BREAKING: Agence France Presse: French minister calls all willing citizens to become reservists.

UPDATE: Story here:

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Saturday called on citizens to become reservists and help boost security forces in the wake of the country’s latest terror attack.

France’s “operational reservists” include French citizens with or without military experience as well as former soldiers.

“I want to call on all French patriots who wish to do so, to join this operational reserve,” said Cazeneuve.

His call comes after the government has been criticised for not doing more to stop attacks.

French President Francois Hollande said Friday that reservists would be called upon to boost the ranks of police and gendarmes.

The operational reserve is currently made up of 12,000 volunteers, 9,000 of whom are within the paramilitary police and 3,000 in the regular police force, said Cazeneuve.

Related: “If a well-regulated militia is ‘necessary to the security of a free state,’ then it follows, presumably, that a state lacking such a militia is either insecure or unfree.”

WORKING TITLE: I LIED, I LOVE MONEY! Noted Anti-Capitalist Man of the People Sanders Inks Book Deal.

Get. Out. Of. Here! Next thing you’ll be telling me is that rabid environmentalists live in giant mansions and love jet-setting around the world in private planes!

EARLY BEDTIMES ARE GOOD FOR PARENTS’ SANITY, MARRIAGES TOO: An Early Bedtime for Kids May Fight Weight Gain.

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I WONDER WHERE THIS CAME FROM: U.S. cases of drug-resistant gonorrhea rise fourfold in one year.

UPDATE: Sorry, that link’s not working anymore. Try this one.

THE HUFFINGTON POST: Every Time You Say “All Lives Matter” You Are Being an Accidental Racist.

As opposed to the deliberate racists that the Huffington Post prefers.

EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: Eight years after hope and change, voters are angry, anxious, AP reports.

(Headline via the June 2008 article that AP used to help sell Mr. Hopenchange to the American public.)

THIS IS CRUDE, BUT SOON THEY’LL BE REALISTIC ENOUGH TO FOOL EVEN A FAIRLY CAREFUL OBSERVER: Small Bird-Shaped Drone Crashes In Mogadishu.

IS VA EVEN WORSE THAN WE THINK? Apparently so, at least if a new Government Accounting Office analysis of how often federal agencies incorrectly issue benefit checks is accurate. Two VA benefit programs were wrong more than half the time, GAO reports. The congressional watchdog agency tracks incorrect benefit payments across the federal government.

“Those are by far the highest error rates for any federal program GAO analyzed for its latest annual improper payments report. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program for low-income families had the third-worst improper payment rate, but wasted far more tax dollars — $15.6 billion of $65.6 billion in total payments, or 23.78 percent,” according to Katie Watson of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group.

TURKEY: COUP HAS FAILED, ERDOGAN MORE POWERFUL THAN EVER, PJM’s Michael van der Galien writes from Turkey:

As I wrote on Twitter yesterday, there were three options:

1. The coup was staged by a small group within the military, which would severely limit their ability to strike.
2. The coup was staged by the entire military, which meant Erdogan’s chances of surviving politically were extremely small.
3. The coup was a set-up. Think the Reichstag fire.

Read the whole thing.

REDS EXPLOITING BLACKS: Progressive/Socialist/Communist Links To The BLM Movement.

Earlier: A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition not letting Ferguson crisis, Hispanic outrage over Trump go to waste.

“THE NICE TERRORISTS YELLED SOMETHING. YOU’LL NEVER GUESS WHAT IT WAS,” Ben Shapiro tweets. “(HINT: you’ll guess EXACTLY what it was.)”

Related: ISIS says its ‘soldier’ behind Nice truck attack.

ANDERSON COOPER HARDEST HIT. WaPo: FBI finds no evidence Orlando terror attack motivated by homophobia.

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NUMBERS DON’T LIE – THOUSANDS OF MARYLANDERS ARE RIPPING OFF D.C. SCHOOLS: Liars can use numbers, to be sure, but Luke Rosiak and Katie Watson of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group simply quote official data and draw the obvious conclusion.

“District of Columbia public and charter elementary schools have more students attending classes than the federal city’s entire population of such school-aged kids, indicating a fraud rate of at least 11 percent,” according to Rosiak and Watson. They previously documented in a  six-part series linked on their story posted today that the fraudsters are mainly from Maryland.

“The District of Columbia’s seemingly flippant attitude toward stopping Maryland parents from illegally enrolling students in D.C. public and charter schools not only robs thousands of children on waiting lists of the education they paid for, but it also cheats D.C. taxpayers out of benefits intended for local residents,” Tom Schatz, a Capitol Hill resident who leads the nonprofit activist group Citizens Against Government Waste, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Federal taxpayers have a huge stake in this problem, too, because Uncle Sam spends hundreds of millions of dollars on D.C. every year, much of it aiding the local public schools. “Annual per capita spending on D.C. is more than $16,000, compared to Alaska, which receives the second-highest amount of nearly $5,000, according to the Census Bureau,” Rosiak and Watson report.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1164.

DISPATCHES FROM THE LATEST RECOVERY SUMMER. Fortune: The Death of the Middle Class Is Worse Than You Think. “From Brexit to Donald Trump, if there’s anything that current events tell us, it’s that the man on the street is angry and wants change.”

In November of 2008, Fortune’s sister publication Time magazine predicted that Obama would be the next FDR. Apparently, the publication’s editors thought it was a compliment – instead of a grave warning of what was to come.

First Nice, Then Turkey, The onslaught begins, Richard Fernandez writes at the Belmont Club:

The New York Times reported that readers were becoming depressed by the recent spate of violent news headlines. They had expected Hope and Change, the Arab Spring, the Reset and a World without Nuclear Weapons would bring great things. They laughed at every warning to their perfect world. Who’s laughing now?

Not many, but I know someone who probably won’t let this crisis go to waste, to coin a phrase.

THE FAILURE OF THE COUP IN TURKEY, and especially Erdogan’s use of social media to counter it, fits well with the analysis in my paper on coups in America.

BLUE MODEL BLUES: Puerto Rico Crisis: Coming Soon to the Mainland.

The problems that forced Puerto Rico belly-up—first and foremost, a bloated public sector and untenable pension obligations—are not confined to Puerto Rico, the island’s governor reminded U.S. policy wonks in a speech last week. Alejandro Padilla’s government may be the largest to go bankrupt so far, but that dubious distinction may be tested in the near future. . . .

Padilla is entirely right. At over three trillion dollars, according to some estimates, America’s state and local pension crisis is much worse than most policymakers understand. Cities like Stockton and Detroit have already filed for Chapter Nine, and there are murmurs that Chicago might do the same if it experiences another blow to its fiscal health. In fact, it seems downright likely that the next recession will bring a wave of Puerto Rico-style municipal bankruptcies.

The collapse of recklessly-managed state and local finances on the mainland will create a political crisis of far greater proportions than Puerto Rico’s struggles. Congress should heed Padilla’s advice and start pressuring states and localities to get back on track. It should also develop a framework for managing these meltdowns if and when they do occur (Will assistance be available? On what terms?) as they do occur, so as to avoid extended squabbling and gridlock when the rubber meets the road.

They should do this. But when do they ever do this?

TROLL LEVEL: GRANDMASTER: One weird trick to frustrate the hell out of a Marxist bro — the best time I pretended I hadn’t heard of Slavoj Žižek.

WHEN YOU STRIKE AT A KING… Turkey Coup Supporters Arrested in Greece After Landing in Helicopter.

The helicopter landed after sending a distress signal. All eight people were arrested by Greek police as soon as it touched down on charges of illegal entry into the country and transferred to the local police station, according to local officials.

The eight coup supporters have all requested political asylum in Greece and these requests are being processed, although Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has asked Greece to extradite those on the helicopter seeking asylum.

Olga Gerovasili, a spokeswoman for the Greek government, told state TV that international law procedures are going to be followed.

“It will be taken into consideration that in their country they are accused of attempting to overturn the constitutional democracy and violate legality,” Mrs. Gerovasili said.

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