COMPLY OR DIE: Biden Administration Blocking Flu Manchu Monoclonal Antibody Supplies To Red States?

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Clint Eastwood on Politics: It’s Complicated.

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Hot takes, cold drinks, special surprise guest.

THIS IS TRUE ONLY FOR CERTAIN SETS OF “WE”: There’s A Hostage Crisis in Afghanistan, and We’re Not Talking About It. “The Taliban is blocking flights, and the United States, the world’s number one superpower, has done everything they think they can. This sounds like a hostage crisis.”

Related: Afghanistan Hostage Crisis: Family of Navy Vet Wants Biden Official Fired.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: Migrant encounters over 200,000 again in August, as border surge continues. “The 208,887 migrant encounters mark a 317% increase over last August.”

COME SEE THE RACISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM:

SPACE RACE SNUB: NASA Adds Insult to Jeff Bezos’ Injury with Puny Blue Origin Contract. “Imagine what Bezos and his billionaire ego must feel like now that NASA has announced Blue Origin’s consolation prize? A puny $26 million to develop a lunar lander concept that might, someday, possibly lead to building an actual landing system.”

NICE. THEN THEY SHOULD START VOTING REPUBLICAN: Majority of black parents oppose critical race theory curriculum.

SAME OLD SONG: Democrats Are Hell-Bent on Making Life Miserable for Average Americans.

OUCH: Lt. Colonel unleashes on Biden and the woke Pentagon in scorching resignation letter: ‘I cannot and will not contribute to the fall of this great nation.’

OF COURSE THEY KNEW: Internal Facebook Data Shows Company Has Known for Years That Instagram Harms Teens.

COLORADO BLUE: Brace for Impact: You’re About to Pay $2.1 Billion in New Taxes and Fees.

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Kevin Downey Jr: Despite Despotic Measures, COVID Deaths Much Higher One Year Later. “It might be time for our elected leaders to admit what is becoming obvious: They have no idea what they are doing when it comes to COVID. The lockdown appears to have been unnecessary, even devastating.”

Matt Margolis: Why Did the California Recall Fail? “In November 2020, President Trump received over six million votes in California, while only just under 3.3 million voters voted to remove Newsom. Had every person who voted for Trump voted to recall Newsom, Larry Elder would have been elected governor of California on Tuesday.”

Yours Truly: This Is the Real Tragedy of Imaginary Genders. “How is a person supposed to become intimate — I mean emotionally intimate — when their entire identity is wrapped up in imaginary buzzwords and takes genuine offense at anyone who doesn’t somehow ‘get’ them?”

FOUR-STAR TREASON: Mark Milley Finally Gives His Denial but Ends up Telling on Himself. “Here’s the thing with denials. It’s typically useful when giving one to actually deny the activity you are being accused of. Instead of Milley doing that in this statement, we see a flurry of qualifiers and weasel language that mirror Jennifer Griffin’s Pentagon stenography.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Olympic Gymnasts Reveal That Comey’s Trump-Hating FBI Was OK With Child Rape. “The timeline of the accusations against the monster Nassar overlaps with the timeline of the FBI’s Russia collusion jihad against President Trump. The Bureau has become so politicized that it prioritized the destruction of the president over protecting little girls who were being raped.”

YES: When It Comes to the Delta Variant, the Kids Are All Right. “Any child’s death is tragic, but this number needs to be put into perspective. COVID-19 deaths among children last year are comparable to the number of children who die annually in automobile accidents (636 in 2018) and the estimated 480 deaths from flu among the same age group during the 2018–19 flu season. As Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, put it, ‘We don’t shut down schools in flu season.’”

Not before 2020 we didn’t.

DAVID SOLWAY: Reason to Fear a Vaccine Mandate.

One does not wish to join the pandemic of viral fear whipped up by our political leaders, collusive medical “experts,” and the grossly irresponsible and programmatically ignorant media conglomerate. And yet, there is good reason to fear being inscribed in the category of “the unvaccinated”—the New Jews at risk of disenfranchisement and worse in the increasingly fascist temper of the times.

From my perspective, this is not a frivolous analogy. Growing up Jewish in a small town in the north of Quebec under the sway of an ultramontane clergy, I know what it is to be publicly mocked, prohibited as an undesirable from entering certain local establishments, and fighting my way out of ambushes when walking to school. I am familiar with epithets like maudit Juif (damned Jew), which I heard so frequently that for some time I thought it was one word, mauditjuif — which in effect it was.

Now, as a member of the tribe of the unvaccinated, I sense once again that primal fear of exclusion and imminent violence. As I wrote in an earlier article for PJ Media, my wife and I are under virtual house arrest, prevented from crossing our provincial borders, forbidden to attend a wide range of public activities and venues, including movie theaters, plays, sporting events, gyms, swimming pools, night clubs, concerts, conferences, and university seminars, or to dine in restaurants. I am back in the Quebec of my youth.

Read the whole thing.

NOT BEFORE COLLEGE GAVE UP ON MEN: Men give up on college.

STACEY LENNOX: It’s OK to Be Pro-Vaccine and Anti-Mandate—in Fact, It’s a Winning Message. “The vaccine mandate gambit—meant to divide Americans following bipartisan condemnation of the Afghanistan debacle—largely worked. However, the majority of unaffiliated voters are breaking with Republicans on this issue in both polls, which gives Republicans a messaging advantage. Being pro-vaccine and anti-mandate seems to be the winning position. The vaccine mandate issue will linger much longer than the current surge of the Delta variant.”

ALL HANDS ON DECK: Serial Groper Al Franken Eyes Political Comeback.

DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS: ‘National Magazine of Texas’ Marvels That Hispanic Texans Are Voting Republican.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Biden Vax Mandate In ‘Chaos’: OSHA ‘Underfunded’ And ‘Toothless,’ Employers Worried About ‘Millions Of Dollars’ In Testing Costs.

If the grownups really were in charge, they’d have asked themselves first if a smallish workplace agency was up to the massive task given to it.

PROBABLY, BUT WHO WILL HOLD HER TO ACCOUNT? Did AOC’s Met Gala Stunt Violate Federal Ethics Laws?

HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): Ohio High School Book Prompts Kids to ‘Write a Sex Scene You Wouldn’t Show Your Mom’… Mayor Demands Resignations.

AFGHANISTAN HOSTAGE CRISIS: Family of Navy Vet Wants Biden Official Fired. “If Frerichs’ name doesn’t sound familiar despite months of captivity, maybe that’s because ‘Biden has mentioned Frerichs in public once before in a July speech, but stumbled over his name when doing so.'”