RAYMOND IBRAHIM: Huge Rise in Hate Crimes Against American Churches — and Crickets in the Media.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, CULTURE OF VIOLENCE AND HATE EDITION: WATCH: Trans-activists clash with College Republicans after screening of ‘What Is a Woman’ at Kent State.

Funny how these “trans-activists” just appeared everywhere all at once.

EVERYBODY IS GOING TO GET COVID: CDC investigates after dozens test positive for COVID following CDC conference.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Back to Basics—Trump Hammers Biden Over Border Nightmare. “Trump isn’t plagued by the timidity that affects other Republicans. In fact, this is where his lack of filter is a definite plus.”

ETHNIC QUOTAS ARE A ZERO-SUM GAME, AND THIS IS A NATURAL RESULT: India:

The Bnei Menashe victim this week is believed to be one of at least five other people killed in violence that erupted after protests by more than 50,000 Kukis and members of other predominantly Christian tribal communities in Churachandpur and adjoining districts in Manipur state protested against demands by the non-tribal Meitei ethnic community to be included under the government’s “Scheduled Tribe” category. Under Indian law, members of such tribes are given reserved quotas for government jobs and college admissions as a form of affirmative action to address structural inequality and discrimination.

WAR ON FOOD: EU ensures Dutch farmers booted FOREVER from farming.

In a just world, the Eurocrats would be hanging from lampposts. But, by design, we live in a very different world.

MARK JUDGE: Maureen Dowd accidentally reveals how journalism killed itself.

COLORADO: Colorado teachers union passes resolution declaring capitalism ‘inherently exploits children, public schools.’

The Colorado Education Association [CEA] reportedly passed a resolution that declares that “capitalism inherently exploits children, public schools, land, labor, and resources.”

A final version of the resolution that was passed states that “CEA believes that capitalism requires exploitation of children, public schools, land, labor, and/or resources. Capitalism is in opposition to fully addressing systemic racism (the school to prison pipeline), climate change, patriarchy, (gender and LGBTQ disparities), education inequality, and income inequality.

However, a screenshot captures an earlier draft of the resolution that included a call to replace capitalism with a “new equitable economic system.”

Plus: “This resolution follows the trend of teacher unions pushing a far-left ideology. The president of the National Education Association, the largest teachers union in the nation, declared that racial and social justice is a ‘pillar’ of the NEA’s efforts.”

DON SURBER: Keeping Us Confused.

SAME: I’m Still Not Feeling Very Optimistic About Chicago.

BIRTH OF THE COWBOY HAT:  On this day in 1830, John Batterson Stetson, inventor of the Stetson, was born in Orange, New Jersey.

Stetson’s father was a hatter, and he taught his son the trade.  But as a young man John was diagnosed with tuberculosis and told he didn’t have long to live.  Not wanting to waste the years he had left making hats, he headed west, first to Missouri.  He wanted to see the country before it was too late.  When gold was discovered in the Colorado Territory, he jumped at the chance to go.

But a splendid thing happened to him once he started breathing in the mountain air.  He started to feel better.  After a while, he felt fine.  Was he misdiagnosed?  Or miraculously cured?  I’m not sure we’ll ever know for sure.

What we do know is this:  While in Colorado, Stetson was unimpressed by the coonskin caps, straw hats, and wool derbies that so many Westerners wore at the time.  He believed he could make a superior hat of waterproof felt.  Soon he returned to the East and started a company that would manufacture a hat that he called the Boss of the Plains.

One of the features of the hat was that it could be molded into the shape preferred by the owner.  A crease could be put into the crown, the sides could be rolled up.  And lots of people who purchased the hat started to do exactly that.  Eventually, the Boss of the Plains became the familiar cowboy hat.

Stetson became a wealth philanthropist and lived to be 75–not bad for a guy who wasn’t expected to see his 35th birthday.

HEH: The protein wisdom reborn! interview: Stephen Colbert.

WELL, ILLINOIS: All Four Illinois Political Insiders in ComEd Bribery Trial Found Guilty.

WELL, GOOD, BECAUSE THE GREEN ACTIVIST/BUREAUCRAT COALITION IS TRYING TO STOP STARSHIP: SpaceX’s Starlink Position Remains Protected from Most Starship Delay Scenarios, Analysts Say.

CDR SALAMANDER: Our Navy Needs More of the War, Less of the College.

Our war colleges are not what you think they are.

With each passing year there is less focus on war, and more on college. At the Naval War College, just getting additional time, money, faculty, and leadership focus on the “naval” portion has become a challenge with all the other ancillary agendas trying to keep pace with the cool kids cross-town at Salve Regina University.

Here’s a perfect example.

“The Naval War College (NWC) will host its 9th annual Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Symposium, 26-28 April 2023, in Newport, Rhode Island. This year’s theme is ‘Women, Peace, and Security in a Fragile World: Perspectives on Warfighting, Crisis Management, and Post-Conflict Transitions.'”

Well, let’s go in with an open mind. Perhaps there’s something here. Hope isn’t a plan, but when the Party demands things of you, hope is often all you have.

Abandon hope, all ye who click the link.

STACY MCCAIN: “I mean, maybe I haven’t always been an ideal father, but at least none of my kids are crack-smoking, stripper-chasing trash like Hunter Biden.”

ENDORSED: Now THIS Would Be Fun: Tucker Carlson Could Host Alternative GOP Primary Debate. “A debate with Tucker Carlson moderating would be an entirely different matter. It opens up the possibility of candidates, for the very first time in the history of modern presidential debates, being asked questions from a patriotic perspective and confronted about issues that the establishment media refuses to discuss.”

K12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Teacher says she was told to deceive ‘suspicious’ parents about children’s stated gender identities at school.

BOB MCMANUS: Navy’s drag queen is symbol of cultural narcissism. “Of course the Navy will survive this nonsense, but it likely will be weakened by it. And as tensions grow in the Western Pacific, can the nation really afford such self-indulgence?”

No, but our ruling class, much of which is on the Chinese payroll, can.

OPEN THREAD: Go for it.

MEDIA HELP TRUMP RERUN 2016 STRATEGY:

During the 2016 presidential primaries, Donald Trump rode a wave of free media worth billions of dollars. This included 10 call-in interviews and an hourlong interview special with MSNBC’s Morning Joe alone. Now, Trump is hoping to replicate the process.

The former president, who is running again in 2024, wants the media to prop him up above the rest of the GOP primary field. Kicking off the 2024 media shenanigans will be a CNN town hall with Trump next week in New Hampshire . The town hall will certainly boost ratings for CNN’s flailing prime-time programming. But Trump will also use the occasion to his own advantage.

Earlier: Trump’s CNN Coup.

FUNNY HOW THAT HAPPENS: Gas Stove Bans Promoted From Baseless Conspiracy Theory To New York State Policy: New York’s budget deal includes a ban on gas stoves in new residential construction.

Meanwhile the Biden Administration wants to shut down half our electric plants. (Bumped.)

MORE NUKES! MORE NUKES! Plutonium availability constrains plans for future planetary missions.

REPORT: Sotomayor got millions from publishing company while not recusing from cases.

HOW A MODIFIED LIMITED HANGOUT IS BORN: Hunter Biden laptop letter recruitment email wanted to give Joe Biden a debate ‘talking point.’

A recruitment email sent by Mike Morell, co-author of the infamous Hunter Biden laptop letter, wanted former intelligence officials to become signatories to help give Joe Biden a “talking point” during a crucial presidential debate against Donald Trump.

The revelation comes after Morell, the former Obama CIA acting director, admitted that now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken “triggered” him to write the October 2020 laptop letter.

The recruitment email from Morell was sent to former intelligence officials and included the laptop letter co-authored by him and former senior CIA operations officer Marc Polymeropoulos as an attachment.

The quoted language from the Morell email, sent on Oct. 18, 2020, was read to the Washington Examiner verbatim and identically by two independent sources who had access to the email.

Morell’s email explained that both he and Polymeropoulos believed Russia was involved in the Hunter Biden laptop stories and that Trump likely planned to attack Biden over the laptop revelations in the upcoming debate.

“We want to give the VP a talking point to use in response,” Morell wrote, the two sources confirmed to the Washington Examiner.

Flash-forward to today: Report: Charges Against Hunter Biden May Be Imminent.