HMM: Trump Turns Tables On Dems Over Russian Meetings:

President Trump turned the tables on Democrats yesterday, mocking them for holding their own meetings with Russian officials even as they called for the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and a special prosecutor to probe the campaign’s dealings with the country.

“We should start an immediate investigation into @SenSchumer and his ties to Russia and Putin,” Trump tweeted, along with a photo of the Senate Minority Leader holding doughnuts and coffee with Russian President Vladimir Putin, both with smiles on their faces. “A total hypocrite!”

Not only should Sessions not resign, he should un-recuse himself. There’s no evidence that he did anything wrong. There’s not even an appearance of impropriety here. (And I know something about those). And there’s no way an Obama holdover should be allowed to run the investigation. With Obama openly plotting to wreck Trump’s presidency from his Kalorama home, it’s very clear that this is political war, and the ordinary niceties don’t apply.

DID HE MENTION COMMUNIST TRUMP-HATERS AS PERPETRATORS? FBI head discusses bomb threats with Jewish groups.

FBI Director James Comey met with Jewish leaders Friday to discuss the wave of threats against community institutions and the arrest of a man suspected of making some of them.

“The conversation encompassed the current situation and potential strategies for future collaboration,” the JCC Association of North America said in a statement.

“All the organizations in attendance expressed the deep gratitude of the entire community for the extraordinary effort that the FBI is applying to the ongoing investigation,” the organization added.

Because so far, the only arrested perpetrator is a communist Trump-hater.

MORE ON MIDDLEBURY: College Protestors Send Professor To The ER.

This is disgraceful. That it happens repeatedly to speakers on the right, with few if any consequences for the thugs involved, is evidence of tacit approval of the behavior. Reminder: Conspiring to stifle free speech is a crime.

Plus:

Middlebury administrators and others are trying to frame this as simply about respect for free speech and open discourse. But this is about more than the narrow issue of free speech. Academics and administrators need to take a hard look at the ideology many of them have been directly and passively incubating on campuses.

Before Murray’s lecture, over 500 alumni signed a letter which claimed that Murray’s visit sends “a message to every woman, every person of color, every first-generation student, every poor and working-class person, every disabled person, and every queer person that not only their acceptance to and presence at Middlebury, but also their safety, their agency, their humanity, and even their very right to exist are all up for ‘debate.’” The letter closes by asserting that Murray’s presence on campus “directly endangers members of the community.”

If Murray genuinely were directly endangering the Middlebury community and threatening the “existence” of its members, he probably shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the State of Vermont. But, of course, Murray isn’t actually the kind of threat these students imagine. As their letter makes clear, and echoing what Middlebury Sociology Professor Michael Sheridan freely admitted to a reporter the other day, few if any of the protestors have ever read Murray’s books. If they had, they would know that he’s been grossly mischaracterized. . . .

Meanwhile, the idea that Murray is anti-queer is especially odd: Murray was publicly pushing Republicans to support marriage equality before Hillary Clinton had flip-flopped on the issue.

If students (and especially professors, who really ought to know better) want to criticize an author, they should read what he’s written first. That so many clearly did not speaks to the deteriorating academic rigor of colleges today. If college students are not internalizing the need to engage primary sources, what exactly are they learning in their undergraduate years?

The ideology that has taken hold of academia is intellectually lazy and thus leads to sloppy, emotion-driven conclusions.

Well, to the promoters of this sort of thing, that’s not a bug but a feature.

SOME GOOD ADVICE FOR COLLEGE PRESIDENTS SPEAKING ABOUT NATIONAL ISSUES:

Almost all colleges reflect the breadth of political opinion of the country as a whole, although not in the same proportion. While most are more liberal than their surrounding communities, they are far from politically homogeneous. For that reason, we as presidents have to be careful in how we present our personal political views.

When you call Trump Hitler, you’re telling your pro-Trump students and faculty — and you have them, whether you realize it or not — that they’re basically Nazis. That’s marginalization of the sort that academia purports to deplore.

DUTIFULLY OBSERVING THE LEFT’S CULTURE OF IMPUNITY, I GUESS: More Campus Violence: Where Are The Cops?

INSIDE HIGHER ED: “Comments for this thread are now closed.” After three.

When Inside Higher Ed started, its founders pitched it to me as less PC than other higher-ed outlets.

HMM. THIS MAKES SENSE, BUT ARE THERE ANY OTHER THREATS THE SWEDES MIGHT WANT TO ENLARGE THEIR ARMY AGAINST? Sweden Brings Back The Draft, Alarmed By Russian Activities.

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I HAVE FRIENDS UP NORTH WHO REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE MUSKIES IN TENNESSEEE, SO TAKE THIS: Knox County fisherman reels in record-breaking musky.

ONCE AGAIN, A CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE CIVIL RIGHTS. WILL THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PROSECUTE? At Middlebury College, “Protesters” Attack Charles Murray, Injure Professor.

Campus police were there, but there’s no report of anyone being arrested.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: You May Want To Marry My Husband. This piece by a dying wife is sad, but very sweet.

PUNK ROCKERS FOR THE EIGHTH AIR FORCE: Punk rock versus Red fascists. I’m not engaging the “is Trump the new punk rock” debate. No, I swear I’m not. I’m avoiding it entirely. (Though…it’s an intriguing, “yuge” idea…) I am providing open source evidence that genuine punk has a conservative edge. Indeed ™. I mean, stifling, stuffy, left-lib propagandists utterly dominate popular culture, and have for decades.

No wonder freedom-seeking rebel souls reject its mental and spiritual prison.

They’ve been rejecting it for decades.

In the video to which I’ve linked, The Explosives sing “Fortress Europe.” DEEP BACKGROUND: This snappy tune comes from the era when Democrats thought Ronald Reagan was the threat, not the Kremlin.

The lyrics in this wry tune include this line:

“Red tanks in the alleys of Prague…”

Hey, it happened. That’s a fact. 1968. Dubchek. The man had courage. Real courage.

Of course, Commie tanks aren’t parked in Prague today. And Reagan deserves some credit for that. That’s a fact. No matter what Nancy Pelosi says to The New York Times.

“We’ll reactivate the Eighth Air Force…”

That’s another line in “Fortress Europe.”

Golly gee. We’ve reactivated the Eighth Air Force.

OK. You can read the lyrics as tongue in cheek. But Red tanks in Prague were grim reality. And American power was the only real response. Even tongue in cheek punk recognized that reality, long before the New York Times.

MAN WHO THREATENED BOMB ATTACKS ON MUSLIM STUDENTS AT CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IN NAME OF “WHITE SUPREMACIST” GROUP IS a Muslim named Hisham Saadi.

If it weren’t for fake hate crimes, would we have any hate crimes at all? A few, I guess, though maybe without the fake hate crimes to inspire them. . . .

ZIKA NEWS: Birth Defects Rise Twentyfold in Mothers With Zika, C.D.C. Says.

IS TRUMPISM the new Punk Rock? “New York-centered punk began as ‘an intramural insurrection within the counterculture,’ he says. It was the punks vs. their somnolent, sententious hippie older brothers and sisters, who had for years propounded what Wattenberg calls the ‘reverse pieties’ of anti-Americanism and anti-commercialism and white guilt.”

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DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: Katie Hopkins: The Swedish town where migrant gangs have killed multiculturalism stone dead and laugh at laws they despise and defy.