If the choice is between Alice and solitaire….

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Steve notes that the liberal media are trying to make some kind of hero out of new Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson. Good luck with that: based on what we have seen so far, I would assess her as incompetent.

Her dissent in the UNC race discrimination case was awful. It was one long political screed, devoid of legal argument and oblivious to the standards (the 14th Amendment and Title VI) that she was supposed to be applying. Also, she can’t deal honestly or competently with data.

The Spectator.

Allowing a psychopath to form a private army of violent criminals may not, on reflection, have been Vladimir Putin’s greatest idea. But Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutinous Wagner Group is by no means the only private army operating in Russia. Over the past couple of months no fewer than five armies have been fighting on Russian soil. Only one of them, the official Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, is directly subordinate to the Kremlin.

The Independent.

A huge phosphate rock deposit discovered in Norway contains enough minerals to meet the global demand for batteries and solar panels for the next 100 years, according to the mining company that controls it.

Norge Mining said up to 70 billion tonnes of the non-renewable resource may have been uncovered in south-western Norway, alongside deposits of other strategic minerals like titanium and vanadium.

Hunter Biden filmed himself smoking crack behind the wheel, driving at 172mph on way to Vegas: photos (N.Y. Post) And the hits just keep on comin’.

Ex-Director of National Intel: Deep-Rooted ‘Cultural Problem’ in DOJ

Hunter Biden’s Former Business Partner Was Willing To Testify Before Grand Jury; Delaware US Attorney Didn’t Answer His Calls

How Bidenomics Generates More Debt And Inflation

US program is leaving asylum seekers stranded in Mexico, advocates say (The Guardian) They say that like it was a bad thing. (“Advocates” are always advocates for the “asylum seekers”, never for the country they are trying to invade.)

Conservative French mayor’s wife and child injured after home attacked by rioters in ‘assassination attempt’ (Washington Examiner)

Moms for Liberty’s focus on school races nationwide sets up political clash with teachers unions (Associated Press)

The Media’s Weirdest Pride Coverage of 2023

In Canada, ‘Decolonization’ Has Become a Profitable Enterprise

Anti-terror Laws Put UK Village Halls ‘At Risk’ of Closure

Texas Sends Another Busload of Migrants to LA

How sellers of L.A. mansions are dodging a tax to help the homeless (Washington Post) It’s impossible to write a law that can’t be dodged if there’s enough money at stake–which is why bureaucrats is always outmaneuvered by the market.

Macron Demands Platforms Delete Riot Content; Blames Social Media & Video Games For Protest Spread

Bud Light’s Disastrous Pro-Trans Marketing Sparks Major Job Losses As Bottle-Suppliers Start Shutting Down

How ‘climate lockdowns’ became the new battleground for conspiracy-driven protest movement (NBC News)

Ocasio-Cortez calls Thomas comments on Jackson in affirmative action opinion ‘profoundly disrespectful’ (The Hill) I haven’t seen anything about Justice Jackson that would inspire respect–quite the contrary.

Departing CDC Director Rochelle Walensky Warns of Politicized Science (Wall Street Journal) There’s irony for you.

What’s causing the extremely warm temperatures in the North Atlantic?

Israel Buys 25 More Lockheed F-35 Stealth Jets In $3 Billion Deal

Economic Coercion: China’s Leverage In Trade

Poland Sends Hundreds Of Counterterrorism Police To Belarus Border On Wagner Fears

ARMOR: South Korean Tank of Tomorrow

WINNING: North Korea Tries to Substitute Quality with Quantity

US authorities warn on China’s new counter-espionage law

Russia’s Medvedev: Ukraine Conflict ‘Permanent’

China Seeks More Cooperation With Russia’s Military

When the Gloves Come Off

Poland Reinforces Belarus Border Against Migrants and Wagner  Of the two, I’d say that the migrants are the greater problem.

States to sue EPA over ‘damaging’ environmental impact of residential wood-burning stoves (Fox) All Blue states, of course.

Deep-sea mining may soon ease the world’s battery-metal shortage (The Economist) If the Eco-fascists let them.

Batteries and Renewables Are Saving Texas During the Heat Wave (Forbes) 1. There is no “heat wave”, other then the normal hot weather that hits Texas every summer; 2. Batteries and renewables aren’t “saving” anything or anybody–in fact, relying on “renewables” are making the electrical grid more fragile than ever, as we discovered in Frigid February two years ago. (Which prompted my wife and I to install a gas-powered emergency generator.)

Jen Psaki Claims GOP ‘Recruiting’ Muslims to ‘Go After’ Trans People  Jen apparently doesn’t know any real Republicans.

JK Rowling Congratulates Anti-Trans Activist After Judges Award $127K For Wrongful Firing

New York Times Reporter Smears Moms for Liberty: ‘Demagogy, Violent Threats’

Don’t believe the data: This is the most conservative Supreme Court we’ve known (MSNBC) Who are you going to believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?

House Republicans scared to lose majority push back on extreme agenda (Washington Post) Not extreme other than to proglodytes.

Christie: Trump will attend debates because ‘his ego won’t permit him not to’ (The Hill) Speaking of ego….

Trump once said a president under felony indictment would grind the government to a halt and create a constitutional crisis (CNN) So don’t do it. Easy peasy.

Lindsey Graham getting booed at Trump rally is both hilarious and alarming (CNN) No, it’s just hilarious.

Barkley Leaves $5M for Black Students in Will  He’s so oppressed.

BBC.

The Orkney Islands could change their status in the UK or even become a self-governing territory of Norway under new proposals.
A motion will go before the council next week to investigate “alternative forms of governance”.
Council leader James Stockan said Orkney does not get fair funding with its current relationship within the UK.
He wants to look at Crown Dependencies like the Channel Islands and overseas territories like the Falkland Islands.

They were, once.

Bruce Schneier.

Police are already using self-driving car footage as video evidence.

…

“We’ve known for a long time that they are essentially surveillance cameras on wheels,” said Chris Gilliard, a fellow at the Social Science Research Council. “We’re supposed to be able to go about our business in our day-to-day lives without being surveilled unless we are suspected of a crime, and each little bit of this technology strips away that ability.”

Gates of Vienna.

Muslim immigrants in Europe seem to have a thing for deadly dramas involving apartment balconies. Culture-enrichers in Sweden are notorious for “accidents” in which teenage girls suddenly fall to their deaths from balconies after dating infidel boys, or balking at marrying their cousins.

The following report from the Italian city of Turin concerns the trial of an “Italian” who allegedly threw his little stepdaughter to her death from a balcony during a conflict with the girl’s mother.

The Critic.

ike a cup of coffee, the Guardian newspaper acts on me in the morning like a tonic, increasing my alertness after sleep. For example, I read the following this morning, shortly after I regained consciousness:

Matt Rowland Hill, 38, is the author of Original Sins, about growing up as the son of a baptist minister before falling into a decade-long addiction to heroin while studying at Oxford.

I have not read Mr Rowland Hill’s book, which I am perfectly prepared to believe is a very good one. But he did not fall into a decade-long addiction; he knowingly chose to become and remain addicted, for whatever reason he might have had. He jumped into it.

The author is not stupid or an ignoramus. It is impossible that he did not know that heroin was addictive before he first took it. One does not become addicted to it on a first dose: most heroin addicts, in fact, take it on and off for some time before they are physically addicted.

The Antiplanner.

More than 5,000 people are homeless in Oregon’s Multnomah County, most of them in Portland, and Oregon has the fourth-highest rate of homelessness in the nation. According to community-service worker Kevin Dahlgren, the problem is that the bureaucracies and non-profit groups that work on the homeless issue spend their time enabling people to remain homeless, rather than trying to rehabilitate them so they can get a job and housing.

Why the CDC’s New Mask Guideline Proposal May Actually Imperil Frontline Workers (Daily Beast)

New Research Paper: mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Are Gene Therapy Products

HBCUs brace for influx of applicants after SCOTUS ruling (MSNBC)

Inspiring: Justice Sotomayor Shows World Illiteracy Doesn’t Have To Stop You From Achieving Your Dreams (Babylon Bee)

‘Mass Shooting Incident’ in Baltimore, Police at the Scene (NewsMax)

Most Americans approve of Supreme Court decision restricting use of race in college admissions: POLL (ABC News)

30 People Shot, 2 Dead As Block Party In Baltimore Turns Into ‘War Zone’

GOP Candidate Hurd: ‘Race Still Does Matter’ Admissions

With End of Affirmative Action, a Push for a New Tool: Adversity Scores (N.Y. Times) How to cheat your way around the law.

‘Antiracist Newsroom’ Is ‘Inclusive’—Except for What It Excludes: Any Pretense of Fairness, Balance

Affirmative action for white people? Legacy college admissions come under renewed scrutiny (Associated Press)

Why Dems aren’t campaigning on affirmative action (Politico)

The affirmative action ruling is big. Now elite colleges need to think bigger. (Washington Post)

Can’t ‘defund’ our way out of homeless crisis (New York Post)

In Wake of Supreme Court Decision, Liberal Media Stands Up for Discrimination

I’m not a lawyer. But I see what the same-sex wedding website case will mean. (Washington Post) Amazing how ‘journalists’ have no hesitation emitting opinions in areas where they admit that they’re unqualified.

After Fostering Cesspool Of Crime, Gavin Newsom Finally Gets Serious About Fentanyl In San Francisco

Oregon County Sues BP, Chevron, Shell, Exxon for $51B Climate Damages

Elizabeth Warren Says Without Affirmative Action, A Native American Girl Like Herself Would Never Have Been Accepted To Rutgers (Babylon Bee)

Morning-After Pill Vending Machines Gain Popularity on College Campuses  My, what a surprise.

San Francisco may soon get 24/7 driverless cabs. City leaders are fuming. (Washington Post)

Affirmative action divided Asian Americans and other People Of Color. Here’s how (NPR) Really? People have to have this explained? (Getcher Narrative, right here!)

CNN Lets Buttigieg Suggest Christian Website Designer Case Was Made Up

HBO’s ‘Sex and the City’ Reboot Promotes Grooming as Moms Openly Lust After Teen Boy  My, what a surprise.

US attorney leading Hunter Biden probe breaks silence on claims investigation was ‘influenced by politics’ (Fox News)

Hunter Biden’s Daughter and a Tale of Two Families (N.Y. Times)

US Releases Internal Review Of Botched, Disastrous Afghan Withdrawal 

Think About It, Would You Really Want the Biden Name?

Biden Explores Refugee Program for Non-Mexican Asylum Seekers in Mexico

Prosecutor in the Hunter Biden Case Denies Retaliating against IRS Agent Who Talked to House GOP

No, Joe, There Is No Such Thing As A “Fair Share” Of Taxes

Global Warming Madness: New White House report considers blocking the sun to cool the planet  Superman could do it. Creepy Joe? Uh, no.

Why the media too often ignores the connection between climate change and meat (Vox)

Advocates from Across the Country Rally in Chicago for Coal Ash Rule Reform (Inside Climate News) Where do these people come from? Do they not have jobs?

A heat wave is scorching America’s southern half as the Fourth of July holiday approaches (Associated Press)

How Old Are The World’s Nuclear Reactors?

Heat Wave Scorches South as Fourth of July Approaches  Some years it’s hot and some years it’s not. Sheesh.

Claim: Climate Impacts Could Lead to More Authoritarian Governments

Liberal Dilemma: “Just Stop Oil” Climate Protestors Disrupt Gay Pride March

Volkswagen: “Strong Customer Reluctance” in the Electric Vehicle Sector

No, WaPo, Climate Change is NOT Fueling More Devastating Rains and Flooding

The Supreme Court’s conservatives are doing exactly what they claim to detest (MSNBC)

DeSantis, Seeking Attention, Uses L.G.B.T.Q. Issues to Attack Trump (N.Y. Times)

Former Busch Exec: Oust CEO for Mulvaney Bud Light Backlash

NY Times Petulant Over Affirmative Action Loss: ‘Threatens…Court’s Legitimacy’

Liberals Beclown Themselves in Reaction to SCOTUS Decisions

Half the Police Force Quit. Crime Dropped. (N.Y. Times) Radley Balko pushes the Narrative.

DeSantis’s stalling campaign: how to lose friends and alienate people (The Guardian)

PBS Cries Over ‘Right-Wing Backlash…False Information’ As Big Biz ‘Rethinks’ Pride

California Teachers’ Union Threatens Local School Board With Legal Action Over Flag Policy

Trump takes over small city in South Carolina show of force (Politico)

Jersey Boy Takes On Florida Man (N.Y. Times) Chris Christie appears to be Maureen Dowd’s favorite Republican.

Trump in SC: Tens of thousands pack Pickens. More than 50 treated for heat-related illness

DOJ Plans ’30 to 45′ More Charges If Judge Is Pro-Trump Can’t have the witch-hunt fail!

Read it.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is big business these days, and even though we all know it does more harm than good, the industry is set to expand from an estimated $3 billion in 2020 to a whopping $17 billion by 2027. Those who want a piece of the action are vying for access to your children as close to in utero as humanly possible. Whether it’s drag queen ‘story time,’ demanding children accept 73 genders, schools encouraging 4-year-olds to ‘gender transition’ without parental consent, or ‘Maoist’ consultants ‘decolonising’ the minds of nursery school children by telling them they’re racist, the ‘woke’ Gestapo takes no prisoners.

Cue Bright Horizons, a £4.7 billion, U.S.-based company which runs 1,000 childcare facilities globally, and appears to be setting out its diversity stall in an already crowded marketplace. The company came to the attention of the British press over the weekend, when it was accused by a Kent mother of having a “left-wing campaigning agenda” and “dictating to parents their own political views on how to raise their children.”

Gates of Vienna.

During the night between Saturday and Sunday, the residence of the mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, in Val de Marne, was attacked by car ramming. His wife and one of his two young children were injured, announced the mayor of the municipality, Vincent Jeanbrun.

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

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Scott wrote here about the riots that have paralyzed France for five days. Reuters reports that thousands of rioters have been arrested, rioters have burned 2,000 vehicles, 200 police officers have been injured, and more than 700 businesses have been looted, ransacked or burned to the ground.

All of this was triggered by the death of a 17-year-old named Nahel Merzouk who was shot by a police officer following a traffic stop. But what exactly happened leading up to the shooting? And who was Nahel Merzouk? The liberal London Times has a reasonably honest account.

Apparently the Muslim kid that was shot hadn’t had a chance to view the Chris Rock video “How Not To Get Your Ass Kicked By The Police“.

Read it.

A Japanese research team is making progress on the development of a groundbreaking medication that may allow people to grow new teeth, with clinical trials set to begin in July 2024.

The tooth regrowth medicine is intended for people who lack a full set of adult teeth due to congenital factors. The team is aiming to have it ready for general use in 2030.

Read it.

Ah, the beauty of two nations divided by a common language. When Brits say “Asians,” they formally mean anybody from the whole bloody continent of Asia (but probably not Russians except for those of the Russian Far East), but typically they mean Pakistani men of military age.

Of which the UK is now chock-full, due to Tony Blair’s attempt to import a permanent Labour majority.

When Americans say “Asians,” we formally and typically mean orientals, that is the CJK crowd and anybody else with stereotypically fair (“yellow”) skin and an epicanthic fold (part of the “slanted eyes” feature). We have different terms for Pacific Islanders, Southeast Asians, Central Asians (The Stans), Indo-Paki types, Middle Easterners, and the Turk.

Typically divided between “East Asians” and “South Asians”.

Read it.

While informative, this does not prove aspartame is safe. Biology is crazy. But it should inform our priors. Speaking for myself, my previous model was that consuming aspartame would result in a crazy unknown synthetic chemical circulating around my body and doing god-knows-what. My updated model is that consuming aspartame results in slightly larger amounts of some totally normal chemicals.

Read it.

In accounting we have a thing called Good Will. That’s an intangible asset. Take a company with a super well established name and track record. There’s no physical asset for the name, Coke a Cola or McDonald’s, but there’s an asset value for how incredibly well known those are, and that needs to get accounted for in the valuation. Companies like that aren’t valuable just because they own stores or factories or lots of inventory, but because everybody knows who they are. Basically Good Will exists because customers know who you are, what you do, and generally like that. With big corporations, Good Will is worth billions.

Good Will goes down when companies turn off those customers, or the name starts to have negative connotations and they become less valuable (Anhauser Busch for a recent example).

The Star Wars novels are a perfect example of this. That was once the biggest and most beloved IP on Earth. Novels in that setting should be a license to print money. The Good Will was off the charts. A reboot was a chance to kinda forget the worst of previous products, and come out the gate strong with quality products. In a sane world, the novels of an IP that big should crush the rest of us by orders of magnitude, just off of name recognition and customers being inclined toward checking out products from that brand.

Nope. They went the opposite direction.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Minnesota’s Department of Human Rights released a statement on the Supreme Court’s 303 Creative decision, which I wrote about here. First the statement, then some comments on it:

So, what exactly has the Supreme Court done that the State of Minnesota think is a blow to gay people’s civil rights? If a gay couple is getting married and they go to a web designer to set up a page to celebrate their romance, there is a possibility the web designer might say, “Sorry, I don’t do gay weddings.” The horror!

The real horror, I suppose, is having to acknowledge that some people are still not in favor of gay marriage. Just a few years ago, a large majority of Americans were opposed to gay marriage. Barack Obama was opposed to gay marriage. Remember? Gay marriage won the day, and liberals like those who run the Human Rights Department now insist that the verdict be deemed unanimous. But it isn’t.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Riots have convulsed France over the past five nights. The New York Times reports, for example, in a story published in the past two hours “France Arrests Hundreds More in Fifth Night of Unrest.” President Macron scrapped an official trip to Germany in light of the riots, though not before he made it to the Elton John concert in Paris.

The occasion this time around is the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old boy of North African descent identified as Nahel M. this past Tuesday. Some 45,000 police officers have been deployed across the country for the past two evenings. Although the news reports are not helpful on this point, I take it that the rioters come largely from France’s large Muslim community.

Read it.

As we head to Independence Day and a celebration of this nation’s founding, the angry chorus of haters with idle hands and minds gets loud. They prefer we dwell on the nation’s sins and ignore our great progress toward an always more perfect union. No longer just angry academics and activists, the press too has joined the act. It is a reminder that the secular religion that dominates cultural institutions is a religion without grace or forgiveness, perpetually anchored in the grievances of the past.

The New York Times produced its 1619 Project to, in the words of its creator, retell the story of our founding. She claimed it was not to be taken as true fact, but narration. She recast the United States and its revolution as about the preservation of slavery. Widely criticized by historians across the political perspective, the damage was done and proudly so. Many people who had grievance and needed a story around which to weave their grievance latched on to the false claims.

The fabulists ignored the Northern colonies moving against slavery long before Great Britain did. They ignored the writings of our founders, including Thomas Jefferson, who knew the institution of slavery undermined the words “all men are created equal” and would have to end. They ignored the reparations paid in blood on battlefields across America as white men from the North killed their kin from the South to set slaves free.

Gates of Vienna.

Massive culture-enriching riots in France are continuing into the weekend. The largest group of conflagrations is in Paris and its immediate environs, but copycat riots are springing up all over the country.

The situation is reminiscent of the riots in Clichy-sous-Bois (another suburb of Paris) in 2005. Back then two culture-enrichers fled from the police and crawled into an electrical substation to hide, whereupon they were electrocuted. It wasn’t even the police who fried them — it was their own stupidity. But “youths” set Clichy-sous-Bois on fire anyway.

Eighteen years later their numbers are much greater, and they’re setting the whole country on fire.

The following brief clip shows a Muslim “youth” exhorting his fellow rioters to kill the police. The important thing to note is the Koranic justification for the killings. Muslims don’t try to hide the role their religion plays in deadly violence, but the Western media hide it from their audience — you won’t see evidence like this on major TV outlets.

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

UPDATE: Parisian Holocaust Memorial Trashed

Especially if
You might be a Jew.

Stanford Study of Paxlovid for Long COVID Stopped Early (MedPageToday)

Some Pfizer Vaccine Batches In The EU Were Placebos, Say Scientists

Ukraine Situation Report: Counteroffensive Criticism “Pisses Me Off” Says Top General

Poland Wants To Host NATO Nukes To Counter Russia

Gen. Milley warns US military must modernize now (Fox News)

US Arming Taiwan With Volcano Mine-Laying Systems After Biden Called Xi A Dictator

UK Says NATO Should Consider Skipping Standard Application For Ukraine  Rules? What rules?

To Make More Stingers, US Needs to Revive Production Technology from Scratch

Stockman: Why The US Should Stop Sending Money To Zelensky

French youths clash with officers in 4th day of riots over fatal police shooting (Times of Israel) None of these ‘French youths’ are actually French. As with ‘American youths’ in race riots, they seem mostly occupied with stealing stuff.

Violent protests continue in wake of French teen’s fatal shooting by police (CBS News)

France in crisis as riots escalate (BBC News)

Boston University law students offered therapy in response to recent Supreme Court decisions (Fox News)

He’s The Trans Son Of An Anti-Trans Influencer. It’s His Turn To Speak. (Huffington Post) If he were the anti-trans son of a trans ifluencer, would he be allowed to speak? I think not.

Minn. Abortions Surge, Partly Due to Patients From Restrictive States

How Christians and Drag Queens Are Defending the First Amendment (N.Y. Times) David French continues carrying water for the Left.

It’s the First Amendment, Stupid: Supreme Court Holds That Free Speech Prevails in Challenge to Anti-Discrimination Law

Heartbreak City: Here’s How ABC/CBS/NBC Handled Friday’s SCOTUS Cases (Hint: Not Well)

New York City Now Sheltering More Illegal Immigrants Than Homeless Citizens: Deputy Mayor

40% Of Californians Are Considering Moving To Another State Due To Cost Of Living

French Police Say “We’re At War With Vermin” As Nationwide Riots Spread Like Cancer

“Believe Their Lies Or Pay The Consequences” – Tucker Carlson Blasts Trans Ideology As “Just Another Religious War”

Elena Kagan Has Had Enough (N.Y. Times) She’s still in a minority.

Dem La. Gov Vetoes Gender-Transition Care Ban

White House releases report on reflecting sunlight to cool the earth, no formal study planned now (CNBC)

Environmental policy contributing to historic gas price spike in Washington state: ‘Hit my pockets hard’ (Fox News)

State Department didn’t track carbon footprint of climate summit flights (Politico)

Another Climate-Savior Alarmist Jetsets to South America – For Two Months Of Vacation!

World Now Wasting $1 Trillion Or More Per Year Investing in Useless “Renewables”

The Sea Level Hype Continues

IEA’s Net Zero Dream Was Just Debunked As A Nightmare

Trump, DeSantis Court Moms for Liberty as Group’s Sway Over GOP Grows

Trump’s basement campaign (Axios) We know who he is and what he will do as President. He doesn’t need to ‘campaign’.

dThe time Clarence Thomas said affirmative action was ‘critical’ for society (Washington Post)

Mayor Eric Adams doubles down on comparing Holocaust survivor to plantation owner (Politico)

18 Hasidic Schools Failed to Provide Basic Education, New York City Finds (N.Y. Times) I wonder whether they apply the same criteria to Islamic madrassahs.

Why Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote about babysitters in her student loan opinion (CNN)

White women have helped sink the affirmative action ship (Washington Post)

No Labels Is Chasing A Fantasy (FiveThirgyEight)

Shutting down the right-wing rabbit hole is possible: First, follow the money (Salon) ‘Right-wing rabbit hole’? (I followed the money and it led me to George Soros. Now what?)

This Has Been a Very Bad Week for the Supreme Court (The New Republic) Certainly in the estimation of the Narrative media.

Protesters Blast Moms For Liberty Summit in Philly: ‘Klanned Karenhood’ (Daily Beast)

Report: No Labels Derides MoveOn’s Probe Request

Kamala Harris says fundamental freedoms are at stake with the Supreme Court rulings (NPR) The freedom to waste taxpayer money, the freedom to force people to work for perverts, the freedom to give special privileges to black people … all so very fundamental.

Trump Ambassador Gordon Sondland Named in Illegal Donations Scheme (Daily Beast)

MSNBC Rips SCOTUS on Affirmative Action Ruling, Denies Thomas Is Black

Flashback: The Media VILIFIED Clarence Thomas Even BEFORE Anita Hill

Republican LGBTQ group blasts DeSantis over ‘homophobic’ campaign video (The Hill)

Moms for Liberty blasted as ‘Klanned Karenhood’ by protesters in Philadelphia (Raw Story)

Brooks And Capehart Agree: SCOTUS Upholding Free Speech Is ‘Poison’

Vicar: Bank Closes Account Over Trans Ideology

Feds Say They Have 80,000 Pages of Evidence Against George Santos (Daily Beast)

Trump supporters boo, call Lindsey Graham a ‘traitor’ at South Carolina rally (The Hill) How does she know they were Trump supporters? Why, they booed Lindsey Graham! Who would do that except Trump supporters?

College loan forgiveness: Democrats campaign on “Republicans are mean”

Wall Street Journal.

We have the technology.

Associated Press.

Americans who came of age during the pandemic are skipping college in big numbers. Many have shunned traditional college paths, turning instead to hourly jobs or careers that don’t require a degree. Still others feel locked out, deterred by high tuition and the prospect of student debt. Colleges nationwide saw undergraduate enrollments drop 8% from 2019 to 2022, with continued declines even after the return to in-person classes, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse. Economists say the impact could be dire. Fewer college graduates could worsen labor shortages in fields from health care and engineering to information technology.

Fewer college graduates would mean that a college degree would actually mean something.

Check it out.

I am not making this up.

My late first wife was a compulsive accumulator of restaurant condiments packets. McDonald’s nugget barbecue sauce was a favorite.