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Today’s Hot Headlines National Enquirer: Jackie O Was a Spy for the CIA! Weekly World News: Global Cooling Threatens Earth! The People’s Cube: Biden Unveils 2020 Slogan—‘Make Depression Great Again!’

Today’s Hot Headlines Reuters: Attorney General Barr Taps Connecticut Prosecutor to Investigate Origins of Mueller Probe MSNBC: Democrats React to Attorney General’s New Inquiry Business Insider: Dow Jones Industrial Average Washington Post: Three People Were Shot Dead with Crossbows. Then Police Found Wills. The Atlantic:   Doris Day Remembered—‘The People’s Actor’ New York Post:   Tiger Woods Burns John Daly with Surprising Cart Complaint U.S. News: Drugs the Top Killer of Pregnant Women, New Moms in Utah Philly.com: With Soda Tax, Beverage Sales Fell 51 Percent in Philly, Study Finds Cleveland Plain Dealer People.com: Tim Conway, Star of Carol Burnett Show, Dies at 85 Hollywood Reporter: Cannes Diary—Time to Roll Out the Red Carpet, But Does Anyone Still Care?

The Finn named Bottas had yet another factory-made pole position. So Hamilton gunned him down at the start. Because Mr. InstaPunk is too pissed off about Europe generally and the UK specifically. Instapunk is sick to death of the snide and snarky treatment shown to the reigning Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton. What the hell is happening with Mercedes and the Brits? The first video for Sunday should have been Lewis Hamilton's amazing hat trick at the Spanish Grand Prix. But MB has shown their Germanic side even though they say they’re a British Team. MB moved one of Lewis’ engineers to the Finn driver, who is and will always be a number 2. MB have feigned struggling to get his car performing right. And God forbid a black man should ever equal the Babe Ruth of Grand Prix racing, Michael Schumacher. Hamilton’s fellow countrymen, the Brits, don't even show up at the races. The British announcers for the race telecasts act like he isn't even there or that what he...

Ronin. Samurai without a master. Typically pagan notion. The Japanese thought they thought it up. Like most things. In the Middle Ages sometime. Which is Ancient History when you’re a Johnny-come-lately to civilization in the first place. This is only a placeholder, a link in a chain. Sunday Video News coming up. When the mood strikes. UPDATE: The mood didn’t strike. Try this instead.

Today’s Hot Headlines The Daily Caller: House Democrats Issue Subpoena for Trump’s Tax Records Daily Signal: Trump Tax Return Case Hinges on IRS Statute, Supreme Court Precedent PJ Media: IG Horowitz concludes Final Three FISA Extensions Were Illegally Obtained, Says diGenova Wall Street Journal: U.S. Steel to Invest $1.2 Billion at Pennsylvania Mills GM Media: General Motors Announces New Manufacturing Jobs Coming to Ohio American Spectator: Brian McNicoll —Why Does Congress Keep Getting Global Warming Wrong? Christian Science Monitor: How First Burkini in SI Swimsuit Issue Is Shaping Gender Debate Breitbart Hollywood: Rob Reiner Warns 24 Dem Canidates Not to Attack One Another in 2020 Primaries Babylon Bee: Brave Pro-Abortion Legislator Challenges Group of Nuns to Fistfight Power Line:  Twilight of the FBI _______________ Ed. Note: If you are a new or occasional visitor here, you might find this link rewarding.

Today’s Hot Headlines NBC News: U.S. Seizes North Korean Ship Suspected of Violating U.N. Sanctions New York Post: Inside the Online Posts of Colorado Shooting Suspect Maya McKinney American Greatness: Only Five Democrats Have a Serious Shot at the Nomination National Review: Victor Davis Hanson—Progressives Face a Bleak Post-Mueller Landscape Leon Wolf/Twitter: To Snopes—“I See You Have ‘Fact-Checked’ Another Obvious Satire at the Babylon Bee…” .  [ bkgd ] The College Fix: TRENDING—Colleges Nationwide Removing Historical Artwork Deemed Offensive .  [ bkgd ] Townhall.com: Trump White House Moves Ahead with Reining in Lower Court Judges Hot Air: Gallup Poll—Less Than Half in U.S. Would Vote for a Socialist for President Reason Magazine: Will Decriminalizing Psilocybin Hasten the End Of the War on Drugs? NBC News: Legalized Marijuana Linked to a Sharp Rise in Car Crashes RealityChek: Were Pre-Trump Trade Policies Really ‘America Last’ Policies? ...

Today’s Hot Headlines The Federalist: Robert Mueller’s 10 Most Egregious Missteps During Anti-Trump Collusion Investigation PJ Media: Clowns Vote to Hold Barr in Contempt Zero Hedge: Trump Winning? China Trade Gap Tumbles to 5-Year Low Business Insider: Dow Jones Industrial Average Rasmussen Reports: Same Old Same Old New York Post: Why Jerry Nadler’s ‘Constitutional Crisis’ Talk Is Pure Bull American Thinker: Do NASA’s Latest Figures Confirm Global Warming? American Spectator: Will Suppression Truthers Depress 2020 Democrat Turnout? Power Line: Not Just Another Google Mistake Breitbart: Parody Clooney PSA Rips Trump and ‘Dumbf*ck Idiots’ Over Climate Change U.K. Telegraph: David Attenborough—‘Humans Are a Plague on Earth’    [ bkgd ]

It’s not a long list. That’s the point. Hardly anyone gets to be on it. Nobody’s on it who isn’t a superhuman human. Actual gods don’t count. Only two of those, deliberately excluded. Shakespeare and Mozart.  End of that list. You want to fight? Tell me why your guy should be on the List. I’ll tell you why he isn’t. First Guy St. John the Divine Italian Guy Dante English Guys Milton Newton Blake Orwell French Guys Voltaire Pascal German Guys Bach Nietzche Jung Spanish Guy Picasso American Guys Poe Bierce

Today’s Hot Headlines Town & Country: Queen Elizabeth Will Meet with New Baby Today The Onion:   Royal Baby Born Business Insider: Dow Jones Industrial Average  [post-baby] New York Post:   Trump Asserts Executive Privilege to Block Release of Mueller Report Babylon Bee: Sanders Campaign to Reach Out to Younger Americans Via Telegraph FrontPageMagazine: Anti-Semitism Is Thriving Among Activists, Not Americans Philly.com: I’m a Mediocre WhiteMan, So I’m Thinking About Joining the 2020 Dem Presidential Field American Thinker: The Democrats and Mass Hysteria American Greatness: Dennis Prager—Why the Left Mocks the Bible Intellectual Takeout: Why Are So Many Female Teachers Sleeping With Students? _______________ Ed. Note: if you are a new or occasional visitor here, you might find this link amusing.

The guy on the left is a maybe. Meaning he’s smarter than the other one. Who’s running? When you get to be an old guy, you start thinking about hair. The facts are pretty daunting. Percentages matter. Age in Years = Percent Chance You are Bald or Balding. For a long time I thought I might be immune. Had that Dorian Gray thing going for me. Until I got to be 60 and saw it was going to be a delusion eclipsed by the laws of probability. My dad had the nickname “Baldy” in college because he had what looked like a receding hairline even back in his salad days. When he died at the age of 77, he still had a full head of hair, much to the chagrin I’m sure of old friends who had parted company with their own locks many years before. Thought I had that particular statistical game beat since I had the same hairline he did. Wrong. It’s all about genes. You get them from mom and dad both. My dad genes said hair to the bitter end. My mom genes said her dad’s hair was equally important. Never ...

Word has reached us of a viciously false post at GOFUNDME dot COM which says: IF I DON’T GET $50 CASH HARD MONEY BY NOON THERE WILL BE NO TODAY’S NEWS AT INSTAPUNK RETURNS TODAY This is not true. Money orders have been coming in addressed to InstaPunk. This is an error. All money shipments of any kind would be valueless if they were not addressed specifically to Robert Laird. So you can see the GoFundMe post is a fraud. The Inspatpunk Times Post will be up later on today Or maybe a little later than that after the official cars outside go away. They showed up and stayed after Mrs. Laird made her first calls upon receipt of this email (reprinted below) from me, and haven’t left since she resigned as my literary agent at 2:46 pm yesterday. It was all a misunderstanding. Everybody stand down, please. But we would both enjoy a meal from McDs sometime today. We’re rich as hell, right, but since they turned off the electric for some reason, we’re not eating right. Can’t see well somehow...

Today's Hot Headlines THE HOT, HOTTER, HOTTEST STORY OF THE DAY: Page Six: Norah O’Donnell to Anchor CBS Evening News Amid Network Drama    [ O’Dingle ] NOW FOR THE REST OF THE BEST OF THE NEWS: Eisenstein: Beating Back Those Sick, Evil Trump Nazis Politico: Democrats Prepare to Hold Barr in Contempt CNN : House Panel Sets Wednesday Vote to Hold Barr in Contempt Washington Post:   House Democrats to Hold Contempt Vote Wednesday New York Times: House Judiciary Committee to Vote Wednesday to Hold Barr in Contempt CBS News: House Judiciary Committee Plans Contempt Hearing for Barr USA Today:: House May Hold Barr in Contempt—What is That Exactly? Merriam Webster: The Exact Right Meaning of Contempt Merriam Webster: The Exactlier Rightier Meaning of Congress’s Idea Oxford English Dictionary: In Search of an Exactliest, Rightiest Definition of Congress William Wallace: Hold! Hold! Hold! _______________ Ed. Note: If you’re a new or ...

Boomlets are to be expected. This one’s just funny. MSNBC, the arbiter of lefty taste and morality, is trying to break the news gently that it’s going to be another white male. If you’re keeping up, they’re defending Joe’s creepiness and ignoring Liz and Kamala and Bernie too. They’ve decided for us that Butti, a.k.a. “Mayor Pete,” is as charismatic and sexy as JFK. I know. Thing is, the gay part isn’t that sexy to most of us, whatever the Dem anchors want to be true, and hardly reassuring about rebuilding the American family (even if Time has been looking hard under the cushions for its Hearst Almanac), and — ahem — there’s a lot more to being a world-changing leader than being the mayor of a pretty economically and culturally stagnant city. Didn’t know that? Well, here’s a remarkably restrained and even gentlemanly takedown of Buttichieks from someone who has at least some skin in the game. Meaning more than being a husband and one more Harvard delusion about being born to be Pre...

Why everyone else should remember Studebaker. They were cool. Cooler than the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The pic above is a lot of implied homework. I haven’t provided dates, etc, on purpose. Aiming you at another IPR post that is intensely relevant to everyone. Figure it out. It was never my favorite. But Raymond Loewy... Look him up. Look all these cars up, years and competitors and stuff. Time people tried the lost art of remembering.

Hot Videos of the Week New York Post: Why Kentucky Derby Disqualified Maximum Security in Stunner CNN:   Plane Skids off Runway into River News Busters: Medley—Blaming Trump for Terror Attack and Paving the Way for Pete and Joe           PLUS:   ABC Can Barely Speak of 50 Year Low in Unemployment Desmoines Register: Elizabeth Warren Campaign Even Disrupted by Animal Rights Protest C-Span:   Senate Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham Reacts to Barr Hearings ABC News: House Judiciary Chair Gives Ultimatum to A.G. Barr, Could Charge with Contempt Breitbart: MSNBC Panel—‘We Can Handcuff People Who Ignore Subpoenas Media Research Center: Tutorial on Media Bias    [ bkgd ] CNN/Van Jones:  Chelsea Handler—Trump Was a Personal Trigger for Me Power Line: This Week in Pictures—Close Down the Barr Edition VIDEO ARCHIVE BONUS: New York Daily News: Inside Old Abandoned City Hall Station _______________ Ed. Not...

Today’s Hot Headlines Philadelphia Inquirer: North Korea Launches Short-Range Missile, South Korea Says New York Post:   Several Hospitalized After Blast at Illinois Silicon Plant Boston Herald: No Deaths as Plane Carrying U.S. Military Crashes into River The Federalist:   NYT Admits Obama Aministration Deployed Multiple Spies Against Trump Campaign Babylon Bee: Dem Senators Solemnly Don Tinfoil Hats Before Questioning Barr on Mueller Report Daily Caller: CNN Commentator Bites Cohen Over KFC Chicken Stunt Townhall.com: It’s Now a Clown Bus—NYC Mayor deBlasio Expected to Announce 2020 Run Next Week American Spectator: George Will Wants to Take a Rest (Will Biden Croon Him a Lullaby?) Intellectual Takeout:   The United States is a Democratic Constitutional Republic and, Yes, It Matters American Greatness:   Jeane Kirpatrick’s Realism — Still Relevant 40 Years Later _______________ Ed. Note: If you are a new or occasional visitor here, ...

I made this image file. I’ve been carrying it around with me for days. It’s like a boil I can’t lance. Something needs to be done with it, said about it. Or not. It hasn’t come to me yet. Starting to hurt.

Guilt by Association? Thomas S. Stephens. There was this post from three years ago . This one caused a big argument between husband and wife here. When this surfaced yesterday, I told my wife I wanted to write about my close friendship with a great-grandson of the Confederacy’s most potent and influential intellectual, still being quoted today. She acted like I needed to move to the next couch. How we’ve all been taught. If you read the linked Cornerstone Speech, you’ll find yourself set back on your heels somewhat. Why libs and sincere Christians don’t ever read it, and why nobody anywhere wants to talk about the Vice President of the Confederacy who made Jefferson Davis look like a bad hair ad even back then. Stephens was a great thinker and fearless advocate. The Tom Stephens I knew was a guy hiding his light under a bushel, though everyone could see he was whip-smart, well read, witty, and a determined fan of both baseball and drag racing. He didn’t want to talk about his great...

Today’s Hot Headlines New York Post: Trump Suggests He Won’t Let Ex-White House Lawyer Testify Before Congress    [ bkgd ] American Spectator:   Bunker Ranting from the Senate’s Democrats Townhall.com: Trump Economy Shrugs Off Shutdown, Growing 3.2% and Defying Media/Dem Pessimism CNN: Trump Approval Rating on the Economy Hits New High Rasmussen Reports: Trump Approval Rating Skyrockets to 51% After Years at 49% Desmoines Register: Joe Biden’s Challenge in Iowa—Standing Out in Crowded, Diverse Field American Thinker: Reefer Madness in Reverse—Happy Talk About Pot           Flashback 1/19: Imprimis—Marijuana, Mental Illness, Violence Daily Caller: Left-Wingers’ Rage Over Another ‘Resurfaced’ Biden Video PJ Media:   Ilhan Omar Says America to Blame for Venezuela’s Problems Babylon Bee: Nation Actually Kinda Proud of Liberals for Finally Being Honest About Abortion Views _______________ Ed. Note: If you’re...

Wiki Says… Buildings are tall And squared and cubed No child of clumsy avalanche But shaped pressed pushed erected arched spired vaulted To force the windows higher. What did Lewis see and when did he see it? What did he see when no one else saw it? Wiki says he wrote two books About a little girl lost In rhymes most girls don't know. Why Wiki views with snarky looks The nonsense king of Jabberwocks. Wiki says Wiki says Wiki wiki wiki wiki knows. Wiki knows its nonsense well Wiki dings its post-modern bell And writes the truth of human hell And rings its echo of the nonsense knell What did Lewis know and when did he know it? What did Lewis know and when did he know it? Wiki says the Nonsense King was a teacher of math And a deacon On the side. You can find it in the footnote Where Lewis is laughing. What did Lewis know when no one was looking? That big doors close with a jolt When the coefficient of maidenly frictions Jams the lock and ...

Today’s Hot Headlines American Greatness: The Real ‘Bombshells’ Are About to Hit Their Targets Washington Times: William Barr Confirms Expanded DOJ Probe of Russia-Clinton Links CNN: Dems Mock Barr No-Show with Empty Chair and Chicken in Escalating War of DOJ v. House Hat Ring for The Hill :             — Clinton Mocks: ‘China, If You’re Listening, Why Don’t You Get Trump’s Tax Returns?’            — Dershowitz: Barr Is Right, Mueller Is Wrong            — Poll: 72 Percent Say Traditional Outlets Report News They Know to Be Fake, False The Federalist:  It’s Getting Difficult to Tell the Difference Between the NYT and Al Jazeera The Jewish Press:  Having Apologized For One Anti-Semitic Cartoon, the NYT Publishes Another Breitbart: New York City Babies Aborted After 21 Weeks Outnumber Homicides in NYC American Thinker: Biden’s First Campaign Rally Raises D...

This is not one of those editorials where “We” tell you who to vote for, what policies to support, who’s lying today, or who to hate and how much. The ‘we’ here is lowercase and not advocating anything but some enhanced appreciation of what’s going on in the media right now and how to see it more clearly. Two things are different from what they were just a few weeks ago. Most importantly, the Democrat campaigns for the 2020 presidential nomination are fully underway and gathering steam. There are twenty of them now, facing a challenge similar to the one the GOP faced in 2016. What does this mean to the consumer of mainstream establishment news media (that is, the MSM)? You’re going to start seeing articles that are critical of individual Democrat candidates. It will be possible to mistake this unusual occurrence for a renewed sense of press objectivity and diligence in the wake of the MSM embarrassments surrounding the Mueller investigation and its anticlimactic report. But tha...

Today’s Hot Headlines Vox.com: Beto O’Rourke Now Has the Most Robust Climate Change Proposal of Any Candidate  [ bkgd ]           Flashback 4/29:   HumansAreFree—All the AGW lies Debunked Politico:   Kamala Harris Elbows Out Rivals as She Courts California Donors The Hill: Dems Raise Prejudice Concerns with Candidate Pledges Against Male Running Mates American Greatness:   It’s Not Trump Derangement Syndrome CNBC:   Private Payrolls Surge by 275,000 In April Jobs Report, Blowing Past Estimates Power Line: Maduro Forces Run Down Protesters New York Post:  Pompeo Says U.S. Prepared to Take Military Action in Venezuela The Federalist: ComicCon Bans Actor Kevin Sorbo Because He’s a Conservative LifeNews: Celebrities Call for Ban on Boiling Lobsters Because They Feel Pain Yahoo News: Australia Plans to Kill Millions of Feral Cats by Airdropping Poisoned Sausages           Flashba...