CATCH, RELEASE, PRAY: 15 Guantanamo Detainees Sent to UAE in Major Transfer.

The transfer of 12 Yemeni nationals and three Afghans to the UAE comes amid a renewed push to whittle down the number of detainees held at the U.S. prison in Cuba that President Barack Obama aims to close.

The Pentagon says 61 detainees now remain at Guantanamo, which was opened in January 2002 to hold foreign fighters suspected of links to the Taliban or the al-Qaida terrorist organization. During the Bush administration, 532 prisoners were released from Guantanamo, often in large groups to Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.

The latest batch of released prisoners had been held without charge at Guantanamo, some for over 14 years. They were cleared for release by the Periodic Review Board, comprised of representatives from six U.S. government agencies.

Once in the UAE, the terrorists will be “banned from traveling and any meaningful communication.”

IT’S SAD THAT THIS HAS TO BE SAID: Evidence, Not Feelings, Should Be Most Important Thing In Sexual Assault Investigations.

PENNSYLVANIA’S ATTORNEY GENERAL IS CONVICTED ON ALL COUNTS: Give the Gray Lady credit for mentioning Kathleen Kane’s party affiliation right in the lede:

She was a rising Democratic star. She was the first in her party to be elected state attorney general. She was one of the most powerful women in Pennsylvania.

But on Monday night, Kathleen G. Kane, the state’s top prosecutor, became a convicted criminal.

A jury found Ms. Kane, 50, guilty of nine criminal charges, including perjury and criminal conspiracy, convicting her of leaking grand jury information, and then lying about it, in an effort to discredit a political rival.

Why are Democrat-run institutions, you know, like the Democratic Party such cesspits of unethical behavior?

NOT GONNA HAPPEN: Here’s what would have to happen to replace Trump on GOP ticket.

JUSTICE: House Republicans detail perjury allegations against Clinton.

“The four pieces of sworn testimony by Secretary Clinton described herein are incompatible with the FBI’s findings,” House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., wrote to U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips. “We hope this information is helpful to your office’s consideration of our referral.”

The Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs, Peter Kadzik, confirmed in an Aug. 2 letter to both committees they had the perjury investigation request and the department would “take appropriate action as necessary.”

The one-page response offered no timeline nor specific commitment to act on the allegations.

According to the Justice Department website, Kadzik, “led the successful effort to confirm Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates.” Both women were central players handling the Clinton email matter.

It would seem the fix is in yet again.

TOLERANCE: Angry feminist Julie Bindel: All men are rapists and should be shot.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Pennsylvania Dem attorney general found guilty on criminal charges.

Pennsylvania’s Democratic attorney general was found guilty Monday of all nine counts in a perjury and obstruction case.

Kathleen Kane, 50, was found guilty of nine criminal charges, convicting her of leaking a 2009 grand jury probe and then lying about it in an attempt to discredit a rival prosecutor.

The charges included two felony perjury counts and criminal conspiracy and obstruction.

At one point, Kane — the first Democrat to be the state’s attorney general — was considered a rising star among her party. She was elected in 2012.

Other state officials, including two state Supreme Court justices, lost their job in the scandal. Though Kane lost her law license, she has remained on the job as attorney general. She did not seek re-election this year.

“There is to be absolutely no retaliation of any kind against any witness in this case, either by your own devices, from your own mouth or your hand, or directing anybody to do anything,” Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy said in a warning to Kane on Monday, threatening her with immediate incarceration if she failed to follow her directions.

That last is quite extraordinary.

WAS IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY AND IF BILL CLINTON IS A RAPIST, THAT DOESN’T ‘MAKE HIM A BAD FEMINIST,’ Wonkette editor Rebecca Schoenkopf exalts, learning to love both Big Brother – and Big Sister.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: The Slow And Painful Death Of Academic Freedom At Arkansas-Little Rock Law School.

BLUE ON BLUE: Liberals rally to sink Obama trade deal.

Liberals are amping up their opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on and off of Capitol Hill, amid escalating concerns that the package will get an 11th hour vote after the November elections.

Republican leaders in both chambers have said it’s unlikely the mammoth Pacific Rim trade deal will reach the floor this year. But the accord remains a top priority for President Obama in the twilight of his final term, and the critics — leery of pro-TPP members in both parties — aren’t taking anything for granted.

Liberal TPP opponents this month have launched a new wave of petition campaigns and fundraising drives; a free concert series is touring the country through the summer; and lawmakers on Capitol Hill are vowing to do “everything we possibly can,” in the words of Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), to block a vote this year.

“Make no mistake about it, Speaker [Paul] Ryan and the administration are working hand-in-hand to plot a path for the TPP in a lame duck session of Congress,” DeLauro, who’s among the loudest TPP critics, said this week in an email. “They will do everything possible to try to pass the TPP after the election.”

Fueling those concerns, Obama on Friday sent notice to Congress that he intends to deliver TPP implementing legislation to Capitol Hill later in the year — a maneuver dictated by the fast-track trade resolution Congress passed in 2015.

Free trade is good. That doesn’t mean that all trade agreements are good. This one looks to be full of cronyism.

CLINTON NEWS NETWORK: CNN Anchor Cuts Off Jill Stein After She Questions Hillary’s ‘Competency’ For The Presidency.

SCIENCE: Simulated black hole experiment backs Hawking prediction.

Prof Jeff Steinhauer simulated a black hole in a super-cooled state of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate.

In the journal Nature Physics, he describes having observed the equivalent of a phenomenon called Hawking radiation – predicted to be released by black holes.
Prof Hawking first argued for its existence in 1974.

“Classical” physics dictates that the gravity of a black holes is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. So Hawking’s idea relies on quantum mechanics – the realm of physics which takes hold at very small scales.

These quantum effects allow black holes to radiate particles in a process which, over vast stretches of time, would ultimately cause the black hole to evaporate.

But the amount of radiation emitted is small, so the phenomenon has never actually been observed in an astrophysical black hole.

On a long enough timeline, even the survival rate for black holes drops to zero.

JILL STEIN ON THE ATTACK: Green Party candidate slams Clinton on email.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein on Monday ramped up her attacks on Hillary Clinton for using a private email system while serving as the nation’s top diplomat and maintaining a fuzzy boundary between her official and private duties.

In an interview with CNN, Stein appeared to reiterate her call for the Justice Department to prosecute Clinton for mishandling government secrets, and also joined in the attacks on her relationship with the Clinton Foundation.

“I think there should have been a full investigation,” Stein said. “I think the American people are owed an explanation for what happened, and why top secret information was put at risk, why the identity of secret agents were potentially put at risk.”

“There is much more that is coming to public attention about Hillary Clinton’s behavior, including the recent revelations about favors bestowed on the Clinton Foundation’s donors who got special deals, who got state partnerships,” she added, in a reference to recently released emails suggesting blurred lines between Clinton’s position as secretary of State and her vast personal and philanthropic connections.

“If she wasn’t aware that she was violating State Department rules, it raises real issues about her competency.”

Stein has previously criticized the Justice Department’s decision not to indict Clinton or her senior aides for the email set-up, a move that she said gave the Democratic presidential nominee “a pass.”

The explicit reference to her ties to the Clinton Foundation amounts to a doubling-down on the position, and an echo of complaints normally heard from Republicans.

I think she and Gary Johnson should be allowed in the debates, though that’s looking unlikely.

MILWAUKEE COUNTY SHERIFF DAVID CLARKE: Milwaukee riots caused by single moms and ‘questionable lifestyle choices.’

“What causes riots are failed liberal urban policies in these ghettos,” Clarke told Fox Business. “Milwaukee has inescapable poverty. We’re like the sixth poorest city in America. They have failing public schools… You have massive black unemployment… You have dysfunctional families, you have father-absent homes, you have questionable lifestyle choices.”

“Those are the ingredients for for a riot,” he insisted. “And then a police shooting comes along and just acts as an igniter to an already volatile situation.”

Clarke pointed to “tribal behavior” as the cause of chaos in the wake of the officer-involved shooting.

“I feel for these individuals,” he explained. “They might be unemployed but they’re good law-abiding people and they need help. But they’re not getting it from this Democrat [SIC] liberal class of politicians who have reigned over this thing for decades.”

“Like I said, the economic state in Milwaukee today wasn’t like this when I was growing up as a kid here,” the sheriff opined. “This happened over time under their watch, pushing the growth of the welfare state.”

There sure are a lot of racist commenters at The Raw Story. One produced this PhotoShop:

Why are lefty media such cesspits of racism?

Related: Milwaukee Hasn’t Had A Republican Mayor Since 1908.

THAT MEANS IT’S WORKING: Aetna to cut back 70 pct on Obamacare plans in 2017.

“As a strong supporter of public exchanges as a means to meet the needs of the uninsured, we regret having to make this decision,” Marc Bertolini, Aetna chairman and CEO, said in a statement.

The insurance giant says it will offer ACA exchange plans in Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska and Virginia, slashing its Obamacare footprint by 70 percent next year. It will offer ACA plans in just 242 counties, nationally, down from nearly 780 this year.

Aetna’s announcement comes two weeks after the company booked $200 million in ACA-related pre-tax losses in its Q2 earnings report and nearly one month after the Department of Justice’s anti-trust division sued to block the health insurer’s acquisition of rival Humana.

Humana has also announced it will cut back sharply from the exchanges. Their pullback, in the wake of UnitedHealth’s departure from all but a handful of exchanges, means that hundreds of thousands of Obamacare plan members will no longer have access to plans from the nation’s three major insurers in 2017.

Customers “taxed” into buying insurance they can’t afford to use from insurers who can’t afford to sell it is a recipe for government-mandated failure.

Free markets will take the blame.

SHOULDN’T THIS HEADLINE USE THE PLURAL CASE? Obama will leave his successor a ticking time bomb.

Whoever the president is come January, he or she will be dealing with arguably even more fallout than the disastrous Carter administration — perhaps literal fallout as well.

THE HILL: Five Things That Could Still Go Wrong For Hillary Clinton.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Keynesian economics is just the Broken Window Fallacy in a posh accent. – Jeff Gauch

OF COURSE HE DOES: Larry Wiltmore’s Terrible Show Cancelled Due to Reasons of Terribleness; Wiltmore Decries the “Unblackening” of His Time Slot.

HEY, FORD FOUNDATION! Milwaukee is the latest in the Black Lives Matter destructiveness.

QUICK, SOMEONE TELL THEM ABOUT NATIONAL FINANCES THEN MAKE ONE OF THEM PRESIDENT: Toddlers don’t forget a debt, research reveals.

OF COURSE IT WILL: Ford Foundation Will Fund Black Lives Matter Big Time.

AND ALSO OF COURSE: Death by HR: Pink Collar Ghettos Publishing And HR.

AND OF COURSE THEY ARE: ISIS fighters are using ‘Islam for Dummies’ to prepare for jihad.

OF COURSE THEY ARE: Adults are lining up to act like kids again at summer camp.