Who could have seen this coming?

School districts sour on mask mandates amid legal scrutiny, research questioning effectiveness

Was it the rocket attacks against Israel that called the ceasefire into question or Israel’s response to the attack against them? Even nominally conservative newsrooms fall into the liberal media trap.

Israel and Islamic Jihad ceasefire in question after IDF responds to rocket attacks

Israel is attacked. Israel responds to the attack. Israel is blamed for breaking the ceasefire.

This is liberal thinking seeping into conservative headlines.

Freaks given platform on national sports show…

‘Mount Rushmore’ is ‘offensive’ because it was built ‘on top of dead bodies’ says ESPN’s Jalen Rose

Mount Rushmore in South Dakota

Port Townsend, WA – Democrats go full kook!

Woman, 80, Banned From the City Pool for Refusing to Shower or Change in Front of a Man

“…She was startled by the voice of a man while she was in the shower.

Rinsing off after her usual laps at the Port Townsend, Washington community pool, Julie Jaman, a pillar of her community and mother of two adult daughters, heard a man talking.

Poking her head out of the plastic sheet between herself and the man, she saw him wearing a women’s swimsuit, supervising little girls as they stripped off their own swimsuits to pee.

“Do you have a penis?” She asked him…”

Related:

An 80-year old woman who expressed extreme discomfort and fear about a male in the women’s shower area of the Mountain View Pool was permanently banned from using the facility.

Rainbow flags and “pride” stickers fill the rooms and corridors of the Mountain View Pool facility, with no signage warning users that biological men identifying as women can use formerly women-only showers and toilets.

Inflation, gas prices, crime, border – These are issues should be the focus of Republican candidates in 2022

Donald Trump: Joe Biden’s Border Agenda Is ‘Invasion’

del rio Migrant Deaths

Democrats only enforce laws they like – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer subpoenaed for not enforcing abortion law

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to be Subpoenaed in Abortion Injunction Case

DeSantis spokesperson rips “liberal media activists,” and it’s brutal!

Poll: 59% either “very concerned” or “somewhat concerned” about President Joe Biden’s mental health

ISI/TIPP Survey

I’m so old I can remember when the wacky Democrats self described as the “reality-based community.” Heh!

Every Senate Democrat votes against defining pregnancy as unique to biological females

The confusion between science and political science. Separately, both are fine. They cannot be mixed. They cannot be replaced one for the other.

‘Poor quality science’: Top epidemiologist rips CDC study on kids and long COVID

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky

Democrats, bureaucrats, and media have confused political science for science and replaced science. They identify a preferred outcome and then go searching for a scientific support. And search selectively until they find one.

Has any organization fallen farther and faster than the CDC?

I’m just going to leave this here…

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1556297625166643200

Milton Friedman on inflation…

https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1555843446035841024

Mark Robinson: “I don’t care what these communists say. I don’t care what these socialists say. I don’t care what these blue hair freaks say. America is still the greatest nation on Earth and it’s thanks to God.”

Mark Robinson: “We do not come from a weak, ineffective, jellyback people that when trouble happens we find a safe space. Americans stand up and fight for what they believe in.”

Trump dominates CPAC poll

“…President Trump won a comfortable majority of the vote in the Conservative Political Action Conference’s (CPAC) straw poll, maintaining his position as the favorite for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Organizers announced at CPAC’s convention in Texas that Trump won 69 percent of the vote, followed by Ron DeSantis with 24 percent. Trump expanded his lead from the last CPAC straw poll in February, when he received the support of 59 percent of voting attendees to DeSantis’ 28 percent.

Ted Cruz came in third place with 2 percent, while other choices received 1 percent support or less.

In a hypothetical poll without Trump in the race, DeSantis held the lead with 65 percent. Donald Trump Jr. came in second place with 8 percent, Cruz came in third with 6 percent…”

Actuarial data: U.S. life insurance companies see 40% death increase. What could that be about? Can you remember any big national thing in the last year or two?

Employment, teasing out the meaning…

EMPLOYMENT

“…The most obvious weirdness factor going into this recession is the still-strong employment data. Employers are hiring people faster than they are firing them, and many wish they could hire more. That doesn’t square with recessionary conditions.

This may be because the recession is still young. A reader sent me this chart in response to last week’s letter. It shows the unemployment rate with arrows pointing out a bottom just ahead of each recession (the shaded areas). . . .

The BLS switched to OER after the last inflationary surge in 1979–81; indeed, if inflation was calculated today like it was in 1981, we would already be solidly into double digits. Similarly, the BLS estimate of rental prices, rent of primary residence (RPR), is up a near-identical 7.1% in the last two years, while the CoreLogic Single-Family Rent Index is up twice that in the last year alone (and an astounding 41% in Miami!). The BLS uses survey data to gauge shelter inflation. Homeowners’ perceptions of their property rental values anchor on the past and only respond to soaring home prices slowly, gradually, and over several years. The one-third of CPI for shelter will be playing catch-up for some years to come. Empirically, most of that catch-up occurs over the subsequent two to three years. Note that this inflation has already happened; it simply hasn’t made its way into CPI quite yet…”

Peak woke stupidity? Do deeper levels of stupid exist? Is stupid specially concentrated in the Bay Area?

Protesters demand housing for homeless, block low-income housing project because it will displace homeless from the street

You will be made to pay…

Dems Poised To Make IRS Larger Than Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol Combined: Manchin-backed Inflation Reduction Act would more than double agency’s size

We need enforcement!

Current Border patrol agents: 19,536

Current IRS agents: 78,661

We need to double IRS agents!

Doug Santo