ANALYSIS: TRUE. The government — in failing to maintain order in Kenosha — deserves blame for the Kyle Rittenhouse incident. . . Evers is at fault and so is the leadership of Kenosha.

MERIT-HIRING IS TOO FRIENDLY TO ASIANS: Minority professor denied grants because he hires on merit: ‘People are afraid to think.’ “‘I don’t care about the colour of your skin. I’m interested in hiring someone who wants to work on the project and is good at it,’ Prof. Patanjali Kambhampati says.”

WE NEED MORE CHIPS: Samsung To Build $17 Billion Fab in Taylor, Texas. “America has lots of tech hubs: Silicon Valley, Seattle, the North Carolina triangle, greater Boston, etc. But nobody is building cutting fabs in those areas. Central Texas has rapidly expanding software, hardware and silicon industries.”

MICHAEL WALSH: Real Americans Not Being Fooled Anymore.

And for how much longer are real Americans going to stand by as COVID-masked gangs empty out everything from the corner drug store to Louis Vuitton and Nordstrom? The Democrats’ goal of decriminalizing underclass violent crime is now reaching its apogee, and even the least political among us have begun to notice.

Well, the Democrats have been begging for a major reduction in force at least since 1860. The question is, who should lead the Republicans?

Former president Trump has all but declared he’s running again—but three years is an infinity in politics, and Trump can only play coy for so long. As memory of him fades, and the nation’s hunger for leadership increases, all eyes will be on DeSantis and his re-election campaign next year. A decisive win will cement the current shadow president of the U.S. front-runner status as Americans look to the future.

All the GOP has to do is nominate someone of relative youth and vigor, who’s not afraid of entrenched Washington, who treats the media with the contempt they so richly deserve, and who’s proven himself in an executive capacity.

Someone, in other words, exactly like DeSantis, who can also tap a plausible vice-presidential candidate with D.C. experience. Someone with military experience as well, and someone who’s already publicly eviscerated Harris on the national stage. A mixed-race woman who checks all the intersectional boxes. Someone exactly like Tulsi Gabbard.

And before you say that it can never happen, because Gabbard’s a Democrat—so was Donald Trump.

Read the whole thing.

THEY’RE SO TRANSPARENT: Democrats and media cool with inflation, urge Americans to have ‘perspective.’

THE STORY THAT JUST WON’T DIE: The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland claims Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s recent letter to state election officials illustrates why there remain millions of Americans convinced that the 2020 presidential election was rotten. His Fraudulency will never be rid of this scarlet letter.

AS DEEP THROAT NEVER SAID, FOLLOW THE MONEY: Three Foreign Billionaires Finance the Dem Dark Money Machine.

GALLOPING INSANITY DOWN UNDER: Australia is now moving Covid-positive individuals in the Northern Territory to quarantine “camps,” reports Jack Phillips of The Epoch Times. Crikey!

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Democrats’ Statue Removal Fetish Is Clinically Insane. “Democrats and other left-leaning types are forever looking for empty secular and political affectations to make them appear to be virtuous. They have to do this because there is nothing inherently virtuous in Godless leftism. Pretending that you’re a decent human being because you foot-stomped over a political issue is so much easier than actually being a decent human being, after all.”

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BUT OF COURSE: AOC Rails Against ‘Excessive Bail’ After Waukesha Massacre.

OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: Marks & Spencer offers pronoun badges to staff.

WELL, YEAH, THAT’S WHERE THE MONEY IS: Warning: Biden Still Wants Your Bank Account.

BECAUSE AN EFFECTIVE TREATMENT UNDERMINES THE RATIONALE FOR VACCINE MANDATES: If Pfizer’s COVID wonder drug is so effective, why hasn’t the FDA approved it yet? “How can the drug be so effective that Pfizer doesn’t need to finish its trial but also not so effective that the FDA won’t grant an EUA immediately?”

CHINA IS ASSHOLE: China draws scrutiny over case of tennis star Peng Shuai.

Related: It’s not just Peng. China is cracking down on MeToo movement.

Also: Peng Shuai: China accuses other countries of ‘maliciously hyping up’ case of missing tennis star.

The CCP: Hey, this stuff was just supposed to affect the West, not us!

Related, via last night’s Open Thread:

HYPOCRISY: Kamala Harris Slammed Trump for Refilling Oil Reserves that Joe Biden Just Drained.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s hypocrisy was on display Tuesday as President Joe Biden raided oil reserves despite her having slammed then-President Donald Trump in 2020 for refilling them.

“Absolutely unacceptable that Trump is prioritizing bailing out Big Oil companies while dragging his feet to support millions of unemployed people, workers, small businesses, and state and local governments,” Harris tweeted in 2020 during the pandemic.

Trump refilled the oil reserves during the pandemic when prices were three times less than Tuesday’s prices of $3.403, according to the AAA. The low prices were threatening American producers’ ability to compete with the deep pockets of OPEC, which have no interest in competing with American oil producers.

Not surprisingly though: Backfire: Oil Prices Soar as Market Rejects Biden Administration’s Strategic Reserve Ploy.

THINK OF IT AS THE PEDOPHILE PROTECTION ACT: Biden’s Dept. of Education Wants To Strike Down Efforts to Document Teacher Sex Crimes.

EDITED BY CEDAR SANDERSON:  Can’t Go Home Again.

Men and women who lay their life on the line never escape unscathed, and when the time comes to return home, they find a wall between them, and loved ones. These tales follow those who gather the hope to begin healing, and tearing down the walls that have sprung up between them, and their loved ones. No one ever said it would be easy…

JOEL KOTKIN: The Left’s Agenda is More Feudal than Marxist.

THE BABYLON BEE, AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD:  Clever Business Owners Ward Off Looters With Kyle Rittenhouse Scarecrows.

FREELANCE MARXIST REDISTRIBUTIONISTS:  Cultural Marxism Running Amok – San Francisco Media Say Term “Looters” is Off Limits.

BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE:  Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm Doesn’t Know How Much Energy Americans Need.

Considering all the other things they don’t know, this is a drop in the bucket. Kind of like their mitigation strategies.

NAH, DUDE:  Obama Speechwriter To Dems: If We Keep Comparing Republicans To Trump, We’ll Get Creamed In 2022.

Your path to victory in 2020 was massive fraud, and your party thinks it’s got it sewn up forever. Pray very hard that they’re wrong. Because if they effectively manage to block our right to vote them out, that doesn’t mean they’re in power forever.

However I assume being one of Obama’s speech writers, and actually believing the economy is doing fine, etc. this guy is beyond the reach or reason or rationality.

AND YET IT WILL LEAVE OUR ARMED SERVICES DEFENSELESS WHEN THEY NEED IT:  Fifty Million Barrels Of Oil Is Miniscule Drop In The Bucket.

It’s time for states with oil to declare themselves fracking sanctuaries, and frack for all they’re worth.

A CHIP OFF THE OLD BIG GUY BLOCK:  Legacy Outlets Ignore Hunter Biden Report On Securing Chinese Mineral Monopoly.