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This is a great example of the current state, and competence, of American Journalism.  Worse yet, this example shows the U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, didn?t even know what?s goi…

The last refuge of the Trump apologist is the anti-elite rant. It goes something like this: The elite is getting what it deserves. Living in their gated communities, they advocated policies that benefited them — indifferent to the consequences. They got cheap gardeners when Americans who work with their hands lost jobs. They got to feel good about “diversity” while America opened its doors to terrorists. They enjoyed cheap consumer goods while plants closed. They embroil America in wars that they don’t have the will to win. A pox on their house. They deserve to fail. Lord knows, the American elite is a target-rich environment. I concur with much of the critique. There’s not much that’s elite about our modern technocrats. There’s not much that’s actually elite about our modern political class. Many of them do lack character. Obama’s elites have squandered American military victories. Some of them even go beyond incompetence into outright corruption. But here’s the problem — a civil society is built on a foundation of mutual, interlocking, and unconditional responsibilities. Failure in one segment of political culture does not in any way excuse failure in the others. Indeed, it actually highlights and enhances the obligation of everyone else. This reality is self-evident in government. If a president is a failure, both Congress and the Supreme Court are under increased pressure to either check the chief executive’s excesses or steer the ship of state on a rational course. Indeed, the Constitution contains explicit checks on each branch of government — up to and including allowing for the impeachment and removal of the “President, Vice President, and all Civil Officers of the United States” and requiring “good behaviour” for Supreme Court justices and judges of the inferior courts. This is Civics 101, of course, but the obligation to check government — to step up when it fails — also applies to citizens. Democracy fails when the people fail. And, yes, the people can fail. In fact, it was not long ago that it was fashionable for Republicans to bemoan the “low-information voters” who put Obama over the top. They’d e-mail around YouTube clips, chortling at Democratic voters who thought Sarah Palin or Paul Ryan were Obama’s vice-presidential picks or had no idea that Osama bin Laden was dead. They snorted at the Obama-worship and laughed at people who thought he’d make it easier to pay their mortgage. Citizens have a responsibility to stay reasonably informed, to actually know something about a candidate’s positions and character. Who’s laughing now? GOP primary voters, including many of the same people who mocked the Democrats, actually selected a low-information nominee. Donald Trump would struggle to pass high-school civics, and in more than a year on the campaign trail, he hasn’t even tried to learn about our nation, its economy, or its military. No amount of chortling over his ability to defeat Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, or Ted Cruz changes that fact. He’s on every side of virtually every issue in part because he doesn’t truly know any issue. He compounds his ignorance by refusing to listen to advice and would rather humiliate even his allies (remember the Chris Christie hostage video?) than be seen as taking their counsel. He has no idea how to fight ISIS because he doesn’t have the slightest clue about the military’s capabilities, much less any knowledge of military strategy. In other words, millions of GOP voters chose to respond to failed elitism with something worse — aggressive, arrogant idiocy. And, by the way, it’s no excuse that many of them actually had no idea what they were doing — that they didn’t know much about Trump and were only vaguely aware of his many gaffes and failures. Citizens have a responsibility to stay reasonably informed, to actually know something about a candidate’s positions and character. #related#Yes, I know that many of his voters are frustrated, salt-of-the-earth Americans. Many of them are people who’ve done great things for their country and for their communities. Some of them are my friends and neighbors. Like many conservatives, I’ve had more hard conversations with good people than during any other election, ever. And I say now in print what I’ve said countless times in person. Another man’s (or woman’s) failure does not excuse your own foolishness. If you’re going to rip the “elite,” be better than the elite. As Trump continues to falter, surprising even the most hardened Never Trump cynics with the sheer extent of his malice and ignorance, the search for scapegoats will only accelerate. The GOP will be consumed with bitterness and finger-pointing. But Trump voters, there’s no need for recriminations or blame-shifting. When considering who’s at fault for the debacle we face, there’s only one person you need to blame. The man in the mirror. This is the world you made. — David French is an attorney and a staff writer at National Review.

A university president says that Hillary Clinton’s plan for tuition-free college at public universities could harm students at private schools.

UW-Platteville officials held a cautionary meeting with students who donned the offensive costumes.

In this election we have a candidate who has said some incredibly ignorant things that run counter to the long established principles of the party that he represents. Huge numbers of people that might otherwise be inclined to vote for him are baffled by the fact he's going out of his way to alienate them, and lots of sympathetic political observers are tearing their hair out over why he isn't learning from his mistakes. Oh, and Donald Trump has said some pretty dumb things as well. //

Other Thursday surveys have shown her leading in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Michigan.

One of my all-time favorite lines is from Henry Thoreau: “Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.” It came to mind this week when the White House and Stat…

The 11 million illegal aliens in the U.S. today “crossed our borders like so many before them” yet they don’t have a vote, “but they must have a voice” in the Democratic Party and “our nation,” former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told the Democratic National Convention Thursday night in Philadelphia.

Mark Levin said tonight on his show that Hillary may end up winning by a landslide if something doesn’t change in the Trump campaign. Responding to Giuliani, Levin said the American people do…

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President Obama, in an amazing display of self-adulation, gave a lengthy speech to the Disabled American Veterans in Atlanta, Ga., this week, in which he boasted about all the progress he's made in delivering better health care to veterans. Obama focused on how much his administration is sup

Just don't criticize ghostbusters.

Paul Nehlen raged against Speaker Paul Ryan during a press conference Wednesday afternoon in Kenosha. ( KENOSHA NEWS PHOTO BY DANIEL GAITAN )

“Today’s political divide is…”

How little does Donald Trump care about possibly crippling not only his own presidential candidacy but also the candidacies of Republicans running for office because he is determined to go his won way and disdain counsel? This little: according to one Trump staffer, speaking to US News and World Report: "He's not satisfied with what he's getting. So he's basically gone rogue."

A backlash from alumni is an unexpected aftershock of recent campus disruptions, as some colleges have reported a decline in donations and a rise in complaints.

On Wednesday, pathological liar Hillary Clinton did an interview with 9News in which she rattled off fabrication after fabrication. Fortunately for Clinton, the entire media have been focused, laserlike, on Donald Trump making a complete and utter fool of himself, and so they ignored Hillary’s lies. The interview ran nine and a half minutes. In the first six minutes, Hillary clocked four lies:

Terri O’Neill, feminist professor and president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), said she believes women should have the option to abort their unborn babies even if they are considered children.

After hyping “campaign chaos” for Donald Trump on Thursday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie turned to Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd and freely admitted the glaring media double standard in covering the presidential race: “And what irritates so many Republicans is that if it were any other candidate running against Hillary Clinton, this would be a pretty rough patch for Hillary Clinton given some of the items in the news.”

“Iran has proved that its sickening enthusiasm for putting juveniles to death, in contravention of international law, knows no bounds."

Donald Trump’s poll numbers across the country are collapsing. A new Fox News poll puts him down 10 points to Hillary Clinton. He’s now trailing by 9 percent in Michigan. He’s down 15 percent in New Hampshire. He’s down 11 percent in Pennsylvania. That means it’s time for Trump supporters to find someplace to cast blame: anywhere but on themselves and their candidate. Their first choice: the #NeverTrumpers who always said Trump would be a turd tornado of a candidate, and who maintained that support for Trump would poison the conservative brand for decades to come.

Fox News is not nearly the media giant that gloating conservatives and paranoid liberals think it is.

it's easy, really. Just introduce some free stuff

The migrant crisis that has engulfed Germany will cost the country €50 billion within two years, report claims