WAR ON RACISM: MARK PERRY STRIKES AGAIN! Country Music Association’s ‘Diversity & Inclusion’ Fellowship Discriminates Against White Students, Complaint Says. “A Country Music Association (CMA) summer fellowship racially discriminates against students by only accepting applicants who identify as black or indigenous people of color (BIPOC), University of Michigan emeritus professor Mark Perry alleged in a Tuesday complaint obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The CMA Diversity & Inclusion Fellowship is open to BIPOC students at the University of Alabama, the University of Tennessee and Belmont University and provides students with on-the-job experience in the country music industry. Perry filed a complaint with the United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights because the program allegedly violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibits race-based discrimination, according to the email.”

Plus, from Perry: “Universities like these three should maybe be required by the OCR to have their administrators and staff undergo remedial civil rights training so that they learn that BIPOC-only, no whites allowed programs like the music Fellowship are illegal.”

A copy of Perry’s letter is at the link.

If you missed it before, here’s my interview with Mark Perry.

WHO KNEW THAT AGE 80, BIDEN CAN DO 360s BETTER THAN TONY HAWK? Biden tries to pivot to the center.

Biden seems to see his position as strong enough to break an immigration stand-off between the left-wingers and moderates within his administration. Last week he announced measures designed to stem the flow of migrants crossing from Mexico into the United States. The raft of measures included expanded use of Title 42 expulsions: an abandonment of the promise to junk Trump-era measures that prompted a rebuke from progressive groups. Homeland Security has also announced an update of the Trump-era “transit ban” that will make migrants who did not go through an authorized port of entry ineligible for asylum. It would also prohibit migrants from applying for asylum unless they were first turned away by another country.

In other words, behind the symbolism of Biden’s border visit is a substantive move in a more moderate direction. By expanding his administration’s use of Title 42, for example, Biden is embracing a policy he had been fighting in the courts to end.

Axios’s Josh Kraushaar lists Biden’s border trip as one sign of a “quiet pivot” to the center that has defined the start of 2023 for the president. Other evidence of the pivot includes last week’s show of bipartisanship in a Kentucky visit with Mitch McConnell to promote the results of bipartisan infrastructure legislation. Kraushaar understands the pivot as part of the “emerging Biden bet” that “he can reprise his winning 2020 campaign theme — winning re-election as a center-left incumbent who looks better than the radical alternatives.”

That “pivot to the center” didn’t last very long: Really? They want to ban gas stoves now?

The claim here is that gas stoves “emit pollutants including nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and fine particulate matter.” Those alleged emissions are above levels deemed safe by the EPA and the WHO. But if this report sounds suspicious to you, you’re not alone. First of all, gas stoves have been around since the early 1800s and they have been ubiquitous in America for longer than anyone can remember. The EPA has been in business for more than 50 years. The WHO was set up in the 1940s. And you’re just figuring this out now?

Obviously, not everyone agrees with this proposal. It appears to be based on one study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The American Gas Association cited guidelines from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and the EPA, neither of which find gas stoves to be a significant contributor to adverse air quality or to pose a health hazard.

Turning this into more of a clown show, Cory Booker jumped into the debate. He claimed that gas stoves pose a “cumulative burden on black, Latino and low-income households.” Because of course he did. Here’s a hot tip for Senator Booker. White people use gas stoves too. Everyone does.

If Joe’s brain didn’t consist of rotting guacamole, this would be the perfect opportunity for him to do a little 1990s-era Clinton-style triangulation, and insist that “No, of course we’re not taking away your gas stoves. Jill loves hers!”

But it’s not like we’ve seen many signs that Joe is actually running the show in his White House.

SOME GUYS I SEE IN THE LOCKER ROOM AT MY GYM SEEM TO HAVE ACTIVATED THOSE GENES ALREADY: Humans Still Have The Genes For a Full Coat of Fur, Scientists Discover.

SELF-DEFENSE LEGAL EXPERT ANDREW BRANCA: Houston Taqueria Shooting: Legally Justified Killing or Simply an Execution?

AS SURELY AS THE NIGHT FOLLOWS THE DAY, THE NEW GOP FRONTRUNNER IS ALWAYS “MORE RADICAL” THAN THE LAST: NYT: DeSantis is “radical” compared to Trump.

RIGHT:

MICROBIOME NEWS: Scientists Raise Alarm About Threats to the Human Microbiome in New Documentary The Invisible Extinction.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: More Employees Than Students at Stanford: Give Each Student a Concierge! “Specifically, there were 15,750 administrators, 2,288 faculty members, and 16,937 students. The paid help of 18,038 (administrators plus faculty) outnumbered the customers (students) by 1,101. That gave me an idea for a stunning administrative reorganization: give each student a paid concierge—an academic butler, if you will—to help navigate the pain of collegiate living in Palo Alto.”

BIPARTISAN HOUSE VOTE CREATES NEW CHINA PANEL: It may well be the last bipartisan vote in the House during the 118th Congress, so there will now be established the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

AUTISM UPDATE: Scientists zero in on why kids with autism struggle with a speaker’s ‘tone.’ “Children with autism often have difficulty grasping the emotional cues in other people’s voices, and researchers may have zeroed in on the reason why. In a study of 43 kids with and without autism, researchers were able to trace such difficulties to a particular brain area — one involved in social communication.”

BE PREPARED: Real Leather Men’s Bifold Wallet RFID Blocking . #CommissionEarned

HAHA, THAT’LL NEVER HAPPEN BECAUSE HE’S A DEMOCRAT: Trump responds to Biden classified document discovery, asks when FBI will raid his ‘many homes.’

NEWS YOU CAN USE: You Gotta Be Smarter Than the Gun. You’d think that would be easy given that guns are inanimate objects, and yet. . .

ROGER KIMBALL: It’s different when Biden gets caught with classified docs.

FROM ROY M. GRIFFIS (CREATOR OF TRUESBURY):  The Thing From HR: A Cthulhu, Amalgamated Novel.

It’s #1 in horror right now and #2 in epic fantasy. Let’s shoot it to the stratosphere!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#CommissionEarned

What’s a nice Shoggoth like him doing in a dump like this?

Narg was content working as a Damnation Services-10 in HR. Sure, he was related to one of the Elder Gods, but a little nepotism never hurt any Thing. His life was just wailing and gibbering, right up until his Uncle needed a small favor from his nephew.

All Narg had to do was go down among the humans…and pretend to be one of them.

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Report: Germany Arrests Iranian National Planning “Islamist-Motivated” Chemical Attack. German police: The 32-year-old Iranian man is “suspected of having prepared a serious act of violence … by procuring cyanide and ricin to commit an Islamist-motivated attack.”

I TEND TO OVERCLEAN: How Clean Should Your Guns Be?

SKYNET SMILES: World’s biggest strip club hires robot suit that turns bouncers into ‘Terminator.’

STILL ALL TRUMP, ALL THE TIME: CNN: Biden Classified Docs Story ‘A Political Gift to Trump.’

READER FAVORITE: TurboTax Deluxe 2022 Tax Software. #CommissionEarned

JOE JUST DOESN’T GET IT: President Joe Biden promised he would refill America’s Petroleum Reserve and even make a little profit in the process. Well, economics being economics, that won’t happen any time soon, Washington Free Beacon reports.

I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN IRAN WAS FULLY SANCTIONED AND RUSSIA DIDN’T DARE INVADE UKRAINE: U.S. says Iran may be ‘contributing’ to war crimes in Ukraine.

FRANK J. FLEMING HAS ANSWERS TO THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: A Ladies Guide to Landing a Plane in an Emergency Situation. Women seem to think they couldn’t land an airplane with just the assistance of air traffic control, but I’m here to help.

SPACE: Dark matter, Jupiter’s moons, and more: What to expect from space exploration in 2023.

DON SURBER: McCarthy cleans House. “McCarthy said, ‘It’s not like it’s anything new. Remember, this is what Nancy Pelosi – this is the type of Congress she wanted to have.'”

As Kurt Schlichter warned them in 2015: Liberals May Regret Their New Rules.