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FASTER, PLEASE: A first: Drug lowers heart risks by curbing inflammation: People on the drug also had surprisingly lower cancer death rates, especially from lung cancer.

WASHINGTON POST: Black-clad antifa members attack peaceful right-wing demonstrators in Berkeley.

Related: When Asked to Denounce Antifa, Gov. Terry McAuliffe Denounces Violence on Many Sides.

UPDATE: The Onion: Antifa Organizers Announce Plans To Disrupt Neo-Nazi Rally Or Whatever Else Going On That Day.

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REMEMBER, EVERY POLITICAL ACTION SPARKS A POLITICAL REACTION: Violence by far-left protesters in Berkeley sparks alarm. “The clashes came despite widespread calls from activists and elected officials across the Bay Area for peaceful civil disobedience and underscore Berkeley’s growing reputation for violent reaction by the far left. Other protests earlier this year in the city turned ugly, with far-left and far-right forces fighting in the streets. Some in Berkeley worried that Sunday’s chaos, captured on video and quickly disseminated through social media, would provide unwanted ammunition to Trump and his supporters.”

Yes, that’s the big worry: That it might provide a right-wing talking point.

“EVADING” SEEMS A RATHER PEJORATIVE CHOICE OF WORDS, DOESN’T IT? Peter Thiel funds offshore test of herpes vaccine, evading U.S. safety regulations.

Defying U.S. safety protections for human trials, an American university and a group of wealthy libertarians, including a prominent Donald Trump supporter, are backing the offshore testing of an experimental herpes vaccine.

The American businessmen, including Trump adviser Peter Thiel, invested $7 million in the ongoing vaccine research, according to the U.S. company behind it. Southern Illinois University also trumpeted the research and the study’s lead researcher, even though he did not rely on traditional U.S. safety oversight in the first trial, held on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts.

Neither the Food and Drug Administration nor a safety panel known as an institutional review board, or an “IRB,” monitored the testing of a vaccine its creators say prevents herpes outbreaks. Most of the 20 participants were Americans with herpes who were flown to the island several times to be vaccinated, according to Rational Vaccines, the company that oversaw the trial.

“What they’re doing is patently unethical,” said Jonathan Zenilman, chief of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center’s Infectious Diseases Division. “There’s a reason why researchers rely on these protections. People can die.”

This sounds ominous, but the actual objection is to the absence of a committee: “American researchers are increasingly going offshore to developing countries to conduct clinical trials, citing rising domestic costs. But in order to approve the drug for the U.S. market, the FDA requires that clinical trials involving human participants be reviewed and approved by an IRB or an international equivalent. The IRB can reject research based on safety concerns.” Does a committee equal safety? Maybe, maybe not. But it’s certainly over-the-top to compare this — as the article does — with Nazi medical experiments on concentration camp inmates.

Before the rules were this strict, we got smallpox, polio, tetanus, and other vaccines. Maybe look at the rules?

NORTH KOREAN MISSILE FIRED OVER JAPAN: The launch occurred today. Time to turn the pressure up another notch.

HMM: College Students With Asperger’s Could Sue Over Hate Speech Policies, Says Professor.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Woke, Predictable VMAs Ignore Antifa Violence, Hate.

Even WaPo is taking notice of the violence inherent in Antifa’s system, and recent attacks on a reporter and a photographer ought to make more in the MSM recognize the truth.

LET’S CALL THEM WHAT THEY REALLY ARE THEN: Democratic operatives with baseball bats.

If Antifa becomes the arbiter of legitimate political speech in this country, then we’re really in trouble.

FASTER, PLEASE: Metformin could be the first FDA approved antiaging drug.

STEPHEN KRUISER: New Filter Claims to Remove Hangover-Inducing Ingredients From Wine.

I’ll have two of whatever Kruiser is having.

THE ATLANTIC: Did Climate Change Intensify Hurricane Harvey?

Before we look into that question, perhaps first we should investigate all of those hurricanes which went missing between Katrina and Harvey.

UPDATE: Link was missing for about 90 seconds. Fixed now — sorry!

NONSENSE. IT IS A MEDIA AXIOM THAT EVERYTHING DONALD TRUMP DOES IS UNIQUELY, UNPRECEDENTEDLY AWFUL: Jonathan Turley: Trump was wrong to pardon Arpaio, but other presidents have done worse.

FEDERAL STUDY: Perfume Can Prevent Women From Becoming Cardiologists.

The National Institutes of Health is funding research on whether there is bias against women in the government’s peer review grant making process. Results produced by Dr. Molly Carnes, a woman, have concluded that women are at a disadvantage in receiving federal funding for their research. Carnes is the director of the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Women’s Health Research.

One such paper, published in February, is entitled “Women Are Less Likely Than Men to Be Full Professors in Cardiology: Why Does This Happen and How Can We Fix It?”

The paper was funded by an NIH study that has received $3,927,208 since 2013, including $696,995 this year.

The paper argues that wearing perfume can disadvantage female heart doctors, and men who wear white coats and carry a stethoscope “could foster gender bias.”

“You’ve come a long way, baby” morphed into “fragile desert flower” so slowly I hardly even noticed.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Higher coffee consumption associated with lower risk of early death.

If nothing else, four cups certainly helps lower the risk of early death among those persons nearby grumpy coffee drinkers.

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ANALYSIS: FALSE. We Need Higher Taxes.

Washington enjoys record revenues while saddling us with near-record peacetime deficits, which are set by entitlement law to explode dramatically in the near future, even absent a major war or economic downturn.

Washington does not have revenue problem. It has a spending problem.

Period.

CRIME OF THE CENTURY: Facebook selfies with stolen guns lead to arrest of teen in gun shop smash and grab.