DeSantis responds to bombshell report that he ate pudding with his fingers on private jet

Effort to squash Biden family stories long predated Hunter laptop, newly released emails reveal
Aide to VP Biden in 2015 bragged she got reporter to admit she would "only use" negative information on Hunter Biden "if her editors hold a gun to her head."

FBI Personnel Blindsided By Attorney General Garland’s Memo Targeting Parents
Garland’s October 2021 directive for the FBI to “use its authority” on parents who protested at school board meetings blindsided the government agency’s personnel, according to a Thursday report.

NY Times: Explaining the Ties Between Alvin Bragg and George Soros
Donald Trump’s allies have accused the district attorney bringing a case against him as having been “bought” by Mr. Soros, the philanthropist. That is misleading, though the men do have a financial connection.

DOJ Tries To Stonewall Records Request On FBI Informant Embedded In Jan. 6 Defense Team
After the government said that an individual scheduled to appear in the trial as a defense witness had served as an FBI source, Rhel’s attorney filed a motion demanding that the government disclose all FBI or DOJ reports, recordings, and memoranda about “any reporting on and recordings of the defense team.”

Man at Center of Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory Demands Retraction From Fox
The letter to Tucker Carlson from the lawyer, Michael Teter, demanded a “formal on-air apology for the lies” that have been “spread about Mr. Epps” by others at Fox.

'Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death!'
To avoid interference from Governor Dunmore, the Second Virginia Convention met March 20, 1775. Delegate Patrick Henry presented resolutions to raise and establish a militia and to put Virginia in a posture of defense.

Florida NAACP seeks travel advisory amid concerns over ‘anti-black legislation’
The far left group said the advisory will “send a message to voters” about what’s happening in Florida and aims to “prevent DeSantis from becoming president.”

1 Year Later: DC Mayor Stonewalls Probe Into Aborted Babies’ Bodies
Almost one year after photos of aborted babies’ bodies from a D.C. abortion clinic shocked the nation’s capital, Mayor Bowser is stonewalling media requests for information on how, exactly, abortionist Cesare Santangelo ended those babies’ lives.

Inslee calls Seattle homeless encampment 'scourge on our state' during tour of cleanup
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday afternoon visited the site where crews are working to clear out what remains of a sprawling homeless encampment in Seattle's South Park neighborhood.

Idaho's move to resurrect firing squad ‘makes sense’ as ‘quickest, surest’ death penalty option, expert says
A shortage of drugs could lead to Idaho resurrecting the firing squad.

From the past: 14 spectacularly wrong predictions
Arthur Summerfield, U.S. postmaster general under President Eisenhower, is perhaps best known for a prediction he made in 1959. “Before man reaches the moon, your mail will be delivered within hours from New York to Australia by guided missiles. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail.”

News that Glenn wants you to read: Show prep from March 23, 2023
Also Glenn shows you how you should be reading the news and connecting the stories.

DeSantis Responds To Salacious Reports About Pudding And Force-Feeding Detainees At GITMO: ‘Bring It On’
The Daily Beast reported last week that an anonymous source claimed that DeSantis once “enjoyed a chocolate pudding dessert” on a private jet “by eating it with three of his fingers.”

DeSantis Responds To Opponents Who Claim He Doesn’t Have Enough ‘Personality’ To Be President
“I think these are people who are in the political class, journalist class, politicians in, like, D.C. in particular, they get mad I don’t do the cocktail parties. I don’t like rubbing elbows with other people. I like doing my job and then spending time with my family. That’s just what I do.”

Biden says infants 'better than people' as WH scrambles to clean up ANOTHER gaffe
President Joe Biden said he’d deny guns to “domestic political advisers” when he meant to say domestic abusers.

Sinema Trashes Dems: ‘Old Dudes Eating Jell-O’
The Arizona senator courts GOP donors by ridiculing her former Democratic colleagues.

Sinema ignoring Democratic donors who want their money back: Report
Sinema's campaign initially told donors they were working on returning the funds, but now those donors aren't even getting their calls returned.

Biden vexed by Harris' failure to 'rise to the occasion' as VP: Report
“A point of tension in their relationship is that I don’t think that the president sees her as somebody who takes anything off of his plate [due to] a fear of messing up,” one former White House official said.

Biden Nominates Federal Prosecutor With Massive Conflict Of Interest Over Biden Family Corruption
There’s a serious potential conflict of interest given the nominee’s involvement in investigating a business run by the president’s brother.

Politico: Republicans are looking for Senate candidates who are filthy rich
Democrats have been out-raising Republicans in the past two cycles. Republicans have come up with a possible solution.

CNN report exposes how Asian-Americans in San Francisco are abandoning Democratic Party
"I think they have gone too extreme to the left. I think we need to get back to the basics and focus on making sure that the cities are safe, making sure we have high-quality education."

House fails to override Biden veto of ESG investing ban
Republicans failed to mount the necessary two-thirds votes needed in the House to override the president’s veto of the “ESG” investment bill.

BlackRock’s Larry Fink Peddles The Left’s Radical ESG Agenda
Larry Fink proved once again that he can’t help but contradict himself, lie to shareholders, mischaracterize basic concepts and policies and favor his personal policy preferences over his fiduciary duty to shareholders.

NY Times: Republicans Say Spending Is Fueling Inflation. The Fed Chair Disagrees.
Jerome H. Powell has said that snarled supply chains, oil shock following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and shifts among American consumers are primarily behind rapid price growth.

The black swan behind banks’ dive
Economists and policymakers will spend years dissecting what happened in the banking system over the past two weeks. But the black swan at the heart of it was a bad bet on human psychology. Uninsured depositors in the U.S. didn’t behave the way they usually do in crises.

South Texas sees surge of Chinese migrants crossing border illegally, chief says
Illegal aliens of other nationalities, like Russians, also reportedly are waiting south of the border in northern Mexican towns like Reynosa and Matamoros for the opportunity to come into the United States.

Twitter: Chinese men illegally entering the US under suspicious circumstances
Isn’t it funny that they are now illegally entering our country at record numbers in search of a better life, while no American sneaks into China looking for a better life?

El Paso official 'offended' by slight from Mayorkas as DHS secretary refused a meeting
Mayorkas failed to meet with top local officials in the city.

Pentagon doctors claim 7-year-olds can make decisions to be injected with hormones, puberty suppressants
The DoD providers said in the March edition of the American Journal of Public Health that the only pathway for children of military members who present with gender dysphoria symptoms is to immediately move toward "gender-affirming health care, such as puberty suppression and affirming hormones."

AI: Nuclear powers race to reach deal to stop artificial intelligence accidentally launching World War III
Without a human in place, a mistaken alert by AI could trigger armageddon in a fraction of a second, leading experts warn.

40 Years After Reagan, Neglected US Missile Defense Is Dangerously Obsolete
Forty years ago Thursday, President Reagan addressed the American people to announce SDI.

North Korea tests new underwater nuclear attack ‘drone’: State media
Drone cruised underwater for 59 hours, then detonated in an exercise designed to deter South Korea and U.S. forces.

Behind Closed Doors, GOP Huddled To Game Out War With China
While the potential arrest of Trump took center stage at House Republicans' annual issues conference, lawmakers huddled Sunday night to map out the biggest threat facing the American people: an all-out war with China.

China says it drove away US destroyer in South China Sea
It was the second straight day of a stand-off between the two superpowers amid growing tensions in the South China Sea.

Bipartisan group of senators pushes to ban China from buying US farmland
New bill would block those linked to countries deemed threats from making U.S. land purchases.

DNA from Beethoven's hair reveals new details into his cause of death
Researchers discover Beethoven was genetically predisposed to liver disease and had hepatitis B in the months before his death.

YouTube blocks LifeSite for 2 weeks for ‘hate speech’
Why? LifeSite spoke truthfully about the promotion of LGBT ideology embedded in the movie "Everything Everywhere All at Once" after Hollywood last week bestowed seven Academy Awards on the film, including “Best Picture.”

The West’s Iran policy risks another Middle East war
By failing to penalize the Iranian regime, America and its European allies will only encourage additional nuclear moves, thereby risking the West’s involvement in another war in the Middle East.

US Contractor Killed, Service Members Wounded In Drone Strike
A drone of Iranian origin killed one U.S. contractor and wounded five service members and another contractor in Syria on Thursday.

After Iran, Saudi Arabia to re-establish ties with Syria, sources say
The re-establishment of ties between Riyadh and Damascus would mark the most significant development yet in moves by Arab states to normalize ties with Assad.

Saudi TV still mocking Joe Biden
For the second year, Saudi TV is making fun of Biden and Harris. Saudi Arabia has not treated previous presidents like this.

Inflation Reduction? Dems’ Climate Spending Spree Could Cost $1.2 Trillion, Analysts Say
The CBO initially forecast that the law would cost the government $370 billion to boost investments in green technology.

California admits its climate plan enriches wealthy and impoverishes poor
At 300 pages, plus appendices and supporting materials, California's "Scoping Plan for Achieving Carbon Neutrality" is not a light read. But it might be an enjoyable one if you are a conservative or a California resident.

Denver Suburb Votes To Ban New Gas Stations To Save The Earth
A wealthy Denver suburb where the median house price is $714,000 voted to ban new gas stations from being built in the name of combating climate change.

Ford’s EV business lost $2 billion in 2022, offset by big profits in fleet and legacy units
The Detroit automaker expects 2023 to unfold along similar lines, forecasting an adjusted loss of $3 billion for its EV unit.

Washington Post Poll Inadvertently Finds Vast Majority Of ‘Trans’ People Aren’t Really Transgender
Most adults who identify as transgender don’t consistently identify as the opposite sex or present themselves as such, according to a Thursday poll from the Washington Post and Kaiser Family Foundation.

World Athletics Bans Transgender Athletes From Competing In Female World Ranking Events
“... we continue to take the view that we must maintain fairness for female athletes above all other considerations,” said World Athletics President Sebastian Coe.

Female cyclist retires because of male competitors: Women 'no longer have a fair chance'
"It has become increasingly discouraging to train as hard as I do only to have to lose to a man with the unfair advantage of an androgenized body that intrinsically gives him an obvious advantage over me, no matter how hard I train," Arensman said.

Superintendent takes stand against anti-police policy after spate of school shootings
The Denver School Board unanimously voted to remove school resource officers in June 2020.

Texas colleges claim to drop 'diversity, equity, inclusion' policies after Abbott directive
DEI “has been manipulated to push policies that expressly favor some demographic groups to the detriment of others,” governor’s office says.

LA teacher's union boss keeps over 500K kids out of school again, then enjoys an NBA suite experience
Local 99 demanded a 30% across-the-board salary increase.

Hillary Clinton promo for Columbia foreign policy course mercilessly mocked
Hillary’s video about her new teaching gig bombed online, where critics slammed the school, mocked the former secretary of state’s enthusiasm, and called her a warmonger.

TikTok CEO: 'I Don't Think Spying Is The Right Way To Describe' ByteDance Data Collection
The CEO of TikTok, Shou Zi Chew, faced tough questions Thursday at the House Commerce Committee related to concerns about the app's data security with regard to its Chinese parent company. The Biden administration has been debating banning the app for months.

TikTok CEO Refuses to Answer Questions About China's Uyghur Genocide
Chew declined three consecutive opportunities to acknowledge the CCP persecution of its Uyghur population during his House Commerce Committee hearing, insisting he would only speak about his own company’s activities.

Top TikTok Exec Says Congressional Hearing ‘Felt Rooted In Xenophobia’
TikTok itself also knocked the committee hearing, claiming that members were engaged in political grandstanding.

CCP-Owned TikTok Incites Violence Against Members of Congress and Spies on Americans
The shocking revelation came out during a U.S. House hearing on Thursday.

Google's Hot New Bard AI Is Already Spouting Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories
Google's Bard is pretty impressive. But it'll also happily defend Pizzagate — and cook up fake citations to defend deranged conspiracy theories.

WaPo: Fake images of Trump arrest show ‘giant step’ for AI’s disruptive power
Eliot Higgins, the founder of the open-source investigative outlet Bellingcat, was reading this week about the expected indictment of Donald Trump when he decided he wanted to visualize it.

Asteroid the size of 22 tuna fish to fly closer to Earth than the Moon: NASA
The newly discovered asteroid will be flying extremely close to Earth, making it the closest asteroid since 2019, and it may be visible to some people using telescopes and binoculars.

A paler Uranus emerges
A pair of images, taken eight years apart, show changes to the ice giant planet as spring arrives in the northern hemisphere.

In 1969, Jimmy Carter saw a UFO in Georgia
In both sighting forms, the president didn’t provide a definitive answer as to what he believed he saw. He described an anomalous ball of light that changed size, brightness, and color over a period of 10–12 minutes.

Scientists 'solve' mystery of giant space anomaly Oumuamua
The theory dispels far-reaching theories that it was an alien spacecraft.

ChatGPT will soon also take care of preparing your holidays
OpenAI unveiled a new function added via plug-ins on Thursday evening. Among the first services to adopt plug-ins, the Expedia group.