ANDREW KLAVAN: "A" is for Antifa.

ANOTHER REMINDER FOR DAVID HOGG: Your 15 minutes of fame are up.

Go to your room until you grow up.

ABOUT TIME: Trump to give ‘full pardon’ to Dinesh D’Souza.

D'Souza should never have been prosecuted in the first place; his 'crime' deserved at most a wrist slap and small fine.

HOMELESS IN SEATTLE: One year only, please.

(Apologies to Hunt for Red October)

THE LEFT CARES ABOUT CHILDREN only as tools to further their policies.

PLEASE, DON'T: Dump Nancy Pelosi?

OF COURSE Democrats are not a hate group.

They just look like one.

LIBERALS ARE GOING TO REGRET HAVING TO PLAY BY THEIR OWN RULES: Democrats struggling to flip key California House seats amid candidate overload.

They created the 'jungle primary' to keep Republicans off the ballot; now they're finding it's keeping a Republican on the ballot.

HEH: 'Implicit bias' training may be discriminatory under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Will an intelligent Starbucks barista (I know, oxymoron alert) sue?

[uPDATE[ Maybe not an oxymoron? Some Starbucks baristas peeved about sitting through racial bias training.

MORE EVIDENCE (IF ANY IS NEEDED) of Mueller’s overreach.

I DIDN'T KNOW Hillary Clinton is a 'deplorable'.

PITCHFORKS: the joys of bureaucratic idiots.

When we lived in California (!), we had the police stop by to require us to move our basketball goal off our sidewalk because some anonymous 'crappy neighbor' complained it was no longer wheelchair-accessible (in the four years we lived there, we never saw a wheelchair on any sidewalk in the neighborhood).

STARBUCKS’ NEW MANUAL has baristas putting unruly visitors in time out.

Just when I think Liberals can't possibly get more idiotic, they prove me wrong again.

THE INVINCIBLE IGNORANCE of the politically correct.

DIVERSITY TRAINING: a stupid and futile gesture.

The world that the diversity trainers will usher the baristas into has a pristine, seamless wholeness to it. It is a world unto itself, unblemished by contact with reality, built from pure ideology: untutored trainers instructing blameless subjects in bogus science to cure a psychological defect that can’t be shown to exist, all at a staggering expense of time and money. Only a capitalist country as rich as ours could survive what its capitalists are doing to it.

The only thing missing in diversity training is unicorns in a field of tulips....

AMNESTY FOR 'DREAMERS' is in the GOP's finest tradition. While I agree that there should be a path to U.S. citizenship for those who were brought here illegally as children, it must be coupled with strong border control (first) and immigration reform (after).

This is essentially President Trump's opening offer, which I highly endorse.

HEH: The other summit.

For a more serious take, go here.

THOSE WERE THE GOOD OL' DAYS: Remember when Starbucks just served over-priced, burnt coffee?

MONIQUE JUDGE TWEETS ABOUT ROSEANNE; gets reminded that Twitter is forever.

NOT THE ILLEGALS: Who's really benefiting from sanctuary laws?

WHEN KNIVES ARE OUTLAWED, only outlaws will eat steak.

THE STRANGE FAILURE of the educated elite new establishment:

The essential point is this: Those dimwitted, stuck up blue bloods in the old establishment had something we meritocrats lack — a civic consciousness, a sense that we live life embedded in community and nation, that we owe a debt to community and nation and that the essence of the admirable life is community before self.

Not strange at all, as anyone who lives farther than 50 miles from either coast can tell you.

REAL CONSERVATIVES refuse to kneel before their liberal overlords.

IF HILLARY had become President:

Stormy Daniels wouldn’t be famous, but perhaps Clinton’s friend and donor Harvey Weinstein would still be on the prowl and the #MeToo movement would not exist.

Ladies, you can have Stormy Daniels or Harvey Weinstein. Choose wisely.

LIBERALS ARE GOING TO REGRET HAVING TO PLAY BY THEIR OWN RULES: "A media that taught us to mock authority and culture was unprepared for the day when the audience would mock their authority and their culture."

Linked from this Instapundit post.

GOOD FOR THEM: Some NFL players may sit out the season unless Kaepernick — and Eric Reid — are signed. I'm sure there are a large number of bench-sitters who will be overjoyed at the chance to take the field.

PRESIDENT TRUMP at the Naval Academy Commencement: He stood in one place to honor the midshipmen by shaking the hand of every graduate over some 90 minutes.

In my wildest dreams I can't imagine a President Hillary even standing for 90 minutes....

OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE REAL WORLD: Tax reform was a conspiracy to make people lose their jobs.

Democrats' talking point: "We're going to increase your taxes so you can keep your jobs."

YOU THINK? We lost in 2016 because we were out of touch.

The clue bat touched one liberal. Fortunately only one to date....

IT'S BEGINNING to look like ... Watergate.

THE REAL 'Seven Days in May'.

DAVID HOGG, GO TO YOUR ROOM. Your 15 minutes of fame are over.

CIVIL WAR ON THE LEFT: Planned Parenthood versus Service Employees International Union. Couldn't happen to a nicer pair....

ALTERNATIVE MATH: Actually the answer is twenty million, two thousand. (Watch it to the end, then add as directed.)

OWN IT: Liberals embrace idiocy.

SAMANTHA POWER: a final fraud of the Obama administration.

TRUMP TAKES ON THE BUREAUCRACY with civil service reform.

Candidate Trump promised to rein in the federal bureaucracy. This is now yet another promise Trump has moved decisively to keep.

And it’s yet another action Trump has taken that conservatives have wanted for years. Others include nominating conservative judges, cutting taxes and reforming the tax code, increasing military spending, eliminating or trimming excessively burdensome federal regulations, effectively ending Obamacare’s individual mandate, enforcing immigration laws, expanding domestic energy production, withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, aligning the U.S. more closely with Israel, being tougher with Iran, and, for that matter, being tougher with Russia.

It's a good beginning, but only a beginning.

QUESTION: Why does the Islamic world lag behind?

Simple answer: Islam.

I asked - and answered - the question in a seminar as I was preparing to go to Iraq as an embedded contractor in 2006. It's taken 12 years to just now being asked in public forums.

GOOD LUCK WITH THAT: 'Surrender your firearms within 24 hours or be shot.'

Molon labe.

SO YOU HAVE TO BAKE A CAKE FOR GAYS but don't have to provide banking services to firearms dealers?

I think a billion-dollar lawsuit against Citibank is called for. NRA? Anyone?

DEREK HUNTER: Liberals put the 'F(ail)' in NFL.

FOLLOW THE THREAD: What we have here for anyone with eyes to see is the slow uncovering of the biggest scandal in American political history.

Too slow.

I DON'T REMEMBER THE DEMOCRATS BEING THIS CONCERNED ABOUT OBAMA'S BLACKBERRY: Sen. Tom Carper (D[umb]-DE) asks Pentagon for answers on Trump cellphone amid ongoing security concerns.

ONE LAST THOUGHT on "Crossfire Hurricane".

ABSOLUTELY! Are you ‘triggered’ by the joyless, puritanical, xenophobic authoritarians of the left?

THE INCREDIBLE CEREMONY honoring ALL who have served -- even those veterans with no family to mourn for them.

I wish I had known about this when I lived in Virginia.

AMERICA'S HONOR.

A VISIT WITH THE OLD GUARD:



Dedication.

THIS MEMORIAL DAY is worth a moment of our time to reflect on all that has been given so that we can enjoy our way of life.

MILITARY.COM: Make Memorial Day every day.

THESE FLAGS FLY

to remind of the sacrifice that made America great. The second picture is of a MIA flag that flies at his house 24/7.

HERE ARE two pictures from the Fannin County war memorial taken today just after a Memorial Service had concluded:

There are five granite slabs (at each point of the star) that contain the names of all military service members from Fannin County in wars dating from the Civil War to Iraq/Afghanistan.

THE MEANING OF MEMORIAL DAY from an American immigrant to Israel.

A REMINDER FROM 155 YEARS AGO: November 19, 1863

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

President Lincoln's dedication of Soldier’s National Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
November 19, 1863.

VICTORY GIRLS: Why red poppies on Memorial Day.

A MEMORIAL DAY salute to sacrifice.

JOCKO WILLINK: Remember Me.

MEMORIAL DAY 2018: Another reminder that our freedom didn't come cheaply.

It’s all too easy, especially for those of us blessed to have grown up in this great land, to take our liberty for granted. We forget that freedom isn’t free. It must be paid for, and not just once.

Again and again, Americans have stepped forward in a moment of crisis and put their lives on the line.

They fought in the American Revolution – both in the heat of summer and in the dead of winter, when snow blanketed the ground, supplies were low, and the outlook was bleak.

Our patriots prevailed, but the struggle for freedom didn’t end there. It has played out on many other battlefields in the years since. Antietam and Gettysburg. Belleau Wood and Cantigny. Iwo Jima and the Bulge. Heartbreak Ridge and Hamburger Hill. Baghdad and Kabul.

It’s their sacrifice we mark on Memorial Day. And while we feel so much sadness for their loss, I think there is something else we should consider when we recall those who fell in battle.

It comes down, I believe, to what motivated those brave men and women to do what they did. Imagine walking towards danger and possible death when every fiber of your body is screaming at you to seek shelter. What makes you march toward the guns rather than flee from them?

A soldier, it is said, fights not because he hates who is in front of him, but because he loves who is behind him.

I think that’s what it all comes down to. Those we commemorate on Memorial Day fought for mothers and fathers. For sisters and brothers. For sons, daughters, comrades, and all others they held dear.

America remains worth fighting for.

THE PRICE OF FREEDOM.

MEMORIAL DAY 2018: All posts today will be dedicated to the memory of those men and women who served - and died - so that the United States of America can remail free.

Remember: Freedom isn't free.

MORE THOUGHTS from Ammo Grrrll on music and romance.

ERICK ERICKSON: A Conspiracy of Idiocy.

I tend to agree with Erickson that we have 'reached peak conspiracy' - or at least hope so. I don't agree, though, with his analyses of the reasons for the conspiracy theories. On the Left the reason is singular and simple: their utter and complete disbelief that a rational electorate could possibly fail to understand the desirability of their enlightened control. Therefore there had to be a hidden and malevolent counterforce employed by the Right ('alt-right' in their minds). On the Right, the reason is equally singular and simple: a near-universal belief that the Left would use any means, legal or illegal, moral or immoral, to retain control of the levers of power.

And the fervor with which each side defends its theory is again simply explained: revenge.

UH, NO: 'Reparations Happy Hour' invites white people to pay for drinks.

MIKE ROWE: The 'safe space' movement is harming our culture.

Damn right!

SECRET TO STAYING THIN: walking and chewing gum. Then why aren't I thin?

DO TELL: Obama officials’ spying on Trump a departure from norms.

TWO MISGUIDED LEFT-WING THEORIES about housing discrimination.

The Left is so tribal - and vain - they can get neither their facts nor their fantasies straight.

SPRING LEAVES, FINAL POST: It's over, summer is here. Here's the pond view which as last week, is barely visible. Even the tree crowns, shown this week but not last, are full and green.

As with the pond, the house view remains much the same. The tree cover seems a bit thinner, but only because this picture was taken much closer to the house to get the camera out of direct sunlight.

Here are last week's pictures for comparison.

LISTEN COMRADE, the DNC knows best.

As usual, it's about control: We, the establishment, know what's best for you plebes, so vote accordingly.

ROLLING THUNDER'S Memorial Day Ride for Freedom begins shortly.

THE STATE OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA:

A little girl was leaning into a lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the
collar of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, all under
the eyes of her screaming parents.

A biker jumps off his Harley, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose
with a powerful punch. Whimpering from the pain the lion jumps back
letting go of the girl and the biker brings the girl to her terrified parents,
who thank him endlessly. A reporter has watched the whole event.

The reporter addressing the Harley rider says, "Sir, this was the most gallant
and bravest thing I've seen a man do in my whole life."

The Harley rider replies, "Why, it was nothing, really The lion was behind
bars. I just saw this little kid in danger, and acted as I felt
right."

The reporter says, "Well, I'll make sure this won't go unnoticed. I'm a
journalist, you know, and tomorrow's paper will have this story on the front
page. So, what do you do for a living, and what political affiliation do
you have?"

The biker replies "I'm a US. Marine, a Republican and I voted for Trump".

The journalist leaves.

The following morning the biker buys the paper to see if it indeed brings news of
his actions, and reads, on the front page:

U.S. MARINE ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT & STEALS HIS LUNCH.

And that pretty much sums up the media's approach to the news these days.

From my email.

A SHOCKING CALL for diversity at Harvard. Viewpoint diversity? At Harvard? You must be kidding.

I CALL IT VIRTUE-SIGNALING: Today’s consciousness-raising on race is less about helping black people than it is about white people seeking grace.

I'VE BEEN INTRIGUED by the names given different generations (Baby Boomers, etc.) so I began looking around to find out what, if anything, characterized a generation name. Answer: nothing really.

What stood out is that a 'generation' is characterized mostly by an interval between about 11 and 17 years, averaging about 15. So I decided to create my own generation chart. Here it is:

The first four are the usual suspects, with the consensus birth periods in parentheses. I started over and used a consistent 15 year birth interval to give the birth periods in brackets at the right. The consensus generation chart shows both my wife and I as of the Silent Generation; my chart puts us in the Baby Boomer generation, which strikes me as more realistic as we were both born at the very end of WWII.

The last two categories represent my (somewhat jaundiced) assessment of the future BT (before Trump). His successes to date may encourage me to change that assessment.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS SCANDALIZED: Trump administration doesn’t buy climate extremism.

I TOLD YOU I WASN'T RICH: Here’s how much money you need for bankers to think you’re rich.

My bank agrees ... I'm way not rich.

HOUSTON POLICE CHIEF says he's 'watching' Dana Loesch. She torches him.

WHO'D HAVE THUNK IT? Crime goes down in the presence of armed citizens.

It seems that even criminals don't like getting shot....

IT'S A LITTLE HARD to watch even a good show when you know the actors are a bunch of asses.

BROWARD COUNTY: There are third-world shitholes, and there are first-world shitholes.

IT'S BEGINNING: Major donor pulls funding from university for 'discriminating' against Ben Shapiro event. The donor chose to remain anonymous; here's why:

An excellent example of how much damage you have done; I am not signing my name for fear of political retaliation.

The 'dark side of the force' is strong in academia.

MAN OPENS FIRE INSIDE OKLAHOMA RESTAURANT; 'armed citizens' kill him.

HEH: James Clapper only lies on days ending in "Y".

"TRUMP’S GREATEST REAL ESTATE DEAL EVER: he lives rent-free in the heads of millions of liberals." From PowerLine's Trump Derangement in Overdrive edition of the week in pictures. As usual I had a hard time finding a favorite:

But check out 'Leaky, Sneaky, and Freaky'.

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION: We need common sense media control to prevent future school shootings.

HAVE YOU WONDERED why pharmaceutical companies are pushing drugs so aggressively on television? Consider these (only one day's advertising):

Now you know why your health insurance premiums are so high....

REP. ERIC SWALWELL'S tete-a-tete with Tucker Carlson on gun confiscation did not go well for him earlier this week so he doubled-down on Twitter and it's not going well there either.

SKYNET SPEAKS: More people will die if we ‘slow down progress’ on AI.

Let me control you and all will be well....

MUCH EARLIER THAN YOU THOUGHT: When the Obama administration became the Deep State.

GOOD NEWS: One-third of adults may need blood pressure drugs under new guidelines. As the guidelines continue to change, pretty soon it will be all adults. Then all adults and teens. And then....

As soon as we get 'Medicare for All' everyone will need drugs for something. And they will be 'free'.

WHAT'S WRONG with the Democratic Party? Just look at California.

IN DEFENSE OF FREE SPEECH: But if speech must be banned on campus, I'd suggest it be liberal's speech.

YEAH, RIGHT: Leslie Stahl thinks Trump attacks the MSM so people won't believe them when they report 'bad news'.

They really believe we're stupid.

KURT SCHLICTER: Can we hope to keep our Republic when one of the political parties supports tyranny? I hope so, but I'm not sanguine about it.

THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE solves nothing with new national anthem guidelines.

Consider me an ex-fan of the NFL. The only thing that would bring be back would be at a minimum the NFL taking the advice of sportscaster Jason Whitlock a few days ago. I'd go a few steps further: (1) play - and televise - the National Anthem at the opening of every game, (2) require every player to be on the field as the anthem is played, and (3) no stand, no play, no pay for the game.

BECAUSE FREE MARKETS AREN'T 'WOKE': EPA to reconsider Obama-era CAFE standards.

TIME TO 'LAWYER UP': James Comey in panic mode.

HOUSTON POLICE CHIEF seeks his 15 minutes of fame. Makes fool of himself instead.

More here.

YEAH, RIGHT: Comey & Clapper clarify.

BREAKING: Another school shooting. Shooter in custody; two known injured, no known deaths.

IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT DIRECTOR informs Democrat congresscritter that laws aren't just for Republicans.

SO LOW THAT WHALE SHIT LOOKS LIKE FLEECY WHITE CLOUDS IN THE SKY: How low can the ACLU fall?

HEH: Leftist politics is basically Mean Girls.

MR. SESSIONS, your 'extraordinary circumstances' are here.

HEH: Will Starbucks become America's largest chain of homeless shelters?

MARYLAND DEMOCRATS who raised taxes complain about high taxes.

Democrats have turned hypocrisy into an art form....

URANIUM MINING AND STATE'S RIGHTS. I didn't know that Virginia was such a mother lode for uranium.

At least the Trump administration won't sell the uranium rights to Russia....

35,000 MORE JOBS. Obama hardest hit.

BUT OF COURSE: Rent seekers gotta seek rents. Occupational licensing restrictions are nothing more than a state bureaucratic scam to make money while controlling the peasantry.

MORE SCENES of academic suicide.

THE PROBLEM WITH CNN’S SCHOOL SHOOTING COUNT: Nearly half of incidents identified this year are unlikely to be recognized by most as school shootings.

It's about gun control, not school shootings.

FROM THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: new hope and more change.

WASHINGTON POST: The U.S. doesn’t have enough truckers.

Perhaps the U.S. could follow Germany's lead.

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Hey, James Clapper, why didn't you spy on Hillary?

Rush Limbaugh angrily dismissed ex-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's assertion an informant in the Trump campaign was spying on Russians to protect the candidate — asking why there were not spies in Hillary Clinton's camp.

"Why didn't they have spies in Hillary's campaign? Why weren't they trying to prevent Russian involvement in her campaign?"

I'd sure like to see Clapper asked that question directly. He'd spin himself into a faceplant in seconds.

TWEET OF THE DAY: "I'm renaming my AR-15s 'MS-13s' so the Democrats will protect them."

Heh.

PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD is 'not nice', but it is necessary - and effective.

PRESIDENT TRUMP calls off North Korea summit over Kim Jong Un's 'open hostility'.

I would have done nothing and let Kim Jong Un call off the summit, but I've learned over the last 16 months that it's not wise to try and second-guess our President.

TRUMP V. OBAMA

No wonder the Left is apoplectic ... that's an 14-point gap as of today.

PLEASE DO: FBI agents want Congress to issue them subpoenas so they can reveal the Bureau’s dirt.

WHOPPER OF THE DECADE: James Clapper says Obama’s deep state was just trying to ‘protect’ Trump’s campaign.

The fact that Clapper is spinning so furiously suggests that he's really worried about a possible criminal indictment. Expect him to 'lawyer up' soon.

WHOLE LOTTA LYIN’ GOIN’ ON: True origin of the Trump 'collusion' probe.

The Trump-Russia investigation did not originate with Page or Papadopoulos. It originated with the Obama administration.

Follow the embedded links for more.

WHERE'S THE OUTRAGE? President Trump expressed sympathy for the parents whose sons and daughters were killed by MS-13 animals. Has he no sympathy for parents whose children are of other genders?

BTW, calling MS-13 members 'animals' is an insult to real animals.

MORE CULTURAL APPROPRIATION: Where's the outrage?

GEORGETOWN STUDENTS host community dialogue on racism, ask white allies not to attend. Click on the link for an explanation.

“GREEN” ENERGY, still an environmental disaster.

VITAMIN D UPDATE: Belly fat linked to lower levels of vitamin D. Looks like I'm going to be upping my daily vitamin D intake....

RANDOM THOUGHT: God must be sexist because He created only two genders.

MASTER TROLLING:

Heh.

DEMOCRATS' NEWEST MID-TERM PITCH: A crackdown on corruption.

Doug Powers comments:

I’ll personally give the DNC a couple dollars if they’ll let Bob Menendez do their first anti-corruption commercial.

Heh.

SO GERMANY has come up with the perfect job for all those Muslim migrants -- truck drivers.

LIBERALISM’S IMPACT on abhorrent behavior.

A lot has changed over the past 30 years. America has always had many firearms in circulation, laws against killing people, gun control, bullying and the like – these are not new phenomena. What is strange, however, is that people suffering from mental illness decide to mow down their classmates instead choosing to seek help or being flagged by their parents, classmates, or teachers. Two decades or so ago, people still faced similar problems – disappointment with their lives due to normal, coming-of-age pressures. But instead of overcoming said obstacles like adults, they resort to terrifying violence. It’s clear that something has changed in regard to how people seek help and how they overcome the realities of life. Liberalism is that change – pampering people in safe spaces instead of making them act like adults.

We need a new narrative regarding mass shootings. Instead of calling for more, ineffective gun control, we must discuss the impact liberalism has had on behavior control.

Much of what ails America today is a direct result of 30-plus years of progressivism.

JEFF JACOBY: The world needs a policeman, and there is no alternative to America.

CORRECT: School shooters are a symptom of a culture that is ill.

And the shootings will continue until the culture improves.

FACT CHECK: Hillary is 100% correct.

LAURENCE TRIBE ON IMPEACHMENT: ‘You have to shoot to kill’. Here's the complete quote

You can’t be the boy who cried wolf and have a viable impeachment power. You can’t use it over and over again against the same president,” Tribe said. He continued, “If you’re going to shoot him, you have to shoot to kill. And that requires an overwhelming majority of a bipartisan kind. Otherwise, you’re just going to nick the guy and make him feel empowered and vindicated.

which is a completely vanilla metaphor for the impeachment process. Remember former President Clinton's impeachment (if you're old enough)? The Republicans didn't 'shoot to kill' - and they failed to convict.

I find it somewhat amusing that Tribe, a devout liberal, actually felt a need to apologize, since it is the Left (and the insane, but I repeat myself) most likely to approve of violence against their adversaries.

OH, YES, academia is a 'welcoming environment'.

IT’S ONLY GUN CONFISCATION ‘if they’re caught with them’.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D[umb]-CA) calling or a national ban on AR-15 style rifles followed by a “buy back” program targeting current owners.

[W]e should ban possession of military-style semiautomatic assault weapons, we should buy back such weapons from all who choose to abide by the law, and we should criminally prosecute any who choose to defy it by keeping their weapons.

But it's not 'confiscation'.

BLUE WAVE? What blue wave?

EXPLAINING [DEMOCRAT] GOVERNMENT: The Kaus-Reynolds Paradox.

LEFTIST PROFESSOR defaced the family home of the NRA's Chris Cox. It wasn't the first time.

The idea that politics transcends decency is nothing new for the left. It has been a growing epidemic even outside Antifa and the alt-left. But for a group that supported Hamas and MS-13 in the same week, can we expect anything less?

A few months in Guantanamo Bay might have a salutary effect....

THE DEMOCRATS have settled on an anti-corruption angle for the November midterms, and it should be enough to keep voters ... laughing all the way to the polls.

AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME: Fire Your Congressman. Their website is here.

DEMOCRATS: When you can't take scalps, bite ankles.

LAURA INGRAHAM on her show last night: "The Democrat leadership is so old you don't date them, you carbon date them."

I would add that carbon-dating applies to their policies as well.

MORE EVIDENCE OF the Left's deep state collusion to promote the Steele dossier.

DEMOCRATS’ NEXT BIG IDEA: guaranteed employment.

Democrats planning to run for president in 2020 are considering a big new idea: Promise everyone a guaranteed job. You’ll be shocked to learn that the plan involves raising taxes an unknown amount to cover the cost of providing these jobs.
...
[T]he need here isn’t practical so much as it is political, i.e. Democrats need more freebies to offer voters (on top of the free health care and free college they are already offering):
...
You may recall that Sanders proposed a Medicare-for-all version of single payer in 2016. That plan was scored by the Urban Institute which estimated it would cost $32 trillion over 10 years. I’m sure his guaranteed jobs program will be a bargain by comparison.

And when the Democrats run out of other people's money, it's safe to bet that guaranteed jobs for all will quickly become no jobs for anyone. Think Venezuela.

FIVE THINGS THAT WON'T STOP SCHOOL SHOOTINGS. One that will.

SMUG SEATTLE TO MOM-AND-POP LANDLORDS: Criminals have rights; you, not so much.

DEMOCRATS' NEWEST MIDTERM PITCH: A crackdown on corruption.

You’ve got to reluctantly give the Democrats points for their willingness to look any possible sense of complete and utter feelings of shame right in the face and yell “F**K OFF!”

The Democrats' new message makes perfect sense when you understand that to them corruption means 'not being a Democrat'.

It's about power and control; it's always about power and control.

CROSSFIRE HURRICANE: some thoughts from several sources....

The Federalist: ten takeaways from the NYT's defense of FBI spying.

Hot Air: NYT frustrated by failure.

National Review: the Gray Lady “buried the lede”.

CITY JOURNAL: Science, Diversity, And Identity Politics.

So science is sexist. Who knew?

SOME PEOPLE

think 'cultural appropiation' is just fine.

ELIZABETH WARREN is the first U.S. senator to pledge never to take money from the NRA. As if the NRA would ever give her a nickel.

If I had bought checks with the NRA logo, I'd send her a one dollar contribution....

In related news, [she] also pledged not to take anything from AncestryDNA.

JOHN BRENNAN'S exceptionally sensitive issue. When you read 'sensitive' think 'criminal'. And 'exceptionally' implies the likelihood of jail time.

It couldn't happen to anyone more worthy.

THE UNIVERSITY SUICIDE WATCH continues.

ANOTHER ACADEMIC IDIOT SELF-IDENTIFIES: Liberal professor tries to ban book about Robert E. Lee’s horse.

Mock them. Mercilessly.

COULDN'T HAPPEN TO A LOUSIER CUP OF COFFEE: Starbucks is about to 'woke' their way out of business.

CHALK ONE UP FOR THE GOOD GUYS. Shooter at Dixon (IL) High School stopped by armed officer before any students harmed.

THE FAR LEFT is winning the Democratic civil war. Which, I think, is very good for Republicans....

VICTORY GIRLS: No, Ms. McCain, the CIA isn’t going to start decapitating prisoners.

And Gina Haspel is going to be the next CIA Director.

ONE SURE WAY to stop outrageous student demands: make them fill out the paperwork.

[W]ho needs courageous Deans to resist the PC idiots when you can just stop them with mind-dulling paperwork. And, as any academic can attest, university administrators excel at this task.

Still, it's immensely more satisfying (to me, at least) to simply boot them from the university. Preferably permanently, since they've shown no interest in becoming educated.

DEREK HUNTER: Suicide by liberalsim.

GOODBYE SEATTLE: The Seattle head tax is idiotic.

First the liberal/progressive boobs in charge of the city create the homeless problem with their statist policies; then demand that someone else pays for them. Bravo to Amazon for planning to walk away. Starbucks should rethink their progressive politics (they won't) and decide to walk away as well.

Goodbye, Seattle. It's been nice knowing you, but don't expect me to come back.

SPRING LEAVES, POST #7: Here are today's pictures, which I have to admit surprised me some compared to last week. I thought last week would be pretty much 'peak green', but this seek shows the tree canopy much thicker and darker than last week. Here's the pond view:

The house view is pretty much the same. The canopy is thicker and darker than before, and the 'tunnel' is beginning to close in at the top. Here's the picture:

Last week's pictures are http://a-shadow-world.blogspot.com/2018/05/spring-leaves-post-5-another-week.htmlhere for comparison.

A COMMENT on feminism.

Heh.

BOOK REVIEW: Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other.

HOW #METOO has undermined the #Resistance:

[J]ustice has a way of revealing truth, and for the Left that truth is hard to face: In the battle for American hearts, it has lost the standing to make its moral case.

In order to make a moral case you must first have morals. The Left does not.

I WAS GOING TO WRITE ON THIS, but PowerLine did it much better than I could: Time for McCain to resign.

MORE: We're even, Sen. McCain.

Sen. McCain is undoubtedly a patriot, and his actions during his internment as a Vietnam prisoner of war are heroic to be sure, but as he approaches the end of his life, John McCain is proving himself to be a bitter old man airing his many grudges.

THE LEFT should be a little more selective in its choice of victim groups.

FROM THIS WEEK' EDITION of PowerLine's Week in Pictures, my favorite:

Now go see the rest.

BACK TO THE SMOKE-FILLED ROOMS: Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) picking primary winners in advance?

If the rooms were indeed smoke-filled, it could be a good idea - it would keep the progressive wing of the party out. Sometimes the old ways are the best ways....

IF SOLAR AND WIND POWER ARE SO CHEAP, why is electricity so expensive?

I LOVE CARBON DIOXIDE; you should too.

But only if you want to live well.

EXPECTING WOMEN to display agency and take responsibility is now anti-feminist.

Bring back the pearls and fainting couch....

IT'S BALTIMORE: Obnoxious overstuffed police oversight committee member believes himself exempt from the law.

JACK DUNPHY has more on civilian 'oversight': the untrained criticize police work.

THE CLUE BAT STRIKES:

There is growing reason to believe that Donald Trump understands the thug mind a whole lot better than the people who attended our prestigious Foreign Service academies.

Read the whole thing.

COMMENT OF THE DAY: “Progressivism” is where time stands still.

From this Instapundit post.

AN EXCELLENT IDEA: The Trump Administration wants to take the mystery out of how much hospitals charge.

Yes. I'd sure like to know why did my local hospital charged $70,000 for an outpatient surgery for which Medicare reimbursed only $5,000 and I paid nothing. When the ratio between cost billed and cost paid is 14:1, I'd sure like to know why.

And if I'm going to have to pay for surgery out of my own pocket, I sure as hell want to know how much I'm going to to pay - and to whom - before the surgery, not 3 months later.

SENATE DEMOCRATS: We're horrified the GOP is exploiting our power grab on judicial confirmations.

And we're going to continue exploiting your power grab after we win the Senate again in 2018.

LAST YEAR Seattle cut ties with Wells Fargo over the Dakota Access pipeline, but no one else wants their business. Here's what I'd like to see:

Seattle to Wells Fargo: "Um, I know we told you to pound sand and insinuated you were morally offensive as an institution, but can we hire you again?"

Wells Fargo to Seattle: "Pound sand."

On the other hand, Wells Fargo's reputation isn't spotless either, so perhaps they would make a good pair....

HAWAII VOLCANO stokes fears of west coast eruptions. Maybe we'll get lucky and the Left coast will break off and drift out to sea to join Hawaii in the middle of the Pacific ocean.

And sink....

THE LEFT can’t handle the truth on illegal immigration. With the Left, it's about feelings, not truth.

IT'S NOT EASY BEING THE ANOINTED - unless you lock yourself firmly inside your liberal bubble where everyone is anointed.

THE WIND ENERGY FIASCO writ large. Until Congress can pass a law that requires the wind to blow at a constant 22 (or whatever) mph 24 hours/day, 7 days a week - and enforce it - wind energy is a terrible idea.

Even assuming wind energy is efficient in niche applications, PowerLine captured my major gripe in this parenthetical statement:

No one develops wind farms in or near wealthy suburbs. Instead, they are located in rural areas and billions are spent on transmission lines to carry electricity to where it is consumed.

Let's put wind turbines where they're really needed - on the roof of every tall building in Manhattan.

IMPRIMIS: The negative impact of the MeToo movement.

DEMOCRAT POLITICO WILLIE BROWN: "Democrats need to look like the adults, not like another pack of screaming kids on the playground."

They can't, and Republicans should be pleased.

NEVER PISS OFF an armed mother. It's fatal.

FIVE EASY WAYS to create racism. "... if [only] liberals could become self-aware enough to see the damage they are doing and the hate they are creating."

But they can't/won't.

"GIVE 'EM HELL" HARRY TRUMAN may have been the proto-Trump. May Donald Trump be as successful.

THE STRANGE CASE OF DICK’S SPORTING GOODS' preening, anti-gun stance.

If you own their stock (DKS), it might be a good time to sell before it tanks....

CALIFORNIA DEMANDS that Christians 'evolve'.

YOU COULD MAKE A STRONG ARGUMENT FOR PATRIARCHY using only the things feminists say about the fragility of women.

COMMENT OF THE DAY: “Free stuff. That’s what the Declaration of Independence was all about.”

For Democrats, at least....

WHAT TRUMP SAID; what NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell says he said.

THE SUICIDE of the university proceeds.

BEING A CHRISTIAN does not require you meekly submit to leftist tyranny.

BECAUSE THEY'RE FIGHTING TO SUSTAIN POVERTY? How could California be poor while doing so much to fight poverty?

MY CAT(S) deserve to win the Intersectional Victim Olympics. Well, except for Daisy, who's a Ragdoll.

THE POINT IS CLEAR: "California is now just a playground for rich and affluent professionals, and a lower class that cuts their lawns and cleans their kitchens."

INSTAPUNDIT: "I predict that it will be harder and harder to argue that higher education adds value, either for individuals or for society."

I'd suggest that that future is already here.

'HATS OFF': Wisconsin police department congratulates high school students on prank.

RANDOM THOUGHT: since we're so busy discussing white privilege, isn't it time to begin discussing victim privilege?

HATERS GOTTA HATE: Why do so many famous social-justice crusaders turn out to be racist and sexist?

'IT' WORKS FOR ME: CUNY Lists 'Zim,' 'Ver,' 'Eeirself' as 'Gender Pronouns'.

MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL, who hates Trump most of all?

Happy Mother's Day from Tom Steyer....

WHY LIBERALS are desperate to find things to be offended about.

MILLENNIALS VOTING DEMOCRAT is 'like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders'.

SARAH SANDERS: whining kids taught her how to deal with CNN's Jim Acosta.

SHORT ANSWER: NO. Should your child attend an Ivy League school?

WHERE IS THE LOGAN ACT WHEN YOU NEED IT? The delusions and collusions of the 'Honorable' John Kerry.

[Update] More from the wannabe shadow government.

LAURA HOLLIS: The Tyranny of the Elites.

... a class of condescending snobs who not only loathe those not like them; they believe that their “specialness” entitles them to play by a different set of rules.

Well said. And the sad truth is that these bozos are so well insulated from reality that it will take a sledgehammer to break through their bubble.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Social media is more accurately characterized as 'socialist' media and social justice warriors as 'useful useless idiots'.

THEY SEEM TO THINK they still run the United States.

STARBUCKS: bathrooms for the homeless; lounges for the layabouts.

They sell overpriced coffee, too....

NOT WANTING TO DIE ON AN AMUSEMENT RIDE because some lardbody sent it off the rails is now a hate crime: Woman kicked off Harry Potter ride for being too fat claims discrimination.

WHICH WAY IS THE [LIBERAL]WIND BLOWING TODAY? Hey, remember in 2008, when McCain was Hitler?

BUT OF COURSE the New York Times embarrasses itself (again):

On Tuesday, the Times breathlessly reported that Secretary of State Pompeo was absent from Washington when Trump announced he was pulling the U.S. out of the nuclear deal with Iran. “At a Key Moment, Trump’s Top Diplomat Is Again Thousands of Miles Away,” the headline harumphed.

But the Times knew that Pompeo was heading to North Korea to make sure that three Americans who had been jailed by the dictatorship would be coming home.

The hate is strong at the New York Times.

HMM: Did the FBI engage in outright spying against the 2016 Trump campaign?

It's beginning to look like the swamp is 'swampier' than we thought....

[Update] More here.

SPRING LEAVES, POST #5: Another week, another dramatic difference. The forest has gone full green as the taller trees have now gone from bud to leaf.

Here's the pond, which is now mostly hidden from our deck.

And now the house, which is getting more and more hidden. The tree canopy is now beginning to arch over the road, making it more of a tunnel than road. It would be much more so had I not taken a number of trees out last year.

Here's last week for comparison.

CELEBRITY IDIOTS: This week’s Albert Gore Jr. Award for Brazen Achievement in Eco-Hypocrisy goes to ... Katy Perry.

AMMO GRRRLL: If the Democrats can file a 'Losing Loser Lawsuit', so can I.

COAL WORKS: Japan does the math.

Linked from Instapundit.

MUELLER INDICTS A HAM SANDWICH; sandwich bites back.

GENIUS! NY Democrat aims to stop ‘promoting gun culture’ by banning archery in schools.

“MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” does to Maxine Waters what “buffet’s closed, buddy” does to Michael Moore: trigger an outburst of the highest degree.

I WANT TO KNOW, TOO: Who is paying Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti?

AND EMBARRASSES HIMSELF (AGAIN): Washngton Post columnist Dana Milbank rages against Tom Cotton.

THE FOLLY OF EXPERTS:

I know we are supposed to hate populism and feelings and bow to “evidence” and the experts that expound them but right across the board from Climate Change experts, to FBI/DOJ crack investigators, to political strategists who have gotten almost everything wrong it honestly is very difficult to treat these experts seriously.

It's better to keep your eyes open and common sense intact than to trust the 'experts' on anything.

AND EMBARRASSES HIMSELF (AGAIN): Dana Milbank rages against Tom Cotton.

OBVIOUSLY NOT. Is there room in 'diversity' for white people?

POWERLINE'S Week In Pictures has so many good ones this week I couldn't choose just one. My top two:

And for breaking news:

Now go enjoy the rest.

THAT BASKET OF DEPLORABLES is getting awfully crowded.

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S PICK OF SARAH SANDERS for Press Secretary was a stroke of genius. Her takedown of the pompous potentates of the previous administration (and their lackeys in the mainstream media) was a thing of beauty.

GIANT BOOBS TRUMP NEWSWORTHINESS as media dances with the (porn) stars.

I'm not sure whether 'giant boobs' refer to Stormy Daniels or the mainstream media.

DICK'S GOT 'WOKE', is going to go broke.

HEH:

From the Townhall cartoons page.

ON THE IRAN DEAL: Obama gave them billions and didn’t even get a lousy T-shirt.

YOU CAN RETURN to 1950's America any time you want. But it requires a maturity lacking in millennial America.

'ANSWER YES OR NO': Kamala Harris grills CIA Nominee on whether interrogations were 'immoral'.

For those high-horseunicorn arrogant Democrat detractors of Gina Haspel (I'm looking at you, Kamala Harris, Ron Wyden, Mark Warner, Angus King...), a question: "Which way was your 'moral compass' pointing in the aftermath of 9/11?" The truth is your moral compass is a weather vane, always pointing in the direction of political correctness.

Allahpundit at Hot Air agrees with me.

TOXIC LUNACY OR TOXIC IDIOCY? White privilege and toxic masculinity.

When it comes to progressives, can I vote for both?

SCHNEIDERMAN FACING CALLS to donate $8.5M campaign war chest to women's charity.

I suspect that he'll need the full $8.5M to fund his legal defense....

THE STATE of modern feminism.

Paraphrasing H.L. Mencken: “Puritanism Feminism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

CHUCK SCHUMER'S NANNY STATE: No (flavored) e-cigarettes for kids. Make them smoke the real thing instead.

PELOSI'S MID-TERM ELECTION MESSAGE TO AMERICANS: Give us your crumbs.

MY BACK IS NOT GOING TO LIKE THIS: Apparently white people are not allowed to do yoga anymore.

ON NORTH KOREA (AND IRAN?): Not being a wimp works.

DICK’S SPORTING GOODS hires gun control lobbyists to help force their rules on competitors. Conclusion: "The company is really living up to the name on the sign."

Unexpectedly: Get woke and go broke.

DIANE FEINSTEIN: Trump wants to undo everything Obama has done.

She finally figured out that's why I voted for Trump?

RANDOM THOUGHT: Democrats should be required to take Zoloft. So the rest of us won't have to.

FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP not culturally American, insists CNN 'star' contributor April Ryan.

April Ryan is neither a 'star' nor is she as 'culturally American' as Melania Trump.

GUESS THAT PARTY: It it's not mentioned, it must be Democrat.

WHY SCIENCE AND EXPERIENCE command that you buy an assault rifle.

SO WHO IS GOING TO CLEAN THEM? California to mandate solar panels on all new housing.

Which is why California needs open borders....

SWAMPS AREN'T NECESSARILY environmentally useful.

Environmentally sensitive, yes; environmentally useful, no.

BUT, BUT, BUT ... he's woke, dammit.

AND STUPID. You forgot stupid.

THE HYPOCRISY IS STRONG IN THIS ONE: The Schneiderman chronicles.

So is the farce.

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION: the latest social justice warrior 'go-to':

The average “woke” liberal – a term that refers to the most sensitive and aware liberals (think of hypersensitive and obnoxious having a kid, then spoiling that kid) – wakes up in the morning looking for something to be offended by.

[L]et’s think about this for a second, is this really a road people want to travel down? Before you do, make sure you know who invented your smartphone, the car, whatever medicine you or your loved ones take. Better check the ethnicity not only of your favorite musicians, but that of the people who invented the instruments they use.

There is literally no end to [this] stupidity.

If it weren't for 'cultural appropriation' those woke folks would live in a society inadequately described as BF (before Flintstone).

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES: Cultural appropriation edition. My favorite:

But there are others. Go enjoy them.

CONSIDER THIS: What would a progressive America look like?

Vote accordingly.

THEM'S FIGHTING WORDS: “[W]ith all due respect, you actually don’t know much about me in terms of what I feel and what I don’t.”

MORE BUSINESSES are mellowing out over hiring pot smokers. So? Now that marijuana is no longer a proscribed drug, is pot smoking less of a lung cancer problem than cigarette smoking? How 'mellow' were businesses then?

I wonder - will those 'mellow businesses' insist that the smokers go outside?

AMMO GRRRLL: Rolling home.

BIG GOVERNMENT BACKED BAD SCIENCE and made Americans fat.

I was a lot slimmer before Government 'science' insisted on helping me. And a lot happier....

SOMETIMES A CONFEDERATE FLAG IS JUST A FLAG: A white guy in a Confederate flag shirt stopped to help a black father change his tire.

And what the hell is a Tariq Nasheed?

THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING and Mueller is running, Mueller is running.

Democrats seem to have perfected the self-hoisting petard.

2016 WAS NOT A FLUKE. The Great Revolt is only beginning. And I suspect that 2018 and 2020 will prove it.

ADAM SCHIFF ON IMPEACHMENT: Let’s not give people the idea Democrats want to ‘nullify an election’. As if that hasn't been obvious since Election Night 2016.

MORE: Doug Powers comments: "The Schiff has hit the fan!"

MY THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Since personal pronouns are, er, 'personal', let me suggest that my personal pronoun for those of you of the non-binary persuasion is 'it'.

HOMELESS GUY finds out the hard way that the California governor’s mansion isn’t as ‘open door’ as the Governor wants his state to be.

THE ESSENCE OF LIBERALISM: tax/spend/control.

WHO KNEW? Greens are hypocrites.

[T]he more a person claims to be concerned about global warming, the less likely he is to behave in environmentally friendly ways.

Liberalism is all about controlling others, never themselves.

BRITISH SCHOOLS are removing analog clocks from classrooms because kids can’t read them.

Actually, I'll bet it's because the teachers can't read them.

SPRING LEAVES, POST #4: What a difference a week makes!

Spring has arrived with a vengance. Here's the pond:

And the house:

For comparison, here are last week's pictures.

I WANT TO KNOW because God Damn you to Hell.

BLUE WAVE? What blue wave?

FAUXCAHONTAS A DESCENDANT OF POCAHONTAS? ‘Take the DNA test’.

HILLARY: Let’s face it, many Democrats dislike me because I’m a capitalist and they’re socialists.

So they voted for Trump?

GWU STUDENTS want a new nickname and mascot.

So I suggest George Washington University be renamed Social Justice University and its mascot the social justice 'Warrior'. Here's my recommendation for mascot:

Heh.

PUNCHING BACK: 40 questions for Robert Mueller.

Thanks, I think, to President Trump, the Right is learning how to use the Left's playbook against them.

It's that double-edged sword thingy....

IT'S HOW THEY GET THEIR 15 MINUTES OF FAME SMUG: Cultural-appropriation outrage shows people are desperate to be offended.

I'M PAYING UNION DUES FOR THIS? Worker seeks to cut ties with union that smeared her husband.

ANOTHER GREEN WEENIE AWARD: Renewables and batteries will save the planet.

IF IT WEREN'T FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS there would be no train wreck.

THE SHIP IS SINKING; THE RATS ARE LEAVING: FBI officials Jim Baker, Lisa Page resign from bureau.