Today marks the anniversary of Marines raising the flag Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima to declare the U.S. victory over Japan in that bloody battle. Let’s if any media outlets mark the day, or if doing so would be considered “racist”….

Meanwhile, here are some notable items you might want to peruse, or that I might choose to post about if and when I wake up…

• This poll, among several out today, suggests that the third party candidates announced so far all help Trump in a general election Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West and Jill Stein all take at least a percentage point away from Biden. That makes sense: the idea that anyone inclined to vote for Trump would vote for a Kennedy instead never made sense to me.
• The mainstream media is taking a ridiculous victory lap, of which this is typical, over the likely collapse of the GOP House’s stupid Biden impeachment efforts. Since there was zero chance that the Senate would vote to convict Biden anyway, it’s a non story.
• A new essay by Victor Davis Hanson nicely summarizes the full extent of the cynical and partisan cases pending against Donald Trump.
• It’s fun to read how weaselly Niki Haley is furiously spinning to try to decide what she thinks about the recent Alabama court ruling that frozen embryos are human beings with a right to live.

Now it’s all up to you…

Here comes “The Saint’s Excuse”! The non-profit is furiously back-peddling after behaving cruelly, intolerantly, ungratefully and unforgivably toward the 90-year-old volunteer above. It will, of course, insist that it should be forgiven and trusted despite its smoking gun unethical conduct, and just watch: it will be, because of “all the good work it has done for a good cause.”

What prompted the kiss-off letter above was that 90-year-old Fran Itkoff, who had been an active volunteer for the the National Multiple Sclerosis Society for six decades (her husband perished of MS), had naively asked why names on documents she had received from the organization were accompanied by parenthetical pronouns. This, the Woke Nazis in command of the non-profit determined, marked her as hostile to its new “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion guidelines” and thus unfit to work for the care and cure of the dread disease (which runs in my family, incidentally).

The episode was flagged on social media by the indispensable Libs of TikTok, and an interview exposing the debacle hit YouTube. The National NS Society’s immediate instinct was to circle the metaphorical wagons, denying that it treated the volunteer the way it had, and implying that a 90-year-old woman made others feel “unsafe” because she dared to ask why stupid and presumptuous pronoun preferences were suddenly “a thing.” The organization also cautioned staff and volunteers to keep mum about the incident.

It didn’t work. The MS Society was bombarded with declarations from donors that they would cut off the charity. News organizations were closing in, with a Fox News senior meteorologist who suffers from MS, Janice Dean, threatening to give the story nationwide exposure. Yesterday, the MS Society issued an annoying apology:

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Performance artist pundits as a breed are an ethics stain on public discourse. These are the glib, often attractive loud mouths who make their living selling books and getting speaking fees for being outspoken and outrageous. Many of them, not all but too many, don’t really hold the some of the opinions attributed to them. They calibrate what position is most likely to attract rage, controversy and publicity, and issue statements with the Machiavellian calculation of a hedge fund investor. Prominent examples of this slimy, manipulative breed are Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, Bill Maher, Candace Owens, James Carville, and today’s topic, Ann Coulter, who might be the most cynical of them all.

She is not dumb, however. Occasionally she is even perceptive, as much as I hate to admit it. This was one of those times.

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I know I’ve used this song from the musical “Li’l Abner ” recently, but it was all I could think of after hearing about another one of Joe Biden’s incompetents’ latest exploit, so Marryin’ Sam and that big Yokum kid’s duet is back for an encore.

When U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield defended the U.S. veto of a ceasefire resolution at the Security Council today (everyone else voted to make Israel stop punishing Gaza, except for the U.K., which boldly abstained), she said,

“We’re eager to continue working with the Council on this proposal – one that would see a temporary ceasefire as soon as practicable based on the formula of all hostages being released and one that would get aid into the hands of those Palestinians who so desperately need it. All told, we intend to do this the right way so that we can create the right conditions for a safer, more peaceful future. And we will continue to actively engage in the hard work of direct diplomacy on the ground until we reach a final solution.“

A final solution! The controversy involves Israel, which is being accused of “genocide” for deciding that it can no longer trust a region governed by terrorists after its citizens were slaughtered in a sneak attack. Meanwhile, Palestinian adversaries have made it clear that their mission is to wipe Israel off the map, and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations describes the U.S. objective in the region as “a final solution,” thus quoting Adolf Eichmann, Hermann Göring and General Reinhard Heydrich.

Thomas-Greenfield didn’t blanch as she read the words, and it wasn’t an off-the-cuff gaffe, but was contained in prepared remarks. A verbal botch of that magnitude would justify firing for cause in my administration and any competent one, but this administration doesn’t fire anyone, no matter how poorly they perform. Maybe Democrats can use the incident to defend Biden’s stream of dementia-triggered gibberish. “See?” they cans say. “Joe’s never said anything that stupid!”

True.

The U.S. is working with Israel on a Final Solution in Gaza.

Brilliant.

The country’s in the very best of hands…