MICHAEL YON IS THERE NOW: Belarus Weaponizing ‘Migration’ through Lithuania to EU.

WEIRD, I’D ALWAYS BEEN TOLD THAT ANDROID WAS AN ‘OPEN’ PLATFORM: Google ‘bought off Samsung’ to limit app store competition, 36 states allege.

WHAT THIS SAYS TO ME IS THAT THE CAPITOL POLICE — AND CONGRESS — HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN THE FBI: The Capitol Police Will Open Offices in the States To ‘Investigate Threats to Members of Congress.’

But they’ve milked the January 6 “Lego insurrection” past the limit. It’s just become ridiculous.

WHO KILLED ASHLI BABBITT? And why is the name of her killer a state secret? Issues & Insights poses those two questions and notes some strange circumstances surrounding a recent congressional hearing about the tragedy.

THE PUBLIC DOESN’T WANT WHAT THE POLITICAL CLASS IS SELLING. THE POLITICAL CLASS DOESN’T WANT TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS. Polls: No to teaching CRT, yes to traditional values classes.

Despite efforts by liberal media outlets to portray parental opposition to critical race theory and other restyled history lessons as a limited phenomenon, new polling shows that it is a national movement.

In two separate Rasmussen Reports surveys, for example, overwhelming majorities back the teaching of traditional Western “values” and fear that CRT will make race relations worse.

The surveys fly in the face of reporting that the outcry against the race-based look at history is happening only in mostly conservative pockets of the nation. Washington-based journalists have made that claim even though the biggest fights over CRT have happened in nearby wealthy counties won by President Joe Biden and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton.

In its latest survey, Rasmussen today said that 78% support the teaching of traditional Western civilization values. . . .

Notably, said Rasmussen, those results are in line with past surveys on the issue even though Democrats in Washington have been pushing for radical liberal changes since Biden won.

That survey followed another in which voters by a margin of 43%-24% fear teaching CRT will worsen race relations.

What’s more, the teaching of Western values is supported by most groups, including blacks and Democrats.

We don’t have political polarization. We have education polarization, with the “woke” gentry class trying to push their values on everyone else.

NOPE, BUT THEY CAUSED IT. Progressive Policies Won’t Stop the Crime Wave.

HOMESCHOOLED, OF COURSE. 14-YEAR-OLD MAKES HISTORY AS FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO WIN SCRIPPS NATIONAL SPELLING BEE.

EW:

DEFINING POLITICAL OPPOSITION AS “EXTREMISM:” Josh Hammer: The Social Credit Security State.

THE FUNNY THING IS, JOE PROBABLY DOESN’T REMEMBER HIMSELF: What does Vladimir Putin have on Joe Biden? Biden is refusing to act as Russian attacks become more ambitious and more aggressive.

Flashback:

Ted Cruz notes, “[B]asically what Joe Biden has decided is pipelines in America, bad. Jobs in America, bad. Pipelines in Russia, good. Jobs in Russia, good. And this is exactly backward. It is asinine. And four months into it, Joe Biden is crawling in bed with Putin and Russia and the enemies of America. It doesn’t make any sense.”

Flashback: So is it fair to ask if Biden is on the payroll of Putin? As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:

If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:

Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.

You know who didn’t do those things? Trump. You know who is doing those things? Biden.

JUST LIKE PUTTING THEM ON POLICE HAS BEEN: Putting Cameras in Classrooms May Be the Best Thing for Everyone – Especially Teachers.

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STONEWALL: White House Wants Maximum Secrecy for Hunter Biden Art Deal: Ethics experts concerned buyers could gain White House influence. This is risible, even by the standards of this utterly corrupt administration.

JUST KEEP A HUMAN SOMEWHERE IN THE KILL CHAIN, PLEASE: Skyborg shows broader capability by piloting a General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger.

WHERE THE BOYS AREN’T: Chronicle of Higher Education: The Missing Men.

Wilson is part of an exodus of men away from college that has been taking place for decades, but that accelerated during the pandemic. And it has enormous implications, for colleges and for society at large.

Last fall, male undergraduate enrollment fell by nearly 7 percent, nearly three times as much as female enrollment, according to the National Student Clearinghouse. The decline was the steepest — and the gender gap the largest — among students of color attending community colleges. Black and Hispanic male enrollment at public two-year colleges plummeted by 19.2 and 16.6 percent, respectively, about 10 percentage points more than the drops in Black and Hispanic female enrollment. Drops in enrollment of Asian men were smaller, but still about eight times as great as declines in Asian women.

In the late 1970s, men and women attended college in almost equal numbers. Today, women account for 57 percent of enrollment and an even greater share of degrees, especially at the level of master’s and above. The explanations for this growing gender imbalance vary from the academic to the social to the economic. Girls, on average, do better in primary and secondary school. Boys are less likely to seek help when they struggle. And they face more pressure to join the work force. . . .

But when Shelley began calling around to see what other colleges were doing to support men, he came away empty-handed. “Most of the people I talked to expressed the sentiment that men are the problem,” he said.

Twenty-five years later, Shelley sees this structural “anti-maleness” embedded in school-discipline policies that disproportionately net boys, and in sexual-assault prevention programs that sometimes treat incoming students as threats. “I had one young man tell me ‘I was welcomed to college by being told that I’m a potential rapist,” he said.

Probably not the best pitch. Of course, even in this article most of the focus is on “men of color.”

Plus: “Meanwhile, the decline in male enrollment shows no signs of abating. This spring, 400,000 fewer males enrolled in college than in the spring of 2020, a drop nearly double that for females (203,000), data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center show.”

The problem is that higher education isn’t the value proposition it once was, and it treats male students — especially, but not solely white male students — as problems, if not outright enemies. Why go?

That this article is in the Chronicle suggests that the establishment is worrying, but they’ve been aware of this problem for a couple of decades. But work on academic support or recruiting behind the scenes doesn’t offset the bad image protected when every other statement marginalizes and “otherizes” the very group you’re trying to recruit.

MATT YGLESIAS DISCOVERS HIGHER EDUCATION’S DIVERSITY PROBLEM:

Plus:

In defense of higher ed diversity policies, we’re sometimes told that we can’t expect people to attend — or taxpayers to support — institutions made up of people who “don’t look like them.” But politically, higher education doesn’t look like America. It doesn’t even look like the blue states, where the conservative/Republican minority is huge by comparison to virtually every university campus.

This isn’t sustainable, and it shouldn’t be.

THINK OF THEM AS COLLABORATORS AND YOU WON’T GO FAR WRONG: Lefty leaders’ moronic appeal for ‘cooperation’ with the butchers of Beijing.

Related: ‘Climate Change’ vs. the Uyghurs. “Politico reports on growing tensions within the Democratic coalition, with the environmental activist faction of the party objecting to even the mildest attempts by the Biden administration to confront China over its human rights violations and international aggression. . . . But for the environmentalists, none of this really matters. They’ve convinced themselves that climate is the preeminent political issue, and no other consideration even comes close. Many of them would even argue that American capitalism and climate change are inseparable — even indistinguishable — political problems, never mind the fact that, while the U.S. has led the world in total carbon emissions decline since 2000, China’s new coal-fired energy capacity alone outstripped the rest of the world by 300 percent in 2020. Like the tankies of old, who invariably defended the Soviet Union’s various atrocities, the modern variety can’t imagine any bad actor on the world stage aside from the United States.”

It’s as if the greens are really red.

DO YOU HAFF YOUR PAPERS? HHS Secretary Says It Is ‘Absolutely the Government’s Business’ to Know if You’re Vaccinated.

SPENGLER: China to US: Two can play at technological war; Beijing threatens to block US access to vast stores of Chinese data – the lifeblood of many AI-driven applications.

Honestly, if China goes after Big Tech, I don’t see much of a downside.

DOWN AT THE GOLDEN CUP, THEY SET THE YOUNG ONES UP: I’m joining the Lincoln Project to make sure Republicans don’t win Congress in 2022.

Nobody rides for free. Nobody, nobody! The hearts are hard and the times are tough.

THIS SEEMS UNWISE.

IT’S LIKE THE “DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS” ARE JUST COMMIES IN DISGUISE: Democratic Socialists of America Embraces Maduro Dictatorship.

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MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Dems are losing the multiracial working class on basic lifestyle issues.

And note that the Dems’ gentry class dominance has led to increased education polarization even as there’s less racial polarization. Which is why the Dems keep trying to ramp up the racial polarization.

ANN ALTHOUSE ON J.D. VANCE: “I think his position on Trump is just fine. What’s more interesting is the way liberals embraced ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ before they decided it was a yucky conservative they had in their arms.”