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First, take a deep breath. Now take a look at the Wall Street Journal.

The otherwise fine newspaper editorially on Saturday blasted President Trump.

For what?

For not killing Iranians and blowing up Iranian targets to show how super our American power is.

Remember.

It is the single word that marks the gate to a burned out village in France that I recently visited. There, 642 innocent men, women and children were slaughtered by the Nazis one bright June day.

We not only can control the planet's weather, but we can defy God's essential design for life, reflected in nature and cultures trillions of times a day.

Two headlines of major interest rocked national news at very nearly the same time this week — the first, from CNN, "Supreme Court rules 'peace cross' in Maryland can remain," and the second, from the Associated Press, "Alaska government meeting opens with 'Hail Satan' prayer."

President Trump's shocking statement that Iran probably didn't mean to shoot down our $110 million spy drone sent House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democrats into a state of consternation — which now becomes the 12th battleground state.

BACKLASH

By Brad Thor

Atria, $27.99, 384 pages

Long past the point by which most authors have produced all the best works they're capable of and are coasting or waning, Brad Thor keeps on getting better and better.

Democrats and members of the left have been taking their mouths on some wild rides lately, calling out President Donald Trump as Hitler, characterizing his border control as concentration campy and such.

Favoring sanctuary cities should be a disqualification for a potential president, President Trump said Tuesday.

"No one who supports sanctuary cities should be allowed to run for president of the United States," he told nearly 20,000 cheering supporters in Orlando, where he kicked off his 2020 reelection campaign.

Identity politics is having an identity crisis.

The Hillary Follies continue. For Democrats and the left (but I repeat myself), reality for them has always been a construction that they feed to you through media.

Last week I suggested that convicted felons would be running for the Democratic presidential nomination this year. Well, now it looks like that will not be the case.

President Donald Trump recently responded to legislation for a constitutional amendment that would ban the desecration of the U.S. flag by giving a thumbs-up on Twitter and calling it "a no brainer!"

Yes, this issue is a no-brainer. But not in the way Trump means. Quite the opposite, in fact.

The Democrats are finally tuning up for the party's first presidential primary debates next week, and so far the only topics they can be expected to "debate" is who hates Donald Trump the most and who loves socialism the most. Nothing much to debate there.

Euphemism: "an innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive or suggest something unpleasant."

CHARGED: THE NEW MOVEMENT TO TRANSFORM AMERICAN PROSECUTION AND END MASS INCARCERATION

By Emily Bazelon

Random House, $28, 407 pages

It's campaign season and the Democrats are scrambling for traction, so guess what, America — make way for the weekly, daily, hourly horse race of polls. That, and the accompanying snarky pundit swipes at this current president.

There's no fool like an old fool, but Bernie Sanders deserves credit for not backing away from his foolishness. In for a penny, in for a pound.