“WHAT’S IN THERE?” “ONLY WHAT YOU TAKE WITH YOU.”: Black Comedian Paints Himself White, Goes to NASCAR, Doesn’t Find What He Expects.

‘MURICA: August Gun Sales Climb Back Over the 1 Million Mark. “NSSF is encouraged to see the adjusted NICS background checks top 1 million in the month August once again. We know there is a strong and continued interest in lawful firearm ownership and these figures bear out the truth that Second Amendment rights are valued. These figures are more than data points. They represent Americans from all walks of life who are, quite literally, investing in their safety, security and freedom.”

Well, estimated sales, to be fair.

UGH: Restaurant Loses Case After Denying Male Entry to Women’s Bathroom. “A Delaware restaurant has been ordered to pay up and put staff through woke reeducation after it refused to allow a biological male to use the women’s bathroom.”

ANTITRUST: A Judge Lets Google Get Away with Monopoly.

The decade-long campaign to stop big tech from dominating our society took a significant step backwards, as the judge hearing the search case against Google, Amit Mehta, chose not to meaningfully constrain the firm’s illegal behavior. And to engage in such deferential behavior, he openly ignored Supreme Court precedent.

You don’t have to take it from me. It’s Mehta who last year found Google to have violated the law. “Google is a monopolist,” he wrote, “and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly. It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.” It’s also Mehta who found the Supreme Court mandated what he called the “remedial objective” in monopolization cases, to “terminate the illegal monopoly.” But, Mehta wrote, “remedies designed to eliminate the defendant’s monopoly—i.e., structural remedies—are inappropriate in this case.”

So there we go. Mehta understood the law mandates he terminate Google’s monopoly, but he just decided against doing so.

Much more at the link.

WAIT, WHAT? School Girls Told They Can Escape Boys in Their Locker Rooms if They Admit to Being Mentally Ill.

NO. NEXT QUESTION?

Can you get Muslims to stop raping children?

That would be great. Maybe classes or something…

— John Ringo SF Author (@Jringo1508) September 3, 2025

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: If Lisa Cook Committed Mortgage Fraud, Then It’s a Crime Still in Progress.

Note that the text states that Cook, in the space of two weeks during 2022, claimed two different homes as her main residence; the government alleges that she did this in order to obtain better loan terms. Banks charge a lower interest rate for an owner-occupied primary residence because, should a borrower come under financial distress, lenders assume the borrower will default on an occupied home loan last.

Cook was a public official acting in one of the most important bank supervision roles in all of government. She has been credibly accused, and has not denied, signing two different loan agreements in which she claimed to be entitled to a lower interest rate.

Cook’s lawsuit claims that these mortgage loan documents are old news and are all in relation to things that happened before she became a governor. On the contrary, unless circumstances have changed—and there’s no evidence in the public record that they have—Cook is still paying the lower rate and continues to benefit from the misrepresentations she made on loan documents in 2022. Again, if this is mortgage fraud—and Cook is entitled to the presumption of innocence—then the crime is still in progress.

It does appear to still be in progress, putting lie to Cook’s claim that “private conduct before taking office does not amount to cause.”

NEW: VIDEO PROOF

We have just received video proof that Lisa Cook’s declared “PRIMARY RESIDENCE” is being RENTED out to tenants.

Cook RECENTLY CLAIMED to the U.S. Government that it was her PERSONAL RESIDENCE, but she’s renting it out?

Good journalism, @Charlieleduff pic.twitter.com/YMIN2dHJGm

— Pulte (@pulte) September 2, 2025

FAFO: He Towed an ICE Vehicle During an Immigration Bust; Now He’s a Defendant in Federal Court.

DECLINE IS A CHOICE (LEFTIES ARE HAPPY TO MAKE ON YOUR BEHALF): The national security case for nuclear energy in Colorado.

While a real-life ‘Red Dawn’ scenario playing out is unlikely, with Soviets falling from the skies and taking over Colorado, the threats to national security posed by Colorado’s current decarbonization agenda are very real.

Colorado is home to some of the United States’ most important national security assets, including the U.S. Space Command, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), and many aerospace and defense contractors. The installations run by these assets require a dependable energy source in order to monitor threats, operate satellites, and carry out functions to protect the nation.

But as the state continues towards an unrealistic climate goal of 100% decarbonization by 2040, an important issue is raised: Can Colorado’s renewable energy scheme dependably support the infrastructure essential to national security?

The current sources, specifically wind and solar and their susceptibility to extreme weather and foreign interference, put these essential defense functions at risk. Nuclear energy offers both a green and reliable alternative.

Colorado has set one of the most ambitious clean energy goals in the country with a 100% decarbonization mandate by 2040. This aggressive plan includes the retiring of all 6 remaining coal plants by 2031, the addition of 3,400 megawatts of wind energy, 1,970 megawatts of solar energy, 1,170 megawatts of energy storage. Furthermore, 82% of new passenger vehicles sold must be electric or plug-in hybrid by 2032.

If Colorado continues to increase its dependence on wind and solar energy, the state is setting itself up for a potential power crisis.

After 30-plus years, I should be gone from Colorado long before the worst of Denver’s decarbonization efforts kick in.

UM…:

Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.) pic.twitter.com/kC4VTRaobq

— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) September 3, 2025

“President for Life” is bad enough, but “President for Eternal Life?”

REFORM UK: Farage Vows Mass Deportations in UK. “I will deport every single one of them, and that’ll win me the election.”

Maybe Britons need to think hard about exile for their existing ruling class, too.

That’s a joke… but only barely.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: ‘You rebel against a world that tells you mediocrity is good enough.’

Carlos Carvalho, president of the University of Austin, welcomed new students — this is the private school’s second year — with a speech defending inequality.

“Of course, all men are created equal,” said Carvalho, who was a professor of statistics in the business school at the University of Texas in Austin. “But all men are not the same. We have unequal curiosity, unequal intellect, unequal talent, unequal courage, unequal drive, unequal achievement.”

Alexis de Tocqueville, the great 19th century critic of American democracy, warned that “a dominating drive for equality suffocates the very people whose uncommon talent, courage, and vision could pull everyone else upward,” said Carvalho. He “famously observed that people in democracies might come to prefer equality in servitude to inequality in freedom. In the name of making all things equal, we end up equal only in mediocrity.”

If excellence were the norm we’d have to call it something else.

THE ENEMY WITHIN (IRELAND EDITION):

This probably sounds like a fake story, but I assure you it's 100% real.

Dublin City Council have requested a meeting with senior gardai (police) because…….

Too many Irish flags have been put up.

Let that sink in, the Irish flag is now offensive, in Ireland. pic.twitter.com/UZRPyPsvKI

— MichaeloKeeffe (@Mick_O_Keeffe) September 2, 2025

THE RUMOR MILL GRINDS ON: NYC Mayor’s Race: One Down, One to Go? “This week’s big conspiracy theory — at least until the next one — involves incumbent New York City Mayor Eric Adams quietly disappearing to Florida on ‘personal’ business, but perhaps to meet with Trump administration officials to discuss dropping out of the race.”

LOVIN’ IT: Coming price cuts at McDonald’s may signal a broader fast food price war.

McDonald’s is cutting prices on some combo meals to woo back customers who’ve been turned off by the rising costs of grabbing a fast food meal.

The price drop may induce its rivals, who have run into some of the same pricing issues, to follow.

Starting Sept. 8, McDonald’s will offer Extra Value Meals, which combine select entrées like a Big Mac, an Egg McMuffin or a McCrispy sandwich with medium fries or hash browns and a drink. Prices will vary by location, but McDonald’s said Extra Value Meals will cost 15% less than ordering each of those items separately.

To kick off the promotion, McDonald’s will offer an $8 Big Mac meal or a $5 Sausage McMuffin meal for a limited time in most of the country. Customers in California, Alaska, Hawaii and Guam will have to pay $1 more for those meals.

I don’t eat much fast food anymore — mostly due to middle-age concerns — but this is some welcome price relief.

HMM:

The Pfizer vaccine was announced six days after the election — Eric Topol, a cardiologist with 400K Twitter followers and a severe case of TDS, also heavily, and successfully, lobbied the FDA to hold off. MIT Tech Review wrote a glowing profile of Topol for his efforts. https://t.co/RrFi1NEmpq

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) September 3, 2025

ROBERT SPENCER: Trump-Hating Judge Makes Stunning Ruling in the Case of a Woman Who Wants to Murder Trump. “On Tuesday, a notorious Trump-hating judge helped remove any lingering doubts that all too many leftists want to see Trump die in office when he ordered a woman who wants to murder Trump to be freed from custody. What could possibly go wrong?”

WHEN YOU’RE AN UBER-PROGRESSIVE BLUE-STATE DEM AND YOU’VE LOST MORNING JOE…: Even ‘Morning Joe’ Is Turning Against JB Pritzker For Defying Trump On Response To Rampant Crime.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems Are Super Upset That Trump Gets Rid of Bad Guys. “Some might say that the Dems have always been this bad deep down, that Trump has merely exposed the ugliness that has been there all along, but even I’m not that dark and cynical. I will, however, go so far as to say that they took a wrong turn when His High Holiness the Lightbringer Barack Obama was in office and just kept heading to a bad place.”

ORWELL NAILED IT: Fight Over ‘Correct’ Historical Memory Permeates China’s War Anniversary Commemorations.

When Beijing’s leaders—such as President Xi Jinping—talk of “safeguarding” the “victory” of World War II, then, they’re talking about defending the idea of the Communist state as the only legitimate inheritor of “China’s victory”—as well as the idea that China, as a victor of the war, enjoys a naturally superior status to Tokyo, the instigator and loser. At home, it means a history that ignores all the messy horrors of the war, and instead tells a safe, party-approved story of moral triumph.

Chinese sacrifices in the war against the Japanese, of course, were enormous. But there’s one particularly thorny problem with Beijing claiming that wartime victory gives it carte blanche: The Nationalist Party did most of the sacrificing. While many communist guerrillas fought heroically, the Communist Party used the opportunity to rebuild itself in its mountain fastness of Yan’an.

Commies lie.

ICYMI: CNBC Just Spilled the Awful Truth About California.

DAN LERMAN: The War on Knowledge.

Schools have decided that facts are no longer worth teaching.

In many classrooms today, the very idea of committing information to memory has become unfashionable. As I tour schools for my daughter, we are often assured that facts will surely not be the focus of her education. “We don’t do rote memorization,” teachers proudly declare with a condescending wink. As if memorization were an outdated relic of a less enlightened era.

But without facts, what are students actually learning?

At the progressive Brooklyn private school where I once taught, spelling wasn’t corrected until middle school. Focusing on spelling, we were told, got in the way of creativity.

I then watched smart, curious kids write macien for machine at age 14, then wilt when people involuntarily gasped at their failed spelling attempts. Their writing was often expressive and insightful . . . and incoherent. They probably weren’t even aware of the $60,000 per annum price tag, or they might have raged against that macien.

Math was treated with the same flippancy. Curious about the curiously low standardized test scores, I once wandered into a math classroom where the teacher was barefoot, in a faded Led Zeppelin T-shirt (it was a great shirt). He then drew a circle on the board and announced, “This is not a circle. It’s a representation of a circle.” The lesson, it seemed, was to gain mystique points by using a stoner voice to say something quirky. I couldn’t help but make a connection between that math lesson, and the school’s undying demand for expensive private tutors.

Read the whole thing.

TRUMP: Mexico Is ‘Scared’ to Let U.S. Troops Clean Up Cartels.

SO NOT A FOSSILIZED LEFTY: Scientists Found a 520-Million-Year-Old Miracle: a Fossil With Brains and Guts Intact.

ARE THERE ANY MODERATE DEMS LEFT IN ANY OF THE BLUE ENCLAVES? Democrats Are Terrified and Republicans Are Giddy Over Mamdani Becoming the ‘Face of the Democrats.’

The answer to the headline question is “Apparently not.”

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey pandering to Minnesota’s mini Somalia might be the cringiest video you watch today pic.twitter.com/oRPQt0vXay

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 1, 2025