| Dear Jolter, Big Jim Geraghty warned he'd be off this week. He didn't warn that Morning Jolt is temporarily in the hands of Yours Truly. Let the week speed by, oremus. Jim doesn't need a relief pitcher like the Kansas City Royal's Edinson Volquez did the other night when he started against the Astros: one inning pitched, twelve runs given up, eleven earned. It was the worst-ever start in baseball's Modern Era. Elias confirms. Actually, Volquez made it into the second inning, but after giving up 3 runs and getting no one out, he was finally yanked. Bet he wanted a do-over. As does . . . Every British lefty, still agog and increasingly infuriated that the peasants beat them in the Brexit referendum. As John Fund reports , EU-lovers don't believe in majority rule. Related: NRO published Ian Tuttle's important piece on the Remain-ers' backlash on Friday. It's still getting lots of attention, so if you haven't yet read it, you should. Also related: Elliott Abrams's lead NRO piece on The Positive Side of Nationalism, which looks at Brexit through the local lens: Whatever Obama is displaying, it is not nationalism, not a plan to rebuild American greatness and military power. He seems to find American nationalism dangerous and, to use that word again, primitive. Recall his 2008 comment on small-town Americans: "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." Or they vote for Brexit, British cultural and political pooh-bahs might say to express the same sentiments. Not on NRO, but still worth your Brexit attention: Levelheaded Dan Hannan, our pal, MEP, and one of Leave's most articulate spokesmen, has written this very wise essay suggesting the EU "should calmly offer the UK a privileged partnership." Last week Andy McCarthy gave a speech, "Defenseless in the Face of Our Enemies." Mama mia, is it ever a powerful indictment of Obama and his administration and their unwillingness to truly battle America's Islamic foes, hiding behind a concocted policy knows as "Countering Violent Extremism." The entire speech is a most worthwhile read, which is why NRO has published it, and why you should share it with your pals. Here's a slice: In sum, Obama's CVE strategy expressly instructs our investigators to consider only violent or criminal conduct. They are told to ignore radical ideology, particularly if it has the patina of "religious expression." They are directed to turn a deaf ear to anti-Americanism and the desire to impose sharia, which just happens to be the principal objective of all violent jihadists, and of the Obama administration's oft-time consultants, the Muslim Brotherhood. Our agents, furthermore, are cautioned to avoid doing anything that smacks of subjecting particular groups to heightened scrutiny. After all, that might imply that terrorism committed by Muslims has some connection to Islam — specifically, to the undeniable, unambiguous commands to violent jihad found in Muslim scripture. Obviously, this CVE guidance is exactly what our investigators follow when they consciously avoid scrutinizing jihadist social-media postings by visa applicants from Muslim-majority countries — such as Tashfeen Malik. She was the Pakistani immigrant who joined her jihadist husband, Syed Farook, in carrying out last December's mass-murder attack in San Bernardino (in which 14 people were killed and dozens wounded). There is nothing secret about CVE. It is right there in black and white. Willful blindness, furthermore, is a guiding principle of Obama's governance. It is the same rationale used to justify purging instruction about the Islamic doctrinal roots of violent jihadism from materials used to train our law-enforcement, military, and intelligence agents. One last item: On the Corner, @BaseballCrank Dan McLaughlin asks "What if the Orlando Shooter Wasn't Gay After All?" Check it out. Time for me to check out. See you tomorrow. Jack Fowler Publisher | 
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