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AMERICA’S OLDEST VETERAN, 112-year-old Richard Overton, was robbed of his life savings. Here’s his GoFundMe page. I donated.

MAN, TOM STEYER TURNED INTO GENERAL JACK D. RIPPER SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED: Tom Steyer: ‘Maybe We Can Have, Like, A Nuclear War…’

As Virginia Postrel once told C-Span’s Brian Lamb:

The Khmer Rouge sought to start over at year zero, and to sort of create the kind of society that very civilized, humane greens write about as though it were an ideal. I mean, people who would never consider genocide. But I argue that if you want to know what that would take, look at Cambodia–to empty the cities and turn everyone into peasants again. Even in a less developed country, let alone in someplace like the United States, that these sort of static utopian fantasies are just that.

That’s one way to speed thing up…

FASTER, PLEASE: Iran weakening with big protests, economic problems and Israel could be building up to attack.

GOOD: Engineers Develop Electric Car Battery That Can Heat Itself In Winter.

AMMO REVIEW: Black Hills 9mm HoneyBadger 100gr +P. I’m surprised that such an odd-looking serrated bullet feeds smoothly. I think I’d want to run a few hundred rounds through before I used it in my carry gun.

HEH: Senate Democrats Demand Supreme Court Nominee Not Be Unduly Influenced By U.S. Constitution. It’s labeled as parody, but . . . .

ACTUALLY THOUGH, MOST OF THE ITEMS ON THE LIST WEREN’T CREATED BY GEN-XERS: 15 Pop Culture Artifacts We Can Thank Gen Xers For.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot:

Arnold Schwarzenegger heavily criticized President Donald Trump’s plan to rescue struggling coal plants, likening the move to saving antiquated products like floppy disks or Beanie Babies.

Famous movie star-turned-politician-turned environmental activist Arnold Schwarzenegger lampooned Trump in a Facebook video released Thursday. In the three-and-a-half minute video, he said the White House’s proposal to bailout coal and nuclear energy plants at grave risk of closure to be the wrong approach. The former GOP governor of California wants the administration to focus on developing the renewable industry instead.

“So President Trump, I know you really want to be an action hero, right?” Schwarzenegger said as he spoke inches away from a bobblehead made in Trump’s likeness. “So take it from the Terminator, you’re only supposed to go back in time to protect future generations. But your administration attempts to go back in time to rescue the coal industry, which is actually a threat to future generations.”

“It is foolish to bring back laughable, outdated technology to suit your political agenda,” he continued, with clips of famous movie scenes inserted in the video. “I mean, what are you going to bring back next? Floppy disks? Fax machines? Beanie Babies? Beepers? Or Blockbuster? Think about it.”

—“Arnold Schwarzenegger throws coal miners under the bus to mock Trump on the environment,” headline, Biz Pac Review, yesterday.

● Chaser:

Everything about America seemed so big to me, so open, so possible.

I finally arrived here in 1968. What a special day it was. I remember I arrived here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of determination, full of desire.

The presidential campaign was in full swing. I remember watching the Nixon-Humphrey presidential race on TV. A friend of mine who spoke German and English translated for me. I heard Humphrey saying things that sounded like socialism, which I had just left.

But then I heard Nixon speak. Then I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting the government off your back, lowering the taxes and strengthening the military.

Listening to Nixon speak sounded more like a breath of fresh air.

I said to my friend, I said, “What party is he?”

My friend said, “He’s a Republican.”

I said, “Then I am a Republican.”

And I have been a Republican ever since. And trust me — and trust me — in my wife’s family, that’s no small achievement.

But I am proud to be with the party of Abraham Lincoln, the party of Teddy Roosevelt, the party of Ronald Reagan, and the party of George W. Bush.

—Excerpt from then Gov. Schwarzenegger’s speech at the 2004 Republican Convention.

I’m so old, I remember when Schwarzenegger’s critics accused him of not being a very good actor.

ABOUT THAT FORMER CNN PRODUCER WHO NAILED ACOSTA: Turns out that Steve Krakauer, the former CNN producer who called White House Correspondent Jim Acosta’s latest outburst at President Donald Trump “an embarrassment at multiple levels” is quite a sharp and penetrating critic of the mainstream media. Check it out here.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Fallout: University of Missouri struggles with $50 million shortfall, reduced enrollment after racial protests. “College students who decided not to attend University of Missouri said that the environment created by the protests, as well as high costs and unfavorable funding options, caused them to turn to other schools.”

Said one student: “Students were afraid to walk on campus because of the threat of shootings on yikyak [a now-defunct anonymous messaging app]. I walked through marches at least once a week and many of those people didn’t even know why they were protesting beyond wanting equal treatment which I remember them saying they wanted a special curve just for black students.”

All this damage, just to appease a small, unrepresentative minority of students and faculty who by their nature will never actually be satisfied.

CHANGE: IRS Releases New Postcard Form 1040.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Law prof slams AAUP for defending mistreatment of student. It’s as if the AAUP is a pressure group on behalf of professors, not on behalf of academic freedom.

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WELCOME TO THE INDO-PACIFIC: An F/A-18E/F Super Hornet lands on the USS Ronald Reagan.

JOURNALISM: Reporter resigns after false tweet that Maryland shooting suspect had MAGA hat.

MICHAEL BARONE: The First Amendment was Justice Kennedy’s first priority.

In my view it makes sense to see Justice Kennedy not so much as a liberal warrior in our culture wars but as a judge who placed an especially high value on the First Amendment freedom of speech. He believed that people should be free to engage in gay sex and that organizations should be free to engage in political speech.

His concern about freedoms of expression characterized his most recent decisions. He scrutinized government efforts to force public employees to pay for political speech they opposed (Janus v. AFSCME) and to force a Christian baker to custom-design a cake for a same-sex marriage (Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission).

This led to legal scholar Rick Hasen’s speculation about retirement to call his recent decisions “final abdications” indicating “a depressing kind of defeatism” and to predict, accurately, his decision to retire. He evidently sees Justice Kennedy as a committed culture warrior for the Left.

But language in some of his most controversial opinions shows not a desire for one side’s total victory as for both side’s friendly accommodation of one another.

If only.

DEMS’ NIGHTMARE: Poll: Black, Asian, Hispanic support enough to help Trump win re-election.

EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: Freaked Out Americans Desperately Seek to Escape the News.

Just think of the news as being produced by desperate freaked out Democratic operatives with bylines, and the above headline from Bloomberg Media makes perfect sense.

(Classical reference in headline.)

CPR IS NICE, but you should also learn about bleeding control.

REPORT: Trump doesn’t intend to ask Supreme Court candidates about Roe v. Wade.