Headlines — Extra

MAGA country brings the rally to a stricken president

Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tests positive for coronavirus

Antifa assaults woman waving American flag

Poll: Plurality voters believe their neighbors voting for Trump

Giuliani: ‘No reason to delay’ second Trump-Biden debate

WHO says 10% of world population may have been infected with virus

AG Barr to self-quarantine for several days out of caution

Maduro hopes that coronavirus makes Trump ‘more human‘

U.S.-Russia arms talks resume today

‘This is insanity, ‘ Doctors slam Trump’s drive to greet supporters outside Walter Reed hospital

Riots start again in Seattle, police say that they were attacked with explosives

Wisconsin poll: Biden 47%, Trump 44%


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Democrats say Republicans will pay price at the polls for confirming Barrett

Pelosi believes coronavirus stimulus deal still possible as Democrats prepare new package

Peaceful protests: Riots continue in Portland overnight, more than a dozen arrested

Biden falsely claims attended historically-black college

Durban: I worry about the outcome of the 2020 election

Barrett confirmation hearings to begin in two weeks

Kim Jong un might be preparing an ‘October surprise’

Maher: Barrett is a ‘f*cking nut’

Polls: Biden remains ahead in Michigan and Wisconsin

Barrett praises conservative Justice Scalia — ‘His judicial philosophy is mine too’

U.S. judge will hold hearing Sunday to decide whether planned TIKTOK ban will take place

Bill Clinton ‘stone cold afraid’ of Hillary ...


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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny out of coma

FAA reviews Boeing Dreamliner quality-control lapses after production problems: WSJ reports

Ilhan Omar endorses riots — calls them an ‘uprising’

Trump trumpets John Kelly aide denial to crush ‘The|Atlantic’ story

Boris Johnson: Britain will move on if there’s no Brexit deal

White House has talked to VA Secretary about taking Pentagon job if Trump fires Esper

Al-Shabab uprising in Somalia injures U.S. service member

Only one-fifth of voters say they would get Covid vaccine ‘as soon as possible’ ...

Trump blasts Harris for trying to damage vaccine push

Mnuchin expects Congress will extend government funding into December

Biden’s amnesty pledge is even worse than you thought

Poll: Trump ‘erases’ Biden’s lead in Texas

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Michigan Secretary of State warns that Election Day could be election week

U.S. considers blacklisting China’s largest chipmaker as tech tensions escalate

Columnist warns that Democrats have ‘no intention of accepting’ a Trump second term

Trump vows to defund schools pushing 1619 project

Too soon for Census Bureau to stop counting, judge rules

Worries grow over K-shaped economic recovery that favors the wealthy

At least 500 riots have occurred throughout the U.S. since the death of George Floyd

Kenosha official: Trump brought help, Biden ‘waste of time’

Harris: ‘We have 2 systems of justice in America’

Labor Day weekend will set the course for the coronavirus this fall

Biden adds Pete Buttigieg, Susan Rice to transition team

Pollster: Big Ten football cancellation ‘most impactful thing’ in 2020 election


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Today’s Poser

How come ‘virtually’ all the speakers at the Democrat Nomination Convention have not touched on our China challenge, the riots in our streets, “redirecting”  police funding, soaring US crime rates, homelessness in blue cities, Middle East peace progress, ISIS destruction, Iran sanctions, the Afghanistan pullout and our military’s rebuilding? All that we have heard is how evil Trump is ... and what a visionary Biden is.  Are none of these other things worth talking about?


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Headlines

‘She is absolutely our No. 1 draft pick’: GOP pines for Rice as Biden VP pick

Private payroll growth slows sharply in July amid spike in virus

Trump suggests DOJ uncovered ‘breathtaking’ evidence  of misconduct in Russian probe

Watch: Democrats refuse to condemn Antifa at Senate hearing

Biden hits back at reporter asking if he took a cognitive test: ‘Are you a junkie?’

Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Largo after sex criminal hit on member’s daughter, book claims

Report: Biden narrowed VP pick down to Kamala Harris and Susan Rice

Charles Hurt: Nadler calls riots ‘myth’ — then blames them on Trump

Missouri votes latest to approve Medicaid expansion

Trump says coronavirus death toll ‘is what it is’ as he insists pandemic is ‘under control’ in U.S.

25% of mail-in ballots in Brooklyn June primaries declared invalid

Trump: I want $600 unemployment benefits to continue

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UK to allow quarantine-free travel with nearly 60 countries — but not the U.S.

Senate Republicans cool to 2nd round of stimulus checks, direct deposits

U.s. Attorney says there are 150 federal cases tied to riots

National parks are latest target of systemic racism claim in America

Judiciary Committee to interview Manhattan federal prosecutor ousted by Barr

Surgeon general stops short of warning people to avoid crowds on Fourth of July

Protesters to storm D.C. over Independence Day weekend

Poll: 7 in 10 ‘angry’ about ‘state of the country’

Florida hits new COVID-19 record ahead of Pence visit

Experts fear the end of eviction moratoriums could plunge thousands of people into homelessness

Texas Gov. Abbott establishes mask mandate for entire state

Poll: Most Liberals say Americans are too lazy to work

Fuzzy-headed Relativity

From reddit Pics

Someone is erroneously conflating two radically different facts to make a false political point ... Derek Chauvin IS being judged ... whereas large, violent, even deadly riots across the nation are being dismissed by this fuzzy-headed protester ... but then what else is new?

(If this is an example of what our world-class higher education system produces, then we need some serious self-examination.)

Headlines

Trauma and gaffes crash Biden’s VP selection process

Trump unloads on governors over George Floyd protests, ‘Most of you are weak’

50 Secret Service agents injured in clashes ...

Black federal officer Patrick Underwood shot and killer in riots

UK would veto Russia’s return to the G-7

Coronavirus updates: Frontier Airlines starts taking passengers’ temperatures, Fauci worries about resurgence

AFL-CIO HQ attacked ...

Donald Trump: Joe Biden supporters bailing anarchists out of jail

Poll: Biden notches 10-point lead over Trump in general election matchup

BET founder Robert Johnson calls for $14 trillion of reparations for slavery

Cop accused of murder on ‘suicide watch’ ...

Nolte: You get what you vote for and in Democrat cities you get riots

Headlines

Tracking the virus may require 300,000 workers. We’re nowhere close

Coronavirus live updates: McDonald’s gives away meals to frontlines, Hertz to lay off 10,000 workers

Iowa sends National Guard troops to meat plants ...

Rashida Tlaib: ‘Corporate greed is the disease us country’

Trump pledges financial aid to oil industry

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently had surgery, could be incapacitated, US officials say

Study: Virus has mutated into 30 different strains ...

Joe Biden: I’d pick Michelle Obama for VP ‘in a heartbeat’

Farm workers to be immune to Trump’s immigration ban

March home sales drop as sellers take properties off the market — and the coming months look worse

Second night of riots in Paris ...

About 4% of L.A. county residents have coronavirus antibodies

Strife

There seems an epidemic of unrest around the world. The globe is aflame with strife against tyrannical regimes. Demonstrations and riots of all types are breaking out all over. To sample these venues, click on the hyperlinks below:

Hong Kong— Fox News Story

Venezuela — CNN Story

London — The Irish Times Story

Barcelona — US News Story

Ecuador — KIVITV Story

Lebanon — AlArabiya Story

Chile — The Guardian Story

The reason for all these altercations? Perhaps plastic straws or climate change?

Riots

In Kiev, Ukraine

The streets of the world are alive with protesters … Ukraine, Venezuela, Thailand, Turkey, Brazil, and even Syria … if you consider a revolution to be a form of protesting. To see comments on the whys and wherefores of the first three insurrections see: CNN Update. And one can easily add to these current uprisings … past riots in Egypt, Iran, Libya, etc. … all within the past five years.

In Caracas, Venezuela

What do many of these mass altercations have in common?  Mostly they are protesting the autocratic and corrupt nature of their current governments; involve large numbers of young people; are spread through the widespread use of cell phones and social media; and have mostly been conveniently ignored by the Obama administration (except for the initial riots in Egypt when we came out in support of the Muslim Brotherhood.)

This U.S. foreign policy posture toward these uprisings … mostly one of respecting the existing government … is possibly the most egregious failing of our State Department over the last century. Had we, during Obama’s reign, assumed a foreign policy position that it was in our national interest to see the movement of other nations’ governments away from tyranny, radicalism and theocracy … toward moderation, modernity, and secularism … we could have easily taken sides in these conflagrations and used our moral suasion to influence outcomes. 

And, I’m reasonably sure that the world would be a lot better off today.

Afterward: For more on the mess in Venezuela see: The Diplomad's learned comments

Morsi Less

The events in the last few days in Egypt could have (and I expect will have) a profound effect on the events of the next few years. The fact that the Obama administration was a clear backer of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood can do nothing to buff their image among the Middle East modernists.  In fact the rioters in Cairo and throughout Egypt recognized this with placards denouncing Obama and our Egyptian Ambassador.

David Brooks has an oped in Friday's NY Times which is pretty much dead on in his assessment of what the events in Egypt presage for the Muslim Brotherhood (see: NY Times Opinion).  Here is an eerie quote from same:

Islamists might be determined enough to run effective opposition movements and committed enough to provide street-level social services.  But they lack the mental equipment to govern.  Once in office, they are always going to centralize power and undermine the democracy that elevated them.

I can only ask ... is Brooksie also trying to tell us something also about the state of affairs in the U.S of A.?  And, for myself, I believe that this resurgent secularism as recently exhibited in Egypt might find willing imitators in Turkey and possibly even Iran.  I hope we can find the courage and the voice to do something this time around.  And, for those in this country who clearly have been embracing the Islamists, you might have some serious backpedaling to do before the 2016 elections (I think you know whom I mean.)