Steve Sailer.

My wife’s black friend from the office who became a Chicago policewoman told us that she was amazed by the number of calls they went on to adjudicate really stupid domestic disputes, such as the time a man and woman were having an argument over which TV show to watch, so they called 911 to send out a police officer to tell them who was right about which show was better.

So, there are a lot of calls, especially from the black community, demanding the police come out and resolve inane disputes that shouldn’t require a policeman.

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To this point, 71 percent more Americans have died in New York nursing homes than have died in the entire state of Florida, which not only has a larger population but a population that skews older. To this point, New York’s death rate has been ten times larger than Florida’s. So, naturally, liberals are busy concocting a narrative that holds that the failures of the American response to coronavirus have been the fault of Trumpian nihilists in the Red States.

The “toxic imbecility” of Republicans is getting people killed, writes Max Boot. “Trumpism, not polarization, drives America’s disastrous coronavirus politics” says Ezra Klein. Some pundits who push this myth, Paul Krugman in particular, had even had the temerity to suggest that the country look to New York State for advice.

I can’t think of any circumstance where anyone ought to look to New York state for advice.

Claim: New research shows the South Pole is warming faster than the rest of the world

Select House Members push “Climate Crisis” Action Plan

The Climate Model Muddle

MET Office: Climate Change will Force the UK to Endure French Holiday Weather

Seattle mayor slams protesters for showing no ‘regard for’ her ‘safety’ as demonstrators circle her home  Welcome to our world, Karen.

Seattle Mayor Durkan asks City Council to investigate, possibly expel socialist councilwoman over protest actions  She can dish it out, but she can’t take it.

China Enacts Sweeping Powers to Silence Hong Kong’s Dissidents

China Caught Smuggling 10,800 Assault Weapons Parts Into Louisville By US Customs

NYC Protesters Form Human Barricade In Front Of City Hall

‘I’m Glad You’re A Mind Reader’: St. Louis Homeowner Snaps At Chris Cuomo In Heated Exchange

Seattle Police Clearing ‘Lawless and Brutal’ CHOP Zone

Boston Arts Commission Votes To Remove Abraham Lincoln Statue

Seattle Police Dismantle CHOP After Protesters Threaten Mayor’s $7 Million House

Rachel Hill Defends Standing For The National Anthem As The Rest Of The Chicago Red Stars Kneeled

US Seizes 13 Tons Of Human Hair Suspected To Be From Uighur Forced Labor Camps In China

Virginia Democrats Draft Bill to… Reduce Assaulting a Police Officer to a Misdemeanor

Former Clinton Aide Kickstarts Ad Crusade Against Facebook’s Oversight Board, Calls For Conservative Member’s Ouster

Mike Cernovich Alleges That Two “Journalists” At Allegedly Conservative-Leaning Outlets Wore Wires Supplied to Them by the FBI to Entrap Pro-Trump Journalists in Russiagate Sting

Blatant Lying: CNN Protects Dems, Blames Republicans for Corona Spike

More New York Times Insanity: Hawaiian Shirts as Symbols of Extremism

Ryan Lizza to McEnany: Does Trump believe ‘it was a good thing that the South lost the Civil War?’ | TheHill  The eternal search for some Politically Incorrect opinion on Trump’s part that the DemLegHump media can use as a stick to beat him with. I’m astonished they didn’t just make something up.

Welcome to the United States of ‘Idiocracy’  Washington Post. It is, of course, All Trump’s Fault.

69 million clues Trump is nervous about November  CNN puts its psychic mind-reading skills to work.

Trump Campaign Under Fire For Shirt Designs Featuring Alleged Nazi Eagle  Scraaaaaaape that barrell…. It’s the same eagle used by half of the Federal agencies, including Homeland Security.

DC Mayor: Trump July 4 Celebration Against Health Guidance  All Democrats ought to wear masks. They ought to be ashamed to show their faces in public.

LA City Council Okays Replacing Cops With Community Responders For Non-Violent Calls  Oh, yeah, that’ll work.

NYC Mayor De Blasio Says Black Lives Matter to be Painted in Front of Trump Tower

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Recode co-founder and New York Times contributor Kara Swisher wrote an opinion piece for The Times that was no less than a tantrum aimed at Facebook’s refusal to be as censorious as other Big Tech companies in the lead up to this November’s election.

Swisher’s ultimatum to Facebook, “Clean Up Your Act, Facebook, or We’re Leaving,” is an example of the progressive left’s attempts at bullying platforms into censoring content that they disapprove of. The June 30 opinion piece gleefully noted that the Stop the Hate Facebook ad boycott campaign “organized by the N.A.A.C.P., the ADL, Color of Change and others” are “seeking to force [Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg] to change” by “focusing on your wallet, knocking billions off your net worth in recent days.”

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A (now former) Amazon driver, Derick Lancaster, took to social media yesterday to inform the world not only that he was quitting his job as an Amazon driver, but also of the location of his fully stocked delivery van, which he claims to have left at a Metro Detroit gas station.

Not a good idea. If somebody steals or vandalizes the van or the packages, he’s liable.

Generous welfare benefits encourages this type of adolescent behavior.

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There is really no reason to have a Department of Education; education is none of the business of the Federal government. It was carved out of the old HEW department and made a full cabinet slot in order to funnel money to the teachers’ unions and lock in their votes for the Democrats — it’s pure pork, from start to finish.

Cal Thomas.

In the latest of many cynical and highly political moves, the House of Representatives last week passed a measure that would transform the District of Columbia and make it the 51st state.

“D.C.,” as it is often abbreviated by locals, is already a “state.” It is a state of corruption, crime, and dysfunction.

The only reason Democrats favor the nation’s capital becoming a state is that it would gain two senators, who would almost certainly be Democrats and its “delegate,” Eleanor Holmes Norton, could then vote in the House. Currently she can only participate in committee hearings with the permission of the chairperson.

The Founders specifically prohibited the district from becoming a state, but who listens to them anymore as rioters deface and pull down some of their statues and liberal judges rewrite the Constitution to conform to the spirit of the age?

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Triso— short for “tristructural isotropic”—fuel is made from a mixture of low enriched uranium and oxygen, and it is surrounded by three alternating layers of graphite and a ceramic called silicon carbide. Each particle is smaller than a poppy seed, but its layered shell can protect the uranium inside from melting under even the most extreme conditions that could occur in a reactor.

This appears to be a variant of the existing pebble-bed reactor design.