How to Ensure a Middle East War in Five Easy Steps

How to Ensure a Middle East War in Five Easy Steps. The usual insightful commentary by Victor Davis Hanson.  I think Biden is up to step five already.

I seem to be a party to a class action lawsuit wherein a bunch of lawyers made a fortune suing Honda over some transmission issue. This class-action issue is a scam but I'm a winner also. I got a certificate for $25 worth of parts for a car that was totaled two years ago. The lawyers will make an application to the Court at the Fairness hearing for an award of attorneys’ fees of not more than $1,085,000. The settlement document is here.

Peggy Noon has a column on the Secret Service in the Wall St. Journal. Here's a fun excerpt:

Their primary job: to keep the president safe and if necessary take a bullet for him. That is literally what agent Tim McCarthy did during the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. There too was agent Jerry Parr, who bundled the seemingly unhurt Reagan into the car and, after seeing pinkish, oxygenated blood on his mouth, countermanded an order and got him straight to the emergency room. When Parr was a kid he saw a 1939 movie, “Code of the Secret Service,” which made him want to be an agent. The central character, fearless agent Brass Bancroft, was played by Ronald Reagan, whose life Parr saved some four decades later. Life is full of strange, unseen circularities.

Biden, well known plagarizer, used a Ronald Reagan joke speaking at the Coast Guard commencement. Of course he didn't get it right, which suggests he didn't get the joke. 

Why the Right Hates Fauci. For reasonable people on the right, there are perfectly legitimate reasons for hating Fauci,

Democrats Bewildered at the Unpopularity of Kamala Harris

San Francisco Seeing an 'Epidemic' of Shoplifting. San Francisco, once one of the most beautiful and pleasant cities in America, is being destroyed by an ideology that promotes “permissiveness.”

Some years ago, Ronald Reagan spoke at the Coast Guard graduation.  He told a joke. Biden told the same joke at the Coast Guard graduation, but he blew the delivery, then reprimanded the cadets for their response. Here's the text in Forbes. Reagan got it right.

A rather cool 8-second movie of a lunar eclipse.

The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?

If the case that SARS2 originated in a lab is so substantial, why isn’t this more widely known? As may now be obvious, there are many people who have reason not to talk about it. The list is led, of course, by the Chinese authorities. But virologists in the United States and Europe have no great interest in igniting a public debate about the gain-of-function experiments that their community has been pursuing for years.

A leaked State Department memo revealed US embassies were encouraged to show support for Black Lives Matter on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's death. The seven-page document obtained by Human Events News gave authorization to 'diplomatic and consular posts' to fly the organization's flag and use its name in messages and speeches. 

The Pentagon has created a working group to cull "extremists" out of the military. To head that group, they've hired a radical named Bishop Garrison who is on record as saying that anyone who voted for Trump is just such an extremist (and racist and misogynist to boot).

Epicurious is a publishing business with a web site and magazines about cooking.  They have gone woke. In an effort to encourage more sustainable cooking, they won’t be publishing new beef recipes on Epicurious.

Another example of politician do-gooders messing up opportunities for people. In response to a Colorado state law that requires employers post salary ranges in job postings, companies are simply refusing to consider applicants from the state.

Democrats' Pre-Election Lies Are Unraveling. Despite four relentless years of the media lying intensely about him, Donald Trump was still poised to be re-elected as we headed into 2020. Then the infernal Wuhan Chinese Bat Flu hit and the Democrats immediately sniffed opportunity.

How are we enjoying the Biden presidency so far?

How are we enjoying the Biden presidency so far?

124 retired generals and admirals question  Biden's mental health

France is being infiltrated with Muslims, changing the culture. Some Frenchmen are rejecting the trend.150,000+ Sign French Letter Warning Of Civil War, Demanding Major Anti-Islamist Changes To Society. 

Tennessee Governor Takes Bold Step to Get His State Back to Work: he's opting out of federal unemployment benefit programs.

Joe Biden's Problem Isn't Mere Weakness. He's Also Stone-Cold Stupid. More evidence: Biden's Response to Its Many Crises Will Make You Facepalm So Hard You'll Hurt Your Neck

Biden HHS Secretary Attempts to ERASE a Federal Abortion Law He Doesn't Like

On Wednesday, Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) shocked leftists on Twitter by claiming that “there was no insurrection” on January 6, 2021. He noted that many of those who entered the Capitol that day behaved like tourists. The Capitol Riot Rorschach Test

I watched Biden in the Rose Garden announcing that we no longer had to wear masks.  He thanks a long list of people who contributed to this accomplishment, without a single mention of Trump's Operation Warp Speed. Trump Destroys Biden Administration: They Had 'Zero to Do With' COVID Vaccines

President Joe Biden has a short temper and sometimes unloads outbursts of profanity on his aides, the New York Times reported Friday.

Arizona Attorney General to Biden: Fire Kamala as border czar now. Can you fire her from a job she's never done? More here.

Full ship shock trials on the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) are set to begin within weeks. Commissioned in 2017, but with key systems incomplete, U.S. Navy leaders have repeatedly assured Congress and the public that the USS Ford would be ready before the forthcoming shock trials. But with four of the USS Ford’s seven critical lower-stage weapons elevators still unready for service, naval credibility is at stake.

No other government agency has accelerated its own demise in the last year faster than the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s stuffed to the brim with scientists and doctors and virologists, yet instead of rising to the occasion of a global pandemic, the bureaucracy shattered its reputation. How A Year Of Unfounded, Contradictory CDC Guidelines Destroyed That Agency’s Credibility Forever.

I'm a fan of country music--real county music, the kind where you can understand the words that tell a story. You can't find it on the radio much. Alan Jackson Is Wrong. Country Music Isn’t Dead, Because Social Media Will Save It

The Complicated Legacy of ‘My Old Kentucky Home’. Sung each year at the Kentucky Derby, the tune’s original meaning has long been lost to history

If California education officials have their way, generations of students may not know how to calculate an apartment’s square footage or the area of a farm field, but the “mathematics” of political agitation and organizing will be second nature to them. Encouraging those gifted in math to shine will be a distant memory.

Innocent Until Proven Conservative: Capitol Protesters Languish in Jail, Are 'Tortured,' While Antifa And BLM Criminals Walk

Mike Pence: The Trump-Pence administration opened the door to a future of peace in the Middle East founded on our strong and unwavering commitment to the state of Israel. But now Israel is enduring the worst outbreak of violence in at least seven years — a direct result of the weakness shown by the Biden administration from its first day in office. 

Nuclear Power and Climate Change

Climate changes everything,” says radical green writer Naomi Klein — everything except, of course, the vehement opposition of her tribe to the only proven, reliable, and scalable source of non-carbon energy on earth. A review of The Dark Horse: Nuclear Power and Climate Change, by Rauli Partanen and Janne Korhonen

Mollie Hemingway Is Writing The 2020 Election Book The Media Don’t Want You To Read

Blog entry on May 5th (Cinco de Mayo). A 2007 UCLA Newsroom article notes that "the holiday, which has been celebrated in California continuously since 1863, is virtually ignored in Mexico." TIME magazine reports that "Cinco de Mayo started to come into vogue in 1940s America during the rise of the Chicano Movement."[22] The holiday crossed over from California into the rest of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s but did not gain popularity until the 1980s when marketers, especially beer companies, capitalized on the celebratory nature of the day and began to promote it

Who's Pulling Biden's Strings? Meet the Real President. The name’s Klain — President Klain. Washington insiders delight in assigning the White House chief of staff this mischievous title as the driving force behind the actual president, Joe Biden.

An Arabian cult may have built 1000 monuments older than Stonehenge

NYT Report: CDC's Outdoor COVID Risk Estimate 'Misleading,' a 'Huge Exaggeration'

Be A True Christian: Carry Your Gun To Worship

The DOJ sided with the Archdiocese of Indianapolis which had been sued for firing a teacher in a Catholic school due to the teacher’s same sex marriage.

Classic advice for anyone who needs to give a commencement address.

If you have some time, don't miss this interview of Noa Tishby who wrote a book about Israel. Here's an article on her book: Israeli actress Noa Tishby’s ‘Simple Guide’ to Israel shakes up US progressives. Endorsed by both Bill Maher and Ben Shapiro, the book seeks to stop left-leaning people ‘from being used by voices who want to dismantle’ the most ‘misunderstood country on Earth’

A Troubled Rule of Law. The pervasive sense that cities would burn if Derek Chauvin were not convicted raises questions about whether the jury’s verdict was reached dispassionately.

California: San Francisco Diagnoses Its 'Perilous Trifecta,' Bungles the Cure

The Untold Story of How Jeff Bezos Beat the Tabloids. When a gossip rag went after the CEO, he retaliated with the brutal, brilliant efficiency he used to build his business empire.

The Problem with “Western” Religions on Campus. The strange politics of administrative antiracism.

Bill Maher: Liberals Are the Fun Suckers Now

The War on Merit in America’s schools is spreading — and threatening to take an ever-bigger toll on kids’ education. Kids will pay a steep price for this War on Merit in schools

Last month some House GOP lawmakers revealed the previously unknown fact that the FBI ruled the June 14, 2017 shooting attack on the House Republican baseball team to be an act of "suicide by cop."

This past weekend, a biological female* who appears to identify as nonbinary, Megan Rohrer, became the first transgender bishop in a mainline Protestant denomination, leading the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s (ELCA) Sierra Pacific Synod

Transgender ideology is destroying lives, and victims are speaking out. In 2016, two women spoke about how they were permanently scarred by taking male hormones and having “top surgery” — the removal of their breasts. Before you sign your kids up, listen to the real-life stories of people who deeply regret their “transition.”

Make America Poor Again

The mendacity of Joe Biden’s address to Congress. Biden is here to bring us MAPA: ‘Make America Poor Again’

National Bureau of Economic Research found that 76% of those eligible for the $600 bonus could be given at least as much for being jobless as they’d earn by working. 

See if you can recall Martin Luther King's most famous quote but which doesn't appear on his memorial.

The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) is hosting dinners to express appreciation for the brave men and women in law enforcement. Yet after the BGEA’s president, Franklin Graham, invited police in Seattle, Wash., to attend one of the free dinners at a four-star hotel, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) issued a condemnation of Graham and his organization due to their support for biblical Christianity. Leftists and antifa in Seattle have demonized police, but it seems evangelical Christians are the lowest of the low — even the police want nothing to do with them.

President Joe Biden's labor arbiter threw out hundreds of votes from workers attempting to cut ties with a Delaware union. The National Labor Relations Board overruled hundreds of Delaware poultry workers who had voted to reject union leadership.

Democrats say Black lives matter but it's becoming clear they only matter sometimes, which explains why Democrats blocked Tim Scott's justice reform bill

Washington Post Shuts Down Presidential Fact-Checking Database Because Biden Is Just Too Honest. More here: Darkness Falls: Bezos-Owned Washington Post To Stop Keeping Track of Biden’s Lies

The White House Gives a Pathetic Excuse for Biden Wearing a Mask During the Virtual Climate Summit

Biden’s First 100 Days a Radical Transformation of America. 

The sickness unto death that infects modern universities is on full display in a course scheduled for this coming fall at Tulane University. Somehow, Tulane thinks drug-addled, selfie-porn-video actor Hunter Biden is a fit lecturer for students interested in the interplay between media relations and policy.

The last picture of Earth from this planetary perspective taken by human hands.

Another terrific photo from the Apollo 11 lunar return 50 years ago.

Biden Bans Travel From India Due to COVID Surge Despite Slamming Trump’s Actions in 2020

One Year After George Floyd, Minneapolis Is “Murderapolis” Again