IF SHE WERE A REPUBLICAN, SHE’D BE PRESENTED AS THE FACE OF ALL REPUBLICANS: Montana Democratic Senate nominee has some strange video selfies.

HEADLINES FROM THE FOURTH BUSH TERM: Iraqi forces, aided by U.S. jets, claim swift gains in push to retake dam from militants.

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STACY MCCAIN: My Official #Ferguson Commentary.

Here’s the thing: Stories like this happen all the time.

People get shot to death on a daily basis in America, and if I was required to express an opinion every time somebody died in a shooting, I’d never have time to comment on anything else. The only reason the the Aug. 9 shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, has become The Biggest Story in History of the Whole Freaking World is that (a) Brown was black, and (b) the cop who shot him was white.

That’s it — the whole story.

Criminal suspects getting shot by cops isn’t really unusual. Brown was unarmed, but the policeman who shot him — identified as Darren Wilson — didn’t know that. There was a robbery, and Brown matched the description of a suspect. I don’t know the details of Brown’s encounter with Officer Wilson, and can’t say why he drew his gun and fired. If you forced me to speculate, I’d guess that Officer Wilson believed Brown might be armed, and that Brown made a sudden move that caused Officer Wilson to believe Brown might be reaching for a gun, at which point Officer Wilson made a split-second decision that turned out to be completely wrong. But that’s just speculation, as is nearly 100% of what idiots have been saying about this story.

Yep.

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LIZ SHELD: “It is becoming highly unlikely the civil unrest in Ferguson will provide an opportunity for a serious evaluation of the militarization of America’s police forces. Instead, the commentariat and their associates have tribalized into typical camps regarding the topic of law and order vs. race relations.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Tunable Assembly of Nanoparticles for (Photovoltaic) Devices.

ROAD & TRACK: Tony Stewart, Kevin Ward Jr., and the senseless rush to judgement.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Woman Films Porn Inside Church, Gets Caught When Man Recognizes Her Boobs.

CHARLIE MARTIN: Depression Is No Joke: Pushing back against the fools who don’t have the faintest notion of what real depression is.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: A Famous Art Museum Is Offering Everyone Remote Tours, Using Robots.

SOME EVIDENCE WE KEEP, SOME EVIDENCE WE DELETE: California Cops Seize Recordings Of Questionable Arrest, Claim They Have The ‘Right’ To Do So. Yeah, they didn’t “seize” the recordings, they stole them. They’re thieves and criminals and should be treated as such.

JAMES TARANTO AND MEGAN MCARDLE ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO TALK ME INTO JOINING THEIR SOUS-VIDE BORG: Sous-vide startup wants to take the tech-industry’s kitchen darling mainstream: Cooking food at low temperatures for a long time is the new sliced bread.

REPORT: Michael Brown was shot from the front, had marijuana in his system. Doesn’t prove the shooting was justified, but blows a lot of narratives all the same.

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CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: D.C. Democrat Accused of Censoring Scandals on His Own Wikipedia Page.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Give to Democrats, profit from earmarks: The Tom Steyer Story.

UH HUH: ‘Heard about it on the news’: WH ‘did not know’ about National Guard deployment in Ferguson. So did Democratic Governor Jay Nixon keep them in the dark on purpose? Or — and this may be worse — did it just not occur to anyone in Missouri to tell the White House what they were doing?

SURPRISE! THEY’RE A SOROS-FUNDED LEFTWING HATCHET CREW. Bryan Preston: Who Are ‘Texans for Public Justice,’ and Why Does Their Role in the Perry Case Matter?

MY USA TODAY COLUMN FOR TODAY is about sexbots, the battle of the sexes, and Screwfly Solutions.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 466.

K.C. JOHNSON: Four Straight Legal Victories For Campus Due Process. “In the fourth consecutive court ruling of its type (following Xavier, St. Joe’s, and Duke), a federal judge in Vermont has sided with an accused student in a due process lawsuit. In a previously below-the-radar filing, a student named Luke Benning sued Marlboro College after the school suspended him for three semesters for sexual assault. Last week, Judge William Sessions (a Clinton appointee) rejected the school’s motion to dismiss.”

BUT OF COURSE: Hillary Is Already Insisting On Staying In Presidential Suites. “The former first lady is already insisting on staying in the ‘presidential suite’ of the world’s finest hotels, typically traveling to them on nothing less than a $39 million private Gulfstream G450 jet before collecting a $250,000-plus speaking fee, a new report says. Just like the president, she sends an ‘advance’ team to check out her accommodations and speech set-up before she touches down, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which reviewed her standard speaking contract and other documents related to an upcoming Nevada visit.”