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

The 2016 Tour de France began today in Le Mont Saint-Michel. Click to enlarge. See here for images.

The Mackinac Bridge is in the distance. Notice how clear the water is. Click to enlarge.

Every time Jonah Goldberg runs Donald Trump down (as he does here), he increases the probability, even if only incrementally, that Hillary Clinton will become our 45th president. Either he doesn't grasp this, in which case he's stupid (because it's obvious to anyone who has a brain), or he grasps it but doesn't care, in which case he can't claim to be a conservative (or even someone who cares about his country).

I've said it before, but Goldberg is engaged in self-indulgent moral preening (a.k.a. virtue signaling). He and his fellow conservative purists, such as George Will, William Kristol, Stephen Hayes, and Erick Erickson, didn't get their way this time, so, instead of doing what they advised others to do when John McCain and Mitt Romney were the Republican nominees, which is to hold their noses and vote, they've decided to undermine the nominee.

Leave aside the fact that this is a perfect example of not playing fair; it's also self-defeating. If Goldberg truly loves his country, as I'm sure he would say he does, and if he would like to reverse the course Barack Obama has set the country on, as I know he does, he should support Donald Trump, for Trump is the only way to stop Hillary Clinton, who will continue (and in all likelihood ramp up) Obama's pernicious policies. If Hillary Clinton is elected president, it will be because pundits such as Goldberg put themselves (i.e., their moral purity) before their country, and that is disgraceful.

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No Answer (1971). This is the band's first album, released 45 years ago.

To the Editor:

Re “The President of Black America?,” by Michael Eric Dyson (Sunday Review, June 26):

Surely the paramount challenge Barack Obama faced as the first black chief executive was establishing and defending his credentials as president of all the people. Nothing would have destroyed the hopes inspired by his election faster than a perceived racial tilt.

One can imagine the terrible anguish the president’s inner self must have suffered while he held to a restrained and steady course. All Americans, black and otherwise (I am white), are better for it.

WILLIAM C. SEXTON

Pittsfield, Mass.

Note from KBJ: Barack Obama is black first (even though he's only half black), a progressive ideologue second, and a cosmopolitan (i.e., a citizen of the world) third. Being an American is far down his list. He should be an American first and foremost. The people who voted for him are idiots.

William Kristol is batshit crazy.

If you want your child to have an open mind, don't send him or her to a Northeastern college or university.

The All-Star voting is done. Cubs fans have stuffed the ballot box. The Texas Rangers should have four starters (Ian Desmond, Roughned Odor, Elvis Andrus, and Adrian Beltre), but will have none. Who are the idiots who do the voting?