LIMITED TIME DEAL: ecozy Portable Countertop Ice Maker. #CommisisonEarned

THAT’S NICE. BUT HOW IS NEW GLENN COMING ALONG? ‘One of the cleanest flights I’ve seen.’ Blue Origin launches 6 people to space, lands safely on NS-26 flight. “As the mission’s name suggests, NS-26 was the 26th flight overall for New Shepard. The mission launched atop the company’s New Shepard rocket, Blue Origin’s reusable rocket-capsule combo. It was the eighth such mission to carry people.”

Meanwhile: Blue Origin targets mid-October for New Glenn’s inaugural flight and launch of NASA’s Escapade Mars mission. “Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that the company recently suffered two failures at its factory that resulted in damage to hardware for its second and third New Glenn flights. But, a spokesperson told the publication that it’s still on track for this year’s inaugural launch.”

Fingers crossed.

FACT-CHECKERS FACT-CHECKED: Issues & Insights digs into the claim of Vice-President Kamala Harris that she worked her way through undergraduate college by working for McDonald’s. Also, check out how during a recent Pittsburgh photo op at a local restaurant “Harris shoved aside real working-class folks so she could pretend to rub elbows with the hoi palloi.”

And while we’re on the subject of fact-checkers, Wintery Knight takes a deep-dive into Politifact’s record and what he found isn’t pretty

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Kamala Harris IS Election Interference. “For most of this effort, Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, Juan Merchan, Letitia James, and Fani Willis were the primary drivers of this mentally unsound clown car crusade. The faces of the leftist jihad, if you will. There’s a new player in town as of late: Vice President Kamala Harris.”

THAT’S NO WAY TO END A WAR: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment. “Multiple reports from Western media indicate that the US government is prohibiting the United Kingdom (UK) from allowing Ukraine to use Storm Shadow missiles to strike military targets in Russia. The Financial Times (FT) reported on August 27 that a source familiar with the matter stated that Ukraine’s use of British and French Storm Shadows may require access to American intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance in areas where Russian forces are jamming the GPS signals that the missiles use for targeting. FT reported that “well-placed” sources stated that the UK government sent a request to both the US and France earlier in summer 2024 to grant Ukraine permission to use Western-provided weapons to strike military targets in Russia, and French President Emmanuel Macron stated in May 2024 that Ukraine should be allowed to strike military sites in Russia from which Russian forces attack Ukraine.”

#SCHOLARS: Scholars panel tells radiologists: Don’t call first-trimester babies ‘living.’

FINALLY: With Nothing More Pressing on Its Agenda, Illinois Wants a New State Flag.

#SCIENCE: NSF grants LSU $4.5 million for ‘equity center’ to study alleged bias against minority faculty members.

WELL, DAMN. This new ad from RFK, Jr.

BREAKING 🚨

RFK Jr’s team just released this ad about TDS.

This is hilarious!! pic.twitter.com/HIuEssRc1f

— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) August 29, 2024

POLARIS DAWN DELAY UPDATE:

I wanted to share some updates:

– The primary factor driving the launch timing for Polaris Dawn is the splashdown weather within Dragon's limits. Unlike an ISS mission, we don’t have the option to delay long on orbit, so we must ensure the forecast is as favorable as possible… pic.twitter.com/3cKEjjVqvC

— Jared Isaacman (@rookisaacman) August 29, 2024

TRUTH:

Kamala’s interview last night was a reminder that we’re not running against a candidate. We’re running against a *system*. They require a candidate they can control, which means having original ideas is a disqualification. That’s exactly why we get Biden, then Kamala, and so on.

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) August 30, 2024

AT AMAZON, Shop the Labor Day Sale. #CommissionEarned

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: NPR Offers Up Two More Great Reasons to Nuke Its Taxpayer Funding. “With a wink and a nudge — and a truckload of horse manure — the dutiful lapdogs have just implicated Donald Trump in what was solely a Biden-Harris debacle.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Just a reminder that most of NPR’s taxpayer money doesn’t come from federal appropriations. It comes from money affiliates pay for its programming. Those affiliates are usually run by state universities, and if you want to cut the money you need to work at the state level to get those affiliates to stop subscribing to NPR content.

I MISSED THIS YESTERDAY BUT IT DOESN’T SOUND LIKE GOOD NEWS:

BREAKING: Dollar General PLUMMETS 26% in the premarket and is now DOWN ~70% from its 2022 highs

DG follows a wave of struggling retailers seeing their stock plummet

Most notably, Walgreens is trading at ~$9 a share, down ~90% from their all time highs 🤯 pic.twitter.com/Ax7DzrppYs

— Triple Net Investor (@TripleNetInvest) August 29, 2024

Neither does this:

JUST IN: Big Lots is reportedly considering filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy 😢

Stock is down 27% in the pre-market… pic.twitter.com/WXfkWdZQ0x

— Triple Net Investor (@TripleNetInvest) August 29, 2024

SLOUCHING TOWARDS WORLD WAR III: Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels, UN says. “The IAEA chief, Rafael Mariano Grossi, has previously warned that Tehran has enough uranium enriched to near-weapons-grade levels to make ‘several’ nuclear bombs if it chose to do so. He has acknowledged the U.N. agency cannot guarantee that none of Iran’s centrifuges may have been peeled away for clandestine enrichment.”

WELL, HE WASN’T WRONG: Trump raged about ‘plot’ by Zuckerberg to topple him in 2020 in new book.

ROBERT SPENCER: Harris Woos Christians With a Cleric Who Is Just What You’d Expect Her to Be. “In a Wednesday interview with Religion News Service, Butler insists that she can be a ‘bridge-builder’ between patriotic and leftist Christians. For her, this seems to mean bringing Christians together around a shared hatred of the Bad Orange Man.”

Love thy neighbor. Unless he’s a Republican.

OH, DRY UP YOU COMMIE: Kamala’s Criminal Justice Reform Comrade Accused Israel and America of ‘Apartheid’ in Fiery Sermon After Hamas Attack: The Rev. Frederick Haynes has also praised anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan as a ‘wonderful and great man.’

CRISIS BY DESIGN: Expert blasts Biden admin for reviving immigration program shut down for ‘mass fraud’: All about ‘optics.’

The comment comes as the Biden administration reportedly looks to revive a program that has allowed tens of thousands of migrants from four nations to fly directly into the U.S. despite the program being paused last month for what NBC News reported as “mass fraud.”

The program allowed migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to apply for entry and temporary work authorization with the support of a sponsor who pledged to financially back the migrants once they arrived in the United States.

But the program was “temporarily paused” last month to allow the Department of Homeland Security to conduct “a review of supporter applications” of “sponsors,” with an initial review finding that 3,218 of the roughly 101,000 applications were filed by “serial sponsors” who raise suspicion by sponsoring several migrants from the same street addresses, IP addresses or phone numbers.

The White House has promised more “fraud checks” this time around but that’s a laugh.

RON HART: Kamala Wants To Raise Taxes Even Though Biden Admin Wastes Billions.

OUR POLITICAL CLASS WOULD LIKE TO JAIL MUSK JUST FOR OPPOSING THEM, AND EVEN MORE FOR MOCKING THEM: Is Durov a New Assange? Or Is Musk the Next Durov? The Durov Affair reveals that society is shifting from “a revolt of the public” to a digital “big state.”

WHICH SHE’LL USE AS ANOTHER JUSTIFICATION FOR PACKING THE COURT: Harris’s $5 Trillion Tax Plan Includes a Probably Unconstitutional Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains.

REMEMBER IN COMMUNIST COUNTRY REPORTING THE TRUTH IS SEDITIOUS:  Hong Kong journalists found guilty of sedition in landmark case.

BOB GRABOYES: The Super-Definitive Ranking of Presidents: A 100% totally Scientific™ cost-benefit analysis of all 45 U.S. presidents. “Two recent BW posts (“Polls, Pols, and Poli-Sci” and “Presidential Prodigiousness Potpourri”) lambasted the Bizarro World of presidential rankings from the 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey. Some of the more ludicrous findings are summarized/caricatured in the graphic above. Several readers asked me to offer my own rankings. I can’t do a 1-through-45 list, but I can lump them into five tiers: (T#1) highly positive, (T#2) somewhat positive, (T#3) neutral, (T#4) somewhat negative, and (T#5) highly negative.”

UPHOLDING THE STANDARDS OF OUR IVY LEAGUE:  Chris Christie, ex-NJ gov and failed presidential candidate, will teach course on running for office at Yale.