THE POORS’ LIVES DON’T MATTER: Elitist Chicago Doc: Average Citizens Don’t Need Armed Self-Defense Because the Poor ‘Don’t Benefit’ From Guns.

I GIVE IN-PERSON EXAMS WITH NO INTERNET ACCESS: To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain.

But it’s widely used for assignments — especially among undergraduates.

CATS: IS THERE ANYTHING THEY CAN’T DO? Cats are opening a powerful new front in the fight to understand virus-caused cancer.

REPORTERS AND HEALTH BUREAUCRATS ARE PRETTY MUCH ALLIED AGAINST PEOPLE DOING THE RIGHT THING: Reporters and health bureaucrats attack Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for doing the right thing (again).

NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Truth About “Non Toxic” Cookware.

CDR SALAMANDER: Bring Rainier and Bridge out of Reserve …the Other Sal makes my argument for me.

THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO SHOW UP:

The childbearing gap between liberals and conservatives is absolutely exploding and has now reached 2 to 1 among women 25-35. In 1980, there was hardly any difference.

Conservative fertility actually increased over 40 years, showing the power of pronatal culture on one side! https://t.co/JQapX2ya7P pic.twitter.com/KGVUNDQnAO

— More Births (@MoreBirths) April 11, 2026

This, of course, is why they depend on importing voters and indoctrinating other people’s children.

THERE’S ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE: A Surprising Supply of Communist Dupes.

I have some related thoughts here.

THAT KIND OF DENIAL PRETTY MUCH NEVER HAPPENS: Indiana U. professor says he was denied emeritus status after posting about male IQ.

As Ann Althouse says, it’s perfectly fine to talk about inherent sex differences, but you must always do so in a way that portrays women as superior.

HIGHER ED ECHOES WITH CALLS FOR INSURRECTION: UC Berkeley group stages protest against Iran war, demands ‘Trump must go now by any means necessary.’

CUTTING TO THE CHASE:

The chief criteria for a just versus an unjust war being whether the guy who launched it cut off your illegal alien-based taxpayer subsidy gravy train https://t.co/UWa5C0ZxOr

— Sunny (@sunnyright) April 13, 2026

DON SURBER: Rooting for Iran: NYT officially hates America and promotes terrorism.

SMOKE FILLED ROOMS: Meet the California Millionaire Funding Anti-Oil Lawsuits—And the Columbia Academics Working To Influence the Judges Handling The Cases.

USA TODAY: Democrats’ growing credibility gap may cost them the midterms | Opinion.

Well, it should.

I AGREE: Only Prosecutions Can End Dems’ DOJ Weaponization, But Media Pretend That’s Not Obvious.

Well:

OH, I NOTICED: You May Not Have Noticed, But Tulsi Is Doing a Great Job.

THAT SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT: Eric Swalwell Wanted To Be President And Nancy Pelosi Fed His Delusion To Make Use Of Him In Pursuit Of Her Ends. A no-talent local pol from a one-party area of a one-party state who a national political power player used to do her dirty work — the ego and hubris that resulted is remarkable.

MARK JUDGE: Eric Swalwell and the Brett Kavanaugh Karma Train.

BARBARIC ENEMIES OF CIVILIZATION:

I could not love this more. The Obama Bro tries so freaking hard to sanitize Piker's love of terrorists, only to have it revealed that Piker is exactly who the Right says he is. The absolute state of the Democratic Party in one glorious 20-second clip. https://t.co/tK73dgQWCi

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) April 13, 2026

I’M AMAZED THAT SO MANY PEOPLE AREN’T GETTING THIS:

The dots that only a few seem to connect is that the Venezuela+Iran double tap was a headshot aimed at China, who's saying goodbye to cheap oil.

Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz thinking it was holding the West hostage. But in reality, 90 percent of the oil that flows through… pic.twitter.com/SdgbtpKTfs

— Jesús Enrique Rosas – The Body Language Guy (@Knesix) April 13, 2026

So what’s Trump’s next step in his strategy? I’m guessing he will circle back to Greenland. The Iran affair has also demonstrated the toothlessness of European countries who might be inclined to try to block this. He’ll make them an offer they can’t refuse, and it will be a good one.

And, almost unnoticed, he’s nailing down the Straits of Malacca to boot.

OUR MAN GAVIN IS MORE ABOUT TALKING ABOUT MORALS AND DUTIES THAN HE IS ABOUT EXERCISING EITHER OF THEM: Gavin Newsom Said He Had a ‘Moral Duty’ To Release His Tax Returns Every Year He Served in Office. He Hasn’t Since 2022. Newsom has kept his returns private as his wife rakes in hundreds of thousands of dollars from her charity, which is funded by corporations that do business with Newsom’s California.

AS ALWAYS, EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON WHAT IS USEFUL TO DEMOCRATS AT THE MOMENT: What is Left of “Believe Women”? from Rolling Stone’s Jackie to Sam Altman’s sister, the rules shift and definitions strain.

Of course, two things can be true at once: Eric Swalwell can be a scumbag, and Democrats are orchestrating this to get rid of him now that he’s inconvenient.

…I have been one of Swalwell's most persistent critics through the years. He has always been shielded by the Democratic establishment and the media. Now, he is persona non grata without a friend in the world.

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) April 13, 2026

Of course, they don’t ever want a Republican governor in California. But they really don’t want one when people are already sniffing around their truly Brobdingnagian levels of fraud. We’re talking fraud that exceeds the GDP of many countries.

REMEMBER, IF YOU EVEN HINTED AT THIS IN 2021 YOU WERE AT RISK OF PROSECUTION OR BEING SUED INTO OBLIVION: The Biden Admin Knew of COVID Vaccine Stroke Risk and Covered It Up. “New details emerging from a Senate investigation confirm that Biden administration officials at both the FDA and CDC knew about a significant stroke risk tied to Pfizer’s bivalent COVID-19 booster in people over 65. They knew. And they said nothing.”

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

PROF. CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: A worst-case solar storm could knock out satellites, GPS and power grids, report warns.

I don’t want to live in a William Forstchen scenario.