The Missing Obama Millions.

Our analysis shows that while 9 percent of Obama 2012 voters went for Mr. Trump in 2016, 7 percent — that’s more than four million missing voters — stayed home. Three percent voted for a third-party candidate.

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: Not ‘Toxic Masculinity,’ but None: Most Mass Shooters Are Fatherless.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Joe Biden took his son Hunter on official trip to China – ten days before communist regime’s bank signed deal with private equity firm Biden jnr runs with John Kerry’s son, book reveals.

SHARPTON LIKENS HIMSELF TO JAMES BOND VS KOCH BROTHER ‘VILLAINS.’ If Sharpton opposes the Kochs, that makes him anti-gay marriage, pro-police state, pro-Patriot Act, and anti-legalized drugs. Talk about being a contrarian at MSNBC

from waaaaay back in March: Documents suggest possible coordination between CIA, FBI, Obama WH and Dem officials early in Trump-Russia probe: investigators.

FROM AL HUNT, SOME ACTUAL GOOD ADVICE FOR DEMOCRATS: When You Insult Trump Voters, You Make It Hard To Get Them Back.

HOW’S ABOUT NO?   Democrats’ Midterm Playbook: Repeal the GOP Tax Cuts…and the Second Amendment.  And don't forget impeachent!

RUSS ROBERTS:

The current state of the country and the current state of political and intellectual conversation depresses me in a way that it never has before. You have to understand — I’m never happy with the state of the country — that’s the inevitable fate of holding an ideological position that rarely gets any traction — I’m a classical liberal who’d like government to be dramatically smaller than it is now.

But the world today feels different. Everything feels angrier. . . .

Maybe it’s paranoia but it’s been a long time since I felt the thinness of the veneer of civilization and our vulnerability to a sequence of events that might threaten not just the policy positions I might favor but the very existence of the American experiment.

California edition:

Why California Has the Nation's Worst Poverty Rate

CALIFORNIA IN A SINGLE HEADLINE: Anaheim to evict homeless to make way for flood-control project and preserve bike path.

YES, PROVIDED YOU’RE ALREADY WELL-OFF: Does the California Model Really Work?

HOW REGULATIONS MADE CALIFORNIA’S FIRES WORSE:

CALIFORNIA ISN’T FUNNY ANYMORE:  Idiot CA Legislators Demand Corporations Give Fed Tax Savings Back To State.

L.A.’S HOMELESSNESS SURGED 75% IN SIX YEARS. HERE’S WHY THE CRISIS HAS BEEN DECADES IN THE MAKING:

California’s hidden homeless: Teachers, chefs, nurses and other middle class workers living in cars in parking lots because of the state’s crazy property prices.

10 tweets that explain why conservatives don’t want to be governed by a Californian.

As Kate of Canada’s Small Dead Animals blog titles her recurring posts on California craziness, “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas, Hear My Prayer.”

California Wants to Fine You $500 for Washing Your Car With a Garden Hose

BLUE STATE BLUES: California has worst ‘quality of life’ in US, study says.

STEPHEN KRUISER: Dear California: Call Me When the Commies Leave.

California’s Suicide Attempt, Part 3: The Wages of Gentry Liberalism.

MOTHER JONES: California Secessionists Are Hoping For A Trump Bump. “We’re not Americans, we’re—different.”

THEY TOLD ME IF TRUMP WERE ELECTED, WE’D SEE OPEN, UNASHAMED RACISM. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Prof exempts ‘black fraternities’ from call to abolish frats.

THEY TOLD ME IF DONALD TRUMP WERE ELECTED, OPEN RACISM WOULD BE NORMALIZED. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Wisconsin College Dems leader: ‘I f—ing hate white men.’

THEY TOLD ME IF TRUMP WERE ELECTED, WE’D SEE OPEN RACISM ON THE SENATE FLOOR. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! “Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer faced a stern rebuke from congressional colleagues for citing skin color in voting against a white federal judge nominee earlier this week.”

THEY TOLD ME IF DONALD TRUMP WERE ELECTED, WE’D SEE OPEN RACISM. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Texas students launch ‘No Whites Allowed’ magazine.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Local Bakers Sue Oberlin for Libel, Slander: Bakers were accused of racial bias for prosecuting three shoplifters, one of whom is white.

SURPRISE? Black Female Writer For Lena Dunham’s ‘Girls’ Quits. She Says Dunham Is A Racist.

SENATOR WARREN IS LYING: Elizabeth Warren denies using Native American heritage to ‘get ahead’. If Warren or her defenders have a plausible explanation as to why she listed herself as a “minority” law professor until she got her job at Harvard, and then removed herself from that list, I’ve yet to hear it.

Related: It’s time for Elizabeth Warren to apologize for her Native American deception: “The details of what Warren did, and how she tried to conceal it, are set forth at Elizabeth Warren Wiki, a website we created to put in one place the research documenting Warren’s deception. It’s all there, including the rundown of her highly questionable, if not downright debunked, family lore stories.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Here’s Tucker Carlson’s handy list of 100 racist things from 2017. Is your favorite on the list?

WELL, THAT’S NECESSARY TO REFLECT THE SOUL OF ITS NAMESAKE: So, the Obama Presidential Library Is Really Ugly.

SCOTT ADAMS: President Trump Earns the Highest Presidential Approval Level of All Time.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF POTTY MOUTH PRESIDENTS: Bet you can’t guess who gets the top spot.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: President Nobama: Trump is commonsensically undoing, piece by piece, the main components of Obama’s legacy.

FOR ONE, HE COULD TAKE UP SMOKING: Reporter to White House Doc: How Can Trump Become as Fit as Obama?

WINNING: U.S. rising as world’s ‘undisputed’ energy leader.

I remember being assured by the highest authorities that we couldn’t drill our way to energy independence, and that we were almost out of oil anyway.

posted ONLY because that was an awesomesketch.  IT’S TIME TO REBOOT THAT PHIL HARTMAN “TWO FACES OF RONALD REAGAN” SKETCH: CIA director: Trump grasps intelligence at same level as 25-year veteran.

HEH: Democratic lawmaker in Virginia holds hammer-and-sickle image behind colleague aligned with Democratic Socialists.

POLITICIAN'S CAMPAIGN FINED FOR ILLEGAL COORDINATION WITH FOREIGN ENTITY.  "You won't BELIEVE who it wasl!"

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON ON THE RAPID ‘PROGRESS’ OF PROGRESSIVISM:

BUT OF COURSE: Maxine Waters Vows Legislation On Reparations If Dems Retake Congress.

Earlier:

● Maxine Waters Basks in Glow of “Impeach 45” Chant.

● So the Democrats have decided to run on abolishing ICE.

● Democrats Release Tax-Hike Plan.

As Steve noted last month, “All Democrats have to do is not act crazy, somebody recently quipped, and they can’t even manage that.”

CHIEF SPREADING BULL: Elizabeth Warren refuses DNA test to prove Native American heritage. On the one hand, those tests aren’t super-reliable. On the other hand, Elizabeth Warren is a fraud.

WELL, IF LOWER ILLINOIS IS GOING TO SECEDE FROM CHICAGOLAND, THIS IS THE START: ‘Sanctuary county’ declared for Illinois gun owners; citizens ‘tired of being pushed around.’

Related: Splitsylvania: State Secession and What to Do About It.

Kid Sues Over First Amendment Right to Second Amendment Shirt: New at Reason

VIDEO: ‘I Advise You to Back the **** Up’: Armed Woman Scared off Alleged Robber.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Hornady Won’t Sell to NY State Agencies After Comptroller Threatens Banks Over Gun Business.

WHY BMI IS STUPID: Athletes Who Are The Same Size As Donald Trump.

AN INCONVENIENT STUDY: New Study Just Threw Cold Water On Worst-Case Global Warming Scenarios.

The End of the Rainbow

and for that I apologize.

DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE AND THE MEMORY HOLE: Kids don’t know about the Holocaust because schools are pre-occupied with social justice.

THE USE AND ABUSE OF THE MEMORY OF ANNE FRANK: “Five years ago, I reported that the Left was erasing Anne Frank’s Jewishness. Since then, the Left has begun using her to support Israel’s destruction.”

(Via Power Line.)

Related: It’s come to this: Anne Frank House banned Orthodox Jewish employee from wearing his yarmulke at work.

MEANWHILE, BACK IN ANGELA MERKEL’S GERMANY: Germany: Muslim rappers who mocked Auschwitz victims given music prize on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

History

Kennedy Lied, People Died-and the Media Covered it Up. “I refer, of course, to the Bay of Pigs freedom-fight, 57 years ago last month.”

SO MUCH FOR LEARNING THEORY: “Another Nail In The Coffin For ‘Learning Styles.'”  My prediction: They’ll still be pushing this in colleges of education a decade from now.

FISKING A MEME: Teachers unions using viral media to make demands the average taxpayer wouldn’t have the nerve to ask for. So I fisked it

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: 10 Things Teachers Did Not Have to Deal With 10 Years Ago.

Twofer:  Put students on the adulthood track and From ‘early college’ to careers

GIVING HIGH SCHOOL KIDS A TWO-HOUR LUNCH SO THEY CAN GRAB A NAP? WHAT COULD GO WRONG?   Here’s proof that teens really just need a nap.  Actually I'd appreciate one.