BLUE ON BLUE: Ouch! The White House Just Threw Kamala Harris Under the Bidenomics Bus.

HANLON’S RAZOR HAS RESIGNED IN PROTEST:

They could read the shooter's phone…(New photo uncovered by @JudicialWatch)… pic.twitter.com/4eSQp8UsXf

— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) August 14, 2024

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH: Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other.

BREAK. IT. UP. The Unthinkable Just Became Thinkable for Google. “Honestly, I’m not sure that a breakup is the remedy for Google’s search monopoly. But I’m damn sure that Google needs to be broken up for even better reasons.”

WELL, SURE, BUT THAT’S NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT SHE’D DO TO THIS COUNTRY: Kamala Harris Would Be Disastrous for the Middle East.

PRIORITIES: FBI Still Prioritizing ‘White Supremacy’ and Keeping Trump Shooting Investigation Classified.

TRACKING SICK, DYING, OR DEAD PEOPLE MIGHT BE BETTER METRICS: University of Minnesota says it’s tracking a ‘summer surge’ of COVID using wastewater.

If you have to find it via wastewater, how serious is it, really?

SPACEX TO THE RESCUE LOOKS MORE LIKELY, ALTHOUGH NASA WON’T ADMIT IT: NASA Delays Starliner Decision AGAIN.

BIDENFLATION ISN’T OVER:

The owner of four restaurants made this video when inflation was at 3.5%. Today, we’re told that inflation is at 2.9%. He looked at the prices of some products and concluded that the government’s inflation numbers don’t make sense. Since February, food prices have increased:

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— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) August 14, 2024

It’s even worse than I thought.

DISBAND THE EU: EU Officials Throw Tyrant Thierry Breton Under the Bus Over His Letter to Elon Musk.

HE MUST BE HURTING HARRIS MORE THAN TRUMP: RFK Jr. ballot access could be threatened in more than a dozen states after New York rejection.

ROBERT SPENCER: Tim Walz Is Just Like You and Me — If You and I Have Friends Who Love Hamas.

HELLUVA PICK, KAMALA:

It's not just that Zaman is a kook who digs Hitler and hates Jews. He's also head of the MN chapter of the Muslim American Society, which was founded by the Muslim Brotherhood and serves as a front for the Ikhwan. MAS is banned in the UAE for terrorism. Why did Walz donate $100K… https://t.co/QlyZXUdQ2c

— John Schindler (@20committee) August 13, 2024

MAYBE EVERYTHING: How Much Is Elon Musk Willing to Lose to Protect Free Speech? “Right now, Elon Musk is up there with Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and Jordan Peterson: They’re the current Mount Rushmore of Men who Terrify the Crap Out of Left.”

MAKE THEM PAY: MSNBC Deceptively Edits Joe Rogan. Lawsuit? “Given how obviously blatant and deceptive the video editing was, you wonder why they even tried it in the first place. But given the outlandish, over-the-top lovefest the MSM has thrown to gaslight the American public into thinking that unpopular, perpetual mediocrity Harris is somehow smart, accomplished and popular despite all evidence to the contrary, I wonder if all MSNBC staffers are under specific orders to produce segments that make Harris look good by any means necessary.”

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: I Once Tried to Get Michael Vick a Gigantic, 200-Pound Dog. Please Don’t Hate Me!

YES. Most grades don’t match test scores: Is that a problem?

“Two out of five transcript grades indicated that students were more competent in the course than they actually were, while nearly one out of six grades was lower than the student’s true understanding of the course content, reports Hechinger’s Jill Barshay.

Asian American students’ grades matched their test scores 51 percent of the time, according to the analysis. That fell to 43 percent for whites and one-third for Hispanics and blacks. In addition, grade inflation was more common for lower-income students.

Twenty-one percent of Hispanics and blacks receives grades two levels about the mastery indicated by their test scores, such as a B instead of a D, the report concluded. Only 10 percent of Asians and 12 percent of whites received a two-grade boost.

George W. Bush was mocked for calling out “the soft bigotry of low expectations” but it is real.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Deep State Still Wants to Kill Trump Before the Election. “Donald Trump is still a target because the Left wants him to be a target. There has been nothing to indicate that the alleged incompetence that allowed a disturbed young man to take a shot at Trump won’t happen again.”

THE SPIN: 59% of Americans wrongly think the U.S. is in a recession, report finds.

The Reality: US might avoid a recession, but it’s a different story for ordinary Americans.

With the latest weak jobs report, increasing stock-market volatility and concerns that the Fed may be behind the curve in lowering rates, there has been renewed discussion of the R-word: recession. While the GDP may be in positive territory, middle/working class Americans who have been struggling financially for multiple years now feel as though they have already been experiencing a recession.

There’s a good reason for this — many Americans are in a personal recession.

Since the two quarters of negative GDP that we saw at the beginning of 2022, massive government spending (including nearly $2 trillion in yearly real deficits) and consumer spending has kept the GDP in positive growth territory. But the propping up of the economy at face value has come at a real cost for Americans.

For many households, this has caused a personal recession, where their own financial situations have been decimated while trying to keep up with the increased cost of living under the Biden-Harris administration.

We’ve been in a jobs recession for almost four years, with full-time work and labor participation still below pre-lockdown rates.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Trump and Musk: Weak Presidents Put U.S. at Risk From Dictators

SIT IN THE DARK AND EAT THE BUGS: Xcel’s smart meter comedy tour not so funny.

Did you get your smart meter from Xcel yet? That’s the meter that lets Xcel do time of use pricing (and, if you ask me for my conspiratorial opinion, will let them have tighter control over demand management–i.e. controlling your energy consumption).

This smart meter lets Xcel charge different rates at different times of day. When I say different here, I mean much higher. Electricity between 1 and 3 PM on weekdays goes at about twice the regular rate, and between 3 and 7 PM the price jumps to about three times the usual rate. Like to run your AC between 1 PM and 7 PM on weekdays? Like to do your laundry after work on a Thursday so your weekend is free from that chore? Have the oven and stovetop going for a weeknight dinner? Be ready to pay.

After hearing stories from readers about bills tripling, and not wanting to eat cold cuts in the sweltering dark Monday to Friday, I was not too jazzed about getting a smart meter. In reading up, I learned that you can opt out of it–for a cost of course. If you opt out you pay an extra $12 or so a month and your unit price on electricity is slightly higher (though constant). Oh, and when you move, you’ll get to pay Xcel to come out and install a smart meter, apparently regardless of whether the next occupant wants one or not.

Read the whole thing.

DON’T GET COCKY: CNN’s Polling Expert Tells Democrats That Kamala May Be in More Trouble Than They Think.

SNOWFLAKES: Musk’s Interview With Trump REALLY Triggered Kamala’s Campaign.

UP TO THE JOB OF PRESIDENT? SHE ISN’T EVEN UP TO THE JOB OF CAMPAIGNING FOR PRESIDENT:

CNN: What's on Kamala's schedule today?

Kamala spokesman Adrienne Elrod: "She's talking to voters and getting her message out there."

CNN: She has literally nothing on her schedule today.

Kamala spokesman: Well, yeah. pic.twitter.com/NPCnGNiuTH

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 13, 2024

NEITHER ONE OF THEM IS EXACTLY BURDENED BY COMPETENCE: Not Even KJP Can Name Any of Kamala’s Policy Achievements.