CHANGE: When smuggling Colo. pot, not even the sky’s the limit.

With margins of as much as 300%, smugglers are willing to take big risks.

“What we’re hearing from out of state is that that best dope around is Colorado dope,” says Tom Gorman, director of the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area task force, which operates in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. “It’s high quality, and then you have the edibles and the hash oil.”

No offense to my friends in Oregon, but I remember when Colorado was known for brewing the best beer.

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR THE AIR FORCE THUNDERBIRDS?

Bill Whittle hosts today’s Right Angle for BWDC.

MESH NETWORK: Toyota Land Cruisers provide emergency signal in Outback. “Companies are using balloons, planes and other high-tech apparatuses to provide WiFi in underserved areas. In the Australian outback, Saatchi teamed up with Flinders University to find a way to turn the massive fleet of Toyota LandCruisers into mobile communication hotspots using Wi-Fi, UHF and Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN). The solution is a small capsule-like device that attaches to the vehicle’s window with suction cups, providing a signal range of up to 25 km (15.5 miles). The moving network allows folks to make emergency calls or send geo-tagged messages that are passed from vehicle to vehicle. When one of the LandCruisers is in range of a base station, the data is then sent to first responders and the rest of the world. The LandCruiser network could also be useful during disasters like fires, handling communication between crews on the ground attending to the situation at hand.”

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Primitive quantum computers are already outperforming current machines.

AT AMAZON, give the gift of Prime.

Plus: New Arrivals in Home & Garden.

“THE ONLY TIME YOU LEFTISTS CARE ABOUT THE RULE OF LAW IS TO RAP KNUCKLES WITH IT:” ‘Abject parody’! Obama superfans at Vox get the vapors worrying about Trump trashing ‘rule of law.’

Because they’re all about honesty, ethics and transparency over at Vox.

IF YOU’RE SERIOUS ABOUT “CLIMATE CHANGE” YOU SHOULD BE CHEERING THIS: Small, Modular Nuclear Plants Get Their First Chance in the U.S.

A PREVIEW AND A WARNING. Video: Dinesh D’Souza Releases Hillary’s America Trailer. Plus Bill Whittle’s video interview with D’Souza.

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF SEXUAL PREDATION? Underage sex scandal at Oakland Police Department as several officers are accused of sex with the same teenage girl.

SMALL SHIPS, BIG MISSILES: The Navy’s Smallest Ship Is Getting New Missiles.

Related: Is it time for a big fleet of small ships?

WEAPONS DON’T HAVE TO BE MODERN TO BE EFFECTIVE: Watch A Spear-Chucking Foot Soldier Take Out A Drone Mid-Flight. “Way back in the olden days, when unicorns roamed the Earth and dragons ruled the skies, before gunpowder and reflective belts and buffalo chicken MREs, your average foot soldier could throw a spear through a man’s eyeball from many, many meters away. Apparently, such a soldier still exists. And he was recently spotted at a Renaissance festival in central Russia, where he used his awesome and extremely antiquated spear-throwing skills to slay a flying drone, which is like a dragon, but smaller and nerdier.”

IF BY CULT, YOU MEAN “BUNCH OF ORWELLIAN APPARATCHIKS,” THEN YES: The Office of Inclusive Excellence Sounds Like a Cult: Milo Yiannopoulos elicits predictable condemnation from the University of California-Irvine.

Cost of attending UC Irvine: $33,240.27 in-state; $59,922.27 out-of-state.

DISPATCHES FROM THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH: Chicago Students Now Required To Adopt Transgender Newspeak.

Your kids will be made to care.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: U.S. establishes Libyan outposts with eye toward offensive against Islamic State. Remember, ISIS is in Libya because of Obama’s Iraq withdrawal, followed by his Syrian failure, and his unapproved war-of-choice in removing Khaddafy in Libya.

It’s a chain of blunders that have cost billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives while destabilizing Europe and the entire Middle East/North Africa region, but the American press seems surprisingly uninterested in talking about that.

And by “surprisingly,” I mean “predictably.”

JACK DUNPHY: The Ferguson Effect Strikes the Chicago PD:

No, the cops aren’t afraid of getting shot or stabbed or otherwise injured in an altercation, they’re afraid of becoming the next YouTube sensation when an arrest goes wrong and fails to unfold in a manner approved by cowardly department brass, unprincipled politicians, and ignorant “community leaders,” all of whom exhort the cops to go out in the streets and stop the madness, but to do so without hurting anyone.

Well, it’s not like the Chicago PD has to do much crime fighting, so it’s probably nothing.

GOOD: Donald Trump on His Tax Rate: ‘It’s None of Your Business’

Now let’s simplify the tax code so that everybody pays the same rate, and that there’s no “scandal” in keeping your private matters private.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Friday the 13th: Where does it come from and why are we still so superstitious about the ‘unluckiest’ day?

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FORCES TRANSGENDER BATHROOM RULES ON EVERY SCHOOL IN AMERICA: “If anyone wondered what President Obama meant when he promised to ‘fundamentally transform the United States of America,’ now they know.”

Related: An Insta-follower on Twitter asks, “What’s [Hillary] have to say about this? Press has asked her, right? Right?”

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1100.

CHOOSE THE FORM OF YOUR DESTRUCTOR: How Trump Defeated the GOP Establishment.

MEMOIR OF A DEFEATED POLITICIAN: Former Ralph Nader ally and Air America (remember them?) president Mark Green was a perennial gadfly in New York politics and a frequent guest on the cable/PBS talk show circuit in the 1980s, but narrowly failed in his bid to succeed Rudy Giuliani as mayor in 2001.  Reading Carla Main’s review of his memoirs in City Journal, it seems safe to conclude that the ongoing de Blasio debacle would have arrived in New York much sooner had Green won.

UNDER SOCIALISM, BUYING EVEN ONE ROLL IS A PRIVILEGE: The Privilege of Buying 36 Rolls of Toilet Paper at Once.

“One of the great ironies in modern America,” writes Mehrsa Baradaran in her 2015 book How the Other Half Banks, “is that the less money you have, the more you pay to use it.” Baradaran, an associate professor at the University of Georgia’s law school, was referring to the outrageously high fees that low-income workers must pay to “fringe” banks just to access and manage the money they’ve earned.

Her point—that when people don’t have much, a single dollar in some ways doesn’t go as far as it otherwise would—extends to several other parts of Americans’ financial lives, including how they shop.

In a recent working paper, the University of Michigan’s A. Yesim Orhun and Mike Palazzolo, point to how two of American shoppers’ (and marketers’) favorite money-saving strategies, the limited-time offer and buying in bulk, come with savings that are more accessible to some consumers than others. Choosing to buy things when they’re on sale or packaged in huge quantities is something lots of shoppers may take for granted as a matter of preference, but for many, these purchases—and the savings that come with them—are out of reach. . . .

These differences produce a striking pattern: Orhun and Palazzolo calculate that because low-income shoppers don’t take full advantage of sales and buying in bulk, they end up paying about 6 percent more per sheet of toilet paper than high-income households. At the same time, lower-income households seem to be compensating for this premium by buying cheaper brands—a trend working in the other direction, saving them about 9 percent per sheet, compared to high-income households. “Therefore,” Orhun and Palazzolo write, “about two-thirds of the savings low income households accrue through brand choice is forfeited by their relative inability to utilize intertemporal money-saving strategies.” (Whether products with fancier brand names are truly better, and whether it’s a loss to miss out on them, is another matter.) . . .

On top of that, Orhun and Palazzolo’s data suggests that poorer and richer consumers aren’t just buying products in different quantities—they’re sometimes doing so at different stores entirely. At corner stores, the price per sheet of toilet paper (or paper towel, or tissue, and so on) is much higher than at warehouse stores such as Costco and Sam’s Club—stores where the average customer tends to be somewhat well-off.

You can offset a lot of this via Dave Ramsey style money management, better meal planning, and strategic shopping. If you’re too poor for those, your poverty probably stems from deeper problems like drugs or mental illness. And, of course, one reason people are poor is that they have trouble making and sticking to plans.

SUCCESS (AND DECORUM) JUST RUNS IN THE FAMILY: No apology, no rebate! Chelsea Clinton’s husband Marc Mezvinsky has ‘nothing to say’ to his investors (some Hillary contributors) despite losing 90% of their millions:

Mezvinsky and his partners had written to clients in 2014 to declare confidence in their ‘Hellenic Opportunity’ fund, predicting that Greece was on the path to a ‘sustainable recovery’.

They had collected $25 million by then but stopped taking money by the end of that year when it became clear the country’s economy would collapse without a massive Eurozone bailout.

The fund had reportedly lost about 40 percent of its value by early 2015 and yet was not closed down until last month, according to The New York Times, which cited two anonymous investors.

The failure is a huge personal blow to Mezvinsky, who is also the son of political figures, albeit less well known that his wife’s famed parents.

His father, Edward Mezvinsky, represented Iowa’s 1st congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives for two terms in the 1970s and his mother, Marjorie Margolies, represented Pennsylvania from 1993 to 1995. [Both Dems, of course — Ed]

Ed Mezvinsky pleaded guilty to 31 charges of felony fraud in 2001 and spent five years in federal prison after he admitted scamming his friends and family out of $10 million in a Ponzi scheme.

His son met Chelsea Clinton at a political retreat when the pair were children and they became lifelong friends. They became romantically involved after her 2005 split from ex-boyfriend Ian Klaus, when Mezvinsky became ‘a shoulder to lean on’, according to Chelsea’s chief of staff, Bari Lurie.

The pair married in July 2010 and two years later Chelsea revealed their desire to start a family, with Mezvinsky telling Vogue his wife was ‘the yin to my yang’.

They welcomed their first child, Charlotte, in 2014, and announced last December that Chelsea was pregnant again with their second. Chelsea, meanwhile, has stayed busy this past year campaigning for her mother while also working for the Clinton Foundation.

AKA, the Clinton family’s personal slush fund.

RELAX, WE’RE ABOUT TO START ANOTHER “RECOVERY SUMMER,” YOU GUYS. Unemployment is down. Gas prices are low. Why isn’t America shopping?