OUCH. “The final theme present. . . throughout the armed forces today is KAFCA, pronounced Kafca (since this is a military book I have made up an acronym.) KAFCA is Keeping the Able From Contributing to the Action. Inside the armed services, this problem is more politely referred to as ‘personnel mismanagement.’”

BILL BARS SALTY UNIONS: Well, actually the proposal introduced by Rep. Rick Allen (R-Ga.) makes it illegal for unions to insert organizers under the guise of being regular employees. It’s called “salting” a targeted non-union company’s workforce to promote employee dissatisfaction, encourage formation of a union, confront management, etc.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Concealed Carry Revolver Roundup.

MY FIRST THOUGHTS ON THE SUPREME COURT’S DECISION:  It’s good.  But the battle’s just beginning.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Canadian Animators Share Shocking Tales of Anti-White Racism.

BE PREPARED: Pulsar 2,200W Portable Dual Fuel Quiet Inverter Generator. #CommissionEarned

SAD: The Woke Bell Tolls for Ernest Hemingway. “Anyone in our enlightened age who is crazy and daring enough to read Ernest Hemingway, an author who is not a person of color, not trans, and not a victim of white patriarchal oppression, will now be waved off by Hemingway’s own publisher.”

CHINA’S DEMOGRAPHICS: Even Worse Than You Think. “What happened back in 2017, well before Covid, is that we had a sudden collapse in the birth rate, roughly 40% over the next five years among the Chinese, the ethnic Han population, and more than 50 percent among a lot of the minorities. And that is before Covid, which saw anecdotally the birth rate drops considerably more.”

If you don’t have the time or inclination to watch a video, Lawrence Person has broken out all the bullet points for you.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot: Just take the L! Jennifer Rubin insisting colleges can still be racist and discriminate does not go well:

Chaser:

MY SUV DEMANDS AN APOLOGY: Research reveals sources of carbon dioxide from Aleutian-Alaska Arc volcanoes.

UNEXPECTEDLY: MSNBC Melts Down After Affirmative Action Ruled Unconstitutional.

HMM: Yes, Joe Biden Using a CPAP Machine to Help Him Sleep Is a Big Deal.

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Is the Bible still relevant in America and western societies? Predictions of the demise of biblical influence are common, including, strangely enough, among people who continue to cherish the best-selling book in human history.

But the folks at the Colson Center — the finest legacy of the famous Watergate-Conspirator-Turned-Christian-Apologist — who produce the “What Would You Say” video series, make a compelling case that, if anything, the Bible’s influence is growing. Don’t miss the comments on atheist Tom Holland’s assessment.

THAT MAKES SENSE: Spouses sharing friends may live longer after widowhood.

SAD: National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff writers.

On Wednesday, the Washington-based magazine that has surveyed science and the natural world for 135 years reached another difficult passage when it laid off all of its last remaining staff writers.

The cutback — the latest in a series under owner Walt Disney Co. — involves some 19 editorial staffers in all, who were notified in April that these terminations were coming. Article assignments will henceforth be contracted out to freelancers or pieced together by editors. The cuts also eliminated the magazine’s small audio department.

The layoffs were the second over the past nine months, and the fourth since a series of ownership changes began in 2015. In September, Disney removed six top editors in an extraordinary reorganization of the magazine’s editorial operations.

This next part is the worst: “Departing staffers said Wednesday the magazine has curtailed photo contracts that enabled photographers to spend months in the field producing the publication’s iconic images.”

Disney took NatGeo woke and… you know the rest.

ETHICS! Harvard ethics professor allegedly fabricated multiple behavioral science studies.

UPDATE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARIES ACCORDINGLY, COMRADES!

EAT MORE MEAT: Many young women, girls in U.S. are iron deficient. “In addition to blood loss from menstruation, many young women may not be getting enough iron in their diet, especially vegans and vegetarians.” One of many self-destructive fads that spread among young women.

SUCKING IN THE SEVENTIES: Many Americans Think Life Was Better 50 Years Ago. They’re Misguided.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Kathleen Kennedy Does to Indiana Jones What Nazis, Supernatural Cults, More Nazis, and Space Aliens Never Could.

ADMITTING REALITY: For the first time, a majority of Democrats say the pandemic is over: poll.

GORGEOUS: See SpaceX’s new Starship fire up in these stunning engine test photos. “A successful engine test is a promising sign for SpaceX, as the company has implemented ‘well over 1,000’ changes to the rocket since the April 20 attempt. Musk recently estimated that Ship 25 might be ready to fly as soon as six weeks from now.”

Additional views from yesterday’s Ship 25 static fire pic.twitter.com/dwdVETLJsV

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 27, 2023

OBAMA SMILES: Wisconsin State Senator LaTonya Johnson says “f*ck the suburbs” on the senate floor during a debate on crime spilling from cities to suburbs.

Wisconsin State Senator LaTonya Johnson says “fuck the suburbs” on the senate floor during a debate on crime spilling from cities to suburbs.
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— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 29, 2023

Flashback: Great Moments in Projection:

Shot:  Obama: Only Working People Trump Knows are His Maids and Mowers.

—Bridget Johnson, PJ Media.com, today.

Chaser:

“[Obama] always talked about the New Rochelle train, the trains that took commuters to and from New York City, and he didn’t want to be on one of those trains every day,” said Jerry Kellman, the community organizer who enticed Obama to Chicago from his Manhattan office job. “The image of a life, not a dynamic life, of going through the motions… that was scary to him.”

—Obama biographer David Mendell in 2007.

“When the president visits suburban backyards, it sometimes seems like a visit from a ‘president from another planet.’ After all, as a young man, Obama told The Associated Press: ‘I’m not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me.’”

—Joel Kotkin, as quoted in an October 2010 Insta-post headlined “Obama’s Mistake: Suburban Nation, but Urban Political Strategy.”

‘I said something everybody knows is true, which is there are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my home town in Illinois, who are bitter,’ he said on a visit to Muncie, Indiana. ‘So I said when you’re bitter, you turn to what you can count on. So people vote about guns, or they take comfort from their faith and their family and their community,’ he said. ‘Now, I didn’t say it as well as I should have. If I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that.’

—“Obama ‘sorry’ for God and guns jibe,” the London Guardian, April 12, 2008. Note the big dog-eating grin on Obama’s face in the photo the Guardian chose to accompany their headline.

SAME:

Paul Ehrlich has done immense damage to humanity. Immense. I despise him.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 26, 2023

MATT MARGOLIS: What the Media Isn’t Telling You About the Trump Recording.