GOOD EVENING: The show begins in LA, where Colleague John Yoo comments that POTUS has law and SCOTUS authority for deploying National Guard and Marines and more.

BIG ASTRONOMY: COLLIDING GALAXY CLUSTERS. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM

POTUS: SPACE PREGULATIONS ARRIVE. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM

POTUS: HOOVER SIGNED SMOOT HAWLEY JUNE 1930.

#FRANCE: PLUM TREE RIPENS, SIMON CONSTABLE, OCCITANIE

BIOWAR: SMUGGLERS FROM THE PRC. BRANDON WEIGHERT, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL

CCP: XI JINPING IN ECLIPSE.CHARLES BURTON,@GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL

USAF: WHAT ABOUT DRONE ATTACKS? GENERAL BLAINE HOLT USAF (RET)., @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL

PRC: NEEDS A TRADE DEAL. ANDREW COLLIER, @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL

2/2: AFRICA: ISIS IN UGANDA AND CONGO, CALEB WEISS, BILL ROGGIO, FDD.

1/2: AFRICA: ISIS IN UGANDA AND CONGO, CALEB WEISS, BILL ROGGIO, FDD.

2/2: IRAN; SUSPECT NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM, ANDREA STRICKER, FDD

1/2: IRAN; SUSPECT NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM, ANDREA STRICKER, FDD

TURKEY: THE KREMLIN MODEL. SINAN CIDDI.

TURKEY: ERDOGAN'S SYRIA PROJECT. SINAN CIDDI, FDD

SCOTUS: AND THE ABA.JOHN YOO, CIVITAS INSTITUTE.

LA: POTUS AND SCOTUS DETERMINATIVE AUTHORITY. JOHN YOO, CIVITAS INSTITUTE.

PREVIEW: Colleague Caleb Weiss from Africa for FDD reports on the ISIS and al-Qaeda assaults on Uganda and Somalia. More later.

PREVIEW: Colleague Bob Zimmerman reports succinctly on the failure of the generously subsidized ESA to test a Grasshopper booster after years of delays.

PREVIEW: Colleague Charles Burton comments on the strange blandness of Xi Jinping's recent public conduct and why this may signal Xi's "eclipse." More.