WHY ARE LEFTY INDUSTRIES SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM? “Silicon Valley is hostile to diversity,” says Slack Director of Engineering Leslie Miley.

MINNEAPOLIS POLICE HELD BACK WHILE VIOLENT MOB ASSAULTED TRUMP FUNDRAISER ATTENDEES?  “Henry said the next day he went down to the First Precinct to file a report, and an officer there told him that they had been told to stand down. And the officer allegedly said that the order to not do anything ‘came from the top.’”

Well, that sounds very much like what happened when the San Jose police let the far left protestors at the Trump Rally in June run wild. Read the whole thing.

ALL-TOO-OPEN CARRY: Texas students fight new campus gun law with sex toys.

Let the hand-wringing begin:

To my European-born mind, the idea of putting guns into the hands of the immature, excitable and perhaps alcohol-addled borders on madness.

Imagine a professor who gives a student an F and is confronted by an irate individual who might be packing a pistol.

It seems not everyone in Texas is in favor of the idea.

On Wednesday, some students organized an imaginative protest by asking their fellow students to make love not war.

The campaign name is a touch imaginative: Cocks Not Glocks. As the campaign’s website explains, this is all about “Open (Dildo) Carry.”

The tagline is “Fighting Absurdity With Absurdity.” Might it also be, in quite an artistic thrust, a way of confronting America’s tight embrace of guns and tightly wound skittishness toward sex?

I’d guess the Venn overlap between people who embrace guns and those who are tightly wound about sex is slim indeed.

For what it’s worth, concealed carry has been permitted on all the campuses of all 37 Colorado state schools since 2003, with nary a single incident involving a licensed carrier.

FRENCH BURKINI BAN UPDATE: France’s top administrative court has overturned a lower court ruling that upheld banning burkinis. The report notes that the court decision addresses the ban in the town of Villeneuve-Loubet “but the binding decision is expected to set a legal precedent for all municipalities that have issued similar decrees.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Clinton Is Making Her Trust Problem Worse.

Bloomberg’s left-leaning Al Hunt:

Her inadequate response to the conflicts of interest inherent in the Clinton Foundation,” the influential liberal columnist Jonathan Chait wrote last week in New York magazine, shows she “has not fully grasped the severity of her reputational problem.” He added, “If the Clinton Foundation is not leveraging the Clinton name, it has no purpose.”

At the same time, I spoke with a prominent Clinton insider, a person of integrity and high ethical standards. He said shutting the Clinton Foundation would hurt millions of people around the world and would be giving in to right-wing critics who will find something else to seize on.

I agree that right-wingers like Representative Jason Chaffetz, Senator Tom Cotton or former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani — who seemed to grant himself a medical degree last week when he ludicrously diagnosed Clinton with health problems — will find something. Much of it will be phony.

That is no reason to give them ammunition. Politifact and Jonathan Chait are not part of what Clinton once famously called the “vast right wing conspiracy.”

It’s a safe prediction that Clinton will continue to hand out ammunition.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1205.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Kurt Schlichter: Everything About Hollywood Is Terrible.

As the late Andrew Breitbart once reminded the other media wing of the Democrat party, “it’s not your business model that sucks – it’s you that sucks.”

THE GREAT WHITE HOUSE VACATION HYPOCRISY, as explored by Jonah Goldberg, who notes, “Hurricane Katrina was undoubtedly a huge story, and investigating the federal response to it was squarely in the fourth estate’s wheelhouse. But there’s simply no denying that the news media used that disaster as a partisan cudgel against a Republican president it detested. Worse, the media congratulated themselves endlessly for their Katrina coverage despite the fact that they collectively did a terrible job.”

That depends on how you define their job. Just think of them as Democratic operatives with bylines, and from the MSM’s point of view, their coverage of Katrina was a spectacular success, paying huge dividends in 2006 and 2008, ultimately giving Obama one party control of the House and Senate for his first two years, and allowing him to pass Obamacare. As one of the people who issued the media’s marching orders during that period said shortly before Obama took office, “You never want a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”

WELL, YES: Health Care Is A Business, Not A Right:

“The health of Americans should not be a profit center. Health care is a right. Full stop.”

That comes from the Twitter feed of personal finance writer Helaine Olen. But it could have issued straight from the heart of any progressive in the land. Subjecting health care to the sordid whims of the marketplace strikes many people as simply immoral. Nor is this feeling confined to the left. Conservatives may be less enthusiastic about socialized medicine, but talk to one about the health care system, and there’s a good chance you’ll get a rant about greedy insurers nickel-and-diming hardworking consumers when they’re sick. Almost everyone feels that there is something fundamentally wrong about making money off of someone else’s illness.

Why do we feel this way? No, don’t sputter and tell me that it’s obvious, that people need health care. People need a lot of things. You’ll die without food long before you’ll die without health care, and yet few people say we need to “take the profit motive out of farming”. (There are some, to be sure, but this was never a widespread sentiment even when food was a lot scarcer and more expensive). Why is health care special?

Well, in part because politicians can make hay by pretending that it is. But the evolutionary psychology point that comes next is probably valid. But it’s just another one of those aspects of paleolithic-era tribal morality that don’t really work in a modern society — but that politicians eagerly exploit. And the denial can run deep:

Pointing out something the British health system can do that the American system can’t, and doing so in dryly factual tones, seemed like a good way to endear myself to the British audience.

The other guest, a British health official, interrupted to basically accuse me of lying; the British health system, he said, did no such thing.

Now I reiterate: I had not called NICE a death panel, or said that it was bad; I had simply described what NICE does, which is keep the NHS from blowing its budget on very expensive treatments that deliver relatively little value per pound spent. You can read NICE describing what NICE does on its website; the description is not significantly different from the one I gave. Being told that this was flat out wrong was surreal. Things got even more surreal when I began again to explain what NICE does, thinking that perhaps I had been unclear, and the host interrupted me and said something like “As you know, that’s false.”

Why such a strong emotional reaction to a boring factual statement? My conclusion, having read Hanson, was that people don’t want to think their health care system might let them die because it’s too expensive to keep them alive. They don’t like it any better when the government does it than when an insurer does — and so the government is at pains to suggest that cost is not a factor in their calculations.

But, you know, it is. Give Obama credit for some honesty saying that Grandma would just have to take a pain pill.

BEN SHAPIRO: The Left Wins because It Fights Politics on the Field of Morality.

Krauthammer’s Law defines the left’s Manichean worldview thusly: “To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil,” Charles Krauthammer wrote in 2002. And viewing someone of a differing ideology as being evil is a very different stance than viewing him as simply uninformed or otherwise somehow misguided.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Damn the Foreign Policy Specificity—Trump, Full Speed Ahead!

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Trump vs Clinton — The Race of the Cripples.

FIVE DECADES OF WAR IN COLOMBIA: The Economist looks at the August 24th peace deal and calls it “a somewhat just peace.” StrategyPage examined the deal earlier in the month (August 8). As The Economist notes, the date for the referendum has now been set: October 2.

UPDATE: Spelling corrected.

TRIAGE: Whose Lives Should Be Saved? Researchers Ask the Public.

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JAY COST ASKS, ARE THE POLLS BIASED AGAINST TRUMP?

It’s also important to keep in mind the perspective of scale. Barack Obama’s rallies filled whole stadiums in 2008, but he still won a smaller share of the vote than George H.W. Bush in 1988 and even Warren G. Harding in 1920. Approximately 130 million Americans will participate in the November election—a number that dwarfs even the largest political rally, a thousand of times over. Using crowd sizes to gauge general election support is like using a twelve-inch ruler to measure the height of the Empire State building; it’s a bad tool.

Read the whole thing.

IT WOULD HAVE HELPED HIM IN THE GOP PRIMARIES IF HE’D DONE THIS LAST YEAR: Chris Christie proposes making N.J. a “shall issue” state in latest gun control veto. Quoth Christie: ”I continue to oppose the relentless campaign by the Democratic legislature to make New Jersey as inhospitable as possible to lawful gun ownership and sales. Instead of remaining an outlier with overly burdensome restrictions of questionable constitutionality, New Jersey should follow the lead of the vast majority of states across the country and simplify, not complicate, the ability of responsible citizens, dealers and retailers, to buy, sell and possess firearms as protected by the Second Amendment.”

Say, maybe we can get national carry even under Hillary, if the NRA just makes a big donation to the Clinton Foundation. . . .

WHY JUDGES MATTER: Big Labor Tries To Eliminate Right-To-Work By Lawsuit.

MEANWHILE, IN MY HOMETOWN: Maryville chief: Officer shot, killed after responding to domestic call.

Related: Residents, agencies show support for Maryville Police after officer killed. For some reason they haven’t released the name yet, though it’s all over social media. I’m not repeating it in case the posts are wrong.

FOX BUTTERFIELD FILES FROM FRANCE: “Burkini Sales Go Up 200 Percent Since French Ban: ‘No Man Can Tell Us What to Wear,’” writes Time magazine headline writer, oblivious to irony.

(Classical allusion in headline.)

AS I’VE NOTED BEFORE, BOTH HILLARY AND TRUMP ARE CLOSE TO PUTIN IN DIFFERENT WAYS. Hillary’s Secret Kremlin Connection Is Quickly Unraveling: Exactly how Clinton profited off deals with Skolkovo is something the American public has a right to know before November 8.

SPRING FASCISM PREVIEW: Clintons Already Planning Next Stage of Corruption.

(Classical reference in headline.)

ROLL CALL: Biden’s ‘Expectation’ Is Obama Will Close Gitmo Prison.