AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING (AFFH): the Progressive assault on suburbia.

In the coming year, suburbanites should demand more respect from Washington, D.C., from the media, the political class and from the planning community. If people choose to move into the city, or favor density in their community, fine. But the notion that it is the government’s job to require only one form of development contradicts basic democratic principles and, in effect, turns even the most local zoning decision into an exercise in social engineering.

As America’s majority, suburbanites should be able to deliver a counterpunch to those who seem determined to destroy their way of life. Irrespective of race or generation, those who live in the suburbs—or who long to do so—need to understand the mounting threat to their aspirations Once they do, they could spark a political firestorm that could reshape American politics for decades to come.

PowerLine comments:

So the administrative state has now reached the point where the President’s minions can tell Americans where to live, and direct local communities as to how they spend their money, and Congress’s only role is to veto the regulation if it can muster a two-thirds majority in both houses. The Constitution really is a dead letter.

Which is why 2016 is a pivotal election year.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: History's complexity should discourage retroactive morality.

Punch line for the Progressive Nation: "Cheap, politicized moralizing ... tells us more about the ethics and ignorance of today's grand inquisitors than the targets of their inquisitions."

They are aggressively stupid and proud of it.

FIORINA: Trump is a sexist. 'Sexist' I doubt; and I doubt Fiorina actually said those words. Boorish and ill-mannered I don't doubt, and I rather suspect that is the way Fiorina would have put it.

TARGET STORES to phase out 'gender-based signage.

[D]on’t bother looking for “boys bedding” or “girls building sets.” That’s because they are being removed so that the sensibilities of some of their customers won’t be disturbed.

And WalMart will no longer sell any Confederate-themed merchandise.

It's beyond my comprehension that these stores will bow to the crazed demands of progressive snots who wouldn't shop at their stores to begin with. To paraphrase Donald Trump, it's really, really stupid to piss off your best customers.

ON DECEMBER 9, 2004, someone from the Nutroots Netroots Nation wrote about the Democrat party "Now it's our Party: we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back."

Well, you did. Are you happy now?

GLOBAL WARMING: a $1.5 trillion industry.

$1.5 trillion a year will buy a whole lot of scientists, not just in the United States but around the world. With that kind of money at stake, it is little wonder that global warming hysterics would rather “adjust” past temperature data than admit that their models are wrong, and have no skill at predicting future climate.

It would be more accurate to call global warming a $1.5 trillion scam.

IN THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER'S daily Morning Examiner emails, there is always a question for readers to respond to. One question about whether Mitch McConnell will help his party's chances in the 2016 presidential election by standing with the status quo or by yielding to the conservative insurgency within his ranks received this response:

Without a doubt; McConnell "would" benefit the GOP in the 2016 Presidential election cycle by supporting the conservative insurgency, merely be demonstrationg that somewhere in the GOP Leadership resides a modicum of spinal matter.

Which concisely explains Donald Trump. (And the rapid rise of Carly Fiorina in the polls. The lady has big brass ones.)

LIBERALS ATTACKING LIBERALS: "Cognitive dissonance seems to be the official editorial policy of the Democratic elite."

GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS: "[Donald]Trump and [Bernie] Sanders are only symptoms. Failed leadership is the disease."

ANOTHER AFTER-ACTION REPORT on the first Republican presidential debate.

HEH: Navajo Nation to sue EPA.

Bring home some scalps....

DONALD TRUMP: Obama has done 'nothing' for blacks.

On ABC's "This Week," Jon Karl asked Donald Trump about a tweet from last year, where the Republican candidate wrote: "Sadly because Barack Obama has done such a poor job as president, you won't see another black president for generations."

"... I think that he has set a very poor standard, I think that he has set a very low bar," said Trump. "I think that it's a shame for the African-American people.

I'm no Donald Trump fan, but sadly I have to agree that Obama has been such a disaster as President that the memory will cast a shadow on the campaign of the next African-American candidate, no matter how well-qualified he or she may be.

THE EVOLUTION OF HILLARY'S LOGO:

NEGLIGENT CORPORATE POLLUTER nabbed in massive spill ... Oh, wait, it was the Environmental Protection Agency.

More here.

Doug Powers comments: "The EPA’s river clean-up effort will undoubtedly involve lots of big equipment that’s powered by fossil fuels, mostly because God loves irony. "

THREE SHOTS, THREE HEADS: SAS sniper saves father and eight-year-old son from being beheaded by ISIS.

Good.

MICHELLE MALKIN: Look who’s coddling Denver’s social justice warriors jerks.

PRIORITIES:

From the August 3rd edition of the Washington Examiner.