Flotsam and Jetsam in the Wake of Ophelia

We survived Ophelia just fine, although there are a lot of shredded leaves in the yard.

From Paul Bedard at WaEx, White House Report Card: Biden mental issues more in focus. Mediaite, Biden Claims ‘I’ve Been to Every Mass Shooting’ in Speech on Gun Violence. From Althouse, Out there lying about what is outlying.  Mickey Kaus @kausmickey, "When was the last time a major paper declared its own poll an "outlier"?" When it showed Trump ahead of Biden. "The Post-ABC poll shows Biden trailing Trump by 10 percentage points at this early stage in the election cycle." NYPo, Why Biden will lose if gas prices keep rising — as they seem set to do. At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 09.22.23 (Abbreviated Afternoon Edition), Vox Popoli: The “Stop Biden” Drumbeat Begins,

At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 09.22.23 (Abbreviated Afternoon Edition), Twitchy Thomas Massie Catches AG Garland Lying. At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 09.22.23 (Evening Edition), Am Great, Texas AG Ken Paxton Says Impeachment Effort Was Orchestrated by Biden Regime With the Help of ‘Controlled’ Texas GOP House Speaker, Our Self-Induced Catastrophe at the Border, Ray Epps Charged With a Single Misdemeanor Count of Disruptive or Disorderly Conduct, and Congress to Release New Evidence Backing Up IRS Whistleblowers Against Biden, Babalu Blog, Hispanics buy gasoline, too, Da Tech Guy: Trump’s stand on life and Mother Angelica on Peanuts, If you want to win in 2024 You’d Damn Well better Deal with Reality, The Answer is: “Joe Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election As Sure as the Cincinnati Reds Won the World Series in 1919”, The Geller Report: DEMOCRATS’ INVASION: 35,000 Illegals Cross U.S. Border in Just 4 Days, POST-TRUMP AMERICA: No Major World Leaders, Allies Showed Up For Irrelevant-Biden’s UN General Assembly Speech, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tucker, Explains How Democrats Stole the Election in 2020, The Lid, House Committee Reveals 22 Examples of Biden’s Corruption After Media Cries There’s “No Evidence”, LI California Federal Court Says Teachers Don’t Have to Comply With School’s Secret Gender Transitioning Policy, Supreme Court Extends Stay on Fifth Circuit Injunction Stopping Biden Admin From Coercing Big Tech to Censor Posts, Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez and His Wife Indicted on Federal Bribery Charges, Cornell University Silent After Professor Receives Award for Advancing Free Expression and Intellectual Diversity, Indiana Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz Tears Into Merrick Garland, Compares DOJ to the KGB, and Education Sec. Cardona: ‘I Don’t Have Too Much Respect’ for Parents Wanting a Say in Kids Education, Power Line: Clothes Make the Man, Biden’s Iran deal, The Daily Chart: Bidenomics Epic Fail, The Federalist, Don’t Count On Biden’s IRS To Investigate Mark Zuckerberg’s Election-Rigging ‘Nonprofit’ Scheme.

Hat Hair cites KCRA, Guess somebody's running for prez: Newson VETOES CA bill allowing state to take child if gender not "affirmed" and Capt. Ed, He's running: Newsom vetoes California's All Your Children Are Belong to Us bill. Althouse, "I'm actually in favor of immigration—legal immigration. High fences, wide gates." ". . . Writes Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in "Biden's Border Policies Have Made Every U.S. City a 'Border Town'" (Newsweek)."

Althouse again, "Trump is triangulating. He sees, correctly, that the Republican Party is now on the wrong side of the public on abortion" and I'm OK with that. USA Today, UAW files complaint against Sen. Tim Scott alleging that he violated federal labor law.

At Da Wire, Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez Suggests Vast Conspiracy Is After Him After He’s Hit With Federal Charges. 

NewsMax, Judge to Hear Arguments in Trump's N.Y. Fraud Lawsuit. At the Georgia Star, Lawyer Indicted in Georgia Trump Case Warns Fani Willis Violated Attorney-Client Privilege, Wants Evidence Stricken, Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger Among Witnesses Fani Willis Plans to Call in Trump Trial and Investigator at Fani Willis’s Office Accidentally Shot Herself in Fulton County Courthouse.

At WaEx, Supreme Court extends freeze on ruling against Biden administration communications with Big Tech.  Jay Bhattacharya, the epidemiologist involved in the Great Barrington Declaration describes  the American Pandemic ‘Samizdat.’ 

Paige Spiranac

Insty, I SUPPOSE YOU COULD FILE THIS UNDER “FETTERMAN NATION,” BUT SOMEHOW I DON’T MIND AS MUCH: Golf Influencer Paige Spiranac Doesn’t Care If Her Revealing Activewear Choices “Rub People the Wrong Way.”

Jazz Shaw at Hat Hair reports on a Nebraska woman sent to prison for giving daughter abortion pills. At PM, 'They/them' assaults Utah mayor during city council meeting after reporter mother called out over hit pieces. 

Kevin Downey at PJM, The Destruction of the United States Is Intentional. Here's What Will Happen Next.

Stacy McCain takes up the case of Dave Brooks burger (with a couple of double shot of bourbon) LOL: ‘Readers Added Context’ to Tweet by David Brooks and It’s Brutally Awesome.