GENTLEMEN, START YOUR AIRBRUSHES! Breaking: California man with gun arrested outside Brett Kavanaugh’s home, says he was there to kill SCOTUS justice.

Naturally, no one in the DMC-MSM will recall Chuck Schumer shouting in 2020, “I want to tell you Gorsuch. I want to tell you Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”

And here’s Joy Reid’s Twitter page in 2018:

At least no clip art was harmed in the making of their violent rhetoric.

Earlier: Reagan historian: Releasing Hinckley signals it’s OK to target conservatives.

Flashbacks:

● Bill Ayers Smiles: ‘MAGA is the most extreme political organization in American history:’ Biden warns of Republicans’ ‘ultra MAGA agenda’ and suggests they’ll ban LGBT children from classrooms if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

● Nancy Pelosi tells 2020 Dems, “You have to be ready to take a punch. And therefore you have to be ready to throw a punch—for the children.”

● Sen. Rand Paul had part of his lung removed this weekend because of damage from 2017 attack.

● Actor Jeff Daniels to CBS’s Stephen Colbert: ‘We Need Someone That Can Punch Trump in the Face.’

● Ilhan Omar Retweet Suggests Rand Paul Deserved to Be Assaulted.

● Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) to 2020 Dems: Don’t Run Away from Trump — ‘Punch Him in the Face.’

● Parents cheer as kids bash an ICE agent piñata and throw balls at the painted image of President Trump.

● Joe Biden: I Want to ‘Beat the Hell Out of’ President Trump.

● Patti LuPone defends violent attack on Rand Paul.

● CNN Host Palled Around with, Promoted ICE Firebomber’s Antifa Group.

● Leftist Thug Caught on Video Assaulting Conservative Berkeley Student While Fellow Students Laugh.

● Journalist Andy Ngo Beaten Up at Portland Antifa Rally.

● John Dickerson, the host of Face the Nation and the “political director” for CBS, wrote an article for Slate in 2013 charmingly titled “Go for the Throat! Why if he wants to transform American politics, Obama must declare war on the Republican Party.”

● Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History.

BIDENOMICS: Gas Prices Surge to Another Record, No Relief in Sight.

Update: Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy for the win. (Same link.)

IT’S SKED FOR 5:04 ET TODAY: Watch SpaceX launch a communications satellite, land rocket on ship at sea today.

MY THOUGHTS ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF WATERGATE: Nixon’s Revenge.

BUILDING NEW INSTITUTIONS TO REPLACE THE OLD, CORRUPTED ONES: FIRE expands free-speech advocacy. “The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is renaming itself the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (still FIRE) as it moves beyond college campuses to defend free speech everywhere. Part of the First Amendment campaign may challenge the American Civil Liberties Union’s primacy as a defender of free speech.”

IT ISN’T ABOUT EVIDENCE; IT’S ABOUT WHAT THEY CAN GET PEOPLE TO BELIEVE: J6 Committee Members Claim They Have Evidence of Incitement. They Don’t. Here’s How We Know.

BE PREPARED: Augason Farms Breakfast and Dinner Variety Pail Emergency Food Supply. #CommissonEarned

WELL, SHE’S RIGHT: Tulsi Gabbard Says Biden will be remembered as ‘worse than Jimmy Carter.’

TAKING SIDES: Judge Jackson claps for ‘assault rifles’ ban at Harvard commencement.

Obviously she should recuse herself from all gun cases in the future.

MATT MARGOLIS: J6 Committee Members Claim They Have Evidence of Incitement. They Don’t. Here’s How We Know.

STANDING UP TO THE COMMISSARS: ‘I was afraid to even defend myself’: Student sues university that restricted her speech on campus.

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a lawsuit against Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (SIUE) after three no-contact orders allegedly chilled a student’s First Amendment rights.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of SIUE student Maggie DeJong, who received the orders after allegedly offending a student with Christian rhetoric.

The “no-contact orders” barred her from any on- or off-campus activity where she may come in contact with the accuser.

“They discriminated against her speech,” DeJong’s lawyer Greg Walters told Campus Reform.”They threatened her future speech.”

Make them pay.

APOLOGY ACCEPTED, CAPTAIN NEEDA: Janet Yellen Admits She ‘Could Have Used A Better Term Than Transitory’ To Describe ‘Unacceptable’ Inflation.

#JOURNALISM:

I’m sure you can trust their reporting to be factual and independent, though.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Karma Will Not Be Kind to the J6 Kangaroo Court Commies. “If, like me, you’ve lost count of how many desperate attempts the Dems have made to avoid electoral slaughter in November you can be forgiven. Rumor has it that a team at Caltech is working on keeping a tally.”

BIDEN IS DOING IT ON PURPOSE: Issues & Insights asks an importance question today regarding the Bumbler-in-Chief – is his utter incompetence just the way he is or evidence of specific intent?

“He set off a 40-decade-high inflation spiral with his $2 trillion ‘rescue’ plan. He exacerbated supply-chain problems by paying people not to work. He threw open the borders to millions of illegal immigrants. He needlessly kept COVID mandates and restrictions in place. He worsened shortages of baby formula and spiking gasoline prices. He encouraged foreign adversaries with his disastrous Afghanistan retreat,” I&I notes.

“In every instance, Biden has said he and his top officials were ‘caught off guard.’ In other words, his is pleading incompetence. The public has picked up on this, which is why most Americans now believe that ‘incompetent’ is the word that best describes this president.”

Still, what about this: “But incompetence doesn’t do Biden justice. In every case, Biden knew, or should have known, what would happen if he pushed his policies. Yet he did so anyway.” It’s a highly disturbing train of thought, but …. there it is.

FLASHBACK: The Establishment sees high prices as a feature, not a bug.

THE BROKEN WINDOWS ELECTION YEAR: Charles Lehman points to the double-digit rejection by ultra-liberal San Francisco voters of Soros-favorite prosecutor Chesa Boudin as evidence 2022 is the year of “broken windows” elections.

Recall that community policing recognizes that prosecutorial tolerance of small-time crimes like loitering, littering and public defecation is typically a bellwether for the coming of much worse. Voters, even those by the Bay, get that connection when they see spiraling rates of more serious crimes. And they go to the polls to hold officials like Boudin responsible.

Earlier this year, San Francisco voters also recalled three far-left loons on the school board. Given these early results, November is beginning to have the look of a genuine grassroots revolution that could set progressives back years. But as Glenn reminds, don’t count those chickens just yet.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Greenworks 24V 10″ Cordless String Trimmer. #CommissionEarned

MORE ON BARI WEISS ON LEAVING OLD MEDIA BEHIND:

Glenn already blogged her latest, but there’s another part worth breaking out:

The real way I finally left old media is through the thrill of building something new.

The moment I began this publication was the moment everything changed for me. As someone who was used to sitting in the bleachers with the other critics, I finally understood what all that talk about building new things was about. I’m making something that I am proud of with people I admire. People I respect value it enough that they are willing to pay for it to make sure it exists in the world. For me, all of this has been a revelation.

As we’ve been building this new company, we’ve seen the decay of the old institutions accelerate. I look at CNN+, which shut down after just 21 days. The streamer, hyped nonstop by CNN, spent $300 million—or $14,285,714.29 per day. In the end, 150,000 Americans signed up, with an average of 10,000 people watching any content each day. (By comparison, we have more than 180,000 people that receive this newsletter. We did not spend $300 million to achieve this.) Or I look at Spotify, and remember they paid the Obamas $25 million in 2019 to make some podcasts, little of which has had any impact. Or Buzzfeed, which is now basically a penny stock, trading at $2.23 a share.

Welcome to the future, Bari — some have been here a while, but it’s always good to have fresh blood.

RUINING AMERICA, ONE JURISDICTION AT A TIME: Soros spent $40 million to elect 75 ‘social justice’ prosecutors: Report.

THE ASIAN VOTE IS NOT WOKE: Will Chesa Boudin’s DA Dream Die in Chinatown Today? “The fate of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin will be determined Tuesday by people like Leanna Louie, one of the 60 Asian Americans who were assaulted in San Francisco in 2021 — up 567 percent from nine victims in 2020. . . . Louie, who is a small-business owner and veteran, began volunteering with a community-run task force to patrol the city’s Chinatown neighborhood when local shop owners began experiencing a large uptake in burglaries and vandalism.”

FRUITS OF A DREADFUL GOVERNMENT: Why Black Americans Are Buying More Guns: The people who bear the brunt of rising violent crime are taking steps to protect themselves.

“The issue we face is one of conscience and common sense.” So said Joe Biden last week in a prime-time plea for more Second Amendment restrictions. The president is right on both counts, just not in the way that he and other gun-control enthusiasts imagine.

Voters have noticed that cities where shootings occur almost daily also have some of the strictest gun laws. Using common sense, they’ve concluded that more gun-control legislation probably isn’t the solution because criminals by definition don’t respect laws. Many of the same people likewise find it unconscionable that elected officials would make it more difficult for law-abiding residents of high-crime neighborhoods to arm themselves for protection. . . .

It’s well known that gun sales have surged in recent years, but less well known is that blacks have led the trend. Retailers in an online survey conducted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade group, reported that they sold 58% more guns to black customers in the first half of 2020 than a year earlier, the highest increase for any ethnic group. Personal safety tops the list of why people decide to buy a firearm. In a 2021 Gallup survey, 88% of respondents said they own a gun “for protection against crime,” which is up from 67% in 2005.

Americans that they need a gun, yet the political left has spent little time reassessing woke policies that lead to such thinking. Violent crime has been rising. Homicides in major cities have reached levels not seen in three decades. Meanwhile, liberal policy makers treat criminals like victims and police officers like criminals. Antigun police units tasked with keeping illegal weapons off the streets have been disbanded. Felonies have been downgraded to misdemeanors, and misdemeanors go unpunished, which only emboldens miscreants. Low-income minorities feel the brunt of these so-called reforms because they are by far the most likely crime targets.

The same “defund the police” progressives who have spent most of the past decade undermining the ability of law enforcement to combat crime are now using sensational but statistically rare mass-shooting tragedies as a pretense for curtailing the ability of people in vulnerable communities to defend themselves. The president wants to ban “assault weapons,” raise the purchase age to 21, and expand background checks. There’s no evidence that any of this will address the day-in-day-out gun violence that has driven so many Americans to become first-time gun owners.

To be fair, it’s not meant to.

Plus: “The source of the problem is the failure or inability of the government to protect us. Common sense dictates that we do what is necessary to protect ourselves in the meantime. Only a fool or an ideologue could believe that the best response to people who commit crimes with guns is launching a holy war against people who respect gun laws.”

The government is less unable to protect its citizenry than unwilling to. Which is another reason to own guns.

TAKE NOTES: How The Virginia Project Helped Engineer the 2021 GOP Wins in Virginia.

DOMESTIC TERRORISM: Abortion Activists Firebomb Another Pro-Life Office.

Related: How the Left Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Domestic Terrorism: Biden DOJ asks judge to go easy on Ivy League firebombers.

They’ve never minded terrorism, so long as it’s by the left and against their enemies. They just want a monopoly.

APPEASING THE GREEN LOBBY AT YOUR EXPENSE: Biden Administration Quietly Raised Amount of Ethanol Required in Summer Blend Gasoline from Ten Percent to Fifteen, Three Predictable Problems Will Surface Soon.

Her’s the third issue:

“Ethanol is a valuable source of octane in finished gasoline, but it is chemically different than petroleum gasoline and cannot be used in concentrations above 10 percent in small engines — like outboard boat motors, motorcycles, lawnmowers, generators or chain saws — or in any cars made before 2001. Complicating matters further, most cars on the road today still aren’t warrantied to run on gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol. Retail stations also must have compatible infrastructure in order to sell gasoline with higher ethanol blends.” This issue is known within the industry as “The Blend Wall.”

Everything is going swimmingly.