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.