VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Politicking of Barack Obama. “Now, I would say in another footnote, all of these speeches at these funerals that Obama presents are basically about himself. He always relates anecdotes, not about necessarily just about the politician in question, but about his interaction with him.”

THIS IS CNN:

Will David Ellison let this …stuff… continue when he takes ownership?

IT WAS NEVER ABOUT HELPING WOMEN:

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Nationalism Sucks. Britain Might Need Some Anyway. “Like so many other bad ideas — state terror, postmodernism, the 1956 Renault Dauphine — modern nationalism was born in France. I chose nationalism for this week’s essay in part because when patriotism fails, nationalism tends to rear its ugly head.”

WE DON’T TARGET CIVILIANS, AND IT SHOWS:

EPIC FURY: Trump: ‘Practically nothing left’ to bomb in Iran.

In a phone interview with Axios, Trump said there is “practically nothing left to target,” just “little this and that. … Any time I want it to end, it will end.”

He also claimed the U.S.-Israeli military campaign “is going great.”
“We are way ahead of the timetable. We have done more damage than we thought possible, even in the original six-week period,” Trump said.

The Trump administration has offered shifting timelines and objectives for the war, which is in its 11th day and has been met with retaliatory strikes from Iran.

Trump originally said the conflict was estimated to last four to five weeks, but he announced Monday it was “pretty much” complete and would end “soon.”

The operation ought to continue until the regime runs out of money.

FROM CAROLINE FURLONG:  Debris (The Rise of the Discarded Series.)

Strength has many facets….

Lost in thought, Ayar’s mind was on his invention that would allow premature griffin cubs to survive. He had no inkling he would rescue a creature that he suspected might be rational. Who would put one of their own out to die like that?

Rhys Callahan wanted to avoid a point of known pirate activity. Then he flew directly into one, and his ship was shot out of the sky. He managed a terrifying crash-landing on the nearest planet only to find himself among regressed humans who thought he was a god. When they realized he wasn’t, they became angry. Then they chained him to an upthrust boulder as a sacrifice to their local deity.

Neither Ayar nor Rhys ever expected to meet one another. But now that they have, maybe together they can fight for both their kinds. First, though, they need to learn how to communicate – and hope that neither of them is killed before they can get their enterprise off the ground!

Welcome to the first book in the Rise of the Discarded series!

BLUE STATE EXODUS ACCELERATES: The prospect of a new and steep individual income tax is accelerating the exodus of Washington state residents and it appears to be part of a continuing and grow national move to the Mountain West and the South.

ECONOMIC NEWS:

I ASSUME ALL SUCH REPORTS ARE HOAXES PENDING ACTUAL EVIDENCE:

YOU CAN HAVE CONFIDENCE IN ME:  I am starting a new (part-time) job in a couple of weeks.   My new employer did a background check on me (which may have been required by some state law).  I can now state authoritatively that I am not a sex offender.

That’s a relief.

YOU CAN’T HATE THE MSM ENOUGH:  CNN Must Go.