In Hoc Anno Domini

In Hoc Anno Domini. This editorial in the Wall Street Journal was written in 1949 by the late Vermont Royster and has been published annually since. Often, the comments in the WSJ are more interesting than the article.

How Corrupt is a Corrupt Media? The media has ceased to exist, and the public plods on by assuming as true whatever the media suppresses and as false whatever the media covers. By Victor Davis Hanson

Senate Dem: Griner-for-Bout swap "deeply disturbing," enabling future hostage-takers

Remember Sam Brinton, the Energy Department official that likes to wear women's clothes? He stole a woman's suitcase at the Minneapolis Airport. Well, it seems he also did it in Las Vegas. I guess he just doesn't like to shop in ladies' boutiques. He doesn't seem to work at DOE anymore.

Identity politics run amok: Why does the Biden administration keep making such embarrassing hires?

JUST WHEN YOU HOPED SOUTH CAROLINA HAD MOVED PAST ITS SEGREGATIONIST HISTORY: South Carolina med school faces federal investigation for excluding men, white people.

THE TWITTER FILES, Part VII: The FBI All Up in Twitter's Business

Mom sues after police arrest her for leaving kid home alone. These are different times.

There's A Reason People Suspect Fraud. Especially when you look at some of what's been reported in Georgia alone.

Twitter files #7: the FBI sets up the scam. When the Hunter Biden laptop story broke shortly before the 2020 election, I initially experienced a brief sense of relief. It had been a tense year, to be sure: COVID, then the Floyd riots, and with the election looming I had a gut feeling that the cognitively challenged, mendacious, corrupt, newly-minted leftist Joe Biden was going to win. Now, with this laptop story, maybe enough people were going to learn about more of the family corruption, and perhaps it would change the outcome.

The Christmas Movie That Became a Classic Because of a Mistake. The role of accidents, chance and serendipity can be crucial to success. It’s the reason people still watch a black-and-white film every year.

How the Media Trains Journalists to Lie. The Ratioing of Dasha Burns

Anomie and Impunity. The unraveling of San Francisco

Guys swim faster than girls, even if they identify as female

 A Washington State high school student who, as a male, ranked 72nd in boys’ track, vaulted up to the number-one spot as a female following gender transition. Deprives other girls’ teams of the chance to compete at State

Another ‘Known Wolf’ – The Colorado Springs Shooter Should Have Been in Prison

This Is What a Solar Eclipse Looks Like From the Surface of Mars

Giant Goldfish Weighing 67 Lbs. Caught by Fisherman – See the Photos! Nicknamed "The Carrot," the goldfish was caught in the same French fishery it was released into 20 years ago

Take yourself back in time to World War II and watch this film about the manufacture of 3-inch anti-aircraft shells. The amount of effort it took to make just one bullet is amazing.

One of Biden's appointments is a man who dresses in women's clothing. He/she is in the Deprtment of Energy storage of nuclear waste. He stole a woman's suitcase in Minneapolis. Theft case against Biden nonbinary aide Sam Brinton is admittedly ‘weirder.

From the NYT: What’s the Best Book of the Past 125 Years? We Asked Readers to Decide.

Pretty good story about a trailer-dwelling poor person rose to Rule the Best-Seller List. With legions of devoted fans and a knack for high-voltage emotional drama, Hoover has sold more than 20 million books. And she’s done it her way.

Why Are Black People Still Voting for Democrats? It's Magic!

These 15 Secular Christmas Songs Deserve the Death Penalty My wife Chris used to sing O Holy Night every Christmas. She was better than the one linked in the article.

This article by Victor Davis Hanson is notable for the summary of Biden's failures. Does Trump Really Want To Be President Again?

I was at a Walmart this week that had remarkable security measures. I wanted to buy some T-shirts. They were locked behind a glass door. I had to find a clerk to open it for me. Once selected, I couldn't put them in my cart. The clerk had to take them up to a front counter for me to retrieve later. When checking out, I located my T-shirts up front. At that point, the clerk had to take them to the self-service register and actually scanned them for me to make sure I was going to pay for them. I was incredulous, but apparently theft is a big problem in this neighborhood. I happened on this article Walmart May Hike Prices and Close Stores Due to Theft. When did T-shirts become a security problem?

Interesting back story on Twitter supressing the Hunter Biden hard disk story. Elon Musk Fires a Democrat Fox Guarding the Twitter Hen House

Will Trump ride off into the sunset, or play the broken hero?

Will Trump ride off into the sunset, or play the broken hero?

Here's a pretty good review of the new and improved Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

The Left Were the Mad Scientists--We Were Their Lab Rats. By Victor Davis Hanson

The Supreme Court Confronts the Left’s Victimhood Consensus. An analysis of race-based college admissions, the case before the Supreme Court.

Biden: The Pudding President’s Insults Continue. So much for Joe Biden and his quest to “tone down the angry rhetoric” and “unifying” our country.

I Hated Fishing. Then Fishing Changed My Life. In an excerpt from his new book, terrific writer Jason Gay talks about being drawn, despite himself, into the obsession of his 9-year-old son.

We don't live in Grass Valley CA anymore, but I regret missing this meteor.

FOUR HUNDRED private jets arrived in Egypt during COP27 as climate delegates are accused of 'hypocrisy'

After violent camera robberies, a number of photographers plan to stay away from San Francisco. The Dallas-based photographer targeted in the attack the afternoon of on November 9, did not want to be identified but says he was pistol-whipped and was "freaked out" and tried to console the wedding party where "the bride was crying the whole time." That same day, another photographer's belongings were stolen at gunpoint at the same location...on the very same day.

SHOCKER! WaPo Sheepishly Admits the FBI Found No Nuclear Secrets, or Anything Else, in Mar-a-Lago Raid

Did you notice that there have been many stories breaking recently that are inconvenient to the left-wing narrative? They came out after the midterm elections were over — when they’d have no impact on the vote.

Paul Pelosi Seen Opening Door for Police on Body Cam Video as Originally Reported. NBC reporter Miguel Almaguer was suspended on Tuesday for including that detail in his original report, since retracted. And yet NBC Bay Area reporter Bigad Shaban claimed Wednesday that police body cam footage supports Almaguer’s initial story.

Facebook Censors Bible Verse

What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on with the Paul Pelosi story?

Ohio January 6 man gets three years after stealing a coat rack. Here's the story on the other case: The Gentry Class looks after its own, while prating about equality, the rule of law, and the dangers of “insurrection.”

The Real Dispute at Heart of Affirmative Action Cases Now Before High Court

 The Real Dispute at Heart of Affirmative Action Cases Now Before High Court.

After the Jan. 6 Committee finishes, maybe a GOP Congress can probe some actual ‘threats to democracy’. By Glenn H. Reynolds

CNN’s Attempt to Report the Truth About Guns Outrages Gun Control Zealots

A comparison between photos taken by the Hubble and the new James Webb telescopes. Take a look at bigger versions here

The Sanibel Island causeway washed out by Hurricane Ian has reopened. Republicans just do a better job.

What's Interesting About the Steve Bannon Verdict

Political Stunt? Viral Abortion Horror Story in Missouri Perfectly Timed for October Surprise

Is This the Real Reason Twitter Employees Are Afraid of Elon Musk? Take a tour of the office.

Pelosi Attacker’s Former ‘Life Partner’ Definitively Torpedoes the Media Narrative. Reuters reported a lie that an internet user with the same name as the man arrested at the scene, David Depape, expressed support for former President Donald Trump.

Biden’s Day One Actions Haunt Him Still

Biden’s Day One Actions Haunt Him Still. Column: The president blunders from one self-inflicted crisis to the next

Hunter and Joe Biden Need Trump. The press won’t keep lying about Hunter’s laptop if Trump isn’t on the ballot.

FBI undercounts number of times armed citizens have thwarted active shooting incidents: report

I don't normally post links to articles from liberal media, but here's an incredible report in Nature about some islanders winning a suit against Australia because of global warming. This is insane of course, starting with the fact that Australia doesn't contribute much to global warming compared to places line China and India.

Ukraine's victory "almost a done deal": Military expert on how Russia's invasion imploded. Pretty good analysis.

Rail company left 'dysfunctional' California amid faltering ‘bullet train’ efforts. SNCF, the French national railroad, was one of the original operators to come to California in the early 2000s to help develop the state’s “bullet train” that would run from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The rail company, however, opted to leave for the war-torn, yet “less politically dysfunctional” North African country.

Share These 8 Reasons Tulsi Gabbard Left The Democrat Party With Your Democrat-Voting Friends And Family

Special Counsel John Durham and the Press’s Battle With Truth. To the media, ignorance is bliss when it comes to the true 2016 election story.

The man who said Ukraine would win. ‘The real reason Putin has not succeeded,’ says Bernard-Henri Lévy, is that his opponents ‘know why they fight.’

A More Diverse America Turns Against Racial Preferences. California voters backed the 1996 ban by a 9-point margin. By 2020 the gap had widened to 16 points.

Anything the U.S. does to reduce emissions won’t matter much to global temperatures

 Anything the U.S. does to reduce emissions won’t matter much to global temperatures. U.S. cuts will be swamped by the increases in India, Africa and especially China. Look no further than China’s boom in new coal-fired electricity.

How the Media Fell for A Racism Sham. A Brigham Young University paper scooped the New York Times. All the students did was practice basic journalism

The Sordid Saga of Hunter Biden’s Laptop. Imagine that, in the middle of all of this, you lose control of 217 gigabytes of your personal data: videos in which you have sex; videos in which you smoke crack; bleary-eyed selfies; selfies that document your in-progress dental work; your bank statements; your Venmo transactions; your business emails; your toxic rants at family members; analysis from your psychiatrist; your porn searches; your Social Security number; explicit photos of the many women passing through your bedrooms, photos of your kids, of your father, of life and death, despair and boredom.

Special Victor Davis Hanson Edition: How Democracy Dies in Darkness in Five Easy Steps.

Why has fact-checking disappeared under Biden? Fact-checking under President Trump was a bustling business. Seemingly every day, and sometimes by the hour, the 45th president’s every word was scrutinized, which all comes with the job. 

What Russia’s Failure in Ukraine Means for Putin and the World The exposure of his country’s weaknesses by a smaller adversary could threaten the Russian president’s influence abroad and even his hold on power.

Sweden was very welcoming to Muslim immigrants from the Middle East. Crime is mushrooming and nobody wants to talk about the root cause. Two Bombings in One Night? That’s Normal Now in Sweden. My country just voted in a right-wing government. The almost 500 bombings since 2018 may have something to do with it.

Another Surge of Greed in the Biden Era? Rising gas prices bring back a favorite Beltway excuse.

California Warns: Here Come the Blackouts

California Warns: Here Come the Blackouts, Don't Charge Your Car

Jim Harbaugh on his unique quarterback plan: 'It's Biblical'. Michigan's head coach cited King Solomon and the Book of Ecclesiastes to explain his decision to start Cade McNamara against Colorado State and JJ McCarthy versus Hawaii.

Hidden Dinosaur Tracks Emerge in Texas Drought. Visitors to Dinosaur Valley State Park have been treated to a rare sight of 113-million-year-old dinosaur footprints.

Climate change: A Russian plant near Finland is burning off some 4.34 million cubic meters of gas every day that it would previously have sold to Germany, the BBC reported.

'Shoot. Me. Now!' What Obama told an aide about Joe Biden's 'annoying' rambling, as new book reveals tensions in the 'bromance' that got so bad Barack wanted to replace his VP with Hillary Clinton in 2012

A bakery was destroyed by Oberlin College and its students. Read the story. They sued the college and won. Will they get their money?

Liberal Principal Admits Discriminating against Religious Teachers. An undercover video has captured a public school administrator admitting that he quietly refuses to hire “brainwashed” religious teachers and older people, so he can impose his own liberal views on the district’s schoolchildren.

Gun violence is up in Portland. While there were more shootings last weekend than usual, it’s just the latest example of an upward trend in gun violence in Portland and the state since 2020. There have been 788 shootings in Portland as of July 31 this year, which is 67 more than last year and 415 more than in 2020 during the same time frame.

The most-regretted (and lowest-paying) college majors. Almost half of humanities and arts majors regret their choice — and enrollment in those disciplines is shrinking rapidly

Woke Ideologues Are Taking Over American Art Museums. When connoisseurs yield to commissars, the result is as ugly as you’d expect.

A Russian Soldier’s Inside View of Moscow’s War in Ukraine. Demoralized troops, poor logistics undercut performance of Russian military, says paratrooper who fought

The Cynical Exploitation of Brittney Griner. Who benefits from America's infighting?

Why the Afghanistan Withdrawal Was the Perfect Storm of Bureaucratic Incompetence

Why the Afghanistan Withdrawal Was the Perfect Storm of Bureaucratic Incompetence. The botched withdrawal wasn’t a mistake or a one-time bad call. The catastrophe occurred due to consistent and specific inept leadership failures at the Department of Defense, Department of State, the White House, and the Intelligence Community. Failure to plan. Failure to be realistic about the strength and capabilities of the Taliban. Failure to adequately prepare and vet people to get them out of the country before the U.S. military departed. 

"I would never, ever say that I regret supporting the first Black woman vice president, ever. But the disappointment is real." "I was obsessed with the idea of this person who could undo the systemic, the systematic racism and sexism and heterosexism in government with one fell swoop, and now I’m thinking to myself, did I just make up a person in my head who could do those things?"

The thing about UFO photographs is that they are never clear. Experts and enthusiasts have been disappointed for decades by bad-quality photos and videos of unidentified flying objects. World's clearest UFO photo revealed after 30 years; it's called 'The Calvine Photo'

A look at the world’s skinniest skyscraper: Steinway Tower. The 60 apartments in the tower range in cost from $18 million to $66 million per unit and offer 360-degree views of the city. It’s located just south of Central Park, along a stretch of Manhattan’s 57th Street known as “Billionaires’ Row.”

From the Babylon Bee: I wish that we could leave California Now

WHY CAN’T LIBERALS DO MATH?

I suppose the answer is, if they could do math they wouldn’t be liberals.

It is a familiar pattern: the Left sees an organization or institution that is widely respected and takes it over. It then politicizes, degrades and misuses that institution. The predictable result is that the public regard formerly enjoyed by the institution is lost.

"Another proud moment for women's sports": This trans golfer is shellacking female opponents left and right in the LPGA qualifiers

An excellent article on the attack on Salman Rushdie. We Ignored Salman Rushdie's Warning

He Was a World-Renowned Cancer Researcher. Now He's Collecting Unemployment.

Behind the fall of David Sabatini, 'one of the greatest scientists' of his generation.

Censorship at a Top College for Free Speech. Claremont McKenna threatened to bar me from teaching required classes for quoting ‘Huck Finn.’

Did you know you could spend $40,000 for a dog?

 Did you know you could spend $40,000 for a dog? BLM Activist Shaun King Used Donor Funds To Buy $40k Thoroughbred Show Dog

August 6 is the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.  Millions of lives were saved.

Also worth watching, Bill Whittle's timeless lecture on the issues

New York Times guest essay trashes the south: 'Awful,' 'fury-soaked,' 'gun-littered'

Less Than Half of San Francisco Students Are High-School Ready. More Than a Fourth Are Chronically Absent.

Want to take a road trip? Here are the seven longest Interstate Highways in the U.S.

Pretty entertaining article about owning a Tesla.

Has Biden Lost It? He Never Had It. His presidency’s failure rests on a longstanding character flaw: He follows the Democratic Party wherever it goes.

How the Climate Elite Spread Misery. Most people are more worried about high gas and food prices, which green policies make worse.

How Jesus' apostles died.

Cross-Examining the Climate Change Cultists.  I was told that in the context of climate change the science is settled, that there is only one possible answer and that anything else is at least quackery and possibly felony denial.

Reports of the Choco Taco’s Death Are Possibly Exaggerated. It turns out killing the Choco Taco was what it took for the wacky ice cream treat to get its due. And it may not be frozen out for long.

A new study, Corrupted Climate Stations: The Official U.S. Surface Temperature Record Remains Fatally Flawed, finds approximately 96 percent of U.S. temperature stations used to measure climate change fail to meet what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) considers to be “acceptable” and  uncorrupted placement by its own published standards.

"Cover up Your Bumps": California State Senator Encourages Gay Orgies During Monkeypox Outbreak. We report 528 infections diagnosed between April 27 and June 24, 2022, at 43 sites in 16 countries. Overall, 98% of the persons with infection were gay or bisexual men

Why does anyone need an AR-15?

An Expert Answers Democrats' Most Burning Question: Why Does Anyone Need an AR-15?

Lincoln gets cancelled. Cornell library removes Gettysburg Address and bust of Lincoln.

Is America in the process of breaking up? I don’t know. It might be. These poll data from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics are sobering, to say the least.

You probably heard that California is banning gasoline powered lawnmowers and weed whackers. Now they are making plans to replace the forklifts with electric ones. That's going to cost a bit. Sacramento is a subset of California. They are banning food garbage.  You have to save your organic food waste in a separate container that gets picked up occasionally and turned into compost or something.

How to find the least dishonest politician to vote for.

Biden will be remembered for wrecking the country. All he had to do was leave things alone. Instead, he blundered into the office and wrecked the country.

Build a Charter School, Get Sued by the Teachers Union. Vertex Academies is set to open next month on the old Blessed Sacrament campus in the Bronx.

A Wild Gathering of Sorrow Over the Death of Christ. It is nearly impossible to remain immune to the visceral emotions of the mourning figures in Niccolò dell’Arca’s lifesize terracotta sculptures

The Supreme Court Saves Politics. The West Virginia and Dobbs decisions free Americans from rule by experts and judges.

‘Strong Progressives Clearly Live in a Different World’. Democrats are very popular these days among college-educated whites. The bad news for the party is that such voters constitute a large part of the progressive left, which seems to have less and less in common with the rest of the country. Read past the good news story for the poll results.

Failures up at school after merit-based admissions ended. The San Francisco School Board decided that the merit-based system of admissions for the gifted and talented student programs was “racist” (?) and they adopted a lottery system for admissions.

Here's a collection of incredible mountain adventure images from a photo contest.

It was a small trial, just 18 rectal cancer patients, every one of whom took the same drug. But the results were astonishing. The cancer vanished in every single patient, undetectable by physical exam, endoscopy, PET scans or M.R.I. scans.

Here's an odd story. A guy jumps into a lake in front of some policemen and starts swimming. He starts to drown and asks the police to jump in and save him. The policeman refuses to jump in after him. He drowns. What would you have done?

A book review in the Wall St. Journal: ‘The Apocryphal Gospels’ Review: Good News and Fake News. Reading the non-canonical accounts of Jesus gives us some idea of why Matthew, Mark, Luke and John get all the attention.

A wall of rock collapsed into Lake Power. See the video.

This is not to underplay the former president's very real contributions to the Republic, including most notably saving it from Hillary Clinton and her flying-monkey media squadrons and black ops practitioners. Trump was the only one who could beat her, and he was the only Republican candidate she could have lost to. And there's no question that the 2020 was "stolen" fair and square by the Democrats

Jan. 6 Committee Called Out for Altering Evidence and Lying About It

STEPHEN HUNTER: THE MASSACRE SPREE THAT NEVER WAS

Betsy DeVos’s Mission to Rescue Teachers Unions’ ‘Hostages’. That “system” is the subject of Mrs. DeVos’s new book, “Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child.”

The media bubble is real: Study shows massive disconnect between journalists, public.

How Mark Cuban's New Drug Company Sells Medications With Huge Discounts

Roe v. Wade was overturned. Here's what you need to know.

The Russian Military’s People Problem

 It’s Hard for Moscow to Win While Mistreating Its Soldiers

San Francisco paper complains that people want criminals put in jail

Seen on Facebook: If the left wrote The Emperor's New Clothes, the kid who correctly pointed out that the Emperor was naked would be the bad guy.
If they wrote The Grasshopper and the Ants, the ants would be the bad guys.
If they wrote The Three Little Pigs, the pig who worked hard and built the sturdy brick house would be the bad guy.
If they wrote The Little Red Hen, the hen would be the villain.
Added from a Twitter response : 
If the left wrote Chicken Little, Chicken Little would be lauded as a scientist.

Who knew scallops could swim? Accidental discovery that scallops love ‘disco’ lights leads to new fishing technique. Scientists hail breakthrough that could maximize catches while reducing damage caused by fishing. Watch the video.

President Joe Biden’s decision on whether to forgive student debt will be personal for many of his aides, who are among the millions of Americans carrying loans for college and graduate school. The documents show one legislative aide who reported owing between $500,000 and $1 million.

The Roe v. Wade ‘Aberration’ and America’s Civic Crisis. Judge Douglas Ginsburg was Reagan’s second choice after Robert Bork’s nomination failed. He says criticism of Justice Alito’s draft opinion reflects constitutional ignorance. If you read this, maybe you wondering if you could pass the test. Here's a practice test.

Once again, the FDA screws up. One Bad Choice and a Baby Formula Shortage. A blinkered view of the risks led to a blinkered decision that endangers thousands of families.

How to Sink a $3 Billion Dollar Submarine: Forgetting to Close a Hatch

New York City Removes Last Public Pay Phone in End of an Era. From roughly 8,000 to zero, the last pay phone will find its next home at the Museum of the City of New York

A Financier Tells Some Climate-Change Truths. And for doing so, Stuart Kirk was suspended by HSBC.

Hundreds of thousands of parents in the U.S. are scrambling to find formula. Yet the Food and Drug Administration has been enforcing an effective ban on formula from Europe, the world’s largest producer and exporter.

FBI leaders, including then-Director James Comey, were “fired up” about a potential connection between the Trump campaign and Russia — which ultimately was proven false, text messages and court testimony revealed Tuesday.

Putin Is Going to Lose His War. And the World Should Prepare for Instability in Russia

For Memorial Day. One Tough Dentist. A story of courage all Americans should know. Bonus story: Douglas MacArthur on Duty, Honor, Country

The Overlooked Reason Russia’s Invasion Is Floundering

The Overlooked Reason Russia’s Invasion Is Floundering. Russia has failed to understand the importance of airpower.

Even Bill Maher Is Telling the Left to Chillax on Abortion. While the radical left is treating us to the usual apocalyptic predictions about what will happen if Roe v. Wade is overturned, Bill Maher, the host of HBO’s Real Time, is telling them to calm down and relax because things aren’t nearly as bad as they’re making them out to be.

When Joe Biden announced Karine Jean-Pierre would soon replace Jen Psaki as his press secretary, he naturally assumed the media would collectively swoon over the fact that he had picked a Black Lesbian Woman™ for such a high-profile position. Which, of course, they did.

Camps Discovered in Russia House Thousands of Ukrainians Forcibly Removed from Home

A Christian children’s book publisher says that Facebook has disabled its ad account, severely limiting its ability to reach new customers.

You know how you tape a GPS to the dashboard of your car to find your way? Wrecked Russian fighter jets are being found with rudimentary GPS receivers "taped to the dashboards" in Ukraine because their inbuilt navigation systems are so bad, the UK defense minister said.

Three Friends Chatting: How the Steele Dossier Was Created. Report that rattled the political world often echoed talk among three acquaintances, including the main investigator and an old schoolmate

The Working-Class Alternative to the Westminster Dog Show. The Farm Dog of the Year contest features the kind of dog you want to have a beer with.

Can Michael Shellenberger Beat Gavin Newsom? The Democrat turned independent candidate for California governor thinks a little common sense can go a long way in the Golden State.

A handful of years ago, an internet phenomenon known as "36 Questions" suggested two people could find love by sharing the answers to this set of 36 questions with each other. This article features expert insights as to whether such an exercise is conducive to finding true love. The questions are here.

Apple Killed the iPod. Here’s Why It Should Live On. Streaming, schmeaming! As Apple phases out its last iPod, these die-hards cling to their old-school music players because…well, they have their reasons!

103 bits of wisdom I wish I had known when I was young.

The event was the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, in which the U.S., Great Britain and Russia offered security assurances to the nation that had won independence when the Soviet Union dissolved.

Maskaholics. Wearing a mask may still give some people a sense of security, but they could breathe more easily if they’d face the facts. And don't miss this article fact checking the fact checkers.

Biden once voted to overturn Roe v. Wade

 Biden once voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, saying women do not have ‘sole right’ to choose

Three Democrats Have a Very Bad Week. Dianne Feinstein, Hunter Biden, and Eric Swalwell are all having a terrible week.  And you might want to read the New Yorker article on Dianne

A resurfaced clip of late radio icon Rush Limbaugh’s broadcast hit social media last week as legacy media finally started to confirm contents from Hunter Biden’s laptop. Limbaugh, in a clip of December 2020, asserted that President Joe Biden would “serve at the pleasure of Barack Obama,” predicting that the media would turn on Biden and start to reliably report on the Biden family’s questionable business dealings when Obama and leading Democrats thought he was doing too much damage.

Florida County Sheriff: Residents are More Than Welcome to Shoot Home Invaders

Mystery of 19th-century choirboy, who hid ‘remember me’ plea in church pew, is solved. Interesting that you left an orphanage at age 14.

This is a little out of character: Presenting The Fasties, Thrillist's Annual Fast Food Awards. There's a bunch of categories. Click on the picture and it will take you to a second site where different fast foods are rated.  The bad new is that you'll have to go to different places to make a meal of each of the best.

Progressives are preoccupied with imposing racial preferences in education and hiring, but the American public wants these decisions to be based on merit.

Some of the best stuff in the WSJ editorials is in the comments. Look at this one:

I reject Dems telling me cloth masks work, that the 4th booster will work, that spending trillions more will reduce inflation, that the price I pay at the grocery is Putin's fault, that the border is secure, that teaching first graders to touch themselves is ok, that the country is founded on racism, that reducing police officers will reduce crime, that equal outcomes is better than equal opportunity, that the physical differences between men and women are imaginary, that the 80 billion in military hardware left in Afghanistan will not be used against us, that Iran really just wants a peaceful nuclear program.  Shall I go on?

Former Rolling Stone Editor: The Liberal Media's Campaign of Protecting Joe Biden Is Beyond Absurd 

Mayorkas looks to divert VA funding to illegal immigrants

How Not to Invade a Nation

Russia’s Attack on Ukraine Is a Case Study in Bad Strategy

Ron DeSantis Is Persona Non Grata at a Holocaust Memorial. New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage bans the Florida governor to promote ‘its message of inclusivity.’

NY Times: Research shows 'remote learning was a failure' driven primarily by Democratic partisanship (Update)

The Left sees success only through altering the rules of governance or changing the demography of the electorate—or both. Victor Davis Hanson

Another reason to hate lawyers: A guy takes his jeep into the dealer for an oil change. In the shop, one of the employees causes an accident which kills another mechanic. The family sues the owner of the car.

Frank Langella Blames ‘Cancel Culture’ After Firing From Netflix Show. The actor said his dismissal from “The Fall of the House of Usher” followed a love scene in which the actress playing his wife accused him of touching her leg.

Media Bias and Hunter’s Laptop

Media Bias and Hunter’s Laptop. The press won’t claw back its credibility until it admits why it buried the story.

Study Raises New Questions About 2020 Election Results in 6 States

Saint Dismas. Oscar Wilde, himself a deathbed convert to Catholicism, said "every saint has a past and every sinner has a future". I like to think Wilde said this with St. Dismas in mind, along with the astonishing power of forgiveness.

WATCH: Confused Joe Biden Appears to Shake Hands With Thin Air, and It’s Kind of Terrifying.  Further on the subject: 'Fact Checkers' Claim Biden Wasn't 'Shaking Hands With Thin Air.' Oh, Really?

‘Censorship is free speech’ is the establishment’s Orwellian line on Elon Musk’s Twitter crusade

More here: Twitter's Chickens Come Home to Roost. The Great Elon Musk panic of 2022 is revealing a big fat boatload of blue-check hypocrites

A pretty good discussion of the cause for inflation, with a bonus note on the war and NATO. And read the poem.

A Sandwich Straight from Heaven. Makes 6 6-inch hoagies. Manna Sandwiches: A divine mystery with a devoted local following

If The Left Wanted to Save Black Lives, They'd Teach Young Black Men to Not Resist Arrest Instead of Making Heroes Out of Dead Thugs

Florida Fact-Checks the Biden Administration. “The federal government’s medical establishment releasing guidance failing at the most basic level of academic rigor shows that this was never about health care,” said State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo. “It was about injecting political ideology into the health of our children

CNN decided they wanted to join the streaming revolution, and invested heavily in something called CNN+. They even hired Chris Wallace away from Fox News Sunday. Surprisingly, nobody wanted to pay $10/month to watch CNN when it was already free on TV. They are shutting it down .

This week’s White House Report Card finds President Joe Biden stumbling through yet another bad week dotted with defeats, sinking polls, confusing announcements, and the continued implosion in the office of his even more unpopular vice president, Kamala Harris.

Hey Kids, Let’s Talk About Penises and Vaginas! In the modern classroom, with first- and second-graders.

'Irate' Chris Wallace reportedly 'second guessing his decision' to move from Fox News to CNN+ in wake of shocking Jeff Zucker resignation. More here on CNN+ imploding, as everyone knew it would.

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: Signs warning of highway deaths may cause more crashes.

Walt Disney would be appalled at his company today. The Mouse That Misstepped

VDH: America these last 14 months resembles a dystopia. It is becoming partly the world of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and partly the poet Homer’s land of the Lotus-Eaters.

Fake news today, fake news tomorrow, fake news forever

Victor Davis Hanson The Nihilism of the Left. In pursuit of its utopian omelet, the Left cares little about the millions of middle-class Americans it must break to make it. In a sane world, Biden would have been impeached for deliberately destroying the very federal laws he swore to uphold.

Some observers consider the New York Times’ belated admission that Hunter Biden’s laptop was genuine to be a big deal. I don’t. For one thing, the Times hasn’t acknowledged, and won’t report on, the specific information on the laptop that told the story of Joe Biden’s corruption.

A Kamala Harris staff exodus reignites questions about her leadership style — and her future ambitions. So, the normally reliably liberal Washington Post is trying to cancel Kamala. There must be something going on.

Trump Was Right: The Political Establishment Is Utterly Corrupt. The media get swept up in lies on the Hunter Biden scandal.

Chris Wallace, the former "FOX News Sunday" host, spent 18 years with a network that showed him, by his own estimation, the utmost respect. Wallace is now unwilling to do the same in return. Is this really how he wants to be remembered?

Record Applications, Record Rejections. The most competitive colleges and universities in the country got more competitive. But most institutions are still trying to fill their classes.

Gordon Klein is a professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. What happened to Klein, which is now the subject of a lawsuit, is among the most insane circumstances we have seen in the dozens of post-George Floyd academic cancel culture cases we have followed.

Sacramento Mass Shooter Was Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison in 2018, Paroled in 2021 Over DA's Objection

Amazing Contest Highlights the World’s Best Storm Photography of the Year

The mainstream media gives you daily reports on the war in Ukraine, but not much about the tactical situation. The Institute for the Study of War on the other hand provides daily detailed information on the actual conflict on the ground. Go there is you want to know how the war is going for both sides.

We have been following the reports on the shootings in downtown Sacramento last weekend, which left six people dead and injured a dozen more.  It’s clear now that the shooting was the result of a conflict among groups of people that turned into a gun battle on a crowded street filled with patrons leaving as bars closed. As the investigation continues, Sacramento police assert gang violence as at the heart of the incident.

At one point, K-mart had about 7000 stores. They ridiculed that little upstart in Arkansas. Now there are only three stores left.

INTERVIEW: Tim Tebow Has a Powerful Message for Young Men in 'Mission Possible'

Advice for the college bound

 Do you know someone entering college?  Have them read this article about the trap of college loans and how it can affect the rest of their lives.

Biden's Latest Pervy Comment May Be the Most Awkward Yet

It only took a year and a half, but now that their side can’t lose an election over the issue the New York Times has finally capitulated to the truth and run a story admitting that yes, Hunter Biden’s laptop computer was abandoned at a repair shop in Delaware and yes, the laptop contained all the atrocious stuff the New York Post reported on back in the fall of 2020. Here's what the WSJ has to say.

Roger Kimball thinks Biden’s Handlers Are Preparing to Eject Him (and Kamala). They must replace him, otherwise they themselves risk being replaced, which would be intolerable.

He’s Facing 20 Years For January 6 Charges. His Lawyers Say He Just Went To Protest.

Letters From the Pacific, From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa. Much of his mail did reach its destination, and is now available to many more readers thanks to his daughter, Lori Neumann, who has transcribed and posted this and 340 more of his letters from the Pacific at mossletters.com. If the link doesn't work, go directly to the letters.

'Keep the Faith': How A Hostile Encounter With Yale Law Students Emboldened Me To Speak The Truth With Kindness

The media continues to ridicule the folks who believe the election was stolen. Here's a serious study that says the same thing.

Why Is Everybody Ganging Up on Poor Hunter Biden? Could the sudden spate of Hunter Biden stories have anything to do with The Big Guy’s disastrous, gaffe-filled trip to Poland, where he almost started World War III several times with his ham-fisted misstatements, forcing the White House Cleanup After Joe Office to go on 24-hour alert?

Behind the Front Lines, Russia’s Military Struggles to Supply Its Forces. Weaknesses in logistics mean Moscow’s forces suffer shortages of food, fuel and ammunition, Western analysts say

Self-Destructive Disney Finds a New (More Permanent) Way to Terrify Children. “In a featured presentation at the meeting, executive producer Latoya Raveneau laid out Disney’s ideology in blunt terms. She said her team was implementing a ‘not-at-all-secret gay agenda’ and regularly  ‘adding queerness’ to children’s programming. Another speaker, production coordinator Allen Martsch, said his team has created a ‘tracker’ to ensure that they are creating enough “canonical trans characters, canonical asexual characters, [and] canonical bisexual characters.’ Corporate president Karey Burke said she supported having ‘many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories’ and reaffirmed the company’s pledge to make at least 50 percent of its on-screen characters sexual and racial minorities.”

Appeals Court Upholds Gibson’s Bakery Massive Verdict Against Oberlin College. A good story.  More here from the WSJ

‘Don’t Say Gay’ Is Popular? You Don’t Say. One poll shows backing from suburbs, parents and . . . Democrats. When Americans are presented with the actual language of the new Florida law, it wins support by more than a two-to-one margin.

The Covid Spending Racket. Whatever happened to that $1.9 trillion in supposed virus relief that Democrats passed in 2021?

Who Broke Climate Science? There is a complete disconnect between the reality of climate science and the authoritarian designs of many climate agitators.

The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency

Big bureaucracy fumbled COVID

Big bureaucracy fumbled COVID and our faith in institutions. Americans will never again trust what our health agencies tell us

Turning Down the Climate-Change Heat

Did you ever think you’d hear people as nasty as Bill Maher and Trevor Noah praise Donald Trump, but that’s what’s happening? Faced with the grim reality that Joe Biden has a head full of pudding and commands no respect from any corner of a dangerous world, these two are finally missing the 45th president of the United States.

A Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times reporter has been caught in a video by the conservative group Project Veritas admitting his colleagues vastly exaggerated the danger of the election integrity protest on Jan. 6.

How Mollie Hemingway Time-Traveled to Stymie the New York Times and Save Our Timeline

On Saturday night an unnamed bidder purchased the ball from Tom Brady’s final touchdown pass for $518K, according to auction site Lelands. Not even 24 hours later it turned into an ordinary touchdown ball. It has to be one of the most hilarious, precipitous drops in the value of a piece of sporting memorabilia of all time.

Democrats haunted by calls to defund the police. Voters aren’t buying President Joe Biden’s claim that Democrats want to fund police around the nation, which could be an election-crushing problem that threatens the party’s hold on Congress.

Today it was revealed that Amazon is closing its downtown Seattle office, with 1,800 employees, because of out-of-control crime. Among other recent victims of downtown crime was an Amazon engineer who was assaulted with a baseball bat near the office in late January. To learn this story you had to go to the Daily Mail in London. As of this writing, the Seattle Times has nothing on the story at their home page or business page.

Russian forces are killing civilians and looting stores and homes across occupied parts of southern Ukraine. The last sentence has an important message for the anti-gun lobby: “Every time they see Ukrainians in a car, they demand to be given food and cigarettes, and then they let you through,” she said. “Our people can’t refuse because the Russian soldiers point guns at them. Our people have no guns.”

Putin’s War Tax Crushes Russian Investors. His invasion has been a disappointment on the battlefield and a disaster for bondholders.

A rapid Russian advance into the strategic southern town of 35,000 people, a gateway to a Ukrainian nuclear power station and pathway to attack Odessa from the back, would have showcased the Russian military’s abilities and severed Ukraine’s key communications lines. Instead, the two-day battle of Voznesensk, turned decisively against the Russians. Judging from the destroyed and abandoned armor, Ukrainian forces, which comprised local volunteers and the professional military, eliminated most of a Russian battalion tactical group on March 2 and 3.

There has been a vast and historic transformation in Europe, and especially in its largest nation, Germany, that will continue reverberating no matter what happens in Ukraine. Old policies have been cast aside as readily as last week's garbage.

The Javelin Is Wrecking Putin's Army. Here's How the Anti-Tank Weapon Works.

'Full of Sh**!': Border Patrol Agents Blast Biden over Immigration Claims

 Joe Biden is in denial: Americans have lost faith in his leadership. But he shows no desire to win them back. “This is what happens when you order a President through the mail.”

Biden White House on the Verge of Making Disastrous Move with Kamala Harris, the White House wants to send her to Poland? Biden can’t go on this trip because he can’t do it. He’s too old, slow, and stupid. He might fall down the stairs for all to see. He could have a diarrhea of the mouth incident in front of the foreign press there, which could lead to missiles being launched. He already struggles with the softball questions from the White House press corps here. 

Trudeau's inexplicable use of the Emergencies Act must not be forgotten

Is Peggy Noonan Missing Donald Trump Yet?

First it was Murder Hornets, now giant flying spiders are invading the East Coast

Top female scientist canceled over 13-year-old ‘Michael Jackson’ Halloween costume. Highly decorated virologist Julie Overbaugh has been forced out of a position of leadership at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and resigned her faculty affiliate position at the University of Washington School of Medicine due to accusations of racism and investigations involving her decision to wear a Michael Jackson costume to a Halloween party in 2009.

Social Media’s Front-Row Seat to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine. Students discuss how seeing the violence and chaos caused by Putin’s aggression has changed their understanding of war.

Victor Davis Hanson lists Bidens efforts to make the US dependent on foreign oil. The Biden Administration stopped all gas and oil production in the ANWR region of Alaska. It ended all new federal leases for drilling. It is canceling major new pipelines. It is leveraging lending agencies not to finance oil and gas drilling.

Welcome Ukrainians. Whether or not Kamala Harris finds it amusing, she should seize the opportunity to find new Americans. Andy Grove was a refugee from a war zone.

Bear Hugs for a Basketball Coach. A former law partner and private equity executive takes a team to the NCAA tournament. A real-life Hoosiers.

Were you aware that the "Don't Say Gay" bill applied to grades K-3? Kids that age don't even know what sexuality is. The media certainly didn't tell you about the actual content when reporting how bad the law was.

The earmarks are back

The San Francisco school board election

 San Francisco Schools the Left. The landslide recall of three Board of Education members will have major national repercussions.

More here: the portent of things to come. The San Francisco earthquake.

KAMALA HARRIS EXPLAINS HOW SANCTIONS WILL DETER RUSSIA FROM AN INVASION THEY’VE ALREADY DECIDED ON: “Abso – we strongly believe – and remember also that the sanctions are a product not only of our perspective as the United States, but a shared perspective among our allies, and the allied relationship is such that we have agreed that the deterrence effect of these sanctions is still a meaningful one, especially because remember also, we still sincerely hope that there is a diplomatic path out of this moment. And within the context, then, of the fact that that window is still opening – open, although it is absolutely narrowing, but within the context of a diplomatic path still being open, the deterrence effect we believe has merit.”

Joe Rogan said he didn’t vote for Joe Biden in 2020 and that the former vice president is “basically a shell” cognitively and “can’t talk right anymore.” You guys don’t see that this guy can’t, he can’t talk right anymore?’ Go watch videos of him from twenty years ago. He was a dummy, he said a lot of silly shit, he lied about a bunch of things, but at least he was articulate.”

How Ukraine Was Betrayed in Budapest. Kyiv gave up its nuclear weapons in return for security assurances. So much for that. The most important was to “reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine.” They also pledged to “refrain from economic coercion” against Ukraine and to “seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine” in the event of an “act of aggression” against the country. Ukraine had returned all of the nuclear weapons to Russia by 1996.

Eighteen-year-old free ski champion Eileen Gu gave China its first women’s gold medal of the 2022 Winter Olympics on Tuesday, becoming the breakout star of the least-watched Games in TV history. Why did a top American athlete who claims to be socially conscious, who benefited tremendously from growing up in the United States, choose to play for a brutal totalitarian government with one of the worst human rights records on the planet?

Biden’s war on fossil fuels has strengthened Putin and weakened America. And a list of the many great things Trump did. President Donald Trump opened 100 million acres of public land and water, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to exploration. He withdrew from the Paris climate accord, approved the Keystone XL pipeline between the United States and Canada, and rolled back Obama-era regulations such as the Clean Power Plan that held back domestic exploration and production. Trump’s policy was “drill, baby drill.” The result? On his watch, the United States supplanted Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer.

Earthrise, the historic image remastered.

This commercial for the Mercedes electric car is amazing

Recent events have proven Biden wrong about yet another thing: Biden mocked gun-rights advocates who say they need assault weapons to fight the government: 'You need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons'

Slow Joe digs in against opening up US energy production to checkmate Russia.

This story needs to be told again and again. The New York Times Hasn’t Always Cared About Ukrainians. The Times is pushing this Russia-love narrative both to salvage some political gain from Biden’s catastrophic foreign policy and to cover for its own historic indifference to the Ukrainian people.

Who Is Responsible for the Death of Matthew Perna? For the first time in over a year, Joe Biden’s Justice Department has nothing to say about a January 6 defendant.

New York state officials found the effectiveness of Pfizer's vaccine against Covid infection plummeted from 68% to 12% for children aged 5 to 11 during the omicron surge.

Jake Tapper Levels Biden Over Outright ‘Rejection’ Of Army Report:

Jake Tapper Levels Biden Over Outright ‘Rejection’ Of Army Report: ‘It’s Difficult To Overstate How Insulting It Is’.  

More here: The Great Awakening. Many people stepped outside the comfort of their political beliefs and began to question everything coming out of the government.

President Biden wants credit for nominating the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. But here is the shameful irony: As a senator, Biden warned President George W. Bush that if he nominated the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, he would filibuster and kill her nomination.

The Unbearable Lightness of Biden. The man has no firm principles, which makes the country feel sadly leaderless.

On the most recent episode of Life, Liberty & Levin on Fox News, host Mark Levin blasted Democrats and the media for giving us Joe Biden and said they knew “damn well” he wasn’t capable of handling the presidency.

The High Cost of ‘Free’ Covid Testing. Insurance has to pay for it, with no limits. What could go wrong?

From today's Wall St. Journal: 

Your editorial reminded me of an incident in the mid-1970s, when I was a young university professor. I received a memo from the university’s Equal Opportunity Office concerning a promotional brochure that I had prepared. I was informed that I had omitted the statement that the university “is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.”

I asked for clarification: An equal-opportunity employer is one who will not discriminate in hiring because of race, but an affirmative-action employer is one that will discriminate on race. Could the staff member help me reconcile these conflicting statements? After some hesitation and fumbling, he told me: “Well, some people need more help than others.”

Here's an interesting film review from an earth-science magazine: Ammonite: A Missed Opportunity. Mary Anning’s story is fascinating in its own right - so why make it up.

Vetoing a Black Woman Judge. Look who’s targeting one of Biden’s possible Court nominees. The left.

The Toxic Absurdity of “Diversity Statements” As academics, we’re fond of defending ourselves against charges of radical indoctrination by claiming that we teach students “how to think, not what to think.” If that’s true, then why do we now tell job applicants—potentially, those students’ future teachers—exactly what they’re required to think…or else?

PROGRESS: Nominees for a Science Award Were All White Men—Nobody Won.

Students demand revocation of assistant professors’ honorary degree for his Christian beliefs

Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor has proven himself, almost beyond a reasonable doubt, to be the single weakest leader in American higher education.

Biden’s New Energy Department Pick Is His Most Outrageous and Appalling Yet. Brinton also noted proudly that he would “even be (to my knowledge) the first gender fluid person in federal government leadership.” He is much more than that. He is, to the best of my knowledge, the first drag queen and the first person to discuss his affinity for sex with animals to hold an office of the public trust.