Overnight News: “See Atlas shrug? Shrug, Atlas, shrug!”

Legitimacy, ultimately, is a bargain: In exchange for my not fighting City Hall, City Hall agrees to do its deal as efficiently as possible and to stay out of my business otherwise.

What happens when City Hall gradually reneges on the deal? Not rebellion out right, certainly not right away, but mutiny – graduated rebellion – instead.

This does Fiasco Joe invite.

Job-separations are hard to tally, easy to obscure over time. Watch retail sales: Everyone whom Fiasco Joe has taxed of the confidence of future income just stopped spending. That news, too obvious to hide, will hit America around Columbus Day.

The actual, objectively-discernible sound of Atlas shrugging? That would be the sound of silence. “Brother, you asked for it.”

In other news:

Rob Hahn: On the 20th Anniversary of 9/11.

Mark Steyn: The Years We Wasted.

The New York Post: Biden’s disastrous handling of Afghanistan cast a cloud over this 9/11 anniversary.

Suzy Weiss: American Homeschooling Goes Boom: Meet the parents yanking their children — some five million of them — from schools that they say aren’t working.