It’s Monday, June 18th, 2018…but before we begin, here’s two rather incongruous headlines courtesy of Townhall.com:

American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology Requests New Late-Term Abortion Certification

American Medical Association Calls for Confiscation of Guns and Ammo, Universal Firearm Registration

So, one branch of organized medicine, a science technically dedicated first and foremost to the principle “Primum non nocere” (First, do no harm) seeks certification in the art of murdering the almost-born, while another seeks to impose its opinion in an area in which it holds no particular expertise…if any at all, if an Obamao-commissioned study by the CDC is to be believed.

Funny, we don’t seem to recall the AMA highlighting the “smoking gun” of the AIDS epidemic when it was wreaking havoc among the world’s gay population, the facts to the contrary…

…glaringly notwithstanding.  

Ain’t it amazing “science” is only “settled” when it’s fabricated to support pre-conceived Progressive…

…goals and policies?!?

Now, here’s The Gouge!

At the top of Monday’s batting order, we offer two valued views on what partisan politics have wrought at the DOJ and FBI.  First, as the editors at NRO correctly conclude…

Yes, There WAS FBI Bias

“There is much to admire in Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz’s highly anticipated report on the FBI’s Clinton-emails investigation. Horowitz’s 568-page analysis is comprehensive, fact-intensive, and cautious to a fault.

It is also, nonetheless, an incomplete exercise — it omits half the story, the Russia investigation — and it flinches from following the facts to their logical conclusion…

…The IG extensively takes on numerous issues related to the decision not to charge former secretary of state Hillary Clinton for, primarily, causing the retention and transmission of classified information on the non-secure “homebrew” server system through which she improperly and systematically conducted government business. (Our Dan McLaughlin usefully catalogues the topics Horowitz addresses here.) If there is a single theme that ties the sprawling report together, however, it is bias.

Or, as the report put it, “the question of bias.” It should not really be a question, because the evidence of anti-Trump bias on the part of the agents who steered the Clinton probe — which was run out of headquarters, highly unusual for a criminal investigation — is immense…”

Second, also courtesy of NRO, Andy McCarthy explains why, when push came to shove, Horowitz did in fact flinch:

“You’ve got to hand it to Michael Horowitz: The Justice Department inspector general’s much-anticipated report on the Clinton-emails investigation may be half-baked, but if it is, it is the most comprehensive, meticulously detailed, carefully documented, thoughtfully reasoned epic in the history of half-bakery.

Why say do I say the report “may be half-baked”? Why don’t I just come out and declare, “The report is half-baked”? Well, I figure if I write this column in the IG’s elusive style, we’ll have the Rosetta Stone we need to decipher the report.

See, you probably sense that I believe the report is half-baked. But if I say it “may be” half-baked…well, technically that means it may not be, too. I mean, who really knows, right?

If that annoys you, try wading through 568 pages of this stuff, particularly on the central issue of the investigators’ anti-Trump bias. The report acknowledges that contempt for Trump was pervasive among several of the top FBI and DOJ officials making decisions about the investigation. So this deep-seated bias must have affected the decision-making, right? Well, the report concludes, who really knows?

Not in so many words, of course. The trick here is the premise the IG establishes from the start: It’s not my job to draw firm conclusions about why things happened the way they did. In fact, it’s not even my job to determine whether investigative decisions were right or wrong. The cop-out is that we are dealing here with “discretionary” calls; therefore, the IG rationalizes, the investigators must be given very broad latitude. Consequently, the IG says his job is not to determine whether any particular decision was correct; just whether, on some otherworldly scale of reasonableness, the decision was defensible. And he makes that determination by looking at every decision in isolation.

But is that the way we evaluate decisions in the real world?…”

No,…only in Washington, a town in which swamp creatures like Michael Horowitz flourish.  If damning with faint praise is an art form, with this caustic commendation, McCarthy has just achieved a masterpiece of perfection.

Moving on, in today’s installment of the Muslim Minute, as Jim Geraghty noted in his Friday Morning Jolt, thanks to a well-aimed drone-launched airstrike, Mullah Fazlullah Khorasani’s burka-bearing secretary can…

Cancel the Monday Meetings for the Pakistani Taliban Leaders — And Everything Beyond That, Too

Hasta la vista, baby!

Oh, and the camel you rode in on!

And in the Sports Section, as FOX News reports, some Connecticut parents are belatedly discovering the impact of an indefensible decision which should have sparked outrage when it was made over a year ago:

Parents Petition for Policy Change After Transgender Athletes Dominate at High School Track Meet

Talk about trying to close the barn door after the transgendered stallion has already left the barn and is running rings around all the mares.  Chalk this one up to the inevitable result of political correctness run amok…and proof positive again of Paul’s God-given wisdom and insight in writing Romans 1:22.

Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:

Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with this curious tale from The Society Page:

Engaged couple mocked for ‘smallest ring ever made‘

Several thoughts come to mind: (1) the ring does look awfully small and undersized; (2) then again, it could be her hand’s grown since he bought it; and, (3) would anyone posting such a picture to the public not understand they were opening themselves up to ridicule by the nameless, faceless trolls who inhabit the web?!?

Seriously: first, get a life; second, keep it to yourself!!!

Magoo