Black Journalists’ Leader Quits Before Trump Speech

Trump Declines to Back Away From ‘You Don’t Have to Vote Again’ (Maggie Astor/New York Times)

6 Takeaways From Senate Hearing on Trump Assassination Attempt

MSNBC: Vance Wants People to Only Have ‘More White Children’

ABC Heralds Trump’s Nephew Hawking Book Claiming He Said N-Word, Disparaged Disabled

After Assassination Attempt on Trump, Some Want to Hold Gun Owners Responsible for Government Failures

PBS Pundit/NPR Reporter Tamara Keith RIPS Vance’s ‘Really Terrible, No-Good Week’

Harris campaign unveils ad hitting Trump back over the border (Alex Gangitano/The Hill)

Trump’s VP Pick Is A Climate Skeptic, And The Knives Are Out

Trump pressed for answers after saying supporters ‘won’t have to vote’ again (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Read J.D. Vance’s Violent Foreword to Project 2025 Leader’s New Book (Alex Shephard/New Republic) Yup, open the book and a hand will reach up and smack you in the face.

Tax-Funded PBS’s Laura Barron-Lopez Poses Trump 2.0 as Dangerous for LGBTQ People

The last thing JD Vance probably wants to be associated with right now is a couch. But for some reason, he’s still talking about it. (Cheryl Teh/Business Insider) Certainly the Narrative Media seem obsessed with talking about it.

UnHerd.

The pioneer dream is deeply engraved in American culture and history. It’s simple but powerful: setting forth into the unknown, with just a few belongings and your immediate family, and creating a self-reliant, flourishing home in an unforgiving environment. As depicted in the (now resoundingly cancelled) Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, it’s a dream that required practical skills, physical strength and mental fortitude.

It was also, always, an easier sell to men than to women, which is why frontiersmen often had to obtain a wife by mail order. What for a man might be a pioneering adventure might be, for his wife, an arduous daily grind of growing and preparing food, making and mending clothing, laundry, animal husbandry and so on, all with no family help and multiple children underfoot.

Over time, though, a slew of innovations — from cars to ready-made foods to labour-saving home devices — have made it ever easier to live life in a seemingly self-contained way. Perhaps most of all, this has liberated women to pursue individualist dreams just like men. As the American antifeminist Phyllis Schlafly once observed, women were liberated more by the washing machine than feminism.

Steve Sailer.

Finally, in the ninth paragraph, they admit it wasn’t just the pandemic, but that the sacred memory of George Floyd might also have played a role:

StrategyPage.

The Suez canal blockade by Yemen’s Iran-backed Shia Houthi militia and shipping continues. Ships traveling north in the Red Sea towards the Suez Canal have been under attack by the Houthis since late 2023. The Houthis are at war with Israel and still fire at ships more or less at random, though they contend they only fire on ships serving Israel. So far 60 ships have been attacked and half of them damaged. Two ships were sunk while two others were boarded by Houthi gunmen and captured. One was later released but the other one is still being held. Four sailors have been killed and eight wounded.

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In 2008, the Bologna family was murdered by an illegal alien MS-13 gang member.

San Francisco DA Kamala Harris refused to ask for the death penalty despite pleas from the widow because of, in her words, a “complicated analysis that involved many issues”. But the real issue was that Kamala protected criminals instead of victims.

Four years earlier, DA Kamala Harris had refused to impose the death penalty on the violent thug who gunned down Officer Isaac Espinoza with an AK-47. His widow blasted Kamala for not even talking to her before denying her husband justice “I felt like she had just taken something from us. She had just taken justice from us. From Isaac. She was only thinking of herself.”

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Hire Muslim ‘journalists’, get Muslim propaganda.

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A school that injected a minor with a COVID-19 vaccine despite the boy’s parents telling school officials they did not want him to receive a COVID-19 vaccine is immune under federal law, the Vermont Supreme Court has ruled.

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On Monday’s CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta, fill-in host Pamela Brown devoted a segment to a liberal group called White Dudes for Harris, allowing one of CNN’s favorite liberal guests, anti-gun activist David Hogg, to promote his involvement in the group.

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‘Hundreds’ of cars are being stolen from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport every year, investigators from KING NBC 5 have found.

Car thieves frequently target hotel and motel lots offering “park-n-fly” or “stay-n-fly” packages. Data reviewed by KING NBC 5 shows that some of the most well-known lodging names have the highest crime rates, leaving customers liable.

According to public records, the airport Marriott tops the list for crimes at hotel and “park-n-fly” lots. Data from the King County Sheriff’s Office shows 94 car thefts and prowls in 2023, including 27 stolen vehicles. In 2022, there were 74 reported incidents, according to KING NBC 5.

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“We are putting parents on notice,” then-California attorney general Kamala Harris warned at her 2011 inauguration. “If you fail in your responsibility to your kids, we are going to work to make sure you face the full force and consequences of the law.”

Two years later, Cheree Peoples, a single mom of a special needs child, was jailed under a truancy law that Vice President Harris championed as San Francisco district attorney and later as attorney general.

Daily Beast.

The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) declined a request by Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign to appear at this year’s convention, a source familiar with the plans told The Daily Beast.

The news, first reported by theGrio, came hours after Karen Attiah, a co-chair of this year’s NABJ convention, stepped down after the organization announced Donald Trump would appear for a moderated conversation at the Chicago event.

The Trump conversation, focused on “the most pressing issues facing the Black community,” with ABC News reporter Rachel Scott, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner, and Semafor reporter Kadia Goba, has caused significant outrage among NABJ members.

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Two-thirds of California fast food restaurant operators who responded to an online survey believe their costs will increase at least $100,000 annually per location, according to a report released July 19 by the Employment Policies Institute—a Washington D.C.-based lobby group.

Approximately 26 percent of respondents said they expect costs to increase by more than $200,000 at each location.

In June and July, 182 operators were polled on their thoughts about a new minimum wage law requiring quick service restaurants with at least 60 locations nationwide to pay employees a minimum of $20 per hour. The law took effect April 1.

“People aren’t getting paid enough! I know! Let’s pass a law that forces businesses to eliminate their jobs entirely! Yeah, that’s the ticket!”

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Huge increase in the national debt? Pshaw! Not news.

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An organizer for a prominent anti-Israel group complains that some “Palestinian political organizations” that he considers allies have been “criminalized.” His group doesn’t say which ones, though.

Mohammed Nabulsi, a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement, appeared to refer to organizations internationally recognized as foreign terrorist groups during an interview with the International Journal of Socialist Renewal, a left-wing publication.

The International Journal, which published the interview Friday, asked Nabulsi about the Palestinian Youth Movement’s “relations with organizations in Palestine.”

“It’s very difficult for us to directly engage Palestinian political organizations, because the dominant ones that are carrying the movement are deemed illegal and criminalized,” Nabulsi, a Houston lawyer, replied. “You really can’t engage in a direct way or in a coordinated way.”

You can, with the right caliber weapon.

What’s next on the agenda for Trump? “I don’t mean on Trump’s agenda. I mean the opposition’s agenda.”

US Spy Agencies: Iran Trying to Harm Trump’s Chances in Election  What a surprise.

Harris Campaign: Trump Backpedaling on Sept. 10 Debate

Trump’s Mental State Suddenly Takes a Darker Turn: “I’ve Gotten Worse” (New Republic)  They’re going to try the same on him as happened to Biden–but the evidence isn’t there.

“Old and quite weird”: Democrats finally discover new effective attack – and Republicans hate it (Charles R. Davis/Salon)

WATCH: Liberal Blitz to Call Conservatives ‘Weird’ Backfires

Media Shills Have Received Their New Script: “Conservatives Are Weird”

Harris and Democrats keep calling Trump and Vance ‘weird.’ Here’s why (Meg Kinnard/Associated Press)

J.D. Vance May Be The Worst Politician I’ve Ever Seen (Charles P. Pierce/Esquire)  He says that like it’a  a bad thing.

Kamala Harris Trolls Donald Trump: I’ll Go to Debate Even if You Don’t (The Daily Beast)

Republicans Are About To Become Desperate (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

Trump says he’ll ‘probably’ debate Harris: ‘I can also make a case for not doing it’ (Brett Samuels/The Hill)

Trump’s reckless vaccine ultimatum (Radley Balko/The Watch)

Acting Secret Service Chief Played Key Role in Limiting Resources for Trump

‘WEIRDOS’! Pro-Kamala Hollywood PAC Mocks Creepy White Christian Men in New Ad

It’s not just ‘cat ladies’: JD Vance has a history of disparaging people without kids (CNN)  The horror! The horror!

Panicking Trump Picked J.D. Vance After Slip With Key Voter Group (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)

Behind the Curtain: The battle for Trump power (Axios)

Exclusive: The inside story of John Roberts and Trump’s immunity win at the Supreme Court (CNN)  Yeah, sure.

Historian Timothy Ryback: “Hitler could only have dreamed” of Trump’s fanatical support (Chauncey DeVega/Salon)

Where J.D. Vance’s weirdest idea actually came from (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)

Trump Media Quietly Enters Deal With a Republican Donor Who Could Benefit From a Second Trump Administration (ProPublica) DUNH dunh dunh….

AOC Shuts Down Republican Whining About Kamala’s “Weird” Trump Attack (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)

WashPost’s Gene Robinson Jumps On The Kamala Harris Campaign ‘Weird’ Train

Maddow points out frightening truth about Trump’s lack of concern about votes (MSNBC)

Fred Trump III calls uncle Donald Trump ‘atomic crazy,’ says he used racial slur decades ago (ABC News)

Babylon Bee.

Saves time and trouble all around.

The American Mind.

The Kamala Harris presidential campaign is in full swing, and in keeping with the Democrats’ safe space neo-segregationist principles, it organized a series of mass Zoom calls oriented to different demographic groups. Inspired by a supposedly organic gathering of 90,000 black women on Zoom, other “identity groups” wanted in, with conclaves planned for “Black queer men, South Asian women, Latinas, Native women, and white men.” Not wishing to intrude on anyone’s curated spaces, I logged on to “White Dudes for Harris” on Monday night to see what the Harris campaign was asking of me and 100 million other white American men.

The moderator of the event was a scraggly-bearded and top-knotted Democrat political operative called Ross Morales Rocketto, who kicked off the meeting by “addressing the elephant in the room,” namely the problematic nature of an assembly of white men, “because throughout American history, when white men have organized, it was often with pointy hats on.” Rocketto explained that “masculinity as a trope has been coopted by the MAGA Right into something that feeds into the loneliness epidemic,” leading ultimately to destructive behaviors.

Rocketto introduced the evening’s introductory speaker who, unsurprisingly, was black. Maurice Mitchell, the national director of the Working Families Party, served as a kind of validator, reassuring anyone concerned about an all-white gathering of men that he “represents millions of members who come from all ethnicities, including a lot of white dudes.” Mitchell cautioned that “white nationalists in MAGA want to speak for you,” and the failure to denounce them signals our acceptance. “Don’t allow this fringe cult to speak for you,” he urged us, but stand up “in the spirit of solidarity” with Kamala Harris and “get in formation with the forces uniting against fascism.”

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Perhaps not compared to John Oliver….

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Tuesday’s CBS Mornings featured a truly remarkable segment that had the cajones to commiserate with Lebanon (run in large part by the Iran-backed terror group, Hezbollah) that Israel might unleash a fierce military response to last weekend’s missile attack by Hezbollah on a youth soccer field that left 12 children dead and strewn in pieces.

Filling in on the weekday show, CBS Saturday Morning co-host Michelle Miller expressed concern of “growing” “fears of a wider war” not because of Hezbollah’s horrifying attack, but because “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised a severe response”.

She even seemed to case doubt on whether someone else carried out the attack: “Netanyahu blames the Lebanon-based Hezbollah.”

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Federal regulatory costs tax the average American household more than $15,000 per year under the Biden administration, according to a Competitive Enterprise Institute annual report released Tuesday.

Households pay an average of $15,788 in hidden regulatory costs, according to the annual report, written by Clyde Wayne Crews and titled “Ten Thousand Commandments.” That’s more than what they pay for food, clothing, education, or any other household expense other than housing, consuming 17% of income and representing 22% of household expenses.

Federal regulations’ total compliance costs and economic effects add up to at least $2.117 trillion, rivaling individual income-tax costs estimated at $2.328 trillion. Regulatory costs are nearly four times the corporate income tax of $546 billion.

Quillette.

More than a million square kilometres of modern Russia once belonged to China. Or at least it once belonged to the Qing, the last of the region’s imperial dynasties. The territory was handed over as a result of two treaties in the late nineteenth century: just two among a long list of unequal accords inflicted on the hollowed-out Qing. Chief among the dispossessions was Outer Manchuria. This sprawling tract of land in the Eurasian far east includes Vladivostok—previously China’s “city of eternal light,” now Russia’s largest Pacific port.

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Moscow’s military struggles have come as a shock to Beijing. After years of joint drills involving both the PLA and the Russian Armed Forces, Beijing has finally observed its partner in live action for the first time. It has all been a sobering experience: the failures of planning and logistics; the corruption and missing supplies; the faulty equipment; the demoralised troops; the years of grinding attrition. As the CCP hastily reevaluates its notion of Russian competence, the temptation to retake Outer Manchuria is likely to grow.

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For millions of Americans, Social Security is an essential lifeline during retirement. The annual cost-of-living (COLA) is designed to help beneficiaries escape the effects of inflation by providing an annual increase that matches inflation. However, this theory doesn’t always work out well in practice.

The prospects of the 2025 COLA have cast a long shadow and become a matter of debate. Soaring inflation has caused the downsides of the COLA system to be felt more dramatically. As inflation soars, more and more seniors are finding that COLA isn’t enough.

Social Security’s projected 2025 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) falls short of addressing the escalating financial burdens faced by retirees, potentially exacerbating economic hardship for millions of Americans.

The Other McCain.

Say hello to Charles Andrew Jones II, a/k/a “Julio Foolio” and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because Mr. Jones died last month in a hail of gunfire in the parking lot of a Tampa hotel.

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Coverage of the ongoing unrest in Venezuela, in the wake of dictator Nicolas Maduro’s claim to re-election via rampant fraud, was mixed at best, and left out a very significant detail: the various Biden policy failures that directly led to this moment in history.

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I guess they don’t want to ‘pay their fair share’.

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Vice President Kamala Harris said last week she “will not be silent” amid “images of dead children” in the Middle East. That desire to speak out apparently does not apply to Israeli children.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) says that Kamala Harris ‘will work with Congress’ to provide a ‘pathway to citizenship’ for tens of millions of illegal migrants.

“I believe we need to create a pathway to citizenship,” Warren told CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union on Sunday. “All of that is part of what we need to do for comprehensive immigration reform. Kamala Harris will work with Congress and get that done.”

We already have a ‘pathway to citizenship’–and it starts by obeying the law.

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A Roman Catholic diocese is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court a New York appeals court ruling that requires religious charities to provide abortion coverage in their employee health insurance packages.

ObamaCare: “If you like your plan you can keep your plan … so long as it covers everything WE want it to cover (not YOU) and of course you’ll have to pay through the nose for that extra coverage.”

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Iran reported raking in nearly $16 billion in profits from its illicit oil trade over the past several months, highlighting the Biden-Harris administration’s perennially lax enforcement of sanctions meant to stymie Tehran’s cash flow.

Tehran exported a total of “$15.7 billion worth of oil in the first four months in the Iranian calendar” year, which lasted from March 21 to July 22, Mohammad Rezvanifar, the head of Iran’s Customs Administration, said on Monday. Most of this crude oil was offloaded in China, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, and India, according to the country’s state-controlled press.

Iran’s illicit oil trade, which is heavily sanctioned by the United States and other Western nations, has hit a boom period under the Biden-Harris administration, topping around $90 billion as of March. This cash has helped to keep the hardline regime afloat amid economic uncertainty and helps Tehran fund its network of terror proxies, including Hamas and Hezbollah.

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As California attorney general, Kamala Harris consistently berated staff members, instructed them to stand and call her “general” when she entered the office, and banned many of them from looking her in the eye, according to the father of one of Harris’s former interns.

The father, Terry McAteer, penned a 2019 op-ed recounting the horror stories from his son Gregory’s short time as a public policy intern in Harris’s attorney general’s office.

“Senator Harris vocally throws around ‘F-bombs’ and other profanity constantly in her berating of staff and others,” McAteer wrote. “The staff is in complete fear of her and she uses her profanity throughout the day.”

The New Neo.

Of course he does.

As Erdogan said: “Democracy is like a tram. You ride it until you arrive at your destination, then you step off.”

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President Biden called House Speaker Mike Johnson “dead on arrival” during a strange interaction with a reporter on Monday.

The exchange came shortly after Biden called on Congress to impose term limits and a code of conduct on the Supreme Court. In a statement released earlier on Monday, Johnson condemned Biden’s proposal to “radically overhaul the U.S. Supreme Court,” and argued that doing so would “tilt the balance of power” and erode the rule of law.

“This proposal is the logical conclusion to the Biden-Harris Administration and Congressional Democrats’ ongoing efforts to delegitimize the Supreme Court,” the Louisiana Republican argued. “Their calls to expand and pack the Court will soon resume.”

“It is telling that Democrats want to change the system that has guided our nation since its founding simply because they disagree with some of the Court’s recent decisions,” he added. “This dangerous gambit of the Biden-Harris Administration is dead on arrival in the House.”

Newsweek.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s disputed election victory spells trouble for Vice President Kamala Harris as the U.S.-Mexico border takes center stage in the race for the presidency.

The presumptive Democratic nominee in the 2024 presidential race faces difficult paths to navigate after Maduro was declared the winner on Sunday, most importantly because the result may lead to what one expert told Newsweek said was likely to be a surge in migration from Venezuelans fleeing his regime.

If that happens, Republican lawmakers who have branded Harris as Biden’s “border czar”—a description seen by her supporters as inaccurate—may attempt to capitalize on her comments about Venezuela to further attack her record on immigration policy and border security, particularly as migrant numbers typically rise between August and October.

Other aspects of the Biden-Harris administration’s policy toward Venezuela, which was an important oil supplier to the U.S. prior to sanctions as well as a source for rare earth elements crucial for emerging technologies, may also come under scrutiny.

Various elements of the Biden-Harris administration’s policies in foreign affairs are likely going to come back to bite Jambalaya right square on the ass–and rightly so.

Maduro’s actions are right out of the standard socialist playbook.

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On Monday, July 29th, President Joe Biden proposed a new amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It would impose term limits on the justices and force them to abide by an “ethics code.”

This sounds innocuous, doesn’t it? Well, it is anything but. It is the first salvo of an unabashed attempt by the Democratic Party to fundamentally alter the balance of power between the three branches of the United States government.

The Democrats have long been frustrated with how the Supreme Court can stifle their political agenda by ruling that some of the things they want to do are actually unconstitutional. As long as they could appoint justices that were more aligned with the Democratic Party’s ideology than with the Constitution of the United States, the Democrats were happy. Now that the Court has a solid majority of constitution-friendly justices, the Democrats are frustrated.

Inside the powerful Peter Thiel network that anointed JD Vance (Washington Post)

For 25 Minutes, Secret Service In Command Center Never Notified Trump’s Detail

JD Vance is faltering in the Midwest, a big problem for the GOP (John L. Dorman/Business Insider)

PBS ‘Washington Week’ Panel Defends Harris From GOP Attacks While Mocking JD Vance

Buttigieg Tells Fox Viewers that MAGA Is a Cult (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

Ilhan Omar says Trump is ‘losing his memory’ after he confuses her with Rashida Tlaib (John Bowden/The Independent)  I don’t see any effective difference.

“My Beautiful Christians:” Trump’s Pandering to Christian Nationalists (emptywheel)

How to Buy a President – Donald Trump’s joke of a media company is also a $6 billion meme stock … (David Freedlander/New York Magazine)

Trump’s falling legal fees free up campaign cash (Noah Bressner/Axios)

A comprehensive guide to J.D. Vance’s views on women and children (Judd Legum/Popular Information)  Getcher Narrative! Right here!

Trump uses immunity ruling to try to blow up his conviction (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

The Most Revealing Moment of a Trump Rally (McKay Coppins/The Atlantic)  If you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re the dog.

Trump Just Had His Worst Week–Ever (A.B. Stoddard/The Bulwark)

Trump proposed bombing Mexico and it somehow wasn’t a big story (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)

The media fails to take Trump at his word. Again. (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis)

Trump’s Bro-Pocalypse Advisers Got Him ‘Cat Lady’ Vance (Nell Scovell/The Daily Beast)

These Swing State Election Officials Are Pro-Trump Election Deniers (Justin Glawe/Rolling Stone)

Iran Is Working to Undercut Trump in Presidential Election, U.S. Spy Agencies Say (Dustin Volz/Wall Street Journal)  Of course they are. They’d be fools not to.

ABC, CBS, NBC Gush of Kamala’s ‘Strength’, ‘Surge’ Putting Trump ‘On Defense’

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Well, here’s a story we can safely say you’ve likely never heard before.

An Apache Indian named “Keanu Dude” has been accused of starting a massive wildfire in the state of Arizona…by setting fire to the American flag.

The wildfire eventually burned over 2,200 acres, according to a report by the New York Post.

Dude was arrested Tuesday for allegedly starting the Watch Fire, the report says. The Post wrote the fire “burned 3.4 square miles, destroyed 21 homes, and forced over 400 people to evacuate reservation land before being contained last week, officials said.”

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The United States’ national debt has reached another milestone. According to the House Budget Committee, the national debt is set to surpass $35 trillion.

Thank you, Joe Biden.

The American Mind.

The stunning events of the last several weeks have highlighted the great weaknesses in the corporate media, an essential part of modern America’s political system. They have, as they constantly remind us, a vital role to play. But they betrayed that role by their open partisanship.

For one brief shining moment, it seemed as if the media would live up to the promise of Adolph Ochs, the founder of the modern New York Times: “to give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interests involved.” In the month after President Biden’s disastrous debate performance, the media raised and vigorously pressed the questions about his fitness for office that had to be addressed for the good of the country.

Yet this spasm of critical curiosity about the fitness of our Democratic president turned out to be just an interlude. Everybody can remember that right before the debate the media (including the New York Times, which later called for Biden to leave the race) were saying that Biden was fine and questions about his decline were based on out-of-context video clips, labeled “cheap fakes” by the White House press office. But now that Biden has left the race, the media have reverted to their usual lack of interest in anything that sheds negative light on the national Democratic Party.

The American Mind.

Most of the excitement and action regarding the “From the River to the Sea” college student encampment movement has petered out as attention has shifted to other matters. The 20-year-old cultural revolutionaries behind it have gone home to their upper middle-class neighborhoods and are enjoying a relaxing summer of poolside reading of the collected works of Edward Said.

For the rest of us, it is time to probe the causes and consequences and to figure out what needs to be done to ensure their ideas have minimal impact on anything important.

Since the middle of the sixties, there has been significant media and scholarly interest in radical student activism. But very typically it has consisted more of cheerleading for it, or despair over its absence, rather than any concentrated effort to objectively understand, profile, and explain it.

ZMan does a deep dive.

A question that does not get asked very much, especially in public, is if Christianity is compatible with democracy. Organized Christians in this age make a point of supporting “democracy” because the people in charge cannot stop talking about it, but that speaks to the sorts of people running organized Christianity. They want to be in good standing with the rulers, an irony that never gets mentioned. The thing they claim to profess evolved in opposition to secular rule.

Putting that aside, the issue of whether democracy, as in the consent of the governed through direct participation in governance by the governed, is compatible with Christianity is an important one. It is clear that as the West has become more democratic, it has become less Christian. Open hostility to Christianity is a feature of the class of people who talk about democracy the most. It certainly seems like the fans of democracy are not fans of Christianity.

Most people today who call themselves Christian or one of the sects of what we think of as Christianity are well aware of the hostility, but they blame secularism or various names for radicalism, rather than democracy. Christians embrace democracy as much as the opponents of Christianity, even if their particular brand of Christianity has no democratic elements. Catholicism, for example, is anti-democratic in structure, but American Catholics love democracy.

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A San Francisco resident who was attacked by an illegal immigrant in 2008 blamed the incident on then-district attorney Kamala Harris’s soft-on-crime policies, scoffing at the vice president’s record as a California prosecutor in an interview with ABC Monday.

In July 2008, Amanda Kiefer was attacked and run down in San Francisco by 20-year-old Alexander Izaguirre, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, leaving her with a fractured skull. Izaguirre was arrested months earlier on drug charges but released thanks to then-district attorney Harris’s Back on Track initiative, a soft-on-crime policy that allowed young nonviolent drug offenders to avoid jail by enrolling in a 12-month community service program.

As the presumptive Democratic nominee, Harris has touted her record as a “tough prosecutor” along the campaign trail, but Kiefer called that message “laughable,” ABC reported.

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A Bakersfield College professor who was investigated and disciplined after he questioned the use of grant money to fund social justice initiatives at his school has agreed to a $2.4 million settlement to resolve his lawsuit.

Matthew Garrett, formerly a tenured history professor at the California community college, will receive $2,245,480 divided into monthly payments for the next 20 years as well as an immediate one-time payment of $154,520 as “compensation for back wages and medical benefits since [his] dismissal,” according to the July 10 settlement agreement.

Also under the terms of the settlement, Garrett agreed to resign from his job with the Kern Community College District. Administrators, in turn, have withdrawn and sealed any and all accusations and reports accusing him of “unprofessional conduct.”

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This woman was in charge of the Federal Reserve, which may explain why inflation is eating our lunch.

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Parents in Palo Alto are fuming about the school district’s plans for an upcoming ethnic studies class, saying they’re worried the curriculum is too political and will push left-leaning political activism on impressionable high school students. The district denies the charge and says it’s working on an inclusive model for the class.

The battle in Palo Alto reflects fights that have played out elsewhere in the Bay Area and are expected to escalate when the state mandate to teach ethnic studies is rolled out at all schools starting in the 2025-26 school year.

Time to leave.

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Outage tracking website Netblocks confirmed on X, “Network data show disruptions to multiple internet providers in France amid reports of a fibre sabotage campaign targeting telecoms infrastructure during the Paris 2024 Olympics.”

Bloomberg reports that fiber lines operated by the telecommunications company SFR were cut during the overnight hours. Internet traffic in the southern and eastern regions of the country was disrupted and has since been rerouted.

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A new test gauging levels of key proteins in the blood was far more accurate than doctor assessments in spotting Alzheimer’s disease in people with early-stage illness.

The test, called APS2 (the amyloid probability score 2), was 91% accurate in diagnosing Alzheimer’s in people with mild cognitive decline or early dementia, compared to the 61% success rate of primary care doctors who examined the same patients.