ROGER SIMON: Mueller and Trump Prepare for War with America the Loser.

I dunno — in the short term, better DC waging war with itself, rather than against the American people, as the Obama White House did.

INCREDIBLE: Doctors Discover ‘Startling’ Brain Regrowth After Drowned Toddler’s Oxygen Therapy.

TRUMP MAY YET BECOME A TERRIFIC PRESIDENT, Andrew Klavan writes:

In fact, it seems to me — a reluctant Trump voter — President The Donald has done a pretty darn good job so far. Rough-hewn, inexperienced and sometimes too much of a loudmouth for his own and the country’s good, he has nonetheless managed to increase American freedom and productivity while dragging us back from the brink of the Moribund European Socialist Please-Kill-Us-Mohammed anti-Western vision of the last guy who held the office.

Read the whole thing.

THE O.J. TRIAL AND THE CLINTON PRESIDENCY: The O.J. Trial Was a Preview of America Under Trump.

Race loomed large in the O.J. Simpson trial, which came on the heels of the Rodney King saga, and O.J.’s team leveraged black identity politics in much the same way that Trump leveraged white identity politics. The prosecution team, like Hillary Clinton’s campaign, made a logical (if not particularly inspired) argument for why the jurors should take its side in what seemed to most professionals like a slam-dunk case. But the result came down to ethnocultural identification among the decision-makers. And O.J.’s jurors, like Trump’s voters, simply did not feel understood or recognized by the other team. The prosecution’s efforts at tokenism weren’t enough to convince the largely black jury to take the side of a law enforcement regime they viewed with suspicion, just as Hillary Clinton’s tortured working class appeals didn’t persuade white Rust Belt voters that she had their interests at heart. . . .

The most remarked-upon similarity between these two phenomena is the reality-TV quality of the coverage surrounding them. Both Trump and O.J. achieved wall-to-wall, flood-the-zone coverage unlike anything seen before or since. Both did this at a time of flux in the way Americans consumed information—O.J. at the dawn of the age of cable news, and Trump at the dawn of the age of social media. And both employed similar media strategies, with great success. For O.J.’s legal team, as the communications professional Bradley Tusk wrote in a post-election piece comparing it to the O.J. trial, “message and narrative trumped facts and evidence. Style trumped substance. He turned the whole thing into a spectacle, and the media played right along. Punditry, commentary and celebrity overran the process.” The media wanted O.J. to be convicted, just as it wanted Trump to lose, but the 24/7 coverage vortex probably helped both men more than it hurt.

Plus, Alan Dershowitz!

IT’S COME TO THIS: Algebra is not racist, don’t get rid of it. How can it be racist? Wasn’t it invented by Arabs?

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F-35B NIGHT OPS ON THE WASP: This is a fine photo, but I’m beginning to think Navy and Marine photographers are competing among themselves for a “best color effects in night operations” award. (See this dramatic photo of an F-18 carrier take-off snapped in January. Also the mortar illumination photo I linked to yesterday. This USAF night op photo doesn’t have the color splash but could certainly compete in a category like “spooky monochrome.”)

CATHY YOUNG IN THE NEW YORK TIMES: Betsy DeVos Is Right: Sexual Assault Policy Is Broken. “Many complaints by students accused of assault claim anti-male bias in Title IX enforcement. In some cases, that conclusion is difficult to avoid.”

Many colleges offer a hostile educational environment on account of sex where male students are involved. Betsy DeVos should tell them to shape up or lose federal funding.

SCOTT JOHNSON: “As I say — and do forgive me for repeating myself — the shooting of the unarmed and pajama clad healer Justine Damond by Minneapolis police officer Mohamed opens a window onto the sick culture that reigns in Minneapolis. No sooner had idiot Minneapolis mayor Betsy Hodges fired number 22 World Leader Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau than Hodges sought to expound on her deep thoughts for the benefit of her constituents. She is, after all, seeking reelection as the hometown crowd moves ever further to the lunatic left. Hodges is finding it hard to keep up.”

ECOLOGICAL ACTIVISTS KILL THOUSANDS OF MINKS: Once again eco-crazies promote mass slaughter — but with such goody-goody intentions!

MISSING WORDS HERE: “UNDER OATH.” Susan Rice met with Senate Intelligence Committee as part of Russia probe.

Susan Rice met privately with Senate Intelligence Committee investigators on Friday as part of the panel’s investigation into Russia’s election interference.

A spokesperson for Rice confirmed the closed-door meeting, saying the former Obama administration national security adviser “met voluntarily” with the committee as part of its ongoing probe.

Hmm. Meanwhile Jill Stein weighs in:

Plus: Top Dems Slow Rolling Ethics Probe to Delay Investigation Into Obama Leaks.

MARK STEYN: DIVERSITY AND DISINTEGRATION:

A law-abiding unarmed woman makes the mistake of calling 911 and, when the responding officers arrive, they shoot her dead. The American media’s reflex instinct is that this is an out-of-control murderous police-brutality story. To be sure, it’s more helpful if the victim is black or Hispanic, but in this case she is female and an immigrant, albeit from Australia. And certainly Down Under the instinct of the press would also be to play this as an example of a country with a crazy gun culture and the bad things that happen when innocent foreigners make the mistake of going there, even to a peaceable, upscale neighborhood. Or in the shorthand of the Sydney Daily Telegraph front page:

AMERICAN NIGHTMARE

In both Oz and the US, the next stage of the story would be cherchez le cop – lots of reports of a redneck officer with a hair-trigger temper and various personal issues.

But there’s a complicating factor. It’s so complicating that The Washington Post finds itself running a 1,200-word story on the death of Justine Damond without a word about the copper who shot her – nothing about his background, record, habits, behavior. Not even his name.

Because his name is Mohamed Noor. As Tucker Carlson pointed out on Fox News the other night, the reason you know the officer’s identity is significant is because the Post went to all that trouble not to mention it.

As IowaHawk says, “Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.”

UPDATE: Neighbor on Mohammed Noor: “He is extremely nervous … he is a little jumpy … he doesn’t really respect women, the least thing you say to him can set him off.”

Plus: “When they say a policeman shot an Australian lady I thought uh, oh but then when they said who it was I was like, ‘OK.’”

And yet he was promoted to be Minneapolis’s first Somali immigrant cop by a city administration that cared more about his background than his actual qualifications. And note that you have to go to the foreign press to get this kind of reporting.

NO RIOTS, BUT THIS: Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau resigns in wake of Justine Damond shooting.

I OFFER ADVICE TO ERIC HOLDER:

VIDEO: Dem Senator Refuses to Take Back Calling the GOP ‘Evil.’

Sometimes it’s easy to confuse the Stupid Party for the Evil Party.

JOSEPH MCCARTHY SMILES: Former DNI Clapper on Trump: “I sometimes wonder if what he is about is making Russia great again.”

Reminder: Clapper lied to Congress about NSA spying.

IT WOULD EXPLAIN A LOT: Sarah Hoyt: What If We Have Been Invaded By Aliens? “When a culture is invaded and occupied, the first thing the occupiers do is take over the education of children (sometimes by force), the means of disseminating news (there is a reason we joke about invaders taking radio and TV stations first), the cultural life of the country including entertainment. All of these mechanisms are turned to giving the children of the occupied land the idea that their occupiers are in fact redeemers, and that the old culture was not only weaker but objectively worse than that of the occupiers.”

PAUL MIRENGOFF: “I’ve been critical of President Trump today. But few days go by without me being happy he defeated Hillary Clinton. Here’s a reminder of why.”

FUSION GPS ILLUMINATES THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF MANUFACTURED NEWS FOR HIRE:

The news media is dead broke. Print advertising is washed up and all the digital advertising that was supposed to replace lost revenue from print ads and subscribers has been swallowed up by Facebook and Google. But the good news is that people will still pay for stories, and it’s an awful lot easier to bill one customer than invoicing the 1,500 readers of your blog. The top customers for these stories are political operations.

There is no accurate accounting of how many of the stories you read in the news are the fruit of opposition research, because no journalist wants to admit how many of their top “sources” are just information packagers—which is why the blinding success of Fusion GPS is the least-covered media story in America right now. There’s plenty of oppo research on the right, but most of it comes from the left. That’s not because Republicans are more virtuous than Democrats and look for dirt less than their rivals do. Nor conversely is it because Republicans make a richer subject for opposition research because they’re so much more corrupt. Nope, it’s simple arithmetic: Most journalists lean to the left, and so do the majority of career officials who staff the federal government. There are more sounding boards on the left, and more sources. It’s not ideological, it’s business.

Thus, most of Fusion GPS’s contracts seem to come from the left—except for its most famous project, the Russia dossier. Before it was passed on to the Democrats, it started on the right, when one Republican candidate—thought to be Jeb Bush but never confirmed—hired the outfit to amass damning material on Trump. From humble beginnings, it has taken on the shape of a modern-day legend.

Read the whole thing.

Related: Co-founder of firm behind Trump-Russia dossier to plead the Fifth.

I KNEW IT WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE: Millennials’ Sobriety Isn’t What It Seems. “They may smoke less and drink less — which are both indisputably good trends. Instead they are taking more pharmaceutical sedatives—as noted, prescription painkillers and opiates seem to be the Millennial drugs of choice.”

GREAT MOMENTS IN FAKE NEWS:

● Shot: Andrea Mitchell ‘Can’t Think Of’ Showing Any Bias, Maybe ‘Too Aggressive’ on Hillary.

—NewsBusters, yesterday.

● Chaser: Pathetic MSNBC Runs Promo of Hillary Telling Andrea Mitchell She’s ‘My Kind of Woman’; ‘Love you!’

—The Media Research Center, September 15, 2016.

DIY MUSIC UPDATE: Over at the PJ Lifestyle section, I have a review of Omnirax’s Force 32 music or video project studio desk. (Spoiler alert — I’m enjoying it immensely.) Plus some thoughts in general in what to look for in a project studio desk.

UNDER THIS DEFINITION OF PRESIDENTIAL OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, I’m pretty sure that Barack Obama is indictable.