HMM: Lincoln, Lexus Offering Ultra-Low-Mileage Car Leases.

AS TEAM BIDEN CELEBRATES GOP DEFECTORS, RICHARD SPENCER ENDORSES DEMOCRATS.

MEANINGLESS ANTI-VIRUS PR GESTURE GOES VIRAL: KFC suspending use of ‘Finger Lickin’ Good’ in advertising amid coronavirus pandemic.

MOSTLY PEACEFUL INFERNOS: ‘Like a Scene Out of Hell’: Armed BLM Rioters Loot, Pillage, and Burn Kenosha Following Police Shooting.

MATT MARGOLIS: We Have All The Evidence We Need That Universal Mail-In Voting Would Be a Disaster.

I HAVE A P226, THOUGH NOT THE LEGION MODEL, THAT IS PROBABLY MY FAVORITE HANDGUN: NRA Gun of the Week: SIG Sauer P226 Legion SAO.

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RE-LITIGATING PROPOSITION 209 IN CALIFORNIA: Twenty-four years ago, California voters adopted Proposition 209 by a margin of 55% to 45%. I am proud to have co-chaired that campaign.

Its operative clause, which is now part of the California Constitution, reads as follows:

“The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.”

Proposition 209 thus outlaws race-preferential admissions policies, race- and sex-preferential hiring, and preferences for minority- or women-owned businesses.

The California Legislature has been gunning for it ever since. Proposition 209 supporters have twice beat back repeal efforts. But this year the lockdown made political organizing more difficult. This time our overwhelmingly Democratic legislators managed to place the repeal on the ballot for November. We are fighting back as best as we can. (And twenty-four years later, I am again co-chair of the campaign.)

Loyal Instapundit readers may recall that we had a dress rehearsal for this last year. Washington State voters successfully defeated an effort to repeal I-200 (Washington State’s 209 clone) at the ballot box. It was truly an Election Day miracle and a great tribute to the determination of Asian American grassroots organizations in Washington State (helped out by donations from generous Instapundit readers!).

This time there’s at least as much at stake, so I am asking for help again.

To California Voters: Please vote NO on the repeal effort (Proposition 16). (There are many reasons to vote no, but here some reasons that are less well known.)

To Everyone: Many of you probably have one or more California friends.   Please make sure they know about Proposition 16. If you have a California friend who is tempted to vote in favor of the repeal, please hog tie them and throw them in the cellar until Election Day try to persuade them otherwise. And if you have some extra money, please consider sending it our way. Right now our opposition is much better funded than we are. That’s okay. We don’t need as much money; we have much better grassroots support than they have. But we need more money than we have now. If we lose this referendum, the MSM will treat it as gospel that public opinion has permanently shifted on this issue. There will be no going back.

MY LATEST FOR OUR VIP SUPPORTERS: White House Reveals ‘Aggressive’ 2nd Term Trump Agenda.

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DISNEY CORPORATE DARLING, ATLANTIC JOURNO JEMELE HILL SAYS U.S. IS AS BAD AS NAZI GERMANY.

Flashback: Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg fires Kevin Williamson for “callous and violent” language that ran “contrary to the Atlantic’s tradition of respectful, well-reasoned debate,” telling him that a controversialist like the late Christopher Hitchens “was in the family. You are not.”

Apparently, Hill is very much part of the Atlantic (and Disney/ESPN) “family.”

SCOTT ADAMS: Democrats Have Launched the Most Divisive Campaign in American History.

FLASHBACK: Glacier National Park is removing “glaciers will be gone by 2020” signs.

THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT: Parents have lost control of their children’s education. But one piece of coronavirus fallout is that they’re taking it back.

PROFILES IN COURAGE: Team Biden Grovels To Anti-Semite Linda Sarsour (In Private).

KELLYANNE CONWAY LEAVING WHITE HOUSE AS TEEN DAUGHTER’S SOCIAL MEDIA MELTDOWN WORSENS.

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Portland ‘Back the Blue’ Rally Turns Into Riot When Antifa Shows Up and Starts Assaulting People.

S.G. CHEAH: Why Marxists Frequently Target Women As Their Strategy For Spreading Communism.

THE PRESS AND THE DEMOCRATS — BUT I REPEAT MYSELF — COVER FOR THIS BEHAVIOR BECAUSE THEY SUPPORT IT: “Peaceful” Riots Continue: Portland burns, while the media and the Democrats fiddle. It’s worth asking why.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: ‘Definitely Not A Cult’: There Is Now A Dating App Exclusively For Tesla Owners In Development.

I blame Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

HEH: Trump greets media after DNC: “Good to see you all. Hope you had a great weekend at your convention.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Greg Gutfeld puts on a clinic for how to deal with media trolls who call you racist.

If you work for The Bulwark, you’re just a shill for Democrats anyway. So, you know, a regular member of the media.

WHO? BidenWatch for August 24, 2020. “Biden flogs the Fine People Hoax yet again, wants to lock down the nation yet again, more DNC fallout, and a look at Biden’s foreign policy team in waiting (and how some got paid by China).”

AMELIA HAMILTON: Are we doomed? “750 million mosquitos & 2 hurricanes are coming, but otherwise no.”