KRUISER: Sinema Wraps Filibuster Dagger In Dem Talking Points Then Sticks It In. “Although she’s on board with almost all of the Democratic agenda, Sinema has refused to budge on the filibuster issue. It’s not a position that has been easy for her to maintain but she’s proven to be tough.”

YES: It Is Time to Counter China’s Data Strategy.

MEGAN FOX: ‘Cryin and Lyin’ Adam Kinzinger Gets the Takedown He Deserves. “I attended Adam Kinzinger’s political launch in New Lenox, Ill., at a Tea Party event I was covering many years ago. I remember it like it was yesterday. He stood outside in the cold with hundreds of ticked-off Americans who were organizing to send real conservatives to Washington. He said all the right things and he happily accepted all the checks from those people who were desperate for representation. Then he went to Washington, because of the support of the Tea Party, and promptly never returned their phone calls again.”

OH MY: Soros-backed Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby indicted on 4 felonies. “Federal prosecutors allege that Mosby lied to falsely obtain a withdrawal from her savings account based on a policy related to the coronavirus pandemic. She is also accused of lying on a mortgage application for the home purchase.”

Not just any home, but two Florida vacation homes.

Previously: Recall, Remove & Replace Every Last Soros Prosecutor.

“Try, Convict & Imprison” works, too.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: The Mask/Vaccine Nazis Hate Kids Who Have Cancer. “The derision we heap upon the mask/vax Nazis is never enough. They are ruining an entire generation of American children. They’re using kids who have cancer as political pawns.”

Background: Ronald McDonald House Evicting Unvaxxed Kids With Leukemia.

DAVID GOLDMAN: Worst US inflation since ’82 is huge underestimate.

Shelter accounts for about a third of American household expenditure, and the cost of buying or renting shelter is up nearly 20% over the past year. Yet the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for shelter reported Jan. 12 by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics showed an increase of just 4.2 over the past year.

Private surveys conducted by the big rental sites, Zillow and Apartmentlist.com, show increases of 13% to 18% during 2021, and the Case-Shiller Index of US home prices jumped 18% in the year through October.

Who are you going to believe, to paraphrase Groucho Marx – the US government or your own eyes?

Part of the discrepancy involves a simple time lag. The US government looks at the present cost of housing while the private rental surveys register the cost of a new rental. It takes a while for leases to expire and new, higher-cost leases to take effect.

Also: Prices rise by record 9.7% over past year in producer index.

Despite what the White House claims, inflation is only getting started.

SHE’S JUST NOT VERY GOOD AT ANY OF THIS: Kamala’s Disastrous Response to a Question About 2024.

WAVE A WHITE FLAG: Ex-Rebel Rocker Elvis Costello Bows Down to Cancel Culture.

KATHLEEN BUHLE DIDN’T KILL HERSELF: Hunter Biden’s Ex-Wife to Release Tell-All Memoir.

EQUAL PROTECTION: Washington state refused assistance to clear snow from roadways due to county not mandating vaccines for their employees.

LIVE AT 3:30PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, VodkaPundit, Special Guest.

BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules on Vaccine Mandate. “The conclusion on the per curiam brief in favor of striking down the mandate concluded that OSHA’s powers are limited to regulating the workplace, yet COVID-19 affects more than just the workplace, which means that the pandemic falls outside of OSHA’s purview.”

RETURN OF THE ROBBER BARONS: Elizabeth Warren Blames High Food Prices on Grocery Chains’ ‘Record’ 1 Percent Profit Margins.

IT ISN’T JUST OMICRON, IT’S EVERYTHING: Biden’s Incompetent Response to Omicron Forces Democrats to Face Reality.

FIVE FOR FIGHTING’S JOHN ONDRASIK: YouTube ‘Only Censors Views Critical of One Worldview.’

COCAINE MITCH:McConnell Destroys Joe Biden on Senate Floor.

HMM: An End To Chinese Skyscrapers? “Last year, China banned skyscrapers of more than 500 meters high, and put considerable restrictions on those more than 250 meters high. Now comes word that they’re banning buildings over 150 meters high as well.”

Plus: “The fact that the skyscraper boom got so far out of whack with economic reality is just another indication of how much of China’s ‘economic miracle’ is a complete mirage.”

DEEP IMPACT: CNN Ratings Crater Nearly 90%, Jeff Zucker Needs to Go. “Pedophilia scandals, Trump Derangement Syndrome, and poor programming choices take their toll as CNN ratings crash to Earth like a massive asteroid in a doomsday movie.”

JOANNE JACOBS: Will parents help? 670 volunteer in Palo Alto.

The call for parent volunteers went out at 9 pm on Sunday, reports John Fensterwald on EdSource. By 9 am Monday, 360 Palo Alto (California) parents had offered to work as classroom aides, Covid testing staff, office workers, recess and lunch supervisors, custodians or whatever else is needed to keep the community’s schools open.

By Tuesday morning, 1 Palo Alto had 670 recruits, says Superintendent Don Austin. Volunteers — the number has passed 700 — started work today.

The schools wills stay open, he pledged.

Teachers insisted they weren’t essential workers — and they were right!

THAT’S NOT FUNNY: Steve Harvey: ‘Political Correctness Has Killed Comedy.’

EVERYWHERE ELSE, TOO: Fauci Lies in the Senate. “So what was it this time? Easy. It was when Rand Paul asked him if he thought it ‘appropriate to use your $420,000 salary to smear scientists who don’t agree with you?’ Fauci predictably denied the charge, but just about anyone with an ounce of sense could likely guess he was lying. Alas, there is no need for guesswork. An American Institute for Economic Research Freedom of Information request makes it plain: Fauci absolutely used his government position to smear any number of people with whom he disagrees.”

STACEY LENNOX: Is the DOJ Readying Biden’s Brownshirts to Deal With His Political Opposition? “President Joe Biden reinforced this idea Tuesday at a speech in Georgia. While encouraging Senate Democrats to blow up the filibuster to pass the federal takeover of elections, he suggested that anyone opposed to that agenda stands with Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. To rational people, that statement is insane. But the leader of the executive branch said it.”

EVERYTHING IN THE NARRATIVE, NOTHING OUTSIDE THE NARRATIVE, NOTHING AGAINST THE NARRATIVE: Nets Ignore Report Biden Education Secretary Solicited ‘Domestic Terror’ Letter.

Background: Biden’s Education Secretary Solicited the Infamous Letter Likening Angry Parents to Domestic Terrorists.

ICYMI: Supreme Court Is Aiding and Abetting the Biden Administration’s Run-Out-the Clock Strategy on Vaccine Mandate.

DESPERATELY SEEKING… HILLARY? Biden’s Epic Collapse Has Democrats Desperately Looking to Hillary Clinton for Salvation. “Is this the same woman who thought she could ignore rural voters and finally get a white working-class outreach operation going many months too late during the 2020 election, which was based in… Brooklyn? She ran twice and lost. It’s the same thing with her. The more time she spends in the spotlight, the more unpopular she becomes. It will happen again if Democrats try to pull a Hillary 2024 move. The lady is just not liked. Stop trying to retcon 2016, fellas. It happened—we won.”