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What We’re Reading: Biden’s Chaos, EU’s Suicide, California’s Clowns . . . And More

Some headlines and issues that caught our eye.

Biden: Is White House Spinning Out Of Control?

Axis Of Biden Crises — Powerline

Biden Calls Netanyahu a ‘Bad F**king Guy’ — PJ Media

New James O’Keefe Undercover Video Exposes Dysfunctional Biden White House — PJ Media

Biden’s team bracing for special counsel’s report on classified docs — Axios

President Biden shuts his eyes in Middle East as Iran ascends — New York Post

Is Biden Malicious, Incompetent, or Conniving? — Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

Biden reverses course, reinstates numerous Trump-era policies like Houthis, border wall and oil — New York Post

EU’s Endless Bureaucratic-Climate-Regulatory Mess

‘Ursula, we are here!’: Farmers Take Protest Directly to European Parliament in Belgium — Legal Insurrection

Europe Regulates Its Way to Last Place — Wall Street Journal

EU’s ‘misinformation’ campaign is nothing but a power grab — The Conservative Woman Daily

What exactly is preventing you from moving to London? — X, with commentary from Instapundit

The Endless Climate Debacle: Where Is Common Sense?

Climate Change Catwalkers — The Pipeline

About Oil . . . SARAH PALIN WAS RIGHT — Powerline

Juice: Power, Politics And the Grid, Part 4: “Nuclear Renaissance” (Video) — Powerline

Survey Shows Auto Dealers Still Annoyed With Biden EV Strategy — The Truth About Cars

Californians Get It Good And Hard

 Gavin Newsom witnessed a shoplifting at Target … his cashier blamed “the governor” without realizing who he was — Instapundit

Californians shocked by electric bills after rate hike: ‘Like you’re getting punished’ — Fox News

California’s green mania continues to make life difficult for its residents — American Thinker

Shush! L.A. Times Editor Asks “Departees” Not to Criticize California on Their Way Out — Jonathan Turley

Does China’s Crisis Make It More Dangerous?

China’s economy is about to implode. We will all feel the aftershocks — The Telegraph

China is Censoring Bad News About Its Economy — Hot Air

Chinese Military Studying ‘Cognitive Attacks’ Against US Population — The Epoch Times

Connecting China’s CCP to American Socialists, Communists, and Anti-Semitism — American Spectator

Around The World, A Dearth Of Births

Fewer and Faster: Can we stop the global fertility collapse? — James Pethokoukis, Faster, Please!

China’s Population Decline Continues — Council On Foreign Relations

Boosting fertility by subsidizing child-bearing for young women — Vidya Mahambare, via Marginal Revolution

The Continuing Collapse Of Blue America

Moving To Red America — City Journal

America’s fastest-shrinking cities — UK Daily Mail

Colorado has fallen behind in economic growth — Denver Gazette

Bidenomics: The Ugly Reality Behind The Words

Some Americans have become saddled with credit card debt as rent and everyday prices remain high — AP

Layoffs surged 136% in January to second-highest level on record — Fox Business

Biden Makes Claims About Wages and Snickers Bars That Are Raising Eyebrows — RedState

Media Lies: Those January Jobs Gains Never Happened — PJ Media, Vodkapundit

We Are In A Depression And Don’t Even Know It — American Thinker

It’s Official: Unpunished Crime Pays

The Double Standard of Crime Data Correlations — Bearing Arms

NYPD officers ‘fed up’ with Alvin Bragg after Manhattan DA lets cop-beating migrants go without bail: ‘A complete joke’ — NY Post

A CNN news team is stunned to learn that imprisoning criminals works — American Thinker

Watchdog Group Exposes Biden Plan to Target Private Gun Sales Through the ATF — RedState

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