NEWS YOU CAN USE: Affordable Workhorses: The best used trucks you can buy.

OHHHH: NEW YORK TIMES REPORTS THAT IT’S VERY POSSIBLE THE ENTIRE STEELE DOSSIER WAS ITSELF KREMLIN DISINFORMATION.

WE ONLY HAVE TEN YEARS TO READ THIS POST: The Climate Cult.

HE’S REFERRING TO THE POST-2016 MEDIA MELTDOWN, AND HE’S RIGHT: Glenn Greenwald: “Donald Trump Broke The Brains Of A Lot Of People.”

DON’T ALL LIVES MATTER?: “Oregon county to pay black worker who complained about ‘Blue Lives Matter’ flag $100K settlement.”

Chaser: Buttigieg now regrets having said “All lives matter.”

And by the way: Black crime victims matter too.

COVERING THE IMPORTANT NEWS: Instagram Model Shoots An AR-15, And Makes One Incredibly Embarrassing Mistake.

NEW CIVILITY WATCH: CNN’s April Ryan Says Sarah Sanders’ Head Should Be “Lopped Off.”

To be clear, I understand she was using a figure of speech and in a vacuum none of this bothers me. I also understand the New Rules imposed by these people and figure they should have to play by them. Seems only fair.

Flashback: “On Tuesday’s John King USA, CNN’s John King issued a prompt on-air apology minutes after a guest on his program used the term ‘crosshairs’ during a segment: ‘We’re trying to get away from using that kind of language.'”

HAPPY EASTER SEASON FROM SEATTLE: Seattle Man Punches Priest After Asking, ‘How’s Trump?’

Related: Seattle elites coordinated a PR campaign in response to ‘Seattle is Dying.’

These talking points, which you can see spelled out here, wound up in multiple stories at outlets that received funding from the same groups who hired the PR firm for their coverage of homelessness. For instance:

“New poll shows the majority in Seattle say we have a moral obligation to help homeless people, and we need to spend more,” declared Seattle Times data journalist Gene Balk.

The Butterfield Effect strikes again!

UNEXPECTEDLY:BuzzFeed collusion ‘bombshell’ not looking so good following release of Mueller report.

SEGREGATION TODAY, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: Student newspaper editorial board endorses nonwhite segregated housing.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Actual AP headline: “Tourist mecca Notre Dame also revered as place of worship.” “It’s fun to write your own version of this using other religious sites. ‘Islam gaining traction in popular travel destination Mecca.’”

Screenshot, in case it’s airbrushed:

As James Taranto tweets, “‘Mecca’ is an especially nice touch.”

Flashback: The Associated Press Thinks Jews In Mourning ‘Sit And Shiver.’

Related: New York Times hits new low with mortifying Notre Dame correction.

LITTLE MAOISTS: Illinois student gov praises Texas State counterpart for attempt to ban conservative group.

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JOURNALISM: “The New York Times has made itself famous for its religious idiocy, but that’s almost piddly compared to its malevolence-tinged cultural illiteracy.”

YOUR DAILY TR**CH*R: We Must Ban K*te Sm*th Entirely. “You have your instructions, America. You will carry them out immediately, before people start to wonder if you’re racist too. Ain’t totalitarianism grand?”

R**d th* wh*le th*ng.

Related: In addition to the New York Yankees, the Philadelphia Flyers have not only stopped playing Kate Smith’s “God Bless America,” they’ve put a black tarp over her statue outside their arena, despite Smith being a legendary good luck charm for the team during their mid-1970s “Broad Street Bullies” Stanley Cup-winning days.

ANDREW MCCARTHY: The Mueller Report Vindicates Bill Barr.

Related: Bill Barr, the adult in the room.

GOOD: White House war on regulations poised to pass goal ‘more than 31 times.’

The Trump administration’s war on Obama-era regulations is set to nearly double this year’s goal — and potentially go much further — after getting off to a slow start, according to budget experts.

With plans to cut $18 billion worth of regulations in fiscal year 2019, which ends in September, the administration is poised to boost that to $33 billion, according to a mid-year review by the budget watchdog American Action Forum.

What’s more, the administration is moving toward a regulatory cut that the review said would cut an additional $561 billion, 31 times this year’s goal.

Faster, please.

DUKE NUKEM GETS NUKED: Eric Swalwell Taunts NRA That They Won’t Debate Him. Dana Loesch Nails Him: ‘I’m Your Huckleberry.’

Earlier: This Eric Swalwell guy is useful for no other reason than to give us a glimpse of what goes on in the minds of hardcore leftists.

BERNIE VS. THE DEMOCRATS: This Time The Democrats Might Not Win.

I still have the scars from Trump’s march through the institutions of the right. One by one, he took on and defeated the power brokers of the American conservative movement and Republican Party. He turned his “pledge” to support the nominee into a political coup, the beginning of his takeover of the Republican National Committee. He challenged the authority of conservative media critical of him, including such important brands as Fox News Channel and National Review. Burned by the right’s foreign policy hands and economists, he got by with a ragtag crew of wonks, intellectuals, and journalists. What money he raised came from small-dollar contributions.

Trump shook the Republican Party to its foundations. He forced it to recognize his power, drawn not from Beltway credentials but from the Republican voter base. It was not that Trump remained unchanged. Beginning in 2011, he adopted core Republican positions such as support for the right to life, for the Second Amendment, for supply-side tax cuts, and for constitutionalist judges on the bench. Once in power he listened and sometimes deferred to Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. But the GOP changed more. It is no longer the party it was before Donald Trump. Never will be.

It might now be the Democratic Party’s time in the barrel.

Well, stay tuned. And remember, the Democrats greatly enjoyed watching Trump stride, Godzilla-like, through the institutions of establishment Republicanism — until he won the election.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Top 10 things the media got wrong about ‘collusion’ and ‘obstruction.’

LAW ENFORCEMENT IN DEEPLY DYSFUNCTIONAL BROWARD COUNTY: Watch Broward County Sheriff’s Deputies Slam a 14-Year-Old Boy’s Head Into the Pavement.

HOW TO BE POLITE:

Here’s a polite person’s trick, one that has never failed me. I will share it with you because I like and respect you, and it is clear to me that you’ll know how to apply it wisely: When you are at a party and are thrust into conversation with someone, see how long you can hold off before talking about what they do for a living. And when that painful lull arrives, be the master of it. I have come to revel in that agonizing first pause, because I know that I can push a conversation through. Just ask the other person what they do, and right after they tell you, say: “Wow. That sounds hard.”

Because nearly everyone in the world believes their job to be difficult.

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