WHAT IS THE EU FOR, IF NOT SOLVING THE MIGRATION CRISIS?

Much like Sacramento and DC, I thought it was just to shakedown successful American businesses, myself.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Letter to a Young Social Justice Warrior Who Requested a Formal Apology.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON ON HILLARY CLINTON, REACTIONARY:

Whatever one thinks of Republicans and their Trump melodrama, the circus of 17 candidates is lively, full of younger faces, lots of minorities, with a full spectrum of conservative ideas. In contrast, Hillary’s implied message is: ‘give me the nomination because I will be the first woman and Bill will try to remember what he did nearly a quarter-century ago. We can’t say out loud that Obama was too leftwing, but privately you know we are winking that he was.’

I don’t think her candidacy is much more than that. Her nomination hinges on a five-hour-work day of light campaigning, doing softball interviews with preselected toadies, shaking down big green, gay, and feminist bankrollers, damning right-wing news, shrilly slurring Fox News, and hoping that she can stay on the Obama reservation and not earn an Obama administration Justice Department, David Petraeus-like indictment.

That’s about it.

But who knows? It might work.

That’s quite a Sword of Damocles that Obama has hanging over Hillary’s head. Who knows — if he actually had any respect for Joe Biden, he might be tempted to use it.

OTHER THAN THAT, THE STORY WAS ENTIRELY CORRECT.

NOTE THIS INTERESTING PARALLEL, IN A NEW YORKER PIECE ON FREE SPEECH: “Speech nuts, like gun nuts, have amassed plenty of arguments, but they—we—are driven, too, by a shared sensibility that can seem irrational by European standards.”

For the New Yorker’s target audience, the equivalence of free speech advocates to “gun nuts” is clear signal of where they’re supposed to fall on the argument. But all I can say is that if the “speech nuts” do as well as the “gun nuts” have done over the past couple of decades, we’ll be in pretty good shape. And the lesson from the “gun nuts” is: Don’t compromise, don’t admit that there’s such a thing as a “reasonable restriction,” don’t back down, and keep pointing out that your opponents are liars and hypocrites. And punish the hell out of politicians who vote with the other side.

TOM WOLFE, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Bernie Sanders is now effectively a hostage of #BlackLivesMatter. Which is a Hillary stalking-horse.

NO: Was Shakespeare High When He Wrote His Plays?  The reason we know he wasn’t is that the plays aren’t about how lizards are our friends and have you ever pondered the whereness of when and stuff.