It’s Monday, April 18, Tax Day 2022…and yes, we’re…

But before we begin, one brief thought on the passing Conservative scene.  Though we generally enjoy most everything The Washington Free Beacon‘s Matt Continetti offers up, we’re always dismayed by him consistently conflating (including, but by no means limited to, here and here) legitimate opposition to ILLEGAL immigration and open borders with hostility towards LAWFUL immigration across closely-controlled national boundaries.  No one we know, The Donald and Ron DeSantis included, opposes measured amounts of LEGAL immigration, and we’re frankly at a loss to explain the continued confusion of Continetti and a number of other Conservative scribes.

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, since we mentioned The Washington Free Beacon, in its pages one Charles Lehman reaches an unequivocal conclusion we came to years ago:

Yes, the Media Bury the Race of Murderers—If They’re Not White

Free Beacon analysis shows how homicide coverage downplays the race of minority offenders

“…Yes. A Washington Free Beacon review of hundreds of articles published by major papers over a span of two years finds that papers downplay the race of non-white offenders, mentioning their race much later in articles (if at all!!!) than they do for white offenders. These papers are also three to four times more likely to mention an offender’s race at all if he is white, a disparity that grew in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020 and the protests that followed.

The Free Beacon collected data on nearly 1,100 articles about homicides from six major papers, all written between 2019 and 2021. Those papers included the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis’s Star-Tribune—representatives of each paper did not return requests for comment for this article. For each article, we collected the offender’s and victim’s name and race, and noted where in the article the offender’s race was mentioned, if at all.

The data suggest an alarming editorial trend in which major papers routinely omit information from news reports, presenting readers with a skewed picture of who does and doesn’t commit crime. These editorial choices are part and parcel with the “racial reckoning” that swept newsrooms in the wake of Floyd’s murder, which saw journalists dramatically overhauling crime coverage to emphasize the view that the criminal justice system is racist at the root—perhaps at the expense of honesty about individual offenders’ crimes…”

“Perhaps“?!?

Case in point:

Man in LA fatally stabbed in ‘random and unprovoked’ attack while on FaceTime with his brother

“Police say the suspect has been described as male and wearing a black fisherman hat with marijuana leaves, a turquoise t-shirt, light-colored shorts with dark shoes.“

As opposed to sporting a dark face and arms, both of which are infinitely tougher to change than, say, a hat, shirt, shorts or shoes.

In what can only be pure coincidence, reports of the Columbiana Centre mall shootings ALSO omitted the race of the gunmen, though with a little digging we are able to introduce you to Mr. Jewayne Price…

…one of three suspected shooters.  Anyone care to guess the race of the remaining two?!?

Apparently, a South Carolina judge set a $25,000 bond for Jewayne, allowing the suspect, if he posts the minuscule bond, to be held under house arrest and allowed to travel to and from work while wearing an ankle monitor.

As we’ve repeatedly observed in the past, it’s almost as if…gasp!!!…law enforcement doesn’t want the perps apprehended, and when arrested, not to suffer any meaningful consequences for their crimes.

All of which is par for the course for a crowd, as NRO‘s Rich Lowry accurately assesses, whose nominal leader…

Joe Biden Is Not Normal

A funny thing happened on the way to renewed normality.

“…It’s not normal for a president to say things flagrantly at odds with his own administration’s position, but there was Joe Biden the other day saying that Vladimir Putin is committing genocide in Ukraine.

…It’s not normal for a president to be such a tepid performer that it’s very difficult for him to command a stage.

It’s not normal for a president to misspeak so routinely that it almost seems strange when he gets it right.

It’s not normal for a president to shovel trillions of dollars into a growing economy, and then still want to spend trillions more when it’s clear that inflation is a real problem.

It’s not normal for a president to want to suppress U.S. oil and gas production at the same time he begs OPEC to pump more.

It’s not normal for a president to open the floodgates for illegal migration at the southern border and pretend that if he doesn’t call the ensuing deluge a “crisis,” it somehow isn’t.

It’s not normal for a president to abandon his long-standing support for the Senate filibuster to try to pass a no-hope Democratic voting bill and warn of looming autocracy if the legislation doesn’t pass.

It’s not normal (or shouldn’t be) for a president to extend an eviction moratorium that he knows is illegal.

It’s not normal for a president to abandon Americans in a foreign country after his withdrawal of U.S. forces, against the advice of his generals, leads to a hostile force rapidly sweeping to power.

It’s not normal for a president’s son and brother to get millions of dollars in easy money from a company that is a cat’s-paw of the Chinese government.

It’s not normal for a first-term president to be on the verge of becoming a lame duck because almost no one believes his assurances that he’s going to run again (only 41 percent of Democrats in a recent Wall Street Journal poll say they think Biden will run in 2024).

It’s a badly divided country at a time of growing threats abroad and of declining faith in U.S. institutions. These are serious challenges that it would take deft, farsighted presidential leadership to overcome. Instead, what’s on offer isn’t even above-average presidential leadership, and that’s not going to change.

For Joe Biden, this rocky, uninspired performance is indeed the norm.“

Here’s the juice: it’s life once more imitating art…

…the only difference being, in our current life, Dr. Frankenstein’s reaction represents the American public’s realization Socialists and their MSM shills conspired to place what they knew to be an abnormal brain in the White House.

In a related item, this graph forwarded by Jeff  Foutch should put to rest Progressive propagandist’s attempts to portray inflation…

…as a Putin problem.

This meme courtesy of Speed puts matters in a perfectly proper perspective:

Next, we offer a quintet of items specially selected for inquiring Conservative minds:

(1). Charlie Cooke highlights the tenuous grip on reality displayed by a cable “news” network that doesn’t reach 1 million viewers in prime time believing they could cajole 15 million people into PAYING to watch its content online.

(2). Courtesy of our old buddy Chink, the WSJ reveals the secret behind Ukraine’s military success: Years of NATO training which have been transformed a once-rigid, Soviet-style force into a modern army that thinks on the move.

(3). Writing at NRO, Andrew Follett informs us Joe Biden’s NASA has found a way to inject woke identity politics into the space agency’s plans to return to the moon by explicitly pledging to select only astronauts of certain genders and races. This while ignoring why the rocket that will carry said PC astronauts was five years late and eight times more expensive than original estimates.  Thus does Biden’s team deliberately distract from real costs concerns by mouthing meaningless mumbo jumbo about gender and race.

(4). Townhall.com‘s Spencer Brown reports House Democrats once again blocked a Republican bill to reopen U.S. energy projects to combat the skyrocketing cost of fuel, a direct result of the Biden clown car’s idiotic, unachievable anti-fossil fuel agenda.  

(5). The Morning Jolt suggests Disney is fighting a losing battle in which it never should have engaged:

“The company, in short, finds itself engaged in a game it simply cannot win. On one side is some number of its own employees — we do not even know if it’s a majority or simply a very loud faction — berating the company for not “doing enough” to stop this law, as if Disney had been elected to run the state of Florida. On the other side is Florida’s government, its vocal governor who is insusceptible to bullies, and — important to note — some not insignificant portion of its customers.

…Let’s leave aside the silliness of the notion that Disney has some moral obligation to bully Florida’s legislators and governor into enacting the company’s preferred social agenda. Focus on what Iger is saying — and what Chapek and Disney have also said — about the law itself. This is a law, again, that forbids teaching sexual topics such as “gender identity” to children between the ages of four and nine. For all their blathering, not a single Disney executive has attempted to explain what precisely is so “harmful” and “immoral” about that.“

We hardly need note our thoughts on the subject:

Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:

Then there’s these from Ed Hickey…

…the lovely Shannon…

…and Balls Cotton:

If the humor in the last one isn’t immediately evident, think “B-4”.

Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with the Progressive Propaganda Page, courtesy today of a…

Math Assignment in Missouri Teaching Children About Maya Angelou’s Past of Sexual Abuse, Work as Prostitute

Is it any wonder so many kids today are mathematically challenged?!?

Magoo

Video of the Day

Jesse Watters AGAIN tells it EXACTLY like it is!!!

Tales of The Darkside

Tucker’s right: NO ONE has EVER seen ANYTHING like this before, and it took the likes of Joe
Biden to provide such an INCREDIBLY embarrassing spectacle.

On the Lighter Side

Another classic video from Ami Horowitz. We were struck by the fact so many respondents suddenly had to go to class when confronted with the glaring inconsistency in their 2nd Amendment thoughts, once again proving a refusal to engage in reasoned debate is the last refuge of those unable to defend their positions.