PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot: To end fatphobia, we need to dismantle Western civilization, says Philly therapist Sonalee Rashatwar.

—Headline, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Wednesday.

Chaser: See ‘Fed Up,’ the film that does not sugarcoat the obesity epidemic.

—Headline, The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 24, 2014.

First headline found via David Thompson, who writes, “Ms Rashatwar has chosen to blame her own health issues, including high blood pressure, on ‘weight stigma’ and ‘white supremacy,’ rather than on her size and prodigious eating habits. When not equating routine health advice with eugenics and ‘Nazi science,’ Ms Rashatwar, a self-described ‘donut queen,’ claims that ‘diet culture and fat phobia are forms of sexual violence.’”

Now properly chastised, I’m sure the Inquirer will try to do better, going forward.

WEIRD, WHEN YOU TIGHTEN THE GUIDELINES, YOU FIND MORE GUIDELINE-VIOLATING CASES: New blood pressure guidelines may raise gestational hypertension rates.

JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: When Will CNN Begin to Disclose its Financial Support of Kamala Harris?

SCRUB THEM DOWN WELL, AFTER: The Airplanes That Rescue Ebola Patients.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: What Is Russia Up to in the Icy Waters of the Arctic?

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE…FORGET IT, SHE’S ROLLING: Not Even Kamala Harris Knows Where She Stands on Busing Anymore.

THIS WHOLE “FEEL SAFE” THING IS BULLSHIT THAT NEEDS TO BE SHUT DOWN: Starbucks shop boots police officers because customer ‘did not feel safe’ around them: reports. “Some police officers in Tempe, Ariz., say they were asked to leave a Starbucks coffee shop on the Fourth of July because a customer complained they ‘did not feel safe’ with the cops present, according to reports. Five officers were drinking coffee at the Starbucks location prior to their shift beginning when a barista asked them to move out of the complaining customer’s line of sight or else leave, the Tempe Officers Association wrote in a series of Twitter messages.”

QUESTION ASKED: “Was Nike’s Betsy Ross Flag imbroglio planned? Because we’re pretty sure Disney’s ‘Little Mermaid’ one was,” Jon Gabriel and Stephen Miller note at Fourth of July-themed “Murica” edition of Ricochet’s “Conservatarians” podcast.

UPDATE: Nike stocks surge 2% following controversial decision to recall ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ sneakers after star endorser Colin Kaepernick claims they are offensive due to slavery ties.

DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSWOMAN SECRETLY SENDING STAFF INTO MEXICO TO COACH ASYLUM-SEEKERS: “The National Border Patrol Council’s El Paso chapter and several Customs and Border Protection personnel told the Washington Examiner aides to Rep. Veronica Escobar, who took over 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s district, and the local Catholic diocese have interviewed thousands of migrants in Juarez over the past few weeks to find cases where Department of Homeland Security officials may have wrongly returned people.”

Related: Which Gringos Are to Blame for the Ongoing Disaster in Central America?

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Covfefe Sequel Edition.

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Humans wearing ‘teledildonic suits’ can now have sex with each other over the Internet.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LIVES OF OTHERS EDITION: California public university threatens to punish students for jokes.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot: The Founders Would Gag at Today’s Republicans.

—Headline, the New York Times, yesterday.

Chaser: Slavery and Racism Were Embedded in the World of the Founders.

—Headline, the New York Times, January 4, 1987.

In contrast to America at large, racism has become increasingly embedded in the world of the New York Times in recent decades.

WELL, IT’S ALWAYS AWKWARD TO TALK ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT WHEN BILL CLINTON IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE: UMich and Harvard prof: #MeToo wouldn’t have happened if Hillary won.

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THE CHINESE ARE NOT OUR FRIENDS: Almost a Third of World’s Top VPNs Are Secretly Owned By Chinese Firms, Study Finds.

CROSSING A BRIDGE IN ROMANIA: Four 1st Infantry Division M3 Bradley Fighting Vehicles participate in exercise Saber Guardian 19 (Bordusani Romania, June 20, 2019). Meanwhile back in England: A USAF F-15C takes off during exercise Point Blank 19-2 (Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, June 17, 2019).

BLUE HADES: Richard Fernandez: Arctic Mystery. “One may speculate endlessly on the true nature of the Russian experiment. But although we may never know the disaster’s cause it is evidently so important the Kremlin is pushing on.”

YOU’RE GOING TO NEED A BIGGER BLOG: All of TV Media’s False Doomsday Predictions for the Salute to America (Video).

PAUL BEDARD: American Restoration: 30% of judges will be Trump picks.

President Trump, who plans to have named 150 federal judges by the end of this year, is on a pace to fill 30% of the bench, a historic legacy being tied to the conservative movement to restore America.

Legal experts said that over his first term, Trump is expected to name some 250 judges to the Supreme Court, district courts, courts of appeals, and the U.S. Court of International Trade. Overall, there are 870 federal judges.

“By the end of this year, the president will have likely nominated/confirmed almost 150 federal judges, including two Supreme Court justices; he may well appoint another justice to the Supreme Court before the close of his first term, as both Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are now in their 80s. Also, in key circuits where the Left formerly dominated, we have a conservative majority,” said Timothy S. Goeglein, vice president for external and government relations at Focus on the Family.

And that, said Goeglein, a former George W. Bush administration official, is sparking a conservative restoration of the Constitution.

Give Cocaine Mitch some of the credit.

BECAUSE THEIR ANGER IS ALWAYS IN SERVICE OF THE CURRENT NARRATIVE:

THEY DON’T CALL HIM “CREEPY JOE” FOR NOTHING: Biden warns Democratic rivals he’s got ‘all this information about other people’s pasts.’