KIM DOTCOM: Seth Rich Contacted Me in 2014 About Starting ‘Internet Party’ in the U.S.

QUESTION ASKED: Would Californians Be Better off Under Single-Payer Healthcare?

One way or the other, you get the feeling we’re going to find out sooner rather than later.

WEIRD HOW LEFTY CONSPIRACY-MONGERS AREN’T FACING THIS: Liberal group targets Hannity advertisers over conspiracy theory. I mean, Trump supporters could go after every advertiser on CNN. . . .

NEVER LET THE FACTS GET IN THE WAY OF A GOOD CONSPIRACY THEORY: There Remains No Evidence Of Trump-Russia Collusion.

Diverse figures and outlets agree that the nexus of “possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign” does not include any evidence of collusion. Maxine Waters (D-CA) concedes there is no proof of collusion as does Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) joined by Trump nemesis Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Fox political analyst, Brit Hume, on Sunday’s #MediaBuzz stated that he has never seen a charge get so far out in front of the available evidence over the course of his long career. Matt Taibbi, a left-wing columnist for Rolling Stone who calls Trump the “crazy clown President,” points out that “despite almost daily leaks by anonymous sources, we do not know whether it is about collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian state.”

The New York Times, in a lead editorial, counters the lack of evidence of collusion as follows: “The known facts suggest an unusually extensive network (my italics) of relationships with a major foreign power.” The Times’ logic: Trump-associate dealings with Russians are alone sufficient justification for an investigation. Where there is smoke, there may be fire. So, investigate, investigate, investigate until you find something.

I’d like a deeper investigation into the Clinton-Russia uranium story.

IT’S SEXIST TO TELL WOMEN TO DO ANYTHING — EXCEPT VOTE DEMOCRAT, OF COURSE. Telling Women Not to Drink During Pregnancy is Now Considered Sexist.

GOOD MORNING: Here’s Liz Sheld’s morning brief to make it even better.

TALES OF A COUP: What Trump Can Learn From Gorbachev. “The parallels with the current talk against Trump are rather remarkable.”

JAMES ROBBINS IN USA TODAY: Manchester bombing shows Donald Trump is right.

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STORIES OF FUTURE AMERICAS: Rocket’s Red Glare.  I’m in this, along with my friend brad Torgersen.

HMM: Manchester Bombing Witness: Suspicious Woman with Backpack Left Right Before Concert Ended.

OF COURSE THEY ARE: ABC News Worried About Potential ‘Anti-Islamic Backlash’ After Manchester Terror Attack.

DRIVING THE ESTABLISHMENT INSANE: Amazon’s at it again.

BECAUSE PREACHING MAKES FOR LOUSY ART: It was true for traditional religions, and it’s just as true for Marxism. Why Those ‘Woke’ Feminist Movies and TV Shows Are So Bad.

CANDLELIGHT VIGILS DON’T HELP IN THE WAR ON TERROR TO SAVE MUSLIMS FROM THEMSELVES:Candlelight Progressive Magic… Again.

PARTICULARLY IF YOU ARE MARRIED TO A CLUELESS DOLT: Study reveals emojis can save your relationship.

JUST SIX?  I CAN THINK OF DOZENS OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD: The six things you should never say to a guy in bed.

HE WAS MY FIRST CRUSH WHEN I SAW HIM IN THE PERSUADERS.  I WAS TEN: My world will never be the same again’: ‘Devastated’ Michael Caine leads tributes to Sir Roger Moore after the legendary James Bond actor dies aged 89 after a short battle with cancer.

ESTABLISHING THE STATUS OF NOBILITY: Minor Nobles of Exquisite Breeding and Dubious Character.

STRIKE A POSE, THERE’S NOTHING TO IT.  Mark Steyn on when “Dangerous Woman” Meets Dangerous Man:

[M]ost other western citizens believe that, to invert Trotsky, if you’re not interested in Islam, Islam won’t be interested in you. Ariana Grande was eight at the time of 9/11, and most of her fans even younger. They have passed their entire sentient lives in the age of Islamic terror, yet somehow assume it’s something compartmentalized and sealed off from them. “Dangerous Woman” is meant to be an attitude, nothing more — an edgy pose in a pop culture that lost any edge long ago; a great T-shirt, like the ones last night scavenged from the merchandising stands and used to bandage the wounded. It must come as a shock to realize there are those who take your ersatz provocations as the real thing, and are genuinely provoked by them.

“Carrying on exactly as before”, as The Independent advises, will not be possible. A few months ago, I was in Toulouse, where Jewish life has vanished from public visibility and is conducted only behind the prison-like walls of a fortress schoolhouse and a centralized synagogue that requires 24/7 protection by French soldiers; I went to Amsterdam, which is markedly less gay than it used to be; I walked through Molenbeek after dark, where unaccompanied women dare not go. You can carry on, you can stagger on, but life is not exactly as it was before. Inch by inch, it’s smaller and more constrained.

Read the whole thing.

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WHEN SOCIETY TREATS YOU AS DEPLORABLE AND DISPOSABLE: Suicide rate skyrockets among middle-aged men.

HISTORY: A primer on Bronze-Age swordmaking from an unlikely source.

RIGHT ON SCHEDULE, HERE COME THE BROMIDES:

UK commentator Rod Liddle rather bitterly sums up what he says is the message from the BBC broadcasting this morning. Excerpt:

We must all come together. Hope, not hate. Nothing to do with Islam. Nothing to do with Muslims. Just a rogue individual, possibly in the employ of some mysterious foreign agency. Just terrorism, bad people. Unaligned wickedness. Nothing to do with religion. We must all come together. And show love. And solidarity. Hope not hate.

Je Suis Ariana Grande. Already viciousness is being expressed on social media sites. People jumping to all sorts of conclusions. Horrible, horrible, people – no better than the murderer. Who might just as easily have been a Methodist. Remember Jo Cox? That wasn’t them, was it? There, you see.

Keep reading, to discover Slate blaming Manchester on — who else — “the established heteropatriarchal order.”

Meanwhile, with the Eiffel Tower going dark in sympathy (seemingly a monthly occurrence these days, between Earth Hour and terrorism), Iowahawk tweets, “Fear our tastefully somber symbolic gestures, bloodthirsty zombie caveman rapists.”

Finally, when Morrissey, an aging gay vegan animal rights-obsessed mope-rocker is a nation’s voice of sanity, perhaps it’s time for England to question its premises*, to coin a phrase:

Morrissey issues a statement on the Manchester bombing. He is not having anymore of the UK’s immigration status quo. pic.twitter.com/oEYn9YuK9R

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) May 23, 2017

* Nope, not just yet, alas.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: When you can legally have sex with a 17-year-old, can you be prosecuted for possessing lewd nude photos of her?