YES, AND THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE: Democrats aim to make anyone who disagrees with them an enemy of the state.

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-The Moon) made the Democratic position clear Thursday: If you’re not with us, you’re terrorists.

During his opening statement for the Attorney General Merrick Garland hearing, Nadler said there was no difference between the rioters who stormed the Capitol on January 6 and parents who are angry about what is being taught in schools.

“This growth in extremist ideology is echoed in an epidemic of violence and intimidation directed at our health care professionals, teachers, essential workers, school board members and election workers,” Nadler said.

Nadler, a partisan loon who spent the past four years stirring up every conspiracy theory against President Trump, claimed there was a “broader pattern” here, including “the growing threats of violence against public servants.”

If you want to be better-liked, try acting like a public servant, instead of a public master.

Plus:

Yes, it is terrible when a sitting senator is harassed and followed into a bathroom . . . Oh he wasn’t talking about Krysten Sinema? The incident President Biden said was just “part of the process”? Huh.

We’re sure he was inspired by the climate change activists who stormed the Department of the Interior last Thursday, breaking down the front door and attempting to occupy the building. He was calling on AOC and others to denounce them. No?

How about the fact that the letter the National School Boards Association sent to Garland asking for the FBI for help, as reported by columnist Christopher Rufo, “cites only a single example of actual violence against a school official.” That the letter is in fact hyperventilating bunk, describing shouting as “violence” and people who disagree with school boards as “domestic terrorists.”

Turns out the White House knew about the letter before it was made public. Did the president order Garland to get the FBI involved?

It seems like the Biden administration is guilty of what they always accuse Republicans of: Politicizing the Department of Justice, and stifling free speech through intimidation.

They’re always guilty of what they accuse others of. It’s their M.O. And if they were actually afraid of violence they wouldn’t behave the way they do. Their behavior comes from a sense of impunity, not from fear.

MICHAEL WALSH: Colin Powell’s Death the Latest Sign of the COVID Scam.

Colin Powell, a good man and a great American, has died. He had been suffering for years from multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, as well as Parkinson’s disease, but according to the media (citing his family), the real cause of death was “complications” from—you guessed it—COVID-19, despite the fact that he was “fully vaccinated” and indeed was about to get a booster shot when his compromised immune system finally failed.

There will be accolades aplenty forthcoming for General Powell, a former secretary of state, who ably served both presidents Bush in various military and civilian capacities. But his death, coming as it does in the midst of our long political and biomedical wrangle over the severity of the threat posed by the CCP virus that causes COVID-19, once again focuses attention on the social and economic destruction the panic over the pandemic continues to cause.

As Michael writes, surveying the media’s gaslighting over Powell’s death, “Who are you going to believe—the media or your lying eyes and your gift of reason?”

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Is Mayim Bialik too Jewish for Jeopardy?

That means that everything Bialik has ever said or done is being gone through with a fine-tooth comb. According to left-wing CBS late-night comedy-show host Stephen Colbert, the only people who don’t think she’s controversial are those without access to the Internet. A search of her YouTube videos would show that she has expressed an opinion about just about every aspect of her life as a parent (about which she has also written two books), her divorce, open relationships, sexual harassment, holistic medicine, food (she is vegan) and her experiences as a sitcom actress. So there’s plenty of ammunition for critics.

Although the charming and knowledgeable Trebek often sounded as if he knew the answers to many of the questions on the show even without being told, he was just a radio and television announcer who went on to success as a popular game-show host. Bialik was a successful child actress. She took a long break from the arts to go to college and ultimately wound up with a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA before eventually returning to acting as a better way to support and spend more time with her children, as opposed to a position as a research scientist. That, along with her own brand of charm and comic timing, as well as long experience in the rigors of work in television, made her a solid candidate for the coveted position.

Yet as the Times article—and the many comments appended to it from readers who highlight their anger about someone who is not supportive of “Palestine”—makes clear, her connection with Judaism seems to stick in a lot of people’s throats.

Why is the establishment left such a cesspit of antisemitism?

MICROBIOME NEWS: Gut Bacteria Change as You Get Older—and May Accelerate Aging: Microbe types in older people’s intestines are different and are linked to disease.

BIDEN ABANDONS ALASKA OIL DRILLING PROJECT AFTER PREVIOUSLY VOWING TO DEFEND IT.

Why is Joe Biden supporting conflict oil instead of ethical oil?

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: White House Knew About Letter That Compared Parents to Domestic Terrorists. National School Board Association collaborated with Biden administration, emails show.

Related: Republicans grill Biden’s AG Merrick Garland as he defends FBI school board memo, insists parents are entitled to protest and denies calling them domestic terrorists.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) pressed Garland on allegations that a ‘boy wearing a skirt’ raped and sexually harassed two girls at two different Loudoun County high schools, though Garland denied having knowledge of the case.

Asked whether the FBI was investigating the matter Garland said, ‘I don’t believe so but I don’t know.’

Videos of the alleged victim’s father being violently restrained by law enforcement at a Loudoun County schoolboard meeting after speaking out in fury went viral and sparked Republican outrage.

‘Attorney General do you believe that a father attending a meeting exercising his First Amendment rights and yes, getting angry, about whatever lies are being told about his daughter getting raped at the school he sent her to be educated in, that this is domestic terrorism – yes or no?’ Roy asked.

Garland, visibly weary, replied: ‘No, I do not think people getting angry at schoolboards for whatever reason constitute domestic terrorism. It’s not even a close question.’

Oceania has never been at war with America’s parents.

FIGHT THE POWER: Sheriffs to Vaccine-Mandating Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot: Pound Sand. “Illinois sheriffs are declining to provide mutual aid to the Chicago Police Department, citing Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and overall anti-police policies.”

LET’S GO, BRANDON! Gas prices in California town hit $7.59 a gallon. “That’s for regular. Premium gas tops off at $8.50 per gallon, the television station reported.”

Flashback: Aren’t California’s High Gas Prices What The Left Have Wanted?

Well, it’s a start, as Steven Chu, former President Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”

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.

“Yep,” Glenn added in late 2019. “You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats.”

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Harrisburg Citizens Can Challenge Gun Control Laws Without Violating Them.

GARLAND ADMITS HE MISSED OCT. 14 VIOLENCE: Attorney General Merrick Garland admitted to Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) that he was not aware of the violent assault mounted October 14 by Left-wing extremists against the Department of Interior headquarters building in Washington, D.C. The Florida congressman was amazed.

YOU DON’T SAY: AG Merrick Garland Admits Federal War On Parents Sprang From School Boards Letter, Not Evidence.

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STILL AVAILABLE: The Final Variant is Communism Distressed American Flag Sleeve Men’s Short Sleeve T-Shirt Graphic Tee-Black. #CommissionEarned

BLUE CITY BLUES: Austin Police Department Morale Hits Bottom. “Yesterday, 99.97% of the patrol shifts worked with below authorized staffing. Only one shift at authorized level because they were able to fill vacant spots with partial shift overtime. #PropA is a staffing plan. We have not seen Mayor Adler’s staffing or cadet hiring plan.”

As I’ve been saying since last summer, demoralizing the police can be just as effective (for the Left, that is) as defunding them.

VDH: Sheer Chaos and Anarchy on the Border?

It is only a crime to “steal” over $500 of needed merchandise from a Walgreens in San Francisco, because the rich who make such absurd laws never have to steal goods from a pharmacy shelf.

If racists wish to point out that African American male youths are disproportionately represented in the latest crime wave, then maybe America should be learning not to create the conditions that force them to break the law.

In sum, we are on a left-wing roller coaster headed to a socialist nirvana.

Most Americans believe it is instead an out-of-control “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride” nightmare with incompetents at the wheel.

But the architects of such “hope and change” shrug that the occasional disturbing news that the media sometimes accidentally leaks out is merely the cost of an equitable America.

One man’s anarchy is another’s road to justice.

Keep that mentality in mind and the absurdities that are mouthed by Biden, Klain, press secretary Jen Psaki, Homeland “Security” Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Pete Buttigieg, or the ravings of the Squad make perfect sense.

They are merely trying to explain to us dummies that what we think is purgatory is actually the new paradise — a promised land that, once we are properly programmed and educated, we too will welcome and thank them for our deliverance.

When it’s all over, Biden administration staffers will look back at the wreckage their administration caused like the socialist former East German minister of culture in The Lives of Others after the Berlin Wall fell: “What is there to write about in this new Germany? Nothing to believe in, nothing to rebel against…Life was good in our little republic.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVwgr2yiW4c

I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY’VE ALREADY DECIDED WHICH TO IDENTIFY AS: Male and female fetuses respond differently to COVID-19.

FASTER, PLEASE: Is COVID-19 (Almost) Over?

Washington State Football Coach’s Firing Just Gave Away Governor’s ‘Illegal’ Mandate Trick Play.

I BELIEVE COSMO KRAMER WITNESSED AN EARLY EFFORT: Surgeons transplanted a pig kidney into a person, and it worked like normal.

PURPLE ARIZONA: Kyrsten Sinema Isn’t Hitting the Panic Button. “Sinema, whose office did not respond to multiple requests for comment, is not underwater yet. She’s lost some standing among Arizona Democrats, but her approval rating is still at 56 percent, according to Noble’s most recent poll. (At this early juncture, approval polls are probably more reliable than likely-voter models.) Sinema can afford to anger the Democratic base a little, so long as she gets at least 50 percent of it in her primary race, Noble said. John McCain won only 52 percent of the GOP primary vote in his last election, in 2016, but he still won the general by 13 points. Similarly, Sinema’s power is her cross-party appeal: 42 percent of independents view her favorably, and she’s almost as popular among Republicans.”

Sinema faces very little pressure back home to get on board with Biden’s multitrillion-dollar regulatory and welfare boondoggle, and lots of reasons not to.

She’s a decent fit for Arizona moderates, but a lousy one for woke DC Democrats.

Joe Manchin is so fed up with his party’s dominant far-left wing that he has already “devised a detailed exit strategy for his departure” from the Democrats and sit in the Senate as an “American Independent.”

The big question about when/if Manchin or Sinema go independent is with which party they would caucus.

But it does seem that if McConnell and Schumer had to fight over them, both Sinema and Manchin could wield a lot more influence as independents than they can now in their radicalized party.

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: State Dept. Celebrates ‘International Pronouns Day’ as China and Russia Increase Their Strength.

YES! U.S. needs nuclear spacecraft to compete with China, NASA official says.

And not just any nuclear spacecraft. Orion! If the Chinese get one first, don’t say you weren’t warned.

DESPERATION SETS IN AS GLENN YOUNGKIN IS ACCUSED OF ‘ANTI-SEMITISM:’ “You might be asking why? The answer is because he dared to tell the truth about George Soros’ left-wing funding network propping up far-left radicals at the local level. This isn’t difficult. If you are attacking someone simply because they are Jewish, that is anti-Semitic. But it is not anti-Semitic to go after a politically active bundler of radical, left-wing politicians just because that person also happens to be Jewish by heritage. No one on the right is criticizing Soros because he’s Jewish.”

THE NEW HOTNESS: Atlanta’s Mayor Urges Eyewitnesses to Call 911 Instead of Videoing Incidents.

Old and cold: Mayor says City of Atlanta has been ‘defunding the police’ for the last few years.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: “According to retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the first week of October 2021, nearly all of the major fertilizers were up a sizeable amount. DTN designates a move of 5% or higher as a significant increase or decrease. Seven of the eight major fertilizers recorded a considerable move higher compared to last month. . . . Record or near-record retail fertilizer prices could be present through the spring.”