WHAT? I THOUGHT THE POPE WAS ALREADY WORKING FOR THEM…  Rep. Jordan Subpoenas FBI Director Wray to Hand Over Documents Associated With Operation Targeting Catholics.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Biden Admin Hired Leftist Journalism Academy to Train Tax-Payer Funded Reporters How to be ‘Balanced and Bias-Free’.

THE TALKING MOP AIN’T VERY SMART:  Karine Jean-Pierre Brushes Off the Lack of Biden Press Conferences Since He Answers ‘Shouted Questions’.

THEY DRINK THEIR OWN INK AND TRY TO GET US TO ALSO:  Drowning in a Sea.

BURIED LEDE: THEY’VE KEPT THESE RECORDS?  Son of George Soros scoring easy White House access, records show.

MORE COWBELL!  Amazon learned the wrong lesson.

THE NERVE OF SOME PEOPLE, THINKING THEY’RE BETTER CAREGIVERS THAN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS:   Maine mom suing school for giving daughter chest binders says liberals attacking her online.

IF YOU ARE GOING TO SAN FRANCISCO YOU ARE GOING TO MEET SOME GENTLE PEOPLE THERE:   Former San Francisco fire commissioner attacked with crowbar day after Bob Lee stabbed to death.

WELCOME TO THE PARTY, PAL:  How Jimmy Dore Broke Out of the Propaganda Matrix.

If the government tells you the sky is blue, assume it’s not.

AS IF WE COULDN’T SEE THIS COMING:  US Agency Advances New Rule Targeting Portable Gas-Powered Generators.

So these agencies making rules with the power of laws…..

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  New Medical Codes for COVID-19 Vaccination Status Used to Track People, CDC Confirms.

In other news, water still wet, ocean salty, sun rises in the East. Shocked, shocked, shocked.

ABOUT TIME. MORE LIKE THIS:  Pushback: Catholic college moves to end its need for any federal funding.

KIDS JUDGE ALEXA SMARTER THAN ROOMBA, but say both deserve kindness.

OPEN THREAD: Party on.

LONG OVERDUE: Biden signs bill ending COVID national emergency with month to spare.

Related: I wonder if this will cause the Elizabeth Ann Clune Montessori School of Ithaca to have a change of heart? The School That Couldn’t Quit Covid. A school in upstate New York imposed some of the most extreme measures during the pandemic—including silent lunches and outdoor masking. The rules are still in effect. “As of today, children at EACMSI are still required to mask indoors and outdoors. They are still prohibited from speaking during lunch. Second-graders who began school there as kindergarteners in fall 2020 have never experienced a normal day of school in their lives.”

I THINK THE “LEARNING PERIOD” SHOULD BE EXTENDED: Report recommends allowing “learning period” for commercial human spaceflight safety regulations to expire.

What space tourism operations there are show no signs of being unsafe, and we are still at the very beginning. I don’t think regulators know enough to regulate intelligently.

GREAT MOMENTS IN FAILURE THEATER: Expelled TN Democrat to Be Reinstated, GOP Speaker Appears to Fold.

INVERTING THE CLAUSEWITZ CLAUSE: FBI Used Undercover Agent to Cultivate Sources among Catholic Clergy and Leadership, House Republicans Reveal.

Meanwhile: Walter Reed Issues ‘Cease and Desist Order’ to Group of Franciscan Priests Ministering to Catholic Patients.

As I wrote in 2009, “President Obama has demonstrated that he’s always eager to view American politics as the continuation of warfare by other means, to flip von Clausewitz’s axiom on its head. Certainly class and culture warfare at least. It’s the Chicago way, after all.” Biden’s handlers have dusted off Obama’s old playbook, and our sclerotic “President Unity” apparently has no qualms with putting it to work.

DON SURBER: DeSantis wants to bring back the 1950s? Cool.

Donna Brazile, the ethically challenged Democrat operator, said on Sunday, “Ron DeSantis is running on a 1950s America, not a 2050 America.”

Cool because the 1950s were a period of peace, prosperity and promise in America under President Eisenhower.

After 20 years of wars and depression under Democrat presidents, America was ready to roll again, this time without Uncle Sam spending money he did not have on the military.

America remained, however, the champion of the free world. We drafted the King of Rock and Roll to drive a tank to protect West Germany from a Soviet invasion. Elvis did not complain. He saw it as his patriotic duty because he loved the country. Once his service ended, he came home and resumed his career as a singer and actor.

Imagine some rapper or even country star doing that today. And for the record, Jimi Hendrix served and was a member of the 101st Airborne. That was in the 1960s, which shows the values we had in the 1950s had staying power.

Eisenhower had won the War in Europe in the 1940s. He knew war and he avoided it. His first accomplishment as president was ending the hot war in Korea. He refused to enter England’s dispute with Egypt over the Suez Canal and declined the invitation to join the Hungarian revolution.

Our economy blossomed. Factories hired. Stores stocked up. For the first time since the heyday of Calvin Coolidge, America was booming again without a war.

DeSantis would have bipartisan support if be brought back the ’50s: A Moment of Communion with Paul Krugman.

Back in 2006, when he was writing The Conscience of a Liberal, Krugman found himself searching for a way to describe his own political Eden, his vision of America before the Fall. He knew the moment that he wanted to describe: the fifties and early sixties, when prosperity was not only broad but broadly shared. [Krugman’s wife, Robin Wells], looking over a draft, thought his account was too numerical, too cold. She suggested that he describe his own childhood, in the ­middle-class suburb of Merrick, Long Island. And so Krugman began writing with an almost choking nostalgia, the sort of feeling that he usually despises: “The political and economic environment of my youth stands revealed as a paradise lost, an exceptional moment in our nation’s history …”

It’s not too late, Paul!

THAT’S WHY THEY WANT IT: The Short, Sweet Step from Digital Currency to Dictatorship.

SAN DIEGO USED TO BE A NICE TOWN: San Diego county supervisor sex scandal blowing up big time. “Back in January, I painted a little picture for you of what a socialist, woke hellhole the formerly idyllic San Diego had become. Between banning natural gas, proposed mileage taxes, and rigging the scales so the votes of Democratic supervisors and their reps from populated sections of the county were weighted more than the rest, it certainly has meant good times for the ruling progressive junta.”

NOT EXACTLY A PUBLIC HEALTH SUCCESS: Health data: New Yorkers’ life expectancy plummeted in 2020. “The report noted that casualty rates in New York during 2020 surpassed the levels of the 1918 influenza pandemic.”

Given that Covid itself is and was much less lethal than the 1918 flu, that suggests the policies were making things worse, not better.

BYRON YORK: When Democrats Attack Democracy.

TREAT YOURSELF: Bose QuietComfort 45 Bluetooth Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones. #CommissionEarned

ROBERT GRABOYES: Whence Fall Snowflakes? “Today’s students spent their entire childhoods on leashes. They had no place to explore. They had no time for pondering. They had no personal interactions to work out. As a result, they are hopelessly fragile, constantly offended, and utterly dependent. Sadly, colleges and universities gleefully milk this endless supply of stunted maturity.”