WHY DO THE CLINTONS HAVE 5 SHELL COMPANIES IN DELAWARE?

STUART ROTHENBERG: Democrats Are Headed off Their Own Cliff: Instead of trying to control the center, Sanders takes his party to the extreme.

Political observers – yes, including myself – have argued for years that the Republican Party has moved too far right, allowing its most ideological elements to limit its legislative options, prevent it from addressing national problems, and damage its appeal to key swing and emerging voter groups.

But instead of Democrats responding by positioning themselves in the political center where they could maximize their appeal, many Democrats are embracing their own version of ideological extremism.

Bernie Sanders’ uncompromising anti-business rhetoric and agenda, combined with the energy of “progressive” forces in the Democratic coalition, reflect a significant turn to the left by a party that once stood for pragmatic change, not “revolution.”

Though the Vermont senator’s supporters won’t like to hear it, Sanders has plenty in common with both Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

Like Cruz, Sanders is an ideologue who resists compromise. And like Trump, Sanders has simple answers to complex problems and sounds as if he doesn’t appreciate the dramatic, and often deeply unsettling, consequences that his policies would produce.

“Break up the banks,” roars Sanders, as if that would solve part of the nation’s economic problems without creating any new ones.

“It’s Time to Make College Tuition Free and Debt Free” asserts Sanders (on his website), without discussing the ramifications of doing so or acknowledging the true cost or the inevitable disruptions.

Anyone interested in the ramifications of some of Sanders’ proposals – and why it would be difficult to try to turn the United States into Denmark – should read Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Steven Pearlstein’s excellent piece, “What Bernie Sanders Would do to America,” in The Washington Post. Pearlstein, who once worked for Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Michael Harrington, dissects many of Sanders’ proposals.

I blame the hormones in the water supply. The entire country has PMS.

DONALD TRUMP VS. HOWARD ROARK: WHO COULD BUILD A CLASSIER BUILDING? Dyspeptic presidential candidate reveals love for Ayn Rand novel The Fountainhead, but no understanding of its political implications.

KATHY SHAIDLE ON KITTY GENOVESE: THE GLOBAL WARMING OF CRIME:

At a 2005 Fordham University symposium on the case, Rosenthal declared:

I never said, nor did anybody on ‘The New York Times,’ or any reporter with a brain, say there were thirty-eight peering out of a window.

Presumably Rosenthal was hoping nobody in the room remembered or even knew that he’d eagerly penned a quickie book about the Genovese murder a few months after it happened, one that was titled…Thirty-Eight Witnesses.

Oh, please. Could I make something like that up? It’s not like I work for The New York Times.

Heh. Read the whole thing.

VOTE THE PLATFORM, NOT THE MAN(NER): “The Donald and Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau: What a contrast!”, David Solway, writes.

WINTER IS COMING:

Shot: A recession worse than 2008 is coming.

Chaser: Olivier Blanchard [former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund] eyes ugly ‘end game’ for Japan on debt spiral.

Well, a full-on implosion is one way to end a lost decade or two. How will ours end?

By the way, a “recession worse than 2008” would be yet another reason, as VDH predicts in his latest column, that The Next President Is Going to Be Hated, as he or she cleans up the many messes that Obama leaves behind.

WHITE ELITES VERSUS THE WHITE WORKING CLASS: Victor Davis Hanson on Trump’s success with voters.

Read the whole thing.

CLAY S. CONRAD: History is clear: Juries were supposed to be able to overturn laws. “Some believe that the right of jurors to refuse to convict in cases in which they believe a conviction would be unjust — what we now call jury nullification of the law — is obsolete in the 21st century. Yet this practice is something the founders knew of, and deliberately protected. Jury nullification was an important part of Anglo-American law.”

Yep.

SOME PRETTY SERIOUS IRONY HERE FROM SISTER SUPERDELEGATE: Team Clinton: Sanders ‘rigging the system’ with quest for superdelegates.

Hillary Clinton’s presidenital campaign on Tuesday accused Bernie Sanders of “rigging the system” by seeking to pick-off the superdelegates that have already pledged their support to Clinton.

“Really, I think when you talk about rigging the system, that’s what Sen. Sanders is trying to do now,” Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said on CNN’s ‘New Day.” “Hillary Clinton has won in the popular vote by a wide margin. She’s got more than 2 million votes over Sen. Sanders in all of the contests when you add them all up.”

Sanders has been on a hot streak, winning seven of the last eight contests.

But the Democratic Party’s proportional allocation of delegates has made it difficult for him to cut into the big lead in pledged delegates Clinton built up early through landslide victories, particularly in the South.

Clinton currently has about 1,287 pledged delegates against 1,037 for Sanders.

But among superdelegates — party leaders that are not bound to the popular vote in their states — Clinton racked up a massive early lead and counts 469 supporters compared to only 31 for Sanders.

The Sanders campaign is seeking to block Clinton from obtaining the 2,383 delegates needed to win the nomination, forcing a contested convention.

Is it just me, or is Hillary starting to seem nervous?

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Stanford Students Reject Western Civilization By A 6-To-1 Margin.

“If I were there with a microphone and videotape, it would be fun to ask them what civilization they might prefer to know — or live in.”

WHY HASN’T THIS GUY BEEN IMPEACHED? IRS chief: Agency encourages illegal immigrant theft of SSNs to file tax returns.

SO THIS IS LIKE THE ULTIMATE HIPSTER THING: Scientists Successfully Breed Kale with Cannabis. Naturally, it was done in Brooklyn.

THE LEFT EATS ITS OWN, AS TITLE IX WARRIORS SET THEIR SIGHTS ON ENDING TENURE: UC-Berkeley Sex Harassment Scandal Exposes ‘Double Standard’ Over Professor Protections.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: The rise of “guybrators.”

GEORGE KORDA: ‘Us’ versus ‘them’: we’ve all seen it, and we’d like not to see it again.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Ladies, Interested in Younger-Looking Skin? The CIA Can Help.

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION: Identity 2016: The nation in love with country music. “Cowboy boots, checked shirts and country music might conjure up images of the American south, but Dolly Parton and her fellow country singers have a dedicated following across the world – not least in Uganda.”

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OUT TODAY FROM RON FOURNIER: Love That Boy: What Two Presidents, Eight Road Trips, and My Son Taught Me About a Parent’s Expectations.

KURT SCHLICHTER: So I Guess It’s Open Season On Democrat Allies, Right?

I was super excited to find out about a bunch of liberal state attorneys general aping the Obama administration’s use of government power to persecute their political enemies. This thrilling development is awesome because it gives us conservatives the opportunity to do the same to liberals.

Yeah, if the new rule is that the majority in power uses its authority to persecute its opponents, then shouldn’t we conservatives do it too? Except only harder and more ruthlessly.

Right now, you have attorneys general in places like New York and the Virgin Islands going after the heretics who dare dispute the climate change gospel. These fascists are “investigating” the dissidents and subpoenaing them and those they communicate with to gather “evidence” of non-existent crimes. But of course, the process itself is the punishment. Their purpose is to shut up the people who are pointing out liberal lies.

And you have the California Attorney General’s office going after the guy who revealed Planned Parenthood’s baby bit bargaining, sending the storm troopers to trash his home for “evidence” of the “crime” of exposing the sick freaks who chop babies into bits and try to sell off the parts. Keep in mind that lying liberal scammers are never investigated – who is investigating Al Gore for the zillions he made off pimping climate fraud? And the California Attorney General, who took a ton of money from Planned Parenthood, has never before and never will again go after any journalist for secretly videotaping wrongdoers in action. Well, until the journalist is a conservative who caught one of her liberal friends. Then she’ll call SWAT.

The message is clear: If you dare fight the liberal orthodoxy, liberal functionaries in the government will use bogus investigations to bludgeon you into silence. If that notion strikes you as un-American, well, welcome to Obama’s America. Dissent isn’t going to be patriotic again until Ted Cruz is sworn in next January.

But don’t get me wrong. I think this is great. Why? Because it gives us a chance to do the same thing to those Chavez wannabes.

And we should, without remorse or hesitation. Sure, I’d prefer a world where prosecutors were motivated by justice instead of politics, but thanks to the liberals that’s not the country we live in anymore. . . . These goose-stepping fascists seem to have forgotten that we conservatives own a bunch of states and we have a bunch of attorneys general with the same powers as theirs. Maybe it’s time to use them.

Sauce for the goose, etc., etc.

SPACE: The Future of Construction in Space: Is the International Space Station the last aluminum spacecraft?

CLINTON FOUNDATION PAYS ITS TOP MALE EXECS 38 PERCENT MORE THAN ITS WOMEN EXECS: Here’s what Hillary Clinton said today on the issue: “Last time I checked, there is no discount for being a woman. Groceries don’t cost us less, rent doesn’t cost us less, so why should we be paid less?”

Well, the former Secretary of State might want to have a chat with the former president in her family about the family foundation. Richard Pollock of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group checked the latest available tax return for the William, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation and found this:

“The foundation’s 2013 IRS form 990 reveals that nearly three times as many men as women occupy the executive suites at the Little Rock, Arkansas-based foundation.  On average, top male executives at the foundation earn $109,000 more than the top female executives with positions in the C-suite.” Overall, the men make 38 percent more than the women in the C Suite.

Somebody might also want to explain to Mrs. Clinton that in the real world employees are paid on the basis of the comparative value of their work, not on how much they have to pay for groceries and rent.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: The science behind why you shouldn’t pop your pimples.

SO THREE LOOKS TO BE THE SWEET SPOT: Amazing photos capture how faces change after 1, 2 and 3 glasses of wine. Malt does more than Milton can, to justify God’s ways to man.

ALL COMEDY IS CONSERVATIVE: “Sales of ‘Caucasians’ shirts, depicting the Cleveland Indians’ team mascot as a caricature of a white person, skyrocketed one day after ESPN’s Bomani Jones wore one on a show, the shirt’s creator said Friday.”

Related: “So, in other words, Bomani Jones’ stunt backfired. He wore the shirt to provoke anger on the part of white people by flipping the tables and exposing them as hypocrites for being offended by ‘Caucasians,’ while they cheer for the Redskins, Chief Wahoo, the Braves, and so on. Except very few, if any, white people are offended by the shirt. Proving the opposite of Jones’ point. And that maybe, just maybe, it’s time for race hucksters like Bomani Jones to get a life.”