LIBERAL 'COURAGE': Resignation of EPA official who stayed silent on Flint was 'courageous'.

Courageous is not a term I would have chosen....

HACKING APPLE: FBI offers to help law agencies access phones.

Apple is hoist with their own petard. Heh.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures is up. The cartoons were so good this week that it is hard to limit my favorites to just two:

Go and see the rest.

INSTAPUNDIT: "[T]he 'Blue Model' may be rotting, but it offers more opportunities for graft and self-importance than the traditional Anglosphere approach. Which explains both the rot, and the rot’s popularity among the rotten sectors of American politics."

From the comments: "Hot air talks. Money walks. Surprise."

THESE DEMANDS make more sense than those of the usual crybully snowflakes.

Good job, Stanford.

CRYBULLIES BEWARE: The chalkening.

EXPLAINING WHY the governing class (of both parties) wants to elect new voters.

POWERLINE: The character of modern liberalism in one paragraph.

Right. If outcomes are mandated to be equal, then no one will need to - or be willing to - strive. And that is why it has failed. Every time.

TRUMP: Make America great again.

CIA CHIEF: People need to value privacy more.

I do. And maybe I'd have some if the Nanny State would just quit demanding to help me....

SHOULDN'T ALL STATES? Texas is trying to get rid of mandatory vehicle inspections.

"I THINK I'll lie down. Wake me when it's over."

Yes.

DONALD TRUMP "is the revenge of Fishtown against Belmont."

NO WONDER these precious snowflakes fear global warming - they'll melt.

THE REAL OBAMA has finally shown his face.

THE FIRST STEP to starvation is socialism.

THE CASE FOR TRUMP: "... if we can’t have effective government, at least we can have entertaining government."

"BREAKING: Arizona Trump Protesters Celebrate Shutting Down Highway, Creating 300,000 More Trump Voters."

Heh.

POLITICS AS (UN)USUAL.

AMMO GRRRLL: "... in today’s political climate, Truth is as unwelcome as that weasel in the henhouse."