ALL HAIL PRESIDENT BOMBS-AWAY BIDEN! U.S. Carries Out Airstrike Against Iranian-Backed Militia Target in Syria.

THE 21^st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Rand Paul Torches Biden’s Trans HHS Nominee for Supporting the Chemical Castration of Kids.

I’M HEARING SIMILAR THINGS FROM REAL ESTATE FOLKS I KNOW: The Real Estate Market Has Gone Crazy.

I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN JOURNALISTS TOLD US THE COVERUP IS ALWAYS WORSE THAN THE CRIME: Another Media Blackout? TV Networks Ignore Andrew Cuomo’s #MeToo Scandal.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Biden’s Proposed Tax Hike Would Have Three Huge Consequences, Study Finds.

President Biden is pushing a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 spending package which he claims will boost the economy. But a new study warns that one other key policy Biden has proposed would hurt the economy and have at least three major consequences for workers.

The president wants to raise the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent. He argues that this is about making Big Business “pay it’s fair share” and raising revenue the government can use to help people.

Yet a recently-released report from the right-leaning Tax Foundation concludes that this would make the US corporate tax rate, federal and state combined, a whopping 32 percent, the highest among developed countries. The tax experts warn that this policy change would “harm U.S. economic competitiveness and increase the cost of investment in America.” As a result, the researchers found that Biden’s proposed corporate tax hike would shrink the overall size of the economy, reduce wages, and eliminate 159,000 jobs.

And the left will then justify the ensuing recession by praising its benefits to the environment, as John Kerry and Claire McCaskill did during the early Obama years, and multiple lefties did last year during the Covid shutdown.

BRUTALISM IS BACK, BABY! Biden tosses Trump’s classical architecture order.

Finally, DC can go back to stylish, handsome buildings that look like this:

CASE CLOSED: Asteroid dust found in crater closes case of dinosaur extinction.

TORPEDOES CIRCLING BACK: Ashley Judd, Eva Longoria turn on Gov. Cuomo as Time’s Up calls for harassment probe.

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! House Dems Want Biden’s Finger Off the Nuclear Button.

Unexpectedly:

HEH:

IT’S COME TO THIS: Breaking: Mr. Potato Head no longer a mister; Update: Or is he?

Some pundits worried that there’d be nothing to talk about once Trump was out of office but today we’re talking about the sexuality of a plastic vegetable, so I’d say The Discourse is doing okay, all things considered. Exit question: Which trans actor will be replacing Don Rickles as the voice of Potato Head in the Toy Story movies going forward?

Update: Wait, does this mean Hasbro is anti-LGBT?

So the toys are still gendered, only the brand isn’t. Does Hasbro not realize that wokesters will now demand to know why they’re still selling gendered toys?

Will Mr. Potato Head even be legal in California, given this bill on the docket in Sacramento? California Bill Would Fine Stores $1,000 for Having Separate Boys and Girls Sections.

Related: Mr. Potato Head was a much tougher hombre during his early years:

I WONDER IF THE KING RANCH MAKES MORE OFF OF LICENSING THAN OFF OF RANCHING: 2021 Ford Explorer Adds Luxurious King Ranch Model.

I mean, there’s even a King Ranch edition King Air.

HISTORY: Following M3A1 Grease Gun #750213 Through Vietnam.

LIVE AT 3:30PM EASTERN THURSDAY: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, Preston, VodkaPundit

HATE HOAX: Student was not victim of racism for ‘eating while black’ at $80k Smith College and made up details that ruined the lives of four campus workers and led to controversial anti-bias training that employee resigned over.

ANDREW CUOMO’S WEEK JUST GOT A LOT WORSE: Former Aide Alleges, Details Sexual Harassment.

HONESTLY, IF YOU’RE BETTING ON COCKROACH FIGHTS YOU MAY NEED HELP: In cockroach fights, bet on the roach with the bigger respiratory system.

TANKS FOR THE MEMORIES: The 30th Anniversary of 73 Easting. “It was the largest tank battle between American- and Soviet-constructed armor since Israeli M-60 Patton tanks faced off against Egyptian T-62s in Sinai campaign of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. All throughout the 70s and early 1980s, various media outlets talked about how much better Soviet military equipment was than American equipment. (I remember a 60 Minutes episode that talked about Soviet equipment being better ‘all across the board.’) And Soviet equipment was better—on paper, with thicker armor, higher top speeds, etc. And then 73 Easting happened, and M1A1s wiped the floor with T-72s.”

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Revolutionary Discovery That Two Plus Two Equals White Supremacy.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: What do you call it when you find out that minority kids are being taught that wrong answers are just fine in math class?

Answer: A very public education.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Washington State band class rehearses in tiny one-person toilet shelters
• Even #BLM supporters want to know where the money went
• Biden HUD appointee is a big fan of Communist China

Bonus Sanity: Georgia Senate votes to require photo I.D. for absentee ballots.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

GOOD STRATEGY: Search-and-Rescue Drone Locates Victims By Homing in on Their Phones.

IRONY CAN BE AWFULLY IRONIC SOMETIMES: Author of White Fragility Locks Down LinkedIn, Twitter Accounts.

A course that Coca-Cola allegedly promoted that instructed people to be “less white” was scrubbed from LinkedIn, where it was being offered, after whistleblowers claimed the soft-drink company required employees to undergo the training.

“Confronting Racism,” a course featuring “White Fragility” author and left-wing academic Robin DiAngelo, was no longer available Tuesday on LinkedIn after backlash on social media over the course’s contents, which included instructing students to “be less white.”

And here’s DiAngelo’s twitter homepage:

CPAC: The Greatest Show on Earth. “I was the last person to serve as executive director of both the American Conservative Union and CPAC. To say the roles, particularly when combined, were bonkers crazy would be a massive understatement. It was good for the ego—people kissed my ass and bought me way too many drinks and steaks all over town because they wanted to speak at the conference—but it was hard on the psyche of a sensitive soul who had no interest, really, in ass-kissing and cocktails.”

OUT: MAGIC BULLETS. IN: ‘Miracle poison’ for novel therapeutics.

IT’S GOOD TO BE BAD: 40% of California’s inmates have been vaccinated for COVID-19, meanwhile the vaccination rate for law-abiding Californians is just 6.5%.

JON STEWART KILLED CROSSFIRE AND HE WAS WRONG:

So we should ask: Is that a good thing? Is the media landscape Stewart helped create better for it, where Brian Williams regularly engages in Stewart-like snark (he called Ron Johnson a Russian asset the other day for reading a Federalist article into the record) and Tucker Carlson is the biggest name as a solo act in cable news?

In a context in which so much ink is dedicated to the concept of silos and the elimination of common space between right and left — and I mean the real right and left, not David Brooks and Maureen Dowd — do we honestly want a world where there is no space where these warring sides meet to do rhetorical battle?

The answer is: of course not. It’s much, much worse. The inability to have a space where such debates play out, and the inability of existing entities to provide such a space, has led directly to a degradation of our political conversation and a lack of familiarity with even the most basic version of the other side’s perspective on the world.

Mister, we could use a man like Reese Schonfeld again.