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Just how much do Americans hate Congress? How much do we dislike and distrust our leaders in the imperial capital?

Ask Alabamans. Or go to Townhall, and then come back here.

• TIME: Republicans Dislike Congress More Than Democrats, Poll Shows
• AL.com: Roy Moore has double-digit lead over Luther Strange, new poll says
• Breitbart: GOP Rep Brooks: ‘Disturbing’ NRSC, Senate Leadership Fund Spending Millions to Attack Other Republicans
• Mo Brooks declines to endorse Roy Moore or Luther Strange; vows 2018 run for Congress
• Chicago Tribune: Ten Commandments judge faces GOP runoff in Alabama Senate race
• AL.com: Robert Bentley’s interviews for Senate seat were a sham: Ex-lieutenant governor
• Politico: Meadows endorses Moore in Alabama Senate race
• AL.com: Leader of conservative House Freedom Caucus makes Senate endorsement
• LifeSite: Pro-life conservative leads special Senate race in Alabama
• Politico: Pelosi plays star role in Georgia special election

This weekend at Townhall, Paul fleshed out the most recent Voters’ Pamphlet mini-scandal, from Friday.  Click on over, then come back here. You know, for more voters’ pamphleteering.

• Tim Eyman’s Email: Help me get my B.S. in the voters pamphlet
• Everett Herald: Eyman’s ‘B.S.’ deemed too vulgar for voter’s pamphlet
• KGMI Radio: Interview with Tim Eyman
• Vocabulary: Snafu
• Townhall: America’s No. 1 freedom fighter
• Seattle Times: Eyman’s star rising at a cost
• Common Sense: Pay the Boatman
• Common Sense: Democracy Makes a Comeback

What are we to make of these too-interesting/vexing times? Is it time for action about symbols? Click on over to Townhall for some ideas….

• PBS: Charlie Rose on Charlottesville
• Wikipedia: List of Presidents of the United States who owned slaves
• Census Data – 1860
• New York Times: New Estimate Raises Civil War Death Toll
• Common Sense: Radicalized Collectivists on the March
• Common Sense: Wolves Crying Wolf
• Townhall: Hate is Our Business

Another riot, more violence, one person dead. What to make of it all?

Click on over to Townhall for the question (if not the answer) of the day.

• Washington Post: One dead and 19 injured as car strikes crowds along route of white nationalist rally in Charlottesville
• Trump condemns ‘hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides’ in Charlottesville
• CNN: Videos show car crash into protesters
• Willamette Week: As Portland Police Stand By, Alt-Right and Antifa Protesters Beat Each Other Bloody
• San Jose Mercury News: Trump rally attendees sue San Jose, Mayor Liccardo and police chief
• Washington Post: Ugly, bloody scenes in San Jose as protesters attack Trump supporters outside rally
• Townhall: Do You Know the Way of San Jose?
• CNN: Trump supporters, protesters clash after Chicago rally postponed
• Townhall: Mob Violence and Its Defenders

Affirmative action isn’t as black-and-white as we were told.

Click on over to Townhall. Come back here for even more shades.

• New York Times: Justice Dept. to Take On Affirmative Action in College Admissions
• CNN: Justice Dept. pushes back on NYT’s ‘race-based discrimination’ report
• CNN: Harvard faces discrimination probe while accepting mostly nonwhite class
• Complaint: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard Corporation); and the Honorable and Reverend the Board of Overseers
• American Immigration Center: Asian American History Timeline
• NPR: DOJ Looks Into Whether Harvard Discriminates Against Asian-Americans
• Wikipedia: Grutter v. Bollinger
• Washington Post: Affirmative action based on income
• The Daily Beast: How Affirmative Action Became an Upper-Middle Class Benefit
• TNR: Affirmative Action Fail: The Achievement Gap by Income Is Twice the Gap by Race
• Kids Count Data Center: Children in single-parent families by race

IMAGE: A soap advertisement from the 1880s,
sub-titled ‘The Chinese Must Go’
Credit: Library of Congress

A funereal note for a baby in Britain, a death knell for socialized medicine in America? See Townhall, click on over; then come back here.

• BBC: Charlie Gard parents announce death of ‘beautiful boy’
• CNN: Baby Charlie Gard dies after life support withdrawn
• Fox News Insider: Nigel Farage: ‘I Am Disgusted’ Charlie Gard Was Blocked From U.S. Treatment
• Wikipedia: UK’s National Health Service
• Common Sense: UK Death Panel
• Common Sense: Big Libertarian Questions
• Townhall: Canada’s medical gulag

Ashya King Case

• The Mirror (UK): Ashya King ‘is cancer free and back at school’ says dad three years after brain tumour treatment row
• The Telegraph (UK): UK to get first proton therapy centre after Ashya King’s plight raised awareness of vital cancer treatment
• The Sun (UK): ‘IT SEEMS LIKE REVENGE’ – Family say brain cancer tot Ashya King is being denied vital NHS treatment