ROD DREHER: Himmler’s Kidswear, By Celine Dion.

Walter Kirn isn’t a conservative or a culture warrior. He’s a novelist who lives in Montana. And he’s right about this. You’ve got to see it to believe it. It’s satanic. Celine Dion came out in 2018 with a gender-neutral line of clothing for kids that ought to be sold in Hell’s Walmart. Maybe it didn’t do well, I dunno. But holy cow, it’s evil stuff. Check out this thread:

”Our children. They are really not our children.” Comcast and MSNBC agree completely.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? New York’s Orwellian New Attempt to Circumvent the Second Amendment, Explained.

PAST  PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

(Via Newsalert.) 

JEFFREY CARTER, WITH A VIDEO ASSIST FROM MILTON FRIEDMAN: No Stopping Inflation.

Government spending causes inflation, period.

The government prints the money. It’s not the gas station owner, the oil company, the farmer, the food processor, or anything like that. It’s the government period and The Biden Administration has no respect for the value of capital.

2022’s Joe Biden should meet some of his earlier incarnations:

JONATHAN TOBIN: SCOTUS Deals a Blow to the Unaccountable, Unelected Administrative State.

OKAY, GROOMERS: Virginia School District Prohibits Teachers From Contacting Parents When Students Change Gender.

I SURE HOPE THIS STORY TURNS OUT TO BE A FALSE ALARM:  “Washington State School Board Director to Teach Sexual ‘Pleasure’ Class [in her private capacity] to 9-Year-Olds at Sex Shop.”

JOYLESS ON THE FOURTH:

Your guts feel like they’re about to burst. You’re hungover. Your clothes smell like you’ve survived the battle of the Somme. The ordnance’s still smoldering husks litter the yard, and there’s ketchup in places ketchup should never be. These are the discomforts of July 5, and you wouldn’t have it any other way.

Those of you who spent the Fourth of July celebrating the 246th anniversary of America’s independence might have overindulged a bit, but with good reason. It’s a time to celebrate the miracle of self-government, the world’s oldest operating Constitution, and the infinitely complex continental republic that covenant preserves. It’s a day to take a break from the labors that accompany the responsibilities of citizenship and the agonies of our country’s imperfections. The Fourth is a day to admire the American experiment with revelry and carefree joy.

If you’re capable of that sort of compartmentalization, you should be grateful. Not everyone is comfortable making a cognitive divorce from the horrors of daily life, even for a few precious moments. Failing to dwell on America’s deficiencies and the distinctions that divide us, some believe, is an abdication of your responsibility to work toward erasing those blemishes. Even holidays—especially those that emphasize the nobility of the American mission—are an abrogation of your duty to be miserable in solidarity with those in misery. The Fourth of July is no exception.

How miserable? This miserable: “Wisconsin Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes called the founding of the United States ‘awful’ and said the country must take steps to ‘repair the harm’ through education, according to a video of his comments. ‘Things were bad. Things were terrible. The founding of this nation? Awful,’ said Barnes in a video clip of his remarks from a question-and-answer session in Portage, Wis., on August 19, 2021. ‘The impacts are felt today; they’re going to continue to be felt unless we address it in a meaningful way.’”

HOW TO REALLY BE AN ANTI-RACIST:  Teach Black Kids to Read.  (And don’t give me any more crap about the “Whole Language Method” versus the “Phonics Method.”  Go with phonics.)

THIS JUST IN: “Left Wing Rag Misses Big Picture.” The Hollywood Reporter is a slavishly left-wing rag written by the wokest of the woke, (FFS, it’s even got “Hollywood” in its name, a dead giveaway) but there’s an interesting unasked question here.

At Bloomberg we required reporters look for something called “The Future Word.” It’s not enough to say what happened and who said what. We need to ask what’s at stake, what might the future bring? It’s painfully clear that the only thing on The Hollywood Reporter‘s radar is protecting women (I know, I’m not a biologist either) from having their clinical visits tracked. I get it. The less the government follows me, what I read, buy, consume or visit, the better. The point (missed by major media) is that goes for a lot more than abortion.

There’s going to come a time — I promise — when Google will be faced with a viable class action suit from people who had their visits to gun shops tracked, and handed over to someone. And The Hollywood Reporter (along with the Limousine Liberals of Malibu) will be silent.

KEEP YOUR PLACE ALLERGY FREE: Shark Navigator Lift Away Upright Vacuum. #CommissionEarned

LOOK WHO’S HIGHEST PAID ON MOST EXPENSIVE WHITE HOUSE STAFF EVER: Dr. Francis Collins, the former National Institutes for Health Director who presided over it while he and thousands of other NIHers got millions in secret royalty payments, according to yet another bombshell report from Open the Books. Now he’s getting $300K a year as Acting Science Adviser to Biden.

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Top New Biden Staffer Defended Underage, Gay Prostitution Website Raided By Feds in Jaw-Dropping 2015 Article.

A recent, high-level hire at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy defended a controversial gay prostitution website with a track record of allowing children to be promoted for sexual services on the platform, The National Pulse can reveal.

The revelations, from unearthed op-ed, follow The National Pulse exposé of appointee Samuel Brinton’s past as a drag queen, LGBTQ+ activist who has “lectured” on kink at college campuses and participated in interviews about fetish roleplay.

In an article published on September 15th on the pro-LGBT+ website Advocate, Biden’s latest top nuclear hire dives into a defense of the “Rentboy.com” website, which shuttered following an August 2015 illegal prostitution raid. “Rentboy” is a colloquial term for young men who have sex with older men in exchange for money, often under dubious circumstances.

Read the whole thing.

Related: America’s new Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition shows off their fierce pantsuit.

(NOT A) LONG TIME GONE: Supergroup Returns to Spotify After One Member’s Hissy Fit Over Joe Rogan.

GREEN IS THE COLOR OF DECLINE: Electric Vehicles (EVs) are dirtier than gas-powered cars and they are racists, too. If you doubt it, check this out from Issues & Insights.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: FCC lets Starlink offer Internet service on moving vehicles throughout US.

WAS IT OVER WHEN CHARLES DE GAULLE BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?! Forget it, they’re rolling:

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Angry Lefties Send America July 4 Birthday Cards from Hell.

Plus:

• Please let her get triggered some more
• Fireworks are bad for you and Mother Nature and the fuzzy woodland creatures
• God bless, you know, the thing

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

WELL, WE KNOW IT WASN’T WOODROW WILSON HIMSELF: Did a White House “intern” write the ridiculous gas station price hike tweet?

SAD: Colombia Goes the Way of Venezuela.

On June 19, Colombians elected former Marxist guerrilla Gustavo Petro as their next president. A close ally of Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, Petro has pledged to confiscate and redistribute the country’s wealth. His win—along with the recent wave of victories by far-left candidates across Latin America—highlights the need for the United States to reengage with its neglected southern neighbors, or risk their falling into the grip of socialist rulers for decades to come.

At the turn of the century, Colombia was a dangerous and poor country where guerrillas and gangs killed tens of thousands of people every year. Since then, the murder rate has more than halved, average incomes have risen 50 percent, and electricity coverage is now universal.

In the same time span, neighboring Venezuela fell under a socialist regime, led first by Hugo Chávez and now by Nicolás Maduro, that has transformed the country from one of the richest in Latin America to one of the poorest. While Venezuela used to host millions of Colombian migrants, it’s now Colombia that hosts millions of Venezuelans.

The agenda of Colombia’s new president puts the country at risk of losing all it has gained over the past two decades.

Colombians will have no one to blame but themselves for their “bad luck,” but they’ll probably blame those us Norteameicanos, anyway.

POST-INDEPENDENCE-DAY THOUGHT:  I know I’ve said this before, but I have a hard time imagining anything more destructive of freedom than  law that makes everything (or almost everything) presumptively illegal.  For employers, there really isn’t anything you can do that can’t get you in hot water.

JEFF DUNETZ: When Israel Showed The World The Spirit of 1776 Still Exists: The Raid on Entebbe.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Principal accused of trying to fire white teachers because of their race created school of ‘insanity’ plagued with low-quality education and ‘dangerous’ fighting, say students.

BREAKING: Suspect in Custody From Suburban Chicago Parade Shooting That Killed Six.

AGAINST THE GREAT RESET: ‘China, Covid-19, Realpolitik, and the Great Reset.’

Within a little over a year, politicians themselves seemed to be laughing at the phrase, even as they could not stop using it. In October 2021, Boris Johnson’s office seemed to imagine that the British public had become so thrilled by the “build back better” tagline that it was time for some riffs on the theme. At this stage, somewhere between lockdowns umpteen and nineteen, Johnson released a number of videos on his social media pages in which the slogan build back better was posted on the screen. Johnson seemed to imagine that the British public was in a playful mood around the theme. The videos included one of him spreading butter on some pieces of toast and looking at the camera and saying “build back butter.” In a second video, with the build back better motif over it, the Prime Minister could be seen unrolling a packet of fish and chips. “Mmm” he says appreciatively, before looking at the camera and saying “Build back batter.” Terms like “pathetic” and “inadequate” would fail to do justice to such political moments.

The obvious comparison to make at this stage is with great plagues in history. And though most were of a degree of seriousness that far outweighs the effects of Covid, it is a sobering consideration. Who, for instance, viewed the so-called “Spanish flu” of a century ago as an opportunity? Who would have dared in the early months or years after that pandemic ravaged the planet to see it as an opportunity to rebuild the global economy in a different way?

Read the whole thing.