WAR ON AMERICA: Anti-Gun Politicians Are Working Overtime to Destabilize Nation’s Judicial System, Starting with Highest Court.

MICHAEL WALSH: In Europe, A Cheer Moment.

Back in the days when real writers instead of gay teenage-girl ideologues wrote motion-picture scripts, and were concerned not only with plot but theme and character development and the three-act form and finding an emotionally and artistically satisfying ending to a memorable film, they often used to include something called the “cheer moment.” After enduring humiliation after humiliation, insult upon insult, and abuse after abuse, the long-suffering protagonist finally turns on his or her tormentors and gives them what they’ve been asking for all along. Here’s one now. . . .

All of this and more happened across Europe yesterday as voters went to the polls and delivered a well-deserved and long-overdue thrashing of the malignant Left in voting for the European Parliament. In France, Germany, and Italy, the heart of the E.U., patriotic parties — contemptuously referred to by the international state media as “far right” — made significant gains against their institutional opposition, rattling bien-pensant sensibilities and demolishing the various neo-communist “Green” parties everywhere. Savor it.

More like this please.

WHO KNEW? “A new study from The University of Western Australia and Edith Cowan University has found evidence of what’s long been suspected—that men are more likely to be risk-takers than women.”

IT’S SATIRE, BUT IS IT?

Biden Asks Why Europe Didn't Just Arrest Conservative Candidates Before Election https://t.co/3MgAh4kIB4 pic.twitter.com/HcP16crCUA

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 10, 2024

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA is commissioning 10 studies on Mars Sample Return—most are commercial.

HMM: Stealth gas contracts awarded amid high-profile crewed Starliner mission.

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: How wild beast invasion is tearing up America – and killing more people than sharks: ‘I’d rather get eaten by an alligator.’

Plus: “‘There are a lot more wild boar dishes in restaurants now,’ said Mayer. ‘But we’re not gonna barbecue our way out of this.'”

I dunno guys, that sounds like a challenge to me.

JAMES LILEKS: Without World’s Fairs, Can America Imagine Its Future? World’s Fairs are but a remnant of a time when America thought big.

VARIOUS THOUGHTS ON the Columbia Law Review imbroglio. Various views by various people, but this from Steve Lubet is worth quoting: “The apparently secretive process for soliciting and editing the article was wrong and manipulative in the first instance. It is a clear example of the politicization of scholarship, which should not be used to circumvent previously agreed upon editorial processes. The justification for it, which has been repeated by Prof. Katherine Franke, is nonsense.”

IT’S SATIRE, BUT JUST BARELY: Ilhan Omar Calls For Day Of Mourning Over Hostages Rescued.

Related: You ever have one of those days? “You’re just sitting at home minding your own business, guarding the Israeli hostages your Hamas buddies kidnapped after their bloody rampage on October 7. Then, all of a sudden, for no reason whatsoever, a bunch of Zionists bust in and kill you. A lot of you. Hundreds of you, if your terrorist comrades are to be believed. And for what? Why did so many people need to die just for four Jews? Aren’t your lives important too?”

No. They don’t just have zero value. You’re better for the world when you’re dead.

Plus:

No matter what these terrorists do, no matter how many wars they start, their entire strategy is to paint themselves as the aggrieved party. They’re always the victims.

They had to butcher all those people on October 7, you see. They had to kidnap the survivors and hold them hostage.

Because Jews still exist on this planet.

Then, terrorist sympathizers in the West do their usual song and dance: “Both sides are bad! Is it really worth killing so many people just to save four?”

Yes, it is. Because they were hostages.

Hostages.

If you can’t tell the difference between a hostage and a hostage-taker, it doesn’t make you somehow enlightened. It means your brain is broken and your soul is excrement.

Yep. And that describes much of our media/academic/political class. And even more of the NGO crowd.

LIKE SO MANY SANCTIFIED POLICIES IN TODAY’S AMERICA, THIS IS ONLY POPULAR WITH ELITES: U. Chicago survey: Two-thirds of U.S. adults oppose transgender females in women’s sports. See also open borders, defunding the police, etc.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Catholic university in Chicago gives several AWARDS to terrorism-loving SJP chapter that argued ‘Resistance is justified.’

INSTITUTIONAL RACISM: Revealed: the Majority Black Committee that Excluded Caitlin Clark for U.S. Olympic Basketball Team.

DON SURBER: The Real Reason for the Hunter Trial.

WE CAN HOPE: Europe Is Drifting to the Right and Here’s How It Could Happen in England.

WHEN THIS IS THE BEST DEFENSE THEY CAN OFFER: “He is not a comic book super-villain.” — Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) discussing Anthony Fauci, MD, and the House subcommittee investigation on COVID-19’s origins. Not sure if he was responding to this very popular meme:

“THEY WERE ALL, OF COURSE, CIVILIANS.”

Gaza Health Ministry Confirms 8 Billion Dead In Israeli Hostage Rescue https://t.co/XyoHi8iy7Q pic.twitter.com/ilGGGWxFVX

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 8, 2024

Related:

Liam Neeson Criticized For Killing 31 Innocent Human Traffickers Just To Get Back One Hostage https://t.co/CxaWBJ6T42 pic.twitter.com/ZEFdyHhuPb

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 8, 2024

ICYMI: Prof. Steven Calabresi: The Left Wing Attack on Judicial Independence and on Justice Alito.

THE MEDIA WILL CARE ENOUGH TO COVER IT UP:

George Soros funneled $19 million dollars into leftist groups attacking Justice Alito. https://t.co/l65wWrFxGS

— Media Research Center (@theMRC) June 9, 2024

ARNOLD KLING: How to Fix Higher Education: Get rid of all the people who don’t belong.

This country is sending way too many young people to college. Instead, they should be going to training programs to become allied health professionals, or electricians, or solar panel installers, or something.

There are also many faculty members who do not belong on college campus. Obviously, you have the grievance studies departments. But if you were to dial back the number of students in the humanities and social sciences to a number that is actually qualified to study those subjects, you would have to cut the majority of faculty positions.

There are way too many administrators on campus. It is not just the DEI bureaucrats who could be jettisoned. Many of the administrators are there to coddle the students who should not have been admitted in the first place. Tighten up the admissions standards and you can get by with fewer administrators.

There are too many ungrateful foreign students on campus. A lot them engage in rampant cheating. Some of them participate in violent demonstrations. We should only be admitting students who are motivated to learn. Stop taking unmotivated foreign students just to collect their tuition money.

The trouble with higher education is bloat. The student bodies are bloated. The faculties are bloated. And the administrations are bloated.

He’s right, you know.

THIS ISN’T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: RealClearPolitics: The Myth That Biden Had Nothing To Do with the Prosecutions of Trump. “Given Politico was publicly reporting six months ago about Biden’s anger at the pace of his DOJ’s prosecution of Trump, does anyone believe his special counsel, Jack Smith, was not aware of such presidential displeasure and pressure? Note Smith had petitioned and was denied an unusual request to the court to speed up the course of his Trump indictment.”

OPEN THREAD: Meet me at midnight, at Mr. Chow’s.

SPACEX AND THE IMPERATIVE TO LOWER LAUNCH COSTS. One quibble: It’s true that SpaceX hasn’t yet lowered launch prices to match launch costs, but it has offered much greater availablilty, reliability, and scheduling flexibility, which is more value for the price. As for the rest of this article, it’s interesting but it’s all based on speculation.

“THEY DRAFT THE WHITE TRASH FIRST ‘ROUND HERE ANYWAY:”

Percent of Russian men, 18-49, who have participated in the 🇺🇦war

Moscow & St Petersburg have 0.2% of men having “served.”

The most impoverished & minority dense areas have the highest rate of men who were shipped-off to die.

👉 Putin will only be challenged if Moscow suffers. pic.twitter.com/HroZU56tdV

— Jason Jay Smart (@officejjsmart) June 9, 2024

FASTER, PLEASE: Game-Changing Antibiotic Discovered That Spares ‘Good’ Bacteria.