ROGER KIMBALL: While They Rage, Trump Builds. “Doubtless there are many things to criticize about Donald Trump. But being racist isn’t among those things. What infuriates his critics—but at the same time affords them so many opportunities to bathe in the gratifying fluid of their putative moral superiority—is that Trump refuses to collude in the destructive, politically correct charade according to which ‘racism’ is the nearly ubiquitous cardinal sin of white America. He is having none of that, and his refusal to go along with the attempted moral blackmail is driving his critics to distraction.”

THEY’RE LUCKY HE DIDN’T KILL THEM HIMSELF, BY HAND: Mattis Just Took an Unannounced Trip to ISIS’s Doorstep to Personally Tell Them They’re About to Die.

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ETHICS BREACH: Durham D.A. admits ideology will influence his prosecutorial discretion.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: USC Misspells Shakespeare On Newly Unveiled Statue.

Cost of attending USC: $69,711 per year.

I BLAME CONFEDERATE STATUES, THE NRA, AND ASIAN SPORTSCASTERS NAMED ROBERT LEE AT ESPN: Chicago murder on the steps of a church tests the faithful. “So this where Chicago is now: Murder on the steps of church. If silence is consent, then Chicago politicians are remarkably silent about murder on church steps in the city. They must like it that way.”

Maybe because the politicians who run Chicago are in bed with the gangs.

ESPN PULLS ASIAN ANNOUNCER NAMED ROBERT LEE OFF UVA GAME TO AVOID OFFENDING IDIOTS.

As Iowahawk tweets, “We have achieved the Woke Singularity.”

And yes, it sounds like satire. But a Washington Post sportswriter tweets an announcement he was emailed by ESPN when he contacted them about the story:

Also from Iowahawk:

Ken Burns’ documentary on college football is gonna be awesome!

UPDATE (from Steve): HOT TAKE, NYT-STYLE:

This is your fault, proles.

CONSIDER THE BARREL-BOTTOM TO HAVE BEEN SCRAPED: Howard Dean: If You Vote Republican in 2018, You’re A Racist.

Dems: Vote for us, we got nothin’.

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A MAJOR LOSS FOR THE FEDS: Jury refuses to convict in Bundy ranch standoff.

A federal jury in Las Vegas refused Tuesday to convict four defendants who were retried on accusations that they threatened and assaulted federal agents by wielding assault weapons in a 2014 confrontation to stop a cattle roundup near the Nevada ranch of states’ rights figure Cliven Bundy.

In a stunning setback to federal prosecutors planning to try the Bundy family patriarch and two adult sons later this year, the jury acquitted Ricky Lovelien and Steven Stewart of all 10 charges, and delivered not-guilty findings on most charges against Scott Drexler and Eric Parker.

Remember that this is a state and county that went to Obama and Hillary.

YOU CAN’T TRUST GOOGLE TO DO THE RIGHT THING WITHOUT BAD PUBLICITY: Google Folds, Restores Accounts Of Banned Statistics Professor.

KURT SCHLICHTER ON THE DNC-MSM’S GREAT NAZI PANIC OF 2017:

The Great Nazi Panic of 2017 will fade away when its sponsors realize that it’s not having the effect on the mass of the normal Americans they hoped for. But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t caused grave damage. The establishment has, in its desperation to return to unchallenged supremacy, eagerly jettisoned its dedication to the concept of free speech. It might not work out the way they hope once there is a national arbiter of what may and may not be thought or spoken. After all, as we found out last November, the person you think is going to be wielding the power isn’t necessarily the person who you thought was going to be wielding the power.

Kurt wrote that yesterday; it dovetails remarkably well with the Washington Post’s insane proposition today that the left should walk away from the concept of free speech. Incidentally, note the article’s conclusion:

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article misidentified the group that marched in Skokie, Ill., in 1977. It was the American Nazi Party, not the Ku Klux Klan.

Layers and layers of fact checkers and editors hard at work once again – the version of the article quoted at the NewsBusters link above quotes from the author’s original imaginary 1977 KKK rally in Skokie.

TAMARA KEEL: Night Sights, Lights and Lasers for Concealed-Carry Guns.

VIDEO: KEITH ELLISON EXPOSES WORLD’S WORST-KEPT SECRET.

Nancy Pelosi claims that she doesn’t favor socialized medicine, and has rejected calls to make “single payer,” the Democrats’ favorite euphemism, part of her party’s 2018 campaign. But last Wednesday Keith Ellison, Deputy Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, revealed to a group of party faithful in Minneapolis that it’s all a sham. Pelosi “actually likes the concept.”

The Daily Caller obtained the video; here it is. I especially like the part where Ellison asks, “Is anybody taping me right now?”

When Mitt Romney’s 47 percent comment was surreptitiously videotaped in 2012, that clip was played in a loop during every news segment for days afterwards. But will any member of the DNC-MSM ask Ellison or Pelosi about this?

ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAW’S NEW FRONTIER: Fat Bias Starts Early and Takes a Serious Toll. General Leslie Groves was fat. If prejudice had kept him from heading the Manhattan Project, would it have succeeded?

On the other hand, research also purports to show that the more you associate with overweight people, the more likely you are to gain weight yourself. So does that mean shunning fat people is defensible as self-protection? More seriously, when I see people who are significantly overweight, I don’t mind — I just feel sad because I know that they’re probably not happy being that way. And while it’s true that all you have to do to lose weight is to eat less and exercise more, that’s not as easy as it sounds. On the other hand, I’m not convinced that the “fat acceptance” movement will help. We didn’t reduce the number of smokers in this country by “smoking acceptance.” Though, of course, the reduced number of smokers probably has something to do with the increase in obesity. . . .

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THE WAPO RUNS A PIECE ABOUT HOW FREE SPEECH IS BAD BECAUSE IT LETS PEOPLE THE AUTHOR DOESN’T LIKE SAY THINGS, and the Ace Of Spades crew is there for a royal Fisking. (It’s actually WeirdDave, not Ace himself as I had originally posted).

Note to Journolist members and other people under 27 who don’t know anything: Fisking, not fisting.

KAROL MARKOWICZ: Parents, stop teaching your kids to be weak.

FIGHTING TO LOSE: Tech Blacklisting of Counterjihadists is What Muslim Brotherhood Seeks: Sabotage by Our Hands.

NO. Gawker has been gone for a year. We’ve never needed it more than now.