Overnight News: Real estate is kids and dogs – for everyone – and I work best with one or both riding shotgun.

I’ve been socializing a puppy in my spare time over the past few months. Her name is Cleo, a French Bulldog. She thinks I’m her favorite playmate. I think she hung the moon.

I’m only with her a few hours a week, typically, but I do have a praxis and a plan: I want for her to have a happier, more playful adulthood than most dogs – more Labrador, less snoozehound. That’s a funny idea, except that I firmly believe that toddlers stumble onto their destiny – unless they are led to it. Can I ‘imprint’ a dog against what is imputed to be ‘her nature’? We’ll see. We’re having fun, regardless.

Cleo is a church dog and this is the Paschal Week, so she’ll be spending a lot of time with me, her church’s designated atheist. That will be fun for her, since work is play to dogs. And it will be wonderful for me, because real estate is kids and dogs.

In other news:

CNBC: CDC will extend national eviction ban through June 30, sources say.

The Hill: Democrats move to crush red states’ rise and threat.

American Thinker: The States Must Resist the Federal Takeover of Elections.

Stark Realities: Study: U.S. Media’s Covid Coverage Slants Heavily Negative.

Fox Business: Biden administration working with industry to develop COVID-19 ‘passports’ as vaccinations progress.

Daniel Payne: Homeschooling numbers soar amid continued school closings, signaling post-pandemic resilience.