WELL, GOOD: Pentagon is worrying about ‘Terminator’ coming true.

“We have to be very careful that we don’t design [autonomous] systems in a way that we can create a situation where those systems actually absolve humans of the decision” about whether or not to use force, General Selva said. “We could get dangerously close to that line, and we owe it to ourselves and to the people we serve to keep that a very bright line.”

At the same time, “The notion of a completely robotic system that can make a decision about whether or not to inflict harm on an adversary is here,” he added in remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Monday. “It’s not terribly refined, not terribly good. But it’s here.”

This leaves top Pentagon officials to confront what they call the “Terminator conundrum,” and how to handle it.

Soon we’ll have robots building robots for destroying robots.

COUGH, COUGH: Ethics wall between State, Clinton Foundation didn’t extend to staff.

While Clinton had signed an ethics agreement to largely remove herself from issues involving her family’s foundation after she became the nation’s top diplomat in 2009, the document did not apply to her aides at the State Department.

“I’m . . . scratching my head about why people inside the State Department didn’t think it was a good idea to insulate senior officials and their staff from any Clinton Foundation activities,” said Scott Amey, general counsel for the Project on Government Oversight. “Restrictions applied to Hillary, but those restrictions should have applied to other officials too.”

That’s a real head-scratcher, all right.

ANALYSIS: ABSOLUTELY TRUE. In America, You’re Your Own Greatest Oppressor. “There is simply no ‘system’ or ‘structure’ that will oppress most Americans of any race as much as they can oppress themselves. In other words, in most cases your own actions are by far the most important factor in your own success. Yet, at the same time, the rise of American victim culture is obscuring this reality, teaching us to obsess over minor obstacles while we ignore the elephant in the room: our own choices.”

Read the whole thing.

MILLENNIALS ARE TOTALLY MIXED UP ABOUT WHAT THEY BELIEVE IN: “Step forward and stand tall, millennials, your moment has come at last,” Kyle Smith writes at the New York Post. “The baby boomers are starting to retire. Generation X is turning tired and gray. But millennials are now the single largest bloc of citizens and workers, 80 million strong. The keys to the country are in your hands. Please don’t drive it into a ditch.”

Or further into the ditch than it already it is.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Amid Growing Debate About Homework, One School Bans It.

ANNALS OF “SMART DIPLOMACY:” Report: China blames America for Obama embarrassment.

Chinese officials say it’s America’s fault that President Obama had to awkwardly exit Air Force One as he arrived in China for the G20 summit meeting, Reuters reports.

“I think if only the American group had respected the working arrangements first made with China then this wouldn’t have occurred,” China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying reportedly said in Beijing on Monday.

“You saw that all the other country leaders all used the stairs that China provided. So why was it only the United States that didn’t? These were the stairs the United States requested.”

Speculation has been that Chinese officials intentionally embarrassed Obama at the Hangzhou airport on Saturday by failing to give him a proper staircase to disembark his aircraft.

Tensions were exacerbated on the tarmac when a Chinese official was reportedly antagonistic toward National Security Adviser Susan Rice and U.S. officials were scolded for trying to help American journalists get better access to Obama.

Then the Twitter account of the Defense Intelligence Agency caused more friction with a tweet.

“Classy as always China,” the tweet read, linking to a New York Times article about the confrontation on the tarmac.

The DIA, a spy agency within the Pentagon, deleted the tweet quickly, issuing an apology.

It’s a jayvee administration all the way.

MASSIVE, 50-STATE PRESIDENTIAL POLL OF 74,000 REGISTERED VOTERS: Redrawing the electoral map.

Libertarian candiate Gary Johnson scores unprecedented double digits in 42 states.

NOT WOMEN’S SOCCER! Iowahawk and Greg Gutfeld ‘fret’ over latest National Anthem protest: “as a fan of stadiums, I prefer the wider angle photo,” Gutfield tweets. “That’s Toyota Park, just outside Chicago. It only holds 30,000. Has to be less that 1,000 people there,” Iowahawk adds.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Inside Bill Clinton’s nearly $18 million job as ‘honorary chancellor’ of a for-profit college.

The guest list for a private State Department dinner on higher-education policy was taking shape when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered a suggestion.

In addition to recommending invitations for leaders from a community college and a church-funded institution, Clinton wanted a representative from a for-profit college company called Laureate International Universities, which, she explained in an email to her chief of staff that was released last year, was “the fastest growing college network in the world.”

There was another reason Clinton favored setting a seat aside for Laureate at the August 2009 event: The company was started by a businessman, Doug Becker, “who Bill likes a lot,” the secretary wrote, referring to her husband, the former president.

Nine months later, Laureate signed Bill Clinton to a lucrative deal as a consultant and “honorary chancellor,” paying him $17.6 million over five years until the contract ended in 2015 as Hillary Clinton launched her campaign for president.

Bill looks terrible in that photo. Can someone give him a cheeseburger?

CHINA EMPTIED A CITY OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOR THE G20 SUMMIT.

Removing all – or at least a huge swatch — of the city’s population is sort of the funhouse mirror version of the 1990s sci-fi film Dark City, when only the buildings got tuned at night: “It’s funny how Communism always winds up looking and operating like a dictatorship in practice. Thanks for the reminder, President Xi.”

COUGH, COUGH: Bill Shouldn’t Step Down From Foundation Until After I Win.

The Democratic nominee for president said “I don’t think there are conflicts of interest” with having her spouse, former President Bill Clinton, run a foundation which takes money from wealthy individuals and organizations from around the world even as she runs for the highest office in the land.

“I know that that’s what has been alleged and never proven,” she said. “But nevertheless, I take it seriously.”

What voters may be tiring of most is that whenever Clinton is speaking about anything substantive, she sounds like a defense attorney for the mob.

WILL DEMOCRATS END THEIR FILIBUSTER? Congress returns for brief, election-year session with Zika funding, avoiding shutdown topping its list.

Flashback: The Hill: Senate Democrats block Zika agreement ahead of recess.

Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a deal providing funding for the fight against the Zika virus, virtually guaranteeing that Congress won’t get legislation to President Obama’s desk this month.

In a 52-48 vote, the Senate fell eight votes short of moving past a procedural hurdle against the House-Senate conference report on a military and veterans spending bill, which includes $1.1 billion to fund the Zika virus research.

Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) broke with his party and backed moving forward with the deal. GOP Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) voted against the Zika deal. McConnell’s “no” vote allows him to bring the measure back up for another vote.

The vote leaves the current fight over the Zika virus at a standstill with days left before the July 4th recess.

The Dem line now is that the GOP is holding things up — by not doing what the Dem minority wants. It never goes that way when the parties are reversed. . . .

NEWS YOU CAN USE: These are the signs of an economic collapse.

RIP, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY (1924-2016).

HOW TO MAKE A MOVIE ON YOUR IPHONE.

BLAST FROM THE PAST: MARK FRAUENFELDER loves, loves, loves the FryDaddy Electric Deep Fryer. I remember those things from when I was a kid.

VIDEO: HILLARY HAS AN INCREDIBLY LONG COUGHING FIT. “She tries to turn it into a joke: She’s “allergic” to Trump. But this was painful.”

UPDATE: From the comments:

Do you think we’ll see a repeated loop of HRC sipping water on the Rachel Maddow Show, just like Marco Rubio?

Marco Rubio purchased a boat once. The Clintons collected 250 million since Bill left office. Which one will Rachel Maddow focus on?

No-brainer.

WELL, SHE DIDN’T CONSULT THE VOTERS AHEAD OF TIME, SO THEY’RE LETTING HER KNOW HOW THEY FEEL NOW: Merkel’s refugee policy blamed for loss on her home turf.

NEWS YOU CAN USE, EVERGREEN EDITION: Why we should ignore the political views of entertainment celebrities.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Richard Fernandez: The End of Exceptionalism And The Rise of Exceptional Incompetence. “The question is whether Madison’s defenses failed and the factions are inside the wire. America for a long time beat the odds but recently things have taken a turn for the worse. It is no accident that many of America’s troubles have coincided with the growth of identity politics, special interest groups, foreign lobbying and corruption. If so they have spread their poison and created an American version of the ‘informal networks’ that proved so fatal in other countries, as Madison feared. Moreover, the American factional system operates in the worst possible way. The Clinton Foundation and private email scandal is a portrait of venality without competence. The peculiar characteristics of American factionalism have bred something singular; a phenomenon at once cunning yet stupid, both corrupt and inept.”

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USA TODAY’S EDITORIAL BOARD COMES AROUND TO MY WAY OF THINKING: Old-fashioned paper trails can make digital voting less vulnerable. But I think we should go all the way to paper ballots. Counted by people in a big room where the public can watch.

PUFF DADDY SAYS OBAMA SHORTCHANGED THE BLACK COMMUNITY.

Hey, Barry never promised you that fundamental transformation would be a good thing, did he?

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Being Single Is Hard. “My partnered friends think because they were well put together they attracted a partner, but I think having a partner makes it easier for them to be well put together. Thing is, I remember what most of them were like when they were single, and most of them didn’t handle it well. And, they didn’t come to terms with being single and enter some magical zen state of balance, most of them found someone to date, and then after that they found balance.”

So maybe that’s an argument for not being excessively picky.

YET MOST OF THE REFUGEES THEY’RE BRINGING IN ARE FUNCTIONALLY ILLITERATE: “Between 2016 and 2026, Germany will need 100,000 more engineers in electrotechnology, electronics, and computer technology than will graduate from that nation’s universities and technical colleges.”