Some quick hits:

Trump takes action to improve veterans’ health care via Weasel Zippers . . . "The new law empowers veterans to have more control over their health care and provides more quality choices within their own communities.
"The VA Mission Act takes the first step in delivering what our veterans desperately need: faster and better-quality health care for all who have honorably served our country.
"The new law expands health-care options by removing the barriers in the current Choice Program that requires veterans to have waited 30 days or to live more than 40 miles from a VA health-care facility to qualify for government-funded health-care outside the VA system." . . .

This Maryland Democrat Just Cut The Most Absurd Political Ad In Recent Political History  "Trump doesn’t even know you exist, dude. And he couldn’t give a darn about your sexuality."  Via Daily Wire:

Pelosi Dismisses Low Unemployment Rate Because Consumer Confidence Is Low. Chaser: Consumer Confidence Near 18-Year High… video

"It’s not easy being this clueless." 

Is this what concerns you, Nancy?  
The US Economy Suddenly Looks Like It's Unstoppable [Watch]

Bill Clinton's safe space: Stephen Colbert and, well anyone else who loves Democrats

But the Colberts and Todays of the world continue to shy away from even asking Clinton about the credible and detailed rape allegation made by Juanita Broaddrick — much less subject him to sustained questioning about it. Given what we know about Bill Clinton, how likely is it that Broaddrick is lying? Why is she the one woman on earth whose rape allegation is simply dismissed out of hand by feminists? *

Stephen Colbert To Bill Clinton: You Want A Do-Over On That Trainwreck NBC Interview On Monica Lewinsky?  . . . "Normally an acidic satirist, Colbert is scrupulously polite here, even agreeing with Clinton co-author/sycophant James Patterson on what a wonderful person Bill is, his treatment of women notwithstanding. That’s the way of the world with America’s late-night heroes: Ivanka Trump’s a “feckless c*nt” while Clinton, one of the most notorious #MeToo malefactors in modern American history, receives the warmest of welcomes because his politics are Correct. But watch and you’ll see that Colbert deserves a little credit, first politely challenging Clinton’s suggestion that this is all in the past and then uncorking this, which made me simultaneously smile and cringe at its bluntness: “You seemed offended to be asked about this thing [in the NBC interview] when, in all due respect sir, your behavior was the most famous example of a powerful man sexually misbehaving in the workplace of my lifetime.” As a matter of basic human nature, it’s hard to sit across from someone whom you respect for other reasons and remind them, with the whole world watching, that they’re one of the most infamous workplace harassers you’ve ever encountered." . . .

National Review: Did the 1998 impeachment set up the domino path leading to the 2016 election?  . . . "If Democrats had abandoned Bill Clinton in early 1998, they and the country would have been way better off. There was no “higher principle” at stake during the national debate about Clinton’s fate after the revelation of the Lewinsky affair, and blind partisan spite prevented Democrats from recognizing that they had been tricked into defending the indefensible." . . .

Bernie Sanders won't cast judgment on Clinton

MSNBC, NBC Anchors Push Back on Bill Clinton’s Attacks on Interview: ‘Baffling,’ Making ‘False Allegations’  . . . "Clinton said he didn't like Melvin's questioning because it began with the "assertion" he had never apologized for his conduct. Clinton also told the New York Times Tuesday "that young man,"  referring to Melvin, "aggressively" said he never apologized. However, Melvin merely asked Clinton whether he had personally apologized to Lewinsky.

Bill Clinton told the Today Show Monday he paid dearly for the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal twenty years ago. Clinton got angry at the reporter and revealed that the affair with Lewinsky cost him sixteen million bucks. No wonder Stormy Daniels feels so insulted by a hundred and thirty grand.   Comedian Argus Hamilton

*Time’s Up, Democrats. Throw Bill Clinton under the Bus.  . . . "Stop making him the guest of honor at your parties and fundraisers. Stop treating him as an amusing celebrity instead of a despicable human being on your talk shows, stop giving to his foundation, stop attending his speeches, stop being deferential. Denounce him publicly and without equivocation. Exile him. You’ve exiled actors and newsreaders and comedians for doing less than he did. I picture them all commiserating somewhere together, on an Island of Misfit Boys — Matt Lauer and Garrison Keillor and Kevin Spacey and Charlie Rose and Al Franken and Louis C.K. Meanwhile the Big He is still everyone’s darling. All this time, liberals and the media, you’ve been applying a lower standard of character to a former president than you apply to chat-show hosts and jesters." . . .*

Swimsuits and other offenses

Richard Jack Rail  "The Miss America pageant announces it has dropped the swimsuit competition and will no longer judge on looks. Might as well just drop the competition altogether. While women may watch for the clothes, the jewelry, the makeup, the hair styles, men watch for the swimsuit competition.
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. . . " Rather than develop other sides of themselves, doing interesting things and becoming interesting as creative human beings -- a real form of beauty in itself -- they sink into self-pity and despair.

"And pettiness*. They don’t want anyone else enjoying, much less strutting, their fine, uh, assets. And not just petty, but spiteful. You don’t want to ogle me, you don’t get to ogle anybody. And not just spiteful, but downright hateful. We rid the West of the wolf whistle and we’ll make ogling against the law. Right now, we’ll take away your enjoyment; soon we’ll take your eyes."
*Note this does not say "prettiness"

There She Was    . . . "Miss America follows in the footsteps of Miss World. In 2013, the Miss World finale was held in Bali, Indonesia. In response to terrorist threats, the pageant canceled the swimsuit portion of the competition. To the astonishment of many, the Miss World people decided to make the swimsuit ban permanent the following year. I don’t think Miss World has been heard of since." . . .