FIGHTING HARVARD and the other cultural overlords.

It's a longer read, but eminently worthy.

THE EVENING DOCKET (APRIL 15): developments in the numerous (now over 200) active cases involving executive actions taken by the Trump administration.

Since I'm now retired, I try to keep up with the political lawfare. Even so, I'm astounded at the number of cases I've missed.

HUH? The New York Times thinks that it's perfectly okay for China to ship 'a vast array of artifically cheap goods' to America but not okay to send them to Europe, thus weakening local industries in France, Germany, Italy and the rest of the European Union.

The mind boggles....

THEY WENT FOR THE MONEY: Israel hit Hamas where it hurts most.

BUTTER, MEET HOT KNIFE: Trump keeps cutting through media's TDS noise.

Donald Trump is a billionaire and the most powerful man in the world, but he's also a guy you'd want to have a beer with if he drank beer. Some Big Macs and Cokes will have to do.

This explains why he keeps winning.

RED STATE: A few thoughts on Social Security.

As I've posted [several times] before, here are my thoughts on [privatizing] Social Security.

IF THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE New York Attorney General Letitia James is in a world of hurt.

MORE: Letitia James can’t really be this stupid -- can she?

FIRED INSUBORDINATE OFFICERS reveal massive U.S. military resentment against elected civilian command.

I wouldn't call it 'massive' since it seems to only be at the senior levels, and not 'massive' even then, but military leadership must learn that they work for us, not themselves.

DAVID HOGG [Harvard 2023] is turning out to be a terrific pick for DNC Vice Chair:

Hogg's ascension was the lunatic cherry on top of the DNC Crazy Town sundae. Read -- and enjoy -- the whole thing.

HARVARD FOOLS AROUND, defies Trump over DEI and antisemitism — finds out it's really, really expensive.

Rep. Elise Stefanik [R-NY] and Hillsdale College agree: defund Harvard.

DEMOCRATS HAVE LOST THEIR MINDS over a deported El Salvadorian man.

El Salvador's President should put the kibosh on that by simply denying their visa applications. (He hasn't, but he has publicly said 'no way' to his return.)

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION blocked by federal judge from revoking status of more than 500,000 [illegal] migrants.

Were they were vetted coming in? If not, why should they be vetted going out?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: What was so different this time about Trump’s election?

INSIDER TRADING: Democrats found their next anti-Trump conspiracy.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE: Cheese-eating surrender monkeys give in to Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

HOW “TESLA TAKEDOWN” ACTIVISTS fool the public.

HARDBALL: Trump plans to withhold all federal funds from sanctuary cities. [Post is behind a PJMedia VIP firewall.]

REP. LAUREN BOEBERT [R-CO] responds to Democrats opposing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act.

Bless my colleagues' hearts on the other side of the aisle, using women as a ‘gotcha’ for voting. I’ve never had to bring my birth certificate to prove that I was a registered voter. I have an ID that has a different name than my birth certificate.

Since we're using women as bait here, maybe in the next round of debates they can explain to us exactly what a woman is.

I guess that women won't get to vote until the Democrats figure out who they are....

IT'S TIME FOR MCCONNELL TO GO: Vice President J.D. Vance blasts McConnell's vote against Trump Pentagon nominee: 'Political pettiness'.

NEW CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS (CNO) WANTS INEXPENSIVE WAYS TO HIT HOUTHIS, and I have some thoughts.

It would certainly take the pressure off a carrier battle group.

SPACE? Katy Perry and 4 other women, return safely from 'spaceflight'.

Blue Origin should be renamed 'Vanity Space' and Texas should be ashamed of having granted them a place to play in the spaceflight sandbox.

TRUMP: Harvard has 'lost its way,' doesn't deserve federal funding.

Cut off all funding. It's a private university, let it pay for its insanity from its own ($55 billion) endowment.

WHEN LEFTIST POLICIES FAIL: New Mexico National Guard deployed to Albuquerque to fight juvenile crime, fentanyl.

CDC SAYS U.S. autism rate continues to rise.

A new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the autism diagnosis rate has increased among US children, continuing a long-term trend that experts have largely attributed to better understanding of and screening for the condition.

Call me cynical if you wish, but this 'news' strikes me as the progressive Left HealthScare^TM industry defining autism down to retain power, funding, and control.

SHE HAS A MIND? Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer explains what was going through her mind when she hid her face in Oval Office.

She didn't want America to see her hypocrisy....

WELCOME TO Philip K. Dick's nightmares.

I UNDERSTAND STARBUCKS MAY BE HIRING: David Hogg's gun control group 'March for our Lives' lays off majority of full-time staff.

THIS STUFF IS SICKENINGLY FAMILIAR: The erosion of my home town. Not just your hometown; all of Amerca.

Linked from Instapundit.

STANFORD ACTIVISTS charged with felonies for building takeover.

Make them suffer. There must be jail time and permanent expulsion.

HEINLEIN'S CRAZY YEARS -- we're living in them.

MESSAGE RECEIVED: Thousands of illegal immigrants leave US voluntarily amid Trump self-deport push.

THE PASSWORD IS: Oligarchy!

Our oligarchy....

YOU GO, GIRL! First illegal alien Muslim city councilor heads to prison on corruption charges.

To jail, that is....

COULD PRESIDENT TRUMP BE ONE OF THEM? Declassified document fuels growing speculation of extraterrestrials among us.

If so, welcome....

WHY WE DON'T NEED CANADA AS A 51ST STATE: Canada's new Prime Minister is as dishonest as the old one.

2025 SPRING LEAVES, WEEK 6: Since the forsythia has fully filled out, today we start with my traditional first two, the pond view followed by the view of the fire pit and barn.

What a difference a week makes. The tulip magnolia now nearly completely blocks the left side of our pond. Along the fire pit, the trees are still not showing leaves, and the ground cover is still mostly dormant. The grass in front of the barn has begun to green up and the plantings along the walkway are more active but I'm still waiting for the elephant ears to show up.

The dogwoods showed up during the week, massivly blooming, and are already in somewhat of a decline as the leaves are beginning to show. Seems like they're in a helluva hurry to start summer....

Looking across and down our 'main drag' it is apparent that the trees have begun to wake up. We're seeing the yellow pollen showing everywhere and it doesn't seem to have peaked yet. Maybe we'll see leaves next week.

Until then....

'SELF-DEPORT' gets my early vote for phrase of the year.

THE POVERTY of the criticism of Trump’s agenda.

Victor Davis Hanson's full post is here.

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY DOES MATTER: Wanting or not wanting to work in factories doesn't matter.

SQUAD MEMBER JASMINE CROCKETT SAYS U.S. needs illegal immigrants because 'we done picking cotton'.

She wouldn't know a cotton field if she walked through one.

MISSISSIPPI? Guess which states fare best and worst in education.

Phonics beats 'wokeness' every time....

HEINLEIN'S 'CRAZY YEARS' WAS PRESCIENT: There appears to be a naked woman epidemic engulfing air travel.

All he missed was air travel.

A PRO-TRUMP BOAT completely ruined the DC Cherry Blossom Race for hundreds of miserable liberals.

I'm sorry we missed it. When we lived in the D.C. area, we went to see the cherry blossoms nearly every year -- but that was BT (Before Trump).

Keep on mocking them.

IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE CHEESE: The party of gender-confused surrender monkeys.

PROFESSOR SAYS it's incredible that Trump thinks people want to work in factories.

This is rich, for someone who has worked in idiot factories for 25 years.

VODKAPUNDIT: They cleared how many fake voters off the rolls?

THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS rail against Trump, Elon Musk in nation-wide protests.

I'm betting more than half are being paid to attend.

THE BEST DAY TO GET READY FOR 2026 WAS YESTERDAY; the second best is today.

Keep up the pressure.

EMULATING THEODORE ROOSEVELT: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth headed off to see if Panama wants the whip or carrot in critical meetings.

BOYCOTTING WALMART? Apparently we're boycotting Walmart this week.

Hell, I've already been there three times this week and never noticed. Neither, apparently, has anyone else.

BARACK OBAMA IS 'DEEPLY CONCERNED' about Trump administation targeting students.

It's called 'deprogramming', Barack.

'MOSTLY PEACEFUL' ROCK SMASHES INTO TESLA, seriously injuring pregnant passenger.

It should be a Babylon Bee headline. Unfortunately it isn't.

SCROLL DOWN to the 'Ready for the memes?' section and enjoy.

CARELESSNESS: How Jeffrey Goldberg got in the Signal group chat.

WE'VE BRED A NGW GENERATION OF NE'ER-DO-WELLS: Gen Z branded as 'the ghosted generation' as dates, colleges and employers keep saying 'no'.

LET THE NARCISSISTIC IDIOT GO: Yale professor flees the U.S. for Canada due to ‘rise in fascism’.

And encourage other narcissistic idiots like him to go as well. Just don't let them return.

YOUR SPEECH IS VIOLENCE. Our (the Left’s) violence is speech.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW about the Left.

Linked from a longer Instapundit post here.

BATYA UNGAR-SARGON ON TRUMP'S TARIFFS: Liberation day puts Main Street ahead of Wall Street.

FRED FLINTSTONE CALL YOUR OFFICE: Eternal childhood.

Their back-of-mind idea is to make cars smaller and smaller until they can be pedal-powered....

'PSEUDO-DEMOCRACY': Bernie Sanders is tossing out a new term for today's America.

Yes, it's laughably stupid but they can't use the word 'oligarchy' because that's their goal.

PEOPLE WHO SAY PAYING TAXES IS PATRIOTIC always want to make you pay more.

With emphasis on the word 'you'....

SO THEY'VE FINALLY FIGURED OUT WHAT I'VE KNOWN FOR YEARS? DeepMind has detailed all the ways AGI (artificial general intelligence) could wreck the world.

There are no Three Laws of Robotics ... yet.

EARTH TO PROGRESSIVES: Cancel culture is not going to pay off U.S. debt.

FOR THE RECORD, this is exactly what I voted for.

AGREED! Take prescription drug ads off the air already.

WHY I'M OK BEING A FORMER JPL'er: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off 900 workers due to budget cuts but hasn't fired its top DEI officer.

My tenure at JPL was in the mid-70's but even then the narcississtic elitism was evident.

SO HELP THEM BURN: The globalist authoritarians are playing with fire.

HOW DO YOU THINK THEY GOT WEALTHY? So many of the wealthy fear an end to the grift.

2025 SPRING LEAVES, WEEK 5: Well, finally, spring is clearly underway.

Only two weeks ago (March 23) our forsythia was mostly yellow, with just a touch of green showing. This week it's full green and about doubled in width. It's not obvious yet in the picture but the trees in the background have begin to bud out.

Across the street though, the budding is evident. And along the fence we had a purple iris show up, and the drift roses along the fence line are appearing to wake up from the winter's nap -- no flowers yet, though.

Our pond view is pretty much the same with the exception that the tulip magnolia has dropped most of it's flowers and is now showing leaves -- lots of leaves. Ground cover (we call them weeds) have begun to pop through the leaf cover.

The view of the barn/fire pit area doesn't seem to have changed that much over the week. The tree tops (out of the picture) have begun to evidence budding, but that's about it.

Finally for this week, the pond and house from water's edge. Obviously not visible in the picture (yet), the trees have begun to show evidence of budding out, so by next week I expect the house to essentially disappear from view

Update: Here are two photos of our dogwood trees, the one on top taken yesterday; the one below it taken this morning.

It's the same picture, taken from a slightly different perspective, showing how fast things are changing in April.

Until next week, then.

NOW WE KNOW — Flailing (failing?) is the Democrats' 2026/2028 election strategy.

ANOTHER WIN FOR PROGRESSIVISM: Seattle mayor reveals $47 million payroll tax deficit as companies flee the Emerald City.

MORE ABOUT WHAT THE DOGEr'S found in their Social Security investigations.

In 2021, 270,000 non-citizens got social security numbers. In 2024, 2.1 million non-citizens got social security numbers. We went in to find fraud and found this....

And it's not just about stealing Social Security benefits -- the Social Security number is a gateway into registering to vote, voting, Medicaid, long-term disability, and so on.

THIS IS your modern Democrat party.

JESSICA TARLOV ASKS; Elon Musk replies.

I WAS A CIA AGENT ... here's where the Ark of the Covenant is hidden.

Hint: The Ark of the Covenant was recovered from Nazi possession in 1936 and is now stored in a 'Top Secret' marked crate in a government warehouse somewhere in America.

ANOTHER REASON PROMOTE SCHOOL CHOICE: Tim Walz fights for 'racial capitalism'.

TRUMP TURNS OFF THE MONEY MACHINE to Princeton University to stop their antisemitic ways.

As I've said before, turn off the money spigot and leave it off for at least a year after they've exhibited the desired changes. Let them use their own money ($34.1 billion endowment in 2024) to fund their (formerly government supported) programs in the meantime.

EXACTLY WHAT I'VE PREDICTED: What is artificial intelligence going to do to our kids?

2028 PREVIEW: Gotta admire Sen. Cory Booker's [D-NJ] commitment to the Democrat base.

RFK'S HHS PURGE HITS ITS STRIDE: Employees locked out and executives sent to Indian reservations.

IT HURTS WHEN THE BOOMERANG COMES HOME TO REST: Brown University student accused of causing 'emotional harm' to non-faculty staff for sending DOGE-like email.

He should have sent it to the faculty as well....

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY [R-LA] tosses a monkey wrench at Federal District Courts trying to block the Trump administration (video here, thanks to Elon Musk).

From the comments, a 'should do' for the President:

Trump should simply write a letter to the SCOTUS, inform them of the practice, that it is unconstitutional, violates separation of powers, offends co-equality of the branches, and he will not recognize federal court jurisdiction to issue orders to the executive branch until they issue an opinion on the matter.

That's more that former President Biden did when he ignored the law....

SEN. CORY BOOKER [D-NJ]: Gun ownership is a privilege and not a right.

A 'privilege' enjoyed by him and his aides. Hypocrite.

DEMOCRATIC SEN. CHRIS COONS [D-DE]: Your 'average middle American' is too stupid to find Greenland on a map.

Replace 'average middle American' with 'average Democrat politician' and the quote would be more accurate. I also blame the Department of Education.

GUN CONTROL REALITY: the case for trans-identified people to own firearms.

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT and narcissistic poltroons.

Read it and you'll understand the lede above.

NOW I UNDERSTAND why we haven't had any success in contacting Social Security about an error they made three years ago in my wife's social security account: they've been busy registering illegal aliens.

FIND HIM, CONVICT HIM, and sentence him to jail time.

No more of these 'woke' shits skating....

TRUMP ORDER ON SMITHSONIAN to target funds to programs with 'improper ideology'.

Unfortunately Trump's right, and this goes back long before the first Trump administration. My wife and I visited American Indian Museum (on the Mall is DC) within a year or two of its opening in 2004. It was an over-'woke' mess even then. We gave up and walked out.

THREE GROUPS that could have prevented the stench being uncovered by DOGE.

To no one's surprise, all three have significant presence within the bureaucratic deep state.

FULL DISCLOSURE -- I WAS BORN OVERSEAS: Rep. Thomas Massie [R-KY] introduces bill requiring federal candidates to disclose dual citizenship.

So I think I'm going to check to see if I still retain dual citizenship -- just in case....

WHEN CONSERVATIVES REFUSE TO PLAY the Democrats and regime media lose.

DEPARTMENT OF IMAGINARY CONCERNS: Trump offers support to Democrats with the creation oo a new government agency.

WE CAN DO IT TOO: Live by judge shopping, die by judge shopping.

And the Trump administration should do it much more aggressively.

THE LEFT AND THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: It is about control.

POWERLINE: Look back in anger.

AND 'I' IS FOR IDIOT: Virginia school puts up controversial ABCs display on Women's History Month, starting with 'A is for Abortion'.

It's Fairfax County, the 'wokest' one in Virginia, and frankly I doubt that very many students there know the entire alphabet.

COLUMBIA PRESIDENT RESIGNS (AGAIN) but the DEI battle is just beginning.

If I were President, I'd stop all federal funding immediately and restore it on a case-by-case basis only after year of demonstrated good behavior.

THIS IS WAR: Trump takes an axe to government unions.

Let's hope at least some of them go on strike so Trump can follow Ronald Reagan's lead.

SHE'S BA-A-ACK! It was the perfect opening.

Politically, it was the equivalent of grilling a big, fat, juicy steak in the middle of the African savannah — and then being mystified by the sudden appearance of drooling predators.

Yes, folks, with a power vacuum that big and that tempting, it was only a matter of time before Hillary remerged from the political wilderness.

AMMO GRRRLL encounters Medicare's annual 'wellness' exam. Luckily for us, my wife and I were both past the 365 day minimum -- by about a year.

SEATTLE AWFL (ANGRY WHITE FEMALE LIBERAL) caught keying a Tesla. Her motive is unknown.

Motive unknown? Is barking-at-the-moon mad is not an option?

EDUCATION SECRETARY LINDA McMAHON warns California Gov. Newsom that actions speak louder than words.

I'M NOT SYMPATHETIC: back-to-the-office blues.

I'd call them back for 6 days a week to make up for the lost time that they weren't active online....

INTERESTING: Out of sight and out of mind.

I almost feel guilty posting this....

“TEACH A MAN TO GRIFT, feed him for a lifetime.“

THIS IS HOW YOU WIN A WAR: Crush them.

PJ MEDIA: Sunday reflections.

I DON'T CARE about the silly Signal non-scandal.

Beyond wondering how Jeffrey Goldberg got on the access list, neither should you.

BIG PHARMA ISN’T OUR FRIEND – nor are the judges who do its bidding.

I would only add that the world would be a better place if the Big Pharma industry was banned from advertising (expensive) prescription medications. It seems to me that it advertises a 'cure' for a 'disease' that remains unnamed for the duration of the ad.

2025 SPRING LEAVES, WEEK 4: Compared to last week, it's foggy, cloudy and misting outside. We start with the forsythia, which last week was almost completely yellow, with just a touch of green. This week is the opposite, almost completely green with just a touch of yellow.

The pond view from the house hasn't much changed. The blossoms on the tulip magnolia are still hanging on, a bit fuller perhaps, but certainling fading in color. The ground cover, mostly 'feral' weeds are just beginning to peek out from last autumn's leaf fall.

The fire pit view is also not much changed -- a little greener grass perhaps, but the flowers are still mostly dormant.

Here's the house again, picture taken from below, with the tulip magnolia and our sole blooming iris in the foreground. As before, the ground is still pretty clear, with the little bits of green mostly other iris that are yet to bloom.

Our pond is mostly unchanged -- no buds, water very calm. Next week should be different though, as our neighbor across the pond has been very busily taking down trees on his property.

And finally a view of our house from down near the pond. Still leaves on the ground, no ground cover, no leaves on the trees except for the evergreen pines, and that lonely tuplip magnolia.

Until next week then.

JUST ANOTHER REASON TO CUT TAXES: California now tracking cow farts from space. Seriously.

SHE'S BEEN NUTS FOR A LONG TIME, but this takes the cake: Maxine Waters suggests Trump should consider deporting Melania.

HEH: Still waiting on the “queer Quran” course.

NOT SOON ENOUGH: Democrats facing electoral crisis by 2030.

If these trends hold [blue states losing population to red states], the 2030 census will shift the Electoral College sharply to the right. The states that Kamala Harris won in 2024 will lose perhaps as many as a dozen House seats and Electoral College votes. The states that Trump won would gain them. In that Electoral College, a Democrat could win every state Harris won in 2024 plus Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and still lose.

The Democrats have been aborting their own future voters in favor of immigrating them. Now that that's over they should learn, but they won't can't.

DNA IS A HARSH MISTRESS. Allentown PA city employee caught in noose hoax.

MORE QUESTIONS about D.C. District Judge James Boasberg.

THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE TRUMP CABINET MEETINGS. Spare a moment for the plight of the transgender farmer of San Francisco.

THERE IS NO ARGENTINIAN ECONOMIC MIRACLE; there is Argentinian President Javier Milei's hard work.

NO SURPRISE IN BURNING TESLAS: "Cutting what any objective person would consider waste and fraud is an existential threat to a party whose power depends on permanent bloat, off-books slush funds, and unaccountable bureaucracies.”

Read it all.

INSTAPUNDIT: Homeschooling isn’t for everybody, but I’m increasingly convinced that public schooling isn’t for anybody.

HE NEEDS TO BE A FORMER JUDGE: U.S. District Judge James Boasberg makes another outrageous ruling.

THE LEFT KNEW: They were lying to us all along.

I'M WAITING TO SEE IF THE COLUMBIA ADMINISTRATION STEPS UP TO THE PLATE: Columbia faculty hold 'emergency vigil', urge students to wear mask, skip class to protest Trump.

Frankly I expect them to try and weasel out....

THE SAME WAY WE CURE RABIES: How do we cure the woke mind viruses?

THE WIT AND WISDOM of Joy Reid.

THE IRS MODERNIZATION PROGRAM is interesting, if by interesting you mean "enraging" and "obscene."

The current modernization program ... is currently 30 years behind schedule and $15 billion over budget. It's been 35 years in development, and is now "five years away" from completion. And has been since 1996.

Molasses moves faster than Government-sponsored infrastructure development.

NEW PLAN to register more GOP voters is brilliant.

SANDERS-AOC COMEDY TOUR is a sign of far-Left desperation.

IT’S ALL EXCUSE-MAKING AND MISDIRECTION: Waste, fraud, and abuse is the Deep State's livelihood. And they're getting rich as a result.

The tweet and response is here.

EMBRACE THE HEALING POWER OF 'AND': Is the left delusional or just stupid?

The last sentence in the post sums it up perfectly.

FOLLOW THE MONEY GRIFT: Is this the real reason the Left is freaking out about the Department of Education?

AMMO GRRRLL identifies phrases and rights she can do without.

WELL, THAT'S BECAUSE IT IS: Elon Musk calls Social Security a Ponzi scheme.

A Ponzi scheme operates by taking money from new investors to pay current investors. That's the definition given by the SEC, and contrary to popular belief, that's exactly how Social Security operates.

The Democrats just don't want you to know....

TRUMP'S 51ST STATE THING MAY BE LOOKING BETTER: Canada is seeing a ‘tsunami’ of illegals fleeing the U.S. due to Trump’s policies.

FROM POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures, Snoopy says it all.

The rest are good too.

FORT MYERS FLORIDA CITY COUNCIL backs down and unanimously approves agreement to cooperate with ICE.

Money, especially loss of it, talks. Loudly.

PANIC HITS DEMOCRATS as Trump goes after their money and infrastructure organized theft.

RETIREES FURIOUS over Social Security in-person ID checks.

Personally, after nearly two years of their completely ignoring my multiple letters, I will be happy to host an in-person visit where I can question their competence....

WWE LEGEND KANE [KNOX COUNTYTN MAYOR GLENN JACOBS] PUSHES FOR BOUT with ‘happy hands’ 'rainbow warrior' Tim Walz.

It should be interesting (if it happens - not likely).

KURT SCHLICHTER: [W]e control federal law enforcement right now. That means we get to set the agenda, and we need to ruthlessly and brutally use the law to defeat our enemies’ outrageous and disgraceful attacks upon patriotic Americans.

ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY purged of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Soldiers are soldiers again.

2025 SPRING LEAVES, WEEK 3: We begin this week with our venerable forsythia

which has finally begun to shed its 2024 leaves to bring forth 2025's green ones. About time.

Our usual pond view is dominated this week by the tulip magnolia which is in full flower. As I walked down to the pond today I noticed the blooms are beginning to drop. Hopefully next week there will be leaves showing.

Next up are the barn (with Tuxedo) and fire pit views. The barn is Tuxedo's home-away-from-home. The trees are still leaf-free, but at least the grass is beginning to green up.

Looking north along our road, spring has little to show. The trees are still bare, though in a few places there are some buds beginning to show up in the upper reaches.

Here's our home, soon (hopefully) to be surrounded by green trees and flowers.

Finally here's a view from our community pond. There's nothing to see there yet. All the trees are still bare, the grass, such as it is, still brown, and even the low-lying brush which usually pops up early is still dormant.

Until next week....

JOE BIDEN REMEMBERS to ask his administration what he did in his four years in office.

AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES? Australian universities demand 'emergency meeting' after Trump cancels their funding.

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY is ending 2,000 positions due to Trump cuts in foreign aid funding.

The termination of more than $800 million in USAID funding is now forcing us to wind down critical work here in Baltimore and internationally."

I found this quote amusing: "Critics warn that slashing USAID work will affect millions of people." Yeah. Taxpayers. Like me. For the better.

BECAUSE REASONS: Why are young men more conservative?

"THE WORD THAT COMES TO MIND when I think of [Minnesota Gov. Tim] Walz is: 'buffoon'.”

NBC POLL: Gap between college-educated white women and other white voters is growing.

Umm, what are the most likely majors for 'college-educated' white women? Not STEM, certainly.

MAINE CAVES TO TRUMP, will keep men out of women’s sports.

Money talks....

ELITE EXPERTS ARE NEITHER: 'Experts' have only themselves to blame for the distrust of institutions.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The plethora of nagging health and safety commercials on both television and the internet are almost enough for me to ban both television and the internet from my house.

It may soon be enough....

WHILE WE’RE ABOLISHING DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, let’s abolish the teacher unions.

Best idea I've heard yet....

JUDICIAL WARFARE

It's time for the Supreme Court and/or Congress to step in and put this travesty to bed dead.

More (and some history) here.

I’M WONDERING why former NASA astronaut Sen. Mark Kelly [D-AZ] didn't praise SpaceX for rescuing stranded astronauts.

Answer: for the same reason he sold his Tesla -- he's just a Democrat apparatchik.

YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP: “The EV charging infrastructure in the United States is definitely not ready to handle mass EV adoption. There just aren’t enough chargers and many of the existing ones suffer from reliability and user experience issues. The one shining exception is Tesla’s Supercharger network.”

And the Left, furious with Elon Musk's DOGE, is trying to destroy it....

SCHADENFREUDE: Former University of Pennsylvania swimmer mocks university donation request.

For what it's worth, the university's 2024 endowment is $22.3 billion.

COLUMBIA caves.

Follow the money ... and take it away.

RANDOM THOUGHT: When everything's an alert nothing's an alert. For lack of better things to do in retirement I monitor the weather forecasts in the six locations around the U.S. where I have family using my iPhone's weather app. Every time I check the weather, there is at least one 'alert'; probably 50% of the time every location I check has one of more of these 'alerts':

It's raining; the roads are wet (Gee, I can look out the window).
It's foggy this morning (I know how to drive in fog).
Relative humidity is low; don't burn outdoors (we have a burn pit; water is available).
Wind gusts will blow your things around (in two places I watch 25 mph wind is a light breeze).

Etc., etc. These so-called 'alerts' are stupid and the bozos who produce them need to be fired. Save my tax money; get rid of the government nannies.

KURT SCHLICHTER: "[W]e need to ruthlessly and brutally use the law to defeat our enemies’ outrageous and disgraceful attacks upon patriotic Americans."

Read it all.

SO WHITES CREATED PHYSICS? Physics is racist.

MORE PROGRESSIVE INSANITY: Former MSNBC host Joy Reid garbles American history and claims Canada would beat the U.S. in war.

Believe it or not, Joy Reid is a Harvard graduate.

THEY CAN'T DO MUCH BEYOND WHINING AND RIOTING: Harvard students can't do math.

I WAS RIGHT; the Delta aircraft made a hard landing and the main landing gear collapsed.

ANOTHER DOGE WIN! Inside the now-shuttered federal agency where employees lived ‘like reigning kings’.

Seems to me I read another story about the agency that had a picture of the director at work! sipping wine in his in-office bathtub.

SHE'S TALKING TO A MIRROR: Hillary demands control of information that ‘determines how we think’.

Or is the mirror talking to her? Either way she's clearly in a bubble-wrapped alternate universe.

WHAT A SURPRISE (NOT): The Left knew they were lying to us all along.

PJ MEDIA: the Democrat Party is going away. Here's why.

Linked from X here.

SHOWDOWN AT FOGGY BOTTOM: DOGE uses police to evict barricaded bureaucrats.

I certainly hope they have been fired at a minimum, preferably arrested and jailed.

INSTAPUNDIT ON SUBSTACK: Trump and the lower courts.

DOLPHIN CAM: It's been a long time ... Welcome home.

BEN & JERRY'S has a new ice cream flavor -- Liberal Tears.

STALE CLASS WARFARE AND BOUNDLESS HYPOCRISY. That’s Chuck Schumer.

To be fair, he does hypocrisy very well.

LOVE IT: Greenpeace loses trial, faces bankruptcy extinction.

Couldn't happen to a better organization.

SHOULD PETTY JUDICIAL TYRANTS really be allowed to act as dictators?

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER [D-NY]: If you work for a living, you're not a Democrat.

HEH. Build a statue of a cheese-eating surrender monkey and send it to Paris.

RANDOM THOUGHT: What are you reading?

Linked from Fox News.

BIDEN RURAL BROADBAND GURU who accomplished nothing quits because Trump might make progress.

We've been living in our house in the sticks for nearly 10 years and only last week did I see a cable company preparing to put fiber in that 'might' come to our house. Starlink did it in one day when they finally opened up our area to service (and remember Starlink is less than 10 years old -- and they delayed us in order to supply Starlink terminals to Ukraine).

NOBODY'S HOME: What the new Federal Housing/Federal Housing Agency Director found when he went to work is astounding.

TESLAS HAVE 360-DEGREE CAMERAS, YOU KNOW: Elon-hating Tesla trasher is arrested after Tesla owners bring cops the receipts.

THE ERA OF PRESUMING LIBERAL MORAL SUPERIORITY is over.

ENJOY THE WORLD’S TOUGHEST PRISON, Tren De Aragua scumbags.

BARNARD COLLEGE 'POISONED' BY 'DEI PROPAGANDA,' says influencer who uncovered anti-Israel sentiment on campus.

Self-poisoned....

BILL MAHER shuts down Don Lemon's racist comments about black Trump supporters.

I think Don Lemon is himself clearly and obviously a racist bigot.

HARVARD OFFERS FREE TUITION for students whose families make $200K annually.

Harvard also has a $53.2 billion (with a 'B') largely untaxed FY 2024 endowment. My (admittedly jaundiced) view is that they'd rather give it to their own students to spend on and around their own campus than pay the Trump administration a 10%-20% or so annual income/capital gains tax.

Whatever the real reason, it sure as hell isn't 'for the student'.

WATCH: Pod of dolphins greet Crew Dragon as the crew-9 astronauts return from the International Space Station.

You'll have to scroll down a bit for the link to the video.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DEEP STATE CORRUPTION: Minneapolis lawyers plot to help illegal migrants evade ICE in leaked emails.

Keep that grift coming in, baby....

GET RID OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. And keep the states at bay; instead give power to the parents.

THE IMMIGRANTS were allowed in to do the job Americans are increasingly unwilling to do (viz., vote Democrat).

It certainly wasn't for picking cotton.

[ELITE] COLLEGES ARE IN TROUBLE and sudddenly realizing that they have few allies.

Here's a thought.

Faced with falling revenues, universities are announcing across-the-board spending freezes. Instead, they should differentiate between sane departments and those that have lost their way. Departments captured by post-modernists should be cut, to allow adequate funding for others.

'Wokeness' is primarily an infestation of the humanities, but it should be crushed wherever it rears its ugly head.

JOHN STOSSEL: Tax the past.

I thought only the IRS is allowed to tax the past (it's called an audit).

TENNESSEE BILL allows schools to deny enrollment for illegal migrants, but the proposal is panned as unconstitutional.

It's standard liberalism; punish the innocent to protect the guilty.

TOO LATE (AGAIN): Federal judge orders astronauts te returned to the International Space Station.

JAMES CARVILLE HAS GOOD ADVICE: ‘Get over your preening and moral superiority'.

They should be forced to wear sandwich boards saying something like 'preening morally superior idiot' but they would take that as a compliment.

WHY KYRSTEN SINEMA [FORMERLY R-AZ] chose violence against her old Democrat colleagues.

NOT AT ALL: Bill Maher asks Batya Ungar-Sargon if she regrets supporting Trump.

Her strong support of Trump's tariffs is something to behold. My summary: tariffs are the payments required for the privilege of selling your products in the United States.

Another post supporting tariffs.

IMPRIMIS: Restoring American Culture.

It should just be retitled 'Restoring Culture'. It's long but definitely worth reading in entirety.

FRANCE DEMANDS AMERICA: ‘Give Us Back the Statue of Liberty!’

America demands France thank us for their not having to speak German today.

HUNTER BIDEN, beset by legal woes, flees to ... South Africa?

His wife was born in South Africa, so ... does South Africa allow extradition back to the United States?

2025 SPRING LEAVES, WEEK 2: These pictures were taken Saturday morning before the predicted mega-storm that was supposed to destroy our house and wash the remains down to the Gulf of Mexico America. It didn't happen so the reality is that the neighborhood is actually prettier than is implied in the photos. Here are the first two -- my usual pond and barn/fire pit views:

In both, the changes are not yet evident in the photos. The grass is a bit greener, and there is evidence that the trees are beginning to bud out. The real evidence that spring has 'sprung' is the flowers.

The forsythias are typically early bloomers, and the green leaves are now evident. The tulip magnolia is essentially in full flower, but it was colder Saturday morning and the flowers hadn't fully opened. The leaves haven't shown yet

The flowers have popped out all over are beginning to bloom, especially along the road. The roses, though, are just beginning to wake up; by next week I hope to see flowers.

Finally, the trees along our road are showing signs of waking up, but no leaves yet.

VILE: This is how Mediaite chose to frame the successful launch of SpaceX Crew-10 on its mission to rescue stranded NASA astronauts.

These people (and I use that word loosely) are deranged lunatics.

Linked from Red State and they agree with me.

ASK ME IF I CARE: Sen. John Fetterman [D-PA] tells AOC exactly what he thinks of her on fight over the Continuing Resolution.

WELL, WELL: Starvation is caused by an insufficiency of billionaires.

Democrat narrative blown....

TRUMP APPROVAL bouncing back bigly.

I'm still watching, and so far I'm seeing the same thing.

ARE ELITE UNIVERSITIES DOOMED? "I think the elite universities will be a tough nut to crack. And they have enough money to hold out for a very long time."

They may have money, but without students, how influential can they be?

HOW MANY Kamala 'Miss Me Yet' t-shirts have been sold?

WELL, YES. Are the Democrats destroying themselves?

Let's not interfere.

ANOTHER WIN: Senior Islamic State leader's miserable life terminated.

I love winning.

I'M NOT AWARE OF ANYONE TRYING TO STOP HER: The View's Sunny Hostin clains she is 'stuck' in 'racist' America and she wants to leave.

CHUCK SCHUMER [D-NY] CALLS REPUBLICANS 'BASTARDS,' but deep down he knows he got played on the continuing resolution.

And the progressive majority in the Democrat party are furious....

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures is online. Here's my favorite, which comports well with Trump as the bull in the china shop from earlier this year:

It's not quite as good without Steven Hayward at the helm, but still ... go see the rest.

THE LEFT'S UNHINGED WAR ON TESLA has me wanting to buy one.

It's a VIP post (registration required) but I just wanted to note that I'm now looking more favorably at EVs than I have in the past.

TRUMP IS DEWORMING WASHINGTON. Make the parasites work for a living for a change.

WHERE ARE SHERYL CROW AND 'ELVIRA' to condemn violence against Tesla dealerships?

MEDICAL SCHOOL MISSION STATEMENTS defy the end of DEI.

WE CAN HOPE. Is the DOJ'S Pardon Attorney dismissal sign of an investigation into Biden's last-minute pardons?

TERRORISM ON THE LEFT: Liberals want to make it as costly as possible to oppose government hegemony.

Read it all.

WHO'S ON FIRST?

Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" was rarely performed the same way twice, and this version from The Naughty Nineties (1945) is considered their finest recorded rendition.

Enjoy the whole video.

THE NEWS OUT OF SYRIA IS HORRIFIC; it is just what Obama and Biden wanted.

THE COST OF WAR IS COMING DOWN: An army of DIY drones.

AMMO GRRRLL on the importance of manners.

WELL, YES: Is the jig up for elite higher education?

KURT SCHLICHTER: Trump makes his enemies insane.

With all due respect to Schlichter, I think they already were (are) insane.

THE REPUBLICANS NEED TO BUY HER MORE: Jasmine Crockett [D-TX] steps on multiple rakes.

THE ANSWER MUST BE 'YES': Is the jig up for elite higher education?

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR: Job openings.

RED STATE'S THURSDAY MORNING MINUTE: Bees in bonnets and snooty judges.

You'll have to scroll down to the 'Morning Musing' section, but scroll slowly and enjoy the ride.

IT WOULD BE QUICKER to list those that are non-DEI. Medical schools with DEI offices.

BREAKING NEWS: Great Britain no longer has enough white male combat pilots left to defend their country.

But they have plenty of terrorists....

THE HEADLINES have caught up to Mike Rowe. Now what?

Note: there seems to be a problem with the JWR website's security certificate. Plow ahead anyway.

COLUMBIA PROFESSORS CANCEL CLASSES in solaridarity with pro-Hamas activitist in ICE custody.

So revoke their tenure and fire them.

HISTORY FRIDAY –- The other Alamo.

DEMOCRATS are locked in their own Hell.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF CALIFORNIA'S DOOM LOOP: Twenty-somethings abandoning San Francisco even when they can afford it.

FROM ONE WHO'S BEEN THERE: Driving the Alaska highway.

EXCELLENT WORK: Armed citizen intervenes and takes down gunman at auto parts store.

MAYBE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ISN'T SO BAD AFTER ALL: GROK absolutely obliterates this article from The New York Times. That said, the NYT is certainly no challenge for even a modest intelligence.

The original link from Instapundit is here.