AND SPEAKING OF MEME GIRL: Hugh Hewitt opens up the Washington Pest, excuse me, Washington Post and concludes “it ain’t journalism.”

LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE BIDEN: Listening to the guy requires two skills – sorting out incoherency and, especially, identifying lies. Issues & Insights says it’s time to kill once and for all Biden’s repeated lie that he rescued an economy in crisis and everything is all better now, there, there.

IF ‘MEME GIRL’ IS THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM: Then count me out.

AND WHAT IF IT’S TRUE? That’s the question raised by Erik Manning’s concise video presentation on HillFaith of five points of evidence for a literal resurrection of Jesus Christ. Why is that important? Because if it’s false, then so is the whole Christian faith thing, as our secular media and culture continually claim. And as Dostoevsky told us, without God, everything is possible, including genocide. But if it’s true …

UPDATE: Well, that was embarrassing. Thanks to Bill Smith for pointing out it was not that crazy German who said without God everything is possible, but rather that crazy Russian. Excuse me while I put another cup of coffee on the Kuerig.

TRASHING GINNI THOMAS: Someday, people in the mainstream media will have to account for the many lies and distortions they’ve pushed for decades about the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Mark Paoletta dissects the latest such example.

MOST HONEST ELECTION EVER? An investigation found “rampant fraud and abuse” that happened “statewide at Wisconsin’s nursing homes and other residential care facilities,” according to the Badger State’s Special Counsel Michael Gableman.

The irrepressible Margot Cleveland has the details. Prediction: Democrats and their mainstream media boosters will soon begin to concede that “there may have been a few problems here and there in individual states, but the 2020 presidential election was still the most honest, transparent election in the entire history of the universe.”

Or something to that effect. You heard it here first.

UNIONIZED CONGRESSIONAL STAFF: Yeah, that’s the ticket, let the 20,000 congressional staff aides working for individual members and committees form a union. That ought to really encourage more civility, more efficiency, more bipartisanship in Congress. Not!

GET READY FOR THE DURBIN SWOON: Actually, the swoon by the Mainstream Media over Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) is already getting into full swing, according to Andrew Stiles at the Washington Free Beacon.

Among much else worth revisiting from Durbin’s career, Stiles reminds us of the Illinois Democrat’s shameful role in the successful campaign to keep Miguel Estrada from becoming the first Hispanic on the influential D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

“Perhaps the most egregious example of Democrats blocking a qualified judicial nominee for purely partisan reasons came in 2003, when Durbin and his colleagues repeatedly filibustered the nomination of Miguel Estrada to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Estrada would have been the first Hispanic judge to serve on the court. After a delay of more than two years, Estrada eventually gave up. Durbin and the Democrats declared victory,” Stiles writes.

“Weeks later, leaked memos from Durbin’s office revealed that left-wing activists groups viewed Estrada as ‘especially dangerous’ because ‘he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment.’ Also among the leaked documents were talking points prepared for Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) for a speech to his Democratic colleagues in which he urged them to oppose Estrada’s nomination. The talking points included the line ‘We can’t repeat the mistake we made with Clarence Thomas,’ referring to the first black justice to serve on the Supreme Court.”

SHIPS PASSING IN THE NIGHT: Issues & Insights watched the SOTU last night and came away with the penetrating quip of the evening in comparing President Biden and President Zelensky: “The contrast couldn’t be more stark: one rising from punch lines to wartime president, the other slumping from career politician into punch line.”

Much more of value where that came from.

BIDEN’S HIGH COURT NOMINEE HAD ROLE IN CLINTON EMAIL SCANDAL: So it turns out, according to the Washington Free Beacon’s Kevin Daley, that Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Appellate Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, covered then-Hillary Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines’ tail in a potentially damaging Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in 2015.

Like his boss, Reines regularly used private email in connection with his official duties, dealing with journalists. Gawker filed suit seeking several dozen of Reines’ private emails. Jackson, then a U.S. District Court Judge, rejected Gawker’s suit.

“Jackson’s opinion parted ways with a colleague on the Washington federal trial court, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan. In a separate lawsuit, Sullivan required Clinton herself and two of her top aides, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, to submit affidavits along the lines Gawker sought. Gawker’s request mentioned Sullivan’s order and may have been based upon it,” Daley reports.

Now, what was that they were saying about Hillary as the anti-Biden in 2024?

NO LOOK FOR VIRGINIA’S ‘SECOND LOOK’ BILL: Hans Bader reports that a committee of the Virginia state house rejected that “Second Look” proposal previously noted in this space to enable large numbers of murderers who act nice in prison while serving more than 10 years of their sentences to seek release.

Bader’s analysis is full of data points and sources that demolish the liberal argument that it’s safe to let violent offenders out of jail after they’ve serve a long stretch and abided by the rules, like these two gems:

“Supporters of the bill claimed it was safe to release criminals after 10 or 15 years in prison, falsely claiming people age out of crime by then. One backer of the bill claimed that ‘people age out of crime by their late thirty’s.’ Opponents of the bill debunked these claims, pointing to evidence that many violent criminals do not age out of crime even by their 60s, and commit violent crimes even after being incarcerated for many years.

“They cited a recent federal report showing that: ‘On February 10, the U.S. Sentencing Commission released a report, ‘Recidivism of Federal Violent Offenders Released in 2010.’ Over an 8-year period, violent offenders returned to crime at a 63.8 percent rate. The median time to rearrest was 16 months for violent offenders. Most violent offenders released from prison committed more crimes. Even among those offenders over age 60, 25.1 percent of violent offenders were rearrested. That means some violent offenders don’t age out of crime even by their 60’s.’”

RUSSIA WAGES WAR, PENTAGON WAGES GENDER IDENTITY TRAINING: You really cannot make this stuff up. Adam Kredo has the story for the Washington Free Beacon.

BIDEN WON’T TALK ABOUT THIS TONIGHT: The nation’s real national debt of $141 Trillion, nor the blistering GAO report that says the government’s books are all but useless.

BIDEN, THE EMBARRASSMENT: Former senior Pentagon appointee and all-around-smart guy Jed Babbin counts the ways Biden is lost in the fog of war in Ukraine.

SOME FOLKS JUST DON’T GET IT: New York’s Democratic Gov. Kathy Hokul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams, also a Democrat, addressed the recent meeting of the China General Chamber of Commerce. Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross reports a bunch of the firms participating in the group are under sanction by the U.S. for a variety of misdeeds.

GET YOUR QUANTUM GRAVITY GRADIOMETERS RIGHT HERE, FOLKS! No, it’s not something from “Back to the Future,” it’s the first-ever locating of something buried underground using quantum physics outside a lab.

“The quantum gravity gradiometer, which was developed under a contract for the Ministry of Defense and in the UKRI-funded Gravity Pioneer project, was used to find a tunnel buried outdoors in real-world conditions one meter below the ground surface. It wins an international race to take the technology outside,” Phys.org reports.

“The sensor works by detecting variations in microgravity using the principles of quantum physics, which is based on manipulating nature at the sub-molecular level. The success opens a commercial path to significantly improved mapping of what exists below ground level.”

This is potentially a huge breakthrough that will create new markets and possibilities in multiple fields. Among other things, it could revolutionize the search for natural resources buried miles below the surface (Think petroleum and maybe those ultra-scarce Critical Minerals, for example).

A DIFFERENT SORT OF SILENT SPRING: A team of scientists from Belgium, France and Sweden studied fish bones and determined that Chicxulub — the meteorite that smashed into Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs — did so in the Spring time, according to Phys.org.

“Around 66 million years ago, the so-called Chicxulub meteorite crashed into the Earth in what today is the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico, marking the demise of dinosaurs and the end of the Cretaceous period. This mass extinction still puzzles scientists today, as it was one of the most selective in the history of life: all non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, ammonites, and most marine reptiles disappeared, while mammals, birds, crocodiles, and turtles survived,” Phys.org points out.

What puzzles me is why the crocs made it but the Tyrannosauri didn’t.

CHURCH IS FULL OF HYPOCRITES: Well yes, that’s a huge part of the whole point of the thing, according to the Colson Center’s Sarah Stonestreet in the latest “What Would You Say?” video on HillFaith.

AMERICA’S TWO PARTIES – GOP AND AUTHORITARIANS: Did you know two of every three Democrats in the U.S. surveyed recently support Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s repressive response to the Truckers’ Convoy protest. Issues & Insights has more.

WHAT’S AT STAKE IN OTTAWA: Decorated Canadian military veteran and chaplain Harold Ristau explains it all in  The Federalist.

MARK ZUCKERBERG, MEET MESSERS KRUPP AND FARBEN: Emails among the Biden White House, the CDC, Facebook and Pfizer reveal “a working partnership” designed to increase public support for COVID-19 vaccines and discredit anybody who questions government policy on the issue.

“The conflict of interest is astonishing.  This email shows without a doubt that, through the CDC Foundation created ‘to support the [CDC’s] work,’ the federal government, which is in charge of ensuring the safety of vaccines, has teamed up with Big Pharma and Big Tech to push a liability-free product on the world, while attempting to stomp out anyone who questions this arrangement,” observes the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), whose lawyers obtained the email under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Whatever one thinks about vaccines, these emails speak for themselves.

IS THERE MEANING TO LIFE? Hey, it’s Sunday, you’ve had your first cup of coffee, we’re trapped in that dull moment between the end of the football season and the beginning of baseball and Indy/F1 racing, it’s the Same-Old/Same-Old on the Sunday talk shows, and you aren’t going out till later in the day anyway.

So take a few minutes with HillFaith to sit back, listen, and just think about the basics. Or should I say the essentials?

OLYMPIC NIGHTMARE IN BEIJING: Jeff Dunetz of The Lid has a solid roundup of reasons why the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) decision to award the 2022 winter games to China was so utterly, predictably … stupid.

WHY DRUDGE REPORT IS DEAD: Issues & Insights has a fine post-mortem. Don’t know how I missed it earlier this week, but it’s still well worth reading today if you did, too.

BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO PUBLISH FAUCI FACTS: Just ask Open The Books’ Founder and CEO Adam Andrzejewski. Forbes loves Hillary Clinton and Anthony Fauci, so they canned Andrzejewski after he used his 209th column for Forbes to tell people about Fauci being the highest paid federal employee. With my latest PJ Media column, I fill in some VIP context that may well explain why Forbes acted so cowardly.