"Suspects in the recent biker brawl in Waco, Texas, only slightly outnumber the 2016 Republican Presidential candidates, leading some voters to have difficulty distinguishing between the two groups, a new poll shows."

Ha ha, very funny, but... just let me say 5 things:

1. Seven... eight... who remembers?... human beings got murdered killed in that Twin Peaks shoot out and no one cares. Should we be a little ashamed of taking murder death so lightly?

2. These people all stand accused of mass murder organized crime, and it's just some kind of meaningless joke:



3. It would be funny if that were animated and they all started looking around at each other "Brady Bunch" style.

4. We're being prodded to think of the numerosity of the GOP field of candidates as absurd. (How will they debate?) I keep seeing GOP-disparagers calling the group a "clown car." What's really going on? I say it's displacement of anxiety over the extreme opposite happening on the other side: only Hillary.

5. What will we get tired of first, the only-ness of Hillary or the overly-ness of the GOP? I've been giving this a lot of thought. It's complicated. Hillary has been trying to avoid too much attention, and if there's no action, maybe attention will be lavished on the GOP and we'll get tired of them as a group. But won't they be attacking her? She can't sit back and hope we don't think about her for the next year. And I don't see the GOP candidates attacking each other. Hillary and her allies can't do very well attacking the GOP candidates. Which ones would she pick on, and why help the GOP thin the crowd? To do so would not only strengthen the remaining group, it would require her to take positions and get specific, making her an easier target.

"The GOP Is the Strongest It's Been in Decades."

"While most journalists look at presidential performance as a measure of party strength (see the ubiquitous 'Republicans have lost the popular vote in five of the last six elections'), we take a broader view of party strength...."

"This Boy Wonder Is Building the Conservative MoveOn.org in an Illinois Garage."

"Republican donors are counting on the 21-year-old to energize voters."

�He impressed me with his capacity to lead, intelligence, and love for America,� [multimillionaire investor Foster] Friess says. �I instantly knew I wanted to support him.�

He = some kid named Charlie Kirk.

"This [law] professor is a practicing Christian, deeply closeted in the workplace..."

"...he is convinced that if his colleagues in academia knew of his faith, they would make it very hard for him.... He agreed to speak with me" � writes Rod Dreher � "about the Indiana situation on condition that I not identify him by name or by institution."

�The fact that Mike Pence can�t articulate [religious liberty], and Asa Hutchinson doesn�t care and can�t articulate it, is shocking,� Kingsfield [a pseudonym] said. �Huckabee gets it and Santorum gets it, but they�re marginal figures. Why can�t Republicans articulate this? We don�t have anybody who gets it and who can unite us. Barring that, the craven business community will drag the Republican Party along wherever the culture is leading, and lawyers, academics, and media will cheer because they can�t imagine that they might be wrong about any of it.�...

Christians should put their families on a �media fast,� he says. �Throw out the TV. Limit Netflix. You cannot let in contemporary stuff. It�s garbage. It�s a sewage pipe into your home. So many parents think they�re holding the line, but they let their kids have unfettered access to TV, the Internet, and smartphones. You can�t do that. And if you can�t trust that the families of the kids that your kids play with are on the same team with all this, then find another peer group among families that are,� he said. �It really is that important.�

Much more at the link.