Ted Cruz Criticizes Carter Day After Wrenching Talk on Cancer  —  A day after Jimmy Carter appeared on national television to talk about the cancer that's ravaging his body, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz criticized the former president's administration in a speech in Iowa.

Ornstein's Warning  —  Us old folks remember a time when AEI's Norman Ornstein was the very voice of The Conventional Wisdom.  So his new column at The Atlantic ought to come as a particularly significant warning about this election cycle and the particular level of conservative freakout we are dealing with:

Gunman injures three after firing Kalashnikov on Amsterdam-Paris train: latest  —  Unarmed US marines foil attack by Moroccan gunman with Kalashnikov and handgun on train - follow live updates  —  21.13  —  Bernard Cazeneuve, the French interior minister, paid tribute to the Marines as he arrived at the scene, and said

A View From the Clinton Scandal Nonsense Mill  —  There's no question that the Clinton email ‘scandal’ has become a major issue for Hillary Clinton's campaign.  Not that it should necessarily but it has.  It's the focus of negative press stories that appear clearly to have at least helped pull down her favorability numbers nationwide.