CONFUSING “CONSERVATIVE” WITH FAKE: The once revered Poynter Foundation, which stood as a pillar of journalistic integrity has fallen hard, after they issued today a list of untrustworthy or “fake” news sites and included The Daily Signal, which writes straight and factual news of interest to conservatives. (Disclosure: I serve as their outside Media Law adviser).

The Daily Signal is not taking this lying down, and their editor-in-chief Katrina Trinko penned a brilliant Op/Ed in response:

“We’re sharing the story of a Border Patrol agent whose own dad came here illegally and yet still believes it’s important to keep the border secure. We’re reporting on abortion survivors, whose amazing tales belie the left’s lies that babies don’t need guaranteed medical treatment after they survive. We’re telling the incredible tale of a man who went from transgender to nonbinary to identifying as a man again—a story whose conclusion the mainstream media wouldn’t touch, despite covering his earlier transitions […] If you don’t like The Daily Signal because you don’t believe in free speech or you think conservatives should be silent or you just don’t want certain stories told or it makes you upset that we call unborn babies “babies” instead of “fetuses,” fine. It’s a free country. But to smear us as engaging in dishonest journalism is well … dishonest journalism.”

There’s a helluva difference in writing news of interest to conservatives and writing news with a “conservative slant.” The Daily Signal does the former, not the latter. I implore you to write to Neil Brown, president of the Poynter Foundation at  and ask him to fix this atrocious error.

THE PLACE WHERE I GET MY SUITS MADE IN KNOXVILLE, JOHN DANIEL, HAS ONE IN THE SHOWROOM: The Ford GT’s Supercharged V-8 Is a Thing of Beauty. The car, I mean, not just the engine.

UPDATE: It’s funny that the Knoxville people in the comments know that John Daniel is a source of good, very reasonably priced suits, and other folks think I’m patronizing Len Logsdail, Larry Kudlow’s bespoke tailor. I started buying John H. Daniel suits when I was 18, and when I was in law school and law practice people assumed I was rich to have suits made for me, but they were paying more for suits from Brooks and J. Press that fit like a sack.

They have a nice video here. The only sad thing is that I don’t wear a suit that often anymore. I have some nice sportcoats from them, though.

OLD AND BUSTED: WWII was won by the men Tom Brokaw dubbed “The Greatest Generation.”

The New Hotness? Washington Post: U.S. WWII Heroes Were Evil Because They Were ‘Racists.’

“Because while Allied countries opposed the Nazis and Allied troops defeated them, the leaders of the United States and Britain rarely attacked the core tenet of Nazism: the belief in a master race,” this ahistorical “teacher,” wrote.

Broich added:

“In my World War II class recently, I had my students pore through the speeches and letters of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the years around the war’s start in 1939, searching for his basis for opposing the Nazis. They found Churchill wanted to stand up to the Nazis’ expansionism, fight their anti-democracy posture and resist what he called (but largely left undefined) their anti-Christianity. What he did not do, however, was call for the destruction of the essence of Nazism: race supremacy.”

Basically, Broich says that despite defeating the Third Reich — the evilest regime in human history — that tremendous moral success doesn’t matter because the Allies were all still racists.

Because the world wasn’t as “woke” in 1945 as it is now, the great victory over Hitler is meaningless.

As Hans Fiene wrote last year when “the Knights of Akshully“ took their shot at Albert Einstein for doubleplus ungood thoughts he recorded in his diary in 1922, “Calling Einstein A Racist Is Perfect For Those Who Can’t Compete With His Accomplishments:”

To recap, unlike Columbus, Washington, or Jefferson, who inflicted real pain upon many people through real actions, in 1922, Einstein had some private thoughts that are roughly as offensive as the 15 RealPatriotsAgainstMexico.blogtown.net articles your aunt shared on Facebook last week. Einstein then wrote those unsavory thoughts in a private journal, never spoke them aloud publicly, and never lived a life in accordance with them. The horror…Why is this news for the Knights of Akshully? The answer is fairly simple. Their goal is not to eliminate injustice. If it were, they’d spend their time fighting against the slavery, oppression, and racism that still run rampant in the world instead of attacking historical figures who were increasingly less guilty of perpetuating slavery, oppression, and racism.

Likewise, it’s hard to believe they’re seeking a genuine debate about how much a man’s moral failings ought to affect his legacy, since the answer is always the same: “Terminate with extreme prejudice the one with extreme (or modest) prejudice.” Rather, it seems the Knights of Akshully’s goal is to devise an ethical system that gives them bragging rights over the far more accomplished figures of history.

Sure Churchill crushed the Nazis, and Einstein’s A-bomb defeated Imperial Japan, but their choice of pronouns were just the worst.

ST. LUCIA QUARANTINES SCIENTOLOGY CRUISE SHIP OVER MEASLES CASE:

NBC News, citing a St. Lucia Coast Guard sergeant, reported the boat in question is named Freewinds, which is the name of a 440-foot vessel owned and operated by the Church of Scientology.

The international vessel-monitoring website MarineTraffic.com also showed that a Panamanian-flagged passenger ship identified as SMV Freewinds docked in port near the St. Lucia capital of Castries. The website indicated the ship was headed next to the island of Dominica.

The Church of Scientology website describes the Tradewinds as a floating “religious retreat ministering the most advanced level of spiritual counseling in the Scientology religion.” It says it’s home port is Curacao.

Church officials did not immediately respond to efforts by Reuters seeking comment on the situation.

NBC News reported that nearly 300 passengers and crew were aboard the vessel, with one female crew member diagnosed with measles.

And thus, Scientology comes full circle. As Ned Zeman of Vanity Fair wrote in 2014, “Scientology, during the mid-1970s, was literally adrift. The feds unearthed two criminal conspiracies in which Scientologists had endeavored to retaliate against investigations by journalists and to infiltrate law-enforcement and assorted government agencies. Hubbard, in a quest to find a remote location, had fled to international waters years earlier. He took up residence aboard an old transport ship he named Apollo, where he discovered that the life of a seafaring nomad was not without its charms. In his ascots and long denim jackets, ‘the Commodore,’ as he liked to be called then, strolled the decks, regaling his crew with tales of his past heroism. Outfitting his staff in naval uniforms, he created a vaguely paramilitary organization called Sea Org. Membership was restricted to the highest-ranking and most devoted Scientologists, among them Hubbard’s third wife, Mary Sue, whom he had married in 1952. Sea Org also included a group called the Commodore’s Messengers Organization. Most of the Messengers happened to be comely teenage girls dressed in hot pants and halter tops. They were at the Commodore’s beck and call, fetching him drinks, recording his utterances, relaying his commands to others, drawing his bath, and lighting his Kools.”

WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE: Water has been found in the dust of an asteroid thought to be bone-dry.

HEALTHY HOLLY HAS A SAD: Baltimore Mayor Pugh resigns after month on leave amid investigation into her business deals.

Flashback: City health insurer Kaiser Permanente paid Baltimore Mayor Pugh $114,000 for her ‘Healthy Holly’ books.

Baltimore’s last Republican mayor left office at the start of 1967.

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JIM TREACHER SEIZES ON THE NEWS OF THE DAY AND RAILS! Democrat Brags About Killing Babies, and ‘Conservatives Pounce.’

Whenever I see a “Conservatives Seize” or “Conservatives Pounce” headline — it’s usually one or the other, with the occasional “Conservatives Weaponize” — I wonder why liberals aren’t seizing and pouncing. And the answer is always the same: Because they agree with it. They take it as a given. They hear somebody say something like that and just shrug. “Yeah, he’s right, isn’t he?”

Then, when normal people point out how horrible the Democrats’ plainly stated policies are, the critics become the story.

Pounce on over and read the whole thing.

CNN POLL: Overwhelming Majority Want Investigation into Obama DOJ Spying of Trump.

CNN? Yes, CNN.

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FREE SPEECH FOR ME BUT NOT FOR THEE: 38 Leftist Groups Urge Colleges, Universities to Blacklist Trump Admin. Officials.

DEMS DEFENDED HOLDER, NOW THREATEN BARR WITH CONTEMPT, JAIL: Where were these guys when then-Attorney General Eric Holder refused to turn over subpoenaed documents in the Fast and Furious scandal and was held in contempt of Congress? The Democrats now threatening Attorney General William Barr and other Trump appointees with contempt and even jail time were defending Holder. Yes, this is my absolutely gob-smacked, completely dumb-founded, totally disbelieving face!

MSNBC: “Not Clear” Which Side We’re On In Venezuela. (Narrator: It’s 100% Clear.)

WELL, GOOD: New research suggests that a simple blood test, which doctors currently use to diagnose heart attacks, may be useful in predicting the risk of cardiovascular disease.

REP COHEN BRINGS KFC AND RUBBER CHICKEN TO HEARING AFTER BARR DECLINES INVITATION.

Why, it’s like Bill Barr is the adult in the room, or something.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE TSAR: Putin signs Russian internet isolation bill into law. “The move will tighten government control over information.”

YES, PLEASE: NASA chief calls for global effort to study asteroid threat.

EXPLAINER: Why We Defend Free Seas. “There is more at stake in the South China Sea than most realize.”

Although the more I think about China’s island-building in the SCS, the more I think about Raymond Spruance’s Operation Hailstone, which effectively neutralized Japan’s Truk Island fortress for the rest of the war.

CONSERVATIVES POUNCE AND SEIZE AND RAIL! Congratulations to The Hill on the purchase of a new thesaurus.

Related: Dem state rep on abortion: Let’s kill ’em now rather than later.

Margaret Sanger smiles.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: High School Mulls Removing George Washington Murals Because They ‘Traumatize’ Students.

A high school in Northern California — George Washington High School, to be specific — is mulling over a push to remove two 83-year-old murals from its hallways. Critics advocating for their removal say they are offensive to Native Americans and African-Americans. They say the pair of panels “traumatizes students and community members.”

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Here’s the irony, though. The murals were painted in 1936 by artist Victor Arnautoff, who was a protégé of Diego Rivera and a communist. “He included those images not to glorify Washington, but rather to provoke a nuanced evaluation of his legacy. The scene with the dead Native American, for instance, calls attention to the price of ‘manifest destiny.’ Arnautoff’s murals also portray the slaves with humanity and the several live Indians as vigorous and manly,” The Wall Street Journal reports.

Stalin smiles (and so does Mao).

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MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: A Time for Choosing: Will Dems Follow Their Brains or Their Hears? “Putting myself in the sandals of the Democratic Party’s increasingly far-out-there primary voter base, voting for the most radical candidate might be the smart move.”

Well, by one measure of “smart.”