Well, long suffering readers, this is the second edition of the Postcard series from the placid bogs that line the majestic Potomac. The big brown river flows at its own pace between the District and Arlington County. Not so the affairs of humans here. We are already in a steamy heat from the swirl of activity on the Hill and in the media.

I had the opportunity to drive out to Luray, Virginia, home of the famous caverns and the seat of a hard-scrabble county in the Shenandoah Valley. I swear you could feel things physically lighten out the instant I got west of the north-south boundary of RT 28, the gateway to Dulles International and the world. Out there, people seemed to have other things on their mind than the overthrow of the United State Government, though of course that was not always the case.

I even saw a host of American flags- and two Rebel battle flags- along with more churches than I notice here in Arlington. And the banners for the big summer celebrations in all the little towns on the two-lane off the Interstate. There were zero Safe Spaces that I could identify.

Anyway, I have to update this slide weekly, and while I am a little more free to write what I want here, I am afraid that is what you are going to get. Talk to you tomorrow! I can’t wait to see Mr. Comey’s testimony- I am betting it is going to be a mirror image of the story he told at the Hillary Clinton press conference- a storm of invective, culminating in the admission that no sane prosecutor would press charges.

I did not agree then, and it is entirely possible I will not agree tomorrow. But I guess that is just life in the 21st Century.

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