VAN PLOWS INTO PEDESTRIANS OUTSIDE OF MOSQUE IN LONDON: “One report says that the man arrested shouted ‘kill all the Muslims’ during the attack. You can draw your own conclusions about the veracity of that statement. We will certainly hear more about this incident as the day goes on. Right now, we can only hope there were no fatalities and that the injured are not too badly hurt.”

FROM JACK SHAFER AT POLITICO: “MEGYN KELLY PANTSES ALEX JONES:”

“The censorious powers of the heckler’s veto have evolved now to the point that people are willing to call for the banning and shunning of works of journalism not yet published. Former Fox News Channel and current NBC News anchor Megyn Kelly got the treatment this week as news of her Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly interview with InfoWars mainspring Alex Jones, well before it was scheduled to air July 18, made the rounds. At least the Ayatollah Khomeini waited for the publication of Satanic Verses before he issued a fatwa ordering the murder of its author, Salman Rushdie.”

Heh, indeed.™

YOU STAY CLASSY, MSNBC: Host Joy Reid Labels Rep. Scalise an ‘Extremist’ While He Lies in Hospital Bed.

ANDREW KLAVAN: THE ATTACK ON ‘JULIUS CAESAR’ WAS WRONG IN EVERY WAY.

A wide swatch of Andrew’s readers don’t seem to agree with him. What’s your take? Let us know in the comments, either here, or at Andrew’s column.

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IRAN FIRES MISSILES AT ISLAMIC STATE TARGETS IN SYRIA: The missiles were launched in western Iran. Their flight path traversed northern Iraq. According to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the missiles struck targets “in the Deir Ezzor region in Eastern Syria.” The missiles were “retaliation” for the Islamic State terror attacks in Tehran (June 7).

MORE FROM THE COMBAT ZONE: U.S. Navy Super Hornet shoots down Syrian jet. Here’s a rather cool photo of two Super Hornets — one’s on the verge of breaking the sound barrier. Or maybe just broke it.

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DOWNBEAT REVIEW: Downbeat Magazine reviews the Ojai, California classical music festival (held June 8 to June 11). The Ojai Festival is now “safe for jazz.” The article goes on a bit but it’s a good read for fans of classical and jazz music.

HOUSING POLICIES THAT LED TO 2008 COLLAPSE STILL IN PLACE, SAYS FREDDIE MAC ECONOMIST.

What could go wrong?

SPIRIT RIDER IN THE SKY: Fine photo of a B-2 bomber banking — an interesting angle. It was taken at an air show held at Scott Air Force Base. I’d like to have been at the air show and seen this fly-by firsthand.

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INCITEMENT TO VIOLENCE:

Every policy difference, no matter how trivial, has been cast as a matter of life and death. Proposed changes in federal Medicaid reimbursement practices will consign “tens of thousands of people” to early death, according to Senator Bernie Sanders, while rolling back federal guidelines on transgender bathroom signage will cause more teenagers to kill themselves, according to ThinkProgress. Abandonment of the non-enforceable and voluntary Paris Accord on Climate

Change will doom the world to “catastrophe” and imminent mass extinction, according to Jill Stein.
In the last few weeks, the violent rhetoric crossed a fever line. CNN personality Kathy Griffin posed deadpan holding a severed and bloody head resembling Donald Trump; on television the next day, she tearfully denounced the many “old white men” who have supposedly bullied her. New York’s venerable Shakespeare in the Park is currently performing a modern-dress version of Julius Caesar, in which a Trump-qua-Caesar character is murdered every night in a particularly bloody and graphic staging.

Following the shooting, liberal Twitter erupted in cynical snark. Op-ed writer Malcolm Harris wondered if the shooter could plead self-defense, in the event he had a pre-existing condition. Sonia Gupta, a Louisiana former prosecutor, counseled her followers not to be too sad about the wounding of Representative Steve Scalise, because “he’s a racist piece of shit and hateful bigot.” David Frum, though not a liberal, reminded us that “the president is the country’s noisiest inciter of political violence,” though the violence he has supposedly incited appears to be mostly from the other side.

As Iowahawk asled today on Twitter, “I’m genuinely curious. Has this assassination attempt caused anyone to engage in self reflection, other than Ted Nugent?”

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