CARPETBAGGERS FOR HILLARY:

The Washington, D.C., suburbs in Northern Virginia have almost singlehandedly transformed Virginia from a deep red state to a swing state in the past two decades and if Hillary Clinton wants to mimic President Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 success in the commonwealth, she will have to turn out the government contractors and bureaucrats who now populate the city.

Call it the 'free stuff' bureaucracy....

POOR MANAGEMENT IS NOT A CRIME: The Department of Justice found “substantial evidence of mismanagement, poor judgment, and institutional inertia leading to the belief by many tax-exempt applicants that the IRS targeted them based on their political viewpoints.”

But it wasn't criminal.

Hogwash! Tell that the Wall Street executives now facing possible criminal persecution prosecution.

Corporations can only commit crimes through flesh-and-blood people.... It’s only fair that the people who are responsible for committing those crimes be held accountable. The public needs to have confidence that there is one system of justice and it applies equally regardless of whether that crime occurs on a street corner or in a boardroom.

Unless it's a government boardroom.

I FIND IT AMUSING that the progressives (also known as liberals, Democrats, and media) are forever railing that those evil Republicans are protecting the Wall Street millionaires and billionaires who are stealing from the poor and middle classes to enrich themselves.

And yet ... under the Obama administration, from January 2009 until now the DJIA has risen 101%, from 8778 to 17647, the NASDAQ has risen 219% from 1577 to 5032, even as average household income has declined and remains essentially flat today.

Now, repeat after me, the Republicans are the party of the rich.

I guess I should be happy, since while I'm hardly a Wall Street billionaire, I've seen my savings more than double since Obama became President.

‘MAN-MADE’ CLIMATE CHANGE endangering shrimp, lobsters, crabs. Mostly it's endangering climate-change enthusiasts.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES is up. This week it's the 'Back to the Future' edition. My favorite:

Unfortunately the Democrats are succeeding....

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: "[I]mmigration is all about who will be staffing your nation in the future. Keep that in mind...."

DREADNOUGHT:

The warship of the future.

VOTE FOR THE UNICORN!

Should be the tagline for the entire Democrat party.

THERE ARE TWO SEXES, male and female, and one gender -- crazy.