Maggie's Farm

 The Return of the Tradwife

 Trump Is Right to Go After Harvard

Med Schools Replace Medical Merit With Obesity Denial And DEI Doctrine, Watchdog Reports

TGIF: Vladimir, STOP! President Donald Trump, joined by First Lady Melania Trump and the Easter Bunny, delivers remarks during the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House. We bid adieu to the woke pope. Trump embraces Deportation Nation. Young’uns fall in love with the right. RFK gets a win. Harvard teaches Chinese paramilitants. And much more.

 Rod Dreher: ‘Cry More, Libs’ Is Not a Strategy

New Evidence Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia Drops... And It’s Bad

 Germany Downgrades Growth Outlook, Now Expects Recession For Record 3rd Year, Blames Trump

The People of Carthage Weren’t Who We Thought They Were. The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.

The View’s Abortion Lovers Decry Trump Plan to Increase U.S. Birth Rate

 Genetic Factors Predominate in Autism Risk

 Archeologist's Comment On Human Sacrifice Exposes Inanity Of 'Oppression Studies' Mindset

 Princeton’s War on Civil Rights - The university has entrenched a system of racial discrimination—against whites.

 Do Elite Universities Really Wish to Fight the Federal Government?

 Harvard prez ‘didn’t come back to the table’ – decided to sue – after positive talks with Trump admin, Education Secretary Linda McMahon says

Wherefore Harvard?

 UK To Greenlight Experiments To "Dim The Sun" In Bid To Stop Global Warming

 Europe whacks American Big Tech with $797 million fine. Meta cries ‘tariff’

 Congressional Dems’ support from young Americans hits new low with just 23% approval rating

From Louis to Larry: Why Comics Keep Calling Trump ‘Hitler’

 Back With A Vengeance: Nina Jankowicz Calls On Europeans To Oppose The US

High-Level Ukraine Peace Talks Scrapped After Rubio, Witkoff Pull Out Last Minute

 ‘THE MAN WITH NO CARDS TO PLAY’: Americans, Russians and Even Ukrainians TORCH Zelensky for Grandstanding in the Face of a Catastrophe

 Trump Warns Zelenskyy: Accept Peace or Lose the Country

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was an interesting character.

Not all of his work was like Madame X. He did paintings of WW1. Here's his Gassed.

Tyler Cowen has read a lot

 Social work doctoral student who refused to tout social justice flees academia

French “Great Replacement” Philosopher Renaud Camus Banned From Entering UK

The feds’ Penn Station takeover is ALL about protecting taxpayers from NY pols’ seedy schemes

Trump’s DOJ Targets Google, Urges Judge To Force Sale Of Chrome Browser

Weds. Potpourri

MSNBC host Jen Psaki makes stunning admission about liberal network’s coverage of Trump

 Count how many times they say “Maryland Man” or “Maryland Father” in just 90 seconds.

 Scott Jennings: The Elites Sent a Message to Maher -- And Everyone Else

 Colorado Democrats Think You’re an Idiot

 Senator Van Hollen Claims Illegal Aliens Have U.S. “Constitutional Rights”

Dems getting even more unhinged

UK Electrical Grid Rescued by Gas

Kling: Small Machine Warfare, Revisited:

 In warfare, armies will be implementing robots with two capabilities. One capability is to infiltrate the enemy’s infrastructure. The other capability is to go off the grid for long periods, in order to be able to evade detection and be independent of GPS.

How alligators are breathing life into Florida's Everglades

How the IPCC Buried the Medieval Warm Period

Democrat Judge Blocks NYC Mayor From Cooperating With ICE

"Inadmissible aliens" graph

 Parents’ Rights Gets Its Day in Court. Plus. . .The Roman family walks to the basketball hoop in their neighborhood. Trans comments cost him his job; now he’s a millionaire. Will Trump’s tariffs kill global MAGA? Another Pete Hegseth group chat snafu. And more

 The City of Oakland, CA Is in the Very Best of Hands

Is the Outrage Farming Working?

What's the deal with NGOs?

 Trump to Bureaucrats: Follow the Law. The president’s memo insists that federal agencies comply with recent Supreme Court rulings.

Can Democrats Pivot to the Center? The party’s activist wing is formidable.

 Casting Off the Oppression of the Race Hustle

" By all appearances, something went wrong. The world is not as we would wish it to be. Economies are stagnating, not growing. What can we do to right these floundering ships of state?"

According to Professor Aaron Benanav, the solution lies in socialist redistribution.

 Hillary ‘the Russia Hoaxer’ Clinton wants to imprison people for ‘propaganda’

 Is Europe Still Fighting Lost Energy Wars?

 Argentina’s Scientists Create Gene-Edited Polo “Super Ponies”

 Eli Lilly finds its weight-loss pill works just as well as Ozempic — and investors are loving it

 Is Transmania Over?

 “Every time I see those cars, I see Elon Musk saluting the country as a Nazi,”

President Trump’s Promising Push To Deregulate Plastics

 When Good Academics Do Bad Things - In a recent speech delivered at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, a Quillette editor describes lessons he learned while investigating the school’s teachers college.

 The glamour and grit of J.K. Rowling

VDH:  Trump’s Counterrevolution Strategy: Flood the Zone, Drain the Swamp

Is Trump breaking the law?

 When Judges Become Prosecutors: The Curious Case of Judge Boasberg

Mass Hearings and Due Process by Zoom: A Modest Judicial Proposal

 A Smug Van Hollen ADMITS Taxpayers Funded His Political Stunt to ‘Sip Margaritas’ with Wife Beater and MS-13 Gang Member in El Salvador

Media’s ‘Maryland man’ narrative collapses, but Democrats still coddle Abrego Garcia

 Confidence In Democratic Leadership Sinks To Record Low As Party Implodes

 MSNBC Suggests Trump Plans to Deport African-Americans

 Rep. Jamie Raskin Promises Retaliation For Those Unleashing ‘Fascist Chaos’ on America When Democrats Return to Power

David Hogg Trashes Democracy As a Political System

 Jewish Governor Gives $5M Grant to Mosque That Called Jews ‘Vilest People’

One Easter Night in Europe

"Be not affrighted. Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him." Mark 16:6

Christ, the Lord, is risen today, Alleluia!
Sons of men and angels say, Alleluia!
Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia!
Sing, ye heavens, and earth, reply, Alleluia!

Love's redeeming work is done, Alleluia!
Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia!
Lo! the Sun's eclipse is over, Alleluia!
Lo! He sets in blood no more, Alleluia!

Vain the stone, the watch, the seal, Alleluia!
Christ hath burst the gates of hell, Alleluia!
Death in vain forbids His rise, Alleluia!
Christ hath opened paradise, Alleluia!

Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia!
Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia!
Once He died our souls to save, Alleluia!
Where thy victory, O grave? Alleluia!

Soar we now where Christ hath led, Alleluia!
Following our exalted Head, Alleluia!
Made like Him, like Him we rise, Alleluia!
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia!

The wonderful tune which brings back every Easter in one's life, and a few tears, too. Composer? Unknown. Words by Charles Wesley, 1739. The verses were written for the opening of the Wesleyan Chapel in London, in an old foundry. Hence the term Foundry Collection of hymns.

The rest of Wesley's verses of the song are on the continuation page, below.

Tonight is the 250-Year Anniversary of Paul Revere’s Ride – Read His Personal Telling of The Story

 Half The Universe's Matter Was Missing. Astronomers Just Found It.

 These Large, Snake-Like Fish Are Invading the United States—and Authorities Want You to Kill Them

  You’ve Been Lied to About Rats and the Black Death. Recent research suggests that rats may not have played a critical role in the spread of plague. What can that tell us about outbreaknarratives and their importance?

Saturday Miscellany

 New York Just Can't Catch A Break On The March To Climate Utopia

 Washington State Quietly Drops Investigation Into Therapist Who Refused to Succumb to Gender Ideology in Her Practice

 ‘Discriminatory’: Cornell agriculture internship only open to ‘Indian tribe’ students

Katy Perry’s space jaunt was galaxy-level cringe

 Trump vs. the Ivy League Week in Education

 'We Are Not the Same'

For Democrats, how to frame the Abrego Garcia case?

Supreme Court Halts New Trump Deportations Under Wartime Law

My only real beef with this is that you can't compare Hillsdale College with an educational industrial giant like Harvard. Hillsdale College does not need government grants.

What if everything they told you was a lie?

Updike update

 Here’s how gossiping is good for your mental health, according to experts

Well, it is a sin

 Kids’ education suffered irreversible damage during COVID pandemic lockdowns – new book holds media, pols accountable

Texas will be the 16th state to endorse universal school choice

TGIF: Homegrown Criminals - Republicans head to El Salvador, Bernie goes to Coachella, Trump sets his sights on Harvard, the White House hosts Holy Week, RFK Jr. gets to the bottom of autism, and Chinese ‘peasants’ clap back.

 Everything is racist at PBS

 Democrat senator ignites fury as he 'sips margaritas' with deported illegal in El Salvador

David Brooks wants to stop Trump

He's unclear about why

 Politico: Guess Where Voters Are Getting Tired of La Résistance?

 I Shan't Sleep a Wink Tonight Knowing How We Have Disappointed Europe

Nice place to visit...

Vienna schools now majority Muslim

Statistically likely, right?

Would it have to be carbon-based, like ours? And why would it be like anything we imagine?

 Madhusudhan said that with hycean worlds, if they exist, "we are talking about microbial life, possibly like what we see in the Earth's oceans."

I like grilled butterflied lamb. Tzatziki might be great with it.

Never made it (usually use homemade mint sauce) but I might like Tzatziki better.

Greek yogurt, dill, garlic, etc. Sounds good, but tricky to spell.

 Lexington and Concord at 250

 ‘Colonial dysphoria’ causes ‘distress’ for minority students, professor says

 Teen Drowns In Rip Current At A South Florida Beach During Annual Spring Break Tourism Surge

Ocean swimmers need to know

 People with intellectual humility tend to handle relationship conflicts better, new study finds

 Are Foreigners Entitled To The Same Protest Rights As Natural American Citizens?

 Harvard’s president rejected Trump’s demands. Here’s how other university leaders have responded to the White House

 AI Bot Flips Wall Street on Its Head

Guardian:  The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism

 Karmelo Anthony’s family adds a new ride to list of luxuries they’re buying after raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars under pretense of ‘legal defense’

 Tax Day Truth Bomb: Where Your Climate Dollars Really Went

 Trying To Figure Out How Much Of The Government Grants Goes To Left-Wing Causes And Propaganda

 UK Supreme Court Rules A Trans-Woman Is Not A Woman

"' New York Attorney General Letitia James — who infamously declared that “no one is above the law” when she was targeting Donald Trump — was hit with a federal criminal referral for instances of alleged mortgage fraud on Tuesday, according to a letter obtained by The Post"

Potpourri

Cody Balmer’s firebomb attack on Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro driven by antisemitism, ‘what he wants to do to Palestinian people’

More by mental illness, it seems

 You'll Never Believe What Slow Learners the Democrats Are

 Trump Turns Off the ‘Disinformation’ Spigot. Plus. . .Is Trump defying the Supreme Court? Jed Rubenfeld says: Hold on a minute. Should Luigi Mangione get the death penalty? We battle it out. Ross Douthat makes the rational case for faith. And more.

 Democrat Sen Chris Van Hollen Suffers Humiliating Rejection After Flying to El Salvador to Meet with Alleged MS-13 Gang Member Abrego Garcia

Donald Trump is right to think of Greenland as an area of potentially dangerous vulnerability for the U.S.

 "It Doesn't Fit In With Dutch Culture!" - Conservative MPs Call For Ban On Amplified Islamic Calls To Prayer

 JD Vance: My message to Europe is America doesn’t want a vassal continent

 Is Civil War Coming to Europe?

Two things that save time and make life better:

- Instacart

- Doordash

Do readers agree?

There are so many time-waster things, but this is a likeable guy:

 Would a couples therapist ever tell you to break up?

 Right-Hegel Meets Left-Hegel - The misreading of Hegel that Alexandre Kojève shared with Leo Strauss

 Trump vs. Harvard. Plus. . .

 How Much Does Each US Wealth Bracket Pay In Income Taxes?

Bernie Sanders at Coachella shows time is not on the Democrats’ side. The optics looked like a lefty senior citizen in a desperate attempt to win back the love of a nihilistic, Bushwick-dwelling grandchild

 Democrat Rep. Laura Friedman Says the Quiet Part Out Loud — Admits House Democrats Meet “Every Single Week” with Far-Left AGs to Plot Lawfare Against Trump Agenda

 Why Progressives Increasingly Support Violence - A new survey finds more than half of left-wing respondents believe assassinating Donald Trump could be justified.

 Newsom Signs Bill to Cover Free Healthcare for Illegal Immigrants

The Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

How Sweden’s multicultural dream went fatally wrong. Child soldiers, gang violence and murders for hire blight the once-famously peaceful country, journalist Diamant Salihu tells The Telegraph 

 The MAGA War on Ukraine - Why does so much of the US Right hate a country valiantly resisting a war of aggression?

I was curious about the term. No, they are mostly not rare at all, but are materials that can be difficult to extract.

Perplexity says:  While rare earths are relatively abundant, they are difficult to extract because they are often mixed with other minerals and require complex, costly processes to separate them at usable purity levels. This makes economically exploitable deposits sparse, even though the elements themselves are widespread.

Do we load faster yet? Working on it.

Damn shame that I lost my links this morning but that won't be normal.

Instead, these Easter eggs have already hatched (Owls, hawks, and eagles lay eggs early):

Easter menus from New York’s restaurant past

Think reptiles like crocodiles and caimans are slow learners? It’s probably because you’re human.

Women unconsciously tune into infant distress, regardless of parental status, study finds

Dave Portnoy unloads on ‘lazy, entitled’ Gen Z as they take over the workplace

The Climate Crisis Con Game

Stanford Activists Charged with Felonies for Building Takeover

Trump Authorizes Military Occupation Of Public Land Along Southern Border To Repel Migrant ‘Invasions’

Trump’s aggressive approach to border pays off

CDC Staff Cuts Alarm Anti-Gun Advocates

All Eyes on Vance as Turmoil Over Gutting USAID Grows

Are the Democrats drifting further Left?

CNN Calls Poll 'Shocking' as GOP, Dems Tie on Empathy

Here’s What Blew Bill Maher’s Mind After Having Dinner With Trump

Kamala Harris mocked for reported interest in think tank creation: ‘The Coconut Tree Institute’

The Future of Foreign Aid

David Stockman On Why The Houthis Aren't America's Problem

The EU Thinks It Can Rob America Blind

The Most Important 4-Minutes On America's Middle East Wars We Have Ever Heard