CHANGE: Census shows big U.S. cities continue to grow.

All but one of the nation’s 20 largest cities saw their population grow last year, with metropolises like Austin, Denver and Houston among those seeing the most significant growth, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday.

With the exception of New York City, each of the 15 cities that gained the greatest number of people between 2014 and 2015 were in the South or the West.

People do seem to be voting with their feet against the blue model.

COULD THIS DARK MOMENT IN HILLARY’S PAST COME BACK TO HAUNT HER AS TRUMP’S ULTIMATE OCTOBER SURPRISE? “Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, ex-First Lady and likely future presidential candidate threw out an odd legal suggestion to the National Press Club [in 2006]: a nationwide return to the double-nickel. According to Clinton, ‘The 55-mile speed limit really does lower gas usage. And wherever it can be required, and the people will accept it, we ought to do it…’”

Hillary: She literally wants to slow the American economy down. If I were Trump, I’d look at obtaining the licensing rights to “I Can’t Drive 55” ASAP.

HEADLINES FROM 2008: Hillary is running a painfully stupid campaign.

RIDE THE HILLARY RECURSION! “While Hillary is out there promising to put her husband in charge of revitalizing the economy, it would be very worthwhile if people realized that the president is not ‘in charge of the economy,’” Betsy Newmark writes. But “even if we were going to give Bill Clinton credit for the prosperity of the 1990s, Hillary Clinton is not advocating the policies that her husband implemented.”

It’s quite a conundrum for Hillary — she’s running on ‘90s nostalgia, and yet in order to appease the far left supporters of Barry and Bernie, must run against all of the policies of her husband, the Gingrich Congress (and needless to say, the Reagan Revolution) that created all those good times.

I THINK HILLARY CALLS IT “SMART DIPLOMACY” OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT: Bill Clinton Declares War on Poland: Who on Team Clinton thought offending a close American ally—and 10 million Polish Americans—was a good idea?

The exact role former President Bill Clinton plays in his wife’s presidential campaign is sometimes difficult to pin down. He has never excelled at keeping a low profile—it’s difficult to imagine Mr. Clinton as a retiring, camera-shy First Gentleman come January—and it’s long been obvious he’s a lot more popular with most of the Democratic base than his wife.

This explains why Hillary Clinton at times publicly offers her husband big jobs in her putative administration. Last weekend she indicated Bill would be in charge of getting our economy going again. “My husband, who I’m going to put in charge of revitalizing the economy, ’cause you know he knows how to do it,” Ms. Clinton told an audience in Kentucky. What exactly that means is subject to interpretation. Will Bill Clinton head up the new Department of the American Economy next year? How is that different from the existing Department of Commerce?

Details aside, Ms. Clinton needs all the help she can get on the campaign trail, as evidenced by her squeaker of a victory on Tuesday in Kentucky, where she beat out Senator Bernie Sanders by half a percent of Democratic voters, despite a big ad buy and a hard campaign push in the Bluegrass State, and despite the fact that she beat Barack Obama in the 2008 primary there by 35 percent. That Ms. Clinton is having considerable difficulty defeating a 74-year-old socialist who represents a state with two-tenths of a percent of the U.S. population does not bode well for her chances in November. . . .

The exact role former President Bill Clinton plays in his wife’s presidential campaign is sometimes difficult to pin down. He has never excelled at keeping a low profile—it’s difficult to imagine Mr. Clinton as a retiring, camera-shy First Gentleman come January—and it’s long been obvious he’s a lot more popular with most of the Democratic base than his wife.

This explains why Hillary Clinton at times publicly offers her husband big jobs in her putative administration. Last weekend she indicated Bill would be in charge of getting our economy going again. “My husband, who I’m going to put in charge of revitalizing the economy, ’cause you know he knows how to do it,” Ms. Clinton told an audience in Kentucky. What exactly that means is subject to interpretation. Will Bill Clinton head up the new Department of the American Economy next year? How is that different from the existing Department of Commerce?

Details aside, Ms. Clinton needs all the help she can get on the campaign trail, as evidenced by her squeaker of a victory on Tuesday in Kentucky, where she beat out Senator Bernie Sanders by half a percent of Democratic voters, despite a big ad buy and a hard campaign push in the Bluegrass State, and despite the fact that she beat Barack Obama in the 2008 primary there by 35 percent. That Ms. Clinton is having considerable difficulty defeating a 74-year-old socialist who represents a state with two-tenths of a percent of the U.S. population does not bode well for her chances in November.

Read the whole thing.

WITH DNC IN MIND, CITY BANS CARRYING OF URINE, FECES, SEMEN: Is Orgy Island the new Blue Dress?

NOW DEFINITELY ON AGAIN, FOR PRE-ORDER, FROM SARAH A. HOYT (YEAH, ME): Through Fire.

NOTHING GREAT ABOUT IT:The Humungous Depression, by Robert Gore.

AND US WITHOUT A LIFE RAFT: Mars To Make Its Closest Approach To Earth In 11 Years This Month.

THE SJWS ARE A SMALL, LOUD MINORITY: The ShirtStorm Social Experiment. You have to realize it takes the Marxists years of very expensive education to believe as many stupid things as they do.

EXPENSIVE LIPSTICK FOR THE PIG: TSA Spending Millions on Advertising, PR, Holograms While Travelers Suffer.

WHEN THE IGNORANT LEAD THE STUPID WHO LEAD THE DUPED: Libya, Five Years Later.

WHEN THREE WOLVES AND A SHEEP VOTE ON WHAT TO HAVE FOR DINNER: The Tragedy of Democratic Socialism.

AWARD NEWS: Prometheus Award finalists chosen for best novel.

DROP EVERYTHING.  WE MUST FIND THE COMPUTER REELING OFF THE NINE BILLION NAMES: In M4, near Eta Carinae, the stars are going out.

REPORT: EgyptAir Flight from Paris to Cairo Disappears.

WHY ARE LEFTIST INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF MISOGYNY? I worked on Facebook’s Trending team – the most toxic work experience of my life.

ONE OF THE INSTA-DAUGHTER’S FRIENDS IS FIGHTING STAGE 4 MELANOMA. We’ve been taking her meals, but now she’s asking for financial help as she’s used up her sick leave and paid personal leave and still needs to take time off for treatments. I donated, and it would be nice if you could.

UPDATE: Wow. In just about an hour, InstaPundit readers have donated over $7,000, taking her to nearly double her goal. You people are really good people. (Bumped).

MAYBE IF WE CALL IT “ENDING NIXON’S LEGACY” DEMOCRATS WILL GO ALONG: To Reclaim America, Abolish the Federal Agencies.

The decline of America, perhaps surprisingly, can be traced directly to the Nixon administration. Surprising, because the Left hated Tricky Dick with a passion that can only be compared with the passion that animates the never-Trump crowd: sheer, animal loathing. Surprising, because Nixon was the most domestically liberal, if not actually leftist, president we’ve had until Obama. Surprising, because to this day old Nixon-haters still foam at the mouth at the very thought of the man who took down the “pink lady,” Helen Gahagan Douglas, and saved Israel in 1973; a year later, of course, they finally sacked him over Watergate.

But it was during the first Nixon administration that the hideous monstrosity of the Environmental Protection Agency came into being by executive order, along with its ugly twin, the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Seemingly innocuous and well-intentioned at the time, both agencies have metastasized, their original missions completed and now forever on the prowl for something else to meddle with. They’re both unconstitutional, of course, but what’s even worse is that they’ve turned into rogue agencies, issuing edicts, orders and regulations largely devoid of congressional scrutiny — pure instruments of executive power, with none to gainsay them.

To get an idea of just hoe obnoxious and intrusive these do-gooder agencies have become, get a load of this from Lou Ann Rieley, who owns a farm in Delaware.

It’s time to De-Nixonize America!

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IT’S COME TO THIS: Who’s Too Scary? Bernie Sanders. “Since Hillary Clinton is not exciting, it needs to be the case that the others are too exciting — they’re lunatics.”

YEAH, THAT’S PROBABLY NOT ENTIRELY BY ACCIDENT, YOU KNOW: ‘Washington Post,’ ‘American Prospect’ Get Hillary Email Scandal Exactly Wrong. It’s funny how often journalistic errors and imprecision work out in her favor. . . .

USA TODAY EDITORIALIZES ON THE VIOLENCE THAT HAS MARRED THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY: Sen. Sanders, rein in your supporters.

I notice that when Bernie supporters shut down a Trump rally in Chicago, the press made it sound like the violence was Trump’s fault. But now that they’re going after Hillary, suddenly Bernie’s responsible.

IN A TIME OF UNIVERSAL DECEIT, TELLING THE TRUTH IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT: Five Reasons I am Teaching My Son That He Is a Boy.

UNSETTLED SCIENCE: Research finds skull condition thought extinct is actually widespread.