New SARS-CoV-2 target could boost immunity against all coronaviruses (MedicalXPress)

COVID-Causing SARS-CoV-2 Virus Is ‘Warming Up’ to Produce Newer Recombinant Strains, Suggests IISc Researcher (The Weather Channel)

Next-gen Mpro inhibitor: Promising new drug candidate against Omicron and other SARS-CoV-2 variants (News-Medical) I’ll bet you thought we were done with COVID? No, no, no, not as long as Funding is to be had.

Searching for SARS-CoV-2 origins: confidence versus evidence (The Lancet)

If you had Covid before you were vaccinated, you might have less immunity than you think, study says (CNBC) Then I guess it’s time to PANIC!

Vaccine Roulette, Part 2

The COVID-19 Fetish Community

Comer demands WH ‘correct’ Biden’s ‘dishonest’ denial that kin got money tied to China (N.Y. Post)

Biden family makes ‘admission of corruption’ in foreign business deals: China expert (Fox)

Fox Host Desperately Tries to Connect the Dots Between Biden and Trump Investigations (Daily Beast) There are no dots to connect, other that to compare the witch-hunt against Trump to the cover-up regarding Biden.

Border Patrol agents encounter 1 million illegal migrants so far in FY 23 (Fox)

Networks Skip Report Chinese Nationals Now Pouring Across U.S./Mexico Border

Antisemitism on Twitter has more than doubled since Elon Musk took over (Ars Technica)

House Judiciary report: ‘No legitimate basis’ for Biden admin to target parents at school board meetings

Yellen earned millions in speaking fees from Wall St, tech firms

Biden’s Job Is Running US, Not Israel

DHS seizes 900 pounds of fentanyl in first week of border campaign (The Hill)

Hidin’ Biden: See How Few Interviews Biden Has Given Compared With Past Presidents Probably just as well.

House Republicans: DOJ School Board Memo Baseless

GOP: Biden, DOJ Conspired to Silence Parents

Afghanistan withdrawal made enemies think US ‘feckless,’ former CENTCOM commander says  Can’t say they’re wrong.

‘The View’ blasts African reporter who berated Karine Jean-Pierre: ‘He’s a horrible person’

Colombia sharply raises reforestation target to more than 1.8 mln acres (Reuters) I thought Columbia was mostly jungle?

San Francisco’s Loony Racial Reparations Would Cost Almost as Much as California’s Entire Budget

Did Southern Poverty Law Center and James Madison Museum Team Up to Put ‘Anti-racist’ Curriculum in Virginia Schools?

Ruff Justice: California Lawmakers Want To Ban Police Dogs, Citing Racism  Everybody knows that dogs only bite black people.

Private opulence, public squalor: How the U.S. helps the rich and hurts the poor (NPR) Usually by electing Democrats. (Whose turn is it to be the victim?)

California law mandating handgun safety features violates Second Amendment, judge says (Fox)

USA Today gives ‘Woman of the Year’ honor to transgender state lawmaker

Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court Candidate Defends Soft-On-Crime Record

‘Where am I going to be free to be who I am?’ (NPR) Maybe California.

SCOTUS Overturns Appeals Court Upholding Abortion Without Parental Consent

Some people who seek abortions can face prison time in more than 120 countries, analysis shows

Should Nature endorse political candidates? Yes — when the occasion demands it (Nature)

Deranged MSNBC Libs: Attacking George Soros a Dangerous ‘Dog Whistle’

Rampant Crime, Public Drug Use, Vagrancy Are Part of ‘Basic City Life,’ Democrats Argue

“You Know What? I’m Not Doing This Anymore.” (Slate)

After DeSantis tussle, Disney World will host a major summit on gay rights (Miami Herald) Guess they can’t take a hint.

Right-Wing Radicalization May Begin by Reading J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis

Woke Is Just Another Word for Liberal (The Atlantic) Yeah, pretty much.

Fabu-less: GLAAD Warns of 30% Fewer LGBT TV Characters Next Season

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: DEI Training’s Unintended Consequences

Blaming ‘Political Climate,’ Idaho Hospital Won’t Deliver Babies

Daughter ‘Left The Cult’ Of Trans People, Mother Sues Against Pro-Trans Aggressors

Democrats Vow To Arrest As Many Political Opponents As It Takes To Defeat Fascism (Babylon Bee)

TikTok ban would be ‘a slap in the face’ to young Democratic voters, activists warn (NBC) That’s because they are the ones that the Chinese are trying to brainwash. Duh.

8 Big Tech Companies, NetChoice SILENT When Asked Whether US Should Ban TikTok

Massachusetts Governor: Pharmacies Must Stock Abortion Pills

Arkansas Governor Signs Bill Banning Biological Males From Using School Girls Bathrooms

NHL Teams Divided Over Pride Nights

Stanford Puts Diversity Dean Who Berated Federal Judge on Leave  Until things blow over.

Georgia on Track To Be Ninth State To Outlaw Transgender Procedures for Children

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The White House press corps is a microcosm of the national media. It is overwhelmingly liberal, stuffed with Biden voters. So it was downright weird when former press secretary Jen Psaki told the Los Angeles Times she sometimes thought “I am an orderly in an insane asylum.”

The briefing room is usually a tank of hungry sharks for a Republican press secretary, and a classroom full of teacher’s pets for a Democrat press secretary. The news cycle has to be pretty negative for reporters to sound hostile to Biden’s press aides.

On March 20, black reporter Simon Ateba from an obscure website called “Today News Africa” began screaming at the very top of the briefing that current press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was not calling on him so he could ask his questions. Other reporters joined the fight, insisting Ateba press his complaints off camera.

Ateba has obviously internalized the obvious fact that black people are entitled to act in ways that would get non-black people sat on.

Guess What: Reparations Already Unpopular in San Francisco

‘This Guy is a Fraud’: Osundairo Brothers Bash Smollett, Reenact Hate Crime Hoax In New Fox Nation Docu-series  Who didn’t know that?

Philadelphia Agrees To Pay $9 Million to BLM Protesters for ‘Pain and Trauma’  They don’t have to may anything for the damage they caused, of course.

Small Business Owners Sue Biden Admin for Racial Discrimination

‘Cancer alley’ residents say they are victims of environmental racism in new lawsuit ‘Environmental racism’ must be the new proglodyte grievance-of-the-week.

City’s chief labor negotiator fired over interview on Sun-Times podcast, sources say (Chicago Sun-Times)

White House, reporters push back on disruptive journalist at press briefing (The Hill)

White House briefing erupts after reporter berates Karine Jean-Pierre: ‘Mockery of the First Amendment’ (Fox)

Gadfly Reporter Throws White House Presser Into Chaos With Over-the-Top Tantrum (Daily Beast)

Clarence Thomas rewrote the Second Amendment. We can do it again. (Washington Post) Uh, no he didn’t.

CBS Sucks Up to Al Franken as He Smears DeSantis’s Anti-CRT Laws

Iowa’s sharp right turn: From centrist state to ‘Florida of the North’ (Washington Post)

Washington Post Bemoans Iowa’s ‘Sharp Right Turn’ to ‘Florida of the North’

Danish far-right leader banned from UK over threat to burn Quran in Wakefield (BBC)

Swedish Court: Police Went Too Far When They Prevented a Koran-Burning (GoV)

Exclusive: Politico progressives double down on list of banned words

Nobody Likes Mike Pence (The Atlantic)

Kimmel Demands Florida Republicans Stop Acting ‘Like A Penis’  I guess he doesn’t want the competition.

The GOP gains among ‘voters of color’ are overhyped (Washington Post) Whistling past the graveyard.

Tucker Carlson’s senior producer repeatedly made antisemitic comments to Jewish staffers, lawsuit claims (The Forward) The Forward is Mother Jones for Jewish Red-Diaper Babies.

‘Horrible Person’: The View Attacks Reporter Who Confronted KJP

Inside Ron DeSantis’s Plan to Ride Anti-vaxxism to the White House (Vanity Fair) Needless to say, there is no such plan.

Follow Up: Vermont Sen. Backs Christian Basketball Team Ban Over Trans Opponent

Biologist Defends JK Rowling: ‘Only Two Sexes’

Mapping Project Reveals Locations of U.S. Border Surveillance Towers (The Intercept)

GOP rep has bad news for White House following evidence of Hunter-China correspondence: ‘Just the beginning’ (Fox)

Border agents arrest 16 people on FBI’s terror watchlist at Mexico crossing (N.Y. Post)

Washington is shunning remote work, and we’re all losing (The Hill)

The Fed circumvented the debt ceiling to borrow billions for failed banks (The Hill)

SVB Hired a Biden Megadonor, Got Bailed Out

“Lies, Damned Lies, & Statistics”: President Biden Makes Bogus Billionaire Tax Claim

More Caught Illegally Crossing Southern Border in 1 Year of Biden Than Entire Trump Presidency

Here Are Seven Woke Spending Proposals in Biden’s Budget

Rep. Burgess Owens to lead congressional hearing on ‘unlawful’ student loan forgiveness program (Salt Lake Tribune)

State Dept. Threatened on Delivering Afghanistan Docs

Biden Uses His First Veto to Sacrifice Americans’ Retirement Savings at The Altar Of ESG

NASA’s space nuclear power program is a hot mess

Mexican President Calls US State Dept. ‘Liars’ Over Rights Report

Congress Threatens To Subpoena Blinken for Blocking Investigation Into Bungled Afghanistan Withdrawal

The Biden admin’s favorite electric battery company is in crisis

Here are all the positive environmental stories from 2023 so far (EuroNews)

Why is Arctic ice getting younger and thinner? (EuroNews)

Federal judge delivers blow to Biden’s climate agenda: ‘Destructive federal overreach’ (Fox)

How to make your clothes last longer – it’s good for your bank account and the environment too (The Conversation)

UN calls for mass fossil fuel shutdowns to prevent ‘climate time bomb’

‘Extrapolations’ and the Difficulties of Making TV About Climate Change

What’s the total cost to swap out gas heat for electric? One Bay Area homeowner says almost $20,000 (S.F. Chronicle)

New U.N. Report Is Most Radical Call Yet for Climate Justice (Daily Beast) On the Left, everything has to have ‘justice’ appended to it, just because it makes them feel all warm and fuzzy.

Legalized Climate Grifting

EU Ramps Up Green Protectionism

Netherlands Votes NO to the Climate Activist War on Farmers

Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closed Over a Planned Climate Protest

The 1.5 C Temperature Fiction, Already Exceeded

3 years into the pandemic, should you still worry about COVID? (TODAY)

Three years after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, how cautious are the experts? (Boston Globe)

Dr. Allison Arwady on 3-Year Anniversary of COVID Closures, Dangers of Lead Paint (WTTW)

Texas Bill Limiting Power to Impose Mask, Vaccine Mandates Moves Forward (NBC)

Fauci ‘Stooges’ Now Claim Raccoon Dogs Caused COVID. Virologists Say They’re Wrong.

California Hospital Refuses Transplant Surgery For Unvaccinated Woman With End-Stage Kidney Disease

“I Couldn’t Remain Silent”: Physician Assistant Fired For Reporting COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events To VAERS

Vaccine Roulette

Moderna Expected to Price COVID Vaccine at $130  Think of it as a tax on stupid people–and their insurance companies.

The Biden Administration’s Strange, Secret Effort to Bail Out Moderna

From red bastion to blue bulwark: What political shift in Colorado and West means for U.S. (L.A. Times)

Three Years To Slow The Spread: COVID Hysteria & The Creation Of A Never-Ending Crisis

Polio cases in Africa linked to new oral vaccine

Capitol Police prepare for possible protests if Trump is indicted (NBC)

Trump probe: law enforcement don’t expect arraignment until next week, virtual option not considered (Fox)

NYC braces for possible Trump arrest

Trump-Manhattan DA case: Bob Costello testifies to grand jury, says Michael Cohen is a ‘serial liar’ (Fox)

Trump clown show: See key witness scorch Trump ally’s testimony (MSNBC)

‘Top Priority’: House GOP Leadership Puts Alvin Bragg in Crosshairs  Nemo Trump impune lacessit.

Stop Overthinking It: An Indictment Would Be Bad For Trump (Politico)

Will Trump Be Arrested? Legal Expert Weighs In

With possible indictment looming, Trump dominates House Republican retreat Will the ‘Cocky Chipmunk’ take the hint? Doubtful.

Watergate prosecutor reveals how Robert Costello just opened Trump up to even more charges (RawStory)

America has ignored GOP crimes for long enough — it’s time to put Trump in prison (RawStory) Apparently the Daily Beast isn’t juvenile enough.

By-the-book DA confronts unpredictable opponent in Trump (Politico) The book in question must be Alinsky’s RULES FOR RADICALS.

‘An indictment would help Trump!’ is wholly premature (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin’s regular anti-Trump screed is pretty weak beer today.

WATCH: Soros-Funded NYC DA Behind Trump Probe: Convicting Trump Is ‘Number One Issue’

Why Charging Trump Is Required by the Rule of Law (N.Y. Times)

Here’s more evidence Alvin Bragg’s crusade against Donald Trump is political

Sen. Paul: Jail DA Bragg for ‘Abuse of Power’

700 NYPD Riot Cops Mobilized, Steel Barriers Deployed Ahead Of Potential Trump Arrest

Survey of Past New York Felony Prosecutions for Falsifying Business Records (Just Security)

The problem is lawfare, not Trump, and no one on the right is immune to it

The Next Trump Indictment: Missing Gifts

Everything you should know about the potential Trump indictment (Politico) According to the Narrative, that is.

Intel Bulletins Warn of Surge in Violent Threats Over Trump Arrest (Rolling Stone)

Evening Networks Ignore George Soros Connection in Trump Indictment Coverage  Wouldn’t want to say the quiet part out loud, would we.

Jackson pens solo dissent as Supreme Court vacates abortion ruling (The Hill)

Mayor Adams calls for new tax breaks, dormitory housing in NYC to ease affordability crisis (Gothamist)

Mom rejects school’s belated apology for teacher’s ‘hooker’ game: ‘Not good enough

Sanders Adheres to Proletariat the New Left Long Ago Abandoned

San Jose Sharks Goalie Chooses Not To Wear Pride Jersey In Warmups

MSNBC Blames Colonialism for Mets Pitcher’s Injury at WBC

Cuban Baseball Player Defects From Communist Nation While Playing in Miami

Houston ISD Takeover Is a Trojan Horse For Privatization (Texas Observer) The Texas Observer is Just Another Voice of the Crust, and as good proglodyte statists they hold ‘privatiazaion’ in detestation.

Socialism Isn’t About Creating Economies. It Is About Amassing Political Power

Bike riding is falling in Portland

Another Reason Behind the Rise of Wokeness: The Failure of No Child Left Behind

Ugandan President Blasts Western Countries For Promoting LGBT In Africa

Nevada’s Dem AG Helped Make It Harder To Jail Thieves. Now, He Says Retail Theft Is Out of Control.

Striking Los Angeles Teachers Threaten To Return To Classrooms If Demands Not Met (Babylon  Bee)

‘Unconstitutional’: Federal Judge Blocks Multiple California Gun Restrictions

NPR Commits Random Act of Journalism, Highlights ANOTHER Rolling Stone Scandal

Democrat Representative Says Parents ‘Not Qualified’ To Choose Schools For Their Kids

Washington Free Beacon.

Liberals lost their collective mind this weekend after discovering Hollywood starlet Sydney Sweeney enjoys spending time with Republicans.

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The European Parliament had barely voted on the idea of a global wealth tax before its attention turned to another staple of ‘democratic’ socialism: a universal basic income for everyone.

A carefully crafted proposal for a pan-European basic income was put forward by the European Commission in September last year. Formally known as the Council Recommendation on Adequate Minimum Income Ensuring Active Inclusion, the idea was the subject of a parliamentary debate on March 14th.

To be honest, it was not much of a debate. Of the two dozen speakers, Ádám Kósa of Hungary was the only unconditional opponent of the idea. Most of the rest of the speakers offered various iterations of the same argument: there are poor people in Europe, and therefore EU member states must guarantee them an adequate minimum income, AMI. Every adult in Europe would be guaranteed the AMI in lieu of other means for supporting themselves.

PJ Media.

Elite law schools have become training academies not so much for effective and competent lawyers, but instead for militant transformational radicals with a law degree.

Mainstream consumers of legal services, otherwise known as paying clients, would be shocked by the evolution that has taken place in the nation’s elite law schools. Instead of producing lawyers capable of helping clients, these schools now turn out leftist activists who are most competent at using transformational designs to upend centuries of legal traditions and institutions, including, ultimately, the U.S. Constitution itself.

This problem isn’t new. But the shocking behavior at Stanford by rude, belligerent proto-totalitarian students shouting down a federal judge laid bare this rancid evolution for everyone to see.

The next generation of lawyers at these schools isn’t focused on learning contracts, torts, civil procedure, and evidence as much as they are learning how to destroy treasured American institutions such as tolerance, liberty, and free speech.

This is important. Too many Americans still think a law degree from Harvard means that the graduating lawyer is competent to practice law. The opposite is becoming more true.

The example of Alvin “Cocky Chipmunk” Bragg, Harvard & Harvard Law, is a good case in point. Rather than prosecuting regular criminals for what they do every day, he’s reaching back into the past to try to railroad the Left’s favorite whipping boy.

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California attorney general Rob Bonta (D.) is blaming car manufacturers for the spike in car thefts that has occurred on his watch.

In a letter to Hyundai and Kia, Bonta and 22 other attorneys general on Monday claimed the carmakers helped fuel a national car theft epidemic by not installing engine immobilizers to certain vehicle models. The letter notes that over the past two years, carjacking teens launched viral TikTok tutorials on how to override certain Kia and Hyundai security devices.

But Bonta has done little to offset his state’s rise in car thefts. The attorney general boasted in 2022 that while homicides, property crime, and violent crime went up during his first year on the job, arrest rates and probation levels declined. Since taking office in 2021, Bonta has focused his efforts on investigating police and suing cities over their zoning policies as car thefts and violent crime mount. As a state legislator, Bonta helped secure softer sentencing laws and reduced jail time for felons.

The Guardian.

Perhaps we can go back to the Good Old Days where babies were delivered (cheaply) by local midwives. Getting rid of ‘doctors’ who insist on the right to murder unborn children strikes me as a feature, not a bug.

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President Biden’s dissolution of our southern border on day 1 of his administration is a grave offense against the United States. Todd Bensman has followed the story as Senior National Security Fellow for the Center For Immigration Studies. He posts his work at his own site. He is the author, most recently, of Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History, published by Post Hill Press/Bombardier Books last month. He has made the rounds publicizing the book. Several videos featuring him are accessible online.

Yesterday Bensman held a webinar on the subject of the book for the Middle East Forum. I have posted the video below. In his remarks Bensman discussed several cases involving members of the FBI terrorist watch list such as Issam Bazzi, Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Al-Tayeb, and Isnardo Garcia-Amado. At about 19:00 of the video Bensman takes us inside the “Muslim-only migrant shelter” that has been opened in Tijuana, Mexico for seekers on their way.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

For the last 50 years or so, public policy in the U.S. has trended toward the view that everyone, more or less, should go to college. This was a sharp departure from the historical norm, when higher education really was higher, and only a small minority obtained four-year degrees.

It has become increasingly evident that the payoff for sending most kids to college is minimal, both for them and for our society and economy. Hence the current trend away from four-year colleges and toward, among other things, apprenticeships. The Wall Street Journal has a long article headlined “More Students Are Turning Away From College and Toward Apprenticeships,” with the subhead “Some white-collar training programs have become as selective as Ivy League universities.” That can only be a good thing.

The American Spectator.

These DEI deans are malignancies on the body academic, absolute poison. They get paid boatloads of money collected from overblown tuition, which saddles students and their parents with debt for life, to provide an ostensibly valuable service that my law degree, rabbinical degree, advanced history degree, and other educational attainments still leave me unable to fathom. What do these noxious DEI warts do to better society other than to promote reverse racism, divide people by ethnicities and skin color, in many cases promote anti-Semitism, and preach virtue-signaling effluvium that, once analyzed objectively between the lines, promote nothing but hate, the good woke kind of hate, hate for the values that once made America great?

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And you know we can’t have that….

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G.K. Chesterton is purported to have said that “When a man stops believing in God he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes anything.” And although there is no record that he actually said it, the truth of the aphorism is becoming ever clearer in this post-Christian age in the West.

A version of the same idea was offered by Catholic French philosopher Chantal Delsol in an essay entitled The End of Christianity. She argued that when people stop believing in Christianity, they do not turn to atheism or nihilism. The religious impulse in humanity is too strong, too deep, for that. They find other beliefs and spiritualities.

Looking at the Western world today, it seems that the religious impulse for those who do not accept established religious doctrines, and even for some who do identify, at least culturally, as Christians, is increasingly being channelled into the embrace of what I call “fantastical beliefs.”

I never met a ‘Wiccan’ who didn’t vote Democrat.

I never met a believer in astrology who didn’t vote Democrat.

I never met an avowed Satanist who didn’t vote Democrat.

So much for ‘follow the science’.

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Christian Coons, an associate professor of philosophy at Bowling Green State University, has been suspended and faces a hearing on March 20 that could lead to his dismissal. His crime? Sending emails to his colleagues about his department’s alleged past misconduct in hiring decisions. A university is seriously considering the dismissal of a tenured professor for sending some emails to his colleagues that they didn’t like.

 

Trump cheers news of ‘most important witness’ in New York hush-money probe (The Hill)

Michael Cohen’s former legal adviser to testify before Trump grand jury (MSNBC)

Trump indictment mystery solved: surprise Trump grand jury witness is Giuliani lawyer Robert Costello, source says (Insider)

Turley: Soros-Backed Manhattan DA’s Made-For-TV Trump Prosecution Is “Legally Pathetic”

Six things to know about the possible arrest of Donald Trump

N.Y. Authorities Prepare for Unprecedented Arrest of an Ex-President (N.Y. Times) Alvin “Cocky Chipmunk” Bragg will rue the day.

Out of Power, Trump Still Exerts It (N.Y. Times) Maggie Haberman writes a thumb-sucker–and gets paid for it. I should have such a job….

Parody Site Mocks Manhattan DA’s Trump Probe

Trump Sweats an Arrest. We Should Sweat a Second Term. (Bloomberg) Sweat , you Tool of the Crust! Sweat!

Accountability for elected officials is a common feature of democracy (Washington Post) I guess that’s why Philip Bump is calling for it in the case of Trump, who is no longer an elected official, and not in the case of Biden, who is. He appears to be a bit confused.

The American Mind.

Gentrification is, at core, an economic strategy. It aims at increasing the number of middle- and upper-middle-class people living in urban cores. There always were, and always will be, young adults who want to live in cities. Gentrifiers differ from Patti Smith types, because they’re respectable and promise quantifiable gains to the urban economy such as higher real estate valuations. They moved into housing previously occupied by people with lower incomes.

This strategy made sense. The best argument for gentrification is that no other model seemed to work. It’s one thing to nag former industrial cities to lay off their yuppie-hugging and get to work rebuilding the great American working class. It’s quite another to make that happen. The cookie-cutter aspect of gentrification—micro-breweries, Starbucks, people riding bikes to work for reasons other than a DUI or an inability to afford a car—is precisely its virtue. An urban policy “model” is something that can be implemented anywhere and does not require much in the way of charisma or talent in city hall.

Covid has not affected people’s happiness around world, study reveals (The Guardian)

Vaccine makers prep bird flu shot for humans ‘just in case’; rich nations lock in supplies (Reuters)

WHO Advisers Urge China to Share All COVID Data  Good luck with that.

DeSantis’ culture war isolates Black children in Florida (MSNBCO Although not as bad as COVID.

Newsom under pressure to take executive action on reparations if California Legislature doesn’t act (Fox) That squealing sound you hear are Newsome’s privates in a wringer.

60 million reasons that investing in S.F.’s Black community benefits the entire city (S.F. Chronicle)

What comes next for reparations in San Francisco and California (Fox) Massive flood of black race hustlers into the state, productive white people out of the state.

FBI Devoted at Least 16,000 More Hours to Jan. 6 Riot Than to BLM Riots in DC

Russia’s Secret Mobilization of 400,000 New Troops

AIR WEAPONS: Ukraine Gets JDAM-ER

Poland & Slovakia To Send Fighter Jets To Ukraine

US to Send $350M in Ammunition, Tanker Trucks to Ukraine

This Georgia County Spent $1 Million to Avoid Paying for One Employee’s Gender-Affirming Care (ProPublica)

US banks want socialism for themselves – and capitalism for everyone else (The Guardian) Robert Reich is apparently unfamiliar with the definitions of both ‘socialism’ and ‘capitalism’.

A new Arkansas law allows an anti-abortion monument at the state Capitol (NPR) Of course, they wouldn’t object to a pro-abortion monument.

The American Elite Are Planning Their Escape — And It Starts With Paying For Passports (Huffington Post) I would do the same.

The de-Russianification of Art

Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? Stanford Dean Who Berated Federal Judge Draws Six-Figure Salary

Jury Convicts 4 Oath Keepers for Jan. 6 ‘Conspiracy’

The View Blames GOP for Stanford Libs Shouting Down Conservative

Kevin McCarthy’s desperate plea to MAGA reveals a glaring GOP failure (Washington P0st) Greg Sargent continues to invent reasons to criticize Republicans.

NJ mom reported by military official for post objecting to ‘polysexual’ poster at child’s school: lawsuit (Fox)

AG Letitia James’ ‘Drag Story Hour’ draws over 100 supporters, protesters, cops, even NYC Council guards (N.Y. Post) Your tax dollars at work.

From ‘Comrade Barbara’ to Limousine Liberal: Barbara Lee Dropped $20K On Luxury Cars, Filings Show

The Obscure Maritime Law That Ruins Your Commute (The Atlantic) And the law stays because of union votes.

Oxfam Discourages Use of ‘Mother,’ ‘Father, & ‘Mankind’ To Elevate Poverty

Boston School Asks Kids About Oral Sex, Transgenderism

Men’s Figure Skater Comes Out Of Closet As Heterosexual (Babylon Bee)

‘Ukraine is a false justification’: America’s destructive new rush for natural gas (The Guardian)

Rancher rips Utah teacher’s climate assignment encouraging kids to eat bugs over beef: ‘Junk science’ (N.Y. Post)

The hottest climate job you’ve never heard of (Fast Company) Doing well by doing good.

Why Wind and Solar Will Never Work

A New Board Game to Induce Climate Guilt in School Children

Islamo-Leftism: German Greens Hail First Arabic Street Sign

Earth to Hit Critical Warming Threshold by Early 2030s, Climate Panel Says (N.Y. Times)

Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late (The Guardian) If action is not taken and it’s actually Too Late, will they finally shut up about it? You know they won’t.

NY Climate Act Cap and Invest Plan Going Off the Rails

World is on brink of climate calamity, definitive U.N. climate report warns (Washington Post) Yeah, yeah, yeah….

American company outraged after Mexican military, police seized Caribbean facility: ‘This is insane’ (Fox)

America’s border crisis, Biden’s immigration policy, and the courts (The Hill)

Biden’s Border Policies Face Pushback (Foreign Policy)

Biden May Revive Family Detention Policies to Handle Migration, Asylum Issues (KQED)

Biden’s ‘centrist’ feints are just cover for same old hard-left course (N.Y. Post)

Will Americans End Up Footing the Bill for Bank Failures? (CBN News) Yes. If you have to ask the question, you haven’t been paying attention.

Paul Krugman: Three and a half myths about bank bailouts (Salt Lake Tribune) Who else to give us the inside dope but The Man Who Is Always Wrong?

U.S. Citizen Smuggling Illegals Fatally Shot by Border Agent (San Angelo Live)

Musk Blasts Biden After Prez Lies Twice About ‘3% Billionaire Tax’

After 2nd Attack, Pregnancy Care Center CEO Calls Out FBI, Justice Department for Failure to Act

Veep thoughts with Kamala Harris  There are puppets who have more brain.

Fear, burnout and insubordination: Insiders spill details about life at the highest levels of FBI (Politico)

Long-friendly neighbor states are in a bitter battle over the next FBI HQ (Politico) Why not put it in San Francisco? They could use some law enforcement presence. I doubt that any of the FBI agents would object.

16 Migrants on Terror Watch-List Apprehended at Southern Border in February

Biden Kills Bill To Reverse ESG Investing Rule  So much for democracy.

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Well, first they went to Detroit, but, dismayed by what Democrats had done to the city, and unwilling to endure the high crime rate, they eventually moved to Florida.

(Actually, they were wiped out by the ‘eco-friendly’ ‘Native Americans’.)

Austin American-Statesman.

As any Texas voter knows, we elect our judges—and, except for our highest courts (the Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals), we elect them locally. That’s true not just for trial courts, but for our fourteen intermediate appellate courts, too. For instance, the “Third” Court of Appeals here in Austin, which hears appeals from district courts in Travis County and 23 surrounding counties, is staffed by six Justices chosen by voters across those 24 jurisdictions.

Three bills recently introduced in the Texas Legislature would take some of the most important cases away from locally elected judges. Between them, SB1045, HB3166 and HJR139 would create a new “Fifteenth” Court of Appeals to hear appeals in most lawsuits against the state or its officers. And although the new court would also sit in Austin, its judges would be elected on a statewide basis. The bills would thus take state-involved appeals away from judges elected in more Democratic parts of the state in favor of judges elected by all Texas voters—who haven’t chosen a Democratic candidate for statewide office since 1994.

Like most big-city media, even in Texas, the Austin American-Statesman is a hotbed of Wokery. Hence their objection to anything that would decrease the influence of Democrats and increase the influence of Republicans. Imagine, if you will, their attitude if the party affiliations were reversed: Would they not be wearing out their fingers about Respecting State-Wide Democracy Versus Local Partisan Prejudice?

You can tell who are the pigs by who are doing the squealing.

NewsMax.

The longest-serving Democrat in the Louisiana state Legislature, Francis Thompson, has changed parties, giving Republicans a 70-vote supermajority that allows the GOP to override a veto by the state’s Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards, Newsweek reported over the weekend.

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Gunnar Beck is a German lawyer and a member of the European Parliament for AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany). In the following video from the floor of the EP, Mr. Beck discusses the financial crisis, the Corona crisis, the “climate crisis”, and the migration crisis, which have combined to destroy the prosperity and culture of Germany.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

We last saw Sarah Idan when she was Miss Iraq in the 2017 Miss Universe pageant. She made international news when Miss Israel posted a photo of the two of them on Instagram, with kind words about Ms. Idan. That caused predictable blowback in the Arab world, causing Idan to issue an apology in Arabic. It wasn’t enough; her Iraqi citizenship was revoked and her family fled to another country.

While she represented Iraq in the 2017 pageant, by that time Idan, having volunteered as a teenager to work with the U.S. Army as a translator, was living in California. Now, appalled by the Left’s anti-Americanism, she is running for Congress.

You know, as you do.

The Other McCain.

Where is Charlie Sykes’ in-depth analysis of U.S. foreign policy? If he’s written one, I missed it, but what we get from him instead is a parroting of MSNBC talking points about Trump “channeling Kremlin propaganda,” as if it were impossible to criticize U.S. policy without being a pro-Putin stooge. But the real bottom line is this: Sykes voted for Biden, and is defending Biden’s policy in toto — to criticize Biden is tantamount to treason, according to Sykes’ brand of True Conservative™ principles.

Beyond the matter of Ukraine and Russia, aside from any consideration of policy, foreign or domestic, there remains the disturbing question: What the hell happened to Charlie Sykes?

He joined the Kristol Krew, and was seduced by the Dark Side.

CNBC.

1. New York
2. New Jersey
3. Vermont
4. Massachusetts
5. Maryland
6. Washington
7. Connecticut
8. Maine
9. Illinois
10. Oregon

All Bluest of the Blue. California had better get cracking or they will be left behind.

Cohen says Trump calls for protest against Manhattan DA probe signals desire for ‘violent clash’ on his behalf (The Hill) He’s going to say whatever he needs to say to ingratiate himself with his Deep State showrunners.

Trump allies and rivals rally to his defence after he claims arrest is imminent (The Guardian)

Maddow: Trump looking to ‘raise the civic cost’ of potential indictment (MSNBC)

Officials Prep for Protests as MAGA Sycophants Push ‘Patriot Moat’ Around Mar-a-Lago (Daily Beast)

Voters of color are a big reason Trump leads the GOP primary (CNN)

Dershowitz to Newsmax: Trump Probe Is ‘Prosecutorial Abuse’

Here Are Some of the Charges That Could Arise From the Trump Investigations (N.Y. Times)

Is Donald Trump set to be arrested?

Stanford Students Demand Journalist Remove Their Names From Stories… After Targeting Other Students By Name  Rules are for thee but not for me. (The National Lawyers Guild is a Commie front organization that has somehow managed to cling to life since the 1930s.)

Mississippi Republicans Want to Take Over a Majority Black City to ‘Save’ It (Daily Beast)

MSNBC Hints Trump’s ‘Take Back Nation’ Call a Crime, Ignores Kamala’s ‘Bloody Knuckles’

Ron DeSantis Is Completely Out of Touch With Ordinary Americans (Daily Beast) As if someone writing for the Daily Beast knew anything at all about ‘ordinary Americans’.

George Santos never filed a key financial disclosure. Enforcement has been lax for years. (Politico) Just a reminder that the Narrative Media witch-hunt never sleeps.

Reagan Allies Schemed to Delay U.S. Hostages’ Freedom to Sabotage Carter, Alleged Witness Says  (Rolling Stone) Sure, I believe that.

Why white Christian nationalists are in such a panic (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin re-surfaces, full of bile.

CNN anchor Erin Burnett says evidence of Chinese money to Bidens ‘doesn’t look good’ (N.Y. Post)

House GOP probes China-linked payments to Biden family; provides no evidence tying directly to the President (CNN)

Democratic rep says he might vote in favor of impeaching Mayorkas over border wall construction (The Hill)

FBI Is Now A ‘Weaponized Apparatchik’ Of The Presidential Administration: Whistleblower

A Failed Presidency In 20 Seconds

Watchdog Group Launches Investigation Into Biden’s ‘Woke Army’

Sunday Shows Spend Nearly An Hour on Trump, Ignore Hunter Biden Scandal

Turning 1.3 billion tons of Food Waste into Carbon Credits

Aviation chiefs rejected measures to curb climate impact of jet vapours (The Guardian)

Air Pollution: A Global Health Threat

‘Scrutinized’ female cops fleeing NYPD over anti-police climate, sexism (N.Y. Post)

Idaho hospital to stop delivering babies. One reason? ‘Bills that criminalize physicians’ (Idaho Statesman)

daho hospital to stop labor and delivery services citing “political climate” and doctor shortages (CBS)

Remember When Bill Clinton was Arrested?  Neither do I.

CNN Reporter Robbed While Covering “Rampant Street Crime” In San Francisco Imagine that.

Maryland House Passes Bill Requiring Gender-Affirming Care Under Medicaid (Huffington Post)

George ‘Bimbo Eruption’ Stephanopoulos Politely Preps Ex-Trump Fixer Michael Cohen

Oxfam ‘Inclusivity’ Guide Tells Staff To Avoid Using ‘Offensive’ Words Like ‘Mother’, ‘People’ and ‘Headquarters’

Drag Queens Interrupt Kirk Cameron’s Storytime Reading in Ark.

“The New Normal”: New York To Lower Math And English Proficiency Standards Due To Poor Test Result

Leftist Parents Flee Florida As Gender Treatments For Children Made Illegal  The system works.

‘Conservatives Can’t Define Woke!’ Shouts Leftist Who Can’t Define ‘Man’ Or ‘Woman’ (Babylon Bee)

Latest Twitter Files tackle ‘Great Covid-19 Lie Machine’ flagging true content as ‘disinformation’ (Fox)

Private-federal censorship machine targeted TRUE ‘misinformation’ (N.Y. Post)

Latest ‘Twitter Files’ allege censorship of proven facts (News Nation)

Long-covid symptoms are less common now than earlier in the pandemic (Washington Post)

‘Conspiracy At Its Height’: Fauci Responds To Message Saying He ‘Prompted’ Anti-Lab Leak Paper

The Vax Damage Lottery