SEGREGATION TODAY, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Why The Hysterical Left Wants To Keep A White Woman From Painting A Black Man.

FASTER, PLEASE: Scientists produce robust catalyst to split water into hydrogen, oxygen.

MATT DRUDGE: John McCain is face of ‘corruption.’ “McCain, pure and simple, screwed Republicans, conservatives and President Donald Trump on Obamacare repeal. And he .did it simply because he could. . . . He did it, bluntly, because he hates Trump more than he loves the American people.”

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“SHE VANISHED INTO THE WORLD’S MOST LUCRATIVE WITNESS RELOCATION PROGRAM: TAKING A POSITION AS ‘GLOBAL NEWS ANCHOR’ FOR YAHOO! NEWS:” Katie Couric is out of a $10 million-per-year job at Yahoo News.

But not before crafting one of the most egregious examples of fake news since that Dan Rather fella she replaced at CBS.

THE ATLANTIC ON WHY AMERICANS GET CONNED AGAIN AND AGAIN:

For decades, Donald Trump has been compared to the legendary showman P.T. Barnum. Trump himself has publicly embraced being likened to a man described by historians as “vulgar, childish, surely just a little crooked.” His willingness to invoke that set of values—quite different from the Horatio Alger-style “luck and pluck” that serve as an unofficial national ethos—may be what his supporters are praising when they say he “tells it like it is.”

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Fraud is a phenomenon that knows no borders, but American exceptionalism, as Balleisen shows, includes a special vulnerability to fraudsters and con artists. As he points out, “Many of the world’s most expensive and ambitious frauds have occurred in America” because “openness to innovation has always meant openness to creative deception.” The country’s lionization of entrepreneurs and inventors creates tempting opportunities for those trafficking in highly implausible scenarios. It has made the U.S. home to genuine innovators, from Thomas Edison to Oprah Winfrey, but it has also facilitated the far-reaching deceptions and empty promises perpetrated by people like Bernie Madoff on Wall Street and Elizabeth Holmes in Silicon Valley. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme was the largest known financial fraud in history, and Holmes’s biotech start-up Theranos faces multiple lawsuits and federal investigations after its products didn’t work as claimed. (Holmes and the company deny any wrongdoing.)

Misrepresentations are usually made possible by two factors: their complexity and their proponents’ social craftiness. Madoff and Holmes used both of these to their advantage.

So did another conman working on an even bigger scale – and “unexpectedly,” he’s not mentioned at all in the above article.

“NOTICED SHE DIDN’T APOLOGIZE TO POTUS:” J.K. Rowling finally apologizes for bogus Trump tweets after pants set on fire by PunditFact.

WHEN THEY SAY “DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS,” THEY MEAN IT AS A FEATURE: Nets Barely Notice Venezuela’s Vote for Dictatorship.

Funny all that “bad luck” Venezuela’s been having as of late, though.

CBS LOS ANGELES: Democratic IT Staffer Arrested On Fraud Charge Has Family Links To SoCal Lawmakers.

CUBS GIVE STEVE BARTMAN A 2016 WORLD SERIES RING: Great story. In case you forgot, during the 2003 National League Championship Series, Bartman was the Cubs fan who reached out of the stands and interfered with Moises Alou’s attempt to catch a ball. And once again the Cubs failed to win. He became the Cub Fan Condemned To Permanent Hell.

WHAT IF THE SOUTH HAD WON THE CIVIL WAR? 4 sci-fi scenarios for HBO’s ‘Confederate.’

The general image of the Confederacy in most textbooks is a backwards, agricultural South that really didn’t stand a chance against the industrialized North. But it simply isn’t true that the Confederate South was merely a carpet of cotton plantations, and the North a smoke-blackened vista of factories. Both North and South in 1861 were largely agricultural regions (72% of the congressional districts in the Northern states on the eve of the Civil War were farm-dominated); the real difference was between the Southern plantation and the Northern family farm. Nor did the South lag all that seriously behind the North in industrial capacity. And far from being a Lost Cause, the Confederacy frequently came within an ace of winning its war. . . .

Social media progressives are probably right to draw back in horror from the prospect offered by Confederate, although not always for the reasons they presume. The Confederate economy, like the modern Chinese economy, was in the capitalist world but not of it. The Confederate elite of 1861 did not mind making money, but it was aggressively hostile to entrepreneurship and contemptuous of middle-class culture. The most famous advocate of the slave system, George Fitzhugh, frankly described slavery as “traditional socialism” and bitterly contrasted the cruelty of free-market “cannibalism” with the cradle-to-grave welfare provided by the slave owner.

The Confederate government centralized political authority in ways that made a hash of states’ rights, nationalized industries in ways historians have compared to “state socialism,” and imposed the first compulsory national draft in American history. If Benioff and Weiss are successful in creating an alternative world in Confederate, it will shock us fully as much as Game of Thrones has — not for how much of the Confederate future we avoided, but how little.

Ouch.

TODAY’S DEMOCRATS SEE 1984 AS A HOW-TO MANUAL, NOT A CAUTIONARY TALE:

2016: BAKE THAT CAKE, CHRISTIAN BAKER! 2017: GAY JOURNALIST: RANDOM STRAIGHT PEOPLE SHOULD BE BANNED FROM GAY BARS.

At least in New York City, that’s illegal, as Stephen Miller reminded plenty of lefties on Twitter in May during the lead-up to his classic reverse-Alinsky maneuver at a would-be woman’s only showing of Wonder Woman by Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.

And he’s ready to swing into action once again! (Wait, maybe not that kind of swinging — NTTAWTT — but you know what I mean):

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL: Blowing out birthday candles increases cake bacteria by 1,400 percent, study reveals.

ROBERT SPENCER DEFENDS THE WEST: ‘The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech.’

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot: Eating their own! Howard Dean snaps, won’t support the DCCC if they fund pro-life Democrats.

—Twitchy, today.

Chaser: “I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can’t beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats.”

—Howard Dean on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, as quoted in a November 7, 2003 Boston Globe article titled, “Dean’s appeal to South cuts across race.”

COMMUNISM RUINS EVERYTHING: Cubans Not Having Enough Sex.

THE RISE OF THE “PETTOO.”

WOMEN’S STUDIES PROF: ‘I Wish Someone Would Just Shoot’ Trump.

JILL STEIN SLAMS ‘DEMONIZATION OF NORTH KOREA’ IN BIZARRE MSNBC INTERVIEW:

Political activist and former Green Party nominee for President, Jill Stein, appeared on MSNBC on Sunday to provide an impassioned defense for the rogue dictatorship of North Korea and Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Stein referred to the negative characterizations of the brutal Communist regime in North Korea as a way to ‘demonize’ them so the U.S. can implement a regime change.

“The demonization of North Korea is part of the run-up to regime change. she said.” “It’s part of demonizing a government that we then want to exercise regime change on.”

Host Alex Witt pushed back against Stein’s accusation saying, “It’s the North Koreans that have added the provocation in launching missiles and testing….”

“But remember where that came from,” Stein interrupted, doubling down. “Long before they began their missile tests the U.S. was conducting nuclear bombing runs against North Korea. We actually had nuclear weapons until the end of the cold war. We actually had nuclear weapons stationed in South Korea.”

Wow, Jill Stein morphed into Ted Turner so slowly, I hardly even noticed:

But as the face of the American Green Party, I can’t say I’m all that surprised to hear Stein advocating on behalf of North Korea. As Virginia Postrel told Brian Lamb when discussing The Future and its Enemies on Booknotes:

“The Khmer Rouge sought to start over at year zero, and to sort of create the kind of society that very civilized, humane greens write about as though it were an ideal. I mean, people who would never consider genocide. But I argue that if you want to know what that would take, look at Cambodia: to empty the cities and turn everyone into peasants again. Even in a less developed country, let alone in someplace like the United States, that these sort of static utopian fantasies are just that.”

As they say, it’s always Earth Hour in North Korea:

LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: ‘World of Warcraft’ video game currency now worth more than Venezuelan money.

AMERICA’S PROTECTED CLASS: Cops say hands are tied in arresting unruly ‘desnudas’ naked female panhandlers ‘because most are illegal immigrants.’

OF COURSE HE DIDN’T. WHAT KIND OF ILLITERATE WOULD THINK OTHERWISE? OH, RIGHT. Scaramucci Did Not Invent the Word ‘Paranoiac.’

WHIPLASH: So Anthony Scaramucci just got fired.

SOCIAL JUSTICE ‘WAR AND PEACE:’ How dare a struggling Broadway musical ask the beloved Mandy Patinkin to step in for a few weeks?

Predictably, a Twitter mob formed, outraged that Patinkin, who is of Eastern European Jewish descent, would be temporarily replacing an African-American actor. Never mind that the role had been originated by the whiter-than-Vermont Josh Groban; and never mind that the show proudly proclaimed that it employed colorblind casting. And never mind, by the way, that two of Patinkin’s most beloved roles had him playing decidedly non-Hasidic characters. (Sure it’s one thing for him to play the narrator Che in Evita, but if you think somebody named Mandy Patinkin could play a character called Inigo Montoya in 2017 … then, again, you don’t know much about the year 2017.)

Equally predictable was the cave-in.

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