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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Howard Schultz schmoozes Fox… “Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks, praised Trump for taking illegal immigration seriously and attacked the Democrats for their calls to defund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He also called for supporting Dreamers.”

Tyler O’Neil is filling in for Liz today.

GREAT AGAIN: The Latest: Hiring rebounds as US adds a solid 196,000 jobs. “Hiring rebounded in March as U.S. employers added a solid 196,000 jobs, up sharply from February’s scant gain and evidence that many businesses still want to hire despite signs the economy is slowing. The Labor Department says the unemployment rate stayed at 3.8%, near the lowest level in almost 50 years.”

RICHARD BERNSTEIN: Culture War and Peace at Stanford: The PC Uprising 25 Years On.

ASHE SCHOW IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Biden Reaps the #MeToo Whirlwind: ‘It’s never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent,’ he told college men in 2011.

While speaking to students at the University of New Hampshire in 2011, then-Vice President Joe Biden told men in the audience that “no matter what a girl does, no matter how she’s dressed, no matter how much she’s had to drink—it’s never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent.”

One of Mr. Biden’s signature issues during the Obama administration was fighting an alleged epidemic of sexual assault on college campuses. He promoted the debunked claim that 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted as undergraduates—the result of surveys using an impossibly broad definition of sexual assault that encompassed any conduct that, knowingly or not, made someone uncomfortable.

The Obama administration issued guidelines to campuses in 2011 to combat the alleged crisis. Mr. Biden headlined the announcement. The guidance traduced due-process rights for students accused of sexual assault and threatened colleges and universities with federal investigations and potential funding reductions if they did not find more accused students and professors guilty.

Now those impossible standards are being applied to their proponents. Since last Friday, several women have accused Mr. Biden of making them uncomfortable during his interactions with them. One accuser, Caitlyn Caruso, told the New York Times that during an event about sexual assault at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Mr. Biden put his hand on her thigh and didn’t remove it even when she showed discomfort by shifting in her seat. She also said he hugged her “just a little bit too long.” . . .

When accused himself, Mr. Biden naturally fell back on all the arguments that are often dismissed when made by college men. He said it was never his “intention” to make women uncomfortable. He also acknowledged that “social norms have begun to change” without acknowledging that he helped lead the change—and hasn’t lived up to the standards he sought to impose on others.

The standards are stupid, but you know what Alinsky said about rulebooks.

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME: Sore Loser Stacey Abrams Subverts Democracy, Still Won’t Concede Georgia Governor’s Race.

I’m old enough to remember when Democrats insisted everybody had to accept election results.

PIERS MORGAN PREDICTS A TRUMP VICTORY IN 2020: “Why? First, because the Democrats are being dragged so far left by ranting young firebrand socialists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez they can’t possibly beat a guy who’s got the US economy purring, job numbers flying, Isis fleeing and China blinking. Second, because the Trump-bashing mainstream US media undermined their collective credibility with over-the-top 24/7 coverage that Special Counsel Robert Mueller would find Trump colluded with Russia to fix the 2016 election — only for Mueller to clear him. My friend Donald’s not everyone’s cup of tea. But he’s a brilliant campaigner who’s won every political contest he’s entered, and when your opponents are this prone to self-harming, it makes winning so much easier.” That it does.

HARSH, BUT FAIR:

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The mass hysteria that has consumed much of our political class since the 2016 election should serve as a very frightening warning about the kind of people we’ve been letting run our country.

SO AT THE LAW SCHOOL YESTERDAY I SAW SIMON TAM OF THE SLANTS talk about his First Amendment case in which the Supreme Court said the Trademark Office couldn’t block his trademark for his band The Slants on anti-racist grounds. Really excellent talk, and he has a book out now, Slanted: How an Asian American Troublemaker Took on the Supreme Court. In a bonus, longtime trademark blogger Ron Coleman was his lawyer.

CLEANING UP THE KAVANAUGH COLLATERAL DAMAGE: Help Mark Judge Rebuild His Life. I donated.

HMM: Boeing’s 737 Max Defense Just Got More Difficult.

“The 737 Max is as safe as any airplane that has ever flown the skies,” Boeing swiftly concluded.

Lion Air was furious that the manufacturer appeared to be casting doubt on its safety culture, but for everyone else it sent a comforting message: Perhaps Boeing was right about the 737 Max.

So when a second 737 Max aircraft crashed last month in similar circumstances in Ethiopia, there was puzzlement: Surely the pilot must have known about MCAS and how to switch it off. So why hadn’t he?

On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal provided an initial answer to that question, and it’s not a reassuring one for Boeing, its investors and customers.

The Ethiopian Airlines pilot did manage to disable MCAS, at least temporarily, but was still unable to get the aircraft to climb again, the newspaper reported, citing people familiar with the crash investigation’s preliminary findings.

If that is correct, then Boeing and the U.S. regulators may have provided insufficient advice to pilots in their initial bulletin and were too hasty in pronouncing the aircraft safe. It would also increase the likelihood the manufacturer could be sued for damages. Before the Journal report, Bloomberg Intelligence put those costs at an estimated $1 billion.

Boeing is having a bad year — to say nothing of its customers and passengers.

ONE REASON? BECAUSE TRUMP PROMISED JOBS AND IMPROVED WAGES, AND DELIVERED: ‘Why Aren’t Democrats Winning the Hispanic Vote 80-20 or 90-10?’ “While Democratic support among Hispanics has improved over the past decade, from the low 60s to the high 60s, there is evidence suggesting that those gains cannot be relied upon in future elections.”

TIVO WAS AN AMAZING INNOVATION, A NEEDED DISRUPTION, AND MOST OF ALL A DELIGHTFUL CONSUMER ELECTRONICS DEVICE: ‘They Thought It Was Black Magic’: The Definitive Oral History of TiVo.

MY FORTHCOMING BOOK ON SOCIAL MEDIA SAYS SOMETHING SIMILAR: Linus Torvalds on Social Media: ‘It’s a Disease. It Seems To Encourage Bad Behavior.’

THE SANCTIONS ARE WORKING: Iran Cutting Funds to Syria as U.S. Sanctions Tighten.

Of course no one should be surprised at these developments. The American sanctions that kicked back in last November were designed well. They’ve hit Iran’s biggest industries, especially the oil sector, and have been slowly producing devastating effects. In January, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that Iran is facing its toughest economic situation in 40 years, and that the United States was squarely to blame.

And Rouhani is exactly right. Much of the world today is now being given a choice between engaging with the market of the U.S. or that of Iran. Regardless of a country’s political proclivities and whether or not it supports America’s policy on the Islamic Republic (much of the West does not), it is nearly impossible for any nation to forgo the $20 trillion American economy in favor of accommodating Iran.

In addition to Iran cutting funds to Syria, the latest consequence of U.S. sanctions have been another massive hit to Iran’s oil industry.

Nope, still not tired of all the winning.

RICK MORAN: Forecasting Model that Predicted Trump Win in 2016 Shows the President in Good Shape for 2020. “It won’t matter who the Democrats run if the economy is experiencing modest growth.”

Great model. Don’t get cocky.

PATRIK JONSSON ON THE SPLC’S DISASTER: When does a hate-watch effort help expose and diminish hate, and when might it instead harden America’s stiff divides? Well, it’ll do the latter when it’s basically just a grift that has to manufacture “hate” to keep the money coming in.

Plus: “The growing rise of left-wing politics means that stuff that used to be center of the road is now right-wing. Bill Clinton’s policies are not that different from Trump, but Trump is a Nazi and Clinton was a Democrat hero. It’s a very, very left shift. We thought this was healed, but now we have seen that it is not healed.”

FLASHBACK: “So, basically, my butt refuted The New York Times.”

SURE. BUT THEY’RE STILL GOING TO IGNORE YOU:  Cats can recognize the sound of their names, study says.

YOU KNOW, ALL I WANT OUT OF AIR BNB IS A PLACE TO ISOLATE MYSELF AND WRITE NOW AND THEN: These wild Airbnb ‘experiences’ include eating fire, cuddling with strangers.

I MUST POINT OUT THAT CRIMES AGAINST GOOD TASTE SHOULDN’T BE CRIMINAL MATTERS:  Male tourists in Poland may face arrest for wearing mankinis.

I DO KNOW IT SUCKS. BUT WHAT ELSE ARE YOU GONNA DO? IT STILL BEATS ALL AVAILABLE ALTERNATIVES:  Life is Pain, Highness.