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.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Alexander Vindman Represents Everything That’s Wrong With Our Officer Class.

YOUR BODY, HER CHOICE:

In case you forgot who mandated the Covid vaccine. pic.twitter.com/iU8T2BJj94

— Robert Hyde for U.S. Senate (@HydeforSenate) August 27, 2024

Community Notes remains undefeated.

HELLUVA PICK, KAMALA: Forget About a Wall China Paid for. This ‘Walz’ Was Bought & Paid for by LGBTQ Extremists.

HONG KONG: Jury convicts 1, clears 6 over 2019 bomb plot in Hong Kong’s first UN anti-terror trial

Lai Chun-pong was found guilty of the alternative charge of conspiracy to cause explosion with intent to endanger life or property. He was found not guilty of the original charge of conspiracy to commit bombing of prescribed objects, and cleared of a separate charge of conspiracy to murder.

The panel delivered their verdicts on Thursday following the landmark trial under the UN (Anti-Terrorism Measures) Ordinance.

Cheung Chun-fu, Cheung Ming-yu, Yim Man-him, Christian Lee, Justin Hui, Lau Pui-ying, and Lai were charged over a thwarted bomb plot to murder police officers during a rally in Wan Chai on December 8, 2019.

Lau was cleared of conspiracy to provide or collect property to commit terrorist acts. Lee, Hui, Yim, Cheung Chun-fu and Cheung Ming-yu were all cleared of the alternative bombing conspiracy charges and the murder conspiracy charges.

The nine-member jury of six women and three men had to reach a unanimous decision, or a decision agreed on by at least seven jurors, for an effective verdict.

Seven members of the panel found Lai guilty, while two said he was not guilty. He was found not guilty for the alternative bombing conspiracy charge and the murder conspiracy charge, both with an 8-to-1 split.

The other defendants were unanimously found not guilty for the bombing conspiracy and murder conspiracy charges. Lau Pui-ying was found not guilty by a seven-juror majority.

Clearly not the result Beijing would have wanted — Hong Kong still has some fight left in it.

UPDATE: A friend from Hong Kong notes that Hong Kong judges, in judge-only trials, have been much quicker to convict than juries. This makes sense, as judges are far more dependent on — and part of — the apparat than juries are. Which is why we have juries. And, probably, why Hong Kong soon won’t.

BIDENFLATION: Subway’s $6.99 Foot-Long Deal Sparks a Revolt Among Largest Franchisee.

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE FROM THE LEFT? Oil Tanker Attacked by Houthis Is at Risk of Leaking in Red Sea.

The Suezmax tanker—the largest size that can transit the canal when laden—had taken on cargo in Iraq, and its final destination was Europe, brokers said. It is one of dozens of commercial ships that risk traversing the Suez route each day despite ongoing threats from the Houthis.

The extent of the damage to the vessel isn’t known because efforts by salvage teams to reach it have been stymied by the Houthis, according to U.S. and United Nations officials.

“Sounion now sits immobilized in the Red Sea, where it is on fire and appears to be leaking oil, presenting both a navigational hazard and a potential environmental catastrophe,” Gen. Pat Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman, said late Tuesday.

The Biden-Harris administration is notably silent, too.