More top-notch reporting

Reason: "Churches, Which Account for 0.02% of COVID-19 Cases, Are a 'Major Source' of Infection, The New York Times Says" - "The paper's claim reflects the same arbitrary distinction between religious and secular activities that churches are challenging in court."

Look at awesome me

Reason: "Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Manipulators Are More Likely To Engage in 'Virtuous Victim Signaling,' Says Study."

Virtue signalers are, essentially, phonies and showoffs—folks who adopt opinions and postures solely to garner praise and sympathy or whose good deeds are tainted by their need for everyone to see just how good they are. Combined with a culture that says only victimhood confers a right to comment on certain issues, it's a big factor in online pile-ons and one that certainly contributes to social media platforms being such a bummer sometimes.

In totally unrelated news: "Work begins on massive Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower."

RBG and the wise latina

Hot Air: "SCOTUS Expands Religious-Liberty And Ministerial-Exception Protections In 7-2 Decisions On Little Sisters, Discrimination Claims."

As if I had to check: surprise surprise, the two dissenters were Ginsburg and Sotomayor.  Just like their dissent in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, their inclination is always to force people to do something they don't want to do.

Extra - From Legal Insurrection. 

Doubleplusungood thoughtcrime

Twitchy: "Two Californians charged with hate crime for painting over Black Lives Matter mural on Independence Day." 

Big Brother says: their violence is free speech and your free speech is violence.

Luxury car runs down 2 women in Seattle

Seattle Times: "1 protester dead, 1 injured after man drives into protesters on I-5 in Seattle."

This story has pictures of the two women in the BLM protest.  But when it comes to the responsible party, ABC News wants to make sure you know it was a luxury car.  No mugshots of the driver or the luxury car were provided.

The garbage media again:

"luxury car." you know they discussed how to adjust this narrative when it didn't fit the game plan. Our media is irredeemably evil. and every time i see evidence of it, it's like i'm discovering it for the first time. https://t.co/OnaLFjGVYl

— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) July 5, 2020

Arbitrary destruction

PJ Media: "No, They’re Not Stupid: Why Leftists Destroyed A Statue of an Elk in Portland."

Extra statue news: "Frederick Douglass statue vandalized on anniversary of his famous Rochester speech." 

Happy Fourth of July!

My kids are visiting, I have beer, and there's NASCAR on.

God bless the U.S.A.

Pontificating from the "Hamilton" stage

Federalist: "We Can’t Have ‘National Dialogues’ If People Get Fired For Talking Honestly" - "No one outside conservative media can criticize Black Lives Matter without being fired or ostracized, so how can we expect the average American to chime in for a productive dialogue?"

Celebrate freedom: move to Texas

It's a mystery, you betcha

Hot Air: "WaPo Wonders: Why Did Decades Of Progressive Leadership In Minneapolis Create Even More Inequality?"

Maybe a corollary question might be: why do people keep voting for Democrats in the cities?  Chicago saw 18 people killed last weekend, Detroit famously went bankrupt, crime is soaring in DeBlasio's NYC, and Baltimore just narrowly avoided re-electing the previous mayor who left under fraud charges.  But the Left and this Washington Post reporter always have a ready answer: true progressive policies just haven't been tried hard enough. 

Oh, now we know who the leaker is

Federalist: "Schiff Learned Of Russian ‘Bounty’ Intelligence In February, Withheld Information From Congress, And Took No Action" - "Schiff demands the Trump administration brief all of Congress about the unverified allegations, yet he himself did not ask for a briefing following the February briefing of his own staff." 

You done messed up CHAZ/CHOP

June 20th: "One dead, one in critical condition in early morning shooting at Capitol Hill protest zone known as CHOP."

June 29th: "Latest Seattle CHOP shooting kills 16-year-old boy, critically wounds 14-year-old boy."

Ace: "Mayor Jenny Gets Mad at Antifa Only After They Harass Her at Her Home, and Orders CHOP to be Cleared Out."

Summer of Love cancelled.