I WAS TOLD THIS WAS ABOUT CONFEDERATE GENERALS: Satanic Symbol Painted at Church in Parish Where Knights of Columbus Began: The New Haven parish is the most recent attack on Catholic churches who have experienced a spike in vandalism and desecration.

“WOKE CULTURE” ISN’T ABOUT PUBLIC OPINION, IT’S ABOUT STAMPEDING THE ELITES: Poll: Less Than 30 Percent Of Americans Say Redskins Should Change Their Name.

IF YOU WANTED TO MAKE THE CASE THAT FAUCI IS A PARTISAN HACK, THIS WOULD BE A GOOD PLACE TO START: Fauci holds up New York as model for fighting coronavirus — ‘They did it correctly’.

WELL, GOOD: Michigan Supreme Court Rules Government Can’t Seize Entire Value of House over Property Tax Delinquency Worth $8.41.

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SURPRISE: Private Schools Are Adapting to Lockdown Better Than the Public School Monopoly.

From what I can tell, teachers’ unions seem mostly to be trying to convince people that we can do without public schools.

WHEN THE GOING GETS WEIRD, THE WEIRD TURN PRO: Happy Birthday, Hunter S. Thompson.

WHY DOES MSM IGNORE CHINA’S GENOCIDE? Hans Bader, writing on Liberty Unyielding, brings together the evidence that the Chinese Communist Party is systematically oppressing three million people, using torture and concentration camps. Yet when was the last time the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC or CBS did any investigative reporting on this horrendous abuse of human rights?

WHY YOU SHOULD MAYBE CARRY NONLETHAL WEAPONS: Not All Fights Are Gunfights.

FOGGY BOTTOM FLUNKS THE SCHULZ TEST:

Shot: Pompeo’s Attack on ‘1619 Project’ Draws Fire From His Own Diplomats.

The New York Times ’ “1619 Project,” which examines the role of slavery in U.S. history, was not the central focus of his speech, nor of the new draft report that his controversial Commission on Unalienable Rights produced.

But his comments have sparked fresh debate and criticism among diplomats who continue to raise alarm bells over long-standing issues of systemic racism and diversity challenges in the State Department. Five officials who spoke to Foreign Policy on condition of anonymity described a reaction of shock and fury.

“Pompeo made it very clear where he stands and reaffirmed the purpose of the commission by denigrating the movement for equal justice and the call for racial reckoning and healing in America,” said one State Department official. “Everyone that I have spoken with is horrified and disgusted by the commission, his press conference, and [the] attack on 1619,” said the official.

—Foreign Policy, yesterday.

Chaser:

When I was in the first period when I was secretary of state, there was in my office a big globe. And when ambassadors, who were newly going to their posts or in their posts and coming back to visit me, would get ready to leave, I would say to them, “Ambassador, you have one more test before you can go to your post. You have to go over to the globe and prove to me that you can identify your country.” So unerringly, they would go over and they’d spin the globe around and they’d put their finger on the country they were going to, pass the test.

So Mike Mansfield, great elder statesman in America, former Senate majority leader and who had been ambassador to Japan for a while before I was there, and he was a close friend of mine from back when I was in the Nixon administration — so he was visiting and he got ready to leave. I said, “Mike, I got to give you the same test I give everybody else. Before you can go back to Japan, you got to show me that you can go over to the globe and put your finger on your country.” So he went over and he spun this globe around and he put his hand on the United States, said, “That’s my country.” So I’ve told that, subsequently, to all the ambassadors going out, “Never forget, you’re over there in that country, but your country is the United States. You’re there to represent us. Take care of our interests and never forget it, and you’re representing the best country in the world.”

—Former Secretary of State George Shultz on C-Span, April 29, 1993.

APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION: U.S. Attorney Directs Probe Into Federal Efforts to Stop Violent Riots in Portland.

CHAPPAQUIDDICK WAS 51 YEARS AGO TODAY.

Look on MSNBC Host’s Face Is Priceless as Experts Unanimously Agree US Should Reopen Schools.

PEOPLE WHO TRY TO BURN FEDERAL COURTHOUSES, ETC. SHOULD BE ARRESTED. BUT POLICE SHOULD BE INDIVIDUALLY IDENTIFIABLE. The first statement is the law. The second is more aspirational. What the Heck Are Federal Law Enforcement Officers Doing in Portland?

WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? New Yorkers fear return of ‘bad old days’ after shootings surge: City is rattled by rising tide of violence following a long period of relative peace.

Well, the city administration has waged all out war against the policies and people that brought about the long peace.

BAD EXPERIENCE WITH LORDANDTAYLOR.COM AND THE CAPITAL ONE SPARK CARD: Long story short… My wife bought a dress for L&T.com. They had, at the time, a 60-day return policy. She returned it within the 60 day period. They refused the return because it was not within their 15-day return policy. It turns out they had changed their return policy after her purchase. Wife called, explained this. They refused to budge. Challenged the charge with Capital One, with full documentation. Capital One sided with Lord and Taylor. I called to ask why, and was told that “visa policy” was that we needed an acknowledgement from the merchant that they accepted the return. I explained that the problem was that they didn’t accept their return, contrary to the existing return policy when she ordered the dress. The phone rep. was sympathetic, but said she was powerless to help. Guess which credit card I am canceling as soon as I finish this blog post?

UPDATE: Someone gave me a tip that physical Lord and Taylor stores are being much better about returns than the website, so I called and they told me they would take the dress back if it was unworn and still had tags. The closest store is almost a half-hour away, but this was an unusually expensive dress for my wife (a candidate for mom-of-the-bat-mitzvah-girl dress), so it was worthwhile. Still not happy that I had to waste that time and energy, but better than not getting a refund.

NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER SURRENDER! Walter Block Defends His Academic Freedom.