INTERESTING BOOK; The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization. #CommissionEarned

THAT’S BECAUSE HE’S A CRIMINAL-CODDLING COMMIE: Everyone Hates Soros-Backed LA DA George Gascon…Including His Own Prosecutors.

TESTING NAVAL HELLFIRE: The USS Montgomery launches a naval Longbow Hellfire at a land-based target. The USS Montgomery is an Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). Here’s a photo of the USS Independence. The Independence trimaran LCS variants have fewer problems than the monohull Freedom-variants but all told the LCS program has proved to be an engineering and budget fiasco — “little crappy ships” with engine problems, hull cracks and corrosion. Once upon a time the Navy was going to build 55 of them, then the order declined to 35. Now the Navy’s trying to decommission several LCSs and quit throwing good money after bad. However, Congressional appropriators want to keep some of those in the fleet. Note the USNI article (at the link) says Congress wants “a report on alternate uses of these vessels.” In part that explains the Longbow Hellfire test launch –the Navy is looking for missions for the LCSs its being forced to keep. It’s still up in the air how many will be in the fleet by the end of 2023. This StrategyPage update from January 2022 reviews the entire LCS program, with particular attention to the Freedom-variant’s serious flaws.

NANCY PELOSI, CONGRESS WON BIG ON STOCKS IN 2021: Updated Report Shows Members of Congress Beat the Stock Market in 2021—And Made Some Suspect Trades.

MATT MARGOLIS: Whew Boy… Democrats Are Gonna Have a Hissy Fit Over This One. “Here’s what’s really going to send the Democrats into a frenzy: according to this poll, Republicans have a slight edge with voters on which party they trust to preserve democracy.”

How about preserving the Republic?

RADICAL CHIC: THE NEXT GENERATION. Los Angeles DA policy pays for funeral of cop killer.

As New York Times owner Tom Cotton wrote in December: Recall, Remove & Replace Every Last Soros Prosecutor.

COLORADO: Jefferson County to close schools because of low enrollment. “According to Jeffco, the district has the capacity to serve 96,000 students in their traditional schools and currently has 69,000 students enrolled. Jeffco expects the enrollment to continue declining to 66,000 by next year.”

HEH:

PAULA BOLYARD: Biden’s America: Millions of American Women Are Being Forced to Go on the Rag—Literally.

WE SHOULD ALL BE SO LUCKY: Breasts Are Saving Japan From Woke Culture.

Q&A: Stanley Kurtz on how Ron DeSantis can save American higher education.

A RETURN TO NORMALCY? After 10-Year Drought, One California GOP Candidate Predicts Big Surprises in November.

MOST ALL OUR INSTITUTIONS HAVE BEEN POLITICIZED AND CORRUPTED, BUT ESPECIALLY PRINCETON: Double Standards: Princeton Turns Blind Eye To Plagiarism From Woke Professor: University’s approach to Kevin Kruse provides stark contrast to its treatment of Joshua Katz.

CREEPING CRT: New K-12 standards bear similarity to higher ed claims that math is racist.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: The president’s daughter comes clean, writing, “I remember having sex with friends @ a young age; showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate).”

Plus: “She wrote this as her dad received the nomination for president. Her brother left a tell-tale laptop behind around the same time. It is almost as if the two people who knew him best were trying desperately to stop his election.”

SAME: Oil and gas industry responds to Biden’s accusations. They are not impressed.

BUT MOSTLY BIDEN: Nevadans blame Biden, COVID-19, Russia for record-high gas prices.

And of course, it was Biden who green-lighted the Russian invasion of Ukraine, something that’s generally ignored now.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Pro-Abortion Baby Killers Are Gettiing Dangerously Bold. “Our once-great Republic is about to become a bare wound the likes of which haven’t been seen since the days of Civil War field hospital.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I’m sure the DOJ will be right on this, like they were quick to go after parents speaking out at school board meetings. Wait, what’s that you say? The DOJ basically approves of the attacks? “The Justice Department official who investigates attacks on reproductive health care facilities has been a staunch critic of pro-life crisis pregnancy centers, dozens of which have been vandalized by abortion supporters over the past month. . . . Clarke’s stance on the centers offers a potential explanation for the Justice Department’s refusal to investigate a string of attacks on pro-life centers since the May 2 leak of a draft Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) asked Attorney General Merrick Garland last week to investigate the incidents as acts of domestic terrorism. Garland has yet to open an investigation.”

Hey, it’s not parents complaining about school boards, which is a real threat. To the Democrats’ program, I mean, which is the only threat this politicized DOJ cares about.

THEY’RE SUPER SERIOUS ABOUT SCIENCE AND HEALTH, YOU GUYS: WHO Will Rename Monkeypox as Scientists Claim It’s ‘Discriminatory’ and ‘Stigmatizing.’

EUROZONE: Market meltdown lays bare Europe’s divisions.

While the years since the debt crisis have seen the 19 countries in Europe’s euro area centralise and toughen bank controls, many planned economic reforms in Italy and elsewhere were watered down as vast money printing buoyed the economy.

Spurred by fears higher borrowing costs will choke economic growth, the markets rout has exposed cracks in the uneasy alliance which – unlike the United States – is held together largely by the central bank rather than a government with power to tax and spend.

Two events this week expose the fragility of the union: the ECB’s efforts to restore confidence in weaker states facing surging borrowing costs as its debt-buying programme ends, and ministers’ decade-long failure to put the bloc’s savers on a solid footing.

After a rare emergency meeting on Wednesday (15 June), the ECB promised fresh measures to temper the market selloff but the lack of a concrete plan to help debt-laden countries like Italy and Greece disappointed some.

With EU inflation running over 8%, Europe isn’t going to be able to paper over another crisis, so to speak.

OUR PLAN TO MAKE THE PROLES SUFFER IS WORKING BEAUTIFULLY, BUT THEY’RE GETTING RESTLESS: Biden hosts climate meeting amid high gas price pressure.

Related: Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.

SHOCKER: Clinton and DNC break pledge to stop lying about Trump ‘dossier.’

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:

WELL, GOOD: Man Who Allegedly Tried to Kill Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh Indicted, Faces Life in Prison. “The California man who authorities say admitted to flying across the country to try to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is facing life in prison if convicted after a grand jury returned an indictment on June 15. Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, was indicted on one count of “Attempt to Assassinate [a] Justice of [the] United States,” according to a court filing. The punishment for the count, a violation of 18 U.S. Code Section 351(c), is a maximum of life in prison. Roske was initially charged with attempting to murder a U.S. judge. If convicted of that charge, a judge could have sentenced him to no more than 20 years in jail.”

FEDS TOOK PANDEMIC PARTYING SERIOUSLY: Internal documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon’s Patrick Hauf report a survey that found a quarter of employees at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) didn’t check their email at all during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Not only that, but they didn’t even login to the government office suite that would enable them to work from home, as they were required to be doing.