JOHN HINDERAKER: Why Does Harvard Hate Asians?

CAMPUS PC CULTURE DEFINED: Prof. Bret Weinstein: ‘What I Have Seen Functions…Like A Cult.’

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ADAM SMITH: Born on June 16, 1723 (NS).  “Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”

OPEN THREAD: Thread ’em if you got ’em.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Beauty pageant contestants aren’t #MeToo victims.

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM AND SICKNESS? Why Washington DC Is One Of The Worst Places To Be Black And Pregnant.

GREAT MOMENTS IN GASLIGHTING, FROM THE NETWORK THAT BRINGS YOU AL SHARPTON AND BRIAN WILLIAMS:

● Shot: Chuck Todd: “Every one of my colleagues grounds their arguments in facts.”

● Chaser: “@AliVelshi is reading straight from the bible right now on @msnbc regarding immigration. Must watch.”

HEH:

FREEMAN DYSON: “The important invention in a way for the human species was grandparents. Grandparents were the beginning of culture when we could sit around the cave fire and the grandparents would sing songs to the children and the parents would be out hunting so having three generations was what made us what we are.”

AND THEY DEMONSTRATE THAT EVERY DAY: Becket Adams: Dear White House press corps: There is such a thing as a stupid question.

CHARLIE MARTIN: The Deep State is an Organism, not a Conspiracy.

I love the photo atop Charlie’s post.

THERANOS: HOW ONE COMPANY SCAMMED SILICON VALLEY. AND HOW IT GOT CAUGHT. A review of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by the Wall Street Journal’s John Carreyrou.

And if you missed it yesterday, U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani.

TAR. FEATHERS. Unable to Ban Guns, Lawmakers Want to Weaponize the ATF Against Gun Dealers.

HMMMM: Trump’s alpha dog strategy is making the world fall into line, Michael Walsh writes at the New York Post.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): “A 33-year-old school counselor is accused of having sex with a ninth-grade student nearly a dozen times and even told the student’s sister that she would leave her husband for him, according to an arrest affidavit.”

ANTHONY BOURDAIN—WHAT THE MEDIA EULOGIES LEFT OUT:

If only Bourdain had demonstrated 1/100 of his vaunted “spunk” and “feistiness” against a regime that jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin during the Great Terror, murdered more Cubans than Hitler murdered Germans during the Night of Long Knives, and craved to nuke his homeland.

It’s an old story, actually. Now where had we seen this lion to lamb metamorphosis before? Well, try Dan Rather, Andrea Mitchell, Barbara Walters, etc. etc. etc. when visiting the Castro-Family-Fiefdom.  They say weird things happen in the Bermuda Triangle. I say much weirder things happen in the Florida Straits.

No wonder he felt so at home with CNN.

THE IG REPORT AND THE LEGACY OF OBAMA:

Eight years is a short time for the FBI to go from a respected institution to a partisan arm of the White House, but it happened right under our noses, with the media doing its best to keep us in the dark.

Fundamentally transformed, you might say. Read the whole thing.

A LOOK AT the 2019 BMW 8-Series.

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FASTER, PLEASE: Indonesia and ThorCon continue working towards thorium reactor.

JOE PAPPALARDO: The Time I Thought a Mars Rover Spoke To Me On a Barstool.

MERKEL’S LAST WEEK? ‘We might have a new situation’ German MP predicts Merkel could be ousted end of next week.

One probably shouldn’t ask, “How could it get any worse?”, when the nation in question is Germany.

(Headline via the Drudge Report.)

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21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Electronic skin stretched to new limits.