The News of Today is the History of Tomorrow
IN POLITICAL NEWS
I 1) In a society that actually cherished the law, this would be a very big deal. It looks like Rutabaga didn't even sign much of his legislation or executive orders. Ever. All but one in four years were signed by an "autopen." So technically does that make them all illegitimate? Even more interesting, the only doc he DID sign was his withdrawal from the DemoKKKrat race. Hence, Missouri AG Andrew Bailey (a truly great one) asked the DOJ to investigate if this invalidated the orders or if someone unauthorized to do so actually oversaw the "signing." You know like . . . ("You didn't sign that")
2) The Administration has cut off over $400 million in grants to Columbia University over the school's antisemitism. Other Ivy League cuts likely to follow.
3) Former Clinton pollster Doug Schoen says he and many other DemoKKKrats may have to leave the party after their antics at the State of the Union. Meanwhile, Trump has had a "quiet takeover" of Gen Z's streaming universe. More than that: even before the election, Trump, Lacivita, and Fabrizio set up some political arms to raise money AFTER the election to neuter the RNC, thereby making it irrelevant who ran it. He just had a big donor dinner: buy in? $1million. This slush fund has two major purposes: to nominate MAGA senate and House candidates, and to run up massive ad campaigns if any chinks in the armor appear.
4) Stranded astronauts confirmed that Rutabaga declined Musk's offer to bring them home.
5) The Texas AG Ken Paxon has made major inroads into DemoKKKrat toilet-swappers ActBlue, causing some to turn, many to quit.
6) The Secret Service had a confrontation with an armeda "suicidal" individual near the White House and shot him. Meanwhile, it has been reported that there was a staffer who nearly gained access to the SOTU with a gun, the fourth such incident of staffers having guns in or around the White House or President Trump's presence.
7) New Calcutta (LA) has lost track of billions of dollars of homeless "services."
8) The Hoax News Media keeps running sob stories about fired gubment employees. How many sob stories did they run about family businesses and farms destroyed by Rutabaga's regulations? How many did they run about entire companies wiped out by China Virus lockdowns? They have zero sympathy for ordinary working people or families.
9) Homeland Security is administering lie detector tests to prepare for prosecution of leakers.
10) So President Trump said to Elon, "Step back and let the Secretaries handle it." Elon: "Rubio hasn't fired anyone." Muy Macho Marko: "83% of USAID programs are gone!"
11) Ooooho, climatoid chitterchodes, better put some ice on that as SecDef Hegseth says the DoD "does not do climate crap."
IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS
IN CULTURAL NEWS
13) Stephen Miller has a legal "army" leading the assault on DEI.
14) I discussed this in my e-book All Thumbs: How Our Obsession with Phones & Devices is Damaging our Children: several new studies show that reading PRINT books is superior to reading on screen. Kids with print books in the house are almost twice as likely to read at level than kids with only screens or ebooks.
15) Interesting mini-study by Ryan Burge on religion and political education, that is, does religion correlate with being able to answer certain basic political questions. Answers are mixed, as black churches are at the very top and at the very bottom; Muslim- and Hindu-Americans have an anemic understanding of our politics; education, as always plays a key role; and overall, Republicans are more politically astute than Democrats, although upper-educated Ds hold the very highest slice by a hair.
IN TRANSOID NEWS
18) Not enough that Brits have to deal with knife-wielding Muslims. Now it's homosexuals taking over the parks for open-air sex. Good luck reversing that.
IN ECONOMIC NEWS
19) Stalled audits at the evil IRS? Fine with me. In DICTATOR LS's world, there would not be a single civilian or business audit until the Treasury, the Fed, and the Pentagram, er, Pentagon have been audited.
20) Elections matter as the U.S. has resumed its natural leadership in Liquified Natural Gas.
21) In his first jobs report, Trump added 10,000 manufacturing jobs after losing 9,000 the month before.
23) Federal layoffs and voluntary resignations showing up in jobs data: barely a blip but a massive shift from gubment jobs to private sector jobs. Meanwhile DOGE has uncovered hundreds of millions of fraud at HUD.
24) Auto delinquencies hanging over from Rutabaga have soared to 6.6%.
25) Trump's trust has sued Capital One for de-banking conservatives.
IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS
26) The former director of the Club of Rome reminds us that YOU are the "carbon" they really want to eliminate.
27) X has taken down thousands of accounts that backed the ChiComs through the commie rag, the New York Slimes.
28) The Trump administration shut down all federal funding of South Africa due to its criminal theft of white peoples' lands, and will offer an expedited path to citizenship for whites there.
29) Calin Georgescu will be allowed to run for president in Romania, and he will win.
30) The Euros' economies are in heap big trouble. See the equities market performance, for example, as just one of six charts supplied in this article.
31) Thousands of Uke troops face encirclement at Kursk. I had this the other day but now the Hoax News media is reporting it.
32) Fareed Zakaria is doing his best Peter Zeihan imitation saying that Trump has brought about a revolution and that the rest of the world is going to have to figure out how to survive without us. Good. Cuz this current model is NOT working for Americans. Oh, and Americans are sick of Euro entitltment attitudes. Meanwhile, Bjorn Lomborg, a climate "realist" (I actually think I'm the realist) says that rearmament is "inevitable" but paying for it is impossible and the Euros must not just ditch "net-zero" but run away from it in the other diretion as quickly as possible.
34) Over 1,000 killed including a number of Christians in Syria thanks to Clinton/Biden "regime change."
IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
35) Nichole Wallace's MNSBC ratings plunged after her vile comments about cancer survivor DJ Daniel, who was featured at the SOTU.
36) Answers in the Gene Hackman death, as his wife Arkawa died a week before he did. Afflicted with Alzheimer's, he apparently did not know what to do and died a week later in the house.
37) Good piece on "Who killed the Oscars?" In addition to the predictable (and correct) answers of the obsession with race, woke, marketing to only half (if that) of America), there is something else here that is apparently so big that even insiders like this writer don't see it because they are so close: the availability of actors to do television, streaming shows, and all sorts of "lesser" venues that NO actor in his right mind would have done 50 years ago has made them just too available. When Ronald Reagan agreed to do General Electric Theater, he understood it meant his movie career was over.
Only a revolution can save "big movies." It must involve several things that, in many ways, rebuild the old "studios system." First, movies must become scarce again. Disney put its films out in theaters and nowhere else for three years before bringing them back. If you want people to "go to the movies," you have to have a product that they CAN ONLY GET AT THE MOVIES! Don't stream it and don't put it on DVD. I know this is hard, and that's why only a revolution will pull it off. Second, the movies must be an "event" sort of like a night at the opera or a show. Theaters should have strict dress codes. Snack bars should be shut five minutes before the movie begins. ANY violation of cell phones should be strictly enforced. (You say none of this would work. Of course it would, but it would be a monumental commitment). Third, movie STARS must be strictly tied to movies with "do not competes' attached to anything else except perhaps ads with studio permission. If stars indeed want to be stars, they must be aloof, out of reach, special. Hence, when they do "red carpet" events again, NOW people will turn out because it's they only time they get to see these stars. Last, the "big movies" must be great. They must appeal to everyone and aim for minimum $1 billion in sales. All of this would require a decade-long commitment from a studio and stars. What they would find is that at first people just wouldn't believe it. But then, after a movie as big as, say, "ENDGAME" goes out of theaters and no one can see it again for years? People will begin to take it seriously. A movie must again become something special, an event, or they will cease to exist.
38) Princess Kate Middleton is back at her first Commonwealth Day event since she had cancer.
AND FINALLY . . .
39) Have you noticed? We've steadily seen an absence of color in dress and architecture, including McDonald's which has gone from red to blah. And an even deeper question: "Why build for kids when there aren't any?"
Larry Schweikart (@LarrySchwe94560)
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