The Morning Report - 2/18/22

Good morning, kids. The weekend is here and sometimes you see something brilliant and you just have to give recognition. Among comedians, writers and other cultural critics, Henny Youngman's now iconic one-liner "Take my wife. Please!" is considered the greatest joke of all time. Some even consider it as a brilliant example of the perfect short story or even novel, all told in a mere four words. So with that preamble, I give you a gem from Fox Business' Dagen McDowell. During a broadcast of "The Five," Juan Epstein impersonator/plagiarist Geraldo Rivera declared the Canadian trucker Freedom Convoy an "act of war." McDowell immediately fired back "To call closing some lanes on a bridge an act of war is the height of idiocy."

And there it is, ladies and gentlemen. Whether McDowell realizes it or not, she just authored the complete, unabridged biography of Geraldo Rivera's entire 50-plus-year career in broadcasting in just four words:

Envious as hell at Dagen. I've been writing professionally for nearly 40 years and if I had two full lifetimes to try, I could never come up with something so perfectly Henny Youngman-esque as that gem.

It is idiocy, as well as raw naked hypocrisy since it is now axiomatic that anything the left rails against or accuses its enemies of doing, plotting or being is exactly what they themselves are doing, plotting or being. By orders of magnitude. And once again, they force us to slide down that slippery slope of Godwin's Law with the invocation of a certain Viennese housepainter.

Everyone Leftists don't like is a Nazi, and it has become a hallmark of lazy political discourse to accuse someone of being just like Hitler. But that doesn't mean that no one in the modern world has any ideological or practical resemblance to the Führer. When he invoked Canada's Emergencies Act on Feb. 14, Justin Trudeau invited comparisons to March 23, 1933, when Hitler administered the coup de grace to democracy in Germany with the Enabling Act, which gave him dictatorial powers. There are similarities (and differences), and they're enlightening. . .

. . . In his address, Trudeau made an important promise: "the scope of these measures will be time-limited, geographically targeted, as well as reasonable and proportionate to the threats they are meant to address."

Adolf Hitler said many similar things in arguing that he needed dictatorial powers. On Feb. 27, 1933, just four weeks after Hitler became Chancellor, the Reichstag, the German parliament building in Berlin, caught fire. The culprit was a Dutch Communist, Marinus van der Lubbe, who apparently had acted alone, although many charged that the whole thing was a Nazi false flag to enable them to institute a dictatorship. Hitler, however, insisted that the Communist Party, which was a considerable force within the Reichstag, had set the fire, and pressed German President Paul von Hindenburg to approve of an emergency law suspending civil liberties. Communist leaders, including the Communist members of the Reichstag, were hunted down and arrested. . .

. . . The Enabling Act allowed Hitler to enact laws without Reichstag approval and with the same dispatch that Trudeau once admired about Communist China: "Laws enacted by the Reich government shall be issued by the Chancellor and announced in the Reich Gazette. They shall take effect on the day following the announcement, unless they prescribe a different date."

Like Canada's Emergencies Act, all this was supposed to be only temporary; the Enabling Act was set to expire on April 1, 1937. Once Hitler had consolidated his power and destroyed all the opposition parties, however, there was no question that the Enabling Act would continue: it was renewed by Hitler's rubber-stamp National Socialist Reichstag in 1937 and 1939, and by decree in 1941 and 1943, the latter time without a time limit. . .

. . . It would be facile and unfair to say that Hitler's Enabling Act and Trudeau's Emergencies Act are one and the same. Despite the soundness of Bill Maher’s observation, Trudeau is not Hitler and is not likely to become a bloodthirsty despot. However, the Enabling Act shows the pitfalls of what Trudeau has now done in Canada, and how easily an Act that allows a government to bypass ordinary procedures designed to protect the rights of citizens can be abused.

Both Freeland and Hitler promised ruthless action against those whom they cast as enemies of the people. No one expects Canada to act as ruthlessly as National Socialist Germany did, but there is no doubt that Trudeau and Freeland have embarked upon an extremely dangerous road, and one that lends itself, as the history of Nazi Germany proves conclusively, to all manner of human rights abuses. Once one's political opponents have been blamed for all the ills the nation is suffering, and one is freed from the need to obtain court orders or respect due process, what remains to restrain the unscrupulous?

The Enabling Act and the Emergencies Act both streamline their governments by freeing them from having to deal with such legal niceties. But whether or not Justin Trudeau ever really abuses such powers, someone could, and there would be nothing in place to restrain him. This is how republics die.

Yet again, the estimable Robert Spencer nails it. Look what they're doing in Canada, which is what they're doing here for reasons beyond even our sickness from the General Tso's Sickness government sanctioned fear propaganda campaign. Private citizens are demonized as Nazis, terrorists and insurrectionists. They're arrested and detained on trumped up charges and held indefinitely (J-6). They're subject to kangaroo courts (everyone from Trump to Derek Chauvin). And now their livelihoods and even lives are threatened by social media mobs, employers, even family members, government terror brigades (BLM, Antifa) and the government itself with seizures of assets and frozen bank accounts (GoFundMe, etc.).

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, odds are it is a duck. A duck that is goose-stepping. But all that said, perhaps we are at an inflection point. The Freedom Convoy and indeed parents speaking out at school board meetings for example, is something that cannot be shut down or contained. Not legally anyway. The only way to do that is if the powers that be move to naked aggression. I mentioned the school boards and the direct orders from the Biden junta itself to silence these citizens by tarring them as "terrorists." Some people have poo-poo'd the recall of the three Maoists on that San Francisco board but it is a sign. No, it's not just the cynical response that libs are afraid of the spotlight of open Marxism. I think there is a vast SILENCED majority that did not sign up for this insanity, be they liberal, conservative or what have you.

We are at an inflection point. Biden and his party are sundowning at the polls, even amongst that one dude who cast the bulk of those 80 million votes. Our own alleged politicians in the GOP are either silent or in cahoots with the overthrow and so we now have no option but open resistance. For now, and let us hope and pray it stays this way, it's non-violent. I think if God forbid violence does erupt, a) it will most likely be a false-flag operation and b) it will be the pretext for a total Castreau-cescu crackdown up there and down here, and everywhere in the once so-called free world.

This is the big one, folks. Have a good weekend.

The End of America: 100 Days That Shook the World available here.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "The CIA's surveillance authorities need to be sharply curtailed and the market for third-party data restructured or eliminated entirely."
  The CIA Got Caught Spying on Americans Again. It's Time for Congress to Make Them Stop
  
• "If the witch-hunting history and extra-constitutional nature of Congress' investigatory powers were better known, we might begin to see the end of it."
  Will "Brown Scare' Committees Like January 6 Become a Permanent Feature of U.S. Politics?
  
• "It is obvious, or should be, that when the core rights of gainful labor, parenthood, and citizen representation are wrested from a people, the result can be nothing other than a coercive and monolithic state where democratic freedoms become a distant memory and the misery of the multitudes is preordained. The politically motivated [Chinese] COVID tyranny under which we have suffered these last two years was clearly purpose-built to smooth the way to this end. Mandate-prone and unresponsive government intent on crushing the three basic rights that define the nature of democratic life is and always was the real pandemic, infectious, transmissible, and globally replicable."
  The Real Pandemic
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "The world's largest publisher goes to war against American parents."
  German CEO Behind Kendi and DiAngelo Funds Critical Race Theory Push Into Schools

JUSTIN CASTREAU-CESCU CANADIAN MEXICAN STANDOFF
• Barber's arrest comes after he was named in a "class action lawsuit filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice by lawyer Paul Champ on behalf of his client, 21-year-old public servant Zexi Li," according to the CBC. Fellow convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Benjamin Dichter were also named in the lawsuit.
  Canadian Freedom Convoy Organizer Chris Barber Arrested in Ottawa
  
• Law enforcement passed around written warning for the second consecutive day, ordering protesters to "leave the area now" and threatening potential arrest on a charge of "mischief."
  In Show Of Force, Ottawa Police Issue Formal Warnings, Set Up "Secured Area" Around "Freedom Convoy"
  
• "Bloomberg reports the Canadian Bankers Association confirmed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has alerted banks to a list of names and made it available."
  Canada Police to Send Names of Trucker Protesters to Financial Institutions
  
• "Ottawa's Stella Luna Gelato Café was forced to close Tuesday after receiving threats when owner Tammy Giuliani's name appeared on a hacked list of GiveSendGo donors."
  Donors to Canadian Freedom Convoy Threatened After Being Doxxed by Hackers and Media
  
• "Everything Justin Trudeau has done since the protests began has made a confrontation between protesters and police all but inevitable."
  Castreau-cescu Does Not Want to End the Protests Peacefully. He Wants Violence
  
• Melissa Lantsman, a Conservative MP for the Toronto suburb of Thornhill, confronted Trudeau about "Emergencies Act" and his insults directed at fellow Canadians.
  Castreau-cescu Reprimanded for Accusing Jewish, Conservative Party MP of Standing "With People Who Wave Swastikas"
  
• "The Trudeau-ites' mad frenzy to destroy anyone who dares disagree with them is seeing them commit an act of self-immolation."
  Canada is Destroying Its Banking System
  
• Robert Spencer: "The Enabling Act and the Emergencies Act both streamline their governments by freeing them from having to deal with such legal niceties. But whether or not Justin Trudeau ever really abuses such powers, someone could, and there would be nothing in place to restrain him. This is how republics die."
  Trudeau Isn't Hitler, But . . .

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• "Was named as a 'rising face' by Barack Obama's foundation."
  Black Lives Matter Media Darling Thug Terrorist Who Allegedly Shot Politician Campaigned Against Gun Violence
  
• "The Black Lives Matter movement, it has been reported, had received upwards of $10 billion from across the globe, as referenced recently by Wilfred Reilly. But as Reilly noted in his column, 'no one seems to know how most of that money has been spent.'"
  Amazon Kicks Black Lives Matter Off Its Charity Platform, AmazonSmile
  
• "'Black Lives Matter,' the organization and slogan that trumps every argument, is now explicitly owned by Democrats."
  Democrat Takeover of BLM Means a New Multimillion-Dollar Hub for Race Hustling (and sanctioned political terrorism - jjs)
  
• "The creator of Hamilton, rappers, actors, and TV stars all donated."
  Celebs Backed BLM Fund That Bailed Out a BLM Assassin
  
• Julie Kelly: "There is one standard of justice for rioters and cops on the side of the Biden Regime, and another for everyone else."
  "A Political Prisoner of the Democratic Party"

  AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• "The people want the pandemic to be over with, but the Biden [junta] does not. That much is clear."
  Fauci Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About Ending the Pandemic
  
• "Hero to Zero takes a deeper look at the police officers, firefighters, nurses and teachers who were praised as 'heroes' by the media during the beginning of the [Chinese] COVID-19 pandemic."
  The Media Couldn't Stop Calling Them "Heroes." Then the Vaccine Mandates Came . . .
  
• "The photos came from Kass' Facebook page, according to the parent."
  Comedy Gold: Pro-Masking School Board Member Storms Out After Parents Unearth Her Maskless Photo
  
• "There's a very good reason why the CDC is treading so lightly when it comes to masks in schools. The agency doesn't want to cross the teachers' unions, as they proved in Feb. 2021 when the agency was about to recommend that schools fully reopen."
  In Leaked Audio, CDC Director Walensky Privately Confirms She Won't Relax School Mask Guidance
  
• "That anyone in government feels free to talk like this aloud without flinching, let alone the fear of being shot, speaks to just how much trouble we're in and how deadly earnest the midterm elections are."
  Democrats' 2022 Slogan: Enjoy This Small Break From Chinese Covid Mandates We're Bestowing Upon You
  
• "States where teachers' unions are strongest have been slowest to get back to in-person teaching and to lift [Chinese] Covid restrictions on students."
  The Union Map of School Closings
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• "FDA Executive Officer Christopher Cole exposes it all on camera."
  Project Veritas Video: FDA Exec Reveals "Biden Wants To Inoculate As Many People As Possible"
  
• "History will not look kindly upon their pandemic decisions."
  What the Chinese COVID-19 Pandemic Reveals About Baby Boomers
  
• J. Deane Waldman, M.D.: "It's not whom you might expect. It's definitely not Anthony Fauci."
  Who's Best Situated to Figure Out the Truth about Chinese COVID?
  
• "The new 'religion' where holier-than-though sheep lust for discrimination."
  Dr. Naomi Wolf Video: Inside the Haunting Chinese Covid Zombie Cult

  SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• Margot Cleveland: "Durham is going public with more details of his investigation into the Russia Collusion Hoax, but will the courts will stop him?"
  Special Counsel John Durham is Opening Up About His Spygate Investigation, But Why?
  
• "After days of silence, there now seems to be a coordinated effort by Hillary, her allies, and the media to attack the Durham investigation. From where I sit, it sounds like they're panicking."
  Hillary Campaign Is Now Panicking Over Durham Probe
  
• Bejoweled goiter-neck and neck with Pelosi as the worst woman in the nation she helped destroy.
  Hillary Clinton: "The More Trouble Trump Gets Into, the Wilder the Charges and Conspiracy Theory About Me Seem to Get"
  
• "They reacted with arrogance to the latest John Durham report."
  Spying Isn't Spying If Democrats Do It
  
• "Rodney Joffe, despite being subpoenaed, does not appear to be actively cooperating with John Durham's investigation."
  The FBI's Trump Cyber Spy Has a Long History of Shady Deals and Democrat Dirty Tricks

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• But no more mean tweets!
  California Gas Prices Soar to Record High at $4.72 per Gallon and May Increase
  
• "In a few days, the current inventory will be sold out and there will be a lack of product in almost any supermarket."
  Avocado Crisis Looms as Prices Escalate and Supply from Mexico May Be Cut

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "We are angry and we are saddened," landlord Brian Chin said. A memorial was shattered in a community already shattered by the killing of Christina Yuna Lee. "They targeted her memorial," Chin said.
  Memorial for NYC Asian Woman Murdered in Chinatown Is Vandalized
  
• "Prosecutors say the youths approached the victim on the 3000 block of Teesdale Street and knocked him to the ground, then punched and kicked him in the face before stealing his vehicle." (one of LBJ's Great Society "spark of divinity" boys - jjs)
  12-Year-Old Accused of Murdering 70-Year-Old During Carjacking in Philadelphia
  
• "Jeren Miles, manager of community development at Meta, was filmed by a group of anti-pedophile activists discussing alleged sexually explicit texts with a person who said they were a 13-year-old boy. Miles allegedly planned to meet the boy at a hotel, according to the video."
  Meta Employee Caught In Amateur Pedophile Sting Video Allegedly Attempting To Lure 13-Year-Old Boy

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "The parents are taking the wheel."
  Brian Echevarria Eviscerates CRT, Transgender Athletes Directly To School Board's Face
  
• Parents have objected to the bias of the program. One said broadcasting it gave her son the message "that CNN is a label you can trust."
  School District Just Banned XiNN From Classrooms
  
• "How leftist educators and the media are scaring - and scarring - our children. . . No longer do we need to worry about some weirdo in a raincoat doing perverse things to kids in a park. Our institutions are now doing that work daily and in plain sight. Dealing with the witch in my closet was child's play compared to what's going on these days."
  The Witch in the Closet
  
• "The recall of three school board members is a win for good sense over radical-left politics."
  Change in the Air in San Francisco
  
• Responding to Georgetown Law cancel culture: "I stand with Ilya on the paramount importance of color-blindness.  And that same principle should apply . . . [to] receiving an appointment to the highest court in the land. . . And so, if Ilya Shapiro is deserving of cancellation, then you should go ahead and cancel me too."
  Appeals Court Judge James Ho: "if Ilya Shapiro is deserving of cancellation, then you should go ahead and cancel me too"
  
• "How the University of Tennessee-Knoxville did an end-run around state legislators to implement a radical 'antiracist' agenda."
  SHOT: Rocky Top Goes Woke
  
• "A report exposed the encroachment of extreme leftwing ideology in Tennessee's public colleges. Now lawmakers are taking responsibility."
  CHASER: Tennessee Lawmakers Consider Bills to Ban Parts of Leftwing Indoctrination in Public Colleges
  
• "What cowards! First, why are they bowing to the heckler's veto? The first amendment does not give the offended the right to silence opinions they don't like. To run and hide because a few people are whining about what you are doing is to allow bullies to bully you. The district's administrators need to grow a spine."
  Today's Blacklisted American: Wyoming School Bans Pictures of its Kids Learning to Shoot Rifles

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "USCIS Mission Statement underscores dangerous priorities."
  For the Biden Junta, National Security is "Mission Irrelevant"
  
• "America can incorporate newcomers, but only if they become Americans."
  End Mass Immigration and White Stigmatization to Boost Assimilation
  
• "Meanwhile, the migrants on Mexico's southern border are starting to sew their mouths shut to protest the country not allowing them through to the U.S. border."
  Border Patrol Encountered Almost 154,000 Migrants in January, Almost Double From January 2021
  
• His handlers intentionally caused it. It's not about caring.
  The Humanitarian Crisis at the Border Keeps Getting Worse, But Biden Doesn't Care
  
• "The connection between anti-borders policies and preventable deaths can be seen throughout the country."
  Trendy Leftist Policies Cause Premature Death
  
• Mayorkas for sure is a "psychopath." But firing him is like using a bandaid and Bactine to cure a two severed legs, brain cancer and a rat poison overdose.
  Dad Whose Sone Was Killed by Illegal Immigrant Wants "Psychopath" DHS Secretary Fired

  THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH

• "The Chicago-based Thomas More Society filed the lawsuit in the Michigan Court of Claims, alleging Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson violated election law by spending private election funds on partisan purposes that denied Michigan voters' constitutional equal access voting rights, Just the News reports."
  Lawsuit Claims Michigan Election Chief Illegally Accepted Zuckerberg Funds to Swing 2020 Election
  
• And of those, 1,000 per cent voted Biden. All from the same 6 zip codes . . .
  Census Bureau: Record 69.4% of Voters in 2020 Election Did Not Vote In-Person on Election Day

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "It's easy to see why French's views of his brethren receive such a fierce reaction, given that he often charges them with [Chinese] Covid conspiracy-mongering, racism, and being motivated by a desire to defend their white supremacist power."
  Major Pastors Rebuke David French Over His Repeated Criticism of Churches and "White Evangelicals"

  OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "Bushes, McConnell, Boehner and more."
  "Red-Handed": 20 Republicans Who Sold Out to China
  
• Rabbi Dov Fischer: "Her lack of critical analysis or insight is maddeningly manifest."
  A Guide to the Absolute Idiocy of Alexandria "Titty Caca" Ocasio-Cortez

  POLITICS

• "The Democrat Party, which has pushed wokism, open borders, police defunding, and coronavirus mandates is specifically struggling with rural voters throughout the nation. The struggles have been reported by the Associated Press and Politico in two articles over two days, alerting Democrat Party leaders of the impending doom come November's midterm elections."
  Report: Democrats Flee from Associating with Democrat Party, "Brand Is so Toxic"
  
• "No one thinks he's joking."
  Biden Jokes During Ohio Speech That He Goes Home To Delaware Every Chance He Gets
  
• "Democrats are alerting their leadership that based on Biden's polling numbers, their party will not fair well in the November midterms."
  Poll: Only 35 Percent Approve of Joe Biden's Job Performance
  
• "Make no mistake: Hillary's fighting for what she sees as her birthright, her fate, one she will not be denied. We're all going to have to go through this again. Think I'm kidding?. . . "
  Hillary Clinton -- The Definition of Insanity
  
• "Everyday Americans are hurting from Biden's socialist policies, and every day they hear nothing but Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine!"
  Ukraine Won't Fix Inflation or an Addled President
  
• Sen. Marco Rubio tweet: "Below is the #CovidTheatre rituals required to attend the State of the Union. No thank you, maybe next time."
  Theatrics: Biden State of the Union Address Will Have Intense Chinese Coronavirus Restrictions
  
• "Hageman, who is running against Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, was also endorsed by Trump."
  Kevin McCarthy Endorses Cheney Opponent in Wyoming GOP Primary
  
• Among PRC Central Committee members, she's polling at or near 99% approval.
  Poll Finds Sen. Dianne Feinstein With Lowest Approval Rating of Career
  
• "The survey further reveals that Sen. Diane Feinstein's (D) approval is down to 30%. Some 49% disapprove of Feinstein's job performance."
  More California Voters, 48%, Disapprove of Biden Than Approve, 47% -- VP Harris Only 38% Approval
  
• "Donald Trump is not going to make an endorsement in the crowded Ohio Republican Senate primary -- at least not yet. But he is influencing the race nonetheless."
  Sen. Portman Endorses Jane Timken in Ohio Senate Race
  
• "What if we were actually to invest hundreds of millions of dollars every year into grassroots activism rather than wasting it on white papers, think tanks, and 'hot air' events?"
  Honk! Is the Freedom Convoy a Teachable Moment for the American Right?

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• "The outlet does not intend to change the remarks made about Republicans' rhetoric inciting political violence because they did not explicitly link Brown to any conservative movements, Cauthorn told the Daily Caller."
  Las Vegas Sun Quietly "Updates" Piece Blaming Republicans for BLM Terrorist Thug's Assassination Attempt
  
• "So the Washington Postt just casually refers to Clarence Thomas as an Uncle Tom and it's just something that the rest of the journalists just let happen without speaking out. It's just a thing that happens and they are fine with it," Stephen Miller said in a tweet, adding, "If a sentence like that makes it to print, it's because the Washington Post and its editors are fine with it."
  Clarence Thomas, According to the Washington Post, is "The Black Justice Whose Rulings Often Resemble the Thinking of White Conservatives"
  
• "Says CNN is worse than Russian propaganda."
  Ukraine Ally Says Western Media Reports of Russian Attack Were "Obviously Fake News"

  ABORTION

• "Florida, West Virginia, and Arizona to sign 15-week abortion bans into law."
  The End of Roe? Red States Prepare To Enact Abortion Restrictions

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• "Despite Joe Biden calling for more gun control legislation, members of his party have 'little appetite' for pursuing it before November, reports The Hill. Two gun control measures passed the House in March of 2021, but have gathered dust in the Senate since. And with good reason: it's a political loser for them."
  Look! Another Issue Dems Want to Sweep Under the Rug Until After the Midterms

  BIDEN-CREATED UKRAINE CRISIS

• A "Kindergarten" junior school in Stanytsia Luhanska, Ukraine, was struck by shellfire that impacted several villages and towns near the Donbas region in Eastern Ukraine on Thursday morning. According to the Ukranian government, as of Thursday afternoon, there had been "42 cases of shelling" recorded which had not caused any deaths, but had seen buildings damaged and seen several people injured, including at least four civilians and one soldier.
  UK Labels Russia's "Retaliatory" Shelling of Kindergarten "False Flag Operation"
  
• "It says Russia is preparing to launch an attack."
  Biden Junta More Bullish Than Ever on Russian Invasion
  
• Because they know he has no intention of invading and they can use that to nominate themselves for a Nobel Peace Prize while distracting from their horrendous record to try and salvage the midterms.
  Why Oh Why is Biden Sending Kamala harris to Stop Putin Invading Ukraine?
  
• "Says U.S. has been embarrassed by predictions of invasion that didn't happen."
  Czech President: Russia Would be "Crazy" to Start a War With Ukraine
  
• "Since I've written about my encounters with Vladimir Putin, many people have asked me for reassurance about what he will do: that surely, he is rational, that he understands the cost -- in Russian lives and severe sanctions -- of starting a war. Yes, he is rational. But this is what he may be thinking . . ."
  What's Really Going On in Vladimir Putin's Head?

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Sen Ted Cruz: "The new agreement [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden hopes to finalize with the Ayatollah would open up vast new weapons markets to Putin and more energy for Xi's expansion, all while injecting billions of dollars for terrorism around the Middle East and beyond. "[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden and Biden-Harris officials are feverishly appeasing Russia, China, and Iran -- and those countries are then allying together to collectively undermine American interests."
  How Biden Officials Broke Pledges To Enforce Iran Sanctions
  
• "Days after Democrat leadership cut Iron Dome spending from the funding bill, the House overwhelmingly passed a stand-alone bill to fund the Israeli self-defense system, but its removal from the larger spending bill was a major victory for anti-Israel members of Congress. The progressive 'Squad' members, including Reps. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (R., Mich.), either voted 'present' or against the funding."
  Malig-Nancy Pelosi Praises Israel's Iron Dome Just Months After Cutting It Out of Spending Bill
  
• "The enemies of the West are finding fresh confidence in their eternal battle against liberty," [Oliver] Dowden said. "So conservatives themselves must find the confidence to mount a vigorous defense of the values of a free society." (we've got our hands full trying to defend against Communists right here and now, Ollie old bean - jjs)
  British Conservative Calls for US Collaboration To Stomp Out China Threat
  
• "Both China and the American Left, each in its own way, utilize identity politics to weaken the United States."
  Chinese Strategy and Identity Politics
  
• "Muhammad Ashraf Abed, a member of the Hamas al-Qassam Brigades, died after tunnels built in sand collapsed due to heavy rain."
  Gaza: Hamas Terrorist Dies in Attack Tunnel Collapse

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Raymond Ibrahim: "And the legacy media are nowhere to be found." (and the torching of Canadian churches by Islam's kissing cousins on the Left because of the Indian children blood libel - jjs)
  The Ignored Pandemic: 360 Million Christians Persecuted Around the World

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS

• "The West Virginia v. EPA case will test the Supreme Court's mettle."
  Do Conservative Judges Really Mean What They Say About Judicial Restraint?
  
• "Based on most Biden appointees in the past year, the [junta] will likely want to put someone in place who is hostile to capitalism, favors a communist agenda, and wants to impose strong government control. Thus, this resignation almost certainly puts another nail in the coffin of SpaceX's desire to launch Starship test flights from Boca Chica."
  FAA Administrator, a Trump Holdover, Announces Resignation
  
• "One of the hallmarks of big government is waste, and a prison scam reveals how often that waste arises because bureaucrats don't care about fraud on their watch."
  A Scam Run From a California Prison Highlights Govern Inefficiency

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "To be sure, there are sincere environmentalists. But for the men and women running the show, the environmentalist movement is an investment. Its monetary returns -- driven by cronyist mandates such as the Renewable Fuel Standard and massive 'green energy' subsides -- are enormous."
  Ethanol for Cows, Not Cars
  
• Sen. Bill Cassidy: "The EPA has emphasized their desire to lower emissions and ensure a healthy environment yet hinders Louisiana's ability to do just that." (meh, it's this bullshit "carbon capture" scam; the GOP is on board with this garbage so this is just a non-cunning stunt - jjs)
  GOP Senator Blocks Biden EPA Nominees Over Energy Project Delays
  
• "The fish are all right."
  Doomsday Climate Studies Turn Out To Be Overblown Nonsense

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "Based on the typical time schedule for other recent European projects, do not expect this constellation to launch for at least another decade, at which time it will be obsolete."
  EU Advances Proposal to Build its Own Broadband Satellite Constellation
  
• "Forced by the Biden [junta] to leave the smallsat rocket company Firefly Aerospace because he is not a U.S. citizen, the billionaire Max Polyakov -- who brought the company back from bankruptcy -- has now sold his 58% share to the company's founder, Tom Markusic for one dollar."
  Firefly Savior, Max Polyakov Gives Away His Stock

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• "We must stop treating gender dysphoria differently and instead apply trauma therapies to people with any type of dysphoria."
  Therapists Treat Dysphoria as a Trauma Symptom, Until It's About Sex
  
• "When asked about Routley reportedly discouraging Taylor from pressing charges, the Kelowna Royal Canadian Mounted Police told the Daily Caller News Foundation it is not commenting on internal matters related to the incident."
  Male Student Filmed Women In Gender-Neutral Bathroom. Police Tried To Persuade Woman Not To Press Charges: REPORT

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "The corporate activism is ostensibly dedicated to public lands, but the premise of the revolt has far more to do with politics."
  Patagonia and North Face's Boycott of Utah Has Nothing to Do With Conservation and Everything to Do With Politics
  
• "I've been waking up every day with a palpable pull at my gut. That my side, my view, my middle ground, kind of moderate viewpoint is not being represented to the rest of the world, I didn't feel. And so, rather than, you know, just banging it out on Twitter or Instagram every day, I thought, I've got to do something."
  NBC Sports Reporter Michele Tafoya Leaves Network To Fight Far-Left Wokeness In Schools
  
• "Newspeak is alive and well in the 'diversity and inclusion' offices of academia."
  The Left's Orwellian Newspeak: the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Delusion
  
• "Veteran actor refuses to 'cancel' Woody Allen, and here's why that matters." (it's unfortunate that sso creepy and lefty a character as Allen should highlight so noble a cause - jjs)
  Wallace Shawn Stands Up to Cancel Culture, Hollywood Groupthink
  
• "Will we be left with the worst of all worlds: moralism without morality, socialism without sociality, children without childhood, and humor without humor?"
  The Death of Muscular American Social Life
  
• "A time-travel thriller demonizes Hollywood's favorite targets as terrorists."
  Netflix: American Patriots = Neo-Nazis
  
• "The Christian church in America 'must come to its senses' before we can expect the nation itself to return to be the light of liberty."
  Prodigal Church, Prodigal Nation

  HITHER & YON

• Kathryn [Limbaugh] has been gracious in sharing her grief with Rush's audience, who also feel that they've lost a family member. "I'm doing well for the most part," said Kathryn. "It's been very difficult, but knowing how many people are out there praying for me, praying for Rush, I very much think this was the nation's loss."
  On the Anniversary of Rush Limbaugh's Passing, He Still Wants You to Know: "It's Never Time to Panic"
  
• "Rush Limbaugh's on-air antics help expose the racist hypocrisy of today's ideologues."
  America's Dangerous Racists

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