EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Biden’s getting exactly the border crisis he asked for.

On Thursday, a Customs and Border Protection staffer reportedly told top Biden administration officials to expect a peak of 13,000 unaccompanied minors to cross the border in May — the highest level ever.

“We’re seeing the highest February numbers [that] we’ve ever seen in the history of the [Unaccompanied Alien Child] program,” a Department of Health and Human Services official told Axios.

That’s right: a crisis worse than the one that brought the “kids in cages” backlash under President Donald Trump, and the earlier crises that prompted the building of those “cages” under President Barack Obama.

And it’s a crisis that we and others warned would come, as soon as President Biden started reversing every Trump border policy, even those clearly responsible for producing historic lows in illegal crossers, and returning to Obama policies that first triggered the unprecedented waves of children crossing without family.

Now Biden’s having to reopen shelters to house the kids until the feds can figure out what to do with them — shelters that his usual allies denounced as horrors in the Trump years. Yet, says White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, “There are very few good options here, and we chose the one we thought is best.”

That’s only because her boss already rejected the option of trying to ensure they don’t come here in the first place.

Yes.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Reply If You Are Being Badgered by Leftists Insisting that You Accept the 2020 Outcome as Fair’n’Square.

WELL, GOOD: Leaked Report Show Pfizer’s Vaccine Conquering Covid-19 in its Largest Real World Test. In Israel.

REPORT: Second former aide accuses Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Boston Public Schools just canceled advanced classes for high-performing students because too many of the kids who qualified were white.

At this point, sending your kids to public schools is parental malpractice.

MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT HIS SUPPORT, I GUESS: Georgia Secretary of State Declines to Support Lawmakers’ Bills Targeting Voter Fraud. “Several of the bills have already passed through at least one chamber of the Georgia legislature. One such bill that has passed in the state senate would require all voters to present either a driver’s license number, a state identification card number, or a photocopy of some other approved form of identification in order to be allowed to cast an absentee ballot. Another bill, which has been approved by a state senate subcommittee, would force voters to provide a legitimate reason for voting by absentee ballot rather than in-person. The swath of new bills is in response to widespread allegations, backed by credible evidence, of voter fraud in the state in last November’s elections.”

And to quote a famous leader, don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.

OPEN THREAD: I hate robbing banks. I knew the sample was Anne Baxter; I didn’t realize until today the flamenco guitar from was Billy Idol’s guitarist, Steve Stevens.

SPACE: SpaceX plans 20th Starlink launch Sunday evening from Florida.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and less sitting reduce the risk of diabetes in older adults.

THIS ISN’T BECAUSE OF COVID-19. THIS IS BECAUSE OF THE RESPONSE TO COVID-19. Mental health ‘epidemic’ threatens communities of color amid COVID-19.

FASTER AND MORE, PLEASE: FDA authorizes Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose Covid-19 vaccine.

GOOD NEWS FOR THE PFIZER VACCINE: Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it is allowing undiluted frozen vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to be transported and stored at conventional temperatures commonly found in pharmaceutical freezers for a period of up to two weeks.

CULTURE OF REPUDIATION: Virginia school system cancels Dr. Seuss, citing racial ‘undertones’ in writings: report.

Wait until the Virginia school system discovers the racial undertones of Virginia’s governor.

(Classical reference in headline.)

SHAIDLE AT THE CINEMA: Galaxy Quest. “Speaking of famous writers, David Mamet has called Galaxy Quest ‘a perfect film,’ ranking it with The Godfather (and another of my other favorites, Dodsworth.)”

GIVEN HOW THE PUBLIC HEALTH COMMUNITY HAS SQUANDERED PUBLIC TRUST, SOON EVERYONE WILL BE LIKE THIS: History of medical abuse makes Black Americans wary of COVID-19 vaccine.

I’m not happy about it, but it’s not like I didn’t warn them.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Florida City Fines Woman Over $100K for Parking Incorrectly on Her Own Driveway.

HE AND GAVIN NEWSOM ARE DUKING IT OUT FOR THE TITLE OF AMERICA’S WORST GOVERNOR: Cuomo’s Other Negligence Crisis: The nursing home scandal looks all too familiar to some longtime critics of the New York governor.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Massachusetts school board member calls Jew a ‘kike’ on live TV.

#HIMTOO? Rose McGowan: ‘Monstrous’ Accusations Against Andrew Cuomo Must Be Investigated.

PRACTICE: How to Perfect Your Draw Stroke.

BEST LINE AT CPAC: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem – “Covid didn’t crush the American economy. Government crushed the American economy.”

MAKE AMERICA UGLY AGAIN: Biden Axes Trump’s ‘Beautiful’ Federal Architecture Order.

What could go wrong?

ROGER SIMON: Biden and the Nuclear Code–Yikes!

Do 36 Democrat House members calling for Joe Biden to relinquish sole authority over the nuclear code know something we don’t know?

Not in the slightest!

The idea of a man who couldn’t remember what state he is in (figuratively and literally), who refused to take a cognitive test so normative most sixth graders could pass it, who plagiarized in law school but still graduated at the bottom of his class (it wasn’t Harvard), who was the only person in the room that voted against assassinating Bin Laden, who makes so many gaffes nobody even notices anymore (certainly not the press), making such an epochal decision by himself is, well, mortifying (check the derivation of that word).

Maybe he could call a “lid” on nuclear war, give himself some time…

And this is all without bringing up the unfortunate remark from former Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ memoir that Joe Biden never got anything right on foreign policy during his entire career.

So maybe those House members have a point. It’s time to let those nukes loose by committee, be democratic, as it were, with a small d, or, in their cases, a capital one, as in Democratic.

The problem is, however, who should be on this committee? Who in today’s Democratic Party would you trust with the nuclear code?

The governors of their two most populous states—Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom—assuming they haven’t been recalled for charges ranging from sexual assault to murdering senior citizens in retirement homes?

Adam Schiff? Jerrold Nadler?

And considering “diversity” is such a religion for the Democrats, at least one of Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would have to get a vote. (Be still, Benjamin Netanyahu! Your country’s expendable.)

Further, they would have to have someone from the military, someone who knows what’s what. Where is General Buck Turgidson from “Dr. Strangelove” when we need him?

“BUCK: [on phone from War Room] Well, look baby, I can’t, can’t talk to you now, but… My president needs me. Of course Bucky would rather be there with you. Of course it isn’t only physical. I deeply respect you as a human being. Someday I’m gonna make you Mrs. Buck Turgidson. Listen, you go back to sleep. Bucky’ll be back there just as soon as he can. All right? Listen, sug’, don’t forget to say your prayers.”

That last sentence is good advice for all of us during the Biden era. As Glenn wrote in the New York Post: Doubts about Biden’s mental acuity aren’t only reason to limit prez’s nuke power.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Like wine, environmental conditions impact flavor of whiskey, study finds.

In fact, Heath Clark, founder and proprietor of the H. Clark Distillery, was guest-lecturing in my Law of Distilled Spirits class just this past week and mentioned that whiskey has terroir just as wine does. His big advice for people starting a micro-distillery: Understand fermentation thoroughly, have more capital than you think you need, and realize that you need to be a good salesman, not just a good distiller. Also, it helps to have a law degree, as that’s a major comparative advantage in a highly regulated industry.

WHY IMMIGRANTS FAVOR THE MELTING POT OVER MULTICULTURALISM: What Multiculturalism Has Wrought. The elevation of every world culture as “equally meritorious” has created a deep inequality in our own.

Upon arriving in America, Binh immediately found differences. “When I first got [to America] in 2009, I was waiting for the bus. A police officer stopped by and asked if I needed a ride home. Today I realized I should have said yes,” Binh says. “This country is so generous, and they are so welcoming. I do not see the racism in white people. I hang out with rednecks. I feel like liberal media has been pushing a strong image about America. I am more welcome here in the U.S. than in my own country.”

Taking in more than 1 million legal immigrants every year requires a culture of racial tolerance and a belief that in many parts of the world seems almost unnatural: that a complete stranger should be welcomed, because he or she has the potential to contribute something meaningful to the United State. This is what Binh means when he says that America is a generous country.

Ironically, to advance multiculturalism and deny American exceptionalism is to strike at the foundations of what makes America so appealing to immigrants the world over. What message should we be sending minority and immigrant youth growing up in a society where they don’t look like most people? Do we tell them that the American dream can be theirs, too, if they adopt our common language and a strong work ethic? Or that assimilation is fruitless, that this country will always reject them, and that they must never surrender the slightest bit of their culture?

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