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Ed: I didn’t see that coming, either. Salena Zito describes how the assassination attempt made Trump more reflective on faith and God’s hand in matters, in her book Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America’s Heartland. Marian devotion is more advanced in Catholic/Orthodox theology than I assumed would interest Trump, but here we are. 

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Axios: Routh, who is not a lawyer, has opted to represent himself, writing in a letter to Cannon in June that it’s “[b]est I walk alone.”

  • In a filing earlier this month, Routh proposed a “beatdown session” and a round of golf with Trump, writing, “he wins he can execute me, I win I get his job.”
  • Routh hoped to call a number of witnesses, including Palestinian activists detained by the Trump administration and Trump himself, who Routh described in a filing as a “mad fool.”
  • Cannon, in an order denying a slew of witnesses Routh proposed, wrote that “as much as Defendant may want this official proceeding to devolve into a ‘beatdown session’ with one of the alleged victims in this case, he could not use witness testimony as a means of “calculated chaos.”

Ed: This is the story of the other assassination attempt on Trump’s life. The trial started today with jury selection; I can’t even imagine the voir dire that Ryan Wesley Routh would conduct. I’m not even sure why he’s bothering with a trial, considering that the prosecution has a letter Routh allegedly wrote declaring his intent to assassinate Trump on that day and apologizing for failing to do so. Maybe he just wants to go down in flames and get the last tiny iota of attention he will get until he dies in prison. 





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Ed: I don’t think prayer should be compulsory in schools, but it should be allowable. The removal of prayer and Bibles from schools at least correlates with the decline in education outcomes. Is it a causal relationship? Could we try reversing it and see if it works?

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Gallup: Americans are more positive toward capitalism than socialism, but the 54% viewing capitalism favorably is down from 60% in 2021 and near that level in most prior years. Americans remain more negative (57%) than positive (39%) toward socialism, with little movement in these attitudes over time. …

Democrats and independents view capitalism less positively this year, each showing eight-percentage-point declines since 2021. For the first time, less than half of Democrats (42%) view capitalism positively, while a slight majority of independents (51%) still do. Republicans’ views are essentially unchanged, with three-quarters holding a positive opinion.

Stability in U.S. adults’ opinions of socialism obscures Democrats’ more positive views of it over time, from 50% rating it positively in the initial 2010 reading to roughly two-thirds in three readings since 2019. Those increases have been mostly offset by declines in positive ratings of socialism among Republicans. Independents’ ratings of socialism have generally been steady.





Ed: Zohran Mamdani, AOC, and the rest of the Squad are not anomalies among Democrats. They are increasingly becoming the rule. One does have to wonder whether this is driving the decline in voter affiliation with Democrats, or whether the decline just reflects the departure of non-Marxist liberals who are sick of the party’s direction. Practically speaking, though, one has to quote Hillary Clinton: What difference at this point does it make?

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Ed: That *used* to be the primary form of deception for the Protection Racket Media, which we called “editorial bias.” Now flat-out lying is their primary form of deception – ie, “Sharp As A Tack®,” “cheap fakes,” and so on. But omitting stories is still a powerful tool of deception. 

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CBS News: A federal appeals court on Monday rejected a lawsuit filed by a group of states that challenged the mass firings of thousands of federal probationary workers.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit divided 2-1 in finding that the 19 states and the District of Columbia did not have legal standing to sue over the large-scale terminations. The appeals court sent the case back to the federal district court with directions to dismiss it.





“We acknowledge that the abrupt and indiscriminate dismissal of the probationary employees here exacted all-too-human costs upon those affected,” Judge Harvie Wilkinson wrote for the two-judge majority. “But this real impact on the employees, who are not parties here, cannot govern our review.”

Wilkinson wrote that while federal probationary workers “suffered the brunt of the harm” as a result of their firings, “they are nowhere to be found in this case.”

Ed: Standing is a legit issue in federal court. Presumably, the plaintiffs will appeal this decision to the Supreme Court, but this is the correct decision — both on standing as well as on the merits. The Constitution invests all executive authority in the president, and that clearly includes staffing decisions in the executive branch. The states have no role in that whatsoever in the Constitution anyway. 

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Ed: Indeed. They pretty much gave the game up with the supposed difference between “Zionists” and Jews. Now they aren’t even bothering to cover up the anti-Semitism. After October 7, 2023, I tweeted about the bizarre sense of having fallen asleep in America and waking up the next day in the “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” scene in “Cabaret.”  I also mentioned it in an interview with John Ondrasik. 





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Shooting News Weekly: Don’t mess with a mama bear.  That’s a lesson that one of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s early parolees learned the hard way in Joliet. Serial bad guy Shelby Hurd has had a long history of burglaries and other criminal activity. After an early release thanks to “good credits” he went right back to his old ways. Fortunately for America, during his latest burglary, he brought a screwdriver to a gunfight with a mom who knew how to handle her pistola.

The female resident, who was at home at 10:30pm with her infant child, heard someone force entry to her apartment. She gathered the baby and her Roscoe and retreated to a bedroom closet. She took the ensconced defender position so often taught in basic home defense gun classes.

Meanwhile, Mr. Hurd didn’t have the good sense to just steal some stuff and leave. Or perhaps he wanted something more personal than just her belongings. Either way, she had 911 on the line and a gun in her hand. When Shelby brought his screwdriver into her bedroom, the young mom used her cordless hole puncher to insert a freedom pill into Hurd’s head.

Ed: All quipping aside, this is how one deals with a high-crime environment. Get armed, get trained, get educated on proper use. Pritzker may prefer to sacrifice you as a victim to the progressive ideology, but that doesn’t mean you have to agree or allow yourself to be victimized. 

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Ed: Looks like an epidemic of FAFO in the Windy City. 

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NRO: No. No. No. This is not the story. The story is not “MAGA.” It’s not “influencers.” It’s not people “seeking to elevate the issue of violent urban crime” or “accuse mainstream media of under-covering shocking cases.” The story is violent urban crime and, as Axios itself just illustrated, the mainstream media’s grotesque tendency to under-cover shocking cases. The story is this murder, and the guy who committed it, who should not have been on a train waiting to pounce on an unsuspecting traveler, because the existing criminal justice system should have contained him. 

Ed: In fairness, the Axios story DID cover the underreporting. The problem with their article was mainly the lead. The thrust of the overall piece was that crime was fast becoming a major headache for both Democrats and the media, and the attempt to keep a lid on it was failing badly now. 

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Ed: Tell me you never studied American revolutionary history and constitutional development without saying that you never studied American revolutionary history and constitutional development. This is so basic to American history and civics that it’s almost impossible to credit this to ignorance rather than deliberate obtuseness. 

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Ed: LOL, yeah, Trump may be the grandmaster of trolling, but Stern is pretty good at it too. Nevertheless, this is likely to be the most relevant he’ll be until the next time his contract comes up for renewal. 


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