Florida County GOP Calls mRNA COVID Shots “Bioweapons”

FDA Approves First Drug to Protect Babies From RSV  Except we have no evidence that babies are susceptible to RSV, any more than young children.

Trump’s Coup Lawyer Advised on Weird Supreme Court Fanfiction (Daily Beast) Nothing is too irrelevant or silly if it can be used to smear Trump and anybody who deals with Trump.

Trump Wins Turning Point Action Conference Straw Poll

Trump seeks unprecedented delays as he battles prosecution (The Hill) Unprecedented! (Hm. Seems to me that ‘unprecedented’ is what Trump is all about….)

Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025 (N.Y. Times)

Can Donald Trump delay trials until after 2024 election? Why he’s trying to ‘slow things down’ (USA Today) What are the chances that somebody writing for USA Today knows why Trump does anything? Not great.

Fani Willis: The No-Nonsense Georgia Prosecutor on a Collision Course With Donald Trump (Wall Street Journal)

Trump to Expand Presidential Powers If Reelected: Report (NewsMax) Even news orgs that ought to know better can pick up on proglodyte speculations.

The MAGA persecution complex is eating itself to death (Washington Post) Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Trump To Young Americans: “Choose Fascism Or Freedom”

Minn AG Keith Ellison compares Justice Clarence Thomas to house slave character in blockbuster hit

WATCH: Far-Left Minnesota AG Compares Clarence Thomas to House Slave From ‘Django’

Congratulations, Massachusetts Liberals: Your ‘Millionaire Tax’ Just Cost the Patriots an All-Pro Wide Receiver

Former Hollywood Exec: Strike Could Lead to Industry Collapse Note the assumption that only the centralized union-dominated Hollywood can make movies.

The WHO Is A Real And Present Danger

“I Am The Regulator!”: EU Commissioner Warns Social Media To Censor After French Riots

Church of England Schools Propagating Critical Race Theory 

GOP senators rattled by radical conservative populism (The Hill)

Sweden Announces Latest Crackdown On Immigration Rules As Govt Seeks To Dissuade New Arrivals

PBS Film Fest Runs the Lefty Hits: Abortion, LGBTQ, ‘White Supremacist Patriarchy’

Groomerous! Star of Netflix’s Queer RomCom ‘Glamorous’ Wants Debaucherous Trans Character to be Role Model for Kids

Trudeau says Muslims against LGBTQ ideology in schools are misled by ‘misinformation and disinformation’ from the ‘American right-wing’ (The Post Millenial) Trudeau’s ability to live in an alternate reality is astonishing.

How Gretchen Whitmer Made Michigan a Democratic Stronghold (The New Yorker) Michigan has been a Democrat stronghold for decades before Whitmer got there. (Note the assumption that ‘policies young people want’ are proglodyte policies.)

Washington Post Editors Forced to Correct Florida FAKE NEWS by Jennifer Rubin

Poll: Two-Thirds Support Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision

The View PANICS Over Third Party Push that Could Harm Biden Reelection

Kamala, On a Roll

Teamsters Chief to White House: Don’t Intervene If UPS Workers Strike

Fmr Disney CEO Katzenberg, Wife Drop $1.7M Into Biden PAC

Bongino Says Secret Service Likely Knows ‘Exactly Who’ Left Coke in West Wing I have no doubt that he is correct.

‘Massive US Oil Caverns’ Are Now Empty, Will Take ‘Decades To Refill’ Thanks To Biden Electric cars! Who needs a Strategic Petroleum Reserve! That’s just so fifteen minutes ago.

How Harlan Crow Slashed his Tax Bill by Taking Clarence Thomas on Superyacht Cruises (ProPublica)

NYT’s Demirjian Lambasts ‘Ultraconservative’ GOP for Opposing Woke Military Moves

No-Show Republicans Shun NGA (Politico) All of these organizations have been suborned by Democrats, who use Republican participation to pull the wool of ‘bipartisanship’ over their progressive agenda. Republicans are getting wise and Just Say No.

Manchin’s Third-Party Event Stokes Dems’ Fear

Hutchinson Booed at Turning Point Action Conference  No one has time for retreads.

House Democrat Calls Israel ‘Racist State’  (NewsMax) Although not as racist as the Demcorat party.

Top House Democrats rebuke Jayapal comments that Israel is a ‘racist state’ as she tries to walk them back (CNN)

Birds Build Nests from Anti-Bird Spikes  Let that be a lesson to us all.

Trans Activist Attempt at Cancelling Academic Paper Backfires

University of Michigan Hosts ‘#PoliceFreeCampus’ Project As Shootings and Sex Crimes Plague School

Playbook: All eyes on Joe Manchin: 2024 edition (Politico)

‘Reproductive Coercion’: PBS NewsHour Connects Pro-Life Victories to Domestic Violence (NewsBusters)

GOP donors fuel RFK Jr’s presidential campaign (Popular Information)

“A Threat To Democracy”: Activists Sound Alarm Over ‘Deceptive AI’ In Politics

A group of GOP centrists threatens hardline tactics on tax bill (Politico)

Democrats to Press Supreme Court Ethics Rules Over G.O.P. Opposition (N.Y. Times) The witch-hunt proceeds apace.

Rudy Giuliani Plays Detective at Gilgo Beach Suspect’s Home (Daily Beast) Giuliani was United States Attorney in New York for six years. I suspect that he is more qualified to ‘play detective’ than some writer for the Daily Beast.

Non-binary ex-Biden official Sam Brinton was on secret taxpayer-funded trip at time of luggage theft (Fox)

This Is the Time for Quixotic, Corrosive Campaigns? Seriously? (The New Republic)

House Democrats Prepare Push to Censure George Santos (N.Y. Times) If Schiff can laugh at censure, then Santos can laugh at censure.

Boebert’s Democratic challenger raises three times more than her (The Hill) Democrats: Party of the rich.

Groups sue Florida over latest immigration law (Politico)

Supreme Court Term Limits: Still a ‘Solution’ in Search of a Problem

No Labels Says It’s Not a Political Party. But It’s Setting Up State Parties. (Mother Jones)

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

John noted yesterday Jen Rubin’s astonishing faceplant in the Washington Post about net migration to Florida, and this is a subject we keep up with closely, so let’s see the latest about California, which may just supply the next Democratic candidate for president.

Read it.

And you know their names.

The U.S. Supreme Court is finished for the term, but questions about accuracy should follow some justices into the next session in October. For example: Was Justice Sonia Sotomayor correct in her description of a key historical event in a recent dissenting opinion—or did she obscure details to suit her purposes? And with the revelation that her colleague, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, incorrectly cited research findings in a dissent, Americans are right to ask whether the justices bend facts to fit their arguments.

Steve Sailer.

Our society still deems it important that our bridges don’t fall down, but nobody cares anymore about whether are sociologists are any good, unlike a couple of generations ago when Edward Banfield and Father Andrew Greeley helped make sociology cool.

ZMan does some analysis.

One of the oddities of the Obama administration was that it seemed as if they were working from a list of wrongs they were determined to right. Those wrongs were what the Left counted as their failures over the decades. A part of Obama being viewed as Black Jesus was his ability to heal the past. This was necessary as those old harms were what tied us to the present. It was only by righting those past wrongs that we could break free and enter the glorious future.

The most obvious example was the health care stuff. This proved to be a disaster for the Clinton administration, but that is not how the Left saw it. They viewed it as a betrayal and a defeat that had to be addressed. This is why the eventual policy was nothing like they promised or anything anyone would call reform. That was never the point of the exercise. The point was to have a redo of that old defeat and this time the good guys would win and erase that loss from memory.

This active revisionism turned up in all sorts of places. They had Hillary Clinton pose with Sergey Lavrov holding a red button. This was part of the Russian reset initiative designed to restart relations with Russia. In reality it was about soothing the wounds from the Reagan years when the Left lost the Cold War debate. The same vibe permeated their Iran initiative. Like the Russian reset, the Iran reproachment had no utility in the present. It was all about the past.

How many of these have non-trivial numbers of People of Color is left as an exercise for the readoer.

Why Are More Mothers Dying in Childbirth?

Gates of Vienna.

An expatriate German blogger is being hunted by the Woke Stasi for daring to describe the creature of size who co-leads the Green Party as “fat”.

I feel compelled to note that the German word for “fat” is “dick”. It always makes me think of the (now archaic) Australian colloquialism “to crack a fat”. I wonder if the deep structure of our respective languages somehow understands this congruence of meaning.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Jennifer Rubin is a left-wing columnist for the Washington Post. So, naturally, she hates Ron DeSantis. On Friday, she published a column arguing that DeSantis’s conservative policies endanger Florida’s economy. The headline was, “Florida might pay for MAGA cruelty and know-nothingism.” Just another objective day at the office at WaPo! Unfortunately, her entire column was based on a grotesque factual error.

Sadly, that’s her job description.

The Fact-Check Racket Finally Unravels

PolitiFact Flags Fox on NEA Recommending ‘Gender Queer’ for Summer Reading List

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Covid Remarks Raise Questions of Antisemitism (N.Y. Times)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggests covid was designed to spare Jews, Chinese people (Washington Post)

NPR Hates Fox: Media Reporter Airs Two Bad Stories Touting Suit of 1/6 Riot-Pusher Ray Epps

WaPo’s Jennifer Rubin Self-Immolates With False ‘MAGA Migration’ Propaganda

MSNBC’s Jen Psaki Defends Racial Indoctrination in Military, Blames GOP Instead

Playbook: DeSantis in disarray? (Politico)

NYT Propagandist Smears Tucker Carlson, ‘Jesus Is Out, Putin Is In’

Pronoun Lockdown: Almost Half Of Millennials Want Jail Time For “Misgendering”

Berkeley Law Dean Caught Telling Class He’d Lie In Deposition About ‘Diversity Hiring’, Now Says He Was Joking

Oakland Eviction Moratorium Set To End Today

Hungry College Students Might Lose Food Stamps

The War On Cash Centers On “Controlling The Individual”

Stunning Video Shows How American Education Has Become A Leftist Cult

How The ‘Great Society’ Destroyed The Nuclear Family Structure In One Chart

Five Essential Truths About the Modern Left

‘Snow White’ Producers Circumvent Actors’ Strike By Casting 7 Random Hobos From San Francisco (Babylon Bee)

Hunter Biden Scandal ‘Extremely Serious,’ Former FBI Agent Says (Newsweek)

Ex-Secret Service agent ‘not surprised’ about White House cocaine incident (The Hill)

Border rancher fears for her life as migrants cross unchecked, ‘picked the wrong place to raise a family’ (Fox)

‘Reduce Population’: Kamala Harris Verbal Slip-Up Corrected By White House

The War on Merit, Teacher Edition

Math = White Supremacy

Georgia man accused of killing 4, injuring 2 officers, dead after manhunt: police Betcha he ‘identifies’ as a Person of Color.

St. Paul Schools Kicked Out Cops, Staff Are Too Terrified to Work

Biden stability beats Trump volatility in 2024 match-up, experts suggest (The Guardian)

Trump’s outbursts met with silence so far by prosecutor, judge (Washington Post)

“Dangerous Rhetoric”: Hunter Biden Lawyers Tell Trump Cease And Desist Social Media Attacks

Trump: Some 2024 Rivals ‘Good Potential Cabinet Members’  Talking past the sale.

Asa Hutchinson met with booing and ‘Trump’ chant during Turning Point Action speech (Washington Examiner) No time for retreads.

Donna Brazile Laughably Claims Biden is the Moderate in 2024 Race

Ex-State Dept COVID investigator calls newly-unredacted Fauci communications ‘an extensive cover-up’ (N.Y. Post)

CDC Used Journal To Promote Masks Despite ‘Unreliable’ And ‘Unsupported Data’: New Analysis

We must stop climate solutions killing biodiversity (Financial Times)

Paying the price: Let market forces end the fossil fuel era (The Hill)

Yes, No, Maybe – but Its Going to be Something! Settled Climate Science in 2023

The Grip of Culture: The Social Psychology of Climate Catastrophism

More Disclosure About “Climate Risk Disclosure”

‘Hottest Days’ Manipulation?

Net Zero: An Outcome Without a Process

Nuclear Fission Fuel Is Inexhaustible

What the media won’t tell you about US heat waves

Big oil quietly walks back on climate pledges as global heat records tumble (The Guardian)

US weather: flash floods in the northeast, heatwave intensifies (Reuters)

A Climate Hawk’s Issues With Electric Vehicles (N.Y. Times) A hybrid is an electric car that carries its own charging station with it.

Dishonest Climate Fear-mongering headline of the week goes to USA TODAY

NewsMax.

A Palestinian gunman opened fire on a car in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, wounding three Israelis, including two girls, Israeli authorities said. The suspect fled the scene of the shooting, but he was later captured.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you;
Especially if
You might be a Jew.

Read it.

How can you not love America? It is possibly the only country where someone can find a bag of cocaine inside the president’s office, where the world’s most technologically skilled police services can find no way to trace the perpetrator who left it there, and where the country’s political leadership does not get ridiculed by the media over this.

Let us not even begin with all the questions about White House security (anthrax anyone?) and simply note that nobody has been blamed, nobody has resigned, and nobody is forced to answer any questions about the incident.

Read it.

Over 2,300 people have been arrested in connection with the multiple-day riots that shook France earlier this month following the fatal shooting of a teen named Nahel in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.

Many have speculated about a connection between immigration and the rioting, with former presidential candidate Éric Zemmour explicitly blaming French immigration policy during an interview published last Sunday.

“No one can ignore reality anymore,” Zemmour said and added, “in spite of everything, most of the political class wants to believe that it is a social crisis when the root cause is obvious: immigration.”

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

It pays to be a minority, especially a Native American. That is the only possible explanation why so many people, especially academics, adopt fake Indian identities. There is even a word for it: Pretendian. And it seems as though the more militant the academic, the more likely he actually isn’t Native at all.

Washington Free Beacon.

I know some people blame “liberalism” for the triumph of consumerism and the rise of a supposed woke international economic order, but if you are going to blame anything, blame the metric system.

‘Teaching Toward Social Justice’: California’s New Math Framework Aims to Create ‘Equitable Outcomes’ Between Students (Washington Free Beacon)

Ky. Ban on Gender Transition Care Takes Effect as US Judge Lifts Injunction (NewsMax)

Cycling’s Global Governing Body To Ban Trans Athletes From Women’s Races

Guns Are Not the Leading Cause of Children’s Deaths

Dylan Mulvaney Flees US To Peru For ‘Safety’ Only To Return Days Later To Attend LA Event

China Perfecting Techno-Totalitarianism For Export Around The World: Rep. Gallagher

Judge Holds Strict Oregon Gun Law Constitutional (NewsMax)

Sweden Hardens Family Reunification Rules Citing Integration Woes

The Electoral College is the big factor in a third-party nightmare for Democrats (Politico)

Woke ‘Barbie’ Bait and Switch in the Works?

MSNBC Host Claims ‘My Audience Doesn’t Have Conspiracy Theorists’  Yeah, sure, I believe that.

California Approves Math Curriculum Promoting “Social Justice” Over Standard Skills

No Labels releases proposals to guide third-party presidential ticket (Washington Post)

NYU Hit With Civil Rights Complaint Over Whites-Only ‘Anti-Racism’ Workshop (Washington Free Beacon)

Has Any Pundit Yet Apologized for Backing BLM in 2020?

GOP Ad Goes After Trump for ‘Trashing’ Iowa Governor (NewsMax)

White House says Republicans have turned defense bill into ‘rightwing wishlist’ (The Hill) As if the Democrats hadn’t done the exact same thing every time they held the majority.

House passes defense bill after adopting controversial amendments targeting abortion policy and other issues (CNN)

The House just passed a defense bill with controversial abortion, LGBTQ measures. It doesn’t stand a chance in the Senate. (Politico) That never stopped the Democrats.

Kevin McCarthy’s speakership is the equivalent of a beat-up jalopy (CNN) Republicans talk about issues, Democrats call names.

Civil rights dominoes set to fall as conservative activists get Supreme Court’s message (MSNBC) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Scarborough Slams GOP Efforts to Withdraw U.S. Military from the Culture War (NewsBusters)

Here’s What Really Led to Capitol Riot, Vivek Ramaswamy Tells Tucker Carlson (The Foundry)

Watch: Mike Pence Squirms As Carlson Dismantles Neocon Talking Points On Ukraine

CNN Bashes GOP for Cutting Trans Surgeries from Military Spending Bill

PBS Accuses GOP of ‘Screwing Up’ The Military For ‘Culture Wars’

CNN Deceptively Edits RNC Chair To Paint Her as a Conspiracy Theorist

Earth to Crazy MSNBC, The Guardian: Was JFK A ‘Fascist Fitness’ Zealot?

US heatwave: A third of Americans under extreme heat advisories (BBC)

‘Giant Methane Factories’: Hydropower Has Long Been Touted as Clean Energy. But Is It? (Inside Climate Narrative News)

Nuclear Power’s Next Big Event

Biden Admin Targets Air Conditioning Refrigerants Over Climate Concerns

Guardian: Climate Activists can Overcome Greed by Shouting Louder

Electric Car Sales Stall 

Why Global Warming Lawsuits Deserve to Fail

Power Line U ‘The Plague of Models,’ Webinar 2

Hudson Bay sea ice loss has not accelerated since 2014: in fact, summer ice cover has improved

DOJ Quietly Removes Child Sex Trafficking Information From Its Website

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 51)

Appeals Court Pauses Ban On Biden Admin’s Censorship Of Social Media Companies

Targeted For Tyranny: We’re All Suspects Under The Government’s Pre-Crime Program

Biden’s ATF Sued For “Zero Tolerance” Policy Towards Gun Dealers

FLASHBACK: Lib Journalists Loved Obama’s Ill-Fated Iran Nuke Deal

Latest Gaffe From VP Harris Calls for Reducing ‘Population’

New Poll: 39% of Democrats Say It’s Likely Biden Took Foreign Bribes

Hunter Biden’s lawyer sends cease-and-desist letter to Trump over social media posts (ABC News)

Trump’s 2024 Branding Is All About His Criminal Indictments (Daily Beast) And the Daily Beast’s branding is “All Trump! All the time!”

Christie ‘can’t imagine’ pardon for Trump in documents case (The Hill) Christie’s lack of imagination doesn’t surprise those who have been paying attention.

Trump’s 2024 media play: Less cable, more Barstool (Politico)

Report: Documents Probe Targets Trump Organization (NewsMax)

Donald Trump Reveals His Legal Strategy and It’s Pretty Sad (Vice) The mind-readers at Vice explain it all to you.

RFK Jr: Trump Is ‘Most Successful Debater’ in US

GOP passes amendments that threaten to doom defense bill (The Hill)

Former police chief convicted after defending self with false Jan. 6 claims (Washington Post)

Mara Gay: Pro-Trump Americans Are Stupid, Ignorant, Nefarious

Johnstone: The Worst 2024 Election Interference Won’t Come From Russia Or China

Head Of FTC Confronted About Agency Harassment Of Twitter At Behest Of Democrats

WATCH: GOP Congressman Goes on Wild ‘Colored People’ Rant on House Floor (Daily Beast) Use of the term ‘colored people’, of course, makes him guilty of ThoughtCrime.

California replaces textbooks canceled by far-right board (Politico) For Politico, there is no right but the far-right.

Here are the 70 House Republicans who voted to cut off all US military aid to Ukraine (Insider) Cue vilification in the Narrative media.

CNN Finds it ‘Insane’ the GOP Wants the FBI to Be Fair and Impartial (NewsBusters)

Former NBA Player Says He Lost $50 Million In Earnings After Speaking Out Against CCP

The House is in chaos again, but it’s just another week for Kevin McCarthy (L.A. Times)

‘A-hole’ abortion vote roils GOP’s defense bill plans (Politico)

The View Claims Republicans ‘Planted’ the Cocaine in the White House  Talk about your conspiracy theories….

A Federal Judge Asks: Does the Supreme Court Realize How Bad It Smells? (N.Y. Times) Pushing the Narrative from the bench, in hopes of a later payday.

UPS CEO’s Political Donations Boost Anti-Union Republicans (The Intercept) Burn the witch!

Florida might pay for MAGA cruelty and know-nothingism (Washington Post) She’s back! Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

GOP war on the FBI: Republican attacks on Chris Wray echo ideology of OKC bomber Timothy McVeigh (Salon)

Ukraine Situation Report: Russian General Fired After Lambasting Shoigu

Rampant Corruption Is One Reason Behind Ukraine’s Failed NATO Bid

Germany’s Leading Arms Maker To Open Tank Factory In Ukraine

Nuclear EMP Strike Poses ‘Major Threat’ to US

Russia: West Sponsoring ‘Nuclear Terrorism’

Controversial Cluster Munitions Reach Ukrainian Frontline As House Votes Down GOP Amendment To Block Transfer  Democrats: Party of Fear/Party of Hate/Party of Death.

Strategic Win for NATO: Sweden Joins the Ranks

Blinken: NKorea’s Ongoing Threat a Security Challenge One that didn’t exist while Trump was President.

Russian Drones Attack Zelenskyy’s Hometown  Slow news day.

‘It’s Time … to Take Off the Golden Blindfolds,’ GOP Rep Tells US Corporate Leaders Doing Business in China

UK Government Blasted for “Completely Inadequate” Response to China Spy Threat

Zelensky Activates 3,000 U.S. Military Reservists (Babylon Bee)

Veteran-Owned ‘Clean Beef’ Company Says It Would Rather Shut Down Than Accept mRNA Injections In Cattle

“Not Some Fringe Theory”: Flip-Flopping Virologist Thought Lab Leak “Highly Likely” Before Toeing Fauci’s Line

COVID-19 No Longer An Issue For UK Travelers

How Fauci and NIH Leaders Worked to Discredit COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory

PBS Notices Massive COVID Learning Loss, Doesn’t Notice Its Cause: Teachers Unions

SBA Report: COVID Fraud Over $200B

The Southwest’s enduring heat wave is expected to intensify over the weekend (NPR)

Coast-to-coast heat dome sends temperatures soaring, threatens all-time records (Washington Post)

Santa Clarita expected to be ‘easily’ over 100 degrees this weekend (Santa Clarita Valley Signal)

‘Dangerous heat’ forecast to bring temperatures up to 110 to the SF Bay Area (S.F. Gate)

Why is Atlantic City’s sea level rising much faster than the rest of the world? (CBS News) Is it? Is it really?

‘Climate Czar’ John Kerry can’t answer a question about his own staff — let alone his private jet (N.Y. Post)

Kerry erupts after his private jet use is mocked in House hearing, denies ever owning one (Fox)

US refuses climate reparations for developing nations (BBC)

John Kerry Private Plane Questions (C-Span)

4 Takeaways From Climate Czar John Kerry’s House Hearing (The Foundry)

Hummer EV Hype Fades In One Chart

Watch: Climate Czar John Kerry Exposed As Bald Faced Liar Over Use Of Private Jet

EPA unveils $20 billion to finance the fight against climate change (Washington Post) Ka-ching!

Electric Cars Might Not Even Lower Carbon Emissions, Report Finds

Pedal Politics: Bicycle Stunt Draws International Criticism

German Climate Extremists Set SUVs on Fire 

World’s oldest trees reveal the largest solar storm in history

The Heat Wave Scorching the US Is a Self-Perpetuating Monster (Wired ‘Science’)

Why Is Europe’s Latest Heat Wave Called Cerberus? It’s Complicated (Wired ‘Science’)

EPA’s New Vehicle Emissions Rule Would Drive Cars and Trucks Off the Road. It’s Also Illegal.

Plano police arrest second suspect in gun theft (Fox)

If You Don’t Like ‘Conservative Principles Driven by Judeo-Christian Foundation,’ Sen. Tim Scott Says, ‘Choose Another Candidate’

5 Hospitalized After Maryland Shooting

Dennis Prager.

There is a pandemic in the Western world — especially, but not only, in America — that few are talking about, let alone addressing.

This pandemic doesn’t actually kill people. But it does destroy people, ruin lives, crush families and cause permanent, debilitating pain — far more than have the vast majority of cases of COVID-19.

This pandemic consists of adult children who have decided never again to speak to one or both of their parents. The vast majority of these people were never sexually or physically abused. In fact, nearly all were loved by their parents.

So, then, why have these people decided to hurt their mother, their father or both in one of the worst ways possible?

Washington Free Beacon.

Under intense political pressure, California Democrats on Thursday reversed their dismissal two days earlier of a bill that would classify child trafficking as a serious felony.

Assembly Public Safety Committee chair Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D.), who criticized the legislation on Tuesday for its potential impact on racial minorities, this time voted to advance the bill unchanged along with three other Democrats. The two Republicans voted yes both times. None of the lawmakers spoke about why they were holding a redo vote.

The abrupt and unusual about-face came in an emergency hearing after public outcry over the panel’s first vote, which saw all the Democrats abstain and thereby block the bill from moving toward a vote by the full Assembly. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) had also applied pressure, saying Wednesday that he was “surprised” by the decision.

Read it.

Italian authorities have placed the famous migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking under “indefinite” detention because of safety concerns found during an inspection in the port of Civitavecchia, according to a statement published by SOS Méditerranée, the NGO that owns the vessel. The news appeared on Thursday, July 13th—the same day the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the Commission to force Mediterranean countries to open their ports to NGOs.

According to the statement, the Ocean Viking docked at the port on July 11th, after picking up 57 migrants near the Libyan coasts four days prior. After migrants disembarked, the local authorities conducted a seven-hour inspection of the ship, finding several “technical and administrative deficiencies,” including one that requires further investigation to determine the vessel’s seaworthiness under international safety standards.

To the NGO, the detention appears to be politically motivated, because the problem they found—the lack of qualified personnel to deploy lifeboats—was not flagged in any prior inspections. The organization said it was working on resuming its rescue operations on the sea as soon as possible and condemned any attempt to hinder the work of migrant-saving NGOs.

The NGO ‘Migrant Rescue” Scam:

1. Migrants, often in co-ordination with ‘migrant rescue’ NGOs, get into something that will float and paddle out beyond the territorial waters.
2. NGO ‘migrant rescue ship’ swoops in and ‘rescues’ them.
3. Rather than take them back to where they came from (often in sight), the NGO ship takes them to a European port, where under EU policy they are given ‘asylum’ as ‘refugees’.
4. Lather, rinse, repeat.

This is why the European population is increasingly Muslim and non-European.

Read it.

Inside every person, there are sparks of dark flame as powerful and ancient as mankind itself. As a rule, they lie dormant, buried under thick layers of civility and goodwill. However, eventually, they awake and give rise to one of our strongest passions: hatred.

German Climate Extremists Set SUVs on Fire 

You want hate, look to your Left.

OffGuardian.

There will come a time when you’re sitting in a smoke-filled place from the out of control wildfires, the chicken balls you had for lunch might be crickets in disguise, the cat and the dog both have bird flu, the mosquito that just bit you probably has Oxitek’s Zika, the water you’re drinking is full of chemicals, nuclear threats from the Ukraine cover the media outlets, artificial intelligence thinks you’re stupid, one egg is worth more than the dollar in your pocket, outside the parades of celebration are really testaments to indignation and random murders compete with random heart attacks for worry of the week, you’ve already used up your allotted 15 minute city day trip and you read about how daffodil extract will save the planet from cow flatulation.

(And the scientists who want to block the sun haven’t checked with the ones who are making solar panels. I don’t think they like each other.)

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

To the Western ear, the phrase “closed society” brings to mind hermit kingdoms like North Korea or totalitarian societies like the old Soviet Union. That is because the ideology of the American empire is the open society. The open society is tolerant and open to minorities while the closed society is intolerant. The former is always good while the latter is always bad, very very bad.

The open society is not the norm for human organization. In fact, the very idea of human organization requires both discrimination and intolerance. All human organizations must have rules to determine who is outside the group, who is inside the group and how this is enforced. An organization where anyone can come or go as they please is just an ad hoc mob, not an organization.

Therein lies the debilitating contradiction in the open society. If the goal is a society where all opinions are tolerated and given a fair hearing, it means tolerating ideas that run counter to the open society ideal. This is where Karl Popper’s famous phrase, “the paradox of tolerance”, comes into the conversation. In order to maintain the tolerant society, you must be intolerant of intolerance.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

After an 11-day alleged investigation, the Secret Service announced today that it cannot identify the person who left cocaine in the White House. The Service says that there were no usable finger prints on the bag that held the cocaine, and not enough DNA for an identification. So the investigation is being closed.

No one is going to buy this. The general area is under video surveillance, and there is a log of people who enter the West Wing.

NBC News.

The U.S. FDA said it did not agree with the cancer research group’s conclusions that linked aspartame to cancer.

James Rikards.

Attention spans are short, and Americans have already moved on to stories about political scandals, the next election, and the usual celebrity glamour gloss. Outside of the U.S. warmonger elites and a few critics (myself included), Americans don’t seem to care.

That’s a mistake. The war is as hard fought as ever and the geopolitical stakes are even higher than at the start of the war as we keep climbing up the escalation ladder.

Today I’ll look at the military situation, the economic sanctions, the bigger picture of global recession, and the impact of the war on energy prices.