POP! GOES THE NARRATIVE: Americans Blame Government More Than Guns for Florida Massacre. “The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 54% of American Adults believe the failure of government agencies to respond to numerous warning signs from the prospective killer is more to blame for the mass shooting. Thirty-three percent (33%) attribute the deaths more to a lack of adequate gun control. Eleven percent (11%) opt for something else.”

HEH: Democratic lawmaker in Virginia holds hammer-and-sickle image behind colleague aligned with Democratic Socialists.

“Even though sometimes we get overboard by laughing and having fun with each other in terms of our debates, I don’t think our House or any of our committees should be a place where we bring juvenile jokes like that,” Keam said.

Carter seemed visibly unhappy when Keam approached him to talk after the House adjourned. Other Democratic leaders also got involved in an apparent attempt to smooth things over.

“After watching the video, it was clearly intended as a joke, but it was in very poor taste and rooted in a lack of knowledge about the history of the political left,” Carter said Monday evening.

Must’ve hit it pretty close to the mark to get him all riled up like that.

WHILE THE PRESS CHASES TWEETS: Heritage Foundation: 64% of Trump’s agenda already done, faster than Reagan.

With unprecedented speed, the Trump administration has already implemented nearly two-thirds of the 334 agenda items called for by the Heritage Foundation, a pace faster than former President Reagan who embraced the conservative think tank’s legendary “Mandate for Leadership” blueprint.

Thomas Binion, director of congressional and executive branch relations at Heritage, said that Trump has implemented 64 percent of the “unique policy recommendations” from the group.

t this stage of his presidency, Reagan had completed 49 percent of the Heritage policy recommendations.

“We’re blown away,” Binion said in an interview. Trump, he said, “is very active, very conservative, and very effective.”

What’s more, he said, Trump hasn’t just focused on one agenda area, but he and his team has pushed through administrative moves on foreign policy, deregulation, immigration, tax reform and health care, moves often ignored by the media.

“It is a huge volume that his administration has worked on and it is a huge spectrum of issues,” said Binion.

Weird, because I’m reliably assured by all the best people that he has the attention span of a toddler and can’t focus on anything.

VERÄNDERUNG: Germany Paves Way for Diesel Ban, Dealing Blow to Auto Makers.

A German court rang the death knell for certain diesel cars on Tuesday, striking a blow to the country’s flagship auto industry that could now be forced to spend billions to upgrade or replace millions of cars.

In a landmark decision, Germany’s Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig ruled that German cities Stuttgart and Düsseldorf could ban diesel vehicles from urban traffic as a way to reduce pollution, rejecting an appeal of a lower-court ruling. Ultimately, the ruling clears the way for any German city to ban older diesel vehicles and could inspire similar measures in cities around Europe, analysts said.

The closely watched ruling is likely to accelerate the demise of a technology that German auto makers have pushed as a panacea that provides solid driving performance, fuel economy and low greenhouse gas emissions, but which has been largely been discredited in the wake of widespread emissions-cheating scandals at Volkswagen and other car makers.

Flashback: The gap between petrol and diesel taxes in Europe is quite unique in the world and is the main reason why diesel engines have taken off in Europe and not worldwide.

Germany may ban the cars they incentivized people into buying.

PUT NOT YOUR FAITH IN BUREAUCRATS: How Authorities Failed To Stop School Shooter Nikolas Cruz: After missing warning signs, law enforcement and others are now quick to say they need more power to stop the next tragedy.

NEVER TOO EARLY: 5 Things to Know About Brad Parscale, Trump’s 2020 Campaign Manager. “Facebook genius has political ambition and entrepreneurship in his blood.”

DAVID FRENCH IN THE ATLANTIC: Why I Carry A Gun.

WELL, POSSIBLY THE FIRST FATAL VICTIM: Searing Big Screen “Chappaquiddick” Thriller: Mary Jo Kopechne as First #MeToo Victim of Kennedy Family Money, Power and Corruption.

I think the ghosts of Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy and Rosemary Kennedy might take exception with Roger Friedman’s headline.

SOME VERY FANCY Norlan Whisky Glasses.

WHO KNEW? DEMOCRATS ARE SURPRISED THAT MORE MONEY IN PAY CHECKS IS POPULAR.

I CAN REMEMBER WHEN HE WAS HITLER: The Only Good Thing About Donald Trump Is All His Policies.

ROBERT TRACINSKI: Why It’s Time To Raise The Voting Age Back To 21: The teens going on television to agitate for gun control after the Parkland shooting make the case, not for lowering the voting age, but for raising it.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Lawsuit: 100,000 noncitizens registered to vote in Pennsylvania.

ICE ARRESTS MORE THAN 150 PEOPLE IN BAY AREA FOLLOWING DEMOCRATIC MAYOR’S WARNING.

Related: Oakland mayor helped criminal illegals escape, ICE chief says.

OPEN THREAD: Carry on with your usual savoir faire and panache.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: WATCH: Leftist Students Freak Out When Panel Agrees Men And Women Are Different.

JON GABRIEL: Businesses cutting NRA ties is taking sides in culture war. That’s bad for business and America. “Do we really want separate financial systems for Republicans and Democrats? Because that’s where we’re headed if this witch hunt continues.”

UH-OH: FBI now involved – 11 people ill after opening letter at Virginia military base.

OOPS: Kushner loses access to top-secret intelligence.

Kushner is not alone. All White House aides working on the highest-level interim clearances — at the Top Secret/SCI-level — were informed in a memo sent Friday that their clearances would be downgraded to the Secret level, according to three people with knowledge of the situation.

The SCI acronym stands for sensitive compartmented information, a category of information that comes from sensitive intelligence sources and must be walled off.

The memo was not signed by chief of staff John Kelly, but it comes as the retired Marine general and other top White House aides are grappling with the fallout of a scandal involving former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, which revealed that dozens of White House aides had yet to receive permanent clearances but nonetheless had access to some of the country’s deepest secrets.

It’s the right move, but it also indicates that staffing remains a problem for this White House.

A FEMALE FRIEND OBSERVES: “If men realized how great they look in tuxedos, they would insist on wearing them more often!” She’s not wrong. I used to have a nice custom-made tux back when I practiced law, and for a while after I moved to Knoxville I wore it occasionally to black-tie events. Now I never attend those (and there aren’t many to attend). It’s a little sad.

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Plus, deals in Kitchen and Housewares.

CHANGE: Trump administration weighs mental health coverage option.

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Kevin Spacey Will No Longer Touch British Kids. “Suddenly nobody involved with the Kevin Spacey Foundation wants you to know that they had anything to do with it.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Dolce & Gabbana used drones to carry handbags down the runway instead of models.

HMM: ‘Two-way signaling’ possible with a single quantum particle.