 Dear Weekend Jolter, As for NR's Cancel Culture webathon, which ends on Monday upcoming, with a goal of $350,000, now about $40,000 in the distance, please consider giving, and if it takes a video of Your Humble and Pleaful Author to bring your generous inclination to fruition, then do watch it. Done through closed fingers here. (Consider watching too if you get your jollies over a Bronx accent.) Now: The man who initiated America's harsh partisanship — once upon an overseeing of the hi-tech lynching of uppity blacks, as Mr. C. Thomas might put it, and did — had his first press conference as President, where he talked of fantasies about children starving in Mexico deserts courtesy of Mr. Trump. Our Leader, Mr. Lowry, concluded, having watched the performance, that Joe Biden is big-fat lying: The Biden press conference was a train wreck and disgrace on the border. He repeated the Alejandro Mayorkas line that Trump was just pushing unaccompanied minors back into Mexico, when the truth is that they were flown home and handed over to social-service agencies in their countries. He then went even further, referring to Trump letting minors starve and die. He maintained that Trump hadn't diminished the flow at the border, which is completely false. He gave no indication of any serious plan for us to do a better job of policing our own border, instead emphasizing building more shelters to house the migrants who are coming in record numbers. And he missed the point when a reporter asked a question about a small boy from Central America whose mother told the reporter she had sent him because she believed that Biden would let him into the United States. This performance would be roasted from beginning to end by fact-checkers — if they had any integrity.
The fish stinking from the head, Our Esteemed Editor also found that Mr. Biden's Homeland Security boss, one Alejandro Mayorkas, too is a consummate fibber when it comes to the insanity on our Southern border. From the assessment: It should be perfectly obvious what's happening at the border, but the Biden administration and journalistic allies are denying it all the same. Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been leading the way with a haze of misrepresentations. On Sunday, he said that Title 42, the public-health authority the Trump administration used to quickly remove migrants during the pandemic, is largely still in place. "The border is closed," he said. "We are expelling families. We are expelling single adults. And we've made a decision that we will not expel young, vulnerable children." This is not true. It is a symptom of the crisis at the border that Border Patrol has been overwhelmed and simply releasing people. . . . By way of blaming Trump for the crisis, Mayorkas said on Sunday, "Please remember something, that President Trump dismantled the orderly, humane and efficient way of allowing children to make their claims under United States law in their home countries. He dismantled the Central American Minors program." This is preposterous. An analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies explains the history. In response to the border crisis on its watch, the Obama administration created the Central American Minors program in 2014 to allow parents in the U.S. to petition for minors in the Northern Triangle to come to the United States. It was of limited use because it required that the parents be legally within the United States (when most parents who would have been interested are here illegally), while the minors had to qualify for refugee status (unlikely, since the Northern Triangle countries, whatever their other failures, generally aren't persecuting people).
These are bad people. Very bad. Now, let us get on to the WJ. But do remember, as mentioned in our last edition: Get Neal B. Freeman’s excellent new (spiritually timely too) book, Walk with Me: An Invitation to Faith. Available here. NAME. RANK. LINK. EDITORIALS Desert fibbing from Cornpop's intimidator: Biden Press Conference: President Lied about Border Crisis Say it ain't so, Kristi: Governor Noem Capitulates; Transgender-Bill Veto Sets Dangerous Precedent The 51st State mistake: D.C. Statehood Is an Idea Whose Time Should Never Come Gun-control defies claptrap-control: President Biden Ignoring the Second Amendment Is Not a 'Commonsense' Step EU is stuck . . . for vaccine common sense: The European Union's Vaccine Rollout Is a Disaster Unfolding ARTICLES Charles C.W. Cooke: The President’s Lies Are Brazen Beyond Belief David Harsanyi: Cakebaker Jack Phillips' Never-Ending Persecution Cameron Hilditch: Religious Liberty in America: Why It Matters Rich Lowry: Iowa Congressional Election: Stop the Steal Madeleine Kearns: Bring Back the Slap Alexandra DeSanctis: Kristi Noem's Sports-Bill Veto Was a Mistake Pradheep Shanker: Atlanta Shootings: The Left's Anti-Asian Racism Narrative Is Misleading Tristan Yang: Columbia University's Segregated Graduations Exposes Woke Corruption Jimmy Quinn: No, Condemning the CCP Is Not 'Panic' Michael Brendan Dougherty: A Quick Return to Normal Life Means It's Vital to Stop More Coronavirus Regulations Elizabeth Heng: How Republicans Can Win in California John Fund: IDs Required for COVID Vaccination but Not for Voting? Philip Klein: Joe Biden Doesn’t Even Pretend to Care about Deficits Charles C.W. Cooke: Joe Biden's Domestic Policy: Warning Lights Are Flashing, Does He See Them? Martha Bradley-Doresy and Robert Maranto: Bureaucracy and Government Monopoly Have Conquered Our Schools, and Biden Won't Fix It Jay Cost: In Defense of the U.S. Senate Mackubin Thomas Owens: Accusations of Rampant Racism and Extremism in Military Ranks Are False and Damaging Kyle Smith: New York City: Not a 'Luxury Product' Anymore CAPITAL MATTERS Stephen Soukup reveals the ugly history of P.C. investing: Woke Asset Managers Wield Increasing Political Power Jordan McGillis sees Biden's green policies floating in red ink: The Biden Administration's Climate Cost Problem Steve Hanke knocks the stuffing out of Turkey's thrill for Islamic finance: Erdogan's Love Affair Richard Morrison warns of bureaucrats unbound: The SEC's Regulatory Creep LIGHTS. CAMERA. REVIEWS. Kyle Smith admits to a screen crush: Audrey Documentary Reveals the Original People's Princess Armond White is beguiled: Shoplifters of the World Captures the Spirit of Smiths' Tunes COPIOUS CONSERVATIVE COMMENTARIES, EACH LAYERED WITH EXCEPTIONAL EXCERPTS Editorials 1. He finally faced the microphones, and softballs, and no surprise, Joe Biden, the former Neal Kinnock channeler, told brazen doozies. From the editorial: Reporters aren't in the practice, obviously, of being particularly tough on President Biden. But at his first press conference as president this afternoon, Cecilia Vega of ABC News politely nailed him to the wall on a key failure of his border policy. She told an affecting story of meeting a nine-year-old boy at the border who had walked to the U.S. from Honduras, and said that when she called the boy's mother, the woman explained that she had sent him to the U.S. because she believed that Biden would let him into the country. This, of course, is exactly why there's been a surge at the border. Biden created an exemption in Title 42 — the public-health authority that President Trump had used to turn back migrants during the pandemic — specifically for minors, and predictably there's been a surge of minors. In evading this reality throughout the press conference, Biden resorted to a haze of misrepresentations, and inadvertently exposed the senselessness of his own policy. In response to Vega, he echoed a distortion often made by his Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and said that Trump had dumped children into the Mexican desert. Except Biden made the charge even more lurid by alleging that Trump had let children starve to death.
2. Kristi Noem capitulates to the NCAA and others with a dangerous, precedent-setting veto of South Dakota's transgenderism / girls-sports legislation. From the editorial: Appearing on Fox News to justify her decision to an indignant Tucker Carlson, Noem claimed she acted after consulting with legal scholars for "many, many months" and had been "working on this issue for years." In other words: Trust me, there's a great strategy here! Except that there isn't. And whoever these legal scholars are, Noem would be advised to immediately dump them. Her veto, which made sweeping substantive changes rather than small stylistic ones, was a flagrant violation of her powers and sets an unwelcome precedent for future governors to abuse their powers in a similar way. Noem told Carlson that the "real issue" with the bill, as presented to her, was that "it wouldn't solve the problem" of boys being allowed into girls' sports, since it "would only allow the NCAA to bully South Dakota" and thus "prevent women from being able to participate in collegiate sports." An alternative, she suggested, would be to pursue justice for female athletes and defeat the NCAA by building "a coalition." This meant ... READ MORE
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