IT IS GETTING SPICEY:  Tensions Escalate Between India and Pakistan After Deadly Islamic Terror Attack.

SINCE SUNLIGHT DOESN’T BELONG TO LATE BRITAIN, THIS IS DANGEROUS FOR ALL MANKIND. AN ACT OF WAR ON THE WORLD, IN FACT:   U.K. Leaders Plan to Approve Geoengineering Experiments To Dim Sunlight.

THIS IS RIDICULOUS:  Judge Temporarily Blocks Part of Trump’s Executive Order on Voting.

SOME PEOPLE JUST CANNOT CATCH A BREAK. NOT ONE:  Please Help Us With Medical Expenses.

WELL … DUH:  Just in case you thought raising the minimum wage to $20 for workers at fast food restaurants in California was a good idea, the evidence is in:  California has lost over 22,000 such jobs in the year since the passage of AB 1228.  If only California legislators who voted for it could be forced to pay for the mess they created.

OPEN THREAD: Enjoy yourselves. Life is short.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches Shenzhou 20 astronauts to Tiangong space station (video).

WHY DIDN’T CONGRESS FIND THE MASSIVE WASTE BEFORE DOGE? The answer is the last time (2022) the Democrats controlled the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform they ignored the issue entirely, while the same committee under GOP control in 2024 repeatedly demanded from executive branch agencies  documents, memos, emails, text messages and reports on the issue that were never produced, thanks to the Biden Wall of Resistance.

For the specifics, check out my first news analysis for The Washington Stand.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Smart Brain Implants Can Now Adapt to Optimize Parkinson’s Treatment.

INSIDERS PRONOUNCED MEAT “OVER.” Reality: “The research showed that nearly 98 percent of households buy meat and 73 percent consider it a healthy choice, up 10 percent since 2020.”

Just because a few weirdos want us to eat bugs and plant-based industrial meat substitutes doesn’t mean that normal people actually do.

MORE BABIES PLEASE: The fertility rate was stable in 2024, but it’s still near record lows.

HANNAH E. MEYERS:  “Trans Criminals:  The Problem We Refuse to Define:  Our willful ignorance undermines our ability to make good policy“

“RULE OF LAW.” “DUE PROCESS:” How ATF Re-Worked Legal, Inert RPGs to Put an American in Jail for Two Decades.

Related: DOJ Finally Drops Braced Pistol NFA Charge Against Pardoned January 6 Protester.

HMM: Former GOP congressman David Jolly switches to Democrat ahead of expected Florida governor bid.

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OOF:

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— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 23, 2025

PAULA BOLYARD: Here’s a Novel Solution to Grooming in Schools.

JOHN O. McGINNIS:  “The Road to Campus Serfdom.”  “Federal control over education has grown so powerful because progressives empowered the government for their own ideological goals.”  And the road to that serfdom runs through a little Christian college in southeastern Pennsylvania called Grove City College.

There have been a lot of complaints from progressives that it is unfair to cut off Harvard and Columbia from all their federal funding when their sins, if any, were isolated.  Well … own it, guys.  You’re the ones who made the law that way. (Typo fixed.)

THESE FOLDING CARBINES ARE THE NEXT BIG THING: KELTEC® SUB2000 FOLDING CARBINE NOW CHAMBERED IN 10MM. And 10mm seems to be the new thing.

ROUNDUP: Large Format 9mm Pistols.

DECOUPLING: US Propane Tanker Diverts Chinese Port Call In Latest Warning Sign For China’s Plastic Factories.

To begin the week, we highlighted a potential breaking point emerging in the global economy due to the escalating tariff war: Chinese plastics manufacturers—heavily reliant on U.S. petrochemicals—now face production halts as shipments are increasingly being diverted from the world’s second-largest economy.

Bloomberg cites new ship-tracking data showing that a very large gas carrier hauling U.S. propane has diverted from its initial destination in China to a new port of call in Japan.

The data showed that BW Gemini is hauling 46,000 tons of propane from the U.S. The gas tanker left Phillips 66 Freeport LPG Export Terminal in late March and was initially headed for Yantai, China. However, in recent days, while traversing the Pacific Ocean, the port of call was changed to Imari, Japan.

There was no explanation for BW Gemini’s sudden port calling switch from China to Japan, but in recent weeks, Beijing slapped 125% tariffs on all liquefied petroleum gas.

As noted earlier today, Trump holds most of the, er, trump cards.

THIS WEEK’S VIP-ONLY ESSAY: Our Elites Owe Us More Than a Shrug and a Rewrite.

TRUMP BETTER KEEP A TAPE OF THE INTERVIEW: This Is Huge! You Won’t Believe Who’s Going to Interview Trump.

You know, seriously, this is another one of those “compare Trump to Biden” things. Biden would barely agree to an interview with a sympathetic reporter. Trump is doing an interview with one of the most hostile.

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TERRAFORMING MARS: Will a Terraformed Mars Leak?

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