DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Yale Cafeteria Worker Resigns After Breaking “Racist,” One-of-a-Kind Stained Glass:

A Yale cafeteria worker has resigned after smashing a historic stained glass window in Yale’s notorious Calhoun College residence hall, which is named after the 19th century white supremacist John C. Calhoun. The stained glass depicted two slaves picking cotton.

The worker, Corey Menafee, is black. He told the New Haven Independent that the dining hall window was “racist” and “very degrading” and that last month, while working an event for the college, he decided to use a broomstick to smash the window.

“I took a broomstick, and it was kind of high, and I climbed up and reached up and broke it,” he told the Independent. “It’s 2016, I shouldn’t have to come to work and see things like that.

“I just said, ‘That thing’s coming down today. I’m tired of it,’” he added. “I put myself in a position to do it, and did it.”

City police arrested Menafee, who now faces a felony charge.

As Iowahawk tweets in response, Welcome to “Yale University, where cafeteria workers ‘resign.’” Given that “he is renowned for his iconoclastic defenestration,” “He will be forwarding his Curriculum Vitae to the Harvard cafeteria department forthwith.”

Heh.

KABUKI UPDATE: Watch as Bernie Sanders officially endorses Hillary Clinton.

IT SHOULD BE THE FIRST THING PRESIDENT TRUMP READS AFTER THE ELECTION: From the Hoover Institute, Blueprint For America.

WAR ON HONESTY 6: No decent person ever said black lives don’t matter. “In the wake of the Dallas slaughter, community and civic leaders, especially the exceptional Dallas Chief of Police David Brown, provided first decisive then reassuring and unifying leadership…Leaders in Ferguson and Baltimore were confused, lacked decisiveness and feared their own people. They also feared the accusation of racism and fascism from radical activists.”

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1160.

REMEMBER WHEN COMCAST-NBC SPOKESMAN AL SHARPTON SAID TO KILL POLICE OFFICERS?

I HAVE HERE A LIST OF NAMES: Dems Assigned Conservative Groups to Attack on Senate Floor: List of ‘web of denial’ targets circulated ahead of climate resolution.

The GOP should respond by demanding a vote on my proposals.

Related: Barbara Boxer and the Democratic Party Hold Two-Day Festival Against Free Speech.

JONATHAN HAIDT: When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism.

Globalization and authoritarianism are both essential parts of the story, but in this essay I will put them together in a new way. I’ll tell a story with four chapters that begins by endorsing the distinction made by the intellectual historian Michael Lind, and other commentators, between globalists and nationalists—these are good descriptions of the two teams of combatants emerging in so many Western nations. Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French National Front, pointed to the same dividing line last December when she portrayed the battle in France as one between “globalists” and “patriots.”

But rather than focusing on the nationalists as the people who need to be explained by experts, I’ll begin the story with the globalists. I’ll show how globalization and rising prosperity have changed the values and behavior of the urban elite, leading them to talk and act in ways that unwittingly activate authoritarian tendencies in a subset of the nationalists. I’ll show why immigration has been so central in nearly all right-wing populist movements. It’s not just the spark, it’s the explosive material, and those who dismiss anti-immigrant sentiment as mere racism have missed several important aspects of moral psychology related to the general human need to live in a stable and coherent moral order. Once moral psychology is brought into the story and added on to the economic and authoritarianism explanations, it becomes possible to offer some advice for reducing the intensity of the recent wave of conflicts.

The big thing about immigration is voters feeling that politicians want to replace them with a more tractable electorate. Then, too, the increasingly visible corruption and ineptitude of globalists and global institutions makes a lot of people feel that things would be better-run closer to home.

JACK DUNPHY: Meet the the Moral Equivalence on ‘Meet the Press’ After Dallas Attack on Police, as DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson lumps together the “events” in Dallas, Baton Rouge and Minnesota.

HMM: NBC Poll: Hillary Clinton’s Lead Over Trump Shrinks After Controversial Week.

I WAS HOPING FOR MOON BASES: The Tragedy of Pokémon Go.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Ban A/C for DC! If our rulers think global warming is a crisis, let them be a good example for the rest of us.

IT DOESN’T REQUIRE MUCH COURAGE TO TAKE A BOLD STANCE FOR LEFTISM: The Law Professor Who Answered Back.

THE CURIOUS CASE OF MAUREEN DOWD:

Shot:

FBI Director James Comey stood before the nation and issued a list of Hillary Clinton’s astounding wrongdoings Tuesday as regards America’s national security — and then said he was not recommending prosecution because, in essence, what Mrs. Clinton did was “extremely careless” but not criminal.

As he spoke, I recalled F. Scott Fitzgerald’s peerless description in “The Great Gatsby” of a feckless wealthy couple: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into . . . their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

Fitzgerald’s Tom and Daisy are pikers compared to Bill and Hillary. If one wishes to accept Comey’s contention that Mrs. Clinton is a careless but not criminal person, and one then considers her carelessness as a continuum with her husband’s careless conduct during his time in the Oval Office, then the Clintons have earned the dubious distinction of being the most outrageously careless couple this nation has ever known.

—John Podhoretz, “FBI just told us we’d be in bad hands with Hillary,” the New York Post, July 5th.

Chaser:

WASHINGTON — IT says a lot about our relationship with Hillary Clinton that she seems well on her way to becoming Madam President because she’s not getting indicted.

If she were still at the State Department, she could be getting fired for being, as the F.B.I. director told Congress, “extremely careless” with top-secret information. Instead, she’s on a glide path to a big promotion.

And that’s the corkscrew way things go with the Clintons, who are staying true to their reputation as the Tom and Daisy Buchanan of American politics. Their vast carelessness drags down everyone around them, but they persevere, and even thrive.

—Maureen Dowd, “The Clinton Contamination,” the New York Times, July 9th.

Back in 2009, Time magazine asked “Is Maureen Dowd Guilty of Plagiarism?”

In her weekend column, Dowd sought to highlight the irony of the Republicans’ holding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s feet to the fire for not opposing Republican policies on torture aggressively enough. Interesting as this line of thinking might have been, it subsequently drowned in the backwash of controversy over her almost verbatim use of a 43-word paragraph that had already appeared in a column written by Josh Marshall on the political website Talking Points Memo.

The similarity was first noticed by TPM on Sunday, and by the evening a mortified Dowd had apologized, saying she had not read Marshall’s column but that evidently someone she knew had.

This time around, it’s repeat of a concept, not a direct lift. But in that same column, Dowd committed a crime far worse in the eyes of many leftist true believers than (likely unintentionally) stealing a metaphor for Hillary.

“You know what’s racist? The NYT’s Maureen Dowd just found out the hard way,” the Liberty Unyielding blog notes. Dowd’s crime?

I hope you’re sitting down while you’re reading this.

Later in the same column linked to above, she dared called Obama “Barry.” As in:

The president and his aides attempted to keep a rein on Clinton’s State Department — refusing to let her bring in her hit man, Sidney Blumenthal.

But in the end, Hillary’s goo got on Obama anyhow. On Tuesday, after Comey managed to make both Democrats and Republicans angry by indicting Clinton politically but not legally, Barry and Hillary flew to Charlotte, N.C., for their first joint campaign appearance.

The result? After delicate leftists cracked open vials of smelling salts and picked themselves up off their fainting couches, the hashtag “#PresidentObamaNotBarry” trended on Twitter and there were calls for Dowd’s ouster from the Times. Though as one person with a bit more common sense tweeted in respose, “So after Dubya, Slick Willie, Tricky Dick, etc., you’re telling me Barry’s off the table? Go find better outrages.”

Like midwestern pizza parlors, rocket scientists in hipster shirts and airline pilots who compliment their flight crew.

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: The Chart That Barack Obama Does Not Want Young, Black Males To See.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. All The Clintons Are Overpaid Divas.

We all know the story of the rock band that demanded M&Ms candy backstage with all the brown pieces removed. That story was true, and the band was Van Halen.

But musicians aren’t the only ones to make ridiculous demands when they appear for an event. The entire Clinton family has their own lists of demands and special treatment they require in addition to their outsized speaking fees.

Bill Clinton changed the game when it comes to former presidents and their speaking fees. Before him, former commander-in-chiefs would receive about $60,000 for a speech (most of them didn’t need the money anyway). But Bill wanted more, so when he signed on with the Harry Walker Agency after he left the White House, he and his handlers demanded $100,000 per speech.

They got it. The money was for six speeches in 2002 at the Foothill-Deanza Community College District, the University of California-Davis and a for-profit organization. In order to pay for Bill’s high fees, the community college and university sold tickets and cut back spending on other speakers and entertainers.

To be clear, none of these groups regretted paying for Bill to speak, but the process of actually getting him there was frustrating.

For one thing, Bill’s staff required approval for all questions asked of the former president, and even provided suggested questions such as: “Is the world a better place now than when you entered politics, with a view to making a difference?”

Gee, I wonder how he answered. It seems even Bill was unhappy with how boring and generic the questions were during his first speech, and allowed a tougher question during the next one. It was about his pardon of Marc Rich, who had been indicted on tax evasions. While Bill was responding, one of his advisors came up to the moderator “whacked” him on the back of his head, and reportedly said: “Get him off the stage; he is dying out there.”

Bill also charged a $1400 phone bill (created in a single day) and a $700 dinner for two. He demanded a private jet to fly him from San Francisco to UC-Davis, even though it was only 70 miles away.

His speaking agency called these “reasonable expenses.”

I presume if Hillary’s elected, he’ll keep doing this for an even bigger fee, and in front of groups who want a friend in the White House.

GIVING THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT, GOOD AND HARD: Life on the line in Venezuela as economic crisis worsens.

The robbers demanded a cellphone from a 25-year-old in black shorts. Instead of handing it over, Junior Perez took off toward the entrance to the pharmacy. Eight shots rang out, and he fell face down.

The dozens of shoppers in line were unmoved. They held their places as the gunmen went through Perez’s pockets. They watched as thick ribbons of blood ran from the young man’s head into the grooves of the tiled walkway. And when their turns came, each bought the two tubes of rationed toothpaste they were allowed.

“These days, you have to put the line above everything,” said pharmacist Haide Mendoza, who was there that morning. “You make sure you get what you need, and you don’t feel sorry for anyone.”

Socialism is about caring.

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NARCISSISM: THE FINAL FRONTIER. Indicted Florida Dem Corrine Brown: Orlando victims would be alive if agents weren’t investigating me.

And kudos to the Hill for not playing “Name that party.”

BREAKING: DC police arrest 5 people suspected of firing shots at officers.

No injuries reported.

IRS SCANDAL UPDATE: News On The Koskinen Front. “After lying dormant for a while, there’s been some news on the effort by some House Republicans to impeach or censure or strip the salary of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.”

HMM: A lot of holes in GOP presidential ground game in key states.

Some examples of Republican shortfalls: Ohio Republicans thought they were going to see 220 paid staffers by May; in reality there are about 50. Plans for Pennsylvania called for 190 paid staffers; there are about 60. Iowa’s planned ground force of 66 by May actually numbers between 25 and 30. In Colorado, recent staff departures have left about two dozen employees, far short of the 80 that were to have been in place.

AP learned of the specific May staffing aims from Republicans who were briefed earlier this year; the RNC did not dispute them. Current totals came from interviews with local GOP leaders over the past two weeks.

The gulf between what state leaders thought they could count on and what they’ve actually got comes as RNC’s ground game is asked to do more than ever before. Presumptive nominee Donald Trump is relying on the party to do most of the nuts-and-bolts work of finding and persuading voters in the nation’s most competitive battlegrounds.

“This is a race we should win,” Ohio GOP chairman Matt Borges said, citing a voter registration boom. “Now, we have to put the people in the field.”

Clock’s ticking.

YEAH, THIS WILL HELP THE NFL’S INCREASINGLY TARNISHED REPUTATION: NFL Player Posts Instagram Photo Showing Police Officer’s Throat Getting Slit.

MCCHRYSTAL IS OUT: Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal: I would decline ‘any role’ with Donald Trump.