White privlidge? LAWS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Harry Reid admits to violating election law, but FEC won’t prosecute.

ObamaCare And Net Neutrality Are Doing Exactly The Damage Their Opponents Predicted.

But they do provide plenty of opportunities for graft.

GOVERNMENT IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR THINGS WE CHOOSE TO DO TOGETHER: Parks Service Accidentally Destroys Historic Pearl Harbor Home.

Ridiculous Rules For Swordfish, Ceiling Fans, Grain Barges Help Make 2016 The Most Highly Regulated Year In History

I’LL BELIEVE IT WHEN I SEE IT: Finally, EPA May Be Held Accountable for Potential Wrongdoing at the Gold Mine King Spill.

I'll be back in the classroom after Labor Day fwiw.  "What did you do on your summer vacation?"  "I ran the legal remedies department for one of the top five law firms in Columbus!"

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

I started giving quizzes to my juniors and seniors. I gave them a ten-question American history test… just to see where they are. The vast majority of my students – I’m talking nine out of ten, in every single class, for seven consecutive years – they have no idea that slavery existed anywhere in the world before the United States. Moses, Pharaoh, they know none of it. They’re 100% convinced that slavery is a uniquely American invention… How do you give an adequate view of history and culture to kids when that’s what they think of their own country – that America invented slavery? That’s all they know.

Howard Zinn: Mission Accomplished.

I HATE this statute but hey, if it's in the books we need to start using it more!  Federal Appeals Court Upholds Criminal Charges Against 13 Year Old for Burping in Class

One more week at the current job, then blogging should pick back up.  It's that, or stop completely.  I'm debating.

In the meantime:

5 Times Liberals Mocked Mitt Romney For Warning About Russia.

This never gets old:

WHY ARE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGNS SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM? Bernie Sanders’ Own Black Press Secretary Was Profiled and Stereotyped By His Staff, Event Hosts.

THIS one really hit home, so to speak: HYPERGAMY IS REAL: Don’t Blame Divorce on Money. Ask: Did the Husband Have a Job?

 Why Aren’t Feminists Up in Arms About the Slut-Shaming of Nude Melania Trump?

One of the shows in the upcoming Edinburgh Festival Fringe, by the three-man Australian musical comedy ensemble The Axis of Awesome, is called "Won't Ever Not Stop Giving Up." 

You need to be reading Brother Bob ALL the time:  The Top Underreported Lie from the DNC Convention

Sunday comics edition:

Ooops! Not all 31 scientific societies actually signed the AAAS ‘consensus’ letter

HEH: Sign Petition: ‘Remove air conditioning from all US State Department property’ – Prompted By Kerry’s comments.

Related to proposal to ban air conditioning in Washington, DC. But this is a good first step.

I usually just do links but wanted ALL of this:

Get a load of this. We’ve all heard the usual hate-speech that climate skeptics should be “locked up” for having an alternate opinion.

But, did you ever think you’d see something as ridiculous as this in the NYT?

…inmates generally consume less than an average citizen in the country, so fewer prisoners might mean higher overall energy consumption.

Additionally, the money saved from reducing crime would go into the government’s budget and people’s pockets. All that money could be spent in other ways — infrastructure, buildings or goods — that may require more energy to produce or operate, possibly adding more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/science/climate-change-rebound-effect.html?_r=0

The author, Tatiana Schlossberg, is the granddaughter of JFK
http://www.etonline.com/news/184542_jackie_kennedy_lookalike_granddaughter_rose_schlossberg_launches_comedy_web_series/

In other words, if we’re all locked up, that’s good! Smaller carbon footprint!! More criminals running free means more GHG’s. Perhaps this will quell the mentally aberrant thinking of California Governor Jerry Brown, who wants to release even more criminals -both violent and non-violent.

h/t to Marc Morano of Climate Depot

Leaked Emails: The Democratic Party Has No Idea What to Do About Common Core, Will Ignore It

NOT a fan of most regulation but THIS could/should see a LOT of abuse:  Federal Appeals Court Upholds Criminal Charges Against 13 Year Old for Burping in Class

I ran into this at the career college level.  

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

I started giving quizzes to my juniors and seniors. I gave them a ten-question American history test… just to see where they are. The vast majority of my students – I’m talking nine out of ten, in every single class, for seven consecutive years – they have no idea that slavery existed anywhere in the world before the United States. Moses, Pharaoh, they know none of it. They’re 100% convinced that slavery is a uniquely American invention… How do you give an adequate view of history and culture to kids when that’s what they think of their own country – that America invented slavery? That’s all they know.

Howard Zinn: Mission Accomplished.

I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN THE LEFT VOWED TO STAY OUT OF YOUR BEDROOM: San Francisco’ s Threat to AirBnb a Threat to the Entire Sharing Economy.

a good short read:  TRAITS ARE NO SUBSTITUTES FOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS,

H-BOMB DEPLOYED: Democrat National Finance Director Uses Homophobic Slur in Leaked Email.

File under, “ Imagine MSM Outrage if This Had Been a Republican, Part 2,323,927.”

Don't hear  'em talking about getting money out of politics much anymore, do ya?  BUSINESS AS USUAL: Leaked DNC Documents Show Plans To Reward Big Donors With Federal Appointments.

WASHINGTON POST’S JULIET EILPERIN TO DNC: STORY ‘RUNNING ON A1 TOMORROW… YOU ALL WILL BE TOTALLY FINE WITH IT.’

Meanwhile at the American Thinker, “ In short, [Greg] Sargent is a DNC-Clinton shill on the payroll of the Washington Post.”

YOU STAY CLASSY, LEFTISTS: Israeli Flag Set on Fire Outside DNC.

 THEY HATE ANYONE WHO IS A BARRIER TO POWER: Hacked voicemails reveal Democratic rage against Bernie.  Related:  BREAKING NEWS FROM 1933: Anti-Semitism ‘ widespread’ among German extreme left.

HUH, I THOUGHT FEDERAL LAW WAS JUST ADVISORY THESE DAYS: Court Strikes Down Obama Health Care Rule on Insurance Standards. “A federal appeals court has ruled that consumers must be allowed to buy certain types of health insurance that do not meet the stringent standards of the Affordable Care Act, deciding that the administration had gone beyond the terms of federal law.”

GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: Congressional Report: Obama Administration Withheld Information on Illegal ObamaCare Payments. Knowing violation of the law.

BOOM: President Obama Calls for ‘Public Option’ in Affordable Care Act. ... Obama Proposes Fixing Obamacare With a New, Government-Run Health Insurance Plan

YOUR OBAMACARE FAIL OF THE DAY: Ayn Rand got it right again

I watched the "new" onefirst. Very well done.  Very predictable.  Some of the dialogue was a direct lift from the original but it was alright.  Watchable.

Now ... the original.  It was the first movie I paid $4 to see.  Was on a date.  Summer before I started college.  Every HS and college football practice field would be blaring the theme in the summer heat.  I had a date and couldn'tturn back.  Sowe watched.  And it was pretty good.  

#96 on Flickchart.  #10 on my list.  #213 on IMDB.  

I'm over a month behind here!  Apologies if this is too long.

MEDIA SLOWLY RECOGNIZING HOW DUMB THEY SOUND ON GUNS.

Alternate headline: MSM slowly recovering from massive systemic case of Dunning-Kruger Effect.

EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: Nothing gets past the AP — in their Drudge-linked column, “DIVIDED AMERICA: Constructing our own intellectual ghettos,” columnist David Bauder suddenly notices that Americans like having choices where to consume their news and opinion

LIBERAL SITE BECOMES INTERNET LAUGHINGSTOCK AFTER WRITING ABOUT ‘GRENADE LAUNCHER’ MOD TO AR-15.

PRODUCER FOR HIT NBC SHOW AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR DESCRIBES WOULD-BE TRUMP ASSASSIN ‘A GOOD GUY WITH A GUN.’

NOBODY COVERS THE BIG STORIES OF THE DAY LIKE THE HUFFINGTON POST!

Shot: Huffington Post is going to cover Trump as entertainment, not politics.

—Poynter.org, July 17, 2015.

Chaser: Huffington Post Has Written Just Three News Stories About Clinton’s Email Server in Three Months.

—Newsalert, yesterday.

THE NARRATIVE IS ALL: Even After Ben Rhodes Came Clean, New York Times STILL Reports His Iran Lies as Truth.

Just think of the media as Democrat operatives — heck, Rhodes’ operatives — and you won’t go far wrong.

Spot the trend:  TELEGRAPH JOURNO ASKS READERS TO CONSIDER KILLING FARAGE, ‘LIKE HITLER.’

Don’t know much about history; Farage is the one who’s fighting an unaccountable socialist European super-state, not trying to build one.

Sad; the Telegraph used to be one of England’s more conservative newspapers, until it was, to coin a phrase, “fundamentally transformed.”

Related: “Gloating Farage tells EU: Most of you have never done a proper job in your lives.” But then, the same could be said of much of the world’s MSM as well.

MSNBC STILL ASKING THE TOUGH QUESTIONS ABOUT TERRORIST ATTACKS INVOLVING [OMITTED]:

• Is there a pattern to recent terrorist attacks?

—Headline, MSNBC, yesterday.

• This Happened: [Chris] Matthews Asks Why Does Terrorism ‘Always Seem to Involve Bombing?’

—Headline, NewsBusters, yesterday.