HANS VON SPAKOVSKY: The Clinton State Department’s Major Security Breach That Everyone Is Ignoring.

ROGER KIMBALL: It’s Oakland in Muellerville.

LINDSEY GRAHAM: Carter Page wiretap ‘not at all’ justified. “The whole FISA warrant process needs to be looked at.”

It’s like this vaunted court is really just a rubber stamp.

OPEN THREAD: The weekend’s not over yet.

JOHN HINDERAKER: The Associated Press Lies About the FISA Application.

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COLLUSION: Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina met with Obama administration officials in 2015, new report says.

BYRON YORK: FISA warrant application supports Nunes memo.

The weekend release of a highly-redacted version of the FBI’s application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to wiretap onetime Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page has renewed the argument over the Nunes memo — the brief report produced by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes detailing problems in the application. From the time of the memo’s release in February, Democrats and some in the press have denounced it as a collection of lies and mischaracterizations. On Saturday night, the denouncing started again. “The only thing the newly released FISA documents show is that Republicans have been lying for months,” the lefty think tank Center for American Progress said in a typical response.

Now, however, we have both the memo and the FISA application, if in a blacked-out state. We can compare the two. And doing so shows the Nunes memo was overwhelmingly accurate. Perhaps some Democrats do not believe it should have been written, or they dispute what it included and left out, or they do not agree with its conclusions, but it was in fact accurate.

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ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Blue-check libs light up James Comey after he takes a shot at ‘socialist left’ Dems like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

MICHAEL LEDEEN: Why Are the Democrats and the Spooks Suddenly so Ferociously Anti-Putin?

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IN REAL LIFE THE OUTRAGE MACHINE HAS BROKEN DOWN: Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Inches Higher, Buoyed by Republican Support. “Underpinning Mr. Trump’s job approval was support from 88% of Republican voters. Of the four previous White House occupants, only George W. Bush, in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, had a higher approval rating within his own party at the same point in his presidency. The survey found Democrats leading by 6 percentage points on the question of which party should control the next Congress, down from a 10-point advantage in June and 7 points in April.”

The media’s unrelenting anti-Trump negativity is a major factor here. On the one hand, without it Trump would probably be higher. On the other hand, maybe not, because if the press was fair, more people might listen to its criticism.

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FASTER, PLEASE: Plasma powered rocket could send first humans to Mars.

THE UNIMPRESSIVE CASE FOR COCONUT OIL.

’THEYBIES’? MSNBC PROMOTES PARENTS WHO TRY TO DISGUISE GENDER OF THEIR CHILDREN.

Comcast’s obsession with America’s kids is not at all creepy.

EVER HEAR OF A “SELF-LICKING ICE-CREAM CONE?” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton knows exactly what it is and he told LifeZette today.

WHY CAN’T THEY JUST PLAY IT SAFE AND GO AT NIGHT? NASA prepares to fly probe into Sun’s scorching atmosphere.