EXODUS OF US FIRMS FROM CHINA HAS BEGUN: The Epoch Times’ Emel Akan reports a strong upswing in requests for supply chain inspections from U.S. manufacturing firms with facilities in Vietnam, Burma (aka Myanmar) and the Philippines. Meanwhile, requests from China are down significantly, though the impact of the CCP Virus is a major factor.

NO, THE VAST MAJORITY OF POLICE SHOOTINGS DO NOT INVOLVE RACE: Hans Bader wonders why so many jump to the opposite conclusion when the data is clear.

PAGANISM, CHRISTIANITY AND GEORGE FLOYD: One crucial element of the George Floyd crisis is how it has exposed the stark chasm between those who view America through the bloody lens of collective guilt and those who cherish it for its emphasis on individual innocence and guilt. Joshua Mitchell, a Georgetown University politics professor lays it out in a manner so succinct that I pray it doesn’t get him fired.

DAILY GOUGE EXPLAINS IT ALL: Want to understand the political reality behind the riots? Here’s the fundamental fact, according to The Daily Gouge:

“Here’s the juice: urban police unions who block accountability for bad cops contribute to Dimocratic politicians running cities who haven’t elected Republicans in 50 years … yet somehow the cause of the problem is thrown at the feet of a President who’s only been in office 3-1/2 years?!?”

GOP REPS SAY IT’S TIME TO DOUBLE FEDERAL JAIL TERM FOR RIOTING: Rep. Ted Budd and Rep. Dan Bishop, both North Carolina Republicans, introduced a bill today doubling the fine from five to 10 years in federal prison.

RECALLING THE TRAGEDY OF TIANANMEN SQUARE IN 1989: I was a Washington Times editor then and distinctly recall gazing in admiration and wonder at the first AP photo of that Statute of Liberty that we received in the newsroom.

FORMER OBAMA INTEL OFFICIAL HELPED BAIL MOLOTOV-TOSSING NYC LAWYER: Salmah Rizvi helped prepared the presidential daily briefing during the Obama years. More recently, according to the Washington Free Beacon (WFB), the former intel analyst signed as a guarantor of the $250,000 bail for lawyer Urooj Rahman.

“Rahman was released to home confinement over the objections of government attorneys after her arrest on Saturday for throwing a lit Molotov cocktail through the window of an NYPD vehicle. Evidence presented by prosecutors included images of Rahman holding a Molotov cocktail in the passenger seat of a van that was later found to be full of the necessary materials for making the explosive devices,” WFB reports.

But why the hub-bub? Doesn’t the First Amendment guarantee rioters and looters “protesting” racial injustice the right to toss Molotov Cocktails into police cars? I mean, it’s a civil liberties issue, right … right?

BIG MAJORITY SUPPORTS USING MILITARY AGAINST RIOTERS: Latest Morning Consult survey finds 58 percent of respondents support using the military to help law enforcement end rioting and looting sparked by Antifa and other anarchist groups in the wake of George Floyd’s horrendous May 25 murder.

IT’S ALL TRUMP’S FAULT: You’ve heard the definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result.” Here’s the definition of political insanity, as demonstrated daily by American progressives: “Attributing the same cause to every effect regardless of how ludicrous the linkage.”

For Exhibit A, check out Issues & Insights’ editorial for today, entitled “What’s Trump Got To Do With The George Floyd Riots?” And for Exhibit B, read the joint statement issued Monday night by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). These two clearly suffer from an incurable strain of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).

MUMBO-JUMBO WON’T FIX THE FEDERAL BUDGET: Sixty House members propose three rather vague actions to begin addressing the exploding national debt and steadily declining Social Security and Medicare trust funds. Folks Left and Right aren’t impressed.

ANOTHER ASSAULT ON CHRISTIANS’ FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS: One thing you dare not do as a military chaplain, according to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), is share positive opinions about the Bible and Jesus with other chaplains.

NOW ITS INSTAGRAM CENSORING A CONSERVATIVE ELECTED OFFICIAL: Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and her daughter had a children’s book being promoted on Instagram. Not now. Instagram claims the book could influence elections. Yes, that’s really what Instagram said.

CHINA SHOWS ITS TRUE TOTALITARIAN COLORS ON HONG KONG: It was always a fable, Issues & Insights reminds us this morning, the idea that by growing closer in trade with the West, Red China would grow more like us politically. Instead, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) shrewdly and in so many ways took advantage of our abundant naivety to grow their power and resources.

Now, as they move troops into the disputed border area with India (which is, let us not forget, a nuclear power), lawlessly expands its military presence in the South China Sea, clamps steadily tighter its totalitarian grasp on Hong Kong, moves invasion forces nearer Taiwan, and threatens the U.S. in manifold ways, America faces a new Cold War. We can either face this reality or continue blindly with our liberal globalist fables.

CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK HEAD ONE WAY, TEXAS AND FLORIDA THE OTHER, BETTER WAY: Data tells the story.

NEW TWIST ON AN OLD BUM RAP AGAINST BELIEVERS: Glenn Stanton, writing for The Federalist, gets some giggles, thanks to Harvard’s Steven Pinker, who probably should stay in his own lane.

FORMER PELOSI AIDES ARE CASHING IN AS CCP VIRUS LOBBYISTS: Yes, I’m trying to duplicate Sarah Hoyt’s shocked face, but it’s just not happening. And for the record, a bunch of former Trump appointees did the same thing, notes Alana Goodman of the Washington Free Beacon.

STATES DEMANDING BIGGEST BAILOUTS DO LEAST TO CONTROL DEFICITS, SPENDING: I won’t tell you the names of the three worst states, but their initials are California, Illinois and New York.

NO MORE STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT BAILOUTS: Veronique de Rugy and Ted DeHaven of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University make the case the federal government should get out of the bailout business and allow the consequences to be felt of bad decisions by state and local authorities.

WAIT, SO NOW WE CAN’T SAY ‘HUMAN CAPITAL?’ The march of political correctness continues.

THE DEFICIT MYTH: You may not recognize Stephanie Kelton, but she knows you because you are a “currency user,” whereas government is a “currency issuer.” Therefore, according to Kelton and other Modern Monetary Theorists (MMT), Washington can spend and borrow without limit and without worry of ever going bankrupt.

And the day after the 2020 election, I will awaken with a third ear growing out of my forehead. Kelton on the other hand could wake up that same day headed to the White House as a key economics adviser in the Biden presidency. Odds on the latter are better than those for the former, so you might want to become familiar with MMT.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA DOCS SEE MORE SUICIDES THAN CCP VIRUS DEATHS: The data is steadily piling up, and it’s not unique to the Golden State, according to Jeffrey Tucker of the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER).

FASCINATING TECHNOLOGY BUT IS IT REALLY THE LAST SUPPER LOCATION? Count me skeptical of the claim, but using infrared technology to recreate a building’s digital history could open a whole new field of inquiry in archeology and maybe criminology as well.

HILLARY WAS AN AMATEUR TAX HIKER COMPARED TO BIDEN: The former Vice President will confiscate an estimated $4 trillion from our pockets. The former First Lady only targeted $1.5 trillion in her 2016 presidential campaign, according to CNBC’s Robert Frank. Frank apparently doesn’t know such comparisons just aren’t done by Mainstream Media reporters.

OMAR EXTENDS LEAD IN RACE FOR ‘MOST CORRUPT CONGRESSMAN:’ Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar blew by a huge field of competitors to take the lead in the race for 2020’s “Most Corrupt Congressman of 2020.” It appears she may have a concealed book advance giving her a supercharged boost just when she needed it.

SPEAKING OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS: Issues & Insights notes this morning that Trump’s approval rating “is now higher than the sainted Barack Obama at the same point in his presidency. Is the public finally catching on?” There is good news here for some groups, including snake oil salesmen who are now more respected than journalists.