CRACK DEALERS TAKE A SIMILAR POSITION: Apple Cracks Down on Apps That Fight iPhone Addiction.

FINALLY: Samsung revealed a $1,600 TV for millennials that rotates to turn into a massive screen for your smartphone.

Since hardly anyone rotates their phone into landscape for shooting video, why not just rotate the whole TV?

QUESTION ASKED: Aren’t California’s High Gas Prices What The Left Have Wanted?

Flashback: Steven Chu, former President Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, tells the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” Uber-“Progressive” California is once again setting the pace!

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CHARLOTTESVILLE: Either Jake Tapper’s memory isn’t what it used to be, or he just got caught in a whopper.

I’VE SAID SOMETHING SIMILAR MYSELF. “The golden age of American muscle is happening right now.”

EVERY GREAT IDEALIST BEGINS AS A REBEL, BECOMES A SQUARE, AND EVENTUALLY DEGENERATES INTO A NARC: How New Yorkers are making bank ratting out idling drivers.

(Classical reference in headline.)

AN IMPORTANT REMINDER: No, Democrats, the Obama-Biden Administration Was Not Scandal-Free.

DACHAU LIBERATED:  On this day in 1945, the infamous concentration camp at Dachau was liberated by U.S. forces.

As an interesting footnote to history, it was a Japanese-American unit of the U.S. Army (the 522nd Filed Artillery Battalion) that liberated the camp at Hurlach, one of Dachau’s satellites.

NO, NOT THERANOS, ANOTHER ONE. Chasing Growth, a Women’s Health Start-Up Cut Corners. “Nurx, which has more than 200,000 customers, became known as the ‘Uber for birth control’ and spread a message of female empowerment. It landed prominent board members like Chelsea Clinton and has raised more than $41 million, largely from Kleiner Perkins.”

Poor Kleiner Perkins. They’re having a bad decade.

SAY HELLO TO NEUTRON STARS, your worst nightmare. No, my worst nightmare is a false-vacuum collapse, which is much worse.

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Whale with harness could be Russian weapon, say Norwegian experts.

ANN ALTHOUSE IS not impressed with Joe Biden’s candidacy.

He was very weak debating Paul Ryan in the VP debate in 2012. Here’s my live-blog of that debate, preserving my perception of how pathetic Biden’s performance was. He’s 8 years older now. I don’t understand why he’s even asking to be considered adequate. His announcement of his candidacy, wafting dishonest racial bullshit, disqualified him from consideration, in my opinion. And that was tightly scripted and pre-recorded, so a lot of poor judgment and poor delivery could be hidden. Imagine him exposed on the debating stage. These people who think Biden is a safe choice must have a really abysmal opinion of the other candidates. Maybe they’re already coming to terms with an inevitable Trump victory in 2020 and they’re just aching to avoid the pain of a second-in-a-row failed female candidate

Biden always looks like a good candidate until he has to campaign.

TOYOTA SUPRA GR X IS MAD: Imagine if the Toyota Supra and Ford Ranger Raptor DNA were crossed at birth. Imagine no more…

PEOPLE SLEEP PEACEABLY IN THEIR BEDS AT NIGHT ONLY BECAUSE ROUGH MEN STAND READY TO DO VIOLENCE UNTO GIANT MUTATED OCEAN LIZARDS: How the U.S. Military Would Go To War (And Kill) Godzilla.

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Robert E. Lee Is a U.S. Citizen, Thanks to Joe Biden. “Now it’s up to Biden to prove he isn’t a racist. He has a history of saying racist stuff, and now it turns out his voting record backs up that suspicion. Now he’s responsible for proving a negative. We should assume he loves Robert E. Lee, until he shows us otherwise. That’s how this works. Those are the rules. Not much fun, eh, libs?”

Read the whole thing.

NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL DARK MONEY: Rich Dems Spend $60 Million to Hide the Party’s Far-Left Agenda.

The group, called Future Majority, is co-chaired by Berkshire Hathaway billionaire Charles Munger’s son Philip, and Dan Tierney, the founder of an electronic market trading firm called Getco. Amalgamated Bank CEO Keith Mestrich is also funding the effort. In other words, rich people.

Oddly enough, they’re the ones who seem more in touch with the common folks than today’s Democratic party.

Future Majority executive director Mark Riddle told Politico “If we can win back the narrative that the word ‘Democrat’ equals people who are fighting for folks who work hard every day, we can continue to win elections. If (Democrats) get defined as being about socialism … then I worry.”

Riddle’s use of the passive verb tense shows why this effort is already off to a bad start.

It’s not some outside force that is defining Democrats as socialists. It’s the Democratic party itself, which is rushing to embrace some of the most radical proposals ever put forward by a major political party.

They’re counting on what they perceive to be Trump’s weak chances next year for a shot at a legislative replay of 2009-2011, but they won’t be running against another John McCain in the aftermath of Bush’s disaster of a second term.

HMM: U.S. measles outbreak raises questions about immunity in adults.

THAT HIS NAME ELICITS A “WHO?” REVEALS A LOT ABOUT THE CURRENT STATE OF THE PARTY: Democratic Presidential Hopeful John Delaney Says Bernie Has ‘Fundamentally Bad Policies,’ Would Likely Lose to Trump.

ACCOUNTABILITY IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Massachusetts DA’s Sue To Keep ICE Out Of Courthouses. “This announcement comes less than a week after a Newton judge was indicted and suspended for allegedly conspiring with a court officer to help an illegal immigrant escape out the basement door of Newton District Court last spring.”

ROGER SIMON: Synagogue Shooters Have Trump Hatred in Common.

The greater danger to our country, however, is not the actions of these demented lone wolves who are, in essence, equal opportunity lunatics. The Poway guy evidently tried to burn down a mosque. The two are psychological second cousins to the homicidal maniac who shot up the Charlston church. Same pathology, different religions. But beyond their murderous outbursts, these people are essentially powerless in the culture at large. They are despised and rightly so. They accomplish nothing.

What is dangerous to the culture at large is the obvious growth of anti-Semitism in the upper reaches of our society, in the academy, politics and the media,  the people who supposedly should know better, the people who have real influence.  And I’m not just talking about the obvious – the new members of Congress already famous for their anti-Semitic statements and tweets. The international edition of the New York Times just published a cartoon that would have been welcome on the pages of Der Stürmer.

Read the whole thing.

Related: By its own standards, the New York Times deserves blame for the Poway synagogue shooting. “Does anyone else remember when a New York Times editorial blamed Sarah Palin for the shooting of Gabby Giffords because of a bulls-eye on a map?”

DISEASE IS ANTI-VAX: President Trump Urges Parents to Vaccinate Their Children.

HUH: Daimler Has ‘Absolutely No Idea’ How North Korea Got Its Mercedes-Maybach Limos.

LET ‘EM DISBAND. Middlebury student government will disband unless students are allowed to vet invited speakers.

Related (From Ed): What I Saw at Middlebury College.