Steven Hayward at Power Line.

There is no way Joe Biden can make it to election day next year. His growing incapacity to function is becoming more obvious by the day.

Ukraine Situation Report: Russia Rains Incendiaries On Bakhmut

US-Russia On Verge Of “Open Armed Conflict” After Kremlin Drone Attack: Foreign Ministry

Jake Sullivan: Israel Has Freedom to Act on Iran Nuclear Threat

Watch: Fist-Fight Breaks Out Between Russian & Ukrainian Diplomats At Conference

Offshore Wind Anyone? NATO Claims Russia has MINED Undersea Pipes and Cables

ARMOR: Iran Reveals a New Retro-Tech ATGM

Navy’s Growing Shortfalls on Ship Readiness Frustrate the Marine Corps

Ukraine downs Russian hypersonic missile with US Patriot

Unpacking the Claim that Blinken ‘Lied’ to Congress (FactCheck.org) Narrative damage control.

Biden tells reporters he will hold a ‘major press conference’ – but White House says he was referring to an interview (CNN)

Hunter Biden Fought To Exclude Laptop Info From Child Support Case, Filing Shows

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 41)

Biden Bribery Allegation Could Mean Impeachment, Republican Policy Chair Says

“Russian Disinformation” Memo Was a Biden Campaign Op

Bracing for impact: Biden world preps for Hunter Biden fallout (Politico)

Ruhle Defends Biden on Hunter, Mourns Unpopularity ‘Despite All These Wins’

Former Intel Heads Brennan, Clapper To Testify To House Panel Over Role In Hunter Biden Laptop Letter

Election Fraud Made Clear

Rule Will Mean Asylum Denials for Many Migrants

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On May 2, a Texas House committee passed a bill to create 100% reserve gold and silver-backed transactional currencies. Enactment of this legislation would create an option for people to conduct business in sound money, set the stage to undermine the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money, and possibly create a viable alternative to a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

Washington Free Beacon.

Roughly 700,000 migrants are waiting in Mexico to cross the southern border upon the expiration of Title 42 next week, according to Border Patrol officials.

“Border Patrol shared with us their intelligence that there are approximately 700,000, as of three weeks ago, in the shelters in Mexico waiting to come into the United States,” Jonathan Lines, supervisor on Arizona’s Yuma County Board of Supervisors, said this week. He added that border officials said there is a 500 percent increase in migrants crossing the Darién Gap, which connects South and Central America.

Title 42, a pandemic-era rule that allows agents to immediately turn migrants away at the border, expires on May 11. Once it lapses, the Biden administration plans to expand catch and release protocols that will potentially allow hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants into the country.

The Foundry.

The White House wants every K-12 student to be part of the welfare system. And in its zeal to achieve that goal, pesky things like Congress or the risk of expanding already poorly performing programs pose no obstacles.

President Joe Biden’s administration is continuing the work of President Barack Obama’s team and trying to put as many students as possible on federal school meal programs. The current administration is proposing a significant expansion of school meals, turning a program meant for children from low-income families into an entitlement—akin to welfare—for all students.

Created in 1946 to help poor school-aged children who did not have food to eat at school, the National School Lunch Program has since spawned breakfast and other meal services.

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A freshman Democratic congressman who just happens to represent Wall Street made a perfectly timed sale of his ownership stake in a troubled California bank, exiting his position just days before it saw its stock price enter freefall.

Rep. Dan Goldman (D., N.Y.), who represents the Financial District in Lower Manhattan, sold upwards of $15,000 worth of stocks of PacWest Bancorp on March 6, his financial disclosures show. The timing of Goldman’s sale couldn’t have been more fortuitous—its stock plummeted in value just two days later as investors fled from small and mid-sized banks amid news of Silicon Valley Bank’s pending failure. PacWest’s stock was valued at $27.40 the day Goldman exited his position in the bank. It’s now worth just $3.42, a staggering decline of more than 87 percent.

Such trades are standard fare for Goldman, who is giving former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) a run for her money as Congress’s most prolific stock trader. In his first four months in office, Goldman has made over 500 stock trades valuing between $10 million and $30 million, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of his financial disclosures.

Associated Press.

Republican state senators in Oregon didn’t show up to work on Wednesday, denying the Democrats who control the chamber a quorum and casting doubt on planned votes later this week on legislation pertaining to gun safety, abortion rights and gender-affirming health care.

Cal Thomas.

The very term “debt limit” makes a mockery of any kind of responsible budgeting. Each time the government reaches the “limit” it gets raised with the familiar scenarios that include threats of a government shutdown (an idea that increasingly appeals to some conservatives) and the claim that the “full faith and credit” of the U.S. is at stake. We have faith and credit? Who knew?

Republicans usually cave, or in the case of a shutdown, succumb to media pressure and the Democrats and allow the spending and debt to grow, along with trillions in interest on our $31.4 trillion debt.

And Republicans are no different. President Ronald Reagan took the deficit from $70 billion to $175 billion. Bush41 took it to $300 billion. Clinton got it to zero. Bush43 took it from zero to $1.2 trillion. President Obama halved that to $600 billion. Trump jumped it back to 3.3 trillion.

How Biden’s Plan to Penalize Responsible Homebuyers Could Ravage Retirement Savings by $31,000

Secretive Su: Biden Admin Won’t Release Records of ‘Transparent’ Labor Secretary Nominee Julie Su

Fallen Journalists Memorial Approved for D.C.’s National Mall

HHS: Two Hospitals That Denied Abortions Broke Law

Nets Skip Deadbeat Hunter Biden’s Court Appearance Over Child Support

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott promises to keep busing migrants to Democratic cities (NBC News)

Mark Morgan Calls Out Hypocrisy of Corporate Media’s Silence Over New Photos of ‘Kids in Cages’

Biden won’t move on debt ceiling terms even as he seeks to restart talks (Politico) So, for Biden, ‘talks’ means ‘do it my way’. Good to know.

Blinken Denies Role in Hunter Biden Laptop Russian Disinfo Letter

Biden “Punishes Responsibility” As New Mortgage Equity Program Begins

Washington Post Fact Checker Hurls ‘Bottomless Pinocchio’ at Biden on Deficit Reduction

All the President’s Islamists

Feds rethink warrantless search stats and – oh look, a huge drop in numbers

Muslim NJ mayor demands answers after being turned away from White House Eid celebration

GOP Senators: Hunter Emails Show Blinken Lied to Congress

DHS Expects Biden Admin to Deploy Military to Border After Title 42 Repeal: Internal Memo

Biden sends 1,500 troops to Mexico border for migrant surge (Associated Press)

WATCH: Karine Jean-Pierre Claims Border Crisis Is ‘90%’ Solved as Biden Deploys Troops

White House Announces Illegal Immigration Has Decreased 90 Percent Since They Redefined It  (Babylon Bee)

With Vice News Closing, White House Will Have To Lie To Public Directly  (Babylon Bee)

Congress Must Defund Nonprofits Aiding Biden’s Open-Border Operations

‘Difficult To Describe With Words’: CNN Reporter Stunned By Number of Illegal Immigrants In Texas City

New York Times.

As the government heads toward a possible default on its debt as soon as next month, officials are entertaining a legal theory that previous administrations ruled out.

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Under the theory, the government would be required by the 14th Amendment to continue issuing new debt to pay bondholders, Social Security recipients, government employees and others, even if Congress fails to lift the limit before the so-called X-date.

I’ve always thought that a federal debt limit was about as useless as a Balanced Budget Amendment. You can’t force people to make smart choices if they’re determined to make dumb choices, and that especially goes for politicians. The federal debt limit has never, not once, prevented the federal debt from growing by leaps and bounds–every time it comes close, the entire Ruling Class rises up to wring their hands about how Disaster Looms and we must Loosen the Belt. Republicans have attempted to use the debt limit to restrict government spending more times than I can count, and it never worked. Not once.

Death Toll Rises As Ukraine Ramps Up Attacks On Russian Border Towns

COUNTER-TERRORISM: Iran Goes After Israel

AIR DEFENSE: Advanced AUDs

Waves of Russian Missiles Hit Ukraine

Russian Freight Train Derails In Sabotage Attack As Airstrikes Pummel Ukraine For 2nd Day

Never-before-seen Chinese military blimp caught on satellite images of remote desert base

Sen. Ron Johnson says Antony Blinken ‘lied boldface’ to Congress about Hunter Biden (N.Y. Post)

Rep. Gonzales: Border Worse as Title 42 End Nears

Sudan Shows Leaving Americans Behind Enemy Lines is the New Normal

Biden Attacks Media for ‘Lies of Conspiracy and Malice’  Media pick up a mirror and shine it right back at him.

Crowding-Out. The Fed May Be Killing The Private Sector To Save Government

Maybe Becoming President Takes More Than Just Being a Dick (Mother Jones)

Joe Rogan: Biden Dying Is Only Solution for Democrats  They might get lucky.

It’s Not Funny Because It’s True: Biden Jokes About Never Taking Questions And Doing Nothing

Peter Schiff: We Can’t Afford To Let Biden “Finish The Job”

Scarborough: World Leaders’ Complaint—America TOO Powerful Under Biden!  And if you believe that one, Joe’ll tell you another one.

BUST: How Paul Krugman Flip-Flopped from Prophesying ‘Biden Boom’ to Defending ‘Not So Bad Economy’

The 6 Mistakes of Biden’s Emergency Immigration Plan

Watch: Biden Awkwardly Wanders Away During Air Force Football Ceremony

WATCH: DHS Secretary Mayorkas Gives Bizarre Definition of a ‘Secure Border’

‘Disaster’: State Financial Officers Slam Biden Admin’s ‘Upside Down’ Mortgage Policy

States Revolt Against Biden’s Mortgage Redistribution

In Court, Hunter Biden Cries Poor to Reduce Child Support Payments

National Guard leaders petition Biden, Harris for dedicated Space Force branch  The virtue of a Space National Guard is that there is no possibly chance that you will be activated to do bullshit crowd control duties.

Senate GOP Seeks Damning Memo by Labor Nominee

Hunter Biden’s Hollywood Attorney Now Controls His Stake in Chinese Private Equity Firm

Two Years After Botched Withdrawal, The Biden Administration Has Yet to Properly Vet 88,000 Afghan Refugees

Biden’s Presidency Built Atop an Actual ‘Big Lie’

The American Mind.

Americans suspicious of our elites’ lust for foreign entanglements and of their sending billions down foreign policy ratholes probably have looked askance at recent news of fighting coming from the African country of Sudan. What does it all mean, and why should we care, beyond the fact that thousands of U.S. passport holders were left behind when the Biden Administration evacuated diplomats from our embassy in Khartoum?

The fighting in Sudan is essentially between two armies, both of them with a grim past and a history of corruption and human rights abuses. Each one seeks to dominate and replace the other while eventually controlling the state. The struggle is over power, money, personal ambition, and institutional rivalry tinged with ethnocentrism. The two sides have different geographic and ethnic origins.

The Antiplanner.

The bill also includes more funding for “affordable housing.” Some of that funding is supposed to come from a “fee” on new housing, thus making that housing (and all housing that competes with it) more expensive. But how is this a fee and not a tax?

Under Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR), a constitutional amendment, the state can’t increase taxes without voter approval. But it can increase fees, so the legislature is redefining many taxes as fees so they can raise them without having to go to the voters.

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Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com recently determined from official Federal Freedom of Information Act filings that we pay Beltway bureaucrats in the federal executive agencies outside of the Defense Department and the U.S. Post Office some $576 million per day.

That’s more than $210 billion per year for the 1.44 million employees of 125 rank-and-file general administrative, civil enforcement and federal law enforcement agencies.

Hunter Biden’s twisted attempts to keep his little girl from using his name are now in a new realm (Fox)

As Biden Runs Again, Black Voters’ Frustration Bubbles (N.Y.Times) What are they going to do? Vote for a Republican?

VP Kamala Harris becomes Republicans’ go-to target after Biden launches 2024 reelection bid (USA Today)

Blinken Draws Fire Over Afghanistan Blame Game, ‘Stonewalling’

Defaulting on the national debt is much closer than anyone realizes (Washington Post) Well, if Democrats keep spending money they don’t have….

Biden Authorizes Southern Border Deployment Of Reservist Troops  Never mind what disruption it brings to their lives.

Inflation Still Too High? Let Them Eat EVs

‘Modern-Day Slave Traders’: Hawley Demands Probe Into 85,000 ‘Lost’ Migrant Children

Dead Migrants, Dead Americans: Pro-Border Security Rally Highlights Scourge of Cartels and Fentanyl

Texas Border City Struggles With Large Arrival of Migrants

Over 10,000 FBI Agents Can Access Data From Secretive Surveillance Program: Inspectors General

Sen. Ernst on Military EV Push: ‘You Don’t Fight a War That Way’

Former DNI Ratcliffe: Impeach Blinken Over Laptop Scheme

Biden Administration Hiring 360 Armed IRS Agents Ready to Use ‘Deadly Force’

Russia Mounts First Large-Scale Air Raids On Ukraine In Nearly 2 Months

Sudan War Rages Despite Truce Pledges

House Republicans Plan to Stop New Iran Nuclear Deal

US Sends “Shadowy Unit” Of Atomic Experts To Wire Ukraine With Nuke-Blast-Detecting Sensors

Quiet US Seizure Of Iranian Crude Prompted Iran’s Capture Of Houston-Destined Tanker

Doug Casey On The US Government Declaring War On Mexican Drug Cartels

Is China Winning, Part Two: “How Do You Stop A Superpower”

Unease In Israel As US Depletes Reserve Stockpiles To Fuel Ukraine War

EU Reaches Ukraine Grain Deal With Eastern European Member States

“We Simply Don’t Have The Ammo” – Polish General Says Can No Longer Supply Ukraine, Warns Russia Has Resources To Continue War

Ex-CIA Moscow station chief reveals why he refused to sign Hunter Biden laptop ‘disinfo’ letter (N.Y. Post)

Ex-CIA Moscow chief refused to sign Hunter laptop letter: ‘No evidence’ Putin involved (Fox)

Border Patrol releases plan for migrant surge as Title 42 end nears, 40K amass feet away (N.Y. Post)

How Biden’s New Communications Director Made His Millions (The Lever)

Chinese hackers outnumber FBI cyber staff 50 to 1, bureau director says (CNBC) They’re spending all their time on ‘terrorist’ Republican parents.

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 40)

Hunter Biden’s Ex-Mistress Wants to Know Who’s Paying His ‘Stable of American Super Lawyers’ (Washington Free Beacon)

Biden’s New Hampshire mess (Politico)

Biden Forgets He Went To Ireland, Tacitly Disowns Grandchild-Via-Stripper

Biden DOJ: Kids have A Constitutional Right To Puberty Blockers

Kamala’s Affair – Sleeping Her Way To The Top

The Age Issue: Biden Vs. Reagan

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significant victory for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.

McCarthy managed to corral just enough votes to secure a slim 217-215 majority in favor of the deficit-reducing bill.

The Congressional Budget Office estimated Monday that the legislation would reduce the budget deficit by $4.8 trillion over 10 years. The House passed some modest amendments to the bill Tuesday night.

Trapped Americans In Sudan “Shocked & Disgusted” – Left By Biden To Fend For Themselves

Biden DHS Chief Admits The End of Title 42 Will ‘Strain’ Immigration System

WATCH: KJP Pathetically Insists to WH Press Biden Wasn’t Given a Pre-Screened Question

Biden Challengers Issue Warning To Democrats If Biden Becomes Nominee

Republican Bill Would Slam Brakes on Biden’s Student Loan Agenda

Only One Question Remains As Susan Rice, Biden’s Shadow President, Leaves The White House

RFK Jr. on running against Biden: ‘I just disagree fundamentally with him’ (The Hill)

Doug Watt: The La Christiada Has Crossed the Border

The Times Says Senility Is A-OK

Biden’s ‘Freedom’ Platform of Grooming and Killing Kids

Kamala Harris must keep walking a tightrope for Biden’s reelection bid (Washington Post) Not sounding like a drunk would be a good start.

Biden Already Semi-Retired, Analysis of His Schedule Finds

WATCH: Trump Imitates Biden Getting Lost on Stage

Hunter Biden’s Ex-Mistress Wants to Know Who’s Paying His ‘Stable of American Super Lawyers’  The Big Guy, I shouldn’t wonder.

Biden Commutes Sentences of 31 Drug Convicts  All of whom vote Democrat. \

Biden Unable To Participate In Democratic Debates Due To Looming Screenwriters Strike (Babylon Bee)

Veterans Blast Biden for Pattern of Leaving Troops Behind

IRS Hiring Hundreds of Armed Agents

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The Democratic representative from Minnesota says she may be the first member of Congress to end a bachelor’s degree requirement for all staffers.

Steve Sailer.

On March 15, 2023, two guys were out drinking in Washington D.C. They did the right thing and called a Lyft driver in an Accord for a ride home.

A few minutes later, though, all three were dead, when a Lexus SUV with 44 outstanding tickets totaling $17,000 in upaid fines fleeing a police stop crossed over onto their side of Rock Creek Parkway.

Police are there for a reason.

The American Mind.

Many J6 protestors have been sentenced to lengthy jail terms without evidence that they engaged in violence. The “QAnon shaman” Jacob Chansley, for example, was sentenced to four years imprisonment for obstructing an official proceeding, though it was subsequently reported that he had been escorted to the Senate floor by Capitol police. Another protestor, Kevin Seefried, got three years for marching into the Capitol carrying a Confederate flag (less than the seven-year sentence prosecutors had requested).

There is room for debate about whether the sentences meted out to these nonviolent protestors were merited. On the one hand, any attempt to overturn a lawful election outcome constitutes a threat to the preservation of our constitutional order and must be met with penalties sufficiently severe to deter such actions by others in the future. On the other hand, violent criminals (especially in states with “decarceration” policies like New York) often get off with much lighter penalties—or sometimes no punishment at all.

The Antiplanner.

The city of Portland announced yesterday that it received a $2 million federal grant to get it to ban gasoline (and, presumably, Diesel) delivery vehicles in a sixteen-block area of downtown Portland. That means all supplies to offices in that area will have to be transferred from petroleum-powered vehicles to electric vehicles before they enter the zone, thus driving up costs.

Whistleblower to tell House that US govt is ‘middleman’ in multibillion dollar migrant child trafficking op (Fox)

Voters say no to Biden, but Joe is intent on finishing the (awful) job (N.Y. Post)

Democrats Refuse to Deal as House Republicans Deliver a Pro-Growth Bill to Reduce Spending

Biden Admin Taps Ford’s Top Electric Vehicle Lobbyist as Energy Department Adviser

Inside Biden’s strategy to repair Harris’ image (Axios) Good luck with that.

Biden Admin Preps for Surge in Border Crossings as Restrictions Set To End

WTI Bounces Off OPEC+ Lows As Biden Admin Draws SPR Down For 4th Straight Week

Senate Dems Advance Nomination of Biden Labor Secretary Nominee Who Presided Over Mass Fraud in California

80-Year-Old Biden Once Criticized 63-Year-Old Opponent as Too Old for Office

Is Kamala Harris the ‘dumbest person’ ever to be elected Vice President in history?

Buttigieg Announces Closure Of Interstate System For 8-10 Days As Highways Undergo Racial Sensitivity Training  (Babylon Bee)

Biden Campaign Launch Celebrates Unpopular Kamala in Bid To Repair Her Image  Cacklin’ Rosie could sure use it.

‘Fossil Gas’: Climate Activists Press Biden To Stop Companies From Calling Gas ‘Natural’

WIRED.

The escalating risks of Russia’s war in Ukraine have led scientists to study the unthinkable and model the aftermath of nuclear detonation.

Russia ‘will not forgive’ US denial of journalist visas (Associated Press)

Russia ‘will not forget or forgive’ US refusal of journalist visas (The Hill)

EU’s Borrell Wants European Navies To Patrol & Protect Taiwan Strait

‘Addicted to Funding From China’: Stanford Rakes in Chinese Cash

A Secret Police Station Grows in Chinatown

INFORMATION WARFARE: Palestinians Praise and Promote Terrorists

AIR DEFENSE: Finland Prefers David’s Sling

The polity that is Russian markets in everything

Ukraine’s Long-Awaited Counteroffensive Begins, Troops Move Into Kherson

Ukraine: Russia Relocating Civilians in Kherson

Chinese Ambassador Suggests Ex-Soviet States Aren’t Real Countries, Sparking Fury In Europe

America’s Afghan Watchdog Says “You’re Gonna See Pilferage” Of Ukraine Aid  Not that anybody in government cares.

Navy failing to learn lessons from shipboard fires over the years: GAO

Biden’s false Hunter laptop letter interfered in election beyond ‘anything China or Russia’ could do: GOP pol (N.Y. Post)

NY Post scorches ‘fake’ intel letter used to sink laptop story: ‘Actual disinfo operation’ helped Biden (Fox)

Antony Blinken and the ‘made men’ of the Biden administration (The Hill)

2 GOP Leaders: Blinken Should Resign Over Laptop Letter

Sad Trombone: NYT Calls Out WH for Hiding Biden from the News Media

Rep. Chip Roy’s Prescription to Secure Border: Use Power of Purse to ‘Bring President to His Knees’  Never happen.

DOJ Appeared to Minimize Leftist Role in Violent Pro-Abortion Attacks Ahead of ‘Night of Rage’

Bad-Luck Biden? Former Phillies Star Tells 76ers Not To Invite Jill If Philly Reaches NBA Finals

Hunter Biden may be living at the White House to evade legal papers from his baby mama (N.Y. Post)

Biden Opens a New Back Door on Immigration (N.Y. Times)

WH’s Susan Rice Steps Down Amid Migrant Children Report

“Where Am I? Where Am I?”: Trump Mocks Biden For Always Getting Lost

While Under Felony Investigation, Crack Addict Influence Peddler Hunter Biden Demands Ethics Probe Into MTG

WATCH: Veep Thoughts with Kamala Harris (Africa Edition)

Hiding Hunter?

Biden’s Pick For Top Africa Job Twice Failed Foreign Service Officer Test, ‘Couldn’t Get Through the English Grammar Section’  He ought to fit right in, then. Biden has the same problem.

ALERT: Biden Taps Nepo Baby With Troubled Past To Manage Reelection Campaign

Biden’s Trillion Dollar Clean Energy Grab Bag In Pictures And Quotes

Biden Administration Evacuates Sudan Amid Unrest, Leaving 16,000 Americans Behind  Sorry about that, guys. Better luck next time.

Man Avoids IRS Audit By Labeling All His Venmo Transactions ‘Payments To Ukraine’  (Babylon Bee)

WH Press Stay Silent on KJP Rant About GOP Giving ‘Asthma to Kids,’ ‘Melt Bones’

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Elizabeth Warren’s baby has grown into a deformed mutant.

The recent security breach at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shows the problems with the administrative state, but the threat that the CFPB and similar bureaucracies pose to consumers runs much deeper.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created under President Barack Obama in 2010 to regulate consumer affairs, reported to lawmakers March 21 that a staffer had forwarded the confidential financial information of 256, 000 consumers to his personal email address.

This astounding data breach also implicated confidential supervisory information from 45 different financial institutions.

No government employee is to be trusted with your confidential information.

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Yeah, pretty much.

It took a while, but some of the biggest “official narrative” scams and cons of the past few years are finally being exposed.

High-ranking US officials have apparently been lying about public health, election integrity, and (of course) war.

Read it.

Our leaders were able to successfully kick the can down the road for a long time, but now many of our long-term problems are becoming short-term problems, and the economic outlook for the remainder of 2023 is extremely bleak. But none of the economic hardships that we are experiencing at this moment should shock any of us. The truth is that we were warned about all of these things well ahead of time.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

On March 27, nearly a month ago, Audrey Hale murdered six people in a Nashville school before herself being killed by police. Like substantially all mass murderers, Hale was deeply troubled. Among other things, shortly before her rampage she decided that she was, or wanted to be, a man. Her murders came immediately before a national “Trans Day of Vengeance” that was promoted with violent imagery. And the trans movement has, in general, been radical and frequently violent.

After Hale’s death, Nashville authorities announced that she had left behind a number of writings including a “manifesto.” It is reasonable to assume that these writings would shed some light on her motivations. I wrote here about Hale’s manifesto and the reasons why it is likely to be of public interest, notwithstanding the fact that the ravings of mass murderers should normally be given little attention.

Mass shooters’ “manifestos” are normally published, especially when they can be used to put the “right wing” in a bad light. And at the time, Nashville authorities said that Hale’s manifesto would be made public after it had been analyzed by the FBI.

But it has yet to see the light of day.

What does it say that the Crust doesn’t want you to hear?

UPDATE: Nashville Official Says School Shooter’s Manifesto Is ‘Astronomically Dangerous’  To the Narrative, certainly.

ANU Climate Scientists Wargame UN Martial Law and A Global Military Coup

Steve Sailer.

Russian incompetence is such that in an era when every dimwitted black racist was being lauded, they managed to pick out the only ones nobody ever heard of. Of course, if Tim Cook was competing with Jamie Dimon to subsidize your anti-white grift, why take Putin’s money?

NewsMax.

The Supreme Court is deliberating a case that could address operations by local governments that confiscate land — a practice called “home-equity theft.”

According to The Wall Street Journal, the method of seizing the total value of land rather than just the amount the government is owed is currently legal in 12 states and Washington, D.C.

All blue states I expect.

The Register.

Other than the obvious one, incompetence.

I am always amused by the moves that show the CIA or the FBI using the latest and greatest tech in their operations, or military systems that are always cutting-edge and perfectly integrated. When I was in the Navy, we were lucky if the tech we maintained was only 20 years out of date.

Russia-Ukraine war live: Moscow accidentally bombs own city of Belgorod (The Guardian)

Group of Senators and House Members Express Concern Over U.S. Aid to Ukraine (Senator Mike Lee)

House China Committee To War-Game A Chinese Invasion Of Taiwan

Ukraine Receives Its First Patriot Missile Defense Systems

NAVAL AIR: Chinese Carrier Task Force At Sea

Germany’s Foreign Minister: Parts of China Trip ‘More Than Shocking’

GOP Lawmakers: Endless Ukraine Aid “Will Only Prolong The Conflict”

United States Fails to Stop Chinese Invasion of Taiwan in Congressional War Simulation  Thank you, Joe Biden.

Manchin grills Granholm over ‘budget busting’ electric vehicle rules (Politico)

Biden’s new electric car rule puts the country on the wrong road (Washington Post)

White House Condemns Violent Response to Dylan Mulvaney’s Bud Light Can

The Useful Veneer of the Aging Democrat  Victor Davis Hanson.

ICE Deputy Director Proposes ‘Virtual’ Arrests As Immigration Backlog Balloons  Let’s tell the truth: ‘pretend’ arrests.

Hidden Hand: Biden Campaign Was Behind Intel Officials’ Letter Characterizing Hunter Biden Laptop as ‘Disinformation’

KJP Mumbles Her Way Through Qs on Hunter Biden, Debt Ceiling Fight

Of course Biden officials are interfering in his son’s case — why else has Hunter skated for five years? (N.Y. Post)

Biden Has Made Mexican Cartels ‘Very Wealthy,’ Border State AG Says  “Ten percent for the Big Guy!”

Ex-CIA chief spills on how he got spies to write false Hunter Biden laptop letter to ‘help Biden’ (N.Y. Post)

Blinken Busted: Played Central Role In Discrediting Hunter Biden Laptop Story As Election Loomed

Sorry, Pete — racism doesn’t cause traffic collisions (Washington Examiner)

Biden Admin Grant of $1.9M for ‘Disinformation’ Courses

WATCH: Karine Jean-Pierre Goes Off the Rails When Asked How Biden’s ‘Environmental Justice’ Order Helps East Palestine

Biden Set to Grade Military On Its ‘Efforts to Advance Environmental Justice’  More Wokery.

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 39)

Buttigieg Calls On DOT To Address Inequity By Using More Gay Crash Test Dummies (Babylon Bee)

Thousands of migrants still flooding over border from banned countries despite US warning (N.Y. Post)

Biden rule will redistribute high-risk loan costs to homeowners with good credit (Fox)

Homebuyers with good credit to pay higher mortgage rates (NewsNation)

Watchdog: US Money Could Flow to Taliban, Biden Stonewalling Probe

Rasmussen Poll: Majority Think Feds Provoked 1/6

State Dept. Violates House Subpoena on Afghanistan

DEA chief faces probe into ‘swampy’ hires, no-bid contracts (Associated Press)

CBS Reports on Hunter Biden Whistleblower Bombshell, ABC & NBC Ignore

Cruz: Yellen Complicit in Biden Cover-up

Opposing Porn in School Makes You Part of New ‘Uptown Klan,’ SPLC Researcher Says

CFPB Employee Sent 256,000 Consumers’ Financial Data To Personal Email

ICYMI: Doocy Exposes KJP, WH With Question About Contact With TN Shooting Victims

Can Biden Not Tell a Boy From a Girl?

ToPentagon Gives Statement On Russian T-90 Tank Left At Truck Stop

Germany Says It Delivered Patriot Missile Battery To Ukraine

Bradley Fighting Vehicles Have Arrived In Ukraine

Ukraine live war updates: ‘U.S. can cheat at any moment,’ Russian foreign minister says, claiming NATO’s expansion proves this (CNBC)

US warns Russia not to touch American nuclear technology at Ukrainian nuclear plant (CNN)

U.S. Urges NATO Vigilance For Signs Russia Could Use Nuclear Weapon In Ukraine (Radio Free Europe)

Taiwan To Buy 400 US Anti-Ship Missiles, Announced As China Conducts “Major” Military Drills

Russian Naval Exercises in Pacific Grate on Tokyo

Report: Moscow’s Starlink Takedown Efforts Advancing

Ukraine war: The Russian ships accused of North Sea sabotage (BBC)

3 Nuclear Superpowers, Rather Than 2, Usher In a New Strategic Era (N.Y. Times) I wouldn’t class Russia as a ‘superpower’, judging by its performance in Ukraine.

WaPo Belatedly Admits ‘Proxy War’ Nature Of Ukraine Conflict In Wake Of Leaks

How the CCP Is Embedding Itself in American Cities

China and Iran Carry Out Repression on US Soil With Growing Brazenness, FBI Says

Biden Admin OKs Additional $325M in Military Aid to Ukraine

Wall Street Journal.

An IRS supervisor has told lawmakers he has information that suggests the Biden administration is improperly handling the criminal investigation into President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and is seeking whistleblower protections, according to people familiar with the matter.

A letter sent to Congress on Tuesday says a career Internal Revenue Service criminal supervisory special agent has information that would contradict sworn testimony by a “senior political appointee.” The supervisor also has information about a “failure to mitigate clear conflicts of interest in the ultimate disposition of the case,” according to the letter.

The supervisor has details that show “preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subject were not politically connected,” according to the letter.

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According to data from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS, the federal tax agency), in 2019 the highest-earning 1.1% of American taxpayers—all with a taxable income of $500,000 or more—earned 21% of total taxable income. At the same time, they paid 40.4% of all personal federal income taxes. Since taxes on personal income account for 84% of all federal tax revenue, this very small segment of taxpayers pays 34.5% of all federal taxes in America.

Remember that the next time people like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren bitch and moan about rich people not paying ‘their fair share’.

NewsBusters.

The House Judiciary Committee held a field hearing in Manhattan on April 17, a brief walk from the offices of the local District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, who’s prosecuting former president Donald Trump. Chairman Jim Jordan and the Republicans said it was important to hear from violent crime victims in America’s largest city. The Democrats ardently proclaimed it was a pro-Trump stunt.

ABC, CBS, and NBC also showed an opinion. They ignored it, treated it like it didn’t exist. It wasn’t “news” at all.

This wasn’t a field hearing in Albuquerque, where they might claim it’s not worth the expense of sending reporters and crews. This was in their own home town, their own home borough.

“Public broadcasting?” NPR offered no story in its comically mis-titled evening newscast All Things Considered, but they did have time to glory in the defamation lawsuit against Fox News. The PBS NewsHour earned some kind of paper medal for at least offering a report, and both parties were included in the soundbites.’

At least the nation’s most prestigious (translation: liberal) newspapers would have to cover it. Actually, no! The Washington Post let democracy die in darkness, instead doing a big front-page story on the House Republicans on the debt ceiling debate.

Countries helping Russia in Ukraine will pay ‘high price’, vows G7 (EuroNews)

Japan: G7 foreign ministers discuss Ukraine war, Taiwan tension & Sudan (Al Jezeera)

‘No impunity’: G7 vows tough, unified stance on Russia’s war (Associated Press)

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On Twitter Miranda Devine draws attention to newly accessed financial records showing the Biden family enterprise centered on Joe Biden’s political career and connections, with six more family members named — and then there were 9. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has posted the related press release.

VOTE DEMOCRAT — THEY NEED THE MONEY

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The StarChase Guardian-HX uses the lower receiver from an AR-15 rifle and launches adhesive-tipped GPS trackers to allow cops to track a vehicle remotely.

I’m surprised that it took them this long to think of something like this.

Of course, a 40mm grenade launcher would take care of it immediately.

Lifehacker.

The new law, called the FASTER Act, took effect as of Jan. 1, 2023. Shortly before that, an industry publication called Food Manufacturing reported that many manufacturers see the new requirements as “not simple or practical.” If the ingredients of a product don’t include sesame, the maker is required to take steps to make sure that sesame stays away from the product.

Labels that indicate the item is processed in the same facility as sesame-containing foods aren’t enough to protect the company from recalls if some sesame were to find its way into the product.

Quite naturally, rather than undergo the tedious and expensive required process to clean machinery of any possible trace of sesame before using it for food that normally doesn’t contain sesame, they just added trace amounts of sesame to all of their foods, therefore saving themselves a lot of government-mandated trouble and expense. The government, of course, didn’t see this coming.

So now people who are allergic to sesame face an incredibly constricted selection of foods, compared to before. “We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.” Thanks a lot, guys.

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There’s an idea about how children learn to read that’s held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read. In this podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work. It’s an exposé of how educators came to believe in something that isn’t true and are now reckoning with the consequences — children harmed, money wasted, an education system upended.

Steve Sailer speaks sense to senility.

The Biden Administration wants to mandate that 67% of all new cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks sold in the U.S. in 2032 will be electric (only) vehicles.

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It’s worth remember that we have had for the last 20 years a proven technology for using less gasoline without all the annoyance and anxiety of being dependent on recharging frequently rather than filling up once a week for ten minutes: the hybrid.

Exactly so. I would never buy an all-electric car–the disadvantages are just too great–but I can’t see myself buying a non-hybrid car in the future–the advantages are just too great, and the prices have come down so much that any premium charged over an all-gas car is trivial.

Trust the government to do the wrong thing when the right thing is staring them in the face.