THREE JUNK SCIENCE ‘TELLS:’ Capital Research Center’s (CRC) Jon Rodeback points to three words whose presence in a news story is all-but-certain warning sign of “junk science” in the service of political ideology.

JOE BIDEN, CHRONIC LIAR, THE CATALOG, PART II: Issues & Insights (I&I) debunks the claims that the Biden presidency has compiled a record of successes. Au Contraire.

NOT YOUR DADDY’S LABOR UNION ANYMORE: A congressional subcommittee heard from witnesses today about the explosion of anti-semitism in labor unions, especially those on campus like the MIT Graduate Student Union (GSU), as well as representing government workers, medical personnel and teachers.

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorney Glen Taubman told the subcommittee his phone has been “ringing off the wall” since the October 7 attack by Hamas in Israel. The calls are coming from Jewish members of unions that are openly supporting Hamas and calling for the destruction of Israel.

“They are attacked in their workplace and that is the reality I am seeing. And unfortunately, I cannot say to all these people ‘exercise your constitutional  right to get out’ because under the National Labor Relations Act they cannot get out, they are forced to be part of a bargaining unit and forced to pay dues to a union or be fired,” Taubman said.

JOE BIDEN, CHRONIC LIAR, THE CATALOG: Leave it to Issues & Insights (I&I) to produce the most concise and damning compilation of the many lies told over the five decades of a public “service” career. This is a must-read and copy-the-link, for informational purposes.

PROMOTED FROM LATE YESTERDAY.

NEW FROM PJMEDIA: Be sure and check out “The Intersection of Faith & Politics,” with PJMedia Editor-in-Chief Paula Bolyard and writer Lincoln Brown. Paula and Lincoln will be probing all of the sundry issues suggested by the title and much more, beginning Wednesday, July 10.

BIDEN’S WHITE HOUSE STAFF BIGGEST SINCE NIXON:Yes, even bigger than that of the man under whom Joe Biden served as Vice-President. And Jill Biden’s staff is just as big as Michelle Obama’s bunch. Maybe Biden always seems confused because he’s got 565 bosses? It’s my latest column on PJMedia.

DON’T THINK IT WILL STOP IN CANADA: Leftists pushing for “pre-crime” legislation authorizing the government to arrest individuals before they commit some offense. Writing in Mind Matters, Denyse O’Leary describes the situation in Canada that makes likely passage there in the near future of such laws. My gosh, next they will be telling us that, if we want to eat or keep our jobs, we have to have “666” tattooed on our foreheads and wrists!

HOMELESS, DRUG-ADDICTED GOTH TEEN ATHEIST: Not much to hope for if that describes your situation in life. It actually did describe Christina Baker’s life at one time, but, boy, is it different now, as she explains today on HillFaith.

DON’T ASSUME THUNE: Will win the election to succeed the retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) as Senate Republican Leader. South Dakotan Sen. John Thune,  McConnell’s loyal deputy since 2019, has two announced rivals and one unannounced potential rival.

As I report today for The Epoch Times, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) appears to have the best chance of beating Thune. But Senate Republican Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Daines of Montana could jump in the race, too, if the GOP’s Senate candidates pickup four of more seats.

WHERE CHINESE CAN ENTER US UNIMPEDED: No, it’s not just on the Southern border with Mexico. It’s the Mariannas Islands where Chinese individuals can enter the U.S. legally and stay. Or head to the mainland.

BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW THIS ABOUT VULTURES: They actually perform a public health service that is hugely important to man and animals. Yes, the (man-made?) Coronavirus Pandemic was bad but we can thank these ugly creatures for there not being more and worse.

WHY LEFT AND THE MSM DON’T ‘GET’ POPULISM: Former Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director (under Reagan) Donald Devine explains why, going back to the 1848 revolutions in Europe, progressives just don’t understand populist movements like that which is growing on the Continent, and that Donald Trump leads, for better or worse, in the U.S.

EVERY JOT AND TITTLE: What prompted the journey of Rosaria Butterfield, former tenured Syracuse University English Literature and Women’s Studies professor, from Lesbian activist and angry atheist to happily married mother, grandmother and Christian?

Whatever you think about where she ended up, you’ve got to admit the country would be in far better shape if more lefty academics embarked on the same journey to leave totalitarian activism behind.

EVER HEAR OF PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL (PI)? Odds are the answer to that question is no because these Leftist puppet masters are most interested in organizing protests around the world to advance their thoroughly Marxist agenda.

Here’s how Capital Research Center (CRC) describes it: “PI connects like-minded activists worldwide by organizing and promoting campaigns and developing ‘blueprints’ to share ‘the principles and policies of a progressive international order.’

“They were born out of a 2018 joint call from a Bernie Sanders-aligned nonprofit and a European political association called the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025. And they consider capitalism, the United States, and Israel the biggest threats to their agenda.”

There’s much more about PI that you likely don’t know and CRC has helpfully captured it in this highly recommended 3:38 video.

WILL PRO-PALESTINIAN MOB DISRUPT THE DEBATE? Richard Pollock, the former riot trainer of the 60s and 70s radicals says he won’t be surprised if the radical leftist activists posing as Pro-Palestinian demonstrators do something to disrupt Thursday night’s Grudge Match of the Geriatric Presidents.

PHRMA FUNDS TRANSGENDERISM: Tom Jones’ American Accountability Foundation (AAF) documents three-quarters of a million dollars in support from Big Drug for the movement pushing kids and adults to go under the knife to “correct” their gender. That and more in my latest PJMedia column.

OH MY OMAR: A formal complaint has been filed with the House Ethics Committee against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) by the National Legal and Policy Center’s Paul Kamenar alleging she failed to report income generated by her husband’s wine and marijuana businesses, the Washington Free Beacon’s Meghan Blonder reports.

WHY IS DOD SUPPRESSING THIS INFO? The Department of Defense Inspector-General (DOD-IG) reports it is impossible to know how many U.S. tax dollars in the Pentagon budget are ending up funding Chinese military research on pathogens with enhancement potential to lethal pandemic levels.

Why? Because DOD budget tracking is a joke — that’s my term, not the IG’s — and because of a little known authority to hide unclassified information. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) are moving against that authority, the Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) provision.

GAIN THREE YARDS OR FUMBLE: That’s an apt analogy for the division within the House GOP. Speaker Mike Johnson and most of his Republican colleagues realize all-or-nothing legislative Hail Marys don’t move the ball of conservative change down the field.

Reaching compromises can each move the ball three yards closer to the goal. That’s the reality Johnson must deal with in leading an historically tiny majority versus Joe Biden in the White House and the Senate Democratic majority.

SNOBBERY GETS YOU NOWHERE: Maybe it was just “one of those days” and noted New Atheist Richard Dawkins just didn’t feel like responding to a sincerely posed inquiry. In this case, in HillFaith’s latest Testimonies post, Dawkins’ evasion was a crucial step in Peter Byrom’s journey from atheism to Christian faith.

LEFT, RIGHT TRANSPARENCY VOICES BACK NIH FOIA AUDIT CALL: Sen. Roger Marshall’s demand for the FOIA compliance audit of NIH going to 2014 is getting support across a broad front of the political spectrum.

Big Government cannot survive transparency and accountability, so hopefully this NIH audit will be the first step toward mandatory annual FOIA compliance probes at every federal department and agencyc.

HEY, YOU CAN’T DO THAT! At least not if you are a moral relativist. Greg Koukl, writing at Salvo, lays out seven things folks who claim truth is all relative cannot do (and stay true to themselves). The first of the seven things is accuse other people of wrong-doing. Remind you of anybody?

UPDATE: See also Wintery Knight’s analysis of why moral relativists are fundamentally hobbled when asked to justify morality on their worldview. And while you’re out, you might even check out HillFaith and my quickie look at the fraud that is Critical Theory.

BIDEN, TRUMP EXEC ORDERS COMPARED: Every executive order issued to date by President Joe Biden and all of them signed by his predecessor are sorted by topic, and the results show each chief executive’s true priorities, according to The Epoch Times’ Beth Brejle.

MOST HILL AIDES WANT NEW FACE IN THE WHITE HOUSE: Overall, 77 percent of the congressional aides responded “Yes” to the question of would they name a new presidential candidate for their political party if given the chance. Interestingly, 88 percent of the Democratic staffers said that, compared to 70 percent of the GOP aides.

BIDEN ARRANGED BURISMA EXEC MEETING WITH KEY STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: New evidence reviewed by Just the News points to another chapter in the Biden Crime Family’s Burisma epic.