Donald Trump Picks Mike Pence for Veep (VIDEO)

Sources say Trump's picked Pence for vice president.

We won't know for sure until tomorrow, when Trump holds his event announcing the pick.

But see WSJ, "Pence Is Trump Pick for Running Mate, Senior GOP Official Says."

I think Pence's a perfectly fine pick. It's a little surprising to me, actually, but from what I'm reading, Pence should make conservatives happy.

I'm just glad Gingrich didn't get the nod. I mean, yeah, he's smart and loquacious, but he's such an asshole personally. I don't know if I could stand watching him for four years, much less eight if Trump were to win a second term.

And don't even get me going about Chris Christie, heh. That would've been a laugh riot of a pick.

More, at CNN:

Donald Trump Delivers Words of Resistance

For whites.

Of course, this is seen as evidence of whites supremacy by depraved leftists, and it's at the New York Times, so there you go.

See, "For Whites Sensing Decline, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance":

The chant erupts in a college auditorium in Washington, as admirers of a conservative internet personality shout down a black protester. It echoes around the gym of a central Iowa high school, as white students taunt the Hispanic fans and players of a rival team. It is hollered by a lone motorcyclist, as he tears out of a Kansas gas station after an argument with a Hispanic man and his Muslim friend.

Trump

Trump

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In countless collisions of color and creed, Donald J. Trump’s name evokes an easily understood message of racial hostility. Defying modern conventions of political civility and language, Mr. Trump has breached the boundaries that have long constrained Americans’ public discussion of race.

Mr. Trump has attacked Mexicans as criminals. He has called for a ban on Muslim immigrants. He has wondered aloud why the United States is not “letting people in from Europe.”

His rallies vibrate with grievances that might otherwise be expressed in private: about “political correctness,” about the ranch house down the street overcrowded with day laborers, and about who is really to blame for the death of a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo. In a country where the wealthiest and most influential citizens are still mostly white, Mr. Trump is voicing the bewilderment and anger of whites who do not feel at all powerful or privileged.

But in doing so, Mr. Trump has also opened the door to assertions of white identity and resentment in a way not seen so broadly in American culture in over half a century, according to those who track patterns of racial tension and antagonism in American life....

The resentment among whites feels both old and distinctly of this moment. It is shaped by the reality of demographic change, by a decade and a half of war in the Middle East, and by unease with the newly confident and confrontational activism of young blacks furious over police violence. It is mingled with patriotism, pride, fear and a sense that an America without them at its center is not really America anymore...

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Saying #AllLivesMatter Is a Racist White Supremacist 'Rallying Cry' on Social Media

The Black Lives Matter movement is about anti-white racism and black supremacy, and if any leftist steps out of bounds they'll be destroyed.

Here's the background at USA Today, "#AllLivesMatter hashtag is racist, critics say."

And J.Lo's in trouble for tweeting #AllLivesMatter, at PuffHo:

J.Lo tweets out #AllLivesMatter, internet turns against her https://t.co/ieDhN2dFpQ pic.twitter.com/ira7bn12XX

— HuffPostEnt (@HuffPostEnt) July 12, 2016

J.Lo deleted the tweet soon after it was posted, but forgot about the other time she used your racist uncle’s rallying cry on Instagram. Nuzzled in between the caption #filltheworldwithmusicloveandpride and #JLin in a promotion post for her new single is #alllivesmatter, the social media movement that erases the specificity of the black experience in this country.

Tomi Lahren Blames Barack Obama, 'Two Black Attorney Generals', for Inciting Dallas Shooting (VIDEO)

Via Heat Street, there's video at the post:

Lahren blamed President Obama and "two black attorney generals" for the country's mounting racial tensions. https://t.co/tL3qzy1cJM

— Heat Street (@heatstreet) July 12, 2016

Previous Tomi Lahren blogging's here.

Italy is Once Again on the 'Frontline' of Europe's Refugee Crisis (VIDEO)

Italy and the Europeans need to wind down this "crisis."

Watch, at Euronews, "Italy new 'frontline' in Europe's refugee crisis, warns Frontex chief":

Italy is once again on the 'frontline' of Europe's refugee crisis, replacing Greece, the head of the EU's border agency has said.

The warning came as nearly 1,000 migrants were rescued off Italy on Tuesday, in six seperate operations by the Italian coast guard.

Four migrants were found dead after suffocating below deck on their boat.

Laying out fresh plans to strengthen the bloc's borders Frontex chief Fabrice Leggeri said the agency wanted to conduct checks, so called stress tests...

Obama Sparks Backlash on Twitter for Inappropriate Comments at #Dallas Police Memorial (VIDEO)

At London's Daily Mail, "President Obama sparks backlash on Twitter for controversial comments on gun control as he and George W. Bush lead tributes to the five police officers killed in Dallas."

#Obama is criticized for depraved, partisan gun control comments during #Dallas memorial. https://t.co/o8HiHJJkly

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 13, 2016

Katie Pavlich was just blistering, but amazingly, leftist Josh Kraushaar too was not happy at all:

How am I surprised Obama would use a memorial for police to lecture about gun control and politics? He is the worst.

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) July 12, 2016

Black Lives Matter is a fraud and based on lies. They also promote cop killers. Unreal Obama would credit them at this memorial.

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) July 12, 2016

Obama promotes group that worships convicted cop killer Assata Shakur and Mumia...at a police memorial.

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) July 12, 2016

Obama wrote his own speech today, according to the White House.

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) July 12, 2016

Worst part of Obama's lecture about racial bias today? He did it at a memorial for 5 officers who were killed because they were white.

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) July 12, 2016

Agree or disagree, the second part of Obama's speech polarizing. Felt like a State of the Union for a moment based on who was applauding

— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) July 12, 2016

A future presidential leadership course will showcase the Bush/Obama Dallas speeches for dramatic contrasts in style/approach.

— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) July 12, 2016

Was this the moment for speaking truth to power, as Pres. Obama sees it? Or to comfort the mourners?

— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) July 12, 2016

Obama's Obscene Exploitation of the Dallas Massacre

From Sultan Knish, at FrontPage, "Exploiting dead police officers to promote #BlackLivesMatter":

In Dallas, Obama mentioned the name of dead sex offender Alton Sterling more times than those of the murdered police officers whom he was pretending to memorialize. After quickly dispensing with the formalities of eulogizing the slain officers, Obama demanded that “even those who dislike the phrase ‘black lives matter’” should “be able to hear the pain of Alton Sterling’s family”.

Alton Sterling was a convicted sex offender, burglar and violent criminal who was shot while reaching for a gun. His family may mourn him, just as every criminal’s family mourns their own, but it was obscene to class him together with five police officers who were murdered by a violent racist while doing their duty.

It is even more obscene when Obama’s favorite sex offender displaces the murdered police officers.

And yet that was Obama’s theme in Dallas. Murdered police officers were contrasted with dead criminals. The proper thing for Americans to do, as Obama told us, was to mourn both officers and criminals, to respect the sacrifices of the police and the anti-police accusations of #BlackLivesMatter.

Obama did not come to Dallas to mourn the murdered police officers, but to defend the ideology that took their lives. And this is what he has done from the very beginning...

Very well said.

Keep reading.

Dana Loesch Gives a Shout-Out to Jesse Lee Peterson

This is interesting because I just mentioned Jesse Lee Peterson on Sunday, here: "Heather Mac Donald Discusses the 'War on Cops," the Ferguson Effect, and Black-on-Black Violence."

And then I posted on the Megyn Kelly segment here: "Debating Black Lives Matter's Impact on the National Conversation (VIDEO)."

So, here's Dana's shout-out. So cool:

Wow this #KellyFile panel. And Rev Jesse Lee Peterson is speaking truth right now.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) July 12, 2016

Backlash Against Former Miss Alabama After Calling Dallas Cop Killer a 'Martyr' (VIDEO)

She's pretty despicable.

She should've kept that video to herself, rather than posting it to the world. She's feeding the hatred. She's compounding the hatred, the hatred that's been coming from the top, from President Obama on down. Indeed, blacks, with Barack Hussein in office, feel empowered to speak badly of white Americans, and feel "conflicted" when white cops are gunned down ruthlessly and viciously, in cold blood. It's shameful.

Following-up from last night, "Kalyn Chapman James, First Black Miss Alabama, Says Dallas Cop Killer Was a 'Martyr'."

She appeared on Hannity's show tonight, and I saw an image of her earlier. She looks like revolutionary communist Angela Davis, and I think she knows it.

Look at that Afro on that chick! She's like Angela Davis! #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/iZSMV8Mbu2

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 13, 2016

President George W. Bush Speaks at Memorial Service in Dallas (VIDEO)

I literally tear-up when I see and listen to President Bush speak, and it's less because of his words than by the realization that I miss him so much. That realization makes me sad, but then I go back again and listen to his words, and I'm comforted. I'm comforted because I know that when Bush invokes God he means it. It's not just some rote statement uttered for political consumption, hiding far less benevolent sentiments, which is how I feel when President Obama speaks. When he speaks. He divides.

Via Fox News 10 Phoenix:

Don't Forget to Pre-Order Naomi Schaefer Riley's New Book, The New Trail of Tears [BUMPED]

Anna Sacca, Senior Publicity and Branding Manager at FSB Associates, thanked me for promoting Naomi Schaefer Riley's new book.

Hey, it's my pleasure.

Here's another link, at Amazon, The New Trail of Tears: How Washington Is Destroying American Indians.

Out Now: Robert Spencer, The Complete Infidel's Guide to Iran [BUMPED]

Robert's a tireless fighter for American freedom.

Here's his new book, just out yesterday, at Amazon, The Complete Infidel's Guide to Iran.

Donald Trump Rebukes Ruth Bader Ginsburg for Deriding His Candidacy

Following-up from earlier, "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Bashes Donald Trump, Crossing a Line."

She should be careful lest her comments become a campaign liability for the Democrats. Frankly, they already are.

From Maggie Haberman, at NYT:

Trump to Times on RBG's criticism of him: "Highly inappropriate..it energizes my base..she should get off the court" https://t.co/uc4RtwMStZ

— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) July 12, 2016

Donald J. Trump on Tuesday assailed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court for speaking out on the presidential race, calling her disdainful remarks about his candidacy “highly inappropriate” and suggesting that she owed other justices an apology.

Mr. Trump’s remarks came in a telephone interview with The Times two days after Justice Ginsburg was quoted as saying she was frightened about what the nation would look like if he were elected.

“I can’t imagine what this place would be — I can’t imagine what the country would be — with Donald Trump as our president,” Justice Ginsburg told The Times in an interview published Sunday. “For the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be — I don’t even want to contemplate that.” She even joked ruefully about moving to New Zealand.

Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, said he found those remarks unbefitting a member of the high court.

“I think it’s highly inappropriate that a United States Supreme Court judge gets involved in a political campaign, frankly,” Mr. Trump said. “I think it’s a disgrace to the court and I think she should apologize to the court. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it.”

He continued: “That she should be saying that? It’s so beneath the court for her to be making statements like that. It only energizes my base even more. And I would hope that she would get off the court as soon as possible.”

Mr. Trump also said he expected to announce his choice of a running mate by Friday, winding down a process that has been closely watched as in all likelihood the most significant decision he will make in his campaign.

“I have five candidates, plus two, two that are unknown to anybody,” Mr. Trump said from Chicago, where he was raising money for his campaign.

“I will be making a decision over the next three- to four-day period of time, and I think it will be a decision that will be a very good decision for a lot of people,” he added.

Mr. Trump said that he was not basing his vice-presidential selection on fund-raising prowess or potential, and indicated that he had had enough experience with many of those he has been considering for the job that their tryouts on the campaign trail would not necessarily be determinative.

“I’ve been with these people for a long time — I know them,” Mr. Trump said, specifically invoking Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker. “Christie was excellent yesterday and Newt is excellent.” Mr. Trump will appear on Tuesday night in Indiana with Gov. Mike Pence, who has risen in the estimation of many of the nominee’s advisers.

Mr. Trump said his decision was largely coming down to instinct. “A lot of is gut. A lot of it is,” he said. “My whole life has been about gut.”

He also suggested that he would consider polling in states like heavily Democratic Connecticut, which he again said he believed he could put in play in November...

More.

And the Notorious RBG is doubling-down on her attacks:

Absolutely stunning comments. Inconceivable that other justices aren't upset by this https://t.co/FqUr4hdmyY

— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) July 12, 2016

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg intensifies criticism of Trump: 'He is a faker' https://t.co/VVvVkF8RnA

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 12, 2016

I have a sense this isn't going to turn out well for Ginsberg, or the Supremes, for that matter.

Via Memeorandum.

Midweek Cartoon

I missed posting my Sunday cartoons, but this one's too good to wait for next weekend.

Via A.F. Branco, at Legal Insurrection, "Branco Cartoon – Fraying With Fire."

Kimberly Guilfoyle Blows Up Gretchen Carlson's Sexual Harassment Allegations Against Roger Ailes

This is pretty amazing!

At Breitbart, "Exclusive — Kimberly Guilfoyle Blows Up Gretchen Carlson's Allegations Against Roger Ailes: 'The Truth Should Matter...'"

Obama Used Dallas Memorial to Confront the Nation on Race

Wow.

That's the headline at the Hill, a mainstream news organization.

How combative.

The president truly is the Divider-in-Chief.

At Instapundit, "I’M SURE THE FAMILIES OF THOSE DEAD COPS APPRECIATED THE CONFRONTATION: The Hill: Obama uses Dallas memorial to confront nation on race."

Blazing Saddles: The Bernie Bros 'Fart-In' Against Hillary Clinton is Righteous and Hilarious!

This cracks me up.

At AP, via Memeorandum, "Bernie Fans Say ‘Fart-In’ Against Hillary Will Go On."

And at Heat Street, "Bernie Bros to Stage Epic Anti-Hillary ‘Fart-In’ at DNC Convention":

Bernie Sanders supporters and other progressive activists have a unique plan to protest the nomination of Wall Street-backed Hillary Clinton at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia later this month. They’re going to stage a “fart-in.”

You might be wondering what, exactly, a “fart-in” entails. Well, the plan is to make sure that Bernie Sanders’ convention delegates eat plenty of beans prior to entering the convention hall in Philly. Then, they shall unleash their noxious bodily fumes, which will send a powerful message to Hillary — that she stinks, or something.

God, this is too good, lol.

White Papa John's Delivery Man Murdered by Black Thugs in Georgia: Where's the Outcry?

The murder went down in March, but folks are still tweeting about the crime, demanding answers to the media's silence.

White lives don't matter so much, I guess?

At Heat Street:

Twitter seethes with racially charged attacks after a white Papa John's delivery man is murdered. https://t.co/Yze74UcdYo

— Heat Street (@heatstreet) July 12, 2016

It truly is A Hard Thug Life

Reginald Lofton, 14-year-old charged as adulthttps://t.co/BTNLWYC2hu pic.twitter.com/TYTGWSqaxi

— Armatus Rebellio (@ArmatusRebellio) March 28, 2016

White People Can't Be No Allies to #BlackLivesMatter

From the far-left professor Roxane Gay, at Marie Claire (of all places), "On Making Black Lives Matter - The extreme violence of the past week has clarified one thing: Allies aren't enough anymore":

On Making Black Lives Matter: The Way Forward from Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and Alva Braziel https://t.co/lH7FUtUmFs

— roxane gay (@rgay) July 11, 2016

Black people do not need allies. We need people to stand up and take on the problems borne of oppression as their own, without remove or distance. We need people to do this even if they cannot fully understand what it's like to be oppressed for their race or ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ability, class, religion, or other marker of identity. We need people to use common sense to figure out how to participate in social justice.

Don't tell us about your racist uncle or grandfather or sister or cousin. Don't try to unburden yourself of guilt that isn't yours to carry. Actively listen when marginalized people tell you about their oppression—don't offer your pity (which only helps you) and don't apologize. Listen and do your best to understand what it feels like to live with oppression as a constant. Speak up when you hear people making racist jokes. Speak up when you see injustice in action. Inform yourself about your local law enforcement and how they treat people of color. Vote. Take a stand instead of waiting for absolution from people of color. We don't have that kind of time. We're fighting for our lives.

That's kind of like STFU and sit your honky white ass down mofo.

But still more, in any case.

Theresa May Prime Minister May Be Disaster for Brit­ain

She backs sharia law, which I mentioned previously.

David Cameron was hopelessly PC on Islamic jihad, which we saw to our everlasting regret after the brutal beheading of Drummer Lee Rigby.

I don't know if Britain can handle more of this, even with the Brexit vote. They've got enough jihadists in country already as it is.

In any case, from Robert Spencer, at Jihad Watch, "Robert Spencer in Epic Times: Theresa May Prime Minister: A Disaster for Brit­ain":

OPINION - The worst outcome of Britain's unexpected vote to leave the European Union was the resignation of David Cameron as Prime Minister - not because he was a great leader (he wasn't), but because his successor is Theresa May, who promises to surpass even her feckless predecessor and become the weakest, most appeasement-minded Prime Minister since Neville Chamberlain.

As I was banned by Theresa May from entering Britain for the crime of correctly noting that Islam has doctrines involving violence against unbelievers, I know firsthand her anxiousness to please forces that do not regard free speech and open debate as positives for society. But there is more. As head of the UK Home Office, May announced a review of Britain's Sharia courts - then appointed Muslims to oversee it, drawing protests from human rights activists concerned that her review board would be too biased to note the courts' violations of women's rights...

Still more.

Cover Girl Bella Thorne Shares the Strangest Things People Have Ever Said to Her on the Internet (VIDEO)

Watch, at Galore, "Bella Thorne​ Reads the Weirdest Tweets She Has Ever Gotten."

Daniela Lopez Bikini Beach Style

Lots of bikinis!

Via Galore:

.@DanielaLo322's Guide To Summer Beach Style https://t.co/rt58TZrjMN pic.twitter.com/DSyFUxCxON

— Galore (@TheGaloreMag) July 10, 2016

Joy Corrigan Bikini Flash in Miami

At WWTDD, "Joy Corrigan Bikini Nip Flash In Miami."

More, at Egotastic!, "Joy Corrigan is One Hell of a Sexy Cowgirl."

Georgia Mother of Five Sentenced to 6-Years Probation for Smoking Marijuana, Drinking Alcohol, and Playing Naked Twister with Teenagers in 2015

Naked Twister, eh?

I wonder what else this "hip" mom did with her clothes off.

Sheesh.

I know parents try to be cool with the teenage kids, but you have to draw the line sometimes, man.

Frankly, she's lucky she's not doing some time behind bars.

At the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

'Naked Twister' mom gets probation for teen party https://t.co/9xx1yPJK1P pic.twitter.com/8xa2eF2Uyi

— AJC (@ajc) July 12, 2016

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Bashes Donald Trump, Crossing a Line

The Notorious RBG just got a little more notorious.

And it's not pretty.

She's a partisan hack, frankly.

At WaPo, "In bashing Donald Trump, some say Ruth Bader Ginsburg just crossed a very important line":

In bashing Donald Trump, some say Ruth Bader Ginsburg just crossed a very important line https://t.co/ogHYMjLBC4 pic.twitter.com/gvPCi3TfT9

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) July 11, 2016

It is literally right there on page A1. https://t.co/rpAPf0Yolh pic.twitter.com/BxL0kE6rrC

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) July 12, 2016

It's a political cliche at this point to joke about moving to another country if a certain presidential candidate doesn't win. Gobs of Americans were headed to Canada if George W. Bush was reelected in 2004. A similar contingent threatened to flood across our northern border when Barack Obama was elected and reelected.

Generally, though, you don't hear a Supreme Court justice talking like this. In fact, you generally don't hear a Supreme Court justice talking at all — much less about the big political issues of the day.

Most justices aren't Ruth Bader Ginsburg, though. And in a new New York Times interview, Ginsburg doesn't hold a thing back when it comes to the 2016 election.

“I can’t imagine what this place would be — I can’t imagine what the country would be — with Donald Trump as our president,” Ginsburg told the Times' Adam Liptak. “For the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be — I don’t even want to contemplate that.”

Ginsburg also recalled something her late husband said about such matters: "Now it’s time for us to move to New Zealand."

This appears to be a joke, but Ginsburg's sentiment here is crystal clear: She thinks Donald Trump would be a dangerous president. And in saying it, she goes to a place justices almost never do — and perhaps never have — for some very good reasons.

More.

Also from Ms. EBL:

Why I want #CrookedHillary to losehttps://t.co/AMQDHDXRwj@AceofSpadesHQ @VodkaPundit @jpodhoretz @stranahan #tcot pic.twitter.com/s3yL31dWiD

— Evi L. Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) July 12, 2016

They are not even trying to hide their bias anymore, that is how cocky they have become. If you think the damage Obama has caused to the country is bad, imagine the Supreme Court shifting three or four justices to the left. Because that is what will happen if Crooked Hillary wins.

Hague Tribunal Rejects Beijing's Claims to South China Sea (VIDEO)

Heh.

At the WSJ, "China Digs In Heels After Tribunal Rules Against Sea Claims":

SHANGHAI—This was the humiliating result that China feared most: A small country, the Philippines, took on and comprehensively defeated the aspiring regional hegemon in an international court of law. Beijing can’t back down.

In the aftermath of an unambiguous and unanimous legal verdict that strikes down Beijing’s historic claims to the South China Sea, rebukes it for turning coral reefs into island fortresses through massive dredging and sides with bullied Philippine fishermen, the Chinese government’s legitimacy is on the line.

China’s response will be guided by the reactions of a nationalistic public and a conviction that the judges in The Hague who delivered their stinging judgment were pawns in a U.S. conspiracy to contain China’s rise. China will now turn its wrath on America. Before the verdict, the China Daily denounced the case as a “farce directed by Washington.” On Tuesday, Xinhua News Agency used similar language, calling it a “farce directed with meticulous care by outside forces.”

At a time of rapidly rising tensions, the immediate danger is that miscalculations or accidents could draw China and America into conflict.

Ahead of the decision as China’s denunciations of The Hague tribunal reached a crescendo, China held live-fire drills off the Paracels, a group of South China Sea islands it controls. China is “not afraid of trouble,” President Xi Jinping asserted. Earlier, America sent an aircraft-carrier battle group into the region.


On a map, the “nine-dash line” that the tribunal has invalidated looks like a cow’s tongue hanging from China’s southern coast and encompassing almost the entire South China Sea. In the eyes of the Chinese public, it is a proud marker of their country’s spreading power and prestige. It is stamped into every new Chinese passport. Likewise, the artificial islands have become prominent emblems of China’s resurgence.

For a country that regularly invokes the sanctity of international law, citing its own victimization in the era of arrogant imperialism, the outcome is a moral challenge, as well as a legal one. Two years ago, Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged a United Nations gathering to “reject the law of the jungle where the strong do what they want and the weak suffer what they must.”...

More.

And fuck China, the biggest fucking crybabies.

Nina Agdal Irresistibles (VIDEO)

Via Theo Spark:

Impassioned Plea from Dallas Police Chief David Brown

At the New York Post:

Dallas police chief's impassioned plea in the wake of tragedy https://t.co/ph3YR1SaSg pic.twitter.com/l0DdcjorfY

— New York Post (@nypost) July 12, 2016

Star Swain National Anthem at the Lincoln Memorial (VIDEO)

I saw this earlier, but I'm just now posting.

My bad, heh.

At the New York Post, "This beautiful rendition of the national anthem made this girl a star: While on vacation, Star Swain from Tallahassee was convinced to sing the national anthem while visiting the Lincoln Memorial. Her performance was filmed, and she ended up becoming a viral sensation."

And at CBS Evening News, "Woman's impromptu national anthem performance goes viral: It was supposed to be just a stop on a family vacation, but Star Swain's visit to the Lincoln Memorial stirred her patriotism and she burst into song. Now she's a viral sensation."

BONUS: At the Tallahassee Democrat, "Star Swain set to sing anthem in Vegas, NASCAR in Charlotte."

Residents Outraged When Three Women Strip Down to Their Swimsuits to Cool Off in 400-Year Old Fontana dell'Acqua Paola in Rome

I'm sure it was fun, but it's not a public swimming pool, heh.

Outrage as bikini-clad women cool off in 17th century Rome fountain https://t.co/gHqR8wPDi5

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) July 12, 2016

The city’s extensive network of baroque fountains are cherished by Romans as some of the architectural highlights of the Italian capital.

Anyone leaping into the fountains faces a fine of up to 200 Euros (£170).

Trump Supporter Matthew Meincke Assaulted at #BlackLivesMatter Protest in Phoenix (VIDEO)

This guy's cool.

He's on Facebook too.

'Millennials are the worst. I should know — I am one...'

Heh.

This is a great essay.

From Johnny Oleksinsk, at the New York Post:

"The social awkwardness of 20-somethings is a problem caused by two enemies: Kanye-sized egos and smartphones" https://t.co/fSgYYW6g5K

— New York Post (@nypost) July 12, 2016

Too often, during a conversation, a young person’s eyes glaze over as they decide what scintillating tidbit about their brilliant selves to reveal next, be it the three days they didn’t leave their apartment, or how a study abroad experience in Portugal nine years ago shaped who they are today. News flash: Nobody cares.

(Sorry, I just got a text from someone I’d rather be spending time with. Feel free to keep reading while I carry on a separate conversation with them.)

The New York Times and the Left Have Blood on Their Hands

From Dennis Prager, at FrontPage Magazine, "The white-hating and cop-hating hysteria that fueled the Dallas shooting":

It was very appropriate that on Friday, the day after the massacre of five Dallas police officers, The New York Times devoted nearly the whole top half of its front page to four enormous photos of the death of Philando Castile, a black motorist killed by a Minnesota police officer.

Of course, the paper was printed prior to the Dallas murders; and even The New York Times might not have so prominently featured the Minnesota killing on its front page had the Dallas murders occurred a few hours earlier.

Nevertheless, it was completely appropriate. The New York Times has been in the forefront of the left's hysterical, hate-filled attacks on police officers and whites.

Also appropriately, on the day of the Dallas murders, the Times published two white-hating, police-hating pieces.

One was by Michael Eric Dyson, a radical black professor of sociology at Georgetown University.

The Dyson column is nothing more than a racist hit piece on "white America."

An example:

"At birth, (whites) are given a pair of binoculars ... Those binoculars are privilege; they are status, regardless of your class. In fact the greatest privilege that exists is for white folk to get stopped by a cop and not end up dead when the encounter is over."

Dyson wrote these words based on the police killings of two blacks last week, about which he knows nothing except the narrative of the (left-wing) media and what he has seen on some grainy phone videos.

And not once does Professor Dyson mention that the Minnesota police officer was Latino. Why would he? That would suggest that Latinos, too, are given racist binoculars at birth. But Dyson would never say so, because it is white America he loathes.

Nor does he note, or perhaps even know — because of his left-wing binoculars — facts such as these:

In 2015, of the 990 people shot dead by police, 93 were unarmed and 38 of them were black. Of the 505 people shot dead by police thus far in 2016, 37 were unarmed and of them 13 were black. Given that blacks murder and rob more than whites — they committed 62 percent of robberies, 57 percent of murders and 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest counties in the country in 2009 (despite comprising about 15 percent of the population in these counties) — an unarmed black is less likely to be killed by police than an unarmed white. (Data from the Washington Post.)

Does Dyson, a professor of sociology, not know these statistics? Does he not know that, statistically, whites have more reason to fear being murdered by a black than vice versa? If he doesn't, he shouldn't be teaching sociology. If he does, students should be aware that he is a left-wing, black nationalist propagandist, not a teacher.

The same day the Times published Dyson's piece, it published a second anti-white, anti-cop, hate-America piece by the mother of Michael Brown, the young black man killed in Ferguson, Missouri. That black grand jurors and even Obama's Department of Justice found the policeman who killed Brown was acting in self-defense after being attacked and thus justified him in doing so means nothing to The New York Times. So it published the grieving mother's anti-cop hate.

The blacks and whites of the left have led much of America, especially black America, to believe that cops are generally racist, that there is "systemic" racism and that whites are privileged and racist. It's all a lie that has had — and will continue to have — murderous consequences.

America has become the least racist multiracial, multiethnic country in world history. This drives the America-hating left crazy...

Still more.

Kalyn Chapman James, First Black Miss Alabama, Says Dallas Cop Killer Was a 'Martyr'

That's truly despicable.

At Blazing Cat Fur, "First Black Miss Alabama: 'I Don't Feel Sad for the Officers That Lost Their Lives … Shooter Was a Martyr'."

Donald Trump: 'I am the Law and Order Candidate' (VIDEO)

Hat Tip: The Daily Pundit.

Also, at USA Today, "Trump declares himself 'law and order' candidate."

Unraveling Obama's False Narratives (VIDEO)

From Jonathan Tobin, at Commentary:

President Obama stated something that was incontrovertibly true on Saturday when he said, “America is not as divided as some have suggested.” He’s right. The awful nature of two police shootings of African-Americans last week followed by the horror of the murder of five police officers in Dallas has left some Americans feeling as if their country is falling apart. The comparison being mooted in many places was to 1968 when race riots and political assassinations seemed to drive the country to the brink of chaos. So President Obama did the right thing when he sought to use the bully pulpit of the presidency to remind us that this perception is highly misleading. As bad as the last week felt—and it felt very bad indeed—there is no comparison to that moment of crisis.

But if many Americans feel as if the nation is heading toward an abyss, it is due in no small measure to the same person who is, belatedly, trying to calm public opinion. Throughout his presidency and in particular during the last two years since the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014, he and other administration figures, such as former Attorney General Eric Holder, have worked hard to promote a false narrative of resurgent American racism. If the president is now trying to assert that individual acts of violence, whether an arguably unjustified shooting by a police officer or a mass shooting by a disturbed individual, should not cause us to jump to conclusions about that act representing the intentions of an entire group, then it is he, as much as anyone who has encouraged Americans to think in this manner. Having helped to encourage that fundamental misreading of American society as irremediably racist despite the fact that we twice elected an African-American to the presidency, it is a little too little and far too late for him to be offering wiser counsel.

It must be understood that the Black Lives Matter movement, which has done its best to perpetuate the myth that all blacks are in danger from the police everywhere, did not operate in a vacuum. Though their hateful statements were more extreme than anything said by the president or Holder, the administration helped legitimize the now widely held belief that police are an out-of-control force that is over-militarized and inclined to murder minorities with impunity.

The closer one looks at many of the individual episodes that form the core of the racism narrative, the harder it is to fit them into a pre-existing context. Some of the iconic incidents that sent people into the streets and provoked outrage from the White House and were held up as “proof” that it is open season on blacks by cops have turned out to undermine the racism narrative. The death that set off this movement—the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri—was judged by legal authorities to be justified.

To state this is not to deny that there are instances of police misconduct. Like all governmental agencies and employees, police departments and officers are fallible. But if there is a heightened sense of an adversarial relationship between police and some of the minority communities they serve, it has been exacerbated by forces like Black Lives Matter in an irresponsible manner. They have seized on every tragedy that could be possibly viewed through a racial lens and done their best to use it to promote an inchoate agenda that promoted hatred. Racism is an integral element of the history of this country and should never be ignored or underestimated. It has even reared its ugly head at times during the presidential campaign. But it cannot explain every crime or action taken by the police...

Keep reading.

Police Chief David Brown Receives Death Threats After #Dallas Attack (VIDEO)

Well, he's the chief of police. He should be okay.

But still.

Leftists are truly evil.

Watch, via AP, "Dallas Police Chief Receiving Death Threats":

Dallas Police Chief David Brown confirmed Monday that he and his family are receiving death threats in the wake of last Thursday's killing of five police officers. He also said the country is asking its police officers "to do too much."

Debating Black Lives Matter's Impact on the National Conversation (VIDEO)

Here's an impact segment with Megyn Kelly, on Fox News, "The role of Black Lives Matter in the national conversation: Panel debates the movement's impact on 'The Kelly File'."

The Fire Next Time

Here's the classic, from James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time.

Selena Gomez Gets Tight for Marie Claire

At the Last Men on Earth.

And on Twitter.

Emily Ratajkowski Lingerie Behind the Scenes (Video)

Hat Tip: Egotastic!

Deal of the Day: Select WowWee Robots Starting at $39.99

Here, at Amazon, Miposaur by WowWee.

Pretty trippy, heh.

Also, WowWee Robosapien X.

And keep shopping, WowWee Robots.

More, from Tony Wright, British Politics: A Very Short Introduction.

And from Professor David McKay, The New British Politics.

Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World.

Still more, from Correlli Barnett, The Collapse of British Power.

Robert K. Massie, Dreadnought.

BONUS: From Professor Paul Kennedy, The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860-1914, and The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000.

Facebook Live Video Represents New Chapter for Citizens' Journalism

This is pretty interesting.

And game-changing.

At Columbia Journalism Review, "Philando Castile, Facebook Live, and a new chapter for citizen journalism."

Philando Castile, Facebook Live, and a new chapter for citizen journalism https://t.co/mI1wBZbRt6 pic.twitter.com/h8AH487aaB

— CJR (@CJR) July 7, 2016

David Cameron Hums a Tune as He Heads Into 10 Downing Street (VIDEO)

Following-up, "Andrea Leadsom Quits Leadership Race (VIDEO)," and "U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May Set to Become Britain's Prime Minister (VIDEO)."

Watch, via Sky News, "David Cameron Hums a Tune After Resigning."

More, at Telegraph U.K.:

From being booed on Centre Court to bidding farewell to Downing Street: David Cameron's final 72 hours as Prime… https://t.co/65OvTyPvE7

— Telegraph News (@TelegraphNews) July 11, 2016

U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May Set to Become Britain's Prime Minister (VIDEO)

Following-up, "Andrea Leadsom Quits Leadership Race (VIDEO)."

At the Telegraph U.K., "Live - 'Together we will build a better Britain': New Tory leader Theresa May delivers vision for the country ahead of coronation as Prime Minister on Wednesday":

Theresa May will become Britain's second female prime minister on Wednesday evening after David Cameron makes his final Commons appearance as premier.

Mr Cameron hailed his successor as "strong and competent" as he announced he would go to Buckingham Palace to offer his resignation to the Queen following Prime Minister's Questions.

Mrs May's coronation follows rival Andrea Leadsom's shock decision to pull out of the Tory leadership race.

The Prime Minister said he was "delighted" that the Home Secretary would succeed him in Downing Street.

Mr Cameron will chair his last Cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning and will take his final Prime Minister's Questions at noon on Wednesday.

In a statement outside the Commons following her election as Tory party leader, Mrs May praised May Cameron for his stewardship of the party and country.

Mrs May also hailed Andrea Leadsom, whose shock decision to pull out of the Tory leadership race paved the way for her coronation, for the "dignity" she had shown...

Still more.

Andrea Leadsom Quits Leadership Race (VIDEO)

Leadsom cried in an interview with the Telegraph on Sunday. There's no crying in politics!

Maybe that's why she quit?

I'll check, but meanwhile, at the New York Times, via Memeorandum, "Theresa May Poised to Be Britain's Next Premier as Andrea Leadsom Quits Race."

The Meaning of Donald Trump

From Salena Zito, at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, "Can we retire our 'politics of the ridiculous'?":

Email says everything
PS does not fit voter stereotype most journalists parachute in to find https://t.co/RaA7w7Cek2 pic.twitter.com/qYveSEoUka

— SalenaZito (@SalenaZitoTrib) July 10, 2016

Take last week, when a scathing FBI report concluded that Clinton essentially lied several times about her conduct regarding her State Department Internet server and her handling of classified information. The headlines for two days afterward insisted that Trump failed to focus on Clinton's problems, that he was off-message.

Well, what the headline-writers didn't comprehend is this: If Trump had delivered a crisp, scripted message about Clinton to his supporters in suburban Cincinnati, he would have lost the audience; they were looking for vintage Trump and they got him.

Such Americans are tired of scripted messages; they don't want to hear about Clinton's woes, because that was pounded into them all day by the news networks and by social media.

They want to hear about Trump, from Trump; they enjoy his confrontation with the national media — just as they enjoyed his riff with NBC's “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd — or that he talks about his grandchildren and mosquitoes.

This race has never been about ideology, a strict platform that no candidate can veer from, scripted messages that are so coordinated that every candidate in the party repeats the same talking points.

This moment is about what happens when you spend an entire generation ignoring the will, the wants and the needs of your people beyond cosmopolitan America.

This is what happens when voters get tired of putting on their team jerseys and supporting their side, but get nothing in return when that team wins.

If politicians and academics begin diving into the whats and whys of Campaign 2016, instead of just walking around shaking their heads in judgment, then perhaps they will root out the results from 30 years of political correctness, of policies that benefit a select few, of creating a culture of “otherness” when it comes to the country's interior, of mouthing promises that they can't keep.

Then, maybe, we can retire our politics of the ridiculous and start to govern the country once more...

RTWT.

How Many People Have to Die Because of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement?

From John Hawkins, at Town Hall:

John Hawkins - How Many People Have To Die Because Of The #BlackLivesMatter Movement? https://t.co/Q07pZff1KJ

— Kim Priestap (@kimpriestap) July 10, 2016

“Pigs In A Blanket, Fry 'Em Like Bacon!” – Chant at a #BlackLivesMatter protest in Minnesota

“What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? Now!” – Chant by "Million Marchers" in New York City

The whole Black Lives Matter Movement is pure crap designed to help liberals get their names out there and to increase black turnout in elections for the Democratic Party.

It’s a movement funded by liberal white Americans like the Ben and Jerry’s Foundation and supported primarily by privileged black liberals that does nothing but produce a bigger body count.

For whatever reason, black Americans have always had a more hostile relationship with the police than other groups. Maybe that comes from the bad old days of the civil rights movement when the police weren’t always fair to black Americans. Maybe it comes from the sky high crime rate in black America which insures that percentage wise, more black Americans profit from criminal activities or know people involved in regularly breaking the law than people from other races. Perhaps it’s just a “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” problem? Did police hostility cause black Americans to become more distrusting of law enforcement or did hostility by black Americans cause the police to become more distrustful? If that hostility and distrust ceased on one side, would it disappear on the other side, too? Whatever the reason for it, it exists and the Black Lives Matter movement has greatly exacerbated it for its own purposes.

The sad reality is that the police have to do a dirty, dangerous, unpleasant job that sometimes involves killing other human beings to protect themselves or others. There will NEVER be a time when mistakes aren’t made. So, if the goal is supposed to be to stop the police from ever making a mistake, it’s pie in the sky.

Moreover, the overwhelming majority of police shootings are justified and those that aren’t are USUALLY punished in a court of law. There are undoubtedly cases where guilty police officers skate in court for their crimes, but as Nicole Simpson could tell you if she were still alive, murderers don’t always get convicted in America.

Because this really isn’t a huge problem for black Americans, the #BlackLivesMatter scumbags have taken ambiguous cases and elevated them to practically legendary status.

Take the death of Eric Garner. The cops were trying to arrest him for illegally selling cigarettes. The cops weren’t the ones who decided that should be illegal, but it’s their job to enforce the law. Garner resisted arrest, the cops used an appropriate amount of force subduing him and he died because of underlying health issues (“acute and chronic bronchial asthma, obesity, and heart disease.”)

You may think Eric Garner was choked to death because it takes lies like that for #BlackLivesMatter to justify its existence. However, it’s not true. In fact, the person most responsible for Eric Garner dying is Eric Garner...

Actually, the cops used a choke hold on Garner that was banned by the NYPD, but the fact is, Garner resisted arrest, and told the police, "This ends right here!" You think the police might be concerned about him resisting and posing a threat to their safety? Of course, you never hear that part from the ghoulish leftists of BLM. Never.

But keep reading.

Natasha Lennard, Far-Left Rolling Stone Columnist, Won't Say 'Blue Lives Matter' — Because White Supremacy!

Typical leftist.

She's a former writer for Salon, so that helps explain things, heh.

After Dallas, we dont need to say 'Blue Lives Matter'- it's as established as white supremacy. My 1st @RollingStone: https://t.co/pY4CObQ6Tl

— Natasha Lennard (@natashalennard) July 8, 2016

I won't say Blue Lives Matter, because it does not need to be said. We know this because the death of five officers this week provoked an immediate response from the president, as did the assassination of two NYPD officers in 2014. That's what mattering looks like. While the president’s remarks earlier in the week on the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were moving, dozens of unarmed black men killed by cop go without presidential comment....

There was never any doubt about the mattering of cops' lives in this country. To say Blue Lives Matter is to falsely assert that the cops' lives are undervalued and systematically discarded. They are not — no life should be — and the shootings in Dallas do not change that fact.

Five police deaths provoke cries of "Civil War," but hundreds of black deaths are just the "tragic" normal.

And that is why we continue to shout "Black Lives Matter" — the statement contains in itself the recognition that it very much still needs to be said.

It's also relevant that it has consistently taken the visceral and visual representation of black death — Emmett Till's broken corpse in the open casket his mother demanded, Mike Brown's body in the street, Philando Castile bleeding out onto his whiteT-shirt — to prompt popular and media outrage. Black civilian bodies get humanized only through death. It doesn't take a photo or video of a killed cop to provoke outcry. That mattering doesn't demand brutal spectacular cues.

Which is not to delegitimize growing fears among police ranks that they will become targets by virtue of their profession, their uniform. Dallas shows the validity of these concerns. Yet it remains the case that policing does not even rank in the ten most dangerous jobs, according to a 2015 Bureau of Labor Statistics report. Fisherman, farmers and, above all, loggers are more likely to die on the job, and police are, according to the same statistics, more likely to commit suicide than be killed by a criminal. While cops may have reasons for increased concern, this does not deserve a movement. There remain no grounds at all to call police officers a persecuted minority, nor to equate the oppression of black life with that of police in America....

By comparison, for example, Peter Liang was the first NYPD officer to be convicted for an on-duty killing in the last ten years. He shot unarmed black man Akai Gurley in a Brooklyn project housing stairwell, after he had his gun drawn because a stairwell light was out in the residential block he was patrolling. He had not been called to the scene of a crime. He won't spend a day in jail; his manslaughter conviction was accorded a sentence of five years' probation.

I'm not equating the intentional assassination of police officers with the (regular) killing of black people by cops. I don't believe most cops are hunting down black people — but I also don't believe murderous racist intention is necessary to make an execution a brutal, racist act. There are not very many people hunting down cops. Cops' lives are already valorized; it costs everything to take one. For a cop to take a black life, in criminal-justice currency, costs nothing at all. This, again, is what mattering does and does not look like.

Ms. Lennard is someone whose default position is to hate the police, and it's visceral.

Keep in mind that police are the only ones who run to the source of danger, to protect those very same people, black Americans. No one is more important to the lives of blacks, with the sole exception of black families themselves. But as Heather Mac Donald has said, until we see the reconstitution of the black family in America, it's the police who're the first line of defense for at-risk black communities. Leftists like Natasha Lennard thus make the problem worse, actually threatening the safety of black lives.

She might as well be saying, "No Lives Matter," for that's the logical consequence of her thesis.

Angry Leftist Shot and Killed by St. Louis County Officer After Online Argument About Black Lives Matter

Everything's falling apart in Obama's America.

At Gateway Pundit:

Black Lives Matter Activist SHOT DEAD After Breaking Into St. Louis Police Officer’s Home https://t.co/BQ2oZVgT9Z via @gatewaypundit

— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) July 11, 2016

And at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Off-duty St. Louis County officer fatally shoots intruder at home https://t.co/glbOTweOqm pic.twitter.com/xUu8Wk6poN

— STLtoday (@stltoday) July 10, 2016

LAKESHIRE • A former Affton High School football standout forced his way into a South County home and was shot and killed by an off-duty officer inside after a Facebook dispute over Black Lives Matter apparently boiled over late Saturday afternoon.

That's what can be pieced together from the accounts of police and an uncle of Tyler Gebhard, who said the young man had been struggling with mental health issues.

"He walked over there and into a gunfight," Gebhard's uncle, Patrick Brogan said, drawing on accounts offered by friends of his nephew. "When he got there, he was met with a gun and the guy killed him."

Authorities said Gebhard, 20, and the officer were acquainted, and Gebhard made Facebook threats to the officer's family and “uninvolved members of the community” in advance of the Saturday encounter with the unidentified officer.

Gebhard threw a 50-pound concrete planter through the window and entered the Lakeshire residence as the officer's wife, mother-in-law and two young children struggled to escape through a bedroom window, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said. The off-duty officer shot and killed Gebhard.

"I don’t think the officer had a choice — I honestly don’t,” Belmar told reporters on Saturday, labeling the situation “a very difficult position to be in.”

Toxic Political Culture, Divisive Politics, and the Left's War on Cops

From Karen Tumulty at WaPo:

"To acknowledge one horror guarantees being accused of diminishing or excusing another." @ktumulty https://t.co/y4bhTfcGI0

— Anne Hull (@annevhull) July 9, 2016

And Dan Balz at WaPo:

"This is not the summer of 1967 or 1968. But the political climate and the racial climate ..." https://t.co/HoxgG0khRN via @washingtonpost

— Jan Nolf (@NolfJan) July 9, 2016

Leaked Photos Appear to Show Dead Body of Dallas Attack Suspect Micah Xavier Johnson

This is London's Daily Mail, and it's a tabloid-style story.

But if there are indeed photos leaked online, we'll be hearing more about it.

Have photos of the dead body of Dallas sniper been leaked?https://t.co/TcburcwdoS #Dallas

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 11, 2016

Here's an image from an online forum, and it looks like him.

Violent Protesters Shut Down Interstate 94 Near St. Paul, Minnesota (VIDEO)

Here's the report, at CBS News 4 Minnesota, "102 Arrested, 21 Officers Hurt Following I-94 Protest."

More here, "Protesters Shut Down I-94; Multiple Officers Injured."

And at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "Police chief 'disgusted' by violence at I-94 protest; 21 officers hurt":

About 100 people protesting late Saturday and early Sunday in a sometimes violent response to the police killing in Falcon Heights of Philando Castile were arrested, either during an hourslong human blockade of Interstate 94 in St. Paul or during a follow-up gathering elsewhere in the city, authorities said.

The violence perpetrated by some of the protesters against the police prompted denouncement in the strongest terms by St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and Police Chief Todd Axtell, who called the pelting of officers with rocks, bottles and other items "a disgrace."

Axtell said 21 officers from all law enforcement agencies on the scene were injured in the mayhem. One of them suffered a broken vertebrae after a concrete block was dropped on his head, police said late Sunday afternoon. The State Patrol said six of the 21 were troopers who were slightly hurt by what the protesters were throwing.

President Obama weighed in Sunday on protesters directing violence against police, saying at a news conference during a one-day stop in Madrid that "any violence directed at police officers is a reprehensible crime."

The nation's first black president went on to say, "Whenever those of us who are concerned about failures of the criminal justice system attack police, you are doing a disservice to the cause."

More.

Chief Axtell says last night saw the worst anti-police violence in his 28 years on the job. He was "disgusted" by the criminality. There's a full video of the press conference here, "Saint Paul Police Headquarters July 10, 2016 8:00AM Central."

Heather Mac Donald Discusses the 'War on Cops," the Ferguson Effect, and Black-on-Black Violence

Here's a video/audio interview with Jesse Lee Peterson, "Heather Mac Donald: War on Cops & Ferguson Effect, Increase Black-on-Black Violence - #BlackLivesMatter."

Grab a beer or a soda a listen to the whole thing.

A couple of things in particular stand out: 1) Peterson reflects on the Black Lives Matter movement and compares it to the KKK, saying that BLM's anti-white racism is just as visceral as anything one would see with so-called white nationalist/KKK-types. That's fascinating, since Tomi Lahren made virtually the exact same point on Twitter and subsequently came under vicious attack by totalitarian leftists. Lahren's got nothing to apologize about, nor should she back down. But I think she got scared by the backlash and stepped back from those statements, mostly likely in fear for her job. That's exactly what the left is after. That's exactly what its faux outrage is about: to shut down conservative voices and conservative views that hit too close to home, voices calling out the radical left for its racism and deliberate, revolutionary violence.

But also, 2) Ms. Mac Donald reports that after she first published her essay on the Ferguson effect, she was doxxed by Black Lives Matter organizers in Austin, Texas. Ms. Mac Donald is almost hilariously cool while discussing it, but to think for moment it's so fucking outrageous the lengths that leftists go to destroy dissenting opinion. When I talk about The New American Civil War #TNACW I mean it as war in every sense of the term: political, cultural, sociological, educational, on top of subversive leftist armed struggle against the totality of the U.S. system. It's the entire package. It's the full program of the radical left. And mainstream media types who enable it are working off their purported moral superiority over the so-called "racist" white redneck flyovers who are allegedly holding the country back from the promised land. Witness the shocked response from the elitist chattering classes, among both Democrats and Republicans, by the way, to the rise of Donald Trump and the GOP nomination. If Trump wins in November the debate over British voters backing Brexit's going to look like a trip to the grocery store. The entire world's going to erupt in anti-Americanism. We'll have the Nazification of Trump far above the scale we saw against George W. Bush and Iraq. We'll see a global culture war come to head. And importantly, lots of mainstream leftist folks in both parties are noticing. For various reasons, culture is peaking this year and its volatile. Criminal justice is one of the main platforms for the left's assault on the police, law, order and tradition --- something Ms. Mac Donald points out at the interview above.

In any case, the Wall Street Journal republished Ms. Mac Donald's February op-ed yesterday. See, "The Myths of Black Lives Matter."

And see, "The New Nationwide Crime Wave."

Her new book is here, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe.

Bill Clinton Met with African American Defense League (AADL) in May

From Robert Stacy McCain, at the Other McCain, "Bill Clinton Met With Anti-Police Hate Group Leader Two Months Ago."

Remember, with Democrats it's "no enemies on the left," and the prove it time and time again:

During a campaign visit to Kentucky this year former President Bill Clinton met with the leader of a racial hate group that has been implicated in Thursday’s attack that killed five Dallas police officers. Mauricelm-Lei Millere is leader of the African American Defense League (AADL), which has repeatedly advocated violence against police. Dallas gunman Micah Xavier Johnson supported the AADL on Facebook, where Millere’s group posted messages that declared “ATTACK EVERYTHING IN BLUE EXCEPT THE MAIL MAN” and “sprinkle Pigs Blood” prior to Thursday’s attack. On his Instagram page, Millere wrote: “We have no alternative! We must kill white police officers across the country!”

Keep reading.

Kate Hudson Rule 5

Well, let's get things rolling this afternoon with something beautiful.

Here's ome lovely Kate Hudson, who's one of my absolute favorites.

I don't want to meet her in person, because Hollywood celebrities usually blow it for me.

I just want to gaze at her loveliness.

Kate Hudson covers the June 2016 issue of Shape magazine in her Fabletics swimwear https://t.co/wOobsLzQs6 pic.twitter.com/xh8LD2sHQT

— Shoppers Shop (@shoppersshop) May 31, 2016

Kate Hudson is giving Us all the motivation to hit the gym: https://t.co/7TqR7zpPyz

— Us Weekly (@usweekly) June 3, 2016

Kate Hudson flashes her derriere as she shares nude flashback photo on Instagram https://t.co/lgIGutNV18 pic.twitter.com/qv407TUngI

— WEST FUNDZ (@WEST_FUNDZ) June 30, 2016

Kate Hudson is totally nude in this epic throwback photo: https://t.co/ObzDDiu5m2 pic.twitter.com/j2V8JBHrKi

— InStyle (@InStyle) July 1, 2016

Kate Hudson flashes her derriere in nude flashback photo on Instagramhttps://t.co/6wEsn5uW8P via @DailyMailCeleb

— jackie stuart (@auldcove) July 1, 2016

ICYMI: Heather Mac Donald, The War on Cops [BUMPED]

It's a great book.

Should be mandatory reading for every American.

At Amazon, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe.

WATCH: New Black Panther Party Wants to 'Arm Every Black Man' (VIDEO)

Following-up, "Micah Xavier Johnson Was an Active Member of New Black Panther Party's Houston Chapter (VIDEO)."

Here's more, a video showing the Black Panther Party protesting at the SXSW convention in Austin last year:

Around 40 New Black Panther Party members marched with their firearms on display through the streets of Austin during SXSW festival on Monday. The protesters took to the streets of the Texan capital to condemn the murders of black civilians and show respect to the families of those who have been killed by the police in the United States.

Micah Xavier Johnson Was an Active Member of New Black Panther Party's Houston Chapter (VIDEO)

From J. Christian Adams, at Pajamas, "Obama Justice Department Laughed Off Armed New Black Panther Threat":

Obama #DOJ Laughed Off Armed New Black Panther Threat | PJ Media https://t.co/6vMDYcv4xC #Dallaspoliceshooting #police

— J. Christian Adams (@ElectionLawCtr) July 10, 2016

In 2009 and 2010, lawyers working at the United States Justice Department warned top Obama political appointees and other Justice Department officials about the dangerous threats of New Black Panthers to kill police officers and other whites. I was one of those lawyers who delivered those warnings.

Our warnings came in the context of the Voting Rights Act case I and other lawyers brought against the New Black Panthers on behalf of the United States in 2009, a case the Obama administration ultimately abandoned.  Both top DOJ officials, including now Labor Secretary Tom Perez, as well as rank and file employees in the Civil Rights Division, were warned but did not take the New Black Panther threat seriously or otherwise considered the organization to be a laughable joke.

Allies in the media echoed the narrative that the defendants in the voter intimidation case were harmless clowns.

Among the information presented to top officials was a video produced by the New Black Panthers entitled "Training Day." The video proposes killing police officers by ambush.  I wrote about the video:

Another New Black Panther posing in the above photo and kneeling with a shotgun is "Field Marshal" Najee Muhammad. As I wrote in my book Injustice: One of them was Panther “Field Marshal” Najee Muhammad, who is seen in a Panther video called “Training Day” in which he encourages blacks in DeKalb County, Georgia, to don ski masks, lie in wait behind shrubs, and kill police officers with AK-47s. Following that exhortation he mocks the hypothetical victims’ grieving widows.

Justice Department employees ridiculed the video and noted very few were in the video's audience, apparently oblivious of the role and power of social media to reach people not sitting in an auditorium.

Attorneys working on the voter intimidation case made an effort to broadly educate employees of the Civil Rights Division about the murderous rhetoric of the New Black Panthers. We planned a screening of a National Geographic special on the New Black Panthers where members could be heard threatening to kill white babies.  We widely disseminated information about the screening in a Justice Department conference room.  On a floor with nearly one hundred employees, exactly two DOJ employees showed up to watch the screening, and one of them was the paralegal on the case.

As we shall see, Obama allies in the media could also be counted on to ridicule the seriousness of the New Black Panther organization...

Keep reading.

And see Bob Price, at Breitbart, "Confirmed: Dallas Shooter was Member of Houston New Black Panther Party."

According to Price, Micah Xavier Johnson can be seen here, at a Sandra Bland solidarity demonstration in Texas in 2015, chanting "Off the Pig!"

Black Lives Matter Was Gaining Ground, Then — Oops — It Revealed Its True Face

Black Lives Matter is a revolutionary communist organization that will use any means necessary to destroy the free-market American democracy.

Dallas reveals its true face, again.

But see the New York Times, FWIW, "Black Lives Matter Was Gaining Ground. Then a Sniper Opened Fire":

It felt like a watershed moment for a scattered and still-young civil rights movement.

Inside Black Lives Matter, the national revulsion over videos of police officers shooting to death black men in Minnesota and Louisiana was undeniable proof that the group’s message of outrage and demands for justice had finally broken through.

Even the white governor of Minnesota, Mark Dayton, in a pained public concession, embraced the movement’s central argument. “Would this have happened if those passengers — the driver and the passengers — were white?” he asked. “I don’t think it would’ve.”

Then, in an instant, everything changed.

Black Lives Matter now faces perhaps the biggest crisis in its short history: It is both scrambling to distance itself from an African-American sniper in Dallas who set out to murder white police officers and trying to rebut a chorus of detractors who blame the movement for inspiring his deadly attack.

“What I saw in Dallas was devastating to our work,” said Jedidiah Brown, a Chicago pastor who has emerged as an outspoken Black Lives Matter activist over the past year. The moment he learned of the attack on the police, he said, he immediately sensed that any emerging national consensus would “tear down the middle.”

“The thing I vividly remember thinking was, this is going to show exactly how divided this conversation is,” he said.

For those who have harbored doubts or animosity toward Black Lives Matter — among them police unions and conservative leaders — the Dallas attacks are a cudgel that, fairly or not, they are eager to swing.

In Texas, several state officials, including Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, lashed out at the group, directly linking its tone and tactics to the killings. Mr. Patrick acknowledged that the demonstration in Dallas on Thursday night had been peaceful until the gunman struck, but he accused the movement of creating the conditions for what happened. “I do blame former Black Lives Matter protests,” he said.

“This has to stop,” Mr. Patrick said, adding of the police officers, “These are real people.”

State Representative Bill Zedler, a Republican, was equally blunt in his assessment of the group’s influence on the 25-year-old gunman, Micah Johnson.

“Clearly the rhetoric of Black Lives Matters encouraged the sniper that shot Dallas police officers,” he wrote on Twitter.

But a bigger problem for Black Lives Matter, supported by many liberals, is that Mr. Johnson’s actions could jeopardize the movement’s appeal to a broader group of Americans who have gradually become more sympathetic to its cause after years of highly publicized police shootings.

In the days before the Dallas massacre, Aesha Rasheed, 39, an activist in New Orleans, felt that at long last, white and black America were watching the same images with the same horror: two Louisiana police officers tackling and then shooting Alton Sterling, 37, at point-blank range; the slumped, blood-soaked body of Philando Castile, 32, after a Minnesota police officer shot him through a car window, with his girlfriend and her daughter sitting inches away.

“It seemed like a national consciousness was sinking in,” Ms. Rasheed said.

After the massacre in Dallas, she said, “it turned on a dime.”

She now worries that the episodes involving black men may be overshadowed and overlooked.

“Does this get ignored?” she asked. “Do five officers take center stage?”

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Derek Jeter Marries Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Hannah Davis

Yeah dude.

She's a longtime feature of Rule 5 blogging around here. See, "Hannah Davis for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit." (More here.)

And at the New York Post:

Today's cover: Derek Jeter marries Hannah Davis https://t.co/TIfceK5uIL pic.twitter.com/1uniRnhId4

— New York Post (@nypost) July 10, 2016

Pat Condell on #Brexit (VIDEO)

Saving Britain's democracy.