THREE RUSSIA-GATE QUESTIONS REMAIN UNANSWERED: Capital Research Center’s Ken Braun sorts through the continuing flood of documents coming out in the Russia-gate scandal. Here’s the most interesting of the three queries (at least for me): Why is Hillary so invested in the Russia-gate conspiracy theory?

WHY TRUMP WILL WIN AGAIN: Pay particular attention to the reference by David Catron of the American Spectator to the 20 percent of registered voters who admit avoiding pollsters. And that’s just those who admit it.

13 REASONS TO AVOID PENN: There is one Republican employee at the University of Pennsylvania for every 13 Democrats. Not to worry, though, because political discrimination in hiring is illegal, so that ratio must surely be coincidental, right?

REMEMBER WHEN THE INTERNET WAS OPEN? That was back in the days when Silicon Valley believed “Information Wants to be Free.”

DON’T LIKE THE SUPREME COURT? Blame former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and his Democratic colleagues in 2013. Funny how we never hear about that in the MSM these days.

THIS MAY BE THE MOST INTERESTING THING YOU READ TODAY: 10 Amazing Things about your mind and your brain. The political significance is not immediately obvious but, just to cite one example, if there is no such thing as the human mind, the legitimacy of claims on behalf of individual freedom is seriously compromised.

HOLD ON THERE, MOLLIE! YOU SAY TRUMP WILL WIN? Mollie Hemingway, who is clearly among the smartest journalists in Cable World these days, looks at the data from the key battleground states and finds — surprise! — that President Donald Trump is doing better there than he did in 2016. Maybe you better get ready, Joe, cauz that basement could get real old real fast, starting Nov. 4.

LOOK WHAT RIOTS, QUARANTINE DID TO A GREAT AMERICAN CITY: Chris Bedford and John Daniel Davidson of The Federalist assess what’s left of Minneapolis, beginning at radical Left shrine at “Floyd Square,” where George Floyd died. Coming soon to your city, too?

SURPRISE! COVID QUARANTINE DOESN’T APPEAR TO HARM TEENS: This new study from the Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Foundation finds teens benefitted during the quarantine from … wait for it … more family time. What does that tell us ought to be a key goal of social policymakers, regardless of the current public health situation?

YALE PROFS WANTS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AGAINST BARRETT: And we wonder why so many of our kids become Antifa automatons on campus?

UNDERSTANDING WHAT’S AT STAKE IN 2020 IS REALLY QUITE SIMPLE: That’s according to Claremont Institute’s Thomas Klingenstein. The issues are three and easy to grasp, but the simplicity doesn’t prevent 2020 being “a referendum on the Founding. Whether America was founded in 1619 as the BLM Democrats contend, or in 1776, as Lincoln and until very recently all Americans believed.”

HT: Thom McKee and Daily Gouge.

HOW HARRIS/BIDEN WILL KILL THE REPUBLIC: Issues & Insights lays it out in cold, hard detail. Pack the Court. End the Senate Filibuster. Admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states. And more.

HARD FACTS ABOUT COVID DEATHS: Worldwide, we humans have killed 33 unborn boys and girls for every one Covid victim so far this year. The numbers for smoking, cancer, etc. are stark as well.

JUDGE TELLS DC MAYOR TO BACK OFF HISTORIC CHURCH: In a decision that was made public late Friday, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Trevor McFadden granted Capitol Hill Baptist Church’s request for a preliminary injunction against Mayor Muriel Bowser’s anti-Covid edict against all congregational meetings of 100 people or more.

IS THIS THE ULTIMATE IN TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME? Keith Olberman has again left ESPN to do Far-Left political commentary, only this time he’s also applying for Chief Commissar for Ideological Purity in the coming Harris-Biden USA of CHAZ. Here’s his first criminal referral:

“So, let us brace ourselves. The task is two-fold: the terrorist Trump must be defeated, must be destroyed, must be devoured at the ballot box, and then he, and his enablers, and his supporters, and his collaborators, and the Mike Lees and the William Barrs, and Sean Hannitys, and the Mike Pences, and the Rudy Gullianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has destroyed by turning it over to a virus.”

FATHERS ARE THE FORGOTTEN KEY TO SOCIAL WELFARE: Dr. Patrick Fagan of Marripedia cites multiple data-driven studies during the Trump era that demonstrate the crucial importance of fathers being present and genuinely involved with their kids. But you would never know that from how federal social welfare programs are focused.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS SAYS JERK ‘1619 PROJECT’ PULITZER: It’s about time somebody  said this.

40 KEY DOCS TRUMP STILL MUST DECLASSIFY: Just The News founder John Solomon has the inventory, Trump has the authority, will America see all of the evidence?

EXCLUSIVE! FROM THE MSM!! NOT: One of the white supremacists in the bizarre plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) is actually a Trump-hating, Cop-hating anarchist.

MORE EVIDENCE DEMS SHOULDN’T COUNT THEIR CHICKENS JUST YET: Real Clear Politics’ data wizard Sean Trende does a deep data dive and comes up with a couple of solid reasons polls showing an approaching Biden landslide should be taken with a grain of super skeptical salt.

TEXAS LULU CAUGHT VOTING ILLEGALLY: The Washington Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman did a little digging — remember when that was par for the course for journalists? — and discovered:

Helane ‘Lulu’ Sawsan Seikaly, who is challenging Republican incumbent Van Taylor in Texas’s Third Congressional District, worked in California until at least last year as an attorney for a Sacramento-based law firm and as a professor at the University of California Davis. Using an address linked to her parents, however, Seikaly voted in Texas in both 2016 and 2018, public records show.

You can perhaps guess what comes to my mind here:

HARVARD, STANFORD, OXFORD PROFS SAY END LOCKDOWNS: They said it earlier this week in The Great Barrington Statement. American Institute for Economic Research’s (AIER) Jenin Younes notes that:

“While these scientists are not the first to express such views, given the degree to which their stance conflicts with the prevailing wisdom that everyone has a moral obligation to participate in efforts to ‘stop the spread,’ it is not surprising that they have already encountered significant opposition. Among their primary detractors is Yale epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves, who considers their proposal akin to a suggestion that society ‘cull[] the herd of the sick and disabled. It’s grotesque.’”

Seeking “herd immunity” has a bit of a Social Darwinist ring to it, but Younes points to some basic facts, namely, that “at 1.05 million deaths over the past nine or ten months, the coronavirus appears to be a problem along the lines of, for example, traffic accidents, which cause 1.35 million deaths per year, or tuberculosis, which results in 1.5 million deaths annually.”

THEY SAY VOTING’S NOT IMPORTANT. AND YOU SAY? It’s a dismal fact that nearly half of all voting-age Americans will stay home come Election Day. Colson Center’s Joseph Backholm offers three snappy and fact-based comebacks to the usual excuses.

TRIBUTE TO EDDIE VAN HALEN: Mark Hemingway thinks quite highly of the just-deceased guitar master. My tastes run more to Mark Knopfler, Chet Atkins and the Marshall Tucker Band’s Toy Caldwell/George McCorkle duo, but if Mark Hemingway approves EVH, well then, maybe I need to be a little more expansive in this realm.

HOW CONVENIENT (AS GLENN WOULD SAY): The FBI is stonewalling the Hunter Biden investigation. I’m sure it has nothing to do with anything happening in November.