THROUGH COMMUNIST ORGANIZATIONS:  How illegal aliens arrive here as ready-made Democrats.

TO BE FAIR, SHE ONLY BELIEVES WHAT MY KIDS’ BOOKS SAID:  What Genocide? [Updated].

A) IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM BEING GAY. (OR HILLARY BEING A WOMAN) IT HAS TO DO WITH HIM BEING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, A PHONY ECONOMIC ILLITERATE (AND HILLARY BEING A SEWER OF CORRUPTION)  B) WHEN TELLING CHRISTIANS TO DO LIKE JESUS, IT WOULD BEHOOVE THE MSM TO REMEMBER THAT WEAVING ROPES INTO A SCOURGE AND CHASING THEM OUT OF THE SPACES THEY PROFANE IS A POSSIBILITY:  MSNBC Political Analyst: ‘If Jesus Is So Great, Why Aren’t You Nicer?’

THIS SURE IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  DHS Panel Calls for Urgent Action to Address the Border Crisis.

OH, DEAR LORD:  Mayor Pete Will Make You Bake the Cake .

DOES THIS INVOLVE US TAKING THE BETO DONATION AND SELLING HIM AT HALF OFF AT THE NATIONAL THRIFT STORE ON SALE SATURDAY?  Beto Says Running For President Is A Charitable Donation.