Georgia’s GOP governor signs bill that could remove local prosecutors and DAs from their jobs (CNN) They only mind because it’s a Republican doing it.

On PBS, Amanpour Spreads Book-Ban Hysteria: ‘LGBTQ, Black…Indigenous Stories’ Silenced

The Next Fear on A.I.: Hollywood’s Killer Robots Become the Military’s Tools (N.Y. Times)

Race Hustler Al Sharpton Says He Told Alvin Bragg To Prosecute Subway ‘Vigilante’

PBS’s Amanpour Hails GOP Abortion-Rights Hero Vs. ‘Draconian’ South Carolina Ban

Sen. Tuberville Blasts Rapinoe’s Support for Trans Athletes

ABC Edits Kids’ Show After ‘Fat-Shaming’ Complaints

Top 10: MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace’s Worst GOP-Bashing Moments

GOP ‘Bringing Back the Lynching Vibe,’ Could Spark a ‘Secession’   Doubtful.

Reporters Rage as Free Speech Heroes Bill Maher, Elon Musk Meet

‘Another Attempt To Manufacture A Scandal’: Friend Of Clarence Thomas Hits Back At New Report Targeting The Justice

How Does Leonard Leo Hide All His Right-Wing Dark Money? Here’s One Way (Common Dreams) Let’s see … nope, no mention of George Soros.

It’s Time The Washington Post Comes Clean On Their Thomas Attacks

Theodore Dalrymple.

Hell, wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, is other people; in which case purgatory must be other people’s taste. Every time I feel my misanthropy flagging, I go down to the local bric-a-brac warehouse, grandly called an antiques center, and remind myself of just how dreadful taste can be. It is not merely the absence of taste that appalls me, it is the positive espousal of all that is cheap, garish, and positively hideous.

Concur.

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If we are going to judge a way of looking at the world solely by its worst adherents, then we should also remember that the only self-declared atheist nations in history have been the communist dictatorships. Lenin said that atheism was fundamental to communism. Stalin and others outlawed and persecuted the Russian Orthodox Church. The Chinese communists have persecuted Christians and other faiths.

So is atheism responsible for the live organ harvesting of China? Is atheism responsible for the 100 million murders by communist regimes? Should we remember that atheist nations starved, beat, whipped, suffocated, tortured and executed millions of people?

I used to be a fairly militant atheist. I’m still an atheist and find it impossible to believe in a benign Creator in a flawed universe. But I’ve grown up enough to see how much good we lost when we abandoned Christianity, and how many grim things have flourished since.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

In an amazing coincidence of scheduling, the annual White House Correspondence Dinner (WHCD) and the Met Gala occurred within 48 hours of each other. One of Trump’s best moves in office was giving the middle finger to the WHCD, and the less said about the Met Gala the better, except for noting that Alexandria Occasional-Cortex didn’t attend this year since she violated House ethics rules last year by accepting free tickets and sporting her very expensive “Tax the rich” dress.

 

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Daniel Henninger, writing in the Wall Street Journal on April 26, properly describes Joe Biden as “the perfect Democratic president.”

According to Henninger, Biden’s “non-compos” condition should give the “left wing of his party free rein” during his second presidential term, which is exactly what his party wants. A cognitively impaired, not particularly principled figurehead fits the needs of his handlers; and Biden obviously has no interest in doing anything to upset them. He will dutifully get behind his party’s latest woke project and ritualistically attack its Republican opponents as white nationalists, sexists, and homophobes.

Equally significant, Biden is the perfect front figure for an administrative state in which the chief executive provides little more than an ornament: “A beside-the-point president is the best thing that has ever happened to the progressive centralization project. That is why Washington’s Democrats would embrace a Kamala Harris succession.”

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A cellphone video (above) captured the moment when a stolen Kia slammed into the rear of a school bus parked outside a middle school in Milwaukee earlier this week.

Local media outlet WISN said two teenage girls had been arrested in connection with Monday’s stolen Kia. Both girls were passengers and injured while police said the driver was still on the loose.

Before the Kia plowed into the school bus, a 15-year-old passenger was hanging out of the car window. Police said that person was knocked unconscious. It is not yet clear what charges the two teenagers will be facing.

CEO distances Anheuser-Busch from Bud Light Dylan Mulvaney controversy: ‘Not a formal campaign’ (Fox)

Video Shows Red Sox Fans Ditching Bud Light Amid Dylan Mulvaney Backlash (Newsweek)

Anheuser-Busch CEO FINALLY disavows Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light partnership and says ‘it was not a campaign’ after firm sent letter to retailers blaming an outside ad agency for approving it ‘without management awareness’ as sales crash 26% (UK Daily Mail)

Big Three Ignore Dem Congresswoman’s Shady Stock Market Controversy

Timely Rebrand: European Socialists to Drop ‘Democrats’ from Party Name

ABC, NBC Rush to Lionize Career Criminal After Death on NYC Subway

Cash-Strapped Millennials Turn To Thrift Stores For Wedding Attire

No Jail for Dem Rep’s Child Who Assaulted Cop  The Crust take care of their own.

California Democrats Push Bill To Mandate ‘Gender Diversity’ Books In Schools

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is a fool. He nevertheless thinks extremely highly of himself. His vanity is only one component of his clown show. To borrow a line from Bob Dylan’s “Idiot Wind,” it’s a wonder he stills know how to breathe.

Heritage Foundation scholar Diana Furchtgott-Roth contributed the latest episode in Whitehouse’s long-running Looney Tunes saga when she testified on Wednesday before the Senate Budget Committee on “the real price of fossil fuels” (hearing posted here). As Director of Heritage’s Energy and Climate Center, Furchtgott-Roth testified on the real cost of Biden’s energy agenda.

Whitehouse posed a line of questions that sought to discredit Furchtgott-Roth on an ad hominem (or ad feminam) basis. The ad hominem attack is a logical fallacy in the context of public policy arguments. However, Furchtgott-Roth came ready to ramble. In the event, Whitehouse played Elmer Fudd to Furchtgott-Roth’s wascally wabbit. She turned Whitehouse’s shotgun blasts back on Whitehouse himself.

ZMan’s weekly podcast. Highly recommended.

The war in Ukraine had dropped off the front page starting late last year with the Russians slowly grinding down the Ukrainians. Now that summer is not far away, it looks like things will start heating up. The recent drone attacks on the Kremlin have brought the war back to the front pages. The long promised Ukrainian offensive is due any week now and the Russians seem to be preparing something as well.

The drone attack on the Kremlin is another one of those times where you get a glimpse into the psyche of the people running the war for the regime. They greenlight a caper and then claim that the victim of the caper did it to himself. We saw this with the Nord Stream pipeline attack. At first, they cheered, then they made up a story about how the Russians blew up their own pipelines to make Washington look bad.

In this case, the story is the Russians attacked their own buildings so they can have an excuse to kill Zelensky. Poor Zelensky is traveling around Europe right now thinking he is about to get a polonium cocktail from room service. In his last public appearance, he looked like he was about to cry. There is now talk that he may not return to Ukraine at all and just do his job by zoom.

The American Mind.

Since Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the 2016 election, a rash of articles, surveys, and books have claimed that many—maybe even most—Americans in flyover country are “Christian nationalists.” That’s supposed to sound scary. But the term is mostly used as a smear against conservative Christians who defend the role of religion in American public life.

Sociologists Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry give the perceived threat a scholarly gloss in their recent book from Oxford University Press, Taking America Back for God. They define Christian nationalism as “an ideology that idealizes and advocates a fusion of American civic life with a particular type of Christian identity and culture.” What’s more, it “includes assumptions of nativism, white supremacy, patriarchy and heteronormativity, along with divine sanction for authoritarian control and militarism.” That’s quite a parade of horribles.

How many such people are there? In a survey conducted between 2007 and 2017, the pair found a whopping 52% support some form of Christian nationalism.

The Foundry.

If you search “San Francisco crime spike” on the internet, you will find countless stories—going back years—about how the city’s problems are no big deal or are due to forces beyond the control of its policymakers.

The problem isn’t crime, it’s crime rhetoric, they say.

But rhetoric didn’t cause a cascade of businesses to close and flee the city.

…

It’s better to pay a few extra bucks for shipping than to wait around in a store for a clerk to open a case for shaving cream or to get sucker-punched by a deranged, drug-addled lunatic in Aisle 5.

Victor Davis Hanson.

How odd that those on the Left who in the past decried “American imperialism” are now proving the greatest imperialists of all.

Ben Shapiro.

This week, the media found its latest iteration of its favorite narrative: white man harms black man.

That iteration featured a 24-year-old white Marine from Queens attempting to suppress a 30-year-old homeless, psychotic black man, Jordan Neely, via use of a suppression hold. Neely was apparently threatening people on the subway when the Marine took him down from behind, keeping him in the suppression hold for 15 minutes; Neely died shortly thereafter.

The extraordinarily inflammatory and insipid Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., immediately rushed to Twitter in order to gin up outrage: “Jordan Neely was murdered. But bc Jordan was houseless and crying for food in a time when the city is raising rents and stripping services to militarize itself while many in power demonize the poor, the murderer gets protected w/ passive headlines + no charges. It’s disgusting.”

The American Mind.

It might not matter whom Republicans run for president in 2024.

America’s propaganda press traffics in disinformation. Its Big Tech oligarchs censor news and information helpful to conservatives, while elevating biased news and information that helps the Left. And its election systems have been overrun by privately funded groups that run Democratic “get out the vote” campaigns to traffic ballots into ballot boxes. We catalogued this particularly complex problem in Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections.

Instead of election day, we now have an “election season”—during which, over a period of months, we flood homes across the country with tens of millions of mail-in ballots, regardless of whether secretaries of state or local registrars have any idea if those ballots are being sent to the correct addresses. This in a country where 11% of residents move every year. We then wait for sophisticated partisan turnout operations funded by activist billionaires and run by ideological statisticians to round up those ballots in entirely selective ways.

Judge Rejects Zooey Zephyr Effort to Return to Montana House

House Democrats prepare long shot plan to try to force debt ceiling increase (ABC News)

California Bill Would Require Books on ‘All Gender Expressions’ in Every Elementary School

Congress Failed to Hold DOJ, FBI, ATF Accountable for 1993 Waco Disaster. Something Like It Could Happen Again.

Democrat Cities Have Highest Homicide Rates, Report Finds

Oregon ‘Gender-Affirming,’ Abortion Access Bill Advances to State Senate

Ireland Government’s Hate Speech Bill Promotes ‘Thought Crime Legislation’

Lina Khan: We Must Regulate A.I. Here’s How. (N.Y. Times) “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” — Benito Mussolini.

Switzerland Wants Children to Eat Less Chocolate, More Insects (Wall Street Journal)

Pro-Life? Leftists Accidentally Acknowledge Serena Williams Is Pregnant With a Baby, Not a Clump of Cells

‘They Worked Together,’ CNN Relitigates And Denies The 2000 Election

Nordstrom Closing 2 San Francisco Stores, Cites Crime

It’s Not Just Math and Reading: U.S. History Scores for 8th Graders Plunge

European Green War on Agriculture: Farmers Banned for Life if they Want Compensation

The View Denies Existence of Antifa, ‘Thought it Was a Kitty Cat’ Name

Germany: Trans Women Will Be Drafted as Men  Heh.

Calling A Bluff: Florida Man Shows Fallacies Of Inclusivity By Winning Women’s Poker Event

Dem Rep Katie Porter’s Hand-Picked Replacement Just Got a DUI

Nashville Police Block Release of Transgender Shooter’s Manifesto  Every public employee every day: “We can’t tell people that!”

Caught Off Base: Illinois Lobbyists’ Bribery Convictions Stop Political Softball Game Put on by Lobbyists

Footage Found Of Gas Stove Participating In Jan 6 Riot  (Babylon Bee)

UnHerd.

The loss of faith across the West in our institutions, leaders and representatives in recent years has been radical. When, I wonder, did that contract expire? Maybe in 2003, when the lies with which the Iraq war was launched were so blatant that even those telling them seemed unconvinced. Or maybe later, in 2016, when Brexit happened and Donald Trump happened and European “populism” happened, and suddenly any opposition to liberal globalism became fascism or bigotry or the work of Russian bots.

But it was the pandemic — or rather, the response to it — that changed everything for me. I hadn’t been prepared see, in my allegedly free and democratic country, a merger of corporate power, state power and media power in the service of constructing a favoured narrative, of the kind which had previously only characterised totalitarian regimes. What the Covid regime brought home to me was that I had not, despite what I believed, really understood the real nature of power until I saw it exercised in its raw form over my life. Specifically, I had not understood the power of the state.

Nothing has the power or reach of a modern state. Its sheer scale and strength gives it the ability to corral, organise, define, measure and control its population in a manner that is unmatched in human history, and that power only grows and deepens. The momentum of a state is always towards the centre, always towards the agglomeration of more power. A state is like a black hole: at a certain point, it begins to suck in everything around it. As it grows, it will tell stories that justify its existence. Democracy, liberty and progress are some of the more recent banners beneath which state power has gathered, but there have been others: racial or ethnic homogeneity, human equality, religious purity. All of these stories have the potential to unite a people around a state core.

Steve Sailer.

A central conundrum of the 2020s is why respectable opinion has gotten so out of touch with reality on questions touching race, such as crime. Are mainstream pundits lying, intimidated, deluded, hate-filled, or just stupid?

It’s an important and difficult question.

I ponder this because I’ve developed a reputation as the go-to guy on Twitter when celebrities say something smugly stupid about crime statistics. Most every day I see a tweet summoning me by showing Batman staring up at the Bat-Signal of my avatar, the 18th hole at Cypress Point Golf Club. (Yeah, it’s pretty cool.)

John Stossel.

Why don’t people in Latin America learn from the mistakes of the past? Gloria Alvarez, a social media star from Guatemala, is running for president of her country to try to educate people about the damage socialism does.

People do need educating.

“It’s like Stockholm syndrome,” says Alvarez in my new video. “When you ask people, ‘Who should take care of health, education, football, arts, whatever?’ They always answer, ‘government.’ How are you going to not have corruption if you leave everything in the hands of the government?”

The Foundry.

Following an 18-part investigative series in The New York Times alleging various forms of maleducation and malfeasance in New York City yeshivas, the city began implementing regulations targeting these Hasidic Jewish day schools.

These included requiring certain classes (currently not taught at yeshivas) to be taught for a specified length, allowing the New York City Public School System to declare yeshivas “non-compliant” and send parents to jail for truancy for sending children there, and allowing New York to investigate any private school after a complaint from any individual (not just from parents, teachers, or students of yeshivas).

Last month, a New York district court struck down these regulations, but the state has filed a notice that it is appealing the decision.

Hasidic community leaders have complained that the Times reporters, who are now under consideration for a Pulitzer Prize, presented a profoundly biased and inaccurate portrait of their schools.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

Keeping up with the insane manifestations of wokery could be a full time job, and it is becoming repetitious and boring, like climate change. But wokesters, in apparent competition for peak clownery, keep saying, “Hold my Bud Light—watch this!”

So behold the Essex Wexford School District in Vermont, which will cease referring to fifth graders as boys or girls:

Glenn Reynolds has been saying for years now that sending your kids to public school is child abuse. And no wonder home schooling is soaring.

NewsMax.

Rahm Emanuel, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, is “destroying” Japan’s culture by pushing pro-LGBTQ+ legislation, a journalist from Okinawa said.

The Guardian.

Sales of private jets are likely to reach their highest ever level this year, placing an increasing burden on the planet, while many of the owners escape aviation taxes, and there are few curbs on the greenhouse gases emitted, according to a report.

The report is by the Institute for Policy Studies, a hard-left think tank in D.C.

Note that the objections focus on plane owners escaping the government-imposed burdens of taxation and environmental regulation that the statists at The Guardian can’t tolerate.

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The bones of the modern global economy might still be labor—albeit off-shored to people willing to do it under ruinous conditions—but the lifeblood of that economy is the massive population of workers demoralized by the uselessness of their day-to-day tasks and incentivised to defend (at least passively) existing economic arrangements: the flunkies and goons, duct-tapers, box-tickers, task-masters, and their wannabes.

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What will the 40 percent (and falling) of Scots separatists do now that their vehicle for independence is spluttering to a halt? Like a clapped-out old car, rust is creeping up its innards, parts of it are falling off, and an incompetent driver is at the wheel who seems to have neither a map nor a clear sense of direction.

For a short time, the Scottish National Party (SNP) led the most vibrant movement of its kind in the modern world, secure in its moral and civic purpose and outperforming all other campaigns for secession. Catalonian separatists are disheartened and disunited while the campaign for the Bavarian independence in Germany was only able to muster 1.7 percent of the vote in the last general election. The SNP’s authoritarian leadership, on the other hand, has managed to keep splits and factionalism to a minimum—until recently, at least.

The case for the independence of what was a sovereign state until the 18th century was pressed with unwearying fervour, larded with flattery of the Scots’ genius and contempt for the (English-dominated) Westminster government. For nearly two decades, the UK-wide parties—Conservative, Labour, and Liberal Democrat—had been consigned to the futile sidelines of political power. Two-thirds of Scots voted to remain in the European Union during the 2016 Brexit referendum, and the SNP’s pledge to rejoin upon winning independence was seen as a way of righting a terrible wrong.

I find it impossible to take seriously a ‘Scottish National Party’ whose leader is named Humza Yousaf. Sorry. Just can’t do it, any more than I can pretend that Dylan Mulvaney is a woman.

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Liberals love to talk about threats to “our democracy,” which just means threats to Democrats winning elections. Voting is a threat to “our democracy” when it doesn’t go their way.

But there is a very real threat to our democracy making its way through state legislatures. It is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. I wrote about it as far back as 2019. The “compact” is legislation, adopted state by state, that outsources voting in presidential elections.

States that subscribe to the compact agree that their presidential electoral votes will be cast, not for the candidate who won their state, but rather for the candidate who got the most votes nationwide. So if you live in a small or medium-sized state, you are essentially outsourcing your presidential votes to California, Texas, New York, Florida and Illinois.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The Left has launched a comprehensive war on modern agriculture. One aspect of that war consists of attacks on animal husbandry, which to some degree ties in with longstanding crank theories espoused by vegans and others. However, contemporary attacks on meat are mostly climate-based. As such, they are dangerous to your family’s health.

Anheuser-Busch hires ex-GOP aides to lobby as Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney controversy drags on (Fox) Ka-ching!

‘You can’t undo what’s happened’: Bud Light trying to repair damage after Mulvaney ad (Sky News Australia)

No, NYC gov’t doesn’t need more money — it already has too much! (N.Y. Post)

NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams pushes back on Mayor Adams’ remarks on NYPD overtime (N.Y. Daily News)

Federal judge blocks Illinois assault weapons ban (The Hill)

Senator Patty Murray says it’s impossible to keep the economy growing without affordable, well-paid childcare (Insider) She’s not going to pay for it, of course; YOU are.

Marijuana Job Lands Oregon Secretary of State in Trouble

Democrats reconstruct blue wall in lead-up to 2024 (The Hill)

North Carolina’s SCOTUS reverses previous rulings on redistricting and restores some voting safeguards

California Teachers Sue School District Over Transgender Policy Allegedly Forcing Them To Lie To Parents

Democrat Cities Have Biggest Homicide Rate Problem, Study Finds

NBC’s Todd Claims Scientific Research Proves There’s More Than Two Genders

The Great American Opt-Out: A Matter Of Willingness, Willfulness, And Will

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

My organization’s polling consistently shows that there are many more Minnesotans who describe themselves as conservative than who say they are liberal. But rich, out-of-state leftists and public sector unions have figured out that they can buy Minnesota on the cheap. My understanding is that they invest only around $50 million per cycle–a derisory figure. But it is enough to out-spend what Republicans can muster by at least three to one.

So, if you wonder how seemingly normal people like most of Minnesota’s voters can elect officials who drive the state into a far-left ditch, the answer is simple: the far Left buys Minnesota, at a bargain price. I think the same holds true for a number of other states, where left-wing money simply swamps the resources that much-poorer conservatives can muster. This is a basic fact of life in 21st century America: the Democrats are the party of the rich, and that is working well for them.

ABC News cuts Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vaccine remarks out of interview (N.Y. Post)

ABC News admits to cutting down RFK Jr.’s vaccine claims: ‘Used our editorial judgement’ (Fox) In other words, censorship, straight up.

ABC News edits RFK Jr. interview to exclude ‘false claims about the COVID-19 vaccines’ (The Hill)

Justice Alito says he has a ‘pretty good idea’ who leaked the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade but doesn’t have the proof to name them publicly (Insider)

Moms Aren’t Waiting — We’re Taking Action on Assault Weapons In States Across the Country (Katie Couric Media)

Nationwide Support For Assault Weapons Ban Slides, New Poll Finds 

Trans Mascot Dylan Mulvaney Says It Should Be Illegal To Misgender People

New ‘Ultra Right’ Beer Expected To See $1 Million In Sales As Backlash Against Bud Light Trans Partnership Continues

Montana latest to ban gender-affirming care for trans minors (Associated Press)

Montana Lawmaker Suggests She’d Rather Her Daughter Die by Suicide Than Transition (Daily Beast) A fate worse than death.

‘Harm Reduction’: California Democrats Kill Legislation to Crack Down on Fentanyl Dealers

Colorado governor signs four gun bills into law in a historic change to the state’s firearm regulations (Colorado Sun) Colorado’s transition to a blue state is complete.

LGBTQ Group Pushes Bud Light to Stand With Trans Community

Federal Judge Blocks Illinois Gun Control Law

How America’s Middle Class Is Shrinking

Chicago’s Criminal Irresponsibility

NPR Touts Correspondents Dinner Comedian Roy Wood: He Wants Laughs AND Reparations

Eric Adams wants FEMA to ban cities from busing migrants to NYC — as 1,300 arrive this week alone (N.Y. Post)

Bar loses customers after warning patrons it will ‘not tolerate intolerance’ among guests about Bud Light (Fox)

1 in 4 high school students identifies as LGBTQ (The Hill) According to the CDC–and who believes them any more?

Vice Undergoes Layoffs, Ends Key Show

INDOMITABLE: Trans legislator stands strong as GOP colleagues try to push her out (Washington Press)

Montana Legislature Votes To Remove Trans Lawmaker From House Floor For Rest Of 2023

WATCH: WFB Reporter Explains How Walmart Pushed Schools To Go Woke

4 Takeaways as House Looks to Restore Confidence in Elections

Networks Yawn At Anemic 1st Quarter GDP Report, Obsess Over Weather

Florida’s book-ban frenzy targets Nora Roberts, and she’s not happy (Washington Post) Let’s be clear–these books aren’t ‘banned’, they’re merely removed from SCHOOL libraries. Any kid who wants to read it can take a library card down to the local public library and check it out. (My local library has all of Nora Ephron’s stuff.)

Unreleased Report Finds Faults in Amnesty International’s Criticism of Ukraine (N.Y. Times)

Planned Parenthood Slaughtered 374,000 Babies While Raking in Record Public Funding in FY2022

‘Gender-Affirming’ Doctor Killed in Trans-Pushing ‘Law & Order’ Episode

CNN Asks If Debating Transgenderism Is Like Debating Murder

Taibbi: America, The Single-Opinion Cult

Kids under 13 would be barred from social media under bipartisan Senate bill (NPR) How on earth do they expect to be able to enforce this? I’m astonished that any Republicans would sign on to this; do they have the proglodyte “pass a law, change the world” delusion?

TikTok Users Whine After Auto-Filter ‘Misgenders’ Them

The View: A Braindead ‘Drooling’ Biden Better ‘Than Any Republican’

Eleven Minutes Of Media Falsehoods, Just On One Subject, Just On One Station

New IRS Migration Data: NY, CA, & IL Are The Big Losers Of People And Wealth; FL & TX The Big Winners

The American Mind.

There was a time, not that long ago, when First Amendment rights were relatively stable and well-understood in America. Those days are long gone. Consider our country’s college campuses, where free speech is dying the most brutal of deaths.

Why is this occurring? Who is to blame? From looking at recent data on this question, it seems that women are the main culprits.

According to a recent report by researchers at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), as the number of women entering higher education continues to climb, levels of free speech on college campuses experience an apparently commensurate decline. On the issue of balancing free speech and hate speech, striking demographic differences emerge, with significantly more female than male faculty favoring protections against hate speech, “even if this restricts speech not intended to be hateful (19 percent of females, 8 percent of males), as well as restricting speech only where words are intended to be hateful (38 percent of females, 29 percent of males).” It is interesting to note that “significantly more male than female faculty supported restricting speech only where words are certain to incite violence (62 percent of males, 42 percent of females).”

NeverTrumper Jennifer Rubin Exposes Her Own Hypocrisy in Anti-GOP Spending Cut Rant

Randi Weingarten ruined kids’ lives — but she refuses to apologize for not following the science (N.Y. Post)

House Republicans grill teachers union chief on pandemic school closures (The Hill)

Biden’s staff asked teacher’s union for school reopening advice before even taking office: Weingarten (N.Y. Post)

Bud Light sales are falling, but distributors say they’re sticking by the brand (CNN)

How Bud Light made its true feelings about Dylan Mulvaney depressingly clear (MSNBC)

Ultra Right Beer Sales Soar as Bud Light Plummets (NewsMax)

Florida Republicans Pass Bill To Weaken Public-Sector Unions, Send It To DeSantis (Huffington Post)

San Francisco Target Places Entire Aisles Behind Security Glass Amid Shoplifting Crisis 

Vermont School District To Remove Terms “Male” And “Female” From Sex Ed Curriculum

Undercover Investigation Reveals Pro-Trans Doctors ‘Cashing In’ On Lifelong Patients

D.C. police chief Robert Contee is retiring, mayor says (Washington Post)

Democrats Float Bill To Allow LGBTQ Migrants To Walk Into US Unrestricted

NPR Uses Sob Stories, ‘Slash’ Fiction to Keep $31 Trillion Debt Train Rolling

Elizabeth Warren Wants The Police At Your Door In 2024 If You Have A Crypto-Wallet

Whoopi: ‘God Was Really Clear’ Transitioning Kids Is OKAY With Him

EXCLUSIVE: Villanova Students Required to Read Graphic Trans Sex Scene Between Minors, Student Says

Record ocean temperatures put Earth in ‘uncharted territory’, say scientists (The Guardian)

Senate votes to revoke tougher EPA emissions regulation for trucks (CNN)

Environmental ‘Bootleggers And Baptists’ Fleeced Pennsylvania Consumers

Green Fuels To Become Mandatory in 2025

Climate protesters paint case housing Degas ballerina sculpture in D.C.  All they’re doing is pissing people off; they’re not helping their cause one bit. (Of course, it’s not about actually accomplishing anything, but about the warm & fuzzy virtue-signaling feelz….)

WATCH: Climate Activist Who Shut Down Highway Admits She Wants To Ruin Your Life

Dr Richard Lindzen exposes climate change as a politicised power play motivated by malice and profit

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For the children is an expression frequently invoked in the past by a number of Democrat politicians, but based on their actions, it seems a very empty proposition. Then there are those who have no clue at all what a commitment to children and family means, such as in the case of Keith Olbermann. Here again, I will quote Megyn Kelly for illustration of my point:

Even Keith Olbermann was saying similar things, comparing Tucker to a nazi. He also, for good measure, decided to tweet about me because I said Tucker is going to be better off without Fox, and he said something to the effect of “You got fired from Fox and NBC, what would you know about it?”

So first of all, you mistake the circumstances of my departure from NBC, sir. That’s all I’m allowed to say about it. And as for Fox, there were widely reported facts that I was offered $100 million to stay there, but the record is very clear that I left voluntarily because I wanted to raise my family.

Something you don’t know anything about because no one would marry you, and you have no children. You have a cold, lonely life in which you’ve become a bitter, bitter man. Something I wouldn’t know anything about because my life is joyful and I’ve managed to raise my own children, and someday, I hope you have that pleasure, but I don’t have high hopes of that happening.

Yeah, I can’t see anybody willing to marry Keith Olbermann either.

American Mind.

The poet Allen Ginsberg’s sexual proclivity for little boys is well known, not least of all his membership in NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association. His most famous remark about children, however, was not in any sense erotic. “We’ll get you through your children!” he screamed at Norman Podhoretz in 1958, at the end of a heated argument that saw the two men part ways as friends for good. This wasn’t a specific threat to Podhoretz, neither of whose children had been born yet. Instead, Ginsberg was issuing a prophecy about the fate of American, indeed Western, society as a whole. The revolution may leave you—the squares and the sticks-in-the-mud—untouched, but it will touch your children and your grandchildren—and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.

Just how fateful a prophecy this was was revealed in the past week, when one Klint Ludwig appeared on CNN with erstwhile host Don Lemon. Ludwig is the grandson of Andrew Lester, the 84-year-old man accused of the attempted murder of Ralph Yarl. Lester is alleged to have shot Yarl, an African-American teen, after Yarl rang his doorbell late at night. Despite his injuries, Yarl was able to escape on foot. He and his supporters maintain he had simply rung Lester’s doorbell “by mistake” when he was going to pick up his siblings.

American Mind.

After the founder of a large foundation dies, his heirs often transform it. Compare industrial tycoon Henry Ford to the Ford Foundation, which rejects “the model of capitalism we have today.” But it is uniquely odd that Charles Koch’s enterprises have moved so far left while the donor remains alive. Billions of dollars are at stake.

Many current and former donor partners, grantees, and staff agree: “Old Koch” was about economic freedom and the core values that sustain a free society, but “New Koch” downplays or hides those values in order to appeal to the contemporary Left. Old Koch focused on getting government out of the way so that civil society could flourish. New Koch has largely skipped that step and moved on to “social entrepreneurship.”

Those outside the ideological network in which Koch is a major player (known as the “liberty movement”) should understand a few things. First, “Koch” means not just the Charles Koch Foundation (CKF) but the large family of organizations and projects that are run by or strongly influenced by Stand Together, the umbrella Koch organization. These include core programs such as the Koch Associate Program (KAP), organizations launched by Koch with varying degrees of independence like Americans for Prosperity (AFP), and well-funded Koch-adjacent organizations like the Institute for Humane Studies. Koch Industries’ annual revenue easily tops $100 billion.

John Stossel.

Some schools are ditching traditional grading.

Instead, they use “labor-based grading,” an idea promoted by Arizona State University professor Asao Inoue.

Labor-based grading means basing grades more on effort than the quality of work.

In addition, Inoue lectured a conference of rhetoric professors “stop saying that we have to teach this dominant English. … If you use a single standard to grade your students’ languaging, you engage in racism!”

Really, you can’t make this shit up.

ZMan delivers the bad news.

The point of all this is that order depends upon rules, but it also requires an enforcer of those rules and that is always someone with the power to make exceptions. If that person or entity abuses that power, we slowly move out of the world of order and into the hellish domain of rule by tyrant. The tyrant flips the concept of the rule of law on its head so that the rules become dangerous. Today’s lawful action can be deemed unlawful tomorrow by the tyrant.

We see this in miniature on the social media platforms. YouTube creators must spend time self-policing their old content because even though they complied with the rules at the time, the rules change constantly. That old video about Rumble was within the rules two years ago, but all of a sudden, it is now a violation of the rules, so you can lose your channel as a result of it. This applies across all social media platforms. The “terms of service” is a license to unleash hell on the platform users.

The same people turning the rules of the internet into a jumble of exceptions administered by petty tyrants are doing the same to the law. It used to be that you could have an opinion about the powerful people. You could get a bunch of your friends to hold a rally in order to express that opinion. In theory you can still do these things, but it is impossible to know if it is legal. Years after the fact the state of Virginia is prosecuting Charlottesville protestors for carrying tiki torches.

The Foundry.

How should Christians respond when LGBT activists demand they compromise the truth of Scripture by endorsing same-sex marriage and transgender identity?

A global gathering of Anglicans just provided an excellent example.

In February, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the head of the Church of England and the “first among equals” in the global Anglican Communion, the third-largest Christian denomination, defended blessings for same-sex couples while insisting that the move did not violate the church’s doctrine that marriage is between one man and one woman for life.

“For the first time, the Church of England will publicly, unreservedly and joyfully welcome same-sex couples in church,” Welby said in a joint statement with Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell at the time.

Leaders at the Global Anglican Futures Conference (GAFCON) wouldn’t stand for this. On Friday, they signed the Kigali Commitment, condemning Welby’s move as “blasphemy” and declaring that he and the Church of England had abdicated their leadership of the Anglican Communion.

“It grieves the Holy Spirit and us that the leadership of the Church of England is determined to bless sin,” GAFCON leaders wrote in the Kigali Commitment. “Since the Lord does not bless same-sex unions, it is pastorally deceptive and blasphemous to craft prayers that invoke blessing in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”

College Board To Revise African American Studies Course Under Pressure From Critical Race Theorists (Washington Free Beacon)

Lawyers suggest a way around abortion pill restrictions but doctors may be afraid to try it (Politico)

Abortion pill ruling offers a breather, but new threats are already on the way (Boston Globe) New threats to unborn children are certainly ‘on the way’.

Bud Light suffers ‘staggering’ 17% sales plunge amid Dylan Mulvaney controversy (N.Y. Post)

Bud Light Sales Drop Leaves Conservatives Rejoicing: ‘Devastating Boycott’ (Newsweek) Apparently men-in-dresses aren’t actually their target demographic after all.

New Report Exposes Growing, Billion Dollar Budget Fiasco In Illinois’ Free Medicaid Program For Undocumented Immigrants

Office Buildings Are Emptying In Major U.S. Cities Like Houston, Dallas, New York And San Francisco  Who wants to work in a Democrat shit-hole city?

Transgender Teacher Spoke About Wanting To Shoot Students, Parents Accuse District Of ‘Cover-Up’

CBS Throws ‘Conservative’ Label At Fox, Refuses CNN ‘Liberal’ Label

Second Amendment Still About Armed Self-Defense, as These 11 Examples of Defensive Gun Use Show

HUH? MSNBC Guest Falsely Claims Abortion is Safer Than Pregnancy

A BBC Instruction Manual For Kids To Propagandize Their Parents

Kim Foxx Won’t Run For Reelection — And Fires Back At Those Blaming Her For Crime Spike

Maybelline Gets Burned by the Latest Round of Dylan Mulvaney Boycotts

Daily Show Defends Bud Light ‘Having A Vagina Does Not Make You A Woman’

Bloomberg LP Insanely Boasts About Its Latest Anti-American ESG Push on Companies

Boring is Good: The Moral Case for Joe Biden (Rolling Stone) There’s a difference between ‘boring’ and ‘drooling’.

Public School Critics’ New Book Details 40 Examples of Educational ‘Mediocrity’

Canadian Government Report Unveils Anti-Capitalist Agenda  My, what a surprise.

Soros Quietly Resumes Lobbying With $1.6 Million to Boost Biden Bills

The Antiplanner.

Transit advocates cheered when, in 2018, a census of downtown Portland found that 42 percent of the 102,000 people who worked downtown took transit to work. What they didn’t want to hear is that less than 10 percent of workers in the Portland area worked downtown, and transit only carried 3.4 percent of non-downtown employees to work. As demographer Wendell Cox says, “transit is about downtown.”

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The migration of jobs out of downtowns joins telecommuting as major existential threats to urban transit. The problem is that transit agencies get so much of their money from taxpayers that they have had no incentive to redesign their transit systems for modern cities. Instead, many bus routes today still follow streetcar lines from a hundred years ago. Rather than fix this, most big-city agencies focused on building expensive rail lines into downtowns that were declining in importance long before the pandemics. Downtown property owners lobbied hard for these policies, but the result was that transit service to anyone going anywhere but to or from downtowns was lousy.

Indeed it is. Public transit is most successful where (as in NYC) everybody lives outside of DownTown and needs to get there for work or cultural amenities or whatever.

Read it.

Diving deeper into the report, we find the ingredient costs to make a traditional English breakfast are up a whopping 23% in March from last year. This is the most significant increase since Bloomberg created the Breakfast Index, which tracks prices of sausage, bacon, eggs, bread, butter, tomatoes, mushrooms, milk, tea, and coffee last June.

Former Anheuser-Busch Executive Reacts to Bud Light Controversy (Newsweek)

Fmr Anheuser-Busch exec on Bud Light marketing VP taking leave of absence: Who will it be accountable to? (Fox)

Bud Light Brewer Puts Another Top Executive on Leave (Newsweek)

UFT accused of hypocrisy after national union boss Randi Weingarten’s charter school gets NYC space (N.Y. Post)

Spy letter about Hunter Biden shows how Dems are undermining democracy (N.Y. Post)

AP ‘Fact Check’ Rushes to Defend Dems Stripping Parental Rights with Teens

Florida LGBT Group Cancels Pride Parade After City Says No Kids Allowed

Republicans Help Democrats Advance Biden’s Judicial Nominees Amid Feinstein’s Absence

Bush, Clinton And Obama NGO Teams Up With AmEx Global To Fly Migrants Into The US

The Garland, Blinken, And Morell Morass

The Most Dangerous International Treaty Ever Proposed

The UN’s global Californication

ABC’s ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Pushes for Gun Control, Keeps Up Abortion Propaganda

Will Democrats Fight for Trans People? (New York Magazine) That’s not the question. The question is: Will Democrats fight for normal people? The available evidence suggests not.

Hillary Clinton: Republicans Are Playing Into the Hands of Putin and Xi (N.Y. Times) Hillary has no room to talk about playing into the hands of the Russians and Chinese.

Don Lemon, CNN Star Anchor, to Leave the Network (N.Y. Times) Being the Magic Halfrican can only carry you so far.

CNN Host Don Lemon Says Network Fired Him

The View’s Faux Conservatives Want GOP to Abandon Pro-Life Stance

First, two articles that were next to each other in my news feed:

In wake of Ralph Yarl shooting, Black teens face fear and resignation (Washington Post)

9 teenagers shot, wounded at after-prom party in Texas (ABC News)

The second article explains the first. Jasper, Texas, has more black people than white people. The reason Ralph Yarl got shot was because young black males are going around shooting people. We don’t have a ‘gun violence’ problem in America, we have a ‘young black make gun violence’ problem in America. And I doubt seriously that these young black males went through the bureaucratic hoops our Lords & Masters have put into place in order to keep guns out of the hands of riff-raff. This is the dirty little secret that nobody in the Narrative media can say, or even think, because it runs directly contrary to everything they believe about how the world works.

The mifepristone ruling lacks both standing and merit — will SCOTUS preserve our rights or quash them? (The Hill)

Chicago police investigating officers’ response to mob attack in Loop after witness says police declined to help (Chicago Tribune)

Supreme Court Preserves Access to Abortion Pill for Now

Montana transgender lawmaker silenced: What to know (Associated Press) What they don’t tell you is that it was causing a disturbance, as progs appear to believe they are entitled to do.

18-Year-Old Transgender Athlete Exposes Himself to Freshman Girls in Locker Room (Red State) To be fair, that could me it was just using the locker room to get dressed.

Florida students say they’re walking out and teaching themselves banned history lessons to protest censorship and anti-LGBTQ laws in education (Philadelphia Inquirer) Indoctrination successful!

Why Colorado Is Topping The Charts In Violent Crime  Newly blue, it has a lot of catching up to do.

In a thriving Michigan county, a community goes to war with itself (Washington Post) Actually, the Post just objects to Republicans being elected to county government and taking action against embedded Wokery. Can’t have that….

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul ‘test-marketing’ a ban on all tobacco sales (N.Y. Post)

Bud Light Executive Behind Dylan Mulvaney Campaign Takes Leave of Absence

Alabama governor ousts a top education official over a book’s ‘woke concepts’ on race (NPR) The horror! The horror!

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

One of the many problems with “green” energy is that it is ridiculously expensive. Millions of Americans, if they have to pay the cost of wind or solar energy to power their homes, will not be able to afford it, and will have to sell out. Liberals know this, despite their absurd propaganda about wind energy being “cheap.”

So what can they do? Follow the usual liberal playbook: make upper-income people pay the costs of their misguided policies:

California’s electric companies want to charge people based on their incomes rather than their electricity consumption in a bid to make utilities more “equitable.”

Most people think that when two people pay the same price for the same good or service, it is equitable. But not in today’s brave new world of Leftism.

Read it.

The study found that three major U.S. cities required take home pay of over $300,000 to be able to spend like you earn $100,000 per year. Among them, of course, is San Francisco: “Residents of Honolulu, New York City and San Francisco who earn this amount are taxed roughly 40.5% or higher and have a cost of living more than 82% above the national average.”

Steve Graham.

Why is it that leftists keep making it harder for people to stay clean?

Hygiene really sets conservatives and leftists apart. We keep seeing leftist celebrities bragging that they don’t bathe much. Ashton Kutcher, for example, says he never showers. Brad Pitt is notorious for stinking. Leftists push low-flow shower heads that make good rinsing difficult. They stuck us with efficient washing machines that put mold in our clothes no matter what we do to fix the problem.

Today’s beef: low-flow toilets.

Joe Biden and Gerry Adams: