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Pee Free or Die! Obama & Lynch Rely on Distorted Lens of Racism
Charles Hurt, WT
The economy is gasping, the world shudders in violence, invaders heave across our southern border, and despair is etched on the faces of the American people. So, in the final year of his reign, what does our great Prophet of Hope and Change give us? Bathroom liberation. Pee free or die! Equality before the commode!

A St. Louis Desegregation Policy That Segregates
Jason Riley, Wall Street Journal
The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education striking down state-sponsored racial segregation is now more than six decades old. But if you think that black children can no longer be turned away from a school because of their race, then you’re probably unfamiliar with La’Shieka White and her 9-year-old son Edmund.

The Women Who Like Donald Trump
Emma Roller, New York Times
Women don’t like Donald J. Trump. Or at least that’s what hacks in the news media like myself say, right? But don’t take it from me. Take it from female voters themselves. A CNN/ORC poll conducted in March found that 73 percent of women from both parties say they don’t like him, an increase from 59 percent in December. Among Republican women, this number is much lower but still significant: 39 percent said they had a negative view of him.

Lynch Is Right About Jim Crow and Bathroom Laws
Janell Ross, Washington Post
There is more than a smidgen of irony in the man who likened Obamacare to slavery taking issue with the historical comparisons offered by, well, just about anyone. Ben Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, is also the U.S. presidential candidate who declared it impossible for one to be a practicing Muslim and a loyal and diligent president of the United States. He is also the one-time presidential contender who claimed that the Holocaust could have been prevented if German Jews had simply been more heavily armed in Nazi-era Germany. Perhaps Carson is, as the New Yorker magazine suggested,…

Trump’s Misogynist Campaign Alienating Women
Amanda Marcotte, Salon
Is Donald Trump trying to get the lowest share of the women’s vote since the 19th Amendment? The past week’s attempts to pivot to the general election have largely been a failure, but especially when it comes to any attempts to woo female voters. If anything, it seems like Trump and his supporters are engaged in a crazy experiment to see if you can still win an election while losing as many female votes as you can. (Hint: You can’t.)

Sanders Beats Clinton in W.Va., Pushes Ahead
Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPolitics
West Virginia Democrats, motivated by coal country’s economic woes and their anti-free-trade angst, handed Bernie Sanders another primary victory Tuesday, although Hillary Clinton’s delegate lead remains on pace to make her the party’s nominee within weeks. “We just got word that we won our 19th state,” Sanders told supporters in an email moments after NBC News projected he would win early in the evening. With 57 percent of precincts reporting, Sanders claimed 51 percent of the vote to Clinton’s 37 percent. “There is nothing I would like more than to…

Trump Paralyzed Hillary Clinton’s Campaign
Noah Rothman, Commentary
For months, Democrats who wrestled with the prospect of handing Hillary Clinton their party’s presidential nomination comforted themselves with public polling. Sure, Clinton was a tainted candidate. A serially mendacious individual with a bad habit of getting caught in her deceits, the subject of a federal investigation into potentially criminal misconduct, and a lackluster campaigner with a record of failure; concerns among Democrats over Clinton’s suitability for the presidency only mounted over the course of the long primary.

Dear Liberals, Stop Panicking Over Trump
Michael Cohen, Boston Globe
Six months from now, the American people will head to the polls to elect the next president and after great consideration, I believe the person most likely to emerge victorious will be . . . . . . Donald Trump. Wait, who said that? It’s me, your liberal friend on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, and LinkedIn, who has been in a fetal position since last Tuesday convinced me that Donald Trump is going to be our next president.

Hillary Clinton’s Big Worry
Julian Zelizer, CNN
There are many reasons why Democrats should feel good about the election now that Donald Trump is the Republican nominee. Even before GOP voters went for Trump, the Electoral College math tended to favor the Democrats. Republicans will be playing catch up. Trump has also deeply divided the Republican Party, with many of the most prominent leaders refusing to endorse him. Usually when parties divide this badly they lose.

Stop Being Ashamed Of Money Problems & Fix Them
Dominic Lynch, Federalist
Neal Gabler partly blames his money woes on â??financial illiteracy,â?? but anybody can understand the key way to make it in life: spend less than you earn.

The Day We Discovered Our Parents Were Russian Spies
Shaun Walker, The Guardian
For years Donald Heathfield, Tracey Foley and their two children lived the American dream. Then an FBI raid revealed the truth: they were agents of Putinâ??s Russia. Their sons tell their story

Bernie Sanders’s Next Revolution
Brian Beutler, The New Republic

Concerns Rise Over Trump Fealty to GOP Agenda
Caitlin Huey-Burns, RealClearPolitics

Where #NeverTrump Went Wrong
Alexis Levinson, National Review
Since Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, his foes have been pointing fingers and assigning blame. Why did they fail?

How Trump Will Try to Exploit Clinton’s Weaknesses
Francis Wilkinson, Bloomberg
There are two ways that Donald Trump can become president. Either he must become significantly more popular among general-election voters. Or his likely opponent, Hillary Clinton, must become significantly more unpopular.It won’t take long for Trump to figure out which is the more promising path.

What Democratic Landslide?
Russell Berman, The Atlantic
A group of new polls released Tuesday shows a surprisingly tight battle between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

U.S. Military’s Access to Space at Risk
Thompson & Baroudos, Lexington Institute
This week, the Senate Armed Services Committee will review the defense department’s budget request for the fiscal year beginning October 1. One of the changes to the request committee chairman Senator John McCain is proposing is a ban on imports of the Russian RD-180 rocket engine. Senator McCain is a patriot and passionate proponent of good government. However, if Congress were to enact such a ban, it would endanger U.S. military access to space.Here’s why. Assured access to space, the top priority of the military space program, requires having two different types of launch…

Why Brexit Would Be a Boon for Donald Trump
Rob Cox, Reuters
It is June 24 and a majority of Britons have voted to leave the European Union. U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he’s inspired by their victory and calls for a similar referendum on the North American Free Trade Agreement and Trans-Pacific Partnership in the United States. Breakingviews obtained an early copy of Trump’s speech (three-quarters of which is composed verbatim of Trump’s previous comments on the topic).

The Left’s Delayed Reckoning
Noah Rothman, Commentary
The manufactured controversies of commencement season are upon us. It’s that time of year in which a vocal minority of fatuous, self-indulgent students discover a source of identity and purpose in protesting the on-campus appearance of almost anyone accomplished in the field of public policy.As the quixotic candidacy of the self-styled socialist Senator Bernie Sanders has demonstrated, American college students, who once took pride in their individuality, now value nothing so highly as lockstep political uniformity. The weeding out of conservative viewpoints and forcing them underground…

Pitiful Giant: The Republican Establishment
Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect
We keep hearing that the Republican Party is on track to suffer an epic split over the presumed nomination of Donald Trump. But what exactly does this mean? What happens once the 2016 election is over?On one side are traditional business conservatives, devoted to government-bashing, low taxes, and pro-corporate globalization—coupled with dog-whistle appeals to racism. This establishment has delivered all recent GOP nominees, despite the Tea Party takeover of much of the congressional Republican Party—until this year when the party elite was upended.

Trump Supporters Have Crossed a Moral Boundary
Michael Gerson, Washington Post
The great Republican crackup has begun. There is a growing group of Donald Trump partisans, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Then there are Republican officials who publicly support Trump and privately hope he will lose in November — a group that could only be counted via lie detector, but I would test Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell first. And there are Trump opponents and skeptics, including the 41st president, the 43rd president, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska and House Speaker Paul Ryan. Ryan, in…

Paul Ryan and the GOP “Civil War”
Jeffrey Lord, The American Spectator
Dear Fellow Conservative:With the withdrawals of Senator Cruz and Governor Kasich, the Republican primary and state convention selection process is at an end. The voters have spoken — and they have chosen Donald Trump. Over the course of the last several months, a number of our friends and colleagues have had the opportunity to voice their objections to Donald. The voters — and yes many of them self-identified to pollsters as “very conservative” or “conservative” — have made their decision. Now that this decision has been made, let’s discuss…

Facebook – More Dangerous than the NSA
Roger Simon, PJ Media
A while back, Edward Snowden blew the whistle on our National Security Agency. They’re spying on all our digital devices, have been for years. Our privacy has vanished.True enough, but the NSA is looking for terrorists and, unless I’m missing something, hasn’t come after anyone who isn’t one, at least not yet. Still, the agency is something to be concerned about, though somewhat less, I would imagine, than a repeat of San Bernardino, or Paris, or Brussels, etc., etc.But if you’re looking for something to really worry about, how about an equally large computer-based organization with the…

America Is an Empire in Decline
Noam Chomsky, Salon
When we ask “Who rules the world?” we commonly adopt the standard convention that the actors in world affairs are states, primarily the great powers, and we consider their decisions and the relations among them. That is not wrong. But we would do well to keep in mind that this level of abstraction can also be highly misleading.

How Obama Duped America On Iran
David Reaboi, The Federalist
There are few things in the world less popular in the United States than the Islamic Republic of Iran. As the then-new, optimistic promise of the Obama presidency beckoned in 2008, Gallup found that overall opinion of Iran in this country was 8 percent favorable and a dramatic 88 percent unfavorable. These numbers have been remarkably consistent over time; there’s no better evidence that, in the eyes of the American people, Iran is our enemy.

America Must Reject Isolationism
John Kerry, Boston Globe
THERE IS a massive transformation taking place around the world. Our leading corporations are going global. Health and medicine and film are going global. And you don’t have to be great at math to understand that our economy can’t grow if we don’t sell things to the 95 percent of the world’s customers who live in other countries. You don’t have to be a doctor to understand that we can’t be healthy if we can’t fight things like Ebola and Zika that may originate overseas but make us just as sick as the people they first hurt far, far from our shores….

Three Key States Show Tight Races Between Trump & Clinton
Alan Rappeport, NYT
Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton are locked in tight races in three crucial states in November’s general election, according to new polls that show men and women sharply divided on the presidential candidates and the likelihood of a close overall contest.The Quinnipiac University surveys, released on Tuesday, show Mrs. Clinton leading Mr. Trump by one percentage point in Pennsylvania and Florida and trailing him by four points in Ohio. The polls have margins of error of plus or minus three percentage points.