I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN A PRESIDENT ASKING ABOUT AN OPPOSITION SENATOR’S FATHER WAS NOT UNCOMMON:  Why President Trump Checked in on This Dem Senator’s Father.

WELL AS  FARTSWELL  SWALLWELL SAYS, NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW:  Moment disgraced Eric Swalwell is surrounded by FBI agents at San Francisco airport.

I’M NOT SURE HASAN PIKER HAS THE IQ TO EXIST. CERTAINLY NO MORAL SENSE:  Far-left streamer Hasan Piker equates Israel’s ‘right to exist’ to Nazi Germany. The far-left streamer called Israel an ‘apartheid state’ and compared Zionism to fascism during the conversation.

THE VISA RESTRICTIONS ARE WORKING, AND THIS IS GOOD:  Indian data scientist leaves six-figure New York job, returns to India over H-1B constraints.

SIGH. TRUE:  Once again, it is not possible to hate most of our Professional Journalists enough.

GOING BACK TO A SET TECH IS NEVER THE RIGHT ANSWER FOR EVERYONE:  University of Chicago right to return to analog.

Not everyone became Amish when the mass-industrial revolution scared them.

Tilting at windmills is running a sale! 

HE’S RIGHT:  Never a peaceful moment in the Pacific Northwest. Fighting Leftist Tyranny.

SO MANY:  When Your Kid Needs More Help Than You Can Give.

I MISS JERRY AND IT’S GOOD TO SEE HIM BEING TAKEN SERIOUSLY:  The Strategy of Technology Was a Brief, Not a Book..Pournelle ran two channels and the wrong one got funded.

AUTHORITARIANS DON’T LIKE DISSENT:  “Your presence in the UK is not considered to be conducive to the public good.” and “How much can we boost fertility rates?“ talk. The price of dissidence.

IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU BELIEVE. OR DON’T:  The King’s Horoscope.

SUPPORTING THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY ANNOYS THE HECK OUT OF MY ENEMY:  Turkey: We Put Out A Warrant For Netanyahu’s Arrest. Israel: Enjoy Greece Having Our Cutting Edge Weapons.

NOW WE CAN JUST DO THINGS:  This is the type of thinking that is going to set the tone for the new age. The Trump Administration is obviously thinking outside of the box and establishing the very old but also new (to our generation) concept of “just doing stuff”. Strait of Hormuz still a big problem? Dig a new canal. Nero had the Corinth Canal dug. We have bigger machines. It can’t really be overstated how useful this type of thinking is going to be moving forward. It’s actually the basis of how we fix everything.

GOOD BECAUSE THE COURT ORDER WAS INSANE:  Supreme Court Grants Stay on Order Stopping White House Ballroom Construction.

THIS SCIENCE FICTION GEEK HAS A BIG SMILE ON HER FACE:  Trump Announces U.S. Space Academy as America Enters a New Space Race.

JOSH BLACKMAN: Making Sense Of The Chief Justice’s Tango In The Ballroom Case: It was the Chief, and not KBJ, who was holding up the case. Was he trying to flip ACB’s vote?

Roberts is such a disappointment.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX just revealed its main financial engine — and it’s not rockets.

MARK STEYN’S SONG OF THE WEEK: “I Will Always Love You.”

It is not many songs that can claim the affections of both Brazilian deaf-mute transgenders and the late Saddam Hussein, but “I Will Always Love You” is one of them.

Seriously. Obviously I have my differences with the late Iraqi dictator over torturing political opponents, gassing the Kurds and whatnot, but I had a certain respect for his taste in music. He was said to have had quite a collection of Sinatra LPs, mostly from the Capitol era — In the Wee Small Hours and Songs for Swingin’ Lovers. And at the end of his life Saddam was certainly swingin’.

But that was the dictator after hours, in his wee smalls, with a box of Quality Street and one of his many mistresses. For the public face of his musical tastes, he favored the Bodyguard soundtrack. From The Times of London, and their report on the 2002 Presidential “election” in Iraq:

Party officials have chosen the Whitney Houston song ‘I Will Always Love You’ as the campaign theme tune. The song accompanies the dawn-to-dusk election broadcasts on the three state-controlled television stations, which feature almost continuous footage of Saddam.

Amazing. All over Baghdad, folks were switching on the radio to find Whitney ululating “I will always love you-oo-oooaahooeauooooeeeuoaaaoooo…” And, also all over Baghdad, folks in the next apartment were sighing, “Terrific. Saddam’s got those Shi-ites at Number 23 wired up to the cattle prods again. Might as well forget about any sleep tonight.”

Needless to say, read the whole thing.

MICHIGAN DEMOCRAT ABDUL EL-SAYED’S DELETED TWEETS ON SEPT. 11 ATTACKS INVITE SCRUTINY OF PAST REMARKS:

As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack.

El-Sayed is a leader of a new crop of candidates from a wing of his party that opposed American wars and capitalized on anger over anti-Arab sentiment in a state with a robust and active Muslim community. But now he is attempting to adapt — and in some cases delete — past statements that may run afoul of a broad, general election audience.

As El-Sayed heads into the fall general election campaign against Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, El-Sayed, a former public health official, has already been forced to distance himself from the views of Hasan Piker, a popular Twitch streamer who has appeared at El-Sayed’s campaign events and who generated controversy for declaring that “America deserved 9/11” before later retracting the remark.

Meanwhile, El-Sayed’s past references to the deadly attacks have continued to surface, including two deleted social media posts verified by CBS News that have not been previously reported. In those posts, he calls for the American public to muster the same outrage for the COVID-19 death toll that they displayed after 9/11.

Norm Macdonald, call your office!

SCIENCE MARCHES ON: The FDA Just Approved The First US Freeze-Dried Plasma, Ready in Minutes.

SUGAR IS BAD: Less Sugar Early in Life Linked to Lower Dementia Risk Decades Later.

THAT’S DOCTOR AHAB TO YOU: Measles, Captain Ahab, and the White Whale.

THREE GUESSES: Pedro Sánchez Is Back From Vacation — Guess Which Country He Blames for ‘Disinformation’ About Ceuta.

MEN’S MENTAL HEALTH: A therapist explains the surprising signs of depression in men — most people miss them completely.