DO NOT DISTURB THE PRESIDENT’S NAP WITH THIS NEWS: Loss of neurons may explain drowsiness in patients with Alzheimer’s.

“WE RESPECTFULLY POSED TOUGH QUESTIONS:” The Chicago Thinker Staged a Media Regime Takedown This Week—Here’s How We Did It.

UPDATE: CNN’s Brian Stelter Gets Wrecked by Student During ‘Disinformation Conference’ in Glorious Moment.

WELL, SO MUCH FOR RED-PILLED BILL MAHER: Maher: GOP Has Become ‘Obsessed With Pedophilia’ in ‘Very Short Time.’

Evergreen:

Flashback: Bill Maher defended pedophilia in 1998 and 2007. Now he’s taking credit for Milo’s downfall.

ROGER KIMBALL: Justice Has Been and Will Be a Long Time Coming.

On Friday, April 8, the biggest domestic news came from Grand Rapids, Michigan. On that day the world learned that a jury had voted unanimously to acquit Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta of conspiring to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer in the fall of 2020. The verdict, as Julie Kelly noted in her column for American Greatness that day, was a “huge defeat for the U.S. Department of Justice.” One can only hope. It was also a huge, if tardy and incomplete, win for justice, lower case, no “Department of” preceding the noun.

Kelly recounts the sordid details of this saga of FBI entrapment, deep-state political maneuvering, and media malpractice. The case made national headlines and, coming when it did, just before the 2020 presidential election, was clearly designed to affect public sentiment regarding the Donald Trump campaign. “Heavens help us! Troglodytic Trump supporters are trying to kidnap noble Democratic public servants! Can you believe it?”

Turns out you would have been foolish to believe it. But in retrospect, it seems clear that it was a sort of dry-run for that later entertainment, the January 6 worse-than-Pearl-Harbor or 9/11, Civil-War-like “insurrection” and/or attempt to “overturn the election” and/or overthrow “our democracy” at the U.S. Capitol.

There were some two dozen people involved in the “Plot to Kidnap Gretchen Whitmer” saga. Fully 12 were FBI assets. They were not there to infiltrate the loser militia members. They were there to egg them on. The FBI helped to define and finance the plot from the beginning. They even set up a fake “militia” for the others to rally around. They also helped to equip, not to mention bribe, the motley crew whom they assembled for the caper. The FBI did not uncover a plot. They were prime movers in fomenting a plot. They did not so much uncover evidence against the plotters as they entrapped them. And it’s not as if this is a one off. It is part of a pattern of abuse and irresponsibility. As the Wall Street Journal’s Holmon Hunt put it last fall, “The agency should be scrapped and something new built to replace it.”

Read the whole thing.

U.K. PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON MAKES SECRET TRIP TO UKRAINE, MEETS WITH ZELENSKY.

It’s difficult to see Brandon touring the streets of Ukraine like this:

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UKRAINE LEARNS THE ISRAEL LESSON:

Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky declared Tuesday that, when the war is finally over, Ukraine would emerge from the rubble a “big Israel.”

He meant that the war would never really be over, that Ukraine would be on a permanent war footing, just as the Jewish state is. He meant that it would view its neighbors the way Israel has long viewed its own: As enemies waiting to pounce. Most importantly, he meant that Ukraine would never again rely on anyone else for its security: not the West, not the international community, not the so-called liberal order. It would be, like Israel, a nation apart, answering to no one but its people, in control of its own destiny.

It said something heroic about Ukraine, which has gone from pleading with NATO to save it from imminent destruction to fighting—forcing—the Russians into peace talks in a matter of weeks.

It said something not so heroic about the West, which had failed to admit Ukraine to NATO and, more recently, to wean itself off Russian oil and gas.

Related: ‘The City Lives:’ With Russian Forces Gone, Kyiv Starts to Revive.

However: The Ukraine War just got much, much bigger. “The Ukraine war has now transitioned into a proxy war between Russia and the Euro-American alliance. Ukraine is tragically caught in the middle. The very difficult and very uncertain task before Europe and the United States now is to manage the war to keep it inside Ukraine. (But remember the caution attributed to Bismarck that starting a war is like entering a dark room, blindfolded, to look for a black cat that is not even there.)”

COLLUSION: Jury convicts U. of Kansas professor for hiding ties to Chinese government.

WILL SMITH MUST RETURN HIS OSCAR TO RESTORE THE AWARD’S HONOR:

The Motion Picture Academy’s decision to ban Will Smith from Oscar ceremonies and events for 10 years as discipline for slapping Chris Rock is little more than an extended time out for a playground bully. It’s a toothless penalty that lays bare the shallowness of Hollywood morals.

At this point, the only person who can redeem the integrity of the Oscars is Smith himself. He needs to come to grips with the gravity of the offense he committed: slapping Rock, live on March 27 in front of millions on the Academy Awards stage. Smith needs to express-mail his golden trophy back to the Academy and publicly state something to the effect of: “Out of respect for the 94 years of honor conferred upon this award, I do not in good conscience feel worthy of being its custodian.”

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With one deft blow, Will Smith created an existential crisis for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. The incident was such a jolt to societal norms that it will gnaw away at our national conscience until somehow properly atoned for. Smith, who resigned his AMPAS membership on April 1, was quick to accept his punishment when the 10-year ban was announced April 8. But there is more he should do.

CTL-F on both “Harvey Weinstein” and “Roman Polanski” brings up zero results.

TBH, IF YOU READ THE SIGN IT’S NOT SO BAD: Free speech warning sign displayed on Indiana campus. Though people shouldn’t need to be told that their options are to “engage in a civil manner, decline respectfully and continue on, [or] alter your route now.”

But they probably do need to be told that.

HOLD ON THERE: Did Trump “Incite” a riot on January 6 or did he “Premeditate” it before January 6? Tristan Justice wants to know. Me, too.

YOU TAKE YOUR ENCOURAGEMENT WHERE YOU CAN GET IT: White House Report Card: Biden propped up by KBJ. “While few thought her nomination would fail, it gave Biden something of his own to cheer, especially during a week when former President Barack Obama returned to the White House to relive his Obamacare victory in a celebration notable for how Biden at times was ignored by his guests.”

Please clap.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Why the left really wants to sexualize your kids.

As we inevitably move on from the “groomer” discourse, it’s important to examine why the left wants so badly to sexualize children. Yes, some of them are just pedophilic creeps. But there’s also a larger strategy at play.

The left’s goal is to drive a wedge between children and their parents so they can be more easily indoctrinated with radical, progressive ideas. This used to start in the universities. Hard-working families would send their kids off to college only for them to return home for the holidays spouting nonsense about white privilege and systemic racism. Conservatives grew hip to this game and started exposing the fantastical concepts being taught in higher education. In order to continue their successful brainwashing, leftists needed to turn the kids when they were younger and more impressionable.

A nice one-two punch was developed. Kids learn key concepts of Critical Race Theory, which encourage them to hate themselves and their peers because their skin color makes them complicit in systemic oppression. The kids who are marginalizing others with their mere existence are then offered the opportunity to pick new, safe identities from a batch of made-up genders and sexualities. They’re encouraged to hide this from their parents, whose bigotry won’t allow them to understand.

Read the whole thing.

OPEN LETTER: US Senators, Governors Call on Yale Law To Punish ‘Vitriolic Mob’ That Disrupted Free Speech Event.

“Instead of engaging with the panelists, a shocking number of Yale Law students hurled constant insults and obscenities at them and tried to prevent them from speaking and being heard,” the letter reads. “Our nation desperately needs the next generation of attorneys, legislators, judges, and Supreme Court justices to be marked by the character and values that undergird the American legal profession and a free society.”

To that end, the letter calls on the law school to “condemn the behavior of students who violated other people’s rights” and “take appropriate disciplinary actions in keeping with Yale’s free speech policies.” It also demands that the law school “retract and/or issue corrections to” its initial statement about the protest, which the law school claimed had not disrupted the event or necessitated police assistance. Both claims were subsequently debunked by audio from the event.

Governors and members of Congress weren’t the only ones to sign the letter. Ben Carson, the former secretary of Housing and Urban Development, added his name to the list, as did 24 state attorneys general and a number of academics and nonprofit leaders. All told, over 1,400 people signed.

Speaking truth to entitlement.

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WHEN THE “G” IN “G-MEN” STANDS FOR “GRAFT:” Secret Service agents in Biden detail reportedly part of bribery scheme.

Secret Service agents assigned to the security details for President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are involved in a bizarre bribery and infiltration scheme operated by a pair of phony federal agents, according to a new report.

At least four Secret Service members were compromised by alleged conspirators Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali, according to a Friday filing by federal prosecutors. The feds say Ali boasted of links to Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency and his passport indicated recent trips to Iran and Pakistan.

Prosecutors say one compromised Secret Service agent was assigned to first lady Jill Biden’s security detail. RealClearPolitics reported Friday that members of the president and Harris’ details were also implicated.

Read the whole thing.

FLASHBACK: Me in Popular Mechanics: Space Junk and the Law of Space Collision.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? FBI Ramps Up Social Media Surveillance Program Monitoring Americans.

Related: No Convictions in Whitmer ‘Kidnapping’ Case, Another Black Eye For the FBI.

FROM PAM UPHOFF:  Bad Tolz.  #CommissionEarned

Bad Tölz. A World named for a city on the Home World . . . Barely controlled by the “True Men” Mentalists of the Drei Mächte Bündnis. An unstable alliance of aggressive Worlds . . . on the brink of civil war.

Fynn, a bastard half-breed adopted by a friend of his dead father, was, despite his irregular antecedents, an ordinary college student. Then the increasing problems in in the Alliance led his new father to pull him into a secret society sworn to protect an Alliance that is crumbling.

When Bad Tölz is invaded, Fynn is all that stands between his World and brutal subjugation.

SCIENCE! I’m Being Investigated by the British Columbia College of Nurses Because I Believe Biological Sex Is Real.

I GOT A REVIEW!  Book Review: Odd Magics: Tales for the Lost.

BEWARE THE WOUNDED BEAR:   Putin’s endgame.

Or in other words….. I don’t want a repeat of the 20th century. Why do they?

THE SOFT COUP SHOULD WELL BE:  The 2020 election is still in the news.

INDEED:  All the Big Guy’s Bag Men.

I’D REALLY LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS:  There’s Something Happening Here…