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July 7, 2016
THE HILL: Senate GOP leader: Release Clinton’s FBI interview.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) wants Hillary Clinton’s interview with the FBI made public as GOP lawmakers demand more information on the investigation into her private email server.
“It’s pretty clear … that the American people would like to see what Hillary Clinton said to the FBI,” McConnell told reporters during his weekly press conference.
McConnell and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) noted that lying to the agency was a punishable offense.
“There’s no particular penalty for lying to the public, unless the public get tired of it, but there’s a real penalty for lying about the FBI,” McConnell said.
McConnell’s comments came after Cornyn voiced support for releasing any information tied to the FBI’s probe, including the 3.5-hour interview that took place days before Comey’s announcement.
“Only when we get the complete investigation out, including that three-and-a-half hour interview with the FBI, will the American people have the information they need in order to make a final judgement,” the Senate’s No. 2 Republican said.
Indeed.
ANALYSIS TRUE: With Hillary Clinton in the White House, Christians Would Be in a Fight for Civil Survival:
The left has made itself not our opponent but our enemy. While its partisans are still our fellow citizens and deserve basic Christian charity, they do not deserve our trust. We are long past the time when it was possible to compromise with the left in view of some agreed-upon common good. They have blasted it into No Man’s Land.
We are locked in a Hobbesean conflict for mere civic survival.
Obama would much rather go to war against Christians in the Midwest than radical Islamists in the Middle East; Hillary, who drank deeply from the same well of radical politics during her salad days no doubt feels the same way. Read the whole thing.
“I’D RATHER HAVE A SISTER IN A WHOREHOUSE THAN A BROTHER IN THE FBI:” FBI’s reputation crumbles with Clinton email fumble, Glenn writes in his latest USA Today column.
SHOCKER: To improve diversity, don’t make people go to diversity training. Really.
Companies have tried everything to boost the stubbornly anemic numbers of women and minorities in management roles or in certain industries, such as tech or finance. They’re making candidates’ resumes blind to race and gender. Setting up partnerships with historically black colleges. Releasing demographic data in an exercise of public accountability — and humility.
But perhaps the most common and seemingly elementary tactic — compulsory diversity training aimed at helping people’s biases or preventing discriminatory behavior — appears to actually do more harm than good.
In the cover story of the latest issue of the Harvard Business Review, sociologists from Harvard University and Tel Aviv University explore the counterintuitive idea that some of the most common tools for improving diversity — one of which is mandatory training — are not just ineffective. They could be detrimental to improving the number of women and minorities in the managerial ranks.
Making people attend diversity training may seem to make sense, said one of the study’s co-authors, Alexandra Kalev, in an interview: “But it doesn’t work. For decades, diversity management programs flourished with no evidence whatsoever about their effects and their success.”
They enrich consultants and let managers pretend they’re doing something.
July 6, 2016
THERE ARE SOME SECTIONS OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, PROFESSOR, THAT I WOULD NOT ADVISE YOU TO INVADE: Ohio Professor Calls For Shooting Up NRA Headquarters, Ensuring “No Survivors”…
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: “I’d rather have a sister in a whorehouse than a brother in the FBI.”
THE INSTA-WIFE: Did Hillary Clinton Get A “Pussy Pass?”
UNEXPECTEDLY! Leaked German police report CONFIRMS surge in child rapes by migrants in swimming pools and admits: ‘We have grave cause for concern.’ “Refugee officials have pleaded for calm after the publication of the Duesseldorf memo and have stressed they are making more efforts to educate young immigrant men about the rights of women and children in Germany.”
THIS IS WHAT YOUR BRAIN LOOKS LIKE ON BAD DATA: MRI Software Bugs Could Upend Years Of Research. “The researchers used published fMRI results, and along the way they swipe the fMRI community for their ‘lamentable archiving and data-sharing practices’ that prevent most of the discipline’s body of work being re-analysed.” Huh. And I thought the science was settled.
HEH:

WELL, YES:

Related, from Dave Weigel: Trump, Saddam and why people mistrust the media.
The point is that Trump has been saying, for quite some time, that the United States should not have gone to war in Iraq, and that it should side with dictators as long as they “kill terrorists.” The Republican primary electorate endorsed that view. Clinton, as a senator and then as secretary of state, took another view, and backed the use of American power to remove both Hussein and Libya’s Moammar Gaddafi. There’s video of Clinton gleefully saying “We came, we saw, he died” upon learning that Gaddafi had been torn apart by his own people. This has never been treated like a gaffe; but Trump’s “Saddam killed terrorists” riff suddenly is.
By consistently covering Trump’s argument over time, and by following up on it, media outlets did their job to inform voters. That was why Tuesday night’s collective Captain Renault moment was so strange, and so demonstrative of why many media consumers are skeptical of what they’re hearing. Instead of a debate on the facts — should Hussein have been removed? Did he “kill terrorists,” in a contradiction of what Americans were told before the war? — there was manufactured outrage, straight from a rival campaign.
Think of them as Democratic operatives with bylines, and you will not go far wrong.
LORETTA LYNCH RATIFIES COMEY’S SELLOUT: Law Is For Little People. The circle of sellout is complete.
ROBOTS WON’T REPLACE YOUR BARTENDER — YOU WILL: ‘Pour-Your-Own Beer Bar’ set to open in Chicago.
I’ll pass. Great service starts with a great pour.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: More On A Law Review Publishing Drama Over The LSAT And Discrimination.
THIS IS A COOL PIC: Pilot captures incredible nighttime thunderstorm photo over the Pacific Ocean.

TRUMP SON-IN-LAW JARED KUSHNER WRITES ABOUT THE DONALD TRUMP HE KNOWS: I freelance for The New York Observer, which Jared Kushner owns. I don’t know him and he doesn’t know me. But this is quite an essay.
Blunt lead:
My father-in-law is not an anti-Semite. It’s that simple, really. Donald Trump is not anti-Semitic and he’s not a racist. Despite the best efforts of his political opponents and a large swath of the media to hold Donald Trump accountable for the utterances of even the most fringe of his supporters—a standard to which no other candidate is ever held—the worst that his detractors can fairly say about him is that he has been careless in retweeting imagery that can be interpreted as offensive.
Kushner is responding to an essay written by an Observer staffer.
Read them both…We link. You decide.
IRON TRANS: Marvel’s New Iron Man Is a Black Woman.
She’s also 15 years old.
This pretty much guarantees to do what Ultron, the Mandarin, and Loki could never do — suck the fun out of Iron Man.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: GM built a force-multiplying robotic glove, and I got to try it out.
A LOT OF LEFTIES DON’T KNOW WHO KATE STEINLE WAS AND DON’T WANT TO KNOW: Senate Democrats thwart a vote on a bill “aimed at stopping violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants.”
The “Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act” would revoke federal grants provided to so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to comply with Homeland Security requests to detain illegal immigrants.
The bill is one of several “legislative reactions to the death of Kate Steinle, who was killed on a San Francisco pier by an illegal immigrant.”
OVERCLASS GONNA OVERCLASS: Africans Outraged at Woman’s Tale of Gap Year in Zambia.
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