The Show Notes: Ukraine, Drill Baby Drill, & Dems Turn On Biden
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Drill Baby Drill
In a late Friday announcement timed to avoid headlines, Biden’s Interior Department announced it would allow oil and gas leases on 144,000 acres of public land. This is a complete 180 on Biden’s campaign promise to avoid drilling on public land. Climate activists are furious with the Biden administration. This is from The Washington Post:
“This is pure climate denial,” Jeremy Nichols, climate and energy program director for WildEarth Guardians, said in a statement. “While the Biden administration talks a good talk on climate action, the reality is, they’re in bed with the oil and gas industry.”
The Last Fighters in Mariupol
Entrenched in an abandoned steel manufacturing plant in Mariupol, Ukrainian forces are refusing to surrender as the rest of the city has fallen to Russia. The Azovstal steel factory is a sprawling fortress that has allowed a vastly outnumbered Ukrainian unit to outlast the Russians. Here’s more from Reuters:
"The Azovstal factory is an enormous space with so many buildings that the Russians ... simply can't find (the Ukrainian forces)," said Oleh Zhdanov, a military analyst based in Kyiv.
"That's why they (the Russians) started talking about trying a chemical attack, that's the only way to smoke them out," Zhdanov said.
More Ukraine headlines:
7 killed in Russian missile strikes in Lviv. - WSJ
The sinking Russian warship. - Dailymail
Drone shows dozens of new graves in Ukraine's Irpin. - Yahoo
Natural gas surges to highest level since 2008 as Russia’s war upends energy markets. - CNBC
Russia has added forces to eastern and southern Ukraine. - CNN
Democratic Senator Attacks Biden
Arizona Senator Mark Kelly went after Joe Biden’s lack of planning to handle surging immigration numbers at the southern border. Kelly, a Democrat up for re-election in a red-ish state, claimed a humanitarian crisis was likely after visiting the border this week. Go deeper with The Washington Examiner.
Biden’s Hispanic Voter Problem
Joe Biden’s approval rating has plummeted to a paltry 26% among Hispanic voters in a Quinnipiac poll. Biden vastly outperformed Donald Trump by winning the Hispanic vote in 2020 with 59%. Go deeper with Justthenews.
The rest of the news:
Ohio university pays $400,000 in damages to professor who refused to use student's preferred pronouns. - The Blaze
Homeowner groups seek to stop investors from buying houses. - WSJ
When Wall Street is your landlord. - The Atlantic
Durham says CIA found data alleging Trump-Russia connection not 'technically plausible.’ - Yahoo
The nuclear missile next door. - Washington Post
Disney, built on fairy tales and fantasy, confronts the real world. - SFGate
Why homeowners are not selling. - Axios
Censorship battles’ new frontier: Your public library. - WaPo
Florida rejects 41% of new math textbooks, citing critical race theory among its reasons. - CNN
Chinese lockdown expands. - Zerohedge
Biden requires new infrastructure projects to use US steel. - AP News
Kenya's Evans Chebet wins the 2022 Boston Marathon men's race. - CNN
Tweets that caught my eye:
Anthem is an Ayn Rand novella. It’s a bit difficult to follow in that she brilliantly predicted the dilution of first-person pronouns in a socialist society. I found it to be a compelling read.