Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

What Jack Cashill said!

To the Editor:

Re “Further Into the Muck With Mr. Trump” (editorial, Aug. 10):

Donald Trump loves to use what Monty Python called “nudge nudge wink wink say no more” rhetoric. He hints; his audience gets the hint and roars back, verbalizing his hints in a shared language of hatred, anger and fear.

He then lectures the media about their “false” coverage of him, insisting on being the only arbiter of his meaning. He rejects the monitoring and accountability functions that a free press is supposed to perform—that rejection is as terrifying as his almost-invocations of violence in politics.

It may be natural to a creature of the private sector to reject scrutiny and accountability. But it is alien to the Constitution and to American democratic politics.

R.B. BERNSTEIN

New York

The writer is a lecturer in law and political science at City College of New York.

Note from KBJ: This is rich. Consider:

• Democrats, not Donald Trump, perfected the art of "nudge nudge wink wink say no more." Every four years, the Democrat candidate says, in effect, "Vote for me and I'll give you all the goodies you want."
• When Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton said, just a couple of years ago, that they oppose homosexual marriage, they were winking and nodding to leftists that they would come out in favor of homosexual marriage as soon as it was politically expedient to do so; and they did.
• Donald Trump doesn't "insist[] on being the only arbiter of his meaning"; he insists that his opponents not be the only arbiter of his meaning.
• Donald Trump doesn't "reject[] the monitoring and accountability functions that a free press is supposed to perform"; he rejects the partisanship that passes for journalism.
• Donald Trump hasn't called for violence; Barack Obama has. Remember "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun"? Remember Hillary Clinton's suggestion that the 2008 Democrat nominating contest wasn't over because there was still time for Obama to be assassinated (hint, hint)? Remember the books and movies portraying the assassination of George W. Bush? The violent party in this country is the Democrat Party, not the Republican Party. R. B. Bernstein is projecting.

The real danger to the Constitution is not Donald Trump but Hillary Clinton, who views our founding document the way Barack Obama does: as an obstacle to the progressive agenda.

The heat index was 104º when I left my house to ride my bike today. It reached 112º during the ride (34.2 miles) and was still 111º when I returned. The heat didn't bother me a bit. In fact, I enjoyed it.

Addendum: The official high temperature at DFW Airport was 107º!

Here is a video of the first stage of the Tour of Norway. What a beautiful country! Too bad the Norwegian people are committing cultural suicide.

Ann Coulter (as usual) nails it.

If you allowed rattlesnakes into your house, would you be surprised if you were bitten?

Not only is the good of others part of an agent's own good, and so intrinsically valuable from the agent's point of view; promoting others' good is extrinsically valuable. Pursuit and realization of many worthwhile personal projects require diachronic social cooperation, which sometimes requires, and is almost always enhanced and facilitated by, fair terms of cooperation. Fair terms of cooperation require that cooperation be conducted on terms of mutual advantage to all participants. In order to pursue her own projects, therefore, an agent is well advised to make sure that others benefit from cooperative endeavors.

Because an agent's welfare depends upon the welfare of others in these ways, an agent has reason to promote the welfare of others. It will be in an agent's interest to develop strong, relatively coarse-grained social dispositions from which she rarely deviates.

(David O. Brink, Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics, Cambridge Studies in Philosophy, ed. Sydney Shoemaker [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989], 243)

Daniel Henninger is horrified by the thought of a Hillary Clinton presidency, but he can't bring himself to mention, much less to support, Donald Trump. This, folks, is Trump Derangement Syndrome. Donald Trump is the only thing standing between us and "President Clinton." Suck it up; get right with Donald.

Hillary Clinton is seriously unwell and doing her best to hide it. Anyone with eyes (and a brain) can see it. Do we want a mentally defective 69-year-old woman  in the White House? Don't you have a right to see the health records of the individuals who want to be president? Think hard about your vote this fall.