RISE OF THE MACHINES: A Chinese Robot Has Performed the World’s First Automated Dental Implant.

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YOU CAN MODEL THE EFFECTS OF A NUCLEAR DETONATION OF VARIOUS SIZES with the NukeMap tool.

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EXERCISE: Quality Trumps Quantity.

TIME TO SHUT DOWN THE NFL: Attorney: Tests show Aaron Hernandez had CTE.

STEPHEN KRUISER: What is a “Republican” anymore?

Good question, although I suspect you’d get a better answer in places like Texas, Utah, or Ohio than in Washington, D.C.

GLOBAL WARMING UPDATE: ‘It’s kind of a weather roller coaster’: On last day of summer, California hit by snow, hail. “The first snow of the season came just four months after Sugar Bowl’s last ski season ended with nearly 800 inches of snowfall. . . . The snow has come about a month earlier than usual.”

Note: This is just weather, not climate. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, though are definitely climate, not weather.

OH: Iran Tests New Ballistic Missile, State Media Reports.

It has enough range to reach Israel and enough payload for a nuke.

SEX, MEN AND POLITICS: The Insta-Wife with Andrew Klavan.

IF ONLY THERE WERE SOME WAY TO KILL MOSQUITOES CHEAPLY AND IN LARGE NUMBERS: ‘Super malaria’ spreads in South East Asia.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Left-Wing Causes, Like Frankenstein’s Monster, Have Escaped Their Chains.

Three strange incidents occurred in recent weeks. Nancy Pelosi was “shouted down by immigration activists for trying to strike Dreamers deal with Trump.” Hillary Clinton’s book received disappointing reviews from the left, and former FBI director James Comey was heckled at Howard University. “Go home Comey, you’re not our homey.” The audience was turning on its performers. All were signs the once reliable Blue Model is misfiring.

Time magazine … offer a brutal assessment concerning the direction of the Democratic Party. One rallying cry from the Left is that Clinton lost because she … wasn’t left wing enough. Every time the party has gone this way in national elections, they’ve lost in a landslide. … to win back the House, to redraw congressional maps favorable to the Left—you need to rebuild the party apparatuses in the rural areas, which have all but disintegrated.

In a classic case of the law of unintended consequences, identity politics is undermining globalism instead of being its tool.

Read the whole thing, in which Richard refrains from so much as a single, well-deserved “I told you so.”

WELL, YES: School choice is crucial for African-American students’ success.

Here’s what I need to say to them, to the people of this nation, to people of color — I am involved in the school choice movement because the future of my life and your life depends upon it. Starting the state’s first charter school was one of the most significant accomplishments of my life. Because of our willingness to look beyond traditional divisions and leave beyond our tendency to only work with those with whom we are comfortable, our children of color are closing the achievement gap. African-American students in charter schools are scoring 4% higher on reading tests than those in traditional public schools and Florida charter school students are more likely to attend college. Hispanic students do 12% better than their peers at traditional public schools. These are but two of the many indicators that point to increased success for students of color because their families were empowered to find schools that better met the needs of their children.

Far too many people and organizations, like the NAACP, refuse to acknowledge this. Their recent recommendations to curb charter schools, reduce their numbers and their independence, are wrong, and they expect falsely that all people of color should follow their lead because the color of your skin should dictate who you believe. I have worked a lifetime to change this misperception, to help people see that good policies for our kids do not have a color.

“They’ll turn us all into beggars ’cause they’re easier to please.”

HEH:

OH THANK GOODNESS: Graham Says Friendship with McCain Won’t be Hurt By ‘No’ Vote on Health Bill.

POLL: Why is Trump’s approval improving? I think Hillary’s book tour reminded people of the bullet we dodged.

VALERIE PLAME WILSON HAS A LOT OF ANTI-SEMITE COMPANY ON THE LEFT.

That tape of Obama at the party for former PLO advisor Rashid Khalidi that the L.A. Times has been sitting on since 2008 must be spectacular.  

HMM. PAST A CERTAIN POINT, YOU DO NEED CLEAR REGULATION FOR SELF-DRIVING CARS, but honestly given the nonstop hacking I’m deeply skeptical that vehicle-to-vehicle communications is a good thing.

BEYOND JOLT: Travelers warned about meth-laced soda in Mexico.

LIKE THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, THEIR APPEAL HAS BECOME MORE SELECTIVE, AND FOR GOOD REASON. What the heck happened to the Democrats’ fundraising?

OBAMA’S WATERGATE: Six months later, CNN confirms what was widely reported — and ignored on the left — last March. “Vladimir Putin did not hack the election. Barack Obama did. . . . The all-smoke-no-fire Russia investigation looks increasingly like a smoke screen aimed to put out a very different fire. Rather than an investigation into malfeasance by the Trump campaign, does the Robert Mueller inquiry serve as a clean-up operation to justify Obama administration malfeasance? The bugging of the opposition party’s presidential campaign, at least when done by Republicans, ranks not only as criminal but as the biggest political scandal in American history. . . . The Obama administration using the considerable powers of the federal government to spy on a hated critic’s campaign sets a dangerous precedent. It provides future administrations a means to infiltrate the innermost circle of the opposition party’s presidential campaign. This merely requires the pretext of wrongdoing to engage in wrongdoing.”

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ANDREW MCCARTHY: Mueller Scorches The Earth: His pre-dawn raid was meant to intimidate Manafort, not just to collect evidence.

Though that doesn’t seem to have worked. Mueller should be fired. His operation is staffed with Dem partisans and leaks like a sieve. It’s a disgrace.