THIS DOES SEEM TO BE THE CASE: “America is in the grip of a crisis, namely a shortage of normal people.”

THE WASHINGTON POST’S FACT CHECKER doesn’t read the Washington Post.

It’s like you can’t trust “fact check” columnists to actually check facts.

BARACK OBAMA: The Media Needs To Go To War! And Tom Maguire does, though perhaps not quite as our President anticipated. “After all, two million Parisians were not killed in the Friday night attacks. So when a guy with Secret Service protection tells you not to be afraid, listen up.”

Plus: “In any case – There was a time when dissent was the highest from of patriotism, or so progressives told us. Its almost as if that was partisan BS.”

CHANGE: Argentina Votes Evita’s Heirs Out of Office. “Argentina’s election on Sunday represented the starkest choice the country has faced since the authoritarian era of Juan and Evita Peron began in the 1940s. The seven-point victory of center-right candidate Mauricio Macri may herald a real shift towards more sensible economics and less anti-U.S. policies in Latin America. Defeated Peronist candidate Daniel Scioli was a hand-picked defender of the interventionist economics of his party’s retiring President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner.”

“Interventionist economics” is a synonym for “increased opportunities for graft.”

AS YOU SOW, SO SHALL YOU REAP: The Boy Boycott.

SULTAN KNISH: Obama Wants to Defeat America, Not ISIS. “Obama’s failed wars occupy a space of unreality that most Americans associate with Baghdad Bob bellowing that there are no American soldiers in Iraq. (There are, according to the White House, still no American ground forces in Iraq. Only American forces in firefights on the ground in Iraq.) There’s nothing new about any of this. Obama doesn’t win wars. He lies about them.”

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THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO A LEFTY: HATING THE RIGHT PEOPLE. Bette Midler: ‘Caitlyn may be a woman – but she’s still a Republican.’

FLASHBACK: Trump indicts America’s ruling class: His rise is a symptom of an increasingly isolated and tyrannical elite.

BRENDAN O’NEILL: After Paris: Where’s Our Fire? “The problem here isn’t those much-feared ‘ordinary people’. The good citizens of Paris, through getting on with life pretty much as it had been before the massacres, have demonstrated the everyday human dignity that separates these inhabitants of a democratic republic from the self-styled representatives of a death-cultist state. No, the problem is Europe’s political class and opinion-forming set, whose instinct after Paris has been to police the public’s response to it, and to water down anything even remotely resembling a passionate, proud, nationalistic or simply strong-willed reaction.”

Well, that sort of thing might interfere with opportunities for graft.

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Labor Department throws football party, but bans Redskins jerseys.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LIE ABOUT RAPE! (CONT’D): Body camera helps discredit accusation against Knox deputy. “This allegation was said to have taken place at the side of the vehicle. Prior to body cameras, we would have had no video at the side of the vehicle. We are very pleased with what we have right now.”

I’ve praised Knox County Sheriff Jimmie Jones for adopting body cameras before, but I’m sure his deputies are glad he did it now.

TWEET OF THE DAY, PROFESSIONAL COURTESY IS IMPORTANT EDITION: “On a lighter note, [Italy’s] La Stampa daily reported that a gang of masked robbers had stormed into a bank shouting: ‘Relax, we are not Isis. It is only a hold-up.’”

Heh, indeed.™

HE’S RIGHT: Trump says he’d bring back waterboarding. Good for him for clinging to his common sense.  It isn’t “torture,” as the President’s Office of Legal Counsel concluded in a well-reasoned legal memo back in 2002. The “torture” label is (as usual) just a liberal/progressive subjective conclusion, not an actual legal argument.

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THE LEFT, THIS PAST WEEK: Mister, we could use a sensible Republican like George W. Bush again!

The left today: ZOMG, Donald Trump supports waterboarding!!!!1!!1!!!!!

File under: “Be careful what you wish for.”

SCIENCE: Alcohol As A Sex Enhancer. As always, it depends on the dose.

YEP: Europe is battling ISIS (and Russia) with wimpy defense budgets.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: After Death, Nevada Issues Cryotherapy Guidelines. None of these guidelines sound like they would have prevented the death in question, though, which is sadly typical.