DALLAS POLICE PROVIDE DETAILS OF SHOOTOUT AT EL CENTRO.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Wheeled Robot With Soft Rotary Motors Is 100% Squishy.

BREITBART.COM SHUTS DOWN ‘THE DAILY SHOW’ AT ‘GAYS FOR TRUMP:’

“I wanted to shoot raw footage of their interview with a young, gay conservative, because I wanted to compare it to their final cut and see whether they had been fair to him,” Pollak recalled.

“I didn’t want this person to be humiliated merely for being gay and having the ‘wrong’ political views,” Pollak added.

“They told me not to film, then they told me —incorrectly — that I couldn’t film them, and then one of their reporters pushed me. Finally, they gave up, packed up their cameras and ran away.”

Funny how a show infamous for its ransom note-style editing of conservatives, or anyone they’ve designated to be the daily straw man doesn’t like having their videos videoed. (See also: Katie Couric.) Or as Iowahawk tweets, “Alleged comedy show loses their shit after their ambush is ambushed.”

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why Springsteen never made another album like ‘Born to Run,’ and other questions only his first manager Mike Appel can answer.

Today, many on the right view Springsteen as an aging corporatist tool fully owned by the Democratic Party for election year benefit concerts, who occasionally releases albums on the side. But back in 1973 through 1975, on his second and third albums, The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle and Born to Run, Springsteen was making remarkably supple and innovative music. And then he changed managers, and became, as Slate(!) dubbed him a decade ago, “Bruce Springsteen, bullshitter:” “Thirty years later, and largely thanks to Landau, Springsteen is no longer a musician. He’s a belief system. And, like any belief system worth its salt, he brooks no in-between. You’re either in or you’re out.” Reluctantly, I’m out, but I do love — and miss — his mid-‘70s work.

(Via the Brothers Judd.)

CLAIRE BERLINSKI: A Report from Turkey.

Erdoğan’s attempts to forge an all-powerful, one-man regime may have led [Fethullah Gülen supporters] to try to stage a coup in desperation. However, looking at how Erdoğan has responded to the coup attempt with a virtual counter-coup of his own, targeting not just the Gülenists but the opposition in general, suggests two more possibilities:

1. Erdoğan and the AKP undertook a fake coup to revitalize his Islamist base as well as other party members and their extensions. There is a lot of evidence that goes against this possibility: Gülenist names appear to be involved, and there were casualties among AKP people and their supporters.

2. Erdoğan and the AKP government knew about the plot in advance (some statements, like that of the general who spoke on TV after the initial coup attempt was thwarted, suggest there was advance intelligence; also, it has now been revealed that the President received the first notification of the plot at around 3:00 p.m. on Friday afternoon). They allowed it to happen. We cannot know yet, but the possibility is there. How else could they have been prepared to call their members (via means that include text messages) to confront the military? Once it was time to put on a show, the AKP took the main stage and turned it into a sham people’s resistance against the coup attempt, leading eventually to calls to keep invading the streets — with the pro-government media covering it only from the perspective of, “The Turkish people stopped the coup attempt.” It was mostly AKP members and ardent supporters called upon to go out via text messages, first by the party, and then via announcements by the president and the prime minister, as well AKP mayors and other state officials.

The purge of nearly all government institutions immediately afterward indicates the lists may have been prepared way in advance.

Read the whole thing.

AT AMAZON, save on high-speed HDMI cables. Also, Apple Lightning cables.

MINIMUM WAGE UPDATE: Watch A German Robot Grill Sausages To Perfection.

WHITTLE, OTT, GREEN ON THE NEW GOP: It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to.

Full disclosure: I’m Green.

ROGER SIMON: Do We Need Party Presidential Conventions?

NAG, NAG, NAG: Microsoft updates Get Windows 10 nagster yet again.

Now the flirtation includes a yellow exclamation for an icon in the system tray, a popup with a hamburger icon, and a countdown clock that tells you that there’s just 9 days 7 hours 16 minutes and 77 seconds until Armageddon. You’re given the options of “Decline free offer” and “Upgrade now.”

If you decide to upgrade now, you’ll get the old Windows 10.1, version 1511, released last November, build 10586. You will have 31 days to roll back to your original operating system, although the rollback is not without problems.

It isn’t clear if declining the free offer actually, you know, declines the free offer. I wouldn’t be too surprised if there was a new KB 3035583 in the near future that says “Are you really, really sure?” or “Upgrade now or we’ll kill this bunny.”

I’ve heard almost nothing but good things about Windows 10, and almost nothing but bad things about Microsoft’s recent efforts to get people to install it.

If you’re a happy Windows 7 or 8 user, GWX Control Panel will put an end to the nagging.

A REAL 21ST CENTURY HEADLINE: SpaceX Is Planning to Land 3 Rockets At Once.

THE TRIPLE LINDY: SpaceX’s next mission: to land three rockets at once.

“SpaceX expects to fly Falcon Heavy for the first time later this year,” the company said in a statement to the Orlando Sentinel. “We are also seeking regulatory approval to build two additional landing pads at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. We hope to recover all three Falcon Heavy rockets, though initially we may attempt drone ship landings.”

SpaceX founder Elon Musk of Tesla Motors added on Twitter that two of the rockets would land simultaneously, while the third would arrive shortly after.

SpaceX is a private space company whose goal is to develop reusable space transportation to reduce costs and, ultimately, enable the colonization of Mars.

The landings were a difficult enough engineering challenge, but the real trick is getting the expended rockets back down in good enough condition to re-use. SpaceX isn’t quite there yet.

NO SURPRISE: Caitlyn Jenner: Easier to come out as trans than Republican.

FLASHBACK: Remember When Hillary Clinton Accused Obama of Plagiarism?

DO CANDIDATES NEED A CAMPAIGN? “I ask because it is not immediately clear that Donald Trump, who is running for President, has one,” Roger Kimball warns, writing from Cleveland.

THE POLITICS OF THE NEW DEAL: Did FDR use this sweeping body of legislation to gain an electoral advantage? Yes. Next question? In fact, that was all that it was about, and as with Obama’s “recovery” programs, it didn’t matter that it actually made things worse and extended the Depression.

THE FAN TRAP: Axanar, The $1 Million Star Trek Fan Film CBS Wants to Stop (Video):

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Cartilage grown from stem cells could replace hip implants.

“We’ve developed a way to resurface an arthritic joint using a patient’s own stem cells to grow new cartilage, combined with gene therapy to release anti-inflammatory molecules to keep arthritis at bay,” said Farshid Guilak, professor of orthopedic surgery at Washington University, in a statement. “Our hope is to prevent, or at least delay, a standard metal and plastic prosthetic joint replacement.”

The cartilage is made with the patient’s own stem cells taken from fat beneath the skin. A 3-D, biodegradable synthetic scaffold is molded into the shape of the patient’s joint. It is then covered with the cartilage and implanted onto the surface of an arthritic hip. This process helps alleviate arthritic pain and could delay or eliminate the need for hip replacement surgery.

I had been assured that adult stem cells were useless.

JACK DUNPHY ON THE ORIGINS OF THE WAR ON COPS.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

The media is spending more time doing a forensic analysis of Melania's speech than the FBI spent on Hillary's emails.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 20, 2016

TAR. FEATHERS. Progressive Policing of Speech Moves Off Campus.

WINSTON SMITH, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Is the Purpose of a Newspaper to Promote Delusion?

Building the liberal cocoon has been an ongoing topic since the earliest days of the Blogosphere. Why would it stop now?

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1168.

PARENTING: Can Fibbing to Your Kids Turn Them Into Lying Adults?

In my experience, it’s best not to let your kids catch you doing anything you don’t want them doing — and that eventually they will catch you.