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