PUBLIC NOT BUYING PELOSI’S KANGAROO COURT: New survey taken the day after last week’s first hearing of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hand-picked “investigators” of the January 6 Capitol riot is full of bad news for the rump panel, according to Issues & Insights.

Asked “how likely is it that the Jan. 6 commission will make a genuine effort to uncover the truth,” only 22 percent of those interviewed said they believe it is “very likely” to do so. Almost as many, 18 percent, said “not likely at all.”

“But what is surprising is how little faith independents have in the commission. Only 36% of them think it’s likely it will make a genuine effort to uncover the truth, while 42% say it isn’t likely to do so. Among Republicans, 24% say it’s likely and 61% unlikely,” the I&I crew observes.

DEVIL’S DICTIONARY FOR THE  LEFT: They keep redefining everything, so it’s helpful occasionally to have a guide like this from Capital Research Center’s Jon Rodeback.

NO MORE ‘LADIES AND GENTLEMEN’ FOR LUFTHANSA: The flagship German airline is opting to do away with the traditional welcome on board that recognizes only two genders. Don’t you feel more liberated now? No? You bigot!

GREAT QUESTION: Which NSA (or other high-ranking executive branch) official unmasked Tucker Carlson? Prediction: The identity of Ashli Babbitt’s killer will be known before Tucker’s nemesis.

ANOTHER LOOK AT THE RESURRECTION HOAX: J. Warner Wallace, the “Evidence Whisperer” of NBC’s Dateline, knows a bit about evidence and conspiracies. His three reasons why Jesus’ resurrection could not be the product of a conspiracy among the disciples should give critics something to think about, carefully.

LET’S TALK ABOUT SOME REAL ‘DARK MONEY:’ Wes Walker at The Lid looks at a new analysis that found $1.8 billion in political spending by Big Labor unions, plus another $67 million that went to politically active left-wing outfits but which was classified as either “charitable” or “representational” spending. All of it paid for with compulsory union dues.

A MIND (AND SOUL) ARE TERRIBLE THINGS TO WASTE ON CRT: Greg Smith, writing for The Dissenter, points to the doleful results of Christians going woke, as is becoming a significant problem in evangelical circles these days.

EIGHT CHARTS ILLUSTRATE THE BIDEN FAILURE: Context is everything, as Issues & Insights points out regarding the 6.5 percent quarterly growth rate just announced. Sounds really good, until you realize it’s dramatically lower than the consensus projection of 8.5-9.0 percent for the second quarter of 2021 and the first that reflects the initial impacts of His Fraudulency’s policies.

Similar insights are marshaled by the I&I platoon for a total of eight charts that track where America is headed under His Fraudulency. What is really scary, however, is the realization that as things get worse in the days ahead, our betters, rather than recognizing their errors, will double-down on them. Can you guess who will get the blame when that, too, fails?

CDC’S NEW MASK GUIDANCE BASED ON FAILED STUDY: Turns out, Just the News reports this morning, that our betters have no problem depending upon a study that failed peer review to justify their new mask guidance.

IRAN TRIED TO KIDNAP THREE U.S. JOURNOS: All three were employees of the federal government, working at the Voice of America (VOA), according to Washington Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman. Read the whole story because, in addition to the outrageous kidnapping angle, it’s also a classic illustration of bureaucratic incompetence and political influence.

UNEXPLAINED DETAILS, RED FERRARIS AND WHAT? Well, it’s HillFaith and it’s all about those “long story short” details that make them not so short. And trust me, Enzo’s classic red beauty is definitely relevant to understanding those “unexplained allusions” Erik Manning is talking about in the video.

NO, JOE, IT’S NOT THE SEASON: Remember when George W. Bush praised “Brownie” for “doing a heckuva job” during the Hurricane Katrina disaster? The Issues & Insights guys wouldn’t be surprised to hear His Fraudulency praising Her Fraudulency, Kamala Harris, in similar fashion for her work on the border crisis. After all, he recently dismissed the swelling surge of illegals as a seasonal thing.

NEW CENSORSHIP, SAME AS OLD CENSORSHIP, BUT WORSE: It’s worse because the Internet makes it so easy for those with power to impose their views while keeping you from reading anything to the contrary.

Writing for City Journal, John Steele Gordon points out that disagreement among scientists is precisely what drives scientific discovery. But social media censorship is radically contrary to disagreement in science, politics, medicine, and pretty much every other area of inquiry.

FOR THOSE WHO MAY BE INTERESTED: It’s the third installment in HillFaith’s look at Jesus’ seven great “I AM” claims.

DO YOU KNOW ANURADHA MITTAL? Probably not, but odds are good you’ve eaten the premium ice cream her company makes. Mittal is chairman of the board of directors for Ben & Jerry’s. She’s also a veteran left-wing activist who has supported U.S. funding of Hamas and defended Hezbolla, according to Alana Goodman of The Washington Free Beacon.

TIME FOR SUPREMES TO RESTORE COMMONSENSE ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: When a Washington state public school district ordered a football coach six years ago to stop praying for or mentioning religious faith to his players before, during or after a game, it started a long journey to what should be an opportunity for the Supreme Court to put common sense and historical context back into church/state separation jurisprudence. (Whew! That’s the longest sentence I’ve composed in months.)

ANOTHER LOOK AT THE ASSAULT ON PARENTAL RIGHTS: Katy Faust of the Colson Center offers, among much else, an interesting three-part test of whether a particular claim to a right is valid.

LIKELY VOTERS GIVE HILL GOP BIG LEAD ON BORDER CRISIS: New survey for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) finds Hill GOP with a 10-point lead over Biden, Democrats on handling border crisis among likely voters in 85 battleground congressional districts.

NO, RED STATES AREN’T THE UNVACCINATED: Biden administration officials are insisting that most of the unvaccinated reside in Red States, with the implication that it’s Republicans keeping the nation from achieving higher total vaccinations. But Issues & Insights says most the biggest anti-vaxxers are on the Left.

“The states with low vaccination rates also tend to have larger minority populations. And blacks are the least likely racial or ethnic group to have been vaccinated, with Hispanics the second least likely, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

“Alabama and Mississippi, for example, are the states with the lowest vaccination rates in the country. They are also that states that have some of the highest share of blacks – 38 percent in Mississippi and 27 percent in Alabama. Louisiana (the fifth least vaccinated state), is 32 percent black, and in Georgia (sixth lowest vaccination rate) blacks make up 31 percent of the population.

“In fact, six of the 10 states with the lowest vaccination rates have larger-than-average black populations. At the other end of the spectrum, eight of the 10 states with the highest vaccination rates have larger-than-average white populations.”

AND THE CRT GASLIGHTING GOES ON: Hans Bader, writing at Liberty Unyielding, says Reuters is the latest Mainstream Media outlet to deliver a pot-full of propaganda on Critical Race Theory (CRT) while calling it “fact-checking.”

WHAT IF WE ALL LIVE IN COMPUTER SIMULATIONS: That’s actually a serious hypothesis, at least in some quarters occupied by folks like futurist Nick Bostrom and entrepreneur extraordinaire Elon Musk, according to John Stonestreet and Shane Morris of Breakpoint.org.

FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED: My look at the second  of Jesus’ seven great “I Am” statements is up on HillFaith today.

POLICE FOR ME, BUT NOT FOR THEE: Big-city Democratic mayors are slashing police budgets, but keep right on spending heavily on their own armed security details, according to Open the Books.

ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKING AT SUBURBIA: Not sure I agree with much of his analysis, but I have to credit David Larson, writing in The Federalist, with some interesting and arresting insights about the growing debate over the federal government’s aspiration to control local zoning.

WHY THE LEFT IS WINNING IN TWO SENTENCES: A guest post at The Lid by Dr. Joel Holmes captures the strategic and tactical essence of the present correlation of forces.