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First: bans on imports. There’s plenty of formula on supermarket shelves in Mexico and Europe. Normally, American companies would just buy that and ship it here.

But they can’t, because of several destructive government policies.

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Another reason for the shortage is government limits on competition.

America’s food stamp-like program, WIC, grants exclusive licenses in each state to just one company. Like all welfare programs, WIC (it stands for women, infants and children) has grown. It now buys half of all baby formula in America.

Abbott Nutrition grabbed most of that market by offering government the lowest price. Good for them. But after Abbott’s recall, there were few alternatives for parents to turn to.

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Tragedies like those recently suffered in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, cause many Americans to voice an understandable—if misguided—urge for politicians to “just do something.”

Many of the laws for which they reflexively call—such as universal background checks and bans on so-called “assault weapons”—suffer from a host of constitutional and practical defects.

They wouldn’t have the impact on gun violence that advocates claim and aren’t likely to have stopped or hindered a single mass public shooting in the past two decades.

Biden sees exodus of Black staffers and some frustration among those who remain (Politico) Nobody wants to play for a losing team.

Biden’s About to Make a Big Mistake on Student Loans (Politico)

Biden can still avoid offering wasteful student debt forgiveness

Biden doesn’t support ban on all handgun sales, White House press secretary says  Who ya gonna believe, me or your lyin’ ears?

State Department Unable to Follow Court Order Amid Growing Afghan Visa Backlog

Refusing to Prosecute Those Protesting at Supreme Court Justices’ Homes Is Inexcusable

Damage Control: Harvey Weinstein Adviser in Line To Become White House Chief of Staff

Biden Throws Powell Under The Bus For Soaring Inflation  I suspect he deserves a tire-track or two….

Biden Administration’s Biofuel Initiative May be Worse for Environment than Gasoline

3 Laws That Biden’s Voter Registration Order Could Break

Stories to tell  The Naval Academy wouldn’t have let a dim bulb like Biden on campus.

It’s Not Just Hunter: Networks Bury Sketchy Financial Dealings of James Biden  The Bidens, like the Clintons, are a turd-world political family.

Biden Embassy to Vatican: Pride Month Is Our Holy Time

Ruhle Downplays Inflation, Hypes ‘We Are in an Economic Recovery’

Jean-Pierre Stumbles Through Basic Questions on Gas, Guns, and Lyin’ Biden

‘I Think I Was Wrong’ and ‘Didn’t Fully Understand’ Inflation: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

Crackhead MILF And Incest Porn: Hunter Biden Search History Revealed; Texted Pornhub Link To ‘Dad’

Fact Check: Biden Repeats Claim People Couldn’t Own Cannons When 2nd Amendment Was Passed  Of course they could. Nobody cared.

No Free Lunch: Biden Admin Will Pull Meal Funding for Schools That Don’t Comply With Its LGBT Agenda

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I guess their current $97B surplus just isn’t enough to keep them in the style to which they have become accustomed.

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The Congressional Budget Office’s May 2022 forecast shows that the government now expects to bring in more tax revenue in the decade following the 2017 “Trump tax cuts” than it had projected prior to the December 2017 passage of tax reform.

It doesn’t look like the tax cuts—which government scorekeepers said at the time would cost $1.5 trillion over 10 years—have been anything like the fiscal nightmare that some on the left would lead us to believe.

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Arizona Law requires that, to be considered valid, ballots must be received by the county no later than 7 p.m. on Election Day.

But newly uncovered records documenting the Maricopa County 2020 general election show that while more than 20,000 ballots were transported from the U.S. Postal Service after Election Day, Maricopa County only rejected 934 late ballots in its “Early Voting Rejections Summary” document.

This means more than 19,000 late, invalid ballots should have been rejected. That is significant because it is enough to potentially sway the results of Arizona’s presidential election, which rested with a final tally of Joe Biden winning the state with 10,457 more votes than Donald Trump.

It is impossible to know if the results would be different if the late ballots had not been counted in Maricopa County.

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In this administration, it’s always someone else’s fault. Inflation is now the No. 1 concern of voters, so the White House first blamed COVID. Then Donald Trump’s tax cuts. Then Vladimir Putin. Then meatpackers and the poultry industry, Big Oil and pharmaceutical companies.

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Officials at the Supreme Court have moved to require clerks to hand over cell phone records and sign affidavits as part of the Court’s efforts to identify the leaker of the draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, CNN reported Tuesday.

Three sources with knowledge of the Court’s investigation told CNN some clerks are considering hiring outside counsel in response to the move.

When elite lawyers collide….

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Dinesh D’Souza’s new documentary, 2,000 Mules, raises serious questions about possible skullduggery in the 2020 election, involving absentee ballots across multiple states. But neither the liberal media, nor election officials, nor law enforcement seem to have much interest in investigating that potential wrongdoing. The reaction has largely boiled down to “nothing to see here!” or else to so-called “fact checks” that criticize the technology used to analyze the problems the film documents, rather than actually use the information D’Souza presents to investigate the credibility of the claims being made.

But that is par for the course these days when it comes to potential election fraud, or even proven fraud. A recent article in the Washingtonian says that that the Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database, a national tracking system for potential fraud, is a “highly controversial tactic.” So just tracking and reporting cases where individuals have actually been convicted of election fraud in a court of law, is now “highly controversial.”

The media’s refusal even to address or examine the issue is quite a change from the days when the Miami Herald won a Pulitzer Prize for in-depth investigation of the Miami mayor’s race in 1997. The Herald revealed so much fraud (some of it involving absentee ballots), that the election was overturned by a court.

U.S. Household Saving Rate Vanishes, Credit Card Debt Soars

Spiking Fertilizer Costs Squeeze Midwest Farmers

Nestle CEO Does Not See ‘Significant’ Baby Formula Shortages Outside US

Dozens Of Border Patrol Agents Uninvited From Biden Event In Uvalde

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

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In its effort to contain inflation, the Federal Reserve has launched what many expect to be an ongoing series of interest rate increases, which are already taking a toll on stock and housing markets, with job losses likely to follow. As weary as Americans have become from paying record high gas and grocery prices, however, another round of price hikes is making its way through the food supply chain and is expected to reach consumers this fall. “People don’t realize what’s fixing to hit them,” said Texas farmer Lynn “Bugsy” Allen. “They think it’s tough right now, you give it until October. Food prices are going to double.”

Biden’s censors want Russian-style speech controls and they haven’t given up

Here’s what Biden has done on guns and what advocacy groups say he can still do without Congress (CNN)

Amateur hour at the White House briefing room

Showdown On The Second Amendment: Harris Calls For Ban On “Assault Weapons”  Of which there is no such thing, unless she’s talking about MLRS.

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A scientific analysis commissioned by the FBI shortly before agents went digging for buried treasure suggested that a huge quantity of gold could be below the surface, according to newly released government documents and photos that deepen the mystery of the 2018 excavation in remote western Pennsylvania.

The report, by a geophysicist who performed microgravity testing at the site, hinted at an underground object with a mass of up to 9 tons and a density consistent with gold. The FBI used the consultant’s work to obtain a warrant to seize the gold — if there was any to be found.

The government has long claimed its dig was a bust. But a father-son pair of treasure hunters who spent years hunting for the fabled Civil War-era gold — and who led agents to the woodland site, hoping for a finder’s fee — suspect the FBI double-crossed them and made off with a cache that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

‘Guns Should Not Be In The Hands Of The Mentally Unstable,’ Says Senile Man With Nukes (Babylon Bee)

Education Secretary Refuses to Say Whether School Should Hide Child’s Gender Transition From Parents

China President Warned Biden Democracy Is Dying: ‘You Don’t Have the Time’ (Newsweek) It is a measure of how feckless Biden is that he accepts being lectured on democracy by the head of the largest Communist dictatorship on the planet.

Biden repeats false claim about trips to Iraq and Afghanistan, this time to graduating midshipmen Just call him Dear Leader.

Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class  They need to be made dependent on government or they’ll never vote Democrat.

Watch: Biden Education Secretary Says Biological Males Should Be Allowed To Compete In Girls’ Sport

How Biden Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love Inflation

International Opposition Grows To Biden Granting WHO Pandemic Powers

Massive New Mexico Fire Started By U.S. Forest Service

Memorial Day Gasoline Prices Are At An All-Time High

Dopey 2010 Law Driving Major Pilot Shortage

Hunter Biden Used Burner-Phone And Data-Recovery Apps: Former US Secret Service Agent

Biden Raising Gas Prices on Purpose, Top Republican Says

“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. It is always and everywhere a result of too much money, of a more rapid increase of money, than of output. Moreover, in the modern era, the important next step is to recognize that today the governments control the quantity of money so that, as a result, inflation in the United States is made in Washington and nowhere else.“

— Milton Friedman

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I suspect government regulations, but that’s me.

George Will.

The Department of Homeland Security’s announced “pause” of its Disinformation Governance Board, 21 days after creating it as a “national security” measure, probably is itself disinformation. DHS realizes that its 10-thumbed debut of this boneheaded idea almost doomed it, so the “pause” feigns deliberation while the department plots the DGB’s resurrection.

Government pratfalls such as the DGB are doubly useful, as reminders of government’s embrace of even preposterous ideas if they will expand its power, and as occasions for progressives to demonstrate that there is no government expansion they will not embrace. Progressives noted approvingly that DHS was putting a disinformation “expert” — a “scholar” — in charge, so science would be applied, including the “science” of sorting disinformation from real information.

An Example to Young Girls

Report Shows FBI Spied On 3.3 Million Americans Without A Warrant

Is Biden’s Terror Exemption for Blind Sheikh’s Terror Group Prepping a Second Arab Spring?

US Economy Contracted Even More Than Expected In Q1, Raising Odds Of Recession

Biden’s Border Crisis Is Back on the Nets: More Coverage in April Than Past 5 Months Combined

Foreclosure-Wave Sweeping US Crests In Chicago

FBI Agent Under Investigation for Withholding Exculpatory Information in Trump-Russia Probe

Kyle Bass: Fed Will Start Cutting In 2023 After US Enters Recession Later This Year

Assassins and Terrorists ‘Seek to Exploit’ Southern Border: FBI Director

A Cabinency of Dunces

Buffalo vs. Waukesha: To Biden, Some Mass Killings Are Worse Than Others

Biden shooting blanks (again)

Biden Repeats False Claim About The Second Amendment

CNN’s Jake Tapper cuts off White House adviser who blamed gas prices on Putin

Hawley demands DHS Secretary Mayorkas turn over docs on disinformation board

Hunter Biden Cronies Filed ‘Misleading’ Lobbying Disclosures, Senators Say

Letter From A US Supplier Of Industrial Chemicals: “I Have Never Seen Anything Like The Current Supply Problems”

60,000 Migrants Waiting In Mexico Across Border From El Paso, Texas

North Korea Launches 3 Ballistic Missiles Soon After Biden Departed Japan

Hunter Biden Probe Ramps Up Ahead Of Midterms

Gov. Greg Abbott: ‘Tidal Wave’ of Migrants Arrives at Texas-Mexico Border as Biden Administration Fights To Lift Title 42

The Antiplanner.

At a time when almost everyone in the nation is affected by supply-chain problems but almost no one is riding Amtrak, the Federal Railroad Administration is frantic about how Amtrak trains are being delayed by freight trains.

After all, we can’t delay the Bidens in getting home.

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As Robert LeFevre said, “Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.” The American people are witnessing a grand illustration of that truth in the form of the US Air Force airlift of baby formula from Europe to the United States. The airlift is part of the Biden administration’s response to a nationwide baby formula shortage that has desperate parents searching all over for the product and even venturing to create it themselves.

As the government credits itself for racing to the rescue, most people don’t realize the baby formula crisis is largely a creation of the government itself.

Biden praises high gas prices as part of ‘incredible transition’

Immigration Disappears From Kamala Harris’ Public Schedule

Active Shooters Are Up Under Biden

White House Coordinated With National School Boards Association On ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Letter, Report Shows

Watch: Biden Admits Skyrocketing Energy Prices Are Part Of Green “Transition”  It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!

Veep thoughts with Kamala Harris

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The honesty gap—the difference between Virginia students’ proficiency on Virginia’s Standards of Learning tests and their documented proficiency on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which assesses student performance across the country in math, reading, science, and civics—is stark.

For example, although the state boasts a whopping 76% of eighth graders who were proficient in reading in 2019, just 33% of Virginia eighth graders scored as proficient in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Similarly, whereas 77% of Virginia’s eighth graders scored proficient in mathematics on the Standards of Learning in 2019, that figure drops precipitously to just 38% of eighth graders as assessed by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The same honesty gap exists for younger students, too.

IRS destroys 30 million tax documents, insists ‘no negative taxpayer consequences’

Biden’s executive order on forests fails on climate and environmental justice (The Hill)

Hunter Biden corruption allegations turning off Hispanic voters, warns Daniel Garza

Economic Indicators, Led By Mortgage Rates, Are Flashing Red

Biden’s Job Disapproval Rate Among Hispanics Soars To 60%: Poll

Clinton Supporter Who Led Disinformation Board Until Resignation Says She Wasn’t A Partisan Actor

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What did they think would happen?

Of course, this is the New York Times, so “No overriding explanation has emerged yet for the widespread drop-off. ”  How about parents getting tired of the Woke bullshit being fed to their children by quasi-Marxist apparatchiks?

68% Of CEOs Say Fed Policy Is About To Trigger A Recession

’76’ Gas-Station Chain Repograms Washington State Pumps For $10 A Gallon

Biden’s Big Lie: ‘Green’ Energy Doesn’t Save Money, It’s 4-6 Times More-Expensive

Rising fuel costs are a massive problem for business and consumers — Here’s why they’re so high (CNBC) Funny, no mention here of Biden choking off domestic oil production.

Biden’s Hispanic approval ratings plummets to 26% in new poll

Joe Biden’s Approval Rating Among Young People Dramatically Falls: Poll (Newsweek)

Washington Post omits Jeff Bezos’ dig at Disinformation board in piece blaming ‘far right’ for its failure

The Real Reason for Record Gas Prices

Tale Of Two Trials: How Sussmann Is Receiving Every Consideration Denied To Flynn

‘I Don’t Know How Much Worse It Can Get’: Democrats Turn on Biden as Poll Numbers Plummet Yet Again

Gas Prices Hit Another Record High Today, What’s Biden Doing?  Other than drooling.

Tucker Carlson: Biden Giving WHO Power to ‘Deploy Proactive Countermeasures Against Misinformation and Social Media Attacks’

Team Biden Quietly Admits Math Error Behind Long Delays in Oil, Gas Permits

Whoopi Goldberg: ‘Gas prices aren’t bad because of anything Biden did,’ baby formula shortage ‘not on him’

Gas stations in Washington reprogram pumps to prepare for $10-a-gallon fuel as Bidenflation sends average price soaring to $4.57 – almost twice the $2.41 during Trump’s final month (Daily Mail)

Biden admin risks Americans’ retirement accounts to push climate agenda, GOP leaders in 24 states warn

SHOCK: NBC Reports Hunter Biden ‘Under Growing Scrutiny’ Over His Finances

At March-April Rate, 3.5% of the Population of Cuba Are Showing Up at USA’s Mexican Border Per Year

Meet the Partisan Warriors Biden Wants To Rewrite Criminal Sentencing Guidelines

The war on American energy

Price Controls on Fuel Would Be Disastrous for Americans

Doocy, WSJ Reporter Press Flailing Karine Jean-Pierre Over Disinformation Board

Wells Fargo CEO Warns “No Question” Worst Is Yet To Come For Americans

The Fed Has Destroyed Our Savings

Hunter Biden Took In $11 Million Over 5 Years According To NBC Analysis  Hey, coke is expensive.

Biden Administration Refuses to Recognize Long-Term Effects of Puberty Blockers

Biden Judicial Pick Lied About Cop Killings. Now She Claims She Didn’t.

MSNBC Hypes Harris’s Post-Roe Fearmongering

Senate Democrats’ Letters Show FDA Knew About Baby Formula Issues, but Did Nothing 

Border Patrol Union Leader Warns Of “Complete Control” By Cartels Once ‘Title 42’ Ends

Glenn Greenwald.

Behind the paywall, but probably worth the money.

New White House press secretary blasted for botching answer to inflation question: ‘Excruciating to watch’

Half of Joe Biden’s Twitter Followers Are Fake, Audit Reveals (Newsweek) How appropriate.

American oil is usually a cheaper option. Not anymore (CNN)

Over 120,000 Hunter Biden Emails Uploaded To Searchable Database  How much does it suck to be Hunter Biden?

TO THE RESCUE: Associated Press Runs Pathetic Fact-Check Defending Biden Disinformation Czar

Commerce Cronyism: Inside Deals, Conflicts Of Interest And Chinese Connections

BREAKING: Biden Administration Announces Pause of Orwellian Disinformation Board

Biden’s ‘Disinfo’ Board Paused, ‘Scary Poppins’ Drafts Resignation

A Time of Troubles for the Disinformation Tsarina

KISS OF DEATH: Biden’s First Endorsement of 2022 Is Down Big in Oregon Primary

Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board on Death Watch After DHS Operations ‘Paused’

Biden Administration May Force Insurers To Provide In-Vitro Fertilization to Gay Couples

Biden DOJ Clears Hunter Biden Cronies in Foreign Agent Case

State Department Ices Out Military Spouses

DA announces it will make it easier to import some baby formulas to ease shortage (CNN)

The Energy/Food Crisis Is Far Worse than Most Americans Realize

Washington launched a ‘war’ on North American oil: Billionaire supermarket owner

Biden Orders US Troops Back To War-Torn Somalia, Reversing Trump Withdrawal

The State of Public Transit in the Nation’s Capital

Doocy’s brain teaser: The transcript

Gas Prices Break Record for Third Time in 2022

Canceled: Senate Dems Nix ‘Disinformation’ Hearing After Embarrassing Jankowicz Videos Surface

Hunter Biden-Linked Firm Admits To Foreign Lobbying

Biden Drops Sanctions on Latin American Dictatorships

Latino Media OMIT Mention of ‘Scary Poppins’ in DGB Coverage

ABC Swoons Over Biden’s Buffalo Speech Trying to ‘Heal…a Very Broken Country’  Dowwn worry … Be happy ….

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Bernie Sanders wants to bring socialized medicine to the U.S. To be fair to Bernie, though, that is probably the position of nearly every Democrat. As a reminder of why socialized medicine (like socialism generally) is one of the worst ideas in world history, here are two stories that happen to be in the news in the U.K. today.

Sirota: Biden administration’s reported $10B deal with Amazon ‘shrouded in secrecy’ (The Hill)

Bezos: Disinformation board should investigate Biden tweet (The Hill)

Kudos to CNN: The ONLY Outlet Flagging Biden’s FAKE Vaccine Tweet

Bezos Blasts ‘Disinformation’-Spreading Biden Over Latest Inflation Blame “Misdirection”

Disinformation Becomes an Art Form, And – A Government Department. What Could Go Wrong?

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Part One: The Feds. A small group of regulators out West tests out a new theory of corporate enforcement, with disastrous consequences.

Matt Taibbi turns over a rock.

Twitter allows White House to make ‘clearly false’ claim that COVID vaccine wasn’t available until Biden era

Good Riddance, Jen Psaki

The Number Of Rich Americans Buying Second Passports Has Skyrocketed 300% The Last 3 Years  What do they know that you don’t?

‘This is what America Last looks like!’ GOP Rep. fumes at ‘pallets’ of baby formula being sent to border centers for illegal migrants while American babies go without amid nationwide shortage (Daily Mail)

GOP rep says illegal migrants sent ‘pallets’ of hard-to-find baby formula

Biden Maladministration Cancels Oil & Gas Lease Sales, While Demanding More Oil Production

White House Spokeswoman Says 2016 Election Was Stolen

FBI Investigated Concerned Parents

Rabo: Powell Is More Concerned With Repairing Past Mistakes Than The Consequences Of His Current Actions

Bigger Bonuses Pentagon’s Top Weapon to Combat Recruiting Crisis as Troops Head for the Exits

Biden Relieved To Hear There’s No Shortage Of Adult Diapers  (Babylon Bee)

Liberals Hail Psaki as ‘One of the Best Press Secretaries Ever’

Military Throwing Cash at Recruiting Crisis as Troops Head for the Exits

White House Press Corps Beginning To Suspect Psaki Isn’t Ever Going To Circle Back To Their Questions (Babylon Bee)

Curtains Down! Here’s Just a Few of the Top Moments From The Psaki Show

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The House of Representatives is set to announce it will provide taxpayer-funded monthly Peloton memberships to all of its staff, Fox Business reported on Friday. The contract comes just over one year after the fitness company set up a lobbying shop in Washington.

Sometimes it is good to work for the king.

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Whistleblowers allegedly provided evidence to House Republicans showing the FBI targeted parents who raised concerns about local education issues through its counterterrorism unit, according to a letter from Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee.

The FBI’s Counterterrorism Division opened “at least dozens of investigations” into concerned parents through an EDUOFFICIALS “threat tag,” according to a letter from Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee addressed to Attorney General Merrick Garland that cited anonymous whistleblowers. Examples allegedly provided by the whistleblowers detail complaints made by those who opposed parents’ viewpoints on school curricula, mask mandates, and vaccine requirements.

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Stagflation: Check. Russians invading a neighboring country: Check. Terrible music and fashion: Check. Energy Crisis: Check. Brother/Son of President is a sleazeball: Check. And now… gas rationing.

A Republican senator just went *there* on Joe Biden (CNN) Chris Cilizza is shocked, shocked.

Biden ‘Disinformation’ Board Gives Ammo to Court Action on Big Tech Censorship, Louisiana AG Says

Race-Baiting and Disinformation in the White House

These 20 States Threaten Legal Action Over Biden’s ‘Ministry Of Truth’

China Accelerates Nuclear Buildup, Military Modernization; Biden Speeding US To Defeat

“Don’t blame me — it’s not my fault”

Again! PolitiFact Cries LIE on Kentucky Derby ‘Horse’s Ass’ JOKES About Biden  They’re still funny.

Problem Solved: Biden Asks Each Illegal Immigrant To Please Bring One Can Of Baby Formula  (Babylon Bee) Well, that’s all right then.

Biden’s New Press Sec Thinks Russia Stole the 2016 Election. She’ll Fit Right In.

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A whistleblower lawsuit filed last month alleges that Rutgers University’s business school artificially boosted its rankings by using a temp agency to hire MBA graduates and place them into “sham positions at the university itself,” according to NJ.com, which first reported the news. Though shocking, the scandal is the natural result of the incentives the federal government has set up for schools through uncapped student loan subsidies for graduate programs.

Left’s Intimidation of Justices Is Illegal, but Will Biden Enforce the Law?  I’m betting No.

FCC Commissioner Tells Fox Business Biden’s Disinfo Board ‘Unconstitutional’

Hispanic Voters Are Losing Faith In The Democratic Party: Poll

VA Leads Way as 20 State AGs Warn Biden Orwellian Disinfo Board Is Threat to First Amendment

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Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, of course, think that’s a good thing.

‘Out of Touch With America’: Biden’s Small Business Budget Makes No Mention of Inflation

Bipartisan deal brings cheaper broadband to tens of millions of Americans  Or that’s the Narrative. What it actually does is implement a cost-shifting arrangement (plus the money leakage to government employees that accompanies any government program) whereby the taxpayers as a group are forced to pay for a benefit delivered to some politically favored (i.e. we hope they vote Democrat) victim class. “Bipartisan deal” means neither side can predict who the bought votes will favor, but each thinks that it will be its side.

From Court-Packing To Leaking To Doxxing: White House Yields To National Rage Addiction

The Turkish drone that changed the nature of warfare

Congress Investigates Biden Admin for Granting Visa to Iranian Ally of Terror Leader Soleimani

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On May 5th, the California State Assembly ‘gutted’ the contents of an unrelated bill (AB-1227) aimed at building energy efficiency, and amended it with language reviving a long-failed firearm and ammunition excise tax which, if passed, would be effective immediately as an “urgency statute.”

Biden’s new environmental justice chief faces a tough task (Washington Post) Leaving no proglodyte buzzword unexploited.

What to know about Karine Jean-Pierre, the first Black and first openly gay White House press secretary (CNBC) She’s black, she’s female, and she’s gay — what else could you possibly need to know?

Former AG Bill Barr ‘appalled’ by White House response to Supreme Court doxxing  Poor guy, still living in the past.

Biden disinformation czar Nina Jankowicz’s book says she won’t be ‘silenced’ by ‘harassment’ from men online  She’s so oppressed she actually had to try to get a book deal.

From court packing to leaking to doxing: White House yields to a national rage addiction (The Hill)

Taliban Orders All Afghan Women To Cover Faces In Public, Taking Country Back To Pre-2001

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Why is software created using taxpayers’ money not released as Free Software?

We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code as well.

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Every few days, Professor Kim Rich looks through new student registrations for the Los Angeles Community College District, including at Pierce College where she teaches criminal justice, and sees hundreds of newly created fake student enrollments.

In our conversations with Rich, she told us that It’s been going on for months.

Hackers enroll the fake students and collect up to $900 million in financial aid and Covid-19 aid each semester. However, no one seems to know for sure the sheer scale of the fraud.

These fake students, usually created by bots, open new accounts using easy-to-spot fake names like Barack Obama, Donald Trump or duplicate first names — Clifford Clifford, Jordan Jordan, Sidney Sidney, Kamara All of the above and fivethousandonehundredseven — names with questions marks or names with numbers.

New fake accounts are created, the fake students enroll in classes, taking seats away from actual students hoping to enroll in those classes. The fake accounts also “qualify” for financial aid.

Biden makes head-scratching remark about American students learning Spanish

Disinformation czar Nina Jankowicz: Parents’ anger at CRT ‘weaponized’ for profit

Repeal the Foreign Dredge Act of 1906

Transparency Group Sues Biden White House Over “Climate Disinformation” Records