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Cameron Arcand: Why the Arizona Governor’s Race Is Important… and Amazingly Unusual. “While the Democrats will likely nominate Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the Republicans are dealing with a much more complicated battle to become Gov. Doug Ducey’s successor”

Athena Thorne: It’s Time to Re-Institutionalize the Dangerous Mentally Ill. “There is an ever-increasing supply of violent criminals to take advantage of the path the left has cleared for them to prey upon citizens. While this is a vast, multi-faceted problem with no quick and easy solution, one way to help would be to reduce the number of potential murderers, rapists, and attackers. And one way to do this is to return to the common-sense public policy of separating from society those who pose a threat to themselves and others.”

Yours Truly: Ranking the Bond Movies: Part 001 (Bonds, James Bonds). “The Bond movie franchise turns a respectable 60 years old in 2022, and with the …special… nature of the new No Time to Die — no spoilers! — I’m going to rank the Bond movies from best to worst in a 007-part series.”

LEGALLY SANCTIONED LAWLESSNESS: Soros-Funded Group Gets $158M Government Contract to Help Illegal Immigrants Avoid Deportation.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Bipartisan Senate Majority Kills Democrats’ ‘Voting Rights’ Lie. “Sane citizens of this still great Republic can breathe a sigh of relief after last night. The Democrats’ mad plan to turn the United States of America into USSR 2.0 was thwarted by the thinnest of bipartisan margins.”

WELCOME TO WOKE COLORADO: Boulder Valley School District to host hiring event for ‘teachers of color’ only.

NOT SATIRE: TSA Says It Will Accept Arrest Warrants as ID for Illegal Aliens at Airports.

EBOLA? Guess Who Is More Popular Than Joe Biden?

ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC: Bernie Sis Nina Turner Calls Manchin & Sinema ‘Extremists,’ Suggests Takin’ It to the Streets.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: ‘Virtue Bombs’ – Exposing the Woke Rot in La La Land.

This reporter left the art world behind for a simple reason.

Two, actually.

I wasn’t able to draw hands or feet, which limited my professional prospects as an illustrator. Plus, I loved movies more than anything, and I wanted to become a professional film critic.

Neither profession pays handsomely, but the latter felt like a dream worth pursuing. And I did, eventually becoming a bona fide critic at The Washington Times.

Now, I review movies here and elsewhere from a conservative point of view. Except both the movies and my fellow film critics changed over the years.

In short, they got woke. And we all know what happened next.

“Virtue Bombs: How Hollywood Got Woke and Lost Its Soul” captures that depressing decline. It’s my primal scream against a trend that has infiltrated every aspect of our lives but reared its head in unique ways in La La Land.

I’m looking forward to reading Christian’s book.

MATT MARGOLIS: Here’s How We Know the Left Wants All Kids to Be LGBTQ.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Incompetent Biden Administration’s COVID Test Website Faceplants on First Day.

YES: ‘Shouldn’t Be Mentioned’: Denzel Washington Has Grown Tired of Hollywood’s Diversity Obsession. “From his point of view, the Macbeth and The Book of Eli star gets that diversity is good and should be celebrated. But, the fact that pop culture is fixated on superficial characteristics like race means we are losing focus on the real talents, abilities and humanity in people of all races and identity groups.”

STAND FAST, SENATOR: Manchin Defends Filibuster Again: ‘I Just Don’t Know How You Break a Rule to Make a Rule.’

YOU DON’T NEED TO BE A WEATHER MAN TO KNOW WHICH WAY THE WIND BLOWS: Two more House Democrats announce they won’t seek reelection at midterms. “The Rhode Island Democrat’s announcement comes months after he vowed to seek reelection, even if the Ocean State lost a House seat in redistricting and he was forced to challenge Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) in a primary.”

UH-OH: Is Biden Inviting the Very War in Ukraine We Don’t Want to Fight? “So many reasons not to make Russia vs Ukraine a full-scale war. And yet… “

EXCLUSIVE: Meet The Seattle Schools Woke Indoctrination Czar Who Married A Child Molester.

THE AMERICAN LEFT: ‘Education’ Group’s Agitprop Video Shows White Cracker ‘Karen’ Whipping Black Kids. “Though this video is disappeared on the group’s YouTube page, there’s plenty more cringe where that came from. We happily discovered that the so-called education group has an entire TikTok catalog of some of the most spectacularly cliched and disgusting videos remaining on its social media pages.”

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: No, Jeffrey Toobin, Biden Is Not Putting Kamala Harris On The Supreme Court. “The real reason Kamala Harris won’t be nominated to the Supreme Court is that she simply isn’t up for the job.”

Says who?

WHITE SUPREMACY ISN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE: White Supremacists Wanted, Immediate Openings, Applicants Need Not Be White.

HEH: Electric Van, Electric Van/Can You Find One? No One Can/Loses A Fight With Petroleum Van/Electric Van. “Everyone in the Democratic Media Complex wants us to know that electric vans are THE FUTURE of delivery. That remains to be seen, but they sure seem to have a lot of trouble being the present of delivery.”

WELL, BYE: The Left Calls for Tossing NBC’s Chuck Todd Off Nakatomi Plaza Again. “He’s been busy blowing up the air mattresses to soften the blow for the inevitable narrative fail. So that means he might be telling the truth about some of this stuff. It’s why Leftists are caterwauling at him and urging people to switch him off. Or hurl him from Nakatomi Plaza as well.”

FAILING STATE: The Border Crisis Is Bad, But In Mexico A Larger Crisis Looms.

U.S. policymakers, in both parties, are captive to the increasingly dangerous delusion that Mexico is a competent and trusted partner, and that our two countries can and should work together to solve problems like organized crime, drug trafficking, and illegal immigration. The animating idea, decades old now and woefully out of date, is that Mexico is a peer nation, acting in good faith, and that we all want the same things.

This gauzy conception of Mexico is how the Biden administration was able to come up with a framework for a U.S.-Mexico security relationship that’s utterly divorced from reality. A joint statement released back in October after a meeting between President Joe Biden and López Obrador outlines what’s supposed to be an update to the George W. Bush-era Merida Initiative, which was focused on helping Mexico wage war on powerful drug cartels.

The new initiative, dubbed the U.S.-Mexico Bicentennial Framework for Security, Public Health and Safe Communities, seeks to address not just “transborder crime” but also things like substance abuse, “root causes” of violence, and efforts to improve education and economic opportunity — all while “ensuring racial equity,” of course.

Given the stakes, however, all it amounts to is a series of exhausted platitudes. The reality is that the Mexican state is collapsing, and rather than having a partner to address the “root causes” of violence, we don’t even have a partner to address what might well become a humanitarian catastrophe on our border this spring.

Read the whole thing.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Glenn Youngkin Wastes No Time Triggering Crybaby Libs Everywhere. “Youngkin has also drawn the attention of White House Spokesditz Jen Psaki, who was probably thrilled to take a few minutes away from having to explain her train wreck of a boss.”

FAIL, BRITANNIA: UK Gov’t Plans Publicity Blitz to Undermine Privacy of Your Chats.

The UK government is set to launch a multi-pronged publicity attack on end-to-end encryption, Rolling Stone has learned. One key objective: mobilizing public opinion against Facebook’s decision to encrypt its Messenger app.

The Home Office has hired the M&C Saatchi advertising agency — a spin-off of Saatchi and Saatchi, which made the “Labour Isn’t Working” election posters, among the most famous in UK political history — to plan the campaign, using public funds.

According to documents reviewed by Rolling Stone, one the activities considered as part of the publicity offensive is a striking stunt — placing an adult and child (both actors) in a glass box, with the adult looking “knowingly” at the child as the glass fades to black. Multiple sources confirmed the campaign was due to start this month, with privacy groups already planning a counter-campaign.

Boris Johnson’s UK has been a big disappointment.

CORRUPTION: Former Obama Advisor Caught With His Hand in the Cookie Jar. “Seth Andrew pled guilty to one charge of wire fraud, admitting that he stole $218,000 from a New York City network of charter schools that he founded.”

CHARMING: Virginia Democrats Refuse To Applaud Youngkin During Joint Assembly.