THOUGHTS ON REBOOTING THE ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY.

GONE IN A FLASH: Court Is Unable to Locate Ezra Miller, Cannot Serve Papers.

The Los Angeles Times reported on Friday that the parents of 18-year-old Tokata Iron Eyes were granted a protective order against actor Ezra Miller, but law enforcement has been unable to locate the actor. Miller has yet to be served the papers, which accuses them of “physically and emotionally abusing” the teen. The Times’s report also uses the term “grooming.”

Chase Iron Eyes and Sara Jumping Eagle had their interim order of protection for their daughter approved by a judge from the Standing Rock Sioux tribal court in North Dakota last week. The parents accuse the Justice League and We Need To Talk About Kevin star of “psychologically manipulating, physically intimidating and endangering the safety and welfare of” their child, who has begun using the name Gibson and, like Miller, uses they/them pronouns.

The order would bar Miller from “contacting or harassing” the 18-year-old or their parents, and also would force them to stay 100 yards away from the family residence prior to a July 12 hearing. The court will grant the “relief requested” in the restraining order if Miller does not make an appearance at the hearing.

However, Miller’s current whereabouts are unknown. “They move around so much [that] we’re stuck in this legal limbo situation, and we can’t serve them in any place they’re in long enough,” Chase Iron Eyes, an attorney and activist, told the newspaper. “They’ve been flighty. They’ve been avoiding service, and now there’s public pressure mounting on them to make a decision, which makes us very concerned about Ezra’s volatile nature.”

Flashback: Kyle Smith in 2018: Hollywood is a sex-grooming gang.

ROGER KIMBALL: Dismantle the D.C. Company Town.

In his Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein says “all philosophical problems have the form ‘I have lost my way.’” The first response to being lost should be to retrace one’s steps in order to escape the maze. It’s time that Americans faced up to the reality that their governing apparat is a corrupt, self-engorging Leviathan. This is not, or not only, a partisan issue. Sure, Washington, D.C. is a fully paid-up concession of the Democratic Party, regularly voting some 93 to 95 percent Democratic. Sussmann was never going to be convicted there.

So a preliminary antiseptic, as I have argued elsewhere, would be to downgrade Washington in the political metabolism of the country. Indeed, I think the capital, if not the Capitol, ought to be dispersed. Washington, D.C., could continue to function as what it has already in part become: a sort of stage set where functionaries preen and simper before the cameras of a preposterous media and press corps.

Donald Trump made a few half-hearted stabs at dismantling the lumbering machine that is the Washington establishment, but that seems like a long time ago and, besides, the swamp closed almost instantly to reassert its prerogatives. In his next term, however, he should make the destruction of the Washington machine one of his highest priorities. It won’t be easy. To be frank, I am not sure, absent some world-shaking calamity, it is even possible. But it is nevertheless necessary if anything resembling the republic as envisioned by the founders is to be salvaged.

Faster, please.

NOTHING QUESTIONABLE ABOUT THIS: Douthat: The Young and Socially Awkward Should Undergo Enhanced Screening Before Becoming Gun Owners.

BE PREPARED: Westinghouse Outdoor Power Equipment Dual Fuel Portable Generator. #CommissionEarned

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:

● Sriracha maker warns of ‘unprecedented shortage’ due to supply issues.

● Plot Twist! Movie Theaters Fear Popcorn Shortfall Will Be a Spoiler.

● FLASHBACK: When ‘Experts’ Claimed Gas Prices Would NOT Skyrocket Under Biden.

UPDATE: America Will Be Very Cranky: Coffee Prices To Skyrocket, Global Harvest Near Record Lows.

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BEN SHAPIRO: A Complete Betrayal At Fox News.

Fox News highlighted the story Friday of a biological girl whose family encouraged her to identify as a boy, as part of its “America Together: LGBTQ+ Pride Month” series.

The video would be absolute despicable insane lunacy if I saw it on CNN or MSNBC.

To see it on Fox News is a complete betrayal of anything remotely resembling conservatism or decency.

Every element of this video is propagandistic, dangerous garbage. The report states that this biologically female child was choosing her gender before she could speak.

That is madness.

Read the whole thing.

SKYNET SAILS: A giant Hyundai cargo ship’s long haul in the Pacific was at least partly autonomous.

PA. DEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN GOES FULL NAZI, SAYS GOP MUST BE ‘CLEANSED.’

Despite being an advocate of “civility,” “decency,” and “unity” in the past, Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) has apparently been so radicalized by her caucus that she now says the Republican Party is “diseased” and must be “cleansed.”

“This is, in my opinion, a diseased Republican Party. And it needs to be cured and cleansed,” Houlahan said on the Daily Beast‘s The New Abnormal podcast last month. “So the stakes of having a Republican, as an example, in my seat are more than just policy differences. They are democracy, in my opinion.”

The GOP is “diseased” and must be “cleansed?” Where have you heard such rhetoric before? It bears a shocking resemblance to the rhetoric of the Nazi Party.

Somebody needs to ask herself, “Are we the baddies?”

https://youtu.be/hn1VxaMEjRU

ASPIRIN IS A WONDERFULLY VERSATILE DRUG: Researchers find that aspirin alters colorectal cancer evolution. “Cancer starts when cells start dividing uncontrollably. Scientists have known that taking aspirin can help protect against the development of colorectal cancer—cancer afflicting the colon or rectum—but the exact reason aspirin has this effect has been mostly a mystery.”

PLEASE COME TO BOSTON FOR THE SPRINGTIME: Boston puts San Francisco to shame in terms of clean streets, welcoming vibe.

There are a variety of factors at play here. San Francisco has more homeless people than Boston. The weather is temperate, so it attracts more people year-round. Boston shuffles its homeless population to the outskirts, leaving places like Roxbury to deal with the crisis. There’s a place they call “Methadone Mile” here that sure sounds familiar. So, don’t get me wrong. This is not Shangri-La on the banks of the Charles River.

But Boston seems to understand a core fact that appears lost on San Francisco’s civic leaders. If you’re going to be a world-class city that attracts the best and brightest business travelers and competes with destinations like Paris and Rome for tourist dollars, you can’t let your downtown core be an open air drug market. You just can’t. It should be clean and policed and free of threatening elements. Boston clearly believes this. Same can be said for New York City. A recent trip to Dallas revealed the same. Society’s problems remain, but they’re not front and center.

I’m sure plenty of people will find that sentiment callous. That sweeping the problem to other areas doesn’t solve the root issues. And I’d agree with some of that. But we can’t let our city decay because we don’t have the political will to address the issue. We can’t continue to project this image to the world and expect good things to happen. It’s long past time to clean up downtown and put our best face forward.

There are certainly lessons to be learned from Boston.

Narrator voice: But those lessons won’t be learned by San Francisco politicians anytime soon.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Odds of fatal COVID-19 triple for unvaccinated with heart failure. Most people who die of Covid have pre-existing morbidities.

TRAINWRECK: Ratings Are in for Jan. 6 Committee Production. “‘Context: The evening newscasts on CBS, NBC & ABC average anywhere from 18 to 20 million viewers combined on a typical night,’ Concha explained. ‘Those newscasts do not air in primetime. The January 6 hearings airing in primetime Thursday took in just 11+ million viewers on those three same networks.’ According to Newsbusters, ‘evening newscast audiences on any given night last week were 1.6 times larger than the total number of broadcast viewers who tuned into the hearings on Thursday.’ Of course, one of the issues is that it wasn’t ‘new’; most people have seen most of it and it’s from a year-and-a-half ago. Not to mention that many don’t view it as a legitimate committee, but as a political show trial.”

APPLY FISHSCREEN DILIGENTLY: Eating fish may increase risk of melanoma, study shows.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Loudoun County School District Announces Summer Enrichment Program For Kids Who Need Extra Grooming.

OUT ON A LIMB: ‘Not beautiful either:’ Jordan Peterson not impressed by transgender NFL cheerleader.

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Carownervirus Edition.

INTERESTING BOOK: January 6: How Democrats Used the Capitol Protest to Launch a War on Terror Against the Political Right. #CommissionEarned

WRIST, SLAPPED: After Submitting False Data To U.S. News For 9 Years, USC Ordered To Certify Accuracy Of Its Data In Future Rankings.

QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING: What is ‘white gay privilege?’

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Scholars spend $500K in taxpayer funds to deconstruct whiteness in physics.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Jack Del Rio Fined $100,000 For Comments on Jan 6 and George Floyd Riots; Washington Commanders Issue Ridiculous Statement.

CONDONING VIOLENCE: Yale alumni use reunion to protest Kavanaugh weeks after WH condoned protesting outside justices’ homes.

Yale has become a disgrace. Maybe it always was one.

MAKES SENSE, RIGHT? I’ve been working on a vegetable garden, and seeing how those signs near schools that say “Gun Free Zone” worked out so well, I’d give it a try:

#METOO WAS A TORPEDO AIMED AT TRUMP THAT TURNED AROUND AND HIT DEMOCRATS AND HOLLYWOOD, BUT THERE WAS COLLATERAL DAMAGE: The ‘Once-in-a-Generation’ Scientist Who Had His Life Ruined by Overblown ‘Me Too’ Nonsense. “Did he do anything wrong? No. Not really. The relationship that spurred the end of his career was consensual. The allegations of ‘bro culture’ in the laboratory seem to be misplaced as well. Sabatini is now unemployed and totally radioactive to the science world. Anyone who is caught even offering an olive branch or lifeline to the guy seems to whip the woke mob into full froth.”

“Bro culture” is a sexist term anyway.