EMANUEL POLICE TASK FORCE: CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS “NO REGARD FOR THE SANCTITY OF LIFE WHEN IT COMES TO PEOPLE OF COLOR.”

Why are Democrat-run cities such cesspits of racism, corruption, and police violence, to paraphrase an Insta-phrase?

GREAT MOMENTS IN COGNITIVE DISSONANCE: George Lopez Endorses Bernie Sanders But ‘Can’t Pay Any More Taxes.’

That’s a rather unpatriotic thing for an Obama supporter to say, as Joe Biden once noted.

YEAH, THAT’LL TEACH ‘EM A LESSON! Michael Moore Boycotts North Carolina: You Anti-Gay Bigots Don’t Get to See My Latest Flop.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: UC Davis spent at least $175K to scrub 2011 pepper-spray incident from Internet:

The Nevins proposal for UC Davis stated that it would employ the expertise of founder David Nevins, a former chairman of the Maryland Board of Regents, and counter negative search keywords for UC Davis by using a “surge of content with positive sentiment and off-topic subject matter” about the university.

Stray voltage media distractions — they’re not just for Obama and Hillary anymore.

WALTER SHAPIRO: Late To Discern The Bern.

Few aspects of political reporting are as ridiculed as drawing sweeping conclusions from the sentiments of friends.

That explains why a bogus 1972 line from New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael is quoted almost as often as “The Godfather.” After Tricky Dick’s 49-state landslide, Kael supposedly said (but didn’t), “Nixon can’t be president. Nobody I know voted for him.”

Sometimes, though, a friends-and-family poll can provide surprising insights. Especially before a New York Democratic primary pitting a carpet-bagging former senator against a granola refugee from Brooklyn who ended up in Vermont.

Earlier this month, I was stunned to discover that many of the guys with whom I have been drafting fantasy baseball players for 30 years are fervent Bernie Sanders supporters. Our annual dinner (after six hours in the trenches bidding on shortstops) erupted into an uncharacteristic political argument, with Hillary Clinton backers in short supply.

As I realized that I had misjudged the political allegiances of my grey-haired contemporaries, I felt like a film critic who’d slammed the ‘Best Picture’ winner.

Every time I had covered a Sanders speech I had failed to discern the Bern. But maybe I was missing something. Maybe I had been too dismissive of a presidential candidate who reminded me of the armchair Marxists I had known at the University of Michigan in the 1960s.

No, that’s pretty much what Bernie is. But Hillary is obviously corrupt and dishonest, and after 7+ years of an armchair Marxist in the White House already the way has been prepared.

MITT ROMNEY WAS RIGHT, CHAPTER XXXVII: ‘Cold War is over’ update! Josh Earnest says WH ‘concerned’ about Russian warplanes buzzing U.S. ship.

Flashback: Austin Bay called Obama’s weakness with Russia in 2009.

BOSTON GLOBE TRIES, FAILS MISERABLY WITH FAKE ANTI-TRUMP FRONT PAGE; HERE’S WHY: “Look, if you want to oppose Trump, stop Trump, run with the #NeverTrump movement, knock yourself out. He’s been plenty criticized in this space and on television. But editorials — ones dealing in fact and not hyperbole — belong on the editorial page. Fake news should be handled by comedic professionals (geniuses, actually) at The Onion. The Boston Globe breaks Rule #1 while failing miserably at rule #2.”

FIREWALL: Bill Whittle culturally appropriates the Social Justice Warriors.

THE CAMPUSES LOST IN THE CLOUDS: “If campus life is so bad, why would most of the student demands result in bringing more minority students, faculty and administrators onto those same campuses?… Karl Marx wrote that history repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce. At least in the case of higher education he had it backwards. What was written as a comedy is playing itself out as a tragedy. Billions of dollars of private and public money have been spent on a remarkable infrastructure throughout the country. At least a trillion dollars of debt has been acquired by young people and their parents. For what? A growing chorus of voices wants to burn it all down, replace it all with online learning and competency credits.”

Wow — somebody should write a book or four on that topic.

THE HILL: Clinton’s dismal approval ratings prompt Dem fears.

Hillary Clinton’s favorability ratings are historically low and increasingly a concern for her supporters.

Clinton is now viewed unfavorably by 55 percent of the electorate, according to the HuffPost Pollster average, which tracks findings from 42 different polling outfits. Only 40.2 percent of people view her favorably, according to that average.

An Associated Press/GfK poll released last week also found 55 percent giving Clinton an unfavorable rating. In the most recent Gallup poll, released late last month, her unfavorable number was 53 percent versus only 42 percent who saw her favorably.

Even Democrats acknowledge those findings are a problem.

“They’re pretty bad,” said Democratic strategist Brad Bannon, who connected the poor poll numbers to separate findings that show a broad number of Americans don’t trust Clinton.

“The No. 1 reason that her favorability is so bad is that you have large numbers of Americans who say they don’t trust her,” he said. “I could make it sound more complicated than that, but that’s really what it is. Voters see her as the ultimate politician, who will do or say anything to get elected.”

Well, that’s basically true.

MICHAEL BARONE: Donald Trump’s insincere process arguments.

“Today, winning votes doesn’t mean anything,” Trump complained. “It’s a corrupt deal going on in this country and it’s not fair to you people.”

Such complaints typically come from people who are not, in one of Trump’s favorite words, “winners.” Trump conspicuously refrains from complaining that, though he has won just 37 percent of votes cast in Republican primaries and caucuses, those votes have given him 46 percent of the delegates.

That happened because of the rules. Trump has benefited from winner-take-all rules in states like Florida and Arizona. He has benefited from split opposition: in only one state (Massachusetts) has he won more popular votes than the combined total for Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich.

The actual presidency is tougher and less forgiving than the primary race — and the Democrat nominee will be, too.

WE NEED A SEQUEL TO THE BIG SHORT TO CRITIQUE PUBLIC PENSIONS.

We also need a sequel to The Big Short to remind viewers how the mortgage-backed securities meltdown actually began. (Preferably out in theaters by early October, for obvious reasons):

MITT ROMNEY WAS RIGHT, CHAPTER XXXVII: ‘Cold War is over’ update! Josh Earnest says WH ‘concerned’ about Russian warplanes buzzing U.S. ship.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: High School Shames Student for Writing Politically Incorrect Essay It Knew Was Satire: Jonathan Swift “A Modest Proposal” assignment goes awry because everything is offensive.

Sending your kid to public school is pretty much parental malpractice these days.

DISPATCHES FROM THE WORLD OF GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: “Imagine you own a million-dollar piece of property free and clear, but then the federal government and local law enforcement agents announce that they are going to take it from you, not compensate you one dime, and then use the money they get from selling your land to pad their budgets—all this even though you have never so much as been accused of a crime, let alone convicted of one. That is the nightmare Russ Caswell and his family faced in Tewksbury, Mass., where the federal government tried to take the family-operated motel they have owned for two generations.”

MORAL NARCISSISM MAKES YOU BLIND: Roger Simon explains Why Bernie Sanders Says Terrible Things about Israel.

WELL, THIS IS AT LEAST HALF-RIGHT: Bernienomics Might Not Be Feasible — But It’s Useful. “Sanders believes that raising the minimum wage, spending a trillion dollars on infrastructure and offering free college will fundamentally shift the structure of our economy toward the poor and middle class. It will inspire such enthusiasm and determination that more people will work harder and invest more, and the country will easily generate the tax income to pay for it. Hence, Sanders’s plans won’t cost money; they’ll raise money.”

COVERING THE IMPORTANT STUFF: The State of Texas Marijuana.

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: “Islam is now among the fastest growing religions in America and it has led to a construction boom of mosques. Mosques are not as ubiquitous as Starbucks or Mcdonald’s but they are now sewn into America’s landscape.”

What could go wrong?

WALTER MONDALE, CALL YOUR OFFICE. Hillary: Why Yes My Proposals Require a $1 Trillion Tax Hike.

FISH, MEET BICYCLE: Nicole Russell: What Women Really Want Is The Patriarchy.

BEVERLY CLEARY AT 100: Why Henry Huggins Feels A Little Subversive Today. “It’s a wonder Henry managed to build that clubhouse without someone calling Child Protective Services on his parents.”

Keith Robertson’s Henry Reed books are similarly subversive.

HOW DO YOU NARROW IT DOWN TO JUST ONE?

Shot: Chairman: Biggest Post-9/11 Intelligence Failure Was Misreading Putin.

Chaser: “Russian SU-24 bombers flew over the American destroyer Donald Cook at an altitude of less than 30 feet in what was described as a ‘simulated attack.’ The Daniel Cook was in international waters at the time.”

On September 11 of 2013, when Putin had a column in the New York Times(!) on America’s involvement in Syria, Iowahawk tweeted, “Putin now just basically doing donuts in Obama’s front yard.” Today he’s rubbing it in further.

If only someone had predicted such behavior in 2012…

SO IF WE’RE SUING PEOPLE FOR PROMOTING INCORRECT SCIENCE, WHAT ABOUT THE FOLKS BEHIND THE LOW-FAT DIET PUSH? This study 40 years ago could have reshaped the American diet. But it was never fully published. “Today, the principles of that special diet — less saturated fat, more vegetable oils — are included in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the government’s official diet advice book. Yet the fuller accounting of the data indicates that the advice is, at best, unsupported by the massive trial. In fact, it appears to show just the opposite: Patients who lowered their cholesterol, presumably because of the special diet, actually suffered more heart-related deaths than those who did not.”

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