ANALYSIS: TRUE. We are governed by clowns.

HEH: The Lincoln Project Can’t Grasp Why Fox News Won’t Run Its Ad Attacking Fox News.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: After Years of Lobbying and Donations, Gavin Newsom Stepped In To Sell Biden on Silicon Valley Bank Bailout. “Newsom helped convince Biden during a Saturday meeting that a bailout was necessary, Politico reported Monday. In 2021, the California bank quietly gave $100,000 to Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s California Partners Project as it was gearing up to lobby the state’s university, pension, and teachers’ retirement systems. The gift was the bank’s largest contribution to any California entity that year.”

MICHAEL WALSH JOHN O’SULLIVAN: Private Jokesters, Public Enemies: Payback Time for the Covid Pinocchios. “Shouldn’t the Canadian truckers be getting the Nobel Peace Prize about now? Maybe sharing it with Isabel Oakeshott?”

HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS: Powerlifters Sound Alarm on Male Takeover after Trans Court Ruling.

Ontario-based female powerlifter April Hutchinson was supposed to face Anne Andres — the same transgender-identifying man who beat Bayntun back in 2019 — in her weight class at the Vancouver national tournament in February, but refused to compete in an act of protest after watching Andres’s behavior on the circuit.

Since taking up women’s powerlifting in 2019, Andres has quickly risen through the ranks, scoring a bronze medal at nationals and setting the bench-press record for the Alberta province at 253 lbs. in the 84+ category, Hutchinson said.

Andres isn’t humbled by his natural advantage, as one might expect. Instead he has gloated about competing in the women’s category and insulted female powerlifters for poor performance in certain upper-body exercises.

“He actually knocked females for having a weak bench press,” Hutchinson said. “The audacity this guy has. It’s like, ‘Oh, I have an advantage, but you women are weak on bench press because you are women.’ He’s admitting to have an advantage.”

At the Western Canadian Powerlifting and Bench Press Championships last September, Andres bench pressed 270 lbs., defeating multiple women in the Women’s Raw 185+ Open.

“Why is women’s bench so bad? I mean, not compared to me, we all know that I’m a tranny freak so that doesn’t count. And no, we’re not talking about Mackenzie Lee, she’s got little T-Rex arms and she’s like 400 pounds of chest muscle apparently,” Andres said in a November Instagram video.

He might claim to be a woman, but he’s certainly no lady.

NOT UNTIL THERE’S EITHER A REPUBLICAN MAJORITY IN CONGRESS, OR A DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY ON THE COURT: SCOTUS asks Congress to fund more protection.

I mean if, say in response to Sen. Charles Schumer’s (D-NY) not-so-veiled threats, somebody kills, say, Justice Kavanaugh, all it means is Biden gets another seat on the Court.

“A WISE AND FRUGAL GOVERNMENT…” BUT CALIFORNIA HAS NEITHER: With $22.5 Billion Deficit, California Looks to Pay $640 Billion in Reparations.

DAVID BERNSTEIN: The One Key Question No Justice Asked in the Harvard/UNC Affirmative Action Case: Harvard and UNC’s defense is based on the perceived need for racial diversity; but how do they justify treating “Hispanic” as a Racial Classification.

Well, it’s not.

I DON’T ALWAYS HAVE SERIES ALTERING EVENTS IN A NOVELLA, BUT WHEN I DO, IT ANNOYS ME:  Lights Out and Cry.

It is New Year’s Day in Goldport Colorado, the most shifter-infested town in the known universe.
At the George — the diner where shifters gather — Kyrie is about to give birth, Tom is getting psychic messages from the Great Sky Dragon and Rafiel is looking for information on why the mayor exploded.
Fasten your seat belts. This is going to be a fast ride into adventure and shape-shifting, after which things will never be the same.

I REMEMBER WHEN MONEY IN POLITICS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE BAD: Leftist Groups Tapping $1 Billion to Vastly Expand the Private Financing of Public Elections.

Democrats and their progressive allies are vastly expanding their unprecedented efforts, begun in 2020, to use private money to influence and run public elections.

Supported by groups with more than $1 billion at their disposal, according to public records, these partisan groups are working with state and local boards to influence functions that have long been the domain of government or political parties.

Registering and turning out voters – once handled primarily by political parties – and design of election office websites and mail-in ballots are being handed over to those same nonprofits, which are staffed by progressive activists that include former Democratic Party advocates, organized labor adherents and community organizers.

Talking about this probably gets you labeled as a conspiracy theorist, which is what usually happens to people who point out conspiracies nowadays.

WE NEED TO GET OUT OF THIS PLACE:  Potential Artemis-3 landing site on the Moon.

I SNAGGED A GUEST TO EXPLAIN THIS MESS TO ME — AND YOU:  SVB – A Guest Post by Francis Turner.

PUPPET IS A FUNNY WAY TO SPELL SH*T:  Puppet show masquerading as democracy.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Today’s blacklisted American: Eventbrite routinely blacklists conservative events.

WE’VE CARRIED THEM SO LONG THEY FORGOT THE REALITIES OF LIFE:  UK, Germany Struggle to Revamp Armed Forces Amid Growing Chinese and Russian Threats.

IT BEARS REPEATING:  The Stanford Law School Culture, Not The Diversity Dean, Is The Problem (but I repeat myself).

WELL, IT WAS A GREAT SYSTEM FOR THE WORLD 100 YEARS AGO:  And this is why public education is doomed.

I’M SO DISILLUSIONED TO LEARN HE IMPERSONATED AN IMPOSTER:  ‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman Frank Abagnale Jr. lied about his lifetime of lies, sources claim.

Or, you know, it’s so meta I’m actually impressed.

BUT THEY HAVE BIKE LANES!   NYC ranked US’s most congested city as motorists spend 10 full days in rush-hour traffic per year.

THE US HASN’T BEEN TRULY ‘CAPITALIST’ IN AT LEAST FIFTY YEARS:  SVB bailout shows ‘capitalism is breaking down,’ Ken Griffin says.

Though I’d date it to FDR’s first term.

Can we give Capitalism a try?

“THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN”:  Treasury gives House GOP access to Biden family suspicious activity reports.

COULD BE – BUT PROBABLY AREN’T:  2004 Wisconsin state quarters could be worth up to $6K: Here’s why.

IT APPEARS AS THOUGH MAYOR PETE FELT THE NEED TO DO SOMETHING (ANYTHING) TO GET HIS NAME IN THE PAPERS IN A POSITIVE LIGHT:  Biden admin urges Congress to ban family seating fees on airlines.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Woke colleges are literally driving students mad.

OPEN THREAD: Have fun, kids.