Ongoing events corroborate prior conclusions and, thus, allow for a more terse follow-up “Blast” e-mail; it is embellished by indicia of subtle trends that are preserved “for discussion purposes.” As it has grown throughout the day, it seems desirable to deal with domestic issues first, and then to turn look abroad. This is lengthened by citing essays via NRO’s Jim Geraghty [not available via hyperlink, but encompassing issues that had been gleaned from other sources] that are both well-written and on-point

Because there WILL be a chapter in PA of Log Cabin Republicans [structure TBD], anyone who is interested in joining [particularly in MontCo], know that you don’t have to be LGBTQ to become a member. Exemplifying its priorities is its endorsement of H.R. 4260, The Ryan White Patient Equity and Choice Act, which seeks to ensure funding for the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act program. As soon as the legislative byplay has become becalmed in Harrisburg, Rep. Mike Vereb will help decide how best to organize implementation [chapter, subchapters, etc.]; a self-ID’ed officer has appeared, and I’ll be a placeholder in case no one else emerges immediately [for we need a Prez/Treasurer, initially]. Obviously, our goal is to be somewhat demonstrative when expanding the GOP “tent” and, thus, to implement the types of balanced policies that have been articulated herein, if only to minimize them when compared with the trenchant need to neutralize as much of BHO’s agenda/actions as possible, ASAP. {Also note the need to confront the fact that 25% of Republicans Dislike Own Party.}

A two-time illegal immigrant was charged with rape in Philly, now a sanctuary city; City cops won’t work with feds unless Honduran immigrant convicted, and he could become the “Willie Horton” of the immigration crisis.

Illustrating why Penn State captivates the voters, note these latest developments [Penn State seeks to seal Paterno discovery papers because it Wants to limit how Paterno family can use documents in NCAA sanctions lawsuit; PA state-owned schools see 3% tuition jump; Defeated board of trustees candidate suing Penn State, 2 trustees who beat him; and Jerry Sandusky's son told his story to Oprah Winfrey. {Also note that PA is considering the scientific link between hydraulic fracturing, earthquakes.}

In PA, now that the PA SENATE PASSED FISCAL CODE BILL, CORBETT MUST DECIDE WHETHER TO SIGN THE BUDGET WITHOUT HAVING ACHIEVED PENSION AND/OR STATE-STORE REFORM. It is necessary to “decode” this vague bill because it SHROUDS EARMARKS IN SECRECY, TO GET PA SENATE VOTE. As a reminder of the scandal that led to election of Senators Folmer/Eichenberger, the pink pig “visited” the Capitol to mark the 9th anniversary of the “midnight payraise” [which was rescinded]. It has been noted that. Finally, politicos have declared Winners & losers in PA budget battle. {Recalling the recent congressional primary-battle, note that Congressman Bill Shuster separated from wife.}

Pictured at the end of this brief video [activists who have blasted the establishment sometimes become part of it] is House Majority Press Secretary Steve Miskin, the guy who defended Education-Committee Staffer David Transue after I had told them [via speaker-‘phone] that I had detected a key-error in his memo regarding the mandated Holocaust Education bill; the false assertion had been made [probably originating from the Jewish Federation’s lobbyist, Hank Butler] that the current statue provided what wanted in a “cursory” way, when it didn’t. {Also note this on-point summary of what has occurred in Harrisburg [plusses & minuses, candidly depicted.}

It is desirable to take-pause regarding tobacco-related concerns, inasmuch as I’ve been an anti-tobacco activist for 1/3 of a century; the major current controversy undermines recently-adopted restrictions on vaping [against which I testified], for there is no evidence that e-cigarettes are harmful, certainly not to the same degree as cigarettes. The key-goal is harm-reduction, and e-cigs have neither tar nor CO, the major etiologies of cancer and vascular disease, respectively. Perhaps reminiscent of their hay-days [such as when, as my son never ceases to remind me, Boehner distributed Tobacco-$ to his colleagues during House sessions in the 90’s], note that Tobacco lobbyists took advantage of legislative discord; one might wonder why Hite would complain but, alas, the hunger for funding seems self-reinforcing.

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Regarding the media, Battered wife media syndrome was manifest when 38 journalism groups [led by the Society of Professional Journalists] complained to the Obama White House about numerous offenses that were summed up as the "politically-driven suppression of news." Also, Bill O’Reilly FINALLY released the results of his poll question related to Jason Mattera putting Hillary Clinton on the spot regarding her role in Benghazi [“Was the ambush of Hillary Clinton mentioning the late Ambassador Christopher Stevens out of line?”]. After 30,000 votes, the outcome wasn’t even close; a whopping 62% of his own audience voted NO, while only 38% agreed with Bill. Thus, notwithstanding the fact that his viewership is loyal, it thinks independently. Also, Rosie O'Donnell will rejoin 'The View'; the “conservative”-seat may be given either to Abby Huntsman [co-host of MSNBC's "The Cycle"] or Margaret Hoover [CNN contributor]. Of course, neither is a “True” conservative, after having noted the former transiently, recently, and after recalling the latter’s squishiness when she was on FNC, particularly when on with O’Reilly.

It may be recalled that I briefly discussed [and praised] the first five chapters of the new book on “America: Imagine the World Without Her” by Dinesh D’Souza; Chapter Six debunked claims by Native Americans that they should receive reparations for prior treaty violations. Frank Gaffney's Secure Freedom Minute highlights this book/movie. A scandal erupted after it was confirmed that wholesale retailer giant, Costco had began removing this bestseller from their store shelves nationwide. Costco was SLAMMED on Facebook, noting COSTCO'S CLOSE TIES TO DEMS; Obama’s policies have been supported by Costco co-founder and director Jim Sinegal, a major Democrat donor and a speaker at the 2012 Democratic National Convention that nominated BHO, while Obama has conducted a “bromance” with the nation’s second-largest retailer. {Also, Patriotism, Hollywood Style permeates “Transformers: Age of Extinction”…if you are Chinese.}

GOP’s Civil-War is raging [vide infra] and Draining GOP Groups; through it all, POTUS-’16 politics are palpable. For example, evincing bipartisanship, Rand Paul teamed-up with Cory Booker to propose a comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. criminal justice system. {The REDEEM Act encourages states to change policies so children are directed away from the adult criminal justice system; automatically expunges or seals criminal records of juveniles who committed nonviolent crimes; limits solitary confinement of children; creates a path for adults with nonviolent offenses to seal their criminal records; and restores food stamp and welfare benefits for low-level drug offenders who have served their sentences.} Also, Huckabee wrote the forward to a book by Todd Akin ['Firing Back: Taking on the Party Bosses and Media Elite to Protect Our Faith and Freedom'] in which he apologized for apologizing ['By asking the public at large for forgiveness ... I was validating the willful misinterpretation of what I

had said. ... My comment about a woman's body shutting the pregnancy down was directed to the impact of stress of fertilization. This is something fertility doctors debate and discuss' ... ].

After Cruz issued a Report Blasting Obama, observing that the Courts are Shutting Down Tons of Obama Policies, an effort was made by a Law professor to claim Cruz is lying about bill to ‘repeal’ the First Amendment; note use of the word “lie” by an academic who probably fears what Cruz wrote. In this latter instance, it is claimed that “the amendment would merely state that, ‘[t]o advance democratic self-government and political equality, and to protect the integrity of government and the electoral process, Congress and the States may regulate and set reasonable limits on the raising and spending of money by candidates and others to influence elections.’ ” When the critic discounted the fact that this undermines the First Amendment [by using “merely”], overtly ignored was the fact that the law-of-the-land is the Citizens United case; thus, the WAY such limits would be established would be to suppress speech, and the key “black hole” is how one might define “reasonableness.” Thus, this attack was tangential. {Also noted, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, predicted Romney will be win Presidency in ’16 and Chris Christie went back to NH , noting that basic questions about BridgeGate (What did Christie know and when did he know it?”) will probably not have been answered until 2015.} Unfortunately for Christie, final answers aren't likely to emerge for months, once all the investigations wind down. Which all but ensures that as the country begins to turn its attention to the 2016 presidential campaign he will still have some explaining to do." http://vnty.fr/1oj26nJ

Cruz also Called for an Investigation in Mississippi Runoff, even as McDaniel sought a New Election and Cochran Denied Reports of Vote Buying; rallying the troops, Rush Limbaugh Exploded on ‘Corrupt’ GOP-Establishment for Employing ‘Reprehensible’ Tactic Against Tea Party [recruiting Black-Dems to cross-over and vote for Cochran]. Counterpointing this critique, according to AZ Central, McCain dismissed criticism over these tactics; nevertheless, there is Unease in the G.O.P. over Mississippi Tea Party Anger. As a result, although the Mississippi GOP said Cochran won the race by 7,667 votes and sent the results Monday to the Secretary of State to be certified, a New Tea Party group's voting integrity lawsuit threatens Mississippi establishment Democrats and Republicans and McDANIEL'S ATTORNEY claimed they will be able to OVERTURN the June 24 COCHRAN run-off VICTORY ["A lawyer for Chris McDaniel said campaign canvassers started going through records at every courthouse statewide and he's confident McDaniel can successfully overturn GOP runoff. The Thad Cochran campaign countered that few voting irregularities are being found and the vote should stand. ... Tyner said he is uncertain the number of ineligible votes the campaign has found. McDaniel's campaign reported 4,900 late last week, and McDaniel in television interviews said 5,000. The McDaniel campaign has said a majority of these are people who voted in the June 3 Democratic primary, then crossed over June 24 and voted in the Republican runoff, which is prohibited by state law."] Hot-News: TRUE THE VOTE ALLEGED PRO-COCHRAN OFFICIALS DESTROYING MISSISSIPPI ELECTION EVIDENCE, FILES RESTRAINING ORDER prompting True The Vote's Engelbrecht to claim Mississippi GOP Chairman is No Better than Obama, Holder, and Lerner; it is possible PANIC has emerged, for COCHRAN REPLACED HIS CAMPAIGN MANAGER. {Also note THAD COCHRAN'S LATEST SENIOR MOMENT WAS GETTING LOST IN CAPITOL and the NRSC Hosted a 'Thank You Reception' for 'Generous' Thad Cochran Donors.}

Cantor seeks financial help to refund his donors and to shut down his campaign committee, needing upwards of $150,000, perhaps far more.

TEA-PARTY CHALLENGE HAS Republican Pat Roberts of Kansas ON EDGE. After Cantor’s loss, 'I might be next,' a deadly serious Roberts recalled telling fellow GOP Sen. Bob Corker during a ride on the Senate subway, 'You never know.']. Roberts has emerged as a case study of the personal and professional toll even a nominal challenge from the right can take on a sitting senator, and a vivid illustration of the impact the tea party can have even when it loses, as it has in nearly every GOP Senate primary this year. Roberts is widely expected to survive an Aug. 5 faceoff against tea party-backed Milton Wolf, whose campaign has been treading water for months. But at 78 and now in his fourth decade in Congress, the senator nonetheless has the look of a changed man. He has appeared increasingly on edge, several of his colleagues say, and his voting pattern, according to rankings by conservative groups, has shifted markedly to the right. A onetime Marine who began his congressional career the same month that Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president, Roberts has never been the cheeriest guy in the Senate. But the challenge by Wolf, whose biggest claim to fame is that he's a distant cousin of Barack Obama, has sent the senator into a frequent state of agitation. 'Interview is over,' Roberts snapped in May at a reporter who pressed him on whether election-year calculations prompted him to call on former Democratic Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to resign as Health and Human Services chief even though he had strongly backed her nomination.

Predictably, the GOP Picked Cleveland for 2016 Convention over Dallas due, assuredly, to the fact that Ohio will probably be a swing-state]; also, the GOP will hold early convention [June or July], presumably to allow a greater time-span for the fall campaign to be organized and implemented. {Also note that Senator Portman, who helped Ohio land convention, weighs presidential run.}

It may be recalled that Heritage Action has been railing against enhancing the funds for patching a budget hole in the Highway Trust Fund [preferring states assume this job]; the SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE is expected to take up this issue imminently. Republicans complained it didn't include spending cuts, and Wyden wants to win bipartisan support for his plan. This may again recall the dynamic of liberal-Reps bonding with the Dems regarding the mutual desire to grow government; Politico ignores “conservative” input.

It may also be recalled that Heritage Action has been railing against renewal of the export-import bank [and has support from committee leadership and majority leader. Well, Politico is silent on this fact as it reports “HOUSE MAY TIE EX-IM BANK TO FUNDING BILL” [along with the Highway Trust Fund], to wit: "Senior Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill increasingly view a renewal of the Export-Import Bank as part of a possible scenario to keep the government open past Sept. 30, according to multiple sources in both chambers. High-level discussions between the two chambers are in their infancy, and senior aides caution there is no deal in the immediate offing. But there are forces in both chambers pushing to renew the Export-Import Bank and pass an extension of the Highway Trust Fund before the election."

This reference to a “deal” is reminiscent of the “deals” between BHO and the GOP’s Congressional leaders as they were actually capitulating to everything BHO wanted; thus, I suspect this will be a major discussion-point during the next “Sentinel” update.

Retaking the Senate By Jim Geraghty

A roundup of the Senate races shows the circumstances are good for Republicans, but there's been a real lack of fresh polling in most of the big races. Those races in North Carolina, Louisiana and Arkansas aren't looking like slam-dunks yet . . .

National Journal's Charlie Cook — a.k.a., the other one — asks if Democrats are starting to tell themselves that losing the Senate wouldn't really be that bad:

Early this year, we saw Senate Democrats throw their House brethren under the proverbial bus with a Jan. 29 story in Politico headlined, "Democrats: Cede the House to Save the Senate." It noted that Democrats' hold on their majority in the upper chamber was tenuous, while over on the House side, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee was raising money hand over fist despite having little chance of reclaiming the majority House Democrats lost in 2010. It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Senate Democrats were trying to redirect fundraising from what they saw as a lost cause on one side of the Capitol to what they saw as a much more important one on their side . . .

We saw it again this past week with the Washington Post's inimitable Dana Milbank writing a column July 4 suggesting that perhaps the Obama presidency might benefit from Democrats losing their Senate majority. The crunching sound you heard was the bones of Senate Democrats under a bus, a pretty fair indication that someone in or close to the White House was beginning to rationalize why such an outcome might not be as bad a thing as some might think — all logic to the contrary.

Identifying Those Relatively Apolitical Americans with Conservative Instincts

By Jim Geraghty There's a demographic out there that I can describe but not label.

These folks are instinctively conservative, but probably don't apply that label to themselves. They work for a living, or they are looking for work. They can't stand what they perceive as whining.

But they don't identify with the Republican Party. They look at the leadership of the party, at least in Washington — House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, RNC Chair Reince Priebus — and don't feel any sense of connection to them.

In fact, they don't really relate to or connect with any particular politician. They either tune out politics as much as possible, or they find the political process to be dominated by adults acting like children and bickering in a selfish, obstinate manner.

One reason they don't feel any particular attachment to the current crop of Republican leaders — or perhaps the last Republican presidential standard-bearer, Mitt Romney — is

that they're suspicious, or at least wary of Wall Street, or most big companies. They may work for a big company but they don't feel a particular loyalty or identification with their employer.

These folks might sound like potential Tea Partiers, but at some point, these folks either tuned out the Tea Party or got turned off by some of the more fiery rhetoric. The tea-party rallies almost inevitably feature somebody dressed up in Revolutionary War garb, and that's not who they are.

Some people will see this as cute, some will see it as silly.

However, Common Core drives them nuts because they don't understand the homework their kid is bringing home. They feel sorry for all of the children from Central America coming over the border right now, but they don't feel that taking care of those kids should be America's duty.

When these folks get galvanized, it's more often by a figure outside the political arena who articulates a conservative value. Think of Tim Tebow, or Dr. Ben Carson, or Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe — soon to return to CNN — lamenting America's lawsuit-minded culture and the loss of a sense of shame. Or Gene Simmons of Kiss, arguing that it's silly to demonize the rich, important to assimilate immigrants, and to stand by Israel in the Middle East.

Or Adam Carolla, raging against political correctness . . .

It's weird that comedians are on the list of people who are offending other people with the things they say. It's counterintuitive. It's like — I think every year Variety or The Hollywood Reporter or one of those magazines comes out with a list of celebrities or notables that hate the gay community. Whatever it is. I was on that list, because in 2011 I made a joke about Chaz Bono. Jesus Christ, if you can't joke about Chaz Bono, then we're all through! They had Tracy Morgan, several of the people on the list were comedians. And when did this start up? They're comedians, onstage, making jokes! They may mean it half the time, but they're still making jokes, why are they held to the same standard as statesmen?

Here's Nicole Curtis, host of Rehab Addict on HGTV, in a February Facebook post:

In the past couple of weeks, I have had a few unpleasant experiences with women who actually had the nerve to state that they are a minority business owner (because they are a woman) and that should do what? This is where I bang my head — I am a business owner who happens to be a woman -- don't judge me on my gender — judge me on my work — ladies — you want equal ground — gain it by being equal in professionalism and quality of work — not by making excuses that you are a small minority business owner. It brings the rest of us down. I scrubbed floors for 10 years and worked my rear off to get where I am at — don't think for a minute that I'm the person to whine to that you should be able to short step the process of dedication because you are a

woman — last time I checked, I am too. We are all given opportunities when we put the time in and develop the drive — teach your daughters that that's how you get ahead — no entitlement here, please.

Even a bit of chef-turned-TV-travelogue host Anthony Bourdain:

In New York, where I live, the appearance of a gun – anywhere — is a cause for immediate and extreme alarm. Yet, in much of America, I have come to find, it's perfectly normal. I've walked many times into bars in Missouri, Nevada, Texas, where absolutely everyone is packing. I've sat down many times to dinner in perfectly nice family homes where — at end of dinner — Mom swings open the gun locker and invites us all to step into the back yard and pot some beer cans. That may not be Piers Morgan's idea of normal. It may not be yours. But that's a facet of American life that's unlikely to change.

I may be a New York lefty — with all the experiences, prejudices and attitudes that one would expect to come along with that, but I do NOT believe that we will reduce gun violence — or reach any kind of consensus — by shrieking at each other. Gun owners — the vast majority of them I have met — are NOT idiots. They are NOT psychos. They are not even necessarily Republican (New Mexico, by the way, is a Blue State). They are not hicks, right wing "nuts" or necessarily violent by nature. And if "we" have any hope of ever changing anything in this country in the cause of reason — and the safety of our children — we should stop talking about a significant part of our population as if they were lesser, stupider or crazier than we are.

It's almost as if the political arena delegitimizes the voices of its participants. But when a figure untainted by the 24-7 hypocritical rugby scrum that is our politics expresses what we would consider to be a conservative value, a lot of folks who aren't into politics applaud.

Am I describing instinctively-conservative populists? Or is this the "libertarian populist" phenomenon described by Ben Domenech and Conn Carroll?

These two essays establish concepts that are c/w this: NY Times: Liberal Kids Turning Conservative .

Sarah Palin has again emerged, focused on impeachment; she noted Obama Has Committed at Least 25 Impeachable Offenses, that Illegal Immigration was the 'Tipping Point' on promoting this intervention, that [regarding Boehner Lawsuit] 'You Don't Bring a Lawsuit to a Gunfight'; and that “patriots” should Tell Congress to Consider Impeaching 'Imperial President.' In response, BOEHNER NIXED IMPEACHMENT although a Drudge-Poll [“SHOULD REPUBLICANS IMPEACH OBAMA?”] yielded:

YES 72.8% (238,257 votes) NO 12.91% (42,233 votes) NOT NOW 14.29% (46,766 votes) Total Votes: 100% (327,256 votes)

Exemplifying why mere introduction of this concept has prompted people to “focus” are the reactions of Mark Levin [Sarah Palin "Exactly Right' on Impeachment, 'Stands with the Framers'] and MSNBC'S DYSON [PALIN'S CALL FOR IMPEACHMENT 'TREASONOUS'].

The Dems are increasingly aware that, as per CONGRESSMEN King and Stockman, OBAMA is now USING 'CLOWARD-PIVEN MANEUVER' [regarding the Illegals, along with everything else]; Obama is also using Operation Choke Point to bypass Congress and to destroy over two dozen free-market industries. But Obama Isn’t Prepared to Face Security Challenges and even the NYT has suggested Obama's Ineptness May Make Young Americans More Conservative. That is why [in addition to courting Native Americans [previously elucidated], Harry Reid's wages war against the Koch brothers, a highly unusual election-year campaign against a couple of relatively unknown private citizens whom Reid and his Dems are seeking to make into caricatures of a GOP that, on issue after issue, [he will claim] caters to the very rich at the expense of everyone else. {Again, invoking class-warfare on behalf of the unifier-in-chief….}

There is a certain irony about the Dems’ use of Dark Money when promoting Campaign Finance Reform; a liberal campaign finance reformer with ties to one of the left’s leading dark money outfits succeeded last week in raising $5 million to elect politicians who will pledge to reduce the influence of money in the American political process. Yet, notwithstanding such hypocrisy [for, some would aver, this is the “norm” in politics], Dems Need a Bubba Strategy TO REACH THE 99%; it shouldn't cede NASCAR voters: Candidates need an effective way to communicate their empathy for the downtrodden without sounding condescending or disingenuous. The lines between urban and rural are blurring physically as well. Speaking the language of the new American underclass requires understanding and respecting rural culture. Even if Democratic candidates support policies that would benefit people facing hard times, they may not get their votes if they don't make an authentic effort to identify with them. It is a tactic that Sen. Mark Warner mastered in winning his Senate seat. But at best, the Bubba Strategy can play a role only in cutting margins or building a coalition in most elections."

But the Dems appear to be running-scared, as evidenced by Mark Udall and the CO Governor [plus Other Prominent Dems] not Attending Obama's Denver Speech; a pundit characterizes this behavior as “Playing in Traffic Is Not Safe Politics.” Other Dems are stressed [Eldridge Trailing by 35 in Internal Poll; The chairman of the Ventura County, Calif., Democratic Central Committee celebrated the Fourth of July weekend by accusing Republicans of backing Nazis and discussing the size of conservative men’s genitals on Twitter; and Rep. Bruce Braley (D., Iowa) Keeps Making Farmer Gaffes in his Senate campaign, the latest being his false-claim of being a farmer in a video (not smart noting this is a dominant industry)]. And another Dem thinks he has been unjustly attacked: CUBANS ALLEGEDLY PLOTTED TO SMEAR MENENDEZ, about which MATTHEW BOYLE [the former Daily Caller reporter behind the Menendez prostitution stories] gave no comment.

These problems are exemplified by just a few updates of BHO’s Scandal-sheet [Hume: 'The Scandals Taken Together Add Up to a Series of Failures']: the IRS Is Ready to Move On, but the American People Are Not, inasmuch as Issa thinks a 'Smoking gun' memo is embodied in Lerner’s warning to IRS employees that they hide information from Congress because we 'Need to be cautious about what we say in emails' [although it seems she used instant-messages to avoid leaving any “trail”]; Benghazi panel ramped-up and received briefing; and VA Doctor Who Copied and Pasted Notes Still Employed and VA whistleblowers detailed pervasive retribution, carried out in a personal manner.

Therefore, Attorney Neil Eggleston returned to a White House under legal siege [instead of looking toward a comfortable retirement on the generous nest egg he built through high-stakes representation of prominent D.C. officials (such as Rahm Emanuel and former Bush White House political director Sara Taylor Fagen) plus corporate clients]. Instead, he's returning to a grueling post, forced to contend on multiple legal fronts. The 61-year-old Eggleston has come on as chief counsel as President Barack Obama faces congressional investigations, pushback from the Supreme Court, and House Speaker John Boehner's announcement last month that he intends to sue the president over his stepped-up use of executive orders. [Eggleston predicted the Boehner-matter will be quickly dismissed by a judge for a lack of legal standing. 'As I used to tell clients in private practice, anybody can sue anybody over anything,' Eggleston [said] from his West Wing corner office. 'The fact that he's going to say that he's going to bring some lawsuit is not going to affect what the president is going to do.'

Note also how the Dems abuse The Forgotten Taxpayer: BILLIONS IN TAXPAYER DOLLARS SPENT ON 'LYRICAL, POETIC' EMBASSY ARCHITECTURE OVERSEAS and Taxpayers Will Now Pay for More of Obama's Colorado Fundraising Trip; also, Improper Payments Top $500B During Obama Years; by its own estimate, the government made about $100 billion in payments last year to people who may not have been entitled to receive them (tax credits to families that didn't qualify, unemployment benefits to people who had jobs and medical payments for treatments that might not have been necessary).

This then translates [poorly] when assessing the views of Millennials; they Believe Government Has Failed and Yet They Want More of It. Two-thirds of millennials--the 18-29-year-olds who were key to the election and re-election of President Barack Obama--now say that government is inefficient and wasteful. And yet just as many of them say they want more government, regardless: they want government to provide health insurance, they want government to guarantee a living wage, they want government to pay for college, and they want government to provide for the poor].

On each major domestic issue, BHO is on the defensive. Regarding gun-laws, Between Thursday and Monday, 82 shot and 14 Killed in Chicago Violence and Pregnant woman shot dead driving on Chicago's Dan Ryan Expressway; the Police Superintendent blamed 'Lax' Gun Laws [despite their being, along with D.C.’s, among the strictest in the nation] and, as a result, the Real Clear Politics Co-Founder declared Rahm Emanuel's Chicago to be a 'War Zone' and Jesse Jackson wants $2 billion to fight Chicago violence. Meanwhile, Two Robberies occurred at Target Since Chain Asked Law-Abiding Citizens to Shop Unarmed and Murder and Violent Crime Fell as Concealed & Carry Rose 130 Percent, the latter providing support for a Concealed & Carry Group’s suit against Ohio State University for Infringing Gun Rights; politically, Bloomberg’s Gun Control Push will entail 'Pulling The Trigger' on Red-State Dems and GOP Senators Push Repeal of Gun Control and Elimination of Certain 'Gun Free Zones.' {Also, note a CA Man was Prevented from Displaying U.S. Flag Inside Home.}

Regarding education, Common Core has Become a national Nightmare, as Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal Responded to Ed. Sec. Duncan's Slam over Common Core and New York GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Rob Astorino announced he will Seek 'Stop Common Core' Ballot Line; meanwhile, The president of a major teachers’ Union Defended receiving “Democracy Alliance” Support [this being a shadowy left-wing dark money group] after having been challenged by a pair of public school principals.

Regarding ObamaDon’tCare, it seems a Dem House Candidate’s Wife’s OBGYN Practice Doesn’t Accept Medicaid, and details emerged regarding a Case That Could Send Obamacare Back To The Supreme Court; through it all, the Feds (NIH) Spent $430,608 to study how getting mothers to dance with their daughters can fight obesity. I have harped on the need for the House GOP to propose an ACA alternative during the past year, although Republicans remain stymied by efforts to craft a functional replacement; when I studied this issue last August, there were versions generated by Scalese and Price [which differed inter alia regarding the level of default-exchanges, federal vs. state]; I would simply hope that they would co-adopt the work of John C. Goodman [who is the “maven,” according to what I’ve been told by myriad individuals, including Sen. Pat Toomey]. {As a result, regarding America's Economic Woes, Jobs Are Scarce, Wages Low, And Government Can't Help.}

ObamaCare - "Take Ten Pills and You're Fine" [Nancy Pelosi sings!] Hillary continues to maintain she and Bill had been so 'Dead Broke' they Couldn't Get Mortgage Loans; also, Hillary Refuses To Apologize For Laughing About 12-Year-Old Rape Victim She Maligned In Court. And a Pro-Clinton Group [“Correct the Record”] Will Distribute Daily Talking Points For "Unified Message," through a project housed under the Democratic super PAC, American Bridge; it will send surrogates and Clinton advocates a 'daily email program, 'The Daily Point.'' Meanwhile, Buyers of Hillary's 'Hard Choices' Aren't Reading It and Halperin declared Hillary Is 'Never Going to Be a Great Candidate.' One essayist explored What Hillary Clinton and ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Have in Common, noting that their much-anticipated public rollouts had been plagued by some of the same problems that Hillary Clinton has experienced on her mediocre book tour.

Literary Analysis

After students were assigned to write a report on two stories [the movie 'Titanic' and 'My Life' by Bill Clinton], one student turned in the following, with the proposition that they were nearly identical stories! [His cool teacher gave him an A+.]

Titanic:..... The story of Jack and Rose, their forbidden love, and subsequent catastrophe. Clinton:.... The story of Bill and Monica, their forbidden love, and subsequent catastrophe. Titanic:….. Jack is a starving artist. Clinton:.... Bill is a bullshit artist. Titanic:.... In one scene, Jack enjoys a good cigar. Clinton:... Ditto for Bill. Titanic:.... During the ordeal, Rose's dress gets ruined. Clinton:... Ditto for Monica. Titanic:…. Jack teaches Rose to spit. Clinton:... Let's not go there. Titanic:.... Rose gets to keep her jewelry. Clinton:... Monica' s forced to return her gifts. Titanic:.... Rose remembers Jack for the rest of her life.

Clinton.... Clinton doesn't remember Jack. Titanic:.... Rose goes down on a vessel full of seamen. Clinton:... Monica.. ooh, let's not go there, either. Titanic:.... Jack surrenders to an icy death. Clinton:... Bill goes home to Hillary - basically the same thing...

illegals Obama: My Amnesty Programs Not Luring 'Misinformed' Parents to Send Kids to US Defiant Obama Refuses to Visit Border: I'm 'Intimately Aware' of Everything Taking Place Sen. Ron Johnson: Illegals Could All Be Flown Home in Style for 1.5% Obama's Funding Request WH Prohibits Asking Immigration Status of Adults Who Pick Up Illegals from Detention Centers Boehner Considering Including Immigration in Lawsuit Against President Obama on Declining Border Stop: This Is Not Theater, I'm Not Interested in Photo-Ops the illegals involved in the border surge are going throughout the country White House: $3.8 billion needed to deal with influx of minors at border - The White House on Tuesday will request $3.8 billion from Congress in emergency funding to deal with an influx of unaccompanied minors from Central America, a far higher amount than the Obama administration had previously signaled, according to a Capitol Hill source familiar with the plans. The White House opted not to include legislative language calling on the unaccompanied children to be deported more quickly to their home countries. But officials made clear that their intent is to speed the current turnaround process by increasing money for the immigration courts and putting a priority on recent arrivals. Buchanan Cites Reagan: Country That Can't Control Borders Not a Country Obama delayed deportation change Zuckerberg's immigration push hits brick wall - He must reconcile Silicon Valley’s ambition with the sobering lessons of Washington. Democrats: Border Crisis Will Be Obama’s ‘Katrina Moment’ Obama Has No Plans to Deport Illegal Kids Ted Cruz Slams Obama for Collecting Checks from 'Democratic Fat Cats' Instead of Visiting Border Cruz on Border Crisis: 'Amnesty Is Unfolding Before Our Very Eyes' Los Angeles to Stop Honoring Federal Immigration Detainer Requests OBAMA ISN'T GOING TO THE BORDER - There are very few upsides, write National Journal's James Oliphant and George E. Condon Jr.: "President Obama evidently has decided not to put a human face on the crisis unfolding at the southern U.S. border-not even his own. The White House said over and over again Monday that Obama will not travel to the border with Mexico despite flying to Texas this week to raise money for Democratic candidates there. It's certainly in part a political decision, one meant to avoid taking ownership of a difficult issue on which the White House would prefer to share blame. But it's also one that will inflame Obama's critics on both the right and left who say the administration has been too passive in response to the thousands of young border-crossers swamping U.S. detention facilities. In other words, if Obama goes to the border, he owns the problem. If he doesn't, he's blasted for a lack of leadership." GOP WANTS QUICKER DEPORTATIONS OF CHILD MIGRANTS - Kristina Peterson and Colleen McCain Nelson report for the WSJ: "Republican lawmakers on Wednesday called for a change in law so that many children crossing the U.S. border could be deported more quickly, and some said the change should be a condition of approving President Barack Obama's request for $3.7 billion to stem a surge in minors entering the country. A group appointed by House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) as well as some rank-and-file Republicans said they would push to revise a 2008 law when considering Mr.

Obama's funding request to address what he has called an 'urgent humanitarian situation' on the border. The president has asked for more flexibility with the law, and on Wednesday, he suggested the changes be included in the emergency spending bill." Surrender: Feds Back Down, Cancel Illegal Alien Flights to San Diego--For Now BORDER BREAKDOWN: ILLEGAL WITH TB IGNORED BY FEDS... LICE SO BAD 'They Can Be Seen Crawling Down' Their Faces! PRO-AMNESTY PROTEST: WOULD OBAMA SEND HIS KIDS 'BACK TO KENYA'? Border Patrol Tells Agent: 'Cease and Desist' from Speaking with Media... MS-13 Gang Members Leave Graffiti on Walls of Processing Center... Minors Admit to Engaging in Torture, Murder... Sheriff: Feds Releasing Criminals into AZ... Hundreds released in MD... Churches Providing Housing for Illegals... HHS Official: 'Jesus Was Refugee'... CLAIM: Residents Asked To Shelter Children -- In Their Homes! FLASHBACK: Obama Mocks GOP on Border: 'They'll Want a Moat and Alligators'... SESSIONS: President has abandoned lawful duty to American people... OBAMA GAME OF POOL OVER BORDER VISIT... DEM RIPS: 'BIZARRE... ALOOF... DETACHED'... White House warns: Stop criticizing... Feds using tax dollars to buy Monopoly games, toys for illegals... PHOTOS: Crossers Wearing 'Obama Shoes'... Flying migrants back home 'would be 99.5% cheaper'... Ted Cruz Sends Map With Directions From Fundraisers To Border Towns... President Plans on Surge 'Continuing Indefinitely'... FLASHBACK OBAMA: BORDER STRONGER THAN EVER... App Brings Air Raid Warnings to iPhone... HHS OFFICIAL ON FLOOD OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS: 'JESUS WAS A REFUGEE' AZ GOV VOWS TO FIGHT 'IMPERIAL' AND 'LAWLESS' OBAMA FOR SECURE BORDERS Catholic Churches Providing Housing for Illegals Gutiérrez: Setup for Obama Impeachment Behind GOP 'Illegal' Deportation Push 8 Reasons to Close the Border Now Texas Rep. Lamar Smith: Not 'a Single Penny' to Obama Until He Secures Border White House Asks for $17.5M to Provide Lawyers for Illegals Top Dem: U.S. 'Cannot Be Expected to Give Sanctuary to Every Single Child in the World' Ted Cruz to Obama: Have a 'Real' Meeting with Rick Perry at Border Rick Perry Accepts Obama Invitation to Border Meeting to Be Held in North TX Cornyn: Obama 'Needs Wake-Up Call' About Border Crisis More Than Half of Central American Immigrants on Welfare Feds Now Running Full Time Transport Service for Illegal Aliens Leaked Documents: 'Family Members' Appearing 'Several Times' to Pick Up Illegal Immigrant Kids Documents: Illegal Immigrants Sending Billions Back to Home Countries Jeff Flake: Obama Sending Wrong Border Message With Emergency Funding Request Groups Sue Obama Administration to Provide Lawyers for Illegal Immigrant Children Republicans Blast Government Officials For Blocking Access to Unaccompanied Minor Facility Justice Department 'Refocusing' Efforts to Recent Border Crossers to Address Crisis Blame America First: Luis Gutierrez Says US Drug Use Leading to Flood of Illegals Report: Increase in Underage Pregnant Women Crossing Border

The Government vs. the People: Rebuilding Trust in the Midst of the Illegal Alien Tsunami Obama Retreating from Policies to Send Illegals Back Home Obama's warning: 'Right-size' immigration expectations - The issue offers vexing challenges to the president from every angle. {Written as would a true-lib.} Perry grabs mic on border crisis - The foray into the escalating border debate couldn’t come at a better time for the Texas governor. Border Agent Spokesman: Illegal Kids Will Stay, 'Backdoor Amnesty' Andrea Mitchell: 'Bad Political Optics' for Obama to Skip Border Visit During Fundraising Trip Chuck Todd: White House 'Very Much in Denial' About Border Visit Optics Obama goes after Republicans on immigration - “There’s a very simple question here. Congress needs to just pass the supplemental.” Perry pushes Katrina comparison - He calls the situation a “humanitarian crisis.” OBAMA 'HAPPY TO CONSIDER' DEPLOYING NATIONAL GUARD TO BORDER OBAMA: WE HAVE 'TO DO THE RIGHT THING BY THESE CHILDREN' Ted Cruz: Obama Should Visit Border to See If US Better 'By Almost Every Measure' Since 2008 ALLEN WEST: OBAMA WOULD RATHER THROW DOWN BEERS THAN SECURE BORDER Mark Levin: Cesar Chavez Believed Embracing Illegal Immigration Wasn't 'Compassionate' Mark Levin Unveils Three-Step Border Plan CORNYN TO OBAMA: 'DALLAS IS NOT ON THE BORDER, MR. PRESIDENT' Sheriff Babeu: Feds Releasing Criminals Deported 10-15 Times into Arizona MSNBC Report: Honduran Kids Coming for Obama's Amnesty USA Today's Gomez: Obama's 'DREAM Act' Deadline 'Lost in Translation' Mexican Vigilantes Fight Violence Near Border Illegals Busted After Asking Texas Sheriff Deputy for Ride PRO-ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT GROUPS DECRY EXPANDING DETENTION CENTER Paul Begala: 'This Is Not Right,' President Should Go to the Border More Military Bases Asked to Provide Facilities for Illegal Aliens Murrieta Hires Crisis Management Consultant, Bans Word 'Illegal' Boehner: 'If We Don't Secure the Border, Nothing Is Going to Change'

Let's Show Some Compassion at the Border . . . for American Citizens, Too! By Jim Geraghty

Of course:

President Obama is holding off for now on seeking new legal authority to send unaccompanied migrant kids back home faster from the Southern border, following criticism that the administration's planned changes were too harsh.

The Acela Corridor Establishment's conventional wisdom is that "comprehensive immigration reform" ought to legalize the 11 million or so in the country illegally. The same crowd now insists any proposal involving sending the kids back to their home countries is insufficiently compassionate.

How about some compassion for the communities currently trying to deal with the tsunami of unattended children? Here's how the AP describes one stretch of our border in Mission, Texas:

The influx of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has grown so large that it now requires its own transportation system: government buses that spend each night idling on a Texas roadside, awaiting the latest arrivals . . .

Just since October, the Border Patrol's Rio Grande Valley sector has made more than 194,000 arrests, nearly triple that of any other sector. In the first week of June alone, agents in this area south of Mission arrested more than 2,800 people, most from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, making it the highest-volume arrest zone on the entire U.S. border. More than 60 percent were children . . .

Across the river is a garbage dump and a Reynosa slum that reaches nearly to the bank. Smoke from burning garbage sometimes drifts across the river so thick it's difficult to see. At the river's edge, discarded pieces of clothing, orange life vests and deflated inner tubes litter the sand.

A few days earlier, as a reporter in a kayak approached a hairpin bend in the river, a cartel sentry on a bluff 20 feet above the river slammed a magazine into his assault rifle. He asked where the paddler had come from and who gave him permission to be there. A radio squawked at his waist. The cartel controls what crosses the river.

That's part of why Napoleon Garza doesn't bring his kids here to fish like he did as a child. Garza recently drove through one of the many gaps in the border wall to cut a tree stump from property owned by his uncle.

"When they built the border wall, everything ended because they left a big old gap right here that so happened to be where our land is," said Garza, 38, who sells firewood for a living.

How about some compassion for the U.S. Border Patrol personnel trying to humanely deal with a problem they were never trained to address? Suddenly they have to do the job of the Centers for Disease Control as well:

Approximately 40 immigrants in detention at one center in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's San Diego Sector have active cases of scabies, a source tells National Review Online, and they could soon be spreading it to the general public.

A Border Patrol agent who helped process illegal immigrants at the Chula Vista Border Patrol Station on Sunday tells NRO that the 40 immigrants infected with scabies arrived on a plane that landed July 4, carrying about 140 immigrants total.

The agent says the people at FEMA who are responsible for doing the medical screening of the immigrants before they're transferred to California should be fired. "Management's more concerned about processing and getting rid of them as quickly as possible than looking at decontamination," the agent says. "And [the released illegal immigrants] go out in the community, get on the public transportation, go where they need to go, and it could result in another infestation of scabies being spread everywhere."

But the San Diego Sector was already dealing with a scabies outbreak when the latest batch of illegal immigrants arrived. Two agents at the Brown Field Border Patrol Station developed rashes on July 3 after processing illegal immigrants from Texas, according to a letter obtained by NRO written by Ron Zermeno, health and safety director of National Border Patrol Council Local 1613. Zermeno confirmed the veracity of the letter and the facts contained therein to NRO.

How about a proposal that anybody who wants these kids to stay in the United States has to open their home to them? The loudest Acela Corridor advocates of "comprehensive immigration reform" live their lives far from sustained contact with any actual illegal immigrants. Perhaps there's an outside chance that they employ some illegal immigrants as gardeners or housekeepers. Perhaps they bus or wait the tables at their favorite restaurants. But they live very far from the problems that mass illegal immigration brings. They certainly don't face downward pressure on wages from illegal immigrants getting paid under the table. They don't encounter gangs. They live far from the violence and their only encounter with a drug cartel is a secretive encounter with their smuggled product.

Here's another proposal: If Obama gets the $2 billion he wants to build the infrastructure to process these illegal immigrants, the holding facilities have to be built in places like Hyde Park in Chicago, the Upper West Side in Manhattan, Billionaire's Row in San Francisco and Marin County, California, Burlington, Vermont . . .