One of the few things that most Americans agree about today is that there are serious problems with the current news-media environment.

Early in 2017, Senator Chuck Schumer stated that then-newly elected President Donald Trump was dumb to be antagonizing the intelligence community because “they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you.” Senator Schumer seems to have been onto something, given the possible involvement of US national security officials in the various attempts to remove President Trump from office and then sabotage his reelection campaign.

Up from Conservatism: Revitalizing the Right after a Generation of Decay
Edited by Arthur Milikh
Encounter Books, 2023; 328 pp.

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today ruled against a Hawaii state law banning the possession, manufacture, and sale in the state. Bloomberg Law reports the appeals court: 

instructed the lower court to continue proceedings in compliance with its determination that butterfly knifes are protected by the Second Amendment.

For college football fans, it’s already been a wild August week before the first kickoff.