DISSOLVE THE PEOPLE AND ELECT ANOTHER: Could Brexit Be Canceled? Here’s How Vote Might Be Reversed.

The Brexit win demonstrated that Britain’s elites (like elites most everywhere) are suffering a crisis of legitimacy. Using legal trickery to thwart the expressed will of the people would only deepen the crisis.

UPDATE: “We need a second referendum. The consequences of Brexit are too grave.”

And in the EU tradition, they’ll keep holding votes until the desired result is achieved.

AND EVEN MORE HANDWRINGING: “Brexit: Is this the beginning of the end of liberal democracy?”

Seems to me more like the beginning of the beginning of restoring it.

LABOUR IN CHAOS: Ed Miliband and David Cameron lead brutal new calls for Jeremy Corbyn to resign.

The Conservatives may have an easier time than Labour adjusting to Britain’s new political reality, but UKIP has been there all along.

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF CORRUPTION? Second Boston City Hall Official Charged With Extortion.

21ST CENTURY LAWSUITS: Woman sues Microsoft over unwanted Windows 10 upgrade, wins $10,000.

HMM: Team Clinton Spent $26M on Battleground Ads in June. Trump Spent $0.

STUDIES, WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT THEM? Study Learns Chicago Criminals DON’T Buy Their Guns Legally.

BREAKING: Ten killed, many wounded in suicide attack at Istanbul airport.

AU REVOIR: Days after Brexit, the EU is already trying to get rid of English.

Bonne chance avec ça, mauvais perdants.

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Abbas aide advises, ‘Wherever you see an Israeli, slit his throat’

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! Clinton Foundation Auditor Has Troubled Regulatory History.

BKD has made news in other ways, however. It was indicted by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Depository Insurance Corporation for “unprofessional conduct” and “gross negligence,” according to federal court documents

And the Public Company Oversight Accounting Board (PCOAB), the nation’s top federal oversight agency for American accounting firms, reported that BKD violated auditor independence rules over the years, which its inspectors reported as “significant deficiencies.”

BKD — which stands for founders Baird, Kurtz & Dobson — also has been hauled into court by unhappy clients who have charged it with “malpractice” and the manipulation of accounting books.

For certain clients, malpractice might be a feature, not a bug.

RESET: “Massive escalation” in Russian-backed attacks on Ukraine.

HILLARY’S CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Mills’ influence tainted review board.

Cheryl Mills, the longtime attorney, friend and former chief of staff for Hillary Clinton, influenced the findings of an internal State Department review of the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a draft of the final House Benghazi Committee report.

A section of the report obtained by POLITICO says the so-called Accountability Review Board did not act independently, as it was supposed to do, and was consistently influenced by Mills. Mills, the report says, helped select members of the panel, gave at least one other State Department official permission to talk to the reviewers, oversaw the production of some documents reviewed by the board and helped edit the final report.

“The decisions to deviate from longstanding processes raise questions about the board’s independence, thoroughness and therefore the fullness of their findings of accountability,” the report reads.

What do they think Mills was hired for, anyway?

IT (DOESN’T) COME IN PINTS? Why you can’t get a pint in a beer bar anymore.

Three years ago, Pizzeria Paradiso got rid of its common pint glasses, choosing 12-ounce tumblers and tulips as the default glassware and nine-ounce snifters for the smallest servings. “Pint glasses aren’t an ideal vessel to enjoy craft beer,” says Josh Fernands, beer director for the restaurant’s three locations. “They’re not the best glasses for aroma or head retention.”

He’s right on all counts, but many other 16-ounce glasses out there avoid those problems: German glassmaker Spiegelau has worked with Dogfish Head and Sierra Nevada to create 16-ounce glasses that noticeably enhance aromas and flavors. ChurchKey, which has also rejected the traditional pints, has more than a dozen different glasses, including English-style nonic pint glasses, which have a characteristic bulge in the neck.

The truth is, bars like smaller glasses because they create the illusion of lower-priced beer.

I like pints.

THE TRUTH ABOUT GUNS: California law enforcement lost 944 of them in last six years.

IT IS DECIDEDLY SO: Is “Ghostbusters” a flop already?

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Colorado man in a grand ol’ fight over order to remove American flag.

Samuel Adams, of Greeley, Colo., received a notice last week from the management of his building complex asking that he remove the American flag from his apartment’s balcony railing.

Adams, who had hung the flag as decoration for the Independence Day holiday, took to social media to express his outrage — recording and posting video to YouTube and Facebook of himself reading the letter.

“Please do not clutter with personal belongings. Balconies and patios must be maintained in a neat, clean and attractive condition,” the notice read, in part.

I wonder what the response would have been if Adams had hung an EU flag to show solidarity with Remain, or flown a rainbow flag after Orlando.

PROGRESSIVISM EVENTUALLY INFECTS EVERYTHING: Al Qaeda urges lone wolves to target whites, to avoid ‘hate crime’ label.

THIS HAS GOT TO BE A METAPHOR FOR SOMETHING: Research Shows Beijing Is Sinking By 11 Centimeters Annually.

CHANGE: John Kerry warns EU against taking revenge for Brexit.

I’m old enough to remember when we were warning Britain not to leave.

HMM: Erdogan’s office confirms Russia apology.

Turkish presidential sources confirm to Turkish newspaper Hurriyet that Erdogan apologized to Putin for the downing of a Russian warplane in November.

It remains unclear whether there was Israeli diplomacy involved in the detente between Russia and Turkey, but the apology came just after Israel and Turkey announced a deal to restore ties.

JOHN SCHINDLER: Britain’s leaving is a big deal for the European Union, but not for Britain’s security—or America’s.

The reality is that Britain’s close ties with foreign security services will be unaffected by Brexit in any serious or long-term way. In intelligence terms, the EU hardly matters at all. It has lots of liaison jobs, no end of meetings on intelligence sharing, plus endless retreats for spy agency higher-ups—but the hard work, day in and day out, of intelligence cooperation is still largely a bilateral matter. No matter what happens with Brexit, London’s secret ties with key partners in Paris, Berlin and beyond will continue, no matter what pundits and politicos say.

Above all the Special Relationship in intelligence among Britain, America and our Anglosphere partners will go forward, as it has for more than three-quarters of a century. It began in the bleak summer of 1940, just after the fall of France to Nazi Germany, when London stood virtually alone against Berlin. American intelligence offered its precious code-breaking secrets to Britain, and our new friends quickly began their sharing their closely guarded secrets too. Soon Canada, Australia and New Zealand joined in, and together the five Anglosphere countries forged an intelligence partnership to defeat Germany and Japan like the world had never seen.

That Special Relationship continued after the war, being formalized in the late 1940s in a series of secret spy agreements. Called Five Eyes to the present day, it began with signals intelligence but soon spread across intelligence disciplines. Together, the Five Eyes countries waged and won the Cold War, and their joint work against terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and regional aggression is as robust as it ever was.

Brexit seems more likely to improve Britain’s security situation than anything else.

BECAUSE WE HAVE WAY MORE THAN WE NEED? Here’s Why Congress Wants To Fire So Many Generals.

The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) recently proposed a 25% reduction across the board for general officers. The bill would cut the number of four star officers from 41 to 27, representing one of the largest reductions in modern history.

A summary of the committee’s bill states the drawdown in general officers also applies at the three, two, and one-star levels. The majority staff reasons, “Over the past 30 years, the end-strength of the joint force has decreased 38 percent, but the ratio of four-star officers to the overall force has increased by 65 percent.”

The Pentagon was already over-officered 30 years ago.

A GOLD PEN AND A GOLD PHONE: Trump Embraces Executive Orders to Avoid Congressional Gridlock.

FREXIT, AUXIT, HOXIT, IXET, FIXIT, HUXIT, POXIT, SLOXIT: Civil Uprising Escalates As 8th EU Nation Threatens Referendum.

DON’T DO STUPID SH*T: C.I.A. Arms for Syrian Rebels Supplied Black Market, Officials Say.

Some of the stolen weapons were used in a shooting in November that killed two Americans and three others at a police training facility in Amman, F.B.I. officials believe after months of investigating the attack, according to people familiar with the investigation.

The existence of the weapons theft, which ended only months ago after complaints by the American and Saudi governments, is being reported for the first time after a joint investigation by The New York Times and Al Jazeera. The theft, involving millions of dollars of weapons, highlights the messy, unplanned consequences of programs to arm and train rebels — the kind of program the C.I.A. and Pentagon have conducted for decades — even after the Obama administration had hoped to keep the training program in Jordan under tight control.

Washington never learns.