OMAR MATEEN’S PARADE OF THE RED FLAGS.

Better dead than rude.

Related: “On April 5, Mateen ‘quit-claimed’ the deed on his Port St. Lucie, Fla., house, signing it over to his sister, Sabrina Abasin, and his brother-in-law Mustafa Abasin for just $10 according to county property records.  The records list his wife Noor Salman as a witness in the curious real estate transaction.”

More: “Robert Abell, a co-owner of Lotus Gunworks in Jensen Beach, Florida, told ABC News today that a man entered the store five or six weeks ago and asked specific questions about high-end body armor. When employees said the store didn’t carry the body armor he wanted, Abell said, the man made a phone call in a foreign language, hung up and then asked about ammunition in bulk.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES RUINS FINDING DORY AS ONLY IT CAN:

“. . . in time-honored tradition, the movie also has lessons to impart. “Nemo” made the case for indomitability in the face of fear. “Dory” is more about the acceptance of chaos. Dory’s inability to make or stick to plans is shown, in the long run, to be an advantage.”

James Lileks responds:

At the risk of reading too much into the movie — haven’t seen it, but I will — no one wants to accept chaos. The point of civilization is to make order out of chaos. The inability to make a plan or stick to a plan is not an advantage, and people who live this way do so because they live in a society that makes plans and sticks to them so there’s food in the store and juice in the sockets.

But we have to celebrate chaos — acceptance! It is not enough to be indifferent to people who thrive on chaos and can’t make plans. You must celebrate, because they are different, and that is all that’s necessary these days to get a gold medal.

Read the whole thing.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1135.

BECAUSE THEIR BRAINS HAVE 404ed: College ‘Bias Response Team’ Targets Free Speech With 680 Signs.

“Offensive speech includes using the word ‘crazy.’”

Yeah, I could see how that one hits far too close to home for the average SJW.

“Also offensive: ‘You look so skinny’ and ‘Did you lose weight?’”

Something tells me that most SJWs don’t hear those phrases very often.

“Other offensive terms: ‘poor,’ ‘illegal immigrant,’ ‘hey guys,’ and ‘ghetto.’”

What about “Hey You Guys?!” Isn’t that grandfathered in thanks to Rita Moreno in the Electric Company?

https://youtu.be/7p08p2qBN80?t=1m58s

EXCLUSIVE: GROUP BEHIND #SHOOTBACK POSTERS SAYS GAY COMMUNITY CAN’T PROTECT FAMILIES IF ELECTED OFFICIALS DISARM THEM.

EVEN THE NEW YORK TIMES IS NOTICING H1-B VISA ABUSE:

The H-1B is a bad deal all around. American workers get laid off, while the immigrants who take their jobs are bound to their employers in unique and unhealthy ways: if they quit, under the terms of the visa they have to return to their home countries. In practice, this means they put up with lower wages and worse treatment—as we have written, indenturement for the 21st Century. The country is thereby deprived of the dynamism and creativity of the newcomers that usually is one of the major benefits of immigration. And eventually, the H-1B-ification of jobs usually paves the way for outsourcing the positions entirely, harming the local community. The only party that benefits is the employer. . . .

These abuses of the H-1B—or really, the negative consequences of its use exactly as intended—have caught the eyes of lawmakers including not just not just immigration hawks like Jeff Sessions (R-Al.), but also Democrats Dick Durbin of Illinois and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.

So far, the H-1B has survived, despite a growing cascade of bad press, because to the Democrats it’s an immigration issue (and thus sacrosanct), and to Republicans, it’s a big-business issue (ditto.) If and when the Republicans start to see it primarily as an abuse of the immigration system, and Democrats start to see it as an abuse of workers by big business—then reform or repeal will follow.

The GOP should be making a stink about this, and pledging an end to the “carried interest’ loophole. But it won’t.

ISIS ACTIVELY RECRUITING NON-MUSLIM AMERICAN TEEN GIRLS FOR MARRIAGE, DOMESTIC ATTACKS.

This is definitely not the 21st century I was promised.

REMINDER: It Was John Brennan Himself Who Halted LEO Training on Islam, Jihad.

John Brennan is the person who — after U.S. Muslim groups demanded he do so – “purged” all mention of Islam and jihad from law enforcement counter-terror training materials in 2011.

A chief reason that the Islamic State’s “global reach” has not been reduced is because the U.S. has failed to identify, confront, and oppose the ideology that has enabled it to amass “a large cadre of Western fighters.” That ideology has spread unchecked in the U.S. in large part because Brennan didn’t think it was worth teaching law enforcement about it.

Terror attacks that kill Americans produce budget increases. Charges of Islamophobia are career-ending. Incentives matter.

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THE COMING POLITICAL CATASTROPHE.

IF LEFTY POLICIES ARE SO SELF-EVIDENTLY GOOD, WHY DO THEY ALWAYS HAVE TO RESORT TO LIES TO SELL THEM? Why it’s called a ‘modern sporting rifle’ and not an ‘assault weapon.’

An article in Slate, dripping with disdain for gun owners who purchase anything that’s not a small handgun (note: handguns are used in nearly all gun murders in the U.S.), attempted to explain why the weapon used in the Orlando terrorist attack is referred to as a “modern sporting rifle.”

The article is well-researched and detailed, I’ll give author Justin Peters that. And he’s right that the term was coined as a marketing ploy to sell the guns to civilians. But the insinuation is that these guns are actually being sold for the purposes of assaulting other people.

“The term is a genius act of marketing, meant to bring these deadly weapons into the mainstream and keep them there,” Peters wrote. “It’s also disingenuous hokum that exists to cloud debate, like calling a used car ‘pre-owned.'”

It’s not disingenuous though, because no credible gun seller in America is selling these weapons for the specific purpose of murder. By Peters’ own estimates, there are something like 10 million weapons of this kind in the U.S. There have been 81 mass shootings in the U.S. since 1982. Assuming arguendo that every single one of those killings involved what Peters and the rest of the media love to refer to as assault weapons, that still means that 99.9999 percent of these were used for things other than mass shootings.

And if you want to look at all murders, there were only only 248 homicides were committed with all varieties of rifle in 2014, accounting for 2.1 percent of all U.S. homicides, according to the FBI.

Remember, none of this is about saving lives. It’s about the cultural domination of the people in flyover country, by their coastal “betters” who get a near-erotic thrill out of such domination, and who are reduced to blind rage whenever their efforts at domination fail.

IS TRUMP OUR CHARLES DE GAULLE?

Read the whole thing.

RELYING ON COURTS TO PROTECT YOUR LIBERTIES IS DUBIOUS: Judge Upholds Suspension of the Pop-Tart Gun Kid. He had previously punched another kid in the nose, but that didn’t get similar treatment. “Poorly timed pastry-based playacting wasn’t his worst infraction, but in the months after Sandy Hook, teachers and administrators decided to treat it like it was. The huge overreaction to the Anne Arundel case was the result of a pattern of bad behavior, too—by school administrators who promote and enforce zero tolerance policies.”

Sending your kids to public school verges on parental malpractice, these days.

WELL, TO BE FAIR, ANDERSON COOPER IS BAD FOR AMERICA IN GENERAL: Mollie Hemingway: Anderson Cooper’s Orlando Ranting Is Bad For America: Anderson Cooper’s bullying of same-sex marriage opponents isn’t tough journalism but an example of media cowardice in the face of Islamist violence.

You know he would never talk to an imam that way, and you know why. As I frequently point out, the incentive system that the politico/journalistic class is setting up is an unfortunate one, one that we — and they — will have cause to regret in the future.

WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO TODAY? Microsoft the First Big Company to Say It’s Serving the Legal Marijuana Trade.

Microsoft is breaking the corporate taboo on pot this week by announcing a partnership to begin offering software that tracks marijuana plants from “seed to sale,” as the pot industry puts it.

The software — a new product in Microsoft’s cloud computing business — is meant to help states that have legalized the medical or recreational use of marijuana keep tabs on sales and commerce, ensuring that they remain in the daylight of legality.

There’s a lot of money in those green leaves, as Sonny Corleone might say.

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Can One Be Simultaneously a Zionist and a Great Historian of Islam?

IN SUPPORT OF A TOTAL BAN ON CIVILIANS OWNING FIREARMS:  “Oh, I don’t support the ban. I support the argument,” Ken White of Popehat writes. “I support the argument because it’s honest and specific. It doesn’t hide the ball, it doesn’t refuse to define terms, it doesn’t tell rely on telling people they are paranoid or stupid in their concerns about the scope of the ban. The argument proposes a particular solution and will require the advocate to defend it openly.”

SHOT: Clinton initiates DNC takeover.

On Thursday, Brandon Davis, the former national political director for the Services Employees International Union, came in as the new chief of staff – and was introduced at an all-staff meeting by Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook.

DNC CEO Amy Dacey, a longtime Clinton ally, will expand her role to include more general election responsibilities, according to a Democratic official with ties to the DNC and Clinton. Jen O’Malley Dillon, a former deputy campaign manager for President Barack Obama’s re-election efforts, will continue planning for the general election and serve in a senior advising role.

And more Clinton staffers are set to move over to the DNC.

“There are already people that have begun formally moving over to the DNC payroll from the Clinton campaign,” a Clinton aide said. “That will continue. That is at various levels of seniority.”

CHASER: Sanders loses convention leverage.

This is Clinton’s party now.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Former UVA Student Challenges Unlawful Sexual Misconduct Mandate in Federal Lawsuit.

HEH:

ELECTION 2016: What stinks most — the candidates, the media, or the office?

WHY DOES THE IRS NEED SO MANY GUNS?

Special agents at the IRS equipped with AR-15 military-style rifles? Health and Human Services “Special Office of Inspector General Agents” being trained by the Army’s Special Forces contractors? The Department of Veterans Affairs arming 3,700 employees?

The number of non-Defense Department federal officers authorized to make arrests and carry firearms (200,000) now exceeds the number of U.S. Marines (182,000). In its escalating arms and ammo stockpiling, this federal arms race is unlike anything in history. Over the last 20 years, the number of these federal officers with arrest-and-firearm authority has nearly tripled to over 200,000 today, from 74,500 in 1996.

What exactly is the Obama administration up to?

AND AGAIN: Man Threatens Death on Those Who Refuse to Accept Copies of the Quran: Denton TX Police.

WORKPLACE VIOLENCE UPDATE: From death row, Ft. Hood shooter requests to join Islamic State.

From “jayvee” to “strong horse.”