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WELL, THAT’S NO FUN FOR ANYBODY: A Doctor’s Visit, a Shocking Find: She Had No Vagina.

TO BE FAIR, THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE NFL IS HISTORY. Smithsonian National Museum of African American History to feature Colin Kaepernick artifacts: “The free agent quarterback who has yet to find a team for the upcoming 2017 NFL season will feature prominently at the African American history museum, which previously neglected to acknowledge Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.”

Related: Frank Serpico, NYPD cops raise their fists, take a knee for team-less Colin Kaepernick at Brooklyn rally.

Because Kap is such a law and order kind of guy.

ANNALS OF OVERSHARING: Texas woman live streams her breast augmentation on Instagram.

IT’S COME TO THIS: SJWs look to ban Traveler, the USC Trojans’ horse ridden across the field after each of the home team’s touchdowns. “The creature’s unforgivable crime? His name is similar to the horse ridden by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee 152 years ago, Traveler. Only Lee’s horse used two L’s–Traveller… See, Traveler is white. All white. Supremely white.”

Ban all the things!

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21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Couple who first married as bride and groom both don wedding dresses to renew their vows 20 years later after husband started living as a woman.

WITH DNC IN MIND, CITY BANS CARRYING URINE, FECES. Boston Police Commissioner: Bottles Filled With Urine Thrown At Officers During Protest. “Boston Police also confirmed rocks were thrown at officers.”

Related: “‘You stupid ass black bitch! You’re supposed to be on our side!’ — that’s what this protester screamed in the face of a black police officer” in Boston yesterday.

(Classical reference in headline.)

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THEY’RE NOT AGAINST VIOLENCE WHEN IT COMES FROM THEIR SIDE: New York Times Applauds Far-Left Violence.

The Washington Post did the same kind of Antifa puff-piece last week. The press is happy to have people hurt, so long as it’s the right people. Remember this when they start their “have you no decency?” routine.

DC MCALLISTER: Breathtaking Confederate Monument Hypocrisy at Duke University.

I hope you weren’t expecting anything else.

ARE YOU EVEN ALLOWED TO ASK THAT? Charles Barkley: Who the hell cares about Confederate statues?

PROGRESS: Britain Drills Its First Shale Well Since 2011.

Six years ago, exploratory drilling in Lancashire, England was blamed for two small earthquakes, and the British government put a quick stop to shale operations. It’s been a long road back, but Cuadrilla began drilling the vertical component of what will eventually be a shale well near that fateful Lancashire site.

The stakes are high for Britain. The country’s most important source of domestic oil and gas, the North Sea, is maturing as a resource—companies are having to slash costs to stay competitive in today’s low-price environment, and are all the while coping with decreasing yields as fields pass their prime. The British hydrocarbon industry is bracing for decommissioning costs of offshore rigs in the North Sea that are expected to rise to £17 billion over the next decade, while 10 Downing will be more concerned with a drop in domestic energy production, and the broader concerns that come along with an increased reliance on imports. In that context, shale would seem to be a bright spot in the British energy landscape.

It’s true that there’s plenty of shale gas to be had, too: according to the British Geological Survey, the UK is home to some 1,300 trillion cubic feet of natural gas trapped in shale rock (for reference, Britain consumes roughly 3 trillion cf). And, over the past decade, the United States has demonstrated just how transformative a resource shale can be. Cuadrilla is hoping to start production on part of that resource by the end of the year, and two other companies—iGas and Third Energy—plan to join it. Right now, that trio is playing the part of trailblazer for a shale industry that is, at the moment, bereft of momentum. They’ll also be running up against some tall hurdles, many of which aren’t found here in the United States.

Public opinion may be the biggest challenge for fracking’s future in the UK. As of last October, just 37 percent of Brits aware of what shale gas was said they supported fracking, compared to 41 percent who were against the controversial drilling process. Much of that opposition stems from a peculiarity of British property rights: unlike the U.S., the UK doesn’t afford mineral rights to landowners. Because British property owners don’t also own the oil (or in this case natural gas) that may lie beneath their land, they lack the financial incentive to accede to the extraordinary disruption that accompanies commercial hydrocarbon production.

Property law is the United States’ secret weapon here. But the British should fix this and get going. Why be held hostage to Russia and the Arabs?

IT’S ON: Kamala Harris Will Be ‘Knocking on Doors in Iowa.’

Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D.) said California Sen. Kamala Harris (D.) will be “knocking on doors in Iowa,” indicating Saturday he expects she will run for president.

Villaraigosa, who is running for Governor of California in 2018, was asked by MSNBC host Hugh Hewitt about Harris, a newly elected senator considered a rising star in the Democratic Party. Hewitt predicted she would be the nominee for the Democrats in 2020.

“Has she got a stake in this governor’s race?” Hewitt asked.

“Well, not yet,” Villaraigosa said. “I hope she will support my candidacy, but as you say, she is a great candidate. She’s going to be knocking on doors in Iowa, I expect. But in any case, I’m focused on this race, not the presidential race.”

An unaccomplished first-term Senator with nothing going for her but skin color, a telegenic personality, and a predictably progressive record? Nah, could never happen.

HEH: “This goes on for some time. It’s an attempt at symbolism, I think. A beverage may be useful.”

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AFTER READING GLENN’S LONG POST UPDATING THE DEBBIE WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ INFO-TECH SCANDAL: Indeed. Criminals and nefarious spies! All is proceeding as Sherlock Holmes surmised two weeks ago.

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DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ UPDATE: IT staffers may have compromised sensitive data to foreign intelligence.

Federal authorities are investigating whether sensitive data was stolen from congressional offices by several Pakistani-American tech staffers and sold to Pakistani or Russian intelligence, knowledgeable sources say.

What started out 16 months ago as a scandal involving the alleged theft of computer equipment from Congress has turned into a national-security investigation involving FBI surveillance of the suspects.

Investigators now suspect that sensitive US government data — possibly including classified information — could have been compromised and may have been sold to hostile foreign governments that could use it to blackmail members of Congress or even put their lives at risk.

“This is a massive, massive scandal,” a senior US official familiar with the widening probe told The Post.

Flashback: Politico: Blowback from staffer scandal burns Wasserman Schultz.

One year after the Florida congresswoman’s resignation as national party chair at the Democratic National Convention — where activists booed and shouted “shame!” at her during a Florida delegation breakfast speech — the once-rising star’s political fortunes continue to fade, beset by critics on all sides.

Wasserman Schultz is again on defense after steadfastly refusing to explain why she continued to employ Imran Awan, an IT staffer who was under a federal investigation for alleged equipment and data scam in the U.S. House since February. She finally fired him on July 25, one day after authorities arrested him on a seemingly unrelated mortgage fraud charge. He was at the airport leaving for Pakistan, after wiring $283,000 there.

The firing came a full six months after about two dozen House Democrats dismissed four of Awan’s relatives and a friend, all of whom were under investigation with him.

Wasserman Schultz broke her public silence on Awan last week, portraying herself as the victim of “right wing media” attacks rooted in anti-Muslim bigotry aimed at Awan and the IT group.

But fellow Democrats are as confounded and disbelieving as ever by her penchant for making puzzling and stubborn political missteps.

“We wish she would go away and stop being so public by doubling down on negative stories,” said Nikki Barnes, a progressive DNC member from Florida, who believes Wasserman Schultz left the national party “in shambles” while chair, culminating with the hack of DNC servers and the release of embarrassing internal emails by WikiLeaks in the 2016 campaign. As for Wasserman Schultz’s defense, Barnes said “none of this makes sense. It doesn’t sound like racial profiling … there must have been something for her.” . . .

Barnes said she couldn’t understand why Wasserman Schultz made herself a target of attention by becoming the lone Democrat to employ Awan. Wasserman Schultz then drew even more negative attention to herself by publicly threatening the Capitol Police chief with “consequences” in a dispute over an office laptop under examination from investigators.

Indeed.

Flashback: House IT Aides Fear Suspects In Hill Breach Are Blackmailing Members With Their Own Data.

OBAMACARE ARCHITECT JONATHAN GRUBER FIRED AFTER FRAUDULENT-BILLING PROBE:

Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan said his office has concluded an investigation into the invoices and billing practices of Dr. Jonathan Gruber, an economic consultant who contracted with the state to provide policy expertise, research and economic modeling for Vermont’s abandoned single-payer healthcare system.

Former Gov. Peter Shumlin sought to create the single-payer system, known as Green Mountain Care, but eventually walked away from the plan after determining it would cost too much. The attorney general’s office’s began the investigation into Gruber’s billing after receiving a referral by State Auditor Doug Hoffer.

Donovan said Thursday his office and Gruber reached an agreement to settle the state’s potential legal claim that Gruber submitted false claims to the state under Vermont’s Civil False Claims Act. Donovan said his office concluded that Gruber’s conduct violated the Vermont Civil False Claims Act. Gruber denied a violation, but in order to resolve the case, he agreed to forgo any further payments from the state that he might be owed.

Donovan said Gruber’s personal services contract with the state was a standard “time and materials” contract that specified Gruber would be paid only for services actually performed. The contract required Gruber to submit monthly invoices describing the work performed and the amounts billed for such work.

Donovan’s office found that Gruber submitted at least two invoices that were false with respect to the amount of work performed by a research assistant working for Gruber. The supporting documentation provided by Gruber did not reflect the actual hours worked by the research assistant, nor did the assistant keep records accurately reflecting the hours he devoted to the state project, Donovan said.

Gruber’s contract was originally supposed to pay him as much as $400,000 to test economic models related to Shumlin’s health care proposal. The contract allowed the state to use the Gruber Microsimulation Model that Gruber developed to simulate the implementation of Shumlin’s plan and test various financing mechanisms.

Gruber, InstaPundit readers will remember, basically confessed that ObamaCare was a scam.

Plus: “[I]n 2013 Gruber referred to the ‘stupidity of the American voter’ and the ‘huge political advantage’ the healthcare legislation’s lack of transparency would provide in getting the bill passed. The ensuing public furor against Gruber for his comments caused the Obama administration to distance themselves from the former adviser.”

FLASHBACK: ROD DREHER: The Storm Before The Storm. “The rising Left is bound and determined to crush or at least permanently sideline people it deems heretics — in particular, whites, males, orthodox Christians, and skeptics of the LGBT project. It does not want a pluralistic modus vivendi; it wants total domination. The establishment Left lacks the will to stop them. Its members are terrified of appearing un-woke. . . . The establishment Right lacks the will to stop them either, for fear of being called bigots. And it lacks the will or the imagination to stand in any way against corporate interests. . . . Bottom line: Identity politics will dissolve the traditional bonds that have held Americans together, and re-bind forces of the Left and forces on the Right to each other.”

The thing is, you don’t get Hitler because of Hitler — there are always potential Hitlers out there. You get Hitler because of Weimar, and you get Weimar because the liberals are too corrupt and incompetent to maintain a liberal polity.