CHRISTIAN TOTO: ‘Boys in Red Hats’ at War with Reality, Itself. “The film’s marketing arm teased it would anger folks on both sides. They did so by pretending the story actually has two credible sides.”

THAT’S GONNA LEAVE A MARK: Megyn Kelly ROASTS Nikole Hannah-Jones for ‘1619 Project’ Lies.

AMNESTY IS INFRASTRUCTURE: Democrats Trying To Sneak Illegal Alien Amnesty Into ‘Infrastructure’ Bill.

STACEY LENNOX: Who Are the COVID-19 Misinformation ‘Dirty Dozen’ WH Wants to Silence?

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Five Million Dollar Bust: Vaccine Lottery Sees 68% Jab Decline.

Plus:

• No melanin for you, racist!
• The ugly truth about black vs. Asian racism
• “They Live,” they really do

So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

POLAND BUYS AMERICAN: 250 U.S. Made M1 Abrams Tanks Are Headed To Russia’s Doorstep.

THIS IS IMPORTANT: Which States Are Addressing ‘The Real Kraken’ in Their Election Reform Laws? “As election lawyer J. Christian Adams explained, the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology ad Civic Life (CTCL) directed millions to government election offices around the country to ‘help’ them conduct the 2020 election. These funds — commonly referred to as ‘Zuck bucks’ — built “structural bias” into the election — converting ‘election offices in key jurisdictions with deep reservoirs of Biden votes into Formula One turnout machines.'”

As usual, the bigger scandal isn’t the laws they got away with breaking, but the things the law allows them to do.

DAMAGE DONE, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Superintendent Who Eliminated Entrance Exam at Nation’s Top High School To Resign.

VICTORY: Biden Caves on Critical Theories Grant After Parents Push Back. “The DOE reinforced local decision-making where parents will still have a say in the curriculum their schools adopt. This news should underscore the importance of grassroots action at the local level, which many of us have ignored for too long.”

THAT WAS THE PLAN ALL ALONG: Wokeness is sabotaging the military academies. “James Hasson, a U.S. Army veteran, recently wrote about the slow but steady acceptance of woke concepts at the service academies in his book, Stand Down: How Social Justice Warriors Are Sabotaging America’s Military. While chronicling documented cases of woke ideology run amok at the service academies, Hasson writes, ‘It might surprise the average American taxpayer to learn that civilian professors at the service academies are as leftist as any other group of professors…their ‘scholarship’ is often indistinguishable from what might be found at the most progressive, leftist university.’ Indeed, as Hasson points out, cadets such as communist-sympathizer Spenser Rapone have been radicalized at the service academies.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): “Americans have never really understood ideological warfare.”

#RESIST: Virginia School Board Rejects State’s Radical Transgender Policies.

THE COLORADO RESISTANCE: Jefferson County Sheriff won’t enforce Foothills concealed carry ban; says civil offense the district’s responsibility.

Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Shrader has sent a letter to the Foothills Parks and Recreation District (FPRD) clarifying any role his office would play in a possible future regulation to ban the concealed carry of a firearm by lawfully-permitted citizens on district-managed property.

“I have substantial concern in taking action against an individual who is otherwise acting in a legal and proper manner,” Shrader said in part in the letter.

Shrader’s office sent Complete Colorado, which broke the story outlining the district’s plan, a copy of the letter.

At issue is Senate Bill 21-256, which allows local governments to enact gun control laws within their jurisdiction that are “not less restrictive than state laws governing the sale, purchase, transfer, or possession of the firearm, ammunition, or firearm component or accessory.”

In other words, local governments may enact gun regulations only if they are stricter than those at the state level. A local government could not, for instance, expand gun rights or loosen existing restrictions under the new law, as one might expect under the traditional understanding of local control.

It certainly what I expect from Democrats’ understanding of local control.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Lying Democrats Are Anti-Vaxxers and COVID Superspreaders. “The nonstop COVID drama is a bit much. Didn’t we all get enough of that last year? Social media is flooded with variant and vaccination news and harassment. It’s on the other side of tedious at this point. If you listen to Team Biden and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media it’s only Republicans who are bringing everybody’s least favorite plague to new people.”

OH: Amazon is getting hauled into court for not recalling dangerous products the right way. “Since 2019, Amazon has sold nearly 400,000 hair dryers that could shock someone if they fell into a pool of water, 24,000 carbon monoxide detectors that didn’t actually detect carbon monoxide, and an unspecified number of ‘children’s sleepwear garments’ that didn’t meet flammability requirements, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).”

FACE, MEET PALM: Dr. Fauci Embarrasses Himself While Trying to Mock Fox News.

COLD WAR II: China’s Military Has a Hidden Weakness.

New missiles and advanced platforms represent only a small part of the PLA’s endeavor to achieve parity with its adversaries. I categorize this technological advancement as “military modernization,” defined by the development of exquisite weapon systems and improvements of warfare materiel to meet military requirements. There is, however, a second bin of advancements I label as “military reform,” which is defined less by hardware and more by institutional evolutions such as a restructuring of PLA hierarchy and a reprioritization of realistic training in integrated joint operations. While the military modernization bin represents the PLA’s image of strength and tends to garner the majority of attention in press reports, the military reform bin receives less fanfare but highlights current PLA weaknesses. High-tech new weapons are useful for enabling a military’s lethality, but current military reform shortfalls hinder the PLA’s ability to employ such hardware to achieve China’s strategic political goals. To best provide a balanced analysis of the PLA’s strengths and weaknesses, analysts and policymakers should focus on assessing not only military modernization strengths, but also military reform weaknesses.

Not so much “hidden” as “rarely acknowledged.” But poor training and politicization are typical of authoritarian regimes like Beijing’s — and you can see it happening here under Joe Biden, too.

I’LL BELIEVE WE’RE STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF A DEADLY PANDEMIC WHEN THE PEOPLE TELLING US WE’RE STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF A DEADLY PANDEMIC START ACITING LIKE WE’RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A DEADLY PANDEMIC. After Meeting with COVID-Infected Texas Dems, Kamala Harris Goes to Walter Reed.

BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules DACA Illegal.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: Biden Administration Tells Border Agents to Prepare for Massive Wave of Families. Will It Re-Start the Pandemic?

LIDBLOG: Crazy Tokyo Olympics Get Even Nuttier with Latest Rules. “BMX freestyle rider Chelsea Wolfe (an alternate) said she will burn the American Flag if she wins. I suppose that will be okay as long as she doesn’t touch anyone.”

YES, IT’S OK TO QUESTION THEIR PATRIOTISM: Critical Race Theory Advocates Sent Staff & Students On Chinese Communist Propaganda Trips.

WELL, GOOD: 2020 Fallout: Voters Want Tighter Voting Restrictions.

JOANNE JACOBS: Teens choose jobs over high school, college. “I fear dropout rates will go way up, unless high schools, community colleges and employers can offer job-centric pathways to disconnected, disaffected young people.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): It would probably also help if they didn’t tell male students that they’re rapists and oppressors. Just spitballing here.

I LIKE THE CUT OF HER… WELL, EVERYTHING: Actress Megan Fox Calls Trump ‘Legendary’ at UFC Appearance.

PETER SCHIFF: The Transitory Inflation Ruse. “It is certainly possible that we can finish 2021 with 10% CPI, which would rank it as bad as any of the years that we had during the 1970s. Except 10% in 2021 is not 10% in 1971 or 1979 because this is not your grandfather’s CPI. This is a completely different CPI that is completely rigged and reverse engineered. If we actually have 10% inflation, if we measured prices the way we did back in the 1970s, it’d probably be 15 or maybe 20% inflation.”