THEY NEED TO MAKE A PUBLIC APOLOGY: Crocs Shoes Silently Scrub Social Media After Drag Sponsorship Criticism. “At the end of December, the billion-dollar shoe brand, Crocs, announced its sponsorship of a kids drag fashion show for the RuPaul’s Drag Convention in London this past weekend. After ample backlash condemning the grooming behavior of the company, Crocs Europe silently deleted all signs of sponsorship.”

CONGRATULATIONS TO LARRY KUDLOW: “Fox Business host Larry Kudlow’s show won the ratings race in 2022, his first full year since returning to TV. Kudlow averaged 313,000 viewers, helping Fox beat CNBC. It was followed by Fox’s Varney & Co. as the next highest-rated show in the business news space.”

I used to do his old CNBC show and always enjoyed it. He’s a class act.

ICYMI: On my new Substack, I talk to Prof. Mark Perry about fighting campus bigotry.

THE PRESS AS SERVANTS OF THE REGIME: Liberal media is trying to protect the FBI from hard questions about illegal surveillance.

Related: Jonathan Turley: The liberal media’s cynical gaslighting on House probes into Hunter Biden.

BUT HOW ARE THEY DOING WITH REGULAR EDUCATION? UK Schools ‘Re-Educating’ Students ‘Brainwashed’ by Andrew Tate.

THAT’S OKAY, THE MIDTERMS ARE OVER: Biden Promised To Refill Oil Reserves at a Profit. Now Prices Are Too High: Emergency reserves have plunged to four-decade low, gone to China under Biden.

Well, to be fair, China’s paid him more than we do.

BE PREPARED: Coast XP11R Rechargeable Dual Power LED Flashlight. #CommissionEarned

THEY SHOULD BUY MORE: Canada on Monday announced plans to buy 88 F-35A Joint Strike Fighters for CA$19 billion (U.S. $14 billion). “The fifth-generation fighters will replace Canada’s current fleet of CF-18 Hornets, the Royal Canadian Air Force’s version of the F/A-18, Anand said. Canada expects the full F-35 fleet to be delivered in time for the service to phase the older fighters out by the end of 2032.”

CHANGE:

Flashback: Pelosi, Democrats eject Marjorie Taylor Greene from House committees.

As with Harry Reid and the filibuster, why do Democrats think the rules they change won’t apply to them when they’re the party out of power?

TYLER O’NEIL: Kristi Noem backs bill protecting kids from trans “treatments.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Conservatives take aim at tenure for university professors.

Once even conservatives saw tenure as a vital protection for free speech for conservative professors. But now there are so few conservative professors left that that argument has less force . . . .

WHAT ILLEGITIMATE GOVERNMENTS DO: There Are Receipts: Joe Biden’s White House Directed Facebook COVID-19 Censorship.

THERE’S NO MONEY IN LETTING KIDS BE KIDS: New Medical Advice for Fat Kids Urges Drugs and Surgery Over Diet and Exercise.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Two more Fairfax County high schools admit they didn’t inform students of their National Merit Awards.

At Thomas Jefferson High a decision was made not to inform students of their awards by the school’s principal Ann Bonitatibus and the director of student services Brandon Kosatka. The decision was discovered by the parent of a student at the school who earned an award but was never notified. Kosatka, the student services administrator, admitted that a decision had been made to downplay the awards to avoid hurting the feelings of other students.

All of this is in keeping with the general push toward equity over excellence in schools. The goal is no longer to push students to excel it’s to make sure that everyone feels good. So it’s probably no surprise then that the failure to notify students of their National Merit Awards didn’t just happen at this one Fairfax County school. Last week, two more high schools sent out emails admitting they had also failed to inform students of the awards.

This goes beyond educational malpractice to something like criminal fraud. “In short, mostly Asian kids who excelled and won an academic award were not told about it in order to keep the kids who didn’t win from feeling bad about it. That’s equity/anti-racism in a nutshell. I hope some parents sue the bejeezus out of Fairfax County Public Schools over this. It’s the only way they’ll learn not to do it again.”

And why send your kids to “prestigious” public schools if those schools are going to sabotage their futures in the name of “equity?”

Especially when, even if those schools get your kid into a prestigious college, employers won’t want to know about it, also in the name of equity? And diversity consultants say to hire people without degrees to promote diversity.

NOW THEY TELL US: Teachers Union President Randi Weingarten ripped for finally admitting that “remote education didn’t work.”

I’M NOW READING S.M. Stirling’s new Conan book. I’ve never been a big Conan fan, but it’s a good read.

HARSH, BUT FAIR:

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  White House Visitors Social Security Numbers Found In Jan 6 Files.

WELL, BIDEN, BRAIN, YOU KNOW: Why is the “reserve” part of Strategic Petroleum Reserve so hard for Biden’s brain to process?

OPEN THREAD: Here you go.

AMAZING: Damar Hamlin Discharged, Will Continue Recovery in Buffalo.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: A victory over New Jersey’s new gun laws in Koons v. Reynolds. The Reynolds here is no relation, as far as I know.

SHOCK: NYU Study Finds Russian Trolls Had Little to No Impact on Trump’s 2016 Election. As Ace asks, “Where do we go to get our last six years back?”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Virgin Orbit ready for first U.K. launch.

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: The Left Hits a New Low: Down Syndrome Drag Shows.