VIRGINIA POSTREL: Four Tips for Advocates of Abundant Housing.

LAYERS OF EDITORS AND FACT-CHECKERS: ABC RETRACTS REPORTING THAT PAUL MANAFORT PLEADED GUILTY TO MANSLAUGHTER.

ABC later tweeted a correction and apologized for the error.

“We regret and apologize for the false lower third graphic that aired during our special report,” they wrote. “We are investigating how incorrect information was in our system and how and why it was allowed to air.”

“There is simply no excuse for this sort of mistake,” they added.

Nope, but these “mistakes” sure seem to lean in one direction.

FROM MY INCREDIBLY TALENTED FRIEND, SHIRA TOMBOULIAN:  Journeys.

SPYING ON REPORTERS: Nothing new, but this week’s Daily Caller column takes a look at how the groundwork was laid by Obama — and others — going as far back as 1917. Dissent must always be observed in order to crush it.

INDEED. ALWAYS THE QUESTION:  Immigration – Cui Non Bono?

AN ENDEAVOR THAT WILL OCCUPY HISTORIANS FOR GENERATIONS:  Understanding Hillary’s crimes.

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, JUNE 21, 1788, NEW HAMPSHIRE RATIFIED THE CONSTITUTION, THUS CREATING OUR CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER: Article VII called for at least 9 states to agree before the Constitution would go into effect (whether or not the remaining 4 states joined in).  New Hampshire was the 9th, and thus its act was enough to declare the Constitution officially ratified.

But two of the largest states–Virginia and New York–were still not in, so few expected this as the end of the story.  Indeed, Virginia ratified only four days later (June 25), and New York signed on a month later on July 26, 1788.

The last two of the original 13 took much longer.  During the summer of 1788, North Carolina’s first ratifying convention declined to either ratify or reject the Constitution.  North Carolina ultimately had to start the process again with a new convention, which ratified on November 21, 1789.  By that point, George Washington was already President.  Rhode Island didn’t ratify until May 29, 1790.  Rhode Island had been told in no uncertain terms that if it didn’t ratify, it would be treated as a foreign nation for the purposes of trade, etc.  That was enough “persuasion.”

THERE WAS NEVER A CASE:  Harvard’s experts undercut the case for race-based admissions.

WHEN ACTUALLY THE ENTIRE POINT OF SEPARATING “FAMILIES” AT THE BORDER IS TO MAKE SURE THE CHILDREN AREN’T WITH PEDOPHILES:  Peter Fonda Posts Vile Twitter Rant: Wants Barron Trump In Cage With Pedophiles .

THEY REALLY LIKE AUTHORITARIANISM:  Democrats Are Back In Love With Executive Orders.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO… OH, H*LL I’M HEART SICK:  Child who washed ashore identified, mom and girlfriend arrested.

SURE. BUT WE STILL SHOULD ALLOW EVERYONE IN FOR THE VIBRANT DIVERSITY/SARCASM:  Undocumented immigrant confesses to killing prostitutes, dumping bodies in street: cops.

GOOD:  College student who lied about campus rape sentenced to jail.

OH YEAH, THAT’LL WORK OUT JUST FINE:  California Dreamin’.

PROFESSORS WHO WANT TO DISMANTLE THE BASIS OF SCIENCE, OTOH, THOSE CAN CAUSE REAL HARM TO CIVILIZATION:  Professor: Learning Math Can Cause ‘Collateral Damage’ to Society.

OH, THAT DEEP STATE: DOJ Employee Among Commie Mob that Hounded DHS Secretary out of Mexican Restaurant.

IT’S THE 93rd ANNIVERSARY OF AUDIE MURPHY‘S BIRTH:  Remember when every American boy and girl knew who he was?

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Cornell denies student his Ph.D. – and may expel him – for allegedly defending professor against rape claim.

INTERVIEW: Penn Law’s Amy Wax on Being Ousted from Her First-Year Class Over Comments on Race, Performance and Bourgeois Values, Attacks on Free Speech, Criticism of Affirmative Action and Diversity, Anti-Western Colleges. “I think one of the downsides of diversity has been the death of open inquiry, academic values and free debate. I think diversity has produced orthodoxy, and that’s been very detrimental to the academy.”

OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves in the comments.

VITAMIN D UPDATE: Low vitamin D linked to scarring lung disease.

TROLL LEVEL: GRANDMASTER.

Don’t worry, the Republicans, and your President, will fix it! pic.twitter.com/xsbuPzXbHj

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 20, 2018

BRET BAIER: Those Who Say The IG Report Is A Nothing-Burger Didn’t Read It.

IS THERE NOTHING THEY CAN’T DO? The Kochtopus Crushes Nashville Transit:

So how much of their eleven-figure net worth did the Kochs’ AFP pump into Nashville in their fell scheme to protect their precious seatbelt industry? Less than $10,000. Apparently that largely went for a mailer sent out a week before the election. For context, the proponents of the rail plan spent $2.9 million. All opponents combined spent $1.2 million. (Of that $1.2 million, most came from a group called Smarter Nashville, Inc., which by law does not have to disclose its donors.) The Kochs say they don’t control AFP activities in individual states in the first place. Anyway, they could find $2.9 million in the change cup of one of their Kochmobiles. For a couple of guys who were determined to destroy mass transit in Nashville, they didn’t seem to be trying very hard.

Heh. Read the whole thing.™

Earlier: Stop Trying to Get Workers Out of Their Cars: “Smart growth” is dumb about commuting.