IT’S NOT JUST A FEW BAD APPLES. THE WHOLE FBI FRUIT STAND NEEDS TO BE FUMIGATED. RealClearInvestigations: Stu Evans’ Lonely, Failed Quest to Save the FBI From Itself.

SHE’S JUST AWFUL: Pelosi Accuses Republicans of ‘Trying to Get Away With … the Murder of George Floyd.’

YES, ECONOMICS DOES HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT STATUE-SMASHING: And Phillip Magness, writing for the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) lays it out for us laymen.

BREAKING: Appeals court orders judge to dismiss case against Michael Flynn.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Here’s the rather scathing opinion. Key bit: “If evidence comes to light calling into question the integrity or purpose of an underlying criminal investigation, the Executive Branch must have the authority to decide that further prosecution is not in the interest of justice.”

WELL, OBAMA: Barack Obama Lies About H1N1, Claims He Prevented It From Being A Pandemic.

WALL STREET JOURNAL: News From the Non-Lockdown States: Per-capita Covid fatalities were 75% lower in open states.

GOP governors have faced enormous media pressure to lock down their states in solidarity with Democrats, and some now are getting browbeaten to shut down again amid coronavirus flare-ups. So it’s worth pointing out that states that didn’t lock down this spring kept the virus under control and experienced fewer deaths than most that did.

A new analysis by The Sentinel, a Kansas nonprofit, compares the 42 states that shut down most of their economies with the eight that did not. The latter group includes mostly rural states with some small metropolitan areas: North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming and Utah. Private employment on average fell by 7.8% between May 2019 and May 2020 in these states while plunging 13.2% in the others.

Rural state economies generally rely more on “essential” services like agriculture and food production, and some industries like energy and hospitality would have shed jobs regardless of the lockdowns. Still, private job losses were higher in states that locked down like Colorado (9.5%) compared to economically similar ones that didn’t like Utah (4.6%).

Yet per-capita Covid fatalities in states that stayed open were on average about 75% lower than those that locked down. One reason is that deaths in most states, regardless of whether they locked down, have been concentrated in nursing home facilities and minority communities that have higher rates of underlying health conditions and multigenerational housing.

This is a main reason hospitalizations and deaths continued to surge in states like New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Massachusetts long after lockdowns took effect. About half of deaths in New Jersey and Illinois have been in nursing homes, and most others have been in dense low-income minority neighborhoods where social distancing is difficult.

Deploying more tests and protective equipment can help shield these vulnerable communities, and citizens can do their part by donning face masks in public indoor locations like supermarkets. But governors don’t need to intubate their economies to save lives.

Tell it to Karen.

OH MY: A new GOP bill would give each taxpayer $4,000 to take a vacation anywhere in the US through the end of 2021.

DEFUND THE THOUGHT POLICE: Here’s encouraging evidence that even on elite campuses like the University of Chicago there remain a few intellectually honest and courageous professors.

WHY SHOULD TAXPAYER-FUNDED INSTITUTIONS — AND ESPECIALLY ADMINISTRATORS AT SAME — GET TO CHOOSE THEIR “VALUES?” UC-Berkeley: Criticism of Black Lives Matter ‘goes against our values.’

HOW A CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATOR TURNED THE LEFT’S CANCEL CULTURE CAMPAIGN AGAINST ITSELF. “#CancelYale is now trending, and [Jesse] Kelly should do a victory lap for turning this idiotic fetish among American liberals against itself:”

It seems if cancel culture is to be executed fully, then the bastions of liberal power must be the first to go. For liberals, this is not how it’s supposed to work, right? Yeah, but these are your rules. Rice must be renamed or destroyed, as does Yale. New York City might have to be torn down completely. Again, we didn’t make up these rules. You people did.

To be fair, between the rioters, looters, statue smashers, and Bill de Blasio, New York lefties are doing a pretty good job of tearing the city down without any conservative help.

WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE THEY HATE AMERICA.

I’d go back and look up what Josh was saying when Trump predicted that the statue-toppling would spread beyond Confederate monuments, but really, why bother?

Plus:

Harsh, but fair. But, you know, the Girondists are always replaced by the Montagnards eventually.

NOT ‘IMMIGRANTS,’ ILLEGAL ALIENS: Trump Gets Path Cleared for Expedited Removal of Immigrants.

HE CAN HOLD ONTO WHATEVER DELUSIONS HE WANTS, BUT THE REST OF US SHOULD POINT AND LAUGH: Bubba Wallace defiant, calls rope ‘straight-up noose’ after FBI says no crime occurred.

“WOKE SCOLDS” NEED TO START FACING LITIGATION AND PROSECUTION FOR THEIR EFFORTS TO DEPRIVE OTHERS OF THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS: Woke scolds outraged as UChicago professor cleared of wrongdoing for criticizing ‘defund the police.’

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Baseball Is Back So We Can at Least Pretend to Have a Summer. “Of course, it’s going to be a baseball season like none we’ve ever seen. Players are to report to training camps on July 1st, and the season will start on July 24th. It will be only 60 games long, both leagues will have the designated hitter, and there will be a runner on second base to begin each half of extra innings.”

QUESTION ASKED: What’s Your Woke Breaking Point?

EVEN IF YOU BUY OFF THE PRESS AND POLITICIANS, NORMAL PEOPLE NOTICE THINGS: Trust in China Falls Sharply Among Australians, Lowy Poll Finds. “Trust in China among Australians has more than halved amid diplomatic and trade disputes, with only 23% saying they trusted Beijing to act responsibly in the world compared to a 52% reading two years ago, a major poll has found. The annual Lowy Institute Poll also found rising support for Australia’s security alliance with the United States, up six points to 78% this year, even though U.S. President Donald Trump was unpopular with Australians.”

Don’t trust China. China is asshole.

PAUL BEDARD: Trump keeps jobs for Americans, stalls chain migration, with new immigration pause.

GOOD AND HARD: MTA Pulls Emergency Brake on All Major Projects as Financial Woes Mount.

HONESTY AND ACCURATE STATEMENTS UNWELCOME AT NYT: NYTs Reporter Says Biden Is a Flawed Candidate, Gnashing of Teeth Ensues.

YAWN. NOBODY CARES WHAT LAW PROFESSORS THINK, AND THIS IS A GOOD ILLUSTRATION OF WHY. 80% Of George Washington Law School Faculty Call For Alumnus William Barr To Resign As Attorney General.

Advice to people on the right: Get your ticket punched if necessary, but never donate or do anything for your alma mater, because they will show no loyalty to you. See also, Clarence Thomas’s shameful treatment by Yale Law. Of course, in retrospect it should be obvious that a strong black man would be treated badly by a school named after a slave trader.
UPDATE: From the comments: “OK, now I know Barr is doing a good job.”