A WAR ON TESTS IS A WAR ON EXCELLENCE: “Rescuing ‘Virtue and Talents’ Amidst the War on Tests.”
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May 6, 2022
AGAIN: Russian warship Admiral Makarov ‘on fire after being hit by Ukrainian missile.’
Admiral Makarov is one of just five guided-missile frigates in the Black Sea Fleet. With the loss of the Moskva last month, those much smaller ships are Russia’s largest surface combatants remaining there.
WELL, WHO’S GOING TO TRUST A RIGHT-WING MOUTHPIECE LIKE . . . THE NYT? NY Times: Research shows ‘remote learning was a failure’ driven primarily by Democratic partisanship.
NORMALIZING THUGGERY: Pro-Abortion Group Doxxes 6 GOP-Nominated Supreme Court Justices After Roe Leak.
ANDREW MORRISS: Ensuring Credible Commitments.
FROM CELIA HAYES: To Truckee’s Trail.
#CommissionEarned
The greatest adventure never told … until now! In the year of 1844, a
party of fifty men, women and children set out for California from
Council Bluffs, Iowa. The men and women of this party are looking for
different things by undertaking this long journey: Dr. John Townsend
looks to find a place where his invalid wife Elizabeth may recover her
health. Isabella Patterson with her six children is hoping to be
reunited with her husband, gone ahead to establish a new home for them
all in California. The devoutly Catholic and Irish patriarch Martin
Murphy, Sr. is seeking a degree of religious freedom for his extended
family. Just-married gunsmith Allen Montgomery is looking for adventure.
And no one knows what the taciturn blacksmith Elisha Stephens is
looking for, all along the California-Oregon emigrant trail – but they
elect him as their leader and trust him with their lives.
HARD TO IMAGINE ANY CONSEQUENCES OF THIS STORY, RIGHT? US intelligence reportedly helped Ukraine kill Russian generals.
THAT’S A STRANGE DECISION: Boeing moving headquarters from Chicago to DC.
ALL OF THIS: The Invasion of Safe Spaces.
AKA, the real war on women.
CARLOS SLIM’S PAPER DOESN’T HAVE THE HEFT IT ONCE DID: New York Times ‘hit piece’ on Elon Musk’s South Africa past gets blowback.
But it might still have more than it deserves.
JOSE CUERVO’S BIRTHDAY? Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day: Here’s what it commemorates and how to celebrate.
Hey, don’t look at me, the special day of my people was yesterday. What? Oh, May the Fourth. Get it?
DUH: No, repeal of Roe vs. Wade doesn’t mean “government-mandated pregnancy.”
BTW, TILTING AT WINDMILLS IS HAVING A SALE FOR INSTAPUNDIT READERS: Here.
WHAT IF UTTERLY BANNING CHILD LABOR WAS THE WRONG THING ALL ALONG? What if We’ve Been Profoundly Wrong?
WE’VE NOTICED: Victor Davis Hanson sums up the left’s m.o.
HOW LONG WILL WE BE FORCED TO STAND THIS VILE, PSYCHOTIC RODENT? Schiff: ‘Codifying Roe Isn’t Enough. We Must Expand the Court’.
COMPARED TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY? BAH: New Biden Talking Point: “MAGA Crowd” is Most Extreme Political Organization in Recent History.
NO MALE ABUSER WANTS ABORTION RESTRICTIONS: Psaki Won’t Condemn Activists Targeting SCOTUS Justices, Biden Doesn’t Want Abortion Restrictions.
WILL THEY BUCKLE? Justices Targeted For Protests At Their Homes.
Do they know the standard they’re setting?
HEY, I HAVE A MATCH: Democrats Receive Deliveries Daily.
HEAVEN HAVE MERCY ON US. NOT ONE ELSE WILL: Watch Biden Fall Apart, Thank AL Workers for Arming Russians, Praise Hungarian Resistance.
May 5, 2022
DAN MCLAUGHLIN: Chief Justice Roberts Must Find the Leaker. “Experts note that investigations typically begin by tracing the provenance of a particular copy of a document. Systems analysts can often trace what was printed to which printer, and by whom. The apparent use of a color printer makes that task easier. A number of the clerks, and perhaps at least some of the justices, have only black-and-white printers in their offices at the Court. If the document was printed at home — a distinct possibility, given the prevalence of work-from-home in the spring of 2022 — that will also narrow the field of suspects to people who have a color printer at home.”
OPEN THREAD: Baby, I don’t care.