WOEING: Airlines Are Cutting Flight Schedules as Boeing Delivers Fewer Jets.

Southwest Airlines said Tuesday that it would cut flight capacity and re-evaluate its financial guidance, citing lower-than-expected deliveries of Boeing jets. The carrier’s shares tumbled around 15% in afternoon trading, as the carrier also reported weaker leisure-travel demand early this year.

United Airlines is pausing pilot hiring for two months and hunting for new planes from Boeing rival Airbus to fill the gap. And Alaska Air said its plans for the year are also in flux as a result of uncertainty on Boeing deliveries.

Boeing has slowed down production of its bestselling 737 MAX jets as it faces increased scrutiny from the Federal Aviation Administration and the Justice Department. On Tuesday the airplane maker said it shipped 17 narrow-body MAX jets in February, eight fewer than it did in January and half as many as it delivered in November and December.

Plus: “‘As much as I would like those deliveries, you know, this is not a 12-month issue. This is a two-decade issue,’ [United Chief Executive Scott Kirby] said at an investor conference. ‘I’d rather Boeing do what they need to do, and I think they are now.'”

Here’s to hoping. In the meantime, Boeing is the best salesman Airbus ever had.

I HAVE A CHAPTER IN THIS BOOK EDITED BY MICHAEL WALSH: Against the Corporate Media: Forty-two Ways the Press Hates You.

IT’S A BAD YEAR FOR HARVARD: Harvard Grad Student Who Accosted Israeli Classmate and Supervised Undergraduate Students Glorified Convicted Palestinian Terrorist.

FORMER MASSACHUSETTS U.S. ATTORNEY RACHAEL ROLLINS SUSPENDED FROM LAW PRACTICE. “Rollins, who worked as Suffolk district attorney before leaving to join the Biden administration as the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney, was found by the Department of Justice to have attempted to influence the outcome of the Suffolk DA race in favor of former City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo, who lost the primary to Kevin Hayden. The violation was ‘among other’ instances of significant misconduct flagged by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz in his scathing report to Congress.”

She apparently let it lapse, possibly as a preemptive measure to avoid being disbarred.

LIES AND COVERUPS IN THE NAME OF “PROTECTING DEMOCRACY:” The Lies of the J6 Committee Are Adding Up.

SHADY ACTION FROM THE JUDICIAL COUNCIL: The Judicial Council Legislates From The Shadow Docket: The Chief Justice and his associates target only one type of forum shopping in response to political criticism through a secret policy that will not be released for months.

On Tuesday afternoon, a reporter from the Washington Post called to ask me about a new policy from the Judicial Council designed to limit forum shopping. I inquired if she had a copy of the policy. She said no, but there was a press release. I was tempted to reply, “Democracy dies in darkness.” Still, all we have is a press release. . . .

How will this policy operate? When does it actually go into effect? How are litigants to know what types of remedies will trigger the policy? Who the hell knows? Not even the district court judges have seen a copy of the policy. They learned about it when we did. Courthouse News reported that the policy will be circulated to judges later this week, and the chief judges will “have to meet to discuss the change.” You think?

After years of complaints about the secretive “shadow” docket, the Chief Justice of the United States, the Chief Judges of the Circuit Courts, and various District Court judges, have the temerity to announce a secret policy that no one can see that will fundamentally change the way litigation operates in federal courts. Maybe it is posted on top of a tall column, like in Nero’s day. Worse still, this policy change was plainly motivated by the same critics who harp about the shadow docket. The courts should resist the political currents, but here, the Judicial Council has kowtowed to Senators Schumer and Whitehouse, and some scholars. . . . As a general matter, the Judicial Council has remained silent about serious abuses of power (Judge Moore’s stealth impeachment of Judge Newman and Judge Sullivan’s sitting on the judicial selection committee). Meanwhile, the Judicial Council caves into criticism from Schumer and others, without even the courtesy of seeking comments from the District Court Judges nationwide. This is a body that operates in the shadows, and lacks fortitude.

The Chief Justice reminds me of what Teddy Roosevelt said about Holmes: I could carve a better backbone out of a banana.

Plus: “Fourth, the impetus of this policy was perceived abuses of the patent system. (Speaking of patents, I’m glad Chief Justice Roberts and Chief Judge Kimberly Moore found something productive to work on together, as Judge Pauline Newman remains trapped in Article III purgatory).”

TO HELL WITH BIDEN, IT’S A PROBLEM FOR ME: The Inflation Issue Isn’t Going Away, and That’s a Problem for Biden.

EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED: West Point Deletes “Duty Honor Country” from its Mission Statement. “As you can see, an unidentified ‘Army Senior Leader’ has approved the change in the Mission Statement to remove the reference to West Point’s motto, ‘Duty, Honor, Country,’ and substituting a goal of graduating leaders committed to the ‘Army Values.’ West Point does not identify the current seven ‘Army Values’ in the new Mission Statement; you must navigate to another link to see them.”

DEI = DEATH. The US DEI regime failed Haiti. “Prior to the gang coup, Haiti became subservient to the U.S. government’s endless money spigot. In turn, the U.S. government wielded its considerable influence to export an agenda of diversity, equity, and inclusion that endangered the lives of the Haitian people and provided no tangible improvement to their security and well-being.”

MATHEMATICALLY SETTLED: Biden and Trump clinch nominations, heading to another general election rematch.

THAT’S UDDERLY RIDICULOUS! Israel trained cattle to spy on Palestinian village, says PA daily.

Palestinian village elder fabricated a story about Israeli livestock participating in spying activity, which the official Palestinian Authority daily news outlet Al-Hayat Al-Jadida published as reality, according to a report by Palestinian Media Watch.

“On the neck of each cow, they hang a medallion with an eavesdropping and recording device on it, and sometimes cameras, in order to monitor every detail” in the village, the elder said.

The P.A. daily further claimed that a Palestinian village elder spotted Israeli cows that are actually “recruited and trained” spies. Rushd Morrar, a Khirbet Yanun village elder, told Al-Hayat Al-Jadida on Dec. 27, “These are recruited and trained cattle, as on the neck of each cow they hang a medallion with an eavesdropping and recording device on it, and sometimes cameras, in order to monitor every detail in Khirbet Yanun large and small.”

If there’s one thing I learned from years of reading Gary Larson’s Far Side, it’s that cows are incredibly devious — particularly when they think that no one is looking:

RESTORING DECENCY AND NORMS TO OUR DEMOCRACY: Biden Ghostwriter Attempted To Destroy Evidence Following Special Counsel Appointment.

“What did that ghostwriter do with the information Joe Biden shared with him on his laptop? What did he do after you were named special counsel?” Jordan asked.

Hur clarified that Jordan was referring to audio recordings Zwonitzer recreated.

“If I remember correctly,” Hur said, “he slid those files into his recycle bin on his computer.”

“He tried to destroy the evidence, didn’t he,” Jordan asked.

“Correct,” Hur said.

“It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up,” we’re told but in this case, there is plenty of both to go around.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Lose an Hour, Gain Coffee Deal. #CommissionEarned

THAT’S WHY PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO BRIDLE IT: Jeffrey Carter: Unbridled Capitalism Works.

THESE PEOPLE ARE MORONS: “Also in this article is an acronym I’m seeing for the first time: TARL. This is a ‘trans-agnostic reactionary liberal’.”

JAMES LILEKS’ WEDNESDAY REVIEW OF MODERN THOUGHT:

Breaking: A member of the British radical group Palestine Action has destroyed a historic painting of Lord Balfour at Trinity College in @Cambridge_Uni. pic.twitter.com/BUco8VU7va

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) March 8, 2024

It had to advance to the next step: actual destruction. In this case, an “activist” hacked and painted the portrait of Balfour, because, well, Balfour.

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You’re also certain that if someone had seen what she was about to do, and given her a stiff body check, and knocked the camera from the hand of the other Activist, that person would be taken into custody and charged, since a civilized society does not condone vigilanteism. A civilized society permits the barbarity to run its course while the bobbies are summoned. The price of letting the barbarians wreck what they wish is considered fair, when the alternative is people just knocking people down. We can’t have that. It’s not your job to interrupt the vandals.

Except, of course, that it is everyone’s job. It is the duty of every Englishman worth the name to see someone attempting to destroy a work of art, and knock her on her ass.

But what if she got a concussion? What if she really hurt her head on the hard marble floor?

(Whispering) I don’t particularly care.

It’s just a painting! There’s a genocide going on and you’re worried about a painting!

Yes, because this is the rationale that permits driving a truck bomb into St. Peter’s for, oh, fill-in-the-blank. This is the rationale that permits taking a sledgehammer to the Pieta because it reinforced the gender binary. This is the rationale for shooting an artist who drew a blasphemous picture. This is the rationale of the mad and impatient, the lunatics who attend a bedside with a skeleton on the sheets and tell themselves they are midwifing the future.

And as we saw in 2020, the “historians” who support their acts of destruction: Professor of ‘art crime’ instructs protesters on better way to topple statues that offend them.

Congratulations — you went full Taliban! Never go full Taliban: Taliban blow apart 2,000 years of Buddhist history.

ROBERT SPENCER: The Roman Empire Could Have Been Kept From Falling With This One Weird Trick.

THE PRICE OF OLD CARS GETS ANOTHER BOOST – PRETTY SOON WE’LL BE BUYING FROM CUBANS:  Your car is secretly spying on you and driving your insurance rates through the roof: report.

THE MAJORITY OF OUR INSTITUTIONS WERE REVEALED AS CORRUPT, ENTITLED, AND INEPT: Harvard Tramples the Truth: When it came to debating Covid lockdowns, Veritas wasn’t the university’s guiding principle.

Harvard and the wider scientific community have much work to do to deserve and regain public trust. The first steps are the restoration of academic freedom and the cancelling of cancel culture. When scientists have different takes on topics of public importance, universities should organize open and civilized debates to pursue the truth. Harvard could have done that—and it still can, if it chooses.

Almost everyone now realizes that school closures and other lockdowns, were a colossal mistake. Francis Collins has acknowledged his error of singularly focusing on Covid without considering collateral damage to education and non-Covid health outcomes. That’s the honest thing to do, and I hope this honesty will reach Harvard. The public deserves it, and academia needs it to restore its credibility.

I was talking to a friend yesterday, and we noted that everyone now knows that Covid came from a Chinese lab with U.S. government funding, and yet no one has been hanged yet. When people can perpetrate enormities with no consequences, there’s little reason to trust them.

THIS IS ONE SOP FOR THE TRIAL LAWYERS I AM WILLING TO CONSIDER:  US Bill to make covid vaccine makers liable for injuries and deaths.

MERDE, MONSIEUR! THERE ARE PARTS OF FRANCE  WE WOULDN’T ADVISE HIM TO INVADE:  Napoleon Macron, would-be Emperor of Europe.

Commies and their delusions of competency, eh?

IT WAS ALREADY PRETTY AWFUL IN THE EIGHTIES:  Ten years on, BBC bias is worse than ever.

MEH – WHAT HAVE INFANTS EVER DONE FOR US?  We must continue to protect Infant life.

Other than secure the future of the species, that is.

IT MUST BE DONE:  Countering the mendacious “Palestine” maps.

WHEN THE US SNEEZES THE REST OF THE WORLD CATCHES PNEUMONIA. AND PLACES LIKE HAITI BECOME CONSUMPTIVE:  Yon Tanpèt Pafè.

The idiot left’s belief that the world is a fixed pie and by impoverishing us they’ll make the world rich would make a Greek playwright weep.