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Ed: Kudos to Joe Scarborough for not letting Johnson off the hook. Mediaite has the transcript. Scarborough asked FIVE TIMES whether more police on the streets would help lower crime, and Johnson refused to answer it. That’s okay, though. Trump is providing evidence of the obvious in Washington DC this month. 

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Politico: The White House’s public safety play is a deliberate ploy to refocus the narrative on an issue that favors Republicans ahead of the midterms — one that’s already backing Democrats into a corner.

The president in recent days is leaning even further into using the National Guard as a glorified police force, visiting the troops and allowing them to be armed. He’s suggested he’s eyeing Chicago and New York next for their next deployment. On Sunday, he needled Maryland Gov. Wes Moore for Baltimore’s notorious crime statistics, hinting he could send troops there as well.

It’s a sign that despite polling showing how unpopular Trump’s moves are in Washington, the president is playing to a national audience — and betting this is a battle he and the GOP can win. If his recent escalation was an attempt to goad Democrats into declaring that crime isn’t a problem, repelling swing voters in the process, top Democrats did not disappoint him.

Ed: That’s why I called it the “cornering strategy” yesterday. And Rachel Bade may not have seen this data before asserting that the deployment in DC is unpopular, but the Harvard-Harris CAPS poll showed a majority of Americans supported the move (54%). I may write more about this tomorrow. 





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Ed: “Ritualistic weirdness” is practically the Democrat brand. It certainly describes their agenda, with its heavy emphasis on performing sex change therapies on children, etc etc etc. It’s Academia Gone Wild, as our next entry demonstrates …

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Free Beacon: At a mandatory training for Columbia Law students, a vocally anti-Trump diversity consultant warned that the terms “crazy uncle” and “grandfathering” could be offensive and attacked President Donald Trump for complimenting the president of Liberia on his English, calling the comment a “microaggression.”

The session, audio of which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, came in the wake of the Trump administration’s deal with Columbia University, which pledged to mandate anti-Semitism training for all students and faculty. Though a Columbia official said that the training was not intended to meet that obligation, it appears to have been crafted with the deal in mind.

Facilitated by Marguerite Fletcher, a former corporate attorney at WilmerHale, the training was organized around a single “case study” in which a student complains that it is difficult to schedule events around Jewish holidays. In audio of the training, Fletcher—who has wished her clients a “HappyChrismaHanuKwanzakah”—described the complaint as a paradigmatic “microaggression” and encouraged students to list other examples.





Ed: In any other era, this would be something one would expect to read as a satire of Academia. Not only is it reality, it’s also the reality of the Democrat Party — and one reason voters are beginning to abandon it. However, it’s not JUST the language but also the radical agenda that the language is designed to obfuscate. 

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Ed: Neither of these stories help Democrats. The Protection Racket Media is just too caught in its own bubble to realize it. 

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Jed Rubenfeld in The Free Press: All this aside, the fundamental question posed by the new executive order is whether today’s justices might overrule the Supreme Court’s 1989 and 1990 decisions holding flag-burning to be constitutionally protected speech. Trump’s order essentially directs the DOJ to bring cases challenging those precedents, and they could be in trouble.

Both those cases were decided by a slim 5-4 majority. In Johnson, Chief Justice William Rehnquist waxed poetic about the flag in his dissent, quoting verse and the national anthem and concluding, “For more than 200 years, the American flag has occupied a unique position as the symbol of our Nation, a uniqueness that justifies a governmental prohibition against flag-burning.” In Eichman, the liberal Justice John Paul Stevens argued in his dissent that a flag desecration law does not punish any particular opinion, and he emphasized that in “times of national crisis,” the flag “inspires and motivates the average citizen to make personal sacrifices.”





Today’s conservative justices may agree. 

Ed: That may be one motive for pushing this EO, which Rubenfeld describes and analyzes far more accurately than most Protection Racket Media outlets did. I suspect, though, that Trump’s main motivation for issuing the directive is to get Democrats to cheer flag-burning. See the next entry. 

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Ed: Is everyone taking notes on the Cornering Strategy? I mean, everyone except the Democrats who keep falling for it?

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Politico: The shadow primary for president in 2028 is suddenly igniting a more immediate campaign: the fight among states to hold the first nominating contest.

South Carolina hosted more than a half-dozen potential candidates this summer. Another half-dozen dropped into New Hampshire, including Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego on Friday. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Rep. Ro Khanna of California both popped into Nevada this month. Michigan and Iowa are getting in on the action, too.

All of that activity is putting pressure on the Democratic National Committee to move quickly to set the presidential primary calendar because “candidates need the rules of the road,” said Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), who was elected to the DNC’s powerful Rules and Bylaws Committee, charged with setting the presidential primary calendar.





Ed: Er … isn’t this putting the cart before the horse? Democrats need a platform before they need a schedule. In fact, they need candidates who aren’t obsessed with Orange Man Bad Syndrome. Right now, the only message Democrats have is knee-jerk opposition to Trump, which has allowed Trump to lead them by the nose right to the edge of political oblivion through his cornering strategy. 

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Ed: No one is above the law, not even judges who act to obstruct federal law enforcement. I still believe this will end in some sort of negotiated plea, but the longer Dugan drags this out, the deal will get progressively worse. 

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Andrew Stuttaford at NRO: And so, rather circuitously, we come to the government taking a stake of 9.9 percent in Intel for $11.1 billion. … 

We live in dangerous times. The challenge posed by China, the threat to Taiwan, and the broader vulnerability of our chip supply chain all make a reasonable strategic case for a strong domestic chip manufacturing industry. To take that industry to scale may mean that some U.S. companies have to pay more chips than they otherwise would. Then again, as Adam Smith put it, “Defense . . . is of much more importance than opulence.” Moreover, those companies that currently regard Chinese chips as “cheap” are probably mispricing the risk that comes with overdependence on China. How cheap really was the “cheap” Russian gas that Germany used to buy?





But even if the strategic importance of a U.S.-based chip sector can justify more government support than would normally be appropriate, there are still reasons for concern about the way this deal has been structured, not least the taking of an ownership position, not something the state should be doing with a private-sector company.

Ed: I understand the rationales behind this deal, but it still concerns me. Government and private industry combining like this in terms of literal ownership stakes is a step toward *actual* fascism, as opposed to what campus midwits think the word means. Stuttaford offers a fair and balanced analysis of the risks as well as the rewards. At least this approach guarantees that taxpayers have a say in how federal capital gets used, as opposed to the perhaps-worse grant/subsidy model usually used in these transactions. 

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Ed: Looks like Ireland may be waking up to the dangers of mass indiscriminate immigration, as well as the working-class voters in the UK. It’s long overdue. 

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Ed: We all wish them a lot of luck. This is a gracious response from Trump, and a fun moment for all. 


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