MORE FROM THE PEOPLE BIDEN IS DESPERATE TO NEGOTIATE WITH: Iran ‘obsessively’ carrying out executions, say rights activists.

$83 MILLION FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD TO FIGHT COVID: Right, PP took the $83 million intended to help small businesses survive the Pandemic lockdowns and used it to prevent Covid deaths? That’s telling us that warm yellow liquid running down our legs is just rainwater, my friends.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: Feds Begin Hiring $144,000-Per-Year Babysitters for ‘Urgent’ Job Watching Kids Illegally Sent Over U.S. Border.

ILLEGAL OVERREACH: First Appellate Court Ruling on CDC Eviction Moratorium Goes Against the Government. “Like the two district court rulings, the Sixth Circuit emphasizes that the government’s interpretation of the statute would raise serious constitutional problems, because it would violate constraints on Congress’ ability to delegate power to the executive branch.”

TRUMP HAD THEM ON THE ROPES: GOP Blasts ‘Outrageous’ Biden Admin Offer to Roll Back Iran Sanctions.

As Iran continues to balk at U.S. proposals for direct negotiations on a deal, the Biden administration is becoming desperate. American officials are now said to be offering Iran immediate relief from tough economic sanctions in exchange for commitments to scale back portions of its nuclear program and halt enriching uranium to levels needed for a weapon, according to Politico. That proposal, Republican foreign policy leaders told the Washington Free Beacon, breaks multiple promises from Secretary of State Antony Blinken to not lift sanctions until Tehran agrees to sit down with the United States and other world powers. Republicans also are learning of the proposal via media reports, highlighting the administration’s continued efforts to conceal its diplomatic pursuits from critics in Congress.

Iran also quickly slapped down the Biden administration’s offer, which is said to include a promise to remove sanctions if Tehran stops enriching uranium to the 20-percent threshold, according to Tuesday reports in the country’s state-controlled press. Iranian leaders maintain that they will not agree to any negotiations until America unwinds all of its sanctions on the country and returns to full compliance with the original 2015 deal, which former president Donald Trump abandoned in 2018.

The Mullahs said “Jump!” and Biden asked, “How high?”

WELL, GOOD: The Republican Legal Assault on Biden’s Covid Relief Plan Could Be Devastating for Democrats: Sloppy language might imperil the president’s landmark law—and future legislative and administrative reforms, too. “Republican state attorneys didn’t wait to pounce.”

I CERTAINLY WOULD NEVER OWN AN AR-16: NRA challenges Biden’s clownish gun advice and Kerry’s phantom ‘AR-16.’

Oh, who am I kidding? I probably would. And a “phantom AR-16” sounds even cooler!

IT’S ALWAYS NICE TO WIN, but this is a bad look for higher ed. GWU And NYU Beat Student COVID-19 Tuition Refund Lawsuits. The essence of their win was that they never “expressly promised” in-person classes of the sort they had offered consistently every semester since the beginning of time.

As I explain to my students, courts, as the most academic branch of government, tend to be especially friendly and deferential to academic institutions.

HMMM: Dems Come for Rep. Matt Gaetz With ‘Unclear’ Story: He ‘Is Said to Be’ ‘Possibly’ Subject of ‘Inquiry.’ His Response Is a Shocker (Updated).

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Teachers’ Unions Are Heading for the Ninth Circle of Hell. “Apparently, it’s only American children who are going to give teachers the Wuhan Bat Flu and the randos who illegally cross the border are granted some sort of magical immunity by the Fauci Fairy.”

THE PURGE: USMC ‘Extremism’ Training Follows the SPLC Playbook to Demonize Conservatives. “This vague definition of extremism opens the floodgates for political demonization.”

STANDING UP AGAINST FOREIGN COLLUSION: Cornell Students Call to Halt China Partnership: Students join profs to stand against lucrative China deal.

How long until their opposition is called racist by PRC/CCP stooges?

AND THIS IS WHY ANDREW CUOMO WILL RIDE OUT HIS SCANDALS. Boat Shoes Meets Blackface: Buttigieg ‘Honored’ to Appear with Virginia Governor He Urged to Resign.

MARK KRIKORIAN: If Cesar Chavez’s Bust Could Talk. Now more than ever, we need National Border Control Day.

CHANGE: In a Rebuke to Teachers Unions, School Choice Is Going Gangbusters in the States.

In addition to these nine states, dozens of others are considering measures to expand education freedom and opportunity to students. An unprecedented 29 states have already introduced similar measures this year that will create or expand vouchers, tax credit scholarships, and education savings accounts, according to the Educational Freedom Institute.

According to EdChoice, more than 20 of those states have introduced education savings account options specifically. For families, these proposals represent lifelines to opportunities previously unavailable to them in their public school.

If one good thing comes out of the last year, it’s this.

IT’S NOT A BORDER CRISIS, THE FEDS ARE JUST . . . ASKING FOR VOLUNTEERS. OPM Issues Memo Requesting that Feds Assist at Southern Border. “

WELL, YES. COVID Tracking Apps Have Eerie Echoes Of Chinese Surveillance System.

It’s clear that our elites view China as a role model.

EXCLUSIVE: Feds Begin Hiring $144,000-Per-Year Babysitters for ‘Urgent’ Job Watching Kids Illegally Sent Over U.S. Border.

FIGHTER PILOTS SAY A LOT OF SH*T: Chinese Fighter Pilot Tells Taiwan Military ‘This Is All Ours.’

As long as Taiwan can blow the Three Gorges Dam, and is willing to do so, nothing in the way of an invasion will happen. Though Chinese-backed subversion is a different story. And this saber-rattling tells us that the Chinese don’t expect the Xiden Administration to do anything.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Nobody believes China. But they’ve bribed and bullied enough people into pretending they believe to escape serious consequences.

I SAY YES. Should college athletes be paid? Though it’s certainly true that there are college athletes and then there are college athletes, I think the NCAA is a shady organization, to put it mildly.

HMM: South Dakota Governor Bans Transgender Girls From Sports Teams By Executive Order.

GOOD. “Grumpy old white dude assholes frantically trying to pivot to Professional White Ally, on the theory that this will make them money, aren’t making money.”

Plus, from the comments:

Freddie nailed it on this one. Woke writing is a saturated market. Here’s a sampling of what’s currently trending on Medium:

• Recent Stand Your Ground Laws Are Rooted In White Fear of Black Masculinity
• Skiing Has A Racist Problem
• I’m Tired Of Having To Fight The Office Patriarchy

You get the drift.

DeBoer is correct, if you want a writing career stop following the Woke Herd and instead write something fresh.

Of course, nobody else is much either, in the writing game. Some do, but you’d better enjoy writing because most don’t.

WELL, THEN IT WON’T HAPPEN, BECAUSE IT’S ALL POLITICAL ANYWAY: Politico: Capitol Hill Riot Prosecution Might “Embarrass The Biden Administration” In The End. “That’s the problem that the White House will now face, Politico’s legal analysts Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney write. They fumbled the expectations game, choosing the immediate benefit of stoking outrage over the long-term credibility issues that failure to deliver will bring.”

Also, “existential,” really? This was mostly LARPing and selfie-taking. The wealth of social media postings is evidence that the “insurrectionists” didn’t think they were doing anything wrong. And why should they, given the widespread official tolerance for far worse violence from BLM and Antifa rioters last summer?