25 YEARS AGO TODAY: Quote of the 1990s? ‘If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit,’ 25 years on.

WELL, GOOD: Routine blood test may identify patients at risk for severe COVID-19. “The analysis revealed that patients with red cell distribution width, or RDW, above the normal range were nearly three times as likely to die from the disease, the data showed.”

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Democrats Prepare To Give Republicans Free Ad Footage Of Them Attacking Successful, Religious Mother Of Seven.

FORMER STUDENTS: Amy Coney Barrett was our professor. She’ll serve America as well as she served her students.

QUESTION ASKED: Did These Two Conservative Groups Crack the Code on How to Get Off the SPLC ‘Hate Group’ List?

ROGER KIMBALL: Barrett Will Sail. “The Left is going to find Amy Coney Barrett a tough nut to attack. She is smart, pleasant, and competent. Her personal history is an open book of service and commitment.”

ROGER SIMON: Basta! Time to Dismantle the FBI.

Fox’s Sean Hannity—Lord love him—has long been in the forefront of the fight to expose the Trump-Russia probe which, we learn increasingly virtually every day, was even more immoral, seditious, and anti-American than we had imagined.

Most recently, it has been revealed the sub-source for the Steele Dossier—the guy Christopher Steele relied upon for his vile lies—had already been investigated by the FBI as, of all things, a Russian agent, making the Dossier itself likely deliberate Russian disinformation that was accepted by the FBI anyway because… well… by any means necessary. (The shameless liars at Mueller’s operation claimed the Russians favored Trump, which is ludicrous given this revelation plus the content of the Dossier.)

It’s amazing it took three years for us to learn this.

But Sean H. evidently made one, I regret to say serious, mistake, probably because he’s basically a nice guy from a law enforcement family. He insisted all along that the problems in the FBI were only at the top, the so-called “Seventh Floor,” the domain of Comey, Strzok, McCabe, and the others.

Unfortunately, no. Also just revealed after three years are 302s (near-contemporaneous notes made after an interview) and texts that show lower-ranking FBI agents too were aware of the malfeasances that were occurring in the early stages of the Michael Flynn case.

In fact these agents were so alarmed they were considering professional liability insurance lest they be sued for the dishonest—one could even say treasonous— activities in which they were being forced to participate.

Frankly, I never imagined a FBI agent could even buy such insurance. The implications are unpatriotic on their face. But live and learn.

Related: ‘Get Trump’: FBI Whistleblower On Mueller Team Details Real Reason Flynn Was Targeted.

OBVIOUSLY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NEEDS TO LOOK AT CUTTING OFF FUNDING FOR ITHACA COLLEGE AND STUDENT LOANS FOR STUDENTS ATTENDING THIS RACIST, HATE-FILLED INSTITUTION: Ithaca College theatre students threaten to out ‘white supremacist’ faculty.

HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? Vice Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris Names 2Pac as the ‘Best Rapper Alive.’

People are once again asking: Does Kamala Harris actually know who 2Pac is?

During the NAACP’s virtual convention Friday, the vice presidential nominee was asked who she believed was the “best rapper alive.”

“2Pac,” Harris said. CNN commentator Angela Rye, who moderated the event, quickly corrected the California senator, reminding her Pac has been dead for over two decades. “He’s not alive! You said, ‘He lives on…,’ Rye responded.

“I keep doing that,” Harris said with laugh. “Listen, West Coast girls think 2Pac lives on. I’m with you,” Rye added. “So 2Pac, keep going.”

As Mark Steyn writes, pandering to pop culture has a tendency to backfire on leftists:

Tucker and I started with Joe Biden playing “Despacito” on his cellphone to an Hispanic audience and then mulled more generally the desperate relationship between politicians and pop stars over recent decades:

The incident Steyn called ‘the gold standard’ of pandering was a 1998 encounter between Gore and grunge artist Courtney Love in which the Tennessee Democrat claimed to be a ‘big fan’ of hers.

To her credit, Courtney, the founder and lead singer of Hole, was having none of it. “Yeah, right,” she sneered. “Name a song.”

As any campaign consultant can tell you, the Politician’s First Rule of Holes is: When you’re in one, stop digging. Al Gore introduced us to a Second Rule: When you’re with one, stop pretending to dig her.

Heh, indeed.™

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Biden Claims He Was Elected to the Senate ‘180 Years Ago.’

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Frequent guest at leading universities says that ‘violence is the only way’ to support BLM. Student activity fees, laundered into speaking fees for lefty speakers, are an important part of the leftist ecosystem.

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CALIFORNIA SCHEMING: Berkeley just banned candy from supermarket checkout aisles.

JOIN? I THINK THEY’VE BEEN MEMBERS ALL ALONG: NY Times News Columns Join Anti-Trump Resistance.

SALENA ZITO: Top Republican in Pennsylvania Senate shoots down ‘false’ theory that legislature would rig Electoral College for Trump.

COCAINE MITCH BETTER BRING HIS “A” GAME: Democrats plan to delay, delay, delay.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Didn’t Understand Her Job:

Justice Ginsburg’s using her position to try to impose a feminist vision on federal policy ought to be recognized for what it was: an abuse of power. If you want to rewrite the law along feminist lines, that’s a perfectly honorable project — run for Congress.

The real fissure running through the Supreme Court is not between so-called liberals and notional conservatives, but between those who believe that judges are superlegislators empowered to impose their own vision on society and those who believe that judges are constrained by what the law actually says. The latter is the position of the Federalist Society and many lawyers associated with it, and that this position — that the law says what it says, not what people with power wish for it to say — should be controversial is an excellent indicator of why faith in our institutions has eroded so deeply. “If Republicans give Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat to some Federalist Society fanatic, Democrats should pack the court,” reads the line over Michelle Goldberg’s New York Times column. Read that and ask yourself who the fanatic really is.

(And: Whose seat?)

To be fair, some of her most diehard groupies didn’t understand their jobs, either: “Paul Farhi, a media critic for the Washington Post, says that Justice Ginsburg’s close friendship with NPR’s long time Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg raises questions of journalism ethics. Farhi notes that Ginsburg and Totenberg became friends in the 1970s. They shared dinners and celebrations, and Ginsburg presided over Totenberg’s wedding to her second husband. The question is whether Totenberg therefore was in a position fairly to cover Ginsburg’s work on the Supreme Court. Another question is whether, at a minimum, Totenberg should have disclosed the relationship to her audience.”

TIME FOR ANOTHER PEACE PRIZE NOMINATION? North Korea Has Agreed to Denuclearization. Could Donald Trump Achieve Success?

AMY ALKON: L.A.’s Failed Homeless Policies Turned My Home Into a Prison.

Since our criminal and his girlfriend were off somewhere on his bike, I worried that the police would see the van sitting there, with no voices or sounds coming from it, and they’d just leave. At the one-hour mark, I darted out and left a magic-markered note on the van windshield: “Officers, please call resident. Phone # left w/Dispatch.” But before the officers arrived, the couple roared back on the bike. I watched from indoors as they crumpled up my pathetic note, laughed and threw it in the gutter, and roared off again.

An hour and a half after I’d called 911, officers arrived. And it was then—noon, on Thursday, August 20th that I had an upsetting revelation: We citizens can no longer rely on the police to show up. And then the thought hit me: I need to get a gun.

You’ve got to love the irony. It’s the Democrats who push for gun control, yet it’s the Democrats in power in my city who are leaving me with no choice but to arm myself.

The truth is I shouldn’t have a gun. I’m a boob when I’m afraid. I lose all mental and physical capacity. I know, if you get a gun, you’re supposed to practice at a gun range regularly, and I would. Still, in a heated situation, I have my doubts that I could even find the “safety,” a term I know only from watching TV and movie crime dramas.

Read the whole thing.

BEHIND RUTH BADER GINSBURG STOOD AN EXTRAORDINARY MAN: May Every Woman Find Her Marty Ginsburg.