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.

Read it.

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:

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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.

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When the history books look back on 2023, the biggest American news story may be something that’s getting little attention right now: the school choice revolution.

This year, Iowa, Utah, and Arkansas have passed massive school choice bills, giving parents access to state education funding for their children and letting them decide if they want to use it at public or private schools.

Comer tightens screws on Hunter Biden art dealer, wants to know buyers, how much they paid (N.Y. Post)

House GOP says evidence against Biden family is ‘as bad as we thought’ (ABC)

Treasury Department agrees to hand over Hunter Biden files (The Center Square)

House panel set to review Biden family’s suspicious bank reports (N.Y. Post)

Rumors Swirl Over Which Biden Family Member Got Cut Of $3M CCP-Linked Wire

‘We Are Under Siege,’ Border County Sheriff Tells House Republicans as Democrats Skip Hearing

Border Patrol chief publicly backs agents falsely accused by Biden of whipping Haitian migrants

NBC Reports Biden Border Crisis Now Spreading to Northern Border

Border Chief Disputes Mayorkas: We Don’t Control Border

How to Crash the Economy, Big Government Style

NOT Mission Critical: USAF Paying Big for Diversity Bureaucrats

VP Harris: DeSantis ‘Doesn’t Understand’ Ukraine War Now that’s comedy.

Biden’s lie of the day

Hallie Biden Took Big Check From Chinese Energy Company While She Was Dating Hunter

Comer: Bank Records Show Hallie Biden Got China Cash

“This Is Sheer Idiocy”: Capital Gains Tax Can Exceed 100 Percent Under Biden Proposal

Latest Biden Admin Sanctions Waiver Allows $500 Million Payment for Iran, Tehran Says

Chef Biden Moves To Ban Gas Stoves After Promising He Wouldn’t (N.Y. Sun)

Police Lt. Explains How Cartels Are Taking Advantage of Biden’s Open Border Policies

Air Force goes on diversity, equity, inclusion hiring spree: Top job pays up to $183,500 (Fox)

Comer reveals new Biden family member has emerged in GOP-led probe: ‘We’ve got a problem here’ (Fox)

Study finds border crisis is costing taxpayers over $150 billion per year (NBC Montana)

The Upside Once The Fed Destroys The Middle Class

Some Mexican pharmacies sell pills laced with deadly fentanyl to U.S. travelers (NPR) So I guess the President of Mexico lied to us.

8 Things to Know About Biden’s Fiscal 2024 Budget, From Bad to Worse

Nets Skip GOP Acquiring Bank Records of Hunter Biden’s Associates

Taibbi: In FBI Case, The First Amendment Takes Another Bizarre Hit

Biden’s ‘La Invitacion’ to Illegal Aliens Triggered Border Crisis, New Book Charges

Rep. Comer to Newsmax: 4 Bidens Peddled Influence Globally

How The Fed Broke The Banks

White House calls on Republicans in Congress to reverse course on gun policy (CBS) Oh, like that’s going to happen.

Despite Promises, Biden’s $7-trillion Budget Shell Game Takes More of Everyone’s Money

Buttigieg: US Cannot Wait for Next Air Event  He’s talking like he isn’t the guy in charge of doing that.

Senators Introduce Legislation to Terminate Pentagon’s Taxpayer-Funded Abortions

CNN Touts Youth Disappointment In Biden Not Being Extreme Enough On Climate

Congress Takes Brief Pause From Sending All Your Tax Dollars To Ukraine To Send Them To Silicon Valley Bank (Babylon Bee)

Biden Admin Outraged That Russian Attack on U.S. Drone Was ‘Environmentally Unsound’

Iran Cashed in During Biden’s First Year in Office

Busted: Biden Lies About Supporting Gay Marriage Since The 1950s

Are There Any Limits to Biden’s Shameless Demagoguery?  Probably not.

Democrats Boycott Congressional Trip to Texas Border

Man Struggling To Feed Family Just Glad He Could Help Bail Out Bank (Babylon Bee)

John Stossel.

Your flight is delayed? Blame your government.
OK, it’s not always government’s fault. Sometimes it’s weather or mechanical problems. But often we suffer horrible flight delays because politicians won’t relinquish power.
In January, flights were grounded when the government’s “Notice to Air Missions” system broke down. That was just the latest incident.
America rightly prides itself on being on the cutting edge of innovation. But it’s the private sector that innovates. Government rarely does.
Asked if America’s air traffic control system is out of date, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg paused a long time before answering, “The system is continuously being upgraded.”
But the government’s been “upgrading” air traffic control for decades, promising to switch to a “NextGen” system that uses satellite navigation. But implementation keeps being postponed. Now the Federal Aviation Administration won’t even say when NextGen might be done.
Air traffic control is still a lot like it was in the 1960s. Controllers use paper strips to track flights. Instead of using computers, they move paper around manually.
“This is your government at work,” says Diana Furchtgott-Roth in my latest video. Furchtgott-Roth worked for the Transportation Department during the Trump administration.
I yell at her. “Air traffic control was in your department. You could have fixed it. You should have fixed it!”
She smiles and explains that although she had control of $1 billion, she wasn’t allowed to move those funds to where they were needed.
Government managers must fund projects pushed by politicians, like “Justice40,” meant to fix “underinvestment in disadvantaged communities.”
“Sounds like they mean well,” I say.
“It sounds a lot better to talk about social justice,” answers Furchtgott-Roth. “Nuts and bolts like computer hardware for air traffic control gets left behind.”

Why the US northern border is experiencing record migration (CNN) I guess Canada isn’t the socialist paradise that everyone claims it to be.

Mexico’s president says Mexico is safer than the US (CNN)

US border patrol closes bridge to Juárez after rumor causes migrant rush (The Guardian)

Mayorkas under fire after 1,000 migrants rush El Paso border: ‘Resign immediately’ (Fox)

PETA to White House: No more real eggs for Easter Egg Roll (The Hill)

FBI: Hate Crimes Up 35 Percent in Biden’s First Year

Biden: Florida ‘Close to Sinful’ for Trans Restrictions  Progressivism really is a religion.

‘Bail Out Rich People’: What You Need to Know About Biden Administration’s Silicon Valley Bank Action

Networks Ignore Dems Boycotting ANOTHER Hearing on Biden Border Crisis

The Bank Crisis Has Democrats Scrambling Behind The Scenes To Find A Scapegoat

AMLO Tells Americans That Mexico Is ‘Safe’, Despite Kidnappings And Murders

Daily Show Tees Up Biden To Condemn ‘Sinful’ Laws Against ‘Trans Kids’

Rep. Lesko: Biden’s DOE Coming for Gas Stoves

We Should Give Up the Fantasy of Solving the Border Crisis (N.Y. Times) Certainly so long as Democrats have any influence over the process.

Ex-intelligence officials challenge the Hunter Biden witch hunt (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin takes a break from bashing Trump.

‘Another Scandal’: Biden Admin ‘Radicals’ Blocked SVB Sale, Nationalized It, Then Blamed Trump For Collapse

Yes, The Latest Bank Bailout Is Really A Bailout, And You Are Paying For It

Biden Admin Promises To Tax Silicon Valley Billionaires On All The Money The Federal Government Just Gave Them  (Babylon Bee)

Pro-Lifers Targeted by Biden DOJ Challenge Constitutionality of FACE Act

Russian Fighter Jet Downs US Drone Over Black Sea

‘SSN AUKUS’: How the US and UK plan to get nuclear-powered subs to Australia

AUKUS deal: US, UK and Australia agree on nuclear submarine project (BBC)

AUKUS will bolster stability in the Asia-Pacific, not undermine it (The Guardian)

China looms large as Biden makes submarine moves with UK, Australia (CNN)

Further U.S. involvement in Ukraine is not vital national interest, says DeSantis (Associated Press)

Republican 2024 hopefuls respond to Tucker Carlson’s questions about their stance on Russia-Ukraine war (Fox)

War in Ukraine ‘distracts from our country’s most pressing challenges,’ DeSantis says (Politico)

Ron DeSantis says helping Ukraine fend off Russia not a vital US interest (N.Y. Post)

China has three roads to Taiwan: The US must block them all (The Hill)

War by miscalculation or by mistake? (The Hill)

Ukraine short of skilled troops and munitions as losses, pessimism grow (Washington Post)

Russian Assets Reportedly Seized at Baikonur Cosmodrome by Kazakh Authorities

Ukrainian Official: ‘We Don’t Have The Resources For Counteroffensive’

The US would sooner see TSMC fabs burn than let China have them  Convincing China of that will be the problem.

Ira Stoll is not afraid to ask the hard questions.

Where in the world did the government of New York get the power to take Signature Bank away from the bank’s shareholders and from the management who had worked for years to build it into the formidable institution that it was?

It’s hardly an academic question. The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution states that no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”

The constitution of New York state has similar language: “private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation.” Yet depriving the bank shareholders of their property — without due process and without just compensation — appears to be precisely what Governor Hochul did in respect of Signature Bank.

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Arizona’s Water Infrastructure Finance Authority has been tasked with reviewing a proposal for a multibillion-dollar project to construct a water desalination plant in Mexico that would pump water through a 200-mile pipeline to the border state as part of an effort to counter its drought-driven water uncertainty.

The Arizona Republic said the state water finance board recently passed a non-binding resolution supporting a potentially massive seawater desalination plant in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez that Israel-based desalination plant operator IDE Technologies would construct.

Through reverse osmosis membranes, the plant would separate salt from seawater and pump the fresh water through a pipeline across the Mexico-US border to a reservoir west of Phoenix. IDE said the new plant could replace declining Colorado River water that flows through the Central Arizona Project’s aqueduct.

Biden to enact Arctic protections as approval of oil project looms (Washington Post)

Biden indefinitely blocks millions of acres of land, water from future oil drilling (Fox)

As Biden weighs the Willow oil project, he blocks other Alaska drilling (NPR)

Mexico too dangerous for spring break, Texas officials say (BBC)

Rep. Turner: Biden Admin ‘Too Timid’ to ‘Provoke’ China  Biden is an honest politician–he stays bought.

“It’s Too Dangerous”: Texas Officials Issue Travel Warning After Latest Mexico Kidnappings

Gov. Murphy: 1,000 Percent Behind Biden in ’24  Bend over, Joe; just pretend it’s Buttplug Pete.

Hundreds of migrants try to force their way into US at Mexico border (Reuters)

How Biden’s New Washing Machine Regulations Could Ruin Laundry Day

Rep. Comer Keeps Digging on Hunter Biden Associates

House Oversight Chair Comer quietly subpoenas bank records for Hunter Biden business associates

Silicon Valley Bank Bailout is Socialism for the Rich

Hundreds Of Illegal Immigrants Storm Border At Texan Port Of Entry  If that’s not an invasion, what is?

Biden Raises Taxes for Americans, Raises Pay for Bureaucrats  My, what a surprise.

The View Demands Dems Accept Kamala as VP, Can’t List Accomplishments

Federal Judge Castigates DHS, Orders Stop to Its Mass Paroling of Illegal Aliens

US Intel Agencies Need To Focus Intensely On ‘Diversity, Equity, Inclusion,’ Intelligence Chief Says

Silicon Valley Learns to Love Socialism for the Richs (The Nation)

China’s new defense minister was previously sanctioned by US for buying military equipment from Russia (Fox)

China’s new defense minister is a general the US sanctioned for buying Russian weapons (CNN)

U.S.-sanctioned general to become public face of China’s growing military (Reuters)

Russia’s Arms Export Industry Is Collapsing (Newsweek)

Russia’s Missile Threat to the U.S. Has Evolved (Newsweek)

LEADERSHIP: Realistic Russian Reforms

WINNING: Ukrainian Combat Fatigue

Mexican President Threatens Republicans Calling For US Military To Target Drug Cartels

Lockheed Martin delivers first F-16 Block 70 fighter jet to Bahrain

International Court to Open War Crimes Cases Against Russia, Officials Say (N.Y. Times)

Casualties Rise in Ukraine, Russia Bakhmut Battle

Thanks to Ukraine, Pentagon eyeing multi-year munition buys in FY24

‘Russia Outside Russia’: For Elite, Dubai Becomes a Wartime Harbor (N.Y. Times)

Russia Loses 1,090 Troops in 1 Day (Newsweek)

Oscar For Best Actor Goes To Volodymyr Zelensky (Babylon Bee)

Why We Can’t Ever Have Nice Things.

1. Costs ballooned.
2. NIMBY’s objected.
3. Hey, New York–’nuff said.

Steven Hayward at Power Line speaks for all right-thinking people.

So I woke up this morning, looked at my watch, and thought—”Hey, slept in rather late this morning!” But then the fog lifted and I remembered: those commie rat bastards robbed me of an hour! Yes—Daylight Saving Time was a Progressive-era invention, giving Progressives a literal time to move the clock forward! (Yes, we literally get to “turn the clock back” in the fall, but I wish we didn’t do it all all.)

Can’t add anything to that.

The Other McCain jerks back the curtain.

The money has to come from somewhere, and the only source for money that the government has is taxpayers. They can blabber all they want about ‘no cost to taxpayers’ but that’s an obvious lie.

Karine Jean-Pierre torched for ‘word salad’ defending Biden’s border policy: ‘40 seconds of total nonsense’ (Fox)

‘On Second Thought, I Guess Trump Was Right and I Was Wrong’ About Rampant Abuse of the Asylum System (Center for Immigration Studies)

Former Trump officials skeptical of Biden admin’s reported plan to resume migrant family detention

I Went to the Southern Border at 3 A.M. This Is What I Saw.

Left-Wing Advocacy Groups Blast Biden’s Judicial Pick

Lt. Christopher Olivarez to Newsmax: Don’t Go to Mexico

Jean-Pierre Mute on Migrant Family Detention

Proud Boys J6 Sedition Trial Halted After Leaked Chat Logs Show FBI Agent Said Her Boss Ordered Her To “Destroy Evidence”

Biden Dumps Trump Air Force One Design, Unveils New Paint Job (Daily Beast) Actually, it isn’t a new paint job but rather the Same Old Paint Job chosen by JFK.

“It’s As Bad As We Thought”: CCP Money Flowed To Biden Family According Bank Records, Documents Obtained By House GOP

Watch KJP Struggle with English During Friendly MSNBC Interview

Read it.

I don’t even have to say anything.

Read it.

As the school board adjourned the meeting, I asked from the press area: “How was the document edited? Can you claim how the document was edited at all? Can you cite how the document was edited—since you leveled the claim that it was falsified?”

Board President Mike Hanna then ordered officers of the Pendleton Police Department to remove me from the premises.

DOJ takes on the Jan. 6 Tucker Carlson tapes (Politico)

Adams unveils NYC migrant blueprint with national resettlement implications while stumping for Biden (Fox)

Adams joins Biden 2024 team, insists it won’t soften push for migrant billions (N.Y. Post)

Graham says he will introduce bill to ‘set the stage’ for US to use military force in Mexico (The Hill) Scott Adams has been pushing for this for months.

The Mexican government is not willing to do anything serious to the cartels: Bill Barr (Fox) Of course not. The cartels have both more money and more guns than the government.

What Biden’s deeply troubling asylum limit means for the economy (The Hill)

Archives: 9 Boxes of Biden Docs Left to Check

Feds Retrieve 9 More Boxes of Biden Docs From Lawyer’s Office

FDA’s Procedure for Approving Abortion Pill Was Unlawful, Lawsuit Claims

Biden to propose 25% billionaire tax (Axios) Eventually it will reach a point where it will be cost-effective to have Biden whacked … and don’t think that billionaires don’t know it.

FACT CHECK: Biden’s Press Sec Says Fentanyl at the Southern Border Is at Historic Lows

In Biden’s Tax-the-Rich Budget, Capital-Gains Rates Near 45% (Bloomberg) You’d think that Creepy Joe was TRYING to cause a recession.

Biden Wants to Increase DOJ Civil Rights Division Budget by $62 Million  Can’t find white supremacists without funding.

Jill Biden Gives International Women of Courage Award to Biological Man

Senate Confirms Biden Nom Who Suggested Microaggressions Can Kill You

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One might describe the vice president’s speaking style as “self-medicating kindergarten teacher.” Harris employed this style at a recent event at which she giddily marveled at the country’s “more than half a million miles of transmission lines, enough to wrap around the globe 24 times.”

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On Jan. 31, the ATF published its final rule regarding pistol braces to the federal register. Entitled “Factoring criteria for firearms with attached stabilizing braces,” this rule essentially amends the definition of “rifle” to include millions of firearms previously classified as pistols.

For those unfamiliar with firearms law, what that means is that ATF can then classify all pistol-braced firearms with barrels under 16 inches (most, if not all pistol braced firearms on the market fit this definition) as Short Barreled Rifles, or SBRs which the National Firearms Act or NFA regulate.

Owners of these firearms now face a choice. Destroy their guns (or at least the brace), register them with ATF as SBRs, or turn them in.

This rule essentially functions as a massive registration scheme for pistol-braced firearms, and the ATF knows this. ATF is no stranger to using existing federal law to create “regulations” subverting the legislative process, as they used a similar method in 2018 to “ban” bump stocks.

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The former sheriff “tolerated, if not rewarded” deputy gangs, according to the report

 

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Buy those votes! Buy those votes!

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Thank you, Joe Biden.

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams told a local radio station it might be time to remove the face masks, suggesting it would prevent robberies and other crimes.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Every four years, the Beltway media establishment anoints a favorite Republican. The New Hampshire governor is doing everything right.

The ghost of John McCain stalks the night. (Wondering when Mitt Romney will do the right thing and JUST FUCKING DIE ALREADY.)

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Gone or significantly reduced: tanks, artillery, mortars, snipers. The Marines are being systematically eliminated as a fighting force. It would be impossible for a Chinese agent to do more harm to the Marine Corps than the Commandant is doing.

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Inquiring minds want to know.

Tyler Cowen.

CHIPs details to raise costs:
1) Mandated daycare
2) Davis Bacon pay regulations
3) Buy American
4) Consult, engage, coordinate with unions
5) NEPA compliance
6) Source materials from small, minority, and women owned business

The Ideological Pork Barrel in action.

Veronique de Rugy.

Let’s call it the “Biden way”: When our president can’t get his policies through Congress, he tries to impose them in other ways. Just look at his student loan forgiveness plan, which faced a stiff Supreme Court challenge this week, and his imposition of stricter “Buy American” provisions to the infrastructure-spending bill. Now, he wants to reshape corporate America by attaching the big string of “high-quality” child care to, of all things, semiconductor subsidies.

This strategy, while popular with other presidents, has only one redeeming aspect: It beautifully illustrates how politics diverts industrial policy and similar attempts to direct the economy away from their stated goals. See, politicians say they want to subsidize this and that to improve manufacturing or bolster national security, but invariably sabotage themselves by weighing the policies down with rules and requirements that have nothing to do with the plans.

It is certainly true with last year’s “bipartisan” CHIPS Act, which provides $52 billion to revive American microchip manufacturing. Now, Biden’s Commerce Department has announced that companies getting the subsidies will have to do (and not do) a bunch of other things if they want the money.

Call it the Ideological Pork Barrel.

John Stossel.

After a recent hurricane, Puerto Ricans desperately needed fuel.
Fortunately, an oil tanker was right offshore.
Unfortunately, the United States government forbade it to come ashore!
Why?
Because of a stupid law with a stupid name: The Jones Act.
The Jones Act forbids shipping anything between American ports in ships that are not U.S. built and crewed. This makes goods cost more (the average Hawaii family must pay $1,800 more a year) and sometimes, as happened in Puerto Rico, makes a crisis worse.