IMAGINE IT? I’VE LIVED THROUGH IT. Hillary: Can you imagine electing a vindictive man who might … send the IRS after his critics?

The difference is that if President Trump tried to do that, the civil service would bravely resist as they did under Nixon. Under Obama — and under Hillary, I suspect — it’s all eager cooperation.

True the Vote, Inc. v. IRS, decided earlier thismonth by a D.C. Circuit panel, comes out of the IRS political targeting scandal: UNEXPECTEDLY: Federal Court Says IRS May Still be Targeting Conservatives.

MIXED MESSAGES: Just as the Democratic commentator is saying Republicans can only win through voter suppression, she’s radically undercut by the crawl at the bottom of the screen.

Held over from July 4th: Don't Confuse the Declaration of Independence with the Constitution

 TheLeft's position neverreally changes:  Abortion as a Positive Good: How the Abortion Movement Echoes Radical Slavery Rhetoric

[Ilya Somin] Remembering the biggest mass murder in the history of the world But it doesn't count because it wasn't a  Rethuglican or an evil corporation.

IT’S COME TO THIS: The New York Times tut-tuts the invention of fire and obsesses over its downsides:

IN TODAY’S AMERICA, nothing more shameful than bad teeth? “The liberal proponents of Occupy Wall Street are often the same people who think Southerners are inbred and Walmart shoppers slovenly miscreants. . . . Upper-class supremacy is nothing new. A hundred years ago, the US Eugenics Records Office not only targeted racial minorities but ‘sought to demonstrate scientifically that large numbers of rural poor whites were genetic defectives.’”

Progressives have always sought to exterminate class enemies.

and a slight change.  I have a YUGE backlog of stuff for posts on some topics.  I'm dumping it.  Anything more than a month old is getting deleted.  No longer timely.  We'll see how this goes.

No ... on to her Highness

QUESTIONS THE PRESS WON’T BE ASKING: Five Lingering Questions From Clinton’s Email Scandal: Incompetence is no excuse for endangering national security.

5. Why did Clinton lie repeatedly if she did nothing wrong?

Because she could.

I don't think these words mean what she thinks they mean:   Hillary Clinton: “There’s the Hillary standard and then there’s the standard for everybody else

OUCH: “Hillary has foreign policy experience like Typhoid Mary had nursing experience.”

The Week in Pictures: Brexit Edition

What a week. It now seems like ages ago that a reporter was making fool of himself about how shooting an AR-15 gave him PTSD, and we were focused on the aftermath of the Orlando shooting and a rogue alligator at Disney. It seemed a cinch that the House Democrats sorry imitation of a pre-school juice box mafia would dominate the images of the week, but the dramatic Brexit vote obviously Trumps everything. Oops, did I say “Trump”?

Howard Dean, desperate to stay relevant, actually did Tweet this:

The Week in Pictures: Brexit Edition

What a week. It now seems like ages ago that a reporter was making fool of himself about how shooting an AR-15 gave him PTSD, and we were focused on the aftermath of the Orlando shooting and a rogue alligator at Disney. It seemed a cinch that the House Democrats sorry imitation of a pre-school juice box mafia would dominate the images of the week, but the dramatic Brexit vote obviously Trumps everything. Oops, did I say “Trump”?

Howard Dean, desperate to stay relevant, actually did Tweet this:

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