Biden all but admits we’ll see even worse border chaos in May (N.Y. Post)

George Soros’ army of lieutenants get easy access to Biden White House (N.Y. Post)

Trump: It’s Biden ‘Guilty of Obstruction,’ Not Me

Biden Admin on Doc Leak: More Surveillance Needed (NewsMax)  Something’s wrong? We need more fascism!

Fleitz to Newsmax: Leaks Reveal White House ‘Lying to Us’  Who didn’t know that? Biden never opens his mouth but he tells a lie, and usually a stupidly obvious lie.

Biden’s New Muslim Liaison to Fight ‘Institutional Islamophobia’  How about Muslim terrorism? (cricket)…(cricket)…(cricket)….

Annals of senescence

Everyone Wants to Play God: Extrapolations and a Climate-Bleak Future (Reformed Journal)

Scientists find ‘harbinger of doom’ lurking off Oregon’s coast. So, of course, late night TV’s got jokes (Oregon Live)

Clean Energy Is Thriving in Texas. So Why Are State Republicans Trying to Stifle It? (Inside Climate News)

Seas are rising faster, so Florida must act faster, too (Tampa Bay Times) Call me when real-estate prices in Malibu and Martha’s Vineyard–and Palm Beach–start dropping.

The Biden Administration Is Once Again Tightening Rules On Vehicles Emissions

Visualizing Air Pollution Levels Around The World In 2022  Guess who pollutes the most? Hint: It ain’t us, although progs would like you to believe that it is.

Data-Centers & Small Nuclear Reactors – A Match Made In Heaven?

Europe’s Most Powerful Nuclear Reactor Launches in Finland

Winter sea ice habitat for polar bears still abundant enough to sustain a thriving species

Tropical Paradise Islands Are Not Sinking and Shrinking…Most Are in Fact Growing!

Luxury Beliefs And Energy Policy: The Fatal Conceit

How Trump’s Lawsuit Against Michael Cohen Could Backfire (Slate)

Jorge Ramos Column Calls Trump Indictment ‘A Beautiful Act’

Indictment turbocharges Trump’s fundraising (Politico) And rightly so.

Trump, staring down GOP rivals, raised $14.5 million in first quarter (Washington Post)

A top Trump lawyer has recused himself from Mar-a-Lago documents case (Washington Post) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Republican donor retreat suggests Donald Trump is far from a coronation (Politico) Election coming up! Time to undercut Trump any way we can!

The GOP Can Save Itself if Trump Runs, Then Loses the Election (Daily Beast) I think it’s safe to say that no Republican is going to look to people who hate them for advice.

Why Liberals Should Hope DeSantis Beats Trump (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait pushes the Narrative, as usual.

sAnheuser-Busch CEO responds to backlash after partnership with trans influencer (NBC News)

Bud Light blasted on Twitter for ‘TGIF’ post amid Dylan Mulvaney controversy (Fox)

Big brand threw money at Dylan Mulvaney… but at what price? From obscure actor to TikTok star praised by the White House, Nike trans poster girl has sparked a backlash against WOKE advertising (UK Daily Mail)

The making of Dylan Mulvaney (Spiked)

Property guru Kirstie Allsopp, of all people, defends TikToker Dylan Mulvaney amid anti-trans backlash (Pink News)

Plus-sized traveler demands free seats, better accommodations on airlines (N.Y. Post) In the Narrative media, ‘plus sized’ means ‘morbidly obese’.

Furious Viewers Complain En Masse About New UK TV Show With Adult Men Stripping Naked For Kids  The UK appears to be the California of Europe.

Capehart: Declaration of Independence ‘Rings Hollow’ Amid Pro-Life Laws

CNN Promotes ‘Two-Spirit’ Trans Mexicans in Eva Longoria COOKING Show

IMF Unveils New Global Currency Known As The “Universal Monetary Unit” To “Transform” World Economy  With them in charge. What could possibly go wrong?

Anheuser-Busch Transitions Into Damage Control Mode – And People Aren’t Buying It

SEC Sides With Conservatives Over Launching PayPal Discrimination Probe  This has been a problem for years, and they’re just now getting around to it?

How AI Can Track, Manipulate Voters

The Global Great Awokening

Most want abortion pill to remain available — CBS News poll (CBS) Does it surprise you that a CBS poll would say this?

Gun absolutists don’t trust democracy because they know they’re losing (Washington Post) I’m sure ancient proglodyte retreat E.J. Dionne would like that to be true. But it’s not. Almost half of the states are now ‘constitutional carry’ states that allow bearing guns without needing a license. That sounds like winning to me.

Community Leaders Furious Over Businesses Leaving Chicago – Refuse To Take Responsibility

Not Leftist Enough? Sanders Gets NASTY With Psaki Over MSNBC’s Coverage

Community Leaders Indignant Over Walmart’s Decision to Shutter 4 Chicago Stores  Can’t make any money when fashionable minorities keep stealing stuff from your stores. (Irony in Chicago)

Ukraine live briefing: 11 dead, including toddler, in Russian strike; Blinken calls for ‘immediate release’ of WSJ reporter (Washington P0st)

Pentagon leaks paint gloomy picture of long Ukraine war that can’t be won but must not be lost (CNA)

Germany Approves Poland’s Request To Send 5 Fighter Jets To Ukraine

Finland Unveils 1st Section Of Russian Border Fence After Joining NATO

Ukraine Awaits US Missile System after Latest Russian Strike

ATTRITION: Medical Miracles For the Battlefield and Playground

Steve Sailer.

Walking the dog every day now, I don’t get to the book store very often anymore. But I left the dog behind and went today.

Didn’t find anything new of interest. It looks like the two main topics of new books are “We Wish We Still Had Trump to Kick Around Because Without Him We Don’t Have Anything Interesting to Say” and “I’m a Black Person and Here’s My Story About How Hard It Is Being Black.”

That’s about all that’s available these days.

Steve Sailer.

As I asked back in 2013, why were the Boston Bomb Brothers in America anyway? My best guess is because their Uncle Ruslan, was, for four years, the son-in-law of CIA insider Graham E. Fuller, the former CIA station chief in Kabul. Uncle Ruslan is a D.C. lawyer involved in negotiating energy deals in Central Asia. If Chechnya ever breaks away from Russia and becomes an American client state, Uncle Ruslan would be a reasonable candidate for Minister of Energy in the new state.

This is not to say that the Boston Marathon Bombing was a false flag or a Washington operation, but that there remain a lot of interesting questions about who let in the Bomb Brothers and why.

I should like to point out that the younger of the two is still alive.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Liberals have remarkably little self-awareness. This video was shot at the University of Washington, where Turning Point USA had a table with literature and merchandise. In the video, a leftist whose sex is unclear approaches the table, accuses TPUSA of “genocide” against transsexuals, calls the Turning Point students fascists, and tips over their table.

Gates of Vienna.

The following article (translated from the German) concerns the demographic crisis in France, which is well on its way to becoming a third-world country.

It’s all very well for the alarmists to issue their warnings now, but in my opinion it will make no practical difference. The point of no return was passed a long time ago, probably more than a decade ago. Nothing can prevent the dénouement now. The situation will inevitably end in a general collapse or civil war, or more likely a combination of the two. Assuming we don’t hit a nuclear winter before that.

The rest of the West is headed for the same destination. France and Sweden may be a couple of cars ahead of us, but we’re all on the same train.

Washington Free Beacon.

who have seen active service, and, as far as I am aware, just one who has taken part in a successful operation to free a planeload of hostages from a band of terrorists, getting himself shot in the arm in the process.

In case you didn’t know that, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, makes sure you’re apprised in the very first pages of Bibi: My Story, his compellingly told memoir of a lifetime in politics, business, diplomacy, and a lot of shooting wars.

In 1972 he led a group of special forces soldiers in the elite Sayeret Matkal unit of the Israeli military in a raid on a hijacked Sabena plane that had been diverted to an airport outside Tel Aviv, Israel. He recounts with evident pride how he tussled with his older brother Yoni, also in the elite unit, who wanted to pull rank on him and lead the raid himself. Bibi resisted, and prevailed.

Netanyahu’s elder brother, Yoni, was an American citizen and died leading the Entebbe raid–the only Israeli to do so.

When did a Biden ever expose himself to that sort of risk?

Wahington Free Beacon

You have to give Roxanna Asgarian credit for laying all her cards on the table. The author of We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America tells readers at the outset that “as a journalist, I was most interested in looking at who has power and who does not.” In some ways, this places Asgarian in a long tradition of muckraking reporters looking out for the little guy. But then she adds that “journalists are often taught … to get out of the way of the story. This ethic has its merits, but it has costs as well.” Asgarian has weighed the options and decided that she is not a “passive observer of injustice.”

Newsbsusters.

Tax day is Tuesday this year, so millions of Americans will spend this weekend poring over their records, filling out their returns and writing checks payable to the U.S. Treasury. Last year, the federal government took in a record $4.9 trillion in revenue, more than triple the $1.58 trillion the government collected just 25 years earlier (1997).

That’s an average increase of more than eight percent a year, far more than the rate of inflation (which has averaged 2.4% annually over the past 25 years) plus the increase in the U.S. population (roughly 0.7% annually). The total of all economic activity in the United States per year (GDP) is currently $26.1 trillion, which means the federal government now claims nearly one-fifth (19.6%) of all dollars for itself, a much higher rate than the long-term average of 16.5 percent.

Yet, it’s still not enough money to fulfill all the promises dreamed up by politicians looking for votes. The federal budget hasn’t been balanced since 2001; decades of deficit spending has led to a cumulative national debt of more than $31 trillion.

Yet instead of holding politicians accountable for their impossible promises and reckless stewardship of the nation’s finances, the media lobby for more punishing taxes to be imposed on the public. This has been true during both Democratic and Republican administrations, wartime and peacetime, and in boom times and busts.

The media don’t have the power to raise taxes, but they do have the ability to steer the national conversation toward the solutions they prefer. And instead of making over-spending an issue, the news media have relentlessly pushed for even more of the nation’s wealth to be handed over to the federal government to spend….

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Sunshine vs. the grid: Why the Czech Republic had to shutdown their solar plants over Easter (EuroNews)

US emissions up 6 percent in 2021 amid pandemic recovery: EPA (The Hill)

Two investor advisers recommend BP shareholders oppose activist climate resolution (Reuters)

Peak EV: Electric Vehicles Will Fade As Their True Costs Become Clear

California’s Last Nuclear Power Plant Diablo Faces Closure Against Lawsuit

Fewer Coal Power Plants Close In 2022 Than In Recent Years

Florida’s upcoming 6-week abortion ban will disproportionately impact Latina and Black women, advocates say (NBC News) “Women and minorities hardest hit.”

Mayor Adams: Ditch the RoboCops: Surveillance technology is not good public policy (N.Y. Daily News)

California wants a bigger piece of Cupertino’s tax earnings from Apple (Apple Insider) Lefties complain about ‘corporate greed’ but that’s nothing compared to government greed.

Colorado Governor Signs Abortion, Transgender Care Bills (Huffington Post)

Missouri Becomes First State To Crack Down on Sex-Change Treatments for Adults

Supreme Court makes it easier to challenge structure of federal agencies (Washington Post)

Bud Light halts promotion with Dylan Mulvaney, transgender ‘influencer,’ after share value plummets (Washington Examiner)

What The Bud Light Fiasco Reveals About The Ruling Class (Brownstone Institute)

The Unprincipled and Unhinged Left: Marcy Wheeler as Case Study

Hard lessons in life “Novel gender identities and orientations allow people to claim to be oppressed without suffering any hardship.”

Mother Of 6-Year-Old Who Shot Virginia Teacher Arrested

Here Are the Biggest Problems With California’s Reparations Plan

Special counsel prosecutors press witnesses for details about how Trump has paid for their lawyers (CNN)

Why Jack Smith’s reported wire fraud probe into Trump campaign could be a big deal (MSNBC) Because ORANGE MAN BAD!

Trump Wire Fraud Charges Would Be ‘No Small Potatoes’: Kirschner (Newsweek)

Donald Trump’s 2023 financial disclosures (CREW) “CREW counters corruption, exposes dark money, and fights for accountability for the insurrection.”

Trump, in legal peril, draws cheers at NRA convention; Pence draws boos (Washington Post)

Vaccine mandate lawsuit against Hawaiian Air still moving forward (KHON)

Mayo Clinic expert talks about the new COVID omicron variant (The Seattle Times)

What to know about Arcturus, a new coronavirus subvariant the WHO is tracking (Washington P0st)

New (Itchy) COVID Symptom Reported as ‘Arcturus’ Fuels NY Area Spread (NBC New York)

This One Symptom Is Emerging With the New Highly Transmissible ‘Arcturus’ COVID-19 Variant (NBC Chicago)

Florida Scientists and Journalists Cling to a Favorite Covid Fallacy

Why Did Overdoses Soar the Month After Covid Stimulus Checks?

The modern Republican party is hurtling towards fascism (The Guardian) As opposed to the modern Democrat party, which has already achieved it. But Robert Reich, Clinton-era retread, only has eyes for the right.

‘Woke-Free’ Beer’s Entire Business Model May Be Illegal: Experts (Daily Beast) Experts!

Anheuser-Busch breaks silence after Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney controversy (Fox) With an anodyne statement that doesn’t address the controversy.

CNN’s Don Lemon dismisses Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light controversy as ‘crazy’ and ‘ridiculous’ (Fox) Much like Don Lemon.

Bud Light fiasco should wake up corporate America to drop all wokery (New York Post)

Fossil Fuel Executives Are War Profiteers (The New Republic) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Ethics watchdog files against Thomas following reports on trips, real estate deal (The Hill) “…an ethics watchdog nonprofit organization…” i.e. another leftist witch-hunt group.

DeSantis faces political quagmire on abortion (The Hill) Quagmire!

Republican nihilism on display in the war on ESG (The Hill) As opposed to Democrat nihilism, which is on display in BLM/Antifa street riots.

US appeals court judge faces rare probe into competency, misconduct (Reuters) Contradict the Narrative, and that’s what happens.

British Columbia’s New Powers to Silence Dissenting Physicians

Disneyland To Close Splash Mountain In May Amid Accusations Of Racist Theme

Ron DeSantis May Be Getting the Earliest “Campaign Reboot” Coverage in History (Slate)

Marjorie Taylor Greene spent more than $65,000 in campaign funds on home fence (Raw Story) Considering the abuse to which she has been subjected (by media outlets like Raw Story, for example), she undoubtedly needs one.

CNN’s Morning Spew Blames Gerrymandering for ‘Extreme’ TN GOP

Senators call for probe of Thomas amid report of real estate deals with GOP donor (Washington Post) The witch-hunt continues.

CREW files civil and criminal complaint against Clarence Thomas  I guess this is the so-called ‘watchdog’ group mentioned by The Hill.

Leaked Audio of the Tennessee Republican Dingbats Shows They’re Really That Stupid (Esquire) Don’t hold it in–tell us how you really feel.

Could Trump’s fundraising emails add to his legal trouble? (Washington Post)

Univision’s ‘Pentagon Papers 2.0’ Coverage Tries to Revive Russia Hoax

‘We’re Getting Killed on Abortion’: Inside Trump’s Secret Meetings With the Religious Right (Rolling Stone) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

How Tennessee Illustrates the Three Rules of MAGA (N.Y. Times) David French continues to carry water for the Left.

Is the Trump Indictment a “Legal Embarrassment”? (New Yorker)

LinkedIn Founder Is Secretly Funding E. Jean Carroll’s Lawsuit Against Trump (Yahoo!Life)

An Acute Attack of Trumpism in Tennessee (The Atlantic) There is of course no connection between Trump and Tennessee, except that this Voice of the Crust hates both of them.

‘Rape Is Sexy’ Trump Accuser Bankrolled By Billionaire Hoax-Funding LinkedIn Founder

Minneapolis Settles Two Lawsuits Involving Ex-Officer Who Killed George Floyd

‘I am a racist:’ Daniel Perry’s social media posts reveal racist comments, anti-protester views (Austin American-Statesman) So even if he was justified in shooting the guy, we still need to execute him because he’s a BadWhite.

FSU Prof Leaves $190,000 Job After Claims Of Fraudulent Racism Studies

Emmett Till’s Murder: The Importance of Seeing and Remembering (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew complete their transition to a Voice of the Crust by venerating the Great Black Victim, St. Emmett Till.

Great Moments in Black Leadership: The Clayton County Sheriff

‘A Voice of Truth’: Kamala Harris Praises Unrepentant Anti-Semite Al Sharpton  Bigots of a color flock together.

COVID-19: Highly-Infectious ‘Arcturus’ Variant First Detected In NY Now Identified In 27 States (White Plains Daily Voice)

Covid variant ‘Arcturus’ comes with new symptom: Report (Deccan Herald)

Covid variant Arcturus: All you need to know (Mint)

Judge Slaps California Church With $1M Fine for Holding Services During COVID

UK Study Finds “No Evidence” Face Masks Protect Vulnerable Against COVID

The Reopening That Wasn’t: As Government Employees Work From Home, People Find Services Curtailed (ProPublica) Government employees are in the business of getting a paycheck, not providing services.

Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Property From Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal. (ProPublica) So what?

The case for impeaching Justice Clarence Thomas (MSNBC) There is no case.

Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose 2014 real estate deal with GOP megadonor, ProPublica report finds (CNN) Nor was he required to. Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

‘I’m all for climate change’: Axel Springer CEO faces heat over leaked messages (The Guardian)

Global Disinformation Index Withholds Information On Its Own Operations

Nashville Flower Shop Refuses Service to Republican Fundraiser, Blames GOP for Shooting

Clarence Thomas’ Family Got $133K from Nazi-Obsessed Billionaire (Rolling Stone)

Ron DeSantis May Fall Into His Own Abortion Trap (Daily Beast) Eleanor Clift used to write for publications that mattered. Sad how far she has fallen.

PBS Political Team: GOP Doomed on Abortion, Racial Mistreatment of Tennessee Lefties

Greg Abbott’s Jury Nullification (The Bulwark) Charlie Sykes continues beating the anti-Republican drum.

Freedom is under assault in Ron DeSantis’s Florida (Washington Post) But feel free to ignore the assault against freedom in Joe Biden’s Washington.

Appeals Court Ruling May Threaten DOJ Position In Dozens Of Jan. 6 Cases: Lawyer  Oh, noes!

Missouri state House Republicans vote to defund public libraries (Salon) Not ‘legislators’ but ‘Republicans’.

MSNBC’s Tolliver Claims Abortion Bans Are ‘Cruel’ & ‘Inhumane’

NPR Won’t Hide Their Red-Hot Hatred of Republicans and Fox News

The Conundrum of the DeSantis Base: Pro-Trump and Anti-Trump Voters (N.Y. Times)

Man who killed BLM protester shared racist content, new documents show (Washington Post) It’s not enough that he was railroaded by a blue-city prosecutor and jury, he also has to be tarred nationally as a Certified BadWhite.

This plan for a third-party presidential bid in 2024 is dangerous (Washington Post) Anything that might split the proglodyte vote must be expunged.

Focus groups: Pennsylvania swing voters detest MAGA and abortion overreach (Axios) Election coming! Time to push the Narrative!

State Rep. Basabe under investigation for allegedly slapping an aide (CBS Miami) He’s a Republican, of course; nobody would report on it if he were a Democrat.

Republicans Are Forgetting One Crucial Truth About People and Their Bodies (N.Y. Times) That truth: Democrats control the Narrative, Republicans do not.

Aspiring Right-Wing Terrorists Are Targeting The Power Grid Amid Rise In Accelerationist Extremism (Talking Points Memo) But only Republicans subscribe to conspiracy theories.

Liz Cheney says Greene should lose security clearance for defending suspect in Pentagon docs leak (NBC News) Of course she does.

Clarence Thomas enters the danger zone (Washington Post) Ruth Marcus pushes the witch-hunt Narrative.

‘He must be impeached’: Calls for ouster of Clarence Thomas grow after latest bombshell (Raw Story) But only among those who were calling for it before; everybody else is yawning.

Fox News isn’t talking about Clarence Thomas much (Washington Post) Philip Bump is shocked–shocked, I tell you–that Fox News isn’t as obsessive/compulsive about Clarence Thomas, the House Nigger, as he is.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Calls For DOJ Investigation Of Clarence Thomas’ Hidden Gifts (Huffington Post) Joining the Narrative witch-hunt.

Ex-Trump Lawyer Sues Jan. 6 Committee for $67 Million

‘Inequality Ahoy!’ Did Paul Krugman Forget He’s Richer than Clarence Thomas?

Dem Rep Hits Back After Pelosi Says His Calls for Senile Senator to Resign Are Sexist

Dem Megadonor Secretly Funds Rape Lawsuit Against Donald Trump

NYT Lies About Snowden To Peddle ‘Evil-Leaker’ Propaganda, Then Stealth-Edits When Caught

Marco Rubio’s bigoted fight with the U.S. military just got worse (MSNBC) MSNBC’s bigoted smears against Republicans just got worse.

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 38)

Drunk Irishmen Say They Understood Biden’s Dublin Speech Perfectly (Babylon Bee)

Joe Biden mocked after Hunter has to explain child’s question in Ireland: ‘I am so embarrassed for my country’ (Fox)

Joe Biden snubbed by Irish president’s dog during Dublin visit (Guardian News)

Biden confuses All Blacks rugby team with brutal police force (CNN)

Up to 40,000 migrants amass at border as end of Title 42 looms: sources (N.Y. Post)

Biden’s slimy dodge on mass intel leak ignores huge damage to nation (N.Y. Post)

Biden wants to coax Americans into electric cars. These 3 groups have other ideas. (Politico) No, he wants to FORCE Americans into electric cars. There’s a significant difference.

VP Harris Slams Mifepristone Ruling

Lady Gaga, Shonda Rhimes and More Named to Restored Arts Commission (N.Y. Times) More sinecures for left-wing drones at taxpayer expense.

The Biden 10-Step Plan For Global Chaos

Iran, Russia, China, Pakistan FMs Hold Meeting To Deal With Afghan Economic Collapse

Migrants say Border Patrol is keeping them between the border walls for days without food or shelter (San Diego Union-Tribune) Presumably they could go back to Mexico if they asked.

Ex-Biden official Sam Brinton accepts plea deal in Las Vegas luggage theft (N.Y. Post)

EPA Uses Shaky Science to Snag New Powers to Regulate You More

Biden, the American president, seems awfully at home in Ireland (Washington P0st) Or, indeed, anywhere but America.

“Joe Biden Is A Criminal” Says Ex-Obama Whistleblower Alleging Family “Kickback Scheme”

Gag Me With A Shamrock! Joe Scarborough Gushes Over Biden’s Ireland Trip

Uncle Joe has a car you can’t refuse (Washington Examiner)

HUH? Bloomberg Opinion Writers Blame GREED, Not Massive Spending, for Biden’s Inflation

The Biden 10-step Plan for Global Chaos  (Victor Davis Hanson)

Biden to nominate two Latina judges to appeals courts (NBC News) Key qualification: Latina!

Was Emperor Biden’s Electric Vehicle Decree Concocted by Leprechauns?

Report: Biden Admin Accepting 99 Percent of Illegal Immigrants’ Title 42 Appeals  Their objective is not to keep people out but to let people in.

Washington Post.

Scouring the labels of what their children had eaten, both mothers were horrified to discover that sesame was now listed as an ingredient in the cheeseburger, the bread and other baked products that had previously been sesame-free. “I’d been unknowingly poisoning [Mia] for several weeks,” said McDermott, who lives in Philadelphia.
What happened? On Jan. 1, a law intended to safeguard the more than 1.5 million Americans with a sesame allergy — including the McDermott and Tibbs children (and, full disclosure, my son as well) — took effect. The law mandates, among other things, careful cleaning to prevent cross-contact between food products with and without sesame.
In a twist few would have expected, however, many food companies have chosen to add small amounts of sesame flour to products that were previously sesame-free, instead of conducting the careful cleaning required for foods without sesame.
The result? Foods that sesame-allergic kids and adults have eaten safely for years are now potentially life-threatening.

Proglodyte regulators always believe that people will just comply with their rules and not figure out a way around them. That old Law of Unintended Consequences bites people–other than the regulators, of course–on the butt again.

Read it.

Modern colleges are training grounds for political insurrectionists.

The pro-crime movement that swept America began in part with an article by Angela Davis, “Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition.” Davis, a UCLA academic, started by quoting Michel Foucault, a French academic with the Collège de France.

Foucault’s ‘Discipline and Punish’, which Davis described as “arguably the most influential text in contemporary studies of the prison system” remains widely studied on college campuses along with Davis’ racial spin that long since entered politics and pop culture in the form of police defunding and other allied efforts to eliminate prisons, prosecutions and the justice system.

The two activist academics were not really interested in crime and the penal system as a field of research. They were bent on fomenting a civil war that would put the Left in power.

Read it.

When University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines was accosted by a pro-trans mob at San Francisco State University, it revealed the irrational anger displayed by so many on the Left. We have seen it directed against conservatives all across the nation. So, what explains the anger and its justification of canceling all those who oppose them?

First and foremost, it is a characteristic of the Manichean worldview of the postmodern Left. The forces arrayed against them, which are essentially White Anglo-Saxon civilization along with its traditional values, are considered evil incarnate. They see them as the forces behind racism, misogyny, colonialism, exploitation, and the destruction of the environment. Who in his right mind would want to be “nice” to such thoroughly evil people? There is no small amount of righteous indignation behind their calls to “cancel” their opponents.

Second, since at least the 1960s, protest for the Left came to be seen as “shutting down” the opposition, taking over their buildings, preventing them from speaking. Much of this goes back to the conventional wisdom of the radical left expressed by Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, which took the Marxist approach of eliminating opponents rather than “debating” them. This is not a battle about ideas and influence, it is the pursuit of advantage and power. The Left has, for a long time, used violence and intimidation as a strategy for “taking over” and gaining control. The occupied zone in Seattle was not a bug, it was a feature of the anarchist, Antifa Left.

Read it.

We regret to inform you the Ivy League nerds are at it again. This time it’s the Harvard nerds, who might not be quite as obnoxious as the Yale nerds, but are certainly among the worst.

This week they are outraged because a billionaire hedge fund guy—Ken Griffin (Class of ’89)—donated $300 million to his alma mater as a gesture of gratitude. That’s on top of the $150 million Griffin gave the university in 2014 to boost its financial aid program.

What a monster.

Well, yes, according to the outraged Harvard nerds. Why? Because Griffin has given money to Republican candidates and is a supporter of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Read it.

Ibtihaj Muhammad made history as the first hijab-clad athlete on the U.S. Olympic team. The bronze medal winning fencer from the 2016 summer games was featured on magazine covers, spawned a line of sportswear and even a Barbie doll.

But in court papers filed late Tuesday, a New Jersey elementary school teacher says Muhammad deserves a different reputation: Liar.

In October 2021 social media posts, Muhammad accused veteran schoolteacher Tamar Herman of abusing a 7-year-old Muslim student by “forcibly” pulling off her hijab as “the young student resisted.” After exposing the girl’s hair to the class, Herman then told her that “her hair was beautiful and she did not have to wear hijab to school anymore,” Muhammad wrote.

Herman insists that didn’t happen and contacted Muhammad to offer her side of the story. But when Herman, who had Muhammad’s cell phone number, texted to say her post was “completely false and terribly damaging,” Muhammad ignored her. Now, Muhammad says she had no idea who Herman was.

Muhammad’s claims, filed last month, “are outright falsehoods,” Herman says. And they are “further evidence [of] her actual malice, i.e. reckless disregard for the truth.”

Read it.

The United Nations is seeking vast new powers and stronger “global governance” tools to deal with international emergencies such as pandemics and economic crises, a new U.N. policy brief has revealed, and the Biden administration appears to support the proposal.

The plan to create an “Emergency Platform,” which would involve a set of protocols activated during crises that could affect billions of people, has already drawn strong concern and criticism from U.S. policymakers and analysts.

Read it.

I was disappointed in 2021 to read that Stanford had been sued by a number of its athletes when the school, without warning, told them it had decided to drop 11 varsity sports teams. Those sports included men’s volleyball, wrestling and rowing. Women were to lose sports like synchronized swimming, rowing and fencing. President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Provost Persis Drell and Athletic Director Bernard Muir said the cut was a budget necessity, and was needed to keep Stanford “competitive” with other schools. That turned out not to be true. In fact, the school rejected alumni financing of the sports. I was further angered when I read that Tessier-Lavigne may have co-authored a number of scientific papers with “manipulated images.” I was then saddened to read about Stanford soccer player Katie Meyer, who had committed suicide last March after a badly botched disciplinary action Stanford attempted to take against her. Her parents filed a lawsuit against Stanford in October.

These are some of the more serious scandals involving the school in the last three years. There have been less severe missteps taken by those who are supposedly in the business of running an elite, world renowned university, but even these smaller mistakes seem to indicate a larger problem. One of my classmates (I graduated in 1970) complains that the administration is of late “rudderless,” stumbling from one crisis to another. He may not make his annual donation to the school as a result. I think it is time to ask: exactly who manages Stanford? And how are they making decisions? Is it the President? The Board of Trustees? Or a small group of individuals known only to a few?

Where’s the DEI at the HBCUs? (City Journal)

CNN Debunks Jeffries’ Distancing From Uncle’s Antisemitism  This is a picture of Hakeem Jeffries, who ‘identifies’ as black:

For comparison, this is a picture of an actual black man:

Equality Florida Issues Advisory Warning For Travel  No warnings about traveling to Democrat-run cities, where they may be subjected to drive-by shootings by black gang members.

MSNBC: GOP Willing to Remove Black Men from Office to Keep Their Guns  If we barred black men from having guns, the ‘gun violence’ rate would plummet.

BREAKING: Video shows reinstated TN State Rep Justin Jones stopping cars and assaulting drivers in summer of 2020

Cheering the Left: ABC, CBS Celebrate TN Dems ‘Have Finally Been Reinstated’  Let’s see them cheer when they are kicked out again.

1990s Afrocentrist Fantasies About Ancient Egypt Are Back

Is Childbirth Racist?

El Niño is forecast to return in 2023. Here’s what it means for extreme weather and global warming (EuroNews)

Long-Lived Iceberg Sails Away (NASA)

The climate apocalypse is also a religious crisis (Vox)

The EPA says Americans could save $1 trillion on gas under its auto emissions plan (NPR) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

FEMA sued over efforts to rebuild Puerto Rico’s power grid (The Hill)

FEMA is sued over rebuilding Puerto Rico’s power grid without focusing on renewables (NBC News)

FEMA sued over using disaster funds to rebuild Puerto Rico’s power grid (Washington P0st)

Lawsuit accuses FEMA of improperly failing to consider renewables in rebuilding Puerto Rico’s grid (The Hill)

A tax break on clean energy projects is coming to coal and oil towns (Salon)

A grand experiment is underway to direct clean energy companies to coal country (Cardinal News)

Roker Strikes Out By Blaming Climate Change For More Home Runs

Biden admin pauses key asylum shakeup ahead of Title 42’s expiration next month (Fox)

Signature asylum policy that Biden administration championed has been put on hold (L.A.Times)

The Dark Truth of Biden’s Immigration Policy (The New Republic)

Biden Missed ‘Golden Window’ To Restock Strategic Petroleum Reserves He Depleted, Oil CEO Says (Daily Wire)

Oil CEO calls Biden out for missing ‘golden window’ to replenish the US petroleum reserve: ‘Really bad’ (Fox Business)

Biden asks scandal-ridden Hunter to ‘stand up’ in Ireland because he’s ‘proud’ of him (N.Y. Post) Apparently he’s a good ‘earner’.

WH quietly corrects Jean-Pierre’s claim Biden has taken more press questions than Trump, Obama, Bush combined (Fox)

Scientists challenge US wildlife director’s qualifications (Associated Press)

U.S. intel agencies may change how they monitor social media, chatrooms after missing leaked U.S. documents for weeks (NBC News) This is why ‘government’ and ‘incompetent’ are considered synonyms. (Like ‘media’ and ‘bias’.)

Biden EPA’s EV Quotas Would Take Away Americans’ Freedom of Choice of Vehicles, Enrich China

Illinois Trucking Company’s Sudden Shutdown Leaves Team Drivers Stranded, Unpaid

Document with security details on Biden’s Belfast trip found on street: reports (The Hill) This is why ‘government’ and ‘incompetent’ are considered synonyms. (Like ‘media’ and ‘bias’.)

Sen. Mullin to Newsmax: US Military Preparedness in Question

Biden administration invests $300 million to repair bridges across the country (Fox) Compared to: Biden to Spend $1 Billion in Taxpayer Funds to Advance ‘Equitable Access to Trees’

Biden administration to widen Medicaid and ACA health coverage to DACA immigrants (Washington Post) I guess all of the poor in America are sufficiently flush with health care that we can afford to start paying for foreigners. Somebody needs to remind Biden that he is not the President of Mexico.

White House: NPR Independent News Organization  Independent of whom? Not the White House, that’s for sure.

Texas-Mexico border faces steep challenges as migrant numbers rise in Juárez-El Paso (Dallas Morning News)

Whistleblower: Biden Involved in ‘Kickback Scheme’ (NewsMax)

We Interrupt the ‘Dump Kamala’ Campaign To Bring You This Message

Pentagon Leaker Kicking Himself For Not Just Leaving Classified Documents Strewn Around His Garage (Babylon Bee)

Rural healthcare access at risk as public health efforts become politicized (PBS)

In Hindsight, Exposing Corruption and Collusion of COVID-19 Response

DISCUSS: Arcturus – The latest “Covid variant”

Harvard donor’s support of Fla. governor DeSantis prompts criticism from students, alumni (Boston Globe)

Harvard Affiliates Slam Ken Griffin Donation, Citing Support for DeSantis (Harvard Crimson)

Gov. Youngkin slows voting rights restorations in Virginia, bucking a trend (NPR)

Arnold Schwarzenegger rebuked for filling LA pothole that was not a pothole (The Guardian)

Arnold Schwarzenegger fixes pothole on Los Angeles street (ABC)

Arnold Schwarzenegger fills ‘giant’ L.A. pothole himself, saying ‘whole neighborhood’ was upset by the issue (NBC News)

Schwarzenegger accidentally fills in LA service trench, city says (KRON) In Texas, when the city digs a hole, they cone it off. I guess that’s too much work for L.A.

Big U.S. intelligence leak was by gun enthusiast in 20s -Washington Post (Reuters)

Thomas revelation of gifts fits a broader pattern of financial nondisclosure from the Supreme Court (CNN)

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s Record on Voting Rights (Democracy Docket) On the Left, ‘voting rights’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Trump-Nominated Judge Who Issued Radical Abortion Pill Ruling Cited An Absurd ‘Study’ (Huffington Post) On the Left, ‘absurd study’ means one that doesn’t agree with the Narrative.

Ethics Watchdog Urges Justice Department Investigation Into Clarence Thomas’ Trips (ProPublica) On the Left, ‘ethics watchdog’ means ‘Left-wing witch-hunter’.

Elon Musk’s Free-Speech Charade Is Over (The Atlantic)

Tucker Carlson Might Have Just Delivered His Most Racist Fox News Rant Yet (Huffington Post) The HuffPo may have delivered it’s most ridiculous race-hustle smear yet.

The Big Law Bias: To Represent Conservative Clients, Top Lawyers Often Forced To Leave Their Firms

Pelosi Slams Sen. Feinstein Resignation Calls as Sexist

Tim Scott Looks at Joe Biden and Thinks Civil War (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew looks at Tim Scott and thinks House Nigger.

Jim Jordan’s new stunt reveals the folly of ‘governing by Fox News’ (Washington Post) Greg Sargent’s new column reveals the folly of reading the Washington Post.

Ron DeSantis’s “Insidious” Immigration Bill (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continue their anti-Republican witch-hunt.

Washington Free Beacon.

Democrats and liberal pundits want Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) to resign immediately. She’s absurdly old (89), cognitively impaired, and her frequent health problems are preventing the U.S. Senate from confirming President Joe Biden’s extreme left-wing judicial nominees.

Feinstein’s critics already bullied her out of running for reelection in 2024. That’s a good thing. We don’t need a bunch of doddering octogenarians in charge of the world’s most powerful country.

Alas, many of the same people who want Feinstein gone are going to spend the next year and a half insisting that Biden, 80, deserves another term as president.

The American Mind.

Yesterday National Public Radio (NPR) announced that it is leaving Twitter, after the platform “falsely labeled” it as “state-affiliated media.” This is the “the same term it uses for propaganda outlets in Russia, China and other autocratic countries,” the indignant NPR huffed. Twitter CEO Elon Musk had the label changed to “government funded,” but this was still too much for NPR, which claims that—while it does receive government funds—such a label would tarnish its “credibility” and could somehow even “endanger journalists.”

Meanwhile the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is also throwing a hissy fit over being pasted with the same label, saying it “is, and always has been, independent,” and is merely “funded by the British public.” Also complaining is Voice of America (VOA), which, despite literally being run by an arm of the U.S. federal government, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, claims that, “The label ‘government funded’ is potentially misleading and could be construed as also ‘government-controlled’—which VOA is most certainly not.”

Each outlet claims it maintains “editorial independence” from the state despite receiving government funding, and so doesn’t deserve to be called “state-affiliated.” Regardless of what you think of Musk or Twitter, this is absurd. Let’s leave aside VOA, which was literally founded to conduct information warfare abroad on behalf of the United States, first in WWII and then during the Cold War, and is therefore so obviously state-affiliated that its claims otherwise are not really worth addressing. The BBC and NPR are only marginally less obvious in being state media.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin is an alumnus of Harvard who is grateful for his education. He has given millions to Harvard. Most recently, he gave an unrestricted gift of $300 million to Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is to be renamed in his honor. It’s hard to believe he couldn’t resist the temptation, find a worthier object of his charity, or distinguish between friends and enemies.

One might think that a simple thank-you from Harvard would be in order, but that is not the way of the world in our elite institutions of higher learning. Griffin is also a substantial Republican donor. Griffin’s departure from the party line at Harvard does not go down well with the renaming. The Harvard Crimson has an entire story on the fallout among the illuminati.

Sheldon Whitehouse: Clarence Thomas revelations may be ‘tipping point’ (MSNBC)

‘Grift scandal’ rocks Clarence Thomas (MSNBC)

Senate Democrats call for investigation into Justice Clarence Thomas (MSNBC)

Is Clarence Thomas Crooked? (The Bulwark) Mona Charen carries water for the Left.

Rupert Murdoch and Fox Corp. board members sued by investor over ‘stolen election claims’ (NBC News)

Dominion can’t bring up January 6 at Fox News defamation trial, judge rules (CNN)

Judge chides Fox News over Dominion claim of ‘missing’ Murdoch documents (Washington Post)

Murdochs, Fox Board Face Investor Lawsuit Over Election Lies (Bloomberg Law) Lies!

Anti-‘Groomer’ Republican Accused of ‘Inappropriate Relationship’ With Intern (Vice)

Between the Tennessee Three, Abortion, and Trump, the GOP Just Loves Losing (Vanity Fair)

Jet-Setting With Clarence Thomas Puts Spotlight on an Eccentric Billionaire (N.Y. Times)

Former Cassidy Hutchinson Attorney Sues House Of Representatives Over J6 Smears (The Federalist)

Fact Checkers Rush to Defend Speech-Curbing ‘2SLGBTQI+ Safety Zones’ in Canada

Republicans Are Silent On The Abortion Pill Ruling, Despite Confirming The Judge Behind It (Huffington Post)

The Republican Strategists Who Have Carefully Planned All of This (N.Y. Times) The Narrative media simply love conspiracy theories when they’re the ones doing it.

“You Just Lied!”: Elon Crushes BBC Reporter’s Claims About ‘Hate Speech’ On Twitter

Defending Yourself in Blue Cities Might Land You in Prison (PJ Media)

Jim Jordan Takes His Clown Show on the Road (The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew continue their anti-Republican witch-hunt.

News organizations sue to retrieve Jan. 6 footage released to Tucker Carlson (The Hill) Funny how they weren’t at all interested in it until Tucker got it.

What Can Democrats Do About Clarence Thomas’s Ethics Fiasco? (New York Magazine) Exactly what they’re doing–trying to make a mountain out of a pothole.

Pharma Cash Built the Conservative Court Majority That Now Harms Pharma (The American Prospect)

Scarborough Accuses GOP Of Turning America Into Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam

Policing manners

DeSantis Critic Embraced By Progressives Created Fake News Site to Promote Herself

Leftists On Twitter Report Disturbing Rise In People They Hate Having Speech (Bablyon Bee)

Montana GOP Has a Ploy to Sink Sen. Jon Tester: A New Election Law (Daily Beast) Only Republicans use ‘ploys’, of course; funny how much it looks like a reform to keep Democrats from stealing another election. Just a coincidence, I’m sure.

Students Slam University Admin for Providing Security to Riley Gaines During Alleged Assault  They ought to have let them beat her up! What were they thinking!

HBO Boss Dodges J.K. Rowling Anti-Trans Controversy After Announcing ‘Harry Potter’ Series: ‘Our Priority Is What’s on Screen’ (Variety) He’d better get with the program or he’ll be cancelled himself.

Dem Rep Katie Porter Complains About Working With Marjorie Taylor Green. The Democrat’s Staffers Complain About Working With Porter.

For Trump, bad things come in threes (MSNBC)

Manhattan DA Sues Jim Jordan To Stop Republican Probe Into Trump Arrest

Trump says criminal conviction wouldn’t stop him from running for president (Washington Post)

‘Fact Checker’ Is Stuck on Correcting TrumpCNN’s ‘Fact Checker’ Is Stuck on Correcting Trump

World Bank staff were told to give special treatment to son of Trump official (The Guardian) His name wasn’t Hunter, was it?

GOP Seeks To Shield Trump From All Future State Prosecutions (Huffington Post)

Has Trump Boxed His Rivals Into Defending Him On More Serious Charges, Too? (Huffington Post)

Donald Trump Sues Michael Cohen for Blabbing About Stormy Daniels (Daily Beast) Among other things, but the Daily Beast can’t seem to make it out of the gutter.

How climate change is threatening a remote town nestled in the Arctic Circle (PBS)

‘Entering the clean power era’: Wind and solar generated a record amount of global power in 2022 (CNBC)

Climate change: Fossil fuel emissions from electricity set to fall – report (BBC)

Wind and solar achieve a record high of 12% of global electricity in 2022 (electrek)

‘End of the fossil age’: Wind and solar broke energy records last year, report reveals (EuroNews)

A Leak at the Bottom of the Sea May Be a Harbinger of Doom (Daily Beast)

Forget greenwashing, it’s all about green-botching now (Financial Times)

Climate Crisis: What Is Greenwashing and Why Is It Concerning? (Knowledge at Wharton)

Greenwashing: The food labels to be wary of (ETBrandEquity)

There could be millions of abandoned wells in the U.S. Plugging them is a monumental task. (Washington Post)

Baking Soda Saves the World: New Additive in Concrete Mix Could Slash Carbon Emissions (SciTechDaily)

EPA faces questions over plastic-based fuel with huge cancer risk (The Guardian)

Environmental groups sue EPA over water pollution standards (Texas Tribune)

The EPA Faces Questions About Its Approval of a Plastic-Based Fuel With an Astronomical Cancer Risk (Pro Publica)

Finally, Europeans May Be Rejecting The EV Kool-Aid

Climate Crisis? What Climate Crisis? Part Two: Where We are in the UK Today

All German Nuclear Reactors To Cease Production

Health misinformation is lowering U.S. life expectancy, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf says (CNBC)

FDA chief blames America’s abysmal life expectancy on ‘misinformation’ online — not fentanyl or gun crime (UK Daily Mail)

Misinformation contributing to lower life expectancy in US, FDA chief says (The Hill)

FDA commissioner claims misinformation is contributing to lower US life expectancy (Washington Examiner)

What do COVID-19 and the bank crisis have in common? (The Hill) Government employees screwing the American people?

22-Year-Old National Guard Soldier Suffers Two Heart Attacks, Neurological Issues After Moderna Vax

Washington Free Beacon.

Transgender professor Deirdre McCloskey backed out of a debate at the University of Pittsburgh with conservative commentator Michael Knowles, despite expressing confidence in winning the debate in the weeks prior.

McCloskey, who identifies as a transgender woman, said the debate with Knowles, originally scheduled for April 18 at the University of Pittsburgh, “would not be a rational debate but a fascist rally,” Campus Reform reported. Knowles announced the change on Tuesday.

“I’ve just learned that Prof. McCloskey has dropped out of our debate scheduled for next week,” Knowles tweeted Tuesday. “For weeks, he’s baselessly smeared me as a ‘fascist’ but nonetheless insisted upon the importance of debating ideas rather than running from them. Apparently he’s changed his mind.”

“It’s telling that even a distinguished scholar with three Harvard degrees and half a dozen honorary doctorates cannot defend transgenderism,” Knowles added. “Of course: The ideology is indefensible.”

McCloskey explained his decision to back out of the debate, saying, “I decided not to participate in giving him a platform” and claiming Knowles is “utterly uninterested in finding the truth.”

The New Republic.

You’ll never guess because the author pulled it out of his ass.

The inflation crisis is over, and you can thank the poorest among us for delivering what (so far at least) is a soft landing. That isn’t the mainstream view yet, but eventually I think it will be.

No, it won’t, because the poor have nothing to do with inflation. Inflation is done by the people with power over the money supply: The government. (Biden and his handlers.)

Timothy Robert Noah (born 1958), an American journalist and author, is a staff writer at The New Republic. Previously he was labor policy editor for Politico, a contributing writer at MSNBC.com, a senior editor of The New Republic assigned to write the biweekly “TRB From Washington” column, and a senior writer at Slate, where for a decade he wrote the “Chatterbox” column. In April 2012, Noah published a book, The Great Divergence, about income inequality in the United States.

No training or expertise in economics, then, but plenty of experience pushing the Narrative.

Read it.

The United States, under the leadership of President Joe Biden, has launched a hard diplomatic offensive against Hungary, with the U.S. Embassy in Budapest—headed by Ambassador David Pressman—funding a nationwide billboard campaign that seeks to undermine the Hungarian government’s position on the Russo-Ukrainian war.

News of the Washington-financed billboard campaign comes amid dismally poor—and seemingly ever-deteriorating—relations between the two countries and alongside media reports that U.S. Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman, who is holding a press conference this afternoon, April 12th, is expected to announce the U.S.’ plan to take punitive measures against the Hungarian government.

Citing several independent diplomatic sources, the Hungarian opposition news portal 444 wrote that the Biden administration is planning to take new measures in order to punish the Hungarian government for its position on the Russo-Ukrainian war. The news site suggests the sanctions—similar to those leveled against Hungary in 2014—are likely to be imposed on influential people.

UPDATE: The American Deal With a Hungarian Devil

Steve Sailer.

About thirty years ago I attended a presentation by an executive at a vast snack and beverage company. She announced that her firm’s goal was to have their delicious sugary and salty products within arm’s reach of every American at all times. Maybe they’d never quite fully succeed, but damn it, they were going to try.

“Uh-oh,” I said to myself. “The future is going to be fatter.”

And so it was.

America, with 42 percent of our population being obese as of 2017–2020, up from 31 percent at the turn of the century, is now the fattest country outside of some beefy Pacific islands. We’re even worse off than traditionally sedentary Muslim cultures like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey. But the rest of the Anglosphere isn’t too far behind us. Countries that I long associated in my mind with healthy outdoor exercise, such as Australia and New Zealand, are now tipping the scales too.