THE U.S.ARMY: Ordered to grow again.

OPEN THREAD: Bring your “A” game.

NO ENEMIES TO THE LEFT: MSNBC’s Katy Tur Explodes On Guest Who Points Out Violent Left-Wing Rhetoric.

CIVILITY: N.J. GOP Congressional Candidate Receives Letter Threatening His Children.

I WONDER IF TWITTER WILL CALL THIS ‘TARGETED HARASSMENT’:Russian trolls get DM from US Cyber Command: We know who you are. Stop it

SO, LIKE LIFTING WEIGHTS, YOU NEED RECOVERY DAYS? Skin tans the most when spending every other day out of the sun.

JIM TREACHER: Bomb Scare Targets Democrats, So the Rules Change Yet Again.

NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Arkansas Dem Under Fire After Profane and Intimidating Confrontation with Female Opponent.

SPACE: Bridenstine expects next Soyuz mission to ISS to launch in December.

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NONADDICTIVE: One in ten frequent pot users experience withdrawal symptoms.

THE TECHIES AND NERDS ARE GOING TO SAVE US FROM THE SJWS: Tech Community Outraged after SQLite Founder Adopts Benedictine Code of Conduct.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Breathing through your nose can boost memory consolidation.

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: How much a pint of beer costs around the world.

A NEW EFFORT TO “CHANGE THE TERMS” TO FIGHT ONLINE “HATE”: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has some serious and valid concerns about this effort, saying, “Corporate Speech Police Are Not the Answer to Online Hate.” It’s difficult to think of any question for which “corporate speech police” will be a good answer.

THE DEFENSE INNOVATION ADVISORY BOARD STRIKES BACK AT LAZY BUREAUCRATS: Detecting Agile BS is the document cleared for publication. Warning: the Defense Innovation Advisory Board’s uses the acronym DIB. Why? Good question. Here’s Breaking Defense’s take on the pamphlet and description of the advisory panel.

CHRIS QUEEN: The 10 Most Bizarre Hits of the ‘70s.

I still have a small soft spot for Sweet’s “Love Is Like Oxygen,” which is either too awful or not quite awful enough to make the list.

ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS REALLY SEEM TO HAVE GROWN A PAIR: Chuck Grassley Asks the Justice Department to Investigate Michael Avenatti and Julie Swetnick for False Statements: “The obvious, subsequent contradictions along with the suspicious timing of the allegations necessitate a criminal investigation.”

In the old days, once the story died down they would have let bygones be bygones. Now they’re out to teach a lesson.

MEH, FEW OF MINE HAVE BEEN: Your Next Car Salesperson Won’t Be a Car Person, and Here’s Why. Many of them barely knew anything about their own merchandise — you’d think they’d at least read the brochures.

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BLUE WAVE? Republican Patrick Morrisey Takes Lead Over Sen. Manchin in West Virginia. “Morrisey, the state attorney general, leads Manchin 44 percent to 42 percent in new poll.”

CONRAD BLACK: About That ‘Blue Wave.’

Those repelled by Trump will not soften until he has retired as president, as with those who hated Franklin D. Roosevelt for spurious ideological or mythic reasons (such as that he gave Eastern Europe to Stalin); or those who disparaged Reagan as “an amiable dunce,” in the words of Clark Clifford, the ageless and elegant Washington fixer and an unsuccessful defense secretary. It would be at least premature, and perhaps wildly optimistic, to compare Trump to FDR and Reagan, the two greatest presidents since Lincoln, but as the voters proceed to the polls in two weeks, they will have to reflect on the indisputable fact of President Trump’s successes. He took a sluggish economy where GDP growth per capita had declined from 4.5 percent under President Reagan to 1 percent under President Obama, under whom federal debt increased by 233 percent in eight years. He has focused attention on the unutterable scandal of the steady influx of millions of illiterate peasants, including many violent criminals, across the southern border, and is the enemy of the permissiveness of “sanctuary” and the prohibition of constitutionally mandated census-takers to ask respondents’ citizenship. Trump has made himself the sole possible agent of enforcement of nuclear nonproliferation by his actions to prevent North Korea and Iran from becoming nuclear military powers, a status that his predecessors effectively conceded to them.

Obama said 2 percent economic growth is the “new normal,” as poverty, food-stamp use, and violence increased. Trump has created a full-employment economy and generated the first increases in purchasing power and job security in this millennium for the lower third of Roosevelt’s “forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.” I don’t believe that most pollsters have adjusted their techniques to allow for a higher voting turnout from what used to be the white working class, or to allow for the reluctance of many Trump voters to identify themselves.

As I was saying earlier, there’s a big gap between the polls and how it feels like this election ought to go.

B-52 OVER THE INDIAN OCEAN: The photo was taken in June by an airman in a USAF KC-135 Stratotanker that’s refueling the bomber.