J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: President George W. Bush Blew It in Shanksville.

Why is it that whenever President Bush spends his vast goodwill to engage the modern debate, he trains his fire at the right? Why do we hear Bush attack “nativists” more than the budding totalitarian culture that [“Death to America”-proudly retweeting KU student body president] Niya McAdoo represents?

You would think he would remember what the institutional left did to him.

Bush missed an opportunity at Shanksville to address the real causes of our nation’s division. Bush could have provided a fuller accounting of the “malign forces … at work in our common life,” but didn’t.

It is true that the first part of Bush’s tribute at Shanksville was soaring. No American alive on September 11, 2001, could hear it without reliving those dark uncertain weeks and months and being grateful for President Bush. Bush will live through history as a president who kept America safe after that day, and he deserves it.

Bush, like Trump, did not flinch from framing world events as a never-ending battle between good and evil, because it is true.

But then at Shanksville, Bush pivoted and blew all this goodwill by attacking the right, his own political base that defended him loyally. As Byron York wrote, Bush’s attacks at Shanksville were “jaw dropping.”

Earlier today, I wrote:

Not surprisingly, the party whose organizing method is “the moral equivalent of war” views American politics as the continuation of warfare by other means, to flip von Clausewitz’s axiom on its head. And as the past month has illustrated, they’re far more focused on fighting against American people and industries, rather than Middle Eastern terrorists.

I wasn’t expecting to see Dubya joining them on the 20th anniversary of September 11th, but apparently, here we are.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Conspiracy theory of the day: Democrats are planning to provoke a riot at the coming protest over the 1/6 detainees, and Bush is trying to protect himself.

#RESIST: D.C. Prepares for ‘Justice for J6’ Rally in Support of January 6 Detainees, Many Still in Solitary.

DOCTORS, ETHICISTS BLAST COLLEAGUES WHO THREATEN TO WITHHOLD TREATMENT FROM UNVAXXED.

In Germany, this was dubbed “Lebensunwertes Leben.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Henry-Levy: It’s Never a Good Sign When Retired Military Members Put Themselves Back in Service.

PRIORITIES:

NOT THE HERO WE DESERVE BUT MAYBE THE ONE WE NEED: Worried Dems Taming Tax Hikes After Joe Manchin Opposes. “Tax hikes are as American as soccer, stroganoff, and Apple Tarte Tatin — and now have feckless Dems wondering if one of their own will let them get away with jacking taxes up ever higher.”

RECALL: San Fernando Valley residents have trouble casting recall ballots.

At El Camino Real Charter High School in Woodland Hills, some voters say they were told the computers showed them as already having voted, even though they had not.

West Hills resident Estelle Bender, 88, said she was far from the only person who was being told incorrectly that they had already voted.

In addition to friends of hers who experienced the issue and two other women outside the polling place, Bender said that inside, “the man next to me was arguing the same thing.”

Bender said she filled out a provisional ballot and “left really angry.”

Bender added that, to her knowledge, many of those affected by this issue are self-identified Republicans, and she’s suspicious.

“I’d still like to know how I voted,” Bender said.

I have a guess.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Washington State high school cancels 9/11 tribute, says it could offend some students.

PEOPLE USED TO THINK CIGARETTES PREVENTED COLDS, WHICH OFTEN COME FROM CORONAVIRUSES: Drugs that mimic effects of cigarette smoke reduce SARS-CoV-2’s ability to enter cells.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE. Karol Markowicz: No sports, no clubs, no talking during lunch and other joys of COVID schooling.

We used to understand that it is important for kids to get exercise with friends. But we have forgotten everything we have ever known about child development in the name of fighting a virus that poses a minuscule risk to children.

A New York state Education ­Department health guide for the 2021-22 school year worries a lot about kids’ outrageous breathing. “Due to increased exhalation that occurs during physical activity, some sports can put players, coaches, trainers and others at ­increased risk for getting and spreading COVID-19. Close contact sports and indoor sports are particularly risky. Similar risks might exist for other extracurricular activities, such as band, choir, theater and school clubs that meet indoors.”

Kids all over the city will be eating lunch only outdoors while sitting on the ground. Some schools proscribe speaking during lunch. One Manhattan elementary school sent parents a survey asking what they should do in case of inclement weather. One of the options was actually “skip lunch.”

Exit questions: “Adults in the United States are largely moving on with their lives, going to football games, concerts and galas — while kids are treated like lepers. The real question is: When does it end? Will these restrictions ever go away? What’s the off-ramp for this level of cruel irrationality?”

PEOPLE OF ALL RACES WERE MURDERED THAT DAY: Washington State High School Cancels 9/11 Tribute for Being ‘Racially Insensitive.’

SPACE: Mars rover’s first rock samples reveal lengthy water exposure.

#FIGHTFOR$15! Three In 10 Small Businesses Have Automated Jobs Amid Nationwide Worker Shortage.

JOANNE JACOBS: Philosophy prof resigns from ‘social justice factory.’ “The university ‘has transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a Social Justice factory whose only inputs were race, gender, and victimhood and whose only outputs were grievance and division,’ Boghossian writes.”

WELL, GOOD: Bone marrow transplant patients living longer, healthier, study finds.

WOULD IT NOT BE EASIER FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO DISSOLVE THE PEOPLE AND ELECT ANOTHER? Poll: Democrats see Trump supporters, unvaccinated as more dangerous than Taliban, China.

Not surprisingly, the party whose organizing method is “the moral equivalent of war” views American politics as the continuation of warfare by other means, to flip von Clausewitz’s axiom on its head. And as the past month has illustrated, they’re far more focused on fighting against American people and industries, rather than Middle Eastern terrorists.

But why is the Democratic Party such a cesspit of racism? “They’re Experimenting On Us” — Why Black New Yorkers Don’t Trust The Vaccine.

JOE BIDEN’S RETURN TO CIVILITY: Pro-Abortion Protesters Plan to Terrorize the Kavanaugh Family at Home.

YEP: Inflation quality adjustments were always tricky. COVID-19 broke them. “What if used cars aren’t an outlier? The price of used cars today is more than 40 percent higher than it was a year ago. There is a very simple story for this inflation: demand for cars remains high, but the supply of new cars has been constricted by an acute shortage of the computer chips used in the electronic systems. This is clearly an outlier in the data, a fact the White House, eager to combat bad news, has highlighted. They have also constructed inflation data removing cars and other outliers. This approach gives me pause. As we saw above, cars are one of the easiest products to value objectively. The same properties that make it easy to measure auto quality in normal times make it obvious what kinds of strains the market is facing in these difficult times. By contrast, changes elsewhere⁠—even just in new cars⁠—might be a bit more subtle.”

Plus: “If the official statistics miss quality changes and therefore understate recent inflation, then using those statistics for inflation adjustment will lead us to overstate progress in measures like real GDP per capita or real consumption per capita.”

WELL, YES: Former acting CIA director: Taliban’s win in Afghanistan, US exit ‘absolutely inspired jihadists.’

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH PIERS MORGAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY. Piers Morgan: It made me sick to watch a once-male special forces combat veteran beat up a woman on TV — it’s time to stop this trans sport insanity before women start being killed.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: What Every Gentile And Secular Jew Needs To Know: A Yom Kippur Primer.

GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA: California Gov. Gavin Newsom Poised to Survive Recall Effort.

Related: Gavin Newsom’s California is falling apart — yet the governor, the essence of white privilege, will likely weather the storm of a recall election.

PRIORITIES: Americans Turned Away from Virginia Hospitals Because of Influx of Afghan Evacuees.

KURT SCHLICHTER: With Blue Senate Seats in Play in 2022, Bet on GOP Winners.

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