MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE GWOT: Looks like Donald Trump Might Have Won the War on Terror.

Related: Trump Nominates Decorated Veteran, Foreign Quagmire Skeptic For U.S. Ambassador To Afghanistan.

I’M NOT EVEN SURE WHAT THAT MEANS: 2020 Audi SQ8 Drives like a Discount Lamborghini.

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HERE WE GO AGAIN: The Boston Globe purports to be concerned that African American girls are being disciplined in school more often than white girls. If they’d looked, they probably would’ve also found that white girls are disciplined more often than Asian American girls and that boys are disciplined more often than girls. None of this, however, is proof of discrimination. The Commission on Civil Rights did a poorly reasoned report on this last year. Here is my dissent from that report, which (among other things) discusses the fact that students report their own misconduct at rates that differ by race.

THIS IS CNN: Wow: CNN Hack Gives Netflix CEO Cushy Interview, Completely Avoids Boycott Over Cuties.

“BELIEVE THE SCIENCE” TAKING THE SAME PATH AS “BELIEVE THE WOMEN:” Scientists Concerned Over ‘Data Inconsistencies’ in Russian COVID-19 Vaccine Trial.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BIDEN RIOTS: Kamala Harris: ‘It’s Critically Important’ That Protests Continue.

(Via Ace.)

YES, BUT “FOLLOW THE SCIENCE” IS A GREAT WAY TO SHAME OPPONENTS WHILE AVOIDING RESPONSIBILITY: ‘Follow the Science’ Isn’t a Covid-19 Strategy: Policy makers can follow the same facts to different conclusions.

By the time the “science” is clear, the crisis will be long gone.

UNEXPECTEDLY: CAIR: Muslims Are the Real Victims of 9/11.

TODAY’S INSANITY WRAP LOOKS BACK: Where Were You on 9/11, Where Are We Now?

WHY ARE BLUE CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM? How Racist Policies Fostered Portland’s White Majority.

THEIR APPEAL IS BECOMING MORE SELECTIVE. Super bust: New Gallup poll shows sports industry as popular as…big pharma and the feds.

American sports used to be a safe, non-political harbor for everyone. Today though, not so much: Sports Is For Liberals? Gallup: The Great Awokening of professional athletes has strongly alienated conservatives.

DONALD THE LIGHTWORKER: Trump nominated for second Nobel Peace Prize following Serbia-Kosovo deal.

President Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for a second time this week — this time for brokering a historic peace deal between Serbia and breakaway republic Kosovo.

In a Friday morning tweet, Magnus Jacobsson, a member of the Swedish Parliament, announced he was nominating the Trump administration and the two European nations for their “joint work for peace and economic development, through the cooperation agreement signed in the White House.”

“Trade and communications are important building blocks for peace,” Jacobsson wrote, sharing his letter to the Nobel Committee.

On Wednesday, the president was nominated for the prestigious award by a member of the Norwegian Parliament for helping broker a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

“For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees,” Christian Tybring-Gjedde told Fox News.

Analysis: True.

UPDATE: Breaking: Trump to announce Bahrain joining agreement to normalize relations with Israel? Update: Axios confirms.

Ex-President Droney McDronekiller hardest hit.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Seen on Facebook, a message to Trump-haters: “Imagine believing your feelings are more important than world peace.”

Right? I guess I was just a little ahead of the curve.

THE MEMO’S GONE OUT: Media firefighters and darlings further debase themselves by using 9/11 to score the cheapest of points against Trump. On the other hand, it might not be the message the DNC-MSM intended to make:

THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES AND INDEPENDENT THOUGHT: FIRE’s latest video sneaks some psychological science into a cartoon, so that everyone can understand a fable that’s badly needed in these days when our own emperors are so naked. My 9 and 11 year olds liked and mostly got it – it’s a good one to share with your kids and grandkids.

HMM: NIH Launches Two Trials to Test Blood Thinners in COVID-19 Patients.

THEY’RE GOING TO GIVE TRUMP HIS YELTSIN-ON-A-TANK MOMENT, AREN’T THEY? The Left Is Setting The Stage For A Coup If Trump Wins: Under the guise of planning for right-wing violence if Trump loses, Democrats are gaming out how to steal the election if Trump wins.

If (as I actually doubt) this happens, Trump supporters need to flood Washington and mob the Capitol. Democrats have opened the door for mobs; what comes through it next is their problem.

Related: “At some point during the madness of 2020, one began to find oneself thinking of the fall of Rome and the French and Russian revolutions. At first one brushes away these thoughts; after a time, they seem unavoidable.”

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Responding To Backlash, Netflix Clarifies Its Content Is ‘Mostly Pedophilia-Free.’

Related: The Depraved Sexual Exploitation of Children in Netflix’s Cuties Is Coming to a School Near You—if It Hasn’t Already.

WELL, KRUGMAN: Paul Krugman Gets the Epic Dunking He Deserves After Appalling Series of 9/11 Anniversary Hot Takes.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Joe Biden Did Not Have the Guts to Get Osama bin Laden. “The single best moment of Obama’s presidency was the May 2011 raid into Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden. It only happened because Obama ignored Joe Biden when he said, ‘Mr. President, my suggestion is, don’t go.’ Biden is all too aware that he got the biggest decision of the Obama presidency wrong, which is why he changed his story years later to claim that he had actually supported the raid. That history is important to remember today, on the 19th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, as Biden seeks to become the next commander in chief.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE NFL-SJW: Chiefs Fans Smart To Boo, Texans And Dolphins Smart To Disavow ‘Empty’ BLM Gestures.

A READING LIST FOR AMERICANS ON THE CRISIS IN CIVIL RIGHTS: Here’s an invaluable resource — a continuously updated compilation of authoritative and highly accessible works by conservative and libertarian thinkers on race, police and the welfare state, courtesy of the Independent Institute.

“To advance the public dialogue, Independent Institute Senior Fellow Dr. Williamson M. Evers has created one of the most exhaustive annotated reading lists ever assembled on the issues of civil rights, police reform, race relations, and the welfare state.

“Suitable for use by students and educators seeking material for curricula in the social sciences, criminology, and ethnic studies, the list relies heavily on exemplary but lesser-known scholarship that draws on America’s heritage of individual rights, equality under the law, free markets, and freedom of opportunity. In addition, this resource is designed to be special value for civic and business leaders, policymakers, journalists, and the general public.”

NANCY PELOSI, MASS MURDERER? Shot: Pelosi in August: ‘People will die’ if coronavirus stimulus talks drag into late September.

Chaser, today: Dems Block GOP Covid Aid Package.

HERE’S THE ROADMAP FOR THE POST-ELECTION CHAOS DEMOCRATS PLAN: Julie Kelly, writing at American Greatness, examines the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) done jointly by Democrats and Never-Trumpers. Check out this sample of what she found:

“’A rogue individual destroyed a large number of ballots believed to have supported Biden, leaving Trump a narrow electoral win,’ the group imagined. ‘The Governor of Michigan used this abnormality as justification to send a separate, pro-Biden set of electors to DC.’ Anyone who’s watched Gretchen Whitmer over the past six months knows she will happily defy the law and common decency for attention.”

And over at The Federalist, John Daniel Davidson provides an abundance of additional information on TIP, as well as a detailed look at related groups like the Fight Back Table and the parallels between the pre-election situation of 1860 with today. One piece of advice here: Secession didn’t work then and it won’t work now, either.