FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Enemies see America as vulnerable prey, Victor Davis Hanson writes:

The United States appears to be entering another era of dangerous internal instability similar to the one it endured in the 1960s-1970s.

After the attacks by radical Islamists in San Bernardino and Orlando, Americans did not rally together as they had after 9/11. Instead, almost immediately, the country was torn further apart. About half the nation saw the terrorist killings as a reason for stricter gun control rather than a reason to fear the continuing spread of radical Islamic terrorism. The other half worried that political correctness and the president’s refusal to even mention radical Islamic terrorism are eroding the ability to deter it.

America’s enemies draw their own conclusions.

After the Orlando attack, al-Qaida urged lone-wolf terrorists in the U.S. to focus exclusively on white targets. The organization’s leaders apparently worry that if terrorists again hit minority communities, it will prompt a bickering America to blame itself rather than give full credit to the attackers.

After the recent deaths of two black men in confrontations with police (in Minnesota and Louisiana), followed by national Black Lives Matter protests and the killing of five law-enforcement officers in Dallas, it might appear to our enemies abroad that the American superpower is internally unwinding into tribalism in the fashion of the Balkans, Iraq or Lebanon.

Well, as the left’s war on cops illustrates, that’s long been the goal of Mr. Obama and the earlier radical socialists who inspired him. Read the whole thing.

ONCE SAID, CAN’T BE UNSAID: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s ‘regrets’ don’t cut it.

Related: “No written record of Ginsburg’s apology now on USSC website, and USSC press office says none will be posted. No written record.”

BURYING THE LEDE:

"Deadly Truck Crash" https://t.co/G4MFwMu00e

— neontaster (@neontaster) July 15, 2016

You stay ignorant, MSNBC viewers.

CTHULHU 2016! WHY VOTE THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS? What?! Nets Ask Sanders if Hillary is ‘Lesser of Two Evils.’

THE LEFT’S WAR ON COPS: In the Democrats’ political playbook, fomenting disunity to rally constituencies is goal #1—dead police are just collateral damage.

Related: “The Talk.”

FLORIDA SHORE: Pam Bondi and Rick Scott will speak at GOP convention.

Neither candidate has a lock in any reputable poll of the Sunshine State.

FLASHBACK: Impeachment of Associate Justice Samuel Chase. “Chase openly campaigned for the reelection of John Adams in 1800, and when the presidential election was thrown into the House of Representatives, he prevailed upon members of Congress to vote against Jefferson. After Chase used a grand jury charge to denounce Republicans for the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801, Jefferson suggested that Congress consider impeachment. The House of Representatives impeached Chase in March 1804, citing the partisan grand jury charge, Chase’s conduct in the trials of Fries and Callender, and his actions in Delaware when he “did descend from the dignity of a judge and stoop to the level of an informer.” The only Supreme Court justice to be impeached, Chase was acquitted in the Senate trial. The closely watched proceedings, however, marked the end of such openly partisan behavior on the part of federal judges as well as the end of the brief Republican effort to remove unsympathetic judges.”

FLASHBACK: The Invention Of Hispanics. “Before 1970, the US Census Bureau classified Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican immigrants as whites. Each community of Latin American origin would go by their nationality and by the region where they lived in the United States. But all that changed in the seventies, as activists began lobbying the US Census Bureau to create a broad, national category that included all these communities. The result was the creation of the term ‘Hispanic’, first introduced in the US Census in 1970.”

NICE ATTACKER IDENTIFIED: “The attacker has been named as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel. He was 31 years old and born in Tunisia. He was known to police as a career criminal, but not known to intelligence services. He reportedly carried grenades in his truck, suggesting he was planning a even more elaborate attack.”

Plus: “A Saudi-funded mosque opened in Nice just two weeks before last night’s attack.”

FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION AT WORK: Feds Have Released 86,288 Criminal Aliens Since 2013.

AN ANIMAL WITH FOUR BACK LEGS: “Never Trump” Movement Dies in Committee.

“The right to conscience is not just something that we’ve decided is a cool idea. It’s something that is the very basis of our nation,” Unruh said. “It is why the pilgrims came here and founded our nation. It is a God-given right to why we have the Bill of Rights.”

Immediately after that, however, Michigan delegate Matt Hall moved to end debate on the measure, and more than two-thirds of the committee, 77 to 21, voted to cut off all debate while some anti-Trump delegates, including Utah Sen. Mike Lee, were still waiting to speak on the matter.

The committee then voted against Unruh’s amendment by voice vote, with the opposition so clear that a recorded vote was deemed unnecessary.

There was talk in 2008 of Hillary supporters walking out of the Denver convention under the “Party Unity My Ass” banner. But the PUMAs turned out to be all talk and no walk.

Where will #NeverTrump go from here?

HEH: Dear Kurt, What Should I Do? I Think My Cat Is Racist.

‘CROOKED’ MEANS CRIPPLED FOR HILLARY: “Looking ahead, it’s hard to predict how a race between two deeply unpopular candidates will turn out,” Jonathan S. Tobin writes at Commentary. “Trump’s undisciplined character and his alienation of elements of the Republican coalition and inability to appeal to non-white and young voters may ultimately cancel out Clinton’s weaknesses. But the one thing we know for sure is that the Democrats will nominate a crippled candidate. No amount of spending or spin can sell Hillary Clinton to the American people as either honest or competent.”

MITT ROMNEY SENDS CEASE AND DESIST LETTER TO KELLI WARD, JOHN MCCAIN’S CHIEF PRIMARY OPPONENT. “Mitt Romney once again is doing to Republicans what he refused to do to Obama,” Don Surber, author of Trump the Press writes.

THIS IS WHO THEY ARE, THIS IS WHAT THEY DO: ISIS Supporters Celebrate Nice Attack.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Coal Miners Exit Democrat Party.

BRENDAN O’NEILL: After Brexit: the myth of post‑truth politics.

DECIMATED AND ON THE RUN: Governor of Yemen’s Aden survives ‘Qaeda’ bombing.

Aidarus al-Zubaidi escaped unharmed after the attack in the Inmaa district of Aden but three of his companions were wounded, the official said.

The port city, the temporary base of Yemen’s Saudi-backed government, has seen a wave of bombings and shootings targeting officials and security forces.

Zubaidi’s predecessor Jaafar Saad was killed in December in a car bomb claimed by the Islamic State group.

As the IRA once warned Margaret Thatcher, “We only have to be lucky once; you will have to be lucky always.”

LIBERALS ARE SHOCKED — SHOCKED! — THAT GINSBURG WOULD ACT LIKE A LIBERAL HACK.

A double-dose of “unexpectedly.”

PROOF POSITIVE THAT POPULATION DECLINES REALLY DO LEAD TO BEAR MARKETS: As Japan’s population shrinks, bears and boars roam where schools and shrines once thrived.

Mark Steyn, call your office. You too, David Baron.

A COLD WAR MYSTERY: Why did Jimmy Carter save the Space Shuttle?

2016 IS NOT SHAPING UP AS I’D HOPED, AND I’M NOT ALONE:

FALLOUT: Trump delays V.P. announcement, even as Pence emerges as probable choice.

WHY WOULD OBAMA NEED INTELLIGENCE REPORTS WHEN HE’S CONVINCED HE ALREADY KNOWS EVERYTHING? “Remember when a plane landed on the White House lawn in 1994, the joke was that it was Clinton’s first CIA director, James Woolsey, trying to get an appointment? Woolsey said that he had never met with Clinton after he got an appointment. Well, it seems that Obama has had a similar approach to hearing intelligence reports.”

Don’t worry – I’m sure Ben Rhodes, John Kerry, and Valerie Jarrett are telling Obama all he needs to hear…

CAREER DAY AT THE STARFLEET ACADEMY: The one thing every ‘Star Trek’ fan must do this summer.