CHANGE: Rethinking the Use of Hormones to Ease Menopause Symptoms. “Ever since the large government study called the Women’s Health Initiative found a number of risks associated with menopause hormones, millions of women who are in or near menopause have been weathering hot flashes and other symptoms on their own. But now, new research suggests that the benefits of short-term hormone treatment to control life-disrupting menopausal symptoms outweigh the risks — as long as the treatment is started at or near menopause.”

Huh. I thought the science was settled.

WELL, WELL, WELL: Now 30 BENGHAZI-related emails have been recovered from Hillary’s server – and they weren’t in the batch she turned over to the State Department.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is Your Son’s Penis Too Small or Is He Just Overweight?

What will the New York Times have us fretting about next?

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NEWS FROM OUR NEWEST, BESTEST ALLIES: Iran: ‘We Welcome War With the U.S.’

Why? Hasn’t Barack Chamberlain unilaterally surrendered already?

DON’T CLICK THROUGH IF YOU’RE EASILY GROSSED OUT BY WORM PICS: Coming Soon To A Grocery Store Shelf Near You: Mealworm Oil.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Driverless taxi firm eyes operations in 10 cities by 2020.

ONLY ONE DAY LEFT in the Amazon Summer Sale.

PAY ATTENTION: Tesla’s Autopilot Will Lock Out Lackadaisical Drivers.

ALL I’VE GOT’S THIS SUNNY AFTERNOON: Apple Ordered by EU to Repay $14.5 Billion in Irish Tax Breaks.

CEO Tim Cook says he’s “confident that the Commission’s order will be reversed.“

SHOT:

Chaser:

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: F-35 to Control Armed Attack Drones.

In the future, drones may be fully operated from the cockpit of advanced fighter jets such as the Joint Strike Fighter or F-22, Air Force Chief Scientist Greg Zacharias told Scout Warrior in an interview.

“The more autonomy and intelligence you can put on these vehicles, the more useful they will become,” he said.

This development could greatly enhance mission scope, flexibility and effectiveness by enabling a fighter jet to conduct a mission with more weapons, sensors, targeting technology and cargo, Zacharias explained.

Another neat trick would be if a drone could be piloted to run interference on incoming anti-aircraft missiles, acting as a sort of a kamikaze countermeasure.

HOW MANY OF THESE LIES WORKED, BEFORE THE INVENTION OF VIDEO CAMERAS? Millionaire Accused of Abuse Releases Video Footage of Ex-Fiance ‘Beating Herself Up.’

WHAT’S GOING TO BE BETTER THAN NIXON APPEARING ON LAUGH-IN? THIS:

My @dancingabc partner, @EmmaSlaterDance, is a great teacher but she’s got her work cut out for her. #DWTS pic.twitter.com/vmusTqXXCe

— Rick Perry (@GovernorPerry) August 30, 2016

Good luck, Governor.

COLIN KAEPERNICK’S IGNORANCE OF RACISM IN CASTRO’S CUBA: The 49ers QB wore a shirt commemorating Fidel’s meeting with Malcolm X, Mark Hemingway notes at the Weekly Standard:

One can revisit the great civil rights debate over using violence as a means to an end; suffice to say, America’s better off that Martin Luther King, Jr. and his commitment to nonviolence, not Malcolm X and his “by any means necessary” approach, won the day. And this divide is only highlighted by Castro’s harboring of a bunch of American cop killers, such as Assata Shakur and Eldridge Cleaver, who claim their unconscionable and murderous actions were done in the name of “racial justice”.

The biggest problem here is that Kaepernick is seemingly unaware of Castro’s legacy. Aside from Castro dragooning and executing Christians and gays, Castro’s record on racial justice is decidedly not “woke”, as the Internet likes to say. While Cuba’s legacy of racism predates Castro, it’s safe to say overt racism against individuals of African ancestry there remains far more pronounced than it is in the United States. In fact, racism is kind of an unstated official policy: “State-posts, government jobs, or positions in the tourism industry are often allocated on the basis of skin color. Take a look at the top office holders in Cuba. See any black faces there? No,” Mediaite’s AJ Delgado wrote.

You really only need the first three words of Mark’s headline for the past weekend to make sense.

UPDATE: San Francisco Police Union To Kaepernick: What About Black-On-Black Crime?

SPEED BUMP ON THE ROAD TO A DEMOCRATIC SENATE: Signs of Trouble in Ohio As Dems Delay Senate Ad Buys.

A Democratic outside group is canceling the first two weeks of its advertising in the Ohio Senate race, a sign that national Democrats are increasingly pessimistic about Gov. Ted Strickland’s campaign against Republican incumbent Sen. Rob Portman.

Senate Majority PAC, a super PAC with ties to Democratic Leader Harry Reid that is Democrats’ main outside spending group for Senate races, is delaying its initial fall advertising in the race, according to two ad buying sources who requested anonymity. The group was slated to begin fall advertising on September 6, but is now delaying its reservations through September 19.

The news comes the day after the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee delayed its advertising in the race from September 13 until September 22, according to The Washington Post, though the DSCC is still spending to help fund an ad run by Strickland’s campaign.

Trump’s poll numbers in Ohio seem to have halted their free fall, too.

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THE JAYVEE IS PLAYING MORE LIKE KOBE EVERY DAY: IS Gaining Foothold in Yemen.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1209. It’s sad to see so many tax professors defending Koskinen, and telling that the defense they muster is so mealy-mouthed.

HILLARY AND HUMA PORTRAYING THEMSELVES AS BATTLERS FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS? C’MON. Roger Simon: The Huma-Weiner Scandal Is More Than Just Casual ‘Sext.’

WITH HIS MIGHTY PHONE AND PEN: Obama Will Sign Climate Accord Without Congressional Approval.

Father knows best.

BLUE STATE BLUES: Why California Can’t Build More Housing.

The State of California (and the San Francisco Bay Area in particular) has become ground zero for the housing affordability crisis besetting major metropolitan areas across the country, eating up incomes, driving up inequality, and slowing economic growth. Governor Jerry Brown, who seems to recognize the threat that a dwindling housing stock poses to his state’s ongoing vitality, proposed a bold piece of legislation that would streamline the development process and sidestep onerous local stumbling blocks to new construction and in the process slow the meteoric rise in rents.

But now Brown’s bill seems to be dead in the water, due in large part to resistance from an unlikely interest group. . . .

This episode is a tragically characteristic of the blue model’s tendency toward self-contradiction—in this case, pitting unions against the poor and middle-class. The most sustainable way to make housing affordable to low and modest-income people is to relax rent-seeking regulations that block new construction for the sake of protecting the real estate values of property owners. But labor unions—which ostensibly stand for working class interests—will not stand for new construction unless it is accompanied by carve-outs and cronyist regulations that artificially boost their compensation.

So despite the best of intentions, the California blue coalition has proven once again unable to deliver smart, broadly appealing, pro-middle class policy, forced instead of concede to one of the many powerful special interests that makes up its vast and increasingly incoherent political base.

I’m not sure the intentions are all that great.

WELL, GOOD: Egypt Cracks Down On Female Genital Mutilation.

Awful as Egypt’s military junta can be, it’s still a huge step up from the Muslim Brotherhood, which offered to mutilate girls for a “nominal fee as part of their community services.”