JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON: The ‘Respect For Marriage Act’ Is An Exercise In Tyranny, And Everyone Knows It. “To paraphrase George Orwell’s famous line, if you want a picture of the future under the Respect for Marriage Act, imagine a boot stamping on Jack Phillips’ face — forever.”

HMM: Still No Motive for Club Q Shooting, and That’s Saying Something.

FRAUD, BULLYING, INTIMIDATION: Hunter Biden laptop repairman details ‘chilling’ warning from FBI agent. “That’s when Agent Mike turned around and told me that, in their experience, nothing ever happens to people that don’t talk about these things.”

IT GETS WORSE: Balenciaga’s ‘Cutting Edge’ Ad Campaign Used ‘Bondage Teddy Bears’ Held By Kids.

CHANGE? Bob Iger announces restructuring at Disney, top media exec to depart.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Journalists Go Hunger Games on Each Other and I Can’t Stop Laughing. “Big-name journalists are going full Hunger Games on one another on their new home away from Twitter. There’s even a transphobic network server involved, I swear to you.”

• Profile in Courage: CBS News stands firm for nearly hours
• Welcome to the gerontocracy
• The EPA wants to quietly tax gasoline (and you) into oblivion

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

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: If you think the world’s energy crisis is bad right now, next winter will be worse, says the OECD, whose new global outlook predicts bad times ahead.

KRUISER: Conservatives Don’t Worship Politicians—That’s a Lib Thing. “An emerging trend over here on the right — especially since the election — is the prevailing notion among some of Donald Trump’s most ardent admirers that he not be criticized at all. My response as someone who enthusiastically voted for him and has spent quite a lot of column space here at PJ Media writing flattering things about his presidency is this: what a load of crap.”

UM…: Saudi Arabia executes 12 people with swords even after Crown Prince’s promise to cut back.

BIDEN’S WINGMAN: Attorney General Merrick Garland Is Attempting to Obstruct a Congressional Investigation.

STATE-SANCTIONED MUTILATION: Trans Biden Official Sought Justification For Performing Kids’ Sex Changes From Children’s Hospital. “Dr. Rachel Levine, currently the assistant secretary for health at President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), asked in a 2017 email exchange if any scientific literature was available to support ‘bottom’ surgeries for minors, according to emails obtained by activist Megan Brock and shared with the Daily Caller. Dr. Nadia Dowshen of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia replied she was ‘not aware of existing literature.'”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Here’s Hoping Fake Journalism Doesn’t Start World War III. “The word that comes up a lot when I’m writing about the Democrats’ flying monkeys in the mainstream media is ‘irresponsible.’ The rush to be a social media brand rather than a reporter leads to a lot of errors.”

JON MILTIMORE: Why Sam Bankman-Fried Sounded so Much Like a Rand Villain. “Bankman-Fried clearly liked to talk about his altruism, which many see as a clear and obvious virtue. Or is it?”

ONLY TRAGEDIES THAT FIT THE NARRATIVE WILL BE COMMEMORATED: One Year After Waukesha Tragedy, Biden Has Yet to Visit.

RED FLAGS: Why didn’t Club Q shooter get prosecuted for bomb threat and kidnapping allegations in 2021? “The Associated Press opts for the gun-control argument to frame its report today that Anderson Lee Aldrich “evaded” the red flag law in Colorado. However, the suspect didn’t evade anything, as it turns out that law enforcement and his family didn’t bother to employ it in the first place. And while they headline that claim about the red-flag law, their lead focuses on a much bigger failure.”

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Some Hard Truths About the Russo-Ukraine War. “What we’re witnessing is, in short, the least expensive generational kneecapping of a geopolitical rival in world history.”

ALMOST AS REVOLTING AS THE PRODUCT: Beyond Meat factory riddled with mold, other dirty conditions: leaked documents.

HEH: Musk Absolutely Roasts Dem Senators Who Called for the FTC to Investigate Twitter.

STUDY: Far From a Democracy, the U.S. Is a Functional Oligarchy.

INDEED: Mike Lee Urges GOP Senators Who Voted for Radical Marriage Bill: ‘Have the Courage to Protect’ Free Exercise of Religion.

CATHERINE SALGADO: Interview with Blake Masters: Maricopa ‘Failed’ to Run a ‘Clean Election.’

VIDEO: Why You Can’t Trust Crime Statistics. “New York City-to-Austin transplant Louis Rossmann talks about the decay of the Big Apple from it’s Rudy Giuliani broken windows policing heyday to its current state of disorder, and why you can’t trust the statistics.”

MEET THE NEW BOSS, LITERALLY THE OLD BOSS: Disney Fired Their Woke CEO But Will Anything Change? “It was returning Bob Iger who sent Disney down its current path to Total Wokeness. Chapek was merely the guy in charge when the stuff inevitably hit the fan.”

WELL, YES — BUT BY WHOM? Sweden Says Nord Stream Pipeline Explosion Confirmed as Sabotage.

SHE JUST ISN’T VERY GOOD AT THIS STUFF: Asked About Joe Biden’s Involvement In Hunter’s Shady Dealing, Karine Jean-Pierre Flails and Sputters.