JUST NBC THE REVERSE RACISM: Things get hot when a white panelist is told not to quote Martin Luther King: I will ‘every single day. And you won’t stop me.’

BEGUN, THE TRADE WAR HAS? China Threatens U.S. Cars, Planes and Soy in Response to Trump.

China’s cabinet, the State Council, said Wednesday that the tariffs will cover 106 categories of products and affect $50 billion of Chinese imports of U.S. products. The tariff rate and the sum of goods targeted match the proposal unveiled by the Trump administration Tuesday to punish Beijing for what it says are unfair practices to acquire American technology.

Neither the U.S. nor Chinese tariffs take effect immediately. The Chinese government didn’t specify when its penalties would be imposed. A Finance Ministry statement said that authorities are watching how the U.S. implements its proposed trade actions.

“Frankly speaking, we’re facing huge challenges today,” Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao told reporters at an official briefing following the release of the plan.

The Chinese plan makes good on warnings that Beijing would respond to U.S. trade actions with proportional measures. In a key difference, Beijing has targeted the biggest American exports to China: soybeans and airplanes. Many of the other goods on the list—including sorghum and beef—intentionally affect the U.S. Farm Belt, where voters supported President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the plans for retaliation.

Soybeans and cars both come from the heart of Trump Country.

JOURNALISM: It’s OK to hurl questions at the president until it isn’t.

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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: YouTube Shooter Identified and Much, Much More. “So we have another shooting where authorities were given some kind of advanced warning. This situation wasn’t as specific as the Parkland shooting but nevertheless, did police contact YouTube to tell them a disgruntled ‘creator’ might be headed their way?”

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM? “Officers in the Boston Police Department’s most sought-after units — including homicide and gang squads — are predominantly white, while their supervisors are overwhelmingly white men.”

I QUESTION THE TIMING: Rosenstein Memo confirming Mueller could investigate Manafort came a week after raid on Manafort’s home. Prof. Jacobson notes: “The August 2, 2017 memo was classic bootstrapping. It purported to confirm Mueller’s authority to go after Manafort’s business dealings, but Mueller already was doing that and had been doing it for weeks, culminating in the July 26 home raid. So to the extent the Rosenstein August 2, 2017 memorandum is supposed to instill confidence that Mueller is receiving proper DOJ oversight, it does just the opposite.”

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THIS IS CNN: CNN Criticized for “Sexist” Coverage of YouTube Shooting.

After local authorities confirmed the suspect was a woman, CNN’s screen read “Female Suspect Dead” and on-air personalities speculated as to reasons for the incident.

One personality, CNN’s crime and justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz, speculated on The Situation Room that the motivation for the shooting was “perhaps a love triangle.” Ongoing conversations centered on the possibility of the shooter reacting to a relationship-gone-bad.

The coverage was immediately called out as odd on Twitter, with many pointing out Porkupecz’s “love triangle” remark in particular.

They went there.

OUR DUMB MEDIA: The Sinclair video is the dumbest media freak-out since whatever the last one was.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: No Ms. McCabe, Andrew Did Not Separate Himself From Your VA Senate Run, He Used His FBI Email To Campaign For You.

BYRON YORK: The Trump/Russia Investigation Threatens The Rule Of Law.

The intel chiefs’ briefing of Trump soon leaked to the media. And the fact that top officials had seen fit to tell the incoming president about the dossier made it a legitimate news story. Within hours, BuzzFeed published the entire dossier on the Internet.

As Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said as all this was happening: “You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you.”

With the Logan Act, Obama holdovers used a dead law as a pretense to push the Trump investigation. With the dossier, they used unverified opposition research not only to investigate the Trump campaign but to execute a clever maneuver to make the dirt public.

And this was all done by the nation’s top law enforcement and intelligence officials, targeting a new president. So yes, it is reasonable to say the Trump-Russia investigation endangers the rule of law.

All because the Democrats are psychologically unable to deal with losing an election they thought was in the bag.

HMM: The Department of Homeland Security has detected rogue devices that foreign spies and criminals could be using to track people’s calls and texts in DC.

In a March 26 letter to Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged that last year it identified suspected unauthorized cell-site simulators in the nation’s capital. The agency said it had not determined the type of devices in use or who might have been operating them. Nor did it say how many it detected or where.

The agency’s response, obtained by The Associated Press from Wyden’s office, suggests little has been done about such equipment, known popularly as Stingrays after a brand common among US police departments. The Federal Communications Commission, which regulates the nation’s airwaves, formed a task force on the subject four years ago, but it never produced a report and no longer meets regularly.

The devices work by tricking mobile devices into locking onto them instead of legitimate cell towers, revealing the exact location of a particular cellphone. More sophisticated versions can eavesdrop on calls by forcing phones to step down to older, unencrypted 2G wireless technology. Some attempt to plant malware.

They can cost anywhere from $1,000 to about $200,000. They are commonly the size of a briefcase; some are as small as a cellphone. They can be placed in a car next to a government building. The most powerful can be deployed in low-flying aircraft.

Thousands of members of the military, the NSA, the CIA, the FBI and the rest of the national-security apparatus live and work in the Washington area. The surveillance-savvy among them encrypt their phone and data communications and employ electronic countermeasures. But unsuspecting citizens could fall prey.

Given their track record, I’m not so convinced that our intelligence agency people are actually so tech-savvy.

GOOD: Republicans Mulling Budget Gambit to Avoid Spending Some Omnibus Funds.

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BLUE WAVE? Democrats Still Struggling for Party Unity in Colorado ‘Toss Up’ District.

“One thing I’ve said in the past: I don’t really believe in the Republican concept of ‘trickle down’ economics,” [Democratic candidate Levi ] Tillemann told the Washington Free Beacon in a recent phone interview. “But it doesn’t work in the political system either. We don’t want to be in a country where political parties are practicing ‘trickle down’ politics, where they give all the money and the resources to people who they perceive to be at the top and try to shut people out of the conversation.”

Tillemann upset the normal order last January when he blasted the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and accused House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of telling him he should drop out of the race earlier this year so the party could unify behind former Army Ranger Jason Crow.

Intra-party fighting such as this worried Democrats in the early campaign months of 2017, when they hoped to defeat incumbent Republican Mike Coffman and flip the most competitive district in a purple state.

Democrats rigged the primaries for Hillary Clinton in 2016, but that didn’t quite work out as planned.

“EXILED JURISTS” SAYS A LOT ABOUT A COUNTRY: Exiled jurists hear graft claims against Venezuela’s Maduro.

The jurists, known as the “Supreme Court in Exile,” held a public hearing in Colombia’s elegant congressional building to review accusations linking Maduro to the giant Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, which has acknowledged paying bribes in many Latin American countries.

The proceedings were notably one-sided: While an attorney was assigned for Maduro, his government considers the body illegitimate and both the judges and prosecutor have conflicts of interest, having fled into exile to avoid Maduro’s reach.

Ousted Venezuelan Chief Prosecutor Luisa Ortega, who long had access to the country’s investigative files, told the jurists that she has evidence that Maduro sought $50 million from Odebrecht to finance his 2013 presidential campaign. Ortega said that in exchange for Odebrecht’s help, Maduro promised the construction firm new public works contracts in Venezuela as well as help in facilitating tens of millions of dollars in overdue payments.

Why, it’s almost as though socialism is more about state-sanctioned graft and corruption than it is about helping “the people.”

Flashback: Iron-Fisted Socialism Benefited Hugo Chavez’s Daughter To The Tune Of BILLIONS, Reports Say.

THIS ISN’T ACTUALLY TRUE, BUT HEY, IT’S DIANNE FEINSTEIN: Feinstein on YouTube HQ shooting: Only in America is this common.

MARK PENN: Roseanne is bringing conservative American women out of the closet.

“Roseanne,” the ABC sitcom, brought in 25 million viewers and counting to the shock of elites who believed that the biggest new draw on TV was Jimmy Kimmel and comedy tilting politically left. But there are an estimated 15 million closet conservatives in America today — people who have views that are more conservative than they let on to friends and family — and series star Roseanne Barr tapped into that enormous constituency.

Hillary Clinton recently suggested that women were being in some sense forced or brainwashed into following their spouses. And yet, the real phenomenon seems to be the opposite: women who say to their friends and family that they are liberal when, in fact, they harbor more conservative views, especially on hot-button issues like immigration, crime and even taxes.

At long last millions of women feel free to strike back, even in a small way, against the progressive patriarchy.

CELEBRATE DIVERSITY: Woman Brutally Assaulted in D.C. Restaurant After Professing to be a Trump Supporter.

A LOOK AT FLORIDA, GUN RIGHTS, AND GUN CONTROL.

I’ll believe Florida is serious about gun violence when Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel is fired from the job he so royally screwed up.

NASIM AGHDAM, YOUTUBE SHOOTING SUSPECT: FIVE FAST FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW.

Aghdam, 39, lived in southern California. She was active on YouTube and often ranted about the company in videos on her channels, on Instagram, and on her own website. It is unknown if this was a potential motive in Tuesday’s shooting.

Aghdam identified as Persian and often posted videos and other posts in both English and Farsi, the official language of Iran.

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Authorities don’t believe that Aghdam, 39, had any direct connection to YouTube. According to NBC News, she did have a YouTube channel. She often posted videos that included “rants” against the company, according to the information supplied by NBC.

“Nasim the Persian Azeri female vegan bodybuilder, also animal rights activist promoting healthy and humane living. Nasim produced and launched the first Persian TV commercial and music video (Do You Dare) regarding animal rights and veganism through international Iranian satellite Television in 2010,” read the “About” section on her YouTube channel.

Just another typical southern good ol’ boy NRA member…

UPDATE: Note the photo atop this 2009 San Diego Union Tribune page headlined “PETA protests military’s use of pigs in training,” and its caption: “Members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protested yesterday at the main gate of Camp Pendleton. Nasim Aghdam (front) demonstrated with a plastic sword against the Marines’ killing of pigs in a military exercise. ‘For me, animal rights equal human rights,’ Aghdam said.”

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