JESSICA TARLOV’S OKIE CITY FLUB: As President Ronald Reagan once said, the problem with liberals is they know so many things that just aren’t true. Check out my latest news analysis on The Washington Stand. PROMOTED FROM LAST NIGHT.

THE TIMES, THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ INDEED: Odds are, the New York Times and Washington Post won’t tell you about this, but there is growing evidence of a significant spiritual upheaval among Gen Zers, as well as healthy changes regarding the nation’s divorce and illegitimate birth rates.

FACTS EXPOSE BLS INCOMPETENCE: Leave it to Issues & Insights (I&I) to dig deep into the historical data to compile an accurate long-term picture of the record of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). It turns out that BLS incompetence is no new thing.

“In the 199 months we examined, the BLS’s initial estimate of jobs gained or lost missed the mark by an average of 49.6 percent! Only 15 times did its initial estimate come within 3 percent of being right. (Given the huge sample size, you’d think its margin of error would consistently be tiny.)

“Some months, the miss was staggering. In August 2011, to cite one example, the BLS said no new jobs had been created. Zero. Turns out, 132,000 were created that month. In September 2017, it first said that the economy lost 33,000 jobs – which made big news because, as Politico put it at the time, it was ‘the first time in seven years’ that had happened.

“In fact, the economy had created 88,000 jobs that month. In January 2021 – the last month of Trump’s first term – the BLS initially reported that the economy had added a mere 49,000 jobs. The actual number was 365,000.”

President Donald Trump has named Heritage Foundation Chief Economist E.J. Antoni to be the new BLS Director. He’s going to be one very busy man.

PARROTS AND SPEECH: Wintery Knight loves birds, especially Parrots, so you can imagine his enthusiasm when he first encountered a hugely important article in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.  The article reports new research that identified the place in the Parrot’s brain that enables it to learn speech.

The implications of the findings are significant in the context of the Intelligent Design and Materialist Evolutionary theories. Regardless where you are on that question, this piece is a fascinating probe into the amazing working of the natural world.

CHINA ON THE ROMAN ROAD: Rod Martin hosts guest author Yi Fuxian who looks at the fertility rates and measures being implemented in China in the wake of the deadly One-Child Policy (1980-2020), and sees striking parallels with failed measures taken in Imperial Rome to address the same problems.

LBJ WOULD BE SHOCKED BY TODAY’S DEMS: A Senate floor speech by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) commemorating Medicare’s 60th anniversary prompts me in a Tapscott’s Copy Desk Substack column to check the record with LBJ’s 1964 State of the Union. Re-reading that long ago speech shows how Democrats like Van Hollen rewrite history to conform to their present-day rages.

DEMS HEADING TO THE WILDERNESS: Anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian views are becoming the Democratic mainstream and that reality almost certainly will put the increasingly radical Left party at a fundamental disadvantage for years to come, according to Richard Pollock.

WHAT THE LEFT DOESN’T WANT YOU TO KNOW: About the back story to the screaming reaction on the Left to that American Eagle spot featuring actress Sydney Sweeney. Two words they keep forgetting — “Margaret Sanger.”

AMAZING SPIDERS: Bet you didn’t know a spider’s web silk is stronger than steel of the same size. Trust me, I am no fan of spiders, but this beautiful new production on HillFaith will give you a fresh appreciation for these creatures as engineering marvels.

HOW BIDEN CAUSED TEXAS REDISTRICTING CRISIS: Unless you are unfortunately plagued with an addiction for reading federal court cases prompted by redistricting issues, odds are you don’t know that it was the Biden Justice Department that set in motion the process now unfolding in Texas (and Illinois!).

You won’t get this from the New York Times or the Washington Post, but you will from The Washington Stand where this morning Senior Writer Joshua Arnold posts the definitive explanation for how this whole thing was set in motion long before Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office.

SCHUMER, JEFFRIES, BIPARTISANSHIP AND THE BIG MEDICAID LIE: The two top Democratic congressional leaders today challenged their GOP counterparts to a bipartisan Big Four meeting about the forthcoming budget showdown in September.

They also threw in a big, heaping helping of the long-running Democratic standard claim that anything Republicans propose for Medicaid will deprive millions of Americans of their healthcare coverage. The Washington Stand has the counter-facts that make clear who’s talking truth and who isn’t.

TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYSTEM IS POISONING THE SYSTEM: Senate Democrats are opposing every Trump nominee requiring confirmation simply because Trump nominated them, therefore they must be evil, incompetent or both. The first-order effects of this strategy are terrible, but check out the second and third order results in my latest Substack column.

THIS CHART KILLS THE MEDICAID LIE: The one, that is, about how Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) includes massive cuts in Medicaid will result in thousands of deaths across America. The chart is the work of the guys at Issues & Insights who also include a small compilation of major media repeating the lie.

If the Multiverse Theory is correct, there must be a universe somewhere in which every journalist who reports the Medicaid lie as fact is confronted with this chart, then made to write in long-hand 500 times every day for all eternity “I will never again lie in my reporting to my readers.”

OK, 500 times a day every day might be a tad excessive, so how about 500 times every other day for eternity?

MARRIAGE JUST A PIECE OF PAPER: In a culture fleeing at warp speed away from individual responsibility, marriage between a man and a woman for life becomes a memory. But, as the latest of Colson Center’s “What Would You Say?” videos on HillFaith points out, there’s far more to traditional marriage than its critics conceive.

And when you finish that brief video, check out the massive majorities among Republican aides working on Capitol Hill when asked by CNCT Capitol Pulse whether they think those ubiquitous District of Columbia speed cameras ought to be abolished. Can’t happen too soon, says this unreformed Formula Ford racer.

NOSE OFF/FACE SPITED UPDATED II: Three profoundly serious but heretofore unspoken questions about the power and prerogatives of Congress on federal spending and how federal departments and agencies do it are raised by the GAO/CBO drama. It’s my latest PJ Media column and it might be one to send to your senators and representative.

NOSE OFF, SPITE FACE UPDATE: Looks like the Senate and House Republicans are at loggerheads over whether to fund the Government Accountability Office (GA) — the investigative arm of Congress — or assuage President Donald Trump’s anger by chopping the agency’s budget in half. My update on The Washington Stand.

FED-FUNDED RAIL PROJECTS ARE $23 BILLION OVER BUDGET: No surprise that California’s High-Speed Rail Project tops the list here, but there are a bunch more identified by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa). One of them is 19 years behind schedule (Yes, you read that right!). No wonder Ernst titled her report “Off the Rails.”

THE INFORMATION WAR AGAINST ISRAEL: It began long before the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre of more than 1,200 Israelis, but in months since that tragedy, the Mainstream Media (MSM) has over and over lied about the Gaza War, according to Richard Pollock.

MAYBE HILLARY NOT OUT OF THE WOODS: Turns out FBI officials suppressed a bunch of evidence concerning national security problems linked with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email. But now there’s a new Sheriff in town at the Bureau, and he’s digging into all of that stuff. Stay tuned.

“NO” IS SENATE DEMS PLAN FOR TRUMP NOMINEES: Even if it means forcing the Senate to forego some or all of its traditional August recess, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and his Democratic colleagues have just one word for every nomination President Donald Trump sends to the Senate for confirmation.

END OF THE CLIMATE CON: Hard to believe but it’s true – two Ivy League physics professors do the numbers and describe the result, much to the delight of Tim Lynch on Substack.

WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASE PINCH ME: I keep hearing that NPR and PBS are getting their federal tax-paid subsidies eliminated. But that can’t be true, not even Ronald Reagan could get that through Congress, right? Right???

GOOD NEWS: New survey by the American Bible Society finds upswing in church attendance by Gen Zers, especially among young males. Remember, politics is downstream from culture, which is downstream from faith.

GRAHAM, CORNYN CALL FOR SPECIAL PROSECUTOR: Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) are jointly calling for Attorney General Pam Bondi to appoint a Special Prosecutor to assess evidence former President Barack Obama managed the Russia-gate effort to undermine Donald Trump during his first term in the Oval Office.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Special prosecutors don’t seem that good at getting to the bottom of things.

ANTI-SEMITISM UP CLOSE: Unless you live in the nation’s capital, you aren’t likely to hear much about American University (AU), but you should, at least if you care about eradicating the swelling chorus of anti-semitic voices on American university and college campuses.

As Richard Pollock reports in blistering detail, AU is among the worst offenders  — and that is saying something considering events at NYU, Columbia, Berkeley, etc. since the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre of more than 1,200 Israelis. It will likely come as no surprise to learn that AU’s president is Sylvia Burwell, veteran Democrat activist who served in both the Clinton and Obama administrations.