| Here's what is popular in the TWS Newsroom today, other than our refreshed website design: A note about our emails: We are making some changes to our email delivery platform during the month of August and you may experience some disruption in delivery. In order to limit disruption and to help us reach your inbox, you can learn how to “white list” our newsletter email address (news@pub.weeklystandard.com) with your inbox provider by visiting howtowhitelist.com. Daily Caller: Conservative provocateur pushes theory her tires were slashed. It falls apart when a mechanic suggested here tires were overly worn and probably blew out. Whatcha doing, Boeing? Oh, not much. Just flying our newest plane across America for 18 hours straight drawing the outline of our new plane. Free Beacon: Seattle spends more defending gun tax lawsuit than gun tax actually collects. BBC: The ghostly radio station that nobody claims to run is probably a Russian doomsday dead hand signal. (Listen to it here.) WEX: Main Justice ready to crack down on leaks. reason: Federal judge rules unlicensed dogs aren't protected by the fourth amendment, but are actually contraband. WSJ: Mueller empanels a grand jury for his special counsel probe. WaPo: The protectionist racket. Please feel free to send us comments, thoughts and links to dailystandard@weeklystandard.com. -30- | 
