THE CRAZY YEARS: ‘Fat Sex Therapist’ compares fitness trainers to Nazis, children’s dieting to sexual assault.
Plus: “During the course of her talk, Rashatwar listed science as one of these supposedly white supremacist everyday things.”
The left is full of people who feel bad about themselves — usually with reason — and try to make up for it via political activism instead of self-improvement.
USING THEM TO GUARD THE CAPITOL WILL DO THAT: Trust in the military is dropping significantly, new survey suggests.
21ST CENTURY DATING: Woman exposes cheating boyfriend with fitness app data.
MOVE ‘EM TO POLAND, OR JUST BRING ‘EM HOME: Germany Seeks To Tax Income Of U.S. Soldiers Stationed There.
AND IF IT HURTS SMALL BUSINESS AND INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS, THAT’S JUST ICING ON THE CAKE: Why Democrats Need the PRO Act: Union Density, Mandatory Dues and Straight-Up Graft.
OUT ON A LIMB: Texas Isn’t Crazy for Lifting Its Mask Mandate.
TESTING: Elon Musk reveals why the SN10 Starship exploded. “For a short while after SpaceX’s SN10 Starship touched down on March 3rd, it seemed like the prototype made it out of its test flight unscathed. The vehicle exploded on its landing pad around a minute later, though, creating a massive inferno like its predecessors did. Now, Elon Musk has revealed what went wrong in responses sent to followers on Twitter. The SpaceX chief said the SN10 engine was low on thrust probably due to ‘partial helium ingestion from [the] fuel header tank’ and that the impact crushed the rocket’s legs and part of its skirt. SpaceX is now working on multiple fixes for the issue so that it doesn’t affect SN10’s successor, the SN11, anymore.”
MICHAEL BARONE: Biden’s open borders immigration policy — why?
Already, more than 100 of those released tested positive for COVID-19, and Greyhound is now demanding negative test results before migrants board its buses.
Locals aren’t happy with the inrush of illegal immigrants. The heavily Hispanic Rio Grande Valley produced one of the biggest increases in Trump’s percentages last fall. Laredo’s Democratic congressman, Henry Cuellar, lamented recently that “migrants are illegally crossing, potentially exposing border communities to the coronavirus and putting us at risk.”
Biden may have called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s end to mandatory masking “Neanderthal”-esque, but the Biden administration seems happy to send infectious illegal immigrants all around the country.
That’s reminiscent of how the Democrats most insistent on masks and lockdowns considered just fine mass demonstrations by “mostly peaceful” (that is, often violent) Black Lives Matter supporters last year. The implication is that law-abiding citizens are less deserving of indulgence than angry demonstrators or illegal immigrants.
While Trump was questioned and mocked over his immigration policies, so far, the Biden administration has gotten away with just waving aside questions.
That’s because members of the press now openly regard themselves as Democratic Party apparatchiks.
ONE YEAR AGO, LIFE CAME AT YOU FAST:
Shot: COVID-19 Travel Update: Fauci Says Cruising Is OK If You Are Healthy.
—Forbes, March 9th, 2020.
As Jim Treacher wrote yesterday: I Am Really Freaking Sick of Anthony Fauci.
THE AMERICA THAT WORKS: SpaceX launches 60 new Starlink satellites to orbit, nails rocket landing at sea.
Plus: “It was the 6th launch and landing for this Falcon 9 first stage.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Democrat/Labor Alliance Is a Commie Nightmare for America. “Private sector union membership has been cratering for a very long time. Public sector unions (which should be illegal) are doing all right, especially in states with no right-to-work laws. Union membership only thrives with coercion. This bill is one big strong arm play.”
GRIFTERS GONNA GRIFT: Robin DiAngelo Balked at $10k Fee From Public University, Insisted on $13k for Prerecorded Speech.
Higher education is a money laundry for leftist activists. Where public institutions are concerned, speaking fees should be capped at low levels, say $1000.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Hans van Spakovsky: H.R. 1 Is a Threat to American Democracy. Period. “H.R. 1 would mandate same-day and automatic voter registration, and encourage vote trafficking of absentee ballots. It would eviscerate state voter ID laws and limit the ability of states to verify the accuracy of their voter registration lists.”
ATTENTION, YALE ALUMNI: Knoxville’s Victor Ashe is running for a seat on the Yale Corporation. Please support him.
WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH PIERS MORGAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY: Thou shalt not criticize St Meghan.
On his show Good Morning Britain they aired a clip of Meghan saying she was depressed and even suicidal when cooped up in Kensington Palace. In response Morgan said: ‘I’m sorry, I don’t believe a word she says. I wouldn’t believe her if she read me a weather report.’ Cue meltdown among the Twitterati, the scalp-hungry cancel-culture mob and mental-health charities, all of whom wailed about Morgan disrespecting a suffering woman’s ‘truth’ as if he had just punched a statue of the Virgin Mary in 1930s Ireland.
Thousands of people grassed on Morgan to Ofcom. He then had an on-air falling-out with his black co-presenter, Alex Beresford, who accused Morgan of ‘trashing’ Markle. Which, as we now know, is sacrilege. Morgan flounced off set. And now ITV has said that, ‘following discussions’ – never a good sign – Morgan has decided to leave GMB. People suspect he was at least partly pushed out. It seems that way. Time will tell.
But what is indisputable is that a weird, unsettling and censorious atmosphere of religiosity now surrounds the Duchess of Sussex. The cultural elites have beatified her. They’ve made her the patron saint of critical race theory, the goddess of wokeness. To venture a criticism of this high priestess of correct thought is to risk cancellation. Questioning her ‘truth’ is to 2021 what questioning the truth of the Bible was to 1521. Okay, you won’t lose your head, but you might lose your job.
It’s quite a moment though, when one feels sympathetic to the plight of a blowhard like Morgan. As Kelly Johnston writes at Ricochet, “Americans may want to stand up and salute Piers Morgan on this one occasion and look around their own backyard and deal with the censors and cancel-culture troops who are working overtime to quash speech – and people – they don’t like. Hopefully, Mr. Morgan has learned his lesson about the value of Free Speech as well.”
GOVERNMENT: If Social Security were a private retirement fund, we’d sue.
All that money you’ve poured into the Social Security trust fund over the years earned less than 1% during 2020, the funds’ administrators have revealed.
The S&P 500 index SPX, +0.60% ? Try 18%.
Even a simple balanced fund of U.S. stocks and bonds, such as the Vanguard Balanced Index Fund VBIAX, +1.08%, earned 16%.
And the giant pension and investment fund run by the government of Norway earned 10.9%.
The returns earned by Social Security is the scandal that keeps on taking. The previous year, the Norwegian pension fund gained 20%, the balanced index fund 22%, and the S&P 500 31%.
Your and my Social Security dollars? Just 2.2%.
Why should Congress care what happens to your money once they have it to spend?
DEMOCRATS: THE PARTY OF GRANNY-KILLERS. Move over Cuomo? Democratic officials facing heat for herding COVID patients into nursing homes.
Multiple Democratic officials are facing increasing political pressure due to policies that directed nursing homes to take COVID-positive patients — rules that critics claim drove up the rate of deaths among vulnerable populations in care facilities.
Chief among those politicians is New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is under fire not only for imposing such a policy on New York State last year but for his administration’s subsequent coverup of the true number of COVID deaths among elderly New Yorkers. Listed at just under 9,000 at the end of January, a full accounting of the state’s care facility death toll since then has brought the number up to over 15,000.
Now feeling heat over a similar policy is Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, whose administration last year also directed nursing homes to accommodate patients who were infected with COVID-19.
As I noted last May, “Trump’s wrecking a whole generation of Democratic governors who might otherwise have been presidential or vice-presidential timber, simply by letting them run things as they see fit.”
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: Transgender surgery is now free for military, thanks to Biden executive order.
MATT MARGOLIS: A Racial Conspiracy Theorist Has Been Confirmed as HUD Secretary, and That’s Not Even the Worst Part. “Her nomination was controversial even before it was officially announced. In 2015, she pleaded for leniency for Lance Mason, a former Ohio state legislator, who had beaten his then-wife in front of their children. Mason got out of jail after serving nine months and later murdered his ex-wife in 2018.”
FROM CELIA HAYES: Daughter of Texas.
A woman’s life in Texas, before the cattle drives, and before the Alamo – before the legends were born… She was there, and she saw it all.
On the day that she was twelve years old, Margaret Becker came to Texas with her parents and her younger brothers. The witch-woman looked at her hands, and foretold her future; two husbands, a large house, many friends, joy, sorrow and love.
The witch woman would not say what she saw for Margaret’s younger brothers, Rudi and Carl – for Texas was a Mexican colony. Before the Becker children were full-grown, the war for Texas independence would come upon them all and show no mercy.
During her life, she would observe and participate in great events. She would meet and pass her own judgment on great men and lesser men as well; a loyal friend, able political hostess . . . and at the end, a survivor and witness. But in all of her life, there would be only one man who would ever hold – and break – her heart!
THEY’VE SEEN HOW THE SAUSAGE IS MADE AND THEY’VE HAD ENOUGH: Why parents are abandoning troubled NYC public schools.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT CHECKERS???? BuzzFeed takes buzzsaw to newly acquired HuffPost,
Spoiler: those are safe. Like Biden voters, they never actually existed.
IS THE CUOMO CENTIPEDE DROPPING YET ANOTHER SHOE? Perilous faults on the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge: Andrew’s next scandal?
ALL OF THE STATES SHOULD: Twelve States Sue Biden Over Climate Executive Order,
Not that it will make any difference. They own the courts.
You know, what the muzzle is for? To hide their grins of sadistic delight at destroying America.
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