KEVIN COLE: The ALI, Affirmative Consent, and the Intoxication “Defense.” I think that a man who’s had anything to drink can’t consent, and so any woman who sleeps with him is a rapist. And it doesn’t matter if she’s been drinking, too, because intoxication isn’t a defense.

I DUNNO, IT MAKES ME SUSPICIOUS: New study says cyclists shouldn’t worry about sexual dysfunction. “The groin pain and numbness some serious bicyclists experience isn’t harmful to their sexual or urinary health, two new studies suggest.”

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RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS significantly increase heart attack risk. “The risk of a heart attack is 17 times higher in the week after a respiratory infection, the University of Sydney team concluded.” So maybe keep taking aspirin, and if you think you’re having heart symptoms, realize that it’s more likely that you really are.

THAT’S NOT MY IMPRESSION: Are Men With Beards More Desirable? But Rutherford B. Hayes might have something to say.

ROD KACKLEY: California Battles Trump as Gov. Brown Seeks Federal Help for Bullet Train.

WATCH OUT, AMAZON: WalMart is coming for you. Competition is good.

A BILLION HERE AND A BILLION THERE… OPEC Lost $76 Billion Last Year Due To US Fracking.

NO BUT TALKING ABOUT IT INFLAMES THE DEM BASE, PROMOTES FUNDRAISING, AND DISTRACTS AND WEAKENS REPUBLICANS: Dershowitz: Come On, No One’s Going To Indict Trump For Obstruction.

ROGER SIMON: Special Counsel Means Congress Must Start Legislating.

I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT VOTER FRAUD WAS A MYTH: Dallas County Whistleblower Tapes Democrat Campaign Worker Describing Voter Fraud Schemes.

THAT’S DIFFERENT, BECAUSE SHUT UP: Three Times Barack Obama Attempted to Obstruct Justice.

HMM: U.S. household debt climbs to record high.

The quarterly survey on household debt and credit showed that overall delinquency rates were roughly flat at 4.8 percent. While balances have steadily shifted to more credit-worthy borrowers, New York Fed economists raised some concern over the 11 percent of student loan debt that was “seriously delinquent” at the end of March.

“This record debt level is neither a reason to celebrate nor a cause for alarm,” Donghoon Lee, a research officer at the New York Fed, said in the report. “Auto loan and credit card delinquency flows are now trending upwards, and those for student loans remain stubbornly high.”

And generally can’t be discharged through bankruptcy.

OF COURSE THEY DO: Democrats Push Left as Midterm Campaigns Approach.

If you thought that Donald Trump’s victory would impel the Democrats to de-emphasize identity politics and social liberalism and pivot even modestly toward the center, think again. At the local level, Democratic politicians are under tremendous pressure to double down on the whole menu of positions favored by the party’s increasingly militant progressive wing. . . .

Some of the leftward march seems to be motivated by the sense that Hillary Clinton’s tepid center-leftism was a dud and the conviction that Bernie Sanders or someone like him might have had a better shot against Trump. This analysis may or may not be correct, but it is too one-dimensional. In fact, Bernie Sanders was to Clinton’s right on many cultural issues, including gun control, feminism, immigration, and identity politics. If you want to drive a Berniebro crazy, you could even argue that Sanders is the reason Clinton lost—that she couldn’t compete with his left-wing economic populism, so she moved even deeper into boutique academic/PC liberal territory to compensate, and that this was ultimately what did her in. And yet, the new generation of Democrats seems to be retreating to hard-line liberal positions in all areas, economic and social alike.

Trump 2020!

THAT WOULD EXPLAIN A LOT: Former Bush AG On Comey’s 2007 Brush With Scandal: ‘Jim’s Loyalty Was More To Chuck Schumer.’

Sean Davis:

In fact, the current episode is not the first time Comey and his associates plotted to oust a sitting Republican official through highly orchestrated political theater and carefully crafted narratives in which Comey is the courageous hero bravely fighting to preserve the rule of law. To understand how Comey came to be FBI director in the first place, and how he operates in the political arena, it is important to review the last scandal in which Comey had a front-row seat: the 2007 U.S. attorney firings and the fight over the 2004 reauthorization of Stellar Wind, a mass National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program designed to mitigate terrorist threats in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

The pivotal scene in the Comey-crafted narrative, a drama that made Comey famous and likely paved the road to his 2013 appointment by President Barack Obama to run the FBI, occurred in a Beltway hospital room in early 2004. In Comey’s view, Comey was the last honest man in Washington, the only person standing between a White House that rejected any restraints on its power, and the rule of law protecting Americans from illegal mass surveillance.

A former White House counsel and attorney general with extensive first-hand experience dealing with Comey, however, paints a very different picture of what happened in that hospital room, and disputes numerous key details. In this account, Comey’s actions showcase a duplicitous, secretive schemer whose true loyalties were not to the officials to whom he reported, but to partisan Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). To fully understand and appreciate Jim Comey’s approach to politics, the writings and testimony of Alberto Gonzales, who served as both White House counsel and attorney general during the events in question and is intimately aware of Comey’s history of political maneuvering, is absolutely essential.

Read the whole thing.

WAR AND EXTORTION IN THE GRAY ZONE: My latest Creators Syndicate column.

OF COURSE THEY DO: Senate Democrats Want to Make It Harder for Congress to Remove Regulations.

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ROGER AILES HAS DIED.

PATRICK POOLE EXCLUSIVE: Former Egyptian Official Exposes Muslim Brotherhood’s Terror Networks (Part 2).

WHAT EXACTLY HAVE WE BEEN DOING THE LAST THREE YEARS? The War Against ISIS Has Just Begun.

CAMILLE PAGLIA: Democrats are colluding with the media to create chaos. Perhaps more accurate to say that the media arm of the Democratic Party is working with the elected and unelected arms of the Democratic Party to create chaos.

ADRIANA COHEN: The media has lost its marbles.

Or maybe it’s that they’d had all of the marbles, and are as mad as hell that someone took a few of them away.

I REMEMBER WHEN POLITICS WAS SUPPOSED TO STOP AT THE WATER’S EDGE: Democrats sketch ‘international resistance’ on eve of Trump trip.