TAXES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Maine Democrat’s Family Business Failed to Pay $57K In Taxes. “County issued 77 tax liens against Sara Gideon’s family development company.”

SIX QUICK TAKEAWAYS FROM THIRD NIGHT OF REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION:

Last night, Ari Fleischer commented on how new it was to see large groups of people praising Donald Trump. He said that conventions that repeat platitudes don’t move voters but ones that give people something new to reflect on do.

Because of the media being so hysterically anti-Trump and suppressing the news, this convention is the first time in about four years that non-leftist Americans have seen other Americans reflecting their positive views about Trump and the administration. It’s emboldening for Republican and Independent voters as they prepare for the fall campaign that will surely include many surprises.

As Tim Groseclose observed in his 2012 book, Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind,  “Groseclose contends that the general leftward bias of the media has shifted the PQ of the average American by about 20 points, on a scale of 100, the difference between the current political views of the average American, and the political views of the average resident of Orange County, California or Salt Lake County, Utah.”

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: ‘Fiery But Peaceful’ Is a Thing Now.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: When is arson a peaceful act?

Answer: When it isn’t CNN getting burned.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Real looting based on fake rumors

• The most amazing, touching video you’ll see all week

• But you’ll also have to see LeBron bend the, ah, knee for Beijing

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

JAMES LILEKS ON THE LATEST ROUND OF LOOTING AND DESTRUCTION IN MINNEAPOLIS: “This cannot go on. It will go on. It will happen again, and again. I don’t mean officer-involved shooting. I mean destruction for the sake of destruction. It’s the new modus vivendi.”

BATTLESWARM BLOG: Kenosha Burning. “Antifa/#BlackLivesMatter rioters seem determined to riot in every city in America (or at least every Democrat-controlled city), and this week it was the turn of Kenosha, Wisconsin, a city of some 100,000 on the shores of Lake Michigan between Chicago and Milwaukee, two other cities that have gotten to experience the same violence.”

ELIMINATIONISM: Citing Black Lives Matter, photos of retired white male professors to be taken down at U. Oklahoma.

DISPATCHES FROM THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH, LOCAL MILWAUKEE FIELD BRANCH: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel mocked for reporting Jacob Blake had knife in car but was “otherwise unarmed.”

ALL THE FACTS THAT SERVE THE PARTY: ‘Factcheckers’ Keep Lying about Biden’s Abortion Position.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: An Oregon professor was arrested after allegedly participating in the Portland riots.

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: RNC Night 3—Powerful Lineup Forces LibMedia to Pathetic New Lows. “For the first time for either this year’s DNC or RNC I decided to join my colleagues for the liveblog that we are doing every night. As the evening wore on, I told them that this was the most impressive one night speaker lineup I’d seen at a convention. It was sincere, and I have a lot of conventions under my belt.”

THIS IS CNN: Yet another peaceful protest intensified:

GOOD: Judge Once Again Refuses To Shut Down In-Person Worship At Los Angeles County Church.

CLOWN NEWS NETWORK: Liberal Media Scream: CNN regular calls America the land of racists, case closed.

NEW ORLEANS: Photos, videos: See damage as Hurricane Laura makes landfall, wreaks havoc.

ANDY NGO: The 3 shot (2 killed) in #Kenosha, Wisc. at the BLM riot have been identified.

SO IS THE NBA PRETTY MUCH OVER NOW? Lakers, Clippers vote to boycott remainder of NBA season. A friend on Facebook comments: “If another NBA game is never played in my lifetime and all NBA players have to get real jobs in the real world, I couldn’t be happier.” I don’t really care enough about the NBA even to cheer its demise, but yeah.

MAN ON FBI MOST WANTED LIST CAPTURED FOR ‘HONOR KILLINGS’ OF DAUGHTERS AFTER 12 YEARS ON THE RUN. “The Egyptian-born cab driver accused in the 2008 ‘honor killing’ of his two daughters has been arrested in Texas. Yaser Abdel Said reportedly murdered his own girls because they were dating non-Muslim boys.”

As Austin Bay wrote in 2017, “Trump’s new immigration order creates a data base of honor killings. An ‘honor killing’ isn’t honorable, it’s just murder, and the victims are women.”

MATTHEW CONTINETTI: Revenge of the Normies. I suspect it’s just getting started.

GREAT MOMENTS IN TAXPAYER FUNDED BROADCASTING: Yamiche Alcindor craps on Madison Cawthorn after he literally rises from his wheelchair to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

KAMALA HARRIS AND THE SECOND AMENDMENT: A 2008 brief that she signed (1) argued that a total handgun ban was constitutional, and (2) strongly suggested that the Second Amendment doesn’t secure an individual right.