YES. IT DOES INDEED SEEM LIKE IT:  Pelosi Decides To Burn It All Down.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: GOP calls on Biden to release his Ukraine calls. Pretty sure Trump can do this on his own. . . .

AT AMAZON: Deal of the Day: BodyBoss Home Gym 2.0.

WASHINGTON POST: Democrats’ Double Standard On Ukraine.

We don’t yet know whether President Trump delayed some military aid to Ukraine as leverage to get Ukraine’s president to reopen an investigation into Hunter Biden. But if we are concerned about U.S. officials inappropriately threatening aid to Ukraine, then there are others who have some explaining to do.

It got almost no attention, but in May, CNN reported that Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) wrote a letter to Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Yuriy Lutsenko, expressing concern at the closing of four investigations they said were critical to the Mueller probe. In the letter, they implied that their support for U.S. assistance to Ukraine was at stake. Describing themselves as “strong advocates for a robust and close relationship with Ukraine,” the Democratic senators declared, “We have supported [the] capacity-building process and are disappointed that some in Kyiv appear to have cast aside these [democratic] principles to avoid the ire of President Trump,” before demanding Lutsenko “reverse course and halt any efforts to impede cooperation with this important investigation.”

So, it’s okay for Democratic senators to encourage Ukraine to investigate Trump, but it’s not okay for the president to allegedly encourage Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden?

That’s different because shut up. Plus:

And then there is Joe Biden. In 2016, the then-vice president threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to Ukraine if the government did not fire the country’s top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin. According to the New York Times, “Among those who had a stake in the outcome was Hunter Biden … who at the time was on the board of an energy company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch who had been in the sights of the fired prosecutor general.” The Post reports that it is “unclear how seriously Shokin — who was under fire by U.S. and European officials for not taking a more aggressive posture toward corruption overall — was scrutinizing Burisma when he was forced out.” But what is clear is that Biden bragged about getting him fired, declaring last year: “I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a b—-. He got fired.”

This weekend, Biden told reporters, “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.” That is flatly untrue. Hunter admitted in an interview with the New Yorker that his father expressed concern about the Burisma post at least once: “Dad said, ‘I hope you know what you are doing,’ and I said, ‘I do.’” Moreover, the New Yorker reports that, “In December, 2015, as Joe Biden prepared to return to Ukraine, his aides braced for renewed scrutiny of Hunter’s relationship with Burisma. Amos Hochstein, the Obama Administration’s special envoy for energy policy, raised the matter with Biden.” That same month, the New York Times published an article about how Hunter’s business dealings in Ukraine undermined the vice president’s anti-corruption message, which quoted a Biden spokesman saying it had no impact.

So, Biden was fully aware of his son’s involvement with Burisma when he pressured Ukraine to fire the prosecutor in 2016. He should have known that his using U.S. aid as leverage to force the prosecutor’s dismissal would create, at a bare minimum, the appearance of a conflict of interest. Federal ethics regulations require “all employees to recuse themselves from participating in an official matter if their impartiality would be questioned.” Biden violated these rules. Imagine if Trump pressured Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who was investigating a company that employed Donald Trump Jr. as a board member. No one would be giving Trump a pass.

Again, that’s different because shut up.

WELL, GOOD, THOUGH I’D CALL HIM STRIPES STAR BILL MURRAY, SINCE THAT WAS THE SUPERIOR MOVIE: Ghostbusters star Bill Murray to play in golf tournament after St Andrews crash fears. He was also really good in The Razor’s Edge.

CLIMATE CHAOS: I know what it’s like to be Greta.

SHE’S LESS CRAZY THAN MOST OF HER PARTY COMRADES: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard says impeachment of Trump would be ‘terribly divisive’ for country. Trump’s okay with this, as it will divide the country between the crazy, and the non-crazy, in his favor.

IS IT BECAUSE HUNTER BIDEN IS AS CORRUPT AF? The Week: Ukraine is expected to re-open the corruption case against Hunter Biden’s firm. But it’s not because of Trump.

#METOO STRIKES AGAIN: Placido Domingo withdraws from Met Opera after harassment reports. Why are lefty-dominated institutions in deep-blue cities such cesspits of abuse?

DIPLOMATICALLY ATTACKING VENEZUELA’S SOCIALIST DICTATORSHIP.

GOOD: The Sixth Circuit Pounds Another Nail in the Coffin of the University Speech Code.

DAN MARKEL UPDATE: The Dan Markel Case: Answers To Your FAQs.

HEH: Democrats Introduce Debate Strategy Of Holding Up Small Child Whenever Their Positions Are Challenged. The Babylon Bee became the paper of record so gradually I barely noticed.

ROGER SIMON: Why the Democrats Have Gone Insane. All they had to do was not be crazy . . . .

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

THE BABYLON BEE BECAME THE PAPER OF RECORD SO GRADUALLY I BARELY NOTICED: Democrats Introduce Resolution To Impeach Trump With Reasons To Be Filled In Later.

OPEN THREAD: Make your mark.

REMEMBER, ONLY TRAINED LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO HAVE GUNS: Officer Accidentally Shoots Himself In Road Rage Incident.

A DISGRACE IN MY HOMETOWN: Knoxville City Council votes 8-1 in favor of banning gun shows on city-owned property. It’s actually the Mayor’s decision, but don’t expect any help there.

ANDREW DAVIS: Donald Trump, Texas Hold’m and the Big Ukrainian Bluff. “This is the extension of several failed campaigns to derail the conservative agenda anywhere but at the ballot box. It started with the much maligned Mueller probe, which produced nothing after over a year of chop licking and promising from the same bad actors at work now. Then it evolved into the Stormy Daniels soap opera. And of course who could forget the campaign against Brett Kavanaugh?”

OOPS: Burisma ‘Clearly’ Paid Hunter Biden to Sell Influence, Says CNN Contributor. “It’s hard to imagine Joe Biden wasn’t aware of it.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Nine Revelations In The Atlantic’s Essay About NYC’s Kafkaesque Schools.

TO PROTECT AND SERVE GAIA: Fremont police Tesla runs low on juice during high-speed chase.

ALL THEY HAD TO DO IS NOT BE CRAZY, AND THEY CAN’T EVEN DO THAT. Nancy Pelosi just made one of the most colossal blunders in modern American politics.

ALSO, IT’S “TOE” THE LINE, NOT “TOW.”

Hey, don’t just ask me.