HMM: HGH receptor gene may have helped early humans survive periods of scarcity. “In the past, GHRd3 likely helped early humans and their relatives survive periods of scarcity, but material conditions for humans have improved dramatically.”

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: NYT Removes Line Saying AOC Changed Iron Dome Vote Because of “Influential Lobbyists and Rabbis.”

However: “[Y]ou know how we’ve all been saying that the [Times] edited—stealth edited, but still—its ugly language about ‘rabbis’ are responsible for smothering AOC’s principles? That’s only partially true. Readers of the print edition still learn about the nefarious rabbis.”

UPDATE: The sheer contempt with which the Times appears to hold Jews, Jewish interests, Jewish safety and Jewish publications is tangible. Depressingly enough, it is hardly new.

(Updated and bumped.)

IN BIDEN’S AMERICA, THIS COUNTS AS POPULAR REBELLION: Golf fans spontaneously belt out national anthem, ‘USA’ chants at Ryder Cup.

“JUST SAY NEIGH:” Biden Finally Recognizes America’s Biggest Threat: Horses. “There was no whip, there were no whips, but whatever. Details, details. The important thing is that this proves America is racist. Mere facts are no match for the all-holy narrative. Ten thousand illegal immigrants packed under a bridge for weeks in 100-degree heat because Joe Biden expressly invited them into this country? That’s not a story. But white guys in cowboy hats on horses chasing black people? Now that’s a story! That’s something liberals can understand. It’s the only thing they ever want to talk about. They want to pretend we’re still back in the days of slavery, and the U.S. Border Patrol just served up the perfect images to fit that narrative.”

Why, it’s as if: Journo Twitter runs the Biden administration.

EVEN IN THE BIG-MEDIA SHOTS, BIDEN LOOKS DEMENTED NOW: President Joe Biden: ‘I’ll be getting my booster shot.’

THE NEVER-ENDING STORY: Elizabeth Warren Introduces Bill to Bring Back One of the Federal Government’s Worst Pandemic Policies. “Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Cori Bush, progressive Democrats, just co-sponsored legislation to revive the eviction moratorium: the ‘Keeping Renters Safe Act of 2021.’ Their bill would explicitly give the CDC the authority to re-enact the moratorium and compel it to do so. This new moratorium would potentially go even further, applying automatically to all rentals without tenants applying, as previously required. So, too, it would remain in place until 60 days beyond the ‘conclusion of the public health emergency.’”

MORE “NORMS RESTORED” BY TRUMP-LESS GOP: “In an unbelievable move, both House and Senate Republicans, many of whom view themselves as “defense hawks,” voted to add far-left language to the bill that would draft our young daughters in a time of national emergency. In the House, 135 Republicans voted last night to do just that.”

So a huge part of the “conservative” party votes to let the government drag my two daughters (and yours) at gunpoint off to some foreign war run by loser generals obsessed with “white rage” instead of victory, who can’t even lose a war correctly, and who promise to warn actual communists before our attacks so that they’ll have maximum opportunity to kill my daughters (and yours)? How about you let the other party own that one? This is clown world.

UPDATE: Given the large number of comments here (which I did not expect), let me make this abundantly clear: it is in no sense conservative to have a society where we force unwilling teenage females into the meat grinder of warfare, regardless of what “feminists” or “equal protection” may demand. Like nearly every other American man, I registered for the draft when I turned 18; I would have served if called up. I am grateful that that didn’t happen, but I accept the necessity, in some circumstances, of male conscription (though I am dubious that it’s really necessary for any non-existential conflict). Conscripting 18-25 year old females is asking for societal suicide, for reasons so obvious they do not need to be explained. You can count me and my family right out of any such suicide pact, and I urge everyone else to do the same.

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Joe Biden Complains American ‘Trillionaires’ Not Paying Enough Taxes. “President Joe Biden referred to ‘trillionaires’ not paying taxes on Friday, even though no American is worth a trillion dollars. ‘I’m running to change the dynamic of how the economy grows,’ Biden said. ‘I’m tired of trickle-down. Trillionaires and billionaires are doing very, very well. You all report it.’ There are currently no trillionaires in the United States.”

THE MOST IMPORTANT DEVICE IN THE UNIVERSE: Blinking Tubes Without Function Compilation (video):

“‘We did this for the original ‘Incredible Hulk,’ the TV series, back in the late ’70s,’ said [John] Zabrucky, the founder and president of Modern Props.  Since then, the device has been seen in more than 100 feature films and TV shows, including ‘Austin Powers’ and multiple episodes of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation.’ Giving it a once-over, Zabrucky adds with a sparkle of pride, ‘You can see how well it’s made.’ The apparatus has turned up in so many shows that a fan created a YouTube video devoted to its many appearances, dubbing it ‘the most important device in the universe.’”

KURT SCHLICHTER: Let Them Destroy Each Other.

Related: “After Biden’s infamous smear that Mitt Romney would ‘put you all back in chains’ in 2012, Biden deserves everything he’s getting.”

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: FIB Edition.

GREAT ORATORS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. To borrow an old recurring leitmotif of James Taranto, when he was writing the Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web Today:

● “One man with courage makes a majority.” — attributed to Andrew Jackson.

● “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt.

● “The buck stops here.” — Harry S. Truman.

● “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” — John F. Kennedy.

● Swapping diesel busses out for electric busses would “change the circumstance on boom boom boom.” — Joe Biden.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Al Sharpton: Black America Is ‘Being Stabbed in the Back’ by Joe Biden.

First Maxine Waters, now Al Sharpton. To revise and extend my remarks on Wednesday night regarding Waters calling Biden’s El Paso Border Patrol agents “worse than what we witnessed in slavery,” after Biden’s infamous smear that Mitt Romney would “put you all back in chains” in 2012, Biden deserves everything he’s getting from her and Sharpton.

Plus more good news regarding Sharpton: Al Sharpton shouted down by hecklers during press conference on border patrol treatment of Haitians.

DISPATCHES FROM THE KINDER AND GENTLER TALIBAN: ‘Businesslike and Professional’ Taliban to Resume Chopping Off Hands, Executions.

And the newly pro-feminist Taliban as well: Taliban Name Their Deputy Ministers, Doubling Down On An All-Male Team.

BRADLEY THOMPSON: College “Move-In Day”–Army Style. “Commentators on American society often speak of the “two Americas.” America is divided, they say, between, liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, blue staters and red staters, rich and poor, black and white, etc. But there is another division in the United States that is rarely, if ever, talked about—the division between those teenagers who go to college and those who join America’s armed forces.”

OUT ON A LIMB: Hello, I am Hispanic, ‘Latinx’ is a stupid word and you need to stop using it.

JOE DOESN’T EVEN KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS: High noon for Biden and Democrats in Arizona.

CRISES BY DESIGN: Assault on female US service member by male Afghan refugees at Fort Bliss under FBI investigation. The incident comes on the heels of two Afghan refugees being charged with federal crimes at a Wisconsin military base.

GOODER AND HARDER: ‘A disaster:’ How San Francisco’s office mask mandate is impacting restaurants, bars.

“We finally reopened in June when the [COVID] numbers looked good and when we looked at return-to-office plans for Salesforce and other companies,” Chun said. “In July, things picked up, but then delta hit, plans got delayed and August was just a disaster.”

“We reopened at the end of July, and it’s cost us $30,000 just to be open in that time,” said Leilani Mason, the owner and operator of Southside Spirit House, a SoMa bar that often serves Salesforce, LinkedIn and Yelp employees. “We heavily depend on the happy hour crowd, that’s our bread and butter. But a week after we reopened, the city said, ‘Just kidding, the pandemic isn’t over even if you’re vaccinated and we all need to wear masks,’ and then offices pushed back their reopening plans. We have no customers at happy hours, and we’re having our staff come in but there’s no one for them to serve.”

Of course, rules are for the little people: “In San Francisco over the weekend, Mayor London Breed explained that the video of her enjoying herself maskless at a jazz club doesn’t count when you really think about it, because, unlike you, she is really into music. ‘My drink was sitting at the table,’ Breed said when pushed on the matter, and ‘I got up and started dancing because I was feeling the spirit and I wasn’t thinking about a mask.’ Which is an absolutely spiffing excuse if one assumes that the mayor of San Francisco is alone among her fellow citizens in desiring to spend her evenings without a large piece of cloth strapped across her face. Exonerating herself further, Mayor Breed suggested that ‘we don’t need the fun police to come in and micromanage and tell us what we should or shouldn’t be doing.’ Which, again, is a ripping justification if we assume that everyone else in San Francisco is just dying for close supervision.”

ABOUT THAT PANDEMIC MURDER MYTH: Writing on Liberty Unyielding, Hans Bader takes apart the claim that rising murder rates in the U.S. are a product of the Covid Pandemic.

“Murder rates actually fell in most countries that lost many people to the coronavirus. Peru had the world’s highest coronavirus death rate per million inhabitants. Yet Peru’s homicide rate fell by more than 2% in 2020,” Bader writes.

IT’S LIKE THEY DON’T EVEN WANT TO FIND ENERGY SOLUTIONS: Senate Republicans Block Biden Small Business Administration Nom Over Ties to Anti-Israel Group.

THAT’S SETTING AN AWFULLY HIGH BAR: The weirdest moment in the history of The View.

Just spitballing, but maybe you should test the cast and crew when they arrive at the studio in the morning, not 15 minutes before they interview the vice president. That way they’re not mixing with colleagues behind the scenes all morning, spreading that ‘rona to everyone. And it probably *is* an outbreak at work that got Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro, right? It’d be some coincidence if they each tested positive on the same day after having contracted the virus elsewhere.

Poor Joy Behar, who’s 78 years old and doubtless feeling some anxiety right now.

I’m curious to see if Hostin or Navarro has symptoms. One theory about breakthrough infections is that they’re happening much more commonly than anyone realizes and typically produce asymptomatic cases that go undetected because the infected person never has reason to get tested. Hostin and Navarro were probably tested today as a matter of routine, either because “The View” is testing employees regularly or because they took an extra precaution knowing that Kamala Harris would be in the building. If they end up asymptomatic, that’s a further bit of anecdotal evidence that the vaxxed may be shaking off infection on average with fewer difficulties than we might think.

Harris was supposed to join them at the table in the studio. Once the positive tests came back, she was hurriedly re-routed to a separate room and did the interview “remotely” from within the building.

Earlier on The View: After Learning She’s the ‘1 Percent,’ Whoopi Goldberg Rants Against AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ Message.

As Conquest’s First Law of Politics states: Everyone is conservative about what he [or she] knows best.

BECAUSE LEFTISTS ARE AGAINST FUN OF ANY KIND: Why sex-positive feminism is falling out of fashion.

UPDATE: Jim Bennett writes: “Because you can’t have 1984 without the Junior Anti-Sex League.”