THERE’S ONLY SO MUCH WATER THE INFOTAINMENT COMPLEX CAN CARRY: Why Isn’t Kamala Harris Farther Ahead?

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Space Force No. 2 Says There Is Risk of China or Russia Launching Large-Scale Attack in Orbit.

RAPID REACTION: Trump-Vance Campaign Uses Kamala’s CNN Interview in Devastating New Ad.

STEVE SAILOR: Democrats are finally noticing Karl Rove wasn’t right about the Hispanic Vote.

For the first two decades of this century, the conventional wisdom of paid political strategists for both parties was George W. Bush’s svengali Karl Rove’s grand strategy that opening wide the borders was what Hispanic voters cared about most, that whichever party pandered hardest to Latinos on immigration would rule the Hispanic-dominated future. Sure, the Republicans would lose out on each additional Latino let in, but they’d make up for it in volume. Or something.

I was a rare voice of dissent. It seemed to me that the Hispanics who cared most about Open Borders were exactly the the handful of Latinos whom strategists and journalists talked to the most, such as Hispanic politicians and NGO ethnic activists. Of course, they benefit from swamping the country with more warm Latin American bodies whom they could claim to be the leaders of.

My emphasis over the last 24 years has been instead that Americans of Latin-American descent who vote aren’t monolithic Open Borders fanatics like their white-subsidized elites want them to be. Instead, Hispanic voters tend to favor traditional Democratic Harry Hopkins-style policies of tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect for basic class reasons.

The Democrats appear to have finally figured out that Rove was wrong and I was right.

Read the whole thing — also, Rove turned out to be wrong about a number of issues.

HARDLY SEEMS POSSIBLE: Tim Walz Made Kamala’s First Interview Worse, Not Better.

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.

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.”

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

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

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT, A VIP-ONLY TWOFER: What If Every LEGO Brick Was Green? “I know you come here for the politics, but sometimes I’m going to write about music and other times I’m going to write about LEGO, the best toy in the world — unless going ‘green’ ruins it. If you’re an adult with kids or grandkids or you still like LEGO yourself, listen up.”

And: Underappreciated Albums: The Sounds of ’66 “It’s really a no-brainer. If you’ve got Sammy Davis Jr. and you’ve got Buddy Rich and his band and you’ve got a place to record them in, then dammit, you make an album of Sammy and Buddy playing together.”

GOODER AND HARDER: NJ residents hit with doubled bills as lawmakers fume at Murphy’s ‘energy disaster plan,’ demand hearings.

HOWEVER MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA, IT ISN’T ENOUGH: Media Conjure Up ‘Fight’ at Arlington Over Trump Wreath Laying.

NOW AS MUCH AS EVER: Bret Weinstein Calls The Democratic Party ‘An Existential Threat To The Republic.’

DON’T GET COCKY: The Left Is Going to Freak Out Over Nate Silver’s Latest Election Model. “That is a nearly ten-point swing in Trump’s favor in the projection model in just a couple of weeks. Even Silver is trying to calm down his leftist readers.”

I’D SAY “DON’T GIVE THEM ANY MORE IDEAS ABOUT WHAT TO TAX” BUT THEY ALREADY HAVE THEM ALL:

Just wait until they suggest capital gains and unrealized wealth taxes for 401(k)s, because “too many millionaires”/“tax the rich”! https://t.co/1sC5dkAiVp

— Carol Roth (@caroljsroth) August 28, 2024

STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED BUT I’M HARD-PRESSED TO THINK OF ANY: OMG, Did ABC News Just Do Right by Trump?

UNEXPECTEDLY: Shake Shack to shut 6 California locations, including 5 in LA, after state’s $20 minimum wage hike. “It’s the first time the chain will close restaurants for purposes that were not construction-related, a spokesperson told trade publication Restaurant Business, which first reported the news.”

NOW WE’LL ALL DIE OF FREEZING OCEANS: So About Those Oceans That Were Just About to Boil Away…

Assuming you survived the Trump tax cuts and the end of Net Neutrality, that is.

CRUEL BUT FAIR: Rape, drugs, adultery, DUI all OK. But if you back Trump, the Kennedys will disown you. “The more you look at the Kennedy family of the 20th Century, the more you realize it is what the Biden family would look like if everyone in it were Hunter Biden.”