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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: ICE, ICE Baby and Much, Much More. “The sicko activist media and progressive agitators were sorely disappointed yesterday to learn that a shooter who attacked an Annapolis, Maryland newspaper did not turn out to be an unhinged MAGA moron.”

COTTON ON THE WINGS: An F/A-18 Super Hornet makes a high-speed turn over the carrier USS Harry S. Truman.

AN IMPORTANT REMINDER:

She’s too modest to say so herself, but you should take her words to heart because Salena is one of those small-town journalists who through hard work, a little luck, but mostly by listening made it to the bigs.

SHOCKER: Pew: Social media companies back liberals, 72% ‘censor’ views they don’t like.

CREDENTIALED, NOT EDUCATED: Why Corporate Recruiters Shouldn’t Be So Obsessed With Prestigious College Degrees.

One reason that businesses struggle to find capable workers is because they have increased their hiring from top-level universities, said Byron Auguste, CEO of the workforce training nonprofit Opportunity@Work. The problem is that these schools haven’t increased the number of students enrolled to match the demand, he explained.

Additionally, an education from a prestigious university doesn’t necessarily correlate to being a good worker, said Garrett Moran, the president of another workforce training nonprofit, Year Up. Companies that automatically ignore prospective job candidates who lack higher education degrees are simply being lazy and are merely screening for keywords on a person’s resume, he explained.

Moran said that there’s “so many young people who just never had a shot” that are getting lost in the existing hiring system. These youth and young adults are just “dying for success, dying for mentorship,” he said.

There’s a huge competitive advantage to be gained by companies willing to hire based on aptitude over pedigree.

SELF-SERVE: California Gas Tax Repeal is on November Ballot.

IT’S BEGINNING TO DAWN ON THE NYT THAT TRUMP DOESN’T ACTUALLY JUST BLUNDER ABOUT LIKE A TODDLER WHO OCCASIONALLY GETS A LUCKY BREAK: Inside the White House’s Quiet Campaign to Create a Supreme Court Opening.

LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: A minimum-wage worker in Venezuela could afford 5 cups of coffee each month — and nothing else.

Five million Venezuelan bolivars is the equivalent of $1.45. It’s also roughly a minimum-wage worker’s entire monthly salary in the South American country.

Thanks to stunning inflation, it now takes 1 million bolivars to buy a cup of coffee in a Venezuelan cafe, Bloomberg reports. That’s one-fifth of Venezuela’s monthly minimum wage, and a 10,000-bill stack of Venezuela’s most common bank note, the 100-bolivar bill.

If you have to ask what it costs to have a socialist-leaning hipster serve that cup of coffee, you can’t afford it.

I’VE WRITTEN SEVERAL TIMES ABOUT ZAEVION DOBSON. He would have turned 18 today.

PRIVACY: Facebook might not spy on you now, but it has a patent for the ability. “A future where TV commercials prompt our phones to record our reactions?”

It’s not uncommon for people to think that Facebook is spying on their conversations when online ads appear to advertise something they discussed offline. The reality is often simply coincidence or more often based on cookies when searching online for something related.

But that doesn’t mean Facebook doesn’t know how to spy on users — even if the company swears it won’t use the technology.

I didn’t trust them before this patent.

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Little House on the Racist Prairie.

Call them cranks. Laugh all you want. Consider the ALSC kooks — but this latest effort to eradicate Laura Ingalls Wilder from our collective culture should scare you to death.

It means the modern Left isn’t afraid of anything in their effort to fundamentally transform America. No target is too beloved by Americans to slow these gangsters down. No hill is too high for them to climb. No matter how many millions and millions of Americans love the Little House books and the 1970s TV series, the Left will target it — and anything else that promotes core American values of self-reliance, independence, and endless possibilities.

The ALSC seeks to airbrush Wilder out of our American consciousness for two proffered justifications: the treatment of Indians in the books; and a minstrel show that appears in Little Town on the Prairie.

These are just pretexts, for reasons I’ll explain shortly.

Read the whole thing.

IN USA TODAY, I suggest Don Willett to replace Justice Kennedy.

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POLICE DEPLOYED TO NEWSROOMS IN N.Y. AND CHICAGO IN WAKE OF ANNAPOLIS SHOOTING.

A MOTION FROM THE FLOOR: “Proposed that anyone who reposts or quotes “Occupy Democrats” be blocked and reported to Facebook for spreading “fake news” and/or “hate speech.”
DO I HAVE A SECOND ON THE MOTION?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jarrod-ramos-annapolis-shooting-suspect-identified-maryland-shooting-capital-gazette-today-2018-06-28/

**Update: Reuters editor showed his true colors, but credit to EIC Adler who shot it down:
https://www.reuters.com/article/rpb-62818statement/june-28-statement-from-steve-adler-editor-in-chief-reuters-regarding-rob-cox-tweet-idUSKBN1JP039

IF THIS BOTHERS YOU, YOU DON’T BELONG IN COLLEGE: Students complain that prof’s op-ed made them feel bad.

OPEN THREAD: Comment away.

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Flashback: A “Living Constitution” On The Right?

CHANGE: US GDP growth could hit 15 year high and US dollar is surging.

HIS NAME IS JARROD WARREN RAMOS: Capital Gazette Shooter Identified As Maryland Man Who Sued Paper. I expect coverage to fade fast.

IN USA TODAY, I suggest Don Willett to replace Justice Kennedy.

IT FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME: New research has uncovered a simple trick anyone can do that seems to breathe new life and enjoyment into activities we’ve performed countless times before, making old experiences seem fresh all over again.

GUNMAN OPENS FIRE ON ANNAPOLIS NEWSROOM, AT LEAST 5 KILLED:

The suspect, a white male in his 20s who used a shotgun, didn’t have identification on him and has not been cooperative with investigators in revealing his identity. CBS News reported that the shooter inflicted damage to his fingertips in an effort to not be identified by prints.

A backpack belonging to the gunman was reportedly found and contained smoke bombs or flash-bang grenades. Police said they were confident that there were no more explosives at the scene.

The Baltimore Sun, which owns the Gazette, said staffers were hiding under their desks during the shooting when they heard the gunfire cease.

Officials said there was no exchange of gunfire between the shooter and police, and that the suspect was found hiding under a desk.

Developing.