SECURITY VIDEOS SHOW NO GOP ‘RECONNAISSANCE TOURS:’ That’s according to Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) who says the pre-January 6 videos have been reviewed by House Republicans and there is no evidence that any of their ranks provided such pre-riot assistance. Davis is demanding that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) make all of the videos public so Democrats will have to stop falsely charging Republicans with aiding and abetting.

MEET THE AMAZING TOPOISOMERASE: It may sound like something you would put on a plateful of French cuisine, but it’s actually a microscopic molecular machine that allows DNA to work its wonders in living cells. HillFaith explains it with this fascinating animated video from Discovery Science. Whatever your view on Intelligent Design, the Topoisomerase is remarkable.

NEWS ON 2020 ELECTION FRAUD: New evidence suggests Pennsylvania was even worse than already known, according to Margot Cleveland of The Federalist. She also has an important update on the Russiagate fraud.

ARE YOU BETTER OFF UNDER JOE? Issues & Insights surveys Joe Biden’s year in the Oval Office and then asks the famous Reagan question during his debate with President Jimmy Carter. The answer can’t be comforting to Democrats hoping to somehow keep control of Congress:

“The economy is growing more slowly than expected. Incomes are being eaten up by rising inflation. Optimism is below where it was during the height of the pandemic in 2020. The nation’s finances are in far worse shape, with the national debt up $1.8 trillion since Biden took office. We’re still nearly 3 million jobs shy of the previous peak. Oh, and COVID deaths under Biden now top 430,000 – more deaths than happened while Donald Trump was president.”

RETIRED RUSSIAN GENERALS SAY NO TO UKRAINE INVASION: Jeff Dunetz at The Lid has Gen. (Ret.) Leonid Ivashov’s public letter opposing the seemingly imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine. Jeff is also mighty curious about the fact President Biden is at Camp David rather than the Situation Room below the White House.

IF NO UNIVERSALS, THEN 2+2≠4: It’s Day Seven of Instapunditeer Lee Dise’s seven-part Lessons From History series on HillFaith and he brings it to a close with a bang. Well, actually, the Marxists, Nazis, and Fascists pull the triggers that go bang, and therein is one of Lee’s two chief lessons, with the other being infinitely more hopeful.

GETTING DOWN TO IT NOW: Instapunditeer Lee Dise takes up “Hume, Kant, and the Limits of Knowledge.” Wait, limits? You mean we can’t know everything? It’s part six of Lee’s seven part Lessons From History series on HillFaith. The “Reformed Trombonist” seems to have hit the right chord because readership has grown steadily through the week.

MAN’S REASON ON THE THRONE: It’s Day Five of Instapunditeer Lee Dise’s seven-part series on Lessons From History on HillFaith. Today’s focus has a distinctly French flavor, beginning with Descartes and continuing with Rousseau, de Sade, Voltaire and Robespierre’s Reign of Terror. Others, notably Hegel, also make significant appearances.

RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION AND HUMANISM: It’s Day 4 of Instapunditeer Lee Dise’s challenging “Lessons From History” seven-part tour on HillFaith of how western civilization came to be, how it got to where it is today and where it may be headed. The first three installments drew lots of interested readers and today’s take focuses on one of those absolutely crucial turning points in cultural development.

LATE MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE BASIC QUESTIONS: Fido, Rover and Spot teach us about “dogness.” But Instapunditeer Lee Dise explains when some philosophers said there’s no such thing as “dogs.” And look where that got us! It’s all in Lee’s Day 3 of LESSONS FROM HISTORY on HillFaith. 

THE BORDER CRISIS IS EVEN WORSE THAN YOU THINK: Every state is now a border state and every city is a border city, especially concerning crime, according to Just the News’ John Solomon.

FROM THE FRAGMENTS OF EMPIRE, A NEW BEGINNING: The Roman Empire is in pieces, and for awhile, it’s far from clear what comes next or why. Instapunditeer Lee Dise — aka the “Reformed Trombonist” — continues with Day Two of his Lessons from History series on HillFaith.

WESTERN CIVILIZATION AS CULTURAL SYNTHESIS: It started with the Greeks, according to Instanpunditeer Lee Dise, in day one of his HillFaith series on Lessons from History.

CRACK PIPES – YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: Patrick Hauf at The Washington Free Beacon reports this unbelievable — even for the Biden White House — story:

“The Biden administration is set to fund the distribution of crack pipes to drug addicts as part of its plan to advance ‘racial equity.’ The $30 million grant program, which closed applications Monday and will begin in May, will provide funds to nonprofits and local governments to help make drug use safer for addicts.

“Included in the grant, which is overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, are funds for ‘smoking kits/supplies.’ A spokesman for the agency told the Washington Free Beacon that these kits will provide pipes for users to smoke crack cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, and ‘any illicit substance.'”

No, I am not making this up and it’s not April 1.

IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES: Long-time Instapunditeer Lee Dise — aka the “Reformed Trombonist” in the Comments section — is an admirer of the great Richard Weaver and quite a good writer himself.

He launches an illuminating series of daily posts today on HillFaith, surveying how Western Civilization came to be, how it got to where it is today and what it may look like tomorrow.

Yes, it’s quite an ambitious agenda, and, having read it through already, I can tell you Lee has much to say that is perceptive, wise and insightful. You may not agree with everything he writes. But it will be worth the reading. Enjoy.

SOME GERRYMANDERS MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS: Liberty Unyielding’s Hans Bader expects the Democratic majority on the North Carolina Supreme Court to toss out the redistricting plan adopted by the Republican-led state legislature, then impose either the plan favored by Democrats or create one on its own.

THIS IS THE ‘SCIENCE’ WE’RE TO FOLLOW? Federal officials spent $2.5 million injecting Beagle puppies with cocaine … Somebody needs to go to jail.

YOU WANT GREEN ENERGY, YOU GET CHAOS: Sooner or later (usually sooner), nations that decarbonize face civil tumult because the costs of reliable energy skyrocket as the supplies dwindle into scarcity, according to Chuck DeVore of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, writing in The Federalist.

DeVore make the case for the proposition that the reliability and abundance of carbon-based energy is ignored in market valuations, while the absence of those same characteristics are discounted when “renewable” energy sources are considered.

“Texas’s energy-only market relies on prices alone to incentivize new investment, and subsidies for more variable energy mean that the reliability of coal, natural gas, and nuclear is not properly valued. As a result, year after year, wind and solar capacity grow while coal and natural gas generation atrophy,” he writes.

But that has some seriously negative consequences:

“As this happens, the grid becomes more and more prone to blackouts — unless backup power sources are constructed. The question is, who pays? So far, reliability costs have been borne by consumers, giving unreliable wind and solar generators a free ride to produce electricity whenever they can and not paying for the cost of backup power or other costs arising from their volatility.”

As Glenn regularly reminds us all, what cannot continue, won’t.

DNA’S ‘IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEXITY’ CHALLENGE: As the debate between advocates of evolutionary materialism and intelligent design progresses, some basic issues are emerging as fundamental, including, to cite just one example, how to account for the irreducible complexity that requires information and that in turn requires intelligence. Or not? Be courteous to all in the comments, please.

RULES FOR THEE, BUT NOT ME: Devon Archer is Hunter Biden’s long-time business partner. He was convicted in 2018 on two felony counts of securities fraud. And since his trial that led to the convictions began in 2016, Archer has roamed the world, according to Just the News.

“His travel log, enumerated in the court documents, reads like the travels of an American secretary of state: Russia, Mexico, China, Spain, Italy, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Ukraine, the money laundering capital of Latvia, Hong Kong, London, Singapore and the French Antilles, to name a few,” Just the News reports.

It’s good indeed to be one of the privileged elite.

If you are a January 6 defendant, the charges you face aren’t remotely as serious as securities fraud. Even so, don’t expect anything less than seizure of your passport, extended detention, (or regular reporting of your location to the court if you aren’t jailed pending trial), and multiple other restrictions on your goings and comings, until you are convicted and then promptly imprisoned.

I’m from out of town and all, but isn’t there something somewhere in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence or the some Supreme Court opinion or presidential speech, or … somewhere, about “Equal Justice Under Law”?

THE RISE OF ‘TOTALITARIAN SCIENCE:’ John G. West of the Discovery Institute has been tracking this trend for more than a decade and as the Covid crisis plunges through a third year, he’s not encouraged:

“COVID has shown government officials how to do an end-run around the normal system of checks and balances. They simply need to invoke ‘science’ and declare an emergency — and then extend their emergency orders time and again. Anyone who dares challenge the emergency orders will be stigmatized as ‘anti-science,’ or they will be told they aren’t scientists so they have no right to be heard.

“Regardless of your view of specific anti-COVID policies, policymaking during the pandemic has set a terrible precedent for the future. The genie of unaccountable government power in the name of science has been let out of the bottle. Will we be able to put it back in?”

And there’s much more.

JOE’S KID MAKES MILLIONS. MAD MAX’S NOT SO MUCH: But, hey, $240,000 for helping Mom stay in Congress for another two years isn’t bad. Jeff Dunetz at The Lid has the 411 on Rep. Maxine Waters’ (D-CA) taking care of daughter Karen.

SHOKIN LETTER SHAKES DEMS’ UKRAINE NARRATIVE AGAINST TRUMP: Slowly but surely, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the determination of conservative journalists and lawyers, the full truth about the Bidens and Ukraine is becoming known. Just the News and the Southeastern Legal Foundation have the latest.

HERE COME THE COMMISSARS: House Sergeant-at-Arms Willam Walker (who answers directly to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi) is moving forward with two programs that have civil libertarians across the ideological spectrum shouting “Stop!”

If you recall Ivan Putin from “The Hunt for Red October,” you instantly recognize what Walker/Pelosi are up to.

THIRD AS MANY ‘VERY HAPPY’ AMERICANS AFTER YEAR OF BIDEN: No, it’s not a push poll, it’s the latest data from the General Social Survey that finds only 19 percent of Americans describe themselves as “very happy” in 2021, compared to 31 percent back when that Trump guy was in the White House.

And Tristan Justice of The Federalist notes that “according to the Pew Research Center in November, no baby boom is expected anytime soon. Only about a quarter of non-parents under the age of 50 reported they were ‘very likely’ to have children, down from 32 percent in 2018. Forty-four percent said they were ‘not too likely’ or ‘not at all likely’ to have children whatsoever.”

These are indicators of plunging civil and social coherence, friends, and we better pay attention.