BEN RHODES updated.

Heh.

REALITY WINS: HBO election documentary shows what happens when Democrats' overconfidence collides head-on with reality.

OBAMA ON TRUMP VICTORY: What if we were wrong?

My favorite part(s) of the Fox News story were the two pictures that accompanied it:

Smug Obama --

-- replaced by not-so-smug Obama.

Whether the photo substitution was inadvertent or intentional, it captured the Democrats' pre-election/post-election shock perfectly.

THE ANSWER IS OBVIOUS: What do socialists usually do with your money?

KURT SCHLICHTER: Defeating the top 5 obnoxious liberal arguments.

THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES: Does high-tech highway design make us less safe?

More generally, the Peltzman effect suggests that every place in America reachable by the tentacles of the bureaucratic Nanny State is riskier today than ever before.

From my 'wayback machine' I recall predicting that accidents (and insurance rates) would increase after Texas introduced its first seat belt law in September 1985. It happened. The only upside was that the number of accident-related deaths did subside as fewer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_AwardsDarwin award candidates died.

RELATED: Does regulation breed financial illiteracy?

FORWARD, NOT BACK: Building a time machine.

Forward is easy; back, not so much.

BUT. BUT. BUT... The self-anointed can't possibly be racists.