INTERVIEW WITH BETH STELZER: One Female Powerlifter’s Fight to Defend Women’s Sports.

NEW YORK DOC PUNCTURES COVID ORTHODOXY: Dr. Vladimir Zelenko’s New York practice was hit hard early on in the Covid pandemic, but he’s had success in treating his patients with a cocktail of existing drugs. He also doesn’t wear a mask even though he’s on chemo and has only one lung. He explains all of this and more on the linked Heartland Institute podcast.

RACISM AT BEREA: College’s ‘white terrorism’ talk criticizes ‘narrative of white woundedness.’

“White woundedness” means being irritated that the people who used to talk about racial equality are now peddling racial supremacy.

CELEBRATE PROGRESSIVE CONFORMITY: Senate Confirms Anti-Religious Bigot Becerra to Lead HHS.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UOregon nets millions each year from mandatory athletics fee. Less than half of students even attend games.

INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION: From Soft Liberalism to Iron-Fisted Leftism in Today’s U.S. Military. “There is no doubt as to where all this is headed. The Pentagon’s swift and coordinated ‘smiting’ of Tucker Carlson, who had the gall to ‘diss’ the idea of sending pregnant women to war—an obviously absurd idea to all but the most politically correct officers grasping for a promotion—makes it very clear.”

This is what they do instead of winning wars, something they haven’t done even once this century despite nonstop combat.

PRIVACY: This Surveillance Company Claims It Can Track Nearly Any Car in Real-Time.

The Ulysses Group, which offers “cutting edge operational and intelligence services, support, and equipment” to government clients, says it can “access over 15 billion vehicle locations” worldwide every month. This data, which can be viewed “historically” or in real-time, should be used operationally by U.S. agencies, the company says.

A document obtained by the office of Sen. Ron Wyden, which was first reported by Motherboard and shared with Gizmodo, shows Ulysses claims to be able to “remotely geolocate” cars in “nearly any country,” with the exceptions of Cuba and North Korea.

Wyden is usually solid on privacy issues, so I’m curious to see what he tries to do with this — and how much opposition he’ll face from members of his own party, busy whipping up imaginary domestic terrorism scares.

TRUST-BUSTING: Indiana AG Threatens Legal Action After Amazon Removed Book Warning Against Transgenderism.

IT’S NOT EXACTLY A “PRIZE,” REALLY: The King George III Prize: In Recognition of the Worst Abusers of Civil Rights.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Chinese respond to diplomatic meeting with barbs, put-downs.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Officials like Fauci have undermined trust in government institutions.

SONGS OF DISTANT MARS: Mars rover captures mysterious ‘scratching noise’ during drive across the red planet. “If I heard these sounds driving my car, I’d pull over and call for a tow. But if you take a minute to consider what you’re hearing and where it was recorded, it makes perfect sense.”

EVERYONE WANTS IT BUT THE RULING CLASS, WHICH TELLS YOU SOMETHING: Voters demand photo ID and reject weak Democratic substitute.

An overwhelming majority of people, including Democrats, back a photo identification requirement to vote, a repudiation of Democratic legislation that would let people simply swear they are whom they say they are.

As the Senate version, S.B. 1, of the House-approved For the People Act, H.R. 1, was introduced today, a new Rasmussen Reports survey found that 75% of people support photo ID laws, such as those requiring voters to present a valid driver’s license or other government-issued ID to receive a ballot.

It has strong support among all partisans, the poll analysis reported.

“Eighty-nine percent (89%) of Republicans support voter ID requirements, as do 60% of Democrats and 77% of voters not affiliated with either major party,” it said.

And yet. . .

MARK JUDGE: Intergalactic Apocalyptic Communism.

MILITARY-WIDE GUILT SESSION NOT GOING AS PLANNED: Some US troops view Capitol riots, racial protests equally, worrying Pentagon leaders. “During military training sessions to address extremism in the ranks, some service members have challenged why the Pentagon is not treating the violence during racial injustice protests last summer as equal to the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.”

I can see why “Pentagon leaders” would worry when the grunts are smarter than them. Also, the “deadly riot” only involved violence against an unarmed female protester. The “hit in the head with a fire extinguisher” claims about Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick have been shown to be bogus.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Time To Tell Idiot King Biden That He’s Awful At His Job. “The topic at hand is that I’m really tired of the puppet show’s occupation of the White House. A lucid Joe Biden would have been a big enough nightmare as president. The people who are controlling the empty, babbling shell that resembles Joe Biden really seem to be intent on hastening the demise of the American experiment.”

EVERYBODY SAW THIS COMING: TRUMP WAS RIGHT: CNN Ratings ‘Going Down the Tubes’ Without Him.

JOHN HINDERAKER: Battle Lines Being Drawn. Read the whole thing.

THEY’RE LYING ABOUT RUSSIAN INFLUENCE TO ADVANCE WHAT AMOUNTS TO A DOMESTIC COUP, AND THE PRESS IS HELPING BECAUSE IT SUPPORTS THEM: Matt Taibbi: A list of official falsehoods about Russian influence.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has released a much-hyped, much-cited new report on “Foreign Threats to the 2020 Elections.” . . .

The report added Ukrainian legislator Andrey Derkach, described as having “ties” to “Russia’s intelligence services,” and Konstantin Kilimnik, a “Russian influence agent” (whatever that means), used “prominent U.S. persons” and “media conduits” to “launder their narratives” to American audiences. The “narratives” included “misleading or unsubstantiated allegations against President Biden” (note they didn’t use the word “false”). They added a small caveat at the end: “Judgments are not intended to imply that we have proof that shows something to be a fact.”

As Glenn Greenwald already pointed out, the “launder their narratives” passage was wolfed down by our intelligence services’ own “media conduits” here at home, and regurgitated as proof that the “Hunter Biden laptop story came from the Kremlin,” even though the report didn’t mention the laptop story at all. Exactly one prominent reporter, Chris Hayes, had the decency to admit this after advancing the claim initially.

With regard to the broader assessment: how many times are we going to do this? We’ve spent the last five years watching as anonymous officials make major Russia-related claims, only to have those evidence-free claims fizzle.

From the much-ballyhooed “changed RNC platform” story (Robert Mueller found no evidence the changed Republican platform was “undertaken at the behest of candidate Trump or Russia”), to the notion that Julian Assange was engaged in a conspiracy with the Russians (Mueller found no evidence for this either), to Michael Cohen’s alleged secret meetings in Prague with Russian conspirators (“not true,” the FBI flatly concluded) to the story that Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress (“not accurate,” said Mueller), to wild stories about Paul Manafort meeting Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy, to a “bombshell” tale about Trump foreknowledge of Wikileaks releases that blew up in CNN’s face in spectacular fashion, reporters for years chased unsubstantiated claims instead of waiting to see what they were based upon.

But it keeps the gullible pointed in the right directions, and distracts from the “intelligence community’s” own misdeeds. And nobody’s paid any price for it, so why stop?

IT’S A BRAVE NEW WORLD: A mouse embryo has been grown in an artificial womb—humans could be next. “The mouse embryos only died after they became too large for the oxygen to diffuse through them, since they lack the natural blood supply a placenta could provide.”

That seems like a pretty serious sticking point.

SOUNDS LIKE HE’S RUNNING FOR THE SENATE: J.D. Vance: True ‘Compassion’ Requires Secure Borders and Stopping Illegal Immigration.

BRINGING SOME SANITY TO THE BLUE ZONES: Texas Medical Board Clears Houston Doctor Accused of ‘Stealing’ COVID Vaccine Doses He Wouldn’t Let Go to Waste.

OOPS, HE DID IT AGAIN: Did Biden Just Say the Quiet Part Out Loud About Kamala Harris?

AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD: Biden Suspected Of Contributing To Border Crisis By Hanging Signs Saying ‘Free Stuff, Come On In.’

THE PRINCETON HISTORIAN Mugged By Reality: Since being freed from Iranian detention, Xiyue Wang has been unrelenting in his criticism of the authoritarian country—and some American elites’ attempt at rapprochement.

To be fair, they’re mostly in favor of rapprochement because they’re being. bribed.