LIKE THE BOSS, I’VE ASKED MYSELF THIS: Are they both trying to lose the White House?

HEARTWARMING: How 88 Drive-in theater beat big government. Have gone there…

SHOCKED, SHOCKED: China Launches a Stealth Invasion in the South China Sea.

WHAT ELSE CAN HE DO? IT’S HIS ONLY RELIGION: Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro Looks to a Marxist Spaniard for an Economic Miracle.

IN SCIENCE FICTION PUBLISHING, IGNORE THE ICEBERG.  THE DECK CHAIRS NEED TO MOVE: Addressing The Problem™

I GET THE ODDEST VISITORS: Fish And Water.

STRAINING THE LIMITS OF THE LEFT’S IMAGINATION: The Meaning of a Martyrdom.

VIETNAM HAS PLANS FOR CHINA’S MANUFACTURED ISLANDS: Hard rain plans.

ANOTHER POLICEMAN MURDERED: It appears Agent De’Greaun “Dee” Frazier was killed while operating undercover. So his death was in the line of duty. Read the article. It’s short but informative. Agent Frazier was with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. “…this one was close to home.” The man who said that is apparently a former supervisor who admired Mr. Frazier. Agent Frazier had been a policeman in Millington, Tennessee. Check the photo. Agent Frazier happened to be black. Sick of the divisiveness peddled by Black Lives Matter and Bill Ayers? I am. If you haven’t already done so, please read the first part of the essay I wrote after the Dallas atrocity. I think those first paragraphs are –in and of themselves– a short essay on leadership. Genuine leadership, not community organizing, if you get my drift. Dallas Police Chief Brown and Senator Scott are real leaders.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: 2016: Is Anybody Actually Trying To Win This Thing?

FLASHBACK: Hillary Clinton Remark on Kennedy’s Killing Stirs Uproar.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton defended staying in the Democratic nominating contest on Friday by pointing out that her husband had not wrapped up the nomination until June 1992, adding, “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.”

Her remarks were met with quick criticism from the campaign of Senator Barack Obama, and within hours of making them Mrs. Clinton expressed regret, saying, “The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator Kennedy,” referring to the recent diagnosis of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s brain tumor. She added, “And I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and in particular the Kennedy family was in any way offensive.”

Still, the comments touched on one of the most sensitive aspects of the current presidential campaign — concern for Mr. Obama’s safety.

Funny, I don’t see a similar concern with regard to Mr. Trump’s safety.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: The Hill: In email, State Department asked to ‘take care of’ Clinton Foundation associate.

THAT’S NOT THE NARRATIVE: Olympic star: I was “born to have babies.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE (AND ITS ALTERNATIVES): How Homeschooling Helped Propel Simone Biles to Olympic Success.

QUESTION ASKED: Why couldn’t the Romans hold and conquer Scotland?

My theory is that if Scotch whisky had been invented much sooner, the Romans would have put forth a much greater effort.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: 2016: Is Anybody Actually Trying To Win This Thing?

BAD NEWS FOR THOSE OF US WHO SELL LAW DEGREES: Law Firms ‘Blindsided’ By Drop In Demand, Tax Suffers Biggest Drop (3.4%).

NEW FROM GOVERNMENT MOTORS: 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1: 650 HP, 0 to 60 in 3.5, Yours for $62,000.

BLACK LIVES MATTER IS OCCUPY WALL STREET REVIVED: Complete with that well-known domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers.

A tell-tale quote from the Frontier Lab study of Black Lives Matter (pdf published in July):

You’ve got to organize with class-conscious workers….You’ve got to organize with the undocumented. You’ve got to organize with the radical trans people… You’ve got to build a poor people’s movement, a colonized people’s movement.

From the study’s Executive Summary:

BLM relies upon the elevation and equating of other underprivileged groups to a status “just as oppressed” as Black America in order to build a narrative of an America divided into the “Oppressed and the Privileged.”

There you go. They practice strategic divisiveness. Good leaders don’t. (Hat tip Powerline.)

MODERN PROBLEMS: That Vibrating ‘Wub Wub Wub’ That Comes From Cracking One Car Window? It’s Not Just You!

The vibration actually has a name. It is the Helmholtz resonance, or “wind throb,” and it has long plagued an auto industry that has generally made cars better with each passing year. It is as likely to assail a pricey sports car as it is a compact sedan.

The most common instance of wind throb is when a back seat driver rolls down a window when the front ones aren’t cracked. The usual advice: Open a front window. There are other scenarios, too.
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The throb is caused by wind passing over flat openings, like a window, in a way that matches the “resonance frequency” of most car cabins. The phenomenon is just like what happens when someone blows over the top of a Coke bottle.

“Most vehicles today, regardless of manufacturer, are sealed so well to improve NVH levels, they can’t vent the volume of air needed to reduce or eliminate the phenomenon,” Jason Nunamaker, a Toyota Motor Corp. expert on vehicle frames, said in an email. NVH is an industry term that stands for noise, vibration and harshness.

I’ve found that cracking a back window slightly wider than a front window completely eliminates the throb, but that nothing helps when it is caused by a poorly designed sunroof.

WHEN YOU’VE LOST MORNING JOE…Scarborough: Trump Campaign a ‘Scam’ and a ‘Marketing Ploy.’

WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN: Men’s Lingerie Is Here—and It’s Super Lacy.

CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Trump says the election is rigged. It’s even worse than you imagined.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Why Clint Eastwood’s Anti-PC Rant Matters.