NEWS YOU CAN USE: Belly Button Piercings Are Back.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Tucker Carlson Obtains 40,000 Unseen Hours Of Biden Falling Down Air Force One Stairs.

CHANGE: Poland builds Europe’s largest land force to counter Russian threat.

To start with, it has placed orders for 1,000 K2 main battle tanks from South Korea, and 250 brand new M1A2 SEPv3 Abram tanks from the US. This will turn Poland into the owner of Europe’s biggest tank force, dwarfing the UK’s fleet of 227.

Its artillery will be bolstered by the arrival of 600 K9s, 18 HIMARS launchers with 9,000 rockets, and 288 K239 Chunmoo MRL systems from South Korea.

Over 1,000 Polish-made Borsuk infantry fighting vehicles will carry Polish troops into battle, while air cover will come from 96 AH-64E Apache helicopters bought from the US, and 48 FA-50 combat aircraft now on order from South Korea.

“We are changing our equipment very, very quickly,” said Captain Adamiak. “It really is revolution, not evolution.”

All of this will be underscored by plans to double the size of the Polish Army to 300,000, which would turn Poland into Europe’s biggest military power, in terms of manpower, west of Ukraine.

Interesting the role South Korea is playing in up-arming Poland.

IT’S A BIG UPGRADE: ChatGPT successor GPT-4 launches this week with exciting new features.

THE ARTICLE BRANNON DENNING AND I WROTE, Retconning Heller: Five Takes on New York Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, is now #6 on the SSRN Top Legal Downloads list. Thanks to everyone who downloaded it.

MARK JUDGE: The Captive Mind and Clint Eastwood.

MORE AND MORE SHE LOOKS LIKE A REPUBLICAN PLANT: Nikki Fried Accidentally Admits There’s Porn in Schools to Own Ron DeSantis.

FLASHBACK: Fear the Boom and Bust.

MAYBE IT WAS A BAD IDEA FOR BIDEN TO CALL THEM A PARIAH STATE: Saudi Arabia joins the new Axis of Evil.

I was told that the Biden Administration would return us to smooth diplomacy and happy allies.

FALLOUT: Russian-Iranian Deal For Su-35s Finalized, State Media Reports. “The reported deal could possibly include the 24 Su-35SEs once destined for Egypt before the threat of U.S. sanctions and a teased offer of F-15s.”

HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS: UNREAL HuffPost Personal Propaganda: The Harrowing Tale of a Six-Year-Old’s Gender Transition.

READER FAVORITE: Walker’s Razor Slim Ultra Electronic Earmuffs for Hunting, Shooting. #CommissionEarned

OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Here’s how the government plans to stop more banks from crumbling and turning this thing into a full-blown banking crisis.

UNRESTORED COPY OF DETECTIVE COMICS #27, THE FIRST BATMAN COMIC, GOING ON SALE AT AUCTION. “The issue of Detective Comics #27 has a collector’s rating of 6.0, or ‘Fine’, from third-party memorabilia evaluator the Certified Guaranty Company…Some comics enthusiasts think that, even at a 6.0, the issue could break that $1.74 million tally. ‘$1.5 million is not an unreasonable guess. It may set a record. It’s so sought after that it’s gonna get crazy attention,’ Ted VanLiew, owner of Super World Comics in Holden, Massachusetts, told the New York Post, adding that Detective Comics #27 is one of the ‘holy grails of comics.’”

GOOD: In ‘victory for free speech,’ Cornell to host climate change debate.

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: California ‘Teacher of the Year’ faces 14 charges in child sexual abuse case.

CHANGE? Will This Be the Last Year for Daylight Saving Time? “It would be so much easier if DST were permanent. Why it isn’t is basically a matter of time — literally. Making DST permanent is a popular issue for Congress to address and rid us of this inconvenient and unhealthy change of clocks. But Congress has failed us.”

While we’re at it, move the start of school back at least one hour — preferably 90 minutes. It starts too early already, which is bad for kids who do better sleeping later and longer.

IT NEEDS TO BE PURGED: Wokeness has peaked, but it’s not going anywhere, experts argue.

STANFORD REVIEW: Fire Tirien Steinbach. “Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez rightly apologized to Judge Duncan on Saturday, stating that ‘what happened was inconsistent with our policies on free speech.’ But at the center of the debacle was not the group of unruly law students, but Stanford Law School’s own Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tirien Steinbach.”

WELL, WAPO: WaPo Confused Why It’s Wrong For Catholic Priests To Use Hookup Apps.

WOULD YOU DIE FOR A LIE? That’s the question being posed today by a HillFaith video to hundreds of congressional aides, representing both parties, via an ad in this week’s CNCT Newsletter. Check it out here. Would you? You should check out the CNCT App, too, because it’s a great example of innovative digital creativity by a very sharp young man, David Tennent.

MICHAEL WALSH: The Untouchables.

JOEL KOTKIN: The SVB collapse marks the end of the Silicon Valley era: The Bay Area is no longer brimming with innovative startups and entrepreneurs.

Get woke, go broke.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Some Walls Might Be Closing in on the Biden Crime Family. “There is no bombshell news, but it looks like some progress has been made in exposing the depths of the Biden business depravity, especially when it comes to the commies in the country with which we will soon be fighting a war.”

FLASHBACK TO 2010: Angelo Codevilla on America’s Ruling Class.

As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and the Wall Street Journal) on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors’ “toxic assets” was the only alternative to the U.S. economy’s “systemic collapse.” In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama. Many, if not most, people around them also agreed upon the eventual commitment of some 10 trillion nonexistent dollars in ways unprecedented in America. They explained neither the difference between the assets’ nominal and real values, nor precisely why letting the market find the latter would collapse America. The public objected immediately, by margins of three or four to one.

When this majority discovered that virtually no one in a position of power in either party or with a national voice would take their objections seriously, that decisions about their money were being made in bipartisan backroom deals with interested parties, and that the laws on these matters were being voted by people who had not read them, the term “political class” came into use. Then, after those in power changed their plans from buying toxic assets to buying up equity in banks and major industries but refused to explain why, when they reasserted their right to decide ad hoc on these and so many other matters, supposing them to be beyond the general public’s understanding, the American people started referring to those in and around government as the “ruling class.” And in fact Republican and Democratic office holders and their retinues show a similar presumption to dominate and fewer differences in tastes, habits, opinions, and sources of income among one another than between both and the rest of the country. They think, look, and act as a class.

And from Glenn in February at his Substack: Thoughts on our ruling class monoculture.