MATT LEWIS TAKES A BOLD STANCE AGAINST RACIAL BIGOTRY. “A lot of liberals are increasingly using white men as a punching bag these days. And that’s not right either.”

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JUST REMEMBER, INSIDE EVERY THREESOME IS A TWOSOME AND A ONESOME: Physicists Prove Surprising Rule of Threes.

CALIFORNIA’S GREEN BANTUSTANS: “One of the core barriers to economic prosperity in California is the price of housing. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Policies designed to stifle the ability to develop land are based on flawed premises. These policies prevail because they are backed by environmentalists, and, most importantly, because they have played into the agenda of crony capitalists, Wall Street financiers, and public sector unions. But while the elites have benefit, ordinary working families have been condemned to pay extreme prices in mortgages, property taxes, or rents, to live in confined, unhealthy, ultra high-density neighborhoods. It is reminiscent of apartheid South Africa, but instead of racial superiority as the supposed moral justification, environmentalism is the religion of the day. The result is identical.”

FOOD: Everything New Is Old Again.

Artisanal gefilte fish. Slow-fermented bagels. Organic chopped liver. Sustainable schmaltz.

These aren’t punch lines to a fresh crop of Jewish jokes. They are real foods that recently arrived on New York City’s food scene. And they are proof of a sudden and strong movement among young cooks, mostly Jewish-Americans, to embrace and redeem the foods of their forebears. That’s why, at this moment in 21st-century New York, the cutting edge of cuisine is the beet-heavy, cabbage-friendly, herring-loving diet of 19th-century Jews in Eastern Europe.

“It turns out that our ancestors knew what they were doing,” said Jeffrey Yoskowitz, an owner of Gefilteria, a company that makes unorthodox versions of gefilte fish and is branching out into slow-brined pickles and strudel. “The recipes and techniques are almost gone, and we have to capture the knowledge before it’s lost.”

Forward, into the past!

VIDEO: In Harvard Speech, Liberal Mike Bloomberg Blasts Academia’s Silencing of Conservatives.

MAKING CIALIS AVAILABLE over-the-counter?

WELL, DARN: No, Horse Placentas Won’t Revolutionize Sports.

LAW ENFORCEMENT: Officer: Bosses target young drivers, want ticket quotas. “”Defendants continue to encourage officers to write as many summonses and effectuate motor vehicle stops regardless of whether probable cause exists, including a quota implemented in or about November 2013 whereby patrolmen assigned to a detail were required to write 15 tickets in a four-hour span. . . . Wysokowski also accused superiors of training younger officers to shine lights into moving vehicles to determine the age of drivers and passengers.” That sounds unsafe.

HOPEY-CHANGEY: The Disaster of Obamanomics, In Two Charts.

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? ISEE-3 spacecraft makes first Earth contact in 16 years. “Contact with the ISEE-3 was officially suspended in 1998. Many years later, the ISEE-3 is about to catch up with Earth from behind, an occasion which led the space enthusiasts at the ISEE-3 Reboot Project to try to make contact with the dormant spacecraft. With NASA funds perpetually low, using resources to make contact through the space agency was an impossibility. But last week, NASA handed the keys to the satellite over to the ISEE-3 Reboot Project, which is backed by a company called Skycorp, Inc.”

OPENING UP A SLOT FOR A NEW GUY WHO STILL HAS CREDIBILITY TO DESTROY: Jay Carney Resigns As White House Press Secretary. Or maybe not.

I WAS EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Lightweight 120mm Mortars From Israel. “Israel continues a tradition of developing lightweight 120mm mortars. The latest innovation is the Spear system. This a 120mm mortar that can be mounted on hummer type vehicles. Spear uses an innovative recoil system that reduces the recoil and allows the mortar to be fired from lighter (under six ton) vehicles. The ‘soft recoil’ system reduces the force of the recoil over 90 percent. The rate of fire is also reduced a bit (from 20 to 16 rounds a minute) but with the use of GPS guided shells this is less of a factor.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: DARPA developing brain-zapping implants for injured soldiers.

SILICON VALLEY NOT EXACTLY THINKING BIG: “Let’s, Like, Demolish Laundry.”

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BRIDGET JOHNSON: ‘We Don’t Have Time for Distractions’: Shinseki Out at VA

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TAMMY BRUCE: Sounding retreat at West Point: Obama’s pronouncement makes the world safe for misogynistic tyrants.

JOHN MCGINNIS: Law Practice: Rise Of The Machines. “Some observers, not implausibly, blame the recession for these developments. But the plight of legal education and of the attorney workplace is also a harbinger of a looming transformation in the legal profession. Law is, in effect, an information technology—a code that regulates social life. And as the machinery of information technology grows exponentially in power, the legal profession faces a great disruption not unlike that already experienced by journalism, which has seen employment drop by about a third and the market value of newspapers devastated.”

ROLL OUT ANOTHER RECOVERY SUMMER! U.S. Economy Takes Another Sick Day.

Last month, when the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that gross domestic product had grown at a lead-footed rate of 0.1 percent in the first quarter, economic analysts could focus on two pillars of hope. The first was that the winter weather was unusually awful, and first-quarter growth probably reflected that. And the second? This was a very preliminary number, and it seemed reasonable to think that it might be revised upward.

The operative word is “seemed.” Now the BEA has provided its first revision, and things only get more dismal: The economy actually contracted in the first quarter instead of just lying down on the sofa and feeling all mopey and sad. Key areas of decline were exports, inventories and nonresidential fixed investment. In other words, whatever happened was happening on the business side. . . .

It has been six years since the financial crisis. Federal government spending is still around 21 percent of GDP, up from 19 percent in 2007, and the Federal Reserve still has a very expansive monetary policy. Under those circumstances, a quarter of negative growth is pretty unsettling.

The most recent jobs numbers are more encouraging — but not all that stellar this far away from the crash. Six years in, employment is barely back to where it was, which means that it hasn’t even kept pace with population growth.

It’s almost as if drastic increases in taxes and regulation are holding the economy down or something. Nah, that’s crazy-talk!

SMART DIPLOMACY: Bill, Hillary and the Haiti Debacle: Haitians are upset by the reconstruction effort managed by the Clintons.

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