Keep pushing that narrative

Astroturfed for $200

PJ Media: "There's Something Very Suspicious Going on With Those Tesla Protests." 

Awesome sauce

Axios: "Scoop: White House to take charge of briefing-room seating chart."

Eat a bag of d**ks, WHCA.  You've invited this retaliation with your biased coverage. 

A sudden realization

Red State: "Laugh-Out-Loud: NY Times Editorial Board Thinks Democrats Went Too Far Left in 2024."

There's only one reason the Times is making this admission now and it's not to criticize the Democrats nor is it to express a mea culpa for its terrible reporting.  It's because they've become so alarmed by the drop in the polls for the home team, they needed to stage an intervention. 

They're so lost

NY Post: "Democrats’ response to losing? Profanity chic and terrorist porn."

They 100% focus-grouped the profanity ploy. 

Can American schools be saved?

I'm skeptical.  It's been over four decades since the landmark report "A Nation at Risk" was released and American kids are dumber than ever.  If there was anybody more suitable for this heavy lift, it might be the liberal governor in the most liberal state in America.

Or not: "The state stepped in to fix the Boston Public Schools. Now it’s giving up. - There has been some progress. But the district failed to meet several of its goals, and the goals it did meet have not translated into sustained academic gains."

Everybody's got their two cents on how to fix American schools so here's mine: slash them to the bone.  And by that I mean schools should only focus on teaching kids how to read and write and do nothing else.

The mission creep of American schools is undeniable, and if we’re being brutally honest, too many schools have become one-stop social services hubs that also teach a little reading and math on the side. Instead of maintaining a focus on academics, schools are stretched to the breaking point, in part because of federal and state mandates and in part because they have been captured by an ideology that demands that every single student's need be met before any teaching or learning can occur. 

Schools used to be institutions of academic instruction, designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to become good citizens, prepared to meaningfully participate in a free society. But somewhere along the way, we decided that schools should also become social service hubs that cater to all the needs of students and families and aspire to fix societal problems that extend far beyond education. It seems fair —and even overdue —to seriously ask if it makes sense to continue using the word “school” to describe educational institutions that are also expected (or required!) to provide breakfast, lunch and snack, host immunization clinics, offer wrap-around health services, provide counseling, address declining mental health, disrupt the “school to prison pipeline,” supervise toothbrushing, teach financial literacy and host drag queen story hour. 

Massachusetts governor Maura Healey has the opportunity to capture the "only Nixon can go to China" moment: oppose the teachers union, fire the score of administrators, and help Bay State kids.  But she won't so we'll continue to move kids through this pipeline where they don't learn anything but at least their feelings aren't hurt.

There's a reason homeschooling is taking off in America.

Related - "The average college student today." 

Tired of winning

NY Post: "Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong resigns, just days after caving to Trump admin demands." 

The Left eats their own.  Amirite, Chuck Schumer?

Always be on offense

Townhall: "Scott Jennings Has a Reminder for Biden Admin Officials Worrying About Accountability After 'Signalgate'."

This guy is a national treasure.

How do you like this headline?

Real Clear Politics: "CNN's Enten: Trump Is More Popular Than Ever, Americans Who Think We're On The Right Track "Through The Roof"."

But but but Hitler!

The Left hates free speech

Federalist: Senate Dems Claim Censorship Industrial Complex Never Happened — And If It Did It Was A Good Thing - At a Senate Judiciary hearing, Democrats can’t help but admit they support government censorship of free speech." 

I'm so sorry this is happening to you

Red State: "James Carville Is 'Worried' About How Good Donald Trump Is Looking in Polling; He Thinks It's Bad for US." 

Not actually surprising at all

Ace: "Former Biden Staffer: We Bullied the Weakling Press Into Only Reporting What We Allowed Them To Report. It's "So Weird" That the Press "Never Pushed Back."

Yeah, so so weird.  

MSNBC on the taxpayer's dime

Hot Air: "NPR's Katherine Maher Doesn't Remember Her Tweets, Admits NPR Blew It on Hunter Biden."

I used to listen to NPR fairly regularly during my work commute.  I even donated a couple times!  But Trump Derangement Syndrome made NPR intolerable and I'm not the only one who noticed:

Over the decade that NPR’s journalism priorities have narrowed, so has its audience. Back in 2011 it was roughly divided between liberals, moderates, and conservatives, tilting just slightly to the left. By 2023, progressive listeners outnumbered conservatives by six to one.

Defund these left-wing clowns, post-haste.  I refuse to pay for this.

This nothingburger is all they have

OMG, the performative outrage over this group chat story: "The Atlantic's Signal Story Is Quickly Falling Apart."

Yes, it's an embarrassing mistake but the Democrats are trying to revive the "but her emails" meme.

So unclassified info was discussed on an encrypted messaging app approved for use by staff, where all parties involved were unified under President Trump’s agenda.

They’re so bad at this lol.

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) March 25, 2025

Civil War

Ace: ""They Hate Us:" The Democrat Base is Revolting.  I Mean, They've Always Been Revolting. Now They're Rebelling." 

There's only four, geniuses

The Hill: "5 ways Democrats can fight Trump and defend the republic."

Two of them are more foot-stamping and the other two ("detail what we would do" and "eliminate waste, fraud and abuse") are things you either didn't do before the election or failed to articulate during the campaign.  You're all on board with cutting waste now? 

Just like Bernie's deathbed conversion for stopping illegal immigration, I guess. 

Old man yells at cloud

Left-wing fruitcake Robin Abcarian in the LA Times: "Americans aren't waiting for the Democratic Party to take on Trump."

What exactly are they doing?  Marching and protesting.  And protesting and marching.  And screaming at the sky.

Good luck with all that.

Trust has been lost

John Kass: "How the New York Times is killing America." - "The New York Times is as lost in its Acela Corridor provincialism as any isolated shepherd boy in the most remote valley of Kurdistan. It hates the America that most of us love and so many died for. In its offices and newsroom, The New York Times whispers into its sleeve like the politicos of old Chicago and Tammany." 

This is a condemnation of the New York Times and most of the mainstream media.  If a serious pandemic or national emergency emerges, nobody is going to believe the Boy who Cried Russian Collusion. 

Just like Reddit

Commentary: "Bluesky: The Online Cone of Silence"

I quickly learned that the site’s core innovation is not finding ways to facilitate thoughtful conversations. Instead, Bluesky’s secret sauce is the powerful tools it gives users to shut down voices they disagree with. Block lists—featuring the names of people you will not permit to see your posts—are public and widely shared and discussed. “People make nasty lists and lists and lists there,” a Bluesky user in Germany explained to me. Many Bluesky regulars import other users’ lists wholesale, allowing them to block hundreds of people they’ve never even heard of. One frustrated user complained, “I barely have 1,000 followers here on Bluesky and I’ve already been blocked by 300+ people!”

Perhaps it’s no surprise that a platform built on the notion that users need sanctuary from dangerous ideas would encourage hypervigilance against intruders. Some Bluesky users roam the site like white blood cells in the human bloodstream, always searching for invading pathogens. Any time a new user arrives who shows signs of heterodox thinking, they raise the alarm.

I've heard that Bluesky is the ultimate echo chamber and the drive to censor doesn't surprise me at all.  I've seen the same thing on Reddit where users rush to compliant (and left-leaning) moderators whenever a thought-crime is committed.  The Left hates free speech and, thus, these hive mind safe zones.

Girlboss governor caves

Outkick: "Maine Universities Back Down To Trump, Will Ban Trans Athletes From Women’s Sports."

They used to love Elon Musk

A fawning article from Rolling Stone back in November 2017:

Concluding paragraph: "I leave his home still hearing his chuckles in the doorway, and hoping that when the Mars colony builds its first statues of Musk, they’re not of a stiff man with a tight-lipped expression looking out into space, but of a fuzzy bear." 

More of this

It's the only way they learn: "Elon Musk Says He’s Suing Democrat Jamaal Bowman for Calling Him a ‘Nazi’ on CNN." 

Ratchet government

Federalist: "Republicans, Don’t Buy Democrats’ Lies About Medicaid ‘Cuts’." 

News anchors who don't follow the news

American Spectator: "How Much Longer Is CBS Going to Carry Margaret Brennan? - There must be a final level of embarrassment mainstream media is willing to tolerate."

You shant be missed

Red State: "BREAKING: Pres. Trump Is Set to Sign an Order Closing Department of Education."

How bad do you have to be at your core mission to keep your job?  It's time for this useless cabinet position to go. 

Uh-oh, they might be figuring it out

NY Post: "Dem Rep. Seth Moulton calls out own party for being ‘out of touch’ and alienating allies."

“We lost this election across the board, an election that should have been easy for us to win,” Moulton said. “I mean, when in our history have we ever run against a convicted felon sitting at the top of the ticket? So this past election should have been an easy one for Democrats. And yet we lost across the board because so many Americans said, ‘You guys are just out of touch. You‘re just out of touch. I mean, this other guy might be crazy, but you guys are not in touch with the majority of Americans,’ which is kind of by definition, what we showed by losing this election.”

And yet, when push came to shove, Moulton voted to keep biological men in women's sports after publicly stating that he didn't want his daughters to face that scenario.  He had the opportunity to stand up to the 20% nutcases in his party and backed down.

The damage-control tour is going great

Twitchy: "Chuck Schumer Gleefully Sneers at Weary Taxpayers Desperately Clinging to Their Hard-Earned Paycheck." 

Sounds like he reaped the whirlwind

Schumer spent years rousing his activist base to protest and riot and now won't face them. https://t.co/4WBDGIMa6K

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 17, 2025

* reference to title here. 

I know what the Dems need: more ping-pong paddles

USA Today: "Democratic Party's favorability hits record lows in two polls after 2024 losses." 

Astronaut rescue in process

Thomas Lifson: "CNN wants you to know that Biden did not strand the astronauts Musk is rescuing - As always, the media is stepping in to help the Democrats, this time, taking narrative control to diminish Musk’s rescue of the stranded astronauts."

Now that Elon Musk is on Trump’s team and the latest two-minute hate (and vandalism) target, he must not be allowed to look heroic in the media. But the spectacle of his SpaceX stepping up to rescue the astronauts who have been left in orbit at the International Space Station for months longer than planned is awfully compelling and—face it—downright epic. It takes no imagination whatsoever to foresee how the media would play up a successful rescue if Musk had happened to be a loyal Democrat.

The fact that Musk is doing what gigantic defense contractor Boeing was incapable of accomplishing—and the fact that his DOGE team is simultaneously uncovering unimaginable levels of waste, fraud, and abuse in federal spending -- makes the mission even more toxic in the eyes of the media division of the Democrat party.

I don't want to say that Joe Biden stranded two astronauts because he couldn't bear to give Elon Musk a win.  It's too terrible to think about.

Update - NY Post: "NASA ‘alien’ greets SpaceX crew aboard ISS as stranded astronauts gear up for return to Earth." 

American colleges hooked on federal cash

Gerald Ford once said: "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."

The idea here - central to conservative theory - is that once you're dependent on the government to provide you with support, you've given up a portion of your freedom and self-sufficiency.  if external circumstances or a new government turns off the spigot, you're in a world of hurt.

Colleges are now in the "find out" stage of FAFO as Trump demands they adhere to new federal standards: "Colleges Are in Trouble and Suddenly Realizing They Have Few Allies."

No more antisemitism.  No more DEI.  Don't like it?  Stand on your principles without federal support.  Looking at you, Columbia. 

The press is always the hero of their own story

Boston Globe: "In Murrow’s empty shoes, a warning for American democracy - Few newsrooms have the courage to hire another Edward R. Murrow, who championed truth over lies when he challenged the powerful Senator Joseph McCarthy."

Just another journey down nostalgia lane for the legacy media, trying to convince themselves that they are the great defenders of Democracy and certainly not the discredited shell they've become.  This thing is so cookie cutter (Hitler references! "pillars" of Democracy!) that it could have been written by either ChatGPT or any college sociology major.  

The Michael Jordan of awfulness

Outkick: "The View's Sunny Hostin Claims She Is ‘Stuck’ In 'Racist' America And Wants To Leave."

We would also like Sunny Hostin to leave but ABC pays her $8 million/year to tell us how racist America is so she ain't goin' anywhere.

You're going to get tired of winning

Townhall: "Total Trump Victory' As Spending Bill Passes, Killing Far Left Hopes for a Gov't Shutdown."

Trump wins again

PJ Media: "BREAKING: Schumer Caves on CR, Blames Trump for His Own Surrender!"

I'll tell you exactly what happened: several Democrat Senators told (or screamed at) Schumer they were voting for the continuing resolution so he needed to make a humiliating reversal and try to portray his forced position as a profile in courage.  

Birds gotta fly and fish gotta swim

Democrats have to lie about Social Security.  Ace: "You're Not Going to Believe This, But Democrats' Line of Attack on Trump Is Spreading Lies About Trump Cutting, Get This, Social Security." 

In praise of John Feinstein

NY Post: "John Feinstein, famed sports author, dead at 69."

I've only read one book by John Feinstein but it's one of my favorite non-fiction books of all time: "The Last Amateurs."  It's about student-athletes playing basketball for the Patriot League which (at the writing) included Army, Bucknell, Colgate, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh, and Navy.

These kids are not on scholarships, their games will not be televised, the crowds are sparse and they'll never* go to the NBA.  They largely play for the love of the game and competition.  Feinstein's writing draws you in to this low-stakes world where the players are found studying in the hallway before the coach shows up for practice.

Just a great book - highly recommended.  RIP John Feinstein.

* Except for C.J. McCollum and Mike Muscala, according to Gemini.

We're on to your game

When it’s a D // When it’s an R pic.twitter.com/DnklPWi78s

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) March 12, 2025

Remarkable given the slim margin

Townhall: "Virtually All House Republicans Unify to Pass Continuing Resolution."

Now the CR goes over to the Senate where who knows what might happen.  The Democrats are in full-blown "resist" mode but they also don't want to get blamed for shutting down the government.

Well...bye

NY Post: "NY Times tells editorial board writers: Accept new position or take buyout." 

This again? Really?

Hot Air: "This Is Stupid: Justice Department Investigating Big Egg Over Price Increases."

This is disappointing blame-shifting that the Democrats usually pull for Big Oil.  Now it's Big Egg, I guess.  Silly.

America was panicked into compliance

Boston Globe: "The case against Anthony Fauci - On the fifth anniversary of the COVID outbreak, a new book examines where American science — and politics — went wrong."

You probably don’t remember the lockdowns all that fondly. 

But if you’re like a lot of Americans on this fifth anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, you at least understand why they were put in place. 

The virus felt so frightening back then. So unexpected. 

And if public health officials made some mistakes — you might be convinced, by this point, that they kept schools closed too long — you’re willing to cut them some slack. 

People like infectious disease chief Anthony Fauci were doing the best they could with the information they had. They were following the science. And we got to the other side in better shape than we might have. 

But if there’s something comforting in this story — even a little triumphant — there’s just one problem: It’s almost completely wrong.

Oh, so now dissenting opinions are allowed and the truth can be told.  All during Covid, I insisted that wearing masks was performative nonsense that did nothing to stop the transmission of the virus.  At one point, the World Health Organization agreed but then gave in to the mob:

And while the WHO acknowledged that the evidence for masking’s effectiveness was scant, the group still “conditionally recommended” it in severe pandemics — explaining that there is “mechanistic plausibility for the potential effectiveness of this measure.”

Was it worth it, America?

The costs of the shutdowns were enormous: trillions of dollars in deficit spending to stave off economic ruin; massive learning loss, concentrated among the least advantaged children; the special pain of leaving loved ones to die alone in dreary nursing homes and emergency rooms; a further cleaving of our already divided society. 

And despite all the sacrifice, the United States still had a much higher death rate than other wealthy nations.

This is why Anthony Fauci had to get a blanket pardon.

Related (h/t Battleswarm): 

“Does Dr. Fauci have a Nobel Prize?”

“No, but he does have a pardon for crimes against humanity.”

There goes that car alarm again

Jonathan Turley: "Panic politics: Law professors’ umpteenth ‘constitutional crisis’ falls flat."

I thought we stopped doing these declarations sometime after the 51 security "experts" declared that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation.

Anyway: yawn.

She deleted all her text messages

Twitchy: "Karen Bass Welcomes Investigation Into L.A. Wildfires Because She's Made Sure to Delete All the Evidence."

I can't wait to hear her explanation for this.  Perhaps she'll request a supplementary investigation.

Keep it up, you're doing great

Fox News: "Pollster warns Democrats' 'amateurish' anti-Trump antics are 'tanking' with Americans - Former Clinton advisor warns Democrats have turned the public off with their behavior." 

Interesting!

Red State: "ActBlue Fundraising Platform in Turmoil As Executives Resign and the Last Lawyer Has His Email Shut Off."

Hey, what did I miss and what happened to my investments?

I was largely incommunicado this week and, boy, did my phone explode when I turned off airplane mode.

Anyway, I see nothing has changed at "The View": "Sunny Hostin Baselessly Claims Trump Will Kill People By Taking Away Social Security, Medicaid."

This is all they have.