AND JUST LIKE THAT, DEMOCRATS ARE ELECTION DENIALISTS ONCE AGAIN: Report: House Democrats May Not Certify 2024 Election if Trump Wins.

GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Pennsylvania Liquor Regulators Are Seeking Revenge on Bars That Broke Pandemic Rules.

During the height of the pandemic summer of 2020, the proprietors of the Burning Bridge Tavern worked with local officials in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, to host a series of outdoor gatherings for the community.

For their trouble, the bar’s owners got slapped with a series of citations by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB), the government agency that oversees and manages the sale of alcohol in the state. The citations were ticky-tack offenses, according to Burning Bridge’s chief financial officer, Mike Butler. Twice, the bar was cited for noise violations because they’d allowed a band playing at the gathering to plug into the tavern’s electricity supply. Another offense occurred when the owners and some family members were drinking inside the tavern, which was closed to the public, during a period when indoor dining was prohibited.

A frustrating situation, but not the end of the world. Burning Bridge’s owners paid the fines associated with the citations and assumed that was that. But then the bar had to renew its liquor license.

“They denied it. They said, ‘Oh, you’re the guys that got all those citations,'” Butler says. “It was a real gut punch.”

Turns out, over the past two years the PLCB has pushed dozens of Pennsylvania establishments that racked up pandemic-​related citations to sign “conditional licensing agreements” to renew their liquor permits. In some cases, those agreements have forced the sale of licenses—but in most cases, as with Burning Bridge, they’ve added additional conditions to the license that could prevent a future renewal from being approved.

Senator Blutarsky smiles.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:

Shot: From The Passion of the Christ to Barbie. When did People Stop Behaving Themselves in Movie Theaters?

—Mark Judge, August 21st, 2023.

Chaser: Werner Herzog Watched 30 Minutes of Barbie and Asked: ‘Could It Be That the World of Barbie Is Sheer Hell?’

—Variety, yesterday.

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Dog Bites Man Edition.

STAY IN SHAPE: Back Brace Posture Corrector for Men & Women. #CommissionEarned

LOL, DO THE LETTERS “F.O.” MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU? ‘Slightly racist to be a Taylor Swift fan,’ professor says. “Melina Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State University Los Angeles who is a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement and once argued Jussie Smollet was framed, recently stated she thinks Taylor Swift fans are kinda racist.”

And when taxpayers tire of paying for this, as they are, we’re told it’s because of “anti-intellectualism.”

ACCOUNTABILITY IS FOR POLITICAL OPPONENTS: Police suspend criminal investigation into SFSU students who tried to hold Riley Gaines ‘hostage.’

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Mass cellphone outage sparks fear of communications, electric grid failure.

Thursday’s sporadic interruption of national cellular phone networks has raised new concerns about how a large solar flare event or an atmospheric nuclear attack could shut down a wider network of phones or even the electric grid.

While the number of phone outages was small, they showed up coast to coast, and some media spun the story up into a major crisis. “World Is Ending,” screamed the Drudge Report in a red headline.

Early indications are that it could have been caused by successive solar flares big enough to interrupt cellular service but not affect the electric grid.

Early on I was hearing it was hackers, but whatever.

Related: Prepping for When “I Can’t Hear You Now.”

OUCH:

With who? pic.twitter.com/I4t5neHYUX

— Ricky Retardo (@hear4tucker) February 23, 2024

It’s a fair hit, though.

Wife of Boston Marathon Hero Claims Biden Groped Her.

Flashback: It’s time to talk about former Vice President Joe Biden, the open sexual predator.

Biden Swims Naked, Upsetting Female Secret Service Agents:

“Agents say that, whether at the vice president’s residence or at his home in Delaware, Biden has a habit of swimming in his pool nude,” Kessler writes in the book – due for release Aug. 5.

“Female Secret Service agents find that offensive,” he writes.

“Biden likes to be revered as everyday Joe,” an unnamed agent told Kessler. “But the reality is no agents want to go on his detail because Biden makes agents’ lives so tough.”

Plus: Washington Post: What Are We Going To Do About Creepy Uncle Joe Biden?

And: ‘Creepy Veep’ Joe Biden ‘nuzzles’ wife of colleague and claims he is friends with lots of Somali cab drivers.

Also: Joe Biden’s Woman-Touching Habit.

Related: Talking Points Memo: Why Does Creepy Uncle Joe Biden Get A Pass From Liberals?

Plus:

And the lefty press would even talk about this stuff, until all of a sudden it wouldn’t.

Exit question: Which sold out faster: Toilet paper during the pandemic, or #MeToo when Biden was nominated?

DEAL OF THE DAY: ANCEL AD410 Enhanced OBD II Vehicle Code Reader. #CommissionEarned

MARK JUDGE: The Demise of DC. “Washington’s now like one of those lost cities in the George Miller Mad Max movies. Those films are equal parts vehicular mayhem and quiet moments of sadness over the world blowing itself up. DC now elicits similar feelings. . . . Crime’s rampant and even the streets in rich neighborhoods aren’t safe. The answer? More speed and stop sign cameras to dissuade visitors with money.”

OUR CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION:

This would be election interference with US tax dollars….exactly what Biden originally did with Ukraine.

Which legacy media outlet is going to look into this??! https://t.co/DtM0JeHxs9

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) February 23, 2024

THE RETURN OF STANDARDS? Yale Reinstates Standardized Test Scores for Admissions.

GOOD: NCLA Wins Order Blocking Dep’t of Energy’s Unlawful Demand for Cryptocurrency Mining Data. “Today, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) in the New Civil Liberties Alliance’s new Texas Blockchain Council v. Dept. of Energy lawsuit. The 14-day TRO blocks DOE and the Energy Information Administration (EIA) from forcing cryptocurrency mining companies to hand over sensitive information about their electricity consumption through a mandatory Cryptocurrency Mining Facilities Survey. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) had given EIA emergency permission to collect this data, despite EIA’s failure to demonstrate that short-cutting the statutory process would prevent public harm, as federal law requires. On behalf of its clients, the Texas Blockchain Council and Riot Platforms, Inc., NCLA celebrates the Court’s Order and looks forward to derailing DOE’s unlawful data collection effort once and for all.”

Reminder/Disclosure, I’m on the NCLA’s Advisory Board.

TO BE FAIR, THAT’S PRETTY MUCH WHAT THE RULING CLASS ACTUALLY THINKS:

Get A Load Of These Insane Christian Nationalists Who Believed Rights Come From God And Not The Government https://t.co/gHg9dYaGqB pic.twitter.com/7U0tRsOjSC

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 23, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ties 19 flight-record with launch from California. “It was the 19th mission for this Falcon 9’s first stage, according to a SpaceX mission description, tying a mark the company set on a Starlink launch this past December.”

YOU CAN COUNT ON ALEC BALDWIN TO RUN A PROFESSIONAL OPERATION: Prosecutors: ‘Rust’ Armorer Got High the Night Before the Shooting.

NO DILITHIUM CRYSTALS, THOUGH: Antimatter Could Unlock a Radical New Future of Interstellar Travel.

I’m still holding out for a Mannschenn Drive.

WELL YES, SINCE THERE’S NO ACTUAL, YOU KNOW, GENOCIDE: The World Court Lacks Any Plausible Basis for Directing Provisional Measures Against Israel Under the Genocide Convention.

The World Court was described by my International Law professor at Yale back in the 1980s as a “fundamentally trivial body,” but it seems determied to marginalize itself further. (Bumped).

I’M NOT GENERALLY A FAN OF ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES: The administration of oral contraceptives that include a synthetic variant of progesterone (progestogen) could elevate the risk of engaging in suicidal behaviors among women who have depression and thoughts of suicide.

#JOURNALISM:

Lots of legacy reporters are writing about Putin without mentioning that Putin endorsed Joe Biden for President 2024.

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) February 23, 2024

ANOTHER CHINESE SPY BALLOON? Military Tracking Balloon Over US.

HMM: Men’s infertility linked to increased cancer risks among families. “A deficiency or absence of viable sperm in a man’s semen could spell danger for him and those closely related to him, new research suggests. Cancers are more likely to occur in these men and their families, reports a team led by Dr. Joemy Ramsay, an assistant professor at Utah University in Salt Lake City.”

FORTUNATELY, THE DRIVER WAS BARELY INJURED: Watch the interior video as Amtrak train cuts Amazon delivery van in two.