IN EUROPE, ONLY FEMALES CAN TALK BACK:  Here, there, everywhere: first signs of judicial compromise in Israel?; Spain’s female Ron DeSantis?; Sunak’s Brexit renegotiation.

OH, LOOK, THERE’S A TRAMPOLINE. ON THE COUNT OF THREE:  Media: Do NOT Pounce Or Jump On The Covid Lab Leak News.

SHE’S A MALICIOUS IDIOT:  1619 Project Creator- Chinese Not Oppressed By Mao.

She wouldn’t know oppression if it bit her where she sits.

THE UN IS A JOKE — LITERALLY — AT OUR EXPENSE:  ‘Is This a Joke?’: U.N. Human Rights Slammed for Praising China’s $800,000 Donation.

It’s time to withdraw from all these China owned bodies, including the UN and the WHO and stop financing them.
US out of the UN. UN out of the US.

YOU KNOW WHAT? IS THIS BETTER OR WORSE THAN CORN POP?  Mexican President Claims Photo Proves the ‘Alux’, a Mythical Woodland Elf, Exists.

AS LONG AS IT’S NOT KABUKI:  Oversight Committee Chairman Comer Requests to Interview Seven Southern Border Chief Patrol Agents.

AND AGAIN THERE’S MY SHOCKED FACE:  Sorry, Buttigieg. Even WaPo Admits Trump’s Regulation Rollback Didn’t Cause Ohio Train Derailment.

BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE:  Transportation IG Investigating Buttigieg Using Govt Planes for Personal Use.

AKA DEJA POO. OR SAME SH*T DIFFERENT CENTURY:  Liberte, Fraternite, Equity?

I THINK EVERYONE WHO CAN IS MAKING FOR THE EXITS:  The shift away from government schools, at all levels, accelerates.

IN OTHER NEWS, WATER MIGHT BE WET:  How taxes might be making the poor suffer more.

MIRANDA DEVINE: Thank God for the whistleblowers exposing the FBI’s blatant political bias.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China unveils lunar lander to put astronauts on the moon.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ROBOTICS, as viewed from the 1950s.

PAULA BOLYARD: We Need to Talk About Mark Levin’s Interview With Ron DeSantis Last Night. “Whether or not DeSantis decides to run for president, he’s demonstrated over and over again that it’s possible to stand up to the woke mob and The Swamp and win.”

STILL MORE ON MIKE PENCE AND SPEECH AND DEBATE: Mike Pence Does Not Have Legislative Immunity.

Plus: Can the Vice President Invoke the Speech or Debate Clause Privilege at All?

And here are my thoughts. But I have to point out that Congress could fix all of this. By, you know, passing a simple statute laying out legislative and executive immunity — and maybe addressing qualified immunity for government officials, too — rather than waiting for the courts to work this stuff out however they may. Totally within Congress’s power, and honestly their job. But I’m not holding my breath.

ELAGABALUS IS REMEMBERED, TOO:

THE DEMAND FOR HATRED IN AMERICA VASTLY EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY: The Left invented a “Day of Hate” to condemn it.

YES, WE HAVE NO TOMATOES.

HEH: Aussie Reporter Loses It on Air Covering Biden’s Mental Health.

I LIKED MY HIGHLANDER HYBRID, but now there’s a Grand Highlander. It’s like a Highlander, but grander. Well, not exactly: “Meet Toyota’s all-new 2024 Grand Highlander, which, despite its name, is not actually just a bigger Highlander (or a poshed-up one, as Jeep’s Grand Wagoneer is to the regular Wagoneer). The three-row Grand Highlander SUV is actually a completely new vehicle, larger than the Highlander and intended to compete against the likes of the Hyundai Palisade, the Kia Telluride, Volkswagen Atlas, and even Jeep’s Grand Cherokee L.”

WELL, THEY SHOULD BE: NY Dems sweating “extinction-level events” if Gov Hochul’s budget proposals go through.

“SENSITIVITY READERS” NEED TO GO THE WAY OF BOWDLERIZERS: ‘The Name Is Bond. James Bond. My Pronouns Are…’ 007 Novels Get Woke Makeover.

THAT’S NOW HOW THIS WORKS! THAT’S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS. Marshall University Prof: Cops and Vets Earn Their Second Amendment Rights Through Months of Training.