Why New York’s hush money case against Donald Trump is viewed as risky (CNN)

After arraignment, Trump’s lawyers have ‘nothing to rely on’ (Reuters)

Donald Trump indictment changes 2024 race, but not the way you think (Fox)

CNN’s Panelists Dismayed, ‘Distressed’ By Weak Trump Indictment

While Trump’s base rallies, the GOP fractures (Politico)

Joe Scarborough: ‘Every Dem Disappointed By Indictment’—So Let’s Jail Trump For Contempt!

New York Magazine: ‘Michael Cohen Is Already Undermining the Trump Prosecution’

Nets Spend 658 Minutes on Trump, 0 Seconds on Biden Family Corruption

Why Can’t Democrats Control Their Trump Derangement Syndrome? (Larry Elder)

Watch: ABC News Blurs Out Trump Donation Number

How Trump could talk himself into a gag order (Axios) First Amendment? What’s that?

Trump’s Moment of Accountability (The Bulwark) The Bulwark continues to carry water for the Left.

House Republicans Subpoena Alvin Bragg’s Former Deputy in Major Escalation of Trump Prosecution Probe

Publisher drops children’s illustrator for anti-trans notes (Associated Press)

Clarence Thomas’ Wife Criticized by Fellow Justices Over ‘Schemes’: Book (Newsweek)

Canadian Bill Would Criminalize Protests of Drag Shows, Levy $25,000 Fines 

Here’s FBI Glossary for Flagging ‘Violent Extremism’

54 Ghost Guns Seized As Part Of California’s Gun Protection Program

MSNBC’s O’Donnell: GOP Dedicated to Supplying Mass Shooters with Guns

Tomlinson: Grid experts and execs slam $10 billion electricity plan, Republicans approve it anyway (Houston Chronicle)

How Fox Chased Its Audience Down the Rabbit Hole (N.Y. Times)

Record number of anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced this year (CNN) I guess ‘our democracy’ doesn’t include any real, you know, democracy.

If ‘Trans Genocide’ Rhetoric Isn’t Stifled, Expect More Violence From Left (The Foundry)

Meyers Labels References To Soros ‘Racist’ And ‘Anti-Semitic’  I guess Soros is his own race.

White House accuses GOP of helping Mexican drug cartels by targeting ATF (NBC News) The cartels are preferable to the Gestapo.

The GOP’s ‘Abusive Relationship’ With Trump (The Atlantic)

Ocasio-Cortez Calls For Clarence Thomas To Be Impeached Over Gifts From GOP Megadonor (Huffington Post)

California Gov. Newsom rips DeSantis during Sarasota visit with New College students (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)

Democrats Cannot Let DeSantis Define Himself To Latino Voters Nationwide (Talking Points Memo)

The View: Power Hungry GOP Only Win Elections By ‘Cheating’  The Law of Liberal Projection wins out again.

Before meeting with Elon Musk, top advertisers privately debate his “racist rhetoric” (Semafor) Of which there isn’t any, of course, it’s just their inner proglodyte expressing itself.

Clarence Thomas Broke the Law and It Isn’t Even Close (Slate) No, he didn’t. Wake me when they mention Hunter Biden.

Steve Sailer.

I’ve been banging this drum for 22 months, but, finally, here’s one of the first article in the Respectable Press to mention that the depolicing of bad driving after George Floyd is probably a big reason for the huge surge in traffic fatalities.

Will wonders never cease.

Read it.

The Red Chinese know who their friends are.

Read it.

In the 10 days since a transgender individual shot and killed three children and three adults at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, many LGBTQ+ advocacy groups and progressives have posted insensitive or disturbing images online or stormed state capitols and statehouses.

These activists also threaten to retaliate against those they claim are taking away their “rights” to perform transgender procedures on minors and to hide students’ changes in names or personal pronouns from parents at public schools.

Read it.

The Usual Suspects, of course, are all up in arms. There is much huffing and puffing about ‘democracy’, as if a vote by the elected representatives of the people is somehow ‘undemocratic’. Apparently proglodytes are so accustomed to not being held accounting for violations of the rules that they consider it an unwarranted imposition to be expected to obey the same rules to whom every one else is subject.

What surprises me is that Republican state legislators in Tennessee actually had the balls to enforce the rules.

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“What woke you up?” Since early 2016, I’ve heard family, friends, group chat acquaintances, and perpetually online Twitter users describe what led to their political second sailing.

In nearly everyone’s story, the ruling class’s revealing actions and rhetoric during events of national significance caused them to jettison their former normie views. For some, the turning point was seeing Catholic high school student Nicholas Sandmann slandered as a racist MAGA troll by a coterie of mainstream media stenographers and a bipartisan commentariat class. Others recoiled in disgust as they watched the campaign to destroy then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh with fabricated claims of sexual assault. The 2020 riots, when armed mobs burned down entire city blocks while the media downplayed events happening in the backgrounds of their own live reports, was another possible flash point. Whatever else the current American regime may lack, it certainly offers ample opportunities for political awakening.

Steve Sailer.

David Rozado has done another study of news media obsessions during the Great Awokening of the last 10-12 years, this time looking around the world.

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It looks like Sweden and Canada tended to be out ahead of the US in the early years of wokeness. Note that each country’s use of woke jargon terms is graphed against its own low point (0.0) and high point (1.0), not against each other. Sweden shows up on all six separate graphs and Canada on two.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

Did Chicago just vote to commit civic suicide Tuesday by voting in Brandon Johnson as their next mayor? Did Chicago voters get confused about what “Let’s go Brandon” means? The vote for a mayor who is even further to left and more beholden to the teachers union than Lori Lightfoot is inexplicable; even San Francisco had the wit to toss out its soft-on-crime district attorney.

The vote pattern is even more disturbing: the areas suffering the highest crime voted for Johnson in the highest proportion.

ZMan turns over a rock.

The expression, “you learn more from your failures than from your successes” is largely true on the individual level, with some obvious exceptions. If you are a bomb disposal man or you pack your own parachute, the lesson you learn from your failure is short lived, but for most other things the expression holds. What we think of as wisdom is mostly just experience, which is a nice way of saying mistakes. Moreover, success often leads to future error due to learning the wrong lesson.

This holds for groups of people. Sports teams that have a run of luck often fall into bad habits and then experience a collapse. They confused luck for talent. On the other hand, the young team that struggled through losses, learning hard lessons along the way, often comes out the other side as a good team. They made all the mistakes necessary to be terrible, and therefore learned the lessons required to win, so they emerged from the experience equipped to win.

It is a standard aphorism in the military that success comes from experience and experience comes from failure. I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard that when I was in the Navy.

Victor Davis Hanson.

We are in a Jacobin revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary.

The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020.

It was absorbed by hard-left ideologues. They were bent on radically altering, or hijacking, existing institutions to force radical, equality-of-result agendas that otherwise do not earn majority support.

The American people want affordable power and fuel and energy autonomy. They do not want a Green New Deal that results in dependence on the Middle East.

They want fiscal sobriety, not a permanent stagflationary economy marked by bank failures, soaring interest rates, crony capitalism, and subsidies for those who choose not to work.

They know no country can exist without a border, much less while offering blank checks to foreign cartels that kill 100,000 Americans yearly.

They demand realist deterrence abroad, not the current woke military whose erosion is spelling the end to American credibility and global stability.

Read it.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.
Especially in case
You might be a Jew.

Read it.

I have documented previously a post-2010 sharp increase of words used to denounce prejudice (i.e. racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, etc) in US and UK news media content. Some have referred to these trends and related shifts in US public opinion about increasing perceptions of prejudice severity in society as the Great Awokening or wokeness.

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Adam Smith once wisely remarked that “there is a great deal of ruin in a nation.” There is much less room for ruin in a city, as Portland, San Francisco and Seattle have proved in recent years, and Detroit, Memphis and Gary, did even earlier. Now, Chicago has decided to join that dismal parade.

The Windy City was already marching toward the abyss under its outgoing mayor, Lori Lightfoot. She was elected four years ago with over three-quarters of the vote. This year, she got so few votes in the first primary (about one sixth) that she was eliminated from the runoff. That second election, held on Tuesday, pitted Brandon Johnson, an African-American organizer for the powerful Chicago Teachers Union, against Paul Vallas, a Greek American who had led several major school systems around the country. Vallas’s résumé was far more impressive than his achievements in those jobs. His bumbling campaign against Johnson revealed those shortcomings once again.

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The corruption suffusing the latest Chicago mayoral election was perfectly legal and hiding in plain sight. Virtually all of Brandon Johnson’s funding and his legions of campaign workers came from the Chicago Teachers Union, plus several other public-sector unions. Those union friends went door-to-door singing his praises and putting up campaign signs all over town. It was a very effective strategy.

CNBC.

All are cities run by Democrats, even Dallas (12) and Houston (13) in Texas and St. Louis (15) in Missouri, otherwise red states.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Twitter has designated National Public Radio  as “state-affiliated media.”

Twitter has labeled National Public Radio as “state-affiliated media” on the social media site, a move some worried Wednesday could undermine public confidence in the news organization.

We can only hope so.

NPR said it was disturbed to see the description added to all of the tweets that it sends out, with John Lansing, its president and CEO, calling it “unacceptable for Twitter to label us this way.”

It was unclear why Twitter made the move. Twitter’s owner, Elon Musk, quoted a definition of state-affiliated media in the company’s guidelines as “outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution.”

“Seems accurate,” Musk tweeted in a reply to NPR.

These days, NPR gets only a minor percentage of its funding from the federal government. But it gets much more from its state affiliates, which themselves are largely financed by the federal and state governments.

Texas Senate passes bill banning COVID-19 vaccine, mask mandates (KVUE)

A Cry For Help From a French Doctor

Non-Vaccinated Doctors To Be Reintegrated in French Hospitals

GOP fundraiser says he got millions to illegally lobby Trump administration (Washington Post)

Judy Blume Shades ‘Drunk With Power’ DeSantis for School Censorship Bills (Daily Beast) Who?

Maddow Hypes Neo-Nazi Fire-Bomb Arrest, Ignored Similar Attack on Pro-Lifers

Twitter Adds ‘State-Affiliated Media’ Label To NPR Account Putting It On Par With Russia Today (Forbes) Heh.

Meyers, AOC Team Up To Air Grievances And Attack GOP  As they do.

MSNBC: ‘Mind-Numbingly Stupid’ Of Israel To Defend Itself From Violence

At CBS News, Kid Gloves for Fetterman, Brass Knuckles for Greene

Supreme Court Tells Maine to Stop Discriminating Against Religious Schools. Maine Does It Anyway.

As Young People March for Their Lives, Tennessee Crushes Dissent and Overrides Democracy (N.Y. Times)

Brandon Johnson wins Chicago mayoral contest, replacing former Mayor Lori Lightfoot  At least he’s not a lesbian–that we know of.

‘Get the hell out of here!’: Jamaal Bowman shouts after Marjorie Taylor Greene’s car (NBC News) After she was already leaving.

Stacey Abrams to join Howard University in role focused on race, politics (Washington Post) My, what a surprise. (Being a race hustler pays good money.)

Don Lemon’s Misogyny at CNN, Exposed: Malicious Texts, Mocking Female Co-Workers and ‘Diva-Like Behavior’ (Variety)

San Francisco’s Black Community Turns on NAACP President Who Criticized Reparations Plan  Show us the money!

Maryland School District Reviewing Policies to See If Homework Is Racist, Negatively Impacts ‘Marginalized Communities’   Insofar as it requires basic literacy, I suppose that it does.

Past His Prime: CNN’s Don Lemon Is Obnoxious Woman-Hater, Colleagues Say

Read it.

I am not making this up.

Be black, or female, or a foreigner.

Read it.

In a nutshell: Makes trouble for people who don’t deserve it.

The BLM (Burn Loot Murder) types and their fellow rioters are just one arm of a well-organized machine. Their footsoldiers are the payload, not the mechanism. The mechanism is the corrupt governance which allows them to mass in public, to wreak havoc, and to bail out if arrested at all. The Brownshirts are ordinary thugs. The local governments which put them to use to oppress to normal folks are the real problem.

When His Excellency Colonel Obama “organized” his footsoldiers at the national level, it wasn’t only the thugs in the streets who got trained (and identified, and filtered by capability, literally organized). Places like Ferguson and the Occupy protests were training runs, not only for the footsloggers, but for the local, state, and national government arms who now incite, condone, and defend block-burning riots from coast to coast. Those “bail cards” and the phone banks of lawyers standing by are the products identified as needful from these operational exercises.

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“We just have to demonstrate that he will not take power if he does run, making sure he—under legitimate efforts of our Constitution—does not become the next president again,” Joe Biden said of Donald Trump in an often overlooked remark just a few months ago.

ZMan turns over a rock.

Yesterday, the door was finally closed on the America that created the people who signed onto the MAGA movement and voted for Donald Trump. In their America, you fight things out in the court of public opinion, shake hands and leave it to the voters to decide who won. In whatever the new rulers plan to call whatever it is they think they are creating, those with power crush those without power. There is no longer a place for the spirited civic nationalism of Donald Trump.

Another striking feature of the event was that most people looking on from their couch wanted to hear a beer hall speech, not a boardroom speech. In private conversations people are slowly shifting from talk about how to fix things to talk about how to get revenge on the people who smashed things. Maybe it is the usual suspects laughing about a tranny slaughtering innocents children. Maybe it is the persecution of Trump, but the mood if shifting among the Dirt People.

Steve Sailer.

Last week, millions of college acceptances and rejections were sent out to high school seniors. While the 2023 data won’t be available for some time, using 2022 numbers we can now begin to assess the impact of 2020’s dual body blows to higher education: the “racial reckoning” and the Covid-excused Not So Great Reset in which standards were lowered and policies made lazier and stupider.

I’ll focus on the 2022 admissions statistics for the most famous public college system, the ten-campus University of California.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

My introduction to San Francisco came in the late 1970s, when I spent a lot of time there as a young lawyer. For a Midwestern guy, the San Francisco of that era was a revelation: great restaurants, famous hotels on Nob Hill, fog drifting in off the Bay. But today’s San Francisco is, sadly, something else.

Andy McCarthy.

It’s always possible to be surprised. The indictment brought by Manhattan’s elected Democratic district attorney Alvin Bragg against Donald Trump is even worse than I’d imagined.

Bragg’s indictment fails to state a crime. Not once . . . but 34 times. On that ground alone, the case should be dismissed — before one ever gets to the facts that the statute of limitations has lapsed and that Bragg has no jurisdiction to enforce federal law (if that’s what he’s trying to do, which remains murky).

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

You can read Alvin Bragg’s indictment of Donald Trump and a supporting statement of facts here. The indictment is what we expected. It all has to do with paying $130,000 to Stormy Daniels for a non-disclosure agreement, which was legal. The payment was made by “Lawyer A,” Michael Cohen. Trump reimbursed Cohen using Trump’s own money, which was legal. The “34 counts” arise out of the fact that by agreement, Cohen got reimbursed by sending monthly invoices to Trump or his revocable trust. So for each monthly bill from Cohen, we get three counts of falsifying documents: one for the invoice, one for the ledger entry, and one for the check stub. Pathetic.

The indictment alleges that all of this was done “with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof,” but it never says what that other crime was. The second crime is mandatory because without it, falsifying a business record under New York law is a misdemeanor on which the statute of limitation has run. Presumably the second crime is alleged to be a campaign finance violation. But the payment to Daniels did not violate the campaign finance laws.

NewsMax.

In a post Tuesday on his Truth Social platform, Trump also celebrated a legal victory against Daniels.

“Alvin Bragg shut down New York City, brought in 38,000 NYPD officers, and will spend an estimated $200,000,000 of NYC funds, for a totally legal $130,000 NDA,” Trump wrote. “On top of all that, the 9th Circuit Court just awarded me $122,000 — over the $500,000 already awarded, from Stormy ‘Horseface’ Daniels!”

Trump was referring to action taken by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California, which earlier Tuesday awarded Trump nearly $122,000 in attorney fees stemming from a failed defamation lawsuit Daniels filed against Trump when he was president.

New York Post.

A growing handful of New York City restaurants are determined not to handle cash despite the Big Apple’s ban on refusing hard currency – and they are turning to a new twist on old technology.

Slutty Vegan, an Atlanta-based vegan comfort food chain with outposts in Harlem and Brooklyn, is among restaurants that are installing “reverse ATM machines” that spit out prepaid cards to get around the “Cash-22” dilemma, Side Dish has learned.

One service provider – called ReverseATM, appropriately enough – rents out ATM-style machines that accept cash bills in exchange for an “open loop” debit card whose balance can be used anywhere that Visa and MasterCard are accepted.

An executive at the ReverseATM – whose clients range from fast-food eateries to large sporting venues like Madison Square Garden – told Side Dish that customers are never charged a fee for the debit cards.

Of course not–they get their piece from the business that accepts the card, as is normal.

The mayor of New York City has a message for Marjorie Taylor Greene ahead of her visit tomorrow (CNN)

Marjorie Taylor Greene hasn’t changed (MSNBC) They say that like it was a bad thing. (MSNBC hasn’t changed either.)

Why is ‘60 Minutes’ amplifying the views of Marjorie Taylor Greene? (CNN)

White House Gadfly Simon Ateba Falsely Claims He’s Banned From Dinner (Daily Beast)

How Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘pedophile’ slur made it to ‘60 Minutes’ (Washington P0st) Proglodytes like Greg Sargent can dish it out but they can’t take it.

Shellenberger: Why Renee DiResta Leads The Censorship Industry

Marjorie Taylor Greene Leaves CBS Speechless After Nasty Interview

Republicans Can’t Agree on a Path Out of Their Own Debt Crisis (N.Y. Times) It’s only a crisis because of Democrat spending. That’s not the fault of Republicans.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Hijacked Every Minute On 60 Minutes (Vanity Fair) The fact that she was allowed to get a word in edgewise is deeply offensive to the Narrative media.

Fox is not a news network but a propaganda outlet (Washington Post) Eugene Robinson demonstrates the Law of Liberal Projection once again.

After protests from the gallery, Florida Senate approves 6-week abortion ban (Tallahassee Democrat) The Left seems to think that having a rent-a-mob show up and be obnoxious is somehow a winning strategy.

Dems dump 500 pages of DeSantis opposition research (Axios)

Investigate the investigator: James Comer must be sidelined pending thorough inquiry (Courier-Journal) Guess the Narrative Media don’t like Republicans looking into the affairs of the Biden Crime Family.

Watch: Marjorie Taylor Greene quickly flees NYC protest after being shouted down (Raw Story) ‘Flees’? A prog sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest.

The View: MTG Doesn’t Matter Because Her Constituents Don’t, ‘Super Small’ District  I suspect more people voted for MTG in her district than watch The View.

BREAKING: SPLC to Face the Music for ‘Hate Group’ Defamation as Lawsuit Clears Major Hurdle

Biden accidentally drops, then awkwardly picks up challenge coin (N.Y. Post) Don’t know what a challenge coin is?

U.S. Diplomat to Washington: You’re Becoming Obsolete in One Big Area of Tech Policy (Politico)

Biden’s War on Christian Kids: Potatoes Replace Easter Eggs as Families Hit With Soaring Costs

US Manufacturing Reaches New Low as Biden Tours American Factories

Fact-Checking 4 Biden Claims About Economy and Manufacturing

Jill Biden Goes Full Karen, Demands Affirmative Action for White Basketball Players

Chase CEO: Biden’s Electric Vehicle Push Could Benefit Beijing and Imperil US National Security

Swiss Billionaire Bankrolls Biden Agenda With $63 Million in Dark Money

Vox.

The actual felony counts arise out of allegedly false entries that Trump made in various business records in order to make the payment to Daniels appear to be ordinary legal expenses paid to Cohen.

But Bragg built his case on an exceedingly uncertain legal theory. Even if Trump did the things he’s accused of, it’s not clear Bragg can legally charge Trump for them, at least under the felony version of New York’s false records law.

As Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor in the Manhattan DA’s office who played a significant role in the Trump investigation prior to his resignation in 2022, wrote in a recent book, a key legal question that will determine whether Trump can be charged under the felony version of New York’s false records law has never been resolved by any appellate court in the state of New York.

The felony statute requires Bragg to prove that Trump falsified records to cover up a crime. Bragg has evidence that Trump acted to cover up a federal crime, but it is not clear that Bragg is allowed to point to a federal crime in order to charge Trump under the New York state law.

The answer to this “gnarly legal question,” as Pomerantz put it, is simply unknown. So there is a serious risk that a New York judge will toss out the charges against Trump on technical legal grounds unrelated to the former president’s actual conduct.

As we’ve always known, this is a trumped-up case brought in the hope that somehow they can convince a New York jury to convict Trump of something, anything.

Read it.

Scandal-scarred Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., has his first primary challenger — war veteran Kellen Curry.

Curry, who went on two tours in Afghanistan and served as a vice president at JPMorgan, vowed to “restore honesty and integrity back to our congressional representation,” alluding to Santos’ sketchy background claims.

All of the complaints about Santos have been in reference to his life before he was elected to Congress; there has been no hint of any allegation that he’s not doing his job just as well as, say, Nancy Pelosi or Adam Schiff do theirs.

Did I live in Santos’ district, I’d be tempted to vote for him just for the entertainment value.

Freethink.

A group of researchers in Spain have synthesized a CRISPR-Cas gene editing system from 2.6 billion years ago, a laboratory feat they describe as a “resurrection.”

The work, published in Nature Microbiology, represents not only a way to better understand how bacteria first evolved this powerful gene editing tool, but could perhaps also lead to better versions.

By studying ancient CRISPR sequences and recreating them in the lab, the team was able to create functional versions of the ancient Cas proteins capable of cutting DNA in the modern day.

”This research signifies an extraordinary advance in knowledge about the origin and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems,” Francis Mojica, a University of Alicante researcher on the team, said.

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There is a fabulous ancient treasure still buried at Herculaneum in the Bay of Naples. It is an actual ancient library that has been locked under a veritable rock of volcanic ash since 79 A.D. It likely contains thousands of scrolls, comprising hundreds of books. As I’ll explain shortly, a few hundred were recovered in the 19th century. But many are probably still sitting there—waiting to be excavated. The reasons this hasn’t happened yet are complicated, and aren’t just financial, but political (no one can agree on priorities), though there are rumblings of late to try and go back in. What might we find if we do? I have often been asked this in interviews. Today I will spell out my answer.

It is entirely possible that this library contains copies of ancient classics that have been lost for thousands of years. That would be pretty huge.

Read it.

An article by The New Yorker that is more fair than I had any right to expect. If I had kids, I’d want them to go to Hillsdale.

Read it.

Indictment.

Statement of Facts.

Read it.

They really want to rub it in our faces. Nothing says “I’ll do whatever I want and you can’t do anything about it” like having brain-dead politicians and ciphers in political office. Although there are a number of politicians throughout history who have not been particularly bright, not a lot had vascular dementia. At the moment, we have two that are no doubt documented, but you will not be allowed to see the documentation: President Biden and Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman.

There used to be a joke about Yellow Dog Democrats, Democrats who would vote for a yellow dog if it ran as a Democrat. I guess it isn’t a joke anymore.

Dennis Prager.

My field of study in graduate school was communism. As a fellow at the Russian Institute of Columbia’s School of International Affairs, I was, if I remember correctly, one of seven students in the entire university to major in what was known at the time as “Communist Affairs.”

I cite this in order to make this point: In my wildest dreams, I never imagined what I was studying would ever apply to the United States of America, the freest country in world history.

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All these years later, I see that I was wrong. Communism—or if you will, left-wing fascism and totalitarianism—is coming to America and Canada, and (a bit more gradually) to Australia and New Zealand.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

It is fun to take in the Chronicle of Higher Education every day, because it is like reading a trade journal for an industry that knows it is in decline, along the lines of daily newspapers or buggy whip makers. Every day the Chron operates from a cringe mode about the problems of declining enrollment, financial pressures, the poor morale among DEI staff and the rising backlash against it, and above all paranoia about Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Yesterday the Chron had an especially revealing article about labor shortages in higher education. This will certainly come as bizarre news for the armies of un- and under-employed Ph.ds and adjunct instructors everywhere. But it turns out faculty hiring isn’t the main problem. Colleges are having a difficult time hiring—wait for it—administrators.

The American Mind.

Try to imagine this story on CNN:

Whites only make up a little more than a quarter of NFL players, much less than half their percentage share of the overall population, and experts fear the harm this disparity produces. How will white fans identify with the teams in their cities and feel inspired to pursue careers in this lucrative field if they see so few people like themselves on the field? Will they be able to avoid the harmful conclusion that they are performatively inferior in football to those who occupy the majority of positions in the league, and will they suffer lasting psychological deficits as a result?

Can’t imagine it? Yeah, me neither.

Read it.

Five individuals, who Swedish authorities say have “international ties to violent Islamist extremism,” were arrested on Tuesday, April 4th during anti-terror police raids across the country.

The raids took place in the early morning hours in the towns of Eskiltuna and Strängnäs, west of the capital, and Linköping, south of Stockholm, and followed an extensive intelligence-gathering operation by the Swedish Security Service Säpo, the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter reports.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.

David Cole.

That tranny genocide is something, huh?

It’s like the Yakov Smirnoff of genocides: “In Trannyland, genocide victims kill you!”

In light of last week’s Christian school massacre, I wanna revisit something I wrote a year ago regarding female influence in trannyism. I pointed out that “groomer” doesn’t explain why so many trannyism-in-school propagandists are women.

What explains the female presence in the defining mania of the 21st century?

The core belief of trannyists is that children are born genderless. Doctors make a guess—they “assign” a gender—and until kids “discover” their true gender (i.e., until an adult leads them to it), they’ll be condemned to a life of misery and suicide.

This game runs on the Scientology engine. Hubbard’s the template: We’re all born with “thetans” inside us, and that’s why we’re unhappy. But Scientologists can pry the thetans out (for a fee). And then we’ll be blissful!

Quilette.

The upcoming ruling by the US Supreme Court on racial preferences is certain to ignite yet another divisive debate about whether or not a person’s ethnic heritage should determine their treatment by the state and major institutions. After steady progress towards “race-blind” governance, the notion of equal treatment is disappearing in a frenzy of ethnic self-assertion and white guilt.

The new racialized politics sunders the basis for liberal societies, essentially diminishing the value of merit and hard work. Some advocates even support separate living places on college campuses, a chilling reprise of segregation. Elsewhere, grade schoolers are instructed that America is based on lies and its current systems and structures are irredeemable. There are cases of schools separating third-graders by race and asking them to rank their “privilege.”

Read it.

Democrats are just appalled that Republicans would dare call a “mostly peaceful” storming of a Capitol building an “insurrection.” Any comparison to what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, is just outrageous, they say.

Following a mass shooting by a transgender person at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, several protests erupted in Tennessee and other state Capitols.

When the protests in Nashville and elsewhere became not quite so peaceful, legacy media “fact-checkers” leaped into action. They twisted and turned to assure everyone that when left-wing activists take over a capitol, it’s totally different than if Donald Trump’s supporters do it.

Videos of protesters scuffling with police were quickly “contextualized” by our “objective” press to make sure your lying eyes didn’t deceive you.

UPDATE: Tennessee House speaker strips Democrats of committee roles after Capitol protest

UPDATE: 3 Democrats in the TN House face possible expulsion, the first time in state history it would not be bipartisan  Because the Democrats aren’t keeping to the old rules.

UPDATE: Protestors Arrested After Multiple Warnings

Narcity Canada.

With a constantly fluctuating U.S. housing market, it makes sense that the most desirable zip code in the States has some pretty affordable home prices, and you can thank Texas real estate for that.

In a 2023 study from HouseFresh, researchers revealed the hottest area for American homebuyers right now, and it is the quiet suburbs of Northeast Dallas.

The researchers combed through Zillow data of the country’s 100 most populous cities to find what locations buyers are most interested in and the North Texas neighborhood came out on top.

Things are even cheaper and nicer outside of Dallas proper, which is a Democrat-run pesthole.