FASTER, TOO: Americans Need More Oil and Natural Gas Pipelines.

THEY’RE ONLY “EASTER WORSHIPPERS” WHEN THEY’RE VICTIMS. WHEN THEY’RE VIOLENT, THE PRESS IS HAPPY TO CALL THEM CHRISTIANS:

BRITTANY HUNTER: Joe Biden: The Architect of America’s Disastrous War on Drugs. “Uncle Joe might be everybody’s favorite political meme, but he is also responsible for many of the policies that led to the breakdown of the American criminal justice system. And after decades of perpetuating the War on Drugs, our country has finally been forced to take a hard look at the policies that led us to where we are today.”

WHO SAYS THEY AREN’T DOING SOCIALISM RIGHT? Venezuela’s Trade Scheme With Turkey Is Enriching a Mysterious Maduro Crony.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: First Amendment Challenge to L.A.’s Requirement That Contractors Disclose Ties to NRA.

AT AMAZON, save on Men’s Watches.

I’ve never been a big watch guy, but I’ve started wearing the expensive Tag Heuer that Helen got me for our anniversary more often. But it’s a little too expensive for everyday wear. So I bought this Seiko for $145, and though not terribly expensive, it’s a really beautiful watch. In fact, it looks better in real life than in the photo.

NINA BOOKOUT: The Obama Administration’s Problem With Spying And Trump. “The Obama administration has a great deal to answer for.”

Flashback, March 2017: “Hypothesis: The spying-on-Trump thing is worse than we even imagine, and once it was clear Hillary had lost and it would inevitably come out, the Trump/Russia collusion talking point was created as a distraction.”

CONRAD BLACK: “The Democrats should be changing the subject, and running away from President Trump’s legal issues as fast as they can. It is illustrative of how completely invested they were in the hare-brained fraud of Russian collusion, that they are having such a crisis of separation from the subject. They are not the only losers in this fiasco, though they are the biggest losers.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Welcome to the race, Joe: Your party has left you — and millions of voters — behind.

DANIEL MITCHELL EXPLAINS Why Denmark Isn’t Socialist.

I’ve repeatedly dealt with the argument over Denmark’s supposed socialism.

My core argument is that Denmark is very bad on fiscal policy, but very laissez-faire on other issues such as regulation. The net effect is that Danes have about the same amount of economic liberty as Americans.

The bottom line is that Denmark isn’t socialist. At least not if we use the technical definition. There’s plenty of bad policy, but no government ownership, no central planning, and no price controls.

More at the link.

I REALLY THINK SO: Europe turning Japanese? No, it’s much worse.

With the Brexit saga hogging the newsflow, the flaws and contradictions of the euro project have become less topical, yet they will continue to pose serious risks to economic and political stability well after Britain’s relationship with the EU is settled. Economic logic requires the Eurozone to morph into a single state with fiscal transfers from richer to poorer areas. Politics makes that impossible for the foreseeable future. The next significant recession could spark off a chain reaction of rising unemployment, populist rage and street violence that would make the recent “Gilets Jaunes” protests in France look mild.

Talk of the “Japanification” of Europe is doubly misleading because Japan today is not the stagnant and deflationary Japan of 1997 or 2010. The current economic expansion is, at 72 months old, on the cusp of becoming the longest since the war. During that period, employment has soared to unprecedented levels and business investment has risen to the highest share of GDP in a quarter of a century.

Plus: “Japan’s total fertility rate is higher than the rates for several European countries, including, depending on the year and the source, Portugal, Poland, Spain, Greece, Italy and Germany.” And Japan’s fertility rate sucks.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot: No one is too old to be president.

—Headline, the Washington Post, yesterday.

Chaser: McCain’s Brain — How might the senator’s mind deteriorate over the next eight years? John McCain is old and, as several news outlets have reported, he’s only getting older.

—Headline, subhead and lede, Slate, then-owned by the Washington Post, June 11, 2008.

Hangover: “The big question he bumps into wherever he goes is his age. Reagan will be 69 in 1980 a year older than William Henry Harrison the country’s oldest president who died a month after his inauguration in 1841.”

—The Washington Post, September 24, 1978.

Typing “John McCain is too old to be president” into Google and setting the date range to cut off at January 1, 2009 brings up just about every major DNC-MSM news site grousing about McCain’s age when the 2008 DNC candidate was the much younger Barack Obama. Now that their leading candidates include Biden, Bernie, and Warren, the media aren’t interested in exploring that topic. Unexpectedly.

RUNNING’S JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE: Biden Risks His and Obama’s Legacy with Third Presidential Run.

CENSUS: From Josh Blackman, an argument that the federal government is actually required to ask about citizenship.

UPDATE: A friend on Facebook comments: “What recording the citizenship status will do is enable Trump to show people in districts with large concentrations of citizens that their representation is being effectively diluted by the existence of districts with fewer citizens. In effect the Democrats are creating Rotten Boroughs, like in England before the Great Reform Act. In some districts either non-citizens are voting, which dilutes the vote of citizens, or if only citizens vote then those votes count for more than the votes of citizens in other districts with fewer aliens present. That will help create pressure to amend the Constitution so that only the citizens counted by the Census should be used to determine the Apportionment of Congress. It may also induce the SCOTUS to act under the ‘One Man, One Vote’ doctrine.”

FLASHBACK: ‘Bros’ Are People, Too: Title IX enforcers need to fix the toxic environment they have created for men.

A FRIEND OF MINE HAS OPENED AN ETSY SHOP:  TattersandRavelings.

WE’LL STRIP MINE THE OTHER PLANETS LATER: Earth Day – Yawn.

WORDS OF POWER:  We SEE You.

THAT’S TOO BAD. I GUESS WE’LL JUST HAVE TO GIVE IT TO THEM:  Left Won’t Cede Pop Culture Without a (Nasty) Fight.

I’M HOPING WE’RE SANER THAN THIS, AS A COUNTRY.  THE DEMS… THOUGH… Michelle O for President?

WOMEN, #METOO MEANS #YOUTOO: ‘Game of Thrones’ star on fans groping him: ‘It’s not cool’.

IT KIND OF STINKS:  Human tongues have a sense of smell, scientists discover.

NOT WHEN PERPETRATED BY PEOPLEZ OF COLORZ, NO:  Swedes Don’t Care About Rape.

IF IT’S NOT WRITTEN FROM JAIL I’M NOT INTERESTED:  New Hillary Clinton Op-Ed On Trump Impeachment.