“HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS” ARE ALWAYS JUST A SMOKESCREEN FOR THESE PEOPLE: When Hating Israel is Your Priority: The loudest voices bemoaning Palestinian suffering decline to call on Hamas to release the hostages and surrender.

JOANNE JACOBS: A reform too far: Sorry, your kid’s only 67% of a ‘whole child.’

Thirty-ish years ago, I was invited to be on a panel at an event discussing a school district’s plans to add “whole-child” and “wellness” criteria to graduation requirements. They wanted graduates to be joyful learners and a bunch of other nice things. I said: “Imagine a student who’s unhappy, unhealthy, hates school — but he aces every class. Imagine denying this student a diploma because he’s not healthy and joyful.” A sort of groan went through the audience. “That’s right,” I said. “You wouldn’t do that. You couldn’t. So, don’t say something is a requirement if it’s not.”

The idea was dropped.

And now it’s back because government is where bad ideas go to achieve immortality.

GOOD: Amici Support NCLA’s Stance at Supreme Court in Major Social Media Censorship Injunction Case. “Forty-five Members of Congress, 16 states, state legislators, former government officials, journalists, attorneys, media personalities, academics, activist groups and research organizations have filed 27 amici curiae briefs supporting the New Civil Liberties Alliance’s position in Murthy v. Missouri against government-directed censorship. NCLA is asking the Supreme Court to uphold a preliminary injunction granted by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that bars White House, CDC, FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Surgeon General’s office officials from significantly encouraging social media platforms to censor lawful speech. The Circuit court upheld key components of a preliminary injunction order issued by U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, who described the Administration’s scheme as ‘arguably the most massive attack against free speech in United States history’ and “akin to an Orwellian Ministry of Truth.'”

Reminder/Disclosure: I’m on the advisory board of the NCLA.

LIGHTNING DEAL: SERMAN BRANDS RFID Blocking Bifold Slim Genuine Leather Wallet. #CommissionEarned

“ONE CHILD POLICY” IS BECOMING AN ASPIRATION INSTEAD OF A LIMIT: You Won’t Believe What Country Will Overtake China in Population. “Each generation in China will be about half the size of the preceding generation. What that means down the road shocked even me, and I’ve been following this story for years.”

BURIED, LIKE AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: Where Are All the Headlines When ‘Free Palestine’ Is On a Shooter’s Assault Weapon?

HELLO FELLOW COOL KIDS!  Biden campaign courts young voters by joiningTikTok: ‘lol hey guys’.

They probably think “lol” means “lots of love.” Rolls eyes.

PEOPLE, NOT WEAPONS, ARE DANGEROUS:  Buddhist monks used coat hanger in defense after armed gang stormed NYC temple, urge bungling thieves to ‘give up’ crime.

IF IT’S ‘THE NEGRO NATIONAL ANTHEM” WOULDN’T IT BE WRONG FOR WHITES TO STAND?  Democrat fumes at Super Bowl crowd for not standing during black national anthem sung by Andra Day.

Also, races are not sovereign nations. Races do not ever have an anthem. Anywhere. What is next? White and Nerdy, the white people who are into computers anthem? A Symptom of Being Human, the science fiction writers’ anthem? Sympathy for the Devil, the leftist anthem?  Next thing you know, there will be an anthem per head and we’ll never get anything done as all the anthems are sung.

Give over. The purpose of a national anthem is unity. Of the nation. Note that we don’t even have state anthems sung, do we? Not even those of the teams.

Race anthems? Get out of town. Races aren’t political units, no matter how much the left stomps hatred and victimhood and tries to make them so.

GOLLY, I NEVER SUSPECTED (SNERK):  NYC migrant moped gang ringleader makes chilling admission about crime network: ‘It’s much bigger than me’.

OH, POOR WIDDLE GERMANY!  After Trump says he “would not protect” NATO allies that do not meet spending targets, German politicians who for years have failed to meet these targets have an entitled sad.

NO. THEY’RE DOING THEIR BEST TO HIDE IT FROM THEMSELVES:  Do Leftists Now Believe Leftism Doesn’t Work?

And they will continue to try to make leftism work, no matter how often it fails.

IT’S TIME TO STOP THIS INSANITY. SHUT THE BORDER ALREADY:  Biden Northern Border Crisis: New York Might Adjust Sanctuary Laws Due to Increase of Illegal Crossings.

THE QUESTION IS, WHAT ARE THEY DISTRACTING US FROM?  Axios Details Meltdown in Biden Administration Over the Border.

SUE THEM TILL THEY FEEL IT:  Maui Fire Victims’ Families Offered Up to $1.5 million in Compensation if They Don’t Sue State Agencies.

You couldn’t pay me enough not to sue.

MORE LIKE CRAWLING IF YOU STRIP AWAY TOTALITARIAN OBFUSCATION:  Chinese Economy Limping into the Year of the Dragon.

THEY DENY PARENTS’ AUTHORITY THEN PROSECUTE PARENTS FOR THEIR CHILDREN’S ACTIONS:  State power grab over child health Part 2: Cutting parents out of the picture.

IT’S JUST A MATTER OF PILING THEM WITH MORE MANURE THAN THEY CAN SHOVEL:  Success of EU farmers’ protests shows how it can be done.

THE WHITE SETTLER COLONISTS MUST BE DRIVEN OUT!  WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO BRITAIN’S INDIGENOUS PERSONS OF COLOR?  I mean they show up in every historical movie, including all those black Vikings…  What’s next for our racist countryside?

Wildlife and Countryside Link, a charity umbrella group whose members include the RSPCA, Rewilding Britain, WWF and the National Trust, have claimed that the British countryside is a ‘racist and colonial’ white space where people of colour are often framed as ‘out of place’.

A “colonial white space.”  Wouldn’t white people be the indigenous people of England, and people “of colour” the colonialists?  I mean, on the obvious face of it and to anyone whose head isn’t chockablock with bovine excrement?

THEY’VE LOST THEIR NATIVE CONGREGATION SO MUST IMPORT A REPLACEMENT:  Asylum seekers and the C of E’s conversion conveyor belt.

Perhaps having believers in their hierarchy would help?

THE CULT OF CLIMATE IS A FORM OF COMMUNISM ND THEREFORE KNOWS NO JUSTICE:  Mark Steyn and the death of justice.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: The election was rigged. Biden is incompetent. Time for consequences.

AMERICANS WILL USE ANY UNIT OF MEASURE TO AVOID THE METRIC SYSTEM: Corgi-sized meteor as heavy as 4 baby elephants hit Texas – NASA.

OPEN THREAD: Don’t be cruel.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: San Franciscans Loot Slightly More Than Usual Following Super Bowl Loss.