MANHATTAN-BOUND MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR ventures out to Long Island (!) and sees -- horrors! -- pickup trucks flying American flags. PowerLine has more: Flag to Democrats = garlic to vampires. About a week ago (June 2nd) I had a random thought -- that progressives should be confined to large cities. I was a little slow with that thought since it's obvious they're already self-confining. (Where's that barbed wire fence when you need it?)

SAN JOSE [CALIFORNIA, NATCH] MAYOR wants legal gun owners to pay gun violence costs.

Kurt Schlichter has a better idea. Don't ban assault weapons; make them mandatory.