I REMEMBER WHEN THEY TOLD US THEY NEEDED THOSE AUDITORS TO GO AFTER BILLIONAIRES: 63% Of IRS Audits Target Taxpayers Earning Less Than $200,000, Not $400,000 Promised By President Biden.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: What a Miserable Difference Six Months Can Make. “Dumpster fire. Train wreck. There are a variety of tried and true phrases to describe this period of painful Biden havoc in which we live. In reality, it’s more like being caught in the midst of competing dumpster fires and train wrecks, and there’s no place to hide. There also seems to be an endless supply of burning dumpsters and wrecking trains.”

CDR SALAMANDER: Making The Right Statement in the West Pacific. “The United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines will hold their first joint naval exercises, including anti-submarine warfare training, in a show of force Sunday in the South China Sea where Beijing’s aggressive actions to assert its territorial claims have caused alarm.”

MARK JUDGE: The Bizarre Afterlife of a Christine Blasey Ford Booster.

SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK: SpaceX begins 2024 with several record-breaking feats. “While SpaceX’s goal of achieving 148 launches in 2024 may be a tough challenge, the company did achieve twelve Falcon 9 launches in a single month in March 2024. This is the number of launches that the company would have to have every month during 2024 if it wants to come close to its year-end goal.”

I LOVE ME A CHEERFUL HEADLINE: President Javier Milei fires 24,000 government workers in Argentina: ‘No one knows who will be next.’

Can we get some of this action here?

FIGHT THE POWER: Law Prof Challenges Validity of Special Counsel’s Appointment in Trump Classified Documents Case: Special Counsel Smith exercises too much independent authority, according to the brief.

OBVIOUSLY TRUE, BUT I’M GLAD A COURT IS POINTING IT OUT: Department of Transportation Lacks the Authority to Require States to Set Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets for Highways.

THEY GAIN POINTS WITH ONE ANOTHER BY BEING ABSURD: The Cultural Elite Is More Absurd Than Ever.

CATHERINE SALGADO: Oct. 7 Massacre: Six Months Later. “Growing up, we all talked about the Nazis as if it were inconceivable that anyone could ever have condoned or ignored the Holocaust. Yet Westerners are doing just that now; ignoring the very real attempted genocide against Israelis while preposterously accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, based on Hamas talking points and Hamas-issued casualty numbers. The Arabs now calling themselves Palestinians have never had a right to Israeli land, and they have spent decades rejecting offers of land concessions and their own nation from Israel. Even now, the majority of Palestinians still support terrorist Hamas and its horrific attacks on Israel Oct. 7. Yet both Muslims and non-Muslims around the world refuse to admit the reality of the situation.”

DEAN REUTER EMAILS:

Just now, the Federalist Society is prepared to hand out some money to budding AI scholars. We’ve issued a call for papers, described below. Would you be able to feature it on Instapundit?

Feel free to mention that 8 or so (depending on submissions) papers in different categories will win $7,500 first prizes, and others can win $2,500 second place prizes.

Here’s the symposium announcement.

“NATIONALISTS” MEANS THOSE WHO LOVE THEIR COUNTRY. WHICH APPARENTLY INCLUDES THE IRISH. WELL DONE, IRELAND:  Antifa Battered In Coolock, Their Phones Seized By Nationalists Apparently Revealing Seedy Links Between Media, NGOs, and Far Left.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: The Odds of $100 Oil Are Rising as Supply Shocks Convulse the Market.

When oil jumped above $90 a barrel just days ago, military tensions between Israel and Iran were the immediate trigger. But the rally’s foundations went deeper — to global supply shocks that are intensifying fears of a commodity-driven inflation resurgence.

A recent move by Mexico to slash its crude exports is compounding a global squeeze, prompting refiners in the US — the world’s biggest oil producer — to consume more domestic barrels. American sanctions have stranded Russian cargoes at sea, with Venezuelan supply a potential next target. Houthi rebel attacks on tankers in the Red Sea have delayed crude shipments. And despite the turmoil, OPEC and its allies are sticking with their production cuts.

Meanwhile: Biden admin cancels plan to refill emergency oil reserve amid high prices.

CHANGE: Predictions for the humanoid robot (“Synths” for short) market by 2035.

DEAL OF THE DAY: DR.ÖTEK Metal Detector for Adults. #CommissionEarned

WELL, BIDEN’S REALLY OLD. YOUNG PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING. OLDER PEOPLE ARE MOSTLY DOING OKAY ECONOMICALLY. SO IS IT REALLY A MYSTERY IF THIS IS HAPPENING? The polls are suggesting a huge shift in the electorate. Are they right? “Polls show former President Donald Trump is ascendant with the youngest bloc of the electorate, even leading President Joe Biden in some surveys, as less-engaged young voters spurn Biden. Meanwhile, Biden is stronger with seniors than he was four years ago, even as his personal image is significantly diminished since he was elected last time.”

IT’S ALREADY STARTED FOR 2024: John Hinderaker: The Coming Disinformation War. “A Democratic presidential campaign, representing the incumbent party, fabricated evidence that its Republican opponent and the eventual president-elect was a Russian agent, and the in-power party’s FBI legitimated the evidence in the eyes of the media so it would be widely reported and believed by the public. To make sure it was believed, top intelligence officials of the outgoing administration went on cable television to call the new president a Russian mole and Vladimir Putin his case officer.”

In the words of Harry Reid, it worked, didn’t it? So of course they’re trying to do something like it again. And they will until it fails, and they’re punished.

SHOCKER: New NBER Study Finds Covid Eviction Moratoria Increased Racial Discrimination: Moratoria caused landlords to be less willing to rent to black tenants.

ROBERT SPENCER: Yes, It Has Come to This: They’re Screaming ‘Death to America’ In Dearborn.

Related:

Unfettered immigration is working out well for Europe … Just a quarter of British Muslims say Hamas definitely committed murder and rape in Israel on October 7 – and nearly 40% say they DIDN'T, shock poll reveals https://t.co/xE17kWUoAn

— A.C. Spollen (@ACSpollen) April 7, 2024

ON SUNDAYS I DO A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDY WRITERS:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

There’s also a fun vignette challenge.

TAMARA KEEL: Gun Nerd Solstice. “People will ask me the polite ‘Hey, how you doing?’ thing by way of conversation, and it’s so uncommon to be able to answer ‘There is literally no place I’d rather be and nothing I’d rather be doing.'”

AS THOUGH EARTHQUAKES AND ECLIPSES WEREN’T BAD ENOUGH OMENS: Mist descends upon Japan’s “Killing Stone” after ceremony to appease nine-tailed fox spirit.

LOTS OF LUCK WITH THAT – MAYBE IF YOU PUT HUNTER ON A CORPORATE BOARD:  Uncle of Israeli mom Shiri Bibas kidnapped with redhead boys demands Biden give Hamas an ultimatum: ‘Do something, or else’.

ADVERSE POSSESSION IS 9/10^THS THE LAW:  NYC squatters are cashing in on legal loopholes and crowded courts to take over homes — and good luck getting them out: experts.

The left has forgotten what happens when people lose faith in the courts and law.  I’m very afraid a great lesson is coming.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  On April 6, Antifa and far-left extremists confronted people protesting a proposed mass migrant center in Dublin, Ireland. Antifa were beaten up in the brawl and reportedly dropped some of their electronic devices while fleeing. The phones reportedly show close cooperation between Antifa operatives, media and nonprofit workers.