YOUR GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Why Wealthy Coastal Elites Should Mind Their Own Business.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: People who exercise regularly are more likely to live longer.

POLAND HAS BEEN BUSILY TURNING ITSELF INTO A MAJOR REGIONAL MILITARY POWER: Poland to Buy 1,000 MBTs. Minister Błaszczak Also Outlines a Plan To Procure Extra F-35s or F-15s.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: WTH happened to an objective news media? Ari Fleischer joins us to talk about his new book.

THINK OF IT AS EVOLUTION IN ACTION: Snipped in solidarity: the American men getting vasectomies after Roe – while they can/Following the supreme court’s abortion decision, urologists say more men are taking charge of their reproductive health, to permanent ends.

Plus: “People are seriously worried that vasectomies are going to become illegal?”

Well, even now, married men require permission from their wives to get them. Because that’s how “reproductive freedom” in America has always worked for men.

JEFFREY CARTER: “Finally, Senator Joe Manchin got what he wanted and rolled over. At least, that’s what we are hearing. Hence, a new spending bill will make its way through Congress. Increases in government spending are INflationary. They don’t take inflation down.”

OH: Georgia District Attorney Investigating Trump Runs Into a Snag.

BIDEN GOES FULL CHIP DILLER: Economy “on the right path.”

Is that how the economy feels to millions of American households — “on the right path”? As I predicted yesterday, Joe Biden has decided to stick to the Chip Diller playbook in response to today’s second consecutive negative GDP report. Biden insists that we need to stay his course regardless of the outcomes:

Coming off of last year’s historic economic growth – and regaining all the private sector jobs lost during the pandemic crisis – it’s no surprise that the economy is slowing down as the Federal Reserve acts to bring down inflation. But even as we face historic global challenges, we are on the right path and we will come through this transition stronger and more secure. Our job market remains historically strong, with unemployment at 3.6% and more than 1 million jobs created in the second quarter alone. Consumer spending is continuing to grow. Earlier this week, I met with the Chairman of SK Group from Korea, just one of the companies investing more than $200 billion in American manufacturing since I took office, powering a historic recovery in American manufacturing.

My economic plan is focused on bringing inflation down, without giving up all the economic gains we have made. Congress has an historic chance to do that by passing the CHIPS and Science Act and Inflation Reduction Act without delay.

One has to wonder whether this response got written yesterday. Consumer spending is not “continuing to grow,” for instance; PCEs barely made it to positive territory at an annualized 1% growth rate, but spending in all goods categories contracted. One company may be investing in the US (from South Korea?), but domestic business investment fell in Q2 at an annualized 13.5% rate.

Another indicator of the “path” is real disposable income, and it’s clearly going in the wrong direction.

How will we know when the economy is recovering? That’s surprisingly easy to judge:

OUT WITH THE OLD SPEAK, IN WITH THE NEW: 6 terms Biden has redefined to further agenda, stigmatize opponents. “From ‘recession’ to ‘disinformation,’ the president and his team have weaponized language for political purposes.”

JOSH BLACKMAN: Dobbs Is Making Our Democracy Work. “The absence of Roe is requiring elected representatives to cast difficult votes on abortion. . . . Now, the rubber meets the road. Some states may start with very strict bans that, over time, prove too draconian, and will be revised. With the zero-sum game of Roe over, there will be more space to negotiate and compromise. Fittingly, states may wind up somewhere around the fifteen-week line Mississippi crafted, and Chief Justice Roberts approved.” Which is still more liberal than most European laws.

I disagree that there’s a tension betweeen Dobbs and Bruen, though. The Constitution explicitly expresses a view on gun rights; it does no such thing regarding abortion. And that’s because there are important structural/political aspects to whether the populace is be armed, considerations that do not enter into issues regarding abortion. That the Supreme Court noticed such a thing should not be a huge surprise, nor is it evidence of any particular contradiction.

READER FAVORITE: Fairy Sword 12×50 High Definition Monocular Telescope with Smartphone Adapter. #CommissionEarned

IN SHORT, NOTHING GOOD: What a ‘MENA’ racial classification would mean for American Jews. Though it would be fun to be a fly on the wall when Linda Sarsour discovers that the new Middle Eastern and North African classification she is pushing for, meant to turn Muslim Arabs and Iranians into a victim class eligible for affirmative action, winds up being claimed by millions of American Jews.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: NIH asks court to mask official who deleted Chinese COVID data, 19 months after outing him. “Republican senators blasted the National Institutes of Health for asking a court to retroactively seal the names of a Chinese researcher and an agency staffer involved in the deletion of data from its genetic sequencing library, calling the effort an ongoing ‘cover-up’ that ‘further underscores the agency’s shady efforts to conceal pertinent data” on the origins of COVID-19.'”

The Biden Administration is to China what San Francisco is to shoplifters.

IT’S NOW A MAJOR CULTURAL SIGNIFIER WHEN AN ACTUAL WOMAN WINS WOMAN OF THE YEAR: Columbia University fencer defeats Lia Thomas for ‘Woman of the Year’ nod.

THE R-WORD: Another Telltale Sign That the Recession Has Arrived. “Whether or not the White House cares to refer to the current situation as a recession, the fact is that between the crushing inflation, soaring interest rates, and unaffordable fuel prices, individuals and businesses are getting clobbered. And they are changing their behaviors.”

BIGOTRY AND OTHERING IS ON THE CURRICULUM: ‘Angry White Male Studies’ course comes to campus this fall.

MARK JUDGE: Honest Talk about Politics and Male Suicide.

HE’S EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS! So, It Turns Out That Biden Video Was Worse Than We Initially Knew.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Shark CH963AMZ 2-in-1 Cordless & Handheld Vacuum. #CommissionEarned

“THE BIDEN RECESSION IS BECAUSE OF BIDEN POLICIES:” A new ad commemorates the official beginning of the Biden recession.

I love the appearance of the “I did that” gas pump stickers. Because, well, he did do that.

UPDATE: Ouch:

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Biden Thinks You’re Stupid About the Economy Because He’s Stupid About the Economy. “It’s a relief to know that we’re not suffering like some Third World you-know-what hole. We should all feel a lot of trepidation though, as Team Biden is determined to turn us into one.”

THIS SEEMS LIKE IT OUGHT TO BE A BIGGER STORY: Scenes From China’s Slow-Motion Collapse. “Remember the bank runs in China story after all those bank accounts in Hunan were frozen? I’ve been looking for signs of wider contagion amidst the Chinese banking sector, and mostly haven’t seen it. But I have seen a lot of other cracks appear in China’s overall economic system, so here’s a roundup.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: GDP fell 0.9% in the second quarter, the second straight decline and a strong recession signal.

It’s not just a recession “signal,” it’s the actual definition of a recession, which everyone agreed on until this month when the Biden spinmeisters tried to change it.

SPOILER: HE WON’T, BECAUSE THE ESTABLISHMENT FAVORS IT. Most demand Biden condemn protests of judges and prosecute violence.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Comcast fails to add broadband subscribers for first time ever as economy slows.