THE WAR ON NORMALCY: Dems Endorse Anti-Christian SPLC Report: ‘It’s Time We Extinguish All Bigoted Beliefs.’

THE TEACHERS’ UNIONS EARNED THIS MASSIVE CHANGE: 71% polled favor funding students instead of school systems.

FROM ALMA T. C. BOYKIN: Malevolently Familiar.

Caught between the Old Lands and the New . . .

Less than a month after confronting an ancient evil, Lelia Chan, her Familiar Tay, and their allies meet an unmovable object. Meister Gruenewald needs their help. A new danger rises across the Great Sea, one that requires more than just his knowledge and power.

What Lelia and Master Saldovado find in the Old Land triggers a race. Can the shadow mages and their Hunter allies bring a power-obsessed sorcerer to justice? Or will his twisted idea of paradise destroy all they have fought to protect? Light-side magic workers have tried to stop the sorcerer, and paid with their lives, struck down by a creature from Elsewhere. One with a grudge.

Worse than death awaits Lelia and her chosen family if they fail.

MICHAEL WALSH: Clergy Who Bowed to COVID Fears Need to Face a Reckoning.

Like the doctors and nurses who suddenly discovered and complained that their work was dangerous—as if medicine were to be practiced simply as “wellness” and not when the Grim Reaper comes calling on the fields of battle or in the charnel houses of an epidemic—the clergy has all but admitted that what they do, or what they pretended to do, was a frivolity only to be practiced at the sufferance of the local commissars.

In 1844, when anti-Catholic nativists threatened to burn down Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, Bishop John J. Hughes gathered his parishioners, some of them armed, and promised the Protestant mob that any assault on the church would be met with deadly force. If a single Catholic church was burned, “Dagger John” announced to the city, the despised immigrant Irish would burn New York to the ground. Not a church was touched.

Yeah, well, that kind of muscular Christianity has gone out of style.

YEAH. WE’RE ALL BROKEN. BUT HUMAN IS ALL WE HAVE:  The Value of a Human.

IN THIS VERSION, SAURON WINS:  Rare ‘Lord of the Rings’ adaptation discovered after 30 years.

SOME OF US NOTICED THIS A WHILE BACK:   The Commonalities Between the Rise of the Nazis and the Tactics of the American Left Cannot be Ignored.

GUYS, HELP HERE…. DID SOMEONE MAKE THIS CHAPEAU DE DERRIERE THE DICTATOR?  Antony Blinken: No Travel Until World Vaccinated.

Hey, Anthony Blinkered, you ain’t the boss of us, and we all came equipped with a matched set of middle fingers.

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH:  Report: Biden Admin Wants to Restart Border Wall Construction.

THAT’S RIGHT, VICE-ROI ZHOU BAI DEN, DON’T FORGET WHO OWNS YOU:   China Warns Biden White House Against Taking “Superior” Position in World Affairs.

How long are we going to tolerate this?

IT’S PSY-OPS ALL THE WAY DOWN:  The Mysterious Blue-Checked Twitter Account of ‘Dr. Jialun’ Who Blamed Trump After Capitol Ramming Attack.

WELL, BY THAT STANDARD, MURDER SHOULDN’T BE A CRIME, RIGHT?  D.C. Police Chief Doesn’t See the Point in Charging Teens in Uber Eats Carjacking as Adults.

THESE PEOPLE’S STUPIDITY IS ONLY MATCHED BY THEIR RAPACIOUSNESS:  CDC’s Incoherence Accelerates as They See Power Slipping From Their Grip.

INDEED, THE ALARM CLOCK IS RINGING:  Wake up, people: Science shows mask zealots were very, very wrong.

“DESANTIS HAS NO EQUAL AT THIS POINT:” How Ron DeSantis’s critics are turning him into a hero for the right. No. There is another.

WHY IS THE SUPREME COURT Hesitating on Abortion?

KIRA DAVIS: The Time Has Come for Reasonable Americans to Stand up and Draw a Line in the Sand.

OPEN THREAD: And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. Discuss.

HARSHING THE NARRATIVE: Texas Has Fewer COVID Cases Than Michigan—Despite Nearly 20M More People and No Restrictions.

DON’T WORRY, THE DNC-MSM WILL BURY THESE NUMBERS: Remember that thing about “kids in cages?” Joe Biden is Detaining 18,000 Minors. Trump’s Peak Number Was Just 2,600.

LET HE WHO HAS NOT INGESTED PSYCHEDELIC TOAD VENOM CAST THE FIRST STONE: Hunter Biden says psychedelic toad venom kept him sober for a year.

LEARNING FROM FAILURE: SpaceX identifies cause of Starship SN11 prototype’s crash. “Ascent phase, transition to horizontal & control during free fall were good. A (relatively) small CH4 leak led to fire on engine 2 & fried part of avionics, causing hard start attempting landing burn in CH4 turbopump. This is getting fixed 6 ways to Sunday.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: ‘False hopes’: Small business rescue faces crunch just days after Congress extended it. “Washington’s nearly $1 trillion small business rescue, now under the watch of President Joe Biden, is about to slam into a new obstacle — it’s already running out of money. . . . Congress has been unable to obtain data on how many jobs the program has saved, for example, or the extent to which loans have reached businesses owned by people of color and women. And it’s not the first time it has run out of money, only to send lawmakers scrambling to allocate more.”

THREATS: BLM activist says if Derek Chauvin isn’t convicted of George Floyd’s death ‘all hell is gonna break loose.’

Flashback: “The witness, a Black minister, would later say police, prosecutors and even fellow clergy encouraged him to identify the soldiers as the killers because of fears of a riot if no one was convicted.”

NOT MUCH INFO HERE, REALLY: Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, Fort Detrick Shooting Suspect: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know.