Highlights of the News

ITEM 1: The Daily Mail reported, "Embattled QAnon congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene 'openly cheated' on her husband of 25 years with a polyamorous tantric sex guru and then moved on to another affair with the manager at her gym."

Conservative women know they have arrived when the hedonistic press accuses them of adultery. The press demands that they wear the letter A on their clothing.

A decade ago, the press trotted out false rumors about Nikki Haley.

After Donald Trump's successful presidency, I really don't care if a politician has an affair -- as long as they don't screw the country.

ITEM 2: The Washington Post reported, "We're facing a massive spike in violent crime. Democrats can't take it lightly. "

Why not?

Nine decades of Democrat mayors in Chicago have ignored violent crime. Democrat mayors across the land do. In Baltimore, a mayor encouraged riots and mayhem.

As long as Democrats misrepresent black criminals as victims of racism, the crime will continue. And I have a suspicion that high crime lines Democrat pockets.

Until people in big cities wise up and vote Democrats out, they will continue to live a life of being locked up while criminals freely roam their streets.

ITEM 3: Forbes reported, "Senators are tuning out as former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial grinds into its third day, with many falling asleep and more than a dozen Republicans exiting the chamber at various intervals."

The story also said, "On both sides of the aisle, a general malaise was setting in, with many senators reportedly appearing to struggle to stay awake, including Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.)."

Sanders, Carper, and Toomey all voted to hold this charade.

Well, finally a Democrat Congress has accomplished something. It cured insomnia.

ITEM 4:  DISCRN reported, "Washington National Cathedral blasted for inviting a preacher who affirms the Bible’s teaching on sexuality."

He is an evangelist named Max Lucado.

The Daily Wire reported that a petition is circulating to cancel having a Christian speak in the cathedral. It reads, "Lucado’s teachings and preaching inflicts active harm on LGBTQ people.

"To cite one example, in 2004 he wrote of his fears that homosexuality would lead to ‘legalized incest’ and likened same-sex marriage to incest and bestiality.

"Fear-mongering and dehumanizing messages from powerful speakers like Lucado have been used to justify rollbacks of LGBTQ rights and to exclude LGBTQ people from civil protections and sacred rites."

Sacred rites?

The craziness continues.

ITEM 5: Red State reported, "Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is making the rounds of shows getting the evidence out there in regards to the impeachment to counter a lot of the spin which Democrats have been engaging in.

"We reported yesterday on how he told President Donald Trump that the case was essentially over because he didn’t see Republicans convicting based on where they were at on the constitutionality and based on the facts of the case.

"Graham appeared on Fox with Sean Hannity last night and again took apart the Democrats’ case, refuting it with the evidence that Democrats didn’t bother to look for before blindly voting to impeach President Donald Trump on snap impeachment."

WARNING: The Surgeon General has determined that any statement by Lindsey Graham can cause whiplash when he states the opposite thing the next day.

ITEM 6: The Daily Caller reported, "Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would not allow Republican New York Rep. Claudia Tenney to have her son present in the gallery for her swearing-in Thursday, Tenney told the Daily Caller.

"Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer sent out a tweet Thursday morning with the news that Pelosi denied Tenney’s request to let her son, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, watch her get sworn in from above the floor in the gallery. The Daily Caller contacted Tenney about the news, to which she confirmed it was true."

The congresswoman said Pelosi's office rebuffed requests to include the son.

Tenney said "I guess he’s considered a risk."

Decent and patriotic people are a risk to this regime.

ITEM 7: Emerald Robinson tweeted, "The good news: the Trump Years were an extinction-level event for the old 'conservative' pundit class: Kristol, Hayes, Boot, Brooks, Will, Gerson, Goldberg, Frum, Noonan, Lowry, Ponnuru, French, Erickson, Stoddard, Rubin, Meachum, Stephens. 

"RIP to all of them."

I would add to the list but why bother? It was a point well made.

ITEM 8: The Tampa Bay Times reported, "White House looks at domestic travel restrictions as virus variant surges in Florida."

Flashback to March 28, 2020, when CNBC reported, "New York Gov. Cuomo says Trump has no authority to impose quarantine: ‘It would be illegal’ "

A Muslim Floridian should call this a Muslim ban, and find a Hawaiian judge to overturn it.

ITEM 9: CBS reported, "Criminal charges have been dropped against two police officers seen on video last spring shoving a 75-year-old protester to the ground in Buffalo, New York, prosecutors said Thursday.

"A grand jury declined to indict Buffalo Officers Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalski on felony assault charges, Erie County District Attorney John Flynn said, ending a matter that drew national attention at the height of protests over the police killing of George Floyd."

Floyd was not killed. He died in police custody.

Police are put in awkward situations. My suggestion is just do what they tell you to do. They have guns.

ITEM 10: Deutsche Welle reported, "The head of the Tokyo Olympics 2020, Yoshiro Mori, is expected to resign on Friday over sexist comments he had made earlier this month, implying women talk too much.

"Mori, a former prime minister, had initially apologized but refused to step down. This drew a lot of criticism from sponsors, pundits, and an online petition that drew more than 150,000 signatures."

How bizarre is it that people who preach tolerance never accept an apology and move on.

ITEM 11: The Daily Beast reported, "Jordan Klepper Takes on MAGA Impeachment Protesters."

Wow, what a brave little coward.

Everyone in the media mocks MAGA.

Lets see him take on BLM or Antifa.

ITEM 12: S&P Global Platts reported, "The Midcontinent led the surge in US gas prices in Feb. 11 trading as a sharp rise in heating demand met with regional production freeze-offs, significantly tightening balances across the much of the Central US.

"At One Oak Gas Transmission, Southern Star and Enable Gas, spot prices reached record highs around $85, $45 and $30/MMBtu, respectively. At other hubs, including ANR Oklahoma, Panhandle and NGPL Midcontinent, prices hit their highest in seven years, topping $16, $14 and $12/MMBtu, respectively."

The gas man's taken all my dough,

And left me in my heated home.

All I want's a sunny afternoon.

ITEM 13: The New York Post reported, "John Micklethwait, the top editor of Bloomberg News, blasted the rank and file for spotty performance over the past year as he unveiled cuts of approximately 90 people in the editorial and research departments.

"The cuts amount to just under 3% of the employees that currently number about 3,100."

Micklethwait wrote, "We all know that we also ‘lost’ stories because we moved too slowly.

"Teams waited for somebody to back-read a piece or ignored the requests from the News Desk to get a blast out quickly. Managers spent too much time setting up conference calls when they should just have been writing. Or teams suddenly delivered enterprise pieces that nobody wanted.

“Covid has highlighted these strengths and weaknesses. But in truth they have been evident for some time."

Wow.

What a throwback.

Newsroom chiefs are usually cheerleaders nowadays who never seem to call anyone out for errors in stories and the like.

I am willing to bet that most staffers wanted to hear this.

ITEM 14: The New York Post reported, "Read the column the New York Times didn’t want you to read."

Bret Stephens wrote a column the publisher didn't like because it was about the Times firing a longtime reporter after staff complaints.

Very insider.

But also relevant.

The column ended, "We are living in a period of competing moral certitudes, of people who are awfully sure they’re right and fully prepared to be awful about it. Hence the culture of cancellations, firings, public humiliations and increasingly unforgiving judgments. The role of good journalism should be to lead us out of this dark defile. Last week, we went deeper into it."

We have lived in this world for a very long time as we move from protecting individual rights to appeasing groups of victims. 

What woke Stephens is it happened to someone he liked.

ITEM 15: The Associated Press reported, "Valparaiso University announced Thursday that it is dropping the team name Crusaders, the school mascot and all logos associated with the term that it says has been embraced by hate groups. The decision comes after a decades-long debate that had intensified recently because groups such as the Ku Klux Klan began using the symbols and words."

These are the same people who tell us calling a team the Indians humiliates Native Americans.

I think the left just wants to change everything for change's sake.