DISSOLVE THE PEOPLE AND ELECT ANOTHER: Could Brexit Be Canceled? Here’s How Vote Might Be Reversed.

The Brexit win demonstrated that Britain’s elites (like elites most everywhere) are suffering a crisis of legitimacy. Using legal trickery to thwart the expressed will of the people would only deepen the crisis.

UPDATE: “We need a second referendum. The consequences of Brexit are too grave.”

And in the EU tradition, they’ll keep holding votes until the desired result is achieved.

AND EVEN MORE HANDWRINGING: “Brexit: Is this the beginning of the end of liberal democracy?”

Seems to me more like the beginning of the beginning of restoring it.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1146.

LABOUR IN CHAOS: Ed Miliband and David Cameron lead brutal new calls for Jeremy Corbyn to resign.

The Conservatives may have an easier time than Labour adjusting to Britain’s new political reality, but UKIP has been there all along.

AUSTIN BAY: The Question of Campaign 2016: Where Have All the Fascists Gone? Look to the left—the American Left—and the authoritarian wing of the Democratic Party. (Bumped.)

PILING FRESH DIRT ON MALTHUS’S GRAVE: Rediscovering Gaia’s Riches:

As one of the researchers put it, “[t]here’s a lot more fresh groundwater in California than people know.” The breakthrough here involved searching for water deeper underground than aquifers designated for human consumption typically lie. The drawback (there’s always a drawback) is that the deeper water tends to be more brackish, and is naturally more difficult and costly to extract. Moreover, the deeper one drills for water, the closer one gets to oil and gas drilling (typically thousands of feet of rock layers separate hydrocarbons from groundwater tapped for consumption), and the greater the chance there is of contamination. All of that being said, this remains a remarkable find for the parched state.

Halfway across the world a different group of scientists employing a novel new detection technique found an enormous new supply of helium gas—an increasingly scarce element that’s critically important for advanced scientific research and medical technologies—in Tanzania. . . .

In addition to making your voice squeaky or your kids’ birthday balloons float, helium helps keep high-tech gadgets like MRI machines or the Large Hadron Collider cool. As Durham University’s professor Jon Gluyas, one of the researchers, told the BBC, “Helium is the second most abundant element in the Universe but it’s exceedingly rare on Earth.” Helium prices have quintupled since 2000 as supplies have started to dwindle. You can understand, then, why this discovery is being described as a “game changer,” and not just for the fact of this specific supply alone, either: this was the first place these scientists employed their new surveying technique. They’re batting 1.000, and could now apply this technique in areas with similar geology in different parts of the world.

The Malthusians of the world are always right until they’re wrong. They’ll warn of impending resource depletion until they’re blue in the face, but time and again human ingenuity (and natural providence) has made fools of them. We’ve seen two welcome new examples of Gaia’s riches this week—what’ll we find next?

I’m so old I can remember when “peak oil” was a thing, and we weren’t going to drill our way out of it.

ALWAYS NICE TO MAKE THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES, BREXIT EDITION.

WELL, YES: Obama administration more concerned with re-election than lives in Benghazi.

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WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF CORRUPTION? Second Boston City Hall Official Charged With Extortion.

GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: Did FBI and Justice Dept. Enable Puerto Rico’s Financial Meltdown? The FBI and DOJ stood by while government officials in Puerto Rico committed $11 billion dollars in financial fraud.

21ST CENTURY LAWSUITS: Woman sues Microsoft over unwanted Windows 10 upgrade, wins $10,000.

IT’S WHO THEY ARE, IT’S WHAT THEY DO: Benghazi lies were just standard procedure under Obama.

WANT TO UNDERSTAND BREXIT? LOOK AT THE ISRAELI LEFT:

Brexit? That one I got absolutely right, and for a very simple reason: I was raised by the quivering, arrogant, and hopelessly delusional tribe of the Israeli left.

If you think my assessment uncharitable, mosey over to the promised land and have a chat with anyone who still votes Meretz, though you may have to hurry as there are fewer and fewer of them with each electoral cycle. Catch one on a good day, though, and you will probably hear the following account of all that plagues the state of the Jews: Israelis, goes the leftist ur-narrative, used to be reasonable and genial people. They used to believe in peace, which is why they signed the Oslo accords and welcomed back Yasser Arafat and strove toward a permanent two-state solution of peace and reconciliation. Then, like a devil out of Bulgakov, Netanyahu, a Middle East Mephistopheles, appeared on the scene, and, with his dark tricks, poisoned hearts and minds, turning Israelis from a gaggle of glowing Labor-voters to a rabble of benighted boobs, always reaching for their pitchforks and always thirsty for blood. If only reason would prevail, cries the Israeli left, peace will soon return. And if it does not, disaster is almost certain.

Omitted from this story, of course, are a few inconvenient facts, including most mentions of unrequited Israeli concessions and almost all talk of escalating Palestinian incitement and violence. But bring none of this up with the left, please: Only fools and racists still talk about things like terrorism or religion or national pride.

Translate these attitudes into the Queen’s English, and you’ll hear an all-too-familiar story. Labour, for long the occupants of 10 Downing, downplayed legitimate concerns shared by growing swaths of the population as being somehow inappropriate, as if only bigots watched the news and concluded that lax immigration policies deserved, at the very least, close scrutiny. Some members of the party have come to see this strategy as misguided: Jack Straw, Labour’s former Home Secretary, for example, recently admitted that setting no restrictions on migration in 2004 was “a spectacular mistake” as well as a “well-intentioned policy we messed up.”

Though to be fair, creating a permanent underclass does wonders for building the roster of leftwing voters, on both sides of the Atlantic.

GOOD NEWS: Rights group proposes bill to properly handle campus sexual assault.

In anticipation for reauthorizing the Higher Education Act of 1965, a group dedicated to student rights has offered up model legislation that would make campus sexual assault investigations fairer.

The group, called Stop Abusive and Violent Environments, released the model bill on June 22 and is working to lobby Congress for its adoption. The bill “supports the rights and interests of both the complainant and accused student, and encourages the involvement of local criminal justice authorities,” SAVE wrote. The bill could also be adapted for the state level as well.

“Sexual violence can have a devastating impact on victims. Institutions of higher education need to take into account the legitimate interests and rights of complainants and accused students to assure a fair and transparent adjudication process and to achieve reliable outcomes,” the proposed bill states. “All parties should seek to ensure the campus adjudicatory system follows due process procedures in order to protect the innocent and accurately identify the guilty.”

The bill reins in the ever-expanding definition of sexual assault by limiting it to existing standards. For example, it defines sexual harassment according to a Supreme Court finding (Davis v. Monroe) which says the harassment must be “severe, pervasive and objectively offensive.” In recent years, through “guidance” documents issued by the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, colleges and universities have dropped the “objective” part of the definition and allowed anything that anyone sees as offensive (even if most wouldn’t) as enough basis to investigate a student.

The bill also ensures that support services are offered to both the accuser and the accused. In many bills on the issue and at many campuses, an accuser is provided numerous services while the accused must fend for themselves. The obvious reason for this is that pressure from the federal government has forced schools to treat accusers as instant truth-telling victims and the accused as guilty from the start.

1984 was not actually intended as a how-to manual.

HMM: Bernie-backed progressive Zephyr Teachout wins New York Democratic primary. She’d eliminate the “carried interest” loophole, which can’t sit well with Hillary’s Wall Street backers.

WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE IT’S A LIE: WaPo: Hillary Clinton’s email story continues to get harder and harder to believe.

HMM: Team Clinton Spent $26M on Battleground Ads in June. Trump Spent $0.

YOU SPELLED “ALMOST CERTAINLY” WRONG: Damning new emails indicate Lois Lerner is likely a criminal.

Recently obtained documents raise new questions about Lois Lerner’s role in sending confidential tax returns to the Justice Department. It is likely the largest unauthorized disclosure of tax-return information in history: the transfer of some 1.25 million pages of confidential tax returns to the Department of Justice in October of 2010.

Gangster government.

ARE WE SURE IT’S JUST BECAUSE OF “BUDGET CUTS?” How Syphilis Came Roaring Back.

Because syphilis rates are surging across Europe, too. Might there be something else going on? Like maybe mass immigration?

WHY DO THEY HATE AMERICA? Senate Democrats Block GOP’s Zika Funding Bill.

I’m sure we’ll see lots of DEMOCRATS HOLD AMERICA HOSTAGE headlines over this, right?

STUDIES, WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT THEM? Study Learns Chicago Criminals DON’T Buy Their Guns Legally.

JOURNALISM: Flashback: ’60 Minutes’ edits Obama’s answer on Benghazi.

CBS News’ “60 Minutes” selectively edited an interview with President Obama in 2012 to omit his comment that it was unclear whether an assault on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, was the pre-meditated work of terrorists, or a random uprising.

Obama’s uncertainty in that interview, conducted one day after the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack, stands in sharp contrast to when he stated indignantly during an Oct. 16 presidential debate that he saw the assault as an act of terror from the get-go.

Part of the CBS interview first aired on Sept. 23. However, CBS withheld specific portions of the president’s sit-down from its original air date. Instead of running the president’s remarks on the attack, CBS released small snippets of his comments throughout the final days of the 2012 election.

All in all, the full Benghazi exchange between the president and Kroft wasn’t made available to American voters in its entirety until Nov. 4, a full 54 days after the attacks, and just two days before the election.

How about that?

DON’T BACK DOWN, BERNIE: Sanders raising money to send delegates to Philadelphia.

ANOTHER LEGEND PASSES AWAY: Scotty Moore, guitarist for Elvis Presley, dies at 84.

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