GIVEN THAT SHE OPPOSES DUE PROCESS, THE BOARD’S OPPOSITION SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE:  Wall Street Journal editorial board opposes the nomination of Catherine Lhamon to be Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights.

I’M JEALOUS: Forget the Bezos and Branson Spaceflights. The Real Deal Happens This Fall. “The storm of press has thus far largely overlooked a much bigger space deal coming in September, when yet another billionaire—Jared Isaacman, the CEO of Shift4 Payments, an online payments company—goes aloft with three other civilian astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft in a mission dubbed Inspiration4. Never mind 10 suborbital minutes, this will be a three-day trip to orbital space at an altitude higher than that of the International Space Station (ISS).”

AS DESIGNED: How ‘equity’ ideology plunged South Africa into inequality and chaos.

WEIRD HOW LEFTY PROGRAMS ALWAYS REQUIRE LIES TO ADVANCE:

THIS IS NOT AMERICA: Another Capitol Protester Takes Loyalty Oath to Joe Biden Before Obama Judge Banishes Him to Prison. “On January 6, Paul Hodgkins walked through the open doors of the U.S. Capitol Building, passed Capitol police, walked into the House chamber, took a selfie with the Q Shaman horned guy, and unfurled a Donald Trump flag.”

EXTREMISTS! J.D. Vance and Blake Masters promise to shore up US workers and end endless wars.

CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN EVANSTON, ILLINOIS:  Quin Hillyer has a two-part series on the anti-CRT lawsuit against the public schools in Evanston (a town I once called home).  Here’s Part I.  And here’s Part II.   Hillyer correctly describes the school system’s CRT practices as “vile.”

IT’S SILLINESS ALL THE WAY DOWN:  Fisking WuFlu “News”.

WELCOME TO THE PARTY, PAL:  Top Biden officials now believe COVID lab-leak theory: report.

THEY HAVEN’T FACE TO SPARE:  China Threatens Nuclear War if U.S. Continues Investigating COVID-19 Origins.

Or to be honest fighting men. And wait till they figure out that ruining us means their economy tanks, since we won’t buy their cr*p. So buying idiot Joe was probably the stupidest thing they could have done.

To quote the late great Terry Pratchett “We own all your armies, we own all your shoes, we own all your guns, touch us and you’ll lose.”

OF COURSE:  Today’s blacklisted American: Catholic hospitals threatened with cancellation by University of California.

SO, MY MIND IS WEIRD:  Simple Rules For Life.

DEAR LORD, AND HOW SF/F WRITERS FELL FOR THEM BACK WHEN:  This week’s global warming predictions.

And still do.

SAVE THIS SOMEWHERE, TO COUNTER CATASTROPHISM:  Signs of a resurgence in La Nina and the potential implications on global temperatures and the upcoming winter season.

I DON’T HAVE THE KIND OF TIME IT WOULD TAKE EVEN TO LIST THE THINGS WE KNOW:  Cyberhacks: What does China have on Biden?

ONLY TEN? 10 Reasons to Question the Election.

I’D LIKE TO POINT OUT WE’RE ALL — WHATEVER OUR SKIN COLOR — DESCENDED FROM RAPISTS AND THEIR VICTIMS:  “Rape-colored skin” — the newest lunacy from the BLM crew.

Probably back to the point before we split from the chimps. This is predicated on the fact that males are physically stronger than females, and that not all males will be sane or benevolent. (The idea that males can control other males with mind rays or something is one of the crazier delusions of the left.)

This is without taking into account the fact that females are hypergamic. So presuming your great great grandmother didn’t consent or initiate the sex is a bit presumptuous.  And while power differential, etc, make all that a bit skivvy, I”d like to point out that only seems to matter to our times. In the past power differential didn’t seem to matter to anyone, in fact.

So, this chick? Crazy cakes. She might or might not have “rape-colored skin” but she does have presentism-eaten-brain.

EVEN TAKING IN ACCOUNT THEY’RE ALL INSANE:  Putting the Biden government’s COVID pressure in a proper historical context.

TO BE FAIR, LYING IS FAUCI’S NATURAL STATE:  Senator Rand Paul Confronts a Very Nervous and Lying Dr. Anthony Fauci.

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  China Rejects Proposed WHO Probe Into COVID-19 Origins.

INCITEMENT: It Sure Looks Like the FBI Basically Orchestrated the Gretchen Whitmer ‘Kidnapping’ Plot. “Apparently, the FBI didn’t just have informants within the group where the arrests were made. Rather, FBI operatives played a key role in the planning of the entire ordeal and were also seemingly instrumental in birthing the plot.”

This is not unusual. Back in the 1950s and 1960s it was commonplace knowledge on both the left and the right that the guy in your group urging people to do illegal stuff was the FBI mole. And IIRC back in the 1990s there was a “militia” group where it turned out that every single member was an informant for some federal agency or another.

EXACTLY:

OUCH: “Kamala didn’t rise through the ranks because she was a pioneer shattering glass ceilings, but because she was a convenient cutout for a series of dirty men from Willie Brown to Joe Biden. They didn’t elevate her because she was good at anything, but because she posed no threat. . . . After a long wasted life in politics, Kamala has no religion, no family, and has become the embodiment of the Peter Principle, promoted vastly above her competence, looking at a job that she can almost touch with her manicured hands, but will never be allowed to possess.” Well, we can hope.

NOTHING FOCUSES THE MIND, like a President who is not in full possession of his faculties, and a Vice President who’s no great shakes even when she is. Bipartisan Bill Would Limit Presidential War Powers and Emergency Declarations.

THE DEMAND FOR WHITE SUPREMACY IN AMERICA FAR EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY: My Search for the Elusive White Nationalists and Supremacists in the Church.

The key takeaway is simple; not one person I talked to at the PK conference knew or had heard a Christian nationalist. Nary a one. Nor had they seen or come in contact with a white supremacist. To a person, regardless of ethnicity, they believed race relations in their church and their community broadly were better than they were ten, twenty, or thirty years ago, not worse. Also, these participants thought their church was doing a “good job” discussing race.

One other consistent theme was best stated by James, an African-American man in his early fifties who said that race relations were “much better than they were thirty years ago.” He attends a bible church that has a mixed ethnic congregation; “Here’s what we believe and what we live, we’re all moving forward in the love of Jesus.” James had brought his adult son and brother to the event, all of whom nodded in agreement.

Gary, a tall, rugged-looking white man in his sixties, brought his adult son with him for the weekend. He was eager to talk about his church with a “reasonably” mixed congregation and their experience during the elections. “There were different opinions [but] everyone was united in Christ. See, we preach that the things of the world don’t mean that much, but the things of God mean everything.” Gary’s son attends a different church in another city but added that his church rarely talked politics “but talked a lot about the collapse of values and family,” and that only the “Gospel of Christ could change a person’s heart or the country’s destiny.” . . .

Another attendee, Cass, said to me, “We got boys pretending to be men in the country now. Too many [men] never grow up. They talk about race, but they don’t believe in people. Race is just something to be mad about. We need men to come back to what God called us [to be]. When that happens, there isn’t any race that matters. Kingdom men care about every person because God made ’em. Kingdom men see with the King’s eyes.”

The vignettes from these men I talked to were sweet and bathed in goodness.

That will not appear in the Washington Post.