YOU CAN’T TRUST WIKIPEDIA: There’s a War Going On Over Kamala Harris’s Wikipedia Page, with Unflattering Elements Vanishing.

ROGER KIMBALL: A Magnificent Speech. “The president’s speech was a passionate celebration of American freedom and American greatness—a greatness, he noted, that was embodied by the sublime majesty of the heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt sculpted into the granite pinnacle of Mt. Rushmore. But just as Lincoln spoke on the eve of civil war, so Donald Trump spoke in the midst of widespread and organized violence against the emblems and the spirit of the American promise.”

HOWIE CARR: Time for cancel culture to ditch the Kennedys.

If Abraham Lincoln and Christopher Columbus no longer pass woke muster in Boston, then it’s time for the Kennedys to go.

And everything with their names plastered on it — the JFK Library and JFK federal building, his statue at the State House, the Kennedy School of Government across the river, the Rose Kennedy Greenway, the Edward M. Kennedy Whatever They Call It, etc.

Everything must go!

Profiles in Courage? The Kennedys were more like Profiles in Caucasity, as that woke Harvard gal said this week before she too got canceled.

Read the whole thing.

When cancel culture comes for FDR, will the New Deal also be cancelled as well?

Related: Ross Douthat on The Ghost of Woodrow Wilson: Just as “Jefferson’s memorial wasn’t built to celebrate his slaveholding, [Princeton’s] Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs wasn’t named for Wilson to honor him for being a segregationist…the school will remain his school, whatever name gets slapped upon it, so long as it pursues the projects of enlightened progressive administration and global superpowerdom. Obviously there are people, right and left, who would prefer that one or both of those projects be abandoned. But they aren’t likely to be running the renamed school. Instead, it will continue to be run by 21st-century Wilsonians — who will now act as if their worldview sprang from nowhere, that its progenitor did not exist, effectively repudiating their benefactor while accepting his inheritance.”

DAN MITCHELL: Race, Gun Control, and the Second Amendment.

THE NEOLIBERAL COUNTER-REVOLUTION:

America is not in the middle of a revolution — it is a reactionary putsch. About four years ago, the sort of people who had acquired position and influence as a result of globalization were turfed out of power for the first time in decades. They watched in horror as voters across the world chose Brexit, Donald Trump and other populist and conservative-nationalist options.

This deposition explains the storm of unrest battering American cities from coast to coast and making waves in Europe as well. The storm’s ferocity — the looting, the mobs, the mass lawlessness, the zealous iconoclasm, the deranged slogans like #DefundPolice — terrifies ordinary Americans. Many conservatives, especially, believe they are facing a revolution targeting the very foundations of American order.

But when national institutions bow (or kneel) to the street fighters’ demands, it should tell us that something else is going on. We aren’t dealing with a Maoist or Marxist revolt, even if some protagonists spout hard-leftish rhetoric. Rather, what’s playing out is a counter-revolution of the neoliberal class — academe, media, large corporations, ‘experts’, Big Tech — against the nationalist revolution launched in 2016. The supposed insurgents and the elites are marching in the streets together, taking the knee together.

Read the whole thing.

HOW MANY PEOPLE ACTUALLY FEEL THIS WAY WILL DETERMINE HOW FAST THE INDUSTRY RECOVERS: I’m Not Ready to Go Back to Restaurants. Is Anyone?

AS IF THE MATRIX WASN’T GLITCHING BADLY ENOUGH IN 2020: Kanye West Announces, ‘I’m Running for President of the United States.’

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: How Our Anti-American Education System Made Riots Inevitable.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS STATUE NEAR LITTLE ITALY BROUGHT DOWN, TOSSED INTO BALTIMORE’S INNER HARBOR.

Related: ‘Have You Been In Solitary?’ – Alleged Newsweek journalist hears Trump at Mt. Rushmore and cannot understand why he claimed people are tearing down statues.

UNEXPECTEDLY! City of Atlanta sees massive spike in crime over last month – we dig into what’s going on. “Atlanta police say murders are up 86% over 28 days last month compared to the same time last year. There is also a 22% rise in aggravated assaults and a 14% increase in burglaries.”

AW, SHUCKS. YOU KNOW US. FROM THE BLOGSPHERE AT LEAST. GIVE US A PING. WE’LL MEET YOU FOR COFFEE:  This Fourth Of July, I’m Moving Across The Country To A Place I’ve Never Been.

DOING THE JOB OUR SCHOOLS REFUSED TO DO: Trump gives America a history lesson at Mount Rushmore.

HISTORICALLY IT IS A FAR MORE REVOLUTIONARY NOTION:  True Revolutionaries Believe in Freedom, Not Power.

NO. NEXT?  Is the Declaration of Independence Sufficiently Appreciated?

CAN SOMEONE BREW OUR NEWS OUTLETS A POT OF THAT COFFEE?  British Media Outlets Wake Up, Begin Distancing Themselves From UK Black Lives Matter Organization.

IT’S ALL RIGHT. THE REST OF US DON’T EVEN QUESTION CNN. WE JUST MAKE FUN OF THEM:   July 4, 1776: The Declaration of Independence Annotated.

KEEP IT ALIVE:  July 4, 1776: The Declaration of Independence Annotated.

SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE THE VOICE THAT CRIES IN THE DESERT. BUT I’M NOT ALONE:  Happy July 4th! Happy Independence Day.

BE NOT AFRAID:  Happy Fourth.

THE QUOTE IS PROBABLY APOCRYPHAL, BUT IT’S ONE OF THOSE THAT SINCE IT DIDN’T EXIST, IT HAD TO BE MADE UP:

HE’LL STRIP BLACK VOTES FROM BIDEN IF THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENS, AND HE KNOWS THAT: Rapper Kanye West announces U.S. presidential bid on Twitter.

AT AMAZON, Bra Holsters for Women.