WHEN I GROW UP, I want to be like him.

Put the words in either mouth; it rings true either way.

ADVANCED GIBBERISH: Is this even remotely intelligible? In any known language?

CONCEALED CARRIER takes down shooter at South Carolina nightclub.

Beyond the novelty of a published 'good guy with a gun' article, there's an interesting pair of comments between 'Eric Embervine' and 'Billca' that gets at what is, to me, the core of the gun control debate -- the presumption on the part of non-owners of some sort of 'cowboy mentality' on the part of the CC permit holder. I don't carry because I'm a wannabe vigilante; I carry because I recognize that there is a very small, but very real, risk in today's world, and I want to be prepared to defend myself/my family should that ever become necessary.

NOT LIKELY IN PROGRESSIVE-STAN: May free speech reign and scientific inquiry prevail.

THERE ARE EASIER WAYS TO COMMIT SUICIDE: Ohio Professor Calls For Shooting Up NRA Headquarters, Ensuring “No Survivors”...

HE NEEDS TO 'ELECT' A BETTER CLASS OF VIRTUE SIGNALERS NEIGHBORS: How vegetarians, gluten-frees, grain-frees and other L.A. food tribes ruined my BBQ tradition.

SNOWFLAKES BEWARE: Your professors are beginning to punch back. And they can pack quite a wallop.

INSTAPUNDIT: "Apparently, the GOP values donations more than votes." And the party isn't getting one thin dime from me until I see action on behalf of the middle class (e.g., me). Specific candidates, yes; party, no.

RACISTS self-identify.

MICHAEL GRAHAM: What would George Washington do?

Graham seems not to recognize that George Washington and Donald Trump are the same man, separated in time by 240 years.

JUNO: I'm finally here.

POWERLINE'S MID-WEEK IN PICTURES, Clinton edition. My favorite:

There are more.

LIFE IN THE OBAMA/CLINTON ERA: When lying is the “patriotic thing to do.” Even about fireworks.

POWERLINE: Restraining our way to lawlessness and unrestrained government.

FOURTEEN DOWN, 9 TO GO: Connecticut ObamaCare co-op placed under state supervision, to close next year.

PROGRESSIVES' FIREWORKS: five dozen (that's 60, for you liberals who can't count) people shot over the 4th of July weekend in Chicago.

OBAMA: No man or woman has ever been more qualified for presidency than Hillary Clinton.

Analysis: True, if crooked is the criteria.

TROUBLE IN LA-LA LAND: Black Lives Matter shuts down LGBT Pride parade. Progressives 'R' tolerant....

IT’S STARTING TO LOOK LIKE A RACKET: UC Berkeley’s income inequality critic’s faculty salary puts him in the top 1%.

Starting? And note it's 'him', not 'her'....

THE STATE of Election 2016.