March Madness And Its Antidote

Written by Robert Knight

It’s March, and you know what that means — lots of change and celebration in the air.

Daylight saving time begins March 10. St. Patrick’s Day is March 17. On that day, everyone’s Irish — even the English among us. The spring equinox is March 20. And there’s March madness.

I’m not talking about watching 68 colleges battle it out for the NCAA basketball titles. Or even the advent of baseball spring training, with opening day (March 28) only weeks away. In his song “Centerfield,” John Fogerty joyfully belts out, “there’s new grass on the field!”

My focus on March madness involves things that don’t make much sense.

For instance, why, after a string of primary defeats and with Super Tuesday looming to inflict more on March 5, is Nikki Haley still acting like she’s the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination?

Could it be that she sees herself as the fallback candidate for when the corrupt Democratic “justice” system bags former President Donald Trump?

That’s my guess. But I can’t see Trump supporters rallying around her in that event. Some Democrats, maybe, but not the GOP base, without which no Republican can win.

Moving on, what kind of madness explains some Republican politicians’ reluctance to view Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ conduct as “high crimes and misdemeanors”?

Mr. Mayorkas, whom the U.S. House barely impeached, has engineered an invasion of the United States by 10 million illegal aliens. He has lied repeatedly to Congress.

His boss, President Biden, is now pretending to secure the border. He did a photo-op on Thursday at a low-volume crossing point in Brownsville, Texas.

Mr. Trump, who did secure the border when he was president, appeared on the same day at troublesome Eagle Pass, Texas. Point made. By the way, what’s a higher crime? Allowing an invasion, or selling your country out to China while making millions? The Biden family has both bases covered.

Another thing that the mad March hare dragged in, albeit a bit early, is news from Canada that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sending millions of his citizens’ tax dollars to Ukraine for “gender-inclusive demining.”

That’s right. The war with Russia has left behind many land mines in civilian areas that need removal. Sending money for that seems like a worthy humanitarian endeavor.

But Mr. Trudeau went where no Canadian leader has gone before. He issued a directive, backed by $4 million, that part of the mission is “establishing a gender and diversity working group to promote gender-transformative mine action in Ukraine.”

I, for one, am glad he’s doing this. The shocking lack of female, transgender and nonbinary mine removal experts has kept me up at night.

But even if that’s resolved, we have the World Bank also going for another diversity brass ring. Their gambit involves mines that don’t explode.

The bank has issued a press release urging “Action for Gender Equality in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining.” Like Mr. Trudeau’s folly, it was unleashed in February, but that’s cold comfort for miners who have to contend with diversity mandates while worrying about cave-ins.

March 20 is World Puppet Day. I think it has something to do with honoring the White House press corps.

On a more serious note, Muslims will observe Ramadan, which begins March 10. Jews will observe Purim on March 23 to commemorate God’s deliverance of the Jews through Queen Esther in Persia.

Back to madness for a moment: Adherents of gender insanity will celebrate the “Transgender Day of Visibility” on March 31.

That’s when everyone is supposed to cheer when a dude decides he’s really Scarlett O’Hara and needs medical intervention so he can join the girls’ swim team.

If this sounds squirrelly to you, you probably believe that God created a natural order based on immutable male and female DNA. That makes you the crazy one in a culture marching toward madness.

The month of March, it is said, comes in like a lion, but goes out like a lamb.

This year, Easter Sunday falls on March 31. It’s the day Christians celebrate Jesus Christ’s rising from the tomb and his promise of eternal life to those who believe.

The triumph of the Lamb of God, open to all, is the ultimate antidote to all sorts of madness.

This article was originally published by The Washington Times.

Robert Knight is a former Los Angeles Times news editor and writer and was a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. This column was originally published by The Washington Times.

He has been published by the Wall Street Journal, National Review, the Christian Post, AmericanThinker.com, DailyCaller.com, Townhall.com, OneNewsNow.com and many others.  He has co-authored three books and written 10, including “Liberty on the Brink: How the Left Plans to Steal Your Vote” (D. James Kennedy Ministries, 2020) and “The Coming Communist Wave: What Happens If the Left Captures All Three Branches of Government” (D. James Kennedy Ministries, 2020) . 

You can follow him on Twitter at @RobertKnight17, and his website is roberthknight.com.