TRUMP Thumps HILLARY: She Is So Ill-Equipped to be President. What She Said Is So Dumb

Donald Trump joined FOX and Friends Friday morning after the disappearance of the Egyptair flight from Paris to Cairo. Officials have still not located the plane nor do they know what happened to the doomed flight although they suspect terrorism.

James Madison’s Ultimate Test

Given the lack of confidence in either of the two major party presidential presumptive nominees, earlier today I tweeted out the following thought-provoker: What prompted this was a passage from another old unpublished lecture of Harry V. Jaffa from 1996 that I happen to have found during recent book research: [Madison] believed that the statesmanship of the wise and the good that went into the architecture of the Constitution would compensate for the lack of wisdom and virtue in those who would thereafter dwell within its precincts. But neither Madison nor anyone else ever imagined that it would compensate entirely, or over too great periods of time, or in the presence of great crises, for the absence of wisdom and virtue.

Egyptian Airliner With 66 On Board Crashes In Mediterranean Sea

An EgyptAir passenger jet that took off from Paris with 66 people on board suddenly disappeared over the Aegean Sea on Thursday morning, shortly before it was due to land in Cairo. As Egyptian and Greek authorities mounted a search-and-rescue operation focused around the island of Karpathos, President Francois Hollande of France confirmed that the plane had crashed and acknowledged that "the terrorist hypothesis" was one of several that investigators were looking into.

House approves $622M bill to fight Zika virus amid Obama veto threat

House Republicans on Wednesday pushed through a $622 million bill to battle the Zika virus, setting up challenging negotiations with the Senate and the White House. The 241-184 House vote broke mostly along party lines as Democrats lined up in opposition, heeding a White House veto threat and a warning from a top government health official that the bill wouldn't do enough to respond to the growing threat from Zika.