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ELIZABETH WARREN’S ACADEMIC CLAIM TO FAME MAY BE NO MORE LEGITIMATE THAN HER CLAIM TO BE NATIVE AMERICAN:  William A. Jacobson explains how this will be an issue if she decides to run for President.

I wrote about her highly questionable “research” on medical bankruptcies back in 2006.  If only the media (including the conservative media) had paid attention then …

NIKKI HALEY: UN Report Decrying Poverty in America Is ‘Ridiculous’ and ‘Misleading.’

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: University Of Minnesota Approves $3.6 Million Subsidy For Law School; Regent Urges School To Drop Quest To Retain Top 20 Ranking Due To Projected $100 Million 10-Year Subsidy.

I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: SpaceX wins $130 million military launch contract for Falcon Heavy.

EW: ‘Migrating’ bumps on woman’s face discovered to be parasite.

MARKETING: This “Hot Dog Water” sells for $37.99 a bottle. “The tent selling unfiltered ‘Hot Dog Water’ — literally a bottle of water with a wiener floating inside — for $37.99 a pop included some promising, if not dubious, claims. Such as helping consumers not only lose weight but also increase brain function, look younger and improve overall vitality.”

I’M HOPING FOR THE CLARENCE THOMAS MOMENT INSTEAD:  Paul Mirengoff asks, “Is This the Sandra Day O’Connor Moment?”  O’Connor said  in Grutter v. Bollinger that she expected race-preferential admissions policies would no longer be necessary in 25 years.  That was 15 years ago, and the level of preferences has, if anything, increased.

BAD NEWS FOR BABY BOOMERS: Herpesvirus may contribute to Alzheimer’s development. “The hypothesis that viruses play a part in brain disease is not new, but this is the first study to provide strong evidence based on unbiased approaches and large data sets that lends support to this line of inquiry.”

THIS VIDEO ON HELEN’S MEN ON STRIKE HAS NOW SURPASSED 1 MILLION VIEWS.

BRIDGET JOHNSON: Hate-Crimes Indictment Returned Against Minnesota Mosque Bombing Suspects. “One allegedly told investigators that they didn’t intend to kill anyone but wanted to send a message of ‘show them, hey, you’re not welcome here’.”

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Actually Pretty Popular.

When asked which policy they prefer for how to handle families that are stopped for crossing the border illegally, two-thirds of the 1,500 surveyed said they support detention for lawbreakers and less than 20 percent responded that they support previous presidential administrations’ policy of letting the lawbreakers enter the country with a promise to return for a later court date. The poll was taken June 17-19, at the height of media outrage over the policy.

When given a choice for how to handle illegal border crossing arrests, some 44 percent of Americans chose “hold families together in family detention centers until an immigration hearing at a later date.” Another 20 percent of U.S. adults chose detention options that would separate families. Only 19 percent chose to return to the policy of allowing people who cross the border illegally to go without detention on the promise they’d return for a court hearing at a later date.

The Economist/YouGov poll shows an American electorate fare more serious about border enforcement than what the media conversation would indicate.

The media’s got this — or at least they think they do.

WHAT’S BETTER THAN A SPORTS CAR? A Sports Car With Rockets!

IS THE FIX NOT QUITE ALL THE WAY IN? Erdogan’s gamble on snap elections in Turkey could backfire.

The President faces his toughest political challenge yet, in snap elections Sunday that Erdogan himself called. Turkish voters go to the polls to elect both a president and a new parliament, and for the first time in more than a decade, they have an array of strong candidates to choose from.

Erdogan’s grandiose rallies have become an expected part of any Turkish election, but they appear to have been eclipsed Wednesday, as main opposition candidate Muharrem Ince drew what looked like the largest crowd in the elections period yet.
In the town of Izmir, hundreds of thousands of Ince supporters in a sea of red Turkish flags stretched for kilometers down a promenade on the Aegean coast, as the charismatic former high school physics teacher promised to end the nepotism of the Erdogan government.

“Erdogan is tired, he has no joy and he is arrogant,” he said.

“On the one hand you have a tired man, and on the other you have fresh blood.”

Whether he wins or loses this weekend, the damage Erdogan has done to Turkey’s political and religious culture will outlast him.

WELL, PEOPLE CERTAINLY DRANK MORE OF IT: Did Whiskey Taste Better In The 1800s?

CALEB HOWE: AP Deliberately Manipulates—Then Stealth Updates—Immigration Horror Story to Tie Obama-Era Abuse Case to Trump.

I do think of them as Democratic operatives with bylines and it does all make sense.

EVERYBODY’S TRANSITIONING THESE DAYS: As We Approach The Drinkularity, It’s Time To Grant Bourbon Personhood.

On second thought, no. Wouldn’t that make us cannibals for drinking the stuff?

YOU STAY CLASSY, WAPO: Washington Post Begins Krauthammer’s Obituary By Blaming Him for the Iraq War.

JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRAT PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Oops! NBC’s John Heilemann: ‘We’ Have a Great Chance to Punish Trump, GOP.

SPOILER ALERT: NOT VERY WELL. Thirty Years On, How Well Do Global Warming Predictions Stand Up?