3. Wait, now we are being told, by Energy Secretary Chris Wright no less, that Iran is “frighteningly close” to developing weapons-grade enriched uranium? How can that be? If we have sufficient intelligence to know that, why don’t we have enough information to destroy all of the labs? We were also just told that Iran has 30 operable missiles despite all of the bombing. I don’t understand this either. Why a cease fire, then? Wright said that Iran’s enriched uranium puts the regime just weeks away from the threshold needed to get a nuclear weapon. “They are a small number of weeks away to enrich that to weapons-grade uranium. There’s still a weaponization process that happens after that, but they’re quite close,” he told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

4. Nah, there’s no mainstream media bias! Around the web there are dozens of versions of this headline: “Trump: Halting Iran nuclear program outweighs Americans’ economic pain.” Of course he said that; it would be irresponsible to say anything else. I guess he could have said, “It’s worth the risk of Israel or the U.S. being fried by an Iranian nuke if gas could be a little cheaper…”

5. Speaking of trade-offs, LA’s Mayor Karen Bass actually said that taxpayers should be willing to pay for “new teeth” for homeless fentanyl addicts. I bet a lot of the woke and wonderful think this makes sense and that supplying free choppers to homeless addicts is the “right thing to do.”

6. The despicable New York Times doubled-down (a gambling term) on its publishing Nick Kristof’s nearly universally condemned piece about, among other things, Israel’s training dogs to rape Hamas prisoners. I wrote about this unethical piece by the Times and its once-respectable pundit here and there. I regard treating anyone treating the Kristof garbage with anything short of contempt as proof of an ethics vacuum.

Here was the Times standing behind its man and denying that it will retract his libel:

Look at that! It begins with citing Kristof’s past credentials, which is a reverse ad hominem: defending the act by deflecting to the actor. He’s “regarded” as a good reporter, which does not address the specifics of the report at issue. He didn’t “report firsthand” on what he alleged (without evidence), he reported hearsay testimony from sources that have an agenda against Israel and Jews.

7. I guess you can’t fix stupid, especially when it’s combined with ignorance and woke indoctrination. The Emerson Poll shows the disgraceful Karen Bass (see item #5), neck-and-neck as the most incompetent big city mayor in the nation, leading among competitors in the upcoming mayoral primary. Here’s her EA dossier. How is it possible that LA residents haven’t tarred and feathered her, never mind wanting to re-elect her?

8. Sen. Rand Paul focused a Senate committee hearing on Ethics Villain Anthony Fauci, even though, thanks to a Joe Biden autopen pardon, he can’t be prosecuted. Well, good for Paul, who had a “Deep State” whistleblower. But the mainstream media concocted a headline today to push that story out of the spotlight: “Sen. Rand Paul’s son accused of drunken, antisemitic tirade at DC bar.” And where is Nancy Guthrie?

Well, that’s not nearly everything, but I feel better.