ROTTEN FBI INVESTIGATION: Glenn just linked to Andrew McCarthy’s NRO dissection of FBI Director Jim Comey’s flimflam investigation of Hillary’s criminal (grossly negligent) mishandling of classified information. McCarthy’s superb analysis deserves another link and quote. Like McCarthy, I too was once “hard-wired to presume the FBI’s integrity.” Note the past tense — “was once.” But not after this travesty. McCarthy is tough on Comey. Good. However, McCarthy’s language is much too diplomatic. Bad. The FBI participated in an obstruction of justice operation. McCarthy says so, albeit it with what strikes me as unwarranted delicacy.

But you might call Cheryl Mills, who was right by your side at the State Department while you were doing those things that got you jammed up, if your goal was to envelop those things in an obstructive fog of purported attorney-client privilege. The FBI was not required to treat a conspiracy to obstruct justice as if it were good-faith assistance of counsel. Nevertheless, co-conspirator Mills was laundered into lawyer Mills.

Comey’s investigation stank from the get-go. The FBI are the good guys but the good guys have gone crooked. Now Hillary’s blizzard of lies (William Safire’s term) have tarred the G-men. (Yeah, with Hillary a blizzard tars, stains and scars.) If Comey really wants to salvage the FBI’s reputation, he should either recommend indictment or resign — or better yet, do both.

WELL, THAT’S ENCOURAGING: DHS Head to America: Brace for More Terror Attacks.

PJ PARENTING: Five Things Disney Doesn’t Want You to Know Right Now.

Add to this list their man George Stephanopoulos, and their sports channel that’s MSNBC with more dynamic visuals, and there’s no end to the things Disney doesn’t want you to know.

HE LEAVES OUT “MAKE A BIG DONATION TO INSTAPUNDIT.” A Lottery Lawyer Explains What You Should Do if You Hit the Jackpot.

And, by the way, thanks to everyone who hit the PayPal “donate” button here over the past couple of weeks. I’ll be sending you an individual email thank you, but for now thanks for your support. It was much appreciated.

NOT THE ONION: Pastor Decides She’s an Atheist, But Won’t Leave Her Church.

SHOCKER: The FBI’s Defense For Not Prosecuting Hillary Is Full Of Holes. “In a nutshell, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department permitted Hillary Clinton’s aide Cheryl Mills — the subject of a criminal investigation, who had been given immunity from prosecution despite strong evidence that she had lied to investigators — to participate as a lawyer for Clinton, the principal subject of the same criminal investigation. This unheard-of accommodation was made in violation not only of rudimentary investigative protocols and attorney-ethics rules, but also of the federal criminal law. Yet, the FBI and the Justice Department, the nation’s chief enforcers of the federal criminal law, tell us they were powerless to object. Seriously?”

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ANN ALTHOUSE ON TRUMP’S LEAKED TAXES:

I’d like to see Trump flip the question back to Hillary skillfully. The real issue is the tax code. Does it need to be reformed or not? If Trump took deductions, it was because the tax code provided for them. Once the deductions are there in the tax code, he pretty much has to take them and would be a fool not to take them. If it looks wrong, what’s really wrong is the tax code. So, is Hillary proposing to take away this deduction? Is Trump? Presumably, the deduction is there because it’s good policy. Will either candidate defend the policy and, if not, promise to change it? I don’t see what else matters here. And I suspect the candidates don’t even disagree about that.

Politicians like the tax code complicated because it increases opportunities for graft. All else is posturing.

Also, which IRS employee is behind this?

WHILE SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS WHINE: While the SJWs whine about so-called cultural appropriation, Islamist militants engage in cultural destruction. This short article recalls the Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan buddhas.

I BELIEVE THIS: Thousands of deaths from hospital superbugs are going unreported, research shows.

Many thousands of Californians are dying every year from infections they caught while in hospitals. But you’d never know that from their death certificates.

Sharley McMullen of Manhattan Beach came down with a fever just hours after being wheeled out of a Torrance Memorial Medical Center operating room on May 4, 2014. A missionary’s daughter who worked as a secretary at Cape Canaveral, Fla., at the height of the space race, McMullen, 72, was there for treatment of a bleeding stomach ulcer. Soon, though, she was fighting for her life.

On her medical chart, a doctor scribbled “CRKP,” an ominous abbreviation for one of the world’s most lethal superbugs, underlining it three times.

Doctors tried antibiotic after antibiotic. But after five weeks in the hospital, mostly in intensive care and on morphine because of the pain, McMullen died.

Her death certificate does not mention the hospital-acquired infection or CRKP, however. Instead, her doctor wrote that McMullen had died from respiratory failure and septic shock caused by her ulcer.

The doctor’s conclusion outraged Shawn Chen, McMullen’s daughter.

“It should say she died of an infection she got in the hospital,” said Chen. “She was so hardy. She would have made it through if it wasn’t for this infection.”

Well, she wouldn’t have gotten the infection if she hadn’t had the ulcer, but yeah.

ASTROBIOLOGIST: What ‘Star Trek’ May Have Right—and Wrong—About Alien Life.

The striking similarity between humans and the show’s most famous aliens, including Romulans, Vulcans, and Andorians, has been a point of contention with many fans over the years. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, the franchise writers attempted to explain this convenient lack of biological diversity using a real scientific theory called panspermia.

Proponents of this theory argue that life on Earth may have been seeded by hardy microbes—or at least, by raw ingredients such as amino acids—that traveled here via comets or asteroids. While there’s no direct evidence to back up this claim, missions such as the Rosetta orbiter have found the building blocks of life on comets, and we know tough organisms such as tardigrades can survive unprotected in space.

Scientists also believe early Earth was bombarded by meteors, which could have delivered a “starter kit” for life from elsewhere in the galaxy.

Building on the panspermia concept, Star Trek suggested that an ancient humanoid life-form intentionally seeded worlds around the Milky Way, creating new species that assumed their basic shape. While each of these species may have split off on its own evolutionary path, they are all essentially long-lost relatives.

I suspect casting and screenwriting needs play a bigger role, but . . .

GRASS MUD HORSE: In honor of International Translation Day, the BBC published an article with eight of the world’s quirkiest phrases — nominated by professional translators. Now, check out the Chinese phrase “grass mud horse.” According to the BBC “…Invoking this mythical creature allows people in China to swear online without having their comments scratched by the censors.” If this assessment is accurate, “grass mud horse” has global utility.

CHANGE: Germany used to be the promised land for migrants. Now, it’s turning back more of them.

DOCTOR OFFERS MEN WHO PLAN TO VOTE FOR HILLARY a free testosterone test.

DOUBLE STANDARDS: Twitter under fire after it was slow to react to Jewish Labour activist being subjected to anti-Semitic abuse. “A Jewish Labour activist has been told that abuse calling for her to be deported to Auschwitz does not violate Twitter rules.”

GOOD: New Drug for Severe Eczema Is Successful in 2 New Trials. “Most patients who got the active drug, dupilumab, instead of a placebo reported that the itching began to wane within two weeks and was gone in a few months, as their skin began to clear. Nearly 40 percent of participants getting the drug saw all or almost all of their rash disappear. For some, relief was almost instantaneous.”

SCARED OF HILLARY: WikiLeaks Cancels Major Announcement Due to ‘Security Concerns.’ “‘Security concerns’? In the middle of London? Assange may be deliberately stoking anticipation about the announcement. Or, he may fear for his life.”

Being in the UK didn’t protect Alexander Litvinenko.

REX NUTTING: The Democratic Party could have blocked the rise of Donald Trump years ago if it had just listened. “The story of Trump’s amazingly successful movement is also the story of how Democrats turned their backs on their working-class roots and sided with the elites on the crucial economic question of our times: Who would win from globalization, and who would lose?”

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DECONSTRUCTING THE PHRASE, “I NEVER REALLY LOVED YOU.”

CLAIM: Omega-3 Fatty Acids Can Eliminate What Triggers Lupus. Hmm.

TRIGGER WARNING: VIDEO OF HORRIBLE OLD RACIST USING DISGUSTING TRIGGERING LANGUAGE TO DESCRIBE UNDOCUMENTED PRE-CITIZENS.

MARINE CORPS GOAL: A drone in every squad.

Related: German Lifeguards Test A Low-Flying Drone To Save Swimmers.

I WISH I COULD SAY THE SAME: The New York Times Paid No Taxes in 2014. “For tax year 2014, The New York Times paid no taxes and got an income tax refund of $3.5 million even though they had a pre-tax profit of $29.9 million in 2014. In other words, their post-tax profit was higher than their pre-tax profit. The explanation in their 2014 annual report is, ‘The effective tax rate for 2014 was favorably affected by approximately $21.1 million for the reversal of reserves for uncertain tax positions due to the lapse of applicable statutes of limitations.’ If you don’t think it took fancy accountants and tax lawyers to make that happen, read the statement again.”