 Dear Joltarian, Look below, as you dive the depths of this week's missive, and in between the astute observations about how one Dr. A. Fauci has exhausted us, and the wise analyses of how the rank and file (not just the Squad members) of the Democratic Party are yearning to bust open the Supreme Court, look for Mr. M.B. Dougherty's reflections on "white supremacy" and its comprehensive blameworthiness, and other pieces that touch on how one Rev. M.L. King's observations on character are laughable in these woke times. Related and self-serving: One Prof. V.D. Hanson discusses this and other things in a podcast discussion had earlier this week with Mr. K. Relwof. You will find it illuminating (if you ignore the host's blatherings). Victor's wisdom can be heard here. Now before you get into the appetizers and buffet bar that await, we have one friendly suggestion, which follows immediately. After that is considered, please do enjoy this week's enormous fare. Red and Brown and Blue Snow Our friends at the newly established Kite & Key Media — which turns important research and data into palatable and informative (and mirthful) videos — is worth your attention and consideration. Do visit the website. And do catch the new video so you can learn about 1816 (and its Crayola array of snow) and then understand . . . How to Stop a Supervolcano. NAME. RANK. LINK. EDITORIALS Hey Tony, Marvin K. Mooney is holding on Line One: Anthony Fauci Has Word Out His Welcome Packin' hate: Democrats' Court-Packing Two-Step Have virtue, will signal: Georgia Election Law: Major Companies Issue Generic Statement Hating hate-hater idiocy: Democrats' Hate-Crime Bill a Joke The problems in leaving Afghanistan: Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal: Biden's Risky Decision ARTICLES Dan McLaughlin: Court-Packing: Democrats' Plan a Power-Grab Charles C.W. Cooke: Democrats and Joe Biden Invite Backlash John McCormack: Court-Packing Bill Is an Effort to Intimidate Sitting Justices David Harsanyi: Kristen Clarke Is Unfit for Office Jason Richwine: The Public-Health Establishment Has Lost Credibility Jimmy Quinn: Biden's Defense-Spending Cuts Would Weaken National Security Andrew C. McCarthy: Chauvin's Stumbling Defense Case Michael Brendan Dougherty: "White Supremacy" Is Blamed for Every Inequity and Unjust Act David Harsanyi: Amazon Unionization Vote Show that Unions Need Coercion to Survive Kyle Smith: Capitol Hill Killer Exposes the MSM's Double Standard Alexandra DeSanctis: Chemical Abortion Can Be Halted with New Procedure Abigail Anthony: Princeton Coronavirus Policy Permits Protests, Stops Easter Mass Kyle Smith: Is Ron Desantis the GOP's Future? Kathryn Jean Lopez: Transgender Debate: Keira Bell Deserved Better Than Puberty Blockers Néstor T. Carbonell: Cuba Remains a Threat John Fund: Black Lives Matter and Hunter Biden Scandals — Media and Big Tech Censorship Fuels Distrust Jim Talent and Lindsey Neas: Biden Administration and Red China: A Mixed-Bag Assessment Andrew Michta: Western World's Coronavirus Mitigation Efforts Excessive and Damaging Sarah Schuette: Milne's Once on a Time Is a Whimsical Treasure CAPITAL MATTERS Bahnsen and Toomey dynamic podcast duo: Capital Record (Episode 13): Senatorial Perspective Vivek Ramaswamy watches the CEO lemmings assemble: Corporate America's Siege on Democracy Dan McLaughlin covers partisan boardroom machinations: Democrats and Corporations Are Allying against Republicans Casey Mulligan doesn't like Bernie fondling America's privates: Health Care Reform: Prohibiting Profit Stifles Private-Sector Innovation Benjamin Zycher laments OPEC's gains (at our expense): Oil Markets and Fossil Fuel Demand: Making U.S. Poorer and OPEC+ Richer Patrick Wright and Jay Carson warn about long-distance tax relationships: Local Governments Tax People Who Live and Work Outside City Limits LIGHTS. CAMERA. REVIEW Armond White is around to pick up the . . . Pieces of a Woman Is Hollow and Self-Defeating Kyle Smith likes what he sees: Hemingway Documentary Explores a Defining American Artist AND NOW COMES THE ENCORE, FUN-FILLED AND EXCERPT-FORTIFIED FOR YOUR COMPLETE ENJOYMENT Editorials 1. In which we excoriate the fertilizer plant masquerade as legislation to increase the size of the United States Supreme Court. From the editorial: The justifications that the Democrats have proffered are ridiculous on their face. They claim that the Republicans "packed" the Court themselves when, as the party in the majority in the Senate, they merely used their constitutional powers to approve or reject the candidates they were sent. They claim that the Court must be expanded to keep up with population growth and the workload that results — a contention that miscasts what the judicial branch does, and that does not make sense on its own terms (because all justices participate in every case, a court of 13 will not be able to take more cases than a court of nine, and in any event, the Court's docket is smaller than it was a half century ago). And, finally, they claim that the Court is suffering through a crisis of legitimacy — which, given that it is more popular and more trusted than it was prior to the additions of Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, represents the very opposite of the truth. What is the truth? That, as it grows more progressive, the Democratic Party senses that it will more frequently hit up against the Constitution itself, and that, when it does so, it is going to need judges who are not interested in what that Constitution actually says. To comprehend this is to comprehend the whole grubby initiative, which will confer benefits upon the Democrats irrespective of its success. If Biden and Co. succeed in their undertaking, the Court will become merely another legislature, there to rubber-stamp the Democratic Party's transgressions. If the endeavor fails, the Court may nevertheless be so intimidated by the attempt that they begin to bend at the knees. And, either way, the public is taught to mistrust Article III.
2. Fauci fatigue is for real, and consequential, and harmful. Just go the %^$#@ away Tony. We've had enough! From the editorial: And it's hard to shake the sense that Fauci makes recommendations based on how he thinks people will react. Fauci admitted in December that he had changed his assessments about herd immunity, based on what he thought the public could handle hearing. In the pandemic's early days, Fauci tended to cite the same 60 to 70 percent estimate that most experts did, but Fauci gradually boosted it to 85 percent. In an interview with the New York Times' Donald McNeil Jr., Fauci "acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts. He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks." At the beginning of March, Fauci forcefully criticized the state of Texas for ending its statewide mask mandate, declaring, "It's risky and could set us back to a place that's even worse than where we are now . . . and lead to additional surges." And yet, Texas has seen its caseload continue to decline. When asked about the lack of an increase in that state, he answered, "You know, there are a lot of things that go into that. I mean, when you say that they've had a lot of the activity on the outside like ball games, I'm not really quite sure. It could be they're doing things outdoors."
3. The corporate-boardroom virtue-signalers have Zoom-gathered only to issue a lame-o statement about election-reform laws. From the editorial: A major gathering on Saturday of management from over a hundred businesses, many of them enormous corporations, reportedly discussed imposing collective sanctions on Georgia — a plan that might at least skirt the edge of the antitrust laws and would represent a dramatic escalation of anti-democratic corporate bullying of self-governing states. But the statement released by the group Wednesday morning ... READ MORE
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