ROBERT SPENCER: Yes, Linda Sarsour Did Incite Violence Against President Trump.

GOOD LORD: Nearly half of Japanese people are entering their 30s without any sexual experience, leaving the country facing a steep population decline.. “Some men claimed they ‘find women scary’ as a poll found that 43 per cent of people aged 18 to 34 from the island nation say they are virgins.”

From samurai culture to afraid of girls in just three generations.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Compare and contrast: Thousands of randy Scots sign up to ‘Uber for escorts’ sex delivery app.

WAIT, IS THIS ABOUT SEXBOTS OR AUTODOCS? The Machines Are Getting Ready to Play Doctor.

FROM NORTH KOREA TO ANCHORAGE AND HONOLULU: North Korea’s Hwasong-14 ICBM. A Hwasong-14 was test-fired on July 4th.

LAST WEEK: I wish we could have a dreamy liberal President like France does!

THIS WEEK: Macron says Africa’s problems are “civilizational” and blames women with “7 or 8” kids. A repugnant speech.

I SUPPOSE THIS MEANS ANOTHER FIVE OR SIX PIRATES MOVIES: Johnny Depp, Ex-Business Manager Trade Blame for Lost Riches.

A preliminary skirmish is scheduled for Monday in Los Angeles, where Depp’s lawyers will ask a state judge to throw out counterclaims by the Management Group that it isn’t to blame for his extravagant spending. The management company Depp fired last year alleges the actor repeatedly ignored its warnings that his $2-million-a-month lifestyle, including $30,000 just for wine, wasn’t sustainable.

“When Depp was confronted by TMG or any of his other advisers about his spending, he most often engaged in profanity-laced tirades where he abused the professionals surrounding him and claimed that he would work harder to afford whatever new item he wanted to purchase,” the company said in a court filing.

The items Depp wanted — and paid for — included a 45-acre chateau in the South of France, a chain of islands in the Bahamas, a 150-foot luxury yacht, art works by Andy Warhol and Gustav Klimt, 70 collectible guitars, 40 full-time employees around the world and a specially made cannon that he used to blast the ashes of Hunter Thompson over Aspen, Colorado, according to his former business managers.

Nic Cage could not be reached for comment.

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BICYCLING: Bicycling’s Health Benefits May Be Outweighed By Pollution Damage.

CHANGE: Iraqi forces have fully retaken Mosul, U.S.-backed coalition confirms.

BRUCE BAWER: The Terrifying Way Sweden Is Killing Itself.

This is a country where rapes by Muslim men are systematically ignored by the authorities or responded to with minimal punishment. Routinely, Swedish courts refuse to return these monsters – some of whom have repeatedly subjected small boys and girls to violent sexual abuse – to their home countries for fear that they’ll be put in danger. In other words, Swedish judges care more about the safety of foreign rapists than that of Swedish children.

It’s a country where even prominent Swedish feminists – fanatical boosters of multiculturalism – are now moving out of Muslim-heavy neighborhoods not only because of the Muslim rapists but because of the Muslim “morality police,” who are less concerned with monitoring rapists than with controlling women’s conduct. (One such feminist organized “coffee shop meetings” with Muslim male community leaders in an attempt to resolve the situation, but gave up.)

It’s a country where the government rolls out the red carpet for returning ISIS members, giving them special benefits, in hopes that they’ll see the light and put down their weapons.

Read the whole thing.

CORD CUTTERS: Amazon Prime Households On Track To Exceed Cable TV Subs In The U.S. By Next Year.

I wonder if Jeff Bezos is considering expanding AWS into an internet provider, to take on Comcast in more than just content.

A RIGHTWARD JUDICIAL SHIFT: One of the Biggest Reasons Republicans Stick by Trump. “President Donald Trump has a big opportunity to reshape another branch of government outside his control: the federal judiciary. He has already moved swiftly to fill an unusual, inherited vacancy on the Supreme Court, and now his aides are working their way through a large number of openings on the lower federal courts. Some of his first picks are up for a Senate committee vote this month.”

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: Untreatable Gonorrhea Continues To Spread. “WHO researchers, whose findings were published in two separate studies this month, discovered that first-line antibiotics were ineffective in 50 of the 77 countries they analyzed. Resistance is also increasing in second and third-line treatments, the researchers found. Three strains of the STI were found to be resistance to all antibiotics.”

FASTER, PLEASE: Obamacare’s Basket Of Insurance Mandates Should Be The First Thing To Go.

Repeal of the mandates in this session, preferably in 2017, is a bottom line. If the mandates are not repealed, it would be a serious betrayal of voters, and grounds for mounting primary challenges to incumbents. DC politicians don’t seem to grasp that the mandates, as originally conceived, are fascistic. Justice John Roberts seemed to understand that in NFIB v. Sebelius when he wrote that the Commerce Clause doesn’t allow Congress to command Americans to buy things. But then he concluded that the command (i.e., mandate) was really an option, and that the penalty was really a tax, thus saving Obamacare (while creating a whole new chapter in American jurisprudential incoherence).

If the mandates are repealed, many young folks will opt to go without health insurance. But that can be a rational decision. A young person wishing to amass funds to buy a house, or start a family or a business might decide that taking the risk of having no health insurance is worth it. Maybe youngsters would decide differently if health insurance weren’t so damned expensive.

And maybe, just maybe, they should be allowed to make that decision for themselves without coercion.

I LIKE MINE WELL-DONE WITH KETCHUP: CDC Advises Against Eating Rare Walrus. #MakeWalrusGreatAgain

CHANGE IT BACK: Trump Administration May Begin Sending Terrorists to Guantanamo Again.

PROCUREMENT: Navy Lays Keel for Latest Attack Submarine USS Oregon.

“Oregon is going to be put to work the minute it’s launched because the demand signal is at the highest level,” said U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, a Connecticut Democrat.

The keel-laying comes at a time when many in Congress and in the military are eager to get more submarines into the fleet. Groton, Connecticut-based Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia have an agreement to build two attack submarines annually.

The House and Senate Armed Services Committees have each approved bills to authorize building three submarines instead of two in some years, and also authorize additional funding to prepare for the increased work.

“It’s really a robust, bipartisan recognition that submarines are the stealthiest, strongest and most survivable among most of our naval assets,” said U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat.

The Oregon is one of a group of submarines with design changes so the submarines will need one less period in the shipyard for maintenance over their lifespan, according to the Navy. Consequently, they will be able to do one more deployment over their lifespan, for a total of 15 deployments.

The Virginia-class attack boats have been a rare procurement win for the Navy in recent years.

I DUNNO, THERE’S A LOT OF MONEY TO BE MADE IN OUTRAGE, AND SOMEBODY’S GOT TO KEEP THE DEMOCRATS’ BASE ANGRY: Angelo Codevilla: Cooling Our Overheated Politics.

DRAIN THE SWAMP: Trump Jr. touts hundreds of VA firings. “A great start, need to get replace bureaucrats w thinkers: Hundreds of VA officials fired since Trump’s inauguration.”

THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE: Bear Bites Teen At Colorado Camp, Attacks On The Rise With 100 ‘Conflict Situations’ Reported In 1 Week.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: The Quantity And Quality Of Law School Applicants.

DELAWARE SENATOR CHRIS COONS: Lone Insurer Could Exit State’s Marketplace.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Mosul liberation will not be end of ISIS.

And on the question of “What to do with the corpses of Islamic State fighters?” I’d recommend forcing survivors or local sympathizers to perform the cleanup and burial duties — and without any heavy equipment or traditional rites.

OUTDATED STEREOTYPES AND URBAN PLANNING:

Removing the bane of most employees’ morning routine—a long slog from the suburbs to a workplace in the city center—turns out might also be the most potent way to reduce carbon emissions. You don’t need to be well-versed in the complexities of labor economics to grasp this simple concept: teleworking reduces infrastructure costs for municipalities and limits transportation expenses for workers, both in terms of time wasted and money spent riding trains, metros, and busses.

And as an article from City Journal notes, the number of teleworkers now almost rivals the number of strap-hangers across the country. . . .

The effects of these combined changes are only set to grow.

And yet urban planners persist in their folly of “investing” tens of billions of dollars on urban rail projects that, between the coming of autonomous vehicles and the growing role of telework, will almost certainly be underutilized. Those elephants you see before you, dear urbanists: they’re white, not green. An environmentally-conscious urbanism should be looking to create a favorable business climate for the tech-heavy and emissions-light businesses of the future.

Light rail offers enormous opportunities for graft. The other stuff not so much.