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The Supremes end the ban on public money for religious schools.

Dallas News: On July 1, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) went into effect, fulfilling one of President Donald Trump’s earliest promises. That promise was to throw out the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),...

Lighthizer: President Donald Trump was elected in part on his promise to change the direction of U.S. trade policy so it would put America first. He has kept that promise with new trade agreements...

Sonny Perdue talks big win of U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement — kick-off date today, July 1st.

From The Hill: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Monday said House lawmakers who wish to vote remotely due to the pandemic can do so through mid-August, extending a deadline that was set to expire Saturday. Pelosi...

From The Daily Caller: The American Academy of Pediatrics issued guidance on Thursday urging school systems across the country to have students physically present in schools at the start of the upcoming academic year...

Heads of the Cleveland Clinic and the Mayo Clinic on how fear of the Coronavirus is killing people.

BBC on the new version of swine flu with pandemic potential: A new strain of flu that has the potential to become a pandemic has been identified in China by scientists. It emerged recently...

General Flynn in the Western Journal: I was once told if we’re not careful, 2 percent of the passionate will control 98 percent of the indifferent 100 percent of the time. The more I’ve...

Reuters: It’s a cash cliff millions of Americans face this summer as the emergency benefits — which lifted U.S. consumer incomes by a record 10.8% in April — expire. The loss of that safety...

From the Laredo Morning Times: When the first coronavirus cases in Chicago appeared in January, they bore the same genetic signatures as a germ that emerged in China weeks before. But as Egon Ozer,...

Like Coca-Cola, Starbucks taps out on hate-filled social media, from CNBC: Starbucks is the latest company to say it will pause advertising on “all social media platforms” and promises to have discussions internally and...

Does anyone care enough to do something different?

The people who believe they can stop being infected should really just stop, sooner or later, the virus will infect everyone. This, from the Houston Chronicle: It was the Thursday night before Memorial Day...

From The New York Post: Shootings across the city more than doubled last week compared to the same period last year, according to police sources. From last Monday to midnight Sunday, there were 63...

Atlanta Journal-Constitution op-ed: Then there’s this: Many cops have taken a more hands-off approach to policing following the arrests of six officers for using Tasers on two college students this month, and the arrests...

From FOX NEWS: “a lot of our elders have been bought off by the Democratic Party establishment.”  

From The Hill: Democrats are stepping up talks about reforming or abolishing the filibuster if they win back the Senate and White House in November. The renewed discussions are being spurred by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.),...

Interlandi: The coronavirus pandemic is exposing a central flaw in America’s health care system.

Poll: Nearly 40% of Voters Believe Biden Is Suffering From Dementiahttps://t.co/DF07xq7iN0 — Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) June 29, 2020

Alex Berernson in the NY Post: Early in the epidemic, public-health experts feared the virus might kill up to 2 percent of those infected, potentially causing millions of deaths in the United States and...

From Detroit News.

From CNN Newsource via the DenverChannel7 Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Sunday that even if a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, it still may not yield herd immunity. In an interview with the Aspen Institute on...

Dr. Faucci says anti-vaccers could prevent herd immunity: from The Washington Examiner.

From The New York Times: The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. voting with the court’s four-member liberal wing but not adopting its reasoning. The chief justice said...

Fact Check: True https://t.co/m6rZp13xuw — Dean Clancy (@DeanClancy) June 29, 2020

The implications are profound, if true.

By Avik Roy.

From The Washington Times.

From The New York Times: In the six most important battleground states, voters’ professed indifference to race was even stronger. Nine in 10 registered voters in those states said race should not be a...

From The New York Times: A federal judge has upheld a Trump administration policy that requires hospitals and health insurers to publish their negotiated prices for health services, numbers that are typically kept secret....

See Dr. Blase’s paper here.

From FOX NEWS.

From Just the News.

From The Washington Times: In this modern Bonfire of Inanities, ignorance reigns supreme. Which is one of the big problems with mob “justice,” a painful lesson we history students here in America learned a...

From CNBC: The number of active mortgage forbearance plans rose by 79,000 in the past week, erasing roughly half of the improvement seen since the peak of May 22. Increases happened every day for...

From Axios: The debate over reparations for slavery has moved from the political realm to the corporate one. At least two big British companies — insurer Lloyd’s of London and brewer Greene King —...

From HuffPo: The Trump administration filed a brief Thursday night calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate the Affordable Care Act — which allows millions of Americans to get health insurance coverage —...

Associated Press: In 2019, a little under 40% of the total U.S. population was either nonwhite or Hispanic. Non-Hispanic whites are expected to be a minority of the U.S. population in about 25 years....

From New Discourses.

From The Hill: Nearly 1.5 million U.S. workers filed new applications for unemployment benefits in the third week of June despite easing coronavirus-related restrictions, according to data released Thursday by the Labor Department. In...

From Just the News.

From CNN and The Washington Examiner.

Keohan in Benefits Pro.

From The New York Times: Dr. Sabin gave his three strains of attenuated virus to a married pair of virologists in the Soviet Union, Dr. Mikhail Chumakov, the founder of a polio research institute...

From The Hill.

From the Miami Herald: Officials said Miami-Dade had a staggering positivity rate on Monday of 25.9%. That means one out of four tested are positive for the coronavirus, which is why enforcement is essential....

By Jonathan Turley: The spectrum of action from universities seems to range from deafening silence to cringing compliance in the face of such destruction.  What is being lost is more than public art.  We...

John Kass in The Chicago Tribune. The toddler was killed in Chicago’s street gang wars, one of more than 100 people shot over the weekend in the city, with 12 of those shot younger...

Tucker on UFOs.

From CNBC.

From The Federalist.

AFP via Yahoo News: Washington (AFP) – The US Senate intelligence committee is aiming to regulate a Pentagon UFO program so that the public is better informed of its activities and the country’s intelligence...

From GIZMODO.

From the Chicago Tribune.  

Italian asymptomatic/symptomatic study of COVID-19: Findings: “73.9% of all infected individuals aged less than 60 years did not develop symptoms (95% confidence interval: 71.8-75.9%). The risk of symptoms increased with age. 6.6% of infected...

From Hot Air: It’s extremely on-brand for America 2020 that wokesters would get bored with “Black Lives Matter” just as the idea’s gaining acceptance and proceed immediately to “Crucify White Jesus.”

From Newsweek: Former MLB star Curt Schilling has compared the incident involving NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace to the case that saw actor Jussie Smollett admit he had staged a racial attack. On Tuesday, the FBI...

From The Spectator: So now they have come for Teddy Roosevelt. The large bronze statue of TR on horseback, flanked by a black man and an American Indian, will be removed from the spot...

From The New York Post: Lincoln County, Oregon, has exempted non-white people from a new order requiring that face coverings be worn in public — to prevent racial profiling. Health officials announced last week residents must...

Morgan in the Daily Mail: somehow, unbelievably, Trump’s opponents are once again doing everything in their power to wrestle another defeat from the jaws of seemingly inevitable victory. If you were scripting an escape...

The pioneer, Rothman.

From The Hill: Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) signaled on Tuesday that Democrats are prepared to block a GOP police reform bill. Schumer, speaking from the Senate floor, sent his strongest warning yet that the...

From American Thinker: The Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) has recently formally endorsed the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign which has been recognized by a variety of leading Jewish groups as serving as...

The Daily Wire: The apparent vandalism of the fountain comes as rioters have destroyed monuments across the nation in recent days, including statues of three former U.S. Presidents: Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Thomas...

From The Sun, UK: King – a civil rights activist, podcast host and writer – has said he believes certain statues of Jesus should be torn down, too. “Yes, I think the statues of the white European...

From CNBC.

Trump backs more stimulus checks.

Minneapolis violence spikes in aftermath of 185 buildings being burned to the ground. From The Star Tribune.

New York Mag: But all the way up through the beginning of the protests, and even after, America’s jury-rigged, Rube Goldberg health-messaging apparatus (epidemiologists, local public-health officials, civic-minded journalists, improvising and coordinating guidance in...

WRAL: “We can say that 10 to 20 times the number of people who have an identified case have antibodies to the infection,” he said. A person develops the antibody to coronavirus one to...

From The Federalist: We’re told the second wave of coronavirus infections is coming. As businesses open back up and states relax lockdown orders, the number of new cases is ticking up in a handful...

From the WSJ Editorial Board: “In the presence of strong groupthink and bandwagon effects, modelers may consciously fit their predictions to what is the dominant thinking and expectations—or they may be forced to do...

From The Seattle Times: Late Saturday, the department released security video from cameras overlooking Cal Anderson Park that recorded a rapid volley of gunfire, and then people running. The roughly six-block area has been...

From The New York Post: SEATTLE — On June 8, Seattle police frantically loaded what they could from the east precinct onto trucks and cars. Within hours, they boarded up and abandoned the station....

From The Jersusalem Post: New videos of the “ninja” weapon have been released showing three recovered versions of it. The weapons that were recovered have letters and numbers on them and say AGM R9X....

From BBC: An X-Ray map of the Universe  

From The San Francisco Chronicle: TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music groups claimed to have registered potentially hundreds of thousands of tickets for Trump’s rally as a prank. After @TeamTrump tweeted asking...

From The Houston Chronicle: The discovery of antibodies that block the most infectious elements of the coronavirus is helping Bay Area scientists unlock the many mysteries of human immunity, and could be crucial in...

Trump is not trusted by voters on race relations and coronavirus, making him a severe underdog.

Dems concerned about the state of the Colorado Senate race, from Politico: Colorado is a must-win state for Democrats as they attempt to seize control of the chamber in this fall’s elections. Democrats hope...

Via Reuters.

Simplecast.

Via The Federalist.

From the NY Post: On the fourth anniversary of his death, Muhammad Ali’s only biological son says that his father would be against Black Lives Matter, calling the movement “racist” and the protesters “devils.”...

From The Washington Examiner: Nearly three-fourths of Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department said in a poll that they are considering leaving the force amid a police reform bill recently passed by the D.C. Council. The proposal...

From the BBC.

Michael E. Hammond in American Thinker.

From MarketWatch.

Found in Barrons, here.

New owners would explain the great changes in the site.

Gallup and West Health Survey did the poll, as reported by the Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence says the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic is “a cause for celebration,”...

From The Hill.

From CNBC: The Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump on Thursday in a set of cases over his effort to end the Obama-era immigration program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or...

From Reuters, three years ago.

From FOX BUSINESS.