ANOTHER GRANNY-KILLER: Biden’s HHS Pick Dodges Questions About His COVID-19 Nursing Home Scandal.

BROTHER BOB PRESENTS: The Week in Radical Leftism. “Yep, we’re now getting called wusses by the French. There is nothing I can add to that.”

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Bombing Syria Is Fine So Long as Biden Doesn’t Tweet Mean Things at Assad.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: Is it better to get bombed on Twitter or by the United States Air Force?

Answer: Personally, we were hoping to get bombed on margaritas while grilling fajita meat tonight, but that’s just us.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• How to get everything wrong in the Middle East without even trying
• From no more snowfalls to the northern hemisphere getting 700 gigatons of additional snow, Al Gore hurt most
• Is that a swab in his pocket or is Xi just happy to greet you?

Bonus Sanity: Biden CIA nominee is at least decent enough to lie about his ties to the CCP.

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

MANY HAVE TRIED. ALL HAVE FAILED: Oye! Can You Translate What Biden Is Trying to Say Here?

THE #RESISTANCE IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE: Freshman NC Dem Bucks Biden on Iran Deal. “ Rep. Kathy Manning (D., N.C.), who serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Times of Israel that the Biden administration should reconsider their plan to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, pointing to the nation’s refusal to abide by its terms and calling it ‘outdated’.”

Not that it was ever actually dated, so to speak.

BECAUSE IT’S ‘CONTROVERSIAL’ TO BUILD IN THE SAME STYLE AS WASHINGTON’S MOST BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS: President Biden Revokes Trump’s Controversial Classical Architecture Order.

HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): Here’s a HuffPo article encouraging parents to support “sex-change” surgeries for their children next to another discouraging people from neutering their dog.

Heinlein got into a lot of weird stuff, especially in his last several novels, but not even he ever imagined this.

‘MURICA: Gun Sales in U.S. Set New Records in January, Fresh Off Huge Sales In 2020.

NEWS YOU CAN USE ABOUT A HALF-DOZEN TIMES A DAY: How to stop robocalls: Every way we know to prevent the annoying ringing.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): If you want my attention, pay me. “Under my proposal, any incoming calls from people not on my contact list wouldn’t go through unless the caller paid me something. Twenty-five cents would probably be enough to discourage phone spammers, who make huge numbers of (mostly futile) calls.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: ‘Equality Act’ Is Proof Democrats Are Clinically Insane. “The Equality Act also gives federal protection to male athletes who want to identify as female and compete in women’s sports. My daughter was a college athlete, and this is a topic I first wrote about two years ago. This ridiculous kowtowing to a fringe of a fringe of the population is an outrage and an embarrassment. The party that fashions itself as the champion of women hates and disrespects female athletes.”

LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID: Ashley Madison ‘married dating’ site grew to 70 million users in 2020.

CLINICAL CHILD ABUSE IS THE NEW NORMAL: Rand Paul TORCHES Biden’s Trans HHS Nominee for Supporting the Chemical Castration of Kids.

I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN JOURNALISTS TOLD US THE COVERUP IS ALWAYS WORSE THAN THE CRIME: Another Media Blackout? TV Networks Ignore Andrew Cuomo’s #MeToo Scandal.

LIVE AT 3:30PM EASTERN THURSDAY: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, Preston, VodkaPundit

TANKS FOR THE MEMORIES: The 30th Anniversary of 73 Easting. “It was the largest tank battle between American- and Soviet-constructed armor since Israeli M-60 Patton tanks faced off against Egyptian T-62s in Sinai campaign of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. All throughout the 70s and early 1980s, various media outlets talked about how much better Soviet military equipment was than American equipment. (I remember a 60 Minutes episode that talked about Soviet equipment being better ‘all across the board.’) And Soviet equipment was better—on paper, with thicker armor, higher top speeds, etc. And then 73 Easting happened, and M1A1s wiped the floor with T-72s.”

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Revolutionary Discovery That Two Plus Two Equals White Supremacy.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: What do you call it when you find out that minority kids are being taught that wrong answers are just fine in math class?

Answer: A very public education.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Washington State band class rehearses in tiny one-person toilet shelters
• Even #BLM supporters want to know where the money went
• Biden HUD appointee is a big fan of Communist China

Bonus Sanity: Georgia Senate votes to require photo I.D. for absentee ballots.

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

CPAC: The Greatest Show on Earth. “I was the last person to serve as executive director of both the American Conservative Union and CPAC. To say the roles, particularly when combined, were bonkers crazy would be a massive understatement. It was good for the ego—people kissed my ass and bought me way too many drinks and steaks all over town because they wanted to speak at the conference—but it was hard on the psyche of a sensitive soul who had no interest, really, in ass-kissing and cocktails.”

IT’S GOOD TO BE BAD: 40% of California’s inmates have been vaccinated for COVID-19, meanwhile the vaccination rate for law-abiding Californians is just 6.5%.

PRIORITIES: While Republican Voters Care About Issues, Democratic Voters’ Top Concern Is Absolutely Ridiculous. “Democrat voters are more concerned about ‘Donald Trump’s supporters’ than anything else.”

LOW ENERGY: 5 Times Biden’s Interior Nominee Refused to Answer Basic Questions on Energy.

OOPS: Neera Tanden Forgot To Delete Tweets Criticizing Lisa Murkowski, One Person Who Could End Her Shot At Being Confirmed.

PRIVACY: This browser extension shows what the Internet would look like without Big Tech. “The Economic Security Project is trying to make a point about big tech monopolies by releasing a browser plugin that will block any sites that reach out to IP addresses owned by Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or Amazon. The extension is called Big Tech Detective, and after using the internet with it for a day (or, more accurately, trying and failing to use), I’d say it drives home the point that it’s almost impossible to avoid these companies on the modern web, even if you try.”

HOTEL GOOGLEFORNIA: You can check out any time you like but you can never leave.

If you use the internet, it’s basically impossible not to serve as a tiny profit center for any of these companies — no matter how much you might dislike their products or services, or how much you might disagree with their management or business practices.

As an economic libertarian, I’m always wary of government “solutions,” which generally prove to be worse than the problem. But when a company has grown so large and powerful that consumer choice holds no veto power over them, it’s time to swing the antitrust hammer.

MEDDLING: New Bill Would Eliminate Single-Sex Spaces on College Campuses.

But postmodern racial segregation is still cool.

REALITY TV: Trump to Target Biden and Blaze a Future Path for the GOP in CPAC Speech.

CUTE: Mars rover’s giant parachute carried secret message. “Systems engineer Ian Clark used a binary code to spell out ‘Dare Mighty Things’ in the orange and white strips of the 21-metre parachute.”