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Looks like Republicans are still playing the game of make my candidate look good by making yours look bad.

Call it a high-tech lynching. In the wake of Donald Trump’s being shut out in Colorado — final delegate count: Ted Cruz, 34; Trump, 0 — his fans have formed virtual mobs, and on Sunday a particularly passionate Twitter user tweeted out the home address and phone number of Steve House, chairman of the Colorado GOP. House’s personal information has been retweeted more than 1,100 times. He says he’s received some 3,000 phone calls, most of them uncomplimentary: Meanwhile, the same Trump partisan also tweeted information for the state’s national committeewoman, Lily Nuñez, and committeeman, George Leing. Of course, the brave Twitter user in question did all of this anonymously, and lots of other brave people have applauded — also anonymously. #ad#The unsavory Trump fans in question appear to be multiplying: Something similar is already afoot in Indiana, which hasn’t even voted yet. Kyle Babcock, an at-large delegate selected at one of this weekend’s nine congressional-district conventions, made the mistake of explaining to the Indianapolis Star that he would not back Trump, because he believes Cruz stands a better chance against Hillary Clinton in November. For his trouble, Babcock received e-mails such as this one: “Wrong side Kyle. Hope the families [sic] well. Your name and info was sent to me on a list that is going public. Think before you take a step down the wrong path, the American people want to have faith in your [sic] but it looks like a future in hiding is more appealing.” The same person sent a similar note to Thomas John, chairman of the Republican party in Indiana’s seventh congressional district. There is no indication that the Trump campaign was involved in these threats, but make no mistake: This effort started at the top. After floundering in the Centennial State, Trump took to Twitter to peddle his usual conspiracy theories: “The people of Colorado had their vote taken away from them by the phony politicians. . . . This will not be allowed!” With the help of sympathetic media outlets — the Drudge Report suggested that Iraqi elections were more fair than Colorado’s delegate-selection process) — his false allegations gained traction. #share#And here we have the results: Trump fans exposing the personal information of Republican leaders on the flimsiest of pretexts. Remember “Chicago-style politics”? Obama’s most ardent fans had nothing on these zealots. There’s been a lot of talk of late about the need for a renewed populism to balance the power of our political “establishment.” But Trump isn’t the candidate of “the people”; he’s the candidate of the mob. He’s the candidate of kneejerk anger, of groupthink, of storming the Bastille with pitchforks. He’s the candidate of self-congratulatory cyber-thugs such as “@Thomas1774Paine,” whose great service to the republic is encouraging the intimidation of public officials. Trump has encouraged democracy’s worst impulses, rather than restoring its best. Because of his lie — peddled to tremendous effect, there’s no denying — that “the system” is fundamentally corrupt, a faction of so-called conservatives has emerged that believes that the only way to restore “democracy” is to be ruthlessly anti-democratic. #related#This, it goes without saying, is not conservative. It’s also dangerous. Whether as correctives to corruption or as rulers themselves, mobs have a lousy track record. The constitutional framework conservatives endorse and strive to preserve is intended to prevent such power bases from forming, and to thwart their inevitable desires: “Revenge! About! Seek! Burn! Fire! Kill! Slay! Let not a traitor live!” So says the mob in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Or maybe those were Trump fans in Colorado. It’s hard to tell the difference anymore. — Ian Tuttle is a William F. Buckley Fellow in Political Journalism at the National Review Institute.

An illegal immigrant is believed to be back in Honduras after jumping bail on a motor vehicle homicide charge in Nebraska.

Scalia’s lesson for candidates who gripe about party nominating rules: Get over it, the Wall Street Journal writes in an editorial.

The release of a fresh trove of Clinton-era files could turn into the latest political football in the 2016 race, with the National Archives releasing hundreds of pages of documents detailing the Clinton administration’s contacts with Donald Trump.

CBS This Morning has done an investigation into how Trump Network scammed people during a recession: “But within two and a half years, the “recession-proof” business collapsed.…

Donald Trump is like a character from the Ayn Rand novels he says he loves. But he's one of the villains.

Apparently Paul Ryan has had enough of the persistent rumors that he’s going to be parachuted in at the convention as a presidential candidate. So he’s set to give a speech this afterno…

With a presidential candidate reportedly on the list.

Anything for a room with a view! The blaze on Thursday destroyed parts of the Sponsheim district hotel, which is used to house and process migrants in Bingen am Rhein in southwest Germany, accordin…

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A number of high-profile Republicans, fearful of a potential melee in Cleveland this summer, are considering skipping the Republican National Convention and campaigning back home instead.

A new FiveThirtyEight analysis provides strong evidence in support of the idea that Chicago is experiencing its own “Ferguson Effect” — a theory that says the

On Saturday night, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Bill de Blasio made a joke that riffed off the racial stereotype of "C.P. time" or

ESPN’s Bomani Jones really wants you to know that his T-shirt is clean, and powerful. Bomani Jones wore a ‘Caucasians’ t-shirt after his appearance on Mike & Mike last week. A shirt basically identical to a Cleveland Indians shirt, complete with Chief Wahoo, except it says, ‘Caucasians’ and has a dollar sign in place of a feather.

For Donald Trump, it's not enough to win the New York primary. He's had a very hard time trying to win majorities this cycle, failing where Ted Cruz has succeeded. If he wants any chance of getting a first ballot majority in Cleveland, he has to find majorities in most of New York's Congressional districts. That doesn't seem likely at all, the way his New York polls are crashing!

The sport is no longer America’s favorite pastime. Is it because of the rise of the N.B.A. and the N.F.L., or because of a racially coded obsession with “tradition”?

The IRS is struggling to ensure that illegal immigrants are able to illegally use Social Security numbers for legitimate purposes, the agency's head told senators on Tuesday, without allowing the numbers to be used for bad reasons. Related Story: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2583035 IRS Commissioner John Koskinen made the statement in response to a question from Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., during a session of the Senate Finance Committee about why the IRS appears to be collaborating with taxpayers who file tax returns using fraudulent information. Coats said that his staff had discovered the practice after looking into agency procedures. What we learned is that ... the IRS continues to process tax returns with false W-2 information and issue refunds as if they were routine tax returns, and say that's not really our job, Coats said. We also learned the IRS ignores notifications from the Social Security Administration that a name does not match a Social Security number, and you use your own system to determine whether a number is valid.

The White House came to the pair's defense after a racially tinged joke sparked criticism.

Rachel Dolezal made international headlines last spring after her parents revealed to a local news station that their daughter, who at the time was president of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the NAACP, was pretending to be black. Dolezal sparked widespread debate over the meaning of race when,...

CHICAGO ? The severe spike in gun violence Chicago is experiencing can be dated to the release of the video in the Laquan McDonald case, a FiveThirtyEight analysis of crime data shows. The sa…

But Sen. Jeff Flake said he's not endorsing the Ohio governor.

“Based on Levin preview, Rubio won't endorse tonight but will reiterate Cruz is only conservative left in the race: https://t.co/p6qh94VLEu”