FROM JASON FUESTING:  By Dawn’s Early Light (Echoes of Liberty Book 1).

Eric Friedrich was supervising the last ice harvesting shift for his ship’s shot-up environmental systems when they detected an anomalous ice comet drifting by. Investigating the icy tomb, Eric finds a ship that couldn’t exist–a relic from a nation the Protectorate killed billions to erase from history… And will kill even more to keep secret.

When his world explodes, Eric must make allies in the unlikeliest places, and seize even the slimmest chance of survival while unraveling a conspiracy that shattered planets and set off interstellar war!

RACE TO THE BOTTOM: MLB now less popular than the NFL among Republicans.

WAIT, DIDN’T I WRITE THIS BOOK? Satanic Metal Bands For Jesus And Join The Corporate Resistance.  [Video: fun part at 44:14. That’s the “Corporate Resistance” part.]

(The part of the video about Satanist bands for Jesus, I mean. And if you’re really curious, it’s this one. And yes, the sequel will come.  Life has been interesting last few years.)

MY HUSBAND SAYS THERE WAS A TIME THEY WERE FUNNY:  Trump-less ‘SNL’ Suffers Ratings Droop.

I’ll just say: not any time I’ve actually watched them.

THE WORST ARE FULL OF LOUD CERTAINTY: The Certainty of the Sheep.

SHE’S NOT WRONG:  The Age of Duty.

I’d call it the age of Noblesse Oblige.

YO. LET’S HAVE A WHIP AROUND TO SEND HER TO CUBA! I’LL PERSONALLY HELP HER PACK:  Biden’s UN Ambassador Says White Supremacy Woven into America’s ‘Founding Documents and Principles’.

Or China. Or North Korea. Or any other communist sh*thole.
Of course, she’s right at home in that nest of commie vipers known as the UN.  UN out of the US. US out of the UN. It’s time.

THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS SO KEEN ON “CULTURAL APPROPRIATION IS BAD”:  The Art Spirit – Beloved Painter and Philosopher Robert Henri on How Art Binds Us Together.

They want to isolate us, and deny the existence of unifying human experience.

BEING ABLE TO TAN AND CONSERVATIVE IS THE ULTIMATE CRIME:  Today’s blacklisted American: A black conservative professor, because he is black.

IF THEY DIDN’T HAVE DOUBLE STANDARDS, THEY’D HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL:  Officer Potter charged in Daunte Wright shooting; no charges for unidentified Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt.

Ashli Babbitt. Say her name!

ACTUALLY THE IMAGE LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE PUT A CUP DOWN HARD:  Evidence of glaciers in the Martian equatorial regions?

Yes, I am silly. Next?

DRUNKARDS SAY THE WEIRDEST THINGS:  Street Fighter Pelosi and Insurrection Kabuki Theater.

TRUST ME WHEN I SAY IT WAS BAD 20 YEARS AGO. NOW IT’S INSANE:  I Refuse to Stand By While My Students Are Indoctrinated.

JUDGING PEOPLE ON THE CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER IS NOW VERBOTTEN:  Content Of Our Character.

HERE WE GO: Wait, How Many Seats?! Democrats to Reveal Court-Packing Bill on Thursday.

OPEN THREAD: Start your engines.

WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? When leftists celebrate medical abuse of white people.

Recently, ten years after Dr. Kollab’s undergraduate antisemitic tweets, Drs. Bram Wispelwey, a 2014 Ben-Gurion University medical school graduate, and Michelle Morse, a 2008 University of Pennsylvania medical school graduate, both on the faculty at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, published “An Antiracist Agenda for Medicine” in the March 17, 2021 Boston Review.  In this article, they go beyond standard calls for reparations in the direction of what they term “redress.”  They describe their algorithm for their hospital’s electronic medical record, which, in their own words, provides “a preferential admission option for Black and Latinx heart failure patients to our specialty cardiology service” by specifically flagging for specialty cardiology care the medical records of patients with specific adverse cardiovascular risk factors, but only if they are non-white.  Here, they advocate intentionally withholding medical care from white patients in favor of non-white patients — never mind the violence that this does to medical ethics, to the trust essential to the doctor-patient relationship, and to the principles of equal protection and non-discrimination enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment and subsequent legislation.

Combining medicine and racism? That’s never been done before! Somebody needs to ask, “Are we the baddies?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Rand Paul Calls Out Democrats’ Jim Crow Legacy at Election Forum.

The Kentucky Republican said it’s not acceptable for President Joe Biden and other Democrats to refer to election reforms as “Jim Crow” laws, which were racist laws in the South that barred black Americans from voting as well as from employment, housing, and educational opportunities. Such laws persisted well into the 1960s.

“For Democrats to stand up and claim ‘Jim Crow’ should be called out on the face of it as ridiculous, and we should throw it right back in their face. Not only is this not Jim Crow, the Democrat Party is the party of Jim Crow,” Paul said.

“You have to look long and hard in history to find a Republican that voted for a Jim Crow law. In my state, when they passed Jim Crow laws at the turn of the last century, 1900, 1905, these despicable laws were passed entirely by Democrats. Every Republican voted no. Unfortunately, we only had a handful of Republicans in Kentucky at the time,” he said at the Heritage event.

Well, that has changed.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: RCP’s Tom Bevan flashes back to times when Kamala Harris was way more alarmed by ‘human rights abuses’ at the border.

IT’S OVER 50 YEARS OLD AND EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT NOW: Time to Replace the Outer Space Treaty?

JIM TREACHER: BBC’s Head of Creative Diversity Says Idris Elba’s Luther Character ‘Isn’t Black Enough to Be Real.’

First of all, until today I was unaware that the BBC has a “Head of Creative Diversity.” Let’s just pause for a moment and savor that.

Mmm-mmmm!

“But Luther doesn’t have any black friends!” If you’ve ever watched the show, you know he doesn’t have any friends. He’s a cop who works within the system because he has to, but he has very little use for people when he’s not saving them. One of his classic lines: “You get a reputation for answering phones, and all they do is ring.” He’s the prototypical loner character. Almost comically so. If he’s bound to a stereotype, it’s that one. But this BBC “diversity” genius doesn’t think he’s stereotypically black enough?

I really don’t want to know how much this moron is making per year to tell Idris Elba he’s somehow a victim. Believing that a person who looks a certain way should talk and think and behave a certain way is the opposite of diversity.

Here’s another BBC veteran with a much better outlook: Inspired by Hank Azaria’s apology ‘to every single Indian person in this country’ for voicing Apu, John Cleese issues an apology of his own.

THE PLAGIARISM WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES:

Related: Biden commemorates 9/11 anniversary with surrender to Taliban.

Which makes a grimly appropriate sequel to his former boss: As Bill McGurn noted in the Wall Street Journal on the day of Obama’s inauguration in 2009, “Bush’s Real Sin Was Winning in Iraq.” To the point where shortly thereafter, Obama and Biden were bragging about what a success Iraq was, before, as Dexter Filkins of the New Yorker noted, Obama unilaterally withdrew all American troops for a reelection talking point, thus throwing it all away and giving rise to ISIS.

THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ARE THE KEY TO SUCCESSFUL #RESISTANCE: Gov. Ricketts Declares Nebraska a ‘Second Amendment Sanctuary State.’

ERR, ONLY ONE? ‘Pause’ on Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Reveals One Systemic Flaw Plaguing the FDA.

THAT’S NOT BAD, BUT IS IT BETTER THAN THE NATURAL IMMUNITY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE HAD IT? Moderna says studies show COVID-19 vaccine 90% effective after 6 months.