QUESTION FOR INSTAPUNDITEER LOGICIANS: The Principle of Non-Contradiction holds that A cannot at one and the same time also be Non-A. Does that mean trans-gendering violates this first principle of logic? Asking for a friend.

ABOUT BIDENOMICS AND REALITY: President Joe Biden insists his economic program is “working.” That’s not what most Americans think, according to the latest I&I/TIPP Poll:

“The president in recent weeks has maintained that his economic policies are ‘turning things around and ‘delivering for the American people,’ and has made other comments intended to boost support for Bidenomics. But by 51 percent to 42 percent, Americans disagree with those assessments, based on the online I&I/TIPP Poll, taken July 5-7 from 1,341 adults. The poll has a margin of error of +/-2.7 percentage points.

“Among the majority, 33 percent said they disagreed ‘strongly,’ while just 18 percent said they disagreed ‘somewhat.’ Results were weaker for the minority opinion, with just 16 percent saying they agreed ‘strongly’ that Biden’s policies were turning things around, while 26 percent said they only ‘somewhat’ agreed.”

BIDEN’S WAR AGAINST INTERNAL COMBUSTION, CONSUMER CHOICE: You heard about the forthcoming new federal fuel standard of 58 mpg by 2032. And you know it doesn’t take a mechanical engineering degree to realize such a standard will be all but impossible to meet with a fossil-fueled vehicle.

So what’s going on? According to the American Accountability Foundation (AAF), it’s pretty much what has been suspected all along – They hate consumer freedom, so they are moving to force Americans out of their privately-owned gas-powered cars and trucks and into alternative modes of transportation:

“These draconian measures in the name of ‘efficiency’ would effectively make electric vehicles mandatory in this country by forcefully limiting Americans’ options. In the name of fighting climate change, the Biden administration is seeking to bend the American people to their will through government coercion. They don’t trust us to make our own choices, and so have decided to make our choices for us.

This isn’t speculation. We know the plan is to eradicate gas vehicles because we have obtained emails by NHTSA Acting Administrator Ann Carlson revealing a desire to do just that.” Read on.

SPLITTING HAIRS ABOUT GOD: Did you know that every human being has on average around 100,000 hairs on his or her head? I didn’t either until just recently, but that fact prompted me on HillFaith to comb through a challenging succession of if-thens. Why? Because, hey, it’s Friday and I am betting you’ve never considered this aspect of the debate about the nature of God. Gives you something to think about while cutting your grass tomorrow.

X-RATED PUBLIC LIBRARIES: American Accountability Foundation (AAF) issues an investigative memorandum on what it found in a deep dive into the people and propaganda behind the once-credible American Library Association (ALA). Just for starters, check this out:

“Starting from their leadership, AAF’s report reveals a clear woke agenda. ALA’s president, Emily Drabinski, described herself as a ‘Marxist lesbian.’ She believes in ‘collective power,’ that ‘The problem is profit,’ and specified in one interview that bringing ‘awareness to LGBTQ+ library issues’ is a main focus of her agenda.”

IT’S NOT JUST HILLARY: Turns out one of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s closest advisors was using his personal email to conduct official business. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Ks.) and four GOP colleagues are demanding an on-the-record conversation with Captain David Morens, a U.S. Public Health Service officer assigned to Fauci’s National Institutes for Health (NIH) division.

They — Marshall, Grassley, Lee, Ernst and Blackburn — are also demanding truckloads of documents and related materials, including Morens’ official and personal emails. It’s not known now whether Morens was familiar with that bleach stuff Hillary found so useful.

Morens was also communicating with NIH grant recipients like EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Dazsak and others about grant proposals submitted by competitors, an obvious conflict-of-interest. Don’t be surprised if that putrid scent coming from NIH gets worse in coming days.

TO NOBODY’S SURPRISE: Costs for President Joe Biden’s 2021 executive order calling for an EV conversion of the federal government’s non-military vehicle fleet of cars and trucks are soaring and the projected 13-year process is only in year two, according to a GAO report.

DID THE PANDEMIC OR BLM SPARK THE CRIME WAVE? That violent crime has exploded across the country, especially in the cities and their close-in suburbs, is beyond question. But, as write in my latest PJ Media column, there are lots of reasons to see a link from the spiraling crime to the BLM riots that followed the George Floyd murder, rather than to the social and economic disruptions occasioned by the Coronavirus Pandemic, as claimed by many in the Establishment Left.

RASKIN PULLS A COMEY ON BIDEN PROBE: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, suggested during today’s hearing with two IRS whistleblowers that what they described as improper limits on the Hunter Biden investigation was actually just an illustration of “prosecutorial discretion.”  That may remind some of a former FBI Director’s protecting a former Secretary of State.

IRS ‘WHISTLEBLOWER X’ UNMASKS, TELLS CONGRESS POLITICOS RAN BIDEN TAX PROBE: The evidence keeps growing of how Biden political allies at the Department of Justice kept IRS investigators away from Hunter and the Big Guy.

SWALWELL CALLS J6 ‘GREATEST CRIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY’: Republicans on a House Judiciary subcommittee wanted to talk about the delays, evasions, obfuscations and requests ignored by Biden administration officials at the departments of State and Health and Human Services, especially concerning the whereabouts of thousands of unaccompanied minor children crossing the Southern border and then disappearing into child sex and labor trafficking.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) insisted on instead talking about the January 6 Capitol riot, which he described as “the greatest crime in American history.”

DON SURBER: Remember when Michelle Obama accused white people of running — another term of White Flight — from her family because they were black when they moved into the neighborhood? Don Surber does, and he also remembers a lot more about the riot that sent his family to the suburbs.

Funny how the same people who called it white flight then have yet to come up with a derogatory name for blacks moving out of the crime-ridden urban hell-holes that are Exhibit A in the failure of the liberal welfare state.

ON THE DEI MIND-VIRUS AT HARVARD: Daniel Oliver dissects the response by the president of Harvard University to the recent Supreme Court decision on college admissions. It’s worse even than you likely thought.

WHAT TUCKER DOESN’T KNOW ABOUT ANDREW TATE: Odds are you have heard of Tucker Carlson’s controversial interview with social media influencer Andrew Tate.

Odds are also good that there are also things you don’t know about Tate. But Conn Carroll of the Washington Examiner does know about Tate and he lays it out in about as straight-forward a manner as possible here.

I should also disclose that I know both Tucker and Conn, having worked for the former at the Daily Caller News Foundation and hired Conn for his first stint at the Examiner. I respect and admire both of them. Perhaps Tucker will have Conn on for a profoundly different Tate conversation.

REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS CALLED “SHACKING UP”? Back then, living together before saying “I do” was generally frowned upon, something that “just isn’t done.” Today, living together or “cohabitation” is not only accepted but often encouraged as the best way to find out if you two are “compatible.”

Is that true? As is made clear by the latest edition of the Colson Center’s “What Would You Say?” videos on HillFaith, there is more than enough credible academic research from a wide variety of sources to come to an informed answer to that question.

EVERY DIME. ONLINE. IN REAL TIME: Nobody has done as much for genuine, day-to-day transparency and accountability in government as this guy and the organization he founded. As the maxim holds, nothing disinfects so well as sunshine.

YES, THEY REALLY SAID IT: House Republicans approved a $52.4 billion appropriations bill for State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs that includes prohibitions on any U.S. tax dollars going to research labs controlled by China, Russia, North Korea, Iran or Venezuela, or to fund gain-of-function research such as that in the Wuhan lab that produced the Coronavirus.

The Washington Free Beacon’s Andrew Kerr reports the response of Democrats:

“To Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee, led by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D., Conn.), these measures unravel ‘the hard-fought credibility and influence the United States has earned as a global leader,’ the lawmakers said in a press release Wednesday. ‘The bill threatens our national security and puts the American people and global health at risk,’ the Democrats added.”

No, they really did say that. It hurts U.S. national security to not fund research labs controlled by America’s adversaries. They actually said it.

WHY WAIT? Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) thinks it “may” be necessary for Congress to invoke the War Powers Act to stop President Joe Biden’s march to “locking us into supporting Ukraine,” according to The Blaze. Lee’s comment was prompted by Biden putting reservists on notice of potential deployment to Europe

TWO SMART GUYS MAKE A 25-YEAR BET: And two-and-a-half decades later, they actually meet back up to see who won. The winner just got a case of good wine, but the issue at the heart of the wager is the answer to one of the most basic of all questions.

WHO FUNDS THIS LAWSUIT? Curious, isn’t it, that within hours of the Texas Department of Public Safety utilizing all those buoys in the Rio Grande River to block illegal immigrants from swimming across from Mexico, a guy with a “tour boat” business has the wherewithal to sue?

BIDEN’S SBA CHIEF THUMBS NOSE AT HOUSE: Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Isabella Guzman just happened to have to be in New York today instead of appearing before a House Small Business Committee hearing to examine why her staff found only $36 billion in waste and fraud in her agency’s $1.2 trillion in Pandemic relief spending, while the SBA Inspector General found an estimated $200 billion (and it could be even higher, much, much higher, he told the committee).

FEDERAL WORKER UNIONS LOSE ONLY 1 PERCENT OF EMPLOYEE COMPLAINTS: It’s a new study by Americans for Fair Treatment (AFFT) of 1,211 government employee complaints filed with the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) against their unions. The FLRA upheld the unions 99 percent of the time between December 2015 and December 2022. No bias here!

Speaking of 99 percent, that’s just a tad more than the percentage of campaign contributions from federal employee unions like the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) that went to Democrats in 2022.

WORLD’S SHORTEST BOOK: Tempting to say Issues & Insights gave it short shrift, but that wouldn’t be fair to them or the “book.”

WRAY CLAIMS NO FBI CENSORSHIP AS GOPERS PRODUCE SUPPRESSED POSTS: FBI Director Christopher Wray tangled with a bunch of Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee today.

FBI assaults on the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans was just one of a bunch of issues on which Wray repeatedly hid behind the “ongoing investigation” and “continuing litigation” evasions.

I sat through it all so you didn’t have to.

JORDAN PROPOSES MOVING FBI OUT OF THE SWAMP, TO ALABAMA MAYBE: You want to de-weaponize federal law enforcement? Move the bigwigs at the FBI out the nation’s capital, according to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.