The New Clarion

The most baffling moments from Donald Trump’s Washington Post ed board interview: he’s incoherent. If his speaking is reflective of his thinking—and I think it is—he has no business being in politics and he’s a business success in spite of his muddled mind.

Deputy FM Cautions US to Remain Loyal to Nuclear Deal: that’s from the state news agency of Iran and warns that if the United States imposes sanctions on Iran then Iran will renege on the deal. As they violate the deal by testing ballistic missiles. {via}

Security Logs of Hillary Clinton’s Email Server Are Said to Show No Evidence of Hacking: said by the former aide who just provided them to the FBI. “Mr. Pagliano told the agents that nothing in his security logs suggested that any intrusion occurred.” And that gets reported as “Security logs of Clinton email server show no evidence of foreign hacking” without a mention of who vouched for the lack of evidence.

Political correctness devours yet another college, fighting over mini-sombreros: this is how free speech dies.

Last Week Tonight on Donald Trump: bit long, but great takedown of the Trump mythos. In a more rational political environment, this would have killed his presidential campaign. I’m not sure it’ll make any difference.

A Responsibility I Take Seriously: nominee must be “without any particular ideology or agenda” and have “a keen understanding that justice is not about abstract legal theory, nor some footnote in a dusty casebook.” I sure hope the Republicans can hold the line on his nominations.

BEWARE THIS MAN – State College President Bans Breitbart’s Shapiro: good for them. It’s another example of withdrawing the sanction of the victim.

Trigger Warnings in Annapolis: I’m not sure why I expected the service academies to be bastions of academic freedom, but I did. It’s much worse than the universities since they’re far more hierarchical.

Charles Koch – This is the one issue where Bernie Sanders is right: I continue to be impressed by the Kochs. They have done much for liberty, and the left vilifies them for it.

Taking North Korea at its word: this is a possibility I hadn’t even considered. {via}

Triumph the Insult Dog Visits College to Invade Students’ Safe Spaces: vulgar, as expected. But funny!

Supreme Court Puts Obama’s Clean Power Plan on Hold: wow, I did not see that happening. I figured CPP would become a fait accompli by the time the Court ruled.

Tell the truth about benefit claimants and the left shuts you down: the preening about loving science is a ruse. The left has huge swaths of contemplation that are entirely off limits. {via}

A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt: free speech is under serious assault. Haidt, a leftist, is on the forefront of shining a light on this.

Announcing the Twitter Trust & Safety Council: this is within their rights, of course. Given the leftist leanings of the company and its assembled Council of Goodspeech, I suspect that some groups will get a pass and some will face suppression. Chilling at any rate.

FACT SHEET – President Obama’s 21st Century Clean Transportation System: straight outta Atlas.

FBI contacts Colin Powell as part of email probe: until they show me that Condoleeza Rice or Colin Powell have billion-dollar foundations and shuffled these paltry few confidential emails to persona non grata like Sid Blumenthal, I’m not seeing the similiarity.

Pentagon Ordered to Address ‘Climate Change’: this probably isn’t as terrible as it sounds but I still picture troops bicycling over to the battlefield and the Navy achieving its 600-ship fleet with sailing ships.

Stop adding up the wealth of the poor: misleading statistics from the inequality crowd? I can’t believe it.

Robert Reich makes 36% more than average CEO and gets $40k for a one-hour talk vs. average worker pay of $46k/year: that’s an expensive noose, comparable to Krugman’s and far cheaper than Gore’s.