#RESIST: Oregon judge rules against local Second Amendment sanctuary laws, calling sheriffs who allow them ‘racist.’

IS THIS THE SAME DOCTOR WHO TOLD US FETTERMAN WAS “FIT TO SERVE?” President Biden is the Picture of Good Health, His Doctor Reports. “The report did not say whether he had any cognitive tests.”

I’LL BELIEVE IT’S A CRISIS WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO KEEP TELLING ME IT’S A CRISIS START ACTING LIKE IT’S A CRISIS: John Kerry’s Taxpayer-Funded Fight Against the ‘Climate Crisis’ Takes Him to Five-Star Island Resort: Biden’s jet-setting climate czar has flown hundreds of thousands of miles to ‘confront’ climate change since taking office.

THE OTHER HALF HAVE BEEN MISLED: Gallup/Knight Survey: Half of Americans Believe “News Organizations Intend to Mislead Them.”

GO AWAY: World Government Summit Panelist Says ‘Shock’ Needed for ‘Transformation’ of ‘International Order.’ “To me, the big question is how are we going to go through this transformation? It cannot be gradual, it has to be driven by a certain shock that will happen.”

Never let a crisis go to waste, even if you have to create one.

L.A. TIMES: Helicopters Are Racist, You Know.

ACCREDITORS HAVE GOTTEN TOO BIG FOR THEIR BRITCHES:  A recent example is the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ threat to the UNC Board of Trustees’ admirable effort to create a “School of Civic Life and Leadership.”  I hope the Board will be undeterred.

I have previously written about the role accrediting agencies play as “cartel enforcer” for race- and sex-preferential admissions and faculty hiring.  And I’ve suggested a legislative solution.

Here at USD School of Law, the dean has told us that the ABA’s accrediting arm has put us on notice that we must increase the number of women on our faculty right away or face de-accreditation.  Some of my colleagues are either panic-stricken over this or pretend to be.  It’s hard to tell the difference.  Very few (but not zero) of my colleagues have to fortitude to protest the ABA’s tactics.

I am not one of those who believes that we can entirely do without accreditation.  As long as the federal government gives out bundles of cash to colleges and universities, somebody has to be the gatekeeper who decides who will be allowed on the gravy train and who won’t be.  Concentrating that power in federal hands would be a mistake.  Any conservative or libertarian who thinks that federal bureaucrats can be kept under control by an ever-so-vigilant GOP President or White House has been asleep for decades.  At least under the present system, power is in theory decentralized.  Giving the power to the states has some advantages.  But it also has some serious disadvantages.  No state, red, blue or purple polka dots will ever act to cut off a local college or university that employs more than a few people from its federal funding.  Voters don’t like that kind of thing.  There is thus a built-in bias toward keeping the money coming.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: They’re Coming for Your Favorite Podcasts.

Last year, aging rocker Neil Young led a crusade against “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Young hoped to silence the host’s alternative views on COVID-19.

The effort quickly went viral, with Rogan’s detractors piling on with any cultural cudgel within reach.

Rogan’s pandemic-related interviews were merely an excuse to silence someone who opened his podcast studio up to voices on the Left, Middle and Right.

Rogan survived the extended Cancel Culture assault. Barely.

Now, The New York Times and The Brookings Institution have teamed to expand that censorial effort. Their targets? Conservative broadcasters like Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.

Lefties keep assuring me that cancel culture isn’t real.

LIGHTNING DEAL: AM AEROMAX Queen Size Cooling Contour Memory Foam Pillow. #CommissionEarned

TO BE FAIR, WHAT ISN’T? You knew it was coming: East Palestine train wreck is Trump’s fault.

SHE CHALLENGED THE ORTHODOXY, AND THAT IS UNFORGIVABLE: Inside The University Of Pennsylvania’s Precedent-Setting Effort To Revoke Tenure From Law Prof Amy Wax.

This sort of thing only helps the efforts to get rid of tenure in general.

CHANGE? Idaho House of Representatives Passes a Resolution to Start Talks About “Greater Idaho.”

FROM M.C.A.HOGARTH:  An Heir to Thorns and Steel (Blood Ladders Trilogy Book 1).

#CommissionEarned

Morgan Locke, university student, has been hiding his debilitating illness with fair enough success when two unlikely emissaries arrive bearing the news that he is prince to a nation of creatures out of folklore. Ridiculous! And yet, if magic exists…could it heal him? The ensuing journey will resurrect the forgotten griefs of history, and before it’s over, all the world will be remade by thorns and steel….

Book 1 of the Blood Ladders trilogy, an epic fantasy with sociopathic elves, vampiric genets, and the philosophy students mixed up in the lot.

Audio special edition here.

I’M SURPRISED AND PLEASED THAT HE THINKS HE NEEDS ONE: James Clapper previews his defense for 2020 election interference.

In case anyone is wondering who was responsible for the idea that the Hunter Biden laptop story was part of a Russian disinformation campaign, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper assures us it was not the 51 retired intelligence community leaders who penned the letter which said it was. Instead, it was the media who mischaracterized their words.

Clapper’s signature topped the list of prominent former government officials willing to stake their reputations on the infamous letter that was written to sow doubt about a story that, if it had not been suppressed, could arguably have changed the result of the 2020 presidential election.

Clearly, these officials had only one goal in mind: to torpedo the New York Post’s bombshell story about the emails that pointed to then-candidate Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s influence-peddling operation. Perhaps anticipating they may one day face charges of election interference, the signatories carefully worded their letter to absolve themselves of legal responsibility for their malfeasance.

Specifically, Clapper, who is best known for lying to Congress in 2013 about the National Security Agency’s collection of Americans’ telephone records and for his role in perpetuating the Russian collusion hoax, blamed Politico for “deliberately distorting” their letter in an October 2020 piece titled , “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.”

“There was message distortion. All we were doing was raising a yellow flag that this could be Russian disinformation,” Clapper told Washington Post “fact checker” Glenn Kessler. “Politico deliberately distorted what we said. It was clear in paragraph five.”

Sure, they were misquoted. It just took them over two years to come out and say so.

DITHERS, FLAKES, BURBLES:  Pete Buttigieg Dithers On East Palestine Train Derailment.

WHEN A FRIEND REVIEWS ANOTHER FRIEND:  Book Review: In Defense Of The Second Amendment.

IT’S ENTIRELY POSSIBLE THAT SOMETIMES GOVERNMENTS HATE THEIR PEOPLE:  The March of Folly.

And that’s all of the West right now.

KAMALA DOESN’T THINK. PERIOD:  VP Kamala Harris: ‘I don’t think’ Chinese spy balloon should hurt US ties.

THE COUNTRY IS IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS:  UFO shot down by $400K US missile may have been a $12 hobby balloon: report.

HIS NECK KEEPS CALLING HIM NAMES:  Sen. John Fetterman Checks Into Walter Reed for Severe Depression.

OH, PSHAW. AT BEST SHE’S RUNNING FOR VICE-PRESIDENT:  Why is Nikki Haley running for president?

OR, YOU KNOW, HOBBY BALLOONS:  Biden: Three Recent Shot Down Objects Likely ‘Tied to Private Companies,’ Not China.

NO, SINCE KATRINA WAS A LARGELY MADE UP SCANDAL WHIPPED UP BY THE PRESS:  Is the Ohio Toxic Train Derailment the Biden Administration’s Hurricane Katrina?

While the press will do everything possible to protect Uncle Joe.

SHE ONLY SAYS IT BECAUSE IT’S TRUE:  North Korea Defector Compares ‘Woke’ Education in America to Regime She Escaped.

NOOO. BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  Gallup/Knight Survey: Half of Americans Believe “News Organizations Intend to Mislead Them”.