Required reading from around the web of the best, most interesting, or most though provoking things we’ve read:
Madden: Same old, same old: Congress kicks the can on this failed program AGAIN
“It’s once again time to have a discussion about our broken and almost-insolvent flood insurance program. Yes, the House and Senate have passed a stopgap measure that will push consideration of the money-hemorrhaging program that is the National Flood Insurance Sinkhole Program until after the midterms, sending the legislation to President Trump’s desk with less than 12 hours before Tuesday’s midnight authorization deadline.
This reauthorization, naturally, comes without any significant reforms to the program and merely kicks the fiscal can until after the election heat is off. How convenient. […] Never mind that the program pretty much lives on the brink of insolvencyand requires a new bailout every few years, or that it literally incentivizes people to put themselves and their property in harm’s way, including the first responders who then have to go in on boats and helicopters to pull people off of roofs that never should have been built in high-risk territories in the first place. And never mind that it basically acts as a subsidy for uber-expensive beach houses.”
Read more at Conservative Review.
Brest: Lawyer Says San Jose Mayor May Have Ordered Police To Steer Trump Supporters Into Riot
“. . . Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer representing 20 Trump supporters in a lawsuit against the San Jose Police Department, on his Fox News show to discuss the latest development in the case on Wednesday night.”
Young: Woman accused of hitting car in Hyannis after confrontation over bumper sticker
“A Taunton woman accused of intentionally driving into a man’s car a month ago after becoming enraged by a Trump bumper sticker pleaded not guilty Monday . . . to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. Chloe Wright, 25, also faces charges of vandalizing property and leaving the scene of property damage.”