WELL, AS A MATTER OF FACT, YES: Is the rise in COVID cases a result of the BLM protests? (Click on the image to expand.)

GOV. RALPH NORTHAM [D(umb)-VA] asks Virginians to report churches, gun ranges that violate COVID restrictions. When I lived there a few years back, the state motto was 'Virginia is for Lovers'. I see it's been changed to 'Virginia is for Snitches'.

WHAT IS YOUR BREAKING POINT IN TOLERANCE FOR THE 'WOKE CULTURE? Two closely related essays.

Mine occurred decades ago with the birth of the autocratic government's Safety Nanny.

DAILY CALLER: The people in Seattle are getting sick of the autonomous zone.

Instapundit comments.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for June 26, 2020:

It looks like there is a bit of cheating going on to (spike) up the coronavirus death rate. The Covid Tracking website last night posted a 2,500 increase in daily deaths; the Coronavirus Dashboard just posted today a daily death toll of 2,580.

For the last 14 days the daily deaths have been steadily dropping; (via the Coronavirus Dashboard) from 515 on the 13th to 493 yesterday with only two spikes of just over 1,000. There is no indication which state/territory generated that sudden spike, but my money is on one or more of the top five: New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. The southern states that have already reopened are all showing increases, but even in sum do not begin to approach a tenth of that number.

Despite the sudden spike, the cumulative deaths curve is still trying to flatten, and the death rate curve is still maintaining its downward trend. The death rate has maintained its downward trend to 0.0903% and my estimate of the percentage of Americans still uninfected has dropped again to 57.276%.

In Georgia, the sharp spike in new cases, roughly 1,800/day continues, but deaths are way down -- the rolling average is continuing its downward trend.

My previous report is here.

STATES ARE CUTTING UNIVERSITY BUDGETS. Taxpayers aren't interested in funding campus kooks.

Related: Funding cuts may not help public education, but they sure won't hurt it.

JOURNALISTS ABANDONING ‘OBJECTIVITY’ FOR ‘MORAL CLARITY’ really just want to call people immoral.

'Moral Clarity' is the woke Left's latest euphemism for bullying.

LOS ANGELES TIMES: It's not enough to be colorblind.

Here's what one of PowerLine's readers had to say:

Listen up!

Every one of you arrogant, self-important, entitled, over-rated jerks should get down on your knees every day and thank your lucky stars for the position of privilege you hold. Yes, privilege. It’s not a right. For every one of you a**holes there are at least a hundred more than qualified replacements of every race, creed, ethnicity and sexual orientation who would kill to have the opportunity you enjoy. You all can be replaced in a heartbeat with equally, if not more, qualified staff who would also have an attitude of gratitude for the opportunity.

So here’s the bottom line. If you don’t like it here, there is the door. We’ll be sad to see you go because we chose you for these positions of privilege. And we did so on the basis of hiring the best we could–irrespective of race, etc. We intend to continue doing so. We are not trying to nor will we have “goals,” “timetables” or any other double talk equating to set asides for government sponsored minorities. We value excellence and that’s what we recruit for.

If you don’t like it and have a bad attitude then get out now ... and don’t let the door slam your ass on the way out.

Any questions?

Competence is no longer a hiring criterion; crazy is....

I KEPT TELLING YOU: Closing the insane asylums was a bad idea.

LET THERE BE VIOLENCE: U.S. Marshals told to ‘immediately prepare’ to defend national monuments.

With extreme prejudice. To the attackers.

I’M TIRED OF TAXPAYER-FUNDED APPARATCHIKS claiming authority to say what “our values” are and demanding that everyone abide by them.

Fire them. Fire them all. And if we can't fire them, then defund them -- every damn dime penny.

I'M GLAD I DON'T LIVE THERE ANY MORE: Austin City Council votes unanimously to partially defund police.

ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE, George Floyd unrest, pandemic fueling Minnesota gun sales surge.

SURELY YOU JEST: Students demand segregated ‘Black House’ so they can ‘feel included.’

Unfortunately, no.

IT’S TIME to cancel the statue-toppling morons. I think the Moron Movement will be pretty much self-canceling after the November election, but I have no problem giving them an extra push as they exit the stage (left).

GOOD COVID-19 NEWS: Death rates are falling, and may be even smaller than they seem.

I've been saying this for weeks, and it appears that even I've not been skeptical enough.

BUSINESSES SUE Seattle over ‘occupied’ protest zone.

From what I've been reading, it appears unlikely that they will win, but just suing may cause the ruling apparatchiks to think twice before allowing the protests to get violent.

CANCEL THEM ALL: The hollowness of virtue signaling.

YES, I noticed.

MINNESOTA NICE? No, Minneapolis crazy.

More from Fox News here.

THIS IS WHAT A DOMESTIC TERRORIST SOUNDS LIKE: Black Lives Matter leader states if US ‘doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system.’