SMART MAN: World Cup Freddy returns to X.

PowerLine explains why.

NEXT UP IN IRAN: Pickaxe mountain?

[VIP] WELCOME BACK, MARCHING MORONS: Einstein never would have used artificial intelligence.

Also recommended, a classic cult film, Idiocracy.

THE DEGENERATE SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA: This is what your children and grandchildren will inherit.

Vote like their lives depend on it -- because they will.

THE WORLD MADE ANEW: America's allies are stronger, its rivals weaker, and the global balance has shifted.

THERE’S MORE PROOF OF ELECTION FRAUD than Global Warming, Israeli Genocide, and Socialism Working.

WELCOME BACK, KAROLINE LEAVITT: Her first press briefing back after maternity leave.

Update from PowerLine: maternity leave. The full (Twitter) picture is great, but unfortunately you have to be a Twit to see it.

SCHLICHTER: Leftist women are an abomination.

MACHIAVELLI'S THE PRINCE -- “The only people who haven’t read it are the ones who keep losing.”

WORKING CLASS GETTING HOSED by the victim class politics of hosepipe (water hose in American english) bans.

THIS USED TO BE ACTIVE SABOTAGE, now it's bureaucratic standard practice.

To mangle the famous quote that graced President Harry Truman's desk (the buck stops here) "The buck slows here".

Linked from Instapundit (Sarah Hoyt).

PORTLAND'S ADOPT-A-BUM PROGRAM isn't working out as well as the mayor hoped.

NOT IF IT'S TAUGHT BY COLLEGE FACULTY: Scholars argue for mandatory college civics.

HEH: Taco Bell manager confident Cyclospora came from farmers market down the street.

Click on the link.

I DO: Who gets to choose America?

I'm an American citizen and I want my vote back.

[VIP] DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS eye Michigan Senate seat ahead of August primary.

I don't normally post [VIP] material, simply because it isn't visible to everyone, but the Democratic Socialist candidate Abdul El-Sayed is calling for Bernie Sanders' cradle-to-grave 'Medicare for All'.

'Cradle-to-grave' is Democrat-speak for 'abortion to assisted suicide'.

SEEN AT THE LOCAL CONSERVATIVE GROUNDS CAFE: "It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." The sticker is now on the back of my truck.

RANDOM THOUGHT on political management styles:

Republican: wealth management
Democrat: poverty management

Need I say more?

IN AMERICAN ENGLISH: Socialism . Fails . Every . Time .

WITH SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM'S DEATH a power vacuum has opened up in the GOP Senate.