ED MORRISSEY: Bidenflation Still Hammering the Working Class — Minorities Hardest Hit: WaPo.

Has inflation begun to ease back to normal? The Biden-Harris administration wants voters to believe it, arguing that consumer-goods prices appear to have stabilized. Have they?

Today’s Producer Price Index shows annualized unadjusted wholesale inflation dipping down to 1.7% in August. That would be welcome news for consumers, but inflation for wholesale consumer foods hit 4.2%. Most of the overall decline came in wholesale energy prices (-8.4%), which consumers will also welcome but may not be all that good of a trade-off from their weekly visit to grocery stores.

Yesterday’s Consumer Price Index offered a mixed bag, too, but not for the middle and working classes. The overall annualized rate dropped from July’s 2.9% to 2.5% in August, again mainly because of a dramatic fall in energy prices (-4.0%). The upward spike continued in shelter costs, shooting up 5.2% in August, and included both rentals (5.2%) and owner costs (5.4%). Insurance spiked 3.6%, and municipal utilities went up 4.2%.

And this, of course, follows on the effects of three years of high overall inflation and its compounding effects, especially on shelter costs. The unnecessary and predictably corrosive mass stimulus in the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris American Rescue Plan of March 2021 — the key initiative of Bidenomics — launched that 40-year-high inflation cycle, and it continues to pound consumers to this day.

Don’t worry — all the stats look fine:

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Who Rigged the Debate for Kamala? Her Best Friend and Her Sorority Sister.

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CATCH UP FASTER. AND HOW ABOUT SOME MORE 9MM AND .223 WHILE YOU’RE AT IT? Arms Manufacturers Catching Up with World’s Insatiable Need for 155mm Rounds.

DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE: Under Gov. Tim Walz, Babies Born Alive in Botched Abortions Were Left to Die. Then He Removed Reporting Requirements.

DO TELL. The future of Boeing’s crewed spaceflight program is muddy after Starliner’s return.

DITTO: This Focus Group Changed How I Feel About the Trump-Harris Debate.

There’s a world of difference between the perceptions of Very Online People and normal human beings.

SOON, SKINNINESS WILL BE PLEBEIAN AGAIN: GLP-1 hybrid drug being tested as weight-loss aid. “People who took the drug amycretin lost up to 13% of their body weight over three months, according to early clinical trial results presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes annual meeting in Madrid.”

WINNING:

BREAKING: North Carolina public universities have closed their DEI offices, eliminated 59 DEI positions, and saved $17,118,889, according to a new report today: pic.twitter.com/zovelVPgdn

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) September 11, 2024

POLARIS DAWN SETS ANOTHER RECORD: That’s One Small Walk for a Man (and a Woman)…

JOHN NOLTE: Time Issues Humiliating Correction Admitting Kamala Supports Taxpayer-Funded Gender Surgery for Illegals.

Despite all of this being true, here’s how Time covered this moment: “The former President … falsely claimed that Harris “wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.”

Now, on top of Time being staffed with lousy, lazy, partisan, left-wing activists who spread misinformation, there’s another reason Time spread this lie… The idea of taxpayer-funded sex change operations for illegal aliens is so outside the mainstream, so wackadoodle, Time likely didn’t even bother to fact-check Trump’s statement. It was simply assumed Trump had invented this because no sane person would ever support something so ridiculously dumb. Honestly, what a way to attract every deviant on the planet to sneak into America — Free sex changes, girls!

Well, much to Time’s humiliation, the truth will out and the outlet was forced to not only issue a correction, but through a correction, a helluva lot more people will read the correction than Time’s dumb article, and the word is out that Kamala does indeed support taxpayer-funded sex-change operations for illegal aliens:

Correction, Sept. 11

The original version of this story mischaracterized as false Donald Trump’s statement accusing Kamala Harris of supporting “transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison” As a presidential candidate in 2019, Harris filled out a questionnaire saying she supported taxpayer-funded gender transition treatment for detained immigrants.

What’s especially interesting is that at no time since this news broke has Kamala or her campaign backed off of this wackadoodle belief.

She actually believes this, and as she made clear, her values have not changed.

Then there are the Tiny Mummies at the New Yorker:

And on the West Coast, the squares at the Seattle Times are determined to forget about their city’s legendary Summer of Love in 2020: Oof! Seattle Times’ Trump Fact-Check Gets a Community Notes Nuking (Using Their Own Previous Story).

Related: ABC Moderators Were Lying: Eight ‘Aborted’ Babies Were Born Alive & Then Left to Die in Minnesota.

WHEN IN ROME…: John Deere executives bribed Thai officials with trips to massage parlors. “The maker of John Deere tractors has agreed to pay a $10 million penalty to the US government to settle charges that it lavished Thailand government officials with extravagant trips and visits to massage parlors — bribes that netted its subsidiary more than $4 million in profit.”

The Feds going after almost anybody for shady business practices is risible at this point.

“FACT CHECK:” OOF! Seattle Times’ Trump Fact-Check Gets a Community Notes Nuking (Using Their Own Previous Story).

Have you noticed that they didn’t bring out the “fact checkers” until the facts started getting out?

BILL BARR: Mob Rule and Moral Bankruptcy at Columbia. “Antisemitism isn’t borne of ignorance at my alma mater. Antisemitism is taught there.”

Plus:

One instructor kicked off a class in the Master of Public Health program with a discussion of the Jewish “capitalists” who “laundered” their “dirty money” and “blood money” through donations to the university. Others silenced Jewish students in class discussions of the Holocaust and Israel. Still others moved class sessions and office hours to Columbia’s “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” where Jewish students were routinely threatened and physically attacked.
For their part, campus demonstrators made no attempt to conceal their hatred of Jews. In fact, they made a public spectacle of it. A video cited by the report shows demonstrators stealing an Israeli flag from a Jewish student and assaulting him as he tried to stop them from setting it on fire. It shows demonstrators repeatedly shouting “Go back to Poland” at Jewish students as they walked across campus. One leader of the encampment proudly boasted, “Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists. . . I feel very comfortable calling for those people to die.” Still, the same university that offers hours of training on “microaggressions” refused to acknowledge decidedly macro-aggressive attacks on Jews.

While all this was happening, administrators either minimized or denied the problem. One member of the Office of Diversity told a student that if the antisemitic incidents she observed made her feel unsafe, she should leave campus. Another administrator told individual students that they were the “only student” who had complained about antisemitism before referring each for mental health counseling.

The gaslighting is astonishing.

Not anymore, it isn’t. But it needs to be made expensive enough that it won’t keep happening.

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TO BE FAIR, THAT IS WHAT THEY WERE HIRED TO DO: ABC Moderators Were Lying: EIGHT ‘Aborted’ Babies Were Born Alive & Then Left to Die in Minnesota.

YALE STUDY FINDS LIBS PATRONIZE MINORITIES: New study highlighted by Yale School of Management finds that white liberals use significantly fewer competence-related words when speaking with minorities, according to Wintery Knight.

The study found no difference in how white conservatives talk to minorities, using the competence-related words metric. I’m sure the New York Times and Washington Post have already created reporting task forces to dig further into these findings!

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Report highlights severe infrastructure challenges at NASA.

“The extensive consultations, site visits, and interviews conducted in the course of the study lead the committee to conclude that NASA stands at a crossroads,” the report concluded. “The underpinnings of the unique and critical capabilities the agency provides to the United States are eroding and will be inevitably lost if certain trends are not reversed.”

The report highlighted problems in three key areas: infrastructure, workforce and technology development. They ranged from attracting and retaining a skilled workforce to aging facilities at NASA centers visited by committee members that were “some of the worst facilities many of its members have ever seen.” The report also highlighted a lack of long-term planning to guide investments in technology and infrastructure.

The report concluded that much of that had to do with budget pressures that forced the agency to prioritize spending on specific missions and projects at the expense of spending on mission support. The amount of NASA’s budget spent on mission support declined from 20% in 2013 to 14% in 2023.

That stems from having more projects on its books than funding for them, said Norm Augustine, retired chairman and chief executive of Lockheed Martin and chair of the committee, in a Sept. 10 webinar about the report. “NASA’s solution to the problem has been to underinvest in infrastructure and so on in the future. That tactic, frankly, has run out of gas.”

NASA has a budget of about $25.4 billion and requires a budget of probably no less than $30 billion to fully fund Artemis (and still get us back to the moon late) — and that doesn’t include delayed infrastructure spending.

The Biden-Harris Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (which has done little for infrastructure and less for private-sector jobs) cost more than 40 times what NASA needs.

ANSWERS TO THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why the B-52 is outliving newer bombers (video).

OUR HATE-FILLED HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM: New ‘Hate Map’ exposes left-wing hostility, antisemitism on college campuses.

OF COURSE THEY DO. THAT’S WHY THE LEFT IS SO FURIOUS TO SHUT ANYONE UP WHO MENTIONS THEM: Pro-Life Activist Proves That Late Term Abortions Happen ‘All the Time.’

ALLOWING PEOPLE WHO HATE OUR CIVILIZATION TO EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN MAY HAVE BEEN A MISTAKE: Why 30% of Gen Z sympathize with Osama bin Laden.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK:

The theme of the hearing from committee leadership and industry witnesses is that Part 450, intended to streamline launch/reentry licensing, is instead hampering it, threatening US leadership in commercial launch. "The consequences are dire," says CSF's Dave Cavossa.

— Jeff Foust (@jeff_foust) September 10, 2024

Related: Biden Admin to SpaceX: Drop Dead!

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: J.D. Vance Keeps Knocking ‘Em Out of the Park. “Vance routinely rejects idiotic, ‘Gotcha!’ lines of questioning and highlights the failures of the media hacks. He does it with casual ease. He knows what’s coming, he handles it and shuts it down.”

NEW JERSEY: Our Gun Control Policies Failed, So Let’s Double Down.

The state of New Jersey is one of those most hostile states toward the Second Amendment and they have been for quite a while. The only sort of pro-gun move I’ve ever seen was the repeal of a law that mandated only smart guns be sold in the state once the technology was viable, and they only did that because it became clear that the law was making it so companies didn’t want to develop such guns.

Literally everything else has been outright hostility.

It’s pretty bad when folks in New Jersey move to Illinois to get a taste of gun freedom, yet it’s how things fall.

What’s more, the gun control policies in place simply aren’t working.

That’s no accident. Gun control isn’t about making polices that work. It’s about making gun ownership impossible, or nearly so.