HOMER SIMPSON — IS THERE ANYTHING HE CAN’T DO? That Disastrous Car Homer Simpson Designed Was Actually Ahead of Its Time.

CRUSHING OF DISSENT IN OBAMA’S AMERICA: Feds Ignore First Amendment, Supreme Court Precedent In Seizing Domain Of Social Network For Sex Workers. Law is for the little people.

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BILL WHITTLE: Firewall: Throwing Away Victory in Iraq.

PREP SCHOOL STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT forced out over racist, sexist remarks.

SPYING: Shocking! Obama’s privacy board OKs massive NSA surveillance. 191-page report is largely condemned by civil liberties advocates and scholars.

MY SECRETARY, WHO SEEMS TO BE LABORING UNDER SOME SORT OF WEATHER CURSE, WAS VACATIONING ON THE OUTER BANKS: Hurricane Arthur intensifies as it heads for North Carolina.

WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Obama Assistant Press Secretary Goes To Work For Tom Steyer.

Just another argument for my revolving-door surtax.

I STILL NEED TO CONVERT SOME VHS TAPES TO DVD: When Irreplaceable History Lives on Obsolete Tech.

CRAFT BEER BOOMS AMID SHRINKING OVERALL BEER MARKET. “Craft beer makers have experienced huge jumps in market share while the overall beer market size has shrunk. The Census Bureau announced yesterday that the number of breweries in the in the U.S. doubled in five years–an increase largely due to craft beer. On average over the past two years, 1.2 craft breweries opened each day, contributing to a total of 15.6 million barrels of beer last year. While that’s only 7.8% of the U.S. beer market share, according to data Brewers Association, an American craft beer trade group, craft beer is taking an ever-increasing chunk out of noncraft beer companies’ sales. The number of liters of beer purchased per year has stayed the same and is expected to shrink slightly, according to data from research firm Euromonitor. Meanwhile the population has risen. That means people on average are consuming less beer and, if they’re consuming beer, it’s more and more likely to be craft.”

THIS ISN’T GOOD: Ebola ‘out of control’ in West Africa as health workers rush to trace 1,500 possible victims.

TOM MAGUIRE: Revising (Or Correcting!) The Declaration Of Independence. “I should add something about ‘who controls the present controls the past and who controls the past controls the future’. But the future is now!”

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 420.

THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: K.C. Johnson: New Data Refutes ‘Rape Culture’ Activists. “The gap between these figures and an emergency that requires decimating due process protections for accused students is so wide that it’s hard to ignore. Yet another reason to doubt the good faith of the Task Force effort.”

You don’t want to be a science-denier, do you?

MEGAN MCARDLE: Inequality Isn’t A Union Issue.

I tend to think that these arguments get cause and effect backward. Unions were strong in the 1960s and 1970s for the same reasons that inequality was low — and while the law may have been one of those reasons, it was at best a minor reason.

To see what I mean, look at the United Automobile Workers union, which is a pale shadow of its former self. Its workers have made huge concessions, and its numbers have dwindled to the point where the union, like many of the mighty industrial unions of the past, has more retirees than workers.

Is that because the law won’t let them strike? Obviously not; the problem is that striking wouldn’t do them any good, because the companies they work for are too fragile to give them more money. A more labor-friendly National Labor Relations Board couldn’t magically generate the profits and market share necessary to pay hundreds of thousands of workers above-market wages, as General Motors Co. did in the 1960s.

The modern industrial worker’s main problems, which have nothing to do with the law, are:

Immigration.
Automation.
Trade.

Yeah, pretty much.

SO I NOTICE THAT JOB GROWTH HAS GOTTEN BETTER since Congress quit extending unemployment benefits. Is there a connection?

On the other hand, there’s this: More Americans are stuck in part-time work.

STEVE FORBES: The Time Has Come To Defund The IRS.

BATTENING DOWN THE HATCHES: China’s Leadership Arrests General, Bans Ramadan Fasting. “All is not well and the Politburo knows it.”

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MICKEY KAUS HAS 4 Questions For Politico. “In each of these questions, you seem to be carrying water for someone.”

THOSE CLAIMS THAT HILLARY HAS RECOVERED FROM HER HEAD INJURY? Not helped when she thinks the two main parties in Britain are the Conservatives and the Tories.

ANDREW KLAVAN: Who Put The BS In The BDS Movement?

A WHOLE LOTTA WHITE PEOPLE watching soccer at the White House. I’m not exaggerating when I say that you see more black folks at a Tea Party meeting or a men’s rights conference.

MORE ON HILTON HOTELS AND UNIGUEST BLOCKING CONSERVATIVE WEBSITES. “The column also generated considerable e-mail, almost all of it from people who said they have experienced very similar blackouts of conservative sites at hotels across the country.”

UPDATE: Uniguest Needs a Better Explanation for Why Conservative Sites Are Being Blocked.