VICTIMS’ “RIGHTS” NEVER SEEM TO AMOUNT TO MUCH: Judge O’Connor Rules that the Boeing 737 MAX Crashes Victims’ Families Cannot Enforce Their Right to Confer with Prosecutors. “While expressing great sympathy for the victims’ families, Judge O’Connor concludes that no remedy is available for the Justice Department’s failure to enforce the families’ right to confer under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. About two weeks ago, Judge Reed O’Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that families whose relatives were killed in two Boeing 737 MAX crashes could not enforce their rights under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA). This is an unfortunate ruling that, in my view, interprets the CVRA much too narrowly. On behalf of the families, I will seek review of the ruling in the Fifth Circuit tomorrow.”

HE’S REALLY GOOD AT IT: Just a Thought: Maybe Trump Should Start Lashing Out at Democrats Again. “There are some themes that I will probably be revisiting throughout the campaign. This is the current one: I want the Trump I like back. I don’t know who this guy masquerading as Donald Trump is, but he needs to go.”

NOT MUCH JUSTICE HERE: Justice must be blind – y’all see that Trump grand jury forewoman?

This is real.

It isn’t a parody.

This is the lead juror from the Trump GA grand jury. pic.twitter.com/PN2qiJLeuQ

— Daniel Bostic (@debostic) February 22, 2023

I agree with these comments:

People did used to have some sense of dignity and seriousness, before our government became one big Middle School complete with mean girls.

FROM NATHAN BRINDLE:  The Lion of God.

#CommissionEarned

John Wolff has been handed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Again.
He’s already saved the love of his life from an early death – thirty years after she died.
Now, a beautiful young woman, who is clearly his daughter, has appeared from the timeline branch where that same love of his life survived and married his counterpart.
She says they need his help fighting off invaders from the far future. Who, by the way, are looking for him. Why? Because they want the starship drive he and a friend invented, the precursor to their time machine. Problem is, in her timeline, it hasn’t been invented yet.
What man can resist a cry for help from his own daughter?
Particularly when the invaders think she’s a saint. Or possibly, a devil wearing saint’s clothing. And they’re looking for her, too.
Thus begins the Timelines Saga, and the story of the Lion of God.

SQUID THAT LARGE MUST BE SMART:  Rare giant Pacific octopus spotted swimming in Oregon tide pool.

He’s probably there on purpose. I for one welcome our new cephalopod overlords.

APPARENTLY THEY’VE TALKED TO LAWYERS. On to plan b. Plan c to follow:  Meghan Markle, Prince Harry label ‘South Park’ ‘boring and baseless’ after biting episode.

“Boring and baseless” just means they represented the couple accurately.

PEOPLE IN HELL WANT ICE-WATER, TOO:   Amazon workers want CEO to ‘immediately cancel’ return-to-office plan.

That said, companies pulling this nonsense are losing their best workers. Predictably. And Amazon apparently, unlike Musk, is looking to take out the useful.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.  A WELL-EDUCATED POPULACE IS ANATHEMA TO THE PROGRESSIVE AGENDA:  Resisting the growth of charter schools is racist, supporters claim.

IS IT CALLED “RAGGEDY ANDY’S UGLY SISTER SPEAKS?”:  Former Biden WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki Getting Her Own MSNBC Show.

To be fair, it’s better than the talking mop who is press secretary now.

SHADDUP – IT’S JUST A COINCIDENCE:  Birth Rates Plunge in Heavily Vaccinated Countries.

What kind of monsters would want to plunge human population like that? Don’t answer that. they’re proud of it.

…. as much as they hate humanity, are we sure they’re not space aliens?

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  California Budget Deficit is Even Worse than Gov. Newsom Initially Projected.

ON ACCOUNT OF BEING A HUMAN BEING:  Trump Brings Pallets of Food, Cleaning Supplies, and Trump Water to Ohio Disaster Site.

GOOD:  Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Reveals ‘Overhaul’ for Education, Banning CRT and Offering School Choice.

IMAGINE THEIR JOY. LIKE THEY DON’T HAVE ENOUGH TOXIC GARBAGE!  East Palestine Will FINALLY Get A Buttigieg Visit.

NOT ENOUGH. NOT NEARLY ENOUGH:  NYT Opinion Admits Mask Mandates Were Useless.

They condemned those of us with asthma to being under absolute house arrest and no ability to even see our doctors. No sale. This is my opinion on forgiving them.

IT WAS PRE-TANKED. IT’S ANOTHER WITCH HUNT:  Georgia Jury Leak By Giggly Forewoman Could Tank Trump Prosecution.

ALL OF THESE “BEST OF” LISTS FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT ARE PISSING DOWN OUR BACK AND TELLING US IT’S RAINING:  The establishment’s erasure of JK Rowling and other pulp fiction rebels is just the start.

Look, these people don’t seem to know what pulp is. Robert A. Heinlein wasn’t pulp, nor were a lot of the other decent science fiction writers. I didn’t come of age in the time of Pulps because I’m not 100 years old.  And there was a lot of leftism in the science fiction I grew up with. But now? Now they’re publishing English majors who are nearly unreadable and can only harp on their imagined victimhood. No one reads that. No one wants to read that. A few idiots might buy it and leave it around to signal they’re “right thinking” leftists and oh, so sensitive, but even they don’t read it.

And the establishment is despairing of their demands that we genuflect being obeyed. So they write “best of” lists even they don’t believe in, and whistle past the graveyard.

KIND OF LIKE THEIR VIOLENCE IS SPEECH AND OUR SPEECH IS VIOLENCE:  It’s only stochastic terrorism when the right does it.

THE LEFT HAS THIS PROBLEM WITH A LOT OF BOOKS:  Harrison Bergeron was a warning, not an instruction manual.

1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, maybe even A Canticle for Leibowitz the way they’re looking for a nuclear war.

THEY WISH IT WOULD BECOME THE NEW NORMAL; I DON’T THINK IT PLAYS THAT WAY:  The new normal: persecuting an expert witness because he testified for the defense in a political-charged trial.

WELL, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC SCHOOL IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GRAFT:  Morris County schools super allegedly misused federal funds, audit finds.

JAMIE KIRCHICK: Writers of the World, Denounce! Progressive activists repeat the sins of the past.

Perhaps the most enduring of communism’s many ignominious contributions to Western intellectual life is the collective letter of denunciation.

In 1958, after the writer Boris Pasternak won the Nobel Prize in literature, the presidium of the Union of Soviet Writers voted unanimously to expel him in a move that was reported on the front page of The New York Times. According to this governmentally controlled body, the author of Dr. Zhivago had committed “treason with regard to the Soviet people, the cause of socialism, peace, and progress paid for by a Nobel Prize in order to intensify the Cold War.” Articles in Literaturnaya Gazeta, an official organ of the union, denounced the Jewish author as a “Judas” and likened him to a “snake” that had emerged from the “poetical dungwaters of lyrical manure.”

In 1969, the union expelled another author whose work challenged the Soviet regime, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, for “antisocial behavior.” The following year, Solzhenitsyn, like Pasternak before him, won the Nobel. In an angry statement, also reported on the front page of the Times, the union decried how “works by this writer that were illegally taken abroad and published there have long been used by Western reactionary circles for anti-Soviet aims.”

In 1973, an open letter signed by 40 members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences denounced the physicist Andrei Sakharov for his criticisms of Kremlin human rights abuses, which, they alleged, had found favor with “the most reactionary imperialist circles” abroad. Sakharov, too, won the Nobel Prize (for peace) two years later, only for 72 members of the academy—a full third of its membership—to sign a florid statement declaring that the award was “of an unworthy and provocatory nature and is blasphemy against the noble ideals cherished by us all of humanism, peace, justice, and friendship between peoples of all countries.”

The pattern of denunciation by committee was repeated in countless cases across the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.

And now it’s come here, because so many of our institutions are populated by garbage people.

OPEN THREAD: Teach the children quietly, for someday sons and daughters, will rise up and fight where we stood still.

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Pentagon releases U-2 pilot’s Chinese spy balloon selfie.

ROGER KIMBALL: Don Lemon gets away with a slap on the wrist.

As for promoting policies that actually harm women — for example, encouraging confused men to parade around in women’s clothes, compete on sports teams against women, and even mutilate themselves in a vain attempt to become women — well, such insane policies have the bad housekeeping seal of woke approval. So they are firing on all cylinders in politically correct redoubts like CNN.

So Licht welcomed Lemón back from his little timeout. This morning, Lemón issued one of the those grating mock apologies that minor celebrities emit when caught out in some misdemeanor. “I appreciate the opportunity to be back on @CNNThisMorning, today,” the mildly chagrined mouthpiece tweeted. “To my network, my colleagues and our incredible audience — I’m sorry. I’ve heard you, I’m learning from you, and I’m committed to doing better.”

Note that Nikki Haley was not mentioned in this mock apology.

Not that it matters, of course. Nikki Haley is not going to be president, but she is still very much in her prime. Something that no one would say about the pathetic Don Lemón.

Considering the question was asked in August “Is Don Lemon the Next to be Purged from CNN?,” he really must know where all of the bodies are buried at CNN in order to not lose his (low-rated) job.