MOSTLY LEARNING FROM FAILURE, ALAS: Ten Months of Lessons from the Red Sea. “Since the Houthi joined a second front with the Gazans against Israel by attacking international shipping in the Red Sea and its approaches, the US Navy has led the international response and has been engaged in continuous combat operations facing almost all anti-ship weapons that any navy would expect to face in 2024.”

VIDEO: Blue Origin New Glenn Status and Factory Tour. I want Blue Origin to be successful, but at this point I need them to show me something.

CORN, POPPED:

NEW: The security perimeter at the DNC is an absolute joke. I've been waved through without showing ID, badge, pass, wristband, or anything.

Walked from the inner perimeter to the outer gate without so much as a glance.

This is just silly. pic.twitter.com/EXrmpHgrjU

— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) August 19, 2024

Plus: “At least their border policies are somewhat consistent.“

COPY EDITORS? WHAT COPY EDITORS?

This is what happens when you airdrop a candidate who received zero votes and delegates. 🤷 https://t.co/1DShi1p4v5

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) August 19, 2024

READER FAVORITE: Kitchen Mama Auto Electric Can Opener. #CommissionEarned

WELL, THEY COULDN’T RISK ENCOUNTERING THE REALITY OF WORKING-CLASS TRUMP SUPPORT WHILE KAMALA WAS POSING AS A WORKING CLASS HERO:

Everything about the Harris campaign is fake.

Prior to her stop at Primanti’s (the PA sandwich chain), every single customer was kicked out and replaced with actors.

pic.twitter.com/zJ15D6jcM2

— John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) August 19, 2024

Related:

Not a single store in Milwaukee boarded up their businesses when thousands of Republicans came to the RNC.

These business owners are boarding up ahead of the DNC.

Why are Democrats always so violent? pic.twitter.com/jOz8ciX80I

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 18, 2024

Flashback: Working-class people of color hate the riots the lefty elite keeps cheering.

Plus: You can tell it’s a working-class election by the lies Harris and Walz choose to tell.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why We Practice. “Over the years, I have tried to find ways to get the most out of my practice sessions. I quickly found that marathon sessions, spending hours as the shooting range, were generally a waste of time. Short sessions, where I really focus, seem to be the most productive.”

This is my approach. It works pretty well. I’m a competent, but not brilliant, shooter.

WELL, HE SHOULD: John Fetterman Has No Regrets.

In the months following October 7, Fetterman has become the bête noire of progressive activists who have booed him outside the Capitol; descended on his home in Braddock, Pennsylvania; and who have demonstrated outside his Philadelphia office every Friday for months chanting, “Let Gaza live,” and “Cease-fire now.” Online they call him “Genocide John.”

In his conversation with Peter, Fetterman insisted none of this bothered him. But apparently they bother a member of his staff.

After his interview with the senator, Peter’s phone rang. It was Fetterman’s communications director, Carrie Adams, who wanted to make clear that she doesn’t agree with her boss on Israel and Gaza.

“I have a sense that his international views are a lot less nuanced than my generation, because when he was growing up, it was might makes right, and for my generation and younger who, of course, are the ones protesting this, they have a much more nuanced view of the region,” said the 30-something Adams of the 55-year-old senator.

It was an astonishing moment. As Peter writes, “I’ve been a reporter since the summer of 1998, when I covered Bill Clinton’s trip to Martha’s Vineyard for the Vineyard Gazette. This was the first time I’d ever encountered anyone—on Capitol Hill or anywhere else, on the record, off the record, on background, whatever—criticizing ‘the principal.’”

Fetterman should regret hiring Adams and express it by firing her.

CORN, POPPED: Cops Are Calling in Sick: Will DNC Violence Be Worse Than 1968?

READER FAVORITE: Kiehl’s Ultra Facial Cream with SPF 30. #CommissionEarned

YOU DON’T SAY: Majority of antisemitic incidents committed by leftists, not Islamists or neo-Nazis, research finds. “The weekly Global Antisemitism Report published by the Combat Antisemitism Movement analyzed 113 incidents that targeted Jewish victims worldwide and found that 57.5% of the perpetrators were identified as far leftists, 22.1% of them were Islamists, 11.5% were unknown and 8.9% were done by far-right extremists.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Methamphetamine-involved psychiatric hospitalizations have increased, study says.

STRATEGIC DISDAIN: Kursk Is Ukraine’s Middle Finger to Biden.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Rocket Report: ULA is losing engineers; SpaceX is launching every two days.

IRELAND:

Media silence after Islamist terrorist stabs Catholic priest in Ireland

Last Thursday, a 16-y-old boy stabbed Fr Paul Murphy multiple times at Renmore Barracks in Galway, where he serves as an army chaplain

Severly wounded, he was saved by soldiers who overpowered the attacker pic.twitter.com/a1eH0PQ6ve

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 19, 2024

It’s the Irish that the Irish authorities are worried will get stirred up.

WHEN THE BILL FOR THE GRIFT COMES DUE: Clean Fuel Startups Were Supposed to Be the Next Big Thing. Now They Are Collapsing: Hydrogen and biofuel projects have become money pits, threatening climate progress.

Startups promising to power planes, ships and trucks with clean fuel are sputtering before they get off the ground, showing how hard it will be to wean many industries off oil and gas.

A company backed by United Airlines that raised hundreds of millions of dollars to turn trash into jet fuel appears to have shut down. Another, backed by Airbus, JetBlue and GE Aerospace, that was working on using hydrogen to power planes went bust. Chevron, BP and Shell, meanwhile, are scaling back projects to make biofuels from cooking fats, oils, greases and plant material.

“The excitement of the early days has not lived up to the hype,” said Andy Marsh, chief executive of Plug Power, a startup that recently opened one of the country’s first plants making green hydrogen, a potential replacement for fossil fuels in industries such as steel making and chemical production.

Shares of Plug Power have tumbled more than 90% since the passage of the U.S. climate law two years ago. Shares of biofuels startup Gevo, where Marsh is a board member, are down about 80% in that span.

The failures and delays are all but extinguishing the early optimism after the climate law passed. Rising costs have pushed out project timelines and made it more difficult for companies to raise money. The government’s delays in completing tax credits are adding to the challenges.

Without clean fuels, emissions at many companies are expected to keep climbing, threatening U.S. and global climate targets. Industries including aviation and shipping are counting on the new fuels because wind and solar power and batteries can’t meet their huge energy needs.

Emissions are the least. If the greens had practiced sound science and replaced coal with nuclear plants 40 years ago, we’d have plenty of cheap power and a cleaner environment.

THERE’S A REASON HER 2020 CAMPAIGN RAN OUT OF GAS BEFORE IOWA: Kamala Reboots Biden’s Gas Station Visit, And It Was Bad.

HE’S NOT WRONG:

Make it to the Olympics and be the 12th best swimmer out of 8 billion people in the world, and you win nothing.

Be the 12th best plumber in a city of 1 million people, and you are set for life.

Life is a game. Be careful which games you play.

— Brandon Avedikian (@bavedikian) August 4, 2024

AS WITH ANY GOVERNMENT PROGRAM, SPENDING MORE DOESN’T ALWAYS MAKE THINGS BETTER, AND CAN IN FACT MAKE THINGS WORSE: Searching for the military Laffer Curve: More May Not Be Better.

THAT DOESN’T SOUND VERY NORDIC BUT THE ARTICLE FINALLY USES THE WORD “IMMIGRATION” IN THE 13TH GRAF: Norway increasingly concerned by Swedish gangs.

BIDEN’S BACK, BABY! Or not, but still, this is embarrassing:

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): They really do seem to be phoning it in this year. It’s like the whole A-Team found something else to do.

HOW BAD IS THE BIDEN/HARRIS ECONOMY? THIS BAD: NY Times: Abortion Clinics Everywhere Are Going Broke. “A couple weeks ago there was some surprising news out of New York. Planned Parenthood announced it would stop doing late-term abortions (those after 20 weeks) and also planned to close four clinics in the state. The problem in New York wasn’t the legality of their business, it was the profitability. PP’s president wrote in an opinion piece that because of inflation they were in trouble unless the state started directing more public money their way. Today, the NY Times published a follow-up in the business section which makes the case that the business of abortion is not going well almost anywhere you look around the country. The story recounts the experience of a clinic in Washington DC which tried to expand in the Los Angeles area. It didn’t go well.”

Next Kamala campaign move: Blame pro-lifers for inflation.

YEP: For a Democrat, the American heartland’s normalcy is a terrifying dystopia.

WELL, CHELSEA HANDLER:

Liberal White women are batsht crazy.

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) August 18, 2024

YOU GOTTA LOVE THE TIMING: House Committees Release Bombshell Impeachment Inquiry Report