You go to work for Obama and lose your reputation, or damage it, expunging stuff that Obama makes you expunge.

Eventually the administration caved, but not before Attorney General Lynch, who had a fine reputation as a prosecutor, was met with incredulity and ridicule on the Internet.

A writer for Tablet Magazine rushed out an open letter to Mrs. Lynch that was dripping with sarcasm. “You, like the president, know that all that talk of radical Islam having anything at all to do with any violent attack on innocent civilians anywhere is just a ‘political distraction,’ the kind of drivel only dumb Republicans believe. We’re enlightened. We know better. And we have the power to literally rewrite history.”

God, it’s taking a page from the Soviets!

Source: Paging Mr. Orwell – The New York Sun

Do you lock it down, as the notable G.F. Seib has it here?

A few weeks ago, after Donald Trump locked down the Republican presidential nomination, a series of polls showed him roughly even with or a bit ahead of Hillary Clinton, and Democrats went into a slight panic.

Last week, after Mrs. Clinton had locked down the Democratic nomination, a series of polls showed Mr. Trump falling well behind Mrs. Clinton, in two cases by 12 percentage points, and Republicans went into full-scale panic.

Or do you lock it up?

Up or down? A prison is locked down in an emergency, keeping inmates locked up. It’s a lock, claims the supposed winner of anything.

If locked down, does each candidate lock everything up? Is he or she locked in? When is a lock not a lock? When a candidate claims victory but then loses.

Source: How an Improbable Trump Victory Could Happen – WSJ

Top cop Eddie Johnson bemoans violence after a deadly weekend.

Fresh off another violent weekend in Chicago, police Superintendent Eddie Johnson stuck to familiar themes during a panel discussion Monday at the City Club of Chicago , lamenting the rocky relationship between his department and minority communities beset by violence and the need to hold repeat gun offenders more accountable.

After a 59-shot, 13-dead weekend, it’s all about guns, diversity, disinvestment in black ‘hoods (you’d think the money’d be pouring in, wouldn’t you? — thank you, Fr. Pfleger), social media (!).

Nothing about law enforcement: techniques, strategy, successes elsewhere. Thank you, Supt. Johnson and the other upstanding citizens at this gathering, especially fellow panelists Kim Foxx, Dem nominee for state’s attorney, Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton, mother of slain teen Hadiya Pendleton, and Fr. Pfleger.

On the other hand, they are only following the accepted narrative.

Entering London in monarchical splendor.

Not very high, when focus is on cops’ misconduct, when CPS employe is shot right outside a school.

“When are we gonna move?” kid asks his father.

First, you crack down on shooters, wouldn’t you say? Wouldn’t that be your first priority?

Envy is a terrible thing.

Melecio accused the mostly white crowd of having a double standard that weighed the LGBTQ community above those of “people of color.”
“I wish this many people came out to our racial demonstrations and our Black Lives Matter movement,” Melecio told the crowd, which the Columbia Missourian estimated at more than 800.
One man who left the event upset accused organizers of having invented a “race issue” out of a “homophobic attack” by gunman Omar Mateen, who shot and killed 49 people over three hours at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.

Hey, it’s what they know.

Slams the home-grown extremism expert for weakening his country.

Except once, in this:

The June 15 event also served as a platform for local leaders to vigorously condemn what Tabassum Haleem, executive director of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, called a “barbaric assault.”

“We unequivocally say that such an act of hate-fueled violence has no place in any faith, including Islam,” Haleem said. “As people of faith, we believe that all human beings have the right to safety and security, and that each and every human right is inviolable.”

“Terror” not once.

This is the narrative, as we know.

He testified today:

(CNN)ISIS can draw on a “large cadre of Western fighters” that could attack in the U.S. and the terror threat posed by the group remains as dangerous as ever despite efforts to crush it militarily, the director of the CIA said Thursday.

“Unfortunately, despite all our progress against ISIL on the battlefield and in the financial realm, our efforts have not reduced the group’s terrorism capability and global reach,” CIA Director John Brennan testified to Congress using another acronym for the group.
“The resources needed for terrorism are very modest, and the group would have to suffer even heavier losses of territory, manpower and money for its terrorist capacity to decline significantly,” Brennan added. “In fact, as the pressure mounts on ISIL, we judge that it will intensify its global terror campaign to maintain its dominance of the global terrorism agenda.”
Brennan warned that the group already is preparing more attacks, including by infiltrating refugees into western nations.

What, me worry? says Obama, refusing to even talk about, focused on “home-grown extremism,” emphasis on extremism. A blind spot at best, right?