DOES ELIZABETH WARREN EVEN REMEMBER WRITING THIS BOOK? It was titled “The Two-Income Trap” and it argued, perhaps unknowingly, for the proposition that progressive taxes harm two-income families. Somebody should ask the candidate about this.

THE MSM’S FALSE PICTURE OF THE 2020 ELECTION: Consider this: “Progressives bitterly clinging to the strong version of ’emerging Democratic majority’ theory are not fighting the last war; they’re fighting the war before the last war.” That’s the analysis of Warren Henry over at The Federalist.

Besides being an astute campaign analysis, Henry’s post is a reminder that the MSM narrative is not based in Trump-era political reality, a fact that is too easily forgotten in the crush of faux reportage and posturing. Put otherwise, everybody on a plummeting airliner insisting they are losing altitude due to pilot incompetence doesn’t change the fact a birdstrike took out all the engines.

DEM FEC CHIEF GETS SOME POINTED QUESTIONS: Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) is the ranking Republican on the Committee on House Administration, which has oversight over the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

Ellen Weintraub is the hyper-partisan Democrat currently occupying the commission chairman’s seat. She has an ongoing feud with President Donald Trump because he claims massive voter fraud kept him from winning New Hampshire in the 2016 presidential race. She recently used official FEC stationery to challenge Trump to produce evidence for his allegation or shut up about it.

So now, Davis has addressed a flurry of pointed questions to Weintraub that taken together essentially tells her to stop playing partisan games with the FEC and to pay attention to the job for which taxpayers are providing her a tidy salary and benefits package. Any bets on whether she will? I didn’t think so, either.

THIS CASE MIGHT BE THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR SANCTUARY POLICIES: Judicial Watch has filed suit in California Superior Court seeking a permanent injunction against Santa Clara County’s version of sanctuary policy.

The litigation was prompted by the murder of a 59-year-old resident, allegedly by an illegal immigrant with a lengthy criminal record in the U.S. Six times the feds asked the locals to hold the guy until they could take him into custody, but county officials refused. Keep an eye on this one and a similar suit Judicial Watch is pursuing in San Francisco in the wake of the Kate Steinle murder.

OMAR GIVES NEW MEANING TO ‘TAKING CARE OF YOUR FRIENDS:’ Sara Carter reports that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) paid $230,000 to a firm owned by the former staff aide with whom she is romantically involved. Doesn’t the Sharia law Omar as a faithful Muslim presumably wants to impose on the rest of us say something about not doing this kind of thing?

PROFESSOR’S PARTISANSHIP METRIC RANKS HOUSE COMMITTEES: I’ve been around Congress for a long time and I have to confess the results here were a bit surprising. But then he who administers controls, right?

IS SOCIAL MEDIA WHY MILLENNIALS ARE THE LONELIEST GENERATION? New survey from YouGov finds they are the loneliest despite being the most “connected.” Maybe Glenn’s latest book should top the reading list of every parent raising kids? There’s also a second survey with a deep look at Gen Z’s top values, notable for what’s not among the top five.

HAVE YOU CHECKED YOUR ATP SYNTHASES LATELY: You should, you know, because without them, you cease. And that raises some interesting questions about how they came to be.

THE ‘1619 PROJECT’ IS WHAT THE GENIUSES AT THE NEW YORK TIMES CAME UP WITH: Ken Braun of the Capital Research Center (CRC) does a deep dive into the influence of the MacArthur Foundation in the Times’ newsroom. Lots of MacArthur “genius” grant winners led the way.

And speaking of the 1619 Project, The Federalist Publisher Ben Domenech responds and includes links to five superb pieces that have appeared on his site about the Times’ work.

IF YOU CAN’T BEAT’EM, WELL THEN, JUST REPLACE’EM: That appears to be a key part of Beijing’s emerging strategy for dealing with Hong Kong, replacing it as a world financial center with the city just across the border from it, Shenzhen. Those units of China’s Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) are still nearby.

AFRICAN NATIONS CANCELING DEALS WITH CHINA: Troubles begin for the lender when the lendees realize their kneecaps are in danger.

MSM LAUNCHES JIHAD AGAINST RIGHT MEDIA? Tuesday, it was The Epoch Times in the cross-hairs of the fact-free-zone newsrooms at NBC/MSNBC today it’s the New York Times going after Floyd Brown and the Western Journal. Anything contrary to the elitist MSM narrative is branded “disinformation,” or worse.

The people in those newsrooms call themselves “journalists,” yet, with few exceptions, that is no longer a credible label for what they do. Who will be tomorrow’s target, The Federalist? The Daily Caller? Washington Examiner? Washington Free Beacon? Instapundit?

WHAT WOULD COTTON MATHER DO? Six of America’s 10 most “post-Christian cities” are in New England, once the “City on a Hill” of the Puritans, and all 10 are in deep blue states, according to The Barna Group’s latest annual survey results for the top 100.

Not surprisingly, perhaps, seven of the 10 least post-Christian are in the states of the old Confederacy or border states that were culturally attached to the South. All of those, of course, are today either mostly or deeply red.

THIS THEORETICAL PHYSICIST SAYS ‘MULTIVERSE’ IS RELIGION: Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder doesn’t beat around the bush: “Believing in the multiverse is logically equivalent to believing in god, therefore it’s religion, not science.” She isn’t denying the possibility of multiverses, only that much of the advocacy for the concept isn’t based on actual science.

WHAT IF THE “GLOBAL TEMPERATURE” DOESN’T EVEN EXIST? Issues & Insights (I&I) has the answer. The I&I guys are on Al Gore’s amazing Internet (HT: Chris Plante), but he’s not going to like what they say on this one.

PHILANTHROPIC TYRANNY IS WHAT SPLC IS ABOUT: Capital Research Center’s Hayden Ludwig zeroes in on what this advance guard of the People’s Republic of America seeks in its campaign against Donor Advised Funds (DAF) on the Right, but not on the Left.

I TRY TO BE OPTIMISTIC BUT THEN I READ THIS: Lawrence M. Ludlow returned to teaching high school after a 35 year absence and found … well, the title of his piece in The American Thinker says it all – “Worse Than Ever: Government Schools After 35 Years.”

WARREN SURGES IN POLL BUT ITS REAL NEWS IS ABOUT PRAYING AMERICANS: Yes, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) suddenly bolts to a virtual dead heat with former Vice-President Joe Biden in the latest YouGov. survey for The Economist.

That’s interesting to be sure, but the last five of the 145 questions asked of 1,500 respondents concerned things like church attendance and frequency of prayer, topics not typically raised in such surveys. The margin of error is three percent.

Turns out that more than half of us pray regularly and a third of all Americans go to church at least once or twice a month. Checking the demographics of the respondents reveals an over-sampling of Democrats to Republicans, so the prayer and attendance percentages might be slightly understated.

HOW LONG BEFORE THIS FAMOUS PROFESSOR IS RUN OUT OF YALE? David Gelernter is a legend at Yale University and deservedly so, as he is, among much else, the author or co-author of many computing tools in wide use around the world. But he recently committed the unpardonable sin of doubting the efficacy of parts of contemporary Darwinism.

The Hoover Institution’s Peter Robinson sat down with Gelernter and two  colleagues whose works had huge impacts on his own thinking on the issue. It’s a longish video at 53 minutes, but Robinson is a superb interviewer and the discussion is by turns, fascinating, puzzling and enlightening. In other words, just the kind of thing to get you blacklisted in academia these days.

Related (From Ed): Famed Yale computer science professor quits believing Darwin’s theories, The College Fix adds.

HITLER INVADED POLAND IN SEPTEMBER 1939. DO YOU KNOW THE OTHER NATION THAT ALSO INVADED POLAND IN SEPTEMBER 1939? Sadly, the fact that Stalin joined Hitler’s invasion  of Poland is hardly ever mentioned. Law & Liberty’s Ryszard Legutko reminds us of the immense and enduring significance of the Hitler-Stalin Pact signed 80 years ago this month.

LIFE AS A DC LOBBYIST CAN BE VERY REWARDING! The town is full of lobbyists like Jaime Harrison used to be. The Washington Free Beacon’s Brent Scher examined the South Carolina Democratic senatorial aspirant’s financial disclosures and found evidence of just how truly rewarding the lobbying life was for the associate chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

ONLY 10 OF AOC’S CONSTITUENTS ARE DONORS TO HER RE-ELECTION: Andrew Kerr of the Daily Caller News Foundation takes a look at Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s latest FEC donor list and finds only a handful of residents of her district.

Now, I’m from out of town and all, but doesn’t that make AOC a tool of special interests outside of her district? BTW, Kerr is one of the most talented young investigative journalists in the Right media, so keep an eye on his byline. He’s going places.

NO, THE ‘TEXODUS’ DOES NOT MEAN DEEP-RED TEXAS IS GOING PURPLE: Democrats are ecstatic about their chances of shifting more Lone Star State representatives to their side of the aisle. But maybe what they are convinced is happening isn’t.

EVER HEAR OF THE “CHAPO TRAP HOUSE,” THE BIGGEST PODCAST OF ALL? Well, it preaches socialism of the Stalinist/Sanders variety and, according to Capital Research Center’s Dangerous Documentaries, it is “a million-dollar behemoth with over 100,000 listeners.” You need to watch this short videoumentary because these are bad dudes and they are coming for the Democratic Party and for your future.

LATEST BUDGET DEAL SHOWS MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE THE PROBLEM: Ever since the Gramm-Rudman Act of 1985 was promised to impound all spending above authorized limits, Congress and chief executives have relied on budget agreements that make token cuts in the year of passage, promise much bigger cuts in the “out years” and provides a “sequestration process” for enforcement.

But the out year reductions never come because succeeding congresses can’t resist boosting the spending caps. The R Street Institute’s James Wallner goes through the dreary succession since Reagan’s second term and concludes:

“All of which suggests procedural solutions alone are insufficient when lawmakers do not want to abide by them. If Congress wants to spend more than the law permits, it will.” That applies to members of both major political parties.