COLLUSION: Zarif Had No Knowledge of Israeli Strikes Until Kerry Told Him, Translation Reveals. “These details are likely to further fuel calls from leading Republicans for Kerry’s firing or resignation.”

DON SURBER: A nation so racist, Africans come here.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: School District Tells Principals To Create Fake Curriculum To Send Parents After Complaints Of Indoctrination.

Pull your kids from public schools that do this. Then lobby to have their budgets zeroed out. Money should go to students, not educrats.

HANNAH COX: Why Your Grocery Bills Are Going Up (And Are Only Expected to Get Bigger).. “It’s official: food inflation has arrived. Food prices soared 3.9 percent in 2020, the Department of Agriculture recently reported.”

CAN DIVERSITY INCLUDE CONSERVATIVE THOUGHT, TOO? University of Toledo: Of course not!

As at most law schools, the faculty at University of Toledo leans strongly to the left. Nevertheless, in an admirable display of ideological ecumenicism, the law school faculty overwhelmingly nominated their conservative colleague, Lee Strang for the university’s second annual Inclusive Excellence Award, and the university announced that he would receive the award this year. . . .

Unfortunately, you can guess what happened next. Giving the award to Strang created an uproar among students, who started an online petition to revoke the award. . . .

So the university was faced with a choice: (1) live up to the literal, plain meaning of inclusive excellence, and defend the award to Strang because diversity of opinion is crucial to the academic enterprise, and a professor who facilitates difficult, ideologically laden discussions is a boon to the university; or (2) backtrack, and suggest the award was a mistake.

Again, you can guess the rest. The university’s diversity officer in essence promised reforms to ensure that such a mistake won’t recur.

Stop listening to students. Their job is to assuage their ignorance and immaturity through learning, not to demonstrate it through personnel actions. But frankly, President Gregory Postel isn’t looking so good here either, because he listened to them.

UPDATE: Lee Strong emails:

I just had one point of context that I wanted to raise, which is that you state that “the law school faculty overwhelmingly nominated their conservative colleague, Lee Strang.” I don’t know who nominated me. It could have been some colleagues, or it could have been current students, or even former students. I know some of the media outlets are saying law school faculty did so, but I’m not sure where they got that from, I don’t think it was from UT because they’ve been silent, and I’ve been trying to provide this additional information. The edit I’d suggest is “the University community overwhelmingly nominated conservative professor, Lee Strang.” I’m confident that’s true because the University has stated that and they told me that orally.

Noted. That statement is in a quote, so I can’t edit it, but this should clear things up.

HORRIBLY AND EXACTLY AS EXPECTED: So, How Has the Media Performed During the First 100 Days of Biden’s Presidency?

“NORMALCY:” NCLA Warns About the Disturbing Trend of “Executive Lawmaking” in Biden’s First 100 Days. “Biden’s blitz of executive lawmaking means he has now signed more executive orders than any of the last three presidents had published in the Federal Register in their first 100 days. Biden has issued 41 executive orders, surpassing Trump (25), Obama (19), and Bush (11).”

Related: Dazed and Abused! Biden’s 100-Day Avalanche of Administrative Abuses.

FROM KAL SPRIGGS:  In Death’s Shadow.

Ari lives in the shadow of death.

Ari is a combat veteran who has chosen to leave the military behind and live a quiet, normal life. He’s got a few problems though. For one thing, the cops think he’s a serial killer. For another, a vengeful politician has put Ari in his crosshairs. To make matters worse, Ari has a guardian angel… and not just any angel, Ari’s protector is the Angel of Death. When his life is in danger, people start to die, and Ari’s guardian can sometimes be indiscriminate whose life he takes when protecting him.

That’s not even the worst problem. Death wasn’t assigned to him by mistake. An ancient werewolf wants Ari dead and even with death on his side, Ari might not survive.

Ari needs to find a way to stay alive, to clear his name, and most importantly to get out from under the shadow of death and live a normal life… even if it kills him.

LOOK, I CAN SEE IT FOR LIMITED EDITIONS, BUT THE ART HAS TO BE WORTHWHILE:  WFT: NFTs Are The Latest Establishment Art World Con Game.

And most of what I’ve seen is…. uh…..

AND THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY HASN’T DEMANDED ITS CUT? I’M SHOCKED!  Music Industry Demands Funding So They Can Stop Climate Change by Eliminating Live Tours.

AUSTRALIA SHOULD THREATEN CONSEQUENCES OVER JOHN PODESTA’S WEAK MIND:  John Podesta Threatens “Consequences” Over Australia’s Weak Climate Policy.

EVERYTHING THEY DO HAS ONLY ONE AIM: POWER:  Democrats’ D.C. Statehood Push Has Nothing to Do With Representation.

IT’S TIME TO ASK: WHAT WON’T THEY DO?  Five Quick Things: Dems Get Nastier and More Personal.

AS I SAID, IT’S EVERYWHERE:  Twilight in Paris.

This is the death of the blue model. The death of “government knows”. The death of rule by experts. Let’s not allow them to take us down with them, okay?

AND THE SPEECH WAS DERANGED AND A FARRAGO OF LIES:  Morning Greatness: Biden Delivers Speech to Vaxxed, Masked-Up Invitees.

YEAH? BUT THAT’S NOT AMERICA:  Tim Scott declares America ‘not a racist country,’ and leftists step up to the plate to prove him wrong, hurling racist epithets.

That’s the people who sing “No border, no wall, no USA at all.”

I THINK IT’S BECAUSE THEY’RE STARTING TO REALIZE WE’RE NOT BUYING WHAT THEY’RE SELLING:  Kamala’s Not Looking So Good Lately.

And she knows Xi has no patience for failed agents.

YEP. ALWAYS REMEMBER THE LEFT PROJECTS LIKE AN IMAX:  Maybe Biden was right about the grave threat of White supremacy in America.

Almost everything wrong with America amounts to the left’s tantrum over our having taken away their slaves.

JAMES BOVARD: A Grim Reaper Speaks:

President Biden’s first speech to Congress last night hit all the pandemic hot buttons. Even though most members of Congress are vaccinated, all of the 200 attendees in the Capitol were required to wear masks and “socially distance.” The Hill reports that the “imagery will underscore how the pandemic is still gripping the nation despite the availability of vaccines and hope for inching back toward a semblance of normalcy.”

But the speech looked as sparsely attended as a Biden campaign rally or perhaps a Saturday morning Kiwanis breakfast in Hogstooth, Arkansas. As Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) quipped, “If Biden is going to take credit for vaccines and defeating the virus, why is he speaking to a practically empty chamber with everyone except him wearing a mask?”

For the same reason Biden does anything nowadays: Somebody told him to.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Working-class people of color hate the riots the lefty elite keeps cheering.

I’VE SUSPECTED THIS FOR QUITE SOME TIME: How China Is Stoking America’s Racial Tensions.

JOHN HINDERAKER: Project Veritas is Sticking It to The Times.

THE GRAY LADY WILL SELL NO BAD NEWS ABOUT DEMOCRATS UNTIL ITS TIME:

Flashback:

Today is a red-letter day for the New York Times. For the first time, the paper has reported in its news section that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright once uttered the phrase “God damn America.” Wright’s comments were widely reported and widely discussed beginning with an ABC News report six months ago. Barack Obama even had to give a much-publicized speech because of those words, and others. But the newspaper of record has never seen fit to publish Wright’s quote in its news pages. Until today.

— Byron York, National Review Online, September 24th, 2008.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Flashback: “I think all the intra-party hate thrown at Cuomo is because Democrats know [Kamala will] be unpopular if/when she succeeds Biden in the next couple of years, and they want to preclude a primary challenge.”

I’m not saying that Cuomo isn’t responsible for the death of thousands — he is — but I don’t think the Democrats, or their media apparat, would care about that in and of itself. In fact, they’ve demonstrated that they don’t for the past year. So if it’s an issue now, it’s for other reasons.

OPEN THREAD: Enjoy!

SPACE: SpaceX successfully launches 60 more Starlink satellites into space.