DISPATCHES FROM THE PERMANENT BIPARTISAN FUSION PARTY: Republican Turncoat John Boehner Calls Jim Jordan and Ted Cruz ‘Political Terrorists.’

(Classical reference in headline.)

AS A FAMOUS MAN SAID, GET IN THEIR FACE. PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD. Chicago students reveal plan to counter ‘the mobs’ crusade’ against conservatives. Name them, shame them, sue them.

IF YOU ARE A YALE ALUMNUS, YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR KNOXVILLIAN VICTOR ASHE IN THE YALE CORPORATION ELECTIONS: Pruning PC Poison From The Ivies.

JOE BIDEN’S TROJAN HORSE PRESIDENCY:

Simply put, it sure seems like “moderate Joe” was a thin facade used to usher an ultra-progressive agenda in the backdoor. It resembles a Trojan horse: the famous hollow wooden horse, secretly filled with soldiers, that was given by the Greeks to the Trojans during the famed Trojan War. Once taken inside the impenetrable walls of Troy, Greek soldiers burst out of the horse and opened the gates to let in the besieging army.

Biden’s centrist facade got him in the door, and now the liberal hordes are taking over his administration. On Friday, the White House announced a commission to study the idea of packing the Supreme Court, an idea that would constitute a partisan assault on the judiciary as we know it and erode the rule of law.

This flirtation with radicalism is just the latest development in a series of extreme Biden administration policy overhauls that make former President Barack Obama seem like a conservative in comparison. For example, the president has embraced a federal $15 minimum wage, a job-killing policy rejected even by then-candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016, and even tried to force it through as small businesses were struggling to survive amid the pandemic.

And Biden’s early approach to spending makes the New Deal pale in comparison. He has utterly discarded any semblance of fiscal restraint he ever had as a senator, throwing caution to the wind to push through a $1.9 trillion partisan COVID-19 “stimulus” package that, adjusted for inflation and population, is twice the size of the Obama-era bailout and slightly larger than former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal.

Related: The Newest Deal.

I’ve been writing for years that the Democratic Party is addicted to New Dealism. Harry Truman wanted his own New Deal—the Fair Deal. Kennedy wanted his “New Frontier” (Not the cool one, though). LBJ—the only New Dealer other than FDR himself to be president—got his New Deal in the form of the Great Society. Clinton wanted one in his New Covenant and Obama tried with his New Foundation. Indeed, whenever there is a crisis, real or imagined, the call goes forth for yet another New Deal. Jimmy Carter didn’t call for a new New Deal, but he did believe the energy crisis was the moral equivalent of war, which is sort of the same thing. In the wake of 9/11, Chuck Schumer argued in the Washington Post, “the ‘new’ New Deal is upon us. The president can either lead the charge or be run over by it.” And of course, climate change requires a Green New Deal.

Now, as someone who thinks we didn’t need the first New Deal—or at least a lot of it—it shouldn’t surprise you that I certainly don’t think we need a second one, never mind a third one, if you count the Great Society, or a fourth one if you include the second New Deal.

Adding to it the previous administration in which Biden served, and it’s New New Deals all the way down for the left and their stenographers.

SLIGHT SIGNS OF SANITY IN ST. LOUIS: Soros-backed St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner loses bid to stay on McCloskey case.

WELFARE FOR THE RICH: Ivy League received $168 million from Congress during third round of ‘relief’ funding: The elite institutions possess endowments that total more than $140 billion in value, but taxpayers continue to subsidize the schools, most of which have seen their endowments grow this year.

Related: To reduce inequality, abolish the Ivy League.

LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT CHECKERS AND EDITORS: How an online ‘Lego’ gamer infiltrated the White House press corps.

YES, BUT THE YEAR IS STILL YOUNG: Biden’s Big Plan to Solve the Border Crisis Is the Dumbest Thing You’ve Ever Heard.

AT THIS POINT, CAN YOU EVEN CALL IT AN UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE? Biden threat supercharges sales of ‘ghost guns,’ AR pistols, and ammunition.

TRUMP VINDICATED AS JUDGE RULES MICHIGAN SECRETARY OF STATE VIOLATED ELECTION LAWS.

RETURN TO NORMALCY: ‘Bareback Rocket Ride’: The Hunter Biden Story.

ALL ABOARD UNCLE JOE’S GRAVY TRAIN! You knew there would be some waste and corruption — ok, a lot of it — in this Administration. But JustTheNews reports this mindboggling example:

“Princeton, a school with a $26.6 billion endowment, is receiving $12 million, while Yale will add $17.3 million to its $31.2 billion stockpile, and Penn has been awarded $26.3 million on top of its nearly $15 billion fund. Columbia and Cornell will each receive just about $33 million to add to their respective billions. Rounding out the list, Harvard — a school that has been called “A Hedge Fund That Has a University” — is receiving more than $25 million to add to its $41.9 billion endowment.”

Hey, those Chief Diversity Officers and Bias Response Teams don’t come cheap. And besides, it’s for the children.

OUT ON A LIMB: The 6-Foot Mandate Was Bad Science.

It is of course necessary to note that not seeing anyone at all is the most effective way to prevent transmission but that isn’t realistic, just like staying six feet away from everybody. The point is that the scientific consensus says that 3 feet of social distancing is effective at reducing transmission. It will always be more effective to be as far as possible but to say that 6 feet is the minimum is not only unrealistic but unscientific.

In fact, the United States has some of the strictest social distancing measures in the world. Reuters notes,

“China, Denmark, France, Hong Kong and Singapore recommend social distancing of 1 meter, and many people also choose to, or are required to, wear face masks in public spaces.

Australia, Belgium, Greece, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal advise people to keep 1.5m apart. Switzerland this week also reduced the required distance to 1.5m from 2m.

The guidance in the United States is six feet, or 1.8m.”

Although K-12 students may begin to observe a 3-foot rule rather than a 6-foot rule, the CDC still maintains the rest of the population abide by the latter. However, it is worth noting that any official recommendation at all is futile and ignorant because it is virtually impossible to observe any social distancing policy consistently. Although it is certainly good information to keep in mind that maintaining distance from others may help reduce the spread of infectious diseases, social distancing should not be hailed as the key to stopping a virus as it has with Covid-19.

Hey you didn’t observe either distancing requirement? Teachers union chief: Check me out sitting in close quarters with other people indoors.

Why, it’s as if: When It Comes To School Reopenings, We Are Not All In This Together.

LORDING IT OVER THE REST OF US IS THE ENTIRE POINT: Top Gretchen Whitmer Aide Takes Spring Break Trip to Florida, Ignoring MI Gov’s Warning.

As Stephen Kruiser suggested: Let’s Start Jailing Lawmakers Who Violate Their Own COVID Restrictions. “Imagine the pure, poetic justice of seeing Newsom, Cuomo, and some of the other Hitler youth (stole that from Animal House) cooling their heels in a holding cell after being caught with their masks off and their pants down.”

Related:

As Pat Moynihan said 20 years ago, “[Hannah] Arendt had it right. She said one of the great advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.”

Of course, all of this is burying the real lede: Whitmer administration giving a bipartisan thumbs up to Ron DeSantis!

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Biden’s Latest Court-Packing Move Should Forever Dispel the ‘Moderate’ Label.

This move may seem moderate. After all, Biden didn’t just immediately try to pack the Court. He ordered a commission to compile arguments “for and against Supreme Court reform.” Yet the commission’s members tilt significantly to the legal and political Left, as The Wall Street Journal editorial board explained.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned that Biden’s “faux-academic study” is a “direct assault on our nation’s independent judiciary.”

“So anyone who was surprised by the creation of a commission on packing the Supreme Court simply hasn’t been paying attention,” McConnell said. “This faux-academic study of a nonexistent problem fits squarely within liberals’ years-ling campaign to politicize the court, intimidate its members and subvert its independence.”

Superficially, it seems that Trump has successfully gotten conservatives confirmed to the Supreme Court. In reality, however, Trump selected justices who would apply the clear meaning of the Constitution and the laws passed by Congress, as understood at the time. Trump did not seek out activist justices who would write conservative ideas into the Constitution — that’s exactly the kind of activism Trump and his allies sought to prevent.

Democrats, however, see the Supreme Court as a kind of super-legislature, using the Constitution as a tool to drag history forward. They look back on Roe v. Wade (1973) — which struck down state laws on abortion — and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) — which unilaterally redefined marriage — as positive steps toward progress rather than gross abuses of the Supreme Court’s power. Democrats supported the Court inventing new “rights” out of whole cloth because those rights involved abortion and same-sex marriage. The end justified the extremely unrepresentative means.

Flashback: Biden says voters ‘don’t deserve’ [to know] his stance on packing Supreme Court.

SPORTS SCUM, SIDING WITH SLAVERS:

OPEN THREAD: Party on, dudes.

SPACE: NASA’s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is ‘go’ for historic 1st flight on Sunday.

UPDATE: Or not. NASA delays Mars helicopter Ingenuity’s 1st flight to April 14.

GOOD: Treating sleep apnea may reduce dementia risk.

HEH: Jake Tapper just LOSES it when pushed further on why CNN isn’t leaving Georgia in heated back and forth.

THE END IS THE MEANS: Biden Willing To Compromise on $2.3 Trillion Spending Bill So Long As It Spends $2.3 Trillion.

INDEED:

EZRA LEVANT OF CANADIAN ALT-MEDIA NETWORK REBEL NEWS: 50 heavily armed police just raided the hotel where our Rebel News reporters were staying in Montreal.

I told them they couldn’t come in without a search warrant. So instead they manhandled me. They handcuffed Keean Bexte. And They just put David Menzies in the back of a police car.

Police have sealed off the AirBnb we were staying in with police tape — they say it’s a “crime scene”.

Of course it’s not. In fact, when we asked them what the “crime” was, all they could come up with was that our staying in the hotel was an illegal “gathering,” contrary to Quebec’s lockdown laws.

That’s obviously not true. It is a registered, legal hotel rental on Airbnb. In fact, we had fewer guests than the facility is built for.

This is the same Montreal police who have harassed and assaulted our reporters for weeks. This is their revenge. Because we report on their misconduct.

I’m very upset by this. And I remember that, several times, Montreal police have pulled our reporters over and called us “Jew Media” or asked if we’re “Jews”. I can’t help but think that’s a bizarre anti-semitic motivation. That sure isn’t professional policing.

David is still in the back of the police car. Our lawyer is on the scene. I’m mad as hell.

You should be. Name them, shame them, and make them pay.

THIS. IS. CNN.

CNN: Don’t blame us. We can’t help it that they all look alike.

WAS IT OVER WHEN THE Q-ANON SHAMAN BOMBED PEARL HARBOR? This Dem lawmaker seriously tried to compare the Capitol riot to Pearl Harbor.

Flashback: Media Preparing for Disappointment as Most Capitol Hill Rioters Will Likely Face Trespassing Misdemeanors.