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“This is a moment, the moment, a moment to restore the rights that have been taken away from us and the moment to protect our nation from an extremist agenda,” Biden said, repeating himself as he spoke to the nation from the White House.

The president’s executive order, called “Protecting Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services,” states that abortion is a private decision and “should not be subject to government interference.”

His order says that the federal government “is taking action to protect healthcare service delivery and promote access to critical reproductive healthcare services, including abortion.”

I love how killing your child is now ‘reproductive healthcare services’. Next thing you know, murder will be reclassified as healthcare.

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The Biden administration keeps trying to give Vice President Kamala Harris something to do, but she keeps balking at the opportunity. She complains about being “sidelined” by the White House and complains when they give her a job she doesn’t want to do, such as handling the border crisis. It’s as if the only thing she is really passionate about is using the power of her office to destroy the careers of her political rivals.

Harris was not enthusiastic about being tapped to lead the administration’s response to the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The Washington Post reported Thursday that the vice president “had initial reservations about becoming the face of the administration’s response, worried she could be pigeonholed on the issue because of her gender, according to people familiar with the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose a sensitive dynamic.”

She’s a talker, not a doer.

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When Francis Collins departed as Director of the National Institutes for Health (NIH) in December 2021, his legacy included multiple-millions of dollars in secret royalty payments to himself, prominent colleagues like Dr. Anthony Fauci, and hundreds of other scientists, officials, and researchers working under him.

Today, Collins is the highest paid adviser to the president with the most expensive White House staff ever, according to data compiled by the Chicago-based non-profit government watchdog, Open The Books (OTB).

Top Democrats, Staffers Fume Over White House’s Chaotic Impotence

Biden’s Green Agenda Is Causing US Power Grid To Be “Incredibly Vulnerable”

Karine Jean-Pierre won’t discuss Biden voicemail on Hunter’s laptop

US on ‘cusp’ of falling gas prices (The Hill)

Frustrated Democrats express alarm over Biden’s powerlessness (The Hill) How about his fecklessness?

Millions Of Barrels From US Emergency Oil Reserve Sent Abroad, Including To China

Biden’s Month of Malfeasance on Energy Production, Prices

Tens of Thousands of Soldiers Barred From Service Due to Biden Vaccine Mandate

Biden’s Twin Dumpster Fires: Raging Inflation and Open Borders

Oil from U.S. reserves sent overseas as gasoline prices stay high (Reuters)

DOJ sues Arizona over proof of citizenship voter law (The Hill)

White House ‘Disinformation’ Campaign Against Climate Policy Critics Sparks Litigation

‘We’re Being Invaded,’ Local Texas Leaders Say as Border Crisis Worsens

Luongo: Why Joe Biden Refuses To Back Off Ukraine

Biden Free Fall Continues

Biden Faces Major Decision In Khashoggi Fiancée’s Suit Vs Saudi Crown Prince

Veep thoughts with Kamala Harris  The hits just keep on comin’.

Mark Levin Was Right: Networks Quickly Drop Gruesome Migrant Deaths

Biden’s Job Approval Enters Marianas Trench

More Kamala Deep Thoughts

Hunter Biden joins dad for July 4th as federal investigation grinds on

Oil Billionaire Blasts Biden’s Gas-Price Blame-Game, Says Only One Thing Will Fix Inflation

You’ve Got To Be Kidding! Rapinoe Tapped For Presidential Medal of Freedom

Disgusting: Biden DoE Hire Defended Underage Gay Prostitution Website in Op-Ed

Open Borders Cost Lives. Biden Doesn’t Care.

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It would seem Kamala Harris isn’t the only senior person in the Biden Administration afflicted with a case of Severe Banality Syndrome (SBS). Behold our boy genius and Rhodes Scholar Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, who had this to say to CBS News about the large number of airline flight cancellations and delays over the weekend:

This is something that’s affecting all of us and it’s affecting the economy when that happens because so many people can’t get to where they need to be for work, so many people can’t get to loved ones. We sent a lot of taxpayer funding, specifically for purpose of keeping people employed at these airlines. And now, they need to have the people and they need to have the resources to get people where they need to go.”

Statements like that remind us that we are in the presence of no ordinary mind.

US energy producers roast Biden for demanding ‘companies running gas stations’ lower pump prices  Which they have absolutely no control over.

Mayorkas says immigration crisis not unique to US: ‘Reflective of the economic downturn’ and ‘climate change’ Yeah, that’s why all those people from Canada and the U.S. are trying to sneak into Mexico and other Latin American countries.

Judge puts Biden on the spot over immunity for Saudi crown prince (The Guardian)

Judge asks U.S. if Saudi crown prince should be immune from suit (Washington Post)

US Immigration Crisis Due to Climate Change: DHS Secretary Mayorkas  Yeah, that’s the ticket.

White House Quiet As BBQ Inflation Roils Americans On July 4

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Joe Biden is celebrating July 4th with a massive expansion of the IRS. How better to celebrate the colonists who chased British tax collectors out than by replacing them with Biden’s tax collectors.

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The New York Post continues to mine the contents of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop. Via Miranda Devine’s Twitter feed we are alerted to Jon Levine’s story “Hunter Biden’s laptop had contacts for Google execs, US officials for China policy.” I would have missed it otherwise and want to bring it to the attention of interested readers. It is an excellent story.

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The main point was that public pension funds are grossly underfunded. Consequently, more and more pension funds are borrowing money to play the markets. The goal is to boost returns to cover their massive funding gaps.

If you recall, public-sector retirement plans offer defined benefits, where retiree pension checks are calculated based on salaries and years of service. Private employers, on the other hand, generally offer defined-contribution plans (like 401Ks), where payouts are based on market returns.

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Certainly, pension funds can attempt to fill their funding gaps by requesting increases in yearly contributions from governments and workers. But the public-employee unions go full ape when such measures are proposed. So the remaining option is to take on greater risk. What could go wrong?

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Many people expect “money” will soon be tied to commodities. Agreed. It’s called a ration card that grants the holder the right to buy a specific quantity of essential goods at a specified price.

This right is a form of “money” directly tied to the value of commodities.

Ration cards are the only fair way to distribute essentials in times of chronic scarcity. Markets work fine when there’s a substitute for whatever is scarce, but there are no substitutes for electricity, food, fuel or fresh water, the FEW essentials (Food, energy, water).

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The shortage of pilots is a hot issue. During the pandemic airlines pushed late-career pilots to retire early, and they weren’t hiring pilots. It’s time-consuming to train pilots, and it’s expensive. And they’re also forced to retire at age 65 regardless of health.

Up until 2013 pilots were required to hold a commercial license which required 250 hours of flying (in addition to being type-rated for the specific aircraft they’re flying). The hours requirement was increased in safety legislation which followed the 2009 Colgan Air crash, even though hours of pilot training had nothing whatsoever to do with that crash.

When something bad happens, people take unrelated pet ideas off the shelf and push them – after TWA Flight 800 exploded we got ID requirements to fly because the President wanted something to announce, to show he was doing something. After 9/11, then-Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) famously said of the opportunity “It’s an open grab bag, so let’s grab.”

Ponder how much of our economic distress is self-inflicted: Stupid regulations enacted by politicians ignorant of the situation but compelled by their ‘profession’ to do something, even if it’s wrong.

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There are two types of people in this world. The first is those who have never heard of the Jones Act, the law that requires American-built and staffed ships for maritime commerce within the U.S. I imagine these folks sleep peacefully each night and live in balanced harmony.

The other type is not so lucky. They have an impassioned, unshakeable opinion of the Jones Act. They believe it is either the root of all evil in the U.S. or believe it is something to be protected unselfishly. Doing away with the Jones Act, according to them, would either spark the collapse of Western civilization or would solve all earthly ills.

If you’re outside the shipping world, you probably struggle to believe that Jones Act lovers or haters comprise a meaningful segment of the U.S. And yet they do. Politicians have tried for decades to repeal the protectionist law, only to be met with a lobbying group that late Sen. John McCain called the most powerful he ever encountered.

Ponder how much of our economic pain is self-inflicted: Special-interest legislation that either favors one select group over the rest of the population, or attempts to force reality to conform to some absurd political theory.

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Gee, I wonder why?

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Just when the wife of one incarcerated Jan. 6 prisoner believed things couldn’t get worse, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) informed her they are going to suspend all of her husband’s benefits. According to United States Representative Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), “this is what you have when vindictive leftists get in charge of major parts of the government.”

Joel Kotkin.

Joe Biden may have once bragged about his cooperative relations with segregationists, but he still arguably owes more to African-American leadership and voters than any politician in recent history. After all, it was black voters who bequeathed him the two critical victories in South Carolina and Georgia that led to his nomination in 2020. Perhaps that’s why he promised in his inaugural address to focus on the “sting of systemic racism” and fight encroaching “white supremacy.”

Adding action to rhetoric, Biden has embraced brazenly discriminatory policies that Barack Obama would likely have been too savvy to impose openly: special assistance to prospective black homeowners, race-based support for black farmers and black businesses, and attempts to end inflation by promoting “equity” in the financial sector through intrusive regulation.

Yet while Biden has placed racialism — making race a decisive factor in public decisions — at the heart of his political programme, in reality minorities may not prove the Castroite fifth column dreamed up by either the far-Right or their leftist doppelgängers. Minorities are more than genetic constructs; they are people with ambitions, families, and budgets. And sadly, Biden’s policies are not making their lives any better.

Biden jokes he may not return from Spain as approval rating hits all-time low  Too bad he’s not serious.

White House press secretary says using federal lands for abortion services would have ‘dangerous ramifications’ (CNN)

HHS Secretary Becerra on abortion clinics on federal land: ‘Every option is on the table’  Even breaking state law, apparently.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott fires warning to Biden over EPA rule that could send gas prices even higher

The Biden Admin Just Made It Easier for Terrorists To Enter the United States

US Q1 GDP Revisions Scream Stagflation

Oil Extends Gains After Indirect US-Iran Nuclear Talks Fail In Qatar

Biden’s China syndrome

Biden’s Fairy-Tale View of Land Mines Threatens the Lives of Our Armed Forces

MSNBC Asks Becerra THREE Times What He’s Doing to Provide Abortions

Biden’s Solar Power Scam: How Phony Emergency Declaration Will Help China

Biden to Spend $200B on Gender Equality, Climate Projects in Developing Nations to ‘Counter’ China’s Influence

46 migrants have been found dead inside a semi-truck in San Antonio and 16 have been hospitalized, authorities say (CNN)

Ron Johnson demands answers on leaked DHS memo about transporting migrants across US using taxpayer dollars

A ‘carbon bomb’ or desperately needed energy? Alaskan village holds key to Biden’s climate policy. (Washington Post)

White House warns of ‘ultra-MAGA’ policies, abortion ban if GOP takes majority in Congress  ULTRA-MAGA!

Frustration at Biden and other Democrats grows among abortion-rights supporters (NPR)

Why Biden’s Green Energy Policy Will ‘End In Tears’

Joe Biden Covered Hunter’s Russia-Linked Hooker Tab; Leaked Audio Proves Joe Spoke Of Dealings

Networks CENSOR Joe Biden’s ‘I Think You’re Clear’ Voicemail to Hunter

The White House Needs To End Its Embarrassing, Petulant War On US Oil

White House Rejects Blame for 50 Illegal Immigrants Found Dead in Texas

White House Desperate To Make New Oil Deals As Gas Prices Crush Biden

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Perhaps it hasn’t appeared on the teleprompter yet.

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The U.S. Office of Special Counsel says Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm violated the Hatch Act when she participated in an interview with a Democratic billionaire’s daughter and implored readers to vote for Democrats.

Jennifer Granholm looks like Elizabeth Warren’s lesbian younger sister.

Though the government investigation found Granholm guilty of violating the Hatch Act, it said it chose not to levy any punishment because the Biden administration had failed to train Granholm on the Hatch Act, the letter explains.

Of course. The Crust takes care of its own: Nobody gets fired, nobody goes to jail. (Imagine what would have happened had she been a Republican. The horror!)

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So, Joe Biden goes to the G7 where Boris Johnson pleads with him to stop ethanol production from grain in order to avoid worldwide food shortages. Biden refuses. Obviously, Biden has no concern for adequate nutrition for the globe. Let them eat CO2-depleted air. Or drink ethanol.

Given that burning ethanol produces a mere 4% less CO2 than burning gasoline per gallon, a reasonable person would ask why. And that doesn’t even include the CO2 produced by the fermentation of grains to produce the alcohol. Or the depletion of our fossil water resources on the Great Plains to produce the ethanol. Or the CO2 required from fossil fuels to plant, grow (and the fossil fuels that provide the fertilizers), and harvest the grain. Or the CO2 production from transporting large quantities of ethanol. And etc., and etc. It seems to me that there may actually be a net disadvantage to using ethanol compared to gasoline. The situation may be different in Brazil, where sugar cane is used rather than corn or other grains.

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“I was wondering if we should have a separate section on low-carb diets rather than burying it,” wrote Harvard nutrition professor Frank Hu about the official expert report for the 2015 U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Over the past decade, thousands of scientists, doctors and others have urged officials overseeing our nation’s nutrition policy to pay attention to studies on low-carbohydrate diets, yet even as the science has advanced rapidly, the federal agencies in charge of the guidelines seem ever-more intent on ignoring and yes, burying the science.

The literature on low-carb is now vast. A quick search for “low-carbohydrate” on pubmed.gov, a government database of scientific studies, today turns up 7,821 publications, including 858 clinical trials (the most rigorous kind of evidence).12 Compare this to the 401 trials on the “vegetarian diet,” which has been formally recommended by the U.S. guidelines since 2015.

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The star of this series sat down for an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash yesterday. CNN has posted the 10-minute video here. Kyle Smith extracts the quotable quotes in his New York Post column today. It is full of material to be memorialized in a little red book akin to Quotations From Chairman LBJ. Smith works to explicate the material in this interview.

Bash’s interview focused on the subject of the day. Harris addressed the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe “[a]s a woman myself. And a daughter of a woman. And a granddaughter of a woman.” Not sure why she stopped at the grandma generation.

More: “You know, I’ve thought about it as, you know, a parent [Harris’s husband has two children from a previous marriage] . . . and as an aunt of pre-school children.”

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Ohio Democratic congresswoman Marcy Kaptur says she’s fed up with “people in Washington” who “care only about the coasts.” She’s been in Congress since 1983 and votes in lockstep with her party’s coastal leaders.

In her first ad of the general election cycle, titled “Feeling Squeezed,” Kaptur claims “too many of us” are hurting economically because “the people in Washington only care about the coasts.” The Democrat should know—she’s served in Congress for nearly four decades and votes with President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) 100 percent and 99 percent of the time, respectively. Kaptur also routinely touts her vote in favor of the American Rescue Plan, Biden’s $2 trillion stimulus package. Prominent liberal economists say that bill drove the nation’s inflation surge.

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The Fed’s balance sheet as a percentage of GDP is what is driving today’s inflation — not the nominal Fed Funds rate. This will emerge as a major risk to stocks and bonds if not managed soon.

Biden administration halts limits on ICE arrests following court ruling (CBS)

$8.1B in student loan relief has been approved under revamped program: Do you qualify? (The Hill)

Biden’s Radical, Anti-Fossil Fuel Energy Policy Costs Americans Dearly

Juuls Are Back: Court Blocks Biden’s Vape Ban

Important Questions the White House Press Corps Will Never Ask Joe Biden

Biden Drains US Strategic Oil Reserve To Lowest Since 1986; UAE Warns Not To Expect Any Help From OPEC

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Governments love inflation. It is a hidden tax on everyone and a transfer of wealth from bank deposits and real wages to indebted governments that collect more receipts via higher indirect taxes and devalue their debts. That is why we cannot expect governments to take decisive action on inflation.

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A significant amount of what the Federal government spends each year is waste and abuse.

These guys have the details.

Why are gas prices so high? Biden misses the point, scapegoats oil companies instead (Arizona Republic)

Why gas prices are so high, according to history (and no, it’s not Biden’s fault) (Salon)

Airlines Say Understaffed FAA “Crippling” East Coast Traffic

Liberal ‘Fact-Checkers’ Swept In to Clear Up Satire Around Biden’s Bike Fall

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

I’ve followed the government’s investigation of James O’Keefe and Ashley Biden’s diary since the New York Times broke the story with a little help from its friends in the national security establishment. What did O’Keefe do wrong? What makes it a federal case? This much is clear to me: the Biden Justice Department is out to get James O’Keefe.

Pending before the court that signed off on the search warrants executed on O’Keefe et al. is a motion to unseal the “search warrant materials” (i.e., “the search warrant application, supporting affidavit, return, and any other related judicial documents filed in connection with the Search Warrant” that was “executed at the residence of James E. O’Keefe, III, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Project Veritas, in connection with an ongoing federal grand jury investigation”).

Biden falsely says abortion ruling makes US ‘outlier among developed nations’

AG Garland: States can’t ban FDA-approved abortion pills on safety grounds (Axios)

Hundreds of illegal immigrants stroll along Texas highway: video

Fact-Checking 5 Biden Claims on Dobbs Ruling

Biden approval rating slips for fourth straight week: poll (The Hill)

Biden’s job approval rating slips to lowest level in months

The mainstream media’s lies on secret migrant flights

Oil CEOs call for ‘tone shift’ from White House on finger-pointing over gas prices (CNN)

Biden administration canceling $6 billion in student loan debt for 200,000 borrowers

Kamala Harris’ office posts video of VP sinking basketball shot, leaves out her first 5 misses

‘It’s almost unbelievable’: People are having their job offers rescinded days before they start (CNBC)

‘YOU take YOUR seat’: Very specific cheat sheet reminds Biden how to act

Poll: Trust in Biden slips in allied countries (Axios)

‘The View’ Grills White House Spox on Biden Admin’s ‘Botched’ Handling of Brittney Griner Phone Call (Daily Beast)

Missouri AG Files Temporary Injunction On Censorship Law

Senate Republicans’ Report Condemns ‘Biden’s Border Crisis’

Nine Former Border Patrol Heads Oppose Punishment Of Agents Cleared Of ‘Whipping’ Migrants

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Hardly anyone was shocked to learn that President Joe Biden is so cognitively impaired that members of his staff are printing out official note cards with detailed instructions to help him carry out his daily tasks.

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After a SWAT team wrecked an innocent woman’s house, the city of McKinney, Texas essentially told her “tough luck” and refused to compensate her. In a case that could have nationwide property rights implications, a federal jury on Wednesday awarded her $59,656.59 in damages—and more may be coming.

The jury award follows an April 29 ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Amos Mazzant III that the city’s “intentional and foreseeable” destruction of Vicki Baker’s house constituted a government “taking” that compelled the city to pay just compensation.

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With Democratic control of the White House and Congress for most of the last 14 years, I am surprised that there has not been more of an overt push to legalize the 12 million illegal aliens. A conservative Supreme Court majority remains our most important first line of defense against what I have long expected—some federal judge concocting a ruling that it is imperative that illegals be given full citizenship.

Many assumed we were headed that way as a result of the 1975 decision in Plyer v. Doe (5-4 majority opinion by Brennan) holding that Texas had to admit children of illegals to public schools under the Fourteenth Amendment because equal access applies to “people” not “citizens.” Because the feds were clearly not enforcing the immigration laws, the court decided to make policy concerning children in the country illegally through no fault of their own. The justices openly opined that if we are not going to kick them out, there is no benefit in keeping them uneducated (even if it is patently unfair to dump the additional cost of federal failures on a state budget).

From that decision, we soon got the universal policy of not being allowed to ask about citizenship status by any federal, state, or local government agency. A foreigner can crash the border and thus say “screw you” to American law and policy and immediately demand and receive social welfare benefits for an indefinite period of time.

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North Carolina lawmakers have the power to protect the state’s voter identification requirement, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

The 8-1 decision allows two Republican state legislators to defend in court a law that requires in-person and absentee voters to present at least 1 of 10 different options of photo ID. Lower courts said that only North Carolina’s Democratic attorney general could defend the law. The NAACP challenged the law, Senate Bill 824, in court, saying it burdens minority voters, though 69 percent of black Americans support voter ID requirements.

The idea of a Democrat official ‘defending’ a voter identification requirement law is Straight Outa Comedy Central.

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During a non-election year, Washington Democratic senator Patty Murray called a federal gas tax holiday a “bad idea” that may not lower prices at the pump. Now that she’s up for reelection, she’s on board with the plan.

Murray—who is expected to face Republican triage nurse Tiffany Smiley in November—quietly signed on to Senate Democrats’ gas tax suspension bill in late April, more than two months after it was introduced. But in 2008, when Murray was not embroiled in a reelection fight, the Democrat called the policy a “bad idea” that would “deteriorate highway funding.”

Amazing how that works.

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“There is an official narrative, and the official narrative is they’ve got to stop inflation… Let’s look very simply at what happened. They voted on the direct reset. Then they injected $5 trillion into the economy that went to the insiders. Then they used Covid to shut down the economy run by the outsiders. Now, the outsiders want to open another business, and they are going to radically raise the cost of capital to the outsiders. What’s going to happen is that $5 trillion is going to buy more assets more cheaply. To me, this is part of centralizing the control of the economy. They are asserting very significant central control. This is not a turndown–this is a takedown.”

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We now know that the door to a fourth grade classroom invaded by the shooter wasn’t barricaded and may not even have been locked. Instead of two underequipped and wounded officers facing a huge obstacle, it was four officers with a ballistic shield, at least two of them armed with rifles, standing outside an unlocked classroom door.

One teacher with a gun and proper training is all it would have taken. This is Texas; that ought to have been a no-brainer.

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U.S. Air Force leadership are now accused of serious misbehavior (criminally deceiving Congress) by deliberately lying to Congress about their plans for the A-10 ground attack aircraft. The recent leaks include briefings describing how air force leaders planned to continue undermining the A-10 but deliberately sabotaging promised upgrades and sustainment (money for maintenance and operations of A-10s). The leaked documents included mention of the importance of keeping all of this from going public. That’s where the air force crossed the line into criminal conduct.

It is no secret that the air force has spent several decades trying to get rid of the A-10, its most popular, affordable, and effective combat aircraft. Since 2019, the air force appears to have decided to stop trying to get rid of its popular, at least with pilots and infantry, A-10 attack aircraft. Nicknamed “Warthog” or just “hog”, the A-10 never got much respect from air force leaders. The A-10 did gain enough popular and political clout to keep this aircraft flying. The current (2020) plan reduces the A-10 force by 44 aircraft, to 237. These will equip seven squadrons. Three are active duty and four operated by part-time National Guard and reserve personnel. The reserve units would be available within 30 days for deployment to a combat zone. The reserve pilots are largely retired fighter pilots and tend to have more experience in the A-10 than the younger active-duty pilots. The reservists fly regularly and their aircraft are kept in shape for regular operations.

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A U.S. Court of Appeals recently ruled that North Carolina charter day schools cannot have dress codes based on a child’s gender because, as a “state actor,” such codes violate laws on equal protection. Under the ruling, girls can no longer be required to wear dresses.

Some parents have believed charter schools are an alternative to public schools that impose woke ideology. If this court ruling stands, notes a New York Post editorial, ” … it could mean, in effect, the end of charters as they exist. It provides a legal rationale for them to be brought under the thumb of the state and city educrats nationwide, who are eager to handcuff charters for daring to bring educational options to students failed by traditional public schools.”

The Antiplanner jerks back the curtain.

A recent survey found that 93 percent of planning students oppose highway expansion because they believe that it won’t relieve congestion due to induced demand. However, the survey found, only 24 percent of the general public agrees. Similarly, 83 percent of planning students believe the government should try to reduce the amount of driving Americans do, but only 31 percent of the general public agrees.

It never occurs to planners that results like these might indicate that they are wrong. After all, they are the experts and the general public is not, so the public should let them do what they want.

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Most infuriating is the whole induced-demand argument, which (according to Governing magazine) has planners actively wondering why they can’t sell this idea to the public. The answer, of course, is that it is stupid. Economically it is stupid because there is no conceivable product that will generate more demand simply by making more of it: building a road in a desert will not induce more driving. Politically it is stupid because it argues that more roads generate more economic activity, and most urban politicians say they want more economic activity in their cities.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

In Minnesota, a new rule relating to certification of teachers is in process. As I understand it, the rule has proceeded without legislative action and ultimately will come before an administrative law judge who will (I assume) approve it, absent enormous public outcry. The rule provides that you can’t be licensed as a teacher in Minnesota unless you subscribe to neo-Marxist theories of race, gender and so on.

You have to read it to believe it.

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Faked heart studies by a once-obscure scientist duped the U.S. government and medical establishment for years. Washington is still paying for it.

A New Cringe Achievement Level for Harris

Betsy DeVos: Biden Plans to Radically Change Title IX to Let Biological Men Play Women’s Sports

Oil refineries are making a windfall. Why do they keep closing? (Washington Post) Why do you think?

VP Harris botches Juneteenth history lesson about ‘400 years of slavery’

MSNBC’s Joy Reid complains Kamala Harris treated unfairly by ‘White, male’ media: People just don’t ‘know her’

Hell Freezes Over: AP Challenges Biden’s ‘Dissonance’ with Americans on Economic Crisis

Military Readiness Takes Back Seat to Wokeness at the Pentagon

Biden USAID Nominee Lavished Praise on Saudi Arabia—Until It Stopped Funding Her Think Tank

Vatican Promises Next Pope Will Be A Woman Of Color  (Babylon Bee) Devout Catholic Joe Biden couldn’t be reached for comment, since it’s his nap time.

Kamala Harris: Killing Babies IS In Line With Christianity

Report: Kamala Harris Is So Unpopular That Democrats Don’t Want a Photo With Her  I know I wouldn’t.

Frustrated Capitol Gift Shop Lady Finally Puts Up Sign Saying ‘NO WE DO NOT SELL BUFFALO HAT SOUVENIRS’  (Babylon Bee)

Biden Ahead of Schedule in Destroying US Offshore Oil Production

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The Biden administration claims it formed the recently unveiled “parents council” to better reflect families’ views in public schools—but its members include Al Sharpton’s community organizing group; activists who lobby to teach “comprehensive sex education,” including gender identity theory, in school; and open borders groups.

Surely dysfunctional parents have a right to be represented?

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“Take your pick of the many self-induced Biden disasters, among them hyperinflation, unaffordable gasoline, out-of-control crime, and foreign-policy humiliations. But one reason why voters are furious is rarely expressed. Americans feel that ordinary citizens like themselves who follow the rules are treated more harshly by their own government than are both non-citizens and our own progressive elites. And they are right, and they are angry, and we will hear from them very soon.”
–Victor Davis Hanson

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I had to fly to Boston this weekend to help my sister fix up her new house. I almost didn’t make it back to work on Monday, because my flight was canceled at the last minute, and I had to buy another ticket on another airline, which was canceled, and so on. I made it home eventually, and was less than amused to hear Pete Buttigieg’s statement about the rash of flight cancellations. He said that if the airlines couldn’t fix this problem quickly, then government would be forced to step in.

Ok, so let’s see here. So the government said that a pilot would not be allowed to work unless he had the COVID vaccine. Many pilots chose not to do so, and were fired. Which was fine, as long as nobody was traveling. But once people started to travel again, the airlines couldn’t handle the passenger load because they had fewer pilots available. Because they had fired them last year. Because the government told them to. And now, the government blames the airlines.