It’s been almost a month since FBI Director Comey sold out: What a mistake, Mr. Comey. Oh, but remember the aftermath. None dare call Hillary a traitor, no. Only Joe McCarthys go there.

SOUTH SUDAN’S LATEST ROUND OF CHAOS: It is a mess.

HOW DOES A JAZZ MUSICIAN MAKE IT IN NEW YORK?: Hey, how does a jazz musician make it anywhere? The Village Voice article is a good read. Sample: “Jazz musicians invented the term gig. So you’d think they would have home-field advantage in the gig economy. It doesn’t quite work that way.” One musician quoted in the article said in Austin (Texas) “…life was easier, the cost of living cheaper, and the pay better for musicians.” I believe him.

TUNISIA FIRES ITS PRIME MINISTER: He has failed to spur economic growth. Tunisia is Arab Spring 2011’s slow success. The article mentions the political party Nidaa Tounes (Call of Tunisia). It’s the country’s largest party and it is secularist.

THE NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL: Started today, runs through Sunday. Here’s Mahalia Jackson at the festival in 1958. And Anita O’Day — also 1958. Both clips are from the classic documentary Jazz On A Summer’s Day.

WHO EMPOWERED PUTIN?: This is a bump, but the last half of the essay documents the culprits– with dates and actions.

CAMBODIA BACKED CHINA: And may pay a political price for its sell-out. I posted on this a few days ago.

Cambodia ignored its neighbors and used its support for China to water down a traditional statement in regards to the South China Sea dispute. The communique failed to mention China’s July 12 defeat in The Hague where an international tribunal ruled “there was no legal basis for China to claim historic rights to resources within the sea falling within the nine-dash line.” China refused to recognize the jurisdiction of the court – a move backed by Cambodia – or the legal action initiated by the Philippines.

Thanks to Cambodia, China won a tactical political victory at the ASEAN meeting. Beijing didn’t want the arbitration decision mentioned– nope, can’t state that fact. China’s bought Cambodia’s vote. As the article notes, over the last two decades China has given Cambodia $15 billion in aid and soft loans.

ANOTHER POLICE OFFICER SLAIN: In San Diego. One officer killed, one wounded. Blue Lives Matter.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Dems go full Joe McCarthy.

TWO WEEKS SINCE TURKEY’S COUP: No, it isn’t ancient history. Erdogan is consolidating personal power. Today the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet says the government is claiming Gulen planned to return to Turkey like Khomeini returned to Iran.

JOE MCCARTHY DEMOCRATS. (bumped)

HILLARY AN UNLOVED NOMINEE: “…at best level-pegging with Mr Trump…” Hey, The Economist is trying to give her a positive spin and claims the Dems have “successfully united” behind her.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS TO COMMEMORATE 1966 SNIPER ATTACK: 50 years ago on August 1. This will be a memorial service for the victims and survivors of the massacre.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Flashback: Armed Citizens and the 1966 University of Texas Sniper Attack.

OVER AT POLITICO: “Sunny, edgy” Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook continues his ugly Joe McCarthy reanimation. Robby sounds a bit desperate. Hey, Joe McCarthy was edgy and desperate. But, yeah, Robby admits that Hillary is a hard sell. Politico’s Glenn Thrush says the whole Democratic convention was a “Rube Goldberg contraption built for the sole purpose of making a skeptical America trust Hillary Clinton.” Robby was the convention’s Rube — according to Thrush, not me. But I won’t disagree, I’d just employ a lower case “r.” Indeed, Robby, your boss has got a trust problem. For so very many reasons. But let me give you three, with documentation: (1) Loretta Lynch’s compromising encounter; (2) Jim Comey’s sell out of the rule of law; (3) Hillary’s criminal compromise of US national security. We’ll get to Clinton Foundation corruption and her Benghazi fiasco later. I promise.

DEMOCRATS GO FULL JOE (MCCARTHY).

IRANIAN CLERIC IN KOSOVO ARRESTED FOR FINANCING TERRORISM: Kosovo has an Islamist radicalization problem and Obama’s Iran deal gives the ayatollahs the bomb.

MORE JOURNALISTS DETAINED IN TURKEY: It sure looks like Erdogan’s going too far.

TAIL GUNNER HILLARY AND THE PUTIN HACK. (Bumped).

WORLD’S DEEPEST BLUE HOLE: Is in the South China Sea — one of the world’s most dangerous geo-political flashpoints. No, Chinese contractors didn’t dig it to mine dirt and rocks for their man-made islands. The hole is natural. But Xinhua is touting it and claims the hole is mentioned in a novel written during the Ming dynasty.

NORTH KOREA SAYS US HAS CROSSED A RED LINE: Seems Kim Jong Un’s “supreme dignity” has been challenged. Still, the choice of “red line” is ironic. Will the Kim regime’s Red fascist “red line” on the Korean peninsula prove to be as non-existent as Obama’s “red line” in Syria?

END OF THE 747? Boeing considers ending production of the iconic jumbo. “The world’s most recognizable airplane is coming in for a landing.”

TAIL GUNNER HILLARY AND THE PUTIN HACK: Joe McCarthy returns in Democrat clothing.

POCKET GUIDE TO THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION AND PHILLY’S STREET ACTION: Based on feedback. So, bumped from last night. Two essays that serve as quick references for combating red fascism. Read’em on your mobile device. Dr. Tom Sowell’s analytic summary. Next: I examine three red left icons.

THE WORD THAT HAUNTS MEXICO’S PRESIDENT PENA: Impunity…if you thought it was Trump you’re misguided. See this site for a good summary of the new National Anti-Corruption System. The implementing legislation was passed on July 18.

AFTER OBSERVING DEM CONVENTION AND PHILLY STREET ACTION: I think this modified post is worth a bump. These two essays serve as quick references for combating red fascism. You can read them on your mobile device. First, Dr. Tom Sowell’s analytic summary. Next, you can use my take down of three red left icons. The essay includes other useful info perhaps one in a thousand red lefty fascists know…maybe…