HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY FROM JEFF BEZOS! Social Justice Warrior E-Zine “The Washington Post” Has Buzzfeedy Buzzkill Stories for July 4th.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UC Berkeley Spends $1 Million To Refurbish Chancellor’s Home; Assistant Claims She Was Fired For Refusing To Lie In IRS Reporting About Time Spent Doing Personal Chores.

Over the past three years, UC Berkeley has spent more than $1 million sprucing up the official home of Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, school records show. …

Estimated total cost for the in-home work: $428,000. Campus officials hasten to add that none of it came out of state or tuition funds. Gift funds were used to pay for all the work done ahead of the chancellor’s arrival, while investment income and other revenue sources paid for the rest.

In addition to all this, the university spent close to $700,000 — 2½ times the original budget — to install a security fence after protesters sprayed graffiti on the house. And every year, it provides the chancellor with a $179,000 budget to maintain University House.

News of this spending comes as the university struggles with a $150 million deficit.

If you need to save money, you cut faculty. Not perks for administrators. Everybody knows that.

IT’S A DIRTY JOB, BUT HE DOES IT SO WELL: British MEP Daniel Hannan Spent Nine Minutes Smacking Down CNN Journalist.

POWER AND CONTROL. IT’S ALL POWER AND CONTROL: How U.S. Attorneys General Are Like Chinese Censors.

WE WENT BACK TO THE COLD WAR SO SLOWLY I ALMOST DIDN’T NOTICE: Russian Microaggressions Are a Test.

DUH: Same day registration and other liberal “reforms” have made it easy for ineligible voters to cast ballots in many states.

YEAH, BECAUSE ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO STOP RAPISTS IS SAY PRETTY PLEASE: Someone get this lovely motto engraved on guns, okay, then we’ll talk. Police Launch ‘Don’t Touch Me’ Wristbands to Stop Migrant Sex Attacks in Sweden.

A MILESTONE OF SORTS: Mind you, I still want FLYING cars. First Autonomous Driving Fatality Confirmed: Tesla Crashes Into Semi.

TURNS OUT HIS POSITIONS ARE … NEGOTIABLE: Gingrich flip-flops on free trade.

CRAWLING THROUGH NO-MAN’S-LAND IN THE CULTURE WARS: Grappling with the Donald Trump Phenomenon: A Conversation.

‘BOUT TIME: 107 Nobel laureates sign letter blasting Greenpeace over GMOs.

THE DREAMERS RIDE AGAINST THE MEN OF ACTION: Or in this case, the people against the politicians.  And city hall falls back.White Settlement council turns tail, lets Browser the library cat stay after backlash.  I thought it was a known fact, never get in a social media war when cats are on the line?

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS ON RUSH LIMBAUGH: ‘Loretta Lynch ‘Recusing’ Herself Benefits Hillary!’

(Bumped.)

IT’S GPA AND LSAT, AND BASICALLY NOTHING ELSE MATTERS VERY MUCH: Getting Into A Top Law School: What Really Matters.

A NEW TV AD FROM LIBERTARIAN CANDIDATES Gary Johnson & Bill Weld. Poll suggest that they’re taking more support from Hillary than from Trump, which pretty much ensures they won’t get a lot of media traction despite polling surprisingly well for a third party.

A LIST OF new firearms laws that take effect today.

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SMOD 2016 UPDATE: Poll: 13 Percent Pick Giant Meteor Strike Over Trump or Clinton.

MEANWHILE, HOW MANY FATALITIES IN NON-SELF-DRIVING CARS SINCE YESTERDAY: BMW Announces Self-Driving Car, Day After Tesla Fatality Is Confirmed.

SUNSCREEN, BUG REPELLENT, and kids. You don’t want ’em to burn, but my guess is that most kids don’t get enough sun. And in the old days, we sprayed the bugs, not our kids.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: “The United States has inadvertently killed between 64 and 116 noncombatant civilians in drone and other lethal attacks against terrorism suspects in places not considered active war zones, the Obama administration said Friday.”

THEY WOULD HAVE BENT OVER BACKWARDS TO ACCREDIT AN ISLAMIC LAW SCHOOL: Ontario appeal court upholds decision not to accredit evangelical law school.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Following Colorado, Oklahoma and Utah may lift ban on full-strength beer sold in grocery stores.

ASSIMILATION: Shocking Polls Show What U.S. Muslims Think of U.S. Laws.

VIDEO: THIS [OMITTED] WOMAN THREATENED TO BOMB HER FLIGHT ON CAMERA.