It’s early and a poll’s a poll’s a poll. And Rasmussen’s an outlier in this. But like all lives, Rasmussen matters.

It was the third straight week Trump led the Rasmussen poll.

Source: Trump leads Clinton by 7 points: Rasmussen poll | TheHill

Swing-state blues no more — at this point.

Republican hopes to hold the Senate are being bolstered by a Quinnipiac University poll showing GOP incumbents leading in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, three critical swing states.

“The numbers seem to be breaking the Republican way in the battle for control of the U.S. Senate, at least when it comes to the critical swing states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.

Getting used to Trump.

Source: Quinnipiac Poll: GOP Looks to Hold Senate As Dem Swing State Challengers Falter; ‘Trump No Hindrance Down-Ticket’ – Breitbart

 

By James Taranto, who is catching up with my thinking before I had even revealed it:

Longtime readers know this column does not [approve of “fact check” journalism].

Some good work is done under the rubric of “fact checking,” but the label is deceptive.

Calling it “fact checking” is meant to convey an extra degree of objective authority, but “fact check” journalists do not limit themselves to questions of verifiable objective fact.

They present themselves naively and deceptively as above the fray.

Frequently they accuse politicians of dishonesty interpreting facts that are not in dispute. Sometimes their “rulings” are mere opinions on matters about which they do not know the facts, or that are not factual questions at all.

Read JT further on: How to Destroy Journalism – WSJ

. . . He’d be a fool not to, of course.

“This has to be dealt with very harshly,” he said. “I’d be making it very, very hard for people to come into our country from terrorist countries.”

Source: Trump on ‘horrific’ France attack: ‘Here we go again’ | TheHill

 

 

 

. . . says Media Research Center, revving up for the GOP convention. Stay tuned.

The enemy within?

In a speech delivered to the Annual MAS-ICNA (Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle of North America) Convention in December 2015, Nihad Awad, the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), urged Muslim Americans to take up the cause of Black Lives Matter.

“Black Lives Matter is our matter,” he said; “Black Lives Matter is our campaign.”

At the same conference, Khalilah Sabra, another activist, told the Muslim audience, “Basically you are the new black people of America… We are the “community that staged a revolution across the world. If we could do that, why can’t we have that revolution in America?”

“That revolution” is apparently a reference to the “Arab Spring” revolutions which were inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood and which brought death and destruction to wide swaths of the Middle East and North Africa.

This kind of talk does no favors for Muslims who want nothing to do with disruption.

Source: Islam, Revolution, and Black Lives Matter – Crisis Magazine

It’s what they do.

The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) reports that its affiliates ended the lives of nearly one million unborn children in 2015. In all 964,325

Source: Planned Parenthood Killed 964,325 Unborn Babies in Abortions Worldwide Last Year | LifeNews.com

Wednesday’s event didn’t feature a single athlete condemning the “Ferguson Effect,” where cops are pulling back from fully doing their work following the BLM uprising and the drumbeat of cultural criticism.

Maybe they’ll mention it at the 2017 ESPY Awards. Just don’t hold your breath.

You could say you can’t blame the roundballers, who have to concentrate on game films, etc. Yet and still, they are appallingly uninformed. How could it be otherwise?

A just-released study by a black Harvard professor crushed the BLM mantra about shootings involving police officers and people of color.

So did excellent reporting by Heather Mac Donald. Apparently, Wade [heading for murder capital Chicago to join the Bulls] didn’t see that information. It’s not fully his fault. The media did its best to downplay it.

They have their narrative.

Source: LeBron and Co. Turn ESPYs Into Black Lives Matter Propaganda | PJ Media

Gimme those ol’ unisex toilets, gimme those ol’ unisex toilets, gimme those ol’ unisex toilets, they’re good enough for me.

Makes me love everybody . . .

It has saved our fathers . . .

It was good for the prophet Daniel . . .

Gimme those ol’ unisex toilets, gimme those ol’ unisex toilets, gimme those ol’ unisex toilets, they’re good enough for me.

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Apologies to Songwriters BAIRD, J / TRADITIONAL, PD

And publishers Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

Read more here: David Houston – Old Time Religion Lyrics | MetroLyrics

Source for cross-dresser taking pictures: Instapundit » Blog Archive » THIS ISN’T THE 21st CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: Man Dressed as Woman Caught Taking Pictures of Woman in …

 

In case you were wondering about the Great IRS Caper, in which gummint used its long taxation arm to thwart ruling party’s opponents with view to coming national election, the pesky right-wingers in Congress are at it again.

See:  The IRS Scandal, Day 1162