REMEMBER MURPHY BROWN? It was three decades ago when then-Vice President Dan Quayle defended the traditional family and was rewarded with a sustained assault led by Candace Bergen nee sitcom star “Murphy Brown.”

Quayle’s sin, Issues & Insights reminds us this morning, was to extoll the intact family unit with a father and mother in the home to raise kids, instill positive values in them and maintain the sort of social cohesion required to preserve a healthy community.

“Quayle lamented that those controlling the commanding heights of the culture often send the wrong message. He specifically faulted the CBS-TV sitcom Murphy Brown for depicting its lead character as ‘mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.’ Quayle concluded his remarks by inviting a ‘national debate’ over these issues to ‘roar on.’

“The roar went on for months. Quayle was immediately denounced by Diane English, Murphy’s creator and producer. Hillary Clinton called Quayle ‘out of touch.’ The controversy reached a crescendo when the series returned for a fifth season that fall. Its season premiere was devoted to the Quayle speech with its star character lecturing the audience about the merits of nontraditional family structures.”

The intervening years have certainly provided abundant evidence of who was right and who was truly out of touch with human reality.

MAYBE THERE IS A MULTIVERSE! You know, the theory that there are an infinite number of universes and we just happen to live in the one that is habitable for humans. Well, what if two multiverses get mixed up in some manner and share a little space, matter and time?

For one thing, that might explain how His Fraudulency can be so totally out of touch with economic reality. He’s physically in our universe but he’s actually in and seeing a different one, one that is prosperous and growing.

Just how out of touch Biden is was demonstrated most vividly in the latest Issues & Insights/TIPP Economic Optimism Index, which plunged 9.5 percent last week.

“In his remarks last week, Biden said ‘when you look at the economy today, it’s clear that we’ve made enormous strides.’ He’s right about that. Unfortunately, those enormous strides have all been in the wrong direction,” observes the crew at Issues & Insights. BTW, have you bookmarked I&I yet?

DHS CONCEDES PRO-ABORTIONISTS MIGHT GET VIOLENT: The Washington Free Beacon obtained a copy of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) internal memo to law enforcement agencies regarding the potential for violence by pro-abortion radicals.

Besides the concession about the reality of pro-abortionists actively discussing things like “dead [pro-life] activists at Justices’ houses,” the memo contains some interesting insights into the culture of these nutcases. Example: “Boog” is short for “boogaloo,” their term for such activities.

BIDEN NOMINATES PARTISANS FOR NON-PARTISAN JOBS: Washington Free Beacon’s Kevin Daley looks at two of His Fraudulency’s nominees for the U.S. Sentencing Commission. The commission is officially supposed to be non-partisan. Somebody should tell Biden.

GOP SENATOR’S SON SINKING MICHIGAN VOTER ID EXPANSION: Odds are you’ve never heard of Andy Blunt. He’s the son of retiring Sen. Roy Blunt, Missouri Republican.

Andy Blunt and two of his Republican consulting firm partners are partnering with one of the many George Soros-funded leftist dark money groups to oppose efforts to strengthen Michigan’s voter ID requirements, according to the Washington Free Beacon’s Collin Anderson.

Andy Blunt managed his fathers two most recent re-election campaigns, while the partners, Greg Hartley and Meghan Cox, were, respectively, formerly Blunt’s chief of staff and a director of field activities.

Three GOP consultants being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by George Soros’ minions. And then we wonder why things change so little when Swamp Republicans are in charge?

BIDEN SEEKING NEW POWERS FOR WHO: The Biden administration is proposing a series of obscure, bureaucratic amendments to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) charter that would, among other things, give the UN outfit the power to declare a national health emergency in any country regardless if that country’s leaders agree.

That’s the same WHO that ran interference for China in 2020 when the U.S. and other countries were demanding an independent investigation into the source of the COVID-19 Pandemic that originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It’s also the same WHO from which President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. in 2020 and Biden rejoined in 2021.

ID ADVOCATE RESPONDS TO CRITICS: Discovery Institute’s Casey Luskin addresses on HillFaith today the most common objections to Intelligent Design, including several of those most recently presented by Instapunditeers in the comments.

PIXIE DUST? OH, REALLY? A former COVID adviser to His Fraudulency says any predictions about how many of us may get the coronavirus beyond 30 days is based on “pixie dust.” I found this on Just the News. Any bets on when the New York Times or Washington Post will report it?

IT FIGURES, DOESN’T IT: Adam Kredo lays out the details of the process by which His Fraudulency’s administration hands millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority (PA). The PA then uses the American dollars to continue funding the infamous “Pay-to-Slay” program that supports Palestinian terrorists.

A TALE OF MANY MASS SHOOTINGS: Never has the double standard that destroys the mainstream media’s credibility been more vividly illustrated than in the Buffalo and New York Subway shootings, according to Issues & Insights.

In an analysis that comprehensively summarizes the process as it has unfolded since the 2011 shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ), I&I says “the media’s differing reaction to the two recent mass shootings is laughably predictable. What’s unique is that these two tragic events happened so close together that they showcase how vacuous, logically challenged, and politically biased today’s media elites are.”

LET’S TALK ABOUT REAL DARK MONEY: If you’ve ever wondered why there always seems to be some kind of Lefty protest group, with ready-made signs, talking points and protesting bodies, Alana Goodman of The Washington Free Beacon lays it out this morning:

“In May, a group called Accountable Tech, which calls itself a ‘small nonprofit taking on Big Tech companies,’ organized a corporate boycott to protest Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter. In the midwest, a group called Opportunity Wisconsin, which bills itself as a ‘coalition of Wisconsin residents,’ ran a deluge of TV ads slamming Republican senator Ron Johnson for his tax policies. And in Arizona, an organization of ‘grassroots racial justice’ activists called Just Democracy released a video blasting Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema for failing to support the Biden administration’s legislative agenda.

“None of these groups actually exist. They are all registered trade names for the North Fund, a shape-shifting nonprofit group that uses aliases to push an array of left-wing causes from a shell office in Washington, D.C., according to corporate records.”

And yes, it is yet another manifestation of the hydra-headed Arabella Advisors.

NEXT, LEFT WILL SEEK TO BAN HOMESCHOOLING: Gabriel Hays points to a column on MSDNC that makes clear what could easily be the Left’s next big crusade. After they destroy the Supreme Court, that is. Remember, if it doesn’t agree with the Left’s latest agit-prop, then it is by definition “disinformation” that must be censored. HT: Daily Gouge.

THE LEFT CREATED ‘GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY:’ Hans Bader describes the history of the “Great Replacement Theory” the Left has been peddling for decades. That’s the idea that immigration and the passing of the Boomer generation are bringing a new non-white majority to power in American politics. And no, Tucker Carlson is not the originator of GRT, contrary to a chorus of the prevaricating suspects on CNN and MSNBC.

HYPOCRISY, THY NAME IS PSAKI: All those protestors, bombers, shooters and bullies we thought were far-Left radicals were actually “Arlington Republicans,” according to the former White House press secretary.

DC SCHOOLS SPEND MORE PER PUPIL: At $31,843, the District of Columbia Public School (DCPS) system spends more tax dollars per student than any of the 50 states. And yet, as Hans Bader notes, student performance on standardized national tests trails all 50 of the states.

And we continue to allow these charlatans to run public schools across America why?

BUT IT’S FOR THE CHILDREN: They make your kids wear masks and stare at a computer screen instead of a real, live human being. They steal your kids’ innocence by exposing them sexual extremism. They deprive them of actual education they must have to succeed in life. And they make baby formula all but impossible to find.

But, as Issues & Insights points out this morning:

“From lockdowns to abortion advocacy to woke public schools, leftist policies have had a disastrous impact on America’s children. Sadly, in this ‘War on Children,’ kids are the far-left’s targets.”

But never forget, it’s all for the kids.

SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED: If you get the impression that Jeff Dunetz of The Lid has had it to here with screeching liberals and the Alito draft opinion, you would be right on target.

His basic point: If you are going to bash the draft opinion, at least read it before opening your mouth and demonstrating, yet again, how right Lincoln was about not confirming your foolishness.

DINOSAURS, WOOLLY MAMMOTHS AND ID, OH NO! Yes, there is a positive case for Intelligent Design (ID) in the field of paleontology. The Discovery Institute’s Casey Luskins explains in part four of the series on HillFaith.

If you missed part three on investigating the evidence for ID in biochemistry, go here. And it’s probably a good idea to do so before you read today’s number, as it’s starting to get a little technical for us laypersons.

DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE HOUSE DEMS’ POISON PILL? The Senate passed a one-page bill increasing security for Supreme Court justices and the building in which they work. The bill was a bipartisan effort to protect the justices from the pro-abortion mobs.

But then the bill went over to the House and guess what? Democratic leaders in the lower chamber won’t say when they will take action, but when they do, it will be with a poison pill amendment. Find out more here.

YES, ‘SAFE SMOKING’ KITS DO INCLUDE CRACK PIPES: Washington Free Beacon’s Patrick Hauf knows because he received them from five cities. Your tax dollars at work.

GARCETTI MISLED SENATE ON TOP AIDE’S SEXUAL HARASSMENT: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti likely knew about persistent allegations of sexual harassment by one of his key aides, according to an investigative report from Sen. Charles Grassley’s staff.

Since Garcetti told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in December that he knew nothing about the allegations, Grassley’s report likely puts the LA Mayor’s nomination by President Joe Biden to be U.S. Ambassador to India in peril.

WHY WE SUFFER SUCH OIKOPHOBIA: If you aren’t familiar with the term, it has Greek roots in Oikos — your household — and phobia, a thing to be feared, avoided. The Left has saturated this country in Oikophobia with increasingly dire consequences. For more, I highly recommend this primer from USA VERSION 2.

OUTLINING POSITIVE ID CASE: It’s Day Two on HillFaith of Casey Luskin’s series on what is Intelligent Design and why it’s a legitimate tool for scientific analysis.

IS THERE A POSITIVE CASE FOR INTELLIGENT DESIGN? Geologist Casey Luskin of the Discovery Institute insists there is and he has a new book out that makes the case. HillFaith is pleased to begin re-publishing a series of pieces by Luskin based on the book. It is offered here for informational purposes, not as a claimed last word.

EVER WONDER WHERE THE WORD ‘DISINFORMATION’ CAME FROM? Well, J. Michael Waller points to the Soviet KGB as the inventor of the term:

“’Disinformation’ is not a word from the English language. It is a direct translation of the Russian word dezinformatsiya. It is a KGB form of tradecraft from the Red Banner Institute of the KGB First Chief Directorate, otherwise known as the KGB foreign spy academy.

“Disinformation is definition 159 in the KGB’s ‘Lexicon of KGB Terms,’ published internally by the Soviet foreign intelligence service before 1984. Here it is: ‘Misleading by means of false information; A form of intelligence work in the Active Measures field, which consists of the secret channeling towards an adversary of false information, especially prepared materials and fabricated documents designed to mislead him and prompt him to take decisions and measures which fit with the plans and intentions of the Intelligence Service.’”

Ya think Biden knows … or would care if he did?