IT AIN’T OVER YET: Angry crowd attacks “Unite the Right” organizer in Charlottesville.

Among the chants: “You’re wearing the wrong hood,” a reference to the Ku Klux Klan.

Kessler mimicked looking at his watch and indicated he’d wait to speak.

A few people approached him, crossing in front of the line of TV cameras. One man pushed Kessler and then a woman tackled him.

Kessler asked state troopers at the scene for help and eventually they escorted him off. State police said troopers approached the area as the crowd got aggressive but made no arrests.

CBS News producer Christina Ruffini says police surrounded Kessler and pulled him out from amidst the angry crowd almost immediately, but the crowd kept chasing him.

The troopers tried to surround him as people tried to break their line to hit Kessler. Ruffini says the troopers hauled the would-be attackers off quickly and set up a perimeter around him before the press conference started. There were also police snipers on surrounding buildings.

If only the police had been this present and proactive on Saturday.

WELL, GOOD: Reddit Launches Counter Attack on Google Monopoly.

BREAKING: These McMaster Advisors Are Running the ‘Smear’ Campaign to Save His Job.

Deputy National Security Adviser Rick Waddell, Senior Director for Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Gulf States Joel Rayburn, and Yll Bajraktari, a former special assistant to the deputy secretary of defense during the Obama administration, have been coordinating an extensive public relations campaign in support of embattled National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, according to multiple sources.

Members of the national security community who spoke with PJ Media describe the talking points used during this effort to defend McMaster’s tenure as NSA as “absurd,” “dishonest,” and “comically inaccurate.” But sources primarily expressed anger regarding insinuations that NSC members fired by McMaster or otherwise no longer in their positions — such as K.T. McFarland, Rich Higgins, Adam Lovinger, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, and Derek Harvey — are gone for reasons other than ideology.

Over the past week, several media accounts have painted them as “conspiratorial” members of the “alt-right,” possibly leaking information to the controversial Mike Cernovich, and possibly working in tandem with Russian social media accounts. Such claims, which have been picked up by several outlets, are reportedly doing lasting damage to reputations and careers.

Read the whole thing.

OOPS: Glamour Writer Unintentionally Reveals What Liberals Really Think of Conservative Women. And It’s Not Pretty.

NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL FEMALE EMPOWERMENT: Second Unit of Yazidi Women Fighters Moves Into Raqqa to Crush ISIS.

LOOK UP: 2017 Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend.

LAYERS OF EDITORS AND FACT-CHECKERS: NYT Admits Its Front Page Climate Change Article Was Wrong.

“An article on Tuesday about a sweeping federal climate change report referred incorrectly to the availability of the report,” TheNYT wrote in its correction issued Wednesday morning. “While it was not widely publicized, the report was uploaded by the nonprofit Internet Archive in January; it was not first made public by The New York Times.”

TheNYT ran a front page article Tuesday claiming to have exclusively obtained a draft climate report that “directly contradicts claims by President Trump and members of his cabinet” on global warming.

Unnamed scientists told TheNYT they feared the Trump administration would suppress the climate report. The report is part of the National Climate Assessment that’s released to the public every four years.

Climate scientists that worked on the report, however, were quick to point out it’s been online since January.

Other than that, great scoop.

VIDEO: Ashley Judd Is Fuming That a TSA Agent Called Her ‘Sweetheart’ and Complimented Her.

NOT GETTING IT DEP’T: Mattis claims North Korea diplomacy is working, but Trump intensifies threats.

Has CNN never heard of good cop/bad cop?

YOU CAN’T SPEAK FREELY IN HERE, GENTLEMEN — THIS IS WASHINGTON, DC: ACLU Sues D.C. Metro for Rejecting Ads, Including One With Text of the First Amendment.

BLUE ON BLUE: Meet the Bernie Sanders-Loving Missouri Woman Hoping to Sink Claire McCaskill.

Angelica Earl, a 31 year old making her first foray into politics, has hired Sanders-aligned marketing firm Revolution Funding, which raised millions of dollars assisting the Sanders presidential campaign, to promote her campaign. She announced she was running on Wednesday, but says the campaign is already ready to make its “push.”

“I’ve been running for five months now, just keeping everything on the down low getting everything situated,” Earl told the Washington Free Beacon. “I feel like at this point I have enough of a team together that it’s time for a push.”

Earl says she has a campaign manager, treasurer, and field teams situated across the state already. She knows it will be a challenge to beat an incumbent Democrat but says the support she has received has convinced her there’s a chance.

“Everything is moving very smoothly—there is an awful lot of support, it’s uplifting,” she said.

Just because Democrats have tried and failed to get single-payer in Vermont and California is no reason to not to try — and try hard — in reddest Missouri.

Run, Angelica, run!

MICHAEL WALSH: I think we’ve hit peak stupid.

It isn’t like Michael to be such an optimist.

LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: Beaten, knocked down, dragged: A Venezuelan journalist flees country but not the story.

Elsewhere, the Boston Globe warns that “the strife in Venezuela underscores how quickly democracy can die,” but in reality, democracy was on life support there just as soon as voters elected Hugo Chavez back in 1999.

HEADS UP: Asteroid to shave past Earth inside Moon orbit.

BRUCE BAWER: The Mental Self-Oppression of ‘Intersectional’ Racial Identity.

THE RETURN OF DUCK AND COVER: ‘Don’t look at the flash or fireball’ — Guam Homeland Security releases fact sheet in light of North Korea threats.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The Unexpected Return of “Duck and Cover.”

SPENGLER: Leftover Libels of Sebastian Gorka Served up at Rolling Stone.

DAVID BROOKS: Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google’s C.E.O.

The mob that hounded Damore was like the mobs we’ve seen on a lot of college campuses. We all have our theories about why these moral crazes are suddenly so common. I’d say that radical uncertainty about morality, meaning and life in general is producing intense anxiety. Some people embrace moral absolutism in a desperate effort to find solid ground. They feel a rare and comforting sense of moral certainty when they are purging an evil person who has violated one of their sacred taboos.

Which brings us to Pichai, the supposed grown-up in the room. He could have wrestled with the tension between population-level research and individual experience. He could have stood up for the free flow of information. Instead he joined the mob. He fired Damore and wrote, “To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not O.K.”

That is a blatantly dishonest characterization of the memo. Damore wrote nothing like that about his Google colleagues. Either Pichai is unprepared to understand the research (unlikely), is not capable of handling complex data flows (a bad trait in a C.E.O.) or was simply too afraid to stand up to a mob.

Or (the worst and seemingly likely option) Pichai is the mob’s leader.

JAW, JAW IS BETTER THAN WAR, WAR: Mattis Says War with North Korea would be ‘catastrophic.’

JUSTICE: Man Expelled Over Rape He Was Incapable of Committing Reaches Settlement.

LABORATORIES OF EDUCATION: DeVos Scales Back Federal Role, Lets States Lead.

“It’s encouraging to see so many states pass pro-student and pro-parent legislation that expands the educational opportunities available to children and their families,” DeVos told RealClearEducation in a statement. “I’ve always said that parents and educators at the grassroots level know best what their students need.”

While the secretary is a vocal proponent of school choice, she prefers that states and local officials take the initiative. Even with Republican control of the White House and Capitol Hill, DeVos has pledged not to push a federal school choice program and has indicated that any federal action would come in the form of support for choice programs that states can opt to participate in.

The secretary’s philosophy runs counter to much of the modern history of American public education.

That can’t be a bad thing.

HEALTH: Five Die While Using Obesity Devices, FDA Says.

ALLIES: Spain Is Now Helping Turkey Arrest Journalists.

While largely ignored in the mainstream media, a Turkish / Swedish journalist has been sitting in jail in Spain for the past week and it’s not because he broke any Spanish laws. Hamza Yalcin, a journalist working out of Sweden, was detained in Spain and placed under arrest on the orders of Turkey, who demanded that he be held and extradited for “supporting terrorism.” (Which is the charge that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan always summons up when he wants to imprison a political opponent.) The real mystery here is why Spain went along with it.

Indeed.

SARAH HOYT, APOSTATE: Those Who Walk Away from Feminism.

THEY JUST FIRED A GUY FOR FAILING TO TOE THE LINE: Google Cancels Employee Meeting Because of Harassment Fears.