TECHNOLOGY: Why does my landline phone ring when there's no one there?

NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST can’t figure out if racist tweets are a fireable offense or not.

Here's a hint: racist tweets are not fireable if they're from the progressive Left or any of their fellow travelers; otherwise they are.

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE: We hate fossil fuels so much we're going to let them contribute to our campaign.

IT'S OFFICIAL: We need more good guys with guns, and fewer cowardly officials with guns.

MAYBE I SHOULD STOP bringing up my cat so much when people tell me stories about their kids.

Then again, maybe not....

MICHAEL GOODWIN: Why it's time for Trump to play his ace in the hole.

[A] president has almost unlimited powers to declassify any document within the executive branch. It is a mystery why Trump has hesitated to use that power....

He could, in an instant, strike a blow for accountability and transparency by ordering the Justice Department to give Congress everything it wants, subject to very limited restrictions.

Embarrassment does not qualify as a reason for withholding information.

I've held DoD (and other) security clearances for about 55 years, with the last 30 or so at the highest levels in the intelligence community. I know - know - that any damage to national security that may be done by presidential declassification is transitory at worst. Unless you're a deep state bureaucrat, in which case it could be fatal to your career.

Not that I mind.

DEMOCRAT IDENTITY POLITICS: ban the phrase but not the politics. Sure, that'll win elections.

THE LEFT'S DIRE CONSEQUENCES: Chicago edition. Once you've finished, click through to Jack Dunphy's complete post at PJ Media.

VICTORY GIRLS: Blue wave missing in action. I think I'll hold off on declaring the deep blue wave a derp blue trickle until after all the 'lost' preprinted ballots have been found and counted.

UPDATE: Guess where some of those lost votes were found: Election officials in Franklin County found 588 previously uncounted votes in a Columbus suburb. Now there are only 1,565 votes left to 'find'.

THOUGHTS FROM THE AMMO LINE on what to tell our daughters about the 2016 election.

ROGER L. SIMON: Tennessee Senate race may be most crucial of 2018.

HEH: Cops post mugshots of Antifa rioters, liberals freak out.

It's called "punching back twice as hard".

CNN'S JIM ACOSTA: “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, the anti-Trump Resistance likes me.”

Nope, nope, and ... (wait for it) ... yep.

DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM THREATENS MINORITIES: Nothing better protects victims of bigotry than a system where they can pursue their needs and wants outside the realm of popular control.

Short summary: Socialism, 'democratic' or otherwise, only works if you're part of the in group. See Venezuela. Cuba. Etc.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: the gift that keeps on giving. The Stephen Miller tweet would be funny if it weren't a possible outcome.