My favorite wacko liberal, lesbian, Jill Stein voter

Camille Paglia: On Trump, Democrats, Transgenderism, and Islamic Terror

A Must Read

Dilbert: Left & Liberal Media Radicalized VA Shooter To Shoot Hitler/His Supporters but the Shooter Ruined the Brand of the Resistance

Scott Adams on Periscope

Althouse: Does Dem Sen. Cornyn Agree that Comey's Takeover of the Clinton Email Investigation Violated DoJ Policy?

But there's one more stunning thing, and I was sure Cornyn was going to say it. Wasn't the rejection of a special prosecutor in the Clinton investigation a matter of timing inconsistent with the Principles of Federal Prosecution described in the Election Year Sensitivities policy? Cornyn thinks Comey "usurped the role of the Department of Justice prosecutors." Comey seemed to think he had to step into the role because there wasn't time to bring in special counsel, but timing wasn't supposed to be taken into account under the Principles. We should have had a special counsel! The argument against it is an argument for violating the Election Year Sensitivities policy.

I was sure that's where Cornyn was going. Did he run out of time or am I missing something? I'd like to hear from Loretta Lynch. Is it true that she didn't ask Comey to take over the announcement, and why didn't she appoint a special counsel in the Clinton matter? Was it because it would take too long and absolving Clinton needed to be timed to the election? Doesn't that violate the Election Year Sensitivities policy?

Much more worth reading at Althouse Blog

Hard to believe more weren't hurt

Audio of Trump Hater Shooting at Republicans

Link to Video/Audio

OBAMA VOTER ALTHOUSE:  CNN COVERAGE OF SESSIONS TESTIMONY BIASED AGAINST TRUMP

On CNN, there was a panel speaking in a dire tone about the Sessions testimony. Every line that came out of their mouths deserved pushback. I watched the hearing, and it was obvious to me that CNN's talking heads were distorting things — always in the direction of bolstering the belief that President Trump is in big trouble — but it's not in print, so how do I blog it? Spend my time doing my own transcriptions? Video the television and put up my homemade clip? I could. But I thought, this is why I stick with the written word. The flow of crap on TV is too awful. You just have to shut it off. Back to print.

Althouse Blog

Pat Buchanan, the man who presaged Trump

ARE WE NEARING CIVIL WAR?

President Trump may be chief of state, head of government and commander in chief, but his administration is shot through with disloyalists plotting to bring him down.

We are approaching something of a civil war where the capital city seeks the overthrow of the sovereign and its own restoration. . .

Trump has had many accomplishments since his election. Yet his enemies in the media and their deep state allies have often made a purgatory of his presidency.

What he and his White House need to understand is that this is not going to end, that this is a fight to the finish, that his enemies will not relent until they see him impeached or resigning in disgrace.

To prevail, Trump will have to campaign across this country and wage guerrilla war in this capital, using the legal and political weapons at his disposal to ferret out the enemies within his own government.

Not only is this battle essential, if Trump hopes to realize his agenda, it is winnable. For the people sense that the Beltway elites are cynically engaged in preserving their own privileges, positions and power.

If the president cannot rewrite Obamacare or achieve tax reform, he should not go around the country in 2018 wailing about Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer. They are not the real adversaries. They are but interchangeable parts.

He should campaign against the real enemies of America First by promising to purge the deep state and flog its media collaborators.

Time to burn down the Bastille.

Full Buchanan Article

A must read:

Law Prof Turley: Comey's Leak Illegal For Many Reasons

Jonathan Turley: The Hill

Althouse: NYT Readers Highly Critical of Chelsea Manning Coverage

The top four comments are high on entertainment value but #4 might be the best:

Glad the New York Times was not around 250 years ago, or you would be braying about "Benedict Arnold: Misunderstood Patriot."

Althouse Blog

Con Law Prof to MSNBC: Trump Has Unfettered Constitutional and Statutory Authority to Stop Flynn Investigation

“To the extent that people want try to make this obstruction of justice, there’s a million different layers why this is not technically obstruction of justice, either as a statutory matter or a constitutional matter,” Foley said. “But this point particularly about a ‘corrupt intent’ is even worse. Because think about it, the president also has the authority under Article II [of the Constitution] to pardon people, but we don’t say for example that the president can’t pardon a certain person because he has a corrupt intent, he likes the guy he’s known him for a long time so therefore he can’t pardon him.”

“The pardon power like the power to head the investigative, or the rest of the executive branch like the FBI, like the DOJ is a plenary discretionary authority of the president. He can pardon anybody for any reason he wants, corrupt purpose or no, and he can direct the investigation or non- investigation corrupt motive or no,” she added.

“You don’t put discretionary limits on constitutional authority ap and if you do you invite Article III non-elected non-accountable judges to second-guess the president’s authority. You never want to have a constitutional regime that sets up that way. We the people can either not vote the president in or we can impeach him, those are the political pushback mechanisms

Daily Caller/Video 

No, no, no - it was the Russians!

Decline in black, Hispanic turnout helped sink Hillary

“What really cost Hillary the election, based on the demographic analysis, was the decline in black turnout nationally and in key states, as well as the decline in Hispanic turnout in Florida and an uptick in white turnout in some places like Florida and Ohio,” Camarota told WND in an interview.

Article 

Leading liberals develop blueprint to expand 'deep state' and undercut Trump

The good news is they get it (my emphasis added):

Forlorn liberals took refuge at the American Constitution Society's national convention in Washington this week, discussing whether to encourage the growth of the "deep state" resistance inside the government or fight President Trump from outside.

"The election of Donald Trump was an assault on the federal bureaucracy," William Yeomans said to a room full of students and civil servants, including those recently displaced by Trump's administration. "His values are simply not consistent with the values of people who are committed to public service and who believe deeply in the importance of public service."

Washington Examiner

American Thinker

COMEY UNMASKED AS A VENOMOUS REVENGER

Article

Obama/Clinton Voter and Retired Law Prof Althouse Critiques Bernie Sanders' Religious Test for Trump Appointees

It's interesting to shine some light now and then on the big topic of  religious believers who go about picturing other people headed for eternal damnation. But imagine a new Sandersesque norm, in which we characterize that belief as bigotry and begin to shun everyone who thinks like that! We'd be shunning an awful lot of people, and another matter that used to be considered part of religious freedom will have been relocated into the category of a social belief where it can be impugned without incurring the accusation that to impugn it is to discriminate based on religion.

Althouse Blog

But this is too logical

No case for obstruction from hyper-hyped Comey hearing

This week’s hyper-hyped hearings before the Senate Intelligence Committee had two surprise endings: Donald Trump did not commit obstruction of justice, not even close, and the president was right to fire FBI Director Jim Comey.

John Yoo and David Marston