1) “12 Disgraceful Acts Biden Has Committed (So Far) On His Way Out The White House Door” (Shawn Fleetwood, Federalist)
2) “Can Trump Make America Safe Again? The new administration should return federal law enforcement agencies to their original missions.” (Heather MacDonald, City Journal)
From the article — Fighting largely phantom white supremacy was just one of the Biden administration’s obsessions that diverted it from the core duty of government: maintaining law and order. The Trump administration should reverse all identity-based policies from the Biden era and refocus federal law enforcement agencies on combating crime and illegal immigration. Doing so will guarantee an improvement in public safety.
The Biden administration made race and ethnicity the key factor in crucial criminal justice positions. By March 2022, 48 percent of Biden’s picks for U.S. attorney positions were black, though only 13 percent of the U.S. population is black.
This disparity would be worrisome enough in its own right: turning any irrelevant characteristic into a selection criterion guarantees an inferior pool of candidates. But given the academic skills gap, such a large racial preference means an even larger sacrifice of meritocratic standards. Twenty-two percent of black law graduates never pass the bar exam after five tries, for example, compared with 3 percent of white test takers. State bar associations are lowering pass scores on bar examinations in the hope of qualifying more black attorneys. Black LSAT scores and law school class rankings are at the bottom of distribution curve.
Two-thirds of Biden’s judicial nominees were “persons of color.” Biden placed more black females on the U.S. Courts of Appeal than all previous presidents combined.
3) “The LA fires are the horrifying consequence of Democratic misrule: Blue states’ embrace of progressive fads over good governance was bound to end in disaster.” (Joel Catkin, spiked!)
(See also — James B. Meigs’ article in City Journal, “California’s Policies Laid the Groundwork for Wildfire Danger” and Steven Malanga’s article also in City Journal, “L.A.’s Total Leadership Failure.”
4) “8 Bombshell Findings In Florida’s Grand Jury Report On Big Pharma’s Covid Shots” (Shawn Fleetwood, Federalist)
From the article — Following its investigation, the grand jury ultimately declined to charge any individual or entity in the case after the jurors “did not find any statute that [they] believed would be an appropriate vehicle for a criminal indictment based on the facts” in its final report. The grand jury did, however, note that such a conclusion does not absolve entities of engaging in unethical behavior.
“We want to be abundantly clear that this does not mean we believe the actions of these sponsors were always appropriate, or that the statements they made turned out to be factually correct,” the report reads. “It just means that those actions and statements are not sufficient bases to support criminal prosecutions.”
Despite the lack of criminal charges, the jury did unearth numerous major findings in its report that shine a light on deceptive behavior and actions surrounding the development and promotion of the Covid shots. Here are some of the biggest takeaways from the analysis.
5) “The Total Collapse of the Washington Post: This ideological puritanism will run the newspaper into the ground.” (Ellie Gardey Holmes, American Spectator)
From the article — It makes complete sense that the Washington Post is the paper that is collapsing in America today. If there is one sentiment uniting Americans right now, it is that the culture of woke repression that has reigned supreme for so many years — keeping Americans on edge and fearful of being canceled by the mob — has come to an end. People want more freedom of speech, open spaces to consider policy, and a richer diversity of thought.
The paper where woke writers scream “Comply!” to their colleagues and readers no longer has any business being one of the country’s top newspapers.