AVOID MOSQUITOES: Summer Travel and the Zika Virus. “Health officials have warned pregnant women to avoid travel to the more than 45 countries and territories in which the Zika virus is circulating. Infection during pregnancy can lead to birth defects in infants, particularly brain damage and abnormally small heads, called microcephaly. . . . The travel situation will become more complicated if locally transmitted cases are discovered in the continental United States. As of Friday afternoon, two possible cases are under investigation in Florida.”
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July 24, 2016
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BUT IT’S SO PROFITABLE FOR SO MANY, AND SO EXCITING FOR SO MANY OTHERS: The Feminist War On College Men Must End.
THE POLITICS OF STAR TREK: Star Trek Is Far From Libertarian.
IN THE MAIL: From Eric Flint & Ryk E. Spoor, Castaway Odyssey.
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IT CERTAINLY SEEMS TO BE AT BEEB:
Shot: Is full-time work bad for our brains?
—The BBC, July 18th.
Chaser: BBC Scrubs ‘Ali’ From Munich Killer’s Name On TV, In Articles, AND On Social Media.
—Breitbart London, yesterday.
TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1172.
MORE BAD NEWS FROM THE SOUTH CHINA SEA. Cambodia does China’s diplomatic dirty work.
HILLARY’S CAMPAIGN MANAGER CLAIMS RUSSIANS HACKED DNC COMPUTERS TO HELP TRUMP: Note Robby Mook neglects to name the “some experts” who tell him helping Trump was what motivated Russian hackers. He does yoke Trump to Vladimir Putin. But Hillary’s the one who re-set relations, didn’t she, Robby? Seems Robby Mook has determined Russian motives but for Jim Comey and the FBI Hillary’s motives remained opaque. Poor security may have permitted the DNC hack, Robby — like, gross negligence. Will you overlook your staff’s gross communication security negligence as blithely as Jim Comey ignored Hillary’s criminal negligence? Think about it. Mook’s smear of Trump all but admits motivated American enemies hacked Hillary’s server and obtained classified information.
RUN BERNIE, RUN! Green Party candidate Jill Stein once again welcomed Bernie Sanders into her party, suggesting in a series of tweets that he could leave the Democratic Party that “betrayed” him.
Earlier: Outcry from Sanders supporters after leaked DNC ‘atheism’ emails.
MR. OBAMA IS VOTING FOR TRUMP! President Obama’s Kenyan half-brother [Malik Obama] wants to make America great again — so he’s voting for Donald Trump.
BUT IS SHE LIKABLE ENOUGH? President Obama on Hillary Clinton: “There are better speech-makers.”
JOHN SCHINDLER: Lack of Faith in Merkel Spreads With Bavaria’s Bloody Week of Mayhem.
Read the whole thing.
ARE THERE ANY GREEN PROJECTS THAT AREN’T JUST MONEY-SIPHONS FOR CONNECTED CRONIES? America’s Biofuel Boondoggle Rife with Fraud.
To try and artificially grow a domestic biofuels industry, the United States installed the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in 2007, relying on a system of annually increasing mandates for the quantities of biofuels refiners blend into gasoline. The scheme was created under the Bush administration and dutifully expanded by the Obama administration—and it’s been an unmitigated policy disaster. The RFS has created an arena ripe for hucksters to fraudulently make millions of dollars, and Bloomberg has a long report on some of the most galling examples of these system-cheaters. . . .
It’s worth your time this weekend to go ahead and read the whole thing. It’s a quick overview of what the RFS actually is and how it’s been taken advantage of.
Fraud isn’t the only issue with America’s biofuels problem. The quota system has raised global food prices, starving the world’s poor and potentially inciting riots abroad. It has cost drivers billions of dollars (billions!), and maybe worst of all—it’s actually been bad for the environment.
Our biofuel boondoggle hits one of those rare policy sour spots, making very little sense from every angle and managing to frustrate every relevant stakeholder (excepting the corn industry). If Bloomberg’s story of the brazen fraud this artificial biofuels ecosystem has created makes you angry, well, it should. The sooner we end this farce, the better.
With fracking, we don’t need these scams. In fact, we never actually did.
HE’S PRACTICED AT IT: Ron Fournier: The Art of Deception.
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EMAIL SCANDAL FALLOUT: DNC strips Wasserman Schultz of convention speaking slot.
DEMOCRATS, LOOKING PAST OBAMA, ARE A PARTY WITHOUT A CAUSE, Democrat house organ the New York Times notes. “[W]ithout the unifying presence of Mr. Obama in the White House, or the organizing aim of expanding health care, it is unclear who will hold the party together and what will be the next great project of liberalism.”
Which is code for they’re still debating which American rights they’re planning to take away next — “for the common good,” as Hillary would say.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Draft Dem platform doesn’t even mention nuclear power.
As Glenn has noted on numerous occasions, if you don’t support nuclear power, you don’t care about carbon emissions.
IT’S POTEMKIN PROTESTS ALL THE WAY DOWN: Leaked Emails Show Anti-Trump Protests Were Organized, Planned By DNC Staff.
CBS: WIKILEAKS’ DNC EMAIL LEAK REVEALS OFF THE RECORD MEDIA CORRESPONDENCE.
Of course, CBS’s on the record correspondence with the DNC is nothing to sneeze at either:
- CBS News Political Director John Dickerson and host of Face the Nation: ‘Our Job’ to Steer Away from the Clintons’ Past — “Elections are supposed to be about the future.”
- In 2013, Dickerson advised Obama to ‘Destroy the GOP.’
And it’s worth noting that the president of CBS’s news division is David Rhodes, brother to Ben “Lonesome” Rhodes, the now infamous “Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru.”
The country’s in the very best of hands, as is its media.
REPORT: MH370 was likely a mass murder-suicide by pilot:
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was likely steered into the sea intentionally, by its own captain, in a pre-planned mass murder-suicide, a new report reveals.
In an exclusive story posted online Friday, New York magazine says that the plane’s captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, “conducted a simulated flight deep into the remote southern Indian ocean less than a month before the plane vanished under uncannily similar circumstances.”
Don Lemon could not be reached for comment.