HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Private College Tuition Discount Rate Hits All-Time High Of 54.5%.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Nationwide Gas Prices Could Hit Staggering New High By August, Top U.S. Bank Analyst Says.

Flashback: Biden admin cancels massive oil and gas lease sale amid record-high gas prices.

The Biden administration canceled one of the most high-profile oil and gas lease sales pending before the Department of the Interior Wednesday, as Americans face record-high prices at the pump, according to AAA.

The DOI halted the potential to drill for oil in over 1 million acres in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, along with two lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico. The move comes as Biden has taken a few actions to combat high gas prices, despite his administration’s generally hostile approach to the oil industry.

“Due to lack of industry interest in leasing in the area, the Department will not move forward with the proposed Cook Inlet OCS oil and gas lease sale 258,” a DOI spokesperson told FOX Business in a statement Thursday.

“The Department also will not move forward with lease sales 259 and 261 in the Gulf of Mexico region, as a result of delays due to factors including conflicting court rulings that impacted work on these proposed lease sales,” the spokesperson added.

The spokesperson also told FOX Business that “there are 10.9 million acres of offshore federal waters already under lease to industry,” and “of those, the industry is not producing on more than three-quarters (75.7% or 8.26 million acres).”

Federal law requires DOI to stick to a five-year leasing plan for auctioning offshore leases. The department had until the end fo the current five-year plan – due to expire on June 30 – to complete the sales.

A source familiar with the Cook Inlet lease confirmed to FOX Business that the DOI received no comments indicating specific company interest in leasing during the scoping period.

Within his first week in office, President Biden signed an executive order temporarily suspending new oil and gas leases on federal lands. The administration resumed the new leasing last month following court challenges against the ban. The administration is appealing a ruling in which Judge James Cain, a Trump appointee, struck down the ban.

Earlier: “We’re going to keep at it to ensure the American people are paying their fair share for gas,” is the perfect Kinsley Gaffe for an Obama administration retread like Biden:  As Steven Chu, Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”

Related: Biden tormented by Republican guerrilla campaign and ‘I did it’ stickers.

Also: 100Pcs I Did That Biden Funny Car Stickers. #Resist #CommissionEarned

DEAL OF THE DAY: Swimming Goggles. #CommissionEarned

DON’T GET COCKY: Yet Another Omen of Impending Democrat Doom in the 2022 Midterms. “John Couvillon, the founder of MC Analytics & Polling, has analyzed voter turnout in the ten states that have run primaries so far in 2022, compared it to 2018 (the last midterm election, in which Democrats won back control of the House), and found massive shifts toward Republican turnout in all but one of them.”

EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED: How FBI bigwig aided and abetted Hillary Clinton plot.

GEORGE WILL DISCUSSES HERIOT & MULDER:  In the Washington Post and in newspapers without pay walls.

HMM: Britain offers smallpox vaccine as monkeypox cases spread in Europe. Odds are this will fizzle, but expect poor compliance with public health measures, as the public health apparatus has lost credibility due to its behavior with Covid.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Network News Ignores Biden’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ and Its Quick Demise, Study Finds.

YOU SPELLED “HEROES” WRONG: Washington Post blames ‘far-right influencers’ for tanking Biden’s Disinformation Board.

REMEMBER MURPHY BROWN? It was three decades ago when then-Vice President Dan Quayle defended the traditional family and was rewarded with a sustained assault led by Candace Bergen nee sitcom star “Murphy Brown.”

Quayle’s sin, Issues & Insights reminds us this morning, was to extoll the intact family unit with a father and mother in the home to raise kids, instill positive values in them and maintain the sort of social cohesion required to preserve a healthy community.

“Quayle lamented that those controlling the commanding heights of the culture often send the wrong message. He specifically faulted the CBS-TV sitcom Murphy Brown for depicting its lead character as ‘mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.’ Quayle concluded his remarks by inviting a ‘national debate’ over these issues to ‘roar on.’

“The roar went on for months. Quayle was immediately denounced by Diane English, Murphy’s creator and producer. Hillary Clinton called Quayle ‘out of touch.’ The controversy reached a crescendo when the series returned for a fifth season that fall. Its season premiere was devoted to the Quayle speech with its star character lecturing the audience about the merits of nontraditional family structures.”

The intervening years have certainly provided abundant evidence of who was right and who was truly out of touch with human reality.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Will Hillary Clinton Ever Take the Fall for Being Pure Evil? “The latest doings in the Durham probe are getting so close to Hillary that she’s probably hitting an extra box of Franzia for breakfast every day.”

NO SIMILAR FIGURE ON THE RIGHT EVER DID THIS WITH RBG: NYT Writer Urged Activists To Escalate Protests Targeting Kavanaugh.

BIDENFLATION: Chicken wings for $34? Pent-up inflation driving food costs higher.

AND IT WAS AN ACT OF PATRIOTISM: A Confession: I Did, Indeed, Mock and Attack Nina Jankowicz and the DHS.

These people are unAmerican and awful, and they should be chased out of their jobs and humiliated until they learn better. If, as all the best people have assured us, it’s okay to punch Nazis then these people deserve no slack.

OH MY: Clinton Lawyer Marc Elias Sings Like a Canary at Sussman-Durham Trial. “Elias confirmed in his testimony that he hired Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016. He also testified that he would share “the fruits of their work” with senior Clinton campaign officials, and that Fusion GPS was also working for the DNC as part of its support for Hillary’s campaign.”

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Why the next big solar storm might hit Earth without warning. “A big solar storm could fry the internet, but at least space weather forecasts would give us a day or two to prepare. Or maybe not, because physicists have just discovered a new kind of solar storm that strikes without notice.”

A really big solar storm would fry more than the Internet.

PEOPLE WHO JUDGE WRITERS BY THEIR SKIN COLOR, SELF-IDENTIFICATION OR SEX LIVES ARE…. WHAT’S THE WORD?  Fisking a GQ article – Why won’t men read my preachy literati bullshit?

Oh, yeah. Idiots. Also racist, sexist, misandistrists and a bunch of  other nonsense. But mostly idiots.
However, this idiot also worships at “literary” which is — listen to me — just a marketing genre. It has no inherent virtue. It’s like someone getting upset over someone liking Westerns or …. oh, yeah, she gets upset at her boyfriend like science fiction.

Fortunately we have a Larry Correia to fisk that.

BEFORE CANDLES THE SOCIALISTS USED ELECTRICITY:  Blackouts… Because Climate Change! Blame Natural Gas!

HOW IS IT THOSE EMAILS ARE TURNING UP EVERYWHERE BUT MSM NEWS SITES?  Newly Leaked Hunter Biden Emails Point to Possible White House Corruption.

NASA’S PANIC WASN’T NEARLY AS BAD AS THE PANIC OF THE GUYS WEARING THE HELMETS:  Panicked NASA cancels spacewalks after ISS astronaut’s helmet ‘fills with water’.

CANADA LEADS THE WAY IN KILLING THE POOR:  Why is Canada euthanising the poor?

You know, lives unworthy of living….

SINCE SHE’S FRIENDS WITH SOME VERY OLD ENEMIES OF MY PEOPLE IN SF/F, I LAUGHED SO HARD I HURT MYSELF:  Wicked witch of the woke Nina Jankowicz resigns as Disinformation Governance Board is put on ‘pause’.

IT’S NOT JUST THAT DEMOCRATS LIE. IT’S THEY ALSO BELIEVE THEIR OWN LIES:  The “Texas Sharpshooter”.

THEY ALSO FIGHT WHO CALL THEIR LAWYERS:  Pushback: Two Alaska Airlines flight attendants fired for asking questions file lawsuit.

AND THE OTHER HALF ARE IN IT FOR THE MEMES:  Audit Reveals Half of Biden’s Twitter Followers are Fake Accounts.