"The repeated exoneration of allegedly racist cops by minority jurors and judges -- from Ferguson and Staten Island to Cleveland and now Baltimore -- seriously undermines the anti-cop movement started by Black Lives Matter and fueled by President Obama.

"With half the Baltimore cops now acquitted in the death of Freddie Gray, a pattern has emerged where highly publicized cases against cops for racially motivated murder of black suspects have crumbled under the weight of court evidence. ...

"Judges and jurors are debunking charges of 'systemic racism' in policing as another of the left's many false narratives. But the damage may already be done, evidenced by the vicious war on cops and a related violent crime wave in major cities across the country."

"More bad news about the Iran nuclear deal landed Monday -- a dangerous secret President Obama has been keeping from the American people.

"The Associated Press reports that the unpublished side deal is even more disastrous than the rest of the accord. It relaxes key restrictions on Iran's nuclear program in just over a decade, rather than the 15 years Team Obama has been touting. ...

"Since agreeing to the deal, Iran has kept on testing ballistic missiles that can deliver nuclear warheads. It's also been caught in clandestine efforts to illicitly acquire high-level nuclear technology and equipment.

"It's becoming alarmingly clear that Team Obama played the American people -- and the congressional Democrats who supported the deal -- for fools."

"The worst-kept secret in Washington, D.C. is that Congress will once again fail to do its most basic constitutional job and pass legislation to fund the federal government beyond the end of the current fiscal year on September 30.

"Although both party's leaders are slow to admit it, the annual fight over $4 trillion of federal funding is heading down a now-familiar path. Lawmakers will lurch toward a government shutdown, pass a temporary continuing resolution to keep federal doors open, and eventually agree to a last-minute omnibus funding bill -- a massive trillion dollar-plus package riddled with waste and cobbled together without public scrutiny or congressional debate.

"And lawmakers wonder why their approval ratings hover in the teens.

"Worse, Republicans will take the blame, because they run Congress. What a policy and political debacle a few weeks before the November elections."

"Tom Brady has been held more accountable 4deflating footballs than Hillary for lying, evading transparency laws & risking national security."

"The United States appears to be entering another era of dangerous internal instability similar to the one it endured in the 1960s-1970s. ...

"Our enemies increasingly may gamble that provocations won't elicit a U.S. reaction. Or that even if America did respond, the resulting domestic divisions and turmoil would diminish the effectiveness of the response.

"Add to the equation record debt and vast cuts in the defense budget, and our enemies may conclude that we are Rome of AD 500, Britain of the late 1940s, or Russia of the 1980s.

"To be blunt, America's vulnerable post-war global order may already seem to those abroad to be bloated carrion ready to be picked apart by opportunistic vultures."

"The Obama administration circled the wagons around Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, with Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch refusing to detail why she didn't pursue criminal charges against the former secretary and the State Department going to bat for her, saying she shouldn't have to testify under oath about her secret email account.

"Facing irate Republicans on Capitol Hill, Ms. Lynch repeatedly passed the buck to others in the Justice Department, saying that while she announced she wouldn't pursue charges against Mrs. Clinton, the decision was made by the FBI and career prosecutors and she had no public thoughts on the matter.

"She said refusing to divulge details of her decision protected her employees from political pressure, but Republicans said she was the one engaging in politics by protecting the Clintons as repayment for having been appointed as a prosecutor by President Bill Clinton."

"Democratic senators have been assigned conservative nonprofit groups to call out by name on the chamber floor in speeches on Monday and Tuesday criticizing corporations and advocacy groups for opposing Democratic climate policies, internal emails reveal.

"Nineteen Senate Democrats will attack specific organizations in what they are calling a 'web of denial,' according to a schedule of floor speeches circulated by Emily Enderle, a top environmental policy adviser to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), who is spearheading the effort.

"Internal emails about the effort obtained by the Free Beacon reveal a highly coordinated plan between members of Congress and environmental activist groups to fuel a public relations and legal offensive against fossil fuel companies and groups they support."

"The cold-blooded massacre of police officers in Dallas late last Thursday night is a terrible reminder of what peace officers in America face every day they go out to do their jobs. That is so whether it is in skyscraper-walled canyons of our biggest cities or in the smallest, tree-shaded New Hampshire village. Those whose mission is 'to protect and to serve' need our support, and prayers, now and always."

"Snipers opened fire on police officers in the heart of Dallas, killing five officers and injuring six others during protests over two recent fatal police shootings of black men, police said, in a week that bore dark echoes of the tumultuous civil rights era. ...

"The attacks made Thursday the deadliest day in U.S. law enforcement history since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, which tracks on-duty officer deaths."

"FBI Director James Comey stood before the nation and issued a list of Hillary Clinton's astounding wrongdoings Tuesday as regards America's national security -- and then said he was not recommending prosecution because, in essence, what Mrs. Clinton did was 'extremely careless' but not criminal.

"As he spoke, I recalled F. Scott Fitzgerald's peerless description in 'The Great Gatsby' of a feckless wealthy couple: 'They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into . . . their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.'

"Fitzgerald's Tom and Daisy are pikers compared to Bill and Hillary."