THE LONG, SORDID HISTORY OF SCAM SCIENCE: A much-needed refresher, courtesy of Robert Wright and the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER).

NYC’S BLM STREET DEFACED THREE TIMES IN A WEEK: But can you guess where you won’t read much about it, if at all?

WHY DOES MSM IGNORE CHINA’S GENOCIDE? Hans Bader, writing on Liberty Unyielding, brings together the evidence that the Chinese Communist Party is systematically oppressing three million people, using torture and concentration camps. Yet when was the last time the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC or CBS did any investigative reporting on this horrendous abuse of human rights?

WHY ‘CRITICAL THEORY’ IS A DISASTROUS, UNBIBLICAL WORLDVIEW: It’s long, at an hour, but theoretical chemist Dr. Neil Shenvi and journalist Allie Beth Stuckey cover a lot of important ground and do so in an accessible manner for those of us who aren’t PhDs. And the arguments and analyses are compelling, regardless of one’s faith perspective, or absence thereof.

SILENCE WILL NOT WIN THE CULTURE WAR: It shouldn’t have to be said, but The Federalist’s Emily Jashinsky says it quite well.

ODDS ON BIDEN DISAVOWING UAW SUPPORT? Probably somewhere between Slim and None, as they say. But the National Right to Work Committee’s Mark Mix is a sly one and his challenge could be important in Michigan and Wisconsin, come November.

CAN YOU SPELL ‘GULF OF TONKIN?’ Two U.S. carriers are back in the South China Sea. Great power wars can begin with miscalculations in such confrontations.

AND YOU CAN KEEP YOUR GAS-POWERED AUTO: Joe Biden promises as part of his Green New Deal program 100 percent zero-emissions vehicles — i.e. electrics, though they really aren’t ZEVs — by whenever. The Issues & Insights crew wonders about “the cost of all this? Who knows. Aside from the $2 trillion price tag that Biden put on his entire Green New Deal plan, he hasn’t broken down his EV mandate scheme. But Sen. Chuck Schumer has already proposed a cash-for-clunkers plan, which would cost $454 billion over a decade.”

I just pity the hapless federal bureaucrat who tries to tell my son he can no longer drive his 95 Mustang Cobra SVT restoration on the street. Few sounds in this world are sweeter than an American small-block at full song.

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Is porn just harmless entertainment? Colson Center offers three concrete reasons to conclude otherwise.

SOROS SPENDING $220M TO ELECT MORE LOONIES TO LOCAL PROSECUTOR JOBS: Oh boy, just what America needs, more Soros-backed DAs like the one in St. Louis who seized the McCloskeys’ firearms.

DEEP TROUBLE IN THE CASTLE ON THE MALL: A thorough ideological disinfectant scouring is clearly needed at the Smithsonian.

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT: Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer and Kevin McCarthy will make out like bandits when they retire, thanks to the taxpayers funding their incredibly lucrative congressional pensions.

EARMARKS WERE BANNED IN 2011. CONGRESS SETS NEW EARMARK RECORD IN 2020: Yes, you read that correctly. Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) publishes the 28th edition of its Congressional Pigbook.

MORE EVIDENCE TRIAL LAWYERS VIEW COVID AS A LITIGATION BONANZA: Covid-related workplace lawsuits doubled between April and June. The actual numbers may seem small — 60 cases in April to 122 in June — but check out the parallel increase in advertising. It’s part of a familiar gameplan, according to the Institute for Legal Reform’s Oriana Senator.

QUIET REVOLUTION SPARKED BY JANUS GOES ON: It gets little coverage, but Benito Casanova’s Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court is the latest step in the war against public sector unionism made possible by the landmark 2018 decision.

READ THIS INSTEAD OF ‘WHITE FRAGILITY:’ Mark Hemingway, Book Editor of The Federalist, provides a lengthy but absolutely essential guide to navigating the perilous paths created by the Left’s army of purveyors of Critical Race Theory and, in the words of liberal Matt Taibbi, “Hitlerian race theory. Along the way, Hemingway provides handy definitions of such terms as “do the work” and the “Kafka Trap.”

CALIFORNIA PASTOR TAKES CHURCH REBELLION AGAINST COVID RESTRICTIONS ON THE ROAD: Sean Feucht explains why. Maybe the Spirit of Liberty isn’t quite dead in America.

EXCLUSIVE! Video of HillFaith staff upon receiving test results news for the boss.

TIME RUNNING OUT FOR DC CONSERVATIVES, GOP: Rachel Bovard makes a disturbing case in American Greatness that Republicans and the Washington conservative establishment that, mostly, supports them are absolutely blowing it as the country slides ever closer to suffocation by the Left’s Cancel Culture.

SOROS GROUPS GOT MILLION$ FROM PPP: Well, I’m not surprised, how about you?

BIGGEST FEDERAL UNION LEADERSHIP IS CESSPOOL OF SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGATIONS: The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is being sued by a group of career civil servants in federal court for multiple allegations that 16 high officials repeatedly committed sexual abuse of subordinates, then covered it up.

‘DEFUND THE POLICE’ ISN’T WORKING FOR DEMS IN CLOSE SENATE RACES: RealClearPolitics’ Susan Crabtree takes a deep dive on how the issue has forced Democrats like Theresa Greenfield to step like she’s barefoot in a field full of fresh cow pies.

HERE’S WHAT KEEPS TWO DEM STRATEGISTS AWAKE AT NIGHT: Yes, Biden looks like he’s headed to a November landslide against President Donald Trump. But did you know that Biden has gained only four points over Trump since the latest coronavirus panic began? Here’s two veteran Democratic campaign strategists who point to manifold reasons Democrats are celebrating prematurely. And on CNN, of all places!

THE MOMENT OF CONFRONTING THE PROSPECT OF DEATH BY COVID: Worth pondering, my friends.

IF THIS IS THE STATE OF AMERICAN PUBLIC DISCOURSE TODAY, WE’RE DOOMED: Ami Horowitz tries to have a rational conversation based on facts about Black Lives Matter with D.C. protestors. As Ami warns at the outset, it didn’t go well.