POWERLINE'S mid-week 'potty edition' of its Week in Pictures. Some of the cartoons seem to have disappeared from the archive. Pity.

MIKE ADAMS: The WalMart Rule.

A RESPONSE to the stompy foots.

STUPID DEMOCRACY! You voters have let us down again.

The stompy foots are having a hissy fit....

JEFF JACOBY: Payday loans are a poor option, but no payday loans is a worse one.

THOMAS SOWELL: Is personal responsibility obsolete? Here's Part One and here's Part Two.

On the progressive side of the political spectrum, personal responsibility has been absent for at least 20 years.

FINALLY: the courage to counterpunch the green bullies. Let's hope they win.

HILLARY’S GOON SQUAD: "If there’s one thing at which progressives always have excelled it is intimidation."

A STAR WARS MOVIE shot with drones is actually pretty awesome.

THE VIDEO is now available on Amazon (cassettes only since VHS tape players are so passé).

AMMO GRRRLL: Can Trump win?

Of course he can win. It’s what he does. Will we be better off? I don’t know. And neither do you. We have an electorate that voted Obama in twice and a culture of sleaze, slackers, tribal rather than national or even individual identity, and voracious entitlement, and therein lie much bigger problems than which depressing, preening narcissist gets elected this go-round.

If I have to have a 'depressing, preening narcissist' as President, then I damn sure want one who lives in the same world I do, not the alternate reality our 'governing elite' live in....

HEH: UC-Irvine conservatives to hand out pacifiers at campus ‘safe zone training’.

BATHROOM WARS:

My only change would to be label the center door "Progressives".

SARAH A. HOYT: How bad can it get?

PROBABLY: Is Hillary to blame for the lack of a military response in Benghazi?

But "what difference, at this point, does it make?"

KATIE COURIC’S anti-gun producers repeatedly violated federal gun laws. But they're liberals, so it's not really illegal.

REALLY? Study Learns Chicago Criminals DON’T Buy Their Guns Legally.

IT'S OKAY, THEY'RE DEMOCRATS: Don’t know much about history.

History is what they want it to be, not what it is.

IT'S OKAY, THEY'RE DEMOCRATS: Don’t know much about history.

History is what they want it to be, not what it is.

AMERICA: History's exception. But not if the 'progressives' get their way....

PUNCHING BACK: College reverses decision, rehires famed Delta Force hero. I'm not convinced Boykin's 'joke' was a joke, and frankly, I'm not sympathetic toward the gender warriors.

MAYBE BIG LABOR SHOULD CONSIDER VOTING REPUBLICAN: Rift between labor and environmentalists threatens Democrat's turnout plan.

WHY WORRY? The Obama administration is patrolling your school's bathrooms.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: Christmas vacations, golf outings are microaggressions.

My thought is that we should give colleges & universities a break - as in don't bother wasting your time and money by attending.

THEY HAD ALREADY VOTED ABSENTEE: Obama administration more concerned with re-election than lives in Benghazi.

OCCASIONS? Or genders?

CAN'T TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANYTHING: Democrats block Zika funding, blame Republicans.

For liberals, it's always someone else's fault.

BY ALL MEANS, let’s vote on these commonsense gun laws.

For the children!

OUR GOVERNMENT ELITES ARE HAVING A HISSY FIT: Brexit is a reminder that some things just shouldn’t be decided by referendum.

And dishonest as well. Note that the URL above contains the original headline with 'the people' replaced by 'referendum'. In plain English, "You people are too dumb to govern yourselves; you need us governing elites to do your thinking for you."

Narcissistic buffoons all.

BEST COMMENT OF THE DAY: "The flies change, but the crap stays the same." From this post noting the Washington Post's disdain for 'the people'.

WHY BREXIT (AND TRUMP):

From this PowerLine post.

MEDICARE UPDATE: Who’s really pushing Granny off the cliff? Obama himself, with Hillary’s helping hand.

"A CLASSIC INSTANCE of how the Left sustains itself by living off Other People’s Money, when the majority have no clue what is going on."

WHAT THE HELL IS A 'FAMILY SIT-IN'? Democrats call for ‘family sit-ins’ on guns.

As Instapundit notes, "This is a hollow threat, since Pajama Boy won’t get off the damn couch anyway."

THE DEMOCRATS' GUN CONTROL PHILOSOPHY: "Put down your gun so I can shoot you."

THE EMPEROR has no clothes.

SAFE AT LAST

I took down my Rebel flag (which you can't buy on Ebay any more) and peeled the NRA sticker off the front door. I disconnected my home alarm system and quit the candy-ass Neighborhood Watch. I bought two Pakistani flags and put one at each corner of the front yard. Then I purchased the black flag of ISIS (which you CAN buy on Ebay) and ran it up the flag pole

Now the local police, sheriff, FBI, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, Secret Service and other agencies are all watching my house 24/7. I've NEVER felt safer and I'm saving $69.95 a month that ADT used to charge me.

Plus, I bought burkas for my family when we shop or travel. Everyone moves out of the way and security can't pat us down.

Hot Damn — Safe at last — Ain’t America great or what?

From my email.

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING PRESIDENT:

With compliments to Glenn McCoy.

BECAUSE THEY'RE RACIST BIGOTS? Why are liberals so hateful?

DAY BY DAY: release the attack squirrels!

The juxtaposition with the previous post is delicious.

THEY WEREN'T GIVEN LOLLIPOPS AND HUGGY BEARS: Why the Democrats' sit-in failed.

BREXIT: The talking heads are in a panic that the stock market is 'dramatically down' (DJIA at - 506; NASDAQ at -151), yet from last Friday's close the DJIA is down only 170 points and NASDAQ is down only 41 points. The markets were at approximately this point only 3 months ago.

Calm down, America....

HOUSE SPEAKER PAUL RYAN has no plans to raise money for Trump. And I have no plans to give Paul Ryan a damn dime....

SEN. JEANNE SHAHEEN (D-NH): If you buy an AR-15, obviously you’re “buying it do bad things”. No, I bought it to (1) protect myself and my family, (2) enjoy sport shooting, (3) hunt varmints, and ... (4) piss you off.

SNOBBERY, GRAFT, AND POLITICS: Why politicials love cities.

PAJAMA BOY IN A BOW TIE: Vox writer calls for Obama to ‘unilaterally ban all Americans from purchasing guns’.

WORDS DON'T MATTER -- until they do.

'NUFF SAID:

DON SURBER ON ELECTION 2016: "This election is a clash of visions of America. Trump's idea is to protect America from terrorists. Hillary's idea is to protect terrorists from America."

THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO SAY IT: Minimum wage laws are racist.

And they're championed by Democrats....

'THIN-SKINNED RACIST BULLIES' ARE GETTING DESPERATE: Elizabeth Warren blasts Trump on several topics in New Hampshire speech.

The 'thin-skinned racist bullies' are not the Republicans.

WHY THEY HATE US

The ends justify the means for the political left – and always have. Motivated by hate – for opponents, the Constitution and anyone who won’t submit to their belief of moral and intellectual superiority – there is no depth to which they will not sink, no pile of bodies on which they will not dance to advance their agenda. In then end it’s sad, it’s disturbing, it’s fascistic, and it’s progressive…and we are not, which is why they hate us.

And you thought it was about radical Islamic jihadists. Didn't you?

NATIONAL REVIEW: The Left’s phony war on guns.

UNFORTUNATELY, true.

IDIOT: Rep. Alan Grayson (D[umb] - FL) claims AR-15 can fire 700 rounds per minute.

Umm, Alan, I know you're a Democrat so math is hard, but let's try some very simple math -- just multiplication, division, addition and subtraction.

There are 60 seconds in a minute, so ... 700 rounds divided by 60 seconds gives ...
~ 12 rounds/second. The AR-15 is a semi-automatic weapon, meaning that the trigger has to be pulled every time a round is fired. Frankly, I don't think your finger can twitch that fast, even assuming that there is such a thing as a 700-round magazine for the weapon.

Let's try some more math. Yes, I know it's hard, but try to keep up. The standard magazine for the AR-15 contains 30 rounds, meaning 700 rounds would require ...
700 rounds divided by 30 rounds per magazine ... ~ 24 magazines. A skilled shooter can change magazines and recharge the weapon in perhaps 1 second, but two seconds is much more realistic. Two seconds to replace each magazine would require 48 seconds, leaving only 12 seconds to aim and fire the 700 rounds in one minute.

So let's go back to the math above ... 700 rounds divided by 12 seconds gives ...
right! ~ 60 finger twitches per second.

You're welcome.

FOR DEMOCRATS, nonsense increasingly is the party line.

JEFF JACOBY: Should you need the government's permission to work?

RANDOM QUESTION: Has any progressive ever wondered why all mass shootings occur in gun-free zones?

EXCELLENT QUESTION: If a Muslim terrorist doesn’t represent all Muslims why does he represent all gun owners?

BEST COMMENT OF THE DAY: "If they [the media] did the unthinkable and stopped being journalists and went back to being reporters, they might have better luck."

From this post on the Trump campaign banning the Washington Post.

BUT EVERY SILVER LINING has a cloud.

NOTES FROM the Democratic Cesspool Underground.

OH, BULLSHIT: Trump’s response to Orlando is exactly what ISIS wants.

PUNCHING BACK: "If you get to blame our gun control policy for putting the weapon into Omar Mateen’s hands, then I get to blame our immigration policy for putting Muslim terrorists inside our borders."

Linked from Instapundit.

HEH: "What's this 'we' shit, Kemosabe?"

COULDN'T HAPPEN TO A NICER GUY: Justin Bieber punched in the face.

MEAT EATER'S MANIFESTO: “I could never eat plants that are raised on crowded farms and inhumane living conditions with less than one square inch of space per stalk, stuck in the soil against their will.”

AMMO GRRRLL takes one more trip to the bathroom.

OBAMA: a dedicated corpseman, he will campaign in all 57 states. (I hope he campaigns in the last seven.)

MEGAN MCARDLE: A sad fact from today's bag of hate mail.

It would be interesting to peruse the email/twitter comments. My bet is that the respectful commentary came largely from the conservative readership; the disrespectful, name-calling hateful commentary came almost exclusively from the left. At least that's been my experience.

GLENN REYNOLDS: Don't be a sucker for socialism. Even Hillary's socialism.

FURNITURE FIREPOWER: Rising gun sales have triggered a new trend in furniture fashion -- coffee tables, cabinets, headboards and hutches with secret compartments for firearms.

We've been looking around for some furniture pieces for our new house, and several of the stores we've looked at either have concealment furniture for sale, or will build it to specification. It's not specialty furniture any more.

SURRENDERING TO DEATH: some thoughts on the Paris terrorist attack.

ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE: The Thinking Man’s Guide to Donald Trump.

ANGELO CODEVILLA: Political correctness is war by other means. And Donald Trump is leading the charge in fighting back.

IT'S NOT YOUR WATER: EPA gets welcome rebuke in Wyoming.

HOUSE COMMITTEE: Obama administration official lied to Congress about ObamaCare exchange grant funding.

The headline would be just as accurate if the period came immediately after the word 'lied'.

TECHNOLOGY: How should a self-driving car tell you to take the wheel?

I'm somewhat amused by post, because it's long been known that a swift kick in the ass works very well in getting someone's attention.

WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' STUDIES, WE ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWER. EPA yanks study showing weed killer doesn't cause cancer.

NO SHIT, SHERLOCK: Obama is a nincompoop. Or worse.

YOU DON'T SAY: The corporate ‘cure’ for sexual harassment only feeds the disease.

As someone who's been forced to sit through years of those 'training' programs, I'm surprised it took a Stanford research team to discover the obvious. Perhaps they could have just asked the 'trainees'....

HEH: National Shooting Sports Foundation wants ATF to investigate possible firearm felonies committed by Couric crew in anti-gun documentary. Punching back twice as hard.

Conservatives (finally!) have discovered lawfare.

WHAT WILL BECOME OF US when automation takes over more of our jobs? The real story is in the comments; read them and wonder about America's future.

FISHING for the mush-headed sucker. Too late, Hillary's already found them....

TECHNOLOGY: The history of the microwave oven. I thought I was prehistoric - but I'm only 2 years older than the microwave oven.

OBAMA'S COMMENCEMENT SPEECH: You didn't earn that.

RELATED: the 'post turtle' President. Something I recognized way back in 2008.

BUT PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY LIBERAL PEOPLE, CARE: Oil eating bacteria may be better at cleaning up spills than people.

HILLARY NEEDS THE VOTES: Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (D-Clinton) defends restoring felon voting rights.

THE FEDS CALL IT “RESEARCH.” We call it violating child privacy.

BATHROOM WARS? What bathroom wars?

PUNCH BACK 2X: Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) on Pentagon 'misrepresentations.' Keep pushing punching.

BIPOLAR DISORDER: the left hand doesn't know what the other left hand is doing.

RANDOM THOUGHTS via Don Surber's blog:

Finding media bias is like looking for hay in a haystack.

Hillary has experience in foreign policy much the same way Wile E. Coyote has experience in explosives.

Bookmark his site.

WEAR ORANGE to stop gun violence? No. Vote Republican.

THE MEDIA'S 2016 ELECTION DILEMMA: Would you rather have Hillary Clinton as President? Or a job?