Headlines

California public health director abruptly resigns as state manages data snafu

Airline shares surge as TSA numbers hit pandemic high, support for second bailout builds

Gas explosion destroys houses in Baltimore, killing one

National polls: Biden’s lead over Trump shrinks

Hong Kong media tycoon arrested under new security law

El-Erian says biggest threat to stock market rally is wave of corporate bankruptcies

AG Barr: Left’s ‘lust for power’ driving new form of ‘urban guerilla warfare’

California using $100 million of virus relief funds to house homeless

Puerto Rico’s primary goes off the rails

Coronavirus updates: Mnuchin says relief deal could come this week, TSA screenings return to March levels

Pro-police protesters and ANTIFA brawl in Chicago

New York gun purchases jump 121 percent in June

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Headlines

Social distancing guidelines will likely be in place beyond April, surgeon general says

Coronavirus live updates: Over 1,000 NYC police get COVID-19, TSA screenings at 10 year low

Pay slashed for ER doctors, nurses fighting virus ... Prisoners dig mass graves ...

Wuhan backlash: Australian dockworker refuse to unload Chinese cargo ship

Russia sends plane with medical supplies to U.S. for coronavirus response

Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says he’s having ongoing discussions about infrastructure

Coronavirus now third leading cause of U.S. deaths ...

Purchase mortgage applications crash 24%

Federal prisons start 14-day lockdown to fight virus

Coronavirus effect could be ‘far deeper than the subprime crisis,’ say mortgage company CEO

New strain ‘lasts for 49 days’ in infected patient ...

CNN host Chris Cuomo tests positive for coronavirus

Headlines

Jiuliani likens Pelosi to Sen. Joseph McCarthy

China says its May trade surplus was $41.65 billion, significantly more than expected

Wash Post Page One Monday: NRA money flowed to board members ...

Billionaire Kochs to financially back Democrats pushing amnesty, free trade

Latino leaders sound alarms over Trump re-election in 2020

Inflation trends suggest Treasury yields will surprise the Street and won’t bottom for months

TSA lets illegals skip airport security lines ahead of citizens?

Comey email exonerated Hillary two months before her FBI interview

Senators make bipartisan push to halt arm sales to Saudi Arabia

Former Red Sox star David Ortiz shot in Dominican Republic, said to be in stable condition

News industry joins calls for increased scrutiny of Big Tech ...

The U.S. created just 75,000 jobs in May

Hradlines

All these headlines have been found on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

... 'If there was something really good, it would have leaked' -- [CNN producer]

Napolitano: [Former AG] Lynch could face 5-10 years in prison...

CBO Report: Senate healthcare bill drops number of insured by 22 million

Patients with mental disorders get half of all opioid prescriptions ...

Exclusive: McCain Institute refuses to disclose big doners

EU slaps Google with record $2.7 billion fine

Castile's family gets $3 million payout after cop aquittal

Secret FBI memos suggest Russia-Flynn probe was political payback ...

Republicans offer billions in side deals to win Obamacare repeal votes

Who has Trump's ear? Often rich white Republican men ...

House Dems hired a fired McDonald's worker as their IT guy

TSA finds 20 pound live lobster in bag ...

The Heavy Hand of Government

If you can't trust the government, then whom can you trust? Well, apparently NOAA's reputation as an impartial observer of global warming has once again taking a hit as it has been revealed that, over the last two years, it has been revising down older recorded temperature data from Maine in order to make it look like things have been warming up there ... and in the rest of the country ... when in fact they haven't. John Hinderaker of Powerline has just pointed this out in his recent blog posting ... see: Powerline Blog Entry for all the sordid details.

This fast and loose revisionism is about as smarmy as a supposed "scientific" government agency can possibly become. I realize that such malfeasance might get them in good with the current Democrat administration ... but, longer term, this can't be good. I suggest that this agency now is vying with the IRS, the State Department, HHS, the Secret Service, the EPA, the White House, the VA, the CDC, NSA, and the TSA for this year's Heavy Hand of Government medal ... an award which I just coined.

Perhaps we could have an annual ceremony for the winner ... with all the hoopla of Oscar Night? With Al Gore or Michael Moore as its Master of Ceremonies?