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Take this as yet another sign of Democratic paranoia. It’s a memo to Gavin Newsom: have someone ready to go at a moment’s notice, because the Senate calendar is counting down, and Democrats need every vote—if they can even get things to the floor. Also, California already has one appointed Senator (quick—can you name him?), and going into the 2024 it would be best to have another appointed Senator with time to build up political capital. The longer Feinstein waits to leave the scene, the more vulnerable the seat becomes, even in deep blue California.

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The IRS may have the ability to automate nearly half of tax returns, according to a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The agency could correctly auto-fill an estimated 62 million to 73 million returns with information it already has, covering 41% to 48% of taxpayers, researchers from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Minneapolis Federal Reserve and Dartmouth College found.

“Our results suggest that pre-populated returns would be accurate for a substantial share of U.S. taxpayers,” the authors wrote.

Can you spell T-U-R-B-O-T-A-X? Can you spell H-&-R-B-L-O-C-K? I’m sure you can….

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The emergency request includes $1.2 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services with a nod to the Department of Homeland Security’s Uniting for Ukraine program. This portion of the funding request includes robust and increased blanket immigration provisions for Ukrainians, Afghans, and Russians in the science, technology, engineering, and math—or STEM—fields.

One of the most curious categories mentioned is the Russian STEM professionals. With the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, it is surprising that the administration believes it will “benefit” U.S. national security interests to peel back employer-sponsor requirements and expedite an unlimited number of applications from this foreign adversary.

Normally, these Russian nationals would be subject to visa caps that would limit the number allowed to enter the U.S. each year. This certainly seems like the Biden administration’s latest radical, opportunistic attempt to get around those caps one country at a time. And to start with Russia is just national security incompetence.

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The Biden administration’s nuclear policies and budget are too ambiguous or otherwise wide reaching to provide the type of conflict deterrence that is expected of them, according to several experts.

“How are you going to contain Russia and China?” said Harlan Ullman, a senior advisor at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank. “The policy statements don’t tell you. They’re aspirational.”

Rand Paul grills Mayorkas on disinformation: ‘I don’t trust government to figure out what the truth is’

Karine Jean-Pierre to become White House press secretary, the first Black and out LGBTQ person in the role (CNN) Another affirmative-action hire.

Why Mitt Romney says it’s time for Homeland Security secretary to go (Deseret News) If you’ve lost the RINOs….

Mayorkas denies knowing his ‘disinformation czar’ called Hunter Biden laptop ‘Russian disinformation’

In Midst of Border Crisis, DHS Releases Coloring Book for Children

Biden Taps Anti-Israel Activist, CNN Spouse as White House Press Sec

Doocy GRILLS Psaki on Lib Mobs Harassing SCOTUS Homes, She Shrugs

‘Fact Checkers’ Bored by Biden’s Outbursts

WATCH: Biden’s ‘New Tone’ (Same as the Old Tone)

Biden White House Refuses to Condemn ‘Disgusting’ Efforts to Intimidate Supreme Court Justices

Your Tax Dollars at Work: NPR Reporter Sucks Up to Psaki Successor

On protesting at the homes of SCOTUS justices

BREAKING: Official Co-Leading Biden Disinfo Board Worked for George Soros

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Feeding Our Future and a related nonprofit, Partners in Nutrition (d/b/a Partners in Quality Care), were both founded in Minnesota in 2016 to help local organizations gain access to two lucrative federal free-food programs, the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). Both were created to supplement the better-known federal school lunch program by filling the gaps during those hours (and months) that school is out of session. In Minnesota, the programs are overseen by the state Department of Education (MDE). It was the department, suspecting fraud in the programs, that alerted the FBI who then started the year-long investigation.

The lead nonprofits, known as sponsors, were just middlemen. For a 10 percent fee, they stitched together networks of hundreds of sites, dozens of subsidiary nonprofits, and private food vendors to distribute meals to hungry children. Many of these sites are believed to be completely legitimate, while others have been placed under suspicion. It is the private food vendors who are believed by the FBI to be the culprits in the fraud, taking tens of millions of dollars from the program, without feeding children.

Diesel Prices Hit New Record On Wednesday

Dementia Joe does Roe

Watch: Tucker Carlson Reminds America That Its Current President Voted Against Roe Vs Wade

Biden Calls MAGA ‘Extreme’ Ideology  Yeah, God forbid American should be great again.

Where’s Biden on Growing Nuclear Threats?

The Disinformation Panic

Student Loan Bailout Is Handout to Ruling Elite

Homeland Security’s “Disinformation Board” is Even More Pernicious Than it Seems

Hysteria in the White House

Labor Market Starts To Crack: Jobless Claims Rise To 3 Month High

Biden Begins Buying Back Oil To Refill Strategic Reserve… Will Send Gas Prices Back To Record Highs

Biden’s Homeland Security Chief ‘Should Be Ashamed,’ Union Leader Says

Biden Lacks Authority To Cancel Student Debt, Obama Admin Lawyer Says

Janet Yellen Admits Biden’s Spending “Did Feed” Inflation

All The Biden Border Policies That Encourage Illegal Immigration

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Did you know that in some states, if you miss one tax payment, local politicians will take your home, sell it and keep all the profits?

Really.

Tawanda Hall was behind on her taxes. She was on a payment plan but had missed $900. She didn’t expect Southfield, Michigan, to take her entire house because of that. It was worth $286,000 more than what she owed.

“I’m still in shock,” says Tawanda Hall in my new video. “They took my whole house, my whole family’s livelihood.”

John Bursch, a lawyer for the county, says while this practice may sound unfair (yes, it sure does), “It’s also unfair to force those who pay their taxes to subsidize those who don’t.”

“I pay taxes!” Hall responds. She works as a nursing assistant. “I lift people. I bathe people. I work hard.”

When Hall found out she was going to lose her home, she tried to pay off the debt.

“I went to the mayor’s office, I went down to the city county building,” she says. “They didn’t want our money. They said no.”

They wanted her house.

Southfield is a suburb of Detroit; it’s mayor is a Democrat (and presumably the rest of the city government is likewise).

Biden’s already reducing wealth inequality — by killing the economy (The Hill)

The Biden administration proposed tax changes: Here we go again

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Georgia election officials last week issued subpoenas to obtain the identities of individuals and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who may have engaged in the crime of ballot trafficking.

Which, as the Narrative Media never tires of claiming, doesn’t exist.

Babylon Bee.

It can be a head-scratcher.

Mayorkas admits he ‘could have done a better job’ explaining mission of ‘disinformation’ board

Price of diesel hits all-time high, straining the trucking industry

Top Honduran official says mass migration to US ‘possible’ when title 42 ends, stresses economic help

Joe Biden sure looks like he’s lying about Hunter’s biz

What did Biden know about Hunter? The stonewalling needs to end

Texas Gov. Threatens To Declare ‘Invasion’ As Illegal Immigration Expected To Skyrocket

The Nurse Ratched of Disinformation

‘Fond Portrait’ Flop: AP Duo’s Jill Biden Biography Sold Only 250 Copies in First Week

CRICKETS: Nets Silent on Biden Telling Teachers ‘They Are All Our Children’

Meet Biden’s New ‘Minister of Truth’ at DHS

Mexican Cartels Use Social Media to Recruit Young Americans, Border Patrol Veteran Says

Even Politico Mocks the DHS ‘Disinformation Police’

The People Behind DHS’s Orwellian “Disinformation Governance Board”

One Side Considered: NPR Airs Free Ad for Transgender Advocate at Biden’s HHS

Talkin’ ’bout their (money) generation

Critics Challenge HHS Chief Becerra’s Claim Agency Has No ‘Anti-Racism’ Rule

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If the information that we receive is going to be “curated” by the federal government, we should pay attention to the views of the curator. With that in mind, I expended ten bucks for the Kindle version of Nina Jankowicz’s book How to Lose the Information War. It’s easy to see why Biden minions wanted its author on their information control team. For the past several years, she has engaged in research on Russian disinformation campaigns. Her book includes chapters on the responses of the United States, Estonia, Georgia, Poland, Ukraine and the Czech Republic, responses that she judges to have been sadly inadequate. So she brings a plausible aura of expertise to her new post as executive director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board (a name that could have been coined only by some bureaucrat who privately loathes it).

Musk’s Mention Highlights Twitter Counsel Baker’s Russiagate Past At FBI

Biden ‘disinfo’ czar Nina Jankowicz ripped over cringeworthy Mary Poppins TikTok

Lauren Boebert leads effort to defund Biden Administration’s ‘disinformation’ board

Florida AG Moody releases internal DHS document she says contradicts Mayorkas testimony on border crisis

ICE struggles with growing crowds outside Florida facility amid migrant surge

The border wall Trump called unclimbable is taking a grim toll (Washington Post)

Media Brings Back ‘Unexpectedly’ to Describe GDP Contraction

 “Oh God It’s Going To Get So Much Worse”

Mayorkas, Nina Jankowicz and CREW Stand Up for Fascism

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The Biden administration is so bad that it is tempting, from day to day, to think that it can’t possibly get worse. The establishment of the Disinformation Governance Board and the appointment of Nina Jankowicz to run it are evidence that, however bad things seem, they can indeed get worse. And probably will.

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To commemorate Earth Day, Memphis television meteorologist John Bryant decided to try riding the bus to work. Normally, his home-to-work journey takes about 15 to 20 minutes. His effort to protect the environment ended up taking 2-1/2 hours. Part of the problem was his unfamiliarity with the bus system, but the fastest he might have been able to make it was at least 90 minutes, partly because he had to walk a half mile from his home to the nearest bus stop and another mile to work from the nearest bus stop to his office. The few other passengers riding the bus with him were mostly too poor to own an automobile.

Public transport takes you from where you aren’t to where you don’t want to be, and takes three times as long to do so. Public transport was beneficial when the alternative was walking or riding a horse, but that’s no longer the case. Public transport was also beneficial when people worked in a dense urban core but lived farther out, but that’s no longer the case either.

Sen. Kennedy grills AG Garland on crime, calls Chicago ‘world’s largest outdoor shooting range’

Garland refuses to answer Hunter Biden investigation question, doesn’t commit to appointing special counsel

American oil refineries shutter amid Biden’s hostile fossil fuel policies, adding to pain at the pump: expert

Biden administration lays out post-Title 42 border plan (The Hill) 1. Open border. 2. Let ’em all in.

Biden admin confirms talks about using Veterans Affairs resources to treat migrants at southern border

Under Biden, Government Forces Social Media Companies to Censor Americans

States Join Forces To Tackle Border Crisis And Cartel-Related Crime

U.S. economy shrank at a 1.4% annual rate in the first quarter  Gee, it was growing under Trump. What happened?

Oops! Our Bad! IMF Director Admits “We Printed Too Much Money”

White House launches Declaration for the Future of the Internet  Under government control, of course.

Biden Launches Ministry of Truth

FNC’s Heinrich Keeps Chipping Away at Psaki on Hunter Biden, Border Crisis

Sheriffs Protest Joe Biden’s Border Disgrace

Sen. Josh Hawley Grills Biden Judicial Nominee Over Her Work for Southern Poverty Law Center

US Economy Shrinks as Recession Fears Rise

Corn Prices Climbing Clear Up to the Sky

Why This Rio Grande Valley Rancher Wants Biden to Finish Border Wall

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Following reports he shirked congressional duties to keep his second job as a pilot, the one-term congressman is leaving Congress to run for governor of his state. Kahele spent almost no time in Washington, D.C., this year, voting by proxy more than 120 times and in person just 5 times. His absence prompted ethics questions about whether he was cashing in on his commercial pilot’s job at Hawaiian Airlines—a speculation that his spokesman later confirmed.

Kahele spokesman Michael Ahn told Politico the congressman was making “occasional flights to maintain his certification” but denied accusations that the flights violated House ethics rules. The congressman’s pilot’s salary earned him almost $120,000 in 2020, Civil Beat reported.

I have no problem with a governor who skips his day job to spend his time flying aircraft rather than wasting the taxpayers’ money on bullshit socialist schemes. Short of having a None Of The Above slot on the ballot, it’s a win-win.

Are Democrats and Joe Biden up to their old election tricks?  After all, Democrats invented the political machine.

Nets Ignore BOMBSHELL Report Biden Paid Hunter’s Legal Fees

Lawmakers to Biden: No More Secret Negotiations With Iran

The Media Don’t Get What You Don’t Get About Biden’s Economic Boom

AG Garland Stonewalls Over Special Counsel Investigation Of Hunter Biden

Government That’s $30 Trillion In Debt Criticizes Elon Musk For How He Spends His Money  Babylon Bee.

Joe Biden Has $5.2 Million In ‘Unexplained’ Income

Citing Harsh Work Environment, COVID Resigns From Kamala Harris

The Budget Trick Congress Uses To Underestimate Cost of Massive Federal Programs

‘Load of Bulls—’: Career Immigration Officials Rip Mayorkas’s Plan

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Follow the Science!  Oops, it just changed….

Biden reverses Trump move to open up more oil drilling in Arctic

Why Our Southern Border Crisis Could Soon Get Even Worse  Well, to begin with, Biden is still President.

Psaki psidesteps

Crazy MSNBC Climate Segment Says Ukraine War ‘A Gift’ To Biden

Illegal Immigrants on Run ‘Harass’ Texas Border Farmers

White House Visitor Logs Reveal Hunter Biden Business Partner Met With Joe Biden

Fox News Exposes Soros-Funded Shadow Org Working Behind Biden Administration

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A group of treasure hunters is suing the Department of Justice over “several tons of buried Civil War-era gold” that they claim the FBI may have found and made off with. The haul was supposedly lost or stolen during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, according to local lore.

The group is called Finders Keepers – and they they wrote in a court filing last week that the FBI has failed to turn over records on its search for the gold. Previously, these records were said to have included 17 videos, but the government is now claiming only 4 such videos exist.

The FBI took place in a March 2018 dig at the supposed site of the gold, but claims they came up with nothing.

Hunter Biden demanded Beau Biden’s widow ‘GET TESTED FOR HIV,’ 2018 email reveals

Deluded NY Times Tells Biden: Embrace Climate Extremism or Lose Youth Vote

Joe Biden’s Problems Pile Up

Hunter’s Law Firm Could Cash Out on Biden’s Controversial Order

Biden’s decline

In “Huge Win For Border Security”, Court Temporarily Blocks Biden Admin From Lifting ‘Title 42’

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Evans on Friday went missing along the Rio Grande after he entered the river to save two illegal immigrants who “appeared to be drowning.” While the migrants survived, Evans presumably drowned. The Texas Military Department told Fox News that the migrants “were involved in illicit transnational narcotics trafficking.”

No good deed goes unpunished.

UPDATE: Nets BURY Story of Heroic National Guardsman Who Drowned Saving Migrants at Border

“A Magnet For Conspiracy Theories”: Wikipedia Kills Entry For Hunter Biden’s Investment Company

Biden’s decline is obvious to everyone but the press

Secret Service claims it has ‘no records’ of who visits Biden in Delaware The Hunter BIden cover-up continues.

Biden administration asks federal judge to deny request to immediately block end of Title 42 (CNN)

West Virginia joins coalition challenging Title 42 decision

Migrant buses continue to arrive in Washington, DC from Texas

“Wrong And Reckless”: More Democrats Split With Biden As White House Hints At No Delay In Scrapping Title 42

Nets Ignore 13th Kamala Staffer Resigning: This Time, It’s Her Chief of Staff

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I really am flummoxed by the ineptitude of President Joe Biden and his chief of staff, Ron Klain. Biden has been a Washington politician for half a century, including eight years as vice president and before that a senior senator. Klain is a consummate Washington insider, having worked for Janet Reno, Al Gore, Biden and others.

How are they this inept?

Last summer, the border got swamped with migrants. They sent Vice President Kamala Harris south of the border and the situation never improved. Activists accused border patrol agents of whipping refugees with horsewhips. The White House condemned the act. But an investigation recently revealed no immigrants were whipped. White House staff have declined to apologize for believing the allegation.

Many border patrol agents are Hispanic. The criticisms of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the border patrol by the left are criticisms of Hispanic voters and their families — a constituency the Democrats are losing. But the White House seems openly hostile to both.

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Most everywhere you look on Wall Street, interest rates are going up. For everyday savers: not so much.

Soaring gas prices test Biden on climate change (NBC News)

GOPers ask if Russian linked to Hunter Biden sanctioned over Ukraine Of course not. Perish the thought.

Candidate suing to add ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ to his name on ballot (The Hill)

More than 20 states ask judge to immediately block Biden from ending Title 42 (CNN)

Nets Ignore Report Hunter Biden’s Tax & Paternity Records Subpoenaed

Trump Says Biden Has Done More Damage in Year Than 5 Worst Presidents Combined

‘Al Qaeda Is On Our Side’: How Obama/Biden Team Empowered Terrorist Networks In Syria

Fleeing by the Dozen: Kamala’s Chief of Staff Becomes 12th Aide To Ditch Scandal-Plagued Veep

“They’re Playing Hardball”: Feds Subpoenaed Hunter Biden Paternity Docs, Including Tax Records  The Powers That Be must have decided it’s time to start replacing Biden.

For Earth Day, Mitchell Hits Biden From the Left on Climate Promises

Biden’s Failures Highlight How Federal Government Is Too Big

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By early April, the average price for a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. had reached $4.23, up more than 78% in the 14 months since President Joe Biden took office. It’s a political albatross around his neck, but it’s one that his policy team has deliberately placed there. If the president wants to blame someone for higher prices, he need only look at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Throughout his presidential campaign, Biden promised to wage war on the U.S. energy industry. “I want you to look at my eyes,” he said. “I guarantee you. I guarantee you. We’re going to end fossil fuel.” That’s pretty unequivocal. And his policies reflect that.

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The impending change in status comes after senior Disney representatives repeatedly criticized the GOP in Florida—currently the ruling party in the state—for legislation that had nothing to do with Disney’s ability to do business in the state. Perhaps not surprisingly, this caused numerous GOP officials to question why Disney was receiving special privileges denied even to Disney’s direct competitors. In the past, Disney would normally be shielded from dangers to its special status, as Disney has famously showered politicians in the state with gifts and campaign cash and other types of special favors that normal people would identify as bribes. Many of the same people who are now voting to repeal Disney’s special status have accepted such “gifts” in the past. But for whatever reason, the political landscape has changed enough in recent years that it appears to many policymakers that it is now more politically rewarding to punish Disney rather than cater to its whims. The effort to strike back at Disney was likely also fueled by national politics and the fact that Disney has long been a platform for leftwing politics through its media outlets like ABC and ESPN.

This special status was granted under a Democrat administration and would to this day not be in question if Disney had simply avoided messing with the bull.

McConnell slams president behind ‘court-packing’ panel for completing Jackson appointment before Breyer leaves  He’s got a point. Until Breyer leaves, there is no vacancy to be filled. You can’t just fill a ‘prospective’ kinda-sorta vacancy.

White House quits asking Saudis for more oil after verbal dust-up with top official: report

You, Too, Can Be the Next Hunter Biden!

Kamala’s Latest Deep Thoughts

Tucker, MRC’s Gainor Tease New MRC Study Showing Just ‘How Far Big Tech Will Go’ to Protect Biden

Protecting the President: Big Tech Censors Biden Criticism 646 Times Over Two Years

26 Governors Create Border Strike Force “In The Absence Of Federal Leadership”

House Republicans Expand Investigation Into Biden Admin Steering Federal Funds to Dem Donors

Biden To Attack Republicans For Not Having A Plan To Bring Down Inflation  Step one would be getting rid of Joe Biden.

A Tidal Wave Is Coming to the Border and the Biden Administration Is Full Steam Ahead

Dems ‘Weaponize’ Student-Loan Forgiveness (But Leave Working Class Behind)

Biden restores climate safeguards in key environmental law, reversing Trump (Washington Post) Everything Trump did must be reversed, so nobody even needs to think about it.

Jen Psaki refuses to apologize for White House’s debunked claim about Border Patrol ‘whipping’ migrants

Biden Having An Increasingly Difficult Time With G-20 Fissures

Louisiana Asks SCOTUS To Block Biden Administration From Calculating ‘Social Cost’ Of Carbon Emissions

The Biden Administration’s Seder Makes a Mockery of Passover and the Jews  My, what a surprise.

STUDY: How Big Tech Tried to Kill the Hunter Biden Story

Watch: Virtually No One Shows Up To Hear Biden Claim He Was The “Poorest Man In Congress”  Not any more….

U.S. forgives 40k student loans

Nets Spend MEASLY 52 Seconds on Hunter Laptop, Since NYT Finally Acknowledged Its Existence

COME ON! PolitiFact Claims Biden’s Invisible Handshake Was ‘Gesturing at the Audience’

Border Patrol Union: Abbott Should “Absolutely” Use Constitutional “Invasion” Powers On Border

Florida Health Dept Slams Biden Admin for ‘Injecting Political Ideology Into the Health of Our Children’

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The Supreme Court recently reinstated a Clean Water Act regulation by the Trump administration that helps to prevent states from using reasons other than water quality, such as climate change, to block critical infrastructure and energy projects.

The rule, which specifically addresses states’ abuse of Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, will remain in place pending litigation.

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As Florida and its increasingly popular Governor Ron DeSantis (now a front-runner, along with President Trump, to secure the Republican nomination in 2024) seek to respond to (some might say retaliate against) Disney over its opposition to Fla. House Bill 1557 – better known by its leftist nickname the “Don’t Say Gay” bill – the Florida Senate has now passed a bill that would dissolve the Reedy Creek Improvement District, an entity created in the 1960s that essentially gave the Walt Disney World Resort the same powers as a municipality.

Get Woke – Go Broke.

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A musician is suing a government-funded Pennsylvania orchestra after it suspended him for refusing to pay union dues, a punishment he said violates his First Amendment rights.

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I see that President Calvin Coolidge is in the news, along with his sidekick Warren Gamaliel Harding. Warren was a mediocrity’s mediocrity and was long held to be the worst president of modern times. That was until Jimmy Carter became president and then Barack Obama and now Joe Biden. After Joe’s term, I think we shall retire the trophy.

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Politico Playbook reports that the White House is weighing its options in the case holding its mask mandate to be illegal. I thought that they had to go for it and protect their phony baloney jobs protecting public health consistent with the party line over the past two years, but they see the downside and the escape hatch afforded by Judge Mizelle’s ruling yesterday.

Politico has to let us know that they (at Politico) recognize the politics of the situation, of course, but that they have no doubt about the wisdom of the absurd regime we lived under until late yesterday afternoon. If the Biden maskaholics were to seek to squeeze the toothpaste back into the tube, “the administration would risk political blowback on a hot political topic heading into the summer travel season. And it would give voters a clear target of who to blame for mask mandates despite prominent Democrats’ efforts to distance themselves from the unpopular (if scientifically sound) policy.”

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Having been coached by Snopes to scope out the different angles that might portray the president in a more flattering light, I have checked out a few views of the intervention of the Easter bunny in Biden’s conversation yesterday on the White House lawn. Each angle confirms that White House staff do not trust the president to wing it and that he does not take their supervision amiss. He dutifully follows the lead of his minders who know him best. What a message.

Kamala Harris keeps traveling to unconventional places. Here’s why. (Politico)  It’s not as of she has a Real Job.

U.S. arrests 210,000 migrants at Mexico border in March, rivaling record highs (Reuters)

20 House Republicans Demand ICE Data on Arrests, Deportations Withheld by Biden

White House “Disappointed” That Federal Judge Declares CDC Mask-Mandate For Planes, Trains Unlawful

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For the vast majority of Americans, the IRS already knows what we owe in taxes. Instead of telling us, though, the IRS tasks us with filling out a slew of complicated forms and doing a bunch of arithmetic, which drives many people to tax-prep services.

Government regulation invariably leads to a complicated and burdensome web of restrictions and requirements. This, in turn, creates a service industry of ‘experts’ devoted to helping people to cope with that burden. This, in turn, motivates that industry to impede any attempt to make that burden any lighter and easier to navigate without the help of the ‘experts’. It also motivates the businesses in that industry to lobby their favorite politicians to preserve, and if possible extend, the scope of the regulatory burden so as to provide further business opportunities for the existing service industry players. The ordinary citizen invariably winds up with more stress and a much lighter wallet.

Is herd immunity for Covid-19 still possible? (CNN)

New, highly transmissible forms of omicron may pose latest covid threat (Washington Post)

NYC Planning to Elevate COVID Risk From ‘Low’ to ‘Medium’ As Cases Rise (Daily Beast)

Even mild Covid-19 can cause your brain to shrink  (National Geographic)

NY Times Turnabout: Covid ‘Receding,’ Everyone Vaxxed, So Throw the Borders Open!

Joe Biden’s numbers are collapsing among a group you really wouldn’t expect (CNN)

Sinema dashes Biden’s hope for major tax overhaul  When Democrats say ‘overhaul’ they mean ‘increases’.

Biden May Open Reunification Process to More Families Separated Under Trump (Newsweek) ‘Reunification Process’ means ‘letting in more illegal immigrants’ and ‘separated under Trump’ means ‘sent back after entering illegally’.

“Not What We Are Seeing” – US Intel Officials Reject Biden’s “Genocide” Claims  It’s always safe to believe the opposite of what Joe Biden says.

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Washington DC has just received its fourth busload of ‘undocumented’ migrants from Texas – a ‘special delivery’ from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that contained roughly 10 passengers, according to Fox News.

The buses are being sent by dint of an order from Abbott imposed earlier this month week tasking the Texas Division of Emergency Management with providing charter buses or flights to transport illegal immigrants released into the US by the Feds over to Washington DC.

Greg Abbot has got my vote.

While some in the media have questioned the legality of Gov. Abbott’s order, it’s worth remembering that transportation of illegal migrants from one state to another part of the country isn’t new or unique. In fact, as has been widely reported, the federal government has been transporting thousands of migrants across the country to different states via bus and plane as part of a plan that was initially kept quiet until the whistle was blown by the media.

What’s more, as even MSNBC acknowledges, the trips to Washington DC are “completely voluntary”.

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The pandemic is not over yet, according to the new Biden administration Covid czar Ashish Jha speaking on FOX News Sunday and elsewhere this morning. Although his manner is not grating, the message is infuriating.

Also infuriating is the lack of follow-up questions. We don’t expect any better of such Democratic enforcers as George Stephanopoulos (below), but on FOX News Sunday Mike Emanuel was equally lame while Jha blathered liberally on the various Coronavirus fronts including this one (video here).

Biden administration to grant temporary protection to Cameroonians (Washington Post)

DHS launches first-ever ‘equity action plan’  Signal that virtue! Signal that virtue!

Biden shakes hands with thin air after North Carolina speech

Journos Wonder Where Joe Biden’s Wartime ‘Bounce’ Is, While Cursing GOP’s ‘Hideous’ Agenda

Covid-19 cases trend up again in the US, driven by the growth of BA.2 (CNN) Breathing new life into the PANIC!

We are in a transition phase of COVID-19, Dr. Fauci says (Deseret News) So we still need to PANIC!

Covid cases in D.C. region quietly rise again, fueled by BA.2 (Washington Post)

It’s not over: COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in US (Associated Press)

Flight from big cities INCREASES despite end of pandemic (Daily Mail)

Dr. Oz on ‘View’ host Sunny Hostin wanting more mask mandates: ‘Makes no sense medically’  Oh, as if that had anything to do with it!

Pfizer to soon pursue Covid boosters for kids (Politico) Unless they can get it officially recommended for kinds, they don’t qualify for immunity for liability for the side effects.

High hopes but tempered expectations as CDC launches review of agency’s structure and systems (The Guardian) Prediction: Nobody gets fired, nobody goes to jail.

Economists Starting To Think Shutting Down The Economy For Two Years May Have Had Some Negative Consequences  Babylon Bee.

The silenced deaths of the Shanghai 2022 lockdown

A Mujahid on Vax Guard Duty

UCLA Ordered to Release Records Showing Coordination Between Law Enforcement to Attack ‘Climate Denialism’

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Greg Pulles was the long-time general counsel of TCF Financial Corporation. (I worked for Greg in that capacity for 12 years.) Greg is something of a Renaissance man, however, in dogged pursuit of truth, beauty, and the American way. Most recently, Greg undertook the review of all 2020 and 2021 Minnesota death certificates which bear the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code for COVID-19 (U07.1).

Having reviewed all 10,903 such certificates, Greg’s analysis supports the conclusion that the vast majority of Minnesotans was not at serious risk of death from COVID-19 and that the campaign of fear and intimidation was simply wrong. Greg’s viral Alpha News column setting forth his analysis is “Who died of COVID-19 in Minnesota?” Subhead: “Only 291, or 2.67% of the 10,903 certificates we examined, were ‘COVID only’ with no comorbidity listed.”

Why has Biden’s approval plunged with young people? (Washington Post)

Biden approval rating lowest with Hispanic voters, poll finds

Whitey Bulger’s nephew played key role in Hunter Biden’s Chinese business ventures

How History Will View the Biden Years  Worse than Jimmy Carter.

Chatlee: The Folly of Biden’s Ethanol Mandate

How low can Joe go?