A WELL-DESERVED PALL: White House Report Card: Hunter, inflation cast a pall over Biden. “This week’s White House report card finds President Joe Biden hiding from the brightening spotlight on his and first son Hunter’s alleged financial scheming, inflation’s refusal to let go of the economy, and the Ukraine money pit. While the president tried early in the week to keep the media’s focus on the positives of ‘Bidenomics’ and his expansion of the national park around the Grand Canyon, the criticism of his son and problems with the economy were bottomless.”

RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: Virgin Atlantic Airways Ruined My Family’s Trip With Intrusive Grooming.

CULTURE IS UPSTREAM OF POLITICS: Left-Wing Terrorist Sympathizer Writes ‘Autobiographical’ Novel About Youthful Incest Fantasy.

JOE’S FAVORITE SUPER PAC SHROUDS DONORS IN SECRECY: Future Forward is President Joe Biden’s favorite super PAC and Andrew Kerr of the Washington Free Beacon may have uncovered the reason why it’s the Chief Executive’s top choice.

Turns out that Future Forward’s largest single donor is an affiliated dark money operation that poured $3.4 million into the Biden-boosting PAC. Federal campaign law requires the names of the donors of that money to be disclosed, but that ain’t happenin’ with Future Forward.

Kerr quotes GOP campaign finance lawyer Charlie Spies, who tells him:

“Future Forward USA Action admitted to making over $3 million in earmarked political contributions, where they apparently obscured the true super PAC donor’s identity by routing the money through the nonprofit. The U.S. DOJ has sent people to prison for this sort of illegal activity, and the FEC has imposed major fines on conservative organizations accused of less blatant earmarking.”

How long before Attorney General Merrick Garland appoints a Special Counsel to get to the bottom of this latest Biden scandal? Not.

TURLEY SAYS THE FIX IS IN.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Gel Seat Cushion for Office Chair for Hip Pain. #CommissionEarned

THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT: Too much ‘trauma’ talk encourages fragility. “I was wrong about trigger warnings, writes Jill Filipovic in The Atlantic. Writing for a feminist blog in 2008, she thought warning readers about topics such as sexual assault might be helpful and could do no harm. Now, she sees the harm, especially to teenage girls who’ve embraced fragility.”

JEFFREY CARTER: How Much Does A Teacher Really Make?

There are so many arguments about teacher pay. Everywhere in the country, Democrats are shilling for more teacher pay which is really a sell-out to the Teacher’s Union. Democrats fight school choice at every single turn. They hurt underprivileged and poor kids when they do. Yet, many of those same people active in killing school choice send their kids to private schools.

No one is saying teachers do not provide a service. The reason they are paid what they are paid is that they are unionized, and it’s simply not that difficult to become a teacher compared to say a lawyer, accountant, or doctor. Other professions that make a lot of money have significantly higher degrees of risk. There is no risk of losing your entire year’s worth of salary if you are a teacher. There is one on Wall Street. Salespeople can work years on one sale that will bring them a big commission and it can fall through.

The other thing to remember about salaries is that the higher you go in a public company, the more influence you have over the bottom line. Doesn’t it make sense that someone who is a C-Suite executive that has responsibility for billions in assets makes more than a teacher?

Doesn’t it make sense that someone in a startup who makes little to no salary with a lot of risk but builds a business cashes in on their equity for taking the risk compared to a teacher who takes zero risk and has a job that a lot of people can qualify for?

Sense, yes. Political sense for Democrats, not so much.

DIVERSITY TRAINING IS FOR EVERYONE! Federal Judge Orders Southwest Airlines Attorneys To Take Conservative Christian Group’s Religious Training. “Three senior attorneys for Southwest Airlines have been ordered to take an eight-hour religious liberty training offered by the conservative Christian group Alliance Defending Freedom after a judge said they failed to follow his orders following a flight attendant’s free speech case. U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr of Texas said the company’s attorneys did not follow his orders to notify employees of their rights against religious discrimination after the court ruled in favor of Charlene Carter, a flight attendant who said she was fired for voicing her anti-abortion views and ultimately won a $5.1 million verdict. . . . Starr’s new order included an exact statement he ordered Southwest to send “verbatim” to its flight attendants and he told the company it needed to fly an Alliance Defending Freedom representative to Dallas to conduct a training for the three lawyers, who do ‘not appear to comprehend’ religious liberties law.”

Ouch.

ANN ALTHOUSE ON THE ENDLESS TRUMP INDICTMENTS: “Good. I’m glad this is backfiring. I have never been a Trump supporter, but I hate the criminalization of politics.”

The Justice Department blew its reputation over the preceding several years, so that a large part of the populace — which even a decade ago, or maybe two, would have viewed these indictments as evidence of serious misbehavior — now just assumes it’s political because everything is.

THE FIX IS IN: J6 Committee Accused of DESTROYING Key Intelligence Documents About Capitol Riot.

ROGER KIMBALL: Introducing ‘Contempt of Public.’. “We have all heard about contempt of court and contempt of Congress. They are offenses for which one may be fined or jailed. But what about contempt of public? What’s the penalty for that? . . . By making a travesty of the rules and institutions that undergird our social life, contempt of public threatens to undermine that essential if often hard-to-define societal lubricant: trust.”