BECAUSE THE POLITICAL NECESSITIES CHANGED. NEXT QUESTION? The CDC (Finally) Admitted the Science on Natural Immunity. Why Did It Take so Long?

DEAL OF THE DAY: TEROMAS Tire Inflator Air Compressor. #CommissionEarned

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Lefties Beg, ‘Fauci, I Wish I Knew How to Quit You!’ “The Left’s unending obsession with Anthony Fauci, even as he retires, is this week’s big crazy.”

Plus:

• Portland just got stabbed with a whole lot of unexpectedlies
• Gavin Newsom did the right thing for once… and I can tell you why
• Take the TikTok Endurance Challenge!

So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

U.S. IS NOT ‘OVER-POLICED:’ It’s a familiar refrain from liberals – the United States are over-policed compared to Europe. Well, Hans Bader of Liberty Unyielding took a look at the facts and guess what, libs? You’re wrong again.

SCIENCE! Chicago children’s hospital admits reliance on ‘anecdotal evidence’ for treatment of ‘trans’ youth.

CULTURE OF GREED: Higher education continues to increase tuition despite record-breaking donations: As colleges rake in more donations than ever before, they are still raising tuition and student fees.

REVEALED: Biden White House Directly Involved in Conspiracy to Entrap Trump in Criminal FBI Probe.

A BLOW AGAINST RACIAL SEGREGATION AND BIGOTRY: UChicago retracts no-whites allowed med school stipend program.

THE MIRACLE OF THE HUMAN HEART: Did you know that with every contraction your heart pumps 100 billion red blood cells throughout the hundreds of miles of capillaries within your body? And if you live to be 80 years old, your heart will have contracted about 2 billion times?

And those two items are just a tiny sample of an amazing host of fascinating facts about the human heart, as described by Discovery Institute biologist and M.D., Michael Denton on HillFaith today. So put aside the evolution vs God debate for a moment, watch the 3:50 video and then ask yourself how it could be that we are each born with one of these?

ALL BUBBLES POP: Home Sellers Are Slashing Prices in Pandemic Boomtowns. “Redfin found that 70% of homes for sale in Boise, Idaho, had their price cut in July, the highest share of 97 metros.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump Punches Back at Latest Failed Dem Fishing Expedition. “The White House has spent the last couple of weeks polishing halos and insisting that Team Joe had nothing to do with the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago fishing raid. Once again, the Dems were lying.”

THE BORDER IS SECURE. THE BORDER IS SECURE. THE …: Uh, no, the border is not secure and no matter how many times Biden and his minions say it is, the reality is, according to Issues & Insights and everybody else will even minimal common sense, the U.S. border with Mexico is effectively wide open.

TWITTER LIED, THE INTERNET DIED: “Twitter executives deceived federal regulators and the company’s own board of directors about ‘extreme, egregious deficiencies’ in its defenses against hackers as well as its meager efforts to fight spam, according to an explosive whistleblower complaint from its former security chief.”

It’s going to come out that it’s over 50% bots — and that Twitter knew it but went along to make the user numbers look better.

HE’S BETTER THAN DE BLASIO, BUT THE GOOD NEWS STOPS THERE: Mayor Eric Adams whacks ‘silly’ NY Times as questions grow on how he funds party lifestyle.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: In Retirement, Fauci Will Collect $350,000 a Year… From You.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: US NatGas Hits 14-Year-High, EU Benchmarks Explode Higher.

HMM: Pollsters are just beginning to test the early primary and caucus states for the 2024 vote, and it’s not looking great for either President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump.

SOCIALIST STORIES USUALLY DO: Socialist CEO Dan Price’s story takes a dark turn. “Perhaps the most interesting part of the NY Times report is that it really doesn’t shy away from the idea that Price used his fame as a social justice campaigner to make contact with nearly all of the women who accuse him of assault. One alleged victim, a left-wing activist, even described it as painful that Price is ‘the poster child for this politics that I really care about.'”

Do tell.

MARY KATHARINE HAM REVIEWS THE STOLEN YEAR: “The Stolen Year acknowledges the public schools’ COVID failures but refuses to hold anyone responsible. . . . Twelve years after he was acquitted of murder, O.J. Simpson and a ghostwriter penned a book called If I Did It. I was reminded of that when The Stolen Year arrived on my doorstep. A chronicling of the horrors wrought by COVID policies that kept American kids from their school buildings and childhood milestones for more than a year, this book was written by someone at the scene of the crime, intimate with the gory details, and ultimately uninterested in reckoning with who was responsible for it. This is a whodunnit without a culprit.”

Plus: “It seemed like depraved indifference to children’s welfare.”

NO, HE’LL TRIPLE DOWN ON STUPID: Will China’s Latest Energy Rationing Kill Biden’s Green Dreams? “While Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tells Americans to buy an electric vehicle, batteries and other essential components may soon be in even shorter supply than they are now.”

HMM: Chinese military ship leaves Sri Lanka after controversial visit.

I wonder if this has any connection to Sri Lanka’s arrest of protesters.

MARK JUDGE: Abortion and the Arts. “We won the Cold War and overturned Roe. Watching Ben Shapiro annihilate college students is fun, but it’s now time to do something different. The response to cancel culture is not just counterpunching, but creating the kind of questing, beautiful, and provocative art that Hollywood is too scared to attempt anymore. We’ve won the arguments. Now it’s time for the hard part – creating culture.”

DEAL OF THE DAY: Vabogu 12×42 Binoculars for Adults. #CommissionEarned

SPENDING YOUR MONEY TO GET OTHER PEOPLE TO SPEND MORE OF YOUR MONEY: FCC visits Denver to tout free internet subsidy that 80% of eligible Coloradans are ignoring. “The federal Affordable Connectivity Program provides $30 to $75 a month to low-income households to pay for broadband. Colorado’s 20% participation rate is lower than the nation’s.”

WE HAVE A LESS-DRAMATIC — BUT STILL DRAMA-FILLED — VERSION OF THAT GOING ON AT TENNESSEE: Paranoia and Pastels at Bama Rush: Fears about TikTok and rumors of a secret documentary swirl around sorority rush week at the University of Alabama.

There’s even some sort of kerfuffle over a Tik Tok video, though I’m hazy on the details and content to remain that way. But sororities at Bama are a much bigger thing.