ONE YEAR AGO TODAY: WHO EXPERT MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS FROM WEBSITE AFTER CARRYING WATER FOR CHINA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7QIA0hAnBg

“So: Why did Bruce Aylward behave that way during that interview, and why did WHO just scrub him from their site? Is he okay? Is he physically safe? And can anyone at WHO explain any of this?”

Not at this time, but we can illustrate it:

At some point in 2020, Aylward’s sentence in the gulag was commuted, as the headline on this February 2021 article makes clear: With scarce funding for ACT-A, ‘everything moves slower’: WHO’s Bruce Aylward.

THAT WAS THEN:

Racism is what the Party needs is to be, when it needs it to be.

TO BE FAIR, EVERYTHING IS ABOUT POWER: Abolishing the Filibuster Is About Power, Not Anti-Racism: Even Joe Biden and Barack Obama were willing to acknowledge this basic fact just a few years ago.

And if they start invoking “anti-racism,” then it’s really about power.

NO I.D. TO VOTE, BUT A “VACCINE PASSPORT” FOR A LARGELY NON-FATAL (AND USUALLY MILD) DISEASE IN ORDER TO TRAVEL? Is the developing opinion that only troglodytes resist vaccine passports? “All this – effectively, as I say, a stealth national ID card without the necessary debate – when we don’t even know if vaccine passports would help to solve our biggest problem: stopping the spread of the virus.”

This is just another piece of the effort to turn citizens everywhere into something more like serfs. A “Great Reset” indeed.

THERE, THAT WAS EASY, WASN’T IT? Suez Canal ship Ever Given freed, traffic resumes in crucial shipping channel.

The Ever Given is guaranteed to feature in Dave Barry’s 2021 Year End Roundup, so it’s got that going for it, which is nice.

IF YOU DON’T LIKE MY PRINCIPLES, DON’T WORRY, I HAVE OTHER ONES: Look, I don’t care what side of “climate change” action you are on. My confusion is about the inconsistency of the Democrats position on “dark money.” They want to require groups to disclose their membership, but use the same tactics.

The Washington Free Beacon points out that:

“Rewiring America, one of many environmental groups that has endorsed the BUILD GREEN Act, is part of a massive dark money network run by the D.C.-based Arabella Advisors. The nation’s wealthiest liberal donors use Arabella’s $731 million activist network to secretly fund a host of liberal causes.”

I suppose one could say they are just “fighting fire with fire” but what tips the balance towards absurdity is that the genuine left won a great decision in NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson. In that case, the Attorney General of Alabama (remember, this is 1958) demanded that the NAACP disclose membership lists. The Supreme Court noted that:

“It is hardly a novel perception that compelled disclosure of affiliation with groups engaged in advocacy may constitute as effective a restraint on freedom of association as the forms of governmental action in the cases above were thought likely to produce upon the particular constitutional rights there involved. This Court has recognized the vital relationship between freedom to associate and privacy in one’s associations.”

Even NPR has noted the absurdity of this “having it both ways” behavior. Don’t Democrats realize what’s at stake?

AND YET THEY PERSIST: These 6 Stupendous Hoaxes Are Reasons to Give Media Narrative About ‘Asian Hate’ the Hairy Eyeball.

THE PEOPLE DON’T WANT WHAT THE ELITE ARE TRYING TO SELL: Democrats Face Gun Legislation Dilemma as Support for House Background Check Bill Breaks Down.

FASTER, PLEASE: Cruises for Americans Are Coming Back—With or Without CDC Blessing.

Crystal Cruises is getting Americans back out on its luxury ships—with or without a green light from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

While most major cruise companies continue to wait for the government agency to establish guidelines for a safe return to sea, the two-ship Crystal, owned by Genting Hong Kong, is taking another route entirely. On Thursday it opened sales for 16 itineraries that sail exclusively around the Bahamas a week at a time, starting in July, allowing American travelers easy access while bypassing all U.S. restrictions.

The trips will only be made available to fully inoculated travelers, who must show their vaccine cards before boarding. They’ll sail from Nassau or Bimini to Great Exuma and several islands not typically frequented by cruise ships—all on the 980-passenger Crystal Serenity, known for such niceties as butler-serviced penthouse suites and complimentary Nobu sushi. Prices will start at $1,999 per person.

“While many of our guests have explored the far reaches of the world, this is a time when people are staying closer to home as the world emerges from a year of not traveling,” says Jack Anderson, Crystal’s interim president and CEO.

It’s also a time of great uncertainty for the cruise industry. While airlines and resorts have begun to see glimmers of recovery, ships are still sitting in layup, manned by skeleton crews, with their parent companies cumulatively losing billions on a quarterly basis.

Given the role of cruising in his state’s economy, it’s not surprising to see Ron DeSantis trying shake the CDC out of their Biden-esque slumber: Florida Gov DeSantis threatens to sue US over cruise ship ban. Florida saw $3.2 billion loss after first six months of pandemic in cruise industry alone.

It’s not just the CDC, however: “CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said that in a Senate hearing last week that her agency wasn’t the sole actor holding things back. She suggested that the Department of Transportation and other agencies were also part of the decision making. That was news to the cruise lines, who have been waiting for direction from the agency, under its Conditional Framework for Sailing order for the past six months.”

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Watch These 6 Conservative Films on Amazon Prime While You Can.

Platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram actively discriminate against right-leaning voices, be it pro-life souls or comics cracking wise about the woke revolution.

Streaming platforms offers similar pitfalls for conservatives. The bulk of Netflix’s original programming leans left … if there’s a cultural or political element to the material. Amazon tried to prevent “What Killed Michael Brown?” from streaming on its VOD platform. More recently, Amazon erased “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words” during Black History Month.

How many right-leaning originals has Hulu produced over the past five years? That’s rhetorical.

Yet Amazon Prime currently offers six movies with a decidedly conservative edge. Watch them now before someone at Team Amazon recognizes their existence and finds a way to erase them.

Of the six, I’ve only seen Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager’s No Safe Spaces, and it was quite good.

BREAKING: Ever Given Ship Freed After Blocking Suez Canal for 6 Days — and Why It Matters.

WELL, VOLUNTARY INTOXICATION ISN’T A DEFENSE TO A CRIME: Court: You can’t be raped if you willingly got drunk.

FEMINIST REVISIONISTS ARE TEDIOUS, IGNORANT, AND BORING: Defending ‘Risky Business’ from Feminist Revisionists.

ASTROTURF IS WHAT THEY DO: Liberal Dark Money Network Is Behind ‘Grassroots’ Support for Dem Climate Bill.

THIS IS KIND OF A TELL FOR THE WHOLE ENTERPRISE: Philadelphia library workers upset diversity training didn’t scapegoat white people.

‘YELLOW JOURNALISM’ GOES DEEP BLUE WHEN VILIFYING CHRISTIANS: Take a stroll over to the PJ Media site and check out my latest column, on why Kim Strassel is right about “Blue Journalism.” What the New York Times and Washington Post have done trying to link the Atlanta massage parlor massacre to evangelical Christianity is Exhibit A.

BRYAN PRESTON: Woke Democrat, a Former Soldier, Tweets Attack on the Second Amendment. “When he entered the military, Crow swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, not just the parts he likes.”

People enjoy becoming woke because it gives them a cloak of morality to cover all kinds of awful behavior.

OH, PLEASE: Washington & Lee students walk out of class, demand the school change its name.

VIDEO: Alleged Biden Official Tries To Block Ted Cruz From Taking Photos Inside CBP Facility. “When the senators tried to take cell phone pictures and videos, they too were hassled. Texas Senator Ted Cruz recorded a confrontation he had with a Biden handler sent by DHS to stop them.”

SHOCKER: Commerce Department report: Red states leading U.S. economic growth.

THEY’VE CERTAINLY EMBRACED MOB RULE: Have the Democrats Fully Abandoned the Ideals of Democracy?

“WE BOTH KNOW HOW THIS WORKS:” JESSE KELLY: UNLIKE HUNTER BIDEN, I’D BE TALKING TO YOU FROM FORT LEAVENWORTH IF I LIED ON MY FEDERAL GUN FORM.

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY PETE BUTTIGIEG WANTS TO TAX YOUR CAR BY THE MILE.

Flashback: Don’t Track Me, Bro!

FIRE THEM. FIRE THEM ALL. Oakland teachers refuse to return to school, despite getting COVID vaccine priority.

School officials on Thursday, were forced to cancel their previously scheduled reopening dates next week at six elementary schools and 10 preschools, reported the San Francisco Chronicle.

After seven months of distance learning, some students were supposed to be able to head back to in-person teaching on Tuesday, as agreed to by the district and unions.

But due to a lack of teachers willing to come back before April 14, high needs pupils, including homeless, foster and special needs students, will not be able to get into classrooms ahead of time, the newspaper reported.

Why should any American give a damn about public education when public educators no longer give a damn about public education?

IT’S A GOOD START: GOP Freshmen Stand Up to ‘Surrender Caucus’: Is this freshman class the last best hope for the republic?