WHY ARE THE DEMOCRATS PUSHING SO MUCH VIOLENT RHETORIC? DEM REP. ALCEE HASTINGS JOKES ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP DROWNING IN THE POTOMAC RIVER.

Well, to be fair, Alcee Hastings is a man of impeachable character.

NEW ZIMBABWE: Record Number of White South African Farms for Sale But No One is Buying. “The government’s plan to seize white farmland without compensation is becoming a nightmare reality.”

Unexpectedly.

SALENA ZITO: Andrew Cuomo doesn’t see America’s greatness because he doesn’t know where to look.

Somewhere between Nickelsville and Bear Wallow Hollow along Virginia state route 71, the remains of a redbrick home smolders on the hillside overlooking the single lane road. Several volunteer firemen sit, drinking water near the remains of the home. It’s over 90 degrees out. The sun and heat are punishing, exaggerating the heaviness of their efforts.

None of these men will get a paycheck for risking their health and possibly their lives. But that’s okay, that’s not why they do it.

An elderly gentleman stands outside of his vehicle along Route 11 West, the Virginia-Tennessee bi-way made infamous in the 1958 movie Thunder Road about moonshine running — he’s not far from a service station. Two young men pull over and offer their help. Minutes later, he is steering, and they are pushing. He makes it to the station; they walk back toward their white service van with two sandwiches in hand he bought them at the lunch counter inside the service station.

A new waitress at a Chattanooga diner drops her tray full of ribs, macaroni and cheese, and wings just as she is about to deliver it to a table filled with family members from out of town. Half of it lands on the father of the family, staining his white shirt and tangling gooey macaroni and cheese in his hair. She is filled with apologizes and tears. They handle it with grace.

When they leave — after they finally have their dinner — they refuse an offer for complimentary dinner and leave her a generous tip.

None of these are extraordinary moments. In fact, they are really quite ordinary things that happen every day in this country. They are the tiny measures of character, which is best measured in such granular increments. Character is the mosaic of tiny acts, rather than a large bold mural making an obvious statement.

Speaking at a bill-signing ceremony last week, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said, “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great” — a line that caused some of those in attendance to gasp, others oddly to cheer, before he continued.

It was a line meant to take on his nemesis, President Trump, and his signature “Make America Great Again” slogan — but keeps with the notion that some in politics truly believe, that America is not all that great.

Perhaps they don’t know what great means.

Or worse yet, what America means.

It’s by Salena Zito, so I don’t have to tell you to read the whole thing, do I?

REVENUE IS FINE, IT’S THE SPENDING THAT’S OUT OF CONTROL: Tax Revenues Are Up 1%, Despite Trump Tax Cuts.

VOTE IF YOU HAVE A MIND TO:  Dragon Awards Sign Up 2018.

HERE IS MY SHOCKED FACE AGAIN:  More Scenes from the College Apocalypse.

SPECIEIST MAYBE, BUT LET’S NOT GIVE THE LEFT MORE CRAZY IDEAS:  Another slippery attempt to paint Trump as a racist.  Also, if you’ve not got your 2018 updated lefty-speak manual (aka the little derp book) let me explain: everything a republican says is racist, even if it isn’t.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Media Bias Front And Center With ICE Story.

REVOKE THEM ALL. IF THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND THE ISSUES AT STAKE, THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE CLEARANCES:  Ex-CIA Chief Michael Hayden Joins the Virtue-Signalers.  Revoke the Weasels!

THIS IS A TEST:  To Ban or Not To Ban.

YEAH A GREAT PART OF THE PROBLEM IS THE OUTSOURCING AND ROBOT CRAWLERS:  Banned by the Faceless Machine.

RACCCCIIIISSSS…. OH, WAIT:  Frosty Brazillian welcome for Venezuelan immigrants.

BADLY TAUGHT:  You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught.

AHHHH, THE CLASSICS!  The Omarosenleid.

DON’T GET COCKY:  CBS News pollster reveals why ‘blue wave’ is unlikely.