DRILL, BABY, DRILL: Trump erases Obama-era offshore rules: The U.S. Gulf of Mexico accounted for about 15 percent of total U.S. crude oil production in the first quarter.

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ALL DEMOCRATS HAVE TO DO IS NOT BE CRAZY — AND THEY CAN’T EVEN DO THAT. Liberal Hollywood is falling into Donald Trump’s trap — and he’s winning.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Future ‘A Star Wars Story’ Spinoffs on Hold at Lucasfilm.

Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy ought to have a long talk with corporate cousin Kevin Feige of Marvel Studios about how to build a franchise.

Or resign before she completely destroys Disney’s four-billion-dollar golden goose.

ELITES HATE AUTOMOBILES BECAUSE AUTOMOBILES EMPOWER NON-ELITES. ALSO, RAIL LINES ARE BETTER FOR GRAFT. Stop Trying to Get Workers Out of Their Cars: “Smart growth” is dumb about commuting. “Simply put, cars work better for workers. A 2012 Brookings study analyzing data from 371 transit providers in America’s largest 100 metro areas found that over three-fourths of all jobs are in neighborhoods with transit service—but only about a quarter of those jobs can be reached by transit within 90 minutes. That’s more than three times the national average commute time. Another study, by Andrew Owen and David Levinson of the University of Minnesota, looked at job access via transit in 46 of the 50 largest metro areas. Their data combined actual in-vehicle time with estimated walking time at either end of the transit trip, to approximate total door-to-door travel time. Only five of the 46 metro areas have even a few percent of their jobs accessible by transit within half an hour. All the others have 1 percent or less. Within 60 minutes door-to-door, the best cities have 15–22 percent of jobs reachable by transit. Meanwhile, Owen and Levinson found that in 31 of the 51 largest metro areas in 2010, 100 percent of jobs could be reached by car in 30 minutes or less. Within 40 minutes, all the jobs could be reached by car in 39 of the cities. Within an hour, essentially every job in all 51 places could be reached by car.”

UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now.

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DNC-MSM DOXXING: Journalists angry after Twitter punishes them for sharing Stephen Miller’s cell number.

As Jim Treacher writes today, for the left, Rules Don’t Apply to You If You’re Really Angry.

TELL THEM THE LINE ABOUT OMELETS: Who Wants to Solve The Immigration Crisis?

Okay, I get a little rant-y.

(Link was wrong. I fixed it.)

THIS WEEK’S IMMIGRATION FRACAS: THE VERY DEFINITION OF DANIEL BOORSTIN’S MEDIA PSEUDO-EVENT.

Watching the collective media and political class freak out over the “crisis” of immigration enforcement at the border sent me to my bookshelf to dust off Daniel Boorstin’s classic 1961 book, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America. Step back for a moment from the whack-a-mole problem of sorting out fact from fiction in this current drama; the way this is playing out is a perfect case study in what Boorstin had in mind.

Read the whole thing.

THAT’S ABSURD. WHY, WE’VE ENACTED ONE PROGRESSIVE REFORM AFTER ANOTHER FOR 50 YEARS. Americans are depressed and suicidal because something is wrong with our culture.

MORE FROM THE “HAVE YOU NO DECENCY?” CROWD:

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And for comic relief, such as it is:

UPDATE: One of the Democratic Socialists of America protesters who harassed Secretary Nielsen last night at dinner works for…the Department of Justice!

REMEMBER PETER FONDA ON HIS CHOPPER? Whatever you think of that particular enduring contribution to popular culture, Fonda got himself into hot water with an especially disgusting tweet advocating violence against the First Family. The Secret Service had some questions for him, according to LifeZette’s Zachary Leeman.

REPORT: 20,000 miles in the 2017 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport.

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AND HERE’S FOUR IMMIGRATION FACTS THE MSM WON’T TELL YOU: No, Trump didn’t create those detention centers just to throw the children of illegal immigrants into dog cages. Who did? Can you spell O-B-A-M-A?  And three more.

GIVE BUNKER-BUSTERS A CHANCE: ISIS Proving Elusive by Tunneling, Staying in Small Groups, Blending Into Towns.

JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON: 4 Things The Media Won’t Tell You About The Border Crisis.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Can You Get Acne From Masturbating Too Much?

I’M OK WITH THIS ONE: Pabst Blue Ribbon shortage may be looming.

THAT SOUNDS COOL: How Neal Stephenson Got Book Ideas by Moonlighting at Blue Origin.

CASCADE: ‘About 60 Organizations’ Are Considering a Lawsuit Against the SPLC Following $3M Nawaz Settlement.

‘FASCIST PIG!’ — CHANTING SOCIALISTS CHASE DHS SECRETARY NIELSEN OUT OF MEXICAN RESTAURANT.

“Temporarily separating children at border: literally Auschwitz. Normalizing mob violence against political opponents, which is literally a fascist trait: totally awesome,” Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry of the Ethics and Public Policy Center tweets.

As Kurt Schlichter likes to say, the left are going to hate living under the new rules they’ve created.

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BLUE WAVE? Kentucky Democratic voter registration below 50%.

JOE PAPPALARDO: Why Would We Need a U.S. Space Force, Anyway?

HEADLINES FROM 1933. Germany: Left-wing violence and extremism on the rise.

It’s probably nothing. If violent and extremist forms of socialism were to go national in Germany, what could go wrong?