CDR SALAMANDER: Condition of the Navy’s Amphibious Fleet And Its Impacts on Marines: the View from GAO. “Amphibious warfare ships are critical for Marine Corps missions, but the Navy has struggled to ensure they are available for operations and training. In some cases, ships in the amphibious fleet have not been available for years at a time. The Navy and Marine Corps are working to agree on a ship availability goal but have yet to complete a metrics-based analysis to support such a goal. Until the Navy completes this analysis, it risks jeopardizing its ability to align amphibious ship schedules with the Marine Corps units that deploy on them.”

WELL, IF “EDUCATED” PEOPLE THINK IT’S OKAY, CAN IT REALLY BE ILLEGAL?

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YOU DON’T SAY: CIA now says Covid-19 is more likely to have originated from a lab leak.

The Central Intelligence Agency said Saturday that it’s more likely a lab leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic than an infected animal that spread the virus to people, changing the agency’s yearslong stance that it couldn’t conclude with certainty where the pandemic started.

The agency made its new assessment public two days after former Republican lawmaker John Ratcliffe was sworn in as its new leader.

“We have low confidence in this judgement and will continue to evaluate any available credible new intelligence reporting or open-source information that could change CIA’s assessment,” an unnamed CIA spokesperson wrote in an email sent to reporters Saturday.
The statement didn’t include any additional details about what led the agency to change its assessment and whether it had intelligence that would add weight to the theory that the virus had leaked from a research lab in Wuhan, China.

What Politico’s Carmen Paun and John Sakellariadis left out of their report is that while Washington remains divided on COVID’s origins, Washington and crap outfits like Politico once mocked and silenced anyone with questions.

BYE, BYE GAVIN: Joel Kotkin: LA fires have extinguished Gavin Newsom’s presidential dream.

Two years ago Gavin Newsom was widely seen as a rising Democratic star and likely future presidential candidate. Meanwhile Donald Trump, facing massive legal troubles and the results of his own intemperance, seemed to many, like those at CNN, a fading figure.

How quickly things change. Over the weekend, Trump met with the California Governor as they toured parts of California devastated by the wildfires. As Newsom was forced to greet the President with his cap in hand, Trump wasted no time in attacking the state’s progressive policies. On his arrival, Trump called on Newsom to change the state’s water policies, blaming the spread of the fires on deficient supplies. This is partially accurate: although water policy has been poorly implemented, the immediate issue lay in the city’s failure to maintain fire spending and key infrastructure like water pressure for hydrants and keeping the local water reservoir filled and operable.

Trump’s demands have drawn attention to the state’s self-inflicted wounds, and its pattern of astounding incompetence. In 1971, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith described the state government as run by “a proud, competent civil service,” and enjoying among “the best school systems in the country”. This year Wallet Hub ranked the state last in terms of return on investment for taxpayers.

50 years of Democratic political dominance will do that to you.

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OUT: LUXURY GOODS. IN: LUXURY BELIEFS. This makes sense.

(Via Marc Andreesen).

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BAN HOMESCHOOLING? As President Donald Trump moves to encourage the home schooling movement, the Left and the public education unions — but I repeat myself —  are marshaling their usual fallacies in opposition.

But the homeschooling movement is all but certain to continue growing because of the deepening rot of public education and the reality that homeschooled kids learn far more and more of the essential skills than do kids in the average public school. That’s according to the latest “What Would You Say” video from the Colson Center on HillFaith.