COVID bill: Millions to ‘socially disadvantaged farmers,’ ‘environmental justice,’ ‘family planning’

Reparations commissioners slated for top federal pay grade that hasn’t existed since 1978

‘Give It a Try!’ Seattle-Backed Homeless Shelter Provides Pipes to Smoke Heroin and Advice on ‘Booty Bumping.’

Sen. Mazie Hirono To Chair Senate Subcommittee On Military Seapower.

Flashbacks:

Sen. Hirono Walks Out of Hearing After Refusing to Denounce or Criticize Antifa.

Senator Hirono’s Double Standard.

Merriam-Webster alters definition of sexual “preference” to say it’s offensive after Hirono attacked Barrett for using it.

“Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), however, will be remembered for asking something no one else asked. During her time to question Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Hirono asked, ‘Since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature?’ No, I’m not kidding.”

Dem Senator Says It’s a ‘Conspiracy Theory’ to Say Dems Were Out to Get Trump From Beginning.

We Should Believe in Climate Change as If It’s a Religion, Not a Science.

Hat tip to Ed Driscoll, who continues to knock homeruns.

South Park is undefeated pic.twitter.com/O0fCn5PvhG

— Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) February 22, 2021

Covid has given a lot of (bored) people a sense of meaning, purpose, morality, authority, and community.

That's why the whole mask/lockdown/vaccine thing has become so cultish.

To truly understand what's going on, better to look to religion and politics than science and logic.

— ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) February 22, 2021

Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds

Report: Biden Team Members Including John Kerry Colluded With Iran to Undermine Trump

Liberals want only liberal outlets to exist and only liberal commentators to be heard from, and everything else to be classified as criminal or otherwise banned, and the more honest ones are admitting this with greater and greater candor: https://t.co/jnVaZJFIdY

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 22, 2021

Loving this new @CocaCola ad! https://t.co/KJwcU9HfEI

— Katie Daviscourt 🇺🇸 (@KatieDaviscourt) February 23, 2021

Hat tip to Kane

UN warns white supremacy now a ‘transnational threat’

Deep words. So deep in fact very few can even make them out pic.twitter.com/ygKPoBBoen

— E (@ElijahSchaffer) February 23, 2021

Garland: Portland Riots May Not Be ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Because Courthouse Was Closed.

Garland Vows to Prioritize Prosecuting Capitol Rioters and Their ‘Abettors.’

Garland Won’t Promise to Protect Durham Investigation.

Garland Says DOJ Would Advance Biden’s Anti-Gun Policies.

Garland refuses to state illegally crossing the border is a crime.

Garland Sidesteps Question on Trans Participation in Women’s Sports.

Garland is not an independent officer of the court. He is a politician.

Hat tip to Ed Driscoll

Rantz: Seattle homeless shelter buys heroin pipes with city funds, teaches rectal injection method

Democrats.

Here is a brief snippet. It is worth clicking over for the whole thing. Normally I would say, Cuomo look out. But Cuomo  is a Democrat, and Democrats have a different standard in law and media than Republicans.

ANDREW CUOMO’S LEGAL WOES

:…Those who read Power Line faithfully know that Andrew Cuomo may be in legal jeopardy. The Justice Department reportedly is investigating him and some members of his staff for their conduct in response to a DOJ request for information about nursing home deaths in New York.

John Daukas was principal deputy to the DOJ’s assistant attorney general for civil rights at the time the Department requested information from Cuomo. Later, he became the acting assistant attorney general for civil rights.

In this Wall Street Journal op-ed, Daukas explains why Cuomo should be worried about the federal probe. Daukas pulls the facts together in a way that is helpful even to those who have been following this story…”

Hat tip to Kane

L.A. district attorney drops death penalty for man charged with killing police officer

“…Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón said he would not seek the death penalty for Michael Christopher Mejia, 30, charged with killing a police officer and his own cousin in 2017.

Officer Keith Boyer, 53, was killed when he responded to a report of a traffic collision in which Mejia was involved. Mejia also shot officer Patrick Hazell while trying to flee the scene of the crash. Hazell survived.

Deputy District Attorneys Garrett Dameron and Geoff Lewin both objected to removing the death penalty from the case.

“[D]espite our attempts to prevent this from happening, we’ve been ordered to remove the death penalty as punishment consideration in this case,” Dameron said.

Gascón, who was sworn into office two months ago, pledged he would no longer pursue the death penalty, adding that he had a “mandate from the public.”

Boyer’s stepfather, Don Clark, said removing the death penalty is “a punch to the gut.”

“People don’t realize how hard it is on the families,” Clark said. “What Gascón’s doing — not only to our family, but to the cousin’s family — but to so many other families … that’s absolutely horrendous.”…”

‘Anti-Racist’ Washingtonian Mag Editor Mocked Blacks And Hispanics.

“…Daniella Byck, a so-called “anti-racist” journalist and editor at the influential Washingtonian magazine has repeatedly authored tweets mocking and deriding black people and black culture, The National Pulse can reveal…”

WHO’s COVID origin probe lacks credibility, scientists warn

From George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, 18 August 1790

Gentlemen.

While I receive, with much satisfaction, your Address1 replete with expressions of affection and esteem; I rejoice in the opportunity of assuring you, that I shall always retain a grateful remembrance of the cordial welcome I experienced in my visit to Newport,2 from all classes of Citizens.

The reflection on the days of difficulty and danger which are past is rendered the more sweet, from a consciousness that they are succeeded by days of uncommon prosperity and security. If we have wisdom to make the best use of the advantages with which we are now favored, we cannot fail, under the just administration of a good Government, to become a great and a happy people.

The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.

It would be inconsistent with the frankness of my character not to avow that I am pleased with your favorable opinion of my Administration, and fervent wishes for my felicity. May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy.

Go: Washington

Washington was a great man and a great American. In this short letter, he illustrates one of the founding tenets of America, freedom to worship as you please.

Virginia poised to mandate ‘cultural competency’ evaluation, black history training for teachers