HOW CAN WE MISS HIM IF HE WON’T GO AWAY? ‘Everything Is on the Line’: Obama Wades Into California Recall Election.

WHITE HOUSE TO WITHDRAW BIDEN’S PRO-GUN CONTROL ATF NOMINEE DAVID CHIPMAN AMID BIPARTISAN PUSHBACK.

The White House is reportedly planning to withdraw David Chipman’s nomination to head up the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) amid pushback from Republicans and uncertain support among Democrats.

President Joe Biden’s pick has been marred with issues, including pushing questionable claims about the Waco operation on a Reddit thread in an effort to back restrictions against “so-called assault rifles,” as the Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported. He also allegedly made a racist comment about black ATF agents.

Chipman backed various gun control measures on that Reddit thread and was described by CNN as a “fierce advocate for gun control.” He is currently a senior policy advisor at the gun control group Giffords. The Washington Post and Politico both reported that the administration plans to withdraw Chipman’s nomination.

Related: Watchdog Group Sues For Records Relating To Derogatory Comments Biden’s ATF Pick Allegedly Made Against Black Agents. “American Accountability Foundation President Tom Jones said he spoke with a former ATF agent who said he personally witnessed the nominee, David Chipman, making the derogatory comment in 2007 after reviewing the results of candidates taking an assessment to become an Assistant Special Agent in Charge. Jones said the former ATF agent recalled Chipman saying: ‘Wow, there were an unusually large number of African American agents that passed the exam this time. They must have been cheating.’”

UPDATE: White House Pulls ATF Nominee After Exclusive Reporting From The Reload Raises Character Questions.

More: Six Controversies that Sank David Chipman’s ATF Nomination.

OH: Americans Turned Away From Hospital As Afghan Refugees Take Priority.

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE AND THE RACISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Elder Egg Attack! Nasty Gorilla-Mask Wearing Woman Hurls Food, Obscenities at GOP Candidate.

HE LIED:

SCIENCE! Stanford bans indoors parties for its 95 percent vaccinated student body.

MORE LIKE 50 SHADES OF JIMMY: Shades of Jimmy Carter: Dems Fret Over Biden’s Growing Unpopularity.

FIGHT THE POWER, STICK IT TO THE MAN: Federal court rules in favor of campus conservatives’ lawsuit.

WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT REPORTS? Pro-China misinformation operation attempting to exploit US Covid divisions, report says.

MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA: Singapore confronts China.

BIDEN, BLINKEN AND PSAKI WORD GAMES IN LIEU OF ACTION AND ACCOUNTABILITY: At the bottom line:

We confront our appalling moment: Biden and Blinken’s leadership failures and the State Department’s ineptitude have created a prolonged hostage situation. The failures and ineptitude also spurred the chaos that led to the deaths of 13 U.S. military personnel.

Read the entire essay.

THAT’S $68K PER REFUGEE: Biden’s Handlers Want You to Cough Up $6.4 Billion to Resettle 94,000 Afghans in the U.S.

CHANGE: University Of Arkansas Chancellor Removes President Clinton’s Name From Endowed Professorship At Law School.

Now address the retaliation against the professors who made an issue of this.

MAYBE ONE OF ELON’S PEOPLE CAN SHIP IT BACK BEFORE THEN: NASA has collected its first Mars sample. But it needs $4 billion, 10 years, and new technology to bring the rock to Earth.

YES: If vax passports are OK, then so is requiring voter ID.

REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: Introducing RealClearInvestigations’ New Jan. 6-BLM Dataset.

Republicans, Trump supporters, and others see a double standard at play in Democrats’ emphasis on Jan. 6. They note that many Democrats cheered nationwide protests and some even put up bail after the May 2020 murder of George Floyd, a black man, by a white police officer — prolonged unrest that generated far more death and destruction. They argue that groups associated with the summer’s violence, such as Black Lives Matter and Antifa, themselves aim to subvert democracy, and acted accordingly in targeting cops, public offices, and private businesses.

The electorate itself is divided, but doesn’t necessarily view this issue as an either/or choice. Polling shows that a large majority of Americans support the idea of examining the causes of both the 2020 summer riots in America’s cities and the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

It is clear, then, that many Americans see two sides to this story. In keeping with its mission to fill gaps in press coverage, RealClearInvestigations is launching a running compendium of data, with hyperlinked sourcing, comparing the damage done on Jan. 6, and the subsequent treatment of those accused of perpetrating it, with two other recent events: the summer 2020 riots and – in some ways a closer analogy – the all-but-forgotten riot in Washington on Inauguration Day 2017, as protesters challenged Donald Trump’s election and legitimacy much as Jan. 6 rioters challenged Joe Biden’s. . . .

RealClearInvestigations has found that:

The summer 2020 riots resulted in some 15 times more injured police officers, 30 times as many arrests, and estimated damages in dollar terms up to 1,300 times more costly than those of the Capitol riot. George Floyd rioters were found to have used more sophisticated and dangerous tactics than did the Capitol rioters, and in some cases weapons of greater lethality.

Authorities have pursued the largely Trump-supporting Capitol rioters with substantially more vigor than suspected wrongdoers in the earlier two cases. Many accused Capitol rioters, unlike accused participants in the other riots, have been held in pretrial detention for months – with one defendant serving more time than the maximum sentence for the charge to which he pleaded guilty. Some allegedly endured solitary confinement and other mistreatment.

With authorities applying lenient prosecutorial standards in many major cities torn by the summer riots, the vast majority of charges last year were dismissed, as were charges in the Inauguration 2017 unrest. Charges have to date been dropped in only a single Capitol riot case.

Related: Stark Contrasts: RealClearInvestigations’ Jan. 6-BLM Side-by-Side Comparison.

GOOD: Biden dragging McAuliffe down in Virginia, GOP Youngkin surges into tie with 56 days left.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Send This Incompetent Brass a Message: Don’t Enlist. “Don’t enlist or recommend others enlist, not until there is a real change in the collective mind of the military leadership that indicates that they have learned their lesson. But words cannot be enough – we need to see the same kind of massive convulsion and reform that we saw after the last Democrat/Pentagon betrayal in Vietnam. My generation of officers learned from the guys who rebuilt a ruined military, torn by careerism, lethargy, internal dissension, and the incorporation of society’s low standards in an effort to entice recruits with bribes instead of offering the rigors of service. During the Gulf War, I watched those reformers move a half million Americans (including me and my heavily armed carwash platoon) halfway around the world to the middle of a desert and then sweep an entire national army off the battlefield in 100 hours. But that was 30 years ago. This year, I watched our military bumble our way out of a disaster of our own making, leaving behind our citizens and our credibility while bringing home 13 heroes in metal cases.”

Plus: “Who has been fired for this fiasco? Well, there was that Marine lieutenant colonel fired for pointing out no one had been held accountable. No one else. Enough. If Milley and Austin are in, keep your kids out. They need to learn.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Democrats Are In Perpetual Denial Regarding Terrorists. “It’s embarrassing for this country to have people in charge who believe that a religious fanatic terrorist organization with a decades-long body of work is going to change because a bunch of emotionally stunted reality avoidance idiots here want them to.”

WELL, OKAY THEN: Lib Activist Group Warns Protesters: Men Can Have Abortions Too, Comparing GOP to Taliban is ‘Islamophobic.’

Why are leftists such a hotbed of transphobia and islamophobia?

STOP WHINING AND START LAUNCHING: Amazon slams SpaceX, tells FCC that Musk-led companies are rule-breakers.