DEM CANDIDATE CAN’T SAY HILLARY IS HONEST: “Democratic New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan declined three separate times to answer whether she believes Hillary Clinton is “honest” during an interview Monday on CNN.” Hillary is a presidential candidate. When Trump shoots his mouth and angers Repubs it’s big time mainstream news.

THE POLITICAL TRADITION OF PARTY REVOLT: “Never Somebody” isn’t new. The Daily Caller provides some recent history, including examples from the Democratic Party. Ed linked earlier today to this Deroy Murdock essay arguing that #NeverTrump conservatives are “are chauffeuring Hillary Clinton to the White House.” I made a similar case after the convention.

BURKINI BEACH RIOT IN CORSICA: Burkinis banned in Cannes. Cultural and social conflict? Yes. On Corsica the families of the women wearing burkinis objected to locals taking photos of the burkini-clads.

ISLAMIC STATE ALTERS VICTORY CONDITIONS: As it loses territory, the Islamic State is returning to “dispersed organization” mode.

TRUMP SAYS HE’D BE UP 20 POINTS IF NOT FOR CROOKED MEDIA: He’s running against Media Privilege. And he darn well should.

NORTH KOREA’S NUMBERS STATION: The post includes a brief history of numbers stations.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Hillary’s short circuit.

JAPANESE BATTLE OF MIDWAY AFTER ACTION REPORT: An Army buddy sent me the link a few days ago. Lots of details, a bit of a slog, but worth the look for military history fans.

THE SLOW CRAWL TO MOSUL CONTINUES: Today Kurdish forces launched a limited offensive southeast of the city. More here.

INTERNATIONAL LEFT HANDERS DAY: No, not leftist, left hander, or left-hander. Like Lefty Grove, Sandy Koufax and me. Here’s another article which mentions prominent left-handers like Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and Thomas Jefferson.

TRUMP’S INTEMPERATE?: Three weeks ago the Democrats were accusing him of treason.

MODERN ART INSULTS ME: An intelligent rant.

IT’S BEEN A LONG MONTH: From coup to purge in Turkey.

HILLARY CLINTON WAGED WAR ON HONESTY.

DONALD TRUMP ON HUGH HEWITT’S RADIO SHOW: Good interview and worth reading. Note the exchange about Trump’s choice of words. Trump said that Obama founded ISIS and Hillary was the co-founder. Hewitt said he understood Trump’s point but Obama and Hillary “lost the peace” and created power vacuums which ISIS filled. They “didn’t create ISIS.” Hewitt encouraged Trump to use other language.

DT: But they wouldn’t talk about your language, and they do talk about my language, right?
HH: Well, good point. Good point…

Trump’s battling Media Privilege.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Drip drip drip. There were calls within DOJ for a corruption probe into the Clinton Foundation. But they were overruled…

Top Justice Department officials pushed for a public corruption probe of the Clinton Foundation earlier this year, but were overruled by their colleagues after a bank alerted the FBI to the “suspicious activity” of a foreign donor to the charity.

Three Justice Department field offices agreed that the agency should pursue the investigation at the behest of the FBI, CNN reported Thursday.

During a previously unreported meeting earlier this year, high-ranking Justice Department officials clashed over the possibility of pursuing a public corruption investigation. According to CNN, the agency had already looked into the Clinton Foundation in 2015 following the publication of a book, Clinton Cash, that detailed allegations of influence peddling.

TRUMP’S CONTRIBUTION TO SOUND MONEY: A fine, informative essay by a fine economist. The essay’s behind the paywall so try this flanking maneuver if you can’t reach it. In Fall 1989 I had the privilege of hearing Judy Shelton presciently discuss the Soviet Union’s decrepit economy. If I recall correctly, the Office of Net Assessments (SecDef’s think tank) put the panel together.

Excerpts:

…by insisting that the U.S. Treasury label China a “currency manipulator” and by promoting trade that is both free and “fair,” Mr. Trump may be laying the groundwork for a significant breakthrough in international monetary relations—one that could ultimately validate the rationale for an open global marketplace and restore genuine free trade as a vital component of economic growth…Mr. Trump’s emphasis on currency manipulation brings into focus the shortcomings of our present international monetary system—volatility, persistent imbalances, currency mismatches—which testify to its dysfunction. Indeed, today’s hodgepodge of exchange-rate mechanisms is routinely described as a “non-system.” Or, as former International Monetary Fund chief Jacques de Larosière termed it at a Vienna conference in February 2014, an “anti-system.”

This too:

To brand trade skeptics as sore losers is to malign them unfairly. To resent being victimized by currency movements is not the same as being opposed to free trade, nor does it signal an eagerness to engage in protectionist retaliation. It’s simply an honest response to incongruity: We need to reconcile global monetary arrangements with global trade aspirations.

Ms. Shelton wants to stabilize exchange rates.

Read the whole thing.

SHE’S NEVER HELD TO ACCOUNT: Why? Well, privilege. Media Privilege. Media Privilege encourages arrogant recklessness — like Hillary’s.

PILTDOWN MAN: Investigators now believe they know who perpetrated the hoax.

SHORT CIRCUIT?: She lied. (Remember, William Safire called her a congenital liar in 1996.)

WHALE FALL: Bones on the sea floor. A “weird but informative” science story — hey, I think they’re cool.

VIETNAM HAS PLANS FOR CHINA’S MANUFACTURED ISLANDS: Hard rain plans.

ANOTHER POLICEMAN MURDERED: It appears Agent De’Greaun “Dee” Frazier was killed while operating undercover. So his death was in the line of duty. Read the article. It’s short but informative. Agent Frazier was with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. “…this one was close to home.” The man who said that is apparently a former supervisor who admired Mr. Frazier. Agent Frazier had been a policeman in Millington, Tennessee. Check the photo. Agent Frazier happened to be black. Sick of the divisiveness peddled by Black Lives Matter and Bill Ayers? I am. If you haven’t already done so, please read the first part of the essay I wrote after the Dallas atrocity. I think those first paragraphs are –in and of themselves– a short essay on leadership. Genuine leadership, not community organizing, if you get my drift. Dallas Police Chief Brown and Senator Scott are real leaders.

BLACK LIVES MATTER IS OCCUPY WALL STREET REVIVED: Complete with that well-known domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers.

A tell-tale quote from the Frontier Lab study of Black Lives Matter (pdf published in July):

You’ve got to organize with class-conscious workers….You’ve got to organize with the undocumented. You’ve got to organize with the radical trans people… You’ve got to build a poor people’s movement, a colonized people’s movement.

From the study’s Executive Summary:

BLM relies upon the elevation and equating of other underprivileged groups to a status “just as oppressed” as Black America in order to build a narrative of an America divided into the “Oppressed and the Privileged.”

There you go. They practice strategic divisiveness. Good leaders don’t. (Hat tip Powerline.)

DID HILLARY’S RECKLESSNESS HAVE DEADLY CONSEQUENCES?