Historic!!

Guy Benson -- "...the first presidential candidate of either gender to clinch a major party's nomination while under active FBI investigation."
A criminal investigation, that is.

Democrats are getting the leader they deserve. As we all probably will.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/06/08/hillary-clinton-the-nominee-democrats-deserve-n2175063

The Malignant Regulatory Bureaucracy

Young, ambitious, noble entrepreneurs vs Men With Guns (Kevin Williamson's euphemism for government).
Please read.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436267/lemonade-stand-government-overregulation-killing-entrepreneurship-fundraising

Roger Kimball on the left's enduring embrace of violent radicalism.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/angela-davis-and-radical-chic-2016-1465254392

Jay Nordlinger on leaving the GOP over Trump --

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436244/exgop-shock-disaffiliation-leaving-gop

That's All Folks

Watch Obama, the great orator of our time, (sans teleprompter), as he does his best Porky Pig imitation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSxo9-Z5Ki0

Ok-e-doke?? You never want to be accused of that!


...And, Left Wing Lies, Lies, and more Lies --

1) Katie Couric - (by Jonah Goldberg)
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436153/katie-couric-gun-documentary-scandal-reality-tv-journalism


2) State Department and the Iran deal - (by Kevin Williamson)
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436171/state-department-video-lies


3) (of course) Hillary Clinton - a blast from the past - her cattle futures fraud, a revealing expose -
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436066/hillary-clinton-cattle-futures-windfall


...And, always interesting to listen to, Jonah on a Chicago radio station a couple of days ago. --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhDzFYIDQXg

David French For President

The downside -- A smart, knowledgeable and deeply moral man will be diminished by competing for an office currently held by Barack Obama and aspired to by Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.

The upside -- If he wins, the presidency will be elevated to his level.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378157/how-live-life-privilege-david-french

Our Blessed Circumstance

Essential reading --

Deirdre McCloskey summarizes her book -  “Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World,” - explaining the source of our fabulous wealth --

http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-west-and-the-rest-got-rich-1463754427

Jonah Goldberg takes issue with one segment of McCloskey's piece --

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/435762/mccloskey-gets-eugenics-wrong?target=author&tid=897

Heather McDonald on the destructiveness of the BLM movement --

http://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-danger-of-the-black-lives-matter-movement/

George Will's ideal inaugural address --

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435675/2017-presidential-inaugural-address-donald-trump

Rachel Lu --

To a considerable extent, we are witnessing the fruits of a progressive model of governance that keeps the Democratic party strong by ensuring that America isn’t. Progressives simultaneously push for a strong social safety net and a libertine moral agenda that erodes our social fabric, thus cementing voters’ reliance on the safety net the Democrats champion.

Mangy Cat vs. Rabid Dog

P. J. O'Rourke offers his ringing endorsement of Hillary for president.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/11/p-j-o-rourke-i-m-endorsing-hillary-clinton-the-devil-we-know.html

Contrast

Ted Cruz --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErZCMcoC8X8


Hillary Clinton --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC4Pvm6Oj4A