SURPRISE! FBI DIDN’T REVIEW ALL 700K CLINTON EMAILS ON HUMA’S LAPTOP: Former FBI Director James Comey told Congress and the world that agents reviewed all of the nearly 700,000 Clinton email messages found on the Huma Abedin/Anthony Weiner laptop just before the 2016 election.

But now Real Clear Investigations’ Paul Sperry reveals that Comey’s claim was an outright lie. The truth is, as outrageous as was the FBI whitewash in July 2016 of Clinton’s extensive misuse of classified information with her homebrew email between 2009 and 2015, it pales in blatant, outright falsification with the October Surprise.

I know, you aren’t surprised and neither am I, but Sperry uncovers all kinds of facts that show the corruption ran deep and wide at the highest levels of the FBI and the Department of Justice. As one famous guy might once have said, “no friggin’ wonder she got away with it!”

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: The Liberal Media Narrative Is Immune to Facts.

Just think of the media as Democratic operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.

TONI AIRAKSINEN: Northeastern Prof Warns: Male Military Veterans ‘Reinforce Hegemonic Masculinity,’ Sexism.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is Mitch McConnell “the Michael Jordan of owning the libs”?

SONNY BUNCH: The CIA funded a culture war against communism. It should do so again.

Those interested in the CIA’s covert cultural war should check out “Who Paid the Piper?” by Frances Stonor Saunders. Granted, it’s an unrelentingly negative portrayal of the efforts by Michael Josselson, Nicolas Nabokov and others to funnel money from the CIA into the hands of artists and intellectual journals that highlighted the Western world’s commitment to individual freedom. But if you can set aside the author’s biases, you’ll discover a fascinatingly byzantine effort to turn the world to the American way of thinking via pen and paint rather than munitions and murder.

The CIA at its founding was largely run by Ivy Leaguers, would-be highbrows and intellectuals. It makes sense that they’d have been attracted to the ideas of men like Melvin Lasky, the consummate Cold Warrior who pushed for the founding of a magazine designed to bridge the gap between the West and the rest. According to a postwar memo by Lasky submitted to the U.S. Army, journals like Der Monat would serve “as a demonstration that behind the official representatives of American democracy lies a great and progressive culture, with a richness of achievements in the arts, in literature, in philosophy, in all the aspects of culture which unite the free traditions of Europe and America.”

Yeah, but that was back when the Ivy League was still largely devoted to protecting and promoting Western Civilization. I’m not sure today’s Ivies, or today’s CIA for that matter, still have it in them.

CALIFORNIA IN ITS DEATH THROES: Alas for our hard-working seniors, the Freedom from Slavery Act has failed to qualify for the November 2018 ballot. If passed, it would have exempted everyone age 55 and over from state and local taxes. Next up: The Freedom from Child Slavery Act, which would exempt “youngsters” (age 0 to 55) from state and local taxes. We mustn’t let arithmetic get in the way of an idea whose time has come.

OVER AT THE PJM LIVE BLOG I have a question for my brother and sister photo bugs about going mirrorless.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 17 Affordable Concealed-Carry Guns Under $300.

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Plus, fresh deals on Mattresses.

PAULA BOLYARD: Beto O’Rourke just handed Ted Cruz a huge gift.

RIP: Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist and co-writer of ‘Sweet Home Alabama,’ Ed King, dies aged 68 at his home in Nashville.

INIGO MONTOYA ON THE USE OF THE WORD “MONOPOLY”: One of the leading AGs in the case against Microsoft for monopoly abuse of power looks at whether the same is true of Google’s Android:

To succeed in a Section 2 case, a plaintiff must first establish that the defendant possesses monopoly power in a relevant market. Second, a plaintiff must show that the defendant has willfully acquired or maintained its monopoly power by unlawful means rather than as a consequence of “a superior product, business acumen or historic accident.”…

In a properly defined market, Google does not have monopoly power, much less the large stable market shares enjoyed by Windows…

The advent of Android has dramatically increased consumer choice and created downward pressure on prices. As the D.C. Circuit stressed, there is nothing inherently wrong with bundling software and, to the extent Google has done so, a court is likely to consider it procompetitive not anticompetitive because it promotes interbrand competition, increases product stability, and does not foreclose use of rival applications. Bottom line, Google’s conduct bears little relationship to Microsoft’s in kind or effect.

And I don’t think the case against Microsoft was particularly strong either…

IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Drug tunnel to Mexico uncovered in kitchen of former Arizona KFC.

SCRAPPLEFACE: Trump’s #HushMeansHush Helps NDA-Breach Victims. “The White House said the #HushMeansHush campaign demonstrates President Trump’s compassion toward those hardest hit when a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) gets violated, and thus becomes much more tragic than if such an agreement had never been signed.”

Heh™.

SORRY, THIS HEADLINE ISN’T SELLING IT: Fusion: A Collaborative Robotic Telepresence Parasite That Lives on Your Back.

LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND THINGS YOU AGREE WITH: A helpful reminder from Coyote Blog – be skeptical of statistics even when they support your view.

STEVEN CROWDER, DRESSED IN A GENIE SUIT(!), CONFRONTS ANTIFA ACTIVIST WHO ‘WANTED A PIECE’ OF HIM: ‘Your wish is my command!’ (Video.)

LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: The exodus from Venezuela threatens to descend into chaos.

Threatens?

EVER since Nicolás Maduro became president of Venezuela, the plight of the country’s citizens has gone from bad to worse. On August 19th 1,000 Venezuelan migrants fled from the Brazilian border town of Pacaraima after locals attacked them with sticks and stones. Around 60 Brazilian soldiers are expected to arrive in the town today to ensure safe passage for Venezuelans entering the country. Elsewhere, however, the situation is deteriorating. On August 18th Ecuador unexpectedly began requiring Venezuelans crossing into their country from Colombia to present passports rather than identity cards. Peru will do the same from August 25th.

The exodus has surged under Mr Maduro’s rule, characterised by political repression and grotesque economic mismanagement. Inflation has spiralled as high as 80,000%, making cash all but useless and food and medicine scarce. On August 20th the government will knock five zeros off its currency and anchor it to the oil price via a government-run virtual currency. In a poll conducted at the end of 2017, half of 18- to 29-year-olds and 55% of the middle class said they wanted to leave the country. Of those who hoped to flee, two-thirds gave the state of the economy as their reason.

We’ve seen this narrative before. Notice how Maduro is being set up as the bad guy here, the Stalin to Chavez’s Lenin — the brute who betrayed the noble ideals of the revolution.

Never mind the fact that everything that Stalin …er, Maduro… did was set in motion by Chavez. And that only untimely deaths prevented Lenin or Chavez from fulfilling their own vile plans themselves.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Mind over matter: You really can think yourself healthier and happier. But can you learn to play trombone?

THE NUMBERS WERE BETTER FOR HEAVY DRINKERS: Study: Consistent moderate drinking tied to lower heart disease risk. Though heavy drinking carries other risks, of course.

ROD KACKLEY: Election Cybersecurity Looms Large in Toss-Up Georgia Governor’s Race.

If only there were some kind of hack-proof ballot.

THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS: San Francisco “Poop Patrollers” Make $185,000.

(Via Kate of Small Dead Animals, who writes, “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas, hear my prayer.”)

MELANIN-DEFICIENCY DENIAL IS AN UGLY THING: ‘I hereby resign from my race. F— these people,’ white professor writes online, sparking furor.

A white professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey violated the school’s policy when he complained about other white people in a post on Facebook, according to reports.

The university says it prohibits discrimination and harassment, and judged that history professor James Livingston, who is white, crossed a line with his comments.

In the post, Livingston slammed other white people, describing them as entitled and saying they impeded “access to my dinner.”

“… this place (burger restaurant) is overrun with little Caucasian a–holes who know their parents will approve of anything they do,” Livingston wrote.

Livingston argues that his remarks were “satirical,” and he was commenting on the gentrification of the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, where he lives, NorthJersey.com reported

So it’s really more blue-vs-blue than white-vs-white.