Tuesday Links - 22 March

The Other McCain - Is Ace of Spades ‘Cruel’?. How Ace became Ace, and the origins of his disdain for the establishment Repubs who want to back to the "glory days" of Dubya.

The backstory of how Ace became Ace is rather interesting. He has a law degree from a reputable university and had been working as a lawyer before developing anxiety issues that made it impossible for him to keep doing that, and then started blogging as a hobby while recovering, but then had such success as a blogger that his “recovery” became more or less moot.

Robert Spencer at PJ Media - Hey, What Happened to the 51 Intel Agents Who Assured Us Hunter's Laptop was Russian Disinformation?

The whole world knows now that Hunter Biden’s legendary laptop is real, and as Matt Margolis noted Friday, “all that’s left is anger — anger at how the media and Big Tech deliberately suppressed this damaging story about Hunter Biden to protect Joe Biden in the waning weeks of the presidential campaign.” Foremost among those protecting Old Joe were 51 senior American intelligence officials who on Oct. 19, 2020, published a statement asserting that “the arrival on the US political scene of emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Biden’s son Hunter, much of it related to his time serving on the Board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” It wasn’t. None of these alleged intel agents, however, have come clean and admitted that they lied and that Hunter’s laptop was genuine. Not a single one.

Again from The Other McCain - Can You Say ‘Hate Hoax,’ Boys and Girls?

Nothing suspicious about this at all.

Allah's Willing Executioners - Sweden: Groups of Muslim migrants tried to force their way into a housing complex where Ukrainian refugee women were staying and Somalis had threatened and terrorised them right into their rooms

According to the volunteers, many of the women were so shaken by the events that they regretted having fled to Sweden. Some would even have liked to stay in Ukraine despite the war.

Again from The Other McCain - ‘Well, Those Ukraine Girls Really Knock Me Out, They Leave the West Behind’ Robert Stacy McCain has a unique take on immigration policy, and bit of Beatles trivia.

Permit me to reiterate my longstanding “Don’t Deport the Hotties” exemption to my otherwise xenophobic immigration policy.

Chicago Boyz - Deliberate Disempowerment. On the rush of Europe to abandon reliable power sources.

Yet the leaders of the West have, with few exceptions, chosen to reduce the relative power of their countries through their opposition to fossil fuel production and use combined with hostility toward further development of nuclear energy—or even the continued operation of existing nuclear plants. There has been little evidence of serious thinking about realistic limitations of intermittent power sources, even as countries have rushed to make themselves dependent on such sources…nor is there much evidence of serious thinking about the critical-mineral dependencies created by a large-scale switch to wind, solar, and batteries.

The Daily Wire - Megyn Kelly Slams Lia Thomas: This ‘Is Not The Women’s Champion’ And Has ‘Some Nerve’ Pretending To Be. (Hat tip to Small Dead Animals, who expects the cancel mob to descend.)

There is a way to allow TG [Transgender] rights without decimating women’s sports. This ain’t it.

JoNova - A Kalibr Missile just hit Net Zero: Germany wakes old coal plants, UK talks of backflip on gas, oil, fracking too

Get ready for the Great Reenergize-ment, we’ve reached a tipping point. Even the elite believers know a real threat when they see one. The ruling class, sitting on cushy taxpayer salaries, weren’t threatened by higher fuel prices and carbon taxes, but Russian missiles are another thing.

Smallest Minority - And Then There Were 23

Alabama joined the family of Constitutional Carry states, or at least it will as soon as the law goes into effect on January 1, 2023, and it is joined by Ohio.