Being done by the usual suspects, including YOUR internal revenue service, whose record in re: Republican taxpayers has already got a lot of (but not enough) attention.

Donald Trump ‘s claim that he can’t release his tax records because they’re being audited by the Internal Revenue Service doesn’t hold up, the agency said Friday.

Source: IRS response to Trump: Nothing prevents taxpayers from showing their own return – Chicago Tribune

Black Lives Matter students in brown shirts. Bad.

Breitbart News editor Ben Shapiro delivered a speech to the Young America’s Foundation at CSU LA, despite administrators and demonstrators.

Or black shirts that Mussolini used to give out.

Source: Ben Shapiro Torches Cal State LA Faculty in ‘Diversity’ Speech

Not yet, that is. Wait until October, and if he’s the nominee, spring it on him then, when there’s an election to win.

Source: Instapundit » Blog Archive » CHUCK TODD: IT’S NOT THE MEDIA’S JOB TO VET TRUMP’S PAST. Not until he receives the nomination or…

Comparable to when IDOT leaders jiggled job titles, allowing them to move hires from forbidden to permitted, says complainer.

The late alderman’s son [Jay Stone, son of former longtime Ald. Bernard Stone (50th)] likened Burke’s alleged hiring violations to the Illinois Department of Transportation’s decision to “wrongfully classify” hundreds of jobs as “staff assistants.”

That paved the way for the hiring of political appointees under two former governors, Rod Blagojevich and Pat Quinn.

“The Chicago municipal code has allowed Burke to do the same. [It] . . . has turned obvious Shakman non-exempt jobs into Shakman-exempt jobs,” Stone wrote.

The IDOT business included its director’s hiring and promoting her stepdaughter. The matter is be recounted in my soon-to-be-published Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters. For now go here and here.

Source: Ald. Burke accused of hiring ‘political hacks’ to run $100M-a-year workers’ comp program

Not a good year, my hearties:

Though neighboring and Great Lakes states added a combined 200 factory jobs per workday on net in 2015, an average of 56 Illinois manufacturing workers, on net, received pink slips each workday during the same time.

Another feather in the cap of the Ruling Party.

Source: Illinois lost 56 manufacturing jobs per workday in 2015 | Illinois Policy | An independent government watchdog

A judge who was a Bill Clinton nominee says investigation is in order of his [Bill Clinton’s] wife as lawbreaker in yet another category.

Source: Instapundit » Blog Archive » PAUL MIRENGOFF: A Bad Day For Hillary Clinton In Federal Court. “A federal district court judge to…

Wall St. Jnl’s Bret Stephens wonders where Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh were months ago, approving Donald Trump but now not so sure.

Mr. Levin has since become more critical of Mr. Trump, though Mr. Limbaugh seems to be hedging his bets. But both men provided Mr. Trump with the margin of respectability he needed in the early months to make his campaign credible with Republican voters.

Stephens in general gives one pause, but this saying Trump needed Levin and Limbaugh respectability is something else, assuming as it does that L&L lifted T out of danger, when Trump’s rise to seeming invulnerability at least seems to be a bigger thing than that.

Source: The Trumpkins’ Lament – WSJ

Young man with touch.

Source: 3rd scene : daybreak