Dear Jolter, This guy could knock the heck out of the ball, and hit so many dingers -- obviously quite unfashionable in the Deadball Era -- that his irritated manager threatened to fine him if he kept that up. Weird, eh? But I kid you not. Give me singles, or else! 
Well, not only was Gavvy Cravath a tremendous slugger (he held the pre-Ruth record for most home runs), but he was also a renowned pinch hitter, and there is our segue into today's Morning Jolt, for which Yours Truly bats while Big Jim is off galavanting somewhere with his beloved brood. Now we're not going to keep you too long, so here are a mere three things I suggest / want you to read today on NRO: 1. A lesson in free trade by Kevin Williamson, who in "Loving Our Stuff, but Hating the People Who Sell It to Us" takes on the "strange love-hate relationship with our consumer goods," excoriating bromides you will find "in every mentally dead Donald Trump speech, and on nine-tenths of the barstools across the fruited plains." To learn the bromides, you gotta read the piece. Please do, and share it. 2. George Will says the Senate GOP's refusal to consider Obama's Supreme Court nominee is "indefensible." Really, because over at Bench Memos, the wise Ed Whelan writes that our pal George is "misguided" and that his attack "lacks coherence." Cohere here! Ed's analysis is well worth your time. 3. Finally, as we approach the 240th anniversary of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, dismal science wise men Jon Hartley and Glenn Hubbard look at "The Economic Ignorance of Trump and Sanders" and find . . . plenty of populist ignorance. If you think someone is going to make America great again, you need to think again. Hartley and Hubbard will help. Okay, that's plenty for a Monday morning. We'll be back at you tomorrow with another episode of Morning Jolt: The Poor Substitute Edition. No batta, no batta, Jack Fowler P.S.: Hey, if you have yet to reserve a cabin on the NR 2016 Post-Election Cruise, and do so this week, merely as a thank you for doing that and actually reading MJ to the PS, I will give you a $50 cabin credit which you can use to buy Jim a drink on the Nieuw Amsterdam in November (we may need plenty of drinks, all of us!). Find out more about the bon voyage at www.nrcruise.com. P.P.S.: If there are any old-timey MJ readers from Laguna Beach, you may remember Gavvy as Judge Cravath.  | 
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