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WILL OBAMA APPROVE IT? The Pentagon is proposing the movement of heavy military equipment in Eastern Europe, to deter Russian aggression.

The proposal, if approved, would represent the first time since the end of the Cold War that the United States has stationed heavy military equipment in the newer NATO member nations in Eastern Europe that had once been part of the Soviet sphere of influence. Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the war in eastern Ukraine have caused alarm and prompted new military planning in NATO capitals.

It would be the most prominent of a series of moves the United States and NATO have taken to bolster forces in the region and send a clear message of resolve to allies and to Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, that the United States would defend the alliance’s members closest to the Russian frontier.

It’s the right move to protect our allies, who have recently asked the US to operate permanent military bases to deter Putin. The Pentagon says no final decision has been made yet regarding the proposal to move equipment.

OLIVIA NUZZI REPORTS FROM HILLARY’S RE-LAUNCH SPEECH: Welcome to Hillary Island, a Pleasant Little Police State.

Saturday’s event, according according to The New York Times, was organized by a small group of Clinton insiders including Huma Abedin, Clinton’s longtime aide and the vice chair of her campaign and Jim Margolis, who helped orchestrate both inaugurations for President Obama.

The result felt borderline dystopian.

Roosevelt Island, transformed by architects in the 1930s to serve as a “living memorial,” looks like a cross between something out of Grand Theft Auto and a ghost town. It has a fake forest, and brutalist apartment complexes. Its abandoned insane asylum was turned into a luxury highrise. . . .

The park feels divorced from Manhattan, whose skyscrapers loom from across the water, not just geographically, but spiritually. With the bomb-sniffing dogs, security guards, metal detectors, police officers, Men In Black-looking security guards and campaign staff speeding around on golf-carts, Hillary Island felt like its own world with its own rule. It’s a serene summertime police state—wherein campaign staffers told reporters to stay in their designated area, away from attendees—pleasant and creepy at the same time. . . .

Some of Clinton’s notes were sour, however. In her criticism of the Republican field of candidate, Clinton alleged, “Now, there may be some new voices in the presidential Republican choir, but they’re all singing the same old song—a song called ‘Yesterday.’” She continued, “You know the one—all our troubles look as though they’re here to stay, and we need a place to hideaway. They believe in yesterday.” Clinton tried to crack a joke, “You’re lucky I didn’t try singing that, too, I’ll tell you!”

At another point, Clinton said, “I may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but I will be the youngest woman President in the History of the United States! And the first grandmother as well.” She followed it up with another joke attempt. “And one additional advantage: You won’t see my hair turn white in the White House. I’ve been coloring it for years!”

Well, okay then.

HOW THE AP REPORTS ON TWO DIFFERENT FEMALE CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT:

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: U.S. proposes moving weapons to eastern Europe to deter Russia.

To combat future Russian aggression in Europe, the Pentagon is proposing to move battle tanks, other vehicles and heavy weapons for thousands of American troops in Baltic and eastern European countries, the New York Times reported, citing U.S. and allied officials.

The plan is significant. If implemented, it would mark the first time since the end of the Cold War that the U.S. “has stationed heavy military equipment in the newer NATO member nations in Eastern Europe that had once been part of the Soviet sphere of influence,” the Times said.

Hey, remember when Obama mocked Romney for calling Russia a geopolitical threat?

If I were Romney, I’d run for President again, with bumper stickers that just say “I fucking told you so!”

UH OH: Gawker in the fight of its life with Hulk Hogan sex-tape suit. “Nick Denton is preparing for the biggest fight of his life. The Gawker Media founder and C.E.O.’s opponent: celebrated professional wrestler Hulk Hogan (real name: Terry Bollea), who sued Denton and Gawker in 2012 after the gossip blog published a supercut of his sex tape and refused to take it down. The case has seen numerous twists and turns over the past three years, but it’s finally set to come to trial in Pinellas County, Fla.—where Hogan lives—on July 6.”

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IT’S ALWAYS NICE TO MAKE TWITCHY.

THE PRIEST WHO SPECIALIZES IN CONVERTING prominent Republicans.

YOU KNOW, GIVEN HOW SHE OPERATES IT SHOULDN’T BE THAT HARD TO GET INSIDE HER OODA LOOP: Rubio Speeding Again – with Counter Hillary Ad Using Her Speech Today.

DIRTY TRICKS: Former Staffer For California Republican Admits to Lies That Ruined Campaign.

Dear Republicans: choose your staffers well.

Carl DeMaio is a California Republican who had a chance to win a house seat in 2014. Even though the race was happening in blue California, it was one of the state’s more conservative districts.

All hopes were dashed when one of DeMaio’s former staffers named Todd Bosnich accused him of sexual harassment in the final weeks of the campaign. He even produced threatening emails which he claimed were sent to him by someone in the DeMaio camp.

Democrats welcomed the scandal and although DeMaio strongly denied the charges, he was defeated by Democrat Scott Peters.

Now the LA Times is reporting that the staffer Todd Bosnich made the whole thing up and has even admitted his lies to the FBI, which was part of the investigation.

One of the ways you keep this from happening again is by making an example of this guy, and by — as Moe Lane suggests — making this an issue in the 2016 election.

WELL, YES: Federal Dietary Guidelines Are Pseudoscience.

QUESTION: Why Would Distance Running Be Bad For Your Heart?

CHARLIE MARTIN: Why The Science Is Never Certain:

If you’d asked a physics teacher in 1886 if Newton’s Laws were absolutely certain, they most likely would have said yes. They probably would have in 1890, even though the Michelson–Morley experiment was the beginning of showing there were some things that weren’t quite the way people expected. By 1920, anyone up to date would have had to say, “Well, yes, except for some special conditions.”

Galileo’s teachers undoubtedly assured him that it was absolutely certain that heavy things fell faster than light things; by the time he died, people — at least the ones who’d heard of Galileo’s experiments — knew it wasn’t true, and wrapping this back to Newton, knowing that objects actually all fell at the same speed led Newton to formulate the Law of Universal Gravitation.

These were some of the greatest advances in science — and all of them would have been impossible if Galileo, and Newton, and Einstein had believed that science is ever certain.

Science doesn’t approach certainty until it can be reduced to engineering. And there are some things that work in engineering even though the science behind them isn’t clear.

A TWITTER EXCHANGE THAT SHOWS it’s all about love.

BLAME IT ON BILL: CIA blamed Bill Clinton for bankrupting the Agency’s anti-terror effort prior to 9/11.

The Clinton administrationhad bankrupted the intelligence community and refused to let the CIA prioritize anti-terrorism over other major priorities in the late 1990s, leaving the agency stretched too thin in the days ahead of the 2001 terrorist attacks, former Director George J. Tenet said in a 2005 document declassified Friday.

Those pondering voting for Hillary because they want Bill Clinton back in the White House should consider that he had a horrible record on national security. Hillary wouldn’t be any better.

THIS SEEMS LIKE A GOOD IDEA: Blood donors in Sweden get a text message whenever their blood saves someone’s life.

NICK GILLESPIE INTERVIEWS CAMILLE PAGLIA: Everything’s Awesome and Camille Paglia Is Unhappy! The author of Sexual Personae talks about feminism, rape, academia, and Hillary Clinton. “My clashes with other feminists began immediately. For example: It was 1970 or 1971, there was a feminist conference at the Yale Law School, and major feminists were there including Rita Mae Brown, who said to me, ‘The difference between you and me, Camille, is that you want to save the universities, and I want to burn them down.’ How can you have dialogue with these people? Later she became a rich lesbian novelist and has a horse farm in Virginia. And then I had a screaming fight with the New Haven Women’s Liberation Rock Band over the Rolling Stones, because at that time, hard rock was seen as sexist. Now this argument seems so retrograde.”

Plus: “I was told by the founding members of the Women’s Studies Department at the State University of New York at Albany that I had been brainwashed by male scientists to believe that hormones even existed, much less had any role in the shaping of our identity and character.” Hormones are socially constructed. Like race!

And: “Any authentic leftist who had a job at a university in the 1970s or ’80s or ’90s should have been opposing the entire evolution of the university-that is, toward this administrative bureaucracy that has totally robbed power from the faculty. The total speciousness and fraud of academic leftism is proven by the passivity of these people in every department of the university to that power play that happened.”

Also: “Hillary is a mess. And we’re going to award the presidency to a woman who’s enabled the depredations and exploitation of women by that cornpone husband of hers? The way feminists have spoken makes us blind to Hillary’s record of trashing [women]. They were going to try to destroy Monica Lewinsky. It’s a scandal! Anyone who believes in sexual harassment guidelines should have seen that the disparity of power between [Bill] Clinton and Monica Lewinsky was one of the most grotesque ever in the history of sex crime. He’s a sex criminal! We’re going to put that guy back in the White House? Hillary’s ridden on his coattails.”

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WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Man Who Received Penis Transplant Uses It To Impregnate Woman: “The South African recipient of the world’s first penile transplant is to become a father, a surgeon who performed the operation has told the BBC. His girlfriend has reported that she is about four months pregnant, and this showed that the ‘transplant worked’, said Andre van der Merwe. The 21-year-old recipient, whose identify is being protected, lost his penis in a botched circumcision.”

CATHY YOUNG: The Pecking Disorder: Social Justice Warriors Gone Wild: Culture wars over “social justice” have been wreaking havoc in many communities, including universities and science fiction fandom. “Privilege rhetoric offers an absurdly simplistic view of complex social dynamics.”

That’s not by accident, but by design.

I HAVE A BETTER IDEA. LET’S GIVE THIS TASK TO SOMEONE WHO’LL BE BANKRUPTED IF THEY GET IT WRONG, INSTEAD OF SOMEONE WHO’LL GET A BUDGET INCREASE: Feds Who Didn’t Even Discover The OPM Hack Themselves, Still Say We Should Give Them Cybersecurity Powers.

LINCOLN CHAFEE HARDEST HIT: Shocking to see something so reasonable from Mother Jones, but they’re entirely correct: America Uses Fahrenheit. The Rest of the World Uses Celsius. America Is Right. The Rest of the World Is Wrong. I like their graphic, too.

And speaking of Lincoln Chafee, let me note that there are two kinds of countries in the world: Those that use the metric system, and those that have walked on the Moon.

ROGER SIMON: Hillary Clinton: America’s Most Boring Public Speaker.

VIDEO: Watch Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner Pull Off Some Jumbo Stunts. There’s some pretty impressive stuff, especially at the beginning, but I’ve seen C-130s do similarly impressive stuff — it’s all about energy management. Since I don’t think the 787 has a thrust-to-weight ratio that will support vertical climbs, it’s really about taking off at a higher-than-normal speed and then converting some of that speed into altitude. Am I right?