OUT TOMORROW FROM MY FRIEND NIKKI GOESER: Stalked And Defenseless: How Gun Control Helped My Stalker Murder My Husband in Front of Me.

COMIC RELIEF FROM REP. AL GREEN: Impeach Trump Because of . . . Slavery?

YEAH, WE SHOULD AT LEAST BE ABLE TO EXPECT THAT THEY WON’T TURN TERRORIST ON OUR SOIL: Program that allows foreigners to train with U.S. military under scrutiny following terrorist attack.

BOTTOM STORY OF ALL TIME: Donald Trump Is Demeaning Congress.

I realize this is just an NYT editorial aimed at NYT readers actually hardy enough to wade through the editorial page. But what do normal people think when they read headlines like this?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Legacy of Low-Bar Impeachment.

ON THIS DAY IN 1608, JOHN MILTON WAS BORN: He wasn’t the type to sweat fake news: “Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt here strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?”

SALENA ZITO: He Makes A Village.

Tyler Merritt has taken the saying “It takes a village to raise a child” and turned it a bit sideways. He’s building a village, literally, to allow adults to raise themselves up. His village is a stabilizing rail, or a stepping stone to a better life.

Merritt, a former special operations air mission commander, is trying to help his military brothers and sisters who have found themselves post-military service one paycheck away from financial collapse, as well as those struggling to find their way through modern civilian life, which does not begin and end with a stated purpose in the way military service does.
“Our most recent initiative is our veterans village,” said Merritt, whose post-military life makes him an unlikely entrepreneur and philanthropist as the CEO of Nine Line Apparel and president of Nine Line Foundation.

Merritt is standing outside of the massive apparel store he founded in 2012 that quickly went from a handful of employees, mostly family, to a staff of more than 240, mostly veterans. He’s also built up a deeply loyal cross-country customer base for the company’s patriotic gear.

He is unassuming, charming, and never sits still. On this bright and warm Georgia day, Merritt is pacing back and forth, phone in hand, trying to connect airline executives with families who lost loved ones in a military training accident, getting them to their family members as quickly as possible.

Read the whole thing. But you knew that because it’s by Salena Zito.

FLASHBACK: Trump Pushes to Allow Troops to Carry Personal Weapons on Bases. If the brass hadn’t resisted this, Pensacola might have gone differently. Instead, even those standing watch weren’t armed. An unarmed guard isn’t a guard at all, but something more like a hall monitor.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Daily Beast: Tom Steyer Is Running a Donor Scam.

(Link safe; goes to NewsBusters.)

WOW: America’s Missile That Uses Sword Blades Instead Of Explosives Has Struck Again In Syria. “For the second time this week, the secretive AGM-114R9X Hellfire missile has punched a hole through a car’s roof and sliced its target to death.”

THAT’S AWFULLY BOLD OF THEM, GIVEN THAT THEY’RE DEALING WITH THE WORLD’S #1 OIL PRODUCER: Saudi Government Not Cooperating Fully With FBI Over Pensacola Terror Attack.

THE HORRORS OF THE TRUMP ECONOMY: The U.S. Furniture Industry Is Back—but There Aren’t Enough Workers.

Here’s the good news: There are now more reasons to make furniture in the U.S. than at any point since the financial crisis. Crate & Barrel and Williams-Sonoma Inc. are expanding manufacturing in the U.S., and the factories of longtime furniture makers are humming.

Here’s the bad news: There aren’t enough skilled workers available to support the renaissance.

Manufacturers across the country are struggling to fill open slots in a tight U.S. labor market. Furniture companies, which for decades have been hit by competition from China, face special challenges after years of shrinking. A generation of prospective sewers and upholsterers have steered clear of the industry, leaving it heavily reliant on an aging workforce.

What a disaster. But the Democrats have a plan to fix this!

UH-HUH: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Blames ‘White America’ for NFL’s Rejection of Colin Kaepernick.

TRANSGENDER BATHROOM CASE: Are federally funded schools required to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms, locker rooms and showers that match their gender identity? Or does the law permit the schools flexibility in dealing with transgender cases?

A few years ago that question made it up to the Supreme Court in Gloucester County School Board v. G.G. While the case was pending, however, the Trump Administration withdrew the Obama-Era policy that took the position that schools must assign anatomical boys who identify as girls to the girls’ facilities (and vice versa). In view of that change, the case was sent back down for further consideration. Recently, the District Court again held for the student G.G.   The case is now once again on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Peter Kirsanow (my colleague on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights) and I filed an amicus curiae brief in our private capacities when the case was in the Supreme Court. If it gets to the Supreme Court again, we hope to file that brief again (with small modifications in view of the changed circumstances of the case). But in case you’re dying to know, here’s our conclusion: There is nothing in the law that requires schools to follow one practice or another. They have discretion.

POST-BREAKUP ACCUSATIONS SHOULD BE PRESUMED SUSPECT: Ashe Schow: She Accused Him Of Sexual Assault After They Broke Up. He Was Punished, But The School Just Settled.

Universities shouldn’t address sexual assault claims, but should refer them to the police.

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter Takes Down Fox News Host Tweets with Pensacola Shooter Manifesto.

ARE YOU REMINDED OF JOHN GALT BY THE 2020 DEMS? The R Street Institute’s James Wallner reminds us of the regime’s last plan in “Atlas Shrugged” and points to the similarities with today’s Washington Establishment:

The regime promised the John Galt Plan “will reconcile all conflicts. It will protect the property of the rich and give a greater share to the poor. It will cut down the burden of your taxes and provide you with more government benefits. It will lower prices and raise wages. It will give more freedom to the individual and strengthen the bonds of collective obligations. It will combine the efficiency of free enterprise with the generosity of a planned economy.”

Definitely worth reading, as an indictment of both parties and a reminder to Trump that going along on suicidal budgets is not what he was elected to do.

OBJECTIVELY PRO-FRAUD: House Democrats Pass Bill to Fight Voter ID Laws Nationwide.

I HAVE A PRETTY GOOD IDEA WHICH GOP SENATORS WOULD BE HAPPY TO HANG SEPARATELY: Republicans Lack The Votes To Call Trump Impeachment Trial Witnesses: “That proceeding, however, is also full of unknowns. At a meeting with senior White House officials and senators in the Roosevelt Room of the White House almost three weeks ago, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, made clear that there are not enough Senate votes to approve some of the edgier witnesses that Democrats and Republicans want to call. While he mentioned no names, it was interpreted by those in the room to refer to people like Hunter Biden, the son of the former vice president, whom Mr. Trump pushed Ukraine to investigate.”

I REMEMBER WHEN THE GLOBE PUBLISHED FAKE PICS OF US TROOPS RAPING CIVILIANS THAT TURNED OUT TO COME FROM A PORN SITE. How the Boston Globe creates Fake News.

PREACHING A CONSPIRACY THEORY: The 1619 Project offers bitterness, fragility, and intellectual corruption—not history. If the NYT is willing to put so many obvious lies forward as history, how can we trust what it puts forward as news? Answer: We can’t.

HMM: What’s Going on With Drudge? Rasmussen Claims ‘Matt’s Not There Anymore…Word Is He Sold.’