THE ORTHODOX AND THE AMISH (OR EVEN THOSE WACKY EPISCOPALS WITH THEIR NO CONTRACT BRIDGE RITUALS) DON’T TEND TO EXPLODE:  Getting It Right.

And my people? We just genuflect, genuflect, genuflect. (Yes, it’s the song.)

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

IT ISN’T THE PEARL-CLUTCHING THAT’S WORRISOME — IT’S THE ENABLING: The Great American Demographic Shift. “Import the third world’s populations without assimilation, and you import the third world’s problems along with them. Nobody should clutch his or her pearls over this.”

YES: Doug Burgum to Newsmax: ‘Geopolitics of Energy Have Changed Forever.’

“President Trump, when we take a look at the global factors that are going on here, and whether it’s the conflict in the Middle East, whether it’s diplomatically, we’ve got alignment now with Arab countries that for forever were our adversaries,” he said.

Burgum said that will turn into new markets and business partners for the U.S.

“Now, they’re aligned, moving ahead with Abraham Accords, other things that are there. Great partnerships,” he said.

“Countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE [United Arab Emirates] … UAE has taken over 3,000 attacks from the Iranians,” Burgum continued.

“So the diplomacy in the Middle East has changed forever. The geopolitics of energy have changed forever,” he said.

American energy dominance plays a huge role, too, freeing up policy options that were previously unthinkable.

Turns out, we could drill our way out of several problems.

NOT THE END OF THE WORLD — THE SUEZ WAS COMPLETELY CLOSED FROM 1967-1975:

Alternate take:

More: “It isn’t closed and those claiming it’s closed are retarded.”

WELL:

All things considered, I think I’d rather keep that genie in the bottle where it’s been since 1945.

EVERYONE NEEDS A HOBBY: Conservative think tank wants Supreme Court to legalize home whiskey distilleries.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled recently that the federal ban against home whiskey distilleries is unconstitutional. However, the 6th Circuit upheld the federal ban.

The federal government said the law is constitutional because it was enacted to prevent tax evasion and that it would be easier for a distiller working out of their home to conceal the business and therefore avoid paying taxes.

On Monday, the Buckeye Institute filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to decide between the two conflicting appeals-court rulings.

“Two courts of appeals considered the same provisions, against the same constitutional challenge, on mater-ally identical facts, within 11 days of each other, and issued opposite judgments,” Buckeye’s Monday petition to the Supreme Court states.

Legalized home-brewing revolutionized the beer industry, and could do the same for distilled spirits.

Besides, who the hell is Washington to tell us what legal products we can make in our own homes?

THE SYSTEM THEY DO SUPPORT WAS RIGGED TO RIP THEM OFF: