Notorious J6 Jailer Plays Victim
Julie Kelly, Substack
After running roughshod over J6ers for four years, Howell now insists she is the victim of an “ad hominem attack” by the Trump DOJ, which last week asked Howell to recuse herself from presiding over a lawsuit brought by Perkins Coie, the infamous law firm responsible for the Steele dossier. The DOJ’s detailed account of her open hostility toward Trump and his supporters, Howell argued, represented “innuendo,” an “attack [on] the messenger,” and an attempt to “impugn the integrity of the federal judicial system”.

Europe Is No Longer Worth Defending
Scott McKay, The American Spectator
There is nothing left to defend in Europe. We’ve spent trillions of dollars rebuilding and securing the continent from threats of fascism and communism, and it’s nonetheless descending into the same failed state. Europe’s elites will stick it to its commonfolk, no matter what form — feudalism and serfdom, or fascism and communism, or the modern hydra of wokeness, climate change nuttery, and multicultural suicide — that might take. Salvaging what value Europe’s corpse might offer is the best way to recoup our lost investment.

Trump Has Called April 2 ‘Liberation Day’—What’s Happening?
Andrew Moran, The Epoch Times
The president is set to unveil his administration’s reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trading partners. This initiative is to feature the United States matching tariff rates set by other countries on American goods. “If they charge us, we charge them,’’ the president said in February. “If they’re at 25, we’re at 25. If they’re at 10, we’re at 10. And if they’re much higher than 25, that’s what we are too.’’ Whatever happens, Trump has touted April 2 as the day that the United States will get its “money” and “respect” back.

Elon Musk Announces DOGE Will Investigate Lawmakers Who Are ‘Strangely Wealthy’
Just the News (Misti Severi), The Star News Network
Elon Musk shared that the DOGE has selected its new target: Lawmakers who are worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars despite a modest, by comparison, public salary. Regular senators and House lawmakers currently earn $174,000 annually, while Senate leaders earn $193,400 per year, according to the upper chamber’s website. That salary would not explain how some lawmakers are now worth tens of millions, even after decades in the chamber. People like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are worth hundreds of millions.

Albuquerque GOP HQ Torched and Vandalized: ‘ICE = KKK’ Spray-Painted on Building
Craig Bannister, MRCTV.org
The Republican Party’s Albuquerque headquarters was set on fire and spray-painted with the words “ICE = KKK” on Sunday. “Agents working with local authorities recovered unspecified ‘incendiary materials’ at the scene,” an ATF spokesperson told the AP. Republican Party of New Mexico Chairwoman Amy Barela called the incident “a deliberate act of arson.” “The New Mexico headquarters has become a frequent target over the last few years, facing other acts of vandalism and one instance of a bomb threat,” Fox News reports.

The annual White House correspondents’ dinner fiasco
Byron York, Washington Examiner
The dinner won’t have a comedian, which, given some performances in the past, might be a good thing. But the event will raise a fundamental question for the media: Why are we doing this? Long before Trump, there were critics who advocated ending the dinner, calling it an unseemly and borderline-appropriate Washington ritual. That was true when journalists mostly loved the president, like the Obama years. Then the dinner was a train wreck for Trump’s first administration. Now it promises to be more of the same. Why go through it?
 

Teachers Unions Utilize ‘NewsGuard’ to Censor Education
David Catron, The American Spectator
The AFT and the NEA have long since embedded a dangerous censorship regime in the nation’s public school system and leftist cant in the heads of our children. We are already seeing the results of this on the campus of Columbia and other “elite” universities. Historically illiterate children are shrieking about the destruction of “our democracy” without enough genuine education to realize that they are the unwitting instruments of its real enemies. This is a far more ominous threat to the republic than some bungled group chat on Signal.