MARK JUDGE: Enemies of Art: the New American Stasi.

HEH: Panic At The New York Times. “The New York Times reports that crime is starting to worry ‘progressives’ — not the phenomenon, but the politics of it. I don’t know whether progressives in general are worried, but the ones at the Times sure are.”

JOEL KOTKIN: Fully Oligarchic Luxury Californication: The tech elite have joined forces with progressive visionaries to establish a model of America’s feudal future. “What California is creating can be best described as oligarchic socialism, a form of collectivism that combines hierarchy with ‘equity,’ regulation with oligopoly, and progressive intentions with feudal results. Like so much else, the pandemic has accelerated this trend, vastly enriching the tech elite, while turning much of the working and middle classes dependent on what Marx called ‘the proletarian alms bag.'”

By design.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Masked Panic Wusses Have the Delta Variant Vapors Now. “When I did see someone in a mask, it was usually a twentysomething young adult. You know, the people who really don’t need them. It seemed, as I have written on more than one occasion here, like a fetish. There are simply some people who take comfort in the mask charade.”

SYSTEMIC RACISM: White Males Absent From Biden Judicial Slate.

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EXPLAIN THIS: Here’s a fact about Paul the Apostle that is not often discussed. For decades during his four missionary trips around the ancient world, he was in constant danger, often impoverished, whipped several times, run out of town at least twice, sick, trapped and nearly killed by rioters, scorned by the intellectual and political elite of his day, and often hungry.

Despite it all, he never stopped claiming that he had seen and talked to the risen Jesus on the road to Damascus, or that the encounter changed him from determined persecutor of Christians into their greatest missionary.

If he was a liar, he was one of the most determined in history. To dismiss him as deluded is speculative. What we cannot do is ignore him or his message because without him, it’s difficult to see the development of western civilization generally and the American constitutional perspective on government and individual liberty specifically.

WELL, HE’S RIGHT: John McWhorter: Wokeism is a religion; the problem is that it’s a ‘sh***y religion’.

COLORADO: Weld County joins chorus of voices asking Polis to veto ‘backdoor’ emissions deal.

According to the Colorado Sun in April, SB 200 “would set firm caps on emissions for key sectors of the economy and give the Air Quality Control Commission power to enforce those caps.”

“We’re not willing to give dictatorial authority over our economy to one unelected board that lacks the broader mandate and expertise,” Polis told the editorial board of The Gazette in Colorado Springs when asked if he would use his veto power to stop the policy from becoming law.

However, in the meantime, lawmakers worked behind closed doors to take key elements from SB 200 and slide them into HB 1266 at the 11th hour, Saine said. They didn’t remove, however, the part that originally led Polis to threaten a veto.

The strict emissions enforcement for reductions in the oil and gas, industrial and electric sectors remained, as did the creation of an ombudsman and environmental justice board.

SB200 doesn’t sound quite as extreme as Directive 10-281, but give them time.

WATCHING TWO DIFFERENT MOVIES: 57% of Republicans say the pandemic is now over — while just 4% of Democrats agree.

THAT’S AN AWFUL LONG WAY TO TRAVEL JUST TO CALL A LID: Jill Biden to Hold Diplomatic Meetings During Tokyo Olympics.

INSURRECTIONOPHOBIA: Thoroughly Modern Gen. Milley Fears White Rage Of Grandmothers.

FOOLS AND THEIR MONEY:  SMH: Young People Are Pouring Their Money into Climate Charities.

Hey, I donated to a lot of stupid things in my day. They’ll grow up.

HE IS WHAT HE IS, AND THIS IS WHAT HE IS: Obama’s nasty, partisan, divisive, racially accusative memoir.

This is the destruction of the family and the sixties edge of insanity coming home to roost. Teach your children well. Don’t be Obama’s mom, or heaven forbid his dad. There are things more important than personal gratification.

WE’VE SEEN THIS:  The power of intolerant minorities.

In our associations, our hobbies, our government, the left has played this game over and over again. It’s time to say “no more.”

I DON’T THINK THIS WILL END WELL:  Today’s blacklisted American: Rudy Giuliani loses law license for daring to represent Donald Trump.

YES, THEY REALLY THINK WE’RE THAT DUMB:  Jen Psaki: Republicans Want To Defund The Police.

DON’T WANT TO REPRESENT THE COUNTRY? DON’T COMPETE:  Gwen Berry’s Childish Olympic Protest.

I do however enjoin her to move the African country of her choice. We’ll even foot the bill and help her pack. And then she’ll find out what real racism and injustice is.  In a land full of tribalism.

CAN YOU HEAR US NOW?  Arizona House Passes Bill Requiring Schools Share Stories From People Who Fled Communism.

HE’S BAAAACK:  Trump Rally To Defeat Republican Who Voted To Impeach.

And he won’t forget and forgive.

OH. YOU MEAN WE’RE NOT JUST CRAZY ANTI-VAXERS? GOOD TO KNOW:  FDA Adds Warning About Heart Inflammation to COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines.

OKAY…  THAT WILL GO WELL. NOT:  Tucker Carlson: US military is intensifying a political purge of the ranks.

OH. THE CHICK WHO THINKS THE GUIDED TOUR OF THE CAPITOL WANTED TO KILL HER THINKS WE’RE HYSTERICAL:  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warns of ‘hysteria’ on soaring violent crime incidents.

I guess we’d better cool it, right? Let’s start with a completely cool display of middle fingers and a hearty recommendation that she grow up. (And move to her spiritual homeland of Cuba.)

OKAY GUYS, I NEED RELAY TEAMS KNOCKING AT MY PARENTS DOOR AND TELLING THEM THIS:  Shocker: Lisbon court rules that only 0.9% of ‘verified cases’ attributed to COVID in Portugal actually died of it.

Then maybe mom will stop obsessing on how much danger I’m in. (Pfui.)  Be nice and do it only 10 am to  pm. Parents aren’t young. (On the serious side, I will never forgive the architects of covidiocy here or there for scaring an 85 year old woman out of her wits, or for making me miss dad’s birthday. We are so profoundly not amused. Our lack of amusement is deeper and wider than the Grand Canyon.)

FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU; TRY TO FOOL ME TWICE … AND YOU WON’T LIKE IT:  Debunking the scaremongering over the ‘delta variant’ of COVID.

They should at this point rejoice if all the public does is ignore them.