SCIENCE! CDC Director Rochelle Walensky Has a ‘Recurring Feeling… of Impending Doom.’ “I’m sure Walensky’s feelings are real. To her. But how does that help us? She doesn’t have to sugar-coat things, and I’m not in denial that this virus is serious, but after the past year, ‘we’re all doomed’ is not making me trust the people who demand my trust.”

NEANDERTHALS ARISE! Free States Faring Far Better Than Lockdown States in One Huge Way, New Data Show.

ALSO LONG-TERM EARTH TRAVELERS: Long-term space travelers will need high-intensity exercise to protect heart health.

MATT MARGOLIS: California Bill Amended to Remove Language That Allegedly Would Banned Conservative Christians From Serving As Police. Is it Enough?

THE VIDEO WITH THIS IS REALLY IMPRESSIVE: Superman’s most amazing special effect didn’t require computers or a green screen. As the Master Thespian says, “Acting!!”

WHY DOES ANYBODY STILL LISTEN TO THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER?:  Each red-blooded American must teach five people the truth about these corruptoids.  Start with your sister-in-law who still reads the New York Times.  If we all work hard we can have this taken care of by August–well ahead of the vaccine project. Here’s some ammunition.

ARTHUR CHRENKOFF: The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of White Supremacy. “This is some serious Year Zero stuff, yesterday in the jungles of Pol Pot’s Cambodia, today at the world’s premier institution of higher learning. The long march through the instructions has been a Marxist success story well beyond the wildest dreams of Gramsci and the Frankfurt School, to the point now where those who specifically tasked with preserving and cultivating culture are actively seeking to eradicate it.”

BAD NEWS FOR THEM, BECAUSE THAT’S AN ESSENTIAL MYTH FOR SOME POWERFUL PEOPLE: “Black nerds unsettle the myth of a monolithic Blackness.”

BUT ONLY AMERICANS ARE SUPPOSED TO FEEL GUILTY ABOUT IT: China generated over half world’s coal-fired power in 2020: study.

YES, THE COVID REPORTING GOT MORE POSITIVE AFTER JAN. 20: I’m sure it’s absolutely, totally and completely coincidental, but the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) took a long look at Covid reporting and found it took a big turn toward optimism after Joe Biden entered the Oval Office as President.

I’m guessing Gail Heriot’s reaction to this news is something along the lines of “ya think?”

BY ALL MEANS FAIR AND FOUL BUT MOSTLY FOUL: Lonestar Bias: Texas Election Officials Received $36 Million to Turn State Blue.

THIS IS NEWS: SCOOP: Biden to renew National Space Council. “The fate of the council, which Trump made a high priority, has remained a question mark since Biden took office due to the relative lack of public messaging on space. Under the Trump administration it oversaw the creation of seven space policy directives on everything from establishing the Space Force to crafting a national strategy for the use of nuclear power in space. . . . The leadership and makeup of the Biden council is not yet settled.”

WELL, FOR CERTAIN MEANINGS OF “FIRST:” First Look: Colt Anaconda Revolver. “Colt recently reintroduced the Anaconda, the latest in its revamped Snake Gun revolver series. The Anaconda is a six-round, large frame, double-action revolver chambered in .44 Mag. that features forged stainless steel construction.”

I’m expecting an earth-shattering kaboom. But it’s not cheap.

SELF-DEFENSE UNDER ATTACK: Armed Antifa Attack ‘Freedom Rally’ at Oregon’s Capitol and Police Only Help When Old Man Pulls Gun on Attackers.

HARD-HITTING JOURNALISM:

Plus: “This is insane. Not only did he get grants from the NIH to do work in WIV he later got a 750k PPP loan AFTER his very work may have kicked off the entire pandemic. They never even asked him about it!”

The new woke journalism reads an awful lot like the old statist propaganda.

UPLOAD YOUR MIND: Deep Learning Isn’t Deep Enough Unless It Copies From the Brain.

MATT MARGOLIS: Biden Owes His ‘Popularity’ to Trump’s Success With COVID, Here’s Why. “His strongest ratings just happen to be regarding COVID-19. Now, why would Joe Biden be ranking highly on COVID? What exactly has he done? CNN cited the COVID relief package he signed into law earlier this month. You know, the COVID package that was being debated before he even took office, that Nancy Pelosi delayed moving on until after Trump was out of office. Yeah, that COVID package.”

CAN AND SHOULD: Pennsylvania Voters Can Approve Constitutional Amendment To Limit Governor’s Emergency Powers.

CELEBRATING THE DARK AGES: Cities worldwide dim lights to mark Earth Hour.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG. Zuckerberg’s Election Rigging Group Sends VP To Be Biden’s Tech Director.

WELL, GOOD: IUD may ward off endometrial cancer in women at risk.

HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): ‘Blue’s Clues’ Reboot Pushes Transgenderism on Preschoolers.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Every Single One of Your Rights Is Under Assault, It Must Be Monday.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: What do you call a madcap rush to push radical and authoritarian change through Washington on the slenderest of legislative majorities?

Answer: Just another day in the administration of Presidentish Joe Biden.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• From “Get Woke, Go Broke” to “Get Woke with Us Or Else”
• Americans own an impressive number of guns — but we can do better
• Minnesota’s war on the workingman’s car

Bonus Sanity: The Senate — where bad ideas are supposed to go to die — might just be the death of the Dems’ latest bad idea on guns.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

WELL, GOOD: Cancer drug lessens the toxicity of a protein from COVID-19 virus.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Did Something Happen in Boulder Last Week?

I’m not as old as Grandpa Badfinger, nor as manifestly senile, but I still have only the vaguest notion that something bad happened last week in Colorado, and I can’t quite put my trigger finger on exactly what it was. It’s just a hazy recollection of how whatever went down was pretty much the fault of you and me, though the last time I was in the Centennial State I was passing through the Denver airport, which makes whatever happened being my fault seem implausible, but whatever. Facts and stuff are bourgeois conceits. The point is that I went looking through the media, because whatever it was that went down was a super-big deal for a while, and then – nothing. Nada. Zip.

I guess the media and the Democrat politicians forgot about what went down in Boulder too.

It seems strange though because I recall it was really important at the time it happened. . . .

No, the Trump-hating leftist who was from Syria and not in the NRA or a born-again Christian did not check the intersectionality boxes useful to the left in its culture war so the liberal F Troop marched on to exploit new tragedies and forgot about this inconvenient one. And, somehow, this made it even more vital that the people who had no part in this atrocity be disarmed, presumably at the same time the police are defunded and all those poor, victimizedconvicted criminals are deincarcerated.

Enough sarcasm. Time for anger.

Here’s the thing – are we going to keep playing this game? Is our elite going to keep pretending that if a member of Group X commits a crime, Group X is collectively at fault, but if a member of Group Y commits a crime, Group X is collectively at fault?

Probably.

And we need to push back. We need to stop letting them pretend that the problem with Americans is normal Americans. To do that, we need to highlight the lies at the core of this poisonous flex. Citing liberal hypocrisy to ourselves is sort of political onanism, amusing but not accomplishing much. Citing liberal hypocrisy to liberals in the hope liberals will be inspired to stop being hypocrites is a waste of time. But citing liberal hypocrisy to normal people who are not immersed in politics is a powerful tool for educating them about the disaster that has overtaken our institutions. Calling out the lies is critical to defeating the liars.

Conservatives didn’t kill people.

Guns didn’t kill people.

A criminal killed people. One who shared the same views as the people trying to turn us from citizens into serfs.

It’s important to keep pointing that out.