Tuesday, April 05, 2022

Ohio Primary Election Early Voting Begins TODAY

As of today, we've released our grades and endorsements for U.S. Senate, statewide races, Ohio Supreme Court, and Court of Appeals. We will soon add U.S. House and other races. And we'll continue to update all races as stragglers complete our survey. [More]

I use advocacy group recommendations as a starting point but make my ultimate decision based on my own research.

Palm Springs Weekend


 Palm Springs is to spend $200,000 on a guaranteed income scheme that only applies to the city's transgender and nonbinary residents. [More]

Time for a remake...

So much for "equal protection." 

Is there anything "progressives" don't make insane?

Asking for a Friend

 If what Julie Kelly is reporting here in this damning thread is true, then it’s quite possible there was straight-up election interference from the FBI in 2020. [More]

If it were, wouldn't we have heard about it first from "real reporters"?

[Via WiscoDave]

And There Was War in Heaven

In today's SSN (Shan Shan News), we find Shannon Watts shaming advice columnist, Amy Dickinson, better known as, Asking Amy, over her response to a reader needing advice. [More]

Not ideologically pure enough?

Any chance of getting these two in a cage match on pay-per-view...?

Blood in the Water Feeding Frenzy

 Dozens Of Gun Control Measures Slated For California Legislative Session Following Sacramento Mass Shooting [More]

Since when does what's really at issue matter when you can count on the brainwashed useful idiot vote?

[Via Jess]

UPDATE:

Besides, it's the Republicans' fault.

[Via President Non_Fudd]

UPDATE:

And how could our coverage be complete without wheeling out this demented corpse

[Via Michael G]

Muddying the Waters

 Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on Monday launched an outlandish attack against three Republican senators who support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, accusing them of somehow being “pro-pedophile.” [More]

Well, if "even the conservative National Review" sides with Yahoo!News, who am I to argue?

Anybody else getting a Pynchon vibe out of the way they're directing the focus?

[Via Mack H]

Speaking of Ethical Diversity...

A professor who established a charitable non-profit in the name of Philando Castile has agreed to a settlement following accusations she mishandled some $120,000 in funds ... Fergus began her “Philando Feeds The Children” project as part of an “Introduction to Diversity and Ethics in Psychology” course. [More]

And who better to take charge of the dough than Mr. Diverse Ethics himself...

[Via Michael G]

The Maltese Balkin'

 Pope Francis Removes Cross from Event in Malta So Not to Upset Illegal Muslim Migrants [More]

Maybe it's the bear who's Catholic and the Pope who...

[Via Michael G]

Teach a Man to Phish


I was just thinking it's been a while since I heard from Mr. Kwaku...

Securing the Blessings of Liberty Just Like the Founders Intended

 Police Seized Almost $10,000 From Him. A Court Ruled He Had No Right to an Attorney. Terry Abbott couldn't afford representation, because the state took the cash he'd use to pay for it. [More]

Hey, stick with what works, right? (Unfortunately, most of the corroborating links will need to be run through the Wayback Machine.)

[Via Michael G]

Keeping It Real

 The Real ‘Epidemic of Violence’ in America? [More]

But...but...but that's not what Democrats tell us...

[Via 1Gat]

A Feature, Not a Bug

 Black Lives Matter Global Network, once the crown jewel of the Democrat Left, has become a major embarrassment that should cost the Democrats a lot of House and Senate seats this November—but only if the Republican Party does not squander the opportunity the way it squandered it in 2020. [More]

I'm starting to believe that's part of the plan.

[Via bondmen]

A Learning Experience

 What the American Right Can Learn from Orbán’s Big Win [More]

That assumes most of the American Right actually is.

It also ignores Orban's alliance with Putin and affinity for "gun control."

Looks like there's a bit of "conservative" cognitive dissonance going on here.

[Via bondmen]

Secret Hideout

 Secret Service paying over $30K per month for Malibu mansion to protect Hunter Biden - The luxury rental property has "gorgeous ocean views," according to its listing. [More]

That's a pretty nice reward assignment for the guys who worked off the books in Delaware...

Are they allowed to have girls over?

[Via bondmen]

BREAKING: SOME PEOPLE WHO RELY ON TELEVISION FOR THEIR INFORMATION ARE INFLUENCED BY IT!

 Fox​ viewers are less likely to believe lies after being paid to watch CNN for 30 days: study [More]

As if people who rely solely on Faux News to form their political opinions aren't gullible in their own right. And as if lab rats don't respond favorably to rewards.

Hey, to draw any applicable conclusions, wouldn't they need to reverse the experiment?

Curious-- does anybody have a link to the "study" and who paid for it?  Not that I'd ever question the integrity of CNN, the motivations of all the establishment media parroting this narrative, or the gospel of "settled science"...

Nope, no DSM gaslighting going on here...

[Via bondmen]

Oh, Wouldn't It be Loverly?

 The left’s second assumption is that most minorities sympathize with criminals... This November the Democrats will get the votes of almost all those white liberal arts professors. But to their dismay, they will discover that the rest of America sees things differently. [More]

My bet is, nationwide, it will still be a landslide among those demographics for Democrats.

[Via bondmen]

Following the Template

 Writer, filmmaker, and researcher Christopher Rufo realized while working on a documentary that the ideology of prison gangs that leads to racial segregation in prisons holds similarities to the critical race theory (CRT) being promoted in society. [More]

Realizing the goal is a controlled environment everywhere, in Everytown, that only makes sense. 

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Unretentive Enough

 Ferguson Walmart shoplifting suspects grab officer’s gun [More]

Did he actually do it or did he just "try"?

Not being a "real reporter," I sometimes have trouble keeping up.

[Via bondmen]

A Novel Approach

 Free gun locks at city summer camp open house events [More]

Now there's a new idea!

[Via bondmen]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise...

‘Fascist cell’ convicted of terror and firearm offences after trying to make 3D-printed gun [More]

Huzzah! The threat of low-hanging fruit failing to actually do anything has been averted thanks to an Orwellian police state that's politically motivated to ignore real and existential dangers!

[Via WiscoDave]

Further Adventures in Baselessness

That this is being uncovered by independent investigators while Republican officials and prominent politicians remain quiet certainly adds to a perception of controlled opposition. 

[Via Jess]

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Tangentially-related UPDATE:

Politico bolsters its claims about "the former president's lies" by outing one of his aides who evidently illegally voted -- as if that somehow balances things out.  If true, invoke the law. Just apply it equally to all. And you'll notice the way they were able to determine this was because he had voter identification...?

Enquiring Minds Want to Know

 9Wants to Know has identified the teen and the deputy but has decided not to identify her nor the deputy in an effort to stop the spread of misinformation. [More]

The whole thing sounds suspect to me.

It sounds more like 9Doesn'tWant Us to Know...

[Via Steve T

Adventures in Baselessness

 Egregious bill criminalizes clerks checking election accuracy [More]

Why would they even hire such racist rightwing anti-government extremists in the first place?

Kevin Priola was the lone "Repubican," eh?

State Sen. Kevin Priola answers the age-old question: can a Republican also be a communist? Priola proves the answer is a resounding YES!

[Via Michael G]

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!

Once Smiley Martin's medical care is complete, he will be booked at the Sacramento County Main Jail on charges of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of a machine gun ... Dandrae Martin, 26, who was identified as a "related suspect," is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday after being booked on assault and illegal firearm possession charges ... [More]

Who could have predicted this, aside from just about everyone except blood-dancing Democrats and people dumb enough to believe them?

[Via several of you]

UPDATES:

Terms of Endearment

 Meta employees call Mark Zuckerberg "the Eye of Sauron" and he likes it [More]

Sounds like he's channeling Sally Field...

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Tangentially-related UPDATE:

Looks like He Who Must Not Be Named has been named again.

[Via Michael G]

Touching on a Sore Point

 HB 290 ... provides crucial procedural protections to students accused of violations of a public college or university’s student code of conduct that could result in a suspension or expulsion — protections that are sorely needed. [More]

Only because of criminals in government not obeying the clear intent of the Constitution. And even here, it's up to the victims to bear the burdens of a challenge to make the persecution stop. And you'd better believe the abusers, who won't be expending their own resources, will find workarounds and throw up interminable legal roadblocks to discourage most from trying.

[Via Michael G]

Those Who Learned Quite Well from the Past

 As tobacco, e-cigarettes, and e-liquids transition from legal to illicit, law enforcement agencies will more aggressively interfere with production, distribution, retail sales, and in some cases even individual use. Every such interaction carries with it the possibility of freedom lost, perhaps violently. There is a real risk that American tobacco policy will open a regressive new front in the war on drugs, just as the previous crackdown on psychoactive substances begins to wind down. [More]

Replete with cartels and the hell they bring with them on the one side, and more metastasized government on the other.

Everybody wins -- except all the people caught in the middle. 

It's All Over But the Crying

 Senate forces Jackson nomination out of committee with bipartisan vote - GOP Sens. Murkowski and Romney joined Collins to vote with Democrats. [More]

There's a total shocker.

So much for denying a quorum.

I'm sure the gun groups will all be sending us hysterical emails about this that end with a plea for financial support. Instead, why not ask them where their alerts were urging members to invoke Senate Rule 26?