WHAT A CURIOUS WAY TO SPELL “LEADERSHIP FAILURE”:  Ideological Capture: When Top Military Leaders Adopt Critical Race Theory Verbiage.

CAN YOU HEAR US NOW?  California Parents Plan to Sue the State Over School Mask Mandates.

COUNTRY: YOUR RIDICULOUS JUNTA MIGHT NOT BE AMERICAN:  Biden Administration: Our 90-Day Covid-19 Origins Review May Not Be Definitive.

PERHAPS EMPTYING THE JAILS IN THE NAME OF COVIDIOCY WAS A BAD IDEA?  Mayor de Blasio Promises to ‘Flood’ Times Square With Police After Second Shooting.

THE PACK SMELLS BLOOD:  The Solution to Metastatic DC Corruption is Extreme Federalism, and Biden’s Crew Knows Exactly That.

The herd knows it. May G-d have mercy on our souls. I told them breaking the ballot box was stupid. I told them!

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Can more local self-rule save a collapsing, ‘Late-Roman’ America?

HE MEANS “NECESSARY” AS IN “NECESSARY AND PROPER,” BUT IT’S STILL NEWS: Clarence Thomas says federal laws against marijuana may no longer be necessary.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot: Al Gore on CNN: Republicans are putting out “artificial insanity” on 2020 election.

—Karen Townsend, Hot Air, today.

Chaser: “I’m Al Gore, I used to be the next president of the United States of America.”

—An Inconvenient Truth, first previewed at the Sundance Film Festival, January 24, 2006.

ONCE, THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPLAUSIBLE:

OPEN THREAD: Put love above everything else, and the rest will take care of itself.

CELEBRATING THE 95TH BIRTHDAY OF MEL BROOKS, THE FUNNIEST JEW ON EARTH:

CONNECTING THE DOTS: Space after SPACs: Industry could be on the verge of new investment era.

BREAKING: Hunter Biden’s Firm Funded Company That Partnered With Wuhan Lab on Bat Research.

WELL, DARN: I Was A Female ‘Player’ — But It Wasn’t Actually All That Much Fun. “At the end of each date, I’d be irritated with them for being some way they always were. I’d write them off until the next time they called. Then, it would start all over again. I’d blame them for this scenario. I’d mentally accuse them of being lame, unavailable guys who just wanted to use women, had a lot of issues, and weren’t ready for the real thing. As I laid there in my bed dissecting my weekend male encounters, it dawned on me. It was not them. It was me. . . . I was acting like an emotionally unavailable man.”

Related: “These women are the men their mothers divorced.”

DEMOCRACY DIES IN TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE: WaPo Fact-Checks Biden’s Whopper on The Founders’ Cannons.

President Joe Biden delivered an infamous gun control speech last week, claiming that Americans “need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons” if they want to restrain government tyranny. Yet he also used a flat-out lie to justify his gun control agenda — a lie that led even The Washington Post to deliver Biden a scathing rebuke.

“The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own. You couldn’t buy a cannon,” Biden declared last Wednesday.

The Washington Post‘s Glenn Kessler fact-checked this statement, giving Biden a whopping Four Pinocchios.

“Everything in that statement is wrong,” David Kopel, the research director and Second Amendment project director at the Independence Institute, told The Washington Post. After 1791, when the Second Amendment came into effect as part of the Bill of Rights, “there were no federal laws about the type of gun you could own, and no states limited the kind of gun you could own.” Not until the early 1800s were there any efforts to pass restrictions on carrying concealed weapons, he said.

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“Some readers might think this is a relatively inconsequential flub. But we disagree. Every U.S. president has a responsibility to get American history correct, especially when he’s using a supposed history lesson in service of a political objective,” Kessler argued. “The president’s push for more gun restrictions is an important part of his political platform, so he undercuts his cause when he cites faux facts.”

Note Kessler’s tacit agreement with Biden’s “push for more gun restrictions.”

PAGING DR. FREUD: TMZ: NFL releases ‘powerful’ video declaring, ‘Football is gay.’

As the NFL was overtaking baseball as America’s favorite pro sport, I’m old enough to remember 1970s-era articles with headlines such as “Into the End Zone for a Touchdown: A Psychoanalytic Consideration of American Football,” and, from Time magazine in 1978, “Behavior: Football as Erotic Ritual,” with its then-infamous lede: “Are the guys on the gridiron really gay?”

Or as I wrote in 2012 when the Huffington Post declared “Batman Is Gay:” Holy Mobius Loop, Batman! Huffington Post Vindicates Fredric Wertham.

LOW HEIGHT AND HIGH SPEED WOULDN’T SEEM TO BE ADVANTAGES IN THIS ROLE: 631-HP Lamborghini ‘Follow Me’ Car Is Running at Italy’s Bologna Airport. But it’s a cool promotion for a local business.

FASTER, PLEASE: Researchers engineer cells to destroy malignant tumor cells but leave the rest alone.

THE PANDEMIC IS OVER, SAYS 57 PERCENT OF REPUBLICANS — AND 4 PERCENT OF DEMOCRATS:

Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to say the coronavirus pandemic is over, according to results from a recent Gallup web panel survey.

In general, twenty-nine percent of those who took the survey believe that the pandemic is completely over, while 62 percent believe their lives have gone “somewhat” back to normal, 54 percent claim their lives are now entirely undisrupted by the pandemic, and 40 percent do not expect their lives will ever go back to normal.

When broken down by demographic, the findings from Gallup’s June 14-20 survey show that 57 percent of Republicans say the pandemic is over compared to 4 percent of Democrats.

Differences in age, gender, and region of the country also contributed to the results, as men were more likely than women to view the pandemic as over, while those aged 18-34 were less likely than those above 35-years-old to say the pandemic has ended.

Actually, Democrats declared the pandemic as having been concluded right around this time a year ago:

● After telling GOP to downsize convention due to COVID-19, N.C. governor marches in crowded protest.

● NJ governor admits COVID-19 double standard, says recent protests are different from business owners’ complaints.

● De Blasio: Large Group Protests Are Acceptable, Religious Observances Are Not.

● NPR: Dozens of public health and disease experts have signed an open letter in support of the nationwide anti-racism protests. “White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19,” they wrote.

● ‘Did I miss the memo?’: Hospital workers in full PPE applaud George Floyd protesters as they march past.

Related: The Suicide of Expertise.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. “Our nation’s most storied and elite schools are increasingly becoming a parody of themselves.”

HMM: Germany and America Team Up to Build a New U.S. Army Armored Vehicle.

Maybe this time it will turn out better than it did the last time.

HERE’S THE LEFT’S ROTTEN HEART: Peter Berkowitz ably assesses “After the Fall,” Ben Rhodes’ latest attempt to justify eight years of artful manipulation of the American public and the mainstream media on behalf of then-President Barack Obama.

But Berkowitz could have done it for The Washington Free Beacon in just two paragraphs, the first to remind readers of who Rhodes was and remains, and then this one, which appears in the review he did write:

“From ‘the lived reality’ of his White House years, Rhodes acquired ‘the feeling that a cancer was metastasizing everywhere despite our efforts to treat it.’ He traces the cancer to ‘the ways in which decades of American capitalism, technology, and the politicized pursuit of national security had ripened so many people in the United States and around the world for crude nationalist appeals.'”

You know, like “America First.”

WARNING AGAINST LIBERTARIANS BEARING GIFTS (FOR THE LEFT): No, argues The Federalist’s Gabe Kaminsky, the GOP need not cave to the Left on social or environmental issues in order to appeal to Gen Z.

LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: Summer of Love: Shootout Featuring Fully Automatic Gunfire on Chicago’s South Side Caught on Video.

If only they had gun control laws there.

WE USED TO DO THIS KIND OF THING, BACK WHEN WE DID OTHER THINGS LIKE SEND PEOPLE TO THE MOON: China is using mythology and sci-fi to sell its space programme to the world.