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SAME: Joe Biden’s Senate Friends Are Not Impressed With His Afghanistan Spin.

FEWER THAN YOU MIGHT THINK: How Many Democrats Approve of Biden’s Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal?

LOYALTY TODAY IS A ONE-WAY STREET: Professor Defend Thyself: The Failure Of Universities To Defend And Indemnify Their Faculty.

JUSTICE: Matt Gaetz Exonerated In Sexual Misconduct Investigation. “Stephen Alford, 62, was indicted this week for false accusations of sexual misconduct against the congressman.”

FIRST-TERM LAME DUCK: Joe Manchin Is Singlehandedly Destroying Biden’s Presidency. Thank God.

SEAN TRENDE: Biden’s Job Approval Has Entered Dangerous Territory.

TO BE FAIR, THAT’S HER JOB: Jen Psaki keeps lying for Joe Biden on Afghanistan.

She’s just not very good at it.

BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY: American Honor. Even in the midst of deep humiliation, there are still signs of the exceptional nation I’ve loved since childhood:

America today is under the shadow of this self-inflicted Saigon, this botched Dunkirk, this deep humiliation. But there are also these moments of brotherhood that make you wonder whether you’re in a Kathryn Bigelow film, or a Netflix series on the Navy Seals, or that you’re standing next to Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne; but that’s not the case! This is real life; these are everyday heroes who simply decided, out of conscience, not to let the trap door close on obscurantism and crime.

These heroes have lent, to speak like the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé, a “purer meaning” to the principles of “empathy” and “service,” which are those of the great American “tribe,” Democrats and Republicans alike.

These heroes are here to remind the world that the strange, nameless country made up of the United States of America remains an exceptional nation, faithful to its founding idea, whose flame may flicker but never goes out entirely.

Read the whole thing.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ calls for the elimination of all racial preferences.

USA TODAY “FACT-CHECKS” BIDEN LOOKING HIS WATCH:

But here’s the thing, though: It’s not misleading at all. That’s exactly what happened. Biden did what he’s accused of doing. It’s true. There’s proof and everything.

This isn’t a fact-check. It’s some Democrats with press passes doing damage control for the president.

Apparently one of the adults at USA Today realized how bad this looks, but only after allowing this garbage to be published. Now the “fact-check” has been “clarified”:

Corrections and Clarifications: This story was updated Sept. 2 to note that Biden checked his watch multiple times at the dignified transfer event, including during the ceremony itself. The rating on this claim has been changed from partly false to missing context.

“This story was updated to note that, uh… the thing we claimed to be false was actually true.”

This is better, but it’s still a lie. The story was “updated” to note the incontrovertible truth that the piece was originally intended to obfuscate, but the “correction” still claims there’s “missing context.” Like what? There’s no missing context. Biden was checking his damn watch as the coffins went by. It’s a simple fact.

The only “context” is that Biden embarrassed himself, his party, and his country. He’s a bad president and an even worse human being.

That’s quite a look from the DNC-MSM when their “fact checkers” are going to war against the families of fallen soldiers.

TWO AMERICAS: There’s Good Economic News, But It’s Mostly from Republican-Run States.

FASTER, PLEASE: Engineering CAR T cells to deliver endogenous RNA wakes solid tumors to respond to therapy.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Constitutional Carry Won’t Make Texas More Dangerous, Gun Opponents Are Just Blowing Smoke.

MINDING THE CAMPUS:  Wenyuan Wu gives the L.A. Times an appropriate dressing down:  “The Culture War Against the Little Man.”

BIDEN DECLARES WAR! Joe Biden Launches ‘Whole-of-Government Effort’ to Fight Texas Pro-Life Law.

The Texas Rangers must really be looking forward to the massive update of their crime-fighting arsenal:

WELL, THEY’VE EVOLVED TO: Dogs know whether human actions are intentional, study says.

BIDEN’S SHAMELESS EXPLOITATION OF HIS DEAD SON:

After getting 13 American military personnel killed in Kabul, Biden met with family members and, instead of listening to their pain and apologizing for his actions, lectured them about his son.

Former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, the scion of the family who took up the family business, figured large in his father’s speeches defending his disastrous retreat in Afghanistan. It was the same stump speech that Biden had been giving about his dead son for six years which he dusted off to explain why he was abandoning Americans in the hands of terrorists.

It was the same speech to which he subjected the family members of the men he killed.

“When he just kept talking about his son so much it was just — my interest was lost in that. I was more focused on my own son than what happened with him and his son,” Mark Schmitz, the father of Lance Cpl Jared Smitz, said. “I’m not trying to insult the president, but it just didn’t seem that appropriate to spend that much time on his own son.”

Related: The Problem with Our Mourner in Chief. “This week my friend Charlie Cooke and the Wall Street Journal’s Bill McGurn called attention to Joe Biden’s odd habit of stepping on the stories of the families of some of the 13 troops killed in the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal last week by telling them about Beau’s Army service (in Iraq) and unrelated death. It sometimes feels as though the president is hoping people will mistake him for a Gold Star parent. Biden fans have made a great deal of his supposed gift of empathy, but where exactly is the evidence for that?”

AFGHANISTAN: How President Trump Would Have Done It.

SCIENCE: “[Seventy-eight percent] of hospitalizations due to COVID are Obese and Overweight people. Is there an underlying problem that perhaps we have not given enough attention to?”

There’s no graft money to be made in making people healthy and fit. If there were, the entire system wouldn’t be organized around the reverse.

SO ABORTION WILL BE A 2022 ELECTION ISSUE? Biden, Pelosi vow action to block Texas abortion ban.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Half A Million Fewer Jobs Than Expected.

The economy added just 235,000 jobs in August, “a big miss,” “a disappointment,” and “terrible news” for the country.
This was nearly half a million jobs below economists’ expectations, meaning the economy added 70 percent fewer jobs than expected.
3,000 construction jobs and 28,500 retail jobs were lost in August.
No leisure and hospitality jobs were added last month, even though this is a time when the industry should be surging back.

All of this was foreseeable, and in fact all of it was foreseen.

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GOOD: Students demanded professor who refused to use trigger warnings be fired. So far, he’s still teaching.

ALL BOUND FOR MU MU LAND: New coronavirus mutant called mu variant being monitored by World Health Organization.

I continue to think the variants are oversold. Mostly they’re a function of our ability to detect genetic differences we didn’t used to be able to spot.