YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Four Reasons Marianne Williamson Will Be the 46th POTUS.

I don’t think she can win, and I’m wrong about everything. You guys know how terrible I am at predicting things. I completely botched the 2016 election, and if anything, since then I’ve only gotten dumber. So if my gut feeling is that Marianne Williamson doesn’t have a chance in hell… she’s a shoo-in!

As for the rest of the women running for president? Sorry, ladies. #WeStan4Marianne!

Heh. Read the whole thing.™

UPDATE: Her defense policy will be amazing:

Found via Jonah Goldberg, who tweets, “Whoa. I’d like to see some paperwork on how love won the Battle of Stalingrad.”

[Update from Glenn deleted due to error.]

IT’S CALLED “PULLING A WARREN.” Claiming to be Cherokee, contractors with white ancestry got $300 million.

HEH:

The notion that eating vegetables can make people as strong as an ox will have more force when humans have four stomachs.

R.I.P. DR. NORMAN GEISLER: Philosopher. Systematic Theologian. Christian Apologist of the first order. Born in 1932. Ph.D. in philosophy from Loyola University. Author of more than 90 books and countless articles. Passed away early this morning. His philosophy has now met its ultimate test, as all of ours’ will as well.

WELL, QUINTILLIONS AT CURRRENT PRICES: Space miners race to an asteroid worth quintillions. But what it’s actually worth is unclear. Supply and demand means that current prices wouldn’t hold, of course. But so much valuable metal in orbit would make creating a space-based civilization much easier — which could easily wind up being worth that much money over time.

Related thoughts here.

KANGAROO COURT UPDATE: Purdue Student Expelled for Alleged Sexual Abuse Can Proceed With His Due Process and Sex Discrimination Claims. If the 7th Circuit panel had been all male, the press accounts would probably emphasize that. But since it’s all-female, we probably won’t hear much about its makeup.

Plus: “It is plausible that Sermersheim and her advisors chose to believe Jane because she is a woman and to disbelieve John because he is a man. The plausibility of that inference is strengthened by a post that CARE put up on its Facebook page during the same month that John was disciplined: an article from The Washington Post titled ‘Alcohol isn’t the cause of campus sexual assault. Men are.'”

Related: Title IX enforcers need to fix the toxic environment they have created for men.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Fears for Today’s American Republic.

FLASHBACK: MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Are Facebook, Twitter, Google evil or just everywhere? What we have to do about big tech.

I’m not sure I mentioned it, but I have a book out.

SAD, BUT NOT SURPRISED: After 40,000 Miles with an Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio, Our Heart Is Broken.

EVER HEAR ABOUT ‘THE LIFE OF COLEMAN SWEENEY’? There was simply no redeeming social value for this guy, until he died, that is. Then somebody discovered something about Sweeney that nobody in his small town would ever have guessed (and don’t forget, they know everything about everybody in small towns). It’s the fourth entry in the top box on today’s Daily Gouge.

‘MERICA: Trump Wants Tanks on the Nation Mall for July 4th Celebration—and He Should Get Them.

REVIEW: POM OC Spray: A Less-Than-Lethal Self-Defense Tool.

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HEH: Thanks, HGTV: Americans VASTLY Overestimate the Gay Population in U.S., Gallup Finds.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Democratic Clown Car Update for July 1, 2019. “Post-debate analysis, Biden is down a little, Harris is up a little, Buttigieg banks big Benjamins, Yang rises, and Williamson beams love into the cosmos.”

WELL, GOOD: HPV Vaccines Are Reducing Infections, Warts — and Probably Cancer. “An analysis covering 66 million young people has found plummeting rates of precancerous lesions and genital warts after vaccination against the human papillomavirus.”

OH: This Iranian Commander Kept Secret That Israeli F-35 Stealth Fighters Had Violated Iran Airspace.

Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) commander Brigadier General Farzad Ismaili, who had been in office since 2010, has been fired by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after he kept secret that Israeli Air Force (IAF) F-35 stealth fighters had violated Iran’s airspace, the Kuwaiti daily Al Jarida reported on Saturday.

The newspaper emphasized that it was the original media source that exposed the Israeli raids, which had taken place in March 2018. Al Jarida cited senior Iranian military who said that only following its March report did the intelligence services of the Revolutionary Guards and the Iranian intelligence ministry begin to investigate the case, under Khamenei’s direct orders.

According to the newspaper’s investigation, “the IAF F-35 “Adir” planes penetrated Iran’s airspace, circled high above Tehran, Karajrak, Isfahan, Shiraz and Bandar Abbas – and photographed Iran’s air defense system.”

Nice.

21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: Medtronic insulin pumps recalled over fears they could be hacked.

LITTERFEST ’19:This music festival was devoted to climate change and the environment (and guess what happened next).

PEAK BLOOMBERG SYNDROME REACHED:

Shot: Bill de Blasio: The federal government should pay for gender reassignment surgery.

—The Washington Examiner, today.

Chaser: It takes the city more than a year to fix a sidewalk, audit finds.

—The New York Post, yesterday.

Hangover: Graffiti complaints up more than 50 percent in de Blasio’s New York.

—The Post, Saturday.

In 2011, Victor Davis Hanson warned of “The Bloomberg Syndrome:” “Quite simply, the next time your elected local or state official holds a press conference about global warming, the Middle East, or the national political climate, expect to experience poor county law enforcement, bad municipal services, or regional insolvency.”

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BUT OF COURSE: Kamala Harris Admits Plan to Slam Biden in Debate, Repeats Lie About Segregationists.

I’VE BEEN DOING HEX-BAR DEADLIFTS LATELY, JUST FOR A CHANGE: Struggling With Your Deadlift? Let the Hex Bar Help. They make it a bit more of a leg movement, and a bit less of a lower-back movement. More importantly, in my gym you can often get a hex bar when all the deadlift stations are full. I also use it for farmer’s carries, which is how I got started deadlifting it.

BRANDON MORSE: Leftist Journalists React To The Andy Ngo’s Assault By Antifa With All The Flippancy You’d Expect.