YOU’RE GONNA NEED A MUCH BIGGER BLOG: Reasons Never to Vote Democrat Again, Vol. I: COVID Tyranny Must Be Punished.

COVID HAMMERED HIGHER EDUCATION WITH A RAIN OF SELF-INFLICTED BLOWS: REPORT: Universities compounded the student mental health crisis during the pandemic.

JONATHAN TURLEY: “With the start of classes at George Washington Law School, I have already had visits to my office of conservative and libertarian students asking if I thought they could speak freely in other classes without being penalized by professors. Despite teaching for decades, it is a question that I never heard from students until the last few years. It is now routine.”

On the upside, here at the University of Tennessee, the Federalist Society interest meeting packed a large auditorium — I was told that it drew as many people as the Law Women intro meeting, which has a natural constituency of about half the student body.

LAUGHING WOLF’S NUCLEAR WAR PRIMER CONTINUES WITH Nuclear 201: Will You Be My PAL?

CLARICE FELDMAN: About that ‘Greenhouse Gas’ Provision… “If you write a news story about a significant piece of legislation relying heavily on its proponents—or worse, your own ideological interests—you are likely to overstate their victory. That is precisely what the New York Times did when it contended recently that the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act explicitly [gave] the EPA the authority to regulate greenhouse gases.”

THIS IS, OF COURSE, TRUE AND OBVIOUSLY SO: Hunter Biden laptop ignored because of media ‘conspiracy’ to ‘get rid’ of Trump: Bill Maher. And by doing so they helped to install an obviously unfit president, whose inept and corrupt administration is doing enormous harm to America and the world. Then they bragged about it, though of late they seem eager to change the subject.

Related:

● Majority see FBI as Biden’s ‘personal Gestapo’ after Trump raid.

● Zuckerberg Alleges FBI Warned Facebook of ‘Russian Propaganda’ Before Hunter Laptop Story Broke.

● The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.

THE ANTHONY FAUCI STORY: Single Point of Failure.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Elon Musk Just Can’t Quit Fossil Fuels Yet. “Musk is so loathed by leftists these days because he dares speak the truth about their various sacred cows and he’s too rich to cancel.”

THE MESSAGE BEING SENT IS THAT ONLY DEMOCRAT-APPROVED GROUPS MAY DEMONSTRATE: Latest J6 rioter gets nearly five years for “encountering.” “The next defendant to face the music for his heinous crimes was Joshua Pruitt, a 40-year-old Maryland man who entered the Capitol Building during the course of the riot. Pruitt received very special attention from both the Department of Justice and the press because of his alleged ‘affiliation’ with the Proud Boys. He also holds the distinction of being the only rioter to come within visual distance of a Senator, specifically Chuck Schumer. While nothing actually happened during that ‘encounter’ (as the Associated Press puts it), he was given 55 months in prison and three years of supervised release. As usual, we will review the details of what Pruitt actually did or did not do.”

Plus:

I included the third paragraph in the excerpt above to demonstrate the melodrama on display by the prosecution and the press, but the underlying substance of the charge is pretty much nonexistent. Based on the descriptions offered by the prosecution, Pruitt attended the rally at the White House on January 6 and then made his way to the Capitol complex. He arrived during a lull after the initial rioters broke through the windows and doors, but before the Capitol Hill Police established lines with riot shields to keep more people from entering. Pruitt basically just walked in unimpeded.

A big deal is being made of Pruitt’s “association” with the Proud Boys and he was apparently a fan and had exchanged social media messages with some of them. But he was not in Washington as part of some planned Proud Boys attack squadron. So what did he do when he got inside? He began walking around. Then, at one point, he reached a hallway where Chuck Schumer was being escorted through by his armed security guard. (That emphasized bit is important.) Upon seeing the group, Pruitt began walking – not running – toward them.

That’s when Schumer’s detail hit the panic button, later testifying that “one look” at Pruitt was all it took to “see the threat.” We should note at this point that Joshua Pruitt was unarmed. He didn’t even have a pole to try to hit anyone with as Mark Ponder did, getting a slightly longer sentence than Pruitt for his efforts. No words were exchanged between Schumer’s detail and Joshua Pruitt. The armed detail simply rushed Schumer away from the unarmed, middle-aged, casually strolling pedestrian, went through another door and locked it behind them. Pruitt turned around and walked down another hallway before leaving the complex.

That was it. That was the entire event. Nobody reported seeing Joshua Pruitt do anything other than walking around for a while. And he “encountered” Chuck Schumer, who he did not recognize. Did he trespass inside the Capitol Hill complex? He most certainly did. Pruitt basically did the same thing that Stephen Colbert’s production crew did last month, and they were most certainly doing their level best to “encounter” Marjorie Taylor Greene. Of course, Colbert’s crew was released without bail and no charges were filed.

More banana republic stuff, like what’s being done by the CCP to Jimmy Lai, courtesy of our corrupt, thuggish ruling class, which seems to view the CCP as a role model.

SAY ANYTHING: Here’s the White House’s Excuse for Why Biden’s Been Ignoring Israel’s Calls.

“Prime Minister Yair Lapid has requested a meeting with US President Joe Biden during his visit to the US for the UN General Assembly next month,” The Post reported, “amid deep concern in Jerusalem over an impending nuclear deal between Washington and Tehran.”

Evidently, “Lapid hopes to meet with Biden on September 20, the day that the US president is set to address the General Assembly,” but no meeting has yet been confirmed — but it’s worse than that. “Lapid has yet to be able to speak to Biden on the phone, despite recent advances in Iran talks, according to multiple sources,” The Post noted.

That is, America’s greatest ally in the Middle East can’t even get Joe Biden on the phone as the White House works — through Russia, lest we forget — to negotiate a massive payday for the Iranian regime and more normal relations between the tyrannical regime and the rest of the world.

It really is Obama’s third term.

ENDORSED: What’s good for beer should be good for bourbon. Make home distilling legal.

The prohibition on home distilling creates an artificial barrier to entry to budding entrepreneurs who want to perfect their distilling skills at home. It also turns everyday citizens into felons simply for engaging in an activity that is lawful for industry titans, but not for them.

Fortunately, the craft beer industry provides a policy template that home distillers ought to be allowed to use moving forward. After prohibition ended in 1933, home brewing, much like home distilling, remained illegal. Only those permitted to operate could make and sell beer. This was the case until October 14, 1978, when President Jimmy Carter signed a bill legalizing the practice of home brewing. Many breweries that are now established institutions got their start in basements or garages, experimenting with unique techniques and flavors, thanks to the legalization of homebrewing. The craft spirits industry could find itself in a similar situation if proper reforms were made.

I agree.

YOU MAY CALL HER A DREAMER: Marjorie Taylor Greene doubles down on fighting transgender surgeries for minors.

Hey, the science is on her side: After Proclaiming The Opposite, Medical Pros Quietly Admit Mutilating Trans Kids Doesn’t Fix Depression.

Why are her opponents anti-science?

YOUR LAWN IS ZOMBIE BOOMERISM: Let’s see, I’m a Boomer, my dad had me pushing the lawn mower at about age 10, and I never once heard him say how proud he was to have such verdant, expansive proof of his privilege and power. Now along comes the Washington Post to explain it all.

LINCOLN BROWN: And Justice for Some. “The problem of power is what drove people to Trump in 2016, and is one reason why so many people remain so solidly behind him, warts and all. And while selective justice may not be germane to the subject of the Mar-A-Lago raid, the American people ignore it at their peril.”

SHE’S “THE POLICE” LIKE ANTHONY FAUCI IS “SCIENCE:” Val Demings Says ‘I Am The Police.’ Florida Sheriffs Say That’s Ridiculous.

Florida Democratic Senate nominee Val Demings says she can’t be criticized on crime because she is “the police.” Sunshine State sheriffs say that’s ridiculous.

As a former Orlando police chief, Demings says she’s inherently immune to attacks from Florida’s law enforcement community: “I don’t just support the police. I am the police,” the Democrat said during an Aug. 17 interview. Roughly a week later, active Florida sheriffs are ridiculing that comment.

Marion County sheriff Billy Woods told the Washington Free Beacon Demings “uses her title as chief to further her political agenda” but “certainly doesn’t use it to back law enforcement when she votes,” a move Woods called “shameful.” Brevard County sheriff Wayne Ivey, meanwhile, said Demings “took an oath to protect and serve, an oath she somehow forgot when she went to Washington and decided to vote with Nancy Pelosi 100 percent of the time.” And for Bradford County sheriff Gordon Smith, Demings has made clear during her “six years in Washington” that she “is no longer the police and didn’t have our backs when it counted most.”

“As a law enforcement officer, I made a promise to my community to protect and serve,” Smith said. “Our representatives in Washington promise to support us in that mission, but Val Demings has failed to live up to that promise.”

Demings did not return a request for comment.

Of course not.

OH: Warning sign? NASA never finished a fueling test before today’s SLS launch attempt.

Space is hard, certainly. But Monday’s attempt—which NASA had promoted heavily by inviting celebrities to the launch and which included a visit by Vice President Kamala Harris—was perhaps a bit rushed. Why? Because NASA rolled a rocket out to launch without accounting for all of the things that could go wrong.
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Beginning in April of this year, NASA conducted four separate “wet dress rehearsal” tests during which the agency aimed to fully fuel the SLS rocket and countdown to T-10 seconds, ending the test before ignition of the main engines. Each of these four tests ultimately ended prematurely, although the fourth attempt in June saw engineers bring the rocket down to T-29 seconds.

However, to reach that late stage in the countdown, NASA had to “fool” the flight computer. During the test, a 4-inch hydrogen line—smaller than the problematic 8-inch line on Monday—had a leaky seal. To complete the wet dress test, NASA chose to mask the leak from the ground launch sequencer, the ground-side computer that controls the majority of the countdown.

Because of this masking, NASA could not complete the engine chill portion of the test. Had it done so, the agency may well have uncovered the problem that caused a scrub on Monday. In hindsight, therefore, NASA probably should have completed a full wet dress rehearsal before rolling the rocket out for a launch.

Well, yes.

WELL: CNN: Biden’s Academia bailout masks the real problem.

Related: Paul Begala: What the hell is my party thinking with this student loan forgiveness plan?

Meanwhile, now that we have a bidding war for votes:

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Matt Margolis: Complications From Gender Transition Surgeries Are Being Covered Up. “There are other disturbing complications, which we’ve previously covered here at PJ Media. But aside from the medical complications, the link between these surgeries and suicide is also being ignored.”

Athena Thorne: Billionaires Are Building Fascinating Cities of the Future. “In fact, if liberals want to isolate themselves away in the desert and leave the rest of us alone, who are we to complain? Just so long as they stay in their shining 3-D future cities and stop trying to assimilate everyone else in America.”

Yours Truly: The Pity of War, Ukraine Edition. “The real pity of the conflict is that in a slightly better world, this war would never have happened — for very real reasons, easily explained.”

FROM LAURA MONTGOMERY:  Sleeping Duty: Waking Late. #CommissionEarned

A lost starship. A lost colony. A cryo-frozen space marine.

Gilead Tan and Andrea Fielding survived their stint in the military, got married, signed up to emigrate to a terraformed colony world, and went into cold sleep for the journey from Earth. While they slept, the starship went through the wrong fold in space and settled for a different world, a wild world.

Three centuries after the founding of a colony on the uncharted planet, Gilead awakens to find humanity slipped back to medieval tech and a feudal structure.

Worse, the king who wants Gilead awake won’t let Gilead awaken his wife.

When Gilead learns the awful truth of what happened in the colony’s early days, he despairs. But he must learn to go on because only he can save the other sleeping colonists whose lives the king insists belong to “the greater good.”

Sleeping Duty is the first book in the immersive Waking Late science fiction series. If you like gripping action, insurmountable odds, and alien worlds, you’ll love this rugged adventure.

MCWHORTER IS A REAL SCHOLAR. KENDI NOT SO MUCH. Ibram Kendi attacks John McWhorter’s latest column on standardized tests for licensing.

THEY’RE LUCKY THE LAND OWNERS DIDN’T JUST HIDE IT, WHICH IS NORMAL:  Europe’s largest dinosaur skeleton may have been hiding in a Portuguese backyard.

WELL, IT’S ALL THOSE ALIENS DRIVING AROUN– WHAT?  James Webb Space Telescope Captures Evidence of Carbon Dioxide on Exoplanet.

WELL, WE CAN HOPE:  Artemis 1 Launch Starts Us Back To The Moon.

YES, WELL, TEH GRAUNIAD WOULDN’T KNOW REALITY IF IT BIT THEM IN THE FLESHY PART OF THEIR POSTERIOR:  The Guardian Accuses the Woke Aussie Government of “Climate Denial”.

They’re deep in reality-denial. And yes, they once misspelled their own name. Which I have vowed they shall never live down.

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