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MARK RIPPETOE ON “WORK SMART:” Stress Builds Character.

DOES THIS REALLY GENERATE REPEAT BUSINESS? At Some Restaurants in China, a Shortcut to Addictive Food: Poppies.

PAJAMA BOY LIVES! This guy fits right in at Hillary Clinton rally.

HEH: Retreating Clinton Campaign Torches Iowa Town To Slow Advance Of Sanders Volunteers.

WOULD DONALD TRUMP CHOOSE MIKE HUCKABEE AS HIS VEEP? “It’s not as crazy as it sounds.”

I’M SURPRISED THIS TOOK SO LONG: Bosch Haptic Pedal Can Save You 7 Percent on Gas. I mean, the Nissan eco-pedal goes back to 2008.

NIKON AWARDS PRIZE TO BADLY ‘SHOPPED PHOTO, HILARITY ENSUES: “If you look closer, it’s actually an aeroplane from Minecraft”

AT BREITBART LONDON, Live Wire coverage of the European Migrant Crisis.

SCIENCE: A massive genetic study has sketched out a molecular link between schizophrenia and how the brain is shaped in adolescence.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Why Hillary’s Emailgate Matters.

Just what a sinkhole of secrets the Secretary of State’s office was during President Obama’s first term, when Ms. Clinton occupied that chair, is frighteningly apparent. Allegations are swirling that her staff systematically copied Top Secret Codeword information off separate, just-for-intelligence computer systems and cut-and-pasted it into “unclassified” emails. This, if true, is an unambiguous felony. There is reason to be cautious about this claim, which is unsubstantiated so far, and would indicate a complex degree of intent: moving Top Secret Codeword information into unclassified emails is not simple, rather a multi-step process, and would leave an audit trail.

Nevertheless, the casual approach of Ms. Clinton and her staff to classified information is already abundantly clear. Cheryl Mills, her chief of staff at Foggy Bottom, was using her personal Blackberry for work, including the transmission of classified email. That alone is a crime. Then, in a move worthy of a dark comedy, Ms. Mills proceeded to lose that Blackberry. This would be a career-ender, at best, for any normal U.S. Government employee. Ms. Mills, a longtime Clinton insider, naturally suffered no penalties of any kind for this astonishing security lapse. . . .

To take just the Russians: their plus-sized embassy in Washington, D.C. is conveniently located on a hill overlooking the city, with an impressive antenna field on its roof aimed downtown. That is where Ms. Clinton’s “unclassified” emails went. The Russians care so much about State Department information they’ve been caught planting bugs inside a conference room just down the hall from the Secretary of State’s office. “Of course the SVR got it all,” explained a high-ranking former KGB officer to me about EmailGate (the SVR is the post-Soviet successor to the KGB’s foreign intelligence arm). “I don’t know if we’re as good as we were in my time,” he added, “but even half-drunk the SVR could get those emails, they probably couldn’t believe how easy Hillary made it for them.”

Any foreign intelligence service reading Ms. Clinton’s emails would know a great deal they’re not supposed to about American diplomacy, including classified information: readouts from sensitive meetings, secret U.S. positions on high-stakes negotiations, details of interaction between the State Department and other U.S. agencies including the White House. This would be a veritable intelligence goldmine to our enemies. Worse, access to Ms. Clinton’s personal email likely gave foreign spy agencies hints on how to crack into more sensitive information systems. Not to mention that if Clinton Inc. was engaged in any sort of illegal pay-for-play schemes, our adversaries know all about that, as well as anything else shady that Ms. Clinton and her staff were putting in those unencrypted emails.

Blackmail fodder galore.

THX-1138, CALL YOUR OFFICE: SCIENCE!!! “Personality is a capitalist construct:”

Perkins published his findings last November in a book called The Welfare Trait (Palgrave Macmillan, £19.99), but you won’t have heard about it or seen it reviewed in any UK newspaper anywhere because his research has been judged to be off limits by the self-appointed guardians of the academic establishment and their outriders in the media. A senior editor of Nature, one of the leading academic journals, refused to consider it for review because she regards scientific research into the personalities of the long-term unemployed as ‘unethical’*, and a sociology professor whom the publishers had asked to peer-review the book refused to do so on the grounds that any book linking benefit dependency to personality must be nonsense because personality is a ‘capitalist construct’.

* Thus leaving Theodore Dalrymple with the British monopoly on the topic.

MORE EVIDENCE FOR A WELL-ESTABLISHED HYPOTHESIS: Antidepressants can raise the risk of suicide, biggest ever review finds.

NATAN SHARANSKY CONFRONTED BY SCREAMING CAMPUS GARBAGE BABIES AT BROWN:

Anyone who doubts the gravity of the threat to Israel and Jewish students on American college campuses could have stopped by the Brown University campus here on Thursday night.

Students and community members attempting to listen to a conversation about Jewish identity between actor Michael Douglas and Soviet dissident turned Israeli political figure Natan Sharansky had their event intruded on by loud chants of “free, free, Palestine” from protesters outside.

Palestine might be independent someday, but it is very unlikely to be free. Plus:

The protesters failed to stop Mr. Sharansky from delivering his message, though the noise they generated outside could be heard inside the lecture hall for what seemed like a long while.

But it’s nonetheless a sad moment for American higher education, for Israel, and for world Jewry when a campus conversation between an American actor with a Jewish identity and a human rights hero known for surviving nine years in the Soviet gulag is greeted — before it even happens — by an op-ed in the student newspaper summoning a rally “to speak out against this justification of Israeli crimes.” It’s a measure of the movement’s virulence that it targeted not an appearance by an Israeli general or a foreign policy talk but rather a discussion about Jewish identity.

Well, all this talk about “Palestine” is really just a cover for anti-semitism. And a pretty thin one at that.

Credit for “Screaming Campus Garbage Babies:” IowaHawk, of course.

WHO ISN’T? Fox News: Contacts in the FBI and DOJ are ‘Super Pissed Off’ at the White House.

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: Masked marchers beat immigrants in Stockholm. “A gang of up to a hundred black-clad masked men marched in central Stockholm on Friday evening, singling out and beating up immigrants, and handing out leaflets threatening further violent attacks against unaccompanied refugee youth. The march, the most extreme reaction seen so far to the murder on Monday of social worker Alexandra Mezher worker by a Somali refugee, has been linked to football gangs and far-right groups. It was followed on Saturday morning by a demonstration at the nearby Norrmalms Torg organised by the anti-immigration Sweden Democrat party, which called for the government to resign over its handling of the refugee crisis.”

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 996.

THE CLINTON DENIAL MACHINE IS NOW FULLY OPERATIONAL.

FEDS HAND OUT BILLIONS FOR RESEARCH THAT MAY BE BASED ON PLAGIARISM, FAKE DATA: Now, isn’t that reassuring! Allison Lerner is the inspector general at the National Science Foundation. She and her small team of investigators and auditors have been warning for a long time that hundreds of funding proposals submitted to NSF contain plagiarized passages and/or made-up data. The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group’s Ethan Barton was told by a senior NSF official that it’s impossible to know if grant recipients actually spend the funds as promised. Maybe it’s time somebody in Congress or at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue listened to Lerner?

KEVIN WILLIAMSON ON OSCARS AND AFRICAN AMERICANS:

There is a certain irony to our historical moment: At the very moment when a black American family has reached the apex of American social life — the presidency, and a cute movie about their first date! — African Americans are as a group experiencing a stressful disorientation: The racial dynamic in the United States was, for many years, effectively binary. Not any more. In an increasingly multiracial society whose most prestigious institutions are truly global, African Americans are no longer the moral yardstick by which the American commitment to our liberal founding ideals is measured. In 30 years, it very well may be the case that African Americans are no more of a significant interest group than Vietnamese Americans or Norwegian Americans, and the social and economic success of Nigerian American immigrant families, among others, complicates the meaning of “African American” as a concept, in that these communities are likely to maintain a certain distinctiveness that renders “black” devoid of clear meaning.

That is a big, attractive lever for the Al Sharptons of the world to let go of, which is why we’ll see more #BlackLivesMatter and #OscarsSoWhite rather than less, even as the question becomes less significant nationally.

Read the whole thing.

LITERALLY:

● Martin O’Malley: Clinton’s climate plan ‘would literally burn up’ the Earth.

● Amanda Marcotte: “Sorry, Rand Paul, but your support for forcible childbirth is literally treating women like farm animals.”

● The DNC: “Even as his state literally sinks, Rubio won’t acknowledge that climate change is real.”

What hath Joe Biden — and in the case of the last item, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Guam) wrought?

Exit question: Have we literally broken the English language?

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THERE IS ACTUALLY A FEDERAL AGENCY THAT IS WORSE THAN THE VA: The Department of Veterans Affairs is a bureaucratic nightmare, to be sure, but the evidence is steadily mounting that the Department of Housing and Urban Development is much, much worse. But the funny thing is, overseeing a federal department whose financial books often make no sense doesn’t seem to hurt the politicos who become HUD Secretary. Julian Castro, the current incumbent, for example, could be America’s next vice-president.

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