OVER TARGET, TAKING FLAK: Out-of-state dark money group kicks off effort to unseat Lauren Boebert; repeats several debunked claims.

DON SURBER: When Was Trump Wrong? “The Wuhan lab is a biomedical warfare weapons lab. Either by accident or design, Red China unleashed this virus on the world and got the world to kneel before Red China. The American press aided and abetted this by continually throwing shade on President Donald John Trump. It was sedition on a mass scale.”

SCIENCE! Scientists warn that lab leak theory could irk China.

BLUE CITY BLUES: 27 Shot in Miami ‘Urban Beach Week’ Event.

POLITICAL PRISONERS: Man in Pelosi’s Office Discusses Jail Conditions for January 6 Detainees. Simply compare their treatment with that of those who protested the Inauguration — much more violently — in 2017.

SICK: Largest U.S. Hospital Group Will Require ‘Conscious Inclusion’ Training, Recommended Employees Read ‘White Fragility.’

IDENTITY POLITICS ARE DESTRUCTIVE, BUT BRING RICHES AND POWER TO THEIR PRACTITIONERS: American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Ailments of American Culture.

For several decades American culture punished people for engaging in identity politics, but academics worked hard to make them respectable, and those academics deserve a full share of the blame for the results.

SKYNET SMILES: Meet the Future: Drone Hunts Down a Human Without Being Ordered To.

NATURE ON NATURAL IMMUNITY: Had COVID? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime. I think it’s fair to say that we’re close to a scientific consensus that people who have had Covid don’t need to be vaccinated.

AS ALWAYS, ON SUNDAYS I DO MY BOOK PROMO FOR INDIE WRITERS:  Book Promo And Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

And there’s a fun vignette challenge too.

O TEMPORA!  O MORES!:  Princeton drops Greek and Latin requirement for Classics majors.

WHILE AMERICANS REMAIN:  We Remember, We Honor, We Celebrate.

TICK TOCK: On this day in 1859, the four-faced clock in the tower over the Houses of Parliament—designed by Augustus Pugin—started keeping time. Since then, the clock has occasionally stopped—sometimes because of bad weather and at least once because too many starlings decided to roost on its minute hand. But it kept ticking when German bombers damaged two of its dials during the blitzkrieg, so came through when it really counted.

The name “Big Ben” is the nickname for the largest bell in the tower (though it is also commonly applied to the clock and to the tower). The bell is 7 feet, 6 inches tall and 9 feet in diameter, weighs 13.7 tons, and is struck every hour on the hour. Smaller bells are struck every 15 minutes.

The current great bell is actually the second such bell. The first cracked during testing before the bell tower was even completed. The second was thus delivered to the site with great fanfare in a carriage drawn by 16 white horses with crowds cheering its progress. It took 18 hours to hoist it up to the belfry.

Alas, it soon cracked too. Fortunately, George Airy, Astronomer Royal, came up with a simple solution: Give the bell a 90 degree turn and use a smaller hammer. The British can be good at “make do and mend” when circumstances require.

LISTEN, WRETCHED, YOU KEEP PUSHING, AND YOU’LL HEAR “ARISTO, ARISTO, A LA LANTERNE”:  Court Rules Michigan Recall Effort Against Governor Can Proceed – Gretchen Whitmer Responds With Implied Violence: “We will beat them on the streets”.

Be glad it’s just a recall, madam, and not what you deserve.  I’d advise you give thanks fasting that despite everything your ilk has done to us, Americans remain by and large law abiding.

COMPLETELY DESERVED:  Derp-seal of the week: WaPo “fact-checker” Glenn Kessler.

FIRST THAT’S THE OPPOSITE OF INFRASTRUCTURE:  $20 Billion to Rip Up Highways, To Reduce Climate Change and Division Caused by Road Traffic.

And second, no. You’ll just isolate cities and make them even more useless hell holes filled with welfare recipients. But the left with their drive to take us back to the thirties never pays attention to unintended consequences.

I AM SHOCKED, SHOCKED, TO LEARN BERNIE IS NOT DOWN WITH THE MASSES:  Book reveals Bernie’s hotel demands: King-size beds and 60-degree rooms.

The 60 degree rooms thing is understandable. He likes to pretend he’s in the Soviet Union….

BUT THERE ARE NO MEAN TWEETS, SO THERE IS THAT:  Biden received funds from top Russia lobbyist before Nord Stream 2 giveaway.

Where are the cries of “Russia, Russia, Russia!”  Those Dem crickets sure are soothing.

THE INCOMPARABLE TOM KNIGHTON TAKES ON THE STUPIDEST THING YOU’LL READ THIS WEEK:  Cops Ask Permission Before Drawing Their Weapon.

THE NIHILISTS AND THE FANATICS:  France’s Great Debate Over the Sources and Meaning of Muslim Terror.

You pick which is which, really. I mean, you know, I’d like them both to lose.