No, this is NOT the Bee.-----Taliban girls' education decision baffles world | wbir.com

Taliban girls' education decision baffles world | wbir.com

• Many baffled by Taliban reneging pledge on girls' education
• The move may have been designed to appease the Taliban’s hard-line base but it came at the expense of further alienating the international community.

KABUL, Afghanistan — A news presenter on Afghanistan’s TOLO TV wept as he read the announcement. 

Images of girls crying after being turned back from school flooded social media. 

Aid groups and many others remained baffled.
The Taliban have so far refused to explain their sudden decision to renege on the pledge to allow girls to go to school beyond sixth grade....Read all.

Buchanan: Is Victory for Ukraine Worth Risking Nuclear War?

Buchanan: Is Victory for Ukraine Worth Risking Nuclear War?
"During the 70 years that the Soviet Union existed, Ukraine was an integral part of the nation.
Yet this geographic and political reality posed no threat to the United States. 

A Russia and a Ukraine, both inside the USSR, was an accepted reality that was seen as no threat for the seven decades that they were united.
Yet, today, because of a month-old war between Russia and Ukraine, over who shall control Crimea, the Donbas and the Black and Azov Sea coasts of Ukraine, America seems closer to a nuclear war than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
Why? 

Time to step back and reflect on what is at stake...Read all!

Bill Barr says Joe Biden left him 'very disturbed' after he 'lied to the American people' about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal during the 2020 campaign - TheBlaze

Bill Barr says Joe Biden left him 'very disturbed' after he 'lied to the American people' about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal during the 2020 campaign - TheBlaze: 

Former Attorney General Bill Barr explained Monday that Joe Biden "lied to the American people" about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal when he was a candidate for president.

Changing Nature

"Some say they are concerned about "saving the environment," but few think about the difference between improving nature and simply letting it be. 

The history of the Earth is one of constant change, and there is nothing special or fragile about current conditions. Instead of constancy, let's make things better!"

Wudda been better to avoid the war, don't ya think?-----Biden Warns of Food Shortages in Wake of Russia–Ukraine War: ‘It’s Going to Be Real’

Biden Warns of Food Shortages in Wake of Russia–Ukraine War: ‘It’s Going to Be Real’
"President Biden warned that the Russian invasion of Ukraine will likely cause food shortages in some parts of the world because both countries are major exporters of wheat, in remarks to reporters in Brussels on Wednesday.

• “It’s going to be real. The price of these sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia; it’s imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well,” Biden said. “Both Russia and Ukraine have been the breadbasket of Europe in terms of wheat, for example — just to give you one example.”

...Ukraine and Russia combined export over a quarter of the global supply of wheat and one-fifth of the world’s corn supply...Read all.

Noon-toon

 

2 conservative Supreme Court justices bash attempt to force religious groups to hire LGBT employees, warn they could be 'extinguished' from public life - TheBlaze

2 conservative Supreme Court justices bash attempt to force religious groups to hire LGBT employees, warn they could be 'extinguished' from public life - TheBlaze: 

"To force religious organizations to hire messengers and other personnel who do not share their religious views would undermine not only the autonomy of many religious organizations but also their continued viability," Justice Sam Alito argued in a statement he and Justice Clarence Thomas issued Monday. The comments from Alito and Thomas came as the court declined to take up a dispute involving the Seattle Union Gospel Mission, a Christian nonprofit that was sued after refusing to hire an LGBT applicant to serve in its legal aid clinic.

Failing!

 

EV race ignores Russian, Chinese mineral speed traps - CFACT

EV race ignores Russian, Chinese mineral speed traps - CFACT

"U.S. and European electric vehicle (EV) companies are racing to cash in on markets driven by dependence upon government subsidies which, in turn, rely on scarce and costly materials needed for batteries controlled by foreign adversaries...

• Take nickel, for example, of which Russia produces about 7% of the global supply and 20% of the world’s class 1 (98% pure quality) used both for advanced electric vehicle batteries and stainless steel production...
• After years of delays and navigating through a maze of regulations, the Biden administration recently canceled a proposed nickel and copper mine in northern Minnesota, and America’s only remaining high-grade nickel mine in Michigan is expected to exhaust deposits in 2025
• Then there’s another major EV battery dependence on 17 indispensable rare earth minerals and compounds, with about 80% of the global supply — including lithium (12% worldwide) — controlled by China...Read all.

"Hold my sippy cup..."

 

Five (Easy?) Questions for Ketanji Brown Jackson

Five (Easy?) Questions for Ketanji Brown Jackson

• On Tuesday, Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, made the stunning comment that she could not define what a woman is because, to use her own words, “I’m not a biologist.”

"...What is a dog?
...What is a shirt?

#1 This day 1963-----The Chiffons – He’s So Fine – Music Video

First, They Came For Our Cars...

First, They Came For Our Cars… I Editorial Board

"A pair of principles that drive the political left – 

• never letting a crisis go to waste, and
• using prior acts of government-imposed restraints to gradually but methodically steal liberty

– is taking the U.S. down a path that, if traveled too far, goes in only one direction.

...But first they have to recognize how the country is being manipulated.

• If government authorities can shut down an economy and rob Americans of their freedom with lockdowns and mask and vaccine mandates over a virus, then they can, and will, do the same for a crisis, either real or manufactured, in the future. 

This was a common warning over the last two years that was of course considered misinformation, disinformation, and just plain nonsense by what has become known as the laptop class.
Yet everything about it is true...Read all.

A noble quest for truth!

 

Horowitz: Record infections in super-vaxxed UK seniors as double-vaxxed show negative efficacy against COVID death - TheBlaze

Horowitz: Record infections in super-vaxxed UK seniors as double-vaxxed show negative efficacy against COVID death - TheBlaze: 

Just because Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the new Fauci, it doesn’t mean COVID is over. In fact, cases are surging in many European countries, and U.K. seniors are now experiencing record numbers. “Covid infections surge to record high for over-70s in UK” was the title of a Financial Times article from Friday. But how can there be record infections precisely after nearly every senior was vaccinated and 90% were boosted, even though many already have had prior infection? Or are the record infections because of the shots, not despite them, and does this mean that they are preventing people from achieving immunity?

Ireland is one of the most vaccinated countries in the European Union, yet hospitalizations are rising.

Do we really want people who wield this cancel weapon to rule our college campuses?-----Top female scientist canceled over 13-year-old ‘Michael Jackson’ Halloween costume

Top female scientist canceled over 13-year-old ‘Michael Jackson’ Halloween costume

• 
  ‘UW Medicine is helping to ruin a woman who devoted her career to finding a cure for HIV’

"Highly decorated virologist Julie Overbaugh has been forced out of a position of leadership at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and resigned her faculty affiliate position at the University of Washington School of Medicine due to accusations of racism and investigations involving her decision to wear a Michael Jackson costume to a Halloween party in 2009.

A picture of the 13-year-old incident, in which she is accused of wearing “blackface,” has prompted peers to accuse her of racism despite the fact that her research has focused on aiding Africans for the last three decades...Read all!!

AM Fruitcake

 

History for March 25

History for March 25 - On-This-Day.com

Gloria Steinem 1934 - Feminist author

• 1902 - In Russia, 567 students were found guilty of "political disaffection." 95 students were exiled to Siberia.
• 1911 - In New York City, 146 women were killed in fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City. 
• 1919 - The Paris Peace Commission adopted a plan to protect nations from the influx of foreign labor.
• 1954 - RCA manufactured its first color TV set and began mass production.
• 1957 - The European Economic Community was established with the signing of the Treaty of Rome.
• 1983 - The U.S. Congress passed legislation to rescue the U.S. social security system from bankruptcy.
• 1990 - Estonia voted for independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1998 - A cancer patient was the first known to die under Oregon's doctor-assisted suicide law.

Schweizer: Joe and Hunter Biden 'Had Intermingled Finances'

Schweizer: Joe and Hunter Biden 'Had Intermingled Finances': 

“If you look at the Hunter Biden laptop, there’s a couple of things that stand out,” Schweizer outlined. “Number one, that Hunter Biden is paying some of his father’s monthly bills while he’s Vice President of the United States. That’s explicitly laid out in the emails. And number two, that Hunter Biden was paying for things like renovation on his father’s home in Delaware while Joe Biden was Vice President of the United States. Add to the fact that Hunter Biden is complaining to family members about how he’s having to give half his income to pop, which would be his father.”

The way we were-----Fallout: When And How To Protect Yourself (1959)

Fun!-----9 Delightful Discoveries in Google Maps

Covid US: Children STILL performing worse at math and reading than before remote learning introduced | Daily Mail Online

Covid US: Children STILL performing worse at math and reading than before remote learning introduced | Daily Mail Online
"How the pandemic and remote learning has destroyed education: Children are still performing worse at EVERY level in math and reading than they were before start of COVID, data from 7.3m tests across US reveals

• A return to in-person learning has seen standardized test scores improve across US, the test's provider has found - but kids are still behind pre-pandemic levels
• It found student performance during the second year of the pandemic was worse than the first, with each state seeing marked declines in 2021
• The findings suggest remote learning has had a lasting - and negative - impact on students, especially those in younger grades...Read all.

"...what’s the point of being a ruling class if you can’t lord it over the plebs?"

Instapundit--what’s the point of being a ruling class if you can’t lord it over the plebs?

TRUE:

“From Veblen to Galbraith what has distressed the American critics of the free economy is not private property – which is the cornerstone of their own independence – but the private property of others. In recent times it is the spectacle of property in the hands of ordinary, gross, uneducated people that has troubled the domestic critics of American capitalism.”

— Roger Scruton

I mean, what’s the point of being a ruling class if you can’t lord it over the plebs?

Related: Don’t pretend that high prices and American suffering are a ‘bug’ for the establishment — it’s a historic feature.--Posted by Glenn Reynolds

Kristi Noem Signs Bill to Stop Critical Race Theory Instruction in College

Kristi Noem Signs Bill to Stop Critical Race Theory Instruction in College: 

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) signed a bill into law that prevents the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the state’s colleges. CRT comes from Marxist philosophy, and claims that the United States has systemic racism and white privilege as its foundation and oppresses “people of color.”