TAKEAWAYS from Trump's foreign policy speech.

HILLARY CLINTON: Half my Cabinet will be women. So being female is now a job requirement? Do transgenders count? In either direction?

LIVE FROM OMAHA, it’s James Hansen, and "I have never heard such nonsense in my life."

THE SILENT NASTY: Blame the Left for the deteriorating tone of our political discourse.

[T]he Left has felt blithely justified in sneering at opposing opinions it deems racist, sexist, or otherwise hateful. But it just doesn’t work. The eyes see what they see; the heart knows what it knows. Bottle up the human experience in silence, and it will ultimately break forth in rage. Thus, the result of these last 50 years of ceaseless left-wing incivility has been not a rainbow-striped paradise of social justice, but the utter collapse of our civic dialogue as the Right now responds with vulgar cruelty of its own.

The Left has forgotten that the sword is double-edged; the Right is discovering it.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES has stall-to-stall coverage of the bathroom wars. My favorite, though, is this one:

The comparisons of the presidential candidates to Sesame Street characters are also excellent - and apropos.

For your added enjoyment, here are some more "Bernies" from around the intertubes:

Socialism - the gift that keeps on giving (your stuff)....

NEW YORK TIMES: The Death of Liberalism.

Every time I try to reread this article, I keep asking myself "Does this guy even have a clue that there's a world outside his bubble?" Read it for yourself to get a glimpse of 'reality'.

AMMO GRRRLL on one-way streets: "No wonder we’re on the road to perdition and can’t even make a U-Turn."

SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT:

Linked from this PowerLine post.