ICYMI: Bad Day in Court for the Administrative State: Fifth Circuit panel finds several constitutional problems with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

STAY COOL: Under Armour Men’s Tactical Tech T-Shirt. #CommissionEarned

CULTURE OF IMPUNITY: Students trash South Carolina high school; administrators decline to press charges.

HEY, THIS ISN’T THE IVY LEAGUE, STANDARDS MATTER: TN universities reinstate standardized testing requirement.

SALENA ZITO:

Imagine being a parent on a budget, down to your last container of formula: You drive to four different grocery stores, two Wal-Marts, a Target and a Rite-Aid, racking up more than 60 miles in pursuit of nourishment for your child. You not only have zero luck finding anything to feed your baby; you have also used up a lot of gas.

Along that drive you likely also saw significant evidence of a drug problem — either in the gaunt, vacant faces on people walking along Main Street or the batch of new treatment centers that have popped up where they’d never been before — and you might begin to wonder: ‘When was the last time anyone in power has seen what’s going on in our communities?’

Meanwhile, it was recently reported the Biden White House spent six months coming up with the nickname “Ultra MAGA” to go after Republican candidates.

The people who run strategy for the White House seem to have forgotten how to place themselves in voters’ shoes and experience everyday problems that impact families and communities. For them it is nothing but political calculation: They went to strategy school, not governing school.

Youngstown State University professor Paul Sracic says Biden has become a sort of anti-Harry Truman: “Where Truman insisted ‘The buck stops here,’ Biden is constantly trying to shift blame onto others; from Putin to ‘ultra-MAGA’ Republicans, Biden is hoping that Americans don’t hold him and his party responsible for things like inflation, the baby milk shortage, or the border crisis.”

Mr. Biden’s calculation, Mr. Sracic says, will not work.

Truman’s phrase was not an offer to take responsibility, but an acknowledgement of reality: When things go well in America, the president gets credit, and when they go wrong, he also gets credit.

“With parents scrambling to track down formula following the collision of supply chain issues and a massive recall, they want answers on how this could happen with such a life-critical product,” said Mr. Sracic.

If you are not convinced this is a very real thing, go spend ten minutes in the baby aisle in any store across the country that has empty shelves; see the crestfallen faces of many working-class and minority parents — who don’t have the wherewithal to purchase cases online from Europe — and it’s hard not to imagine the hopelessness and instability they feel in that moment.

Aux tumbrils, citoyens!

WORST WEEK, SO FAR: White House Report Card: Zogby declares ‘worst week.’

DEAL OF THE DAY: Reebok Men’s Classic Leather Sneaker. #CommissionEarned

NONSENSE. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT FAT WOMEN ARE STRONG AND BEAUTIFUL, BUT FAT MEN ARE REPULSIVE AND PATHETIC. The Last Frontier of Justice-Oriented Body Positivity: Representation matters: Full-figured, aesthetically challenged male bodies should be celebrated, not shunned.

QUESTION ASKED: Can Adults No Longer Consent?

I take it there is no dispute that Sabatini’s and Knouse’s “fling” was consensual. Rather, Knouse now says that Sabatini “groomed” her into a sexual relationship. It’s a novel theory, but let’s do the math. Sabatini is now 54 years old, and Knouse is 21 years his junior. Their consensual relationship began in 2018. So Knouse would have been 29 years old–a little long in the tooth for “grooming.”

Currently, there is a battle going on in Florida over grooming of 5 to 8 year olds in the public schools, where some teachers want to instruct small children in deviant sexual practices. Liberals vehemently oppose any bans on such grooming. On the other hand, liberals say, “grooming” of a 29-year-old scientist? Outrageous! Ban the groomer for life!

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The liberals’ underlying assumption is that women can never be adults. No matter how old they may be, no matter how many graduate degrees they may amass, women are never free actors. They can only, ever, be playthings in the hands of men. Do you believe that? Probably not, but that is what liberals think, and our culture is awash in such nonsense.

But all of this presupposes that the left has any biologists available who can answer another burning question of 2022: What is a woman?

FROM A FRIEND: “They especially hate Elon because he laughs at them, and that is one of my favorite things about him.”

OH, GREAT. NOW THEY’RE SUICIDAL:  We At The Babylon Bee Would Like To Announce We Have Obtained Dirt On Hillary Cli-

AOC MAY TALK LIKE AN IDIOT, AND LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT, BUT DON’T LET THAT FOOL YOU: SHE REALLY IS AN IDIOT:  AOC touts ‘zero emission’ engagement ring made with ‘recycled gold’.

SOME OF US HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN:  Forgetting the Genocide of the Yezidis.

IF THEY WERE TRYING TO DESTROY US, WHAT WOULD THEY DO DIFFERENTLY?  Anxiety in America.

ONLY THE LEFT’S INCREDIBLE RACISM ALLOWS THEM TO THINK THAT “COLORBLIND MERITOCRACY” MEANS PEOPLE OF COLOR WOULDN’T DO WELL:  Were There ‘Right-Wing’ Riots When Tucker Carlson Called For A Colorblind Meritocracy?

It really is the mote in their eye.

FOR THE TIMES THEY ARE ACHANGING:  Yet another worm is turning, this time in the skateboarding world.

SHE HATES EVERYONE:  Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Really Hates Christians .

DON’T LET PEOPLE COUGH IN YOUR FACE, DON’T FRENCH STRANGERS:  WHO Warns Monkeypox Could “Accelerate” During Summer, CDC Alerts US Doctors As Virus Reaches 13 Countries.

And under absolutely no circumstances believe Chinese-lackey WHO.

YEAH, SURE, WE’LL GO FOR THAT:  ‘Imagine The Compliance’: Pfizer CEO Pitches Davos Elites On WiFi Microchip Pills.

What happened to body autonomy, again?

AGAIN, IF THEY WERE AN ENEMY POWER TRYING TO STARVE US, WHAT WOULD BE DIFFERENT? The Axis Strikes Back.

IF THEY WERE AN ENEMY POWER ATTEMPTING TO STARVE US AND DESTROY US, WHAT WOULD BE DIFFERENT?  During Grilling by Manchin and GOP Senators, Interior Secretary Promises Offshore Leasing Plan Within Six Months.

TAKE THAT RED PILL, TAKE IT:  Bill Maher Takes On “Gender-Affirming Care”: “We’re literally experimenting on children”.

LET ME ASSURE YOU THIS IS ABSOLUTE NONSENSE:  After 100 Monkeypox Cases Reported in Europe, WHO Calls Emergency Meeting.

And because of this you should be deeply suspicious:  Alarm Sounded Over WHO’s Global Pandemic Treaty.

Not. One. More. Time. Ever.

We need to be very loud and clear now: Fool me once, shame on me, try to fool me twice and it’s your head on a spike.

THIS IS THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO:  Help for spinal cord injuries?

BOOT OTHER FOOT AND ABOUT TIME:  Biden border injunction.