FIXED: Black Li v es Matter.

AUGUST: another month of record gun sales.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

OH, BY THE WAY, PROGRESSIVES, Donald Trump has tied Hillary in a new Investor's Business Daily national poll.

Maybe your days of smug, smarmy, sleazy virtue signalling are about over....

THANKS, MR. PRESIDENT: Minnesota ObamaCare rates to skyrocket by 36% to 67%.

Even for those who do get coverage, deductibles are so high that insurance only ends up covering catastrophic events and routine checkups that would cost just a few hundred dollars at most in a retail market.

Note that we're quickly moving back to what was quaintly called catastrophic health insurance, not health care. And (back then) you didn't have to pay an outrageous premium to get it.

SHIELDS UP! New device promises to ward off unwanted drones.

COFFEE: the Nanny State's latest target.

Among many others....

SANTA CLARA POLICE threaten to boycott 49ers games in wake of Kaepernick controversy.

Don't threaten; do it. Let the boycotts begin.

GO FOR IT, PAUL: Speaker Ryan to reprimand Dems who participated in gun control sit-in. That's the kind of action I want to see from Republicans.

IEEE SPECTRUM: Centimeter-level GPS positioning for cars. It's not as impressive as the headline seems to make it. Read the comments.

AMMO GRRRLL on (mostly) bad habits. If I didn't know better, I'd say she was describing me.

WHY THE DEMOCRATS are fighting the biggest carbon tax in American history. Insufficient opportunity to spend more of Americans' tax dollars.

STUART VARNEY demands on-air apology from ObamaCare architect Zeke Emanuel.

Of course the hind end of the Democrat donkey jackass no only refused to apologize, he chose to blame Republicans.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT: Cow fart regulations approved by California’s Legislature.

The link is not to The Onion.

HILLARY AND DONALD react to Jesus Christ entering the presidential campaign. Personally, I'm with Jazz Shaw in wanting the Sweet Meteor of Death to run.

PUNCHING BACK: A little lawsuit goes a long way. A half-hearted retraction, but nonetheless it'll make 'em think twice about doing it again.

Update: Much more.

"VIRTUE-SIGNALLING IS NO BASIS FOR POLICY, but it’s the only moral compass the EU’s leaders have. Besides, the costs always fall on the little people, not the leaders."

Not just the EU leadership....

In general, virtue signalling is proof that you have none. Prime example: Colin Kaepernick.

IF YOU DON'T THINK the mainstream media is in the tank for Hillary, think again.

Much more here.

HERE'S A THOUGHT: "Low taxes and laissez-faire capitalism don’t provide enough opportunities for graft."

CONSUMERS FOR PAPER OPTIONS: A federal mandate for waste.

A few years ago, my credit union decided to charge me for mailing my monthly statements. Since those monthly statements are tax records, and I keep tax records on paper for many years, I told the credit union that if they chose to charge me, they'd lose a customer forever. They folded.

A year or so later, I began receiving monthly mortgage statements informing me that my next mortgage bill was due in 'X' days. Since the mortgage is automatically paid from my checking account (as was my auto payment at that time), I called to have the paper statements discontinued, since all were automatically paid and showed in the monthly credit union statements I keep for tax purposes.

"Can't do that," I was told. "The federal government now requires us to send out the statements whether or not you need or want them." I also receive a 7-10 page monthly pile of crap from my prescription drug plan - either email or paper, with no option to stop it. Since I refuse to disclose my email address to avoid getting on another thousand email distribution lists, I'm now left having to shred 7-10 pages of garbage that I don't want every month.

This is typical progressivism - punish the innocent to protect the guilty; punish the smart to protect the stupid.

Obviously there are some documents I want; others I do not. Why shouldn't it be my choice?