8 DIFFERENT WAYS TO COOK WITH YOUR GRILL.

TYLER O’NEIL: 10 Despicable Attacks Blaming President Trump for the Annapolis Capital Gazette Shooting.

FASTER, PLEASE: ‘Living Constitution’ Faces a Mercy Killing.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Flashback: A Living Constitution On The Right?

CHANGE: California Passes Groundbreaking Consumer Data Privacy Law With Fines for Violations.

California has passed a sweeping privacy law that gives consumers the right to demand that their data be deleted and to bar companies from selling their data without them losing access to services or being charged a higher price.

The bill, passed today by the state’s legislature and quickly signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, affects all companies that do business in the state and collect data. It requires those businesses to disclose information they store, what purpose it’s for, and with which third parties it’s shared.

For data breaches, consumers may be able to sue for up to $750 for each violation, while the state attorney general can sue for intentional violations of privacy at up to $7,500 each. For both consumer and state lawsuits, companies have to be given 30 days to fix the problem.

I’m just curious why an offense against the state is worth ten times more than an offense against the individual.

LONGEVITY UPDATE: How Long Can We Live? The Limit Hasn’t Been Reached, Study Finds. “The mortality rate flattens among the oldest of the old, a study of elderly Italians concludes, suggesting that the oldest humans have not yet reached the limits of life span.”

WHAT IF SPARTACUS HAD A PIPER CUB? If Lenin Had Been Trans.

(Classical reference in headline.)

ALLAHPUNDIT ASKS, GENTLY: Will McCain Resign To Give McConnell An Extra Vote On Trump’s SCOTUS Nominee?

WHENEVER REPUBLICANS ARE WINNING, DEMOCRATS WANT TO CHANGE THE RULES: Psychiatrists Call for Rollback of Policy Banning Discussion of Public Figures’ Mental Health. But remember, that rule wasn’t formulated to protect politicians. It was formulated to protect the psychiatric profession.

JUST DON’T ACCUSE THEM OF WANTING OPEN BORDERS: Hundreds of Women’s March Protesters Arrested in Senate Office Building. “They chanted ‘Abolish ICE’ and donned foil blankets like those given to child detainees in photos of Texas border processing facilities.”

TOO LATE: We can’t afford news media blunders in the Donald Trump era. Skip the cheap smear tactics. “Two recent news media fumbles illustrate nicely the present divide between mainstream journalism’s ambitions and its chronically blundering execution. There is a reason that American trust of the news is at such historic lows. There are things journalists can do to rectify this, if we care to.” If.

FAKE NEWS: NBC: Trump Began Child-Separation Pilot Program In … October 2016?

THE “FAKE NEWS” TORPEDO THAT THE DEFEATED HILLARY CAMPAIGN AIMED AT TRUMP HAS CIRCLED AROUND: Journalists Blame Trump For Annapolis Shooting Despite Complete Lack Of Evidence. “When 72 percent of Americans say ‘traditional major news sources report news they know to be fake, false or purposely misleading,’ responding to a mass shooting by promulgating knowingly false narratives is not okay.”

I had a girlfriend who was a journalist. She quit and went into PR because, she said, PR was “more ethical.”

WE WARNED YOU ABOUT “HATE SPEECH” AND “HATE CRIME” LAWS, BUT DID ANYBODY LISTEN? Cops Arrested a Black Man. He Called Them Nazis, So He Was Charged With a Hate Crime.

SULTANS GOTTA SULTANATE: Jordan, Saudis and Palestinians Warn Israel: Erdogan Operating in East Jerusalem Under Your Nose.

Senior officials in Amman and Ramallah told Israel that Turkey was extending its influence in the Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem. Israeli defense officials told Haaretz they are aware of the situation and that the issue is now receiving more attention.

Turkey’s attempts to gain influence in East Jerusalem have been monitored by Israel’s security services for more than a year. Israeli sources pointed to a number of ways in which Turkey is increasing its presence in the city.

These include donations to Islamic organizations in Arab neighborhoods; organized tours arranged by Islamist groups in Turkey, some closely affiliated with Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), which have brought thousands of Turkish citizens to Jerusalem over the past year; and the prominent presence of Turkish activists in demonstrations around the Temple Mount (known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif).

Jordanian officials have accused Israel of “sleeping at the wheel” with regard to the phenomenon. They have also claimed Israel was slow to react to Turkey’s growing presence in East Jerusalem because of the reconciliation agreement signed between the two countries in early 2016, which they say Israel didn’t want to endanger by acting more forcefully against Turkish activity in the city.

The Israelis aren’t exactly renowned for resting on the laurels when national security is at stake, but we’ll see what Jerusalem does next.

Related: It’s Time to Put Turkey’s Ally Status on Probation.

A NARRATIVE TOO FAR: Reuters editor apologizes, could be disciplined after blaming Capital Gazette shooting on Trump.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot: Republicans’ increasing monopoly on American government.

—Headline, the Washington Post, yesterday.

● Chaser: We Are All Socialists Now.

—Cover story of the then-Washington Post-owned Newsweek, February 9, 2009.

What on earth happened in the years between to cause the disparity between those two headlines?

PUSHBACK: Iran reopens uranium plant in its latest gamble.

The mullahs are hoping to threaten us into another Obama-style cash infusion to buy themselves more time, but that’s not going to happen.

SPENGLER: The Prince, the President, and the Providence of the Temple.

The European states were not concocted in the laboratory of liberal political theory. Nor did they arise from mere agglomeration of tribes. Tribal society requires no state. Where it persists, for example in Papua New Guinea, nearly a thousand languages each are spoken by an average of a few thousand people. The European states arose out of the ruins of Rome with a sacred purpose, around monarchies founded in emulation of the biblical kings of Israel: the Merovingians under the guidance of St. Gregory of Tours, the Spanish Visigoths with St. Isidor of Seville, and the kingdom of St. Stephen in Hungary. After the fall of Rome, the Church turned the Germanic, Slavic and Magyar invaders into Christian European kingdoms, as the English historian Father Adrian Hastings showed in his 1996 book The Construction of Nationhood.

As an American I believe that republican government as provided by our Constitution is the best form of government–surely the best for us–but I recognize that the sense of the sacred can be embodied in different ways. Conservatives devote a great deal of thought to Constitutional theory, the plumbing of the American republic; we need to give more thought to what drives the steam through the pipes.

Read the whole thing.

AS OUR LAST PRESIDENT SAID, PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Professor demands Title IX investigation after Northeastern prof calls for hatred of men.

A University of Michigan-Flint professor is calling for a Title IX investigation at Northeastern University in response to a column by one of the school’s professors that openly advocated hatred against men.

Mark Perry, a professor of economics and finance at University of Michigan-Flint, submitted a request earlier this month to Northeastern’s Title IX department staff in response to sociology Professor Suzanna Walters’ Washington Post op-ed titled “Why can’t we hate men?”

In the op-ed, Walters, who is also director of Northeastern’s Women’s, Gender and Sexual Studies Program, wrote that it is “logical to hate men,” implying that if women do not hate men, they are not real feminists. She also suggested that in order for men to truly help push female equality they must “vote for feminist women only. Don’t run for office. Don’t be in charge of anything. Step away from the power.”

“And please know that your crocodile tears won’t be wiped away by us anymore. We have every right to hate you,” she added.

In an email to Northeastern, a copy of which was obtained by The College Fix, Perry argues that Walters violated the school’s own “Policy on Equal Opportunity” which “prohibits discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, religious creed, genetic information, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, veteran or disability status.”

“She has not only publically demonized and belittled all males at Northeastern University, she called out publically for the universal hatred of all men, including all men at your university,” he wrote. “That makes Ms. Walters a confirmed sexist and bigot in violation of Title IX and your university’s own stated policies that prohibit such discrimination.”

Perry suggested that Northeastern should prevent Walters from teaching male students, or have sway on decisions relating to male colleagues in her department, and be forced to partake in diversity training/anger management courses to address her sexism.

They’re going to hate the new rules.

DO NOT QUESTION MY AUTHORITY:

Next up: Legislation equating Pi to 3, because California is sophisticated like that.

BLUE WAVE BLUES: Poll Highlights Democrats’ Major Disadvantage in 2020. “Three septuagenarians lead the pack of Democratic presidential candidates.”

While it’s far too early to make any predictions, from today’s vantage the 2020 Democratic field looks likely to be a collection of aged insiders and youthful “democratic” socialists.

HIGH COURT CONSERVATIVES FLUBBED A BIG ONE: When New Deal liberals weaponized the federal bureaucracy, one of their main tools was the creation of administrative subpoenas that empower unaccountable officials to invade your property and personal belongings without first persuading a judge to approve the action. Think bank accounts. Cell phone call logs. Email messages.

Mark J. Fitzgibbons argues today in LifeZette that the five conservatives on the Supreme Court had an opportunity to restrain the issuance of administrative subpoenas in Carpenter v United States, decided on June 22. Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the Court’s four liberals in ruling police must get a warrant with a showing of probable cause before enforcing an administrative subpoena. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Goresuch and Anthony Kennedy dissented.

Fitzgibbons explains why this decision was an opportunity lost and his reasoning and look back in history to the Common Law origins of the Fourth Amendment as the Founders understood is well worth pouring yourself a fresh cup of java and sitting down to read a lucid analysis and warning.

GODSPEED: EFF Sues to Invalidate FOSTA, an Unconstitutional Internet Censorship Law.

We are asking a court to declare the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017 (“FOSTA”) unconstitutional and prevent it from being enforced. The law was written so poorly that it actually criminalizes a substantial amount of protected speech and, according to experts, actually hinders efforts to prosecute sex traffickers and aid victims.

In our lawsuit, two human rights organizations, an individual advocate for sex workers, a certified non-sexual massage therapist, and the Internet Archive, are challenging the law as an unconstitutional violation of the First and Fifth Amendments. Although the law was passed by Congress for the worthy purpose of fighting sex trafficking, its broad language makes criminal of those who advocate for and provide resources to adult, consensual sex workers and actually hinders efforts to prosecute sex traffickers and aid victims.

Despite good intentions, it’s a bad law most likely to harm those its sponsors sought to protect.