HAARETZ: Pro-Trump Jews Keep the Faith Despite Charlottesville Controversy: Rejecting accusations that the U.S. president is anti-Semitic and in thrall to white supremacists, these American Jews are delighted with Trump’s performance in the White House. Well, since those accusations are idiotic hyperbole from the people who told us Mitt Romney was Hitler, that makes sense.

INDEED! Three Cheers for Cultural Appropriation.

Everything great and iconic about this country comes when seemingly disparate parts are blended in revelatory ways. That merging simply doesn’t happen in places where people are separated by race and ethnicity and class. And it’s not only what makes American culture so rich, but it is also a big part of the reason America is so successful. When we see a good idea, we steal it; when we have a good idea, the rest of the world is welcome to it as well.

More than half of the countries in the world now have some form of democracy — a system of government we enjoy and have evangelized, but was invented by ancient Greeks. Britain beat us to the abolition of slavery; the Isle of Man, New Zealand and Finland all decided to give women the vote well before the United States. Eventually, we got smart and borrowed these egalitarian innovations. In 1989, when the Tiananmen Square protesters wanted to express their yearning for freedom, they erected a homemade Statue of Liberty. But even Lady Liberty isn’t purely American: We have France to thank for the statue.

These days our mongrel culture is at risk of being erased by an increasingly strident left, which is careering us toward a wan existence in which we are all forced to remain in the ethnic and racial lanes assigned to us by accident of our birth.

So-called Progressivism has grown so thuggishly provincial that it really ought to be renamed to something like “modern feudalism.”

ARCHEOLOGY: The Oldest Known Human Remains in the Americas Have Been Found in a Mexican Cave.

How he arrived at the location remains a great mystery given the timing and the fact that Mexico is well over 4,000 miles away from the Bering land crossing.

“Scenarios of travel by boat along the Pacific shoreline, the ‘Kelp Highway,’ must be taken seriously, but alternative migration routes by boat from Europe along the Greenland ice margin or via Antarctica are also possible, though highly speculative,” lead author Wolfgang Stinnesbeck of the Institute of Geosciences at Heidelberg University said.

“If travel by boat is correct,” he added, “then likely camp sites are now set underwater due to the early Holocene rise of sea level.”

We’re likely going to find that human migration to the Americas was much more varied than is widely believed — or in some cases, accepted.

UNTRUSTWORTHY: Snopes thinks the only floods in Louisiana were during Katrina.

UPDATE: Snopes “fact-checks” parody site Babylon Bee.

VIRGINIA POSTREL: Give Harvey Victims a Choice: Rebuild or Relocate.

FUNNY HOW THESE THINGS ALWAYS SEEM TO LEAN THE SAME DIRECTION: Feds Quickly Release Trump Lawyer’s Emails To Liberal Group, Bury Dem Records For Years.

Records show the Federal Election Commission (FEC) reviewed more than 4,400 pages of emails related to a Freedom Information Act (FOIA) request filed by Andy Kroll, a reporter with the liberal news outlet Mother Jones. Kroll sought all emails Don McGahn sent between July 2008 through September 2013 while he was an FEC commissioner.

The FEC received Kroll’s request Jan. 30, 2017, and released more than 1,000 pages of McGahn’s emails in June. McGahn became White House counsel 10 days before the request was received.

FOIA requestors can ask for priority handling for particular newsworthy or time-sensitive documents, but Kroll did not ask for such treatment, records show. He did not receive the records in time for use in an April article and has not published any stories using information from this FOIA request, the Mother Jones Washington Bureau Chief told TheDCNF.

Read the whole thing, which is another Daily Caller exclusive. They’ve been covering themselves in glory there lately.

ROGER SIMON: Harvey Will Be the Turning Point of the Trump Presidency.

Read the whole thing.

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Harvey Explosion, Trump’s Tax Reform, Sanctuary City Law Smacked Down and Much, Much More.

CHARLIE HEBDO MOCKS HURRICANE HARVEY VICTIMS AS NAZIS IN DESPICABLE COVER PHOTO.

Hillary Clinton’s supporters just can’t catch a break — during the 2008 Democratic primaries, Obama dismissed them as clinging to their guns and religion. This week, after a horrific natural disaster, the heartless Gallic geniuses at Charlie Hebdo smear Hillary’s supporters in Texas for having a overly toxic blend of nationalism mixed with socialism. Great timing and geopolitical knowledge, fellas.

Related: Charlie Hebdo offends Texans, but guess what — nobody will get shot over it.

SOMETHING STINKS: A former FBI agent battling Deputy Director McCabe said there is a ‘cancer’ inside the FBI. “There’s a cancer there of a group of people. . . . You’ve seen it with some of the recent reports of leaks, conflicts of interest, you see it in my case. The level of integrity is lacking. I have never seen or heard of the amount of conflicts of interest, or leading by fear. . . . I don’t feel that Andy McCabe was honest to me. The conflicts of interest many of agents see right away. A lot of agents, analysts, former, current, retired are appalled that if they did similar they would have already been fired or at least on leave without pay.”

AND THE HUNGER WAS CAUSED BY…? Venezuelan lawmaker says hunger, not politics, will drive Maduro from power.

HMM: HAVE THE BIG TECH COMPANIES GOTTEN INTO A SITUATION WHERE THE CHOICE IS BETWEEN TRUSTBUSTING AND NATIONALIZATION? We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why.

But nationalization is idiotic. I don’t want companies this powerful under the control of politicians. That’s why Mark Zuckerberg should never be President.

PROPAGATING A HOSTILE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FOR MALE STUDENTS: How Higher Education “Studies” Men.

In sum, it is an ideological rather than a scholarly project.

The center has held several seminars, among them a talk about “the need for further regulation on pornography” in the European Union. It has sponsored a white paper, “Men as Allies in Preventing Violence against Women,” in which Bob Pease lays down the law: men should take part in such violence prevention, but because of their “dominance and privilege and…structural gender inequalities,” they should play only “a supporting role…under women’s leadership” rather than seeking to be “leaders or equal partners.”

Pease makes another point: women deserve “women-only spaces,” but men-only spaces are verboten, because excluding women “reinforces the notion of male authority” and men “need to learn how to communicate outside of traditional frames of masculinity and male sociality.” (Pease, as it happens, is the author of a book called Recreating Men, which argues that men need to undergo fundamental change for the sake of women’s equality.)

The Men’s Center, in short, is not about understanding men’s psychological and emotional development and their personal and professional lives; it is about encouraging young men to feel guilty about being born male, to check their own natural male impulses and interests, to emulate (as best they can) the manners and mores of women, and to subordinate themselves, in all ways and all circumstances, to their female friends, relatives, and colleagues.

The center has a blog, which is full of whining about “toxic masculinity” and about men’s lack of respect for women. After Trump’s election, it featured a letter addressed to “White Men.” It read, in part: “This is on us. And now it’s up to us to undo it. I keep hearing us say: ‘we’ll be fine.’… [But our] friends of color, our Native American friends, our Muslim friends and Latino friends, our LGBTQ friends and the women in our lives are not fine…. They are afraid of what is to come. And they will be, and already are, under attack. If you’ve ever questioned the existence of the concept of privilege, being able to say ‘we’ll be fine’ is painful proof of its existence.”

One big piece of news from the blog is that the Center is in the process of developing the first MA program in masculinities studies. Stony Brook, it should be noted, is a major international research university that turns out top-flight physicists, chemists, biologists, and engineers who make a real difference in this world. It is a puzzlement, and a disgrace, that this splendid institution should want to institute an advanced degree program in identity studies that involves not education but indoctrination and that doesn’t prepare graduates to do anything other than spend their lives whining about gender inequality.

Indeed.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: ‘Dream Chaser’ Space Plane Hitches a Ride with a Helicopter.

At 30 feet long, it looks like a Matchbox car crossed with a stingray. But it has outsize ambitions. Its maker, Sierra Nevada Corporation, calls it a “space utility vehicle,” marketing it as a crew and cargo transport to low Earth orbit. After delivery, the idea goes, it will fly down to the kind of runways that line big-city airports. That could make it a uniquely accessible piece of space infrastructure—for NASA, other nations, or even companies that want to try their hands at spaceflight.

During today’s “captive carry” test, Sierra Nevada aimed to see whether its SUV rides as expected at the altitudes where it will later free-fly. But it’s not ready to go that high on its own, so the Chinook lifted it there, flying it around in loops like a parent keeping a hand on the back of a kid’s bike seat.

The Dream Chaser’s basic design came from Russia—or, to be more precise, from spying on Russia.

You’ll want to read the whole thing.

WELL, GOOD: Princeton Republicans balk at creepy, left-leaning ‘solidarity’ pledge.

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THIN BLUE LINE: California Sanctuary State Legislation Runs Into Stiff Law Enforcement Headwinds.

TRUMP SAYS ALL NORTH KOREA OPTIONS ARE ON THE TABLE: A brief review of Return of Serve, Decapitation and War.

VERY MUCH RELATED: Trump and Abe agree to increase the pressure on North Korea. It’s Trump’s pressure strategy.

FBI RESISTS PUBLIC RELEASE OF TRUMP DOSSIER INFO: Why? Why, pray tell? Isn’t this in the public interest?

AMERICA:

JOURNALISM: Melania stiletto-gate is a showcase for media pettiness.

DEEP STATE: Obama ‘Still Running the FBI,’ Says Lawyer After Agency Blocks Access to Clinton Records.

F-22 RAPTORS OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS: The fighters were participating in a Red Flag exercise at Nellis AFB, Nevada. (You know USAF photographers just love taking photos like this. This is one you could frame and put on the wall.)

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Special Report: Tuition spikes send higher education enrollment tumbling.

If only there had been some sort of warning.