BYD: Here Comes the EV Bloodbath Trump Warned Us About.

BIG SPRING SALE: DEWALT 20V MAX Cordless Drill and Impact Driver. #CommissionEarned

EVERYONE’S GONE TO THE MOVIES: Spread the Word: ‘Climate: The Movie’ Out Today Online for Free and It’s Terrific. “The film explores the nature of the consensus behind climate change. It describes the origins of the climate funding bandwagon, and the rise of the trillion-dollar climate industry. It describes the hundreds of thousands of jobs that depend on the climate crisis. It explains the enormous pressure on scientists and others not to question the climate alarm: the withdrawal of funds, rejection by science journals, social ostracism.”

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: ‘Get Him! Get Him!’ The Angry Mob Comes for Kyle Rittenhouse Again.

WE’VE BEEN A MARITIME TRADING NATION SINCE BEFORE WE WERE A NATION: The US’ Waning Naval Dominance and China’s Surge Should Worry You.

The Houthis are sinking ships and killing sailors. China is waging a persistent campaign to make the South China Sea its own private lake. Russia is claiming international waters in the Arctic Ocean. The war in Ukraine has made the Black Sea a shooting gallery.

The flashpoints are scattered, but the fundamental crisis is the same. Freedom of navigation is a hallmark of America’s liberal international order; it is a pillar of the relative peace and tremendous prosperity humanity has achieved. And now, as its defenders grow weaker and its challengers become more assertive, it is being threatened in regions around the globe.

Like the dominance of democracy or the absence of great-power war, freedom of navigation is one of those features of the modern world that we often take for granted because we forget how exceptional it really is. For most of history, the seas were neither safe nor free. Pirates and privateers seized ships and stifled commerce. Nations protected their own commerce and no one else’s. In his famous treatise Mare Liberum, published in 1609, Hugo Grotius may have argued that no country owned the oceans. The behavior of a great many states suggested they thought otherwise.

This really changed only with the ascendancy of the Anglo-American sea powers from the 18th century onward. In wartime, Britain’s Royal Navy conducted blockades that were the terror of its enemies and the neutrals that traded with them — including the United States. In peacetime, Britain’s interest in securing trade routes that connected a far-flung empire made the seas safer for others as well. And when Britannia’s rule faltered, amid the global wars of the 20th century, Washington stepped in.

Read the whole thing.

SILENCING: Grand Canyon University student says she was ‘silenced’ about ‘biased’ econ textbook.

IT’S SO MUCH EASIER JUST TO NOT LIE: Jessica Tarlov’s False Claim About Tony Bobulinski Sparks Lawsuit Threat Against Fox News “In a letter PJ Media obtained, Bobulinski’s lawyer demands an on-air retraction and an apology from Tarlov for making a false claim.”

IF IT THINKS IT CAN GET AWAY WITH IT: Will the Censorship Regime Deploy Weapons of Mass Suppression in 2024? The means and motives are there for a mass censorship effort the likes of which we’ve never seen. Recent developments suggest where the information war is headed.

BIGOTRY AND VIOLENCE ON CAMPUS: University of Memphis protesters block students from leaving Kyle Rittenhouse event. “Video obtained by Campus Reform shows a large group of protesters outside of the event chanting ‘No justice, No peace!'”

You wouldn’t like it if people on the right adopted that slogan.

THE LEFT’S WAR AGAINST ELON MUSK EXPLAINED IN ONE TWEET:

On Twitter: 3% believe a fake news Trump lie.

Off Twitter: 40% believe a fake news Trump lie.

Twitter is the Democrat's biggest issue for 2024. https://t.co/ept2BD0EnP

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) March 21, 2024

The platform still has serious issues but it does seem to be working.

JOHN LUCAS: Why Did West Point Remove ‘Duty, Honor, Courage’ From Its Mission Statement?

LAWFARE: How To Wage Lawfare – The 65 Project and Democracy Docket.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: They Have Come for Your Children — Woke SCOTUS Edition. “I’m only seven years removed from my daughter’s time in high school. A world where I could lose my rights as a parent if I didn’t adapt my beliefs to honor the whims of an adolescent child was inconceivable then.”

HE’S RIGHT:

This is a battle to the death with the anti-civilizational woke mind virus.

My positions are centrist:
– Secure borders
– Safe & clean cities
– Don’t bankrupt America with spending
– Racism against any race is wrong
– No sterilization below age of consent

Is this right-wing? https://t.co/QgRkoem2u4

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 21, 2024

And yes, any position that’s not crazy and self-destructive is now “far right.”

THAT ISN’T SUSTAINABLE: Most Carmakers Lose An Average Of $6,000 On Every Electric Vehicle They Sell. “We estimate that most OEMs currently lose around $6,000 on each EV they effectively sell for $50,000, after accounting for customer tax credits. We also estimate that OEMs will only be able to close half of this cost gap by making the right technology choices; economies of scale as automakers ramp up production will help, too, but they won’t make up the difference. Then there is the impact of looming Chinese imports to consider; market prices will likely contract further, exacerbating the profitability challenge. At some point, it will become untenable for OEMs to lose money on every vehicle they sell.”

Sounds like a bloodbath in the making but Biden is all-in, regardless: The EPA Is About to Outlaw Your Car.

AVOIDING REALITY: Internal Docs Show Entire Intelligence Community Warned To Avoid ‘Problematic Phrases’ On Islamic Terrorism: Top intel agency’s DEI newsletter states that terms such as ‘Jihadist’ and ‘Radical Islamists’ must be avoided.

Maybe get rid of the DEI people.

HE’S NOT WRONG:

More shots were used to repel U.S. citizen Ashli Babbitt from the Capitol than on foreign invaders. pic.twitter.com/Qp10DJLkT4

— Rep. Mike Collins (@RepMikeCollins) March 21, 2024

Related:

Media Says Border Crisis Not An Invasion, It Is Simply A Group Of Military-Aged Males Using Force Against Our Military To Enter And Occupy The Country https://t.co/QziF3djyVX pic.twitter.com/OSrZbBuTDW

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 21, 2024

FILED: Brief of Professor Seth Barrett Tillman and Landmark Legal Foundation as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant Trump’s Motion to Dismiss the Indictment.

MATT MARGOLIS: Supreme Court Deals Crushing Blow to Parental Rights. “Earlier this week, the United States Supreme Court dismissed an appeal from the parents of a teenage boy who were stripped of custody rights by the state of Indiana for not affirming their son’s self-proclaimed ‘gender identity’ as a girl.”

IT’S AS IF DEI IS A FAKE DISCIPLINE PPULATED BY GRIFTERS: Complaint Alleges University of Wisconsin DEI Czar, Husband of Harvard’s DEI Chief, Has Decades-Long History of Research Misconduct: LaVar Charleston—who once assaulted a police officer—passed off old studies as new research at least five times.

HMM: Chinese scientists find laser weapons can strip the coating off hypersonic missiles with unexpected ease.

When using laser weapons to defend against hypersonic missiles, cranking up the power does not automatically guarantee better outcomes.

That is what a team of aerospace defence engineers and scientists from Beijing found after conducting wind tunnel tests to examine a scenario in which a missile travelling at Mach 6 is hit by a laser beam.

When the beam’s power density reached 1kW/sq cm, it caused significant peeling of the coating on the missile’s surface.

This special coating is what gives China’s hypersonic weapons their edge. Without it, they would be prone to overheating, destabilising or even falling apart mid-flight.

But here’s the kicker: when the scientists doubled the laser’s power density, the area of peeling actually decreased.

“Under the influence of hypersonic airflow, the coating sustains more damage when hit by a lower-powered laser,” wrote a team led by senior engineer Lin Jian with the Chinese Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics in a peer-reviewed paper published in the Chinese academic journal Physics of Gases in January.

Or maybe that’s just what they want us to believe.

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JOEL KOTKIN: The West is being torn apart by the battle of the infinite sexes: For a healthy society to function, lawmakers must strike a balance between individual freedom and collective harmony.

The recent decision by the National Health Service to ban puberty blockers under prescription outside of upcoming clinical trials is a rare indication that common sense and biological reality are staging a comeback. However, this ruling is but a small victory against a growing trend that places ever less emphasis on family, marriage and children.

The battle of the sexes shifting into a battle of infinite sexes represents a key front in this age of familial and gender confusion. Today over 28 per cent of all Gen-Z women identify as LGBTQ, more than twice the rate for millennials and almost three times that for young men.

This break with heterosexual norms has many sources. Women generally outnumber men: 75 per cent of Ivy League presidents, 66 per cent of college administrators, and 58 per cent of recent graduates are now female. On college campuses, as author and longtime feminist Susan Jacoby notes, even the most sensitive and sympathetic men “have been robbed of their true nature and humanity.”

Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be college men.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: Dear Donald Trump: the Primaries Are Over, So Act Like It (You Too, Mike Pence).

WORTH A LOOK:  ‘Killing America’ Connects Shocking DEI Dots.