FIRST, DENVER REINTRODUCED WOLVES OVER RURAL OBJECTIONS. THEN THEY DENIED RESPONSIBILITY: As Colorado wildlife agency claims it is not to blame for wolf kills, ranchers threaten future partnerships.

While CPW officials said they are not to blame for what has transpired since the wolves were reintroduced in Colorado, state ranchers have argued that is not entirely true.

Davis and his staff told the House Agriculture, Water and Natural Resources Committee last fall they would do everything possible not to bring “problem” wolves to Colorado.

In fact, the state of Oregon reported that half of the 10 wolves sent to Colorado came from packs that attacked livestock eight times in 2023 alone. Two of those attacks took place last May, killing one five-week-old calf and injuring two four-to-six-week-old calves.

As ranchers prepare for calving season, which will continue from March through June, Colorado Parks and Wildlife urges nonlethal options for dealing with problem wolves.

The agency has also pledged to hire range riders to patrol ranches.

However, with 1,800 square miles and 70 ranches in Grand County, questions have surfaced about whether those range riders would be in the same part of the county as the wolves and if the agency is notifying ranchers when wolves are nearby.

The agency’s black eye isn’t only about wolves.

Lawmakers have sharply criticized the agency over its failure to communicate plans with ranchers and continued delay in coming up with a definition of “chronic depredation.”

On April 3, the agency advocated for a bill to add rare plants and invertebrates to species that may be studied and conserved during a hearing before the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee.

In other words, they’re stalling.

THEY ARE NOT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, THEY ARE JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE:

LINCOLN BROWN: The Wheels Come Off the Woke Agenda in Massachusetts.

THE ONLY ROAD TO ENDING THIS WAR ON ACCEPTABLE TERMS RUNS THROUGH RAFAH: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declares Israel WILL invade Rafah in the Southern Gaza strip declaring: ‘There is a date’ “Israel is purchasing 40,000 tents to prepare for the evacuation of Rafah, an Israel official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media.”

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Vatican Reluctantly Sides With God On Gender Theory.

LOL: Students shout at, protest Clinton: ‘Wellesley’s most beloved war criminal.’

The sharpest tool can turn in your hand. And these students aren’t the sharpest of tools.

ED MORRISSEY: All (Approved) Things Considered: How We Lost Our Way at NPR.

“If you are conservative, you will read this and say, duh, it’s always been this way,” NPR veteran Uri Berliner writes. “But it hasn’t.” Perhaps not, but it’s been that way for longer than Berliner wants to admit, too.

And it’s not just NPR that Berliner dresses down in this detailed and damning mea culpa from inside the house, so to speak, at The Free Press. What Berliner writes about his own media organization pretty much applies to all American mainstream media outlets, and just as much as at NPR, if not more.

Berliner puts the beginning of the corruption at the election of Donald Trump, when NPR went all-in on Adam Schiff’s McCarthyism — and failed to call it out when it collapsed:

Schiff, who was the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, became NPR’s guiding hand, its ever-present muse. By my count, NPR hosts interviewed Schiff 25 times about Trump and Russia. During many of those conversations, Schiff alluded to purported evidence of collusion. The Schiff talking points became the drumbeat of NPR news reports.

But when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion, NPR’s coverage was notably sparse. Russiagate quietly faded from our programming.

It is one thing to swing and miss on a major story. Unfortunately, it happens. You follow the wrong leads, you get misled by sources you trusted, you’re emotionally invested in a narrative, and bits of circumstantial evidence never add up. It’s bad to blow a big story.

What’s worse is to pretend it never happened, to move on with no mea culpas, no self-reflection. Especially when you expect high standards of transparency from public figures and institutions, but don’t practice those standards yourself. That’s what shatters trust and engenders cynicism about the media.

In 2010, NPR attacked the Tea Party, a group of fiscally responsible grownups whose protests against government waste often ended with their cleaning up their protest sites, not destroying them:  Taxpayer-Funded Immaturity: NPR Teaches Readers ‘To Speak Tea Bag.’

As Glenn noted in October of 2016, “I’m increasingly concerned that the neutralization of the Tea Party movement — an effort by both major parties — may have convinced a lot of people that civics-book style polite political participation is for chumps.”

As did the DNC-MSM’s coverage of Mitt Romney. In 2012, when Romney faced off against Obama, NPR attacked him with racial dog whistles that only Cokie Roberts could hear.

And then the network wondered why the Republican rank and file united behind Trump in 2016:

Oh you guys want to Portray Mitt Romney as an extreme and abusive sociopath? Okay, well here's the real thing then.

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 22, 2024

Flashback: How Journalism Abandoned the Working Class. “For a long time, the notion that America is an unrepentant white-supremacist state—one that confers power and privilege to white people and systematically denies them to people of color—was the province of far-left activists and academics. But over the past decade, it’s found its way into the mainstream, largely through liberal media outlets like the New York Times, NPR, MSNBC, the Washington Post, Vox, CNN, the New Republic, and the Atlantic. What changed? Most obviously: white liberals. Their enthusiasm for wokeness created a feedback loop with the media outlets to which they are paying subscribers. And the impact has been monumental: Once distinct publications and news channels are now staggeringly uniform.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Our Ruling Class Monoculture.

THE DEMOCRATS WROTE THE NEW RULES, NOW MAKE THEM LIVE BY THEM: Joe Biden Could Be Indicted After He Leaves Office.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University administrator bought 500 feet of nylon rope ahead of planned ‘intro to bondage’ workshop led by rape-porn author: EXCLUSIVE.

THE LEFT IS ASTROTURF, ALL THE WAY DOWN: Vandy Student Arrested After Pro-Hamas Sit-In Has Ties to the White House, Muslim Brotherhood-Linked Org.

One of the leaders of a group of students who held a sit-in at Vanderbilt University this week in support of Hamas is a long-time Democratic party activist with White House ties, as it turns out.

Florida native Jack Petocz is one of three students arrested by campus police after the incident on a charge of assaulting a security guard. Those arrested were also expelled by the university, while one student was suspended and 22 more put on probation. After his expulsion, Petocz penned a rambling, whiny, and bigoted Twitter/X thread about the ordeal, claiming that he was expelled “for the ultimate crime of caring as 33,000 people have been murdered.”

Earlier:

When the (manufactured) hubbub over Gov. Ron DeSantis’ alleged “Don’t Say Gay” bill erupted in Florida, Petocz jumped right into the fray, organizing a statewide walkout in Florida high schools (around 30 schools participated, according to an interview Petocz gave NBC News). On March 5, 2022, the day of the walkout, Petocz was escorted from his school, Flagler Palm Coast High School, by security and was suspended. According to the NBC News story, “Petocz said he was punished for distributing 200 pride flags for the rally after having been advised not to do so by the principal,” then claims his suspension was due to homophobia and bigotry.
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He also received the 2022 Now Award for Youth Activism from “Them” magazine in June 2022 and was profiled in Teen Vogue.

A few days after the Teen Vogue profile, Petocz was up in Washington, DC to meet with Joe Biden about issues facing LGBTQ students and attend the signing ceremony for Biden’s “Executive Order on Advancing Equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Individuals,” snapping pictures with Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Pete Buttigieg, and more.

Read the whole thing.

The Left finds new talent, if that’s the word, then supports and promotes them.

Where is the Right?

OKAY, GROOMER: Oh, Boy: Biden’s Campaign Is Consulting With The Lincoln Project and the Jokes Write Themselves.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: A Refreshing Moment of Sanity in Women’s College Sports. “My daughter ran cross country and track in high school and college. Her collegiate career just ended in 2020. This kind of stuff wasn’t even on our radar then. She spent her high school years competing in Southern California, where one might expect to have encountered an early transgender infiltration into sports. It never came up.”

GOOD QUESTION:

87% of Americans don’t have student loans.

Why should they be forced to foot the bill of the 13%?

— Congressman Troy E. Nehls (@RepTroyNehls) April 8, 2024

NATALIE SOLENT: A “PALESTINIAN WRITER.” “The tweet calls Walid Daqqa ‘a Palestinian writer,’ as if he had been imprisoned for his writings – as if he were the sort of prisoner of conscience on whose behalf I used to write letters on that special blue Air Mail paper, back when I was a member of Amnesty International. . . . Amnesty’s writer, Erika Guevara-Rosas, did not say much about Moshe Tamam. She cited Walid Daqqa’s youthful age at the time, 24, but did not see fit to say that his victim Moshe Tamam was just 19. And she skips over some relevant details in that brief word ‘killed.’ Daqqa and his PFLP comrades did not just kill Moshe Tamam, they tortured him to death. They gouged out his eyes and castrated him. Then they murdered him.”

I remember when Amnesty International opposed torture and murder, instead of covering for torture and murder.

THIS MUST BE MORE OF THAT OBAMA-ERA “SMART DIPLOMACY” I REMEMBER SO FONDLY: Washington offers Tehran negotiations to avoid striking Israel.

Iranian diplomatic sources say the US is trying to convince Iran not to retaliate against Israel for its bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria earlier this month, Al-Jarida newspaper reported on 8 April.

The Israeli strike targeted a building attached to the Iranian embassy in Damascus. It led to the killing of the commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, his deputy, and five other IRGC officers.

A source in the Iranian foreign ministry told Al-Jarida that Washington offered Tehran direct negotiations with Tel Aviv to de-escalate the conflict.

According to the source, Washington will guarantee to persuade Tel Aviv to stop its military operations in Syria and Lebanon on the condition that Iran commit not to retaliate against Israel for the Damascus attack.

At the same time, a diplomatic source in Beirut told Al-Jarida that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected an American proposal to pledge to stop attacks in Syria.

The source added that Iranian leader Ali Khamenei is reviewing the US offer but is not expected to accept it if it does not include guarantees for a comprehensive ceasefire in Gaza and to stop all Israeli and US attacks on Iranian targets or those belonging to Iran’s allies in the Axis of Resistance.

Maybe we haven’t given them enough pallets of cash yet.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Vanderbilt University suspends, expels students who occupied chancellor’s office during pro-Palestinian protest.

MORE MOCKERY: Biden’s ‘you ain’t black’ comment comes back to bite him as Tim Scott mocks the president leaking minority voters.

EVERY RECORD HAS BEEN FALSIFIED: The Crime Stats Are Juked.

#JOURNALISM: ENFORCING RETROGRADE STANDARDS FOR THE CONSERVATIVE POLITICIAN’S WIFE. “If she were meeting those standards, she’d be mocked for that too.”

FREEZE THE TARGET, PERSONALIZE IT, ISOLATE IT:

🇧🇷 BREAKING: BRAZIL TO CUT STARLINK IN FUED WITH ELON MUSK

Brazil's government has stated that it will suspend all Starlink contracts in their ongoing battle with Elon.

This would result in many schools that use Starlink for internet access to lose coverage.@elonmusk stated:… pic.twitter.com/fZObwDtyeX

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 9, 2024

Giving in to corruption will lose the trust of users, as we’ve seen with Meta and YouTube.

This is just short term pain for the long term trust of the public

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 9, 2024

The judge tried to do it to Elon, but he’s become the issue now, and his name is becoming synonymous with corruption.

How did @Alexandre de Moraes become the dictator of Brazil? He has Lula on a leash 😂

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2024

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Hamas Just Begged Israel to Finish Them Off.

PARTY OF HATE: As a Principal, Jamaal Bowman Objected to Teaching About ‘White’ Figures Like George Washington, Honoring Cop-Killers Instead: Bowman celebrated an anti-Semite and cop-killers on ‘wall of honor.’

LIGHTNING DEAL: KIZEN Infrared Thermometer Gun- Handheld Heat Temperature Gun for Cooking, Pizza. #CommissionEarned

INFLATION, ONCE UNLEASHED, IS DIFFICULT AND PAINFUL TO REIN BACK IN: Doubts Creep In About a Fed Rate Cut This Year. “Traders started the year predicting up to seven rate cuts. Now, many are betting on one or two—or none.”

Plus: “Investors will get a new perspective on the outlook for rates this coming week with Wednesday’s release of the consumer-price index. Inflation has cooled significantly from 40-year highs, but two months of hotter-than-expected readings have helped reinforce the Fed’s wait-and-see approach to cuts.”

THE DOGS DON’T LIKE THE DOG FOOD: Poll: Even More Americans Refuse to Consider EVs.

They also probably can’t afford it: Bidenflation: $100 Doesn’t Buy What it Used to at the Grocery Store.