IDEAS FOR REPORTERS STRUGGLING TO COVER PLANNED PARENTHOOD: In 2008, Michelle Obama promised her husband’s supporters that her husband will “demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”

When will the media shed their cynicism and push themselves to become better, by moving out of their comfort zones to stop leaving their customers so uninformed and uninvolved?

RELATED: White House spokesman Josh Earnest “Instantly Dismisses Reporter’s Question About Planned Parenthood.”

He really should come out of his isolation and put down his partisan divisions.

THE NEW YORK TIMES IS OFFICIALLY RUNNING INTERFERENCE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD: “The New York Times masthead proudly proclaims that it publishes ‘All the News That’s Fit to Print,’ but in practice, the organization is more than happy to bury all the news that’s fit to abort.”

Ouch. Read the whole thing.

RELATED: Blake Hounshell and the Fake Objectivity of the Modern Press.

THINK HOW MUCH TROUBLE THEY’D BE IN IF THE PRESS WEREN’T ON THEIR SIDE: Fears on the left growing for Planned Parenthood.

CNN’S SALLY KOHN BLAMES ABORTION VIDEOS ON ‘WHITE SUPREMACY.’

Planned Parenthood founder and Hillary Clinton muse Margaret Sanger could not be reached for comment.

clip and save: RAND SIMBERG: WE SHOULDN’T BE SURPRISED AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S CALLOUS INHUMANITY: A  history of racism and eugenics.

Anti-GMO Activist Campaign is "Full of Errors, Fallacies, Misconceptions, Misrepresentations, and Lies."

The perfect storm for environmentalists: GMO engineered rice reduces greenhouse gas emissions to near zero

and an extra added attraction: ENVIRONMENTALISM HAS NEVER BEEN ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT: Anti-Fracking Activism Sacrifices Nature for Ideology.

HELPING CITIZENS IS NOT THEIR PRIORITY: Report: IRS Hung Up On 8.8 Million Taxpayers This Year (Up From 544k Last Year); ‘Courtesy Disconnects’ Increased 1,500 Percent.

CUSTOMER SERVICE IS NOT A PRIORITY: IRS Claims It Has No Money To Answer Its Phones, Yet Can Pay Millions To Hire Private Lawyers.

GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: GAO: ‘Americans Still Vulnerable to IRS Audits Over Personal Beliefs.’

Reminder: In 2009, President Barack Obama “Joked” About Auditing His Enemies.

GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: IRS Used Donor Lists to Target Conservatives for Audits. “These documents that we had to force out of the IRS prove that the agency used donor lists to audit supporters of organizations engaged in First Amendment-protected lawful political speech. And the snarky comments about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the obsession with Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPD show that the IRS was targeting critics of the Obama administration.”

But some good news?  RASMUSSEN: Voters Aren’t Buying Obama’s Story About IRS Scandal. Well, it’s not only a lie. It’s an unconvincing lie.

Former Obamacare chief to lead top insurance lobby. “The former chief of Medicare and Medicaid, who was responsible for overseeing the implementation of President Obama’s healthcare law, will lead the insurance industry’s top lobbying group. Marilyn Tavenner, who in February stepped down from her role as chief administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will become the new head of America’s Health Insurance Plans, which represents dozens of U.S. insurers.”

Glenn Reynolds revolving-door surtax. got some play on a podcast called "How can we fix it."  Give a listen.

Senior Obamacare Official Becomes Top Health Insurance Lobbyist

What the 1970 Baseball All-Star Game Can Teach Us About Media Literacy

also Plight of the Bumble Bees: How shabby climate analyses and lax peer review promote a dreadful remedy

HONESTLY, I THINK THE MEDIA ARE OFTEN AS COMPLICIT AS MISLED: Ed Morrissey: How the Media and You Are Misled by False Data.

BASICALLY, WHAT ELSE HAS SHE GOT? Why Hillary Clinton Made Gender Such A Big Deal In Her Economic Speech.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Hillary Clinton’s Man In Morocco: Clinton campaign fails to disclose bundler actively lobbying for Morocco.

HILLARY CLINTON channels Dick Nixon.

An d my favorite:

HILLARY CLINTON NEEDS TO ADDRESS THE RACIST UNDERTONES OF HER 2008 CAMPAIGN: From left-leaning journalist Ryan Cooper at The Week.

Should Hillary address the racist overtones of her 2016 campaign as well? Hey, if her campaign is still around in 2016, absolutely.

RELATED: “The stakes are high in 2016 – more so for Democrats than they were in 2012, when Barack Obama’s allies went so far as to accuse Mitt Romney of complicity in negligent homicide. We may come to look back on that campaign as an epoch of civility. If the GOP nominates a competent candidate, and they have a variety from which to choose, Hillary Clinton and her allies will have to scorch the earth in order to win. The torches are already lit.”

<edited to remove a pic of Hillary with "the Rebel flag" taken in the 70's.  It was photoshopped>

Conservation roundup

Ronald Bailey on How Private Conservation Is Creating a Vast Wildlife Park In Montana

and the winner this week: Here's What the Guy Who Paid $50,000 to Kill Cecil the Lion Can Learn from the Guy Who Paid $350,000 to Kill a Black Rhino

“The American’s Left’s blond-haired, blue-eyed fantasyland,” as charted by By Kevin D. Williamson

A liberal friend was lamenting this trend last week.  "We can't be Sweden.  Sweden is the size of California with 1/30rh of our population."

Then during a drive I heard an economist speaking of a meeting between economists from Denmark and Russia.  The Russians asked the Danes how their economy could be more like Denmarks.  "Get a new history" was the response.

And then I read this: SHATTERED FANTASY: Sorry Leftist Americans, Your Swedish Utopia Does Not Exist: It’s time to kill the myth about the superiority of the Nordic welfare state model.

Amazing the things you find once your brain is attuned to thier existance.

Hillary Clinton Declares War on Worker Choice and Consumer Convenience

GREATEST TROLL EVER: Uber Promotes ‘Senior Mobility’ on Same Day Hillary Attacks Company.

BUILDING A BRIDGE TO THE 1930s: “Hillary Clinton’s Uber Speech Belongs in 1930s America,” Kevin D. Williamson.

WHY IS HILLARY DOWN ON UBER? ONE WORD: CONTROL. Hillary Clinton Talks Uber.

A CASE STUDY IN HOW MEDIA PROTECT HILLARY CLINTON: Hillary Clinton’s on board with strangling the burgeoning gig economy, such as Uber. You wouldn’t know that by reading news reports on that very topic, though.

Throw in Diblasio and California and it just gets worse: SCOTT RASMUSSEN: Opposing Sharing Economy Is Big Mistake for Democrats.

BUT OBAMA WOULD HAVE TO ADMIT THAT OPEN BORDERS ARE DANGEROUS: Marc Thiessen: “Obama’s Silence on Kathyrn Steinle Killing is Defeaning.”

After Trayvon Martin was killed, President Obama spoke emotionally about his death, declaring “this could have been my son.”

After Michael Brown was killed, Obama promised to ensure that “justice is done” and declared: “We lost a young man, Michael Brown, in heartbreaking and tragic circumstances. He was 18 years old. His family will never hold Michael in their arms again.” He even sent administration officials to attend Brown’s funeral.

After Freddie Gray was killed, Obama walked out to the Rose Garden and declared: “We have some soul-searching to do. This has been going on for a long time. This is not new, and we shouldn’t pretend that it’s new.”

But after Kathryn Steinle was killed July 1, allegedly by an illegal immigrant with seven felony convictions, Obama said .?.?. nothing.

His silence has been deafening.

As Thiessen points out, “121 times over the past four years, the administration has released an illegal immigrant with prior criminal convictions who went on to be charged with murder. That is one every 12 days.”

HOMELAND SECURITY CHIEF DOESN’T KNOW WHO KATE STEINLE WAS.

Say, have we ever found out the name of the federal agent whose gun Lopez-Sanchez used? The best I could find was that it was an unnamed agent of the BLM. I’m guessing that if it were a gun stolen from or lost by a private citizen we’d know who it was. But if it’s one of the anointed, the rules are different.

NOT ALL LIVES MATTER: Obama’s silence on Kathryn Steinle killing is deafening. 

and finally “Here’s the $64,000 question: If the homicide investigation is inadequate; if the prosecution is not vigorous; if the sanctuary city concept or immigration is put on trial instead of the defendant; if the Sheriff’s Department is not held accountable–will the Department of Justice come in as it did in Ferguson and Baltimore? Or will the West Coast version of Jim Crow prevail in San Francisco?”