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What We’re Reading: Left’s ‘Assassination Culture,’ Cali’s Slide, Iran’s Collapse . . . And More

Some headlines, issues and news that caught our eye.

America’s ‘Assassination Culture’ Has Gone Too Far

The List Of Leftist Targets Keeps Growing — Erick Erickson, X

From One Assassination Attempt to the Next: Mainstreaming Violence Against a President — Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

Assassinations Follow A Historical Pattern — Security ‘N Cigars

We have a left-wing violence problem in America — Scott Jennings, X

Left-wing cult of hatred’: GOP goes on offense after Trump assassination attempt — Just The News

Dems Crazed Response To Trump Assassination Attempt: It Was Staged — Townhall

Hakeem Jeffries Stands by ‘Maximum Warfare’ Comments Against Republicans — Legal Insurrection

Media Is Hiding Cole Allen’s Ties To Far-Left Group That Advised Biden — Natalie Winters, Substack

What Can Be Done About The Left’s Violence Problem?

When leftists abandon reason, the shooting starts — American Thinker

Democrats have normalized political violence — Washington Examiner

Hakeem Jeffries Stands by ‘Maximum Warfare’ Comments Against Republicans — Legal Insurrection

Democrats’ rants confirm their enemies list is serious business — New York Post

Leftists are Refusing to Pay Taxes to Protest Iran War, Deportations — Legal Insurrection

The Left’s Rhetoric of Violence Against Republican Presidents — American Thinker

California Continues Its Long Slide . . .

California’s ‘Billionaire Tax’: Another Fraud To Fool Dumb Voters — Kane, X

High-Speed Rail Tab Now At Disastrous $231 Billion — Kevin Kiley, X

‘This Kind of Fraud Has Been Happening for Decades in California’ — City Journal

Is Iran War Basically Over, Or Is It Just Starting?

Iran To Send New Proposal To US In ‘Days’; Trump Says Iran Admits They’re ‘In State Of Collapse’ — Zero Hedge

Sorry, Media: China Is Not the Big Winner in the Iran War — Stephen Green, PJ Media

Is the US blockade working? It depends who you ask — Iran International

How Iran Committed Suicide — American Greatness

Trump is right — Iran has no cards as blockade clock ticks down to May — Newsweek, via MSN

Federal Courts, Red States Respond To Dems’ Gerrymandering

Florida’s DeSantis Unveils New Congressional Map — David Harsanyi

Is Virginia Redistricting Referendum Headed to Supreme Court? — Carl Cannon, Real Clear Politics

Virginia’s top court pounds Dems over redistricting move called ‘blatant power grab’ — New York Post

Supreme Court hands GOP a redistricting win by striking down lower court block on Texas map — Fox News

Is Blue America Doomed? — John Hinderaker, Powerline

America’s Welfare State Is Rife With Corruption

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins: Thousands On SNAP Driving Luxury Cars — Secretary Brooke Rollins, X

FBI Raids ‘Quality Learning Center’ and 21 Other Locations in Somali Fraud Crackdown — The Western Journal

FBI and DHS Raid Dozens of Minnesota Fraudsters, Including ‘Quality Learing Center’ — PJ Media

Depressing Information On Washington State Just Keeps Coming — Calling All RushBabes

Targeting COVID-19 Scams, Welfare Fraud: Ernst’s Package Aims to Save Taxpayers $240B — Daily Signal

Miscellaneous, But Important, Stuff . . .

Why King Charles and Queen Camilla Are Visiting the US This Week — Today

Media Filched 147 Bottles Of Wine As They Evacuated Washington Hilton — Peter Girnus, X

40,000 U.S. Retail Stores Could Close By 2030 — Zero Hedge

DATA: Midterms Deadlocked Between Dems and GOP — The National Pulse

Ex-FBI chief James Comey indicted for a second time — WND News Center

United Arab Emirates Ditches OPEC — Daily Caller

Anthony Fauci adviser indicted by DOJ on charges of concealing COVID records — New York Post

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