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FASTER, PLEASE: Is This Obamacare’s Last Dance?

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: THIS IS GOOD ADVICE. Chris Rock tells Barack Obama to stay off television.

DEMOCRAT JOE MANCHIN: Come to Think of It, Endorsing Hillary in 2016 Was Actually a Mistake.

MORE GRIM NEWS TODAY: Fox News star Charles Krauthammer reveals he has weeks to live in heartbreaking letter.

SARAH HOYT: What Would King Solomon Do with Immigrant Children?

COLD WAR II: U.S. officials prepare to thwart Chinese spying at Singapore summit. “The Chinese have used everything from bugged hotel keys to ‘friendship’ pins to spy on Americans — and they’re getting better at it all the time.”

SALENA ZITO: “Funny where you find bright spots of humanity — accident on I-70 few miles ahead. Strangers start to get out of their car & talk & laugh with each other as the time passes. This trucker’s puppy has won everyone over. Communities form in the most interesting ways.”

NOW THAT’S REAL SOCIALISM: Nicaragua is unraveling.

Nicaragua is showing all the symptoms of a failed state. At the center of the storm is the corrupt minority government of Daniel Ortega, the former revolutionary leader who now acts more like a cartel boss than a president. Over the past seven weeks, Ortega’s police and paramilitaries have killed more than 120 people, mostly students and other young protesters who are demanding the president’s ouster and a return to democracy, according to a human-rights group. Police hunt students like enemy combatants. Sandinista Youth paramilitaries, armed and paid by Ortega’s party, drive around in pickup trucks attacking protesters. Gangs of masked men loot and burn shops with impunity. Cops wear civilian clothing, and some paramilitaries dress in police uniforms. “This is starting to look more like Syria than Caracas,” one Nicaraguan business leader told me.

The asymmetrical fighting has claimed the lives of at least 120 people, including one U.S. citizen, and injured more than 1,000, according to the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (known by its Spanish acronym Cenidh). Most of the fatalities have reportedly been unarmed young people, including a 15-year-old shot in the neck for bringing water to student protesters.

Reagan was 100% right about the Sandinistas.

THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO SHOW UP: Women who refuse to have babies — to save the planet!

AFTER KATE SPADE’S DEATH, THINK OF THE SURVIVORS:

If someone is contemplating suicide, they should know the utter devastation that will be left in their wake. While those who have died may have thought the world a better place without them, we survivors are living witness to the fact that it is not, that our worlds will not ever be whole without them in it.

In the wake of CNN’s announcement that Anthony Bourdain has committed suicide, read the whole thing.

Related: Playwright Christopher Shinn tweets, “Crucial after the suicides of Kate Spade & Anthony Bourdain to talk about, beyond individual psyche/biology, the superficial culture we’ve created in which one’s only value is their current, temporary desirability & in which one feels unforgivable for not living up to one’s image”

More: Ben Shapiro asks today, “What Can We Do To Stop Suicide?”

ROGER SIMON: Is Trump Unprepared to Negotiate with Kim?

GOOD RIDDANCE: ‘Commie Cadet’ Spenser Rapone Leaving Army with ‘Less Than Honorable Discharge.’

THE RETURN OF FEDERALISM: Senators introduce bipartisan bill to protect state laws on marijuana.

THERANOS, ELIZABETH HOLMES, AND THE CULT OF SILICON VALLEY: At Reason TV, Nick Gillespie sits down with John Carreyrou, the Wall Street Journal reporter who unmasked Holmes.

POLL: Seattle Residents Fed Up With Spending More On The Homeless With Little To Show For It.

SALENA ZITO GETS STUCK IN TRAFFIC and finds even more of the real America.

Don’t miss the responses, either.

NEO-NEOCON: “Should Brazil keep its Amazon tribes from taking the lives of their children?”

A FEW THOUGHTS ON ANTHONY BOURDAIN from a longtime fan.

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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Deep Stater Busted for Lying about Leaking and Much, Much More. “A former staffer on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee (SSCI, actually pronounced “sissy”) was busted for lying to the FBI about leaking classified information to the press. He wasn’t busted for leaking, just lying, which is interesting.”

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM? Progressives, Stop Comparing Immigrants to Gang Members, It’s Offensive.

ILLINOIS IS BETTER OFF BANKRUPT: “The best hope for a failed state such as Illinois is to let the state go bankrupt.”

The State of Illinois incurred deficits reaching nearly $15 billion in 2017, and those deficits are projected to double to $30 billion in 2018. Illinois has also accumulated hundreds of billions in unfunded liabilities in public sector pension and health-care plans. This has exposed local jurisdictions to the risk of default or bankruptcy. In response, Illinois has issued large bailouts, further weakening the finances of the state’s government. The courts have exacerbated this problem by ruling the Illinois Constitution mandates state bailouts for public sector pension and health plans.

Fiscal rules in Illinois have been ineffective in constraining deficits and debt. Illinois, like 48 other states, has a balanced budget provision in its state constitution. But, in recent years, the state legislature has failed to pass a budget at all — let alone one that would balance revenues and expenditures.

In April 2018, a constitutional amendment to cap the rate of growth in spending at the rate of growth in the state economy was introduced in Illinois’ legislature. A majority of Illinois state legislators have yet to show support for such a fiscal rule.

Of course they haven’t, because they’re expecting another bailout.

JUST THINK OF OLD MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND THEIR ANGER MAKES PERFECT SENSE: Media Melts Down After Trump Calls On The Daily Caller.