Monday roundup

Madison Peace at The Federalist speaks for moi in her essay entitled "Theologian Wayne Grudem is Wrong About Trump Being A Moral Choice," a response to the prominent Christian ethics professor's recent Townhall column.

Lloyd Grove at the Daily Beast reports on the nasty Twitter war between Sean Hannity and the WSJ's Bret Stephens - over Squirrel-Hair, of course.

Suicide bomber strikes a hospital in the western Pakistani city of Quetta, killing 63 and injuring over 100. Patients, doctors, various others.

"Most of the victims are lawyers, journalists and common citizens," Abdul says.

Quetta is the capital of the province of Baluchistan, which is home to a number of militant groups, Abdul says. The Quetta Shura, a group of leaders of the Afghan Taliban, is believed to be based in the city.

Baltimore Ravens tight end Benjamin Watson speaks straightforwardly about the racist reason Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood.

When asked by a Colorado journalist about an anti-fracking ballot measure that that state's voters are considering, Squirrel-Hair gave a characteristic response - that is, it was only coherent enough that the only way to interpret it was as his siding with the anti-frack crowd.

Today's addition to the Hillionaire-was-worthless-as-a-Senator file. Will the nation as a whole fall for her empty job-creation rhetoric?

In her presidential bid, Hillary Clinton has made job creation a centerpiece of her platform, casting herself as a pragmatist who would inspire “the biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II.’’

Her argument that she would put more Americans to work has focused on her time in the Senate, when she took on the mission of creating jobs in chronically depressed Upstate New York. As her husband, former president Bill Clinton, put it recently, she became the region’s “de facto economic development officer.”

But nearly eight years after Clinton’s Senate exit, there is little evidence that her economic development programs had a substantial impact on upstate employment. Despite Clinton’s efforts, upstate job growth stagnated overall during her tenure, with manufacturing jobs plunging nearly 25 percent, according to jobs data.

The former first lady was unable to pass the big-ticket legislation she introduced to benefit the upstate economy. She turned to smaller-scale projects, but some of those fell flat after initial glowing headlines, a Washington Post review shows. Many promised jobs never materialized and others migrated to other states as she turned to her first presidential run, said former officials who worked with her in New York.

Clinton’s self-styled role as economic promoter also showcases an operating style that has come to define the political and money-making machine known to some critics of the former first couple as Clinton Inc. Some of her pet economic projects involved loyal campaign contributors, who also supported the Clinton Foundation, The Post review shows.

Clinton’s Senate record — rarely examined in detail this campaign cycle — offers a template for her approach to jobs creation. Her campaign has crafted a detailed jobs plan and cited her Upstate New York work as a blueprint for a Clinton presidency.

Um, yeah, examining that record might be advisable as we enter the last 90 days before deciding between the Alinskyite and Cheeto Jesus.