DENNIS PRAGER: Socialism Makes People Selfish, the newest video from Prager University:

WASTING AWAY AGAIN IN AN OBAMAVILLE: Hundreds Of Men Sleeping On Streets Of Queens For Shot At Plumbers Union Apprenticeship Program.

No one should be surprised by a headline such as that, after Time magazine promised in November of 2008 that Obama would be the next FDR.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Seven Tips to Stay Safe at the RNC in Cleveland.

TOMORROW’S CIVILIZATIONAL CRINGE TODAY:

Shot: “British Muslims Fear Repercussions Over Tomorrow’s Train Bombing.”

—Mark Steyn in 2006 quoting one of Tim Blair’s blog commenters, as quoted in a post at Steyn Online.com headlined, “Tomorrow’s Civilizational Cringe Today.”

Chaser: “Muslims Were The Real Victims Of The Nice Terror Attack, The BBC Explains.”

—James Delingpole, Breitbart London, today.

Earlier: Tim Blair: Stop Pointing the Finger at Victims Of Terror.

VEHICLES: Tesla Again Spurns Lidar, Betting Instead On Radar.

GOSH, IT’S ALL HAPPENING SO UNEXPECTEDLY: “A document obtained by The Associated Press shows that key restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program will ease in slightly more than a decade, halving the time Tehran would need to build a bomb.”

END OF AN ERA? Murdochs Reportedly Want Roger Ailes Out at Fox News.

Related: Roger Ailes vs. the Liberal Sharks — But Which One Could Be Deadly?

HMM: Trump gains on Clinton in Monmouth poll.

THE LAW IS AN ASS (CONT’D): Does Snapchat’s Lenses feature violate Illinois’ biometrics law?

REPORT: PAUL RYAN INTERFERING WITH RNC GRASSROOTS VOTE THAT COULD LIMIT HIS POWER: “This is exactly the kind of heavy handed anti-grassroots behavior that fueled the rebellion that nominated Donald Trump …these Rules changes — if implemented — show that the need for a rebellion against the corruption at the Republican National Committee is still needed.”

CLAUDIA ROSETT: Bono and Love in a Time of Terror.

Read the whole thing, which is also a look into the mental straitjacket of modern pop culture.

HEH: DC Restaurant Turns Rapidly Rising Speed Camera Tickets Into Free Meals.

THE LAW IS AN ASS: Could Donald Trump Block Hillary Clinton’s Campaign From Visiting His Website Via The CFAA?

NEWS YOUR DM CAN USE: So, Your RPG Campaign World is Having a War?

THIS IS A COMMON STORY, I IMAGINE: I Crashed My New Harley the Day I Rolled it Off the Lot.

VIDEO: Bill Kristol and Jonah Goldberg on Donald Trump’s Candidacy, Liberalism, and Conservatism.

“LAW AND ORDER” OR “THE RULE OF LAW?” DO HILLARY OR THE DONALD KNOW? That’s the question posed today by The Daily Gouge in assessing the reactions of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to the ambush assassination of three Baton Rouge police officers Saturday.

“No, Hillary, the only people turning their backs on anything are you and your former boss; and it’s the rule of law in America, both through your words and actions.  And THAT, Donald, is what we need, not law and order.  Rule by an impartial application of the law and order will naturally follow as surely as night does day; whether in the realm of violent crime, immigration or government email security.”

Much more well worth perusing here.

FBI WILL GIVE THE STATE DEPT RECOVERED HILLARY EMAILS: It ain’t over. These were “deleted” emails. Congressional investigators will demand State provide them with copies. For good reason– loose lips do sink ships.

OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT, WHY THE REBOOT WAS DOOMED TO FAIL: Ghostbusters was first and foremost a Reagan-era comedy.

ANOTHER ACQUITTAL IN BALTIMORE’S FREDDIE GRAY CASE: From the Washington Examiner’s summary:

“Baltimore Police Lt. Brian Rice was acquitted of all his charges stemming from the April 2015 arrest and death of Freddie Gray. On Monday, Circuit Judge Barry Williams acquitted Rice of all three charges he faced: involuntary manslaughter, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment.”

Here’s the Baltimore Sun’s in-depth report.

Four trials, one hung jury, three acquittals. Why were felony charges levied against the police? I think when violence erupted after Gray’s arrest and death, leaders in “…Baltimore were confused, lacked decisiveness and feared their own people. They also feared the accusation of racism and fascism from radical activists.”

MILO SAVAGES LADY GHOSTBUSTERS, dubs it “Teenage Boys With Tits: Here’s My Problem With Ghostbusters.” Actually, he spots lots of problems with it, after taking one for the team and suffering through the movie to write his review:

I’ll skip over the vacuous and incoherent plot. You won’t understand it watching the movie and you won’t understand it reading my summary so who cares. This, unlike any movie I’ve ever seen before, seems to have been conceived entirely out of spite, with the result that its plot is largely irrelevant.

Let’s focus on how this movie will be interrogated by audiences: its style and politics. The weak, Twitter-style feminist quips come off as lame, unfunny, and resentful. This is especially puzzling in light of the women in the original movies, who captured the range of tough broads one finds in New York City.

Janine even acted as a Ghostbuster in the cartoon series, without it being hailed as a revolutionary act of feminist girl power. What we are left with is a movie to help lonely middle-aged women feel better about themselves after being left on the shelf. It’s an overpriced self-esteem device for women betrayed by the lies of third-wave feminism.

Read the whole thing.

Related: “Ghostbusters Busted! The all-female reboot debuts in No 2 at the weekend box office spot with $46m in ticket sales: Although it’s the best debut for a live action comedy in over a year, it’s a disappointing result for the blockbuster that cost Sony $144 million to make and millions more to market, according to Variety.”

21ST CENTURY PARENTING: With kids away at camp, parents revel in drug-fueled sex parties.

The 1970s called and they’d like their key parties back.

HOW’S THAT LIBERTARIAN MOMENT WORKING OUT FOR YOU?, asks Kevin D. Williamson:

In the event, the two presidential candidates Americans got most excited about were Donald Trump, a nationalist, and Bernie Sanders, a socialist. Between the two of them, they make a pretty good national socialist. Trump won his party’s nomination and Sanders ceded his to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is (arguably) a little bit more of a nationalist and (arguably) a little bit less of a socialist but in many ways a much better distillation of the partnership between big government and big business that characterizes our current political moment.How’s that libertarian moment working out for you?

I am writing from FreedomFest, the annual Las Vegas gathering of libertarians ranging from those we’d recognize as ordinary conservatives to the Libertarian-party types, goldbugs, marijuana obsessives, and the rest of the merry liberty-movement pranksters. The discussions have ranged from libertarianism in the Islamic world to Black Lives Matters to New Hampshire secession, a subject that may be of some interest to my fellow Texans.

The conversations here are familiar: The proponents of free people and free markets have a “branding problem,” and, if we could only figure out the right words to say in the right order, then people would flock to our banner. At the Planet Hollywood hotel and casino, a famous libertarian activist sweeps his hand over the adult video games, the burlesque dancers at the Heart Bar, the people wandering around with foot-high daiquiri glasses and says: “Hopefully, the whole world will soon look like this.”

And we libertarians wonder why we’re losing.

Read the whole thing.

ROGER SIMON ON THE CRAZILY MISPLACED WAR ON COPS:

Even as a sixties Vietnam War demonstrator, it struck me that the enmity against police was weirdly misplaced.  When I heard the cries off “Off the pigs!” I felt more than mildly uncomfortable.

After all, weren’t the police mere factotums?  They had no power at all over the real policies under protest.  More than that, they were genuine working people, members of the vaunted working class.  What did they do?

Now, “politically mature,” as they say, I feel that even more.  The focus on police as the problem is just crazy.  Of course, there are bad cops – just as there are bad everything else, as there always will be until we are replaced by robots, when there will be other problems – but the cops are not the issue of what is wrong in American society, not remotely. Whatever their failings – and they should be dealt with – they are miles away from the heart of the problem.

As the late Andrew Breitbart would say, politics is downstream from culture, which is true for police policies as well. Read the whole thing.