KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Democrats Are Quite Comfortable Being Violent Extremists. “The Democrats’ ongoing fairy tale about the nonexistent right-wing domestic threat is on my last nerve now, especially since we all know that the real dark evil in this country is lurking on the left. It’s not even on the fringes.”

DO TELL: ‘I think it has consequences that we’re not even fully aware of yet’ | Social media and screen time contribute to depression, anxiety in children.

You could write a book on it.

DOUBLING DOWN ON FAILURE: Biden admin makes it more expensive to drill for energy. Again.

Related: Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.

SALENA ZITO: After storming her state, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem could be our next president.

It would be worth a run just to see the lefties go crazy over the imagery involved.

ICYMI: Tick, tock, the railway strike clock counts down and Mayor Pete is nowhere around.

THE UKRAINIAN COUNTEROFFENSIVE HAS BEEN A BIG SUCCESS, BUT THE TIMING WAS POLITICAL: “Time was of the essence, U.S. and Ukrainian officials believed. To mount an effective counterattack, the Ukrainians needed to move before the first snow, when Russian President Vladimir Putin would be able to use his control of gas supplies to pressure Europe.”

THE DEVIL’S TRIANGLE: Mark Judge vs the New American Stasi.

TWITTER IS A CESSPIT: Twitter Whistleblower Says There Was at Least One Chinese Spy Working at the Company. “I’m reminded of one conversation with an executive when I said, ‘I am confident that we have a foreign agent,’ and their response was, ‘Well, since we already have one, what does it matter if we have more? Let’s keep growing the office.'”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Mortgage demand from homebuyers falls 29% since last year, as interest rates surge past 6%.

DON’T GET COCKY: Progressives, Journalists Worry: Are Polls Once Again Overestimating Democrats?

WHAT LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRUPTION LOOKS LIKE: Wait — the Steele Dossier’s discredited source became a paid FBI informant? “Danchenko being a CHS also served another purpose: it protected the Bureau and the Mueller Special Counsel from revealing their ‘sources and methods.’ How do you hide misconduct? Bury the witness.”

OF COURSE IT DOES: New illegal immigrants cost US $4B more than Trump’s wall.

SORRY, LINDSEY, THIS WON’T FLY: Lindsey Graham introduces 15-week abortion ban as pro-lifers seek to put Democrats on defense. “The legislation would ban abortion after 15 weeks of gestation and is similar to the Mississippi law that the Supreme Court upheld in Dobbs v. Jackson Womeealth Organization. Along with upholding the Mississippi law, the court declared in Dobbs that ‘Roe was egregiously wrong from the start’ and reversed the 1973 decision.”

Although this bill is more liberal than what we see in most European countries, that’s not the issue. The real issue is — as I noted with Dave Kopel back in 1997 — Congress lacks constitutional power to regulate abortion because it doesn’t fall within any enumerated power.

CRIMINALIZING OPPOSITION: House Dems Target New Narrative ‘Deniers’ for Persecution. “Now, the totalitarians in the Democrat-controlled House have begun an investigation (aka harassment) of a new group of recalcitrant naysayers: Public Relations companies that have the audacity to work for fossil fuel companies and blaspheme against the Church of Climate Change.”

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Florida private school teacher arrested for allegedly having sex with student.. “She was arrested Sunday for sexual battery a day after local authorities issued a warrant for her arrest.”

DEAL OF THE DAY: RAK Magnetic Wristband. #CommissionEarned

DAN MARKEL UPDATE: Charlie Adelson Denied Bail In Dan Markel’s Murder, Remains In Solitary Confinement.

OUT OF ALL THE OBAMA RETREADS HE HIRED, BIDEN COULDN’T HAVE CHOSEN LARRY SUMMERS? ‘A Serious Inflation Problem’: Top Obama Economist Sounds The Alarm Over Prices As White House Celebrates.

Core inflation — the price level increase for all items except for food and energy — rose by 0.6% in August, marking a faster rate of increase than July and producing a 6.3% year-over-year rate. Analysts were expecting the measure to rise 0.3%.

“Core inflation is higher this month than for the quarter, higher this quarter than last quarter, higher this half of the year than the previous one, and higher last year than the previous one,” Summers commented on social media.

Summers remarked that median inflation — an alternative metric of core inflation favored by those who once said inflation was “transitory” — rose to “its highest ever reading.” Indeed, median inflation rose from 6.3% in July 2022 to 6.7% in August 2022, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

I’m old enough to remember when inflation was 2%, gas was two bucks, and tweets were mean instead of major presidential addresses.

BOB MCMANUS: Who gains from New York’s pro-crime culture? Kathy Hochul and drug cartels. “Two-plus years into New York’s war on public order, it’s clear who the victims have been: Blood-spattered city sidewalks from Brooklyn to Buffalo speak for themselves. But cui bono — who are the beneficiaries? Gov. Kathy Hochul, for one. And the Mexican drug cartels.”

OBVIOUSLY TRUE, BUT SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE POINTED OUT IN THE FACE OF PEOPLE SPREADING MISINFORMATION: The Second Amendment Was Adopted to Protect Liberty, Not Slavery: A Reply to Professors Bogus and Anderson.

HMM: The Biden Administration Has a Secret Plan to Interfere With the Midterm Elections. “The exact plan of the Biden administration is not known, and they are refusing to divulge the details of what they intend to do. There have been some clues though.”

FIGHT THE POWER: Princeton students win campaign to get free speech program added to orientation.

FROM RITA BEEMAN: Mabel Murkwood and the Overly Familiar.

#CommissionEarned

Mabel Murkwood has trouble keeping a Familiar.
Hugh, a stately raven from England, lost his master in the Blitz.
Warm conversation, a shared passion for botanicals, and many cups of tea forge a bond between this unlikely duo.

However, life in East Texas isn’t always easy, especially after a World War that left scars in the hearts of many of its survivors. While Hugh finds his footing in a new land, he also finds a new purpose helping his East Texas Witch.

ALL LEFTY ENTERPRISES ARE: Hollow.

I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT SURE, THIS IS ENTIRELY THE WAY SOMEONE WHO WON THE ELECTION LEGITIMATELY WOULD BEHAVE:  The Regime’s ‘Operation MAGA Fascist’ Gains Ground.