HOW THE HELL IS ANYTHING LIKE THIS WITHIN AN AMERICAN TEACHERS’ UNION’S PURVIEW? San Diego Teachers’ Union Passes Resolution That Rejects Israel’s Legitimacy.

I guess they’ll do anything but teach.

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

THE DELTA THREAT HAS BEEN SERIOUSLY OVERSOLD: ‘Light at the end of the tunnel’: Researchers predict steady decline in COVID cases through March — without any ‘significant winter surge.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: Afghan Refugees at Fort McCoy Charged With Sexual Assault of a Minor, Spousal Abuse.

Previously: Just 3 Percent of Afghan Evacuees in U.S. Are Special Immigrant Visa Holders.

Biden evacuated a lot of people he shouldn’t have and left behind a lot of people who should have been evacuated.

#WHIPGATE: Mayorkas Suspends Horseback Border Patrol Agents from Duties Pending Probe. “Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas has taken action against horseback Border Patrol agents accused by left-leaning media figures and Democrats of using ‘whips’ and reins to assail Haitian migrants trying to enter the U.S. illegally.”

There were no whips and there was no whipping — background here.

LONGTERM HEALTH TIME BOMB: Killing Children with Safety: Child Obesity SOARED During COVID Lockdowns.

DO I HAVE TO CHOOSE JUST ONE? Evil, crazy, or just plain stupid? Top 10 quotes from Middle East studies professors.

JOE BIDEN’S RETURN TO CLEAN GOVERNMENT: John Kerry’s Million-Dollar China Conundrum. “Kerry’s latest filing with the Office of Government Ethics shows Teresa Kerry benefits from an investment of at least $1 million in a hedge fund specializing in private partnerships with Chinese government-controlled funds.”

HMM: Latest Durham Indictment May Make Russiagate the Most Corrupt Scandal in U.S. History. “Durham alleges that a tech executive used by the Democrats, and who hoped to work in cyber security for the Clinton White House, used his insider knowledge to conjure up phony internet links between candidate/president Trump and Alfa Bank, based in Russia.”

THE ATLANTIC: ‘Post-Vax COVID’ Is a New Disease.

The measles virus is ultra-infectious, much more so than SARS-CoV-2, and kills many of the uninoculated children it afflicts. But for those who have gotten all their shots, it’s a less formidable foe, which we’ve learned to live with long-term. That’s the direction that many experts hope we’re headed in with SARS-CoV-2 as it becomes endemic, as my colleague Sarah Zhang has written.

We’re not yet at the point where we can officially label post-vaccination COVID-19 cases as “modified”; maybe we never will be. Some immunized people are still getting dangerously sick. But the shots are softening COVID-19’s sharp edges: On average, breakthrough infections seem to be briefer, milder, and less contagious. Among the fully immunized, catching the coronavirus doesn’t mean the same thing it did last year. “It’s a very different kind of infection than in people who are immunologically naive,” Lindsey Baden, an infectious-disease physician and COVID-19 vaccine researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, told me.

If this virus becomes as inescapable as the culprits behind the colds and flus that trouble us most years, we could all have to grapple with one of these infections, and learn that lesson on a personal level. That’s the social tax of a forever virus: Nearly everyone may eventually know what it is to get COVID-19—but a tamer, more domesticated version of its pre-inoculation self.

Politicians and social media panicmongers don’t see it that way — they won’t follow the science — and keep pushing the same social and economic controls.

DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS: ‘Steel barrier’ of HUNDREDS of state trooper SUVs line the border in ‘unprecedented’ move to stem the tide of Haitian migrants after Biden made mockery of pledge to send them home by RELEASING thousands into America.

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AJ Kaufman: Manchin and Sinema Aren’t the Only Democrats Concerned With the Direction of the Party. “It’s unclear exactly how many Democrats are siding with prominent House and Senate moderates. One centrist Democrat up for reelection next year, Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), declined to say whether she’s comfortable with the $3.5 trillion spending number on Monday, or whether she agrees with pausing the legislation.”

Matt Margolis: The Hypocrisy of Those Complaining About ‘Missing White Woman Syndrome.’ “The thing is, she’d have a point if the same people who complain about ‘Missing White Woman Syndrome’ or otherwise inject race into this story weren’t also the same people who show little to no outrage over black-on-black crime—particularly the plague of black kids being victims of gun violence.”

Yours Truly: Ho-Ho-NO! Supply Chain Disruptions Could Be This Year’s Grinch. “Seroka said that all that spending has shipping traffic there up 50% from pre-pandemic levels, and that the infrastructure simply doesn’t exist to get all those goods off the ships and on the trucks.”

ONCE LOST, TRUST IS DIFFICULT TO REGAIN: Biden Falls into the Trust Trap. “In the United States, government and health authorities must admit fault, take full responsibility, and tell the truth. The vaccinated must not harshly condemn the unvaccinated. Research on social norms suggests that shaming people can boost compliance with important social norms, but it can backfire when we shame those who believe they have done nothing wrong. Enforcing norms works when people accept them. Blaming people for violating norms they reject creates resentment, antagonistic behavior, and ongoing cycles of blame. Since the unvaccinated believe their mistrust of authorities is justified, they often respond to sanction with outrage. And the truth is, their mistrust is not entirely mistaken.”

Well, our health and political authorities lied a lot, got a lot wrong, never apologized for their mistakes, and kept getting caught flaunting their own rules.

DON’T GET COCKY: It’s All Falling Apart for Biden and Democratic Leadership in D.C.

WOEING: Boeing still studying Starliner valve issues, with no launch date in sight.

Since returning Starliner to Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility in Florida, engineers have been able to gather data about the “dry” side of the valves, but they may need to remove the valves from the spacecraft to assess the “wet” side, Lueders said. This would be a cumbersome process.

Boeing and NASA will reach a decision point in the “next few weeks,” she said, when they will decide whether to remove the valves from the service module for additional study. If this is the case, Boeing would likely pull forward a service module intended for a future crewed flight and use it for the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 mission.

A new date for this OFT-2 mission has yet to be set, and Lueders indicated one may not be set any time soon. She suggested the mission probably will slip to 2022. “My gut is that it would probably be more likely to be next year, but we’re still working through that timeline,” she said.

Plus this from the comments: “Sticking valves not identified until flight hardware is on the pad is bad but what is worse is the kind of processes that woudl allow that to happen. What else is wrong that they just don’t know about yet? They may not know regardless but at least another uncrewed flight gives Boeing and NASA more real world data (not Boeing’s cost saving simulations which showed everything good to go).”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: We Might Be Spared the Burden of Biden’s Infrastructure Boondoggle. “I can remember a time when ‘trillion’ didn’t routinely come up in proposed legislation. It really wasn’t even that long ago. Now it often seems like a default starting point. We’re playing with Monopoly money now and the D.C. folk spend like drunken sailors on leave in Thailand.”

Sailors in Thailand get some value for their dollar.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Was Monica Lewinsky the First Cancel Culture victim? “’15 Minutes of Shame’ suggests that without understanding the true nature behind it.”

BIDEN VOTERS POSTING THEIL L’S ONLINE: Worse Than Carter? Meghan McCain Obliterates Biden — AGAIN.

IT’S FAIR TO CONCLUDE THEY JUST WANT PEOPLE DEAD: Bureaucrats and Politicians Seem Determined To Cripple a Lifesaving Alternative to Smoking.

WE’RE SAVED! Hollywood Finally Figures Out How to End COVID. Why Didn’t We Think of This Sooner?

SHOT: EU Commissioner Warns ‘Something is Broken’ in Transatlantic Ties in Wake of AUKUS Sub Snub.

Chaser: Biden Claims He’s ‘Prioritized Rebuilding Our Alliances’ at Debut UN Speech.

ANOTHER RED LINE CROSSED WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE: Another Russian Ransomware Attack on America’s Food Supply Because Nobody Takes Biden Seriously.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS STUCK LIKE THAT: UC Berkeley’s latest ‘cluster hire’ fails to add intellectual diversity. “Maya Carrasquillo, one of the new hires, describes herself as a ‘Social Justice Engineer’ and ‘Scholar Activist’ whose research combines critical race theory with environmental studies and urban infrastructure.”

RESTORING TRUST IN THE WHITE HOUSE OR WHATEVER: OUCH: Biden’s Approval Ratings Hit a New Grim Milestone.

CHANGE? Why Democrats are getting squeamish about taxing the moderately rich. “It’s notable that the most avid supporters of SALT cap repeal in Congress haven’t limited themselves to arguing the provision hurts Democrats or makes it harder for states to raise taxes. Rather, they’ve deployed the kind of unabashed anti-tax rhetoric that until recently was almost exclusively the domain of the GOP.”

Trump’s SALT deduction cap continues to pay interesting political dividends.