July 17, 2021

PROBABLY DUE TO THEIR OPEN WILLINGNESS TO LIE ON BEHALF OF THEIR PREFERRED POLITICAL PARTY: Gallup: American Trust in Media Plummets; Only Congress Less Trusted Among Major US Institutions.

THEY ARE CONFUSING A HOLIDAY OF MOURNING WITH SOMETHING THEY WOULD LIKE TO CELEBRATE: Tonight marks the Jewish Holiday of Tisha B’Av, which commemorates the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans, the murder of tens of thousands of Jews in Israel in the course of putting down the Jewish Revolt, and the beginning of Exile, i.e., the almost two thousand year stretch in which Jews had no sovereign state in the Land of Israel. Jewish Voice for Peace, a small group of largely Jewishly unaffiliated, far-leftist Jews who hate Israel and get their funding primarily from non-Jewish far-left foundations, sees this as something to emulate rather than mourn.

MINNESOTA LAWMAKER CLAIMED HE WAS CITED FOR ‘DRIVING WHILE BLACK,’ SO POLICE RELEASED BODYCAM FOOTAGE:

[Minnesota state Rep. John Thompson (D)] later asks why he was pulled over, and the officer says because of Thompson’s missing front license plate and because of the way he took off from a stoplight.

“I’m too old to run from the police man,” Thompson replies. “You profiled me because you looked me dead in the face and I got a ticket for driving while Black. You pulled me over because you saw a Black face in this car brother. There’s no way in hell I’m taking off with you behind me.”

“What you’re doing is wrong, to Black men,” Thompson continues as the officer denies that Thompson was racially profiled. “And you need to stop that. Thank you so much but this ticket means nothing to me … What I’m saying to you is stop racially profiling Black men in their cars sir. Stop doing that.”

After the incident, St. Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell released a statement calling for the release of the bodycam footage and stood behind his officer’s conduct.

“I was shocked to hear that driver accuse the sergeant of making the stop based on race,” he said.

“These aren’t accusations I take lightly, so I looked into the traffic stop, watched the body worn camera footage and spoke to the sergeant. This stop, made at about 1:20 in the morning, had absolutely nothing to do with the driver’s race,” Axtell wrote in a post on Facebook.

“The traffic stop was by the books. What happened afterwards was anything but,” Axtell continued.

Flashback: Remember When Civil Rights Groups Wanted Police Bodycams? Look At What They’re Saying Now.

HOW LONG BEFORE BIG TECH COLLUDES TO PUT IT OUT OF BUSINESS? GETTR explodes, passing 1.5 million users in just 11 days.

ABA: WE’RE BOOK BANNERS — BUT FOR THE LEFT.

They’re talking about Abigail Shrier’s massive bestseller Irreversible Damage: How The Trans Craze Is Harming Our Daughters.

Let me remind you that this is the trade association of independent booksellers, yet they believe that simply mentioning a popular book that offends against woke dogma is “a violent incident.” They are abasing themselves FOR MENTIONING A BOOK THAT IS FOR SALE!

These are the same people who squawk on self-righteously about Banned Books Week. They are advocating banning books (“banning” by their standard). You can’t make this up.

See, this kind of thing is why I’ve become more radicalized this summer. I don’t believe that the leading voices of the Left have any confidence in traditional liberal principles anymore. They — or at least their organizations, like ABA — are illiberal leftists. I would like to be wrong, but this is a perfect example of what Wesley Yang says of wokeness: that it’s the “successor ideology” to liberalism. A liberal American Booksellers Association would never have put out that kind of cringe, disgraceful tweet. Woke ABA would, and did. They remind me of this great line from Annie Hall:

As Andrew Sullivan recently asked his fellow leftists: What Happened To You?

 

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Biden Taps Son of Top Dem Donor for Product Safety Post.

MASKS ARE BACK IN L.A. COUNTY BECAUSE LIBS ARE REALLY ANTI-VAXXERS, TOO: “Unless millions of toothless Republican rubes from the icky flyover hinterlands moved to Los Angeles in the last month, it would appear that a whole bunch of libs aren’t getting their vaccines either.”

Flashbacks:

Huffpost Gets Shamed for Peddling Anti-Vaxx Hysteria.

Today Show Earns All-Time Ratio For Tweeting There’s ‘Debate’ Over Vaccines.

Obama’s History Of Pandering To the Anti-Vaxxers.

I JUST GOT MY GAMES, hope you will order yours.

WELL, SURE, IT MIGHT HAVE HURT THE DEMOCRATS’ CHANCES IN NOVEMBER: Hunter Biden’s prosecutor rejected moves that would have revealed probe earlier.

JOE BIDEN* MORPHED INTO THE CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER SO QUICKLY, EVERYONE NOTICED: The Biden Administration Will Decide What You Can and Cannot Say. What could go wrong?

Why does the White House get to decide what you can and can’t say online? How did they become the arbiters of what is and isn’t “misinformation”? Would Democrats have been okay with the Trump administration announcing they were actively bouncing people from Facebook?

Less than 18 months ago, it was considered “misinformation” to speculate that COVID-19 is contagious. For a while, it was “misinformation” to tell people to wear masks. Then, suddenly, it was “misinformation” to tell people not to wear masks.

If the experts can’t get the information right in the first place, I don’t trust them to know what constitutes “misinformation.” They’ve been very publicly wrong about a lot of stuff ever since this pandemic started, and I don’t give them the benefit of the doubt anymore.

And now the government is publicly announcing efforts to squash any dissent. Once again, the people who can’t shut up about “fascism” are the ones using fascist tactics.

I’m not an anti-vaxxer. I’m vaccinated, and in the unlikely event that you want my advice, you should get vaccinated too.

And, also, in addition to that, I believe in free speech. If you don’t want to get vaccinated, you should be able to say so. I’ll tell you that you’re making a mistake, or more likely I’ll just ignore you, but I won’t stand with anybody who tries to silence you. That’s un-American.

In this country, you have the right to be wrong.

Related: “Twitter and Facebook blocked the New York Post for true and accurate reporting a story on the President’s son. That’s where this argument should start. Not anti-vaxx posts or videos. The argument starts with these platforms blocking a story the Biden campaign and several other journalists falsely claimed was ‘misinformation.’

* Sorry — I misspelled President Klain’s name again.

FROM CELIA HAYES: Lone Star Sons: Being The Entertaining and Mostly If not Always True Adventures of Texas Ranger Jim Reade and his Blood Brother Delaware Scout Toby Shaw in the Time of the Republic of Texas.


The time – 1842
The place – the Republic of Texas, a place threatened and besieged on all frontiers!
Jim Reade lay on his back in the desert dust, incuriously seeing that ominous shadow circle, lower and lower until every finger-like dark feather became distinct against the burning sky . . . He hurt in every bone, from his head to his fingertips, and all the way to his booted toes. . .the sun had blazed on his exposed face and hands for many hours, and there was a mass of congealed blood which had oozed from his forehead, running back into his sweat-matted hair.
Jim Reade, a volunteer Texas Ranger, is the sole survivor of an ambush in the contested Nueces Strip. Rescued by Indian scout, Toby Shaw, the two young men join forces in pursuit of a mysterious wagon carrying a treasure in silver and gold – a treasure with a curse upon it!
Sworn blood-brothers, Jim and Toby meet with other challenges and mysteries, including a trove of documents sought after by spies of three nations, a girl vanished in the midst of a vicious feud between two families, a den of murderous robbers on the Opelousas Trace … and a tiny baby left an orphan in the desert!
Lone Star Sons – the classic Wild West rides again, in this collection of adventures intended for younger readers by the author of the Adelsverein Trilogy.

DON SURBER: Inflation heads to double digits. Democrats smile. “In just 5 months, Biden has pushed the Misery Index from 8.06 to 11.3. He is entering the Jimmy Carter Zone.”

WE HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE. ALSO, WE’LL SUE YOU IF YOU TRY TO FIND OUT WHAT WE’RE DOING. Mom Says School Board Threatened to Sue Her for Seeking Public Information on Critical Race Theory in Curriculum.

AS IF WE HADN’T KNOWN:  Wikipedia co-founder says site is now ‘propaganda’ for left-leaning ‘establishment’.

I mean, according to wiki I’m a white male Mormon who has problems with women and immigrants writing science fiction.

And if you believe that, I invite you to doss down with Florida Man.

SPIT OUT THAT BLACK PILL. SPIT IT I SAY:  Nobody Knows The Trouble….

Where we’re going there’s no room for doomers. If you insist on singing the blues, at least learn to play the piano.

THE FRENCH TOO ARE DONE WITH BEING BOILED:  The segregation of Citizen COVID.

AMERICANS, MY PEOPLE, BE UNGOVERNABLE:  Defiance.

Resist because it’s the right thing to do. Resist because the Junta hates you. Resist because the Junta is illegitimate. Resist because if you don’t you’re going to end up having to shoot yourself out of communism. Resist because it’s Friday. Resist because the sun came out in the morning.

If you’ve ever tried to bathe a cat who really really didn’t like it, channel that. Be the cat. Be impossible to hold, and all claws.

Be Americans.

YEAH, SO BOOKSELLERS HAVE BEEN ROLLING LEFT FOR DECADES:  Today’s blacklisted American: Booksellers want to burn a book they do not like.

“MISTAKEN” IS A FUNNY WAY TO SPELL “TREASONOUS”:  Barr’s Mistaken Choice.

And yes, I know that Charlie Martin will tell me it doesn’t meet the legal definition of treason. Don’t care. Installing an enemy stooge as president is treason, by any other name.

I INVESTIGATE “SECRETARY” BLINKEN TO INVESTIGATE RACISM IN CHINA OR THE UAE:  Secretary of State Blinken Invites United Nations to Investigate Racism in the U.S.

If he survives, we’ll talk.
A man in a blue helmet is an enemy…. You know the rest.

RISING CASES ARE NOR RISING DEATHS:  Los Angeles Reinstates Indoor Mask Mandate With Rising COVID Cases.

At this point the left is denying efficacy of the very vaccine they are pushing, and frankly just making merde up. (Pardon my French.)

They need a firm “no.” They need their nose rubbed in their own excrement. Commies are a lot like puppies. Big, stupid, evil, murderous puppies. Who won’t leave you alone.

BIDEN IS KILLING PEOPLE BY DESTROYING OUR ECONOMY:  Biden: Facebook is ‘Killing People’ Allowing COVID Misinformation.

Not that this shabby and senile comic book villain will understand that.

AND THERE IT IS AGAIN, MY SHOCKED FACE:  Biden Admin Calls for Cross-Platform Social Media Deplatforming.

These Buffons de Derriere think that if they sew a man’s mouth shut, they’ve changed his opinion. They have no clue what they’re messing with. Some days I feel like I’m watching toddlers play with C-4

GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF PUBLIC INDOCTRINATION CENTERS:  Mandatory CRT-Based Program Coming to a School Near You.

Olly olly oxen free!

Also: Commies, leave the kids alone!

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  Report: Delaware Prosecutor Stalled Hunter Biden Investigation to Keep It Out of 2020 Election.

OLLY OLLY OXEN FREE:  Providence Teachers Union Confirms Affinity Group Segregation, Historical Books Destroyed, Holocaust Education Ended (Ramona Bessinger Update).

Sure, having a parent stay home and homeschool costs. Trust me, I know. But at this point, what is your choice? Did you have kids for the state?

IF YOU’RE GOING TO LIST EVERYTHING OCCASIONAL CORTEX DOESN’T UNDERSTAND:  AOC Doesn’t Understand The Cuba Embargo – Shock.

You’re going to need a bigger blog.

July 16, 2021

JOSH BLACKMAN: The Path Forward For The Texas DACA Case: A stay from the Fifth Circuit is unlikely. Do Justices Kavanaugh and/or Barrett have the “fortitude” to let the injunction go into effect?

Today, Judge Hanen ruled that DACA was both procedurally and substantively invalid. (Co-blogger Jon Adler wrote about it here). This case has been pending forever. Texas filed the original complaint in May 2018. The case sat around while the DACA rescission litigation wound through the federal courts. Last June, the Chief set aside the rescission memorandum in Regents. Now, a year later, the district court set aside the original policy, which has been in effect since 2012. Yes, the policy is more than 9 years old. It has stretched the entirety of my academic career.

Judge Hanen issued three very precise remedies First, the Court vacated the original 2012 DACA memorandum, in part. Second, the Court temporarily stayed “the immediate vacatur as it applies to current DACA recipients.” Third, DHS may continue to accept new applications, but the agency was “enjoined from approving any new DACA applications and granting the attendant status.”

At this point, the Defendant-Intervenors, as well as the Biden Administration, will seek a stay from the Fifth Circuit. That remedy is very unlikely, as Hanen’s decision follows very closely from the Fifth Circuit’s DAPA decision. Later, the parties will seek an emergency stay from the Supreme Court.

How do the votes shake out? I suspect the Chief Justice will grant a stay for all three remedies. There is only one jurist in the country who can radically alter federal law, and his name is John G. Roberts. And we know the Chief does not like district court injunctions. Alas, Roberts plus the Kagan three makes four–not enough for a stay. And if all four dissent from the denial of a stay, it will be obvious to the world that Justices Kavanaugh and/or Barrett refused to help the Dreamers.

Will Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett have, in the words of Justice Gorsuch, the “fortitude” to deny the stay. Justice Kavanaugh recently split the difference in the eviction case: he found the moratorium illegal but declined to put that ruling into effect. My prediction? He declines to stay the first ground of relief, vote to stay at the second ground for relief, and urges the Court to grant cert before judgment for the third ground for relief. Plus he writes a hand-wringing concurrence about how DACA is illegal but the Dreamers are such wonderful people. He can copy-and-paste from his Regents decision: “They live, go to school, and work here with uncertainty about their futures.”

Sigh.

OPEN THREAD: In the thick of night, it’ll hold up in the light.

OH, GOOD GRIEF: CDC investigating monkeypox case in Dallas in traveler from Nigeria.

More on monkeypox here. “Human monkeypox infections have only been documented six times outside of Africa; in the United States in 2003 (47 cases), in both the United Kingdom (3 cases) and Israel (1 case) in 2018, in Singapore in 2019 (1 case) and in both the United Kingdom (3 cases) and the United States (1 case) in 2021.”

West African monkeypox tends less to human transmission than Central African monkeypox. Given that this case is from Nigeria, I assume it’s the former. Not likely to be much of a threat, but who needs it? And it’s interesting that Dallas saw cases during the Ebola outbreak a few years ago, too.

AT SPACE.COM, JUXTAPOSITION:

BIG BROTHER DEMANDS MESSAGE CONTROL:

WHAT ABOUT ADULTS? Teens should make own COVID-19 vaccination choices, experts say. But reading the story, the experts think teens should be able to override their parents’ decisions on this subject if they want the vaccine, so it’s not really a statement in support of free choice in general.

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN JOURNALISM WASN’T A GENTRY-CLASS PROFESSION, BUT A BLUE-COLLAR JOB:

That time is long past, which is one reason why journalism has gotten worse.

CHINESE CRAPWARE: BioNTech produces 10 times more antibodies than China’s Sinovac: study.

BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules DACA Illegal.

OPINION: Tesla’s Cybertruck Will Be Company’s First Flop.

STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS: Griggs v. Duke Power Co., one of the least defensible opinions in the Supreme Court’s history, is now 50 years old. If you want to understand just how wrong an opinion can be (and how hard Congress tried to write a statute that couldn’t be misinterpreted), read Title VII Disparate Impact Liability Makes Almost Everything Presumptively Illegal.

FLASHBACK: My 6-year review of the RX-8.

LIDBLOG: Crazy Tokyo Olympics Get Even Nuttier with Latest Rules. “BMX freestyle rider Chelsea Wolfe (an alternate) said she will burn the American Flag if she wins. I suppose that will be okay as long as she doesn’t touch anyone.”

WELL, OF COURSE HE IS: Biden is putting politics ahead of stopping the COVID spread.

NOT THE BEST, BUT ADEQUATE: Are Hunting Shotguns Good For Home Defense?

YES, IT’S OK TO QUESTION THEIR PATRIOTISM: Critical Race Theory Advocates Sent Staff & Students On Chinese Communist Propaganda Trips.

WELL, GOOD: 2020 Fallout: Voters Want Tighter Voting Restrictions.

OUT: WAR ON SCIENCE. IN: WAR ON DATA. Facebook axes team over far-right data. “Facebook has disbanded one of its teams after the data they produced suggested that far-right commentators outperformed all other users. Facebook executives, including Sir Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister, became concerned that the CrowdTangle tool was being used by journalists to produce embarrassing evidence that right-wing content was read more than anything else on the platform. The analytics tool is owned by Facebook but is available to the public. It is one of the only ways for users to measure how well a post is doing in terms of being shared, commented on, liked or receiving a reaction emoji.”

AT KING HARV’S: Mars coffee now on sale.

JOANNE JACOBS: Teens choose jobs over high school, college. “I fear dropout rates will go way up, unless high schools, community colleges and employers can offer job-centric pathways to disconnected, disaffected young people.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): It would probably also help if they didn’t tell male students that they’re rapists and oppressors. Just spitballing here.

HMM: Study finds women can predict a man’s attitude toward casual sexual relationships based on his face. “They found that the women were able to accurately match the sociosexuality of the males in the pictures to their scores on the questionnaires they had taken. They were able to tell if a man was looking for casual sex rather than a long-term relationship, just by looking at his face. For the men, it was a different story. While most of them thought they would be able to tell, they actually did no better than if had they chosen randomly. The researchers found patterns in the pictures of the men—those who were more open to a casual sexual relationship had wider spaces between their eyes and broader faces in general, along with wider noses, stronger jawlines and thinner lips—traits, the researchers note, that have been attributed to males with higher levels of testosterone.”

I LIKE THE CUT OF HER… WELL, EVERYTHING: Actress Megan Fox Calls Trump ‘Legendary’ at UFC Appearance.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Blackburn praises Open Technology Fund’s impact in Cuba. “Sen. Blackburn in May 2020 introduced the Open Technology Fund Authorization Act, S. 3820, with U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) to expand the U.S. government’s support for internet freedom by addressing authoritarian regimes’ escalating efforts to censor, restrict and surveil the internet. The bill became law as part of H.R.6395, the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021.  The FY21 NDAA became law on January 1, 2021 after Congress overrode President Donald Trump’s veto. The U.S. Agency for Global Media’s (USAGM) Open Technology Fund provides funding for Psiphon, an internet censorship circumvention tool that is allowing Cuban activists to continue organizing protests online and daily unique users have spiked to over 146,000 since the demonstrations in the country began, according to the senator’s office.”

PETER SCHIFF: The Transitory Inflation Ruse. “It is certainly possible that we can finish 2021 with 10% CPI, which would rank it as bad as any of the years that we had during the 1970s. Except 10% in 2021 is not 10% in 1971 or 1979 because this is not your grandfather’s CPI. This is a completely different CPI that is completely rigged and reverse engineered. If we actually have 10% inflation, if we measured prices the way we did back in the 1970s, it’d probably be 15 or maybe 20% inflation.”

WHERE’S HUNTER, FAT? Federal Prosecutor Deliberately Delayed Hunter Biden Probe To Shield 2020 Election.

#1 IN FEDERAL EDUCATION LEGISLATION: Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America.

THEY’LL ACTUALLY HAVE THE YOUNGEST, THE OLDEST, AND, OF COURSE, THE RICHEST PEOPLE EVER TO FLY IN SPACE: Blue Origin flight will carry youngest person to fly in space.

ROGER SIMON: Cuba, Iran, and the Shame of the United States.

If I hadn’t left the Democratic Party years ago, I would leave it now.

Their namby-pamby, lip-service reaction to the uprising of the Cuban people against 62 years of brutal communist oppression is shameful beyond words.

Apparently, the protests are a bit inconvenient for them. AOC might be embarrassed if they said or did anything, not to mention Bernie.

The Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned Cuban refugees not to come (while the border is open to practically everybody else, from Houthis to extra-terrestrials) put the capper on it.

The Coast Guard has evidently already been alerted not to allow this freedom-loving riff-riff on our shores. After all, some of them might vote Republican.

Cuban-born himself, Mayorkas’ behavior is not that far from the Jewish Kapos who kept order for the Nazis inside the concentration camps. What he’s done—no doubt on orders from above—is that repellent.

But the Democrats clearly had and have more important fish to fry, like prolonging the fiction that another freedom-oriented demonstration (Jan. 6), clumsy as it might have been, was a veritable “insurrection.” (The poor folks just somehow forgot to bring guns.)

Related: Former Florida Dem Congresswoman Scolds AOC for Blaming Cuba Crisis on U.S.

I KNOW, BUT THE PRESS KEEPS REPORTING WHAT THE PUBLIC-HEALTH AUTHORITIES SAY: Surgeon General Murthy says COVID-19 misinformation an ‘urgent’ health threat.

Related, via a friend:

#JOURNALISM:

IT’S THEIR WAY: Bidenflation is real, and Democrats will make it worse. “Despite their zero-margin control of the Senate, Democrats are governing as though voters had given them a massive majority that justified dispensing with negotiation and bipartisanship. In an inflationary economy, they want to borrow and spend even more money for ideological goals that are irrelevant at best and damaging at worst to the vigorous economic recovery that Biden inherited upon taking office.”

JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: ‘They’re victims now?’ AP reports how Texas Dems on flee-ibuster are living a life of ‘scrutiny, stress and secrecy.’

Related: Here We Go: Major Texas Democrat Stripped of Leadership Post for Fleeing the State.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: The Navy needs to stay focused — or we’re doomed.

“‘You had one job!’ is an Internet meme focusing on spectacular failures. Too many of our institutions that have one difficult job would prefer to do other, easier things instead. Without mechanisms to hold their feet to the fire and force them to focus on their real reasons for existence, they tend to drift into things that are easier, and bring their leaders acclaim from their peers, even if those things don’t actually matter.”

SCIENCE!

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: White House Lets It Slip That ‘Temporary’ Inflation Could Last Years.

Plus:

  • Equality is eating colonizer cauliflower babies
  • Delware officials purposely delayed Hunter Biden investigation until after the election
  • Biden speaks a fact, world somehow fails to end

So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

UM: NHTSA Cautions Against Leaving Chevrolet Bolt EVs Indoors. “The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued an alert pertaining to Chevrolet Bolt owners, as the vehicles’ LG Chem battery packs could have a propensity to catch fire. On Wednesday, the safety organization recommended that the cars be left outdoors (ideally a healthy distance from anything flammable) and never left unattended while charging.”

Plus: “While EV fires haven’t been the norm, they’re happening at a pace that’s definitely undermining public trust. This is especially bad considering large swaths of the industry and most governments are hellbent on transitioning entirely over to alternative energy vehicles in the coming decade. Automakers and suppliers clearly need to do better because purchasing modern EVs still requires trading off some of the conveniences of internal combustion vehicles to get the benefits of at-home charging and quiet operation. Under normal circumstances, deciding between them involves some contemplation on what your driving needs actually entail. But owning a car that won’t catch fire is a prerequisite for most consumers and unlikely to be something they’ll be willing to compromise on.”

LOCKDOWN FALLOUT: Apple employees threaten to quit as company takes hard line stance on remote work. “Apple will apparently make exceptions for people with documented medical conditions, but acquiring that accommodation reportedly requires employees to confirm their status by releasing medical records to the company. The demand made some people uncomfortable, the report said.”

THIS IS THE CORRECT WAY TO DEAL WITH GROWN-UP TEMPER TANTRUMS: Major Texas Democrat Stripped of Leadership Post for Fleeing the State. “Calls to strip Democrats who fled Texas from their House leadership posts have been growing throughout the week. Texas Republican Party Chairman Matt Rinaldi clarified that yes, leaders appointed to their posts by Speaker Dade Phelan can be stripped of their leadership assignments. Moody is the first Democrat known to be subjected to it. Speaker Phelan did not start small with this move.”

REMEMBER THE MISERY INDEX? It’s back, according to Issues & Insights. Actually, it never left town. But it was so low under His Fraudulency’s predecessor that the “news” media wouldn’t touch it for fear of saying something remotely positive about Orange Man Bad.

The misery index hit its historical high of 21.9 under Jimmuh Cawta and it has gone up every month since January 20, 2021. I’m from out of town and all, but I’m thinking a new record high is in the offing for the misery index.

STILL MORE REALISTIC THAN PREGNANT “MEN”: Are you ready for pregnant man emojis?

TODAY!! AND YOU’RE INVITED!!: The National Association of Scholars is hosting a Zoom event on my new anthology—A Dubious Expediency: How Race Preferences Damage Higher Education—at 2:00 Eastern/1:00 Central/12:00 Mountain/11:00 Pacific. My co-editor Maimon Schwarzschild and I will discuss the book with essayist Peter Wood.

HIGHER EDUCATION, REPORTEDLY, IS A CESSPIT OF RAPE AND RACISM THAT EVERYONE SHOULD ATTEND: U. North Carolina black students claim it’s ‘not safe’ for them on campus.

That kind of language is an insult to actual civil rights workers, but in this degenerate age all we have are poorly educated youth engaging in a sort of parody of the real civil rights movement at the behest of their elders.

DEVIN NUNES: The Durham Report Is Still Coming; Some Obama Officials Will Go to Prison.

SCIENCE: Los Angeles to reinstate mask mandate regardless of vaccination status.

Sorry, L.A. anti-vaxxers. I believe that vaccines work.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: VIDEO: Students confused to see ‘controversial’ American flag flown by Cuban protesters.

Higher education in America increasingly resembles a sort of intellectual autoimmune disorder. Or perhaps what a foreign conqueror would impose on a defeated population in an effort to break its will.

NEWSWEEK: Biden Voting Rights Demagoguery Made More Sinister by Domestic Terror Plan.

EASY CALL: THIS WILL NOT REVERSE THEIR RATINGS AND ATTENDANCE DECLINES. NFL Will Feature ‘Black National Anthem’ At All ‘Tentpole’ Events.

RIGHT? RIGHT.

BIDEN SLIPS UP, ACCIDENTALLY TELLS THE TRUTH; “Communism is a failed system, universally failed system. . . . I don’t see socialism as a very useful substitute, but that’s another story.”

Somebody give him a copy of American Marxism.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Britney Spears Is the Only Thing Americans Can Agree On. “This could be a turning point at this dark time in American history. Who better to bring about the healing than a former member of The Mickey Mouse Club? This is the kind of scenario the Founding Fathers envisioned when they created a country where we were free to worship a God who would eventually give us Walt Disney.”

AT HELEN’S PAGE: C. James Brown’s Earl Town Mysteries.

HE’S RIGHT, OF COURSE: Mark Levin: Marxist Ideology Is A Poison.

His American Marxism is now out.

GOOD: Rand Paul seeks Tucker Carlson NSA-spying investigation.

WHEW. I’M IN THE MARKET FOR A NEW CAR: TSMC signals global chip crunch may be easing.

I PAID 5 CENTS MORE PER GALLON YESTERDAY THAN I DID LAST WEEK: Gloom: 88% fear higher inflation under Biden, bacon up 8.4%, gas 45%.

JOHN MCGINNIS ON THE ABA’S NEW ACCREDITATION POWER-GRAB: Why The Lawyers Cartel Is Pushing For Woke Law Schools. “Having lawyers regulate entrance into their own profession has always been anomalous. The ABA has an abiding interest in making entry more expensive—it decreases competition for its current members. But now the ABA wants to use wokeness to raise operating costs, impose ideological uniformity, and reduce academic freedom.”

WHEN ONE DOOR CLOSES, ANOTHER OPENS : “Game creator William Dalebout is a commercial illustrator. He started developing the ‘Virtue Signal’ game after he got canceled from the graphic arts profession in 2016 for designing a banner featuring Donald Trump.” You can buy any of his games here. My games are on the way. (Bumped)

BRYAN PRESTON: A ‘Spiritual Catastrophe’ Is Exactly What the Left Wants. “Nikole Hannah-Jones rode a momentary epiphany all the way to fame and fortune and now lifetime employment, where she will teach young people to do…what, exactly? She will be a professor of journalism. It didn’t matter that her key journalism project was fundamentally wrong and it doesn’t matter now.”

OH, YEAH, I KNOW NO ONE IN THE US IS REPORTING THIS:  ‘Down with dictatorship’: 19,000 rally, clash with cops over France COVID rules.

The French have also had enough. And you know and I know it’s not “just” Covid rules…

WELL, YES: Swing-District Dem Says Party’s Stimulus Spending Drove Inflation.

FBI NABS HUNTER BIDEN: Well, not “nabs” in the sense of an arrest, but a retired FBI analyst confirmed for Just the News that the signature on the Delaware computer repair shop receipt for Hunter Biden’s laptop is his, not a forgery. And that makes the laptop quite possibly “the thing, you know, the thing” that will eventually be the end of His Fraudulency’s crime family.

YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT: Former Fox News Host Told the Truth About the January 6 Riot…And It Probably Infuriated Liberals.

The Lego Insurrection — which as it turned out, didn’t even involve the reported Lego Capitol — has been wildly overblown, because they Democrats wanted to create a narrative that Trump supporters are domestic terrorists whose suppression, by means legal or otherwise, is justified.

Related:

Also related: Going through the charging documents.

STATE LEGISLATORS SHOULD PAY MORE ATTENTION TO WHAT HAPPENS AT THEIR PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES: Arkansas legislators question why disbarred Bill Clinton’s name added to law school chair.

HE’S NOT GOING ANYWHERE: Supreme Court Justice Breyer Breaks His Silence on Retirement Plans.

AND ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD: Barbarella!

Or, if you prefer (and with the right linkage): Barbarella:


The Siren of Space returns for a series of all-new adventures by a dynamic new creative team! Multi-award winning author SARAH HOYT and rising star artist MADIBEK MUSABEKOV are at the controls as Barbarella leaves space dock on a new mission fraught with unseen layers of danger, duplicity and perhaps a dose of romance! Camelot is home to the rich and powerful class seeking escape from an increasingly crowded and decaying galactic empire. Desperate clandestine transmissions from an enslaved underclass bring Barbarella to investigate, uncovering secrets that lead to more secrets—and the distinct possibility that someone knew she was coming. High concept sci-fi meets the greatest aspects of the human soul in a series that will reveal wonders that both terrify and delight, plus covers by fan-favorites LUCIO PARILLO, DERRICK CHEW, BRIAN BOLLAND and more!

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