DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Nicholls State president declares ‘Free speech does not protect hate speech.’ Not exactly.

YES: Defund the Thought Police. “Dissent from their approved views is not just considered an error, much less an innocent one. It is considered immoral, illegitimate, and unworthy of a public hearing. Although both left and right have moved steadily toward this abyss, the worst excesses today come from the left, just as they came from the right in the 1950s. Opponents are seen in religious terms, as dangerous apostates who deserve to be burned at the stake, at least symbolically. You never expect the Spanish Inquisition. Yet here it is. That is the powerful iconography behind torching police cars and neighborhood stores.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Keep Your Cat Out Of Your Dating Profile, CSU Researchers Warn Men.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: A History of the Woke Taliban’s ‘Noose’ Hoaxes.

Meanwhile, at Comcast: Al Sharpton Still Says Bubba Wallace ‘Possible Target’ of NASCAR ‘Noose.’

OH: Russian Submarine Transits Bosporus In Move That Raises Questions Under International Treaty. “In order to get from its base in the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, the submarine has to go through a narrow strait which passes through Istanbul, Turkey. The strait is known as the Bosporus. But only Turkish submarines can pass through the Bosporus because of an agreement signed in the aftermath of the First World War.”

TO BE FAIR, IN THE PRESENT AGE IT’S PRACTICALLY ILLEGAL TO BE FUNNY: “Space Force” Can’t Get Off The Ground.

THE FIX WAS IN: Bombshell in Peter Strzok’s notes: Obama says ‘the right people’ on Flynn case, Biden suggests ‘Logan Act.’

JUDGING THE FLYNN CASE JUDGE: A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. has basically ordered Judge Sullivan to dismiss the case against General Flynn. High time. Alas, the decision was 2-1. Powerline’s Scott Johnson has posted the majority opinion. Choice quote from Scott: “The Flynn case constitutes a sidebar to the biggest political scandal in American history by far. One can only hope that this is, as it should be, the end of the road for this utterly disgraceful case.” (Link fixed.)

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Triumph of the Country Mouse.

For the boutique owner, whose store was looted, defaced, and burned, the existential crisis was not just that capital and income were lost, and a lifetime investment wiped out, after the earlier one-two-three punch of plague/quarantine/depression.

Instead, the rub was that the urban store owner and his customer grasped that all that mayhem could easily happen again and on a moment’s notice — and the ensuing losses would once again be written off as the regrettable collateral damage that is sometimes necessary to “effect social change.” When the mayor and police look the other way as the mob carries off Louis Vuitton bags, and CNN reporters assure us of peaceful protests while flames engulf our television screens, why rebuild or restore what the authorities and the influential deem expendable? Why live in Detroit in 1970 when a constant 1967 repeat was supposed to be a tolerable cost of doing business there?

A Mayor de Blasio or Durkan and a Governor Inslee or Newsom were more or less indifferent when “brick-and-mortar” livelihoods were wiped out. Observably, they expressed very little outrage. Preventing the recurrence of anarchy might alienate the looters and burners, and especially their appeasers and contextualizers.

Add it all up, and as the country mouse of old learned, the giddiness and opulence of the city are increasingly not worth the danger, noise, and mess of the city, at least after February 2020. There are simply too many claws and too many sharp teeth to justify the rich crumbs from the opulent table.

Earlier: All Remains Sane and Calm Out Here in Rural America.

THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY IS SNARED IN A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL WAR: The snare’s a mess. Who bears responsibility for creating the mess? The CCP. President Xi, grab a hand mirror, stare at it.

Here’s one facet of the CCP’s domestic war:

The CCP cannot answer this question: How long can the prosperous tyranny continue to survive trading smartphones and quality American pork for political subservience by the roughly 400 million people in China’s quasi-middle class? Don’t get hung up on an exact figure. It’s huge. But so are the 200 to 300 million in the murky stratum of workers who left home in central and western China to work in coastal China’s factories.

The CCP’s own “international aggression magnifies the vulnerabilities.” The column includes Hong Kong, the Trade War, the Sino-Indian border war and the CCP’s “espionage and bribery” wars. Read the whole thing.

AT AMAZON, Clore Automotive Jump-N-Carry JNC550A 1100 Peak Amp Jump Starter with Air Compressor.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot: Cuomo: New York Quarantine Would Be ‘Federal Declaration Of War.’

—Forbes, March 28th.

● Chaser: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut to quarantine visitors from states with high coronavirus infections.

—Reuters, today.

MY LATEST FOR THE PJMEDIA MOTHERSHIP: Biden Campaign Missing Only 2 Exciting Things: A Direction and a Candidate. “Is Hidin’ Joe Biden the 1994 Crime Bill guy, or the #BLM and antifa guy?”

COOL: Interactive Maps of US Freight Railroads.

FIGHTING FALCON IN GHOST PAINT: An F-16 Fighting Falcon with a “ghost” paint scheme departs Hill Air Force Base, Utah, heading for Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. As the caption notes, the paint scheme is intended to replicate that of an adversary’s fighter jet. This photo does an superb job of capturing the paint scheme.

FIGHTING IN SPACE: What the Space Force does now, what it will do, what it could do. It’s the latest StrategyTalk podcast. The link goes to the online YouTube version. If you prefer an MP3 download, click on this link. If you enjoy the podcast, please subscribe.

LOOKING BACK AT THE SUMMER OF LOVE: Retrospective: Compare and Contrast How the Media Described ‘CHOP’ to What Was Really Going on (Video).

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Jon Stewart Can’t Resist Cheap Shot Against ‘Racist’ Gun Owners. “The liberal comic’s ‘Irresistible’ plays it mostly straight … except one nasty scene.”

I SHOT ONE LAST WEEK AND QUITE LIKED IT: The Sig P365 XL: A Really Good Pistol. Though I prefer my P226 or P229. And as a carry gun I think I’d go with the slightly smaller 365 over the XL.

I HAD BEEN ASSURED BY ALL THE SMARTEST PEOPLE THAT THIS KIND OF THING NEVER HAPPENED: Voter Suppression? Hundreds Of NJ Republicans Receive Ballots With Only Democrat Candidates.

THE NAGS AND SCOLDS AT MADD ARE SUPPORTING legislation to make cars test drivers for alcohol and lock themselves automatically if the driver fails.

ALL THINGS MUST PASS: Segway, the most hyped invention since the Macintosh, ends production.

LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT. THE PEOPLE WHO NEVER WORE BLACKFACE ARE THE REAL RACISTS? Jimmy Kimmel Breaks Silence Over Past Blackface In Statement Taking Swing At Critics, The ‘Genuinely Racist.’

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Rising 2L Sues Harvard Law School, Demands Lower Tuition For ‘Inferior’ Online Classes.

WHAT IS SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN. Review: Hot Cup of Joe, The Sexy Biden Coloring Book.

Trust me, it gets worse from here. Much worse.