CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Kansas Legislature Overrides Veto to Pass Gun-Carry Bill.

OF COURSE SHE DOES: St. Louis circuit attorney denies misconduct charges stemming from Greitens probe.

I THINK THIS WAS AN UNFORCED ERROR: Decision to pull police from Knox County Schools “beyond comprehension” says Anderson County sheriff. I predict that public school enrollment for next year, already under pressure from Covid experiences, will drop further because of this decision. The percentage of voters in the city who actually want this is relatively small, though they are noisy.

Mostly I just note that a decade ago everyone wanted cops all over the schools because the issue du jour was school violence. Now that everyone’s yammering has changed topics, the policy shifts 180 degrees. Maybe responding to hysterical people is a bad basis for policy.

SECRET WARS: TAKE MY MONEY AWAY! Blinken refuses to call Biden’s superpower competition with China a ‘new Cold War.’

HMM: Unnecessary MRI exams may be symptoms of a larger healthcare problem. “Though MRIs are relatively harmless to the patient, Young notes that the willingness to authorize unnecessary imagings heightens concerns that other types of inappropriate procedures—including surgeries—may be referred to patients inappropriately.”

HAMBURGER ADS! POP UP IN MY HEAD! McDonald’s comes roaring back as restrictions ease.

GOV. DeSANTIS INTENDS TO REQUIRE UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMANTS TO SHOW THEY’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR WORK:   That sounds like the right call to me.

I spoke to someone very familiar with the restaurant industry here in San Diego a few days ago.  She told me much the same thing as Power Line’s Paul Mirengoff reports from Florida:  Restaurants here are having a hard time staffing up.  Their former employees are getting unemployment benefits, and many of them don’t want to come back to work until they have to.  My “informant” told me her own roommate doesn’t want to go back to work.  Alas, stories like that seem to be everywhere these days.

GOOD: Young Americans are Turning Down Gun Control. “Three years ago, 65% of those polled supported more gun control. This year that number is 45%.”

SAY ANYTHING: Biden’s Amtrak Tale, Was It Lyin Joe Biden Or Dementia Joe?

STANDING UP AGAINST HATE: Tennessee Bans Schools from Teaching Critical Race Theory.

BECAUSE WE’RE PAYING THEM GENEROUSLY NOT TO WORK, AND FOR AN EXTENDED TIME. NEXT QUESTION? The Jobs are There So Why Aren’t People Going Back to Work?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Even at the NYT, this is a high-rated comment:. “Maybe paying people more to be unemployed than to work has consequences? I’ve been out to eat with 2 waiters working an entire establishment. No one wants to work now. Same thing with Lyft and gig work. Bring back proof of looking for employment and curtail unemployment benefits when we have this many job openings. Helicopter money is temporary, not permanent.”

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Election Auditors Say Maricopa County Is Refusing to Provide Routers.

(UPDATE: Link was broken, fixed now. Sorry.)

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Hone Your Handgun Skills.

WILL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM SURVIVE: Ken Starr thinks it will because America has such a robust legal bulwark and cultural tradition of protection, but Casey Chalk, writing in The Federalist, is not so sure. A bit lengthy, but well worth the reading time.

BIDEN’S RETURN TO CLEAN GOVERNMENT: Biden Admin Hiding Damning Report on Student Debt Crisis, Lawmakers Say. “In a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Representatives Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.) and Greg Murphy (R., N.C.) say Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona is hiding information from a Trump-era report that found that student loan repayments have continuously fallen short of the Education Department’s projections. Taxpayers may end up footing the bill for that discrepancy, which could amount to roughly one third of the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio.”

WE’LL DANCE IN THE GARDEN IN TORN SHEETS IN THE RAIN: Treasury warns of need to deal with national debt limit.

THE BIDEN ECONOMY: Who’s Hiring And Who’s Firing In April: A Golden Age For Waiters And Card Dealers. “The reality is that the number could have been even worse: had it not been for some 187,000 workers added in food service and drinking places (i.e. waiters and bartenders) as well as 72,700 gambling, amusements and recreation workers (i.e., card dealers), the April print would have been virtually unchanged from last month.”

TATER TUMBLES: CNN’s Brian Stelter returns from vacation to host lowest-rated Reliable Sources of year. “To make matters worse for Stelter, his own show performed better last week when replacement host John Avlon filled in. The Avlon-hosted edition of ‘Reliable Sources’ on April 25 averaged 907,000 for nearly a 100,000-viewer increase over Stelter’s return.”

(Via Ace.)

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 1 in 4 heart attacks arrive with ‘atypical’ symptoms. “Atypical heart attack symptoms include breathing problems, extreme exhaustion and abdominal pain.”

WHAT AN ACTUAL INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE: Portland BLM/Antifa Draw Guns on Drivers to Enforce No-Go Zone in Broad Daylight.

WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? Biden Restaurant Relief Fund: White People Need Not Apply.

Flashback: “I am concerned, as I’m sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers.”

—Robert Reich, testimony to Congress on the Obama administration’s proposed economic stimulus, January 7, 2009.

To paraphrase Jon Gabriel’s tweet of the (previous) decade, my favorite part about the Obama-Biden era is all the racial healing.

ALSO, IT’S DELICIOUS: Study: Mediterranean diet may help ward off dementia.

PANDEMIC THEATER: Fauci to virtually address in-person commencement ceremonies “Dr. Fauci will not be attending due to concerns regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, though the university has deemed the ceremony itself safe enough to be in person.”

BETHANY MANDEL: On the Anniversary of “Grandma Killer” and Empathy. “I’m angry that we’re here a year later, with not one, not two, but three different vaccines on the market, and I’m expected to feel sorry not for the people who lost everything, but for those who at best stayed silent, and at worst loudly cheered the ‘necessity’ of the lockdowns across the country.”

Call it people being “institutionalized” by COVID, for lack of a better phrase.