POLL: Americans Not Buying Into Democrats’ Anti-Gun Panic Rhetoric.

It doesn’t take a poll — just go to your local gun range.

“DEMAND.” Ohio State students occupy student union, demand school cut ties with Columbus police.

JUSTIN KATZ IS BACK TO BLOGGING AT Anchor Rising.

CHRISTOPHER BEDFORD: How American Small Businesses Are Being Coerced To Help Build The Oligarchy.

First, small businesses are captive to the government. Second, small businesses are captive to their most neurotic customers.

Let’s start with the government. Capacity limits in D.C., for example, cap occupants at 50 percent and, for some reason, if you have live music at a mere 25 percent — even though we’re banned from dancing anyway. We still can’t sit at bars for no good reason at all, since our bartenders now can come right around and meet us at our tables. Venues also can’t have live entertainment if people are seated within 30 feet of the stage. What? Why not? Who knows, but the same people who made that ridiculous rule up are now “reviewing it,” we’re told. Does anyone think they’ve grown smarter in the interim?

Now for the broken people. Why do some restaurants again and again seem to go above and beyond even arbitrary city regulations? Often, and especially because they’re struggling, they need every customer they can get, and that, some have decided, means they need to keep their most neurotic customers comfortable.

Is there a line between making those who aren’t completely broken uncomfortable and making the broken ones happy? It’s hard, and it comes down to an owner or manager’s call, but those most neurotic customers have a secret weapon normal people will never use: calling the government.

Neurosocracy.

EMBRACE THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Biden Issues Universal Public School Critical Race Theory Order.

JOSH HAMMER: The Toxicity of the Permanent Outrage Mentality.

HONESTLY, I THINK I PRETTY MUCH COVERED THAT: I Wish I Partied More In Law School.

HMM: U.S. officials hopeful as advisers meet again on J&J COVID-19 vaccine. A less than one in a million risk of blood clots seems trivial to me.

IMMIGRATION: Democrat Senators Urge Biden to Reimburse Arizona for National Guard Troops at Border.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Will the Times apologize for lying about Officer Sicknick’s death?

Spoiler: No. Also, who killed Ashli Babbitt?

GOOD: Virginia Gun Groups Sue City Of Winchester Over Gun Control Ordinance.

SPACE: SpaceX launches 4 astronauts to space station, nails rocket landing.

SALENA ZITO: ‘Without fear or favor’: Daniel Cameron discusses his role as Kentucky’s attorney general. “Through it all, he has remained a charismatic yet steady force many conservatives and independents across the country find appealing.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Critical Race Theory and the Death of Public Education. “The mask is off (COVID-era pun intended), the pretense that they want to enrich the minds of young Americans with real knowledge has been abandoned. Biden and Mrs. Dr. Jill want to start minting mindless automatons who are convinced that America is awful.”

GOVERNMENT-FUNDED RACE HATRED: Education Department Proposal Would Flood Public Schools With Woke Curricula.

EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO HIS OWN OPINION … BUT NOT TO HIS OWN FACTS: My friend Hans Bader pointed me to this: Ohio State University law professor claims that “Black-on-Black crime is a myth, and that Black and white people routinely commit crimes at similar rates.” The record amply demonstrates that neither assertion is true.

Of course, law professors have been making ridiculous assertions for decades. The problem is that this kind of stuff is now driving national policy. The last Chair of the U.S Commission on Civil Rights said essentially the same thing about school discipline. She now works at the White House as Biden’s Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council in charge of racial justice and equity.

DEFINING “INNOCENT VICTIM OF POLICE RACISM” DOWN: In new video of Ohio police shooting, girl can be heard yelling “I’m gonna stab the f— out of you!” seconds before officer intervened.

WHY ARE ALL INSTITUTIONS GOING WOKE? Because leftists care more about politics than anything, and people on the right don’t.

In a democracy, every vote is supposed to be equal. If about half the country supports one side and half the country supports another, you may expect major institutions to either be equally divided, or to try to stay politically neutral.

This is not what we find. If it takes a position on the hot button social issues around which our politics revolve, almost every major institution in America that is not explicitly conservative leans left. In a country where Republicans get around half the votes or something close to that in every election, why should this be the case? . . .

While all votes count equally on Election Day, at all other times some citizens matter a lot more than others. For example, let’s say I vote Republican every two years, but otherwise go on with my life and rarely ever think about politics. You, on the other hand, not only vote Democrat, but give money to campaigns, write your Congressman when major legislation comes up, wear pink hats, and march in the streets or write emails to institutions when you’re outraged about something.

Through the lens of ordinal utility, in which people simply rank what they want to happen, we are about equal. I prefer Republicans to Democrats, while you have the opposite preference. But when we think in terms of cardinal utility – in layman’s terms, how bad people want something to happen – it’s no contest. You are going to be much more influential than me. Most people are relatively indifferent to politics and see it as a small part of their lives, yet a small percentage of the population takes it very seriously and makes it part of its identity. Those people will tend to punch above their weight in influence, and institutions will be more responsive to them.

Elections are a measure of ordinal preferences. As long as you care enough to vote, it doesn’t matter how much you care about the election outcome, as everyone’s voice is the same. But for everything else – who speaks up in a board meeting about whether a corporation should take a political position, who protests against a company taking a position one side or the other finds offensive, etc. – cardinal utility maters a lot. Only a small minority of the public ever bothers to try to influence a corporation, school, or non-profit to reflect certain values, whether from the inside or out.

In an evenly divided country, if one side simply cares more, it’s going to exert a disproportionate influence on all institutions, and be more likely to see its preferences enacted in the time between elections when most people aren’t paying much attention. . . . Democracy does not reflect the will of the citizenry, it reflects the will of an activist class, which is not representative of the general population.

Act accordingly.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Six Things the Left Claims Are Court-Packing… But Aren’t.

FROM JULIE PASCAL: Blue.

Dulcie and Fischer, starry eyed young lovers, jumped at the opportunity to become crew on one of Merchant Shipline’s fleet of starships. To a couple of kids from the sticks “all expenses paid” training was too good to pass up.

But there’s always a catch.

EVEN THE CHINESE DON’T TRUST THEM: Leaked Documents Reveal Cases of Adverse Reactions to Chinese-Made COVID-19 Vaccines.

An April 8 document titled “Statistical Table of Adverse Reactions of COVID-19 Vaccines” issued by Laishui County’s community health center in Baoding City in northern China’s Hebei province shows that local people injected with Chinese-made vaccines have experienced various adverse reactions, such as rashes, fever, nausea, diarrhea, chest tightness, and shortness of breath.

Another document issued by the office of Baoding Municipal Leadership Team for Response to the Epidemic on March 3 recorded a case of a local resident who was quarantined by the authorities for 47 days after he was fully vaccinated.

According to the document, Sui, a resident in Lianchi District of Baoding City had received two doses of a Chinese-made vaccine in December 2020. Afterwards, he traveled to Germany in January. When he returned to Baoding on Jan.11, 2021, he was put under centralized quarantine.

Flashback: The Strange Sinovac Vaccine Phenomenon, Countries Report Increased Cases After Using Vaccine.

Even the Chinese don’t trust it: “Since the Chinese vaccine data lacks transparency, people are concerned about the safety of the vaccines. There were news reports of low acceptance of the vaccines in Shanghai and other first-tier cities. As of March 27, the vaccination rate in China was only 7 percent.”

PERSONALLY? I’M BUYING NONE:  37 Percent of Polled American Respondents Are Buying Less Coca-Cola Products.

Granted, I only ever ordered it at restaurants, when I’m not sure of local water or am running low on caffeine. But you know what? Iced tea it is. Stupidity should hurt.

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