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What We’re Reading: Bank Crash, Biden Family Corruption, Crazy In Cali . . . And More

Some headlines that caught our eye:

Silicon Valley Bank: Just How Bad Is It? Plus, Latest News

Bro-Bank Blues — City Journal

The Fed Isn’t Powerless — American Institute for Economic Research

‘Rapid Deterioration’: Major Rating Service Downgrades U.S. Banking System — Town Hall

Too-Big-To-Fail Banks Flooded With Deposits As Bank Run Drains Small Bank Of Cash — ZeroHedge

Only ONE member of failed SVB’s board had a career in investment banking – and the rest were Obama, Clinton mega-donors who ‘grieved’ when Trump won — UK Daily Mail

‘Bail Out Rich People’: What You Need to Know About Biden Administration’s Silicon Valley Bank Action — The Daily Signal

Congress Shouldn’t Compound Silicon Valley Bank Collapse with Bailouts and Bad Ideas — Competitive Enterprise Institute

Former Clinton Official: Biden ‘Effectively Nationalized’ The Banks — CNN, via Twitter

‘Try Not To Cringe As You Watch This’: Woke Signature Bank Videos Go Viral After Fed Shut Down — Summit News

As losses mounted, Silicon Valley Bank doubled down on woke investments and left-wing rhetoric — Just The News

Oscars: The Aftermath

Woke Oscars Suffer Another Year of Brutal Ratings, Third-Lowest Ever: Report — Independent Journal Review

Screenwriter Says ‘Woke’ Oscars ‘Mean Less Each Year’ in Social Media Rant — Newsweek

Biden Family’s Chinese Money-Making Operation Revealed

House has ‘documents that show just exactly how the Biden family was getting money from the Chinese Communist Party’ — American Thinker

James Comer: Treasury Reports Show Biden Family Made Millions from Chinese Company After 2016 — Breitbart

Treasury Department To Hand Over Hunter Biden’s Banking Records — Daily Caller

House Oversight Committee Subpoenas Bank Records of Hunter Biden Associates — RedState

California’s Chickens Come Home To Roost: Bank And Rail Edition

Open The Books Links Gov. Gavin Newsom And Silicon Valley Bank — California Globe

Silicon Valley Bank Coverup And The Roads Leading To Gov. Gavin Newsom — Open The Books

The end of BART? California’s bullet train isn’t the only rail system in deep trouble — Hot Air

Will the Last One to Leave California Please Turn on the Lights — American Thinker

Climate Change: Win Some, Lose Some

Manufacturers, Customers Lash Out at Biden’s ‘Climate Friendly’ Washing Machine Regulations — Legal Insurrection

Biden Administration Approves Willow Oil-Drilling Project in Alaskan Arctic — Wall Street Journal

Biden’s Secretary of Energy say’s U.S. can ‘learn’ from No. 1 Polluter China on Climate Change — Watts Up With That?

Greta Thunberg deletes 2018 tweet saying world will end in 2023 after world does not end — The Post Millennial

Don’t Look Now, 2024 Election Just Around The Corner

The Democrats’ Coming Asian Voter Problem Has Arrived — The Liberal Patriot

Poll: Most Republicans, Republican-Leaning Voters Want Donald Trump as 2024 GOP Nominee — Breitbart

Mexican president threatens to meddle in US elections with ‘information campaign’ against Republicans — Fox News

Survey: 3 in 5 American Workers Fear Sharing Religious, Political Views in Workplace — Viewpoint Diversity Score

The Untouchables: Our Coming Election Clash — The Pipeline

Miscellaneous Stuff . . .

Explainer: Here’s how the government plans to stop more banks from crumbling and turning this thing into a full-blown banking crisis — NotTheBee

Physicists Confirm 50-Year-Old Hypothesis About Selfish Behavior — SciTechDaily

The Hater’s Guide To Woodrow Wilson — National Review

Dissidents Need Not Apply: Is Campus Groupthink Coming to Hollywood? — Shiny Herd

ANALYSIS: Wokeness has peaked, but it’s not going anywhere, experts argue — Campus Reform

The Rise of Father Absence and Its Attendant Social Ills — Quillette

The Price of Eliminating Consequences — Victor Davis Hanson, Real Clear Politics

Toleration in America — Richard Samuelson, Law & Liberty

 

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