FLASHBACK: Why Is It a Crime to Evade Government Scrutiny?

HMM: Unintended weight loss identified as second highest cancer risk factor. “Unintended weight loss in people older than 60 exceeded the 3 percent risk threshold for urgent investigation, according to guidelines by Britain’s National Institute for Health Research.”

This has been traditional medical wisdom since Hippocrates.

BLUE ON BLUE: Texas Students Call for ‘Revolutionary Violence’ Against Black Feminist Prof Accused of Rape.

WELL, THEY AREN’T LEGAL RESIDENTS: Dreamers in Arizona are no longer eligible for cheaper in-state tuition, court rules.

AT AMAZON, deals in PC Gaming.

JOE PAPPALARDO: The Rocket Fuel Rivalry Shaping the Future of Spaceflight.

NOT THE ONION: Pennsylvania School District Arms Its Teachers — With 16-Inch Baseball Bats.

As the Erie Times-News reports, roughly 500 teachers in Millcreek will be armed with the bats. Schools Superintendent William Hall admitted,“The bats are more symbolic than anything. However, we do want to have one consistent tool to have at somebody’s disposal in a classroom in the event they have to fight.” Referring to a 2008 Department of Homeland Security report that recommended first running away, or, if possible hiding, or as a last resort fighting if a school attacker showed up, he added, “It’s not about just hiding and waiting. There are options, and one of those is to fight.”

Jon Cacchione, president of the Millcreek Education Association, the union representing district teachers, said, “It’s to make people comfortable with the idea that they can attack and not simply go into hard lockdown and just hide, as we’d been told in our training up to this point.”

Hall said the district ordered 600 baseball bats that cost roughly $1,800 for a training session that was held.

Instapundit has obtained an exclusive video of how the dimensions of the bat were determined (language warning):

IT’S ALWAYS SOMETHING: Central Bank of Iran blames Telegram app for currency fluctuation.

The governor of the Central Bank of Iran Valiollah Seif has said that lack of trust, social media (including the Telegram messaging app) as well as the UAE and Saudi Arabia are the reasons behind the weakening national currency, rial.

“We are not in the ordinary situation and our enemies are continuing to plot,” Valiollah Seif told Iranian parliament on Tuesday.

Iranian rial hit an all-time low against the US dollar on Monday and fell to 6,460 by afternoon on the unregulated currency market.

“The country is in a balanced situation and these crises which are created by our enemies in the social media should not make us worry,” he added.

The governor further blamed the social media for publicizing the market news and prices.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that decades of economic mismanagement by the Mullahs’ regime might have a little something to do with the country’s woes.

HAVE WE FORGOTTEN TOM DELAY? Yes, rogue prosecutors do try to take out elected leaders; one of them may face jail. Ted Stevens?

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Is Your Computer Slow? Here’s How to Check if It’s Being Used by Cryptominers.

ROGER KIMBALL: The Trump Resistance™ is the greatest show in town.

OH: Moms Demand Action’s Shannon Watts Mum About Member Who Bullied Teenage Girls.

EVERGREEN HEADLINE: Klimate-Change Kooks Still At It.

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past, to coin a phrase.

SHOCKER: Zuck’s Prepared Testimony Omits Everything That Happened From 2008-2012.

Related: Funny, When Obama Harvested Facebook Data On Millions Of Users To Win In 2012, Everyone Cheered. That’s different because shut up.

PRIVATIZING OPERATION CHOKEPOINT: Bank of America will no longer lend to companies that make ‘military-style’ weapons.

Flashback: Wells Fargo Resists Union Threats Aimed at Getting It to Drop Gun Manufacturer Clients.

CHARLOTTE ALLEN: The Hardening of Leftist Contempt. It will be returned threefold, and they won’t like it.

TRUMP NOMINATES MORE JUDGES, and Jonathan Adler likes them.

RACISM, STRAIGHT UP: Los Angeles paints its streets WHITE to beat sizzling summer heat as part of 20-year plan to combat the effects of climate change.

BLESS HER HEART: Molly Ringwald Tries to Make The Breakfast Club a MeToo Moment.

Ringwald’s essay is suffused with a sense of sorrow and rebuke, competing with a sheepish suspicion that she is being a tad ungrateful for what Hughes did for her. The National Lampoon writer-turned-filmmaker, who died in 2009 and can no more defend himself than Pope Formosus can, plucked her headshot out of a stack of photos and began inventing scenarios for the girl he imagined her to be. Without Hughes, there would be no Ringwald. Ringwald’s scolding of him is a bit hard to justify: She explains how she feared it would cause distress to her daughter, with whom she viewed The Breakfast Club recently, to watch the scene in which Bender (Judd Nelson) crawls under the desk and peeks up the skirt of Ringwald’s character, Claire. It is implied that he touches her inappropriately. This scene didn’t involve any exploitation of Ringwald, because an adult body double filmed it. Ringwald’s daughter isn’t bothered by it. It’s the sort of thing directors have randy teens do in larkish high-school comedies because kids watching know they can’t actually get away with it in school. Yet Ringwald is determined to make a thing of it.

Of course she is. Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: “But if the revisionist attacks on Hughes go much beyond what Ringwald has done here, I will be putting a knife in my teeth and flinging myself over the trenches and leading the charge in the culture war. Hughes simply must be defended, both because he was a singular talent and because he could be considered the most overtly America-loving filmmaker since Frank Capra. In this respect, an unstated issue here explains why Ringwald might be looking back and seeing herself in these films at the center of a worldview she doesn’t like. Hughes was allegedly a Republican, but as anyone familiar with the personalities coming out of National Lampoon in the 1970s knows, he most likely had a very libertarian perspective that was really a counterculture to counterculture.”

REVEALED: China’s Nuclear-Capable Air-Launched Ballistic Missile.

According to U.S. government sources with knowledge of the latest intelligence assessments on the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, China has conducted five flight tests of the unnamed missile. The U.S. intelligence community is calling the new missile the CH-AS-X-13.

The missile was first tested in December 2016 and was most recently tested in the last week of January 2018, according to one source. In recent years, the directors of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) have made reference to this nuclear-capable ALBM in their two most recent on-record worldwide threat assessments.

The two most recent tests of the system involved aerial launches off a modified H-6K strategic bomber capable of being refueled while in the air.

The new bomber, dubbed the H6X1/H-6N by the U.S. intelligence community, has been modified from standard variant H-6s for the ALBM delivery mission. The modifications have been made by Xi’an Aircraft Industrial Corporation, the manufacturer of all H-6 bomber variants since the late-1950s. The H6X1/H-6N may have been the subject of speculation in August 2017, when an image of an unidentified H-6 variant appeared on Chinese social media.

The CH-AS-X-13, meanwhile, is a two-stage, solid-fuel ballistic missile with a 3,000 kilometer range; it is likely a variant of the DF-21 medium-range ballistic missile.

That’s a potent combination with a lot of reach.

BRUCE BAWER: The Insanity of Open Borders.

THIS TOWN NEEDS AN ENEMA: Cynthia Nixon Is Ripping The NY Democratic Party Apart.

Jazz Shaw:

Unless there’s a radical change in the polls over the next month or two, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is in little danger of being booted to the curb by Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon. But even if she doesn’t manage to take the Governor’s office, it’s looking more and more as if Nixon will have a lasting effect. The Empire State’s Democratic Party is currently undergoing an identity crisis as some of the most vocal and established activist groups square off against one another in a fight to see whether they should veer further to the left or stick with mainstream, machine politics which have kept them in power. And some of those voices are already picking sides, seeing something in Nixon which rings a chord in their Berniecrat hearts.

Read the whole thing.

(Classical reference in the headline.)

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Stanford started a Title IX inquiry into a graduate based on allegations from eight years earlier.

UH-HUH: Zuckerberg tells Congress ‘we didn’t do enough’ to prevent privacy crises that rock Facebook.

Zero privacy is Facebook’s entire business model.