CHANGE: Rubio faces Trump-like challenger in primary.

READY TO BE A COMPROMISED PRESIDENT FROM DAY ONE: Disabling security for Clinton server laid out ‘welcome mat’ for hackers.

IN LOCAL NEWS: The Colorado Springs Gazette did a story on Michael Girard and his 3 Hundred Days of Shine distillery here in Monument.

The area’s sole moonshine-focused distillery opened September 2014. Girard has produced a whole lot of his flavored liquor since. His distributor picks up at least 300 cases once a month – each containing 12 Mason jars as opposed to the traditional six-bottle cases of other liquors – and ships them to more than 250 liquor stores statewide. This month’s order, which he finished bottling Monday afternoon, totaled $25,400. That figure is $4,000 short, he said, because he did not have enough moonshine ready for the full order.

He never had trouble keeping up with demand until this month, he said. The year-and-a-half-old business has peaked at $30,000 per month, and Girard only sees that number growing. He used to run his still once a week and had enough to get by, but he presently finds himself running twice a week and in need of more help with bottling. He remains optimistic nevertheless.

“Even if demand picks up, I’ve only been running at about 30 percent capacity,” he said. “If I need to run that still four days a week and quadruple my production, I can do that.”

Good to know. I’ve been in a few times, and I’ll keep going back. The Centennial Wheat ‘shine drinks a lot like bourbon — highly recommended if you ever find yourself on the Front Range.

21ST CENTURY CRIME: Florida man brags about burglary on Facebook, lands him in jail.

Of course it was Florida Man.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Navy Testing New Super Power Laser Weapon.

THAT MEANS IT’S WORKING: Blue Cross Blue Shield pulling out of Minnesota individual insurance market due to huge losses on ObamaCare.

SHUT UP, RACIST, VOX EXPLAINED: Brexit isn’t about economics. It’s about xenophobia.

Isn’t it always?

QUESTION ASKED: Why Should Axing Due Process Stop With The Second Amendment?

Whether or not it should, it certainly wouldn’t.

HMM: Hillary Failed To Hand Over Key Email Between Her And Huma To State Department…

BLAME THE VICTIM: Europe Now Blaming Women for Provoking Muslim Rapists.

Is Brexit really such a surprise?

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Hundreds of new U.S. troops to Iraq a ‘possibility’

I had been assured that Iraq was an Obama Administration success story, and graded on a curve I suppose it is.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

If the US had a real president, he'd already have a US/UK free trade deal written up and ready to go. Sadly, we have a vain academic twit.

— Will Collier (@willcollier) June 24, 2016

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME: U.S. Won’t Block Internet in ISIS Stronghold Raqqa; Says Citizens Have Right to Internet.

Social media is how ISIS does nearly all of its overseas recruiting of terrorists like Omar Mateen.

WELL, THIS COULD PROVE INTERESTING: Federal judge overturns Cleveland’s restrictions on RNC protests.

Recreate ’68, indeed.

KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON: Democrats Abandon Due Process.

It’s this part on the Second Amendment however you might find most informative:

The bearing of arms is a sign of citizenship, which is to say, of being a full participant in government who acts through it, as opposed to subjectship, the state of being a passive being who does not act through government but who is acted upon. In that sense, it is like the ability to vote or to be eligible for service in government. Frederick Douglass understood this linkage perfectly, inasmuch as these ideas were much better understood in those more literate days. “A man’s rights rest in three boxes,” he said. “The ballot box, jury box, and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex.” The militias contemplated by the Second Amendment were armed citizen volunteers who could act to use the force of arms to keep the peace in an emergency; they are entitled to act in the peacekeeping role generally reserved for the state because, being the citizens of a republic, they are the state, the very seat of its sovereignty.

Read the whole thing, and never forget where much of Washington thinks sovereignty does or ought to reside.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Can the Queen Vote?

Short answer: Yes, but she won’t.

HILLARY CLINTON: Yes, the Economy Is Messed Up. But I Can Fix It.

How’d that happen?

RESET: Moscow Building Spy Site in Nicaragua.

I’m old enough to remember when the Moscow-loving Sandinista government was dumped by Nicaraguan voters in the heady days after the Berlin Wall was torn down.

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Sufi singer shot dead by extremists in Pakistan.

Two attackers on a motorcycle opened fire on Amjad Sabri’s car while he was on his way to a local TV appearance in the southern port city of Karachi, police officer Arif Mahar said. Sabri’s brother, who was in the car with him, was wounded.

Sabri and his late father, Ghulam Farid Sabri, were well-known qawwali singers, a style of music rooted in Sufism, or Islamic mysticism. They carried on a family tradition that goes back to the 17th century, when their ancestors performed for the Mughal emperors who ruled much of the Indian subcontinent.

What a loss.

QUESTION ASKED:

I’m honestly not being coy: What is “epic” about sitting on the floor of a room that you are legally entitled to be in?

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) June 23, 2016

BERNIE SANDERS: “It doesn’t appear that I’m going to be the nominee”

Don’t let that stop you, Bernie — we’re still feeling the Bern!

BLUE STATE BLUES: South Carolina Will Get Boost From Expanded Panama Canal.

When the Panama Canal opens up a new lane for bigger ships this month, much of the cargo they carry will be headed for this quiet corner of the Southeast, some 200 miles inland.

In the past few years, the rolling hills and farmland surrounding Greenville and Spartanburg have given way to massive warehouses and industrial parks. Restaurants in Greenville, S.C.’s formerly neglected downtown cater to corporate managers and engineers from Germany and Japan. Trucks clog the two main interstates, carrying engine parts and finished goods to and from the region’s growing number of manufacturing plants.

More development is on the way: over six million square feet of warehouse space is under construction in the Greenville-Spartanburg region, a scale typically seen in major cities like Philadelphia and St. Louis, according to CBRE Inc., a real-estate brokerage.

South Carolina is capitalizing on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s inability to raise the Bayonne Bridge in time — a project which wasn’t even scheduled until late last year and which has been delayed due to “engineering miscalculations and construction work slowed by inclement weather.”

But at least New York City is fully prepared for transgender bathrooms.

CANUCKS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN: Axe-throwing league aims for liquor license.

The Backyard Axe-Throwing League — which has been catering to Canadian axe-chucking aficionados since 2006 — is aiming for a liquor licence.

CEO Matt Wilson brushes off safety concerns, saying staff at all six BATL locations in Ontario are well trained.

In recent months, a safety specialist was brought in to inspect BATL locations as part of the application to the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario.

“We received glowing reviews on the safety to go ahead with the application for the liquor license,” Wilson said. “They were very impressed with the safety of the facility, as well as the training of our staff.”

I tried my hand at axe throwing at last year’s Bullets and Bourbon, and even sober it’s harder than it looks.

IT’S REAL, AND IT’S SPECTACULAR: The World’s Biggest Nerf Gun Can Shoot Darts at 40 MPH.

The darts are made out of toilet plungers and pool noodles.

CHANGE: Toy Companies Aim to Make Toys More Gender-Neutral.

The new push comes as opinions on what girls and boys should be playing with are changing. A survey for NPD Group by CivicScience, a Pittsburgh market-research firm, found that 41% of adults, ages 18 to 34, believe that toy makers should be marketing every toy to both boys and girls, compared with 22% of 35- to 54-year-olds. “This is a new generation [of parents] that thinks very differently,” says Juli Lennett, NPD toy-industry analyst. “They are the ones moving into the childbearing years and who are going to be buying toys for their kids.”

While it’s not a toy, I’ve found that tweens of all genders enjoy gifts of .22LR.