WELL, YES: House Republicans Say Biden’s ATF Pick Should Be Disqualified For ‘Alarming Ignorance’ And ‘Anti-Gun Bias.’

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Andrew Cuomo Won’t Resign, Says to Decency: DROP DEAD!

Insanity Wrap needs to know: What would a decent person do, besieged on all sides by women he harassed and the corpses of people he got killed?

Answer: Whatever it is Cuomo isn’t doing.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• The Triple Lindy of political backflips
• Meet the indicted #DefundThePolice Atlanta city councilman who got his car stolen
• Biden Admin already denying health care to their own injured workers

Bonus Sanity: Joe Manchin saves the Republic! Wait, what?

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

OLD AND BUSTED: Be All That You Can Be.

The New Hotness? Join the Woke American Army! Army Recruitment Ads: China vs Russia vs USA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfe6d6MzeLM

Xi Jinping and Putin can dream big, watching our latest recruiting ad.

GEE, THANKS: Facebook Decides to Finally Let You Say Something Previously Verboten About COVID.

WHEN ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE IS REPLACED BY LOBBYING SKILL: Sanders, Hawley blast potential $10B carveout for Bezos in Senate bill. “Politics made strange bedfellows this week when Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) both blasted a $10 billion amendment to a bill meant to boost American science and technology research — calling it a gift to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The amendment tacked onto the Endless Frontier Act authorizes NASA to spend the money over the next five years on its lunar lander program on the condition that the space agency awards a contract to build a second spacecraft — a deal that would likely go to Bezos’ Blue Origin space flight company.”

BEZOS BUYS BOND: And Rachel Bovard sees all kinds of problems if the sale is allowed.

AIRBRUSH ALERT: USA Today scrubs ‘male’ from teen’s op-ed on competing against transgender athletes.

Kurt Schlicter is not impressed:

The Alliance Defending Freedom Website has reproduced “the original version of Chelsea’s piece below so that you can read what she wrote prior to USA Today’s post-publication edits and editor’s note, which inappropriately assigned ‘hurtful’ motives to Chelsea’s logical use of the word ‘male’ to refer to the biology of males who compete in female sports.”

THE THREAT WITHIN: Vets Battle Critical Race Theory Invasion of Military. “There’s a culture of fear within the military now. On the one hand, it’s okay to cheer on Black Lives Matter [on a military base], but if you speak out against this Marxist ideology you’ll be relieved of your duties. Ask yourself, ‘Is this what China and Russia are concerned about?'”

I’d say that Beijing and Russia can’t believe their good fortune, except that they paid cash up front for some of it.

BIDEN GOES FOR BROKE! Biden’s 2022 Budget Would Push Federal Spending to Highest Levels Since WWII.

Or as Paul Krugman calls it, the economic “miracle of the 1940s.”

STACEY LENNOX: Here’s the Most Interesting Thing in the CDC Data About Post-Vaccine COVID Breakthrough Infections. “I have been railing against the context-less reporting of death counts since the beginning of the pandemic. While writing for another outlet, I noted the bizarre instructions issued by the National Center for Health Statistics after CNN reporter Jim Acosta called any questioning of the counts a conspiracy theory. If Acosta is attacking an idea, there is almost certainly some truth to it. As testing protocols blossomed to the point where every inpatient received one, and the number of asymptomatic individuals who tested positive for COVID-19 became clear, there was even more reason to question the counts.”

I was writing about this a year ago, and all it achieved was to get people’s ability to share and discuss it throttled by Facebook.

HA HA, LAWS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Viral Moment: Tom Cotton Asks ATF Nominee If He Will Look Into Potential Hunter Biden Violation.

JUST ANOTHER DEVELOPING CRISIS-BY-DESIGN: House Republicans Probe Biden Admin for Ignoring Syria Sanctions To Appease Iran. “They also demand to know whether the administration has held talks about lifting sanctions on the Assad regime. This includes potentially issuing waivers to exempt the Syrian regime from crippling sanctions. Waivers also are being used to unwind pressure on Iran.”

YOU CAN TELL WHO’S ON THE PAYROLL, OR AT LEAST WHO’S ON THE TEAM: Democratic politicians get Turning Point student group canceled over poster mocking China.

WHERE DOES PJ GO TO GET OUR REPUTATION BACK? PJ Media Demands an Apology for the Damage Facebook’s Dishonest Partisan Fact-Checkers Have Done to Our Reputation. “For the last two years, we’ve tried to work behind the scenes with Facebook and Science Feedback to resolve scurrilous fact checks on everything from COVID-19 to climate change. Facebook and Science Feedback have not been honest brokers in our discussions. It’s bad enough that they’ve throttled our Facebook traffic and reduced our revenue, but they’ve also harmed our reputation and credibility by repeatedly calling us liars when we report something they don’t agree with, often on topics where the scientific community is deeply divided.”

Read the whole thing.

COLLUSION: US universities ‘must’ accept CCP’s ‘assessment’ on ‘teaching quality’ at Confucius Institutes. “Several American universities surrendered academic control of their Confucius Institutes to Hanban — the Confucius Institute Headquarters, an entity affiliated with the Chinese government’s Ministry of Education.”

‘THEIR INTEL IS BETTER THAN OURS:’ That’s how a South Texas County Sheriff describes the strategies and tactics being used by those organizing the continuing flood of illegals crossing from Mexico into the U.S. And did you know there are feral pigs roaming the borderlands that eat human flesh?

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Children should keep masking up, CDC director says, even as some experts question the need.

Earlier this week, Children’s Hospital Colorado said it was declaring an emergency over the mental health of children. “Our kids have run out of resilience. Their tank is empty,” the hospital’s chief physician said.

In response to a query from Yahoo News about how [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle] Walensky had come to her conclusion about child-related coronavirus risks, a CDC spokesman sent the agency’s guidance on school-based transmission. That guidance links to several studies that show most children do not become infected with the coronavirus. For example, one study cited by the CDC found that “more than 90 percent” of childhood coronavirus cases in China in early 2020 were “asymptomatic, mild, or moderate.” Another, conducted in April 2020, found that of 149,082 coronavirus cases in the United States for which information on age was available, only 1.7 percent were children. “Three deaths were reported among the pediatric cases,” that study found.

“This document definitely does not support Dr. Walensky’s statement she made in Congress,” says Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford epidemiologist, who reviewed the guidance forwarded by the CDC at the request of Yahoo News. “I remain mystified by her statement.”

The above Yahoo article was written by Alexander Nazaryan. When the head of the CDC has lost this guy…

…It might be time to rethink the plot.

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Xiaomi is no longer designated as a ‘Communist Chinese Military Company.’

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Democrats’ Pre-Election Lies Are Unraveling. “We entered a truly disturbing and bizarre phase where the American mainstream media was willing to take at face value any claims made by agents of the Chinese Communist Party all the while rejecting and denigrating anything that was said by the President of the United States. It was a new low even for that group of professional bottom-dwellers.”

CHRISTIANS SHOULD STAY OUT OF POLITICS! Colson Center’s Brook McIntire argues that religious liberty for everybody has been a cornerstone of the faith from the beginning and it benefits believers and non-believers alike.

MARK JUDGE: The Pet Shop Boys and the Punk Revolution That Failed.

BUT THEY ARE STILL DYNAMITE FOR LEFTIST VIRTUE SIGNALING. Masks Didn’t Slow COVID Spread: New Study.

YET ANOTHER WORTHLESS ARTICLE ON ELECTRIFICATION — OUR INSUFFICIENT POWER GRID WASN’T MENTIONED: Ford announces goal of 40% all-electric sales by 2030 – here’s why it’s going to have to revise that.

No need to click, but as our grid comes under increasing strain I want to have an “I told you so” collection of Instapundit posts to refer back to.

ALSO IT WILL BE A DEMOCRATIC-PARTY AGITPROP EFFORT WITH NO CONNECTION TO THE FACTS: Why GOP leaders don’t want a Capitol riot commission.

Related: Will the Times apologize for lying about Officer Sicknick’s death?