Biden all but admits we’ll see even worse border chaos in May (N.Y. Post)

George Soros’ army of lieutenants get easy access to Biden White House (N.Y. Post)

Trump: It’s Biden ‘Guilty of Obstruction,’ Not Me

Biden Admin on Doc Leak: More Surveillance Needed (NewsMax)  Something’s wrong? We need more fascism!

Fleitz to Newsmax: Leaks Reveal White House ‘Lying to Us’  Who didn’t know that? Biden never opens his mouth but he tells a lie, and usually a stupidly obvious lie.

Biden’s New Muslim Liaison to Fight ‘Institutional Islamophobia’  How about Muslim terrorism? (cricket)…(cricket)…(cricket)….

Annals of senescence

Ukraine live briefing: 11 dead, including toddler, in Russian strike; Blinken calls for ‘immediate release’ of WSJ reporter (Washington P0st)

Pentagon leaks paint gloomy picture of long Ukraine war that can’t be won but must not be lost (CNA)

Germany Approves Poland’s Request To Send 5 Fighter Jets To Ukraine

Finland Unveils 1st Section Of Russian Border Fence After Joining NATO

Ukraine Awaits US Missile System after Latest Russian Strike

ATTRITION: Medical Miracles For the Battlefield and Playground

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 38)

Drunk Irishmen Say They Understood Biden’s Dublin Speech Perfectly (Babylon Bee)

Joe Biden mocked after Hunter has to explain child’s question in Ireland: ‘I am so embarrassed for my country’ (Fox)

Joe Biden snubbed by Irish president’s dog during Dublin visit (Guardian News)

Biden confuses All Blacks rugby team with brutal police force (CNN)

Up to 40,000 migrants amass at border as end of Title 42 looms: sources (N.Y. Post)

Biden’s slimy dodge on mass intel leak ignores huge damage to nation (N.Y. Post)

Biden wants to coax Americans into electric cars. These 3 groups have other ideas. (Politico) No, he wants to FORCE Americans into electric cars. There’s a significant difference.

VP Harris Slams Mifepristone Ruling

Lady Gaga, Shonda Rhimes and More Named to Restored Arts Commission (N.Y. Times) More sinecures for left-wing drones at taxpayer expense.

The Biden 10-Step Plan For Global Chaos

Iran, Russia, China, Pakistan FMs Hold Meeting To Deal With Afghan Economic Collapse

Migrants say Border Patrol is keeping them between the border walls for days without food or shelter (San Diego Union-Tribune) Presumably they could go back to Mexico if they asked.

Ex-Biden official Sam Brinton accepts plea deal in Las Vegas luggage theft (N.Y. Post)

EPA Uses Shaky Science to Snag New Powers to Regulate You More

Biden, the American president, seems awfully at home in Ireland (Washington P0st) Or, indeed, anywhere but America.

“Joe Biden Is A Criminal” Says Ex-Obama Whistleblower Alleging Family “Kickback Scheme”

Gag Me With A Shamrock! Joe Scarborough Gushes Over Biden’s Ireland Trip

Uncle Joe has a car you can’t refuse (Washington Examiner)

HUH? Bloomberg Opinion Writers Blame GREED, Not Massive Spending, for Biden’s Inflation

The Biden 10-step Plan for Global Chaos  (Victor Davis Hanson)

Biden to nominate two Latina judges to appeals courts (NBC News) Key qualification: Latina!

Was Emperor Biden’s Electric Vehicle Decree Concocted by Leprechauns?

Report: Biden Admin Accepting 99 Percent of Illegal Immigrants’ Title 42 Appeals  Their objective is not to keep people out but to let people in.

Washington Post.

Scouring the labels of what their children had eaten, both mothers were horrified to discover that sesame was now listed as an ingredient in the cheeseburger, the bread and other baked products that had previously been sesame-free. “I’d been unknowingly poisoning [Mia] for several weeks,” said McDermott, who lives in Philadelphia.
What happened? On Jan. 1, a law intended to safeguard the more than 1.5 million Americans with a sesame allergy — including the McDermott and Tibbs children (and, full disclosure, my son as well) — took effect. The law mandates, among other things, careful cleaning to prevent cross-contact between food products with and without sesame.
In a twist few would have expected, however, many food companies have chosen to add small amounts of sesame flour to products that were previously sesame-free, instead of conducting the careful cleaning required for foods without sesame.
The result? Foods that sesame-allergic kids and adults have eaten safely for years are now potentially life-threatening.

Proglodyte regulators always believe that people will just comply with their rules and not figure out a way around them. That old Law of Unintended Consequences bites people–other than the regulators, of course–on the butt again.

Washington Free Beacon.

Democrats and liberal pundits want Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) to resign immediately. She’s absurdly old (89), cognitively impaired, and her frequent health problems are preventing the U.S. Senate from confirming President Joe Biden’s extreme left-wing judicial nominees.

Feinstein’s critics already bullied her out of running for reelection in 2024. That’s a good thing. We don’t need a bunch of doddering octogenarians in charge of the world’s most powerful country.

Alas, many of the same people who want Feinstein gone are going to spend the next year and a half insisting that Biden, 80, deserves another term as president.

The American Mind.

Yesterday National Public Radio (NPR) announced that it is leaving Twitter, after the platform “falsely labeled” it as “state-affiliated media.” This is the “the same term it uses for propaganda outlets in Russia, China and other autocratic countries,” the indignant NPR huffed. Twitter CEO Elon Musk had the label changed to “government funded,” but this was still too much for NPR, which claims that—while it does receive government funds—such a label would tarnish its “credibility” and could somehow even “endanger journalists.”

Meanwhile the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is also throwing a hissy fit over being pasted with the same label, saying it “is, and always has been, independent,” and is merely “funded by the British public.” Also complaining is Voice of America (VOA), which, despite literally being run by an arm of the U.S. federal government, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, claims that, “The label ‘government funded’ is potentially misleading and could be construed as also ‘government-controlled’—which VOA is most certainly not.”

Each outlet claims it maintains “editorial independence” from the state despite receiving government funding, and so doesn’t deserve to be called “state-affiliated.” Regardless of what you think of Musk or Twitter, this is absurd. Let’s leave aside VOA, which was literally founded to conduct information warfare abroad on behalf of the United States, first in WWII and then during the Cold War, and is therefore so obviously state-affiliated that its claims otherwise are not really worth addressing. The BBC and NPR are only marginally less obvious in being state media.

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The United States, under the leadership of President Joe Biden, has launched a hard diplomatic offensive against Hungary, with the U.S. Embassy in Budapest—headed by Ambassador David Pressman—funding a nationwide billboard campaign that seeks to undermine the Hungarian government’s position on the Russo-Ukrainian war.

News of the Washington-financed billboard campaign comes amid dismally poor—and seemingly ever-deteriorating—relations between the two countries and alongside media reports that U.S. Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman, who is holding a press conference this afternoon, April 12th, is expected to announce the U.S.’ plan to take punitive measures against the Hungarian government.

Citing several independent diplomatic sources, the Hungarian opposition news portal 444 wrote that the Biden administration is planning to take new measures in order to punish the Hungarian government for its position on the Russo-Ukrainian war. The news site suggests the sanctions—similar to those leveled against Hungary in 2014—are likely to be imposed on influential people.

UPDATE: The American Deal With a Hungarian Devil

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The New York Times reported that the Biden administration will abuse EPA regulations to eliminate most real car sales by 2030. The plan is to force 67% of car sales to be electric by 2032. Most Americans won’t be able to afford them, but they’ll have no other options.

Even the cheapest electric cars, which are still far more expensive than their real car counterparts and are just one battery problem away from turning into mostly unusable junk, are out of the price range of the majority of Americans who need an income of $80,000 to make an EV auto loan work. That’s fine in Washington D.C. where the median income of $83,567 is the highest in the nation, but will entirely price much of the country out of the new car market.

Maine city reopens arena to hundreds of asylum seekers (Associated Press)

Portland once again opens Expo as temporary shelter as asylum seekers flow into city (Portland Press-Herald)

Democrats Push Pete Buttigieg To Address ‘Racist Traffic Enforcement’

FBI Hatched Plan To Surveil Catholics, Weaponization Committee Says

Basement Biden 2.0? White House Courts TikTok Influencers Despite National Security Risk

Three Hunter Biden Paintings On Display At SoHo Gallery For $85,000 Each  Thinly-disguised bribery.

Why Did Alex Soros Visit The Biden White House 14 Times?  Checking up on how his money is being spent?

America First Legal’s Investigation Reveals the Biden White House Was Involved With the Mar-a-Lago Raid and that NARA Misled Congress; AFL Launches Additional Investigation  My, what a surprise.

ICYMI: KJP Flails When Journos Point Out the WH Is Hiding Biden From Press Conferences

Hunter Biden Associates’ 80 White House Visits Evidence ‘Biden Family Enterprise Centered Around Joe Biden’

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

American Experiment’s Bill Glahn has done a detailed analysis of campaign finance in Minnesota’s 2022 election cycle. He provided links to his findings here. In this Twitter thread, he sums up his thoughts about the structural advantages that Democrats enjoy in Minnesota, and, to one degree or another, across much of the United States. If you sometimes wonder how a party whose ideas are so awful can remain electorally competitive, this helps answer the question.

The 800-pound gorilla is, of course, the government-employee unions, starting with the teachers and working your way up.

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Terminates Catholic Pastoral Care Contract During Holy Week

GOP: Biden Afghanistan Report ‘Spineless Piece of Fiction’

CNN Admits Less Than One Third Of Voters Want Another Joe Biden Term

Biden Seeks to Back Drugstores, Big Pharma in Promoting Abortion Pills Of course he does.

Biden Invites Expelled Tennessee Democrats To Visit White House  Promoting insurrrection! He ought to be impeached for that.

Health Secretary Says “Everything Is on the Table” to Protect Abortion Pill Access (Mother Jones) Killing unborn children is apparently very important to him.

White House plans support for drugstores, pharma in abortion pill battle (Reuters) Killing unborn children is apparently very important to them.

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Over a million children left public schools in 2020, a migration that came on the heels of school lockdowns and masking requirements, and was hastened by increased parental dissatisfaction with K-12 education.

Kamala Harris meets with Tennessee lawmakers expelled over mass shooting protest (CBS News) Encouraging insurrection! Shouldn’t she get impeached for that?

CBS reporter rips Biden administration’s Afghanistan report as a ‘whitewash’ of the botched withdrawal

Afghanistan evacuations should have begun sooner, US admits (CNN)

US to test expedited asylum screenings at Mexico border

Biden Appeals Ruling Against Ban on Gun Bump Stocks

Trump Says White House Blame Over Afghanistan Withdrawal A ‘Disinformation Game’

Harris Backs Expelled Tenn. Lawmakers, Chides GOP  (NewsMax) Encouraging insurrection! Shouldn’t she be impeached for that?

Statement from President Joe Biden on Decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA (WhiteHouse.gov)

Federal Housing Administration greenlights 40-year mortgages

Due To Inflation, Easter Bunny Forced To Hide Ramen Noodles In Yard (Babylon Bee)

AOC to Biden: ‘Ignore’ Abortion Pill Ruling  After all, laws don’t apply to Democrats!

Biden’s green war created this billions-dollar tax on all of us (Fox)

How Joe Biden’s oil bet went sideways (Quartz)

Biden at his weakest after Saudi oil power grab (The Telegraph)

Biden’s Ineffectual Energy Play Sticks Americans with the Bill (Newsweek)

Biden Administration Blames Trump for Disastrous 2021 Afghanistan Withdrawal (Daily Beast)

Sarah Sanders hits back after Karine Jean-Pierre says ‘a child’ and parents should decide on trans surgeries (Fox)

Probe widens into federal watchdog over missing Jan. 6 Secret Service texts (Washington Post)

White House pulls its punches over GOP judicial nomination blockade (Politico)

‘Disgraceful’: Foreign Affairs Chair Rips WH’s Deflecting Afghan Exit Blame to Trump

White House deflects criticism of Biden’s chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal (The Hill)

Former Biden Aide’s Testimony ‘Undermines’ White House Narrative On Classified Docs: Comer

Statement from President Joe Biden on Expulsion of Tennessee Lawmakers for Acting on Gun Safety (WhiteHouse.gov) Except that they weren’t expelled for ‘acting on gun safety’, they were expelled for blatantly violating the rules of the house by helping to disrupt proceedings. Lies, lies, lies….

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 37)

Beyond Baghdad Bob (Power Line)

Biden Slams ‘Unprecedented’ Expulsion Of ‘Disorderly’ Democrats From Tennessee House

3 Days After Hunter Biden Joined Burisma Board, VP Biden Pushed for Fracking in Ukraine

Raytheon Unveils New Dylan Mulvaney-Branded Patriot Missile  (Babylon Bee)

Aspen Institute conducted ‘pre-bunk’ of Hunter Biden laptop story in June 2020

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A front page news article in today’s New York Times refers to “President Biden’s economic agenda, which aims to reduce the nation’s $7 trillion of uncollected tax revenue and use the funds to combat climate change, curb prescription drug prices and pay for other initiatives prized by Democrats.”

The phrase “$7 trillion of uncollected tax revenue” was a new one to me. What you and I think of as “private property,” Biden and the New York Times refer to as “uncollected tax revenue.”

Treasury Secretary Yellen is out talking about this “$7 trillion” number publicly. On April 4, she said, “Absent our new investment in the IRS, the tax gap – the gap between taxes owed and those actually paid – was estimated at around $7 trillion over the next decade.”

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I thought maybe $7 trillion was a typo or a Times error, but it comes straight from the Biden administration Treasury Department, which claims that “wealthy taxpayers…are often able to avoid a large share of the taxes they owe” via “opaque income sources that accrue disproportionately to higher earners—like partnership income, proprietorship income, and rental income.”

The Biden Treasury attributes the fantastical estimates about vast sums available for extraction (“noncompliance can reach 55 percent”) to “academic researchers.”

Yet the two papers cited by the Treasury are sketchy. Neither one was been published in a peer-reviewed academic journal. The lead author of one paper is an associate professor at the University of South Carolina; the article was published in Tax Notes, a “nonprofit” that is behind a paywall with a subscription pricing structure that could teach high earners something about opacity. If Treasury want to rely on this research for the claim that there is $7 trillion in “uncollected tax revenue” out for the picking, let Treasury make a non-paywalled copy of the research available to the public for inspection.

Biden admin slammed for ‘breathtaking’ proposal slashing dairy access for low-income moms, kids (Fox)

LAME: Journo Asks KJP to Defend NPR After Twitter Labels It ‘State-Affiliated Media’

At least two Republican DAs want to prosecute Bidens: Rep. James Comer (N.Y. Post)

Hola, Homosaurus: Biden Admin Shells Out Six Figures To Translate Gay Dictionary Into Spanish

Why Are Underage Central Americans in US Factories?

Small Businesses File For Bankruptcy At Record Pace, Surpassing COVID Crash

Air Force Loosens Standards To Make Room for Overweight Recruits

Biden review of chaotic Afghan withdrawal blames Trump (Associated Press)

A once reluctant Harris embraces her biracial identity in Africa (L.A. Times) Pandering–it’s not just for race hustlers any more.

Biden Report Blames Trump for Afghanistan Withdrawal Chaos  Of course.

DoD Official Testifies That The Military Must Be A ‘Safe Space’ For The Non-Binary

The Biden connection

Probe widens into federal watchdog over missing Jan. 6 Secret Service texts (Washington Post)

Cartels, Not US Government, Are ‘Choosing Who Enters This County,’ Sen. Sinema Says

Biden Admin Finally Offers Explanation for Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal: It Was Trump’s Fault

Biden Rule Would Bar Full Ban on Trans Athletes, but Allow Exceptions

Biden Admin Unveils New Rules Requiring Inclusion of Transgender Athletes

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The Usual Suspects, of course, are all up in arms. There is much huffing and puffing about ‘democracy’, as if a vote by the elected representatives of the people is somehow ‘undemocratic’. Apparently proglodytes are so accustomed to not being held accounting for violations of the rules that they consider it an unwarranted imposition to be expected to obey the same rules to whom every one else is subject.

What surprises me is that Republican state legislators in Tennessee actually had the balls to enforce the rules.

Be black, or female, or a foreigner.

Andy McCarthy.

It’s always possible to be surprised. The indictment brought by Manhattan’s elected Democratic district attorney Alvin Bragg against Donald Trump is even worse than I’d imagined.

Bragg’s indictment fails to state a crime. Not once . . . but 34 times. On that ground alone, the case should be dismissed — before one ever gets to the facts that the statute of limitations has lapsed and that Bragg has no jurisdiction to enforce federal law (if that’s what he’s trying to do, which remains murky).

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

You can read Alvin Bragg’s indictment of Donald Trump and a supporting statement of facts here. The indictment is what we expected. It all has to do with paying $130,000 to Stormy Daniels for a non-disclosure agreement, which was legal. The payment was made by “Lawyer A,” Michael Cohen. Trump reimbursed Cohen using Trump’s own money, which was legal. The “34 counts” arise out of the fact that by agreement, Cohen got reimbursed by sending monthly invoices to Trump or his revocable trust. So for each monthly bill from Cohen, we get three counts of falsifying documents: one for the invoice, one for the ledger entry, and one for the check stub. Pathetic.

The indictment alleges that all of this was done “with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof,” but it never says what that other crime was. The second crime is mandatory because without it, falsifying a business record under New York law is a misdemeanor on which the statute of limitation has run. Presumably the second crime is alleged to be a campaign finance violation. But the payment to Daniels did not violate the campaign finance laws.

Biden accidentally drops, then awkwardly picks up challenge coin (N.Y. Post) Don’t know what a challenge coin is?

U.S. Diplomat to Washington: You’re Becoming Obsolete in One Big Area of Tech Policy (Politico)

Biden’s War on Christian Kids: Potatoes Replace Easter Eggs as Families Hit With Soaring Costs

US Manufacturing Reaches New Low as Biden Tours American Factories

Fact-Checking 4 Biden Claims About Economy and Manufacturing

Jill Biden Goes Full Karen, Demands Affirmative Action for White Basketball Players

Chase CEO: Biden’s Electric Vehicle Push Could Benefit Beijing and Imperil US National Security

Swiss Billionaire Bankrolls Biden Agenda With $63 Million in Dark Money

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Scandal-scarred Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., has his first primary challenger — war veteran Kellen Curry.

Curry, who went on two tours in Afghanistan and served as a vice president at JPMorgan, vowed to “restore honesty and integrity back to our congressional representation,” alluding to Santos’ sketchy background claims.

All of the complaints about Santos have been in reference to his life before he was elected to Congress; there has been no hint of any allegation that he’s not doing his job just as well as, say, Nancy Pelosi or Adam Schiff do theirs.

Did I live in Santos’ district, I’d be tempted to vote for him just for the entertainment value.

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Indictment.

Statement of Facts.

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Minnesota’s Feeding Our Future fraud is astounding. When it comes to Covid fraud, we’re number 1. The fraud is massive and the indictments are still coming.

Biden admin moving forward with light bulb bans in coming weeks

Judge shields Hunter Biden’s finances from public in child-support case (N.Y. Post)

An app launched to make seeking asylum simpler has left migrants even more precarious (NPR)

Has The White House Even Said The Word ‘Christian’ Since The Nashville School Shooting? (Daily Wire)

Insider: Biden Deemed ‘Too Old’ to Attend King Charles’ Coronation

DHS OIG finds millions in American Rescue Plan funds misused by NGOs, given to ‘gotaway’ illegal immigrants

A deadline looms for rules governing deep-sea mining, but a rushed decision may be risky (CNBC)

Biden to Hunter-linked clergyman at Greek independence event: ‘I’m gonna ruin your reputation by talking’ (N.Y. Post)

Conservatives call for charges against Biden after Trump indictment (N.Y. Post)

Biden And Harris Will Not Be On The 2024 Presidential Ticket — Here’s Why (Forbes)

Florida grand jury accuses Biden HHS of ‘complete abdication of responsibility’ for migrant children welfare (Fox)

‘Human trafficking’: Florida grand jury blasts federal immigration policy (Tampa Bay Times)

Pentagon Critics Blame Diversity Policies and Fitness Standards for Recruiting Woes

Mayorkas: ‘Extraordinary’ Number of Migrants

House Republicans Say Homeland Security Chief’s $60 Billion Budget Concedes Border Cannot Be Secured

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

It is hard to single out the most egregious demagogue in the U.S. Senate, but near or at the top of my list is Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. He likes to blast “dark money” even though Democrats by far receive more so-called “dark money” than conservatives or Republicans. (I’m updating my periodic Lexicon of Political Terms accordingly, to reflect that “dark money” means “donations from the private sector that supports ideas or causes the left doesn’t like.”) Whitehouse in particular likes to attack the Federalist Society as some kind of “cabal” or conspiracy to transform the federal judiciary, as if there were no issues whatsover that any decent person could possibly argue over. He never deigns to argue about anything. If it were up to Whitehouse, I suspect he’d censor or outlaw the Federalist Society. Fortunately he’s just another Senate blowhard.

Ditto for climate change. Earlier this week Whitehouse chaired a Senate committee hearing on the subject “Left Holding the Bag: The Cost of Oil Dependence in a Low-Carbon World.” It was a set up to denounced fossil fuels, of course, with the witness lineup tilted three to two in favor of the climatista party line. The primary dissenting Republican witness was our pal Ben Zycher of the American Enterprise Institute, who has actually appeared here on Power Line under the pseudonym “Comrade Molotov.” (And now you know. . .)

U.S. Dept. of State

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1K migrants surrender to Border Patrol along El Paso Border Highway (KFOX-TV)

White House dodges question on whether ‘assault weapons’ ban will lead to ‘confiscation’ (Fox)

Jean-Pierre: ‘Unacceptable’ for Republicans to say there’s nothing to be done on gun violence (The Hill) Which ‘Republican’s don’t say.

Fentanyl is ‘single greatest challenge’ U.S. faces, DHS secretary says (Washington Post) More than war in Ukraine? More than immigration? More than inflation? More than recession?

US Marshals were told not to arrest protesters at Supreme Court justices’ homes ‘unless absolutely necessary’ (Fox)

US Marshals told ‘not’ to arrest abortion protesters at SCOTUS justices’ homes (N.Y. Post)

More Chinese migrants are coming to the U.S. on foot, officials say (NBC News)

Inside the boom in Chinese migrants at the southern border (Axios)

John Kerry Says New Climate Change Executive Orders Are Coming  Hey, he’s got to do something to justify his no-show government job.

DOJ Memos Dissuaded Marshals From Arresting Protestors At SCOTUS Justices’ Homes: Sen. Britt

Lloyd Austin: No Regrets on Afghanistan Pullout  “It’s not my goddamned planet, monkey boy!”

Northern Border Sees Overwhelming Surge Of Illegal Immigrants

Want To Help Disabled Tajikistanis Fight Climate Change? Biden Could Pay You $1 Million for Your Advice.

NHL Evaluating ‘Pride Night’ as More Players Opt Out

US Revises 4Q GDP Down to 2.6%

Top US Counties See Immigration Rates Triple

TSMC may not expand in US if double taxation rule continues

Biden Would Veto GOP Bill Blocking D.C. Police Reform

How Bidenflation Was Made

Biden’s New Border Crisis: A Surge of Illegal Immigrants From China

Days After Nashville Shooting, Biden Condemns ‘Violence Against Transgender Women’

Immigration Tripled in Top U.S. Counties Even as Many of Them Lost Population (N.Y. Times)

Biden Administration Is Gearing Up to Pay Reparations

New York Times.

A federal judge in Texas who once declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional issued a far-reaching ruling on Thursday that prevents the Biden administration from enforcing a provision of the law that provides patients with certain types of free preventive care, including screenings for cancer, depression, diabetes and H.I.V.

Ukraine Situation Report: France Denies It’s Looking To Buy Back UAE’s Mirage Jets For Kyiv

Video Shows Ukrainian Drone Fly Into Russian Vehicle Carrying Troops (Newsweek)

Drone video shows smoke over Ukraine, soldiers in trenches (Reuters)

Bakhmut, Ukraine lies in ruins after Russian assault (CBC)

Taiwan president defiant after China threatens retaliation for US trip (Reuters)

China warns of retaliation if Taiwan’s president meets US House speaker during visit (The Guardian)

Putin takes ‘nuclear blackmail’ to new level with Belarus plans (The Hill)

Russia Test-Fires Supersonic Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles In Sea Of Japan

RUSSIA: Repairs, Replacements And Reality

He came to D.C. as a Brazilian student. The U.S. says he was a Russian spy. (Washington P0st)

Just say NO and Veto Putin From Taking Over U.N. Security Council (TIME)

Xi Jinping Says He Is Preparing China for War (Foreign Affairs)

Biden takes heat for joking around in response to question about Nashville school shooting: ‘What a disgrace’ (Fox)

Dems push back on GOP fentanyl claims during hearing with Mayorkas (The Hill)

Hunter’s business partner who paid Biden family $1M was frequent WH visitor during Biden vice presidency (Fox)

Biden Cabinet official forced to admit climate agenda is strengthening China (Fox)

With shelters full, Maine seeks long-term housing solution for asylum seekers (CBS)

Portland again to convert sports arena into emergency asylum seeker shelter (ABC)

‘Once In A Generation Crisis’: Vets Blame Biden’s Focus on Woke Priorities for Low Military Recruitment Numbers

Pentagon Chief Won’t Deny Ceding Airspace to Russia After Drone Confrontation (U.S. News & World Report) They won, we lost.

Cotton Rips Jean-Pierre for Blaming GOP for Nashville Shooting

‘Your Refusal to Do Your Job Is Revolting,’ Sen. Cruz Tells DHS Secretary Mayorkas

Tuberville Protests DoD Abortion Policy, Blocks Promotions

Nets Ignore GOP Senators Grilling Mayorkas over Biden Border Crisis

Hunter’s Art Dealer Doesn’t Give Committee Requested Info

As Veterans Learned the DCCC Had Leaked Their Data, the VA’s Tech Chief Was Meeting With His Wife. She Runs the DCCC. (Washington Free Beacon)

New IRS Report Provides Fascinating Glimpse Into Your “Fair Share” ‘The top 1% of US taxpayers paid 48% of total US income taxes.’

‘Sinking Our Future’: Biden’s Budget Cuts Funds to U.S. Navy As China Ramps Up Shipbuilding

DOJ Discouraged Marshals From Arresting Illegal Protesters at Supreme Court Justices’ Homes, Senator Says

Admission of Wrongdoing? DHS Finally Scrapping Biden Admin’s Defunct Ministry of Truth

Republicans Seeking Info on Bungled Afghanistan Withdrawal Hit Blinken With Subpoena

Watch: Ted Cruz Eviscerates DHS Secretary For Still Refusing To Admit There Is A Border Crisis

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Senators advanced cross-party legislation on Wednesday to repeal authorizations for the wars in Iraq, 20 years after American forces invaded the country to remove Saddam Hussein from power.

Well, I’m glad they don’t have anything more important to do.

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The man who police say attempted to murder a Senate Republican staffer with a knife in Washington, D.C., on Saturday was released from prison the day prior, court records show.

The Metropolitan Police Department announced on Monday that a man named Glynn P. Neal was arrested for stabbing a senior staffer from Sen. Rand Paul’s (R., Ky.) office, and charged with assault with the intent to kill. Court records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show the victim, whose name is being withheld, suffered from a punctured lung, a head wound that went through the skull causing hemorrhaging in the brain, a lacerated ear, and other puncture wounds throughout his body.

The 42-year-old Neal had been released from federal prison just a day earlier on Friday, Federal Bureau of Prisons records show. Neal in March 2011 was convicted on eight charges, including for pimping, felony threats, and obstruction of justice, court records show. The charges could have sent him to prison for 18 years, however, the judge sentenced him to a reduced 12 years, with five years of supervised release after serving his sentence.

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Democrats have been the party of the rich for a while, but they used to be embarrassed about it. No longer–now they are out and proud as the Marie Antoinettes of American politics.

Take, for example, America’s worst politician, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Walz is an intellectual cipher who continues to fail upward. Now, like the Jeffersons, he is moving on up. From the governor’s mansion in St. Paul to an estate on exclusive Sunfish Lake.

A bombshell Biden story — and the media dutifully ignore it (The Hill)

White House’s push for woke foreign policy will backfire with our socially conservative allies (N.Y. Post)

The FBI and the Proud Boys

One Billion Gretas: Biden Admin Pledges Taxpayer Cash To Support Young Climate Activists Abroad

Iran Strikes Should Trigger Review of US Role in Syria

Banking Crisis Is How It Starts, Recession Is How It Ends

FBI infiltration of the Proud Boys  The ghost of J. Edgar Hoover is grinning from ear to ear.

Russia’s Forces Making ‘No Progress’ in Key Offensive: Former Commander (Newsweek)

Ukrainian, Russian Forces Locked In Fierce Combat In The East As Zelenskiy Confers With Military Commanders (Radio Free Europe)

Russia ‘largely stalled’ in Bakhmut, shifting focus, UK says (Bellingham Herald)

Ukraine Touts Success in Bakhmut Amid Russian Onslaught (Newsweek)

US Acquires ‘Critical’ Military Base Overlooking Taiwan & Claimed By China; Beijing Calls The Move ‘Provocative’ (EurAsian Times)

Russia Targets Tatars in Crimea for Persecution

Zelensky Admits Ukraine Already Ran Out Of Ammo

Germany To Expel 30 Russian Diplomats As Spying Fears Ratchet

AIR DEFENSE: Europe Has A Problem

FORCES: Where Have All The Soldiers Gone?

UN Issues Rare Condemnation As Zelensky Moves To Evict More Monks, Seize Churches

Chinese Communist Party Uses Dem Lawmaker to Declare TikTok Ban Racist  Democrats: The best Congressmen money can buy.

Asylum-seeking Haitian family makes last-minute dash over northern border as US, Canada begin restricting illegal migrant crossings (CNN)

Roxham Road is now closed to migrants hoping to enter Canada (CBC)

Vive shelter concerned about new U.S.-Canada refugee policy (Spectrum News)

The FBI Used an Undercover Cop With Pink Hair to Spy on Activists and Manufacture Crimes (The Intercept)

For some Texas residents, influx of migrants has brought drastic changes to everyday life (KATU)

ite House worried over Janet Yellen’s fumbling of US bank crisis: sources (N.Y. Post)

Military Officials: Diversity Training Makes Soldiers Feel “Included”  Unless they’re white males–which is most of them.

As China War Looms, Navy’s Priority is Going ‘Green’

CNN.

When Kamala Harris steps off Air Force Two in Ghana on Sunday, she’ll become the first Black woman US vice president to visit Africa, marking another chapter in her barrier-breaking role.

Except that she isn’t a ‘black woman’, she’s a Barely Brown woman.

Vice-President Harris:

An actual black woman, such as she will meet in Ghana:

Read it.

One of Biden’s answers to combating higher gas prices has been to tap into America’s oil reserves. While I was never a fan of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) program, it does have a place in our toolbox of weapons. We can use the reserve to keep the country running if outside oil supplies are cut off. Still, considering how out of touch with reality Washington has become, we can only imagine the insane types of services it would deem essential next time an oil shortage occurs.

Sadly, some of these reserves found their way into the export market and ended up in China. We now have proof that the President’s son Hunter had a Chinese Communist Party member as his assistant while dealing with the Chinese. Apparently, he played a role in the shipping of American natural gas to China in 2017. It seems the Biden family was promising business associates that they would be rewarded once Biden became president. Biden’s actions could be viewed as those of a traitor or at least disqualify him from being President.

New York Times.

In November, Los Angeles voters backed Measure ULA, a transfer tax on big-ticket property sales that the city says will generate a new revenue stream for affordable housing projects and homelessness prevention. Known colloquially as the “mansion tax,” Measure ULA will impose a 4 percent tax on property sales above $5 million, and a 5.5 percent tax on properties above the $10 million mark.

The tax must be paid by the seller.

L.A. seems determined to drive away all of the people who pay the taxes they use for their proglodyte dreams.

Hunter Biden used FBI mole named ‘One-Eye’ to tip him off to China probes: tipster (N.Y. Post)

Rep. Comer hammers media for silence on China payouts to Bidens: ‘Where are the fact-checkers?’ (Fox)

Hypocrite Biden blocks mineral mining his clean-energy goals require (N.Y. Post)

Facebook, Google, Amazon Share ‘Revolving Door’ With Justice Department

‘People Urinating in Our Field’: A Border Farmer’s Plight Under Biden Administration Policies

FBI Investigated Dozens of Parents Who Criticized School Boards, Found No Legitimate Threats

Science Journal Nature Admits Biden Endorsement Damaged Their Reputation

Federal Agency Contradicts Biden, Says Student Loan Cancellation Not in Effect

How the Biden Admin Helped a Public University Partner With a CCP-Controlled School

Jeff Zients discovers the thanklessness of the White House chief of staff gig (Politico)

Watch: Biden Judicial Nominee Stumped By Basic Legal Question

Watch: Amid Banking Collapse, White House Says “We See A Strong Economy”

Energy Secy: Could Take Years to Refill Oil Reserve  And cost a bundle.

IG Horowitz Seeks Authority to Investigate DOJ Lawyers

Illegal Immigrants Escape Border Patrol Bus, Not Found Yet

Biden’s original sin

Gas Stoves for Me But Not for Thee: Energy Sec Backs Gas Stove Restriction But Concedes She Has a Gas Stove

Biden’s Collapsing Sgt. Schultz Defense: New Evidence Shows The President Played Direct Role In Addressing Hunter’s Business Deals

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

If you look up “courtly southern gentleman” in a dictionary, you just might find a picture of Louisiana Senator John Kennedy (a former Democrat, by the way). He’s rapidly becoming my favorite senator in committee hearings, for his polite questions and unrancorous demeanor with Biden nominees that expose their ignorance or ideological bias. He’s bit like detective Columbo; he lets the nominees hang themselves with their own words.

This week he exposed the fact that a Biden judicial nominee for a federal district court judgeship, Kato Crews, doesn’t have the first clue about “Brady motions,” a key doctrine in criminal law. The nominee thinks it has something to do with gun control, confusing it with the Brady handgun law.

Read it.

If he would just skip across the border like the other riff-raff, he wouldn’t have to bother with all this paperwork.

Comer demands WH ‘correct’ Biden’s ‘dishonest’ denial that kin got money tied to China (N.Y. Post)

Biden family makes ‘admission of corruption’ in foreign business deals: China expert (Fox)

Fox Host Desperately Tries to Connect the Dots Between Biden and Trump Investigations (Daily Beast) There are no dots to connect, other that to compare the witch-hunt against Trump to the cover-up regarding Biden.

Border Patrol agents encounter 1 million illegal migrants so far in FY 23 (Fox)

Networks Skip Report Chinese Nationals Now Pouring Across U.S./Mexico Border

Antisemitism on Twitter has more than doubled since Elon Musk took over (Ars Technica)

House Judiciary report: ‘No legitimate basis’ for Biden admin to target parents at school board meetings

Yellen earned millions in speaking fees from Wall St, tech firms

Biden’s Job Is Running US, Not Israel

DHS seizes 900 pounds of fentanyl in first week of border campaign (The Hill)

Hidin’ Biden: See How Few Interviews Biden Has Given Compared With Past Presidents Probably just as well.

House Republicans: DOJ School Board Memo Baseless

GOP: Biden, DOJ Conspired to Silence Parents

Afghanistan withdrawal made enemies think US ‘feckless,’ former CENTCOM commander says  Can’t say they’re wrong.

Russia’s Secret Mobilization of 400,000 New Troops

AIR WEAPONS: Ukraine Gets JDAM-ER

Poland & Slovakia To Send Fighter Jets To Ukraine

US to Send $350M in Ammunition, Tanker Trucks to Ukraine

American company outraged after Mexican military, police seized Caribbean facility: ‘This is insane’ (Fox)

America’s border crisis, Biden’s immigration policy, and the courts (The Hill)

Biden’s Border Policies Face Pushback (Foreign Policy)

Biden May Revive Family Detention Policies to Handle Migration, Asylum Issues (KQED)

Biden’s ‘centrist’ feints are just cover for same old hard-left course (N.Y. Post)

Will Americans End Up Footing the Bill for Bank Failures? (CBN News) Yes. If you have to ask the question, you haven’t been paying attention.

Paul Krugman: Three and a half myths about bank bailouts (Salt Lake Tribune) Who else to give us the inside dope but The Man Who Is Always Wrong?

U.S. Citizen Smuggling Illegals Fatally Shot by Border Agent (San Angelo Live)

Musk Blasts Biden After Prez Lies Twice About ‘3% Billionaire Tax’

After 2nd Attack, Pregnancy Care Center CEO Calls Out FBI, Justice Department for Failure to Act

Veep thoughts with Kamala Harris  There are puppets who have more brain.

Fear, burnout and insubordination: Insiders spill details about life at the highest levels of FBI (Politico)

Long-friendly neighbor states are in a bitter battle over the next FBI HQ (Politico) Why not put it in San Francisco? They could use some law enforcement presence. I doubt that any of the FBI agents would object.

16 Migrants on Terror Watch-List Apprehended at Southern Border in February

Biden Kills Bill To Reverse ESG Investing Rule  So much for democracy.

CNN anchor Erin Burnett says evidence of Chinese money to Bidens ‘doesn’t look good’ (N.Y. Post)

House GOP probes China-linked payments to Biden family; provides no evidence tying directly to the President (CNN)

Democratic rep says he might vote in favor of impeaching Mayorkas over border wall construction (The Hill)

FBI Is Now A ‘Weaponized Apparatchik’ Of The Presidential Administration: Whistleblower

A Failed Presidency In 20 Seconds

Watchdog Group Launches Investigation Into Biden’s ‘Woke Army’

Sunday Shows Spend Nearly An Hour on Trump, Ignore Hunter Biden Scandal

Migrant crisis ready to explode again, border congressman says (Border Report)

Biden Cancels Trump-Era Road Proposal in Wildlife Refuge

‘An All-Out Assault On The Second Amendment’: Gun Rights Groups Respond To Biden’s New Executive Order

Nets Ignore Biden’s Daughter-In-Law Receiving Chinese Wire Transfer

Biden DOJ Stands Accused Of Hiding This Evidence Of Biden-China Corruption: Sperry

Border Patrol Is 20 Percent Smaller Than White House Claims, Admin Official Testifies

VP Harris Booed at NCAA Tournament Game

Report: FBI, Secret Service Sought to Strip Gun Rights

Hallie Biden in family business

Biden Gets It Wrong Again: Sleepy Joe Humiliated by Premature Withdrawal

This Action Moves Biden’s Heat on Natural Gas to Front Burner

CNN Claims GOP Has No ‘Evidence Of Wrongdoing’ On Joe And Hunter Biden  Other than the videos of Hunter doing crack?

Crowd Boos Kamala at Alma Mater’s Basketball Game

Latest Border Encounter Numbers Expose Biden’s Ports of Entry Bait-and-Switch

The New Republic.

Specifically, librarians are fighting to expose children to Woke ideology despite the preferences of local parents and community standards.

All books are not created equal, popular proglodyte tropes to the contrary notwithstanding.