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A 12-year-old and a 20-year-old are both facing a murder charge after a restaurant employee was gunned down during an altercation with a customer Saturday night in Keene.

Flowers and a cross now stand outside the Sonic Drive-In on Old Betsy Road in Keene. It’s a growing memorial to Matthew Davis, a 32-year-old employee and father who was shot and killed while on the job Saturday night.

According to a statement from Keene Police, the shooting happened at about 9:40 p.m. Angel Gomez, 20, went to the Sonic with several passengers and was acting “disorderly” in the parking lot when Davis confronted him for urinating in the parking lot, Keene Police Chief James Kidd said.

The confrontation turned physical and a 12-year-old who was in Gomez’s car pulled out an assault rifle and fired six rounds at Davis, Kidd said.

Gomez? Obviously a Neo-Nazi white supremacist.

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I’ve been interested in comments made by various public health officials reflecting total amnesia about events during Covid. The canard, actively promoted by the officials and known to be fictitious, that the vaccines prevented transmission, was a dagger in the heart of an already fragile social cohesion. And now these officials are pretending to be mystified by the suggestion that they had anything to do with lockdowns, mandates, contact tracing, school closures, etc.

The people at Grabien have compiled a helpful retrospective to keep actual events and media perspectives from being memory-holed. Worth watching.

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Special counsel John Durham, in a widely anticipated report Monday, condemned the Justice Department and FBI for their conduct in the “Russian collusion” investigation of Donald Trump.

Durham’s investigation looked at the origins of Crossfire Hurricane, the name of the FBI probe of whether Trump or his 2016 presidential campaign colluded with Russians to win the election.

The investigation was taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller, a former FBI director, after Trump was elected president. Mueller’s team concluded there was no evidence of conspiracy or collusion between Trump or his campaign and Russia.

Judge Orders FDA To Speed Up Release Of COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Data From 23.5 Years To Just 2

A Colossal Failure Around The World

DeSantis Critic JB Pritzker Sent His Family to This $18M Florida Horse Farm During the Pandemic

Farewell Questions For Rochelle Walensky

What Congress can do, right now, about Justice Thomas (Washington Post) The witch-hunt continues.

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Hill Staffer Is A Prominent Follower Of Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes (Talking Points Memo)

How Kyrsten Sinema Uses Campaign Cash for Her Marathon Habit (Daily Beast)

Teacher Sacked After Refusing To Use 8 Year-Old’s Trans Pronouns

Nearly $2M Raised for Ex-marine on Manslaughter Charge

Inside the Tennessee legislature, where a GOP supermajority reigns (Washington Post) Adventures in Flyover Country with gun & camera….

Rick Wilson hands Democrats their top talking point to turn 2024 GOP candidates ‘radioactive’ (Raw Story) RINOs gotta RINO.

GOP state lawmakers try to restrict ballot initiatives, partly to thwart abortion protections (Associated Press) Who knew that the AP could read minds?

Hostin Decries ‘Dangerous’ DeSantis Raising Money for NY Marine Vet

Sen. Murphy Warns Supreme Court of ‘Popular Revolt’ on Guns

Mexican ambassador lashes out at Kennedy for ‘racist and xenophobic insults’

After school shooting, Tennessee governor signs bill to shield gun firms further against lawsuits  (Associated Press) Because those guns just shoot themselves!

Connecticut high court nominee regrets signing 2017 letter supporting Amy Coney Barrett (Associated Press) Duck and cover!

POLL: Two-Thirds of Americans Agree Journalists Are Mostly Advocates, Not Unbiased

On PBS, Liberal Journalists Trade Tips on Deplatforming Trump for ‘24

Scoop: How Trump’s team egged him on during CNN town hall (Axios) ‘Scoop’?

Supreme Court to Review Dem Lawsuit Over Trump Hotel Lease

Trump Is Wrong on Abortion: Super-Majority of GOP Primary Voters Support Six-Week Limit (National Review) NR turns into Yet Another Anti-Trump RINO rag.

Durham Report: FBI Had No ‘Actual Evidence,’ Relied on Trump Opponents

In Final Report, Trump-Era Special Counsel Denounces Russia Investigation (N.Y. Times)

Ga. Prosecutor Fights Trump Bid to Cut Her From Election Probe

NBA: Grizzlies Suspend Morant After 2nd Alleged Gun Video

Supreme Court to review South Carolina congressional map for discrimination against Black voters (Associated Press)

In Black-led Compton, a Latino majority fights for political power (Washington Post)

Supreme Court to consider South Carolina plan that ‘exiled’ Black voters (Washington Post)

Biden stirs up racial fears – again

‘I declared myself not woke’: What happened when a critic of anti-racism ‘ideology’ led DEI at a Bay Area college (S.F. Chronicle) She’s fat, has blue hair, and undoubtedly ‘identifies’ as black. I don’t believe her.

Vice and Motherboard owner files for bankruptcy (BBC)

Here’s what could happen to the military if the US defaults on its debt (The Hill)

NYC May Start Charging Fines That Vary With Offender’s Income

NYC Converts Hotels To Shelters To Accommodate Expected Influx Of Illegal Immigrants

Toronto ‘Anti-Capitalist’ Pay-When-You-Can Cafe Shuts Down After Just One Year  Markets work, even when you don’t want them to.

“It’s Just Not Safe”: Decades-Old Baltimore Business Closes Shop Because Of Crime, Blames Democrats

Head of Planned Parenthood: Expand SCOTUS  Pack the court!

Planned Parenthood vs. The Supreme Court

How A Left-Wing Activist Group Teamed Up With Big Pharma To Push Radical Gender Ideology on American Hospitals

Dems’ great hope to hold the Senate: GOP primary implosions (Politico) Be careful what you wish for….

Hospitals create police forces to stem growing violence against staff (NPR)

Coastal Cities Priced Out Low-Wage Workers. Now College Graduates Are Leaving

Planned Parenthood Backs Court-Packing, Term Limits for Justices

San Francisco Announces Plan To Release Monkeys Onto The Streets To Fling Away All The Poo  (Babylon Bee)

The Next Bud Light? Miller Lite Under Fire for Feminist Commercial

Biden expected to meet with Hill leaders Tuesday following ‘productive’ debt limit meetings among staff (CNN)

GOP Oversight Chair Says He’s Lost Track of His Biden Corruption Informant (Daily Beast)

Rep. James Comer: House Oversight Dems are acting as criminal defense attorneys for the Biden family (Fox)

Watch: Did CNN Accidentally Admit The Truth About Illegal Migrants And Title 42?

How the Supreme Court might view the debt limit fight (Politico)

Judge Gets Nashville Shooter’s Unredacted Manifesto

Report: Busload of Migrants Arrives Near VP Harris’ Home

U.S.: Record-Setting Migrant Surge as Title 42 Ends

Border Patrol Braces For Surge As Migrants Celebrate End of Title 42

Biden And DHS Secretary Claim ‘White Supremacy’ Is The Greatest US Terror Threat

Politico: VP Harris Could Harm Biden’s Reelection Bid  Oh, ya think?

What Happens if President Biden Caves on the Debt Ceiling? (The American Prospect)

Biden Awarded Honorary Doctorate For Work As Honorary President  (Babylon Bee)

Packers O-Lineman Calls Out Biden For Scripted Interviews

Kamala Said Border Crisis Is ‘Going Rather Smoothly.’ Then a Busload of Migrants Showed Up at Her House.

US “Plans” To Buy 3 Million Barrels For SPR Days After It Drained 2.9 Million In One Week

The American Mind.

As a conservative AP English teacher and AP Exam reader, I have something of a love-hate relationship with College Board.

On one hand, I love the rigor and standards of Advanced Placement classes. For students willing to work hard and make the most of their time in high school, AP classes are a great option that will challenge them and offer them a chance at earning college credit. Moreover, they find their community in AP, something especially critical in otherwise rundown public schools where the world outside the AP bubble is mired in crime and mediocrity—for all its cheesiness today, the eighties film “Stand and Deliver” actually captures this reality pretty well. Both as a student and teacher, I’ll always be grateful that AP was there for the kids who needed it.

On the other hand, the leftist bias in the curricula, along with progressive pedagogy that emphasizes skills over content, has tarnished the luster of College Board. In history courses, which seem to receive a makeover every few years, these problems are especially pronounced. In English, there’s been a noticeable shift toward diverse ethnic or racial voices, and there’s certainly a relativistic approach to texts featured in these courses (for example, students were asked to analyze a portion of Sonia Sotomayor’s memoir to demonstrate their knowledge of rhetoric). I do encounter teachers, usually from very progressive states, who take a progressive approach in their classes and score exam essays with this prejudice, but indoctrination isn’t implicit in the course curriculum itself.

The American Mind.

With the recent irresponsible bank bailouts by the U.S. government and culture war over Bud Light, American capitalism seems to have gone off the rails. However, there’s a method to the madness. These shenanigans are symptoms of an underlying malady. It goes by various names—crony capitalism, ESG, woke capital—but its essence is simple: cool, calculating deals between elites to maximize wealth and power.

Standard economics provides the interpretive key. All we must do is take the toolkit economists use to analyze “private” choice, such as exchange in markets, and apply it to “public” choice, namely politics. Collective action is absolutely a forum for exchange. Representatives from Podunk and Decadentapolis logroll to get each other’s bills passed. Bureaucrats from the Department of Mission Creep and the Micromanagement Agency trade influence and favors to acquire larger budgets. It’s exchange all the way down. Crony-wokeism is no exception.

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If you want your murder to matter, you need to be shot, not stabbed. How much coverage did the four University of Idaho students stabbed to death in their apartment last year get? Even though theirs was the first murder in Moscow, Idaho in 7 years, you probably didn’t hear about it.

Mass stabbings don’t have the same sexy cachet as mass shootings. Unlike the UK, no one responds to mass stabbings by proposing to ban chef’s knives. (Yet.)

But not all guns are equal.

If you really want people to notice your murder, you had better arrange to be shot by an AR-15 or some mean-looking gun that Democrats want to ban as a “weapon of war”. Handguns are used in 78% of mass shootings. Like the kind that happen every weekend all over Chicago. And you don’t want to be just another statistic among the “15 shot over a bloody Sunday afternoon”.

Washington Post.

At the Nation’s Gun Show in Chantilly, spirits seemed high. People wandered from booth to booth, and the scent of popcorn filled the air. It could have been mistaken for a state fair or weekend flea market were it not for the rows of weapons and accessories — gun parts, AR build kits and body armor — laid out on every surface. It was easy to overlook the one common emotion underlying the event: fear.

Here were weekend shoppers intently inspecting tools of death: moms testing the heft of handguns and fathers stocking up on ammo. When I asked attendees and sellers what gun ownership meant to them, most replied with the same word: “protection.”

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Buried long into an interminable New York Times thumbsucker about intergenerational wealth transfer and racial inequality comes this sentence: “The president’s latest budget proposes largely offsetting spending on social programs with revenue from a minimum 25 percent annual wealth tax on households with a net worth of $100 million or more.”

I follow this stuff pretty closely and somehow I missed Biden proposing a “25 percent annual wealth tax.”

New York Times.

In Paraguay, the Colorado Party has held power for seven decades. On Election Day, it rounds up Indigenous people and pays them for their votes.

Much the same way Democrats do ‘ballot harvesting’ in urban slums.

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Guess who stood for the national anthem? Starting in 2020, WNBA start Brittney Griner said she and her teammates would protest the national anthem. Previously, “During a game between the Phoenix Mercury and the Los Angeles Sparks, the two teams walked off the court while the National Anthem played. Interestingly enough, Griner mentioned that this will not be the last time she would walk off the court.”

…

Fast-forward to her return to freedom in the United States and her first competitive game since her release, in a preseason Phoenix Mercury against the Los Angeles Sparks game, which took place Friday…

Joel Kotkin.

We will soon be leaving the first quarter of the 21st century behind us. But in the minds of our transportation planners, the punditry, and some real estate interests, the way forward is actually to step back to the glories of the 19th century. At the state level, and most significantly in Washington, we are about to pour an unprecedented $20 billion more into transit, especially subways and other trains. This is folly: changing demographics and geography, as well as new technologies, suggest a very different future for how most of us get around. We are simply not going to become a nation of train travelers, and it would be pointless—not to say destructive—to try.

There’s nothing new here. Much of the national media, in chorus with urban political and economic leaders, have been pushing these train-focused approaches since the days of Jimmy Carter. The stated aim is usually to move Americans away from their supposedly evil and pernicious love of the private automobile. Americans drive not because they irrationally love cars—although some do—but because it is simply by far the best way to get around.

Trains take you from where you aren’t to where you don’t want to be. That was fine when the alternative was horses or bicycles, but we have moved beyond that now.

Gates of Vienna.

A culture-enricher attacked gendarmes with an iron bar and a knife in the town of Mornas in southeastern France. He shouted “Allahu Akhbar” during his close encounter with law enforcement, but the authorities say they have no clue as to his motive.

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

Ron DeSantis tiptoes around Iowa as Trump cancels visit amid tornado threat

White Christian nationalism emerges from shadows of GOP politics (MSNBC)

San Francisco Democrat Pushes To Restrict Gun Use By Security Guards 

Clarence Thomas Is What He Wrongly Accuses Black Folks of Being (The Nation)

Defending white nationalists, Tommy Tuberville fears a military that is ‘going wrong’ (Washington Post) He’s not ‘defending white nationalists’, of course; that’s just the twist put on it by the WaPo.

How Women’s Swimming Got So Transphobic (The Nation)

MSNBC Host Katie Phang Accuses Daniel Penny of ‘Murder’ In Subway Death of Jordan Neely

Why Some Companies Are Saying ‘Diversity and Belonging’ Instead of ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ (N.Y. Times)

DeSantis gets millions in taxpayer money to fight lawsuits over hard-right policies (Tallahassee Democrat)

How to Raise $89 Million in Small Donations — And Make It Disappear (N.Y. Times) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Daniel Penny’s Supporters ‘Disgusted’ by Manslaughter Charge

Free speech or federal crime? Protesters are still marching outside conservative Supreme Court justices’ homes (NBC News) Federal crime–the law is clear, the Attorney General is partisan, and the Narrative media are biased.

Recession Odds Rise To Highest In 40 Years: Fed

German newspaper cancels corruption report on Biden’s Albanian buddy

‘All We Want Is to Be Safe’: Migrants Push North After End of Title 42

The Disinformation Governance Board Is Out; The “Foreign Malign Influence Center” Is In…

Why Must the Washington Post Fact Checker Discount the Hunter Laptop Factor?  Because it’s contrary to the Narrative. Duh.

US Homeland Security Chief Says Border Crossings Are Down 50%

Comer: Key Informant in Biden Probe Is Missing  Apparently Biden has Hillary on speed-dial.

Chuck Todd Suggests GOP More to Blame for Border Crisis Than Biden  The Law of Liberal Projection strikes again.

McCaul: Will Pursue Contempt Charges on Blinken  How about ‘impeachment’?

The Case for Violating the Debt Limit Is Dangerous Nonsense (N.Y. Times) NYT, Democrat mouthpiece.

7 doomsday scenarios if the U.S. crashes through the debt ceiling (Washington Post) WaP0, Democrat mouthpiece.

Biden Heads To Beach House To Recuperate After Grueling 5-Hour Work Week  (Babylon Bee)

Trump Iowa Rally Rescheduled Over Weather

The 2024 election isn’t about normal things. It’s about Trump. (Washington Post)

Chris Christie: Trump a ‘Puppet of Putin’ With Ukraine Remark

Sketchy funding for Trump’s Truth Social was hidden from SEC and investors: report (Raw Story)

DeSantis Impresses in Iowa, Showing Up an Absent Trump (N.Y. Times) The only time you’ll see the NYT say something even vaguely positive about DeSantis is when it means they can bash Trump.

CORROBORATION: More women come forward about Trump’s sexual predation during presidency (Washington Presss) Let’s see … nope, nothing about Biden’s practice of grabbing women ans sniffing their hair.

Biden previews 2024 election pitch to young Black voters in Howard University commencement speech (CNN)

Biden Warns of ‘Sinister Forces’ Trying to Reverse Racial Progress (N.Y. Times)

California Reparations Committee Calls for Ending Cash Bail

White Supremacy Is The ‘Most Dangerous Terrorist Threat,’ Biden Tells Howard Grads (Huffington Post)

Next Chairman of Joint Chiefs Wants White Male Officers to be a Minority

Biden calls white supremacy greatest terrorism threat as 2024 race heats up (Washington Post)O Count the number of people blown up by ‘white supremacists’ and by, say, Muslims.

Eric Adams Says He’s a Progressive. Democrats Beg to Differ. (N.Y. Times) Apparently he’s Not Black Enough.

NYC’s ‘lack of communication’ on migrant dump ‘unacceptable,’ Mayor Mike Spano says (N.Y. Post)

New York City plans to temporarily house migrants in hotels in other counties. Two counties are suing to stop it (CNN)

Migrants have arrived in the Hudson Valley. What happens next? (Times-Untion)

The real reasons stores such as Walmart and Starbucks are closing in big cities (CNN)

This is the REAL reason for the retail apocalypse! Chains such as Walmart, Nordstrom and Walgreens are shuttering due to crime, work from home, online shopping and rising rents, experts say (UK Daily Mail)

Interview with a gender clinic whistleblower

Oregon GOP Walkout Targets Bills On Abortions For Children, Gun Control

After-School Satan Clubs Are Hot, Hot, Hot!

Alarming Surge In Gun Shop Robberies As Democrats Fail To Enforce Law And Order 

Election Group With Ties To Soros, Zuckerberg Meets In Washington For Conference Closed To Public

PBS, NPR Act Like Democrat Team Members in Live Coverage AND Bias By Omission

Heap Big Trouble For Fauxcahontas?

Oxford Union To Set Up “Welfare Spaces” For Students To Cope With Gender Debate

NYC Hotel Kicking Wedding Parties to Curb to Take in Migrants

Sen. Feinstein’s Stock Trades Get Aaron Rodgers’ Attention

Wedding Parties, Homeless Vets Booted From NY Hotels To Make Room For Migrants

Never Forget: A Retrospective On The Media Lies Surrounding COVID

WashPost Writer Philip Bump Lets Cat Out of the Bag on Zuckerbucks for Democrat Turnout

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

The following question ought to be put publicly: If the person who died as the result of Daniel Penny’s brave act of self-defense had been white or Asian, would Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg have indicted Penny? Everyone knows the answer to this.

The left is clearly trying to re-run the George Floyd drill. In the aftermath of Floyd’s death, the nation’s ruling elite had a nervous breakdown. One good indicator of this is the database our friends at the Claremont Institute produced of contributions to Black Lives Matter and associated leftist race-related organizations in the aftermath of L’Affaire Floyd. The total comes to a staggering $97 billion (mostly from corporate sources indulging their liberal guilt and buying off their internal DEI faction lodged securely in their HR departments)—more than the GDP of 46 African countries. See more in Josh Hammer’s commentary in Newsweek.

Are we going to see a re-run of the Floyd/1619 Project riots again this summer, especially if—as I think possible—Daniel Penny’s indictment is dismissed at the first preliminary hearing? Will we see corporations rushing to open their checkbooks again to pay off the race-hustlers? Will there be shrines erected and public squares renamed in memory of Jordan Neely? I doubt it.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Minneapolis’s Ward 10 bisects Lake Bde Maka Spa, formerly known as Lake Calhoun. It includes the Uptown neighborhood running up to the lake as well as the Whittier neighborhood running from Lake Street to Franklin Avenue. It is, you might say in the current lingo, “diverse,” insofar as such diversity is understood to be consistent with one-party rule.

Minneapolis’s one party called a convention to endorse a candidate for the Ward 10 city council at Ella Baker Global Studies & Humanities Magnet School yesterday. Incumbent Aisha Chugtai (the council’s first Pakistani Muslim woman) is opposed by Nasri Warsame (a Somali Muslim man). As I say, it’s a “diverse” ward.

When Chugtai’s supporters took the stage for Chugtai’s speech, Warsame’s supporters advanced towards the stage and began pushing and shoving. It turned into a brawl and Chughtai was prevented from addressing the convention.

The problem with Normal Democrat Tactics is that their Subject Races think it applies to fellow Democrats.

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Newly published figures from the Research and Information Center on Antisemitism (RIAS) in Berlin have revealed that in Germany’s capital city, which percentage-wise hosts one of the largest Muslim populations of any major European capital, more than two antisemitic attacks per day were recorded in 2022.

In its report titled “Antisemitic Incidents in Berlin in 2022,” published on Wednesday, May 10th, RIAS Berlin, which kept track of all antisemitic incidents across all districts, social classes, and political orientations, recorded 848 anti-Jewish incidents of physical and verbal nature, a total which amounts to 2.3 incidents per day, the daily Berliner Zeitung reports.

One incident of extreme violence, 21 assaults, 31 targeted property damage, 24 threats, and 751 incidents of abusive behavior involving, among other things, 36 gatherings and 20 mass mailings were among the 848 antisemitic incidents that were recorded last year, the organization states in its report.

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

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Well, probably not all. But when did public school education become, on net, a force for evil? At some time after public sector unions were legalized in, as I recall, the 1960s. One of the worst mistakes in the history of our democracy. Now, the teachers’ unions have mobilized teachers as left-wing activists, and a great many of those who were not comfortable with that politicization have left the profession.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The Democratic Party press has done its best to suppress the Joe Biden corruption story, beginning with the “Dirty 51” letter that successfully blocked the story during the 2020 presidential campaign, and continuing up to the present day. Moreover, when the issue has been discussed, it has far too often been framed as relating to Hunter Biden, as though Hunter, an unemployable and degenerate crackhead, had anything to sell to a foreign power. As I have written many times, no one has ever bribed Hunter Biden.

Gates of Vienna.

Saman Abbas was a young Pakistani woman living in Italy who was murdered in April of 2021, and is believed to have been honor-killed by her family. Saman’s father fled to Pakistan shortly after her death, and Italian prosecutors have been trying to extradite him for many months. The Pakistani government seems to be deliberately obstructing the process.

Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.
And they don’t mind
If you’re Muslim too.

Washington Free Beacon.

Most feminists—heck, most people in general—like to see themselves as being on the side of progress. Not Mary Harrington, a self-described “reactionary feminist” and the author of Feminism Against Progress.

What does it mean to be “against progress” in the name of feminism? That turns out to be mostly a semantic matter: Harrington does not want to lose the right to vote, and while she takes some swipes at the “Progress Theology” of folks like Steven Pinker, she doesn’t deny, much less bemoan, that humans have become richer and live longer lives in recent centuries.

What Harrington dislikes are some major changes we have seen in the relations between the sexes in the past 60 years or so: The essence of her view is that not every change that free markets enable—or that societies enthusiastically embrace—is necessarily an improvement on what came before. Just as ubiquitous sugar is a poor fit for a species that evolved in an environment where calories were scarce, perhaps dating apps, “gender affirming” medical interventions, and even the Pill are a poor fit for humanity too, offering instant gratification but longer-term harm.

Powerful Cocktail of Modified Antibodies Supercharges the Immune System Against COVID-19 (SciTechDaily)

Study identifies extremely potent monoclonal antibodies that neutralized multiple sarbecoviruses (NewsMedical)

Chemists’ technique reveals whether antibodies neutralize SARS-CoV-2 (MIT News)

Why Was EcoHealth Alliance’s Grant Reinstated Despite Group’s Apparent Failure To Comply With NIH Conditions?

Non-Profit Hospitals Made Huge Profits During Pandemic While Receiving $23 Billion In Federal COVID-19 Aid: Report

NYT: Cleopatra Was Black Because It Makes Us Feel Good to Say She Was Black

Critical Race Theory Has a Scholarship Problem  I.e. it doesn’t have any.

Ukraine live briefing: Russian strikes reported in three cities; concerns over safety at nuclear plant (Washington Post)

US Military to Bolster Defensive Posture in Gulf After Iran Seizes Tankers

Why The Economic War Against Russia Has Failed

China Has ‘Supreme Access’ to TikTok, Former Exec Alleges

Russia Establishes Anti-Drone Police As Threat To Cities Grows

The Battle for Bakhmut

MARINES: U.S. Marine Corps Tomahawk Missile Batteries

Zelensky Uninvited to Eurovision Stage

Germany Announces Its Biggest Military Aid Package for Ukraine (N.Y. Times)

US Blocks China’s Attempt To Condemn Israeli Attacks On Gaza At UN

Bad To Worse For Russia: Multiple Aircraft Downed In 24 Hours – Ukraine Gains In Bakhmut

Kathy Hochul begs Biden for more aid to confront escalating NY migrant crisis (N.Y. Post)

The White House Says Immigration Officials Don’t Release Migrants. The Border Tells a Different Story.

Texas Gov. Abbott: Biden WH Pulling Patrol Agents Off Border

New York Times Mocks Comer’s Case: ‘GOP Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden’

Migrants Reveal Plans To Sneak Into US Since Title 42 Has Expired

White House accuses fed Judge Kent Wetherell of ‘sabotage’ after blocking potential mass release of migrants (N.Y. Post)

Record-Setting 83,000 Migrants Illegally Crossed US Border This Week

Watch: Texas Governor Buses More Illegal Migrants To Kamala Harris’ House  Hey, she’s the Border Czar.

Mayor Adams booed after bringing up NYPD past at CUNY graduation as students turn their backs on him (N.Y. Post)

Anderson Cooper: ‘You Have Every Right Never To Watch CNN Again’ After Trump Town Hall

CUNY Law Grads Turn Backs on NYC Mayor Adams at Commencement

Ron DeSantis Bans Credit Card Companies From Helping Track Gun Criminals (The New Republic) In the Narrative media, ‘gun criminals’ are any people who own a gun.

Virginia joins list of GOP states leaving bipartisan effort to combat voter fraud amid conspiracies (NBC News)

Tucker Carlson Wanted to ‘Start Threatening’ Fox News Staffers After 2020 Election (Daily Beast) Sure, I believe that….

CUNY Law School Graduates Turn Their Backs to Mayor Adams (N.Y. Times)

Why Ron DeSantis Is Limping to the Starting Line (N.Y. Times)

The day free-market Republicans became Soviet economic planners (Washington Post) Dana Milbank not only lies, but does so stupidly.

Teacher sacked after refusing to use eight-year-old’s trans pronouns (UK Telegraph)

Charging Daniel Penny, the Subway Samaritan (WSJ)

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill legalizing anti-LGBTQ+ medical discrimination (LGBTQ+ Nation) In other words, they no longer get special privileges.

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OK, here’s my little result. I took a quick look at demographic variation in the frequency of the filled pauses conventionally written as “uh” and “um”. For technical reasons that I won’t go into here, I used the frequency of the definite article “the” as the basis for comparison. Thus I selected a group of speakers (e.g. men aged 60-69), counted how often they were transcribed as saying “uh”, and to normalize that count (since the number of people in each category was different) I divided by the number of times the same speakers were transcribed as saying “the”.

 

Victor Davis Hanson.

Almost everyone who originally had opposed the absolute monarchy, and, like the Americans, wished for a constitutional replacement, was eventually executed by revolutionaries who were then executed by more radical revolutionaries. The longer and more radical the revolution ran, the meaner, dumber, and more deadly the revolutionaries who emerged from the woodwork.

Finally, what could not go on, did not go on, as French society unraveled. Then the so-called Thermidors put an end to the madness of the Robespierre brothers and their sidekick, the 26-year-old Saint-Just, and did to them what they had done to thousands.

The final revolutionary correction saw a Directory, then a Consulate, and finally the dictator Napoleon—the self-described emperor who claimed he was the final absolutist manifestation of the “Revolution.”

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After years of campaigning from the Right, the European Parliament finally approved a resolution to call on the Commission to end funding for Islamist organizations and campaigns that glorify the hijab, the Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers (ECR) tweeted on Wednesday, May 10th.

“We have done our part and got the majority in the European Parliament,” Weimers wrote, adding that “it is time for the government to use the Swedish presidency to bring the issue to fruition,” referring to Swedish Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer’s earlier promise to deliver “concrete results.”

The campaign for ending EU funds for Islamist organizations—originally at the initiative of the Sweden Democrats (SD)—has been ongoing since 2019. At first, the Commission was in complete denial of any such funds being disbursed, calling for the MEPs from the SD to prove their allegations.

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There is nothing wrong with admiring the bravery of Ukraine’s stand against Russia. In fact, I don’t think I’d felt that much ebullient pride, seeing the Ukrainians turn back the Russians from Kyiv, since the time I saw the once iconic but now forgotten ink-stained fingertips of Iraqi voters defying terrorist threats to go out and vote in 2005. In both cases, the West seemed to stand for the universal aspirations of all. In an age that oscillates between radical nihilism and a natural yearning for certainty and purpose, it was such a joy—and a relief—to see that Western values stood for something: something others wanted; something others would die for, when many of us can’t even muster the courage to speak up at the office watercooler to the woke ideologues who police pronouns and see ‘phobias’ more often than your average hypochondriac feels the onset of an illness.

Ukraine and the Ukranians, to some extent like the Iraqis of the millennial aughts, have unfortunately become the West’s—particularly America’s—panacea for our own civilizational fecklessness. Whether you call them ‘globalists’ or ‘neoliberals,’ or as in America the ‘uniparty’ of Democrats and Republicans, the West’s promoters of endless, contingency-free, lethal aid to Ukraine suffer a proximity infatuation of purposiveness—of trying to find one’s own meaning through somebody else’s existential struggle. At the same time, Ukraine’s struggle against Russian aggression serves what is arguably a much more delusional, if not dangerous, illusion for a certain kind of American and pro-Atlanticist conservative in Europe: the illusion that Ukraine’s patriots can fill the West’s spiritual and cultural void.

Steve Graham.

When I moved here, I got myself a little Pit Boss stainless portable gas grill. I paid around $100. It was great for what it was, but it didn’t burn hot enough. I replaced the pathetic gas regulator with one for a big turkey fryer, and now I get huge flames hot enough to produce acceptable burgers. It’s probably dangerous, but a man’s got to do what a man’s got to do.

 

The American Mind.

Norms. Remember those? If you do, you’re one of the few.

I used to be a normie. I come from a long line of normies stretching back through time to my first normie ancestors, who set foot on these shores, looked around, and thought, where should we put the TV, honey?

2023 is shaping up to be a bellwether year for normies and all their pesky norms. Are you still a normie? Do you ever lay awake at night wondering why it seems like everywhere you look, American society seems to be actively working against you? Like, despite your hard work, things aren’t improving. Things are really starting to suck, in fact. Bags of chips keep getting smaller but cost double. You had to tell your kids they can no longer watch Mr. Beast on YouTube (“Why, Mommy?” “Er, just because, okay?”).

You had to endure yet another humiliating DEI Zoom session at work, followed immediately by a Zoom call where your manager informs your team that ChatGPT will, in fact, put you out of work in three to five years.

Adams considers housing migrants in shuttered prison (Politico)

NYC Mayor Adams plan buses migrants past county with ‘immigrant protection’ law to Republican-led counties (Fox)

NYC mayor suspends right-to-shelter ahead migrant wave (PIX 11 News)

California reparations committee calls for ending cash bail, no longer prosecuting low-level crimes (Fox) Rules are for thee but not for me.

New NC Supreme Court Majority Overturns Prior Majority’s Unconstitutional Interference in Redistricting

Almost Nobody Feels Safe on San Francisco Area Public Transit, Government Survey Finds  Time to leave.

Zooey Zephyr Poses for Photo With ‘The Squad’

Two Youths Commit Suicide In Taxpayer-Funded Cross-Sex Hormone Study

“We Have Reached Our Limit”: NYC Suspends Shelter Rules Ahead Of Title 42 Expiration

Judge in Virginia Strikes Down Federal Limit on Age of Handgun Buyers (N.Y. Times)

Poland: Draft Bill Would Ban Sex-Change Surgery for Children

Criminal investigation into Sen. Bob Menendez expands with new subpoenas (NBC News)

NYC Council Passes Weight Discrimination Bill

11 Defensive Gun Uses Show How Lawful Gun Owners ‘Get It Right’

Ireland: 10,000 Jobs Lost After Asylum Influx Cripples Hotels

CNBC’s Kernen Takes Lefty Senator to School Over ‘Disingenuous’ Gaslighting on Debt Ceiling Blame

Time Magazine Celebrates Mother’s Day By Promoting Abortion

Progressives Want To Eliminate Wealthy Entrepreneurs But Need The Wealth They Create  Otherwise they soon run out of other people’s money.

University of Colorado: Assume Everyone Is Trans

Every State Is a Border State: How the Migrant Crisis Impacts Wisconsin, Alabama, Virginia

Pacific Northwest heat wave to break records, worsen Canada wildfires (Axios)

China’s record carbon emissions expected to peak due to clean energy push, report says (CNN)

He’s the Decider for $400 Billion in Climate Funding, and Time Is Short (N.Y. Times) Your tax dollars at work.

How much wind killing do we want?

Entire Global Food Supply at Risk From Disastrous Response to So-Called ‘Nitrogen Crisis’

Fed’s Waller Drops Bombshell: ‘Climate Change Risks Not Material To US’

The Checkup With Dr. Wen: Who should still be tested for the coronavirus? (Washington Post)

Ernst: Wuhan-Affiliated Group Broke Federal Law Moments After Biden Admin Resumed Federal Funding

US Failure To Recognize Natural Immunity Negatively Affected Pandemic Response: NIH Scientist

Witness to Jordan Neely subway chokehold death is ‘praying’ for ex-Marine Daniel Penny after charges (N.Y. Post)

Daniel Penny to be arrested on a manslaughter charge in Jordan Neely chokehold death (ABC 7 NY) Inconceivable.

Marine veteran to be charged by Manhattan DA in Jordan Neely subway chokehold death (Fox)

DA Bragg likely to punt fatal NYC subway chokehold case to grand jury: experts (N.Y. Post)

Eric Adams rips Ed Day as ‘racist’ and ‘anti-Semitic’ after blocking asylum seekers from Rockland (N.Y. Post)

A weird thing happened with Gavin Newsom and a new reparations proposal (S.F. Gate)

California reparations panel calls to amend state constitution to legalize racial discrimination (Fox) Time to leave.

Reparations in California are about political responsibility, not individual guilt (Sacramento Bee)

Daniel Penny Will Be Charged in Subway Chokehold Killing of Jordan Neely (N.Y. Times)

Republican front-runner for North Carolina governor attacked Civil Rights Movement: ‘So many freedoms were lost’ (CNN) Freedom of association being the big one.

Nets Hype Charges for Man Acting in Self Defense Against Violent Felon

Manhattan DA Bragg Strikes Again: Charges Marine Over Subway Chokehold Death

NY Mayor Adams Booted From Biden Surrogate Squad After Immigration Criticism

Those Systemically Racial Pulitzer Prizes

The Government’s War on Order and Self-Defense

“Burning Isn’t Solution”: Adidas To Sell Stockpile Of Yeezy Shoes

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Alisa Flatow was murdered in 1995 by an Iranian sponsored suicide bomber who plowed his car into a public bus near the Israeli settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip. Seven Israeli soldiers were killed along with Alisa. They were all under age 21. Fifty-two passengers were wounded in the attack.

Alisa was remembered by her friend Alan Mitrani in a moving letter posted here at Brandeis University’s memorial page for Alisa. Stephen Flatow was Alisa’s father. He seeks to keep her memory alive and to wage his own battle against the indulgence of what the AP and Fox News are now pleased to call “militants.” This past March Mr. Flatow drew attention to the teaching of a terrorist’s proud mother.

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