CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Did a VA official leak confidential data to his wife — the chair of the DCCC?

OF COURSE THEY DID, THAT WAS THEIR GOAL: Chemerinsky: Stanford Law Students Violated Free Speech By Shouting Down A Conservative Speaker.

BECAUSE OF COURSE: Can You Guess Who NBC News Portrayed as the Real Victims of the Nashville Shooting?

NBC is actually behind the curve. ABC’s Terry Moran was painting the killer as a victim of Tennessee politics within hours of the murders.

AS I KEEP SAYING, ROUTINE NOW, BUT THAT’S WHAT’S COOL: Watch SpaceX launch 56 Starlink satellites, land rocket at sea today. Scheduled for 4:01 pm ET.

BATTLESWARM BLOG: Russia-China Strategic Partnership is Molotovribbentroperrific. “This is the Chinese making a naked power play for control of Russia’s backyard.”

IMPEACHMENT WOULD BE EVEN MORE GLORIOUS: Ted Cruz Lays Into Mayorkas, and It’s Glorious. “Mr. Secretary, I want to say to you right now, your behavior is disgraceful. And the deaths, the children assaulted, the children raped, they are at your feet. And if you had integrity, you would resign. The men and women of the Border Patrol, they’ve never had a political leader undermine them. They despise you, Mr. Secretary, because you’re willing to let children be raped to follow political orders. This is a crisis. It’s a disgrace. And you won’t even admit this human tragedy as it is a crisis.”

TWITTER BANS FEDERALIST CEO SEAN DAVIS FOR REPORTING ON ‘TRANS DAY OF VENGEANCE.’ Apparently Elon Musk didn’t fire enough people.

I THINK MY LIVER CAN HOLD OUT AT LEAST THAT LONG: Humans will achieve immortality in eight YEARS, says former Google engineer who has predicted the future with 86% accuracy.

AMERICA THE LOST: Washington Examiner Editor-in-Chief Hugo Gurdon is unsurprised by the results of that much-publicized Wall Street Journal survey and concludes that it’s “no surprise, but it is a calamity. The nation is where it is because it has been attacked from within by people of a political persuasion that, for generations, has paid only hypocritical lip service (if that) to being on America’s side.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Hillary Clinton will teach foreign policy ‘decision-making’ course at Columbia.

Flashback:

Thanks to Obama’s policies — and Hillary Clinton’s — black people were sold as slaves in Libya. That’s what establishment “expertise” gets you.

I DIDN’T KNOW AI ALGOS COULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT BEING BEHEADED: ChatGPT Makes Tasteless Joke About Jesus, Declares Mohammed Off-limits.

THESE TRANS ACTIVISTS SEEM LIKE TEDIOUS BULLIES: Disruptive trans-activists escorted out of Cabot Phillips event by police: Trans-activist students said they were “not interested in conversation” with Cabot Phillips as they protested his speech inside the venue at the University of Pittsburgh.

YOU’LL CHARGE YOUR CAR AT NIGHT, THEY TOLD ME. IT’LL BE READY IN THE MORNING TO DRIVE ALL DAY, THEY SAID: Stanford study warns against charging electric cars at home overnight. “It found that if rapid EV growth continued with a continued dominance of residential, nighttime charging, peak electricity demand could increase by up to 25% in just over a decade.”

DEAL OF THE DAY: HOTO Electric Screwdriver. #CommissionEarned

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: American Left Has Grown More Violent While FBI Was Hunting Soccer Moms. “Parents at school board meetings have yet to amass a body count.”

UNEXPECTEDLY! $52 Billion Chipmaking Plan Is Racing Toward Failure.

Passed last year with bipartisan support, the law was meant to revive US chipmaking capacity. Although America is a world leader in cutting-edge chip design, its share of global semiconductor manufacturing has declined from 37% in 1990 to about 12%. Given the importance of such chips to the economy and especially to national security — the Defense Department needs about 1.9 billion of them a year — a more or less coherent case could be made for subsidies, prudently applied.

Yet simply writing checks was never going to be enough. Producing chips in the US still takes 25% longer and costs nearly 50% more than doing so in Asia. Significant policy changes would be needed for US-based manufacturers to be even remotely competitive. As things stand, they face three serious impediments — all inflicted by the government.

As predicted by pretty much everybody who wasn’t expecting a handout. Maybe soon we’ll get a study showing that the Inflation Reduction Act doesn’t reduce inflation.

HEY, IT’S NOT LIKE IT’S ANGRY PARENTS YELLING AT SCHOOL BOARDS: FBI Isn’t Treating Nashville Shooting As Domestic Terrorism.

STOP CELEBRATING, INDULGING, AND SUBSIDIZING MENTAL ILLNESS — THAT IS, WHEN WE AREN’T PRETENDING TO IGNORE IT: The Nashville Killer Lied About Her Guns. “Had authorities known about Hale’s mental issues, she wouldn’t have been able to buy the ‘seven firearms from five different gun stores here,’ Drake told reporters.”

VIDEO OF RECENT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS EVENT:  “Anti-Asian Discrimination at College Admissions.”

The U.S. Commission of Civil Rights had a briefing on Friday about anti-Asian racism. Our progressive Staff Director wanted the briefing to be about anti-Asian hate crimes.  He considered it dirty pool that our witnesses wanted to bring up discrimination against Asians in college admissions.  He tried to stop them.  It was hilarious.  (Fortunately, we have the NAS to sponsor an event that takes on the anti-Asian college admissions issue head on.)

FOR THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION THIS ISN’T A BUG,IT’S A FEATURE: Biden’s Interior Secretary Agrees: Electric Vehicles Increase US Reliance on China.