Scott Johnson at Power Line.

President Biden refuses to do his job. He has erased our southern border and facilitated the systematic invasion of our country by illegal aliens from all over the world. With the imminent expiration of Title 42, the invasion he has facilitated seems to be approaching a peak, but you never know. It can get worse.

We look on as helpless bystanders. His excuses and lies grow increasingly absurd, if that is possible, which it probably isn’t. Biden speaks as though he himself is an innocent bystander to the catastrophe he has wrought: “It’s going to be chaotic for a while.”

He would have us believe he can’t do anything about it. What is to be done with a president of the United States who refuses to do his job?

ZMan cuts through the fog.

One of the strange and unnoticed aspects of the modern age is how much time is spent debating imaginary things. In fact, most of our public debates are about things that may happen or could never possibly happen. The things that are actually happening get very little attention. In some cases, like the ongoing criminal operations of the Biden family, the only people discussing them are “conspiracy theorists”, a term that has been transformed to describe imaginary villains.

In fact, much of what passes for public debate is the shift from things that are real and observable in the present moment to things that do not exist. Crackpot libertarian congressman Thomas Massie spends most of his time warning about a highly unlikely problem with E-Verify, so that his voters do not notice the waves of migrant invaders filling up their cities and towns. He is not alone. Every politician is an illusionist now, making reality disappear behind a curtain of deceit.

What has happened to modern American society is a form of the Peter Pan syndrome, in that society prefers to live in a world of make believe, rather than face up to the tough choices that come with adulthood. Libertarian kooks would rather think about a world governed by the non-aggression principle than think about the problems that the current world is presenting to us. Ten thousand migrants a day cross the border, but libertarian guy is concerned about theoretical abuses of state power.

Read it.

Good news.

Gates of Vienna.

The synagogue in the culturally-enriched southern Swedish city of Malmö was recently attacked, yet again. What is notable about the following article on Jew-hatred in Malmö is that there is no mention of the fact that violence against Jews in Malmö is perpetrated by Muslims. I doubt that even a single attack against Jews in Malmö during the past ten years was perpetrated by a non-Muslim. The violent expression of Jew-hatred in Sweden is a Muslim issue, but it is politically incorrect to discuss it in such terms.

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.

In today’s developed world, average people can achieve a higher standard of living than has ever before been possible. In fact, the difference between an “elite” standard of living and that enjoyed by people of average, or a little more than average, means, has dwindled to near-insignificance. It is fair to say that today, an “elite” American has little more chance of living a satisfying and happy life than the average American.

Our “elites” consider this situation intolerable, a fact that explains much of our current political turmoil. Liberals are trying to drive down the standard of living for all Americans. True, their own standards will suffer slightly. But if you are a multi-millionaire, how much do you care if your electricity bill doubles? The salient fact is that a general decline in standards of living will increase the disparity between the “elite” and the rest of us. That, I think, is the goal of many liberal policies, and the main reason why most rich people are liberals.

Today, a person of ordinary means can toss some steaks on the grill on Memorial Day. That is a good thing, in most people’s opinion, but it galls “elite” leftists, who eat steak themselves but are annoyed that the rest of us can afford to do so, too. Hence the Left’s war on meat, the point of which is to drive up prices so that they can afford steak, pork chops, bacon, etc., but you can’t.

Same strategy as the ‘raise my taxes’ scam.

Does your vaccine type matter in the battle against COVID? (MedicalXPress)

Global Study Finds Link Between COVID-19 Vaccination and Menstrual Changes (SciTechDaily)

Novel Rutgers COVID vaccine may provide long-lasting protection (MedicalXPress)

Biden Ends Travel, Employee COVID Vaccine Mandate

Walensky Made CDC ‘Most Political Public Health’ Agency

Bipartisan Team to Probe COVID-19 Origins, Response

Do adenovirus-vector Covid-19 vaccines have beneficial non-specific effects?

Expensive energy may have killed more Europeans than Covid-19 last winter

U.S. finalizes asylum restriction to ramp up border deportations once Title 42 lapses (CBS News) Sure, I believe that….

Biden admits migrant surge is ‘going to be chaotic’ when Title 42 ends (N.Y. Post)

In pictures: The surge at the US-Mexico border (CNN) Machine guns and a mine field would take care of it, as the East Germans learned long ago.

Border chaos in Arizona seems inevitable as Title 42 ends (Arizona Republic)

Brownsville bus stop crash survivor and family members in Colombia plead with Biden for help (NBC News)

Border Patrol Outraged at Biden CBP Plan in El Paso

Retired Navy Commander Applauds Drag Influencer  No wonder they have a recruiting problem.

Jacqui Heinrich Calls Out KJP Over ‘MAGA Republican Extremists’ Rhetoric on Debt Limit

WATCH: Biden’s Presidency Collapsing Before Our Eyes

Hunter Biden Claims He Took Out Personal Loans To Pay Legal Team, Has Incurred ‘Substantial’ Debt  Maybe he could ask the Big Guy for his 10% back.

Biden says he’s exploring 14th amendment to defuse debt ceiling standoff (Politico)

UGA football team declines invitation to White House celebration (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Congress Must End the Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children

NJ Mayor Denied White House Access Praised ISIS

Social Security’s Buying Power Eroded by 36%

Comer Set to Unveil Details in Biden Family Probe

US Prices Pick Up, Inflation Still Hot at 4.9%

CIA Solicited Signatures For Hunter Biden Laptop Letter, Congressional Testimony Shows (Federalist)

House Oversight: Biden Family Got Over $10 Million From Foreign Entities While He Was VP

April Report Shows ‘Inflation Is Still Firmly Entrenched in the Economy,’ Economist Says

Watch Live: Comer Unveils Evidence Of Biden Family Corruption

Biden admin to allow for the release of some migrants into the U.S. with no way to track them (NBC News)

After disruptions, new White House press rules prompt retaliation concerns (Washington Post) Yeah, Trump will love this new rule when he becomes President.

Wind And Solar Aren’t Nearly Enough: Why Biden Is Suddenly Supporting Fossil Fuels

WTI Extends Losses After Biden Admin Drains SPR By Most Since December

Biden Campaign ‘Coordinated’ with Ex-CIA Official to Shop Hunter Biden Letter, House Report Says

Biden family ‘got $1 MILLION from ROMANIA’ while Joe vowed to clean up corruption: GOP ‘influence-peddling’ probe into $10M in foreign cash reveals Hunter set up 15 companies AFTER his dad became VP and lay out how money came from China (Daily Mail)

To Get His Poll Numbers Up, CNN Says Biden Must Go Further Left  But that trick never works….

Party of the People: Biden Schmoozes Billionaires in Manhattan as Border Crisis Worsens

Border Patrol apprehends over 10,000 migrants a day ahead of Title 42’s end, highest ever recorded

Biden Oblivious to National Debt Larger Than Economy

FLASHBACK: Biden Tells Migrants To ‘Surge to the Border’

‘The Dam Is About To Break’: Border Sees Highest Ever Crossings Just Days Before Title 42 Ends

Schumer on Cusp of Defunding DC Police Department as Crime Explodes

5 Keys to Understanding Biden’s Nominee for Top Economist Who Pushed for IRS Expansion, Green New Deal

FBI Denies Request For Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto, Writings

Biden’s Border Crisis Doesn’t Look Very Made Up Now

The four times the United States government defaulted on its debt (2021)

Biden DHS Coordinating Illegal Immigration In-Flows with Mexico (Center for Immigration Studies)

New York congressman George Santos charged by federal prosecutors (The Guardian)  I love that: ‘Unspecified charges’. I guess they haven’t come up with a plausible enough excuse yet.

Fox News anchor Bret Baier’s reputation takes hit after text messages reveal what he said in wake of 2020 election (CNN) Now that Tucker has been dumped, it’s time to work on the rest of the Fox lineup.

Orlando Sentinel Front: ‘Bully’ DeSantis Uses ‘Fear Factor’ to Push ‘Hard-Right Agenda’

Musk shares baseless election claim with millions of Twitter users (Washington Post) I guess Musk is the New Trump. (They had to put ‘baseless’ in the headline so you’d know what the correct Narrative is.)

Dem Rep. Tlaib to Speak at Event Mourning Israel’s Founding  Democrats, Party of Hate. (EXCLUSIVE: McCarthy Blocks Rashida Tlaib’s Anti-Semitic Congressional Event)

Biden Admin Creates New Disinformation Office To Oversee The Rest

NBC Digs Up Decades Old Leftist Playbook to Attack GOP for Budget Cuts

A new Supreme Court case seeks to legalize assault weapons in all 50 states (Vox) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

NBC Brings on Brian Stelter to Help Smear Tucker Carlson & Elon Musk

US ethics watchdog calls on Clarence Thomas to resign over undisclosed gifts (The Guardian) In the Narrative media, ‘watchdog group’ means ‘left-wing NGO witch-hunters’.

Playbook: How CNN is getting ready for Trump’s return (Politico)

Rep George Santos Charged With Federal Crimes – May Appear In Court Wednesday

Here are the criminal charges George Santos is facing (Semafor)

Speaker McCarthy is not calling on Santos to resign. (N.Y. Times) Of course not. (“Innocent until proven guilty” is not a proglodyte value.)

The Book-Bans Debate Has Finally Reached a Turning Point (The Atlantic) There are no ‘book-bans’. School boards don’t have that power; only government has that power. The Narrative media is full of lies from end to end.

PBS ‘Frontline’ Doc Trashes Thomas As ‘Far-Right’ Affirmative Action Beneficiary

Tommy Tuberville rises to the defense of racists in the armed forces (Washington Post) A bare-faced lie. Philip Bump is determined to give Jennifer Rubin a run for her money.

DEI Brings Kafka to My Law School

E Jean Carroll: Jury finds Trump sexually abused writer in NY department store (BBC) As if Trump could ever get a fair trial from a New York jury. It will be appealed, of course.

E Jean Carroll won. And Trump can be now portrayed as a sexual abuser (The Guardian) And will be forever, even if the result is thrown out. That was the objective the whole time.

Jury Finds Trump Liable for Sexual Abuse and Defamation (N.Y. Times) Free speech? What is that?

“An Affront To Justice” – Trump To Appeal After Jury Finds Liable For ‘Sexual Abuse’, Defamation

Jury finds Trump guilty in the Carroll civil suit – of course  (The New Neo)

Hill reactions: Several Republicans are unfazed by Trump’s sex abuse verdict (Politico)

Judge to Jurors on Trump-Carroll Case: Stay Anonymous ‘For A Long Time’

GOP’s 2024 Candidates Dare Not Cross Trump After Sexual Assault Verdict (Daily Beast)

Trump Was Only Held Accountable Because Sexual Assault Survivors Changed The Law (Huffington Post) Yeah, I think that’s a fair statement, although not in the sense they mean.

Mitt Romney Gives Republicans Urgent 2024 Warning About Trump After Verdict (Huffington Post) Don’t nominate Trump! He might win, and then where would we be?

Dershowitz: the Trump-Carroll verdict is a Rorschach test

Stephanie Grisham: I regularly had to keep Trump away from staffer for fear of sexual harassment (Raw Story) “And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.”

At last, a measure of justice for Donald Trump (Washington Post) Ruth Marcus joins the dogpile.

Dear CNN, giving Trump a town-hall platform is the height of irresponsibility (The Guardian) Money trumps (no pun intended) politics.

Terrible Timing of Trump’s Town Hall Has Allies Freaking Out (Daily Beast) Not to mention his enemies.

2024 Republicans are still not touching Donald Trump’s legal woes (Semafor) Because they know it’s bullshit. (Semafor is a newly-established left-wing witch-hunt site, as if they needed more of them.)

Sen. Romney: After Verdict, Trump Unfit for Presidency  RINOs gotta RINO. After what happened to him, you’d think Romney would be familiar with how these witch-hunts work.

What GOP Voters Have Told Me Since Trump’s Indictment (The Atlantic)

CNN Is Hosting a Town Hall for a Guy Who Tried to Get Me Killed (Rolling Stone)

A Guilty Ex-President (N.Y. Times) David French continues his journey to the left. Why is anyone still pretending that he’s any kind of ‘conservative’?

E. Jean Carroll Lets Slip That CBS’s Gayle King Celebrated NY Ruling Against Trump  Not news.

Liz Cheney’s anti-Trump ad helps Trump

Ukraine Situation Report: RQ-4 Global Hawk Flies Off Sochi

Chinese Spaceplane Docked With Another Object Multiple Times Data Indicates

China Retaliates After Canada Expels Its Diplomat Over ‘Political Interference’

AIR DEFENSE: China Ahead In SHORAD Tech

AFGHANISTAN: Banking On China

Ukraine Unit Says Russian Brigade Routed Outside Bakhmut

NKorea Warns Japan Against Joining SKorea-US Nuclear Group

UK poised to label Wagner group terrorists as France urges EU to act (The Guardian)

The west must be ready for this moment of opportunity and risk in Ukraine (The Guardian)

Pakistan’s Army Polices Capital As Provinces Urge Military Help Against Protests

Watch: Panic Hits Tel Aviv Beach As Over 100 Gaza Rockets Pound Israel

TikTok’s Parent Company ByteDance Doing Communist Chinese Gov’t’s Censorship Work

After ‘inflection point’ of Ukraine, Switchblade maker AeroVironment unveils upgrades, goes global

Weapons tracing shows Russia firing new cruise missiles at Ukraine just weeks after production

Texas Mall Gunman Had ‘Neo-Nazi Ideation,’ Officials Say  ‘Ideation’? Really?

‘Model for Rest of the Country’: South Dakota History Standards Scrap Critical Race Theory, Build on Hillsdale Foundation

California Gov. Newsom declines to back reparations checks, says slavery’s legacy is ‘more than cash payments’  Scott Adams has been having a fun time with this reparations thing on his daily podcast, Coffee With Scott Adams (Available for cheap from Locals.)

Eager Publicists for Racial Reparations in California

Jordan Neely and the system the left built

An Ex-Marine Stood Up to a Subway Monster. Now He May Go To Jail

MLK’s famous criticism of Malcolm X was a ‘fraud,’ author finds (Washington Post)

Newsom Won’t Publicly Say If He’ll Support Reparations

Newsom Won’t Endorse His Own Panel’s Reparations Plan  Of course not. It was a charade from the beginning.

Jordan Neely, the left’s martyr

Newsom Breaks Silence, Says Cali Reparations “About More Than Cash Payments”  It’s also about lying to black people early and often.

A Walgreens guard killed a Black trans organizer. His community wants answers (The Guardian) He was shoplifting. The guard was taking his job seriously, something that nobody in California seems inclined to do. The fact that he was a ‘black trans organizer’ is irrelevant except in the minds of those who think that what justice you get depends on what Identity Class you inhabit.

Bud Light’s sales drop is accelerating amid Dylan Mulvaney fiasco — and is now spilling into other Bud brands (N.Y. Post)

Bud Light sales down 12.5% since April, new report confirms (Fox) What a winning strategy….

Bud Light has managed to unite the left and right in anger (Washington Post)

Chicago Gay Bars Face Harassment After Ditching Bud Light Over Dylan Mulvaney Controversy (Block Club Chicago) Oh noes!

Senate tax chief says billionaire Crow ‘stonewalling’ over perks for Clarence Thomas (Politico) And he has every right to do so.

Senate Democrats ask Harlan Crow to list gifts to Thomas and any other judges (MSNBC) An attempt to spread the witch-hunt–there is no evidence of ‘gifts’ to ‘other judges’. Do you write down every favor you do a friend? I don’t.

GOP megadonor Harlan Crow rebuffs congressional request to disclose details about travel and real estate deals with Clarence Thomas (CNN) ‘GOP megadonor’ is one step above the shame of being a ‘MAGA megadonor’, on the way to being a ‘white supremacist with neo-Nazi ties’.

New Shocking Report EXPOSES Just How Dangerous TikTok Is

Chicago Police Advise Business Owners To Install Shatter-Resistant Glass Shields Amid String Of Break-Ins

George Soros Gives Left-Wing Candidate Big Campaign Boost

DeSantis takes steps to again send migrants to Democratic-led cities (CNN)

National Police Association Joins Others In Suing For Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto

Hochul issues emergency order for migrant crisis (Politico)

Germany Proposes Rules to Ease Legal Changes of Gender

Chicago’s Lori Lightfoot issues state of emergency over influx of illegal migrants sent by Texas Gov. Abbott BRAAAAAAAINS!

‘Trump was great at this’: How conservatives transformed a Colorado school district (NBC News)

Democrat Rep. Claims Climate Change is Root Cause of Illegal Immigration

More Delays, Less Delays, But Always More Costs

The Debt Ceiling Wasn’t Always So Politicized (The Atlantic) Translation: “In the Good Old Days, Republicans were overspending just like Democrats.”

T-Mobile Shutters “Flagship” San Fran Store As Mass Exodus Escalates

Tech Entrepreneur Unpacks Twitter Files, What ‘Weaponized’ Agencies Did to Americans

Half of Chicagoans Witnessed a Shooting by Age 40

Censorship-Obsessed Google Set to Funnel $100M to Leftist New York Times

McCarthy Blocks Rashida Tlaib’s Anti-Semitic Congressional Event

Progressive Staffer Carrying Gun Illegally Shot And Killed By Fellow Campaigner In Philadelphia

Soros-backed PAC Spends Heavily on Pa. Candidate

Biological Man Upset He Can’t Compete Against Women In The Olympics

NYC Mayor Who Slammed GOP Busing of Migrants Will Bus Migrants Out of His ‘Sanctuary City’

The View Refuses to Press AOC’s Dress Designer on Ethics Investigation

The Censorship-Industrial Complex: Top 50 Organizations To Know

US City To Roll Out Guaranteed Basic Income  Welcome to Taxachusetts. Time to leave.

Freak-A-Leak: Journalists Outraged After Politico Abortion Scoop Snubbed for Pulitzer

The environmental math of going vegan — and more (Washington Post)

Environmental Protection Not A Major Issue For Majority  People don’t believe in disasters predicted by a scientific establishment that can’t accurately predict the weather a week away.

Americans Increasingly Choose a Warmer Life

Electric Vehicles, the Wave of the Past

Royal Dilemma: The People who Most Support Ditching the Monarchy are Climate Alarmists

Manchin vows to oppose all Biden’s EPA nominees over climate plan (Politico)

RED PILL: WashPost Editorial Board Slaps Down Woke Climate Activists

The Foundry.

The Southern Poverty Law Center routinely brands mainstream conservative and Christian organizations “hate groups,” placing them on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, but most lawsuits aiming to hold the SPLC accountable for this alleged defamation have failed. Judges often dismiss defamation lawsuits against the SPLC, saying the defamed “hate groups” fail to meet the “actual malice” standard.

Yet on March 31, District Judge Keith Watkins denied the SPLC’s motion to dismiss a defamation claim from the Dustin Inman Society and its founder, D.A. King. The Dustin Inman Society is a pro-immigration enforcement group that the SPLC brands an “anti-immigrant hate group.” Watkins published his opinion explaining the ruling on April 24. His ruling allows the case to move into the discovery phase of litigation, where King can demand SPLC documents to prove his case (and the SPLC can demand documents from King, as well).

Watkins’ ruling represents the first time that an SPLC-accused “hate group” has succeeded in making it to discovery in a defamation lawsuit directly challenging the SPLC on its “hate group” accusation. Many organizations, including the Center for Immigration Studies, the Proud Boys, Liberty Counsel, and D. James Kennedy Ministries, have failed to reach this point, even though D. James Kennedy Ministries appealed all the way to the Supreme Court.

Lifehacker.

Historically, carrying a gun with which to shoot the shooter seems to work out pretty well.

Read it.

Vienna is grappling with a knife crime problem. In the wake of four stabbing attacks over the weekend in the Austrian capital, one of which took the life of an Iranian, FPÖ leader Dominik Nepp has called for a security summit.

On Sunday night, May 8th, in the fourth knife attack in just 48 hours, a 15-year old Syrian national—together with another unidentified assailant—stabbed a 19-year old man who was with his 20-year old girlfriend at the time.

As the couple walked to a bus stop, two young males came towards them, and seemed to follow them. Soon after, the pair started to whistle after the victim and his girlfriend.

When the man confronted them, they started to kick and hit him. Allegedly, the Syrian national then threatened to kill the victim, while brandishing a knife. The suspects fled when a bus pulled up.

It was only after the victim and his girlfriend got on the bus that they noticed a puncture wound in the young man’s back. Emergency services were promptly called and soon arrived on the scene and took him to the hospital where he is now recovering.

Police meanwhile conducted a search for the two suspects, but could only find and arrest the 15-year-old Syrian, who was still in possession of the knife. A manhunt for the second suspect is ongoing.

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

The Spectator.

Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen a spate of media stories and dumped opposition against conservative justices on the Supreme Court, intended to paint a picture of vaguely illicit and unethical behavior while proving no illegality. ProPublica has released a number of articles regarding Clarence Thomas’s relationship with billionaire megadonor Harlan Crow. Politico trumpeted Neil Gorsuch’s sale of a Colorado property to the head of a top law firm whose lawyers regularly argue in front of the court.

The purpose of these stories is not to start a conversation among Democrats in Congress about ethical reform on the Court. Nor is it simply about “court packing” (expanding the Supreme Court to a thirteen-justice progressive majority).

No, the Democrats and their allies in the media are still not over Hillary Clinton’s failed coronation in 2016 and the resulting legal majority that now sits on the Supreme Court after President Trump appointed three justices. So they’ve turned to aggressive tactics: a full-frontal assault to delegitimize the Court and the six justices that form its majority.

The American Mind.

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

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

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

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Rep. James Comer called a press conference this morning to release the House Oversight Committee’s second bank records memorandum on the Biden family business. The committee press release is posted online here. The 36-page bank records memo released today is posted here. I have posted video of the press conference below.

There is a lot of information to digest here and I haven’t done so. The 50-minute press conference provides a useful summary of what it’s all about and what is to come. Mark Tapscott asks a question seeking to place this matter in historical context at about 40:00. I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything quite like it before.

Read it.

The Bureau of Land Management was formed out of the General Land Office, which sold and distributed public land to settlers, and the Grazing Service, which settled the range wars on the side of the farmers. Its mission under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) is “the management of the public lands and their various resource values so that they are utilized in the combination that will best meet the present and future needs of the American people”.

Unfortunately BLM became a bastion of environmentalists opposed to any kind of development and, under Biden, even outright eco-terrorists, like Tracy Stone-Manning, his BLM director.

Tracy Stone-Manning had been the spokeswoman for the eco-terrorist group EarthFirst and had sent a threatening letter to the Forest Service warning that the terrorists had rigged a forest with traps and concluding with, “You bastards go in there anyway and a lot of people could get hurt.”

ZMan turns over a rock.

Congressman Thomas Massie (R-Agribusiness) is waging jihad against his fellow Republicans in the House over H.R. 2, an immigration bill that has been working through the House since January. He has specifically targeted the E-Verify provision, that would require employers to use the system, which has been in place for decades, to verify that their employees are legally allowed to work in the country. He has been on Twitter railing against the E-Verify system.

There are two schools of thought as to why Massie has picked out this provision of the bill as his reason for opposing it. One is the old “Republicans donors like cheap labor” argument, which is mostly true. Massie gets a lot of money from agribusiness, which relies on illegal aliens to work in meat packing plants, commercial farming enterprises and food processing facilities. What you never find in a food processing plant these days is anyone speaking English.

The other explanation for Massie’s berserk opposition to this provision is that he is a libertarian who spasmodically opposes government programs. He has been dressing up his arguments in libertarian jibber-jabber. He claims that Joe Biden will use the system to prevent normal Americans from working. According to Massie, this program will require you to get permission from Joe Biden in order to work, which is a weird claim, but consistent with libertarianism.

In fairness, both explanations could be true. In order to get into the House of Senate, you have to be willing to take bribes from the donor class. The reason both parties support the current chaos is because both parties have the same paymasters. Those paymasters think borders are bad for business, so they oppose anything that would result in an orderly border policy. Hiring libertarian goofballs to be the messenger on this makes it look principled, rather than cynical.

Real Clear Wire.

Please keep this in mind amid all the hyper-ventilating over potential default. Janet Yellen, the walking, talking-est contrarian indicator on earth claims default would be “catastropic,” while the always and everywhere expert reverent Catherine Rampell tells readers “If you’re not afraid yet [about default], you should be.” Wise minds will be calm. This is such a non-story.

For one, As evidenced by the floating, occasionally very weak dollar over the decades, the U.S. has defaulted numerous times. And that’s not a partisan point. Left-of-center economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff are clear in their book This Time Is Different that when FDR revalued the dollar from 1/20^th of a gold ounce to 1/35^th, the U.S. defaulted.

All of which brings us to the present. In contemplating the present, it’s useful to think about another book written by left-of-center reporters Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III. Baker and Glasser’s book was very fair, and among other things the authors noted about President Reagan was that much as he wanted a smaller, much more limited government, the act of achieving “it proved harder than Reagan’s team had imagined – every program they wanted to cut had a constituency, it seemed, often including fellow Republicans.” Translated, while some politicians want limited government, they all have at least one program that’s near and dear to them. Since they all do, government will always and everywhere grow as votes are traded back and forth so that everyone gets what they want.

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Britain’s Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority said fewer than five babies have been born this way, but no further details have been released to protect the families’ identities. The news was first reported by the Guardian newspaper.

The U.K. was the first country in the world to adopt legislation in 2015 specifically regulating such methods, which help prevent women with faulty mitochondria — the energy source in a cell — from passing on to their babies defects that can result in diseases such as muscular dystrophy, epilepsy, heart problems and intellectual disabilities. About one in 200 children in Britain is born with a mitochondrial disorder.

For a woman with faulty mitochondria, scientists take the genetic material from her egg or embryo. They then transfer that into a donor egg or embryo that still has its healthy mitochondria but has had the rest of its key DNA removed. The fertilized embryo is then transferred into the womb of the mother. The genetic material from the donated egg comprises less than 1% of the child’s genetics.

Steve Sailer.

Why have alarming nuts been allowed to colonize New York’s mission-critical subway system? Why do we no longer have what we once did: adequate facilities in the countryside for agitated urbanites to decompress far from the madding crowd?

The massive deinstitutionalization of the 1960s–1980s is now widely considered a blunder, but why did it seem like a good idea at the time? We need to consider why progressive reformers in the English-speaking world turned as fervently against lunatic asylums in the 1970s as their forebears had become enthusiastic for them in the middle of the 19th century.

Read it.

Dog whistles work because they are inaudible to humans. Accusing a politician, therefore, of using “dog-whistle politics” – couching a (usually controversial) message to their core supporters in terms the general public do not notice – is formally self-refuting for doing so implies that it can be understood not just by the target audience, but also by the opposition. If that is so, however, the “dog whistle” is just a whistle. For the metaphor truly to work, the message needs to be so far removed from the understanding and concerns of the wider public that it sails straight over their heads, as when film-makers insert jokes aimed at adults into cartoons aimed at children.

Accusing Donald Trump of dog-whistle politics for his use of the phrase “America First”, previously associated with isolationism and the Ku Klux Klan, is therefore inapt. The history of that period is too well-known, and racism too central to the concerns of the left for them not to notice. But there is an area with which liberals, generally, have little experience and with whose language they are unfamiliar, and that makes it ripe territory for dog-whistling: religion.

The observation that Republicans are more likely to be religious than Democrats has been made so often that it has acquired its own name – the “God Gap”. In 2008, 28% of the latter claimed to have no religious affiliation, compared to 12% of the former. By 2021, the difference had widened to 45%-19%. Among those who do claim to be members of a religion, the figures are even more striking. About 80% of evangelical Christians voted for Donald Trump twice.

Read it.

Mohammed is becoming increasingly popular as a name for newborn baby boys in Germany. Sweden and the U.K. are already well ahead in this regard, where Mohammed may even be #1. If not, it will be soon.

Anyone who looks askance at this trend is immediately demonized as a racist and a xenophobe. But really, why would anyone want to celebrate the ascendancy of Islamic names for babies in Bremen or Dresden? What sort of place will Germany be in twenty years, when the majority of youngsters are Muslims with an ethnic heritage in the Middle East or Africa? Why is this considered a good thing?

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

I haven’t actually seen the verdict form, but it is not obvious why the jury would believe Carroll as to Trump’s “abusing and forcibly touching” her, but disbelieve her claim that he raped her. Perhaps the latter was simply a bridge too far in a crowded department store.

Carroll’s entire 27-year-old story was implausible, in my opinion. But a verdict in her favor was almost a foregone conclusion, given that Trump did not appear to testify on his own behalf. His deposition was taken during the case’s discovery phase, and some or all of it was played for the jury. I can only assume that Trump expected he would lose whether he testified or not, so he was better served, politically, to shun the proceeding and implicitly decline to accept its authority.

Will the verdict have any political impact? Some, I think. A jury finding is relatively credible, compared with merely being smeared by the press. And in many eyes, Trump’s checkered history will make plausible the jury’s finding that he sexually “abused” Carroll. The lawsuit was, in fact, a put-up job, encouraged and financed by anti-Trump activists. Nevertheless, the jury at least partially believed Jean Carroll, and that fact adds, not insignificantly, to the baggage that Trump carries as he seeks his party’s presidential nomination.

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What will President Biden do if his son is indicted by the federal prosecutor in Delaware?

That’s one of three questions looming over U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ fateful choice.

The second is whether the indictment will go after a larger, coordinated family scheme of influence peddling or confine itself to smaller, tightly-confined issues like lying to get a gun permit and not registering as a foreign lobbyist.

The third is whether Attorney General Merrick Garland will approve Weiss’ proposed charges.

Significant political calculations follow from those decisions.

Even if he is, nothing will come of it. The Crust take care of their own.

The Foundry.

The Internal Revenue Service  not only is involved in voter registration, it should get more involved, a coalition of over 50 liberal groups argues.

Meanwhile, the Obamacare exchange will attempt to drive up voter registration, while agencies within the Justice Department have acted to ensure that prisoners in federal custody may cast a ballot if eligible.

President Joe Biden’s Executive Order 14019, which requires federal agencies to get involved in boosting voter participation, is a little over 2 years old.

However, members of Congress, the press, and watchdog groups unsuccessfully have sought information on how Biden’s order is being implemented. The Justice Department has claimed presidential privilege to shield related documents from release.

Washington Free Beacon.

What happened: The New York Times published a nice profile of Elizabeth Holmes, an individual impacted by the criminal justice system. Some people didn’t like it.

What happens next: The Times should publish more empathetic profiles of liberal celebrities with justice-system involvement. They aren’t getting any younger and their reputations aren’t getting any better.

Here are five options the Times must consider….

The Daily Skeptic.

I had a meeting arranged with one of my undergraduate students for 10am last Friday. At around 9.30 I received an email from her saying that since she was “struggling with [her] mental health” she wouldn’t be able to physically come to the building. It would be “too much”. So could we please have the meeting via Zoom instead?

This kind of thing has become completely normal. Vast swathes of students have diagnoses of ADHD or the ubiquitous ‘anxiety and depression’; the rest, who don’t, still feel no compunction in disclosing their ‘struggles’ at the drop of a hat. Working around these issues is now simply a fact of life for academics. We confront them literally on a daily basis.

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Hadley Gamble, the CNBC anchor whose affair with NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell led to his ouster last month – and who was accused by Russia of being a “sex object” sent to distract Vladimir Putin – is leaving the network according to the NY Post.

Whose turn is it to be the ‘sex object’?

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Canvassers for a far-left Philadelphia mayoral candidate who has pledged to crackdown on gun violence in the city pulled guns on each other and one of them died, according to the police.

A 22-year-old man, who was canvassing Philadelphia’s East Germantown neighborhood on behalf of the progressive group OnePA, fatally shot a 46-year-old fellow canvasser on Monday, police said. Both men were knocking on doors in support of soft-on-crime Democratic mayoral candidate Helen Gym, among other left-wing candidates.

The victim and the killer “knew each other and began arguing after they ‘happened upon each other'” in the neighborhood, deputy police commissioner Frank Vanore told the Philadelphia Inquirer. Inspector Ernest Ransom said the argument led both men to draw guns on each other, with the younger canvasser shooting and killing the older man.

The shooter “said he was acting in self-defense,” Ransom told the Inquirer.

New York Times.

Executive summary:

1. Foreign food is superior to American food.
2. Ordinary Americans are ignorant rubes because they prefer ordinary American food.
3. American Cloud People have been brainwashed to prefer foreign food, so American Dirt People are doubly damned because they don’t follow the example of their betters.

Bottom line: Americans suck, because you don’t like the kind of food that we Crustians like.

Why Journalists Have More Freedom Than Professors (N.Y. Times) Ross Douthat does his house-conservative thing.

Texas mall shooter had swastika, SS tattoos, online posts show (Times of Israel) Well, just hang everyone with a swastika or SS tattoo. Problem solved! Can’t touch the people with a hammer-and-sickle, though, that would be Extweeeeeemist.

George Alvarez charged with running over 18 migrants in Brownsville, Texas (N.Y. Post) Since Brown Is The New White, I guess this makes him a white supremacist and almost certainly a Trump supporter.

White House bans The Post from Biden event as Hunter indictment looms (N.Y. Post)

White House bans New York Post from attending Biden event (Fox)

Why are White House staff afraid to let a Post reporter question Biden?

8 of Neera Tanden’s Worst Attacks on Biden, GOP, Dems

GOP Threatens Blinken With Contempt Over Afghanistan Docs

nvestigators Examine Ideology of Texas Gunman  As if that had anything to do with the fact that he was bat-shit crazy. They’re just looking to see if they can pin it on ‘right-wing ideology’.

New York Times on Coronation: Royal Family’s ‘Racist, Sexist, Classist, and Out of Touch’  Yup, that’s why so many love them.

Americans, Not Conservatives, Strike Back Against Wokeism

Texas congressman criticized for prayers comment after mall shooting (Washington Post) Mostly by Narrative media jackals.

USA Today SMEARS Haley, Republicans for ‘Ruthless Assault’ on Kamala’s Competence

The GOP-Hungary connection shaping the ’24 campaign (Axios) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

‘It’s a Republican issue’: The View conservatives blame GOP lawmakers for mass shootings (Raw Story)There’s a Narrative media oxymoron for you: ‘View conservatives’.

Six months after midterm losses, election deniers mount new efforts (Washington Post) In the Narrative media, ‘election denier’ means ‘opponent of Democrat vote fraud’.

Why non-White people might advocate white supremacy (Washington P0st) Philip Bump tries to step out of the shadow of Jennifer Rubin by trying to be even more deranged.

‘2,000 Years Ago They Hated Him, Too’: Chris Pratt Says He Relies on Jesus To Deal With Haters

Indoctrination Nation (New York Magazine) The Law of Liberal Projection in action: Jonathan Chait accuses conservatives of doing what proglodytes are actually attempting to do.

Former CIA chief Michael Morell, who wrote ex-spy letter dismissing The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop reports, misled signers by saying he’d ‘clear’ it with agency (N.Y. Post)

Under the Radar, Right-Wing Push to Tighten Voting Laws Persists (N.Y. Times) It’s only ‘under the radar’ in the sense that the Narrative media refuse to report on it; but there’s an election coming up, so apparently the Times wants to crank up the FUD machine.

What Else Do Tucker Carlson’s Unredacted Texts Reveal? (Daily Beast) More to the point, what can we twist?

Need To Keep Masses Afraid Is Behind Elite Embrace Of Wokeism And Censorship  Michael Shellenberger.

MSNBC’s Dowd Says ‘They Banned Lawn Darts After Three Children Died’ But 4,000 Gun Deaths In Texas Haven’t Prompted Government Action (MEDIAite) There were more than 4,000 auto deaths in Texas, but they aren’t pushing for banning cars. (Since when is MSNBC a go-to source for anything other than comedy?)

Harlan Crow Sure Isn’t Paying for Your Kid’s School (Slate) Further attempts to keep smearing Clarence Thomas.

Timothy McVeigh’s Dreams Are Coming True (N.Y. Times) From Hitler to Emmet Till, muckrakers like Michelle Goldberg like to drag up old stuff and suggest it’s still a danger, as if nothing had happened since them. Needless to say, Goldberg has no clue what McVeigh’s dreams were, or would be. It’s all one big game of Let’s Pretend.

Scarborough Likens GOP On Guns To ‘Slaveholders And Segregationists’  And Scarborough is one of the most die-hard Let’s Pretend player on the air.

PBS on Cops Making Coronation Protester Arrests: More Like Moscow Than London

Newsom Launches ‘Hate’ Hotline for Californians To Report Attacks on Their ‘Actual or Perceived’ Identities

Harlan Crow refuses to hand over gift records to Senate Finance (Politico) The witch-hunt continues.

Axed Over Opposition to Trans Policies, California Teacher Wants To Take Her Case to Supreme Court

Trump late to right-wing attack on Missouri employer in passé Bud Light ‘controversy’ (Kansas City Star) Nothing to see here, move along,

Attorneys for Trump and E. Jean Carroll dispute character and evidence in closing arguments of civil rape trial (CNN) It’s not a ‘rape trial’, it’s a defamation trial. They like to say rape! rape! rape! because it makes Trump look bad. No surprises there.

Abraham Accords Led to Massive Boost in Israel’s Trade

Closing arguments in Jean Carroll’s civil case against Trump

Cheney launches New Hampshire TV ad slashing Trump (NBC News)

Judge Blocks Trump From Seeing Manhattan DA’s Evidence Without Supervision  Justice? What’s that?

Trump’s weird weapon: Bad news (Axios) If you can’t find something bad to say about Trump, make something up. It pays the same.

Read the new gag order muzzling Trump in his hush-money case (Insider) Telling the truth for once.

Liz Cheney launches anti-Trump ad on CNN ahead of former president’s town hall (Washington P0st)

Jury Rejects Rape Claim Against Trump but Awards Accuser $2M for Battery  Find a deep pocket–rare back and sue it!

Without Any Mandate, Texas WIll Generate 40% of Its Energy From Renewables in 2023

‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed (The Guardian)

Why Texas, a clean energy powerhouse, is about to hit the brakes (Washington Post)

Texas Senate approves tight permit restrictions on solar, wind (PV Magazine)

The Texas GOP’s War on Renewable Energy (Texas Monthly) Texas Monthly is one of the left-wing pubs that pop up in Travis County (California East) like mushrooms.

Broad doubts about Biden’s age and acuity spell Republican opportunity in 2024: POLL (ABC)

BBC: Climate Change Too Important To Be Left To Personal Choice

Climate Envoy John Kerry’s Jet-Set Spending Is Getting Plenty Of Cloud Cover

The speed of this Greenland glacier’s melt could signal even worse sea level rise (Washington Post) Could! Could!

Bill Gates’ TerraPower Opening Nuclear Power Plant

Democratic AGs Urge Federal Government to Crack Down on Gas Stoves

Battles Rage Over Biden’s Clean Energy Projects As The Size And Cost Jump

Germany Opens the Door to High Inflation, with an 80% Green Energy Bill Subsidy Proposal

How the EPA Turned into a Toxic Leftist Social Justice Slush Fund

Facebook Censoring The Inconvenient Truth About Antarctic Temperatures

Circus or Certainty Over Climate Protest Video?

The Far North Is Burning—and Turning Up the Heat on the Planet  Dunh dunh DUNHHHHH….

Canada extends copyright protection another 20 years to meet new trade obligation (Globre and Mail)

Exclusive: FBI Agents Accuse CIA of 9/11 Coverup (Spy Talk)

Trump on Bud Light controversy: ‘Money does talk — Anheuser-Busch now understands that’ (N.Y. Post)

Clay Travis’ free beer experiment shows people ‘don’t want to be seen’ with Bud Light (Fox)

California, other states with strong ‘Defund the Police’ movements ranked best to be a cop, new study claims (Fox) Hey, you get paid and you don’t have to do anything dangerous like enforce the law. What’s not to like?

Anheuser-Busch CEO Blames Bud Light Boycott On Social Media “Misinformation”

WashPost Poll: Most Americans Don’t Want Men in Women’s Sports

Scott Baio Leaving California Due to Homeless Crisis  Chachi loves freedom.

To Hold a Coronation, Britain Suppressed Free Speech. That’s Insane. (The New Republic) Unfortunately, TNR can’t distinguish between ‘free speech’ and ‘disrupting peaceful people’s lives’.

Ladies Boycott Anthropologie After Using a Male to Model Their Dresses

WaPo Poll Delivers Crushing Blow to Biden’s Argument for Reelection

Thanks, Biden: Average Price of New Car Hits $48K

Anthem Standoff Ends in Ejection, Fine for 2 MLB Pitchers

California Activists Reject Reparations Plan, Demand More Than $1.2M Per Person

Burning Down Barriers: Female Firefighter Conference Causes ‘Out of Control’ Forest Fire

‘Outraged’ Letter Carriers Demand Action to Stop Robberies

N.Y. County Poised to Block Relocation of Migrants

Rashida Tlaib Will Host Congressional Event To Mourn ‘Catastrophe’ of Israel’s Founding  Perhaps I ought to start a new regular summary post: Today in Democrat Hate.

Oklahoma Governor Stitt defends decision to ax PBS funding over ‘really problematic’ LGBTQ content (Fox)

Pandemic-era Eviction Bans Linger in California

Krugman Whines WashPost Isn’t Buying His Insane $1 Trillion Coin Idea

Jon Tester Swore He Wouldn’t Depend Upon Lobbyists as a Senator. Now Lobbyists Are Writing His Bills.

The Squad Shamefully Tries to Inflame Another Summer of Riots

North Dakota governor signs bill restricting transgender pronouns, bathroom use (The Hill)

America’s Largest Transit Systems Reeling As Revenues Continue To Crater

NIMBY New York Suburbs Panic After NYC Mayor Plans Migrant Relocation I guess there are limits on Democrat affection for democracy.

Transgenderism “Confusing People About The Nature Of Reality” And Victimizing Children: Authors

Axios Ignores True Threat of AI Involvement in 2024 elections

Did Harvard’s Larry Tribe Really Just Advise Biden to Ignore Law on Debt Ceiling? Yes.

EXCLUSIVE: Republicans Demand Answers From NIH on Transgender Youth ‘Experiments’ Study That Left 2 Dead, Others Sterilized

Smirnoff Drag Queen Partner Flashes Bystanders at Texas Capitol

Legal Victory Gives Boost to ‘After School Satan Clubs’

YouGov Poll: CNN Most Polarizing News Source

California’s Retail Electricity Price Highest in the Continental U.S. & More than Double the Western U.S. Average Price  Time to leave.

EU Parliament Deliberately Supports Anti-Christian Propaganda

Vietnam to require registration of social media, even on global platforms  Communists will be Communists. (Democrats would like to be Communists, too.)

New York Is Forcing Schools to Change How They Teach Children to Read

Federal Zoning Bill Would Preempt Local Parking Mandates  Hey! What happened to ‘our democracy’?

Driver in Deadly Texas Car Ramming Identified Only as Hispanic Man  (Reuters) Until they can tag him somehow as right-wing.

After Mass Killings in Texas, Frustration but No Action on Guns (N.Y. Times) The focus, of course, is on the guns, as if they just travelled there and shot themslves.

Texas Gunman Had City of Dallas Tattoo, Odd Voicemail

Elon Musk Asks Of Jordan Neely Protesters: “Why Didn’t They Protest The Children Murdered At The Christian School?”

The View: Mental Health of Mass Shooters Doesn’t Matter, Denies Crisis

Family of Jordan Neely Criticize ‘Character Assassination’  Apparently ‘noticing’ that he had over 40 recent arrests and a current outstanding warrant is ‘character assassination’.

Navarro: Blacks/Hispanics Not ‘Immune’ from Being ‘White Supremacist’  The upside-down world of the Left.

WATCH: Protesters Block Subway Tracks Over Death of Jordan Neely

Report: Don Lemon Plotting Payback, Expose CNN Execs

The View: Subway Passengers Should’ve Just Given Their Money to Neely

CA Reparations Committee Approves Recommendations Costing Nearly 3X State’s Annual Budget  Prediction: The purported recipients won’t see a cent. Lawyers, however, will get many taxpayer dollars in their pockets, as will Democrat politicians.

Brownsville White Supremacist Has Some ‘Splainin to Do

Behind the Left’s Addiction to Racism

In Australia, scientists begin vaccinating koalas against chlamydia (NPR)

NIH Restarts EcoHealth Alliance Grant, Watchdog Outraged

Local And Private COVID Vaccine Mandates For Patients And Health Care Workers Being Reversed, Overturned Across US

Chelsea Clinton Promotes Mass Vaccination Program For Children – Laments Public Resistance

Never Forget What They Did… Never!

NIH Renews Controversial Grant To EcoHealth For Coronavirus Bat Study

Lessons from the COVID War

CBP, ICE to launch enforcement operation in El Paso as migrant numbers surge ahead of Title 42’s end (Fox) Oh, yeah,  election coming up, I guess we’d better pretend to do something.

El Paso mayor on surge of migrants in the city as COVID-era immigration order expires (PBS)

Border Patrol Union criticizes feds after ‘warning’ sent ahead of migrant ‘enforcement operation’ in Texas (Fox)

Juarez mayor speaks about more Texas troops coming to the border (KVIA)

Top Republican investigating Biden administration withdrawal from Afghanistan threatens to hold Blinken in contempt of Congress (CNN)

This Is Why Our National Debt Rises In Good Times And Explodes Higher In Bad

Tanked Biden pick highlights escalation of dark-money forces (Associated Press) It couldn’t have possibly been that she (he? it? was a left-wing wacko.

Trump, DeSantis Beat Biden In ABC/WaPo Poll As Joe’s Approval Hits Record Low

Nearly 610,000 public sector workers got student loan forgiveness after Biden loosened the rules (CNN) One hand washes the other.

Biden Would Veto House GOP Immigration Bill

Texas Gov. Abbott Deploys ‘Tactical Border Force’

Axios With Hard-Hitting Scoop: Jill Hates How Old Joe Loves Ice Cream, Pizza

Kamala Harris Is Finding Her Stride as Team Biden’s Voice to Black Voters (Bloomberg) If that voice is a cackle.

Union Lawsuit Wants Biden, Yellen to Ignore Debt Limit  Look for … the Union label….

Biden Wages War On Small Businesses During National Small Business Week

The food fight in the White House: Biden’s diet (Axios) Another pro-Biden thumbsucker from the Narrative media.

Mexico: Smugglers Using Title 42 Expiration to Lure Migrants

Border Patrol Agents Seized Enough Fentanyl in Single Weekend to Kill Entire Population of Chicago

White House Blocks New York Post Reporter From Rare Biden Event

Nets Ignore Biden White House Banning NY Post Reporter Who Asked About Hunter

Watch: Drone Footage Shows Wave Of Migrants Approaching Texas Border

Retired Navy SEAL to Newsmax: ‘We Need Pipe Hitters, Not Pole Dancers’

Journos Spar with KJP Over Biden’s Lack of Focus on Job

Biden Admin Won’t Let Authorities Seize Sanctioned Iranian Oil Tankers

Biden Is Draining the Strategic Oil Reserve. Republicans Are Demanding an Investigation. I don’t know why we have a Strategic Oil Reserve in the first place. It might have made back in the 70s when we were an oil-importing nation, but today we have enough oil to sell it to other nations (when Democrats aren’t choking off the supply).

‘Nothing Like This Has Been Seen Before’: Migrants Crowd Border To Await End of Title 42

Biden to be first sitting president to visit Papua New Guinea (The Hill) But he can’t be bothered to visit the American border.

Politico Invokes ‘Russian Misinformation’ to Defend the Bidens on Bribery Allegations

Biden Taps Economist Who Slammed ‘Low’ Gas Prices

CNN Blasts State Dept on Afghanistan Withdrawal Cable

The Inhumanity of Biden’s Border Policies

‘Sad Joke’: Border Patrol Union Slams Biden Admin for Tipping Off Illegals to Enforcement Operation

Biden Delays SPR Refill Again, Now Says Must Wait For Storage Repairs First

Migrants Flow North to US Border Ahead of Policy Changes

Mayorkas Heads To Border To Fire Starter Pistol When Title 42 Expires (Babylon Bee)

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The floggings will continue until morale improves is an old workplace joke. As a joke it’s not up there with the bumper sticker advice to Support mental health or I’ll kill you, but it’s a classic. The latter seems to me to have taken on new life as the tactical wisdom of the left.

The former comes to mind in connection with the legacy of Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The AP headline announces “UN urges Afghanistan’s Taliban to end floggings, executions.”

Reminder: Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology masquerading as a religion, with which no co-existence is possible.

Zman turns over a rock.

A sportsball coach is in the news for having used a taboo word during an interview with some jock sniffers. The other jock sniffers are now demanding the coach be hurled into the void so they can get some piety points on Twitter. The coach, of course, has issued the groveling apology, which will make no difference. The people howling for blood are not interested in his apology. They want blood. These cancel campaigns are a form of human sacrifice to appease the mob.

The thing about these campaigns is they obscure something that no one bothers to ask and that is who decided that you cannot use certain words? The coach in this story was responding to a question about fans throwing rubber marital aids onto the floor during games at Xavier University. He jokingly referred to them as “Catholic fags” because it is a nominally Catholic college and the fans of their basketball team seem to be obsessed with rubber penises.

 

The Antiplanner.

In 2004, Denver voters approved spending $4.8 billion building six new rail transit lines, and the first line opened ten years ago. This was soon followed by four more to the gushing praise of various outsiders.

Inside Denver, however, people are beginning to realize that the whole thing was a miserable failure, suffering massive cost overruns and never attaining its ridership projections. The West line, which had its tenth anniversary last week, never carried as many passengers as were projected in its first year. It’s too bad that the reporters who are questioning this now weren’t asking the same questions in 2004.

Denver’s Regional Transit District (RTD) suffers from numerous problems that can be traced back to its rail construction projects. It is heavily in debt and doesn’t have the money or the borrowing power to build the last rail line it promised in 2004. It also doesn’t have enough money to pay enough drivers to keep its trains and buses running, and staff shortages have led to many delays and reduced service. The rail lines never attracted enough riders to put a dent in traffic congestion or reduce air pollution before the pandemic.

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Of all living Americans, Angela Davis may have the most disgraceful history. She is a Communist–her description, not mine; she was twice the Communist Party’s candidate for vice president, and was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union. She once participated in the murder of a judge in California. She was acquitted of the crime by a biased jury, but there was never any serious doubt about her guilt: the murder and associated crimes were perpetrated with her guns.

Since then, Davis has gone on to a lucrative career as a taxpayer-supported professor. Above all, she has gotten rich on the college lecture circuit. Universities pay her tens of thousands of dollars to deliver an hour-long rant against free enterprise. Nothing original, just warmed-over Marxism. Apparently today’s college students are too dumb to notice the irony.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The Left’s campaign to replace meat with insects in our diet–more specifically, your diet, not theirs–continues apace.

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Neukölln is a severely culturally enriched borough of Berlin. Last week a man went on a stabbing rampage in a primary school in Neukölln, seriously wounding two little girls.

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

ZMan show & tell.

If you were around in the 1980’s and old enough to pay attention to the news, you remember the debate about the news media. One side, the conservatives, complained about the media bias against them. The other side, the liberals, dismissed the claim as something like a conspiracy theory. For its part, the media spent time trying to prove they were not biased at all. They would point to the one conservative story in the back pages as proof they were giving both sides equal treatment.

The funny part about that debate is everyone was right. The conservatives were right in that self-described conservatives outnumbered self-described liberals two-to-one, but the media was almost entirely liberal. The liberals were right in that it was not some sort of conspiracy to silence conservatives. The media simply reflected the opinions of the people who were in the media and politics. The media was being generous to conservatives, given that everyone they knew was a liberal.

Fast forward to the present and the media is insane. Right now, they are claiming a Mexican immigrant, who shot up a Texas mall, is a white supremacist. Here is the Washington Post version of this whopper. Here is Rolling Stone. Here is the Daily Bleat hyperventilating over it. Of course, the volunteer army of regime toadies is uncritically posting this on social media. The thing missing from all of these stories is a picture of the shooter, Mauricio Garcia.

Of course, by the time they get around to showing a picture of the shooter, someone will have doctored the photo to make him look like a German. The previous Texas spree killer, also a migrant from Mexico, was whitewashed so he could look the part, but the real photo was soon on the internet. The media did the same trick with the Uvalde, Texas shooter last year, then they edited their own news articles when the fraud was detected, but by that point it was too late.