JOHN BOLTON HAS REPEATEDLY MISCALCULATED:

John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, wanted to write a book. He knew that the White House would do everything it could to stop him. He hired a flashy white-shoe law firm to handle the prepublication review process required by the nondisclosure agreement he signed when he got his security clearance. As expected, the White House weaponized the prepublication review process against him to keep him from publishing. If he published without approval, it said, he could face severe legal consequences.

Then his lawyer, Chuck Cooper, wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed this week intended to put public pressure on the White House. In it, Cooper volunteered that Bolton had violated both his NDA and perhaps a few criminal laws, including the Espionage Act. Now, even if Bolton’s book is never released, he is facing stiff penalties. As unforced legal errors go, that’s a doozy.

Ouch.

SPACE: Scientists trigger hibernation in mice, astronauts could be next.

‘IS ANYONE IN CHARGE HERE?’ WOMAN ASKS AMID ROW OVER REMOVING CHAZ SIGN.

NOT IF THE LEFT GETS ITS WAY: Andrew Sullivan: Is There Still Room for Debate? It’s going to be painful for Andrew when he realizes that it’s vote for Trump or face an Orwellian nightmare.

GOOD: Rand Paul Introduces Bill To Ban No-Knock Warrants. The only time police should be able to enter a home without knocking and presenting a warrant is when there’s an immediate threat to life and limb. And they should be held 100% liable for any errors whenever they enter a house without knocking and presenting a warrant.

CANCEL ALL THE THINGS! Rolling Stone writer says Olivia Benson of Law & Order should be ‘canceled too.’

Personally, I gave up on the original Law & Order after Michael Moriarty left the show and Jerry Orbach died, so I don’t really care what happens to one of its many spin-offs. But to be fair, a magazine that tried to make suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev look totally cool and dreamy on its cover and debated whether or not “Charles Manson Is Innocent!” should be a headline probably isn’t the best judge of TV cop shows.

GOOD. ALL THOSE LAWS AND REGULATIONS WE MANAGED TO LIVE WITHOUT DURING THE PANDEMIC SHOULD BE PERMANENTLY REPEALED: Ohio House Passes Legislation Making Cocktails To-Go Permanent.

HOWARD STERN UNDER FIRE FOR PAST USE OF BLACKFACE, SKETCH WITH N-WORD.

And after all he’s done in recent years to embrace the left: What Happened to Howard Stern?

SPLC USES ANNIVERSARY OF ISLAMIC TERROR ATTACK TO DEMONIZE CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS.

RIP: Legendary Batman writer, Denny O’Neil dies at age 81. “During his time on Batman, he created/co-created Ra’s al Ghul, Talia al Ghul, Leslie Thompkins, Azrael, and Richard Dragon; he was also involved in the revitalization of the Joker and Two-Face as modern DC villains, and oversaw the death of Jason Todd, the second Robin.”

As Robert A. George of the New York Daily News tweets, “If your only knowledge of Batman is the Christopher Nolan trilogy, then you know Denny O’Neil’s work (Ra’s Al Ghul, the League of Shadows, Talia, even aspects of the maniacal Joker). (And there’s a helluva lot more to O’Neil’s comics legacy). Thank you, sir.”

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ROGER SIMON: A New Silent Majority Is Coming.

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WE ALL NEED TO ADMIT THAT HOGWARTS HAS A TATTOO PROBLEM: Harry Potter fans removing tattoos after J.K. Rowling’s trans comments.

(Classical allusion in headline.)

NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHES OP-ED OF APPARENT TERRORIST SUPPORTER WHO CALLS FOR ABOLISHING ‘PRISONS AND POLICE.’

The fringe op-ed comes after leftist reporters at The New York Times and at other left-wing publications claimed that an op-ed from Sen. Cotton last week put the lives of black people at risk because he advocated for the military to be called in to stop the violent riots from destroying inner cities, a view that is supported by 58% of Americans.

Cotton trolled The New York Times on Twitter, writing: “Running this column puts lives in danger.”

And as Stephen Miller tweets in response to the op-ed, “a 1,000 ‘what they really mean’ think pieces [just] died.”

IS IT OKAY TO PUNCH NAZIS IF THEY’RE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS? Massachusetts universities can’t punish students for offensive group chat, free speech groups warn: Makes them second-class citizens ‘because they also happen to be a student.’

JONAH GOLDBERG: The Growing CHAZm in Seattle. Anarchists take over a neighborhood and … build a border wall?

I love CHAZ. That’s the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, a six-square block Wokeistan in the middle of Seattle, though I fear that they’ll change the name to something more euphoniously transgressive any minute now. And, while I feel bad for the businesses and homeowners in the area who are watching their property values plummet like one of those applause-o-meter dials at a focus group for Sean Spicer’s new one-man song-and-dance show at Branson, CHAZ is just too perfect not to talk about.

For starters, we’ve been hearing for years that borders are terrible. Some wokevolk talk about borders the way you talk to a dog that craps on your new white rug: “Bad borders! Bad!”

But what’s the first thing the Chaztopians establish? Borders, baby. The chief of police explained that, in a generous act of appeasement, she ordered the removal of police barricades at the request of protesters who said they wanted to march “because we really wanted to establish trust. Instead of marching, the protesters … established their own barricades. So the streets we wanted to be clear are now no longer clear.”

Read the whole thing.

Meanwhile, at America’s Newspaper of Record: Trump Enacts Tariffs, Travel Ban On CHAZ.

To enforce the travel ban, the president has ordered a wall built to protect the people of America from immigration from CHAZ. The wall will be “tremendous” and will have a moat and “maybe some sharks.” All foreign aid will also be suspended effective immediately.

Sharks with frickin’ lasers should get the job done.

Related: Tucker Carlson Runs Tourism Ad for CHAZ Antifa-Anarchist Autonomous Zone in Seattle:

Oh, and speaking of Tucker, “Disney ended their partnership with Tucker Carlson over his ‘offensive’ comments but not with the Chinese Communist Party over their millions of Muslims in Concentration Camps. Let that sink in,” Charlie Kirk tweets.

It’s all about keeping the overseas revenue from the Star Wars and Marvel franchises flowing in China, along with the Disneylands in Hong Kong and Shanghai:

Earlier: China’s Long Tentacles Extend Deep Into American Media.

SOMEBODY TELL ANTIFA ABOUT THIS CREEPING CAMPUS FASCISM: Black Student Union demands ‘disciplinary’ board to punish students who use ‘hate speech.’

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MY FRIEND LIZ MCCULLOUGH IS CAMPAIGNING TO BE A MAXIM COVER GIRL. Her dad’s a former Navy SEAL and a very cool guy; she’s done a lot of work with wounded veterans. She’s made it to the next round, and you can support her here. I’d appreciate it if you did.

IS HE FREDO, OR THE OTHER FREDO? Andrew Cuomo’s sad bid to blame Florida for New York’s mismanagement.

JUST NBC THE NETWORK’S RACIALISM: NBC anchor asks Sen. Tim Scott to say whether he’s a ‘token.’

Flashback: Andrew Klavan on The Toxic Race-Mongering of the Left.

TRUMP AND BARR FOOLED THEM ALL:

While the Democrats and the media anticipated getting the optics they so desperately craved of Trump sending in soldiers with bayonets fixed charging at the “peaceful protesters,” what they got instead was the sudden appearance of a bunch of federal tactical units from the FBI, the Secret Service, the DEA, ATF, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Bureau of Prisons, and other agencies, in full gear, many with no rifles, and certainly no bayonets.

As the entire nation is about to belatedly discover, federal agents do not need the permission of governors or mayors before they can enter a state or a city to enforce federal laws and arrest those who are breaking them.

And it happens to be a federal crime to conduct terror attacks against American communities.

It seems the play among some Democrat governors and mayors was to refuse to call in the National Guard while also making their police departments stand down and give the rioters “space to destroy,” which would cause the situation to become so bad that Trump would be forced to act.

And the act they anticipated the president to take was to seize in the U.S. military in to restore order. This would have then allowed them to play their “Trump the Dictator” narrative all the way to the election.

But Trump didn’t do what they expected.

Read the whole thing.