- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors displays the now famous cartoon that put into stark emotional terms the tragic moral obtuseness taking place on our southern border. Cartoonist Michael de Adder was immediately released by a publishing company, which now denies the illustration had anything to do with the timing. Coincidence is a powerful force.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass watches as Pete Buttigieg sandblasts fellow Christians for hypocrisy, for going against the teachings of Jesus. I and fellow Christians are compelled to agree with him. Yellow Dog is having none of it. Saving Christianity from Christian conservatives serves to rescue Christianity from its own evil. The idea is that Christianity is intrinsically evil. Attempts at reform serve only to prolong and expand the evil.
- In related news, The Onion is on the scene as God orders all followers to swallow cyanide capsules in preparation for their voyage to Alpha Centauri.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit reviews my President’s Fourth of July presentation and wonders why he couldn’t afford a fact-checker to tell him that the Continental Army, named after a great American Commander-in-Chief (huh?), did not attack airports. She brings brief samples of hilarious internet reaction.
When I think of our great first Commander-in-Chief, the one after whom the Continental Army was named, I have to wonder: Just what would have been the reaction of President Continental?
- Frances Langum reports on the vitriol as Lou Dobbs, angered at those US military leaders who did not stand next to my President during his 4th of July celebration, rages at them as ‘snowflakes’.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara really, really likes the Declaration of Independence, not only because it was later blessed by liberatarian philosopher Ayn Rand, but because it advocates individual rights over that of collective groups. That seemingly contradicts his vigorous defense of the electoral college against the idea that all voters should be treated equally.
- Green Eagle brings us a song in honor of President Trump’s recent visit with Vladimir Putin.
- An anonymously sourced story has it that our President is willing to accept a freeze on, rather than dismantling of, North Korea’s nuclear weapons. John Bolton is furious, charging that someone is attempting to box him in. Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged is skeptical of Mr. Bolton’s skepticism. It is possible that Trump has been boxed in. Perhaps more likely is that Bolton has been boxed out.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson quotes a group of libertarian states rights activists to prove that Medicaid expansion would be very, very bad for Wisconsin. I guess I’m just hardheaded.
- John Scalzi at Whatever is asked for which candidate he would vote over the current incumbent. He runs through all the Democrats in order of preference, with a brief analysis of each. There is one exception to the pattern. Sort of.
- Want to know who’s ahead in the Democratic campaign and why? Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger shows us the totals as they stand right now, and breaks it all down by gender, race, and age.
- Neil Bamforth, in MadMikesAmerica, experiences a bureaucratic distortion of privacy policies by his bank that initially keeps him from paying off an expensive credit card. He uses the same tactic to turn the tables on the bank.
- The Journal of Improbable Research has found an interesting tactic used by one anti-corruption citizens group in India. It involves a replica of a 50 rupee bill, except the denomination is zero. Victims of demands for bribes by government officials are encouraged to signal their non-cooperation by paying in no-value currency.
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