SHOCKER: 76% of civics teachers self-censor over fears of controversy.

ROGER KIMBALL: Trump’s battle against the tyranny of lawfare: The President has to be one of the most punished people in American history.

If the process is the punishment in legal proceedings, as we are often reminded, Trump has to be one of the most punished people in American history. But it is worth remembering that the aim of the lawfare was not simply to punish Trump but to destroy him. It was a multi-front assault. Bankruptcy loomed on one front, jail on another. Then came at least two assassination attempts, not officially part of the lawfare, but spiritually adjacent.

The Kaiser miscalculated when he went to war in Europe. I think that the battalions of anti-Trump activists, in the media and our political establishment as well as in the law, miscalculated when they took up arms against Trump. His response has not been to dig trenches and hunker down. What he has done resembles the D-Day invasion of Normandy more than the pointless slaughter of the Somme or Verdun.
Anti-Trump commentators are up in arms because the President has stormed the beaches of the Deep State and overrun many of its defensive positions. They skirl hysterically when he fires a governor of the Federal Reserve (“But she’s the first black woman to hold the position!”). Trump removes Secret Service protection for Kamala Harris. “A petty, vindictive move from a small man,” quoth a group called “Republicans Against Trump.” But then it turns out that Harris enjoyed the posse longer than any former vice-president in history.

Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton wakes up to find his home and office raided by the FBI. “Retribution” screams the anti-Trump press. But then it turns out the FBI had been investigating Bolton at least since the Biden administration, which eventually shut down the inquiry – possibly, just possibly, because Bolton was such a vocal anti-Trump critic. Two separate magistrates, one in DC, one in Maryland, approved the FBI search warrants. Why? Because, as the New York Times grudgingly acknowledged, data gathered from the spy service of an “adversarial country” included “sensitive,” i.e., classified, information that Bolton, “while still working in the first Trump administration, appeared to have sent to people close to him on an unclassified system.”

The list goes on. The Dems perfected lawfare and unleashed it against Trump under the twin assumptions that it would succeed and that the Republicans would never retaliate in kind. Trump has upended both assumptions. Which is why I believe that what Trump is doing is not a matter of “retribution” or lawfare. It is a battle of liberation from the tyranny of lawfare.

Retribution is an important aspect of justice, and an even more important aspect of deterrence.

MERKEL’S POLICY OF DELIBERATE SELF-DESTRUCTION: Ten Years of Migration Crisis: The Fracture that Changed Europe.

ROGER SIMON: My Illegal Immigrant Experience in Film and Reality.

LEBRON IS SUCH A TOOL: ‘Our Chinese Friends’: LeBron James Writes Op-Ed for CCP Mouthpiece Involved in Propaganda Campaign To Deny Uyghur Genocide: NBA star recently toured China as part of $1 billion Nike sneaker deal.

TRUE: Biden’s autopen scandal is nothing short of a coup — and the culprits need to be held accountable.

STOP LETTING THE CRAZIES BE IN CHARGE: The Left-Right Divide on Family Creation Matches the Divide on Mental Health.

SO WHERE ARE THE MOBS WITH PITCHFORKS?

Keir Starmer's approval rating has dropped to MINUS 41.

Making him the most disapproved "leader" across all parties, by some margin.

He must go. pic.twitter.com/qG8MILkw6b

— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) September 8, 2025

BUT OF COURSE:

Fun fact about Charlotte's transit system – you aren't allowed to concealed carry even with a permit. They have no security on the train or buses, but you aren't allowed to protect yourself.
They killer had a knife though, because no metal detectors, and didn't pay for his fare…

— AppPatriotgirl 🇺🇸 (@jsmith4966) September 8, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

SANER AND MORE DECENT THAN THE NORTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS, WHICH ADMITTEDLY IS A LOW BAR. BUT GOOD FOR HER.

Today we heard from Decarlos Brown's mom. She spoke to @Hunt_Saenz. She is not making excuses for her son. She says "what he did was atrocious, it was horrible and it was wrong." The point of her speaking isn't to make her son out to be a victim. He's not. She says she wanted to… pic.twitter.com/dmibjuJ22l

— Joe Bruno (@JoeBrunoWSOC9) August 27, 2025

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX gets FAA approval to jack up Cape Canaveral’s Falcon 9 launches from 50 to 120.

SHE DESERVES TO BE BLISTERED:

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police has put out another blistering statement regarding what they deem to be massive failures of Mayor Vi Lyles. pic.twitter.com/8FrHwo2rGD

— Brett Jensen WBT News (@Brett_Jensen) September 8, 2025

UPDATE:

THE MAGISTRATE IN CHARLOTTE HAS FIVE BANKRUPTCIES?

WHAT IS GOING ON? https://t.co/ngJtjOFRkV

— Margo (@MargoinWNC) September 8, 2025

Here’s something that needs to be looked into…

How many other Democrat run cities have Magistrate Judges that also run treatment centers?

Releasing criminals into “court ordered” treatment centers sure could be lucrative.

I bet Teresa Stokes in Charlotte isn’t the only one… pic.twitter.com/KcjGctQFqu

— C3 (@C_3C_3) September 8, 2025

Everything is fine, I’m sure.

ALIENS: 4 Powerful Telescopes Agree: Interstellar Comet 31/ATLAS Really Is Bizarre. It’s all the proton cannon turrets and assault shuttles in particular.

POOR KIDS: The Famous “Unhappiness Hump” Has Vanished, and Youth Are Paying the Price. “Their analysis revealed that in both the U.S. and U.K., the midlife peak in unhappiness has disappeared. Instead, levels of ill-being now tend to decline steadily with age. Among people in their late 40s and older, mental health patterns have remained relatively stable. The shift seems to stem from worsening mental health in younger age groups, rather than improvements among older adults.”

Wokeness and progressive economic policies have ruined youth.

HMM: Researchers note spike in kidney deaths related to blood pressure.

TORQUE! First Look! The Most Powerful Porsche 911 Ever Is Now a Hybrid.

IF YOUR MOVEMENT CAN BE DESTROYED BY THE TRUTH, YOUR MOVEMENT SHOULD BE DESTROYED BY THE TRUTH:

BLM 2020: We want bodycams on every cop!

BLM 2026: wait nevermind, turn em off https://t.co/MxMKwmStRY

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) September 8, 2025

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY IS ON THE CHARLOTTE STABBING: From Rabble-Rousing to Rabble-Snoozing: Journalists do whatever the narrative requires at the moment, but does it still work?

YAY! OMG! Gun Rights Absolutists Are Working to Tear Down the NFA! And They’re Making Progress! OMG!

BRIAN WANG: All Multi-year Bets Payoff When Tesla Unboxed Cybercabs Are Made in 100-200 Days. “$100 billion of dedicated effort over nearly a decade which Tesla did while generating $50+ billion in profit.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Ultrasound helmet enables deep brain stimulation in people without surgery.

UNITARY EXECUTIVE NEWS: “The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission despite a federal law.”

The fact that NBC News referred to the fired commissioners as “Democratic commissioners” gives away the game. According to Humphrey’s Executor, the idea was that “The commission is to be nonpartisan; and it must, from the very nature of its duties, act with entire impartiality.” And “It is charged with the enforcement of no policy except the policy of the law.”

Who even remembers to pretend that was supposed to be the idea these days?!

Not the press, who regard Democratic monopolies as inherently “nonpartisan.”

IT’S COME TO THIS:

I guess “people shouldn’t be murdered on public transit” is now a MAGA position. https://t.co/BNodegr6FQ

— Kane 謝凱堯 (@kane) September 8, 2025

Related thoughts here.

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