GOOD: Menendez comes out against the Iran deal.

FLASHBACK: AUGUST 17, 1998. Clinton Admits To ‘Wrong’ Relationship With Lewinsky.

SECURITY: Microsoft issues emergency patch for critical IE bug under active exploit.

THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: Republicans Are Happier With Their Marriages.

W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociologist, has written two recent papers noting that children in conservative parts of the country are more likely to grow up with both parents than in liberal ones. In both articles, he challenged the view that blue states are more conducive to stable family life than red states.

Now Mr. Wilcox, a professor at the University of Virginia, has published an analysis of data about individual families rather than geographical areas. And he argues this data continues to support his case that the so-called blue-state family model is overrated.

Self-identified Republicans are more likely to be married and less likely to be divorced than self-identified Democrats, write he and Nicholas H. Wolfinger, based on an analysis of the General Social Survey, an oft-studied national poll. Republicans also report being more satisfied with their marriages on average than Democrats. . . . The findings are broadly consistent with previous work, also based on national surveys, finding that Republicans are happier with their lives than Democrats on average and also more likely to be married.

Well, there you are. You don’t want to be a science denier, do you?

PEOPLE MOCK TRUMP, BUT THIS IS THE DEMOCRATS’ FRONTRUNNER: Clinton pulls plug on testy presser over server questions.

Asked if the server, which has been turned over to the Department of Justice, had been wiped clean, Clinton initially shrugged and later joked: “Like with a cloth or something?”

“I don’t know how it works digitally at all,” she added.

Maybe not the frontrunner for long. . .

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IF YOU’RE GOING TO BE “HORRIBLE” AT A SPORT, TRY PING PONG: Horrible bullfighter gored for the eighth time in just two years.

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Bear Sticks Head Through Cat Door. The story plays this for laughs, but, you know, bears are big and have sharp teeth.

WELL, I HOPE SO: Did Merck and NewLink Genetics Just Cure Ebola?

LITERATURE: The famous Robert Frost poem we’ve read wrong forever.

I WONDER WHY EVERYBODY HATES COMCAST: Comcast Admits Broadband Usage Caps Are A Cash Grab, Not An Engineering Necessity.

FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS FOR PHILLY! Temple University and Drexel University, why can’t you be more like the University of Pennsylvania and drop your speech codes? FIRE’s Azhar Majeed and Drexel alum Max Levy call out both universities over at The Philadelphia Inquirer.

IOWAHAWK WILL APPROVE: People say kids don’t care about cars anymore. These people have never been to Freedom High School in Freedom, Wisconsin.

CLINTON ATONES TO BLM FOR “US SINNERS”: Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller reveals “Hillary Clinton Accused of ‘Victim Blaming’ During Tense Black Lives Matter Meeting“: The “sinners” are, of course, white people, and Clinton assures the BLM representatives that she is committed to helping convince “us sinners” that what she calls “the original sin”–aka slavery–is erased by legal changes, including changing the “allocation of resources” in the country:

Watching the videos is entertaining, so I will post them below (two parts). The BLM spokesperson uses a very respectful tone, but look at the smarmy smirk on Clinton’s face throughout. It’s patent that she is simultaneously annoyed at being questioned (typical), and yet desperate to keep BLM’s votes by saying whatever they want to hear. If BLM believes anything Clinton says, they are insane. Pathological liars don’t keep promises.

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SECURITY: Carmakers Accelerate Security Efforts after Hacking Stunts: Manufacturers are trying to improve cars’ computer security, even as they add functionality that could open up new avenues for attack. Sorry, not too enthusiastic about the “Internet of Things.”

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: IRS’ estimate of tax records stolen by fraudsters soars to over 300,000. “More than three months after the Internal Revenue Service shut down its online tax transcript service because of a massive identity theft effort, the IRS is now acknowledging that the number of affected taxpayers is more than three times the agency’s initial estimate. And the number of affected taxpayers may continue to grow as the agency digs into logs of hundreds of thousands of connections to its Get Transcript application over the past year. Today, the agency announced that there were, in total, more than 600,000 suspicious attempts made to create user accounts on the transcript system using what appears to be stolen personal identifying information from recent credit card breaches and other corporate hacks; more than 300,000 of those attempts succeeded.”

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Daily Coffee May Boost Colon Cancer Survival. “Colon cancer patients who were heavy coffee drinkers had a far lower risk of dying or having their cancer return than those who did not drink coffee, with significant benefits starting at two to three cups a day, a new study found. Patients who drank four cups of caffeinated coffee or more a day had half the rate of recurrence or death than noncoffee drinkers.”

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WELL NO WONDER OUR FOREIGN POLICY NEEDS FLUSHING:  Hillary’s email firm was run from a loft apartment with its servers in the BATHROOM, raising new questions over security of sensitive messages she held.

OBAMA JUSTICE: Hillary Clinton: Too Important To Make An Example Of?

GOP ESTABLISHMENT JUST DOESN’T GET IT: I heard Bill O’Reilly state last night that Donald Trump’s immigration reform plan–which among other things, calls for deportation of illegal immigrants–was unconstitutional because it would deny due process. That is patently ridiculous, since to my knowledge, no one is advocating deportation without all the process that is lawfully due to an illegal immigrant. Federal law classifies many immigrants as “deportable,” and they are deported with regularity, though the percentage of “deportable” individuals who are actually deported is very low.

Now, along comes Rich Cromwell at the Federalist, who asserts that Trump’s immigration plan would “Make America a Police State“:

[Trump] promises to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it, triple the number of ICE workers and have them cooperate with local gang task forces, mandate nationwide e-verify, return all criminals to their home countries, install a policy of detention rather than “catch and release,” and defund sanctuary cities, among other measures. To satisfy the “they took our jobs” crowd, he details plans to put American workers first through a series of bureaucratic hoops. . . .

If that’s your jam, then jam on, but if you want to actually have a smaller state with less bureaucracy and government intrusion, then Trump is not the droid you seek. His plans to make America great again increasingly look like Obama on stilts with a big bag of cocaine and no limiting principles.

Utter nonsense. So if a GOP candidate wants to build a wall, beef up ICE, deport illegal immigrants, detain illegal entrants, and defund sanctuary cities, they are functionally indistinguishable from Obama? Huh? Please.

I have been called a Trump “cheerleader,” which is amusing, since while I don’t hate the man the way some apparently do, I’m far from endorsing him. There is a principled concern about whether Trump is a conservative, and that triggers opposition from those whose “conservatism” litmus test centers around certain issues with which they and Trump part company. I get that. But for others who self-identify as conservative, Trump’s position on issues–immigration in particular–combined with his intrepid approach to the media and political correctness, is enough.

GOP establishment is trying so hard to discredit Trump that they don’t seem to realize that they are angering a large portion of their own constituency, which is hungering for leadership and a willingness to openly defy P.C. norms. To paraphrase Hamlet, me thinks they dost protest too much, and it is beginning to backfire on them and cause them to take openly hypocritical positions.

Indeed, they are now taking the position that deporting illegal immigrants is wrong. Oh, how the establishment loves to talk tough on immigration when it suits its purposes of ginning up conservatives on election day. But when a candidate comes along who actually wants to do something about the issue–and isn’t afraid to defy political correctness to do so–the GOP establishment suddenly cries foul, and brands him a fool, dictator, or police state zealot. The necessary implication is that the GOP establishment is all hat, no cattle on immigration.

No wonder increasing numbers of those who self-identify as Republican now openly abhor the party, and it totters on the brink of implosion.  But hey, I’m sure that’s all Donald Trump’s fault, right? Time for some GOP introspection.

L.A.’S GOT BALLS: HERE’S ONE ANSWER TO THE DROUGHT.