DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: What’s next for the college snowflakes?

Well, jobs for one thing, which for some will be quite a wakeup call.

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Obama Justice Department, MSM Laughed Off Armed New Black Panther Threat.

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IT’S DEJA LBJ ALL OVER AGAIN: Oops, We Started a Race War!

Related: Why Isn’t The Media Condemning All the People Supporting the Dallas Shooter?

To ask the question is to begin to answer it.

JONAH GOLDBERG ON THE ADVENTURES OF SUPER HILLARY!

“There has never been any man or woman more qualified for this office than Hillary Clinton,” President Obama declared this week. Take that Jefferson! Sit your mansplaining ass down, Ike! Hillary’s here.

There’s a reason she wears those smocks that make her look like the United Federation of Planets’ ambassador to Rigel 7: She’s just light years ahead of the rest of us.

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Again, she can do it all . . . except for one thing. She can’t handle the Internet. It’s her kryptonite. She’s helpless against its foreign ways.

All you have to do is say “e-mail” and she sheds IQ points faster than a Mr. Potato Head loses his facial features when thrown into an industrial blender. Giving her a computer is as pointless as giving an abacus to a basset hound. When asked if she wiped her server, she responded, “You mean like with a cloth?” In her initial statement about her server set up, she reassured the American people that the server was secure because “it was on property guarded by the Secret Service and there were no security breaches.”

If your knowledge of how this new-fangled Internet contraption device works is more sophisticated than Hillary’s, click the above hyperlink to be transported — as if by some alien form of magick — to another Website that allows you to read the entirety of the virtual page on the World Wide Web.

(Between Hillary and Al “I took the initiative in creating the Internet” Gore, what is it about the Web that drives Bill’s sidekicks so crazy, anyhow?)

RICOCHET INTERVIEWS HEATHER MACDONALD ON THE WAR ON COPS:

We’re in the midst of the greatest delegitimation of law enforcement in recent memory. Certainly the Obama Administration has been the most anti-law enforcement administration in recorded history.

And the effects of this [that] we see promulgated by the #BlackLivesMatter movement and its media enablers is that officers are backing off of proactive policing. And as a result, crime in big cities, above all cities with large Black populations is going up at a very alarming rate.

Fundamentally transformed. And note that in order to appease the #BlackLivesMatter crowd, Hillary is perfectly fine rolling back the policing reforms signed into law by her husband two decades ago.

Related: Mac Donald talks the War on Cops with Rush Limbaugh.

TIM SCOTT’S HOMILY: Last night Glenn linked to Senator Scott’s statement about the Dallas horror. I think it deserves another post. Senator Scott is a leader who speaks with the gentle power of thoughtful compassion.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: So Why Aren’t People Buying Electric Cars?

When Obama tried to promote the Chevy Volt as a new-fangled sort of “People’s Car” ready for the Brave New American Environmental Gleischaltung, I tried to do my part in 2010 to help their advertising campaign!

BETTER CALL SAUL! GOP Lawmaker Pushes Bill BANNING EPA Officials From Airline Travel:

The amendment is likely an effort to get EPA officials to practice what they preach. Republicans have criticized top EPA officials for logging thousands of air travel miles while issuing regulations on how much carbon dioxide can be emitted by power plants, cars and other sources.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and the head of EPA’s clean air office Janet McCabe both said they travel home from Washington, D.C. on weekends to visit their families. McCarthy regularly goes to Boston, Massachusetts, and McCabe heads out to Indianapolis, Indiana on weekends.

McCabe has also spent a lot of time travelling around the country promoting the agency’s so-called Clean Power Plan — a set of rules aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith has sent two letters to EPA in the last few months, asking about McCabe’s travel.

“In light of President Obama’s 2015 Executive Order, as well as McCabe’s role as the EPA’s chief proponent of the Clean Power Plan, McCabe’s routine travel raises significant questions as to her commitment toward furthering the reduction of carbon emissions that she promotes in her official capacity on the taxpayer’s dime,” Smith wrote.

In 2014, the EPA released a photo album titled “A Day In The Life of the EPA Administrator” that shows what McCarthy does on a typical day, including the fact that she flies home nearly every weekend to spend time with her family.

As Obama and Hillary’s mentor would say, “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules…You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.”

(Found via Kate at Small Dead Animals, who likes to say “Not Showing Up To Riot Is A Failed Conservative Policy.”)

AUTHOR OF BEN HUR SAVES WASHINGTON: The Battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1864. Union Major-General Lew Wallace and an ad hoc force delay Confederate Lieutenant-General Jubal Early’s army at the Monocacy River (near Frederick, Maryland). The multi-talented Wallace led a fascinating life.

YES: Obama again blames the guns, not the shooters or their hatreds.

Just as he did after the Orlando shooting, the president of the United States spent more time blaming guns for the mass shooting against law enforcement Thursday night than the people who pulled the triggers or the hatred that motivated them.

Speaking from Poland, where he’s attending the NATO summit, Obama used the shooting death of five law enforcement officers and the injury of six more as a pretext for another call for more gun control.

“When people are armed with powerful weapons, unfortunately it makes attacks like these more deadly and tragic,” Obama said. “In the days ahead we’re going to have to consider those realities.”

The police shootings came during a demonstration in Dallas, Texas following the police shooting deaths of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota earlier this week.

After the police killings, he said the reaction in Dallas was “symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities” in the U.S. We know from statistics that more black men were killed by cops in 2015 than cops were killed for felonious reasons in the same year. More whites are killed by cops than blacks, but as a percentage, blacks are more likely to be killed by police.

But the real issue here is that no innocent person should be gunned down, whether they are a black man or a police officer. And to shoot at law enforcement simply in order to intimidate cops is to attack the law itself.

Well, Obama’s just following the template helpfully illustrated by Jon Gabriel:

CRAZY CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR – “She’s a walking parody of an unhinged leftist ‘reporter,’” Andrew Badinelli writes at NRO:

I would cast my presidential election vote based on a “Which Candidate Are You?” BuzzFeed quiz, ask for Trump’s recommendation on skin-care products, and call Hillary Clinton for tech support before I would rely on Amanpour for an objective view of the world. For years, the mainstream media have reassured viewers of reporters’ objectivity. Lefties everywhere deny the existence of liberal media bias while swiping away Salon push notifications on their iPhones. But at least talking heads such as Chris Matthews — who has made no pretense about what sends a thrill up his leg — are more open about the leftward slant of their opinions. Amanpour — who has made the laughable claim to CBS’s Lesley Stahl that “no one knows” her biases — pretends to channel the spirit of Woodward and Bernstein. In fact, she is merely spreading propaganda as quickly as she can read a teleprompter (or fumble through notes).

I always have to laugh at the Democrat activists with bylines who still use the “no one knows my biases” excuse — not only does no one believe it anymore (if they ever did), but it’s a vestigial holdover from the earliest days of the industry, when there were only three national networks, which had to at least pose as being neutral to serve a large and diverse nation. Today’s narrowcasted world of media allows consumers to pick and chose the journalists who (more or less) best match up with their own.

It’s even more fun when journalists play the “I have no idea what the biases of my colleagues are” game. Really? You’ve been covering politics since days of Gerald Ford and you still can’t deduce the biases of the people you work with every day? How do you tie your shoelaces Ralph Wiggum, let alone report on Capitol Hill? On very rare occasions, journalists get called on this sort of tack – including the aforementioned Lesley Stahl, whom when being interviewed on Fox in 2003 by Cal Thomas claimed, “Today you have broadcast journalists who are avowedly conservative…. The voices that are being heard in broadcast media today, are far more likely to be on the right and avowedly so, and therefore, more — almost stridently so, than what you’re talking about,” to which Cal responded, “Can you name a conservative journalist at CBS News?” Two guesses as to her answer.

THE DEATH CULT OF ENVIRONMENTALISM.

Curiously, that seems to be a leitmotif for much of the far left’s ideology.

ROBERT MCMANUS: No Equivalence: The premeditated murder of five Dallas cops was unjustifiable, under any circumstances.

To the untrained eye, the attack appears to have been well-planned and carried out with precision. In this respect, it was fundamentally different than the events that brought hundreds of demonstrators to downtown Dallas Thursday—the police-custody deaths of black men in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and St. Paul, Minnesota, in a welter of chaos, confusion, and conflicting claims of guilt, innocence, and intent.

Baton Rouge and St. Paul, like so many of the similarly tragic police-custody deaths that preceded them, may have been the product of circumstance, or of incompetence, or maybe they were even crimes. Each must be examined in context and judged accordingly. But Dallas was cold-blooded murder—nothing more, nothing less. Attempts to assign equivalence to the horror of it—to suggest, as some are already doing, that Dallas is somehow just deserts for Baton Rouge or St. Paul or Baltimore or Ferguson, or even for Eric Garner’s death on Staten Island two long years ago—is morally repugnant.

Moreover, the claim on many lips that “guns” are the issue is correct only in the most abstract sense. To blame inanimate objects for Dallas, Orlando, or San Bernardino, is to deprive both the victims and their executioners of their fundamental humanity. The Dallas gunmen may be evil beyond comprehension, but it is their actions, not their weapons, that must be of principal concern to decent people. The killers, and not just the killing, must be condemned without equivocation. Far too few people are willing to do this. So, guns are an easy out.

Well, it’s the only way Dem politicans can avoid the contradiction of being anti-police but wanting urban centers to prosper. But as Richard Fernandez notes, the contradictions are coming home to roost.

SENATE DEMOCRATS CRAP ALL OVER KATE’S LAW.

Their decision could come back to haunt them in November.

SKYNET SMILES: The killer robot used by Dallas police appears to be a first.

But it certainly won’t be the last. Though note the euphemism escalation — I don’t think a radio-controlled device counts as a robot, no matter how scary it is.

POWERFUL OLD WHITE LADY PROTECTED BY ARMED LAW ENFORCEMENT 24/7 SAYS LESSER WHITE PEOPLE ARE THE PROBLEM WITH ARMED LAW ENFORCEMENT: Hillary Clinton: White people need to walk in the shoes of African-Americans.

RADLEY BALKO: What the Dallas PD Does Right, and Why Doing Those Things Could Now Be More Difficult.

As I pointed out in today’s morning links, one particularly unfortunate aspect of the murder of five Dallas police officers Thursday night is that the city’s police department is a national model for community policing. Chief David Brown, who took office in 2010, has implemented a host of policies to improve the department’s relationship with the people it serves, often sticking out his own neck and reputation in the process. At risk of stating the obvious, no sane person would argue that these murders would have been okay if they had occurred in a city with a less community-oriented police department. Nor am I suggesting that the killer or killers represent any legitimate faction of the police reform or racial justice movements. But because Dallas is grieving right now, and the rest of us with it, it’s worth pointing out that in its police department, the city has much for which to be proud.

Note this in particular:

Since the Ferguson protests in 2014, there has been a lot of reporting about the devastating effects on the poor that come from the aggressive enforcement of traffic infractions and other petty crimes. Brown was ahead of the curve here, too. Between fiscal 2007 and fiscal 2013, the number of traffic tickets issued in Dallas dropped from 495,000 to under 212,000. That’s a massive cut. Brown reassigned traffic patrols to beats he felt were more conducive to public safety. In the past few years, we’ve seen appalling examples of cities stepping up enforcement of petty laws — often at the expense of policing for violent and property crimes — to help make up for budget shortfalls. Brown rejected that approach. “The purpose of traffic enforcement is to improve traffic safety, not to raise revenue,” Brown told the Morning News. “We don’t believe the citizens of Dallas want its police department writing citations to raise revenues.” The drop in citations did not cause a noticeable change in accidents or roadway fatalities.

Well, that’s because traffic tickets are mostly about revenue, not safety. I’ve been quite impressed with what I’ve seen of Chief Brown.

I note, though, that the evidence that copycats are now ambushing cops will make interactions between police and citizens even more fraught, increasing the danger of incidents. Which, if you tended toward paranoia, could almost be the plan.

YEP: James Comey gave GOP plenty of material against Clinton, now they need to use it properly.

Hillary Clinton might not be indicted for her mishandling of classified information using her private email server, but FBI Director James Comey has certainly given the GOP enough material to use against her in the general election.

That is, if they use it properly.

Comey handed the Republican Party multiple TV ads between his statement Tuesday and his congressional testimony on Thursday. All the GOP needs to do is make a short ad with all the various ways Comey called Clinton incompetent.

“Extremely careless.”

“Real sloppiness.”

“Not sophisticated.”

Comey all but said Clinton was so incompetent — even after decades in public life — that she put state secrets at risk. It’s an easy ad to make.

So where is it?

IS IT TOO LATE TO NOMINATE HIM? OR MAKE HIM VEEP? Sen. Tim Scott releases video statement about Dallas tragedy. Video and transcript at the link.

SO IS HILLARY SAYING THAT JAMES COMEY LIED? Clinton rebuts FBI charge of recklessness.

Hillary Clinton on Friday strongly disputed the FBI’s finding that she and her aides were “extremely careless” in their handling of classified information.

Clinton, giving her first public interviews since the Justice Department’s decision not to press charges against her, said she thought FBI Director James Comey had “clarified that comment, to some extent, pointing out that some of what was thought to be classified apparently was not.”

“I think the professionals with whom I communicated were very careful about how they handled classified material — as I was over the course of those four years,” the former secretary of State said on CNN’s “The Lead.”

“I do not believe that all of the professionals that I dealt with in the State Department were careless in handling classified material,” she added moments later, in a separate interview with Lester Holt on MSNBC.

The position is a striking rebuttal of Comey’s statements. He twice this week called her behavior “extremely careless,” even while asserting it did not violate the law.

“Certainly, she should have known not to send classified information,” Comey testified before the House Oversight Committee on Thursday.

“I think she was extremely careless. I think she was negligent. That, I could establish,” he added. “What we can’t establish is that she acted with the necessary criminal intent.”

She’s really doubling down here. And why not? The fix is in.

But I have to say, Trump needs to get that clip, and that voice, in front of all the voters nonstop between now and November.

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A HATE CRIME IN BRISTOL, TENNESSEE?

The suspect in a fatal Bristol shooting may have been motivated by recent police shootings, investigators revealed on Friday. But, authorities said the work to investigate remains active and ongoing. . . .

Officials said the suspect, Lakeem Keon Scott, had at least two weapons and a large amount of ammunition with him when he fired shots around 2:20 a.m. Thursday through the window of the Days Inn on Volunteer Parkway.

Investigators determined Scott shot the clerk, then indiscriminately began shooting at several vehicles driving by on the highway.

When police arrived on scene, he shot at three officers. They returned fire and shot him, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Scott was taken to the hospital where, as of Friday afternoon, he is in serious but stable condition.

Investigators said preliminary info revealed Scott may have targeted officers and individuals because he was troubled by recent incidents involving police and African-Americans.

If you have a carry permit but don’t carry regularly, it might be a good time to start.

AS I KEEP SAYING, I DON’T THINK YOU CAN REALLY TRUST TOR: Researchers Discover Tor Nodes Designed to Spy on Hidden Services. “No one knows who is running the spying nodes: they could be run by criminals, governments, private suppliers of ‘infowar’ weapons to governments, independent researchers, or other scholars (though scholarly research would not normally include attempts to hack the servers once they were discovered).”