ORWELLIAN MUCH? HILLARY PUTS ‘FUN CAMPS’ ASIDE TO PROPOSE ‘CARING CORPS.’

Yet another reminder that Jonah Goldberg’s early 2008 book Liberal Fascism was written with the assumption that Hillary would be the Democratic frontrunner that year; quotes from her on her worldview make up several of its later chapters.

For a cinematic look at what Hillary’s “Fun Camps,” the village it takes to raise a child, and the Caring Corp which would oversee both might look like, last year’s chilling dystopian sci-fi film The Giver starring Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep is also well worth checking out.

IRS SCANDAL UPDATE: GOP to IRS: Just admit Tea Party was targeted.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD HAS HANDED GOP CANDIDATES A GIFT — THEY’RE RUNNING WITH IT: “The strategy is simple: No Republican politician should answer a question about abortion without first demanding that Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer and Hillary Clinton answer for their positions.”

DEM SPIN: TRUMP IS BEHIND THIS! Criminal Inquiry Sought in Hillary Clinton’s Use of Email. “Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Rodham Clinton mishandled sensitive government information on a private email account she used as secretary of state, senior government officials said Thursday. The request follows an assessment in a June 29 memo by the inspectors general for the State Department and the intelligence agencies that Mrs. Clinton’s private account contained ‘hundreds of potentially classified emails.’ The memo was written to Patrick F. Kennedy, the under secretary of state for management.” (Bumped).

LIZ SHELD: Lone-Wolf Crazy White Guy Shoots Up Louisiana Theater. “I know he was a white man because I was watching CNN at 4 a.m. this morning and they repeated that about 100 times: ‘HE WAS A WHITE GUY’.”

A THEATER SHOOTING IN LOUISIANA AND THIS IS WHAT A BUZZFEED EDITOR TWEETS? JUST BIZARRE.

Not to mention a possible violation of the much vaunted BuzzFeed Editorial Standards And Ethics Guide, introduced in January:

On public activism:

But when it comes to activism, BuzzFeed editorial must follow the lead of our editors and reporters who come out of a tradition of rigorous, neutral journalism that puts facts and news first. If we don’t, it makes it harder for those reporters to do their jobs.

On political speech:

While we understand that many BuzzFeed editorial staffers are passionate and thoughtful and hold personal views on policy issues or candidates, we must maintain one blanket rule for all of editorial: Political partisanship may not be expressed in public forums, including Twitter and Facebook.

The lack of repercussions for Zarrell and the dissembling in defense of it by BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith will be fascinating to observe.

LIFE IN OBAMA’S AMERICA: Slut-Shaming The Military:

In the wake of the massacre in Chattanooga, Tenn., Defense Secretary Ash Carter approved a series of “immediate force-protection steps” designed to protect service members. One of those steps was to ask recruiters not to wear their uniforms in public.

Regular readers (all two of you; I’m being generous) will recognize this attempt to “protect” people by telling them what not to wear as “slut-shaming” or “victim-blaming.” At least, that’s what it’s called when the protection is meant for young women on college campuses.

In this case, soldiers are being told not to wear their uniforms because it may make them targets of another shooting. College women used to be told not to wear skimpy clothes to avoid being raped.

The obvious difference here is that a military uniform clearly identifies someone as a member of the military, whereas a short skirt doesn’t identify someone as wanting to have sex. In both instances, however, an authority figure is at least in part blaming the victim for the crime perpetrated against them.

Where are the protests?

HOW OBAMA IS USING CHUCK SCHUMER TO NUKE THE US-ISRAEL ALLIANCE: “Would Schumer the shomer throw America’s allies under the bus and allow Obama to drive a wedge between Washington and Jerusalem? If Schumer won’t answer that question directly, his handling of the Iran deal will.”

HILLARY CLINTON NEEDS TO ADDRESS THE RACIST UNDERTONES OF HER 2008 CAMPAIGN: From left-leaning journalist Ryan Cooper at The Week.

Should Hillary address the racist overtones of her 2016 campaign as well? Hey, if her campaign is still around in 2016, absolutely.

RELATED: “The stakes are high in 2016 – more so for Democrats than they were in 2012, when Barack Obama’s allies went so far as to accuse Mitt Romney of complicity in negligent homicide. We may come to look back on that campaign as an epoch of civility. If the GOP nominates a competent candidate, and they have a variety from which to choose, Hillary Clinton and her allies will have to scorch the earth in order to win. The torches are already lit.”

REALLY? BECAUSE WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE SEEM TO ALWAYS BE TURNING THE THERMOSTAT DOWN: Latest front in the War On Women: Air Conditioning.

And it’s sad to see Petula Dvorak end with such a sexist remark: “I’m talking short suits. They’re adorable! Plus, we’d all love to see your knees, guys.” Really? Really?

And nobody tell Ann Althouse.

NY TIMES MOVES CRUZ BEHIND JIMMY CARTER ON BESTSELLER LIST DESPITE SELLING 58% MORE BOOKS.

Their editors can try to hide it as much they like, but isn’t it obvious by now how deeply in the tank the Gray Lady is for Ben Nelson’s presidential bid?

MILLENNIAL WOMEN HAVE FIGURED OUT THAT you can’t actually “have it all.”

AFTER BLASTING TRUMP FOR MEXICO COMMENTS, CNN SMEARS ENTIRE AFRICAN COUNTRY AS ‘HOTBED OF TERROR:’  “What CNN’s racially-driven smear might do to damage Kenya’s future tourism and business economy is yet to be seen.”

ORIN KERR: Sandra Bland and the “lawful order” problem.

Sandra Bland was pulled over for failing to signal while changing lanes. A lot of readers have watched the traffic stop which led to Bland’s arrest for assaulting an officer. If you haven’t, you should.

The Bland video brings up an overlooked problem with the law of police-citizen encounters. The police can back up their orders with force because it’s often a crime to disobey a lawful order from a police officer. But from a citizen’s perspective, it’s often impossible to know what is a lawful order. As a result, it’s often impossible for citizens to know what they can and can’t do during a police encounter.

The first problem is knowing what counts as an “order.” If an officer approaches you and asks you to do something, that’s normally just a request and not an order. But if there’s a law on the books saying that you have to comply with the officer’s request, then the request is treated as an order. You can’t know what is an “order” unless you study the law first, which you’re unlikely to have done before the officer approached you.

The even bigger problem is knowing when an order is “lawful.” An order is lawful if forcing compliance would not violate any law. But a citizen is in no position to assess that. Even if the police pulled over the world’s greatest legal expert, the citizen still couldn’t know what orders are lawful because the laws often hinge on facts the citizen can’t know.

Abolish governmental immunity and let the police officer bear the risk, not the citizen.

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: ALIEN CRIME WAVE IN TEXAS: 611,234 CRIMES, 2,993 MURDERS: Read the whole thing.

CENSORSHIP: The Left Versus The Internet: The Right has enthusiastically embraced Internet culture, even if the defenders of that culture are sometimes leery of the Right.

MILO YIANNOPOULOS: Minority Wars: Why The Next Ten Years Will Set Everyone Against Everyone.

Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Martin O’Malley came face to face with the tragic state of American progressivism last week, when an 11,000-strong rally of progressive activists was disrupted by #BlackLivesMatter protesters.

Activists marched into the room chanting protest songs before taking the stage in front of a bemused O’Malley to demand concrete commitments on police violence.

Never mind that O’Malley and Sanders are, among presidential candidates, by far the most sympathetic to the concerns of the Black Lives Matter movement: because they’re white, they cannot be trusted, and deserve to have whatever they’re talking about shoved off the agenda by thugs with placards.

It may sound racist and bizarre to be suspicious of candidates like Sanders and O’Malley on the basis of their ethnicity alone, but when you consider the primacy of identity politics in the progressive movement today, it really isn’t that surprising.

Since the 1970s, social psychologists have been aware that emphasising differences between groups leads to mistrust and hostility. In a series of landmark experiments, the psychologist Henri Tajfel found that even wearing different-coloured shirts was enough for groups to begin displaying signs of mistrust.

So guess what happens when you tell everyone that their worth, their ability, their right to speak on certain subjects and – shudder – their “privilege” is based on what they were born with, rather than any choices they’ve made or who they are?

So long as there is power in dividing people, demagogues will divide people.

J. EDGAR HOOVER’S WAR ON GAYS: “For J. Edgar Hoover, homosexuals — or, in his lexicon, ‘sex deviates’ — who worked in the federal government were as much a threat to the republic as any embedded Soviet spies:”

According to Penn State historian Doug Charles in his book Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI “Sex Deviates” Program, this initiative was the launch of a massive campaign against homosexuals by the Bureau. By the 1970s, the FBI had collected 360,000 files on gays and lesbians in the federal government. Dates and places of their “acts” were included in the files. From police reports and “individual complaints,” agents collected names of these “unsuitable,” “unstable” “security risks.”

Read the whole thing.

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LESSONS LEARNED IN GOING FROM BOTSWANA TO UT LAW: “Having lived in Appalachia, I discovered a new form of diversity that was not restricted to skin color.”

RELAX, NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT: America Has A Lot Of Potentially Active Volcanoes.

STEREOTYPE CONFIRMED: Clinton: Sight Of Black Man With Hoodie Creates ‘Fear’ Among Open-Minded White People.

STEREOTYPE BUSTED: Report: Chicago’s Neighborhood With Most Gun Carry Permits is 55% Black, 34% Hispanic.

SLATE’S MALE FEMINIST: I Hate That I Love TO Grill. Really? Really?

OBAMA’S TRUE LEGACY: Poll Shows Most Americans Think Race Relations Are Bad.

Seven years ago, in the gauzy afterglow of a stirring election night in Chicago, commentators dared ask whether the United States had finally begun to heal its divisions over race and atone for the original sin of slavery by electing its first black president. It has not. Not even close.

A new New York Times/CBS News poll reveals that nearly six in 10 Americans, including heavy majorities of both whites and blacks, think race relations are generally bad and that nearly four in 10 think the situation is getting worse. By comparison, two-thirds of Americans surveyed shortly after President Obama took office said they believed that race relations were generally good.

We elected the wrong black man for the job. And this remains evergreen, alas:

Worst president ever.