NOW BEGINS THE RE-FUND THE POLICE CAMPAIGN: Businesses in Harlem, according to The Truth About Guns, are calling on New York City authorities to bring back plain clothes cops to help deal with the surge in shoplifting, assaults on customers and the climate of fear. Watch this one spread.

FOR THOSE WHO MAY BE INTERESTED: It’s Tuesday and that means the sixth of seven installments of HillFaith’s series on Jesus’ great “I AM” claims is posted. And don’t miss the incredibly powerful scene at the end of the post from season one of “The Chosen.” No wonder this crowd-funded series has gone viral in a way unlike any ever before.

SO WHY’D THEY VOTE FOR HIM? Only 39 percent of suburban voters back His Fraudulency’s grandiose spending if doing so requires tax hikes, according to the latest Issues & Insights/TIPP survey. Suburban voters were a key support bloc for Biden in 2020, but now that the bill is coming due, they get cold feet?

LIBERALISM UNMASKED: Capital Research Center’s Michael Watson points to one consequence of the Pandemic that probably won’t be covered by the MSM.

CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT FAILED: Writing in the American Spectator, Scott McKay argues the conservative movement is dead, if it is defined as the Old/New Right Plus Bush Chamber of Commerce Republicanism:

“When you’ve gone from surrendering on gay marriage to failing to summon up convincing arguments for obvious things like ‘boys shouldn’t play on girls’ sports teams’ or that the least racist nation on planet Earth was founded to promote slavery, you aren’t really conserving much of anything anymore, are you?

“When you went from failing to reform government programs like Social Security and Medicare, when it was patently obvious they would eventually bankrupt the government, to signing off on a trillion-dollar bacchanal of ‘infrastructure’ spending only a quarter of which can reasonably fit in that definition, you’re not a fiscal conservative.

“When you progressed from creating a security state capable of spying on everyone in the world with marginal accountability to having little to say when that security state gets politicized and nearly effects a coup d’etat on a duly-elected American president, we can’t really say you’re conserving our liberty.”

McKay advocates a new “Revivalist” movement that sounds an awful lot like what I heard one night in October 1964 on television when a guy from “Death Valley Days” came on the screen and delivered what became known as “The Speech” that launched the Reagan Revolution.

He wasn’t perfect, but he won the Cold War and got Congress to pass the biggest tax cut in American history, rebuilt American military might and respect, and showed how presidential leadership can restore a large measure of the shared civic spirit that once was the norm.

I was one of the legions of idealistic young Americans he inspired to enlist in the movement to save America and who in some key respects were the “Wide Awakes” of our day. Reagan was the right man for the time. But that was 1980. This is not. A revival would be great but would it be enough?

WHAT ABOUT BOB DYLAN? Which one, you might ask. If you’ve ever liked any of the various Dylans seen over the years, you will certainly enjoy my appreciation of Barry Lenser’s excellent assessment of the role of faith in the aging singer’s career. You might even like it if you’ve hated Dylan since the answer was blowin’ in the wind.

AND YOU THOUGHT WILLIAM TELL WAS JUST AN OVERTURE: Christopher Bedford, writing in The Federalist, sees interesting parallels between the 700-year-old Swiss legend and our own contemporary showdowns before local school boards on Critical Race Theory, mask mandates and virtual classrooms.

TOOMEY TARGETS EVICTION MORATORIUM: Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) wants a quickie review by the Government Accounting Office (GAO) to determine if the CDC’s eviction moratorium extension should be viewed as a regulatory rule rather than a public health regulation.

If GAO says it is viewable as a rule, then Toomey plans to force a Senate vote to repeal the moratorium, which even His Fraudulency admits is unconstitutional. That repeal vote would be under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which means all that is required is a majority vote in the Senate.

DEMS TO MAKE UNION  DUES TAX DEDUCTIBLE: Democrats in Congress are pushing legislation that will both repeal the Right-to-Work laws of 27 states and make compulsory union dues tax deductible. In other words, taxpayers subsidize Big Labor, but those same taxpayers better not even think about having a choice about joining the union.

COURT THUMBS DOWN ON DOCS’ TRANSGENDER MANDATE: My latest PJMedia culture column is on doctors and other healthcare workers who have a religious objection to participating in transgender surgeries and related treatments must be respected by the federal government, according to a federal judge. But don’t be surprised if the Biden administration appeals all the way to the Supreme Court.

HOW MANY MORE CUOMOS SHIELDED BY THE ELITE? Kylee Zempel, writing today for The Federalist, is asking that rather relevant question, which makes sense, given the Clinton, Weiner, Epstein scandals:

“Tuesday’s resignation signals it’s the end of the road for Cuomo — for now. But if the media can sit and twiddle its thumbs — or worse, kiss keister and perform comedy sketches with giant Q-Tips — while thousands of elderly folks die in New York nursing homes and women in the double digits tell of a gropey governor’s disgusting habits, we must ask: How many other Andrew Cuomos is the media covering for?”

NO, DELTA VARIANT IS NOT WORSE: Why is it all but impossible to get from the Mainstream, excuse me, the Government Media solid data like the three charts provided this morning by Issues & Insights that demonstrate rather conclusively that Covid casualties are on a steady decline?

BIDEN EV CONVERSION DEPENDS ON CHINA: Nadia Schadlow was deputy national security adviser during the Trump years and she points to multiple reasons why China has all the cards on EV batteries.

FOR THOSE WHO MAY BE INTERESTED: HillFaith today is on the fifth of the seven great “I AM” claims of Jesus, including the shortest verse in the Gospels.

CLOSED MINDS ON BOTH SIDES: It’s an unfortunate fact that there are closed minds in the Christian ranks and on the other side. Dr. Tim McGrew looks at David Hume as the springboard to a challenging survey.

CLOSED MINDS ON BOTH SIDES: Of the Faith vs Science debates, that is. Dr. Tim McGrew has in mind the influential 18th century philosopher David Hume, a multitude of contemporary folks who refuse to consider the possibility of miracles, and a whole bunch of folks in between. Put another way, just as there are Bible Thumpers, so are there Darwin Thumpers, Materialists Thumpers, and so on.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): If you believe in the theory that our universe is probably a massive computer simulation, as so many of our brightest do, then it seems to me it’s impossible to disbelieve in miracles, since we have no idea what cheat codes are buried in the software.

CAN YOU GUESS WHO WINS IF BIDEN FORCES U.S. TO GO EV? Wait for it … no, not U.S. consumers … not the UAW, whose leaders haven’t figured it out yet … no, not low-income car buyers. It will be … China. Anybody want to guess how much Hunter and the Big Guy make on the deal?

THIS IS NOT HOW SCIENCE IS DONE: NPR, of all sources, reports the placebo groups of the Pfizer and Moderna clinical trials were essentially dissolved after the vaccines received experimental approval from the FDA.

All of those who received a placebo were given the opportunity to get the real shot and virtually all did so. That pretty effectively ended the trials with no way to compare what happened to those in the two respective groups. Strictly coincidental, right?

ON THIS DAY IN 1945: The U.S. dropped a bomb that killed thousands and saved millions.

AS THE SLAVE WHISPERED TO THE CONQUEROR: All glory is fleeting. New York’s Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo is learning the truth of that maxim. Issues & Insights explains the real reason why his former partisans are now his aspiring political pall bearers.

PORTUGAL IS NICE THIS TIME OF YEAR: It is indeed, especially if you happen to be two of those Texas statehouse Democrats who fled to Washington D.C. to prevent the Republican majority from passing election reforms. Like the man said, there’s just no cure for stupid.

NO, EVANGELICALS NOT MOST LIKELY TO BE UNVACCINATED: Religion Unplugged’s Ryan Burge crunched the data and found the group that actually is the least likely to be vaccinated. It’s not evangelicals, it’s not minorities, it’s ….

IF THIS DOESN’T MAKE YOU SCREAM, YOU MIGHT BE UNCONSCIOUS: New report out from Open the Books finds the U.S. government “spent at least $282.6 billion on foreign aid between 2013-2018—almost $47 billion on foreign aid in FY2018, alone.” And that’s just the first most general finding. Brace yourself for when you get to the details.

BTW, Open the Books has filed more than 40,000 public information requests with governments at all levels for comprehensive spending data. The result is an independent web site that is a veritable treasure chest of data on what governments do with your tax dollars.  Somewhere, little Jimmie Madison is saying “Good show, Open the Books, Good show, that’s what the First Amendment guarantee of a free press is all about.”

FOR THOSE WHO MAY BE INTERESTED: On HillFaith today, it’s the fourth of seven great “I AM” claims by Jesus. The Good Shepherd.

A FEDERAL TAX ON EVERY MILE YOU DRIVE: The Lid reports it’s on page 511 of the draft text of the Senate infrastructure bill, authorization for a national pilot project for a Mileage-Based User Fee for every mile you drive. Glenn highlighted the privacy concerns of such a program in Road & Track in 2019.