MSNBC REPORT ON VENEZUELA MAKES CASE FOR SECOND AMENDMENT: ‘In Venezuela, gun ownership is not something that’s open to everybody. So if the military have the guns, they have the power.’

I wonder if MSNBC anchors ever pause to ponder why all that bad luck keeps reoccurring in Venezuela?

#KRUISERFEELINGS: It’s Time to Bring Back Leper Colonies—for Anti-Vaxxers.

CHANGE: New for 2019: S&W Performance Center M&P Shield Pistols.

AT AMAZON, Shop Amazon Warehouse Deals – Deep Discounts on Open-box and Used Products.

Plus, Shop Amazon Outlet – Clearance, Markdowns and Overstock Deals.

HMM: Is Twitter Fudging Numbers to Hide Their Dwindling User Numbers? Sure Looks That Way.

Google is having a tough week, too.

BIDEN THE LIAR:

Harold Schaitberger, president of the AFL-CIO-affiliated International Association of Firefighters, declared at a campaign rally for Joe Biden today that “Joe Biden is genuine. There’s nothing phony or artificial about Joe Biden.”

This is a spectacularly audacious claim about one of Washington’s most notorious BS artists.

And how. You’re gonna need a bigger blog.

SATIRE… OR IS IT? ‘Mortal Kombat’ Introduces Brutal New Fatality Where Your Character Just States An Opposing Viewpoint.

Related (from Ed) and not satire: ‘Minecraft’ Creator Excluded From Anniversary Due to ‘Comments and Opinions.’ 

CHANGE: SpaceX cuts broadband-satellite altitude in half to prevent space debris. Reduces latency, too.

ALAN DERSHOWITZ: What if the New York Times Cartoon had depicted a Muslim, a Lesbian, an African American or a Mexican as a Dog?

Nor is the publication of this anti-Semitic cartoon a one-off. For years now, the New York Times op-ed pages have been one-sidedly anti-Israel. Its reporting has often been provably false, and all the errors tend to favor Israel’s enemies. Most recently, the New York Times published an op-ed declaring, on Easter Sunday, that the crucified Jesus was probably a Palestinian. How absurd. How preposterous. How predictable.

In recent years, it has become more and more difficult to distinguish between the reporting of the New York Times and their editorializing. Sometimes its editors hide behind the euphemism “news analysis,” when allowing personal opinions to be published on the front page. More recently, they haven’t even bothered to offer any cover. The reporting itself, as repeatedly demonstrated by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), has been filled with anti-Israel errors.

Read the whole thing.

WEIRD, THE MORE WOKE OUR CULTURE GETS THE MORE THIS HAPPENS: Many Gen Xers desolate as they reach middle age, study says.

WOW: Scientists in Chile have found a 15,000-year-old footprint, the earliest sign of humans’ presence in the Americas.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Custom-built drone successfully delivers human kidney for transplant.

EXPECT A LOT MORE SCANDALS LIKE THIS, REAL AND BOGUS, AS THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY FIGHT HEATS UP: Pete Buttigieg Sexual Assault Story Proven Bogus.

PHILIP CARL SALZMAN: The Peculiar Progressive-Islamist Alliance. “Progressive leftists, who wish to bring socialism to America, and Islamists, who wish to bring Sharia law to America, are strange bedfellows indeed.”

Not really. They both need to smash existing political institutions and cultural norms to get their way. But like Hitler and Stalin feasting on the corpse of Poland, they’d be at each others’ throats soon enough.

TOXIC MEDIA: Teen suicides spiked month after Netflix’s drama ’13 Reasons Why’ premiered, new research shows.

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  THE FALL OF SAIGON:  On the next day in history:  Re-education camps for anyone who seemed insufficiently enthusiastic about the new regime.

UGH: Veteran dies by suicide outside Cleveland VA hospital Monday, lawmakers demand action.

SO I MENTIONED A WHILE BACK that New York was trying to moot the Supreme Court case over its gun restrictions by revising the regulations. They also asked the Supreme Court, which had granted certiorari on the case, to hold briefing in abeyance while they did so. Yesterday, the Court