News of the Week for March 13th<\/sup>, 2022<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n AWOL: Where Is the Russian Air Force?<\/a> China Warns U.S. Against Forming Pacific NATO and Backing Taiwan<\/a> The Navy is training for a possible fight with China, but Cold War comparisons may not apply, experts say<\/a> Hypersonic-Missile Failures Risk U.S. Chase of China, Russia<\/a> Australia Plans Submarine Base That Can Host U.S. Vessels<\/a> Captured Russian officer: You bet we’re committing “genocide” in Ukraine … and ashamed of it<\/a> Olena Zelenska’s plea to media: Tell the “terrible truth” that Russian invaders are killing Ukrainian children<\/a> Turkey and U.S. to coordinate on Ukraine war<\/a> Biden says U.S. will ban Russian oil imports in response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine<\/a> It’s happening: Poland to send MiG-29 fighters to U.S. for Ukrainian transfer in return for F-16s<\/a> Ukraine’s Bayraktar TB2 Drones are Wreaking Havoc on Russian Vehicles<\/a> Ukraine says it sank the Russian warship that attacked Snake Island: ‘We f—— hit them!’<\/a> Krugman: China can’t prop up Russia’s economy<\/a> Biden sends two Patriot missile batteries to Poland after calling plan to send all their MIG-29 jets to Ukraine ‘unworkable’: VP Harris will arrive in Warsaw today as ‘hand-to-hand’ combat breaks out in Kyiv suburbs<\/a> Stalled and frustrated, Putin will likely ‘double down’ in the coming weeks, CIA says<\/a> Two Russian Generals Reported Killed as Ukraine Invasion Becomes “Clusterf**k”<\/a> Russia: On second thought, we’re not trying to topple Zelensky’s government<\/a> Biden Keeping Iranian Plot to Kill John Bolton under Wraps to Avoid Derailing Nuclear Deal: Report<\/a> The Botched Handling of Poland’s MiG-29s<\/a> Tokyo exploits global anti-Russia sentiment to announce Kremlin-controlled Kuril Islands belong to Japan<\/a> Pentagon rejects NATO nations providing jets to Ukraine<\/a> Iran to Regain up to $130.5 Billion<\/a> Ukraine’s Bio-Lab Security Is Becoming an Issue<\/a> U.S. and Japan Likely to Defend Taiwan in Event of Chinese Attack: Trump Adviser<\/a> At 91, siege of Leningrad survivor is besieged by war again<\/a> How many soldiers has Russia lost?<\/a> Pro-tip from Lavrov: “We didn’t invade Ukraine”<\/a> NATO Begins a “Cold Response” Training Exercise in Norway Next Week<\/a> India says it accidentally fired missile into Pakistan<\/a> GOP rep: Zelensky is a thug and his government is incredibly evil and woke<\/a> The Real “Especially Dangerous” Materials In Those Ukrainian Biological Research Labs<\/a> Rumor of the day: Putin places top FSB official under house arrest over Ukraine debacle<\/a> Bennett advises Zelensky to surrender to Russia, Zelensky refuses<\/a> Ukraine Unveils New Postage Stamp That Tells Russian Warship to ‘Go F**k Yourself’<\/a> Why Russian army is so weak?<\/a> Message from the mullahs<\/a> Will Putin Outright Lose in Ukraine?<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Idiocy of Seattle<\/a> Exposing BLM at School\u2014a deep dive into the indoctrination of fourth-graders<\/a> “Woke” Liberals Prove UVA Student\u2019s Point in Her Op-Ed About Fear to Speak Out in Case Someone Gets Offended<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Israeli Girl Diagnosed with Polio in the Country’s First Case in Over 30 Years<\/a> China battles worst Covid outbreak for two years as cases double in 24 hours<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Supreme Court decision on New York gun permit law could lead to more cases<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Great Lakes Bill of Rights” Legislation Introduced in New York<\/a> U.S. now has bigger recoverable oil reserves than Saudi Arabia or Russia<\/a> Environmentalists vs. Science<\/a> Biden now courting socialist Venezuela’s corrupt and brutal dictator for oil<\/a> Electric Vehicles, Nickel, and Reality<\/a> Climatistas Officially Declare Themselves Brain Dead<\/a> Kerry: Sure, the Ukrainian refugee crisis is bad but wait until you see the climate change refugee crisis to come<\/a> Oil: Don’t Look Now But. . .<\/a> China wanted to appear neutral between Russia and Ukraine. It isn’t<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Georgia VA Center Patients Test Positive for Hepatitis, HIV Due to Unsterilized Equipment<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n People of Color Banned<\/a> Star Trek Fan Launches Petition To Have Alex Kurtzman’s Star Trek Designated As Non-Canon<\/a> Dem Operative David Brock To Launch Attack On Republican Election Lawyers: “make them toxic in their communities and in their firms”<\/a> Bill to Federalize CRT Must Be Stopped<\/a> County GOP calls for election administrator to be fired after 10,000 mail-in ballots are “found” days past election<\/a> Misguided Affirmations<\/a> Almost 1,000 People Are Now Living in Phoenix’s Exploding Tent City<\/a> US man who got 1st pig heart transplant dies after 2 months<\/a> Straights Need Not Apply, for City of West Hollywood Guaranteed Income Pilot Project<\/a> Is Mike Pence Preparing a Kamikaze Campaign?<\/a> Gay! Gay! Gay! Gay!<\/a> Madison Cawthorn charged with driving with revoked license for 2nd time; court dates set<\/a> Colorado Considers Expansive Pro-Abortion Legislation<\/a> The Cruelty and Recklessness of LGBT Ideologues<\/a> City of West Hollywood Launching Guaranteed Income Pilot Program for LGBTQIA People Only<\/a> DuckDuckGo down-ranks Russian disinformation and users aren’t happy<\/a> How Low Can the Teachers’ Unions Sink?<\/a> When you wish upon a CRT resolution<\/a> A Slip of Tongue on Abortion at Supreme Court?<\/a> This is how ‘Marxist working groups’ operate in higher education<\/a> Poll: Republicans Beat Democrats among Hispanics, at 27 Percent among Black Voters<\/a> Parents Are Fighting A Racialized “Equity Audit” In North Kingstown (RI) And So Far We\u2019re Winning<\/a> DuckDuckGo down-ranks Russian disinformation and users aren’t happy<\/a> Amnesty International: Hell Yes, We Want to Destroy the Jewish State<\/a> Democrats May Strip Iowa Caucuses of First-in-Nation Status<\/a> Leftists Set Up Summer Camp to Push Sex on 8-10 Year-Old Kids<\/a> Today in Identity Politics Obsession<\/a> Russia Might Abandon a U.S. Astronaut on ISS, but NASA Is Worried About Pronouns<\/a> Pennsylvania’s Ballot Battle Should Rattle GOP<\/a> Six West Point Cadets Overdose on Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine During Florida Spring Break<\/a> These professors support the ‘progressive stacking’ policy that prioritizes students’ comments based on race<\/a> Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions<\/a> Biden Supreme Court pick backed by radicals who believe the Constitution is ‘trash’<\/a> U.N. Says “No Evidence” Backing Russian Claims of Ukraine Bioweapons Program<\/a> Putin to Bring Thousands of Arab Fighters to Ukraine<\/a> California cakewalk? No big-name rivals for Gov. Newsom<\/a> Ohio Officer Cleared In Shooting Death Of Knife-Wielding Ma’Khia Bryant<\/a> Sharing Stories of Trauma on ‘Detransition Awareness Day’<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Is a “Wheat Crisis” Next as Ukrainian Grain Shipments Halt?<\/a> Oil Tops $130 a Barrel as Russian Attacks Escalate<\/a> To Avoid Global Chaos, We Had Better Start Producing Lots More Energy and Food<\/a> Bright Spots in the Heartland for Supply Chains<\/a> Consequences of a War: The Coming Food Crisis<\/a> 40 Years of Failure: IRS Unable to Fix Computer System<\/a> Food crisis grows as spiralling prices spark export bans<\/a> Will Inflation Stay High for Decades? One Influential Economist Says Yes<\/a> The ESG Backlash<\/a> Inflation rose 7.9% in February, as food and energy costs push prices to highest in more than 40 years<\/a> US inflation soared 7.9% in past year, a fresh 40-year high<\/a> Up, up, and away: Consumer-price index inflation now at 7.9%<\/a> The Coming Food Crunch: Hoarding and the Hunt for Self-Sufficiency<\/a> Putin Flirts with Economic Suicide<\/a> Russian Oligarch Says Nationalisations Will ‘Take Us Back To 1917’<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nThe Russian Air Force (VKS) has procured 350 modern combat aircraft in the last ten years and the question that must be on every Russian’s mind in the second week of the Ukraine War is: What did we get for our money?<\/p>\n
\nChina warned the U.S. against trying to build what it called a Pacific version of NATO, while declaring that security disputes over Taiwan and Ukraine were “not comparable at all.”<\/p>\n
\nFor much of the past year, U.S. Navy and Marine Corps in the Pacific have trained for a conflict with the Pentagon’s most powerful potential adversary, China.<\/p>\n
\nU.S. efforts to catch up with China and Russia in developing hypersonic weapons may be set back after Lockheed Martin Corp.’s air-launched missile suffered three consecutive test failures that left it on a tight schedule.<\/p>\n
\nFacility will also serve as home port for Australia’s nuclear submarines<\/p>\n
\nIs this a violation of the Geneva Convention? Perhaps, but then again, so is shelling civilian population centers and conducting military attacks on nuclear power plants. Ukrainian forces captured a mid-ranking officer in the Russian invasion forces and made him available to reporters yesterday, and he made no bones about what Vladimir Putin has done in Ukraine<\/p>\n
\nUkraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska uses social media to get her messages out, in particular her Instagram account. She has 2.3 million followers. Her latest posts have centered around naming Ukrainian children who have died from Russian forces attacks and telling a bit about them.<\/p>\n
\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is still trying to play both sides of the Russian-Ukrainian war to his own benefit. As you may recall, just last week Turkey closed the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean to “all warships,” ostensibly to prevent Russia from sending in more firepower and escalating the war even further. (It turned out to be a meaningless gesture.) Last night we learned that Turkey has been in talks with the U.S. State Department and insists that they are “in close coordination” on the situation in Ukraine. But they’re also saying that they oppose economic sanctions on Russia. Go figure.<\/p>\n
\nPresident Joe Biden announced the U.S. will ban imports of Russian oil, a major escalation in the international response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
\nAnd to think, it looked like Russell Wilson going to the Broncos in exchange for draft picks would be the biggest trade news of the day.<\/p>\n
\nA recent video shared by the Ukrainian military showed a successful drone strike against Russian military vehicles in a convoy.<\/p>\n
\nThe Snake Island defenders famously told a Russian warship, ‘Go f— yourself!’ last month<\/p>\n
\nAgreeing with Paul Krugman isn’t something I expected to happen this year but he wrote something yesterday that\u2019s worth a look.<\/p>\n
\nThe United States is sending two Patriot missile batteries to Poland as a ‘defensive deployment’ <\/p>\n
\nCIA Director William Burns said Tuesday that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fallen far short of Vladimir Putin’s expectations and that he believes the Russian president is likely to escalate military operations.<\/p>\n
\nRussian Maj. Gen. Vitaly Gerasimov reportedly has joined his comrade Maj. Gen. Andrei Sukhovetsky in the ranks of those killed during Putin’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine. The Russians have confirmed that Sukhovetsky was killed Feb. 28 by a Ukrainian sniper near Mariupol, while Gerasimov was reportedly killed Monday near Kharkiv.<\/p>\n
\nYou trust the Kremlin\u2019s spokesman to be candid about Russia’s intentions, don’t you?<\/p>\n
\nMembers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have been plotting to assassinate John Bolton, former national-security adviser in the Trump administration, says a Justice Department official with direct knowledge of the government’s investigation of the suspected plot. That is according to Tom Rogan, who reported the development in the Washington Examiner on Monday.<\/p>\n
\nFor providing military aid to Ukraine after the Russian invasion, the Biden administration has congratulated itself for standing strong. NATO and the West summoned a cohesion and a collective indignation unanticipated by Putin. Germany’s profession of the intent to increase military spending to 2 percent and to wean itself at least partially off its over-reliance on Russian oil and natural gas were especially deserving of praise. At the same time, however, one recent incident is disturbing in terms of a lack of resolve.<\/p>\n
\nFumio Kishida, Japan’s prime minister, said that southern Kuril Islands are a sovereign part of his country, and not part of Russia, which has controlled the group of islands since 1945.<\/p>\n
\nThe Pentagon on Wednesday slammed the door on any plans to provide MiG fighter jets to Ukraine, even through a second country, calling it a “high-risk” venture that would not significantly change the effectiveness of the Ukrainian Air Force.<\/p>\n
\nThe imminent agreement with Iran is no deal at all; it’s a steal.<\/p>\n
\nOn the menu today: Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. Why does it always come back to biological-research labs? No, Ukraine does not have a secret biological-weapons program \u2014 or at least there’s no proof of one. A biological-research facility and a biological-weapons-research facility are not the same thing \u2014 but even if Ukraine has no biological weapons, that doesn’t mean the stuff in the country’s various labs can’t be dangerous. And the U.S. \u2014 and the world \u2014 have good reasons to not want a bunch of hungry, young, poorly briefed Russian conscripts traipsing through biological-research labs with samples of who-knows-what in vials and petri dishes in the sample fridges. Meanwhile, the IAEA passes along more ominous reports from Chernobyl.<\/p>\n
\n“If Japan gets in, we’ll be involved as well,” Robert O\u2019Brien said.<\/p>\n
\nAlevtina Shernina was a young girl when she survived the brutal siege of Leningrad during World War II. Eight decades later, so frail she can barely talk, or move unassisted, she is besieged again.<\/p>\n
\nAny estimate from western governments is untrustworthy given their incentive to inflate the scale of Russian losses, just as any estimate from Russia is untrustworthy given that \u2026 it’s Russia. Lying is part of the Kremlin’s institutional DNA.<\/p>\n
\nThe good news: Russia’s foreign minister assured the world that Vladimir Putin has no desire to follow up his war in Ukraine by invading other countries. The bad news: Sergei Lavrov flatly denied that Russia attacked Ukraine, too.<\/p>\n
\nAt the beginning of the month, the U.S. government canceled a previously scheduled intercontinental ballistic missile test, to ensure the test could not be \u201cmisconstrued\u201d by Russia. Many observers saw it as a reasonable or even wise step to ensure Russia did not misperceive it as an American nuclear attack. But others, like the Washington Examiner’s Tom Rogan, argued that the decision sent the wrong signal to Vladimir Putin: “It is nonsensical to offer an olive branch in face of a sword being waved in your face. Putin, a leader inculcated by the KGB in the mastery of deception, manipulation, and brinkmanship, acts with and will not be disabused of this KGB mentality by American hesitation.”<\/p>\n
\nIndia said on Friday it accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan because of a “technical malfunction” during routine maintenance.<\/p>\n
\nI’ll spot him “corrupt” here, as that’s been a problem with Ukrainian government for ages. Zelensky himself made it a topic of his comedy when he played Ukraine’s president on television.<\/p>\n
\nWhen Florida senator Marco Rubio asked Victoria Nuland, the U.S. State Department’s undersecretary for political affairs, “does Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons?” we all would have been better off if Nuland had accurately and clearly answered, “Ukraine has no biological weapons program, but the country has plenty of laboratories doing public health research that house pathogens that can be dangerous.”<\/p>\n
\nFSB HQ raided?<\/p>\n
\nVladimir Putin made an offer to end the Russian war with Ukraine, but the offer includes many Ukrainian sacrifices.<\/p>\n
\nUkraine has chosen an image for a new postage stamp, and I kind of want one.<\/p>\n
\nWhen Russia invaded, experts thought it’d win in 24-72 hours. Two weeks later the war’s still going. How come? On paper Russian superiority’s overwhelming Although Russia projects warlike image, its military r weak and don’t know how to fight wars<\/p>\n
\nThe AP reports on the message from the mullahs that landed in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan province: “Iran has claimed responsibility for a missile barrage that struck early Sunday near a sprawling U.S. consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, saying it was retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed two members of its Revolutionary Guard\u2026.Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard said on its website that it launched the attack against an Israeli ‘strategic center of conspiracy’ in Irbil.”<\/p>\n
\nThat still seems too good to be true to me, but serious people think it could happen or is happening. <\/p>\n<\/a>Riots & Revolution<\/h1>\n
\nNo city matches Seattle for electing lunatic socialists to the city council as well as Congress (i.e., Rep. Pramila Jayapal). So having demonized police and letting the city descend into anarchic chaos, Seattle is now surprised and “rattled” by a sharp rise in crime, according to the Wall Street Journal this morning<\/p>\n
\nUniversity of Chicago Lab School instills BLM\u2019s principles in elementary students, then builds on that foundation to turn them into activists.<\/p>\n
\n“I also do not understand the notion that you are so afraid to speak up about your views that you write about them for your school newspaper and now you write an entire opinion piece in the NYT. But sure,” 1619 Project Founder Nikole Hannah-Jones tweeted in response to the piece.<\/p>\n<\/a>Corona Virus<\/h1>\n
\nMeanwhile, Israel drops almost all covid health rules.<\/p>\n
\nNearly 3,400 cases were reported on Sunday, forcing shutdowns for millions of people and closure of schools in Shanghai<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nThe Supreme Court will soon make a decision in a case over whether New Yorkers have the right to carry concealed handguns in public for self-defense, which could prompt the high court to examine other Second Amendment cases in the lower court pipeline, according to a high-profile lawyer representing plaintiffs in the Empire State.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nThe “nature rights” movement continues to advance \u2014 as most people still think the proposal too ridiculous to take seriously. That’s a mistake, because the radicals who are pushing this agenda are determined to see it become the law \u2014 as it already is in three nations and more than 30 U.S. municipalities.<\/p>\n
\nThe United States has overtaken industry giants Saudi Arabia and Russia in recoverable oil reserves, an international study released Monday says.<\/p>\n
\nThat is an evergreen headline; here is today’s instance. The Environmental Protection Agency has banned the use of the herbicide Enlist Duo in six Minnesota farm counties. Why? The chemicals in Enlist Duo are apparently harmful to the eastern massasauga rattlesnake. Only problem: there are no eastern massasauga rattlesnakes in those counties, and never have been. <\/p>\n
\nJust when you thought Joe Biden’s foreign policy couldn’t get any worse, it does. America would do well to heed Obama’s advice: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up\u2026.”<\/p>\n
\nThe Biden administration’s continuing effort to argue that electric vehicles will help speed our way out of the current mess reflects a refusal to deal with the uncomfortable realities of the world in which we live. Magical thinking is so much easier.<\/p>\n
\nYou know how the left likes to go on and on about how Republicans are “anti-science”? Well sit back and take in this story, which reveals this claim to be another example of leftist projection.<\/p>\n
\nEarlier today I wrote about CERAWeek in Houston, a gathering of world leaders, oil and gas executives, and public figures. It is a yearly event with a 40-year history. As with everything in the energy sector, climate change is on the agenda. Biden’s climate czar, John Kerry, was in town to lecture the attendees on the coming flood of refugees. No, not Ukrainian refugees, but climate change refugees.<\/p>\n
\nOne of my go-to persons on energy is John Kemp, a London-based analyst. (Follow him on Twitter, or you can get on his email list if you like.) His note today examines U.S. oil stocks, and guess what? Our oil sticks are rapidly depleting, in what Kemp calls “the biggest oil shock since the 1970s”<\/p>\n
\nWhen Russia invaded Ukraine last month, a spate of wishful thinking ran through the West that China, a great power with friends on both sides, might step in to mediate a cease-fire.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nThe letter went out to 4,594 veteran patients who “possibly could have been infected and urged them to be tested for two types of hepatitis and HIV.”<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nThis is a familiar story: at Marquette University, Native American students complained that the school’s seal was “disrespectful to indigenous people.” Here is the old seal. It shows, among other things, Father Marquette, after whom the university is named, in a canoe with an Indian who is said to be his guide<\/p>\n
\nA Star Trek fan has launched a petition to have the live-action Star Trek shows created by producer Alex Kurtzman designated as non-canon.<\/p>\n
\nGoal: “not only bring the grievances in the bar complaints, but shame them and make them toxic in their communities and in their firms.”\u2026 “You’re threatening their livelihood. And, you know, they\u2019ve got reputations in their local communities.”<\/p>\n
\nYou might think the national parents’ rebellion against critical race theory (CRT), along with the resounding gubernatorial victory of CRT opponent Glenn Youngkin in Virginia, would be enough to protect us from federal legislation designed to impose CRT on America’s schools. You would be wrong. It looks like a federal CRT bill is around the corner.<\/p>\n
\nThe first primary election day for the 2022 midterm elections did not go well in Texas, at least in the state’s largest county. Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria reported that 10,000 mail-in ballots were not properly counted in last week’s primary election in Houston. Calls for her to be fired continue to grow.<\/p>\n
\nMedia coverage of transgender issues tends to make four conceptual mistakes.<\/p>\n
\nA homeless encampment in Phoenix near the state’s largest shelter has more than doubled in just two years.<\/p>\n
\nThe first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\nThe program makes clear that, to be eligible, the applicant must (among other things) “Identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex or Asexual (LGBTQIA),” as well as be poor and 50 or older.<\/p>\n
\nPence can’t win the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination. But if he were so inclined, he’d have a good chance to stop the party from renominating his old boss.<\/p>\n
\nI wrote here about Florida Democrats’ outrageous effort to indoctrinate young children\u2013kindergarten through third grade\u2013with pro-homosexual and transsexual propaganda in the public schools. They have violently opposed a bill, about to become law, to prevent such indoctrination and have falsely labeled it the “don’t say gay” bill.<\/p>\n
\nCongressman Madison Cawthorn has been charged with driving with a revoked license, a misdemeanor that carries up to 20 days in jail.<\/p>\n
\nLegislators in Colorado are considering a bill, the Reproductive Health Equity Act, that would radically expand legal abortion in the state. According to the draft text, the bill would allow abortion for any reason throughout all of pregnancy, prohibit regulations on abortions chosen based on the child\u2019s sex or diagnosis with a disability, remove parental-notification requirements for abortions performed on minors, and forbid safety regulations aimed at protecting the health of pregnant mothers seeking abortions.<\/p>\n
\nOn Monday, the Heritage Foundation hosted a panel discussion titled “How Radical Gender Ideology Is Taking Over Public Schools & Harming Kids.”<\/p>\n
\n“We chose that group because of the demographics in West Hollywood, where 45% of residents identify as LGBT, and 25% identify as older adults or senior citizens”<\/p>\n
\nA new report confirms DuckDuckGo is the latest tech company to employ new policy after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, now confirming DuckDuckGo down-ranks Russian disinformation.<\/p>\n
\nEducation Minnesota, the NEA branch that runs Minnesota’s public schools, has been making war on the state’s children for the last two years. In 2020 the teachers’ union demanded that the schools be shut down, and in a Democratic administration, what the union demands, it gets. The result, when test results came in at the end of the 2021 school year, was a catastrophic collapse in student performance.<\/p>\n
\nJustin Danhof is executive vice president of the National Center for Public Policy Research and a shareholder gadfly. Earlier this week he spoke in favor of his Disney shareholder proposal seeking “to protect Disney from a myriad of legal and reputational risks stemming from its race-based employee training programs.” The center has posted background here. It has also posted the text of Danhof’s statement here. FOX News covers it here.<\/p>\n
\nWhen lawyer Sarah Weddington stood up in the Supreme Court on Oct. 11, 1972, to present the pro-abortion argument in the case of Roe v. Wade, she was legalistically careful in the language she used to describe whom exactly an abortion aborted.<\/p>\n
\nThe Interdisciplinary Marxist Working Group at the University of California, Berkeley, focuses on the ‘ongoing relevance of Marxism to the current historical moment, as an explicitly global project.’<\/p>\n
\nThere is a lot of grim news for President Biden and Democrats in the latest Wall Street Journal poll (Cliff Notes version is that while more Americans approve of his handling of Ukraine, they give him low marks for his handling of other issues more important to them, particularly inflation). But I just wanted to take a moment to flag this part of the poll, which is remarkable and not something I can recall ever seeing before<\/p>\n
\nEquity Audits are the gateway drug to CRT: “The auditing company\u2019s sole purpose is to SELL curriculum, to sell professional development, and to move their own army of teachers, administrators, curriculum materials, and political affiliates into the community and schools. The changes will damage schools, dismantle the faculty, and create irreparable harm to children.”<\/p>\n
\nA new report confirms DuckDuckGo is the latest tech company to employ new policy after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, now confirming DuckDuckGo down-ranks Russian disinformation.<\/p>\n
\nAmnesty International’s fixation on Israel veered into antisemitism with the publication of a “report” accusing the liberal democracy of employing “apartheid.” This ludicrous accusation \u2014 Arab Israelis, not without their own troubles, are perhaps the freest Arabs in the Middle East \u2014 is meant to associate the Jewish state with the defunct racist South African regime in mind of Westerners to help spark an effort to isolate and economically destroy it.<\/p>\n
\nThe Des Moines Register reports that the Democratic National Committee will consider a proposal shaking up the presidential-primary process that could end up stripping Iowa of its first-in-the-nation status. <\/p>\n
\nA sex education summer camp in Indianapolis will instruct elementary school children about condom usage, the “spectrum” of gender and sexual kinks, according to the camp’s event page.<\/p>\n
\nGood to see that the New York Times is keeping up with the need to bring an intersectional perspective to every possible topic. Like the ancient ruins of Pompeii<\/p>\n
\nAn American astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is now in the middle of the Russia\/Ukraine conflict as the sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies over Russia’s invasion into Ukraine could potentially destroy cooperation.<\/p>\n
\nAs Pennsylvania’s acting secretary of state, Leigh Chapman oversees professional boxing, kickboxing, and wrestling. But those are hardly the most contentious items on her docket.<\/p>\n
\nTwo overdosed while “performing life-saving measures.”<\/p>\n
\nOver 900 people have signed a petition in support of a Binghamton University sociology professor who considered a student’s race and gender before calling on them in classroom discussions.<\/p>\n
\nSidewalk chalk, invasive owls, and ostinato copyrights.<\/p>\n
\nDark money extremists who want to trash the Constitution and pack the Supreme Court all support Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/p>\n
\nAfter two years of press distortions about covid, there are many reasons for continued concern and skepticism about Ukrainian biolabs.<\/p>\n
\nReuters: “Putin gave the green light on Friday for up to 16,000 volunteers from the Middle East.”<\/p>\n
\nSix months after winning a recall election that could have ousted him from office, California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is in an enviable position as he revs up a reelection campaign that could give him a second four-year term.<\/p>\n
\nOfficer who saved the black life of Bryant\u2019s intended victim: “At the time I fired my weapon, I was in fear for the life of the female in pink”<\/p>\n
\nMarch 12 is Detransition Awareness Day, a day to bring public attention to the traumatic consequences that radical LGBT ideology being pushed on children has wrought. It’s not a celebration, but a grim warning. Sinead Watson, a biological woman who detransitioned from male-presenting after painful surgeries and irreversible hormone “therapies,” is one of the leading voices attempting to get the word out that “transitioning” is not the answer for every kid who feels uncomfortable in his or her body.<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy & Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nChinese officials warns that nation\u2019s winter wheat condition could be “worst in history”.<\/p>\n
\nBuyers are bidding up prompt crude deliveries to replace Russian barrels<\/p>\n
\nAccording to the International Energy Agency, Russia is “the third-largest producer of oil behind the United States and Saudi Arabia, the world’s second-largest exporter of crude oil behind Saudi Arabia, and the largest overall exporter once products are included.” Russia “exports about 5 million barrels a day of crude, or about 12 percent of global trade, and around 2.85 mb\/d of products, or about 15 percent of global trade.”<\/p>\n
\n“The U.S.’s industrial heartland is dotted with examples of how some links in the supply chain have been adapted to keep the wheels of commerce turning while others seized up,” writes Brendan Murray at Bloomberg Businessweek.<\/p>\n
\nIn the most recent Capital Letter, I noted that the impact of potential interruptions in commodity flows does not stop with energy. And it doesn’t.<\/p>\n
\nFor 40 years the IRS has tried and failed to update its main computer system. Regardless of funding level and regardless of who controls the White House and Congress, the bureaucracy is simply unable to pull it off. The IRS and progressive Democrats continue to plead poverty and pretend the failure is due to insufficient funding rather than incompetence.<\/p>\n
\nA global food crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine escalated on Wednesday as Indonesia tightened curbs on palm oil exports, adding to a growing list of key producing countries seeking to keep vital food supplies within their borders.<\/p>\n
\nCharles Goodhart sees an era of inexpensive labor giving way to years of worker shortages\u2014and higher prices. Central bankers around the world are listening.<\/p>\n
\nThe woke investment trend is sparking a backlash that its proponents likely didn’t expect.<\/p>\n
\nThe consumer price index for February rose 7.9% from a year ago, the highest level since January 1982.<\/p>\n
\nPropelled by surging costs for gas, food and housing, consumer inflation jumped 7.9% over the past year, the sharpest spike since 1982 and likely only a harbinger of even higher prices to come.<\/p>\n
\nAnd the annualized number may be even worse. The latest report on the consumer-price index shows inflation hit another 40-year high in February, with a year-on-year increase of 7.9%. The actual amount of inflation last month would hit almost double digits if annualized on its own, however<\/p>\n
\nOn Wednesday, wheat prices took a bit of a breather, down to around $11.10 a bushel, ending a six-day run.<\/p>\n
\nOn the menu today: It sounds absurd, but it’s true \u2014 Vladimir Putin is now running the Communist revolutionaries’ playbook on foreign investment, foreign assets, and foreign debts. History tells us this is a quick path to a massive economic calamity, but Putin appears willing to commit economic suicide in order to bring his vision of a conquered Ukraine to fruition.<\/p>\n