GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: White House slashed NYC terror funding to punish Schumer, former top cop says. “New York City’s former top cop said Sunday that the Obama administration cut funding to fight terrorism in the city to retaliate against Sen. Chuck Schumer for opposing a nuclear deal with Iran. . . . Schumer was the most senior Democrat in Congress last year to oppose an international agreement under which Iran agreed to give up its nuclear weapons program in exchange for relief from econonmic sanctions.”

And all Chris Christie was charged with was closing down a lane of traffic. Prediction: This won’t get as much MSNBC airtime.

(Bumped, because this is actually a big deal).

ASHE SCHOW: What To Do If You’re Falsely Accused Of Campus Sexual Assault.

METAPHOR ALERT: There Was A Literal Dumpster Fire At Mizzou Last Week.

Related: Melissa Click: You’re missing all the good I’ve done!

I can’t wait to read her autobiography, particularly when it’s available in Little Red Book size.

BERNIE SANDERS, CIVIL RIGHTS FAUX-HERO: “Photo of Sanders Getting Dragged By Cops in ’60s Protest Supposed to Win Him Black Votes or Something: Sanders has been a consistent supporter of police unions, which resist reform.”

PHOTOS OF THE HORRORS WROUGHT BY FDR, THE SHAMEFUL DICTATOR OBAMA WORSHIPS AND EMULATES: 46 photos of life at a Japanese internment camp, taken by Ansel Adams.

EPIC WHINE BY CLUELESS MILLENNIAL GETS HER FIRED. As Rick Moran writes, former Yelp employee Talia Jane’s “first huge mistake was moving to San Francisco. It might be nice to live in your dream city where the weather is nice and you’re close to your dad, but seriously, how could anyone expect to work a minimum wage job in one of the most expensive cities in the world? It’s incomprehensible and shows a critical lack of understanding of the outside world.”

Don’t be too hard on her, Rick. Between a looming $15 minimum wage, public nudity, gun control, their “sanctuary city” policy on illegal immigration, and treating the homeless like they were an endangered species — and then openly wondering why all these crazy homeless people keep flocking to the city, San Francisco’s elites spend their days in a world of magical thinking. We shouldn’t be too surprised when a young person there does so as well.

Related: Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman “admits the cost of living in San Francisco is ‘far too high’ as one of his employees complains she can barely afford to eat.”

But that’s just the way that San Francisco’s “Progressive” elites like it. In a 2014 article at Reason titled “How San Francisco’s Progressive Policies Are Hurting the Poor,” Scott Beyer noted, “Progressive economic policies—or at least the way they are applied in San Francisco, without apparent knowledge of government bureaucracy’s pitfalls—have…caused higher taxes and living costs, poor services, regulatory barriers to entry, and a loss of economic freedom. This creates a system that the rich can endure, and sometimes exploit to their benefit, but that poorer people cannot abide, helping to explain San Francisco’s further plunge into stark class division.”

Unexpectedly, as the house organ of a billionaire socialist technocrat would say.

WHITEWASHING THE BLACK PANTHERS: A new PBS documentary tries to excuse a murderous and totalitarian cult.

Last month marked the 45th anniversary of the infamous cocktail party that Leonard and Felicia Bernstein held in their Park Ave. duplex to raise money for the Black Panthers, an evening that would be written up by Tom Wolfe in his classic “Radical Chic” account. A decade ago, after George W. Bush had defeated John Kerry, a man with his own taste for radical chic, I naively pondered if 2004 was “the year that radical chic finally began to die.”

Between PBS and the NFL embracing the legacy of the Black Panthers, and the line that can be drawn from both the Black Panthers and the Weathermen (who were also interconnected at times) to President Obama (and with Kerry as his current Secretary of State), so much for that idea.

WELL, THAT’S A RELIEF: “Saudi Foreign Minister: ‘I Don’t Think World War III Is Going To Happen in Syria’“

HILLARY’S BARKING EPISODE AND THE GREAT CLINTON RECESSION: “So when Hillary Clinton was barking about “(Republicans) actually, with a straight face, say that the great recession was caused by too much regulation on Wall Street. They actually say that”? What she leaves out is that the regulation on Wall Street was changed — by Bill Clinton.  Arf arf arf arf arf!”

Indeed it was; read the whole thing.

FRACK, BABY, FRACK: “US production at record high by 2021”

Over the course of 2015 to 2021, U.S. output is expected to reach a record high of 14.2 million barrels per day (bpd), after dipping initially this year and next, the IEA said in its report.

Production of U.S. shale oil, known as light, tight oil (LTO), is expected to drop by 600,000 bpd this year, and a further 200,000 bpd next year before gradually recovering.

“Anybody who believes that we have seen the last of rising LTO production in the United States should think again; by the end of our forecast in 2021, total U.S. liquids production will have increased by a net 1.3 million bpd compared to 2015,” the IEA said.

American ingenuity has put a low ceiling on the price of crude oil — one that Russia and Iran can barely afford.

YEAH, PRETTY MUCH: Jeb Bush: The Saddest Presidential Campaign in History Comes to an End. “He held on for months longer than he should have.”

SCALIA’S LEGACY: A Court Transformed:

The late Justice Antonin Scalia will be remembered for his colorful comments from the bench, but court watchers say his true and lasting legacy will be the way he transformed the Supreme Court.

Scalia, 79, died while on a hunting trip in Texas and will be buried on Saturday after a funeral in Washington. His sudden passing has set off a flurry of remembrances, with friends and foes alike hailing his intellect and rigorous approach.

“Justice Scalia changed the terms of the debate, if you will,” said M. Miller Baker, a partner at international law firm McDermott Will & Emery in Washington.

“He made the Supreme Court a more rigorous place — more precisely, he required the court and litigants to focus on the actual meaning of the Constitution and the meaning of the statutes before the court.”

Baker, who worked on Scalia’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as a young lawyer in the Department of Justice during the Reagan administration, said the court as a whole is now more attuned to Scalia’s methodology.

“There is at least an attempt to tie a decision to the actual text of a statute or the Constitution,” he said. “Before Scalia, the court was more prone to free-wheeling decision-making, and Scalia’s sheer presence alone resulted in the court being more disciplined as an institution in the way it decided cases and approached oral arguments.”

Even members of the court’s more liberal wing such as Justice Elena Kagan said Scalia changed the way she looked at the law.

Well, let’s hope that lasts.

STARRING THE ‘BAM IN THE HIGH CASTLE: Victor Davis Hanson explores Weimar, America.

‘THE IRONY IS STRONG’ WITH WHAT THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO ‘TELL REPUBLICANS:’ The left rediscovers the Constitution just in time to destroy whatever scraps are left of it.

But then, this is the ideology that dreamed up the “we had to destroy the village in order to save it” mantra.

FRONTIERS IN TECH HYPOCRISY: Apple plays digital privacy hardball with FBI, ‘but not China.’

HOW THE RUBIO CAMP SEES A PATH TO THE NOMINATION FROM HERE.

MY FRIEND BRAD TORGERSEN EXPLAINS: Why I can’t be a socialist.

DO WE NEED SOMEONE SUPPOSEDLY ON OUR SIDE ECHOING CODE PINK? Did George Bush Lie About Weapons of Mass Destruction?

PRESIDENT TODDLER: Demeaning The Office.

THE COST OF OBAMA’S SNITS: White House slashed NYC terror funding to punish Schumer, former top cop says.

THE FIRST FRUITS OF SELF ESTEEM EDUCATION: Obama’s rudeness hits new heights with Scalia, Schumer.

RAISING THE WEALTH DRAWBRIDGE: Who Bernie would take down along with Wall Street.

ABOUT TIME: Slapping down the anti-Israel boycotters.

SOME HOPE FOR CHANGE: After South Carolina, Reasons For Optimism.

SAFE KILLS: Down With Safety.