HERE ARE THE MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENTS FOR DEMOCRATS DURING HUR’S TESTIMONY:

Democrats had a bad day on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as they simultaneously insisted that the Hur report absolved Joe Biden of having committed any criminal act, while also calling the report a partisan hit job.

There’s no doubt the hearing didn’t go as they’d hoped, and they repeatedly embarrassed themselves in the hopes of undermining former Special Counsel Robert Hur and his report on Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents.

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) clearly expected a different answer when he asked Hur, “At any point in your investigation, did you have any reason to believe that President Biden lied to you?”

Hur replied, “I do address in my report one response the president gave to a question we had posed to him that we deemed to be not credible.”

Oops. That didn’t go as planned.

And speaking of not planned:

Charred Penises, Car Noises, And Dr. Jill In A Bikini: Biden's Very Strange Conversation With Robert Hur@FreeBeacon w/ @SaysSimonson https://t.co/5j6wMwTiG1

— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) March 12, 2024

WELL, GOOD: A sprayable gel could make minimally invasive surgeries simpler and safer.

DISPATCHES FROM YEAR ZERO: Maryland city equity official says she wants US to burn to the ground: ‘MY ideology can rise from the ashes.’

[Kayla Aliese Carter] believes it’s not enough to be not racist, one must be actively antiracist and working to “dismantle this s–t.” Some of her posts contain defenses for violence, asking, “Why do Black people always have to rationalize our violence and anger?

“Remember we are at war against colonialism,” read a post on Instagram from Feb. 2021. She captioned it with, “We can’t forget.”

The header for her X account says the following: “I can’t wait for society to collapse so MY ideology can rise from the ashes!”

“Today I cohosted and occupied space with dozens of people who have committed their lives, businesses, and money to Black liberation. On all days, every day, each day. Light workers. Already planning (BEEN PLANNING) for how we will eat and live and grow after we burn it all down,” she wrote in May 2020.

This likely sounded better in the original German. In his 2004 book Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945, Frederick Taylor wrote:

A short while after the bombing of Dresden, [Robert Ley, head of the National Socialist Labor Front] wrote a ranting article under the title “Without Baggage,” in which he bizarrely celebrated the destruction of Dresden as liberating Germany from the “burden” of its architectural heritage, and by implication its freethinking, humanist past.

* * * * * * * *

After the destruction of beautiful Dresden, we almost breathe a sigh of relief. It is over now. In focusing on our struggle and victory we are no longer distracted by concerns for the monuments of German culture. Onward!…Now we march toward the German victory without any superfluous ballast and without the heavy spiritual and material bourgeois baggage.

Wasn’t 2020 enough Year Zero for everyone, though?

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Suppose They Threw an Arms Race and We Didn’t Come? “Donald Trump’s promise to bring the Navy up to 355 ships — we had nearly 600 under Ronald Reagan, and the oceans haven’t gotten any smaller — is dead in the water under Joe Biden.”

“I’M NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE TERM EVEN THOUGH JESUS WAS BORN NOT THAT FAR AWAY FROM HERE.” Netanyahu responds to Biden’s hot mic vow to have ‘come to Jesus’ meeting with Israeli PM.

I missed this the other day. Hilarious.

CDR SALAMANDER: What War, Exactly, are we Preparing for? Ignore the hype men, follow the money. “Fewer things in life are more true than the simple fact that if you really want to know what an organization values, look at what it spends its money on. By that measure, I’m not sure fighting and winning a war against our most capable adversary is really the priority. Something is – most likely the process – but few things are more clear in outlining the dead hand that is on the tiller of our national strategy than what we pulled across the transom this week.”

WELL, GOOD: Federal Judge Squashes NLRB’s Attempt To Destroy Gig Economy. “There are extensive reams of labor relations laws and rulings, but that’s not good enough for Democrats. They had to issue transparently illegal ruling because workers and businesses continue to flee unions and closed shop states for right to work states, which is why union membership continues to decline and there’s nothing they can do about it.”

GREAT MOMENTS IN OBITS: Legendary singer/songwriter, who faced widespread backlash for supporting Trump, dies at 74.

Screencap here if NJ.com comes to their senses over the late Eric Carmen:

I missed the obit headlines that read “Frank Sinatra, legendary singer and actor, who faced widespread backlash for supporting Reagan, dies at 82.”

Or heck, based on the rumors that later circulated around him, “John Lennon, legendary singer/songwriter, who faced widespread backlash for supporting Reagan, dead at 40.”

(Via Nick Gillespie.)

HAHAHA: Lawsuit Against Society for Creative Anachronism Thrown Out Because It’s Untimely. I mean, that’s the point of SCA, right?

“PRIVILEGE” IS JUST AN EXCUSE TO TREAT THOSE SEEN AS CLASS ENEMIES WORSE: Colleges Got Comfortable Talking About Privilege. Now It’s Being Scrutinized.

The newsletter seemed innocuous. In January, the chief diversity officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine kicked off her “Monthly Diversity Digest” with a list of nearby events for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Then Sherita Hill Golden outlined a “diversity word of the month”: privilege.

“Privilege is a set of unearned benefits given to people who are in a specific social group,” Golden wrote. “Privilege operates on personal, interpersonal, cultural and institutional levels, and it provides advantages and favors to members of dominant groups at the expense of members of other groups.” Privileged groups, she continued, included white people, people without physical disabilities, men, Christians, and English-speaking people.

Administrators and faculty members have been parroting similar definitions for years. This time, however, it struck a nerve online.

“John Hopkins just sent out this hit list of people automatically guilty of ‘privilege’ whether they know it or not,” wrote an account on X called End Wokeness, which has over two million followers. The post included screenshots of Golden’s newsletter. Powerful voices soon chimed in, such as Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr.
A Republican congressman even called on the university to fire her, saying her behavior was “not expected from an institution that receives hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from the federal government — including dollars to fund that office of Chief Diversity Officer.”

Last week, Golden resigned as chief diversity officer. She remains at Johns Hopkins as a professor of endocrinology and metabolism.

Treating people differently on the basis of race, sex, religion, disability status, etc. is in violation of federal law, even though universities pretend it’s not.

HOT OFF THE TRANSCRIPT: Here Are the Most Embarrassing Moments for Democrats During Hur’s Testimony.

HOUSE PASSES BILL TO FORCE TIKTOK’S CHINESE PARENT COMPANY TO SELL PLATFORM OR FACE U.S. BAN:

A bipartisan coalition of House members voted Wednesday to pass a bill that would effectively force the Chinese parent company of TikTok to sell the video-sharing platform or face a ban in U.S. app stores.

The bill passed 325 to 65, with 15 Republicans and 50 Democrats voting against it. The TikTok legislation is now headed to the Senate, where it will face a more difficult path. President Joe Biden said he would sign the bill should it reach his desk.

In the meantime though: Biden campaign courts young voters by joiningTikTok: ‘lol hey guys.’

Related: Obama’s Man in China Now Beijing’s Man in Washington.

CRIME PAYS (FOR A WHILE): Glamorous millionaire ‘queenpin’, 53, is accused of running crime ring of 12 women called ‘California Girls’ who stole $8M in cosmetics and designer clothes, storing them in 4,500 sq ft mansion and selling them on Amazon.

Michelle Mack, 53, allegedly paid air fares, hotel bills and car rental costs for up to a dozen operatives, who would post their loot to her home in Bonsall before she sold it on for knock-down prices through a front company on Amazon Marketplace.

Her gang, dubbed the ‘California Girls’ by investigators, operated in more than a dozen states coast to coast, targeting outlets including LensCrafters, Sephora and at least 231 Ulta stores.

Police found a ‘mini-store’ of goods worth $350,000 in a 5am raid on her $3 million home and fear the total hit to retailers may have topped $8 million.

I had been assured by no less and authority than AOC that the country’s shoplifting wave was just desperate Jean Valjeans desperate for loaves of bread to feed their hungry families.

START SPRING CLEANING: VIKING Microfiber Cloth for Car or Home. #CommissionEarned

BREAKING: Judge Dismisses Some Charges Against Trump, Co-Defendants in Fulton County.

BIDENOMICS IS WORKING: A Dollar Ain’t What It Used to Be: Family Dollar to Shutter Nearly 1,000 Stores.

AND ANOTHER ONE GONE: Buck to retire next week, narrowing House GOP majority. “Buck’s exit will not change the margin: Republicans will still only be able to afford to lose two of their members on any party-line votes, assuming all lawmakers are present. But his resignation will, nonetheless, decrease the cushion GOP lawmakers will have on those partisan measures, making it more difficult to pass messaging legislation in the coming months.”

BLOWS AGAINST BIGOTRY: MIT hit with lawsuit, demands from Congress for allegedly condoning rampant antisemitism.

MIT president Sally Kornbluth has managed to hang on, unlike her counterparts at Harvard and Penn, but for how long?

THAT’S NOT THE KIND OF LOCKDOWN ACCOUNTABILITY WE NEED: Harvard epidemiologist in Chinese dictator hat wants ‘accountability’ for anti-lockdown academics. “After months of harsh COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, the country has slowly begun to reopen. While many scientists have come out in support of the return to normalcy, epidemiologist and Harvard Fellow Justin Feldman has been an outspoken proponent of the lockdowns to the point of calling for scholars who disagree with him to face ‘accountability.'”

This is basically a spoiling attack, designed to deflect demands that lockdown and mandate proponents be held accountable for their real, as opposed to imaginary, wrongs. The people who opposed them should be held “accountable” with prizes and cash awards.

PROF. JACOBSON: Medical School DEI Crisis: “It’s up to us to fight these battles . . . It’s not the students’ fault.”

EVEN THOUGH THEY’RE ON AN ISLAND: Pentagon Anticipates a Surge of Refugees From Haiti.

STILL NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME: Tesla Autopilot, similar automated driving systems rated ‘poor’ by safety group.

Of the 14 systems rated, 11 were found to be “poor,” including Tesla’s Autopilot and its Full Self-Driving version, which is in beta testing, along with Nissan’s ProPILOT Assist 2.0, Mercedes-Benz’s Active Distance Assist DISTRONIC with Active Steering Assist, Ford’s BlueCruise and BMW’s Active Driving Assistant.

The top system was Lexus’ Teammate with Advanced Drive, which was deemed an overall rating of “acceptable.” The No. 2 spot went to General Motors’ Super Cruise, and Nissan’s ProPILOT Assist with Navi-link came in third – both systems received ratings of “marginal” from the IIHS.

I’d rather not share the road with AI-driven cars for the same reason I don’t trust AI for research — you never know what weird thing it might decide to do.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems Bring a Schiff to a Truth Fight and Robert Hur Breaks Them. “They wanted to be crafty about creating a false narrative, but they had Adam Schiff running point for the effort. Any time that Schiff isn’t talking to a friendly, he embarrasses himself. He’s too stupid to know that he’s embarrassing himself, of course, so he never stops doing it.”

WHY DO THEY HATE AMERICA? Bands Pull Out of SXSW Because of U.S. Army Sponsorship. “They are also taking a pass on performing because of America’s support of Israel in the Israel-Hamas war.”

Good riddance.

STANDING UP AGAINST ABUSE OF POWER: NYC lawyers offer to rep firefighters for free if they’re disciplined for booing AG Letitia James. Meanwhile the suits seem to be backing down over threats to “hunt down” the booers: “Nobody is hunting anyone down.”