HOUSE AG CHIEF KILLS TRUMP ORDER ENDING WORK EXEMPTION FOR ABLE-BODIED FOOD STAMP RECIPIENTS: “I’ll guarantee you it’s not going to happen,” U.S. Rep Collin Peterson said, according to watchdog.org’s Bethany Blankley, writing in the Washington Free Beacon this morning.

Trump had proposed to end a long-standing Department of Agriculture regulation that allowed states to exempt able-bodied Food Stamp recipients from work requirements for government assistance.

The observation from Peterson, who is among the few remaining House Democrats with some semblance of bipartisanship in his record, means the Trump initiative will go nowhere until after the 2020 elections, assuming the House changes hands again. Blankley has much more here.

THE TYRANNY OF CLICHÉS: Kamala Harris Says America Still Hasn’t Had ‘An Honest Discussion About Race.’

Really? After Charlottesville, Ferguson, Baltimore’s riots, Ralph Northam, Jussie Smollett, Roseanne Barr, Kanye West’s various rants, Philando Castile, #BlackLivesMatter, the Dallas police shootings, the Charleston church shooting, the removal of the Confederate flag from South Carolina state-capitol grounds, Laquan McDonald, Eric Garner, Rachel Dolezal, former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and arguments about subconscious bias and Starbucks’ #RaceTogether campaign and microaggressions, the regular controversies about associations with Louis Farrakhan, the arguments about Harvard’s admissions standards and Asian-Americans . . .  in Harris’ eyes, this country still hasn’t had an honest discussion about race?

(Recently in Maryland, a white Democratic state legislator referred to a particular district as an N-word district. Her colleagues censured her, and like Northam, she resisted calls to resign . . .  and life is going on, with local supporters insisting “That’s just not who she is.” If she were of the other party, would her fellow Democrats react the same way? Would “certain whites get a pass for racially insensitive comments, actions, or views because of their partisan affiliation” be part of this national honest discussion?)

We didn’t have an honest discussion about race in this country during the Obama presidency? The nutty birther allegations, Jeremiah Wright, Henry Louis Gates’s arrest, “the police acted stupidly,” the statement that Latinos need to “punish their enemies,”, the ubiquitous presence of Al Sharpton, the emergence of #BlackLivesMatter . . .  none of those moments meet Harris’s definition of “an honest conversation about race”? (The comment is reminiscent of former attorney general Eric Holder’s declaration, one month after Obama’s inauguration, that Americans were “in things racial, we have always been, and we, I believe, continue to be, in too many ways, a nation of cowards.” The country didn’t have an honest discussion about race after Green Book, BlacKkKlansman, GetOut, Selma, Hidden Figures, The Help, Crash, The Butler, 12 Years a Slave, 42? Not after #OscarsSoWhite?

Besides, do we even need one at this point? As Jon Gabriel famously summed up the Obama era:

(Classical reference in headline.)

POLITICO: ‘A major player’: Sanders gets props from the Democratic establishment.

Flashback: Bernie Sanders Fills Ranks With Antisemites Tied to Jew-Hating Scandal.

This is who they are now.

BECAUSE OF INTERSECTIONALISM, PROMOTING RACISM AGAINST JEWS DOESN’T COUNT: The ACLU’s Shameful Role in Promoting Antisemitism.

“By spreading the false meme that no-boycott certifications amount to not just loyalty oaths, but loyalty oaths to a foreign government the ACLU has spread the canard that the pro-Israel (read, overwhelmingly Jewish) organizations and their members want to use the force of the state to require everyone to be “loyal” to Israel.”

MALAIKA JABALI: Hillary Clinton Is Still Deeply Confused About What Happened in Wisconsin.

The attempt to analogize the Southern struggle for voting rights with her fate in Wisconsin subordinates some uncomfortable, and likely more relevant, truths — in the service of a narrative offered by an element of the Democratic Party that would prefer to see cheating and illegality, rather than politics and policy, as the causes of its collapse. That narrative glosses over a remarkable, decadeslong decline in black economic conditions and political disillusionment outside the Southern, black Democratic firewall.

Wisconsin embodies these trends perhaps more acutely than anywhere else in the country.

After having had three years to grapple with the realities of a vital Democratic base in the Midwest, it seems Clinton still hasn’t learned her lesson. If this is any indication of the party’s 2020 strategy, it may be handing Trump another victory.

They do seem determined to get more Trump.

EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT THE HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE, but Mitch Daniels is doing something about it.

AMERICA’S MOST VALUABLE AUTO EXPORTER? BMW, again.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Omar’s words sting at home, threatening to strain ties of Jewish and Somali Minnesotans, notes the Washington Post, in a column published by the San Francisco Chronicle, and linked to by Matt Drudge.

If only Minneapolis had its own local newspaper that could have warned Minnesotan voters of Omar’s radicalism in 2018…

MICHAEL WALSH: Border Emergency? What Border Emergency? “Both wings of the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party want the chaos to continue.”

TRUMP SECURES BIPARTISAN SUPPORT IN ANTICIPATION OF 2020 REELECTION BID: “Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!”, the president tweeted today.

A uniter, not a divider!

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Nuclear rockets could open up solar system and help settle space. And NASA is interested.

YUGE: Covington Boy’s Lawyers to Hit CNN With $250+ Million Lawsuit This Week. “CNN was probably more vicious in its direct attacks on Nicholas than the Washington Post.”

THE NORMALIZATION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP: I went by Trump Tower this weekend in New York, and there were no protesters, just a normal crowd of people going in and out.

There wasn’t as much security as there has been in the past — instead of a big crowd of SWAT type officers outside there were just a couple, and frankly, they now look a bit out of place.

Despite all the media-generated hype and lefty rent-a-mobs, I think it’s fair to say that Trump’s presidency has been normalized — at least for whatever “normal” means in 2019.

FALCON MORNING: An F-16 banks over Eglin AFB, Florida.

APOLOGY ACCEPTED, CAPTAIN NEEDA: I’m so, so, so sorry: A Baby Boomer apologizes on behalf of his generation.

The previous generation, the Greatest Generation, saved the world by sending Orwell’s rough men into the crucible of war in the interest of peace. My generation, the Baby Boomers, was to live the life purchased for us by the boys of Normandy, the Ardennes, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and other killing fields. White marble crosses and Stars of David in these places testify to the enormous price of that purchase. And live we did. What a party we threw ourselves. So, as I reflect on the goodness of the job my generation has done, I apologize. I apologize for it all.

I apologize that we Boomers bankrupted this great nation. We made all manner of promises to ourselves while leaving you the bill.

Plus: “In accounting terms, we have a negative net worth. In everyday terms, we’ve already spent or committed everything we have, everything, to support our generation’s lifestyle, now and in retirement. And it’s no accident. Just because we don’t care doesn’t mean we don’t understand. By the time the bill comes due, we’ll have the distinct advantage of being dead.”

Instead of an apology, I’ll gladly take a cashier’s check.

HAVING ARMED CAMPUS POLICE “impairs mental health?”

JON CALDARA: The bullies running Colorado.

The left once fought voter suppression. This legislature is passing a National Public Vote bill, which hasn’t any bipartisan support, without first bringing it to a popular vote of Coloradans.

The left once fought for free speech. This legislature is now passing a bill that requires sex education in public schools include how to have “healthy” transsexual relationships while the bill bans any talk of gender norms. Banning speech is the new virtue?

The left once fought for due process. This legislature is passing a “Red Flag” bill that rips away the right of due process and the right to face one’s accuser. Unlike last year’s attempt, this bill goes so far it also hasn’t gotten any bipartisan votes from lawmakers.

The left once demanded process. Our governor is limiting our vehicle purchases to whatever the governor of California dictates without first getting the required approval from our own legislature, which they would likely give him. But, just like the National Popular Vote, why chance asking for consent.

Read the whole thing.

Melissa and I are already making plans to move to Wyoming once the boys are grown, and I’m thinking we might be forced to pull the trigger even sooner than that.

WAR ON MEN: Why Campus Prejudice Favors Women.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Nuclear rockets could open up solar system and help settle space. And NASA is interested. And so is Jeff Bezos.

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump’s got a budget and much, much more. “Democrat leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are not pleased with the budget.”

Well, they don’t strike me as very happy people.

PRIVACY: Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting.

Last year, Facebook was forced to admit that after months of pestering its users to switch on two-factor by signing up their phone number, it was also using those phone numbers to target users with ads. But some users are finding out just now that Facebook’s default setting allows everyone — with or without an account — to look up a user profile based off the same phone number previously added to their account.

The recent hubbub began today after a tweet by Jeremy Burge blew up, criticizing Facebook’s collection and use of phone numbers, which he likened to “a unique ID that is used to link your identity across every platform on the internet.”

Although users can hide their phone number on their profile so nobody can see it, it’s still possible to “look up” user profiles in other ways, such as “when someone uploads your contact info to Facebook from their mobile phone,” according to a Facebook help article. It’s a more restricted way than allowing users to search for user profiles using a person’s phone number, which Facebook restricted last year after admitting “most” users had their information scraped.

I’ve never given my phone number to any social media site. If that means someday I get permanently locked out of my account, so be it.

SOCIALISM IS POISON: How Democratic Socialism destroyed Venezuela.