OR, YOU KNOW, SUMMER:  Scientists link Europe heat wave to man-made global warming.

THE LEFT HAS FALLEN HEAD FIRST INTO POE’S LAW. NO WONDER THEY FEEL THE NEED TO FACT CHECK THE BABYLON BEE:  Tulsi Gabbard Is Now a Russian Agent.

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UH, NEVER? Bob McManus: When will de Blasio stop lying and start leading in Eric Garner case?

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A MAJOR COMPLAINT POST-9/11 HAS BEEN THAT LAWYERS HAVE PLAYED TOO BIG A ROLE IN OUR WARMAKING. THAT MAY BE CHANGING. Navy’s top admiral steps in, drops charges against second SEAL charged in war crimes case. There are lots of ways to look at this, and at yesterday’s prosecutorial medal-revocation, but one of them is to see that the lawyers have lost influence, and will see their future role lessened.

Related: The Overlawyered War.

Plus: “When I arrived back in 2001 I found 10,000 lawyers in the Department of Defense.”

Also: “This is war-fighting as HR-office handbook. You can’t win that way.” And we haven’t.

And: “This is a war that has been overlawyered from the beginning — see this piece by Tom Ricks from 2001 about how the Pentagon’s requirement that lawyers approve airstrikes let leading Taliban and Al Qaeda figures escape.” “The Central Command’s top lawyer — in military parlance, the judge advocate general, or JAG — repeatedly refused to permit strikes even when the targets were unambiguously military in nature, an Air Force officer said.”

Me, then: “I love lawyers. I am a lawyer. But there are plenty of places where the role of lawyers should be limited, and war is certainly one of them.” Nothing has happened since to make me think I was wrong.

HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN: Obama frustrated that Dem presidential field keeps criticizing him, CNN reports. Wokeness is a positional good, ensuring that former woke champions are inevitably left behind.

FLASHBACK: “Terrorism is an information war disguised as a military operation. The press plays a symbiotic role, and isn’t willing to address that.”

OPEN THREAD: The weekend starts now.

NOW THAT WE HAVE A CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY ON THE SUPREME COURT, suddenly “balance” is important. I feel confident that if Hillary were in office and naming justices, this would be a much lower priority in the academy.

But if Supreme Court reform is what you want, well, I have a cunning plan.

THIS IS THE GUY WHO RAISED MONEY FOR MARK JUDGE DURING THE KAVANAUGH TRAVESTY. JUDGE SAYS HE BASICALLY SAVED HIS LIFE. SPLC Targets, Shuts Down Faith-Based Crowdfunding Site. The SPLC isn’t a civil rights group. It’s a nasty lefty hit squad.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LIE ABOUT RAPE: Returning to Israel, teens vow to sue British tourist who falsely accused them of rape.

TEACH STUDENTS TO MASTER THE TOPIC: Why Isn’t Every Kid an “A” Student?

FLASHBACK: A ‘living Constitution’ on the right? What would it look like if right-leaning judges ruled like lefties?

IT’s STILL MORNING SOMEWHERE: Steve Green claims he’s gone “camping” — whatever that is — with his kids, so we dropped the shaker on linking today’s Morning Briefing.

Until now.

So there it is.

Go get’em tigers.

HEH: Experts Warn We Have Only 12 Years Left Until They Change The Timeline On Global Warming Again.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” LOSES GREEN NUDE EEL GHOSTWRITER: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti Will Depart Her Office.

And so, as he flies the blue lady of the farting cows and airplanes into the sky, we say aloha, Five O’clock Chakrabarti and return to our duties. Let me remind you that the Weblog is open 24 hours a day for your dancing and dining pleasure.

(Classical allusion.)

EPATER LE WOKE: Tarantino’s Most Transgressive Film: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood celebrates values that have been repeatedly dismissed as dangerous and outdated. “As to violence against women, what can I tell you? If you don’t like it, don’t go to a movie about the Manson killings. Say what you will about Charles Manson; he really empowered women to pursue excellence in traditionally male-dominated fields.”

Plus: “Why are Robbie’s feet, slipped out of immaculate white go-go boots and slung over a movie seat in front of her, so filthy? That is between Quentin Tarantino and his God.” It’s a Robert Heinlein homage, referencing a throwaway line about a hippie chick from Glory Road. Do try to keep up.

Also: “Only Tarantino would have the balls to make something like it, something that embraces values that have repeatedly been proved—proved!—to be dangerous, outdated, the thing that people don’t want anymore. Box-office poison. And only Tarantino could do it so skillfully that it’s not until you’re back in the car that you realize what he’s done: made a major motion picture in 2019 about a man with a code, a man who hews to the old values of the Western hero. . . . We can’t have a movie like this. It affirms things the culture wants killed. If men aren’t encouraged to cry in public, where will we end up?”

THE POLITICS OF DANCING: Neo on Leaving the Left’s “Circle Dance.”

YOU’VE GOT TO PICK UP EVERY STITCH: Witches for Marianne Williamson! Really.

DOING A BANG-UP JOB, DE BLASIO: 900 New York City Classrooms Test Positive for Lead.

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UGH: Ohio Woman Loses Arms And Legs Due To Capnocytophaga Infection From Dog Saliva. “Rarely, Capnocytophaga germs can spread to people through bites, scratches, or close contact from a dog or cat and may cause illness, including sepsis.”

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