DAN MARKEL UPDATE: Feb. 14 Dan Markel Murder Trial Postponed Until May To Give CIA Analyst Time To Analyze Recording Of Conversation Between Katherine Magbanua And Charlie Adelson.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Insane Dem Media Hacks Wonder Why COVID Didn’t Unite Us. “The Democrats and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media have been in an orgiastic frenzy for two years whenever using COVID panic porn to bully, demean, censor, and force people out of their jobs. Now they’re wondering why we didn’t respond to that by meeting them at the pub for a pint.”

Almost two years of beatings and yet somehow morale still hasn’t improved.

A RESPONSE TO THE EMBARRASSING IDIOCY AT GEORGETOWN LAW: GMU Scalia Law School Faculty Statement of Commitment to Open Dialogue and Debate: It’s becoming increasingly clear that other law schools are dearly in need of a similar commitment.

Recently, it has become far too common for colleges and universities to impose sanctions on faculty members whose research or public statements do not conform to the reigning climate of approved opinion. As pressures for conformity increase throughout our society, it is even becoming dangerous to show insufficient enthusiasm for certain causes and beliefs.

This faculty has always rejected the imposition of any political or ideological orthodoxy by us or on us. We recognize no hierarchy of authority in the world of ideas. Professors and students each have exactly the same right to express their opinions, to challenge views with which they disagree, and to participate as they see fit in the public life of the nation. They also have the same moral obligation to foster an atmosphere of civility and tolerance. The faculty strongly opposes efforts—whether from within our community or from outside—to pressure us or the school’s administration to engage in the repression of unpopular opinions, whether we as individuals agree or disagree with those opinions.

In the classroom, of course, there is necessarily an inequality between the instructor and the students. We think it is self-evident that professors should not use their authority in the service of political or ideological indoctrination. We also think it is self-evident that professors should not belittle or intimidate students who express views with which the instructor disagrees, or encourage students to belittle or intimidate their classmates.

Conversely, students should recognize that professors exercise a special authority in the classroom because they have special responsibilities and obligations. The faculty as a whole establishes the curriculum. Individual professors decide what will be studied in their courses, what topics will be discussed in class, and what questions will be dealt with in the limited time that is available. Students are welcome to express their own opinions about these matters, but the professors are responsible for the decisions, and they have an obligation to exercise their own judgment in making those decisions.

Or, like Georgetown Dean Bill Treanor, you can reimburse the Doordash bills for the students who occupy your office, because hypogonadism.

KEEP UP THE PRESSURE: WATCH: Reporter Confronts Soft-On-Crime Soros DA: Buta Biberaj oversaw Loudoun County Schools sexual assault case.

JOE’S KID MAKES MILLIONS. MAD MAX’S NOT SO MUCH: But, hey, $240,000 for helping Mom stay in Congress for another two years isn’t bad. Jeff Dunetz at The Lid has the 411 on Rep. Maxine Waters’ (D-CA) taking care of daughter Karen.

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION: Drop the Goldberg name you co-opted, Whoopi — you don’t deserve it.

Decades ago, when the performer Caryn Johnson decided her name wasn’t interesting enough and dubbed herself Whoopi Goldberg instead, it wasn’t because Goldberg signified “whiteness.”

Through the years, she’s offered many weird and contradictory explanations for her change in moniker, but it might have seemed at the time that a black person sporting the surname Goldberg would be especially eye-catching and noteworthy (especially in conjunction with that wild first name) because it would represent the proud ownership of her outsider status. She wasn’t trying to blend in. She was doubling down — on race.

Note, please, that Caryn Johnson didn’t become Whoopi Rockefeller. No. She knew that by becoming Whoopi Goldberg, she would be choosing to flaunt in every way possible the fact that she was a minority person in a majority-white country. The “Goldberg” was the cherry on top.

You see, in the early 1980s, when Johnson became Goldberg, it was still commonly understood that Jews were a people apart.

I think it’s especially fitting that her real name is just a version of “Karen.”

PRIVACY: NSO Group offered ‘bags of cash’ for access to U.S. cell networks, whistleblower claims. “The mobile-phone security expert Gary Miller alleges that the offer came during a conference call in August 2017 between NSO Group officials and representatives of his employer at the time, Mobileum, a California-based company that provides security services to cellular companies worldwide. The NSO officials specifically were seeking access to what is called the SS7 network, which helps cellular companies route calls and services as their users roam the world, according to Miller.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

THE POLITICAL CLASS IS BIG ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BUT THE PUBLIC IS NOT: Biden’s unpopular SCOTUS nonsense shows it’s time to end racial preferences.

THIS IS JUST EMBARRASSING: Georgetown Dean Lays Down for Activists Protesting His Office.

The dean of Georgetown Law School bent over backwards to appease students conducting a sit-in outside his office on Tuesday morning, offering to reimburse them for food delivered to the protest and thanking them for their “helpful comments.”

Students attending the sit-in, which was hosted by the Georgetown Black Law Students Association and organized to call for Georgetown law professor Ilya Shapiro to be fired, told the dean they have been unable to function following social media posts by Shapiro critical of President Joe Biden’s pledge to nominate a black woman for the Supreme Court.

If they’re really “unable to function” in response to a tweet, they’re too weak to be in law school. People’s lives and liberties will depend on their judgment and fortitude in a few years.

Not that Dean Bill Treanor has displayed much in the way of either judgment or fortitude here. It looks more like condescension, really.

I CELEBRATE THIS EVERY TIME I GO TO THE BEACH: Strike A Blow For Freedom: Celebrate No Hijab Day.

ANN ALTHOUSE ON GEORGETOWN’S BLACK LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION AND ILYA SHAPIRO: Who is responsible for “the shadow of impostor syndrome” that “haunts” black students? Not Shapiro. He is only accused of having “reinforced” it.

I TRY NOT TO LINK TOO MANY PEOPLE ASKING FOR MONEY:  But times are being rough on a lot of people. This is a personal friend who has found herself in the middle of a sh*tstorm.  Part of the problem, of course, is that being a writer in the midst of a series of unfortunate events means you stop working, which worsens things (having experienced this myself.)
I can’t do as much for her as I’d like to, though hoping that will change soonish. Until then: this is one of the hardest working women I know, and generous with her help to every starting writer in need. If you can help, however little, it’s bread upon the waters.  If you can’t, but can publicize the request, please do so.  Help a Grieving Author Pay Off A Car.

HAS TO BE BETTER THAN THE KID’S BOOKS TRADITIONAL PUBLISHING IS PUMPING OUT:  An 8-year-old slid his handwritten book onto a library shelf. It now has a years-long waitlist.

THE MOUNTIES ARE LOSING:  Canadian National Police, RCMP, Vow to Remove Alberta Trucker Blockade – Standoff Ongoing.

I hope they remember the world is in fact watching.

WELL, OF COURSE HE DOES. NOT BEING MARXISTS, THEY’RE CLASS TRAITORS:  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Continues to Denigrate Working Class Protesters.

IN OTHER NEWS, MOST PEOPLE REMAIN SANE:  FIRE Survey Finds Most People See Cancel Culture as a Threat to Democracy and Freedom.

ABOUT TIME:  “Convoy to DC 2022” Gains Momentum as American Truckers Get Organized.

I hear Europe is getting in the act too. I repeat: about time.

WELL, NOW. WHERE IS MY SHOCKED FACE?  Amnesty’s ‘New’ Israel Report Recycles Antisemitic Lies and Terrorist Propaganda.

THE JUNTA IS INFIGHTING? GET POPCORN: Is Biden Getting Ready to Toss HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra Under the Bus?

I’m only here for the part where all the generalissimos get on the plane with the looted millions and leave us the heck alone. If we’re lucky, they fly to China. (Hey, I believe countries should get what they pay for.)

ONE STAR:   Governors Give Biden Awful Reviews, Demand He Move to Endemic Stage.

“President” is actually live bobcat. Would not allow to fraud again. Would not recommend to friends.

THEY PROBABLY WANT CRAYONS AND A TEDDY BEAR TOO:  Georgetown Law Student Protesters Demand Ilya Shapiro Firing, Reparations, Place To Cry, End To “Originalist” Center.

I suggest we send them to the corner with the dunce cap.

WHY OF COURSE SHE DID:  Whoopi Issues Pseudo Apology After Holocaust Remarks.

THEY ALWAYS KEEP FORGETTING THEY ARE “THE MAN”:  A class war has erupted in the US and many Western nations – but it’s not the one the left was traditionally expecting.

THE LEFT IS LIKE THAT:  “Mostly peaceful” versus “non-violent dangers.”

They value their cultish beliefs more than other people’s lives.