BEYOND THE FRINGE:

Shot: Six Chilling Facts About the Alt-Right.

—Walter Hudson, PJ Media, yesterday.

Chaser: What About the Alt-Left?

—The New York Sun, yesterday.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Berkeley Suspends Its ‘Global Campus’ Because of Budget Deficit.

All is proceeding as I have foretold.

DAN MARKEL UPDATE: Police Video Released Of Wendi Adelson Being Told Of Dan Markel’s Murder, Says Her Brother Joked About Hiring A Hit Man. Hmm.

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LUDDISM = DEATH: The Unintended Consequence of Congress’s Ban on Designer Babies: The testing of new therapies to prevent a debilitating mitochondrial genetic disease in babies has hit a dead end.

ACTUALLY, IF PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT ARE SMART THEY’LL ENCOURAGE THIS: Graduate Students Can Unionize at Private Colleges, U.S. Labor Panel Rules.

THE INTERNET — IS THAT THING STILL AROUND? 25 years on, here are the worst ever predictions about the Internet.

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COLIN KAEPERNICK EXPLAINS WHY HE SAT DURING NATIONAL ANTHEM:

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has willingly immersed himself into controversy by refusing to stand for the playing of the national anthem in protest of what he deems are wrongdoings against African Americans and minorities in the United States.

His latest refusal to stand for the anthem — he has done this in at least one other preseason game — came before the 49ers’ preseason loss to Green Bay at Levi’s Stadium on Friday night.

“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL Media in an exclusive interview after the game. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”

Speaking of getting away with murder, Kaepernick’s salary last year was nearly 20 million dollars, when the 49ers went 5-11.

I really miss the days when football served as an escape from politics instead of just another front line for the reactionary left.

SCIENCE CONFIRMS: MILLENNIAL MEN HAVE PANSY HANDSHAKES. Gosh, that bit of news has arrived so “unexpectedly.”

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TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1206.

IS TED CRUZ FINISHED? New poll shows him losing Senate seat to Rick Perry in ’18.

MERKEL’S DEBACLE: Orban Doubles Down on Migrant Hard Line.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban is doubling down on his preferred solution to dealing with the floods of human misery that could easily once again overwhelm the Balkan corridor should the migrant deal with Turkey fall apart. His solution? To build a second fence along Hungary’s border with Serbia. . . .

The remarks came ahead of a meeting between Angela Merkel and the heads of the Visegrad countries—Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland—where, notably, both Orban and the Czech Republic’s Bohuslav Sobotka pressed the German Chancellor on the creation of a European army to help maintain border security for the continent.
Hungary is due to hold a referendum on EU migrant policy on October 2. The question—”Do you want the European Union to be able to mandate the obligatory resettlement of non-Hungarian citizens into Hungary even without the approval of the National Assembly?”—is giving many in Brussels the vapors. The referendum itself is not legally binding, but a strong popular rejection of any Europe-wide relocation scheme will be hard to ignore, especially since similar such sentiments appear to be widespread across eastern Europe.

In response, voices in Brussels are threatening to deprive the stubborn Eastern Europeans of funding if they refuse the migrant quota diktat, even as Merkel continues to plead for calm—”I think we will continue to discuss this issue,” she said at today’s meeting. No one in the east is yet seriously mulling some kind of Brexit option, but they certainly are watching carefully how the UK fares as it distances itself from Brussels.

As is often the case in the EU, a slow-motion tragedy is well under way. Unlike other tragedies, which involve complicated and difficult technical questions stemming from economic integration, the sticking point here is more one of ideology: commitment to a pure kind of universal liberalism on the side of Brussels and Germany, and a growing skepticism among the continent’s peripheral countries.

To us, it seems obvious which side ought to yield for the greater good. As Adam Garfinkle argued in his incredibly prescient piece from September of last year, sticking to the universal principles on the question of immigration is a suicidal gambit, and playing holier-than-thou with dissenters will only deepen divisions on the continent.

Holier-than-thou seems to be the default mode for our Western ruling class.

DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER LAUGHTER? What would Richard Pryor make of today’s left and how they kill comedy with their obsessions over “trigger warnings,” “microagressions” and “safe spaces?” Roger Simon, who wrote the screenplay to Pryor’s Bustin’ Loose reviews Can We Take a Joke?, whose executive producer is Greg Lukianoff, fellow Insta-contributor, and president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE):

Richard Pryor, genius though he was, would not be able to function. (He had a hard enough time functioning when he did, alas.)

I thought of that last night while viewing the riveting new documentary Can We Take a Joke? directed by Ted Balaker and featuring such comics as Penn Jillette, Adam Carolla and Gilbert Gottfried, not to mention vintage footage of the great Lenny Bruce. The film is about the wave of censorship of edgy comics sweeping our society in the name of “sensitivity.” In other words, as mentioned above, shut up.

More than anywhere else this affects our campuses, which have been turned into “safe spaces” for the so-called “snowflakes.” No Richard Pryors or Lenny Bruces for these sensitive souls, heaven forfend.  No jokes are allowed by these “social justice warriors” or whatever they choose to call themselves, at least not jokes they have not previously vetted.

Read the whole thing.

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MY LATEST NY OBSERVER ESSAY: The Clinton State-Foundation’s Global Bribery and Crony Access Scam. No wonder she started calling Trump a racist. Hillary had to get the media to change the subject. (Bumped from yesterday).

HILLARY’S HEALTH: EMAILS SHOW CLINTON OBSESSED WITH SLEEP, “EXOTIC DRUGS.”

Flashback: Nets Skeptical of McCain Health in 2008, Worried About Mental Fitness.

GREAT MOMENTS IN POLITICAL AMNESIA: “Trump’s greatest and most pernicious offense against democracy, hands down, has been his suggestion that if he loses the general election, it would mean that the political system is ‘rigged.’”

Control-F “Diebold” brings back zero results, oddly enough.