IF YOUR ANSWER ISN’T “EIGHT YEARS OF OBAMA,” YOU’RE LYING. How America became a lost, exhausted superpower.

HEH: Republican Asks For Comey Memo On Clinton Meeting With Loretta Lynch.

THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP: Obama Ordered The U.S. Intelligence Community To Share Intel With Cuba.

ABC CANCELS TIM ALLEN COMEDY LAST MAN STANDING… DESPITE HIGH RATINGS: “No politics here at ABC/Disney/Marvel/ESPN.”

FAKE NEWS SINGULARITY REACHED: CBS, Home of RatherGate,* Yawns at Rolling Stone’s False Rape Story: ‘Happens So Rarely.’

* And numerous previous examples of fake news.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Advanced Prostate Cancer Tests and Screenings.

ALL DAY TODAY, Kurt Schlichter is donating revenue from the sales of The People’s Republic to the GoFundMe for Bob Owens’ family. (Bumped).

Or if you just want to donate directly, you can go here.

WITHOUT MASS IMMIGRATION, who will make our coffee? “Rather than relieving racism, the outcome of mass migration is that westerners begin to subconsciously associate particular jobs with certain races, ethnic groups and nationalities.”

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BRENDAN O’NEILL ON FACEBOOK: “That phrase, ‘The old have stolen our future,’ tells you everything you need to know about middle-class millennials’ sense of entitlement. They talk of ‘our future’ as if it’s an already existing thing, a gift they’re entitled to, a lovely, wonderful land they must be granted instant access to, when in fact your future is what you yourself make it, through your decisions, your choices, your work, your graft. Your future doesn’t exist yet, so it’s impossible for anyone to have “stolen it”. You have to make your future from scratch, just as those old people you’re slagging off had to, and usually from a far worse starting point than yours.”

CHARLIE MARTIN: Should We Trust the Trump/Russia Coverage? “The upshot of it all is that the Washington Post and New York Times have been wrong so often that they’ve become inherently unbelievable. Almost everyone remembers the story of the little boy who cried wolf. What happens if the legacy press actually gets a story that is adequately sourced and points to real malfeasance? Will anyone believe them? Should anyone believe them?”

That’s a problem. Flashback: Perhaps we should require reading “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” in journalism schools.

TO BE FAIR, HE ALSO SAID THAT IF YOU LIKE YOUR PLAN, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR PLAN: Obama Once Said The American Dream Is To ‘Be Donald Trump’.

TRUE: The Irrationals: Trump’s Opponents Are His Greatest Asset.

FLASHBACK: Obama’s CIA Director Leaked Top Secret Bin Laden Raid Intel To Hollywood: When the Obama administration leaked classified information about military maneuvers and secret cyber attacks, media was silent. That’s different because shut up.

Related: 2014: White House mistakenly identifies CIA chief in Afghanistan.

Plus, June, 2016: U.S. offers to share Syria intelligence on terrorists with Russia.

I DON’T KNOW ART BUT I KNOW WHAT I LIKE: A Lowrider Lawnmower Styled After Vintage Cars.

VIDEO: Now Sean Spicer Can’t Say If Jerusalem Is Even in Israel?!?

The Western Wall flubs, if that’s what they were, were embarrassing enough.

CHANGE: Million-dollar Strads fall to modern violins in blind ‘sound check’

As the violins played solo and with orchestral accompaniment, 55 listeners rated which instrument in each pair projected better by making a mark on a continuous scale with one violin, labeled simply A, on one end and the other violin, labeled B, on the other. The researcher then averaged all those evaluations, and found that subjects generally thought the new violins projected better than the old ones—although the researcher left it up to listeners to decide what that meant. The effect was unambiguous, Fritz says.

The team then performed a similar test in New York City without the orchestra and with a different set of Strads and new violins. Again, the 82 listeners in the test reported that the new violins projected better. This time, Fritz and colleagues asked subjects which of the two violins in a pairing they preferred. Listeners chose the new violins over the old, they reported yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The New York City study also showed that listeners’ preferences correlated with their assessment of projection, suggesting the loudness of an instrument may be a primary factor in the quality of its sound.

So, will the study cause Strad prices to plummet? No, Curtin says, as the value of the instruments is based on much more than just their sound. But it does suggest that violinists can get a top-quality instrument without spending a fortune on an Old Italian, he says. (The record price for an instrument by a modern maker is a relatively cheap $132,000.) “It’s good news for players,” Curtin says.

It’s good news for audiences, too.

THIS WILL BE A USEFUL TEST OF HOW LOW MALE TESTOSTERONE LEVELS HAVE SUNK: The RompHim — a romper for men — is trying to start a fashion revolution. Good luck. “RompHim. It’s a romper. But not for her. For him. Get it? RompHim.”

I don’t even like rompers for women.

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NO. Will ‘RompHims’ Catch on This Summer? You Decide.

There are photos at the link which could have you questioning your sanity.

AND YET WE’VE BEEN ALL-IN FOR YEARS ON DUMB ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD SYSTEMS: U.S. Hospitals Not Immune to Crippling Cyber Attacks.

BUT OF COURSE: Convicted Puerto Rican Terrorist, Whose Prison Sentence Obama Commuted, Going Home to Parade.

RETAIL BLUES: Wary Vendors May Mean the End for Sears Holdings.

In [CEO Eddie] Lampert’s blog post, he calls out one specific vendor, One World, which he notes is a subsidiary of Techtronic Industries, a conglomerate based in China with over $5 billion in revenues. He said that the company, which Sears has purchased from for nearly a decade, refuses to meet the terms of its current agreement.

“One World has informed us of their intention to take the very aggressive step of filing a lawsuit against us as they seek to embarrass us in the media to force us to let them out of their contract,” he wrote.

Lampert argues that Sears has lived up to its agreements, paying One World more than $868 million since 2007 for various tools it sells the retail chain. He also noted that his company has paid its bills on time.

The problem is that while Sears may be able to force vendors to honor existing contracts, the reasonable fear that the chain at some point won’t pay its bills means this probably won’t be an isolated incident. Lampert has basically been publicly pleading for vendors to support his company, and that support is clearly wavering.

Sears has had a difficult enough time getting customers into its stores. Now the company is on the verge of having difficulty getting product on the shelves.

WELL, IF YOU’RE STEPHEN GREEN IT PROBABLY MAKES YOU ASK AFTER THE OTHER 23%: Gin recall: What does drinking 77 percent alcohol do to you?