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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Joe Biden’s Debate Tune-Up Is Alternately Pathetic and Hilarious. “I guess the litmus test will be that if he makes it through the entire debate and doesn’t collapse, huzzahs will echo all around the MSM and we will be repeatedly assured that the old boy is ready to go.”

AN EYE FOR AN EYE, MORE OR LESS: Louisiana Governor Signs Bill Authorizing Surgical Castration for Child Sex Offenders. “If an offender ‘fails to appear’ as required by court order for surgical castration, the offender may be charged and sentenced to three to five years in prison without the ‘benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence,’ according to the new law.”

CNN IS GARBAGE: Liberal Media Scream: CNN proves anti-Trump bias days before debate.

SORRY, LADIES, BUT YOU’RE AT LEAST TWO PLACES DOWN ON THE LEFT’S REVISED VICTIMHOOD SCALE: Bully Cyberstalks Lesbian Couple After They Questioned a Man in Women’s Room.

JOEL KOTKIN: The Space Race Gets Serious. “We are shifting from the early era of space exploration to a more serious phase extending ever further from Earth’s orbit, focused on key opportunities such as mining and manufacturing as well as military purposes. This newly expanded playing field will determine not only who rules in space, but who ends up dominating Earth. . . . The new post-terrestrial boom is just taking off — space industry global revenues are up tenfold since the early 2000s. The World Economic Forum projects that “by 2035, the space economy is set to reach $1.8 trillion, up from $630 billion in 2023 and averaging a growth rate of 9 percent per annum — a figure significantly above the growth rate of global GDP.” These new opportunities are supercharging a vast entrepreneurial surge that includes more than fifty players creating everything from launch facilities and launch service providers to reusable rockets, landers and vehicles. Space Foundation reports a workforce growth of nearly 5 percent in 2023; Moon landings are reaching their highest frequency since the early 1970s. The likely big play will occur once rockets, robots and humans begin developing industrial capacity in space — some estimates suggest this will reach a value of $10 billion by 2030.”

All is proceeding as I have foreseen.

WHY THE RESISTANCE IS THE CURIOUS THING:  At Real Clear Politics: Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto Released Despite FBI Resistance.

There would be an accidental correlation between trans and spree shooters (who almost always have issues) as a result of by policy pretty much telling everyone with issues that they are trans, and that trans remedies will fix them.  Just a thought.

WELL, IT IS AN ELECTION YEAR: Yellen announces $100 million affordable housing fund as shelter costs weigh on Biden.

“I expect that shelter inflation will moderate,” Yellen said at a speech in Minneapolis Monday afternoon. “But we face a very significant housing supply shortfall that has been building for a long time and this supply crunch has led to an affordability crisis.”

As part of its new actions, Treasury will provide $100 million over the next three years to finance affordable housing projects. It is also calling on several agencies that help finance housing to bolster their support for new development.

Yellen’s speech was part of a multi-day tour around Minnesota, that includes lunching with CEOs and holding roundtables with state housing officials.

While the president hunkers down at Camp David to prepare for Thursday’s debate, Yellen is among a slew of cabinet members who are making the rounds nationwide in an effort to promote the president’s economic agenda.

Biden got everything he wanted in his first two years. How’d that work out for ya?

BUT ONCE YOU DO KNOW, IT SEEMS KIND OF INEVITABLE, DOESN’T IT? I didn’t know that fat acceptance was part of what Pride month is about or that New York had something it wanted to call its “activism space.”

GAIN THREE YARDS OR FUMBLE: That’s an apt analogy for the division within the House GOP. Speaker Mike Johnson and most of his Republican colleagues realize all-or-nothing legislative Hail Marys don’t move the ball of conservative change down the field.

Reaching compromises can each move the ball three yards closer to the goal. That’s the reality Johnson must deal with in leading an historically tiny majority versus Joe Biden in the White House and the Senate Democratic majority.

POLITICS OVER SCIENCE: Unsealed Court Documents Show That Admiral Rachel Levine Pressured WPATH To Remove Age Guidelines From The Latest Standards Of Care.

When the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care Version 8 was released in September 2022, a very strange thing happened: WPATH removed references to minimum age requirements for various medical interventions, describing the change as a “correction” in a notice that now reads, weirdly: “This correction notice has been removed as it referred to a previous version of the article, which was published in error.” Whatever happened, exactly, it’s clear that until late in the game the document did have age minimums until, suddenly, it did not.

The SoC 8 was supposed to have been created via something called the Delphi process. As the document itself explains: “Consensus on the final recommendations was attained using the Delphi process that included all members of the guidelines committee and required that recommendation statements were approved by at least 75% of members.” Suffice it to say that making a sudden, major change so late in the game calls into question whether that process was fully adhered to.

Thanks to a rather remarkable document just unsealed as part of Boe v. Marshall, one of the many American lawsuits over youth gender medicine, we now have a potential explanation for why the age guidelines were removed: direct pressure from assistant secretary for health of the Department of Health and Human Services Admiral Rachel Levine (who is a trans woman herself) and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

There was more science behind the lobotomy craze, which this strongly resembles.

SOMETIMES THE SUNDAY PROMO POSTS END UP ON MONDAY:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

THAT’S DEM SENATOR MARK WARNER’S PHRASE, NOT MINE: Senate Dems Threaten ‘Tax Armageddon.’ “Washington has a spending problem, and Democrats aren’t shy about how to solve it: tax us poor bastards back to the Stone Age.”

PAULA BOLYARD: The Most Important Supreme Court Case You’ve Probably Never Heard Of. “Make no mistake: Public bureaucrats are terrified that Chevron could ‘fall’ and curtail the immense power they now hold. Understand that this is all about power and who should have it.”

JIM TREACHER: “Every day in 2024, there’s an explosion of anti-Jew hatred somewhere in America. And all the people who claim to care about what happened in Charlottesville seven years ago are turning a blind eye. Because this time, it’s all on their side.”

INDEED:  On education, the proof (or lack thereof) is in the pudding.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN AN TAKE A LONG WALK OFF A SHORT PIER:  Scientific American calls for federal regulation of homeschool families.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED! THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE!  Weird: DeSantis signed a law requiring hospitals to ask patients about immigration status and suddenly Medicaid spending on illegal immigrants plummeted.

BUREAUCRATS AND THEIR RELATIVES ARE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO STYMIE REFORM/CHANGE. THAT’S BAD:  The #Resistance is Coming.

PROPOSAL TO BAN NON-ALCOHOLIC BEER BECAUSE IT’S A GATEWAY TO DRINKING ALCOHOLIC BEER:  Will Banning Nonalcoholic Beer Save the Children?

MORE PUBLICITY ABOUT THE PALESTINE CHRONICLE WOULD BE GOOD:  A Hamas-linked newspaper is accusing me of defamation.

FEAR! FIRE! FOES! AWAKE!  Alabama Secretary of State says welfare agencies giving illegal immigrants voter registration forms under Biden executive order. [VIDEO]

CHASER:  How non-citizens are getting voter registration forms across the US — and how Republicans are trying to stop it.

BIGGEST LOSERS, BOEING AND THE TALKING MOP:  Own Goals.

IN FAIRNESS, THAT THE PRC RUSHED TO BLAME THE US ARMY EARLY ON PROBABLY IS EVIDENCE THAT THE PRC RESEARCH WAS NOT DIRECTLY FUNDED BY THE DOD:  DOD Inspector General Not Sure If We Spent $50 Million in Chinese Labs for Gain-of-Function Research.

FREEING THE H1B SLAVES WOULD BE A GOOD THING, BUT IT IS A BIT RISIBLE TO GENERALLY DESCRIBE IVY LEAGUE GRADUATES AS A POSITIVE:  Trump Promises Green Cards to All Foreign College Graduates.