PUSHBACK: Reforest your own damn countries.

As Instapundit notes, "harsh, but fair."

SOCIAL JUSTICE WARFARE: In order to stop white men from legislating women’s bodies, Democrats fight to overturn Roe V. Wade.

Yes, of course it's the Babylon Bee.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Get ready for Apocalypse Ruth. While I wish Justice Ginsburg long life as she battles cancer, when the time comes for her to leave the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett is my choice to replace her.

AS EXPECTED: the most valuable college majors.

Surprisingly to me, grievance studies were not among the least valuable. (Is that why Starbucks coffee is so expensive?)

AWESOME: Olympic-level international trolling.

Masterful. Just plain masterful.

SIN LESS; DRINK MORE COFFEE: Study finds most sin a direct result of not having enough coffee in your system.

MORE THAN ONE, UNFORTUNATELY: And the Democrat party has an oversupply.

ASK A DEMOCRAT: Did your life have no meaning the day before you were born?

NEW DEMOCRAT MOTTO: Blame America first.

If they hate America so much, why are they here?

WHO HAS RIGHT-OF-WAY AT THE INTERSECTIONALITY TRAFFIC CIRCLE? Lesbians against Buttigieg.

NEWT GINGRICH: The New York Times 1619 Project is bullshit marred by its own implicit racism.

CEO'S WOKE JOKE: surrending to stakeholders, not stockholders.

LINDA SARSOUR is still lying. Instapundit's earlier post on Sarsour's lies is here.

Has anyone (beside me) noticed that America was not a racist country until us racists elected the first black President in 2008?

THE WOKE JOKE.

MORE LIBERAL VIOLENCE: Kill Christians, clock Trump with a bat.

ABOUT THOSE AMAZON RAINFOREST FIRES....

An explanation here.

IT'S ALWAYS SOMEONE ELSE'S FAULT: April Ryan throws her (former) bodyguard under the bus.

Advice to Democrat contractors: get it in writing; get it notarized; and tape all conversations....

BASKETBALL TRUMPENFREUDE

Basketball coach Gregg Popovich has called President Donald John Trump a bunch of nasty names since the election. Popovich finally got to head Team USA this year. Today he coached it right into its first loss in 13 years, ending a 78-game winning streak.

Heh.

OBSESSION: White Supremacy and the Democrat Pivot.

MEMO TO THE DNC: The Bible Is NOT Socialist.

WE CALL THEM PROGRESSIVES: "Most of the people loudly criticizing western civilization over race today would happily have been slaveowners themselves." Follow the link to the full post.

FOR SHAME! "Heaven help our country if Elizabeth Warren becomes president."

OUR DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES clamor to forgive all student loan debt; but this week President Trump did - for an especially deserving group of students.

[T]he forgave nearly $750,000,000.00 worth of federal college loan debt with the stroke of a pen.

Sure other Presidents could have done it - Republican and Democrat. Sure Congress could have passed legislation accomplishing as much.

But President Trump did it.

By himself.

The only one to do so.

Affecting some current 25,000 individuals, and averaging $30,000 per person the President wiped it away.

[T]he media isn’t hyping it is because of who had their debt forgiven: permanently disabled veterans and service members.

You'd never know it from the mainstream media. At least I didn't.

MARKET WATCH: How to slash health care costs with only two fundamental changes.

I'd add "and a rapid diminution of the size, scope, and control of the 'health care scam' industry".

REASON TV’S REMY “discovers the hysterical, shrieking crowds are here for the entitlements.”



Linked from this Instapundit post.

TO BE FILED IN THE 'GOOD NEWS' DEPARTMENT: The collapse of English Literature at Columbia University (and elsewhere).

I suppose there will be some loss in the transmission of classic liberal knowledge, but that, in my mind, is small potatoes compared to getting rid of the progressive rot infesting today's universities.

ANOTHER SAMPLE (IF YOU NEED ONE) of utopian Leftist thought.

TONY PERKINS: The solution to gun violence is both obvious and light-years from the socialist menu.

Related: Mass shootings driven more by 'culture' than lack of gun control.

THEY KNOW IT'S ALL THEY'VE GOT LEFT: Why Democrats should be scared of a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020.

TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME: Searching for that special place in Hell.

THEY'VE GOTTA BE KEPT ISOLATED ON THE PLANTATION: Stanford pushes separate physics course for minority students.

PRACTICING FOR IRAN: U.S. confirms Israel behind air strikes on Iranian bases in Iraq.

BERNIE AND THE DEMOCRATS: How anger makes you stupid.

I disagree. The nouns should be reversed: 'how stupid makes you angry'.

THE TIMES, THEY ARE A'CHANGING and the cultural Left will be swept out to sea on a rising tide of sanity.

WHO KNEW? Marianne Williamson shows Democrats are a cult.

PRESIDENT TRUMP can't "order" a private business to get out of China. Oh?

GOOD RIDDANCE: Bias has killed the 'Gray Lady'.

Maybe Luciano could buy it. There's still loose change under the sofa cushions.

DUKE PSYCHIATRIST: Trump ‘May Be Responsible for Many More Millions of Deaths’ than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

That's quite an achievement for someone who's been in office just a bit over 2-1/2 years. I'd suggest psychiatric help, but....

THINK ABOUT IT: How do we stop driverless cars and autonomous delivery drones from becoming weapons?

Linked from Instapundit.

MORE WANTING to join the victim community. Clearly these individuals are nuts in serious need of psychiatric help. But if they reject help and insist on continuing, then let 'em. Just don't expect me to pay for it or offer sympathy.

YOU'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION to our demands for control. Click through to Althouse and read her comments section.

OBAMA ENDS GLOBAL WARMING: makes offer on multi-million dollar Martha's Vineyard estate. And, as Instapundit notes, exempts himself from his 'big house' limit.

WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE, gatekeepers?

OCASIO-CORTEZ: just another bad idea.

Did she learn anything in either high school or college beyond "I'm a victim and therefore must have every whim accomodated"?

SLAVERY IS THE REASON there is no universal health care. That's because it was 'employer provided' ... just not by Democrats and on a different plantation.

'HOCKEY STICK' CREATOR AND CLIMATOLOGIST IMPOSTER MICHAEL MANN loses lawsuit against climate skeptic. He's ordered to pay the defendant’s costs as well, which I hope amounts to a pretty penny.

THE LEFT'S HYPOCRISY strikes again.

THE PROBLEM isn't the plastic, it's the people.

As I've been saying for years and years, for the Left it's always about gaining, maintaining, and retaining control. Any excuse will do.

YOU DON'T THINK THE NEW YORK TIMES IS BIGOTED? Think again.

SOCIALISTS ARE NOT HAPPY: Hasbro has a new monopoly socialism game.

They don't like having their privates exposed....

BUT, BUT OBAMA TOLD ME IT WAS EASY: Non-gun owner shocked by the legal hurdles involved in buying a gun.

AMMO GRRRLL declares the end of feminism.

She's right.

THANK YOU, but we can do it ourselves.

THIS IS A SURPRISE? All the people who think they are better than you are much, much worse.

THE REAL REASON elites behave hypocritically on climate change is because they want to. And can afford to.

It's virtue signaling, and it's about control. It's always about control.

TO SIGNAL THEIR VIRTUE: Private school parents switch their kids over to public schools. But only the 'right' public schools. Thus denying those with lesser resources....

They'll sacrifice their kids to maintain their virtue among their peers.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT recommends setting your thermostat to a sweltering 82 degrees while you sleep. So I need to turn on the heater when I go to bed?

Rules, regulations, and recommendations would be a lot fewer - and simpler - if our governing class were required by law to abide by each and every one with instant dismissal for any infraction.

An added benefit would be a smaller governing class....

A BUNCH: How many unicorns has Donald Trump slain?

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES has posted. I have two favorites this week, sort of expressing both my hopes and fears. Hope is first:

That's the optimistic view of America; here's my fear:

Their America scares me.

Now go see the rest - trust me, there are good, funny ones at the link.

REAL MEN don't marry feminists.

TUCKER CARLSON: San Francisco bans words to hide its crime problem -- and to control your mind.

Don't give in.

LIBERATE GREENLAND.

REALITY CRITICIZED for not more clearly distinguishing itself from satire. The land of money trees, unicorns and rainbows is not pleased.

DEMOCRATS & PROGRESSIVES are really nice people.

NO. IT'S BULLSHIT. Is it true that 'getting killed by police is a leading cause of death for young black men,'?

WHEN EXPERTS HAVE OUTSIZED EGOS, they fail.

TRUMP TO BUY GREENLAND, install shiplap, hardwood floors, flip for profit.

Yes, yes, I know - it's not Snopes.

BUT HE WAS EVIL. Because Trump.

SAN FRANCISCO adopts new language for criminals. A felon is now a 'formerly incarcerated person' or 'returning resident'.

It may be NEWSPEAK, but the latter is perfect for sanctuary cities.

AN EXPLANATION for why the Babylon Bee has become America's paper of record.

I DON'T THINK FAKE NEWS QUALIFIES AS SATIRE (YET): Is Snopes a satire site?

FROM ONE SANCTUARY CITY ...

... to another. Congratulations, Austin.

BARNEY & CLYDE explain the Democrats' campaign strategy.

INSTAPUNDIT AGREES: The Babylon Bee is now America's paper of record. Now go follow his link.

THE LEFT WENT BERSERK when President Trump and the First Lady posed for a photo with an infant survivor of the El Paso shooting. Why?

SPARE ME THE ANGST over the ‘public charge’ rule.

HOW IMMIGRATION made 14 million millennials homeless.

And yet they keep voting for more....

BOB BARR: the not-so-subtle racism of gun control.

Carried to its natural end, the philosophy of gun control virtually ensures the only people left with firearms in a Democrat-controlled America are cops, affluent whites, and criminals.

And the criminals will be better armed....

BACK-TO-SCHOOL PHYSICALS turn into parenting inquisition.

There's a simple solution: "None of your damn business." I use it on Medi(s)care when they think they're doing an 'annual' physical examination.

IDIOTOCRACY: White 'supremacists' sell organic produce at farmer's market; social justice warriors go ballistic.

CAN YOU GUESS WHICH ONE? A political party stupid enough to call you a racist is too stupid to govern.

MYSTERY SOLVED: Why evangelicals support Trump.

BY WAY OF POWERLINE: Why hasn't Brexit happened yet? Here's the gist:

Brexit showed that, for elites to whom the European Union offers a grand role, that moment has come already. The European Union, not Britain, is their country. They saw Brexit not as most British people did—as a solemn and even sacred uprising by an ancient people against a usurper. No. Elites saw Brexit as a local nuisance in the domestic politics of the only legitimate custodian of Britain’s long-term interests: the European Union.

It's a long article, but well worth the read if you want fully understand Brexit. It's also useful in understanding the current Democrat meltdown; the same premise applies.

NOT SURPRISED: YouTube is run by idiots. It's run by social justice warriors, who have self-identified as idiots.

THE MOMENT I realized Biden's candidacy was doomed.

I'm not convinced. "Vote for me. I may be confused and incompetent but at least I'm not batshit crazy." seems to me to be a pretty good (primary) campaign strategy.

DEMOCRATS: the party of racism (and filthy language).

I have a tenet that I stand by on the subject of race. The person who raises the subject first is usually the racist. And my addendum is the person who talks about race the longest is almost certainly the racist.

Agreed.

PORTLAND POLICE: 'We wish there were some kind of organized, armed force that could fight back against Antifa.'

From America’s new paper of record!

TRUMP TRUTHS: Socialism would totally work if ....

TENT CITIES:

Good question.

Taken from this illustrated post of political insanity.

INSTAPUNDIT: "I'm so old, I can remember when the Babylon Bee was still a satirical Website, before morphing into America's paper of record."

Heh.

PJ MEDIA'S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump triggers the Israel haters.

Good for you, Mr. President. Stay inside the Democrats' OODA loop. The more time the Democrats spend reacting, the less they have for acting.

BREAKING NEWS: Money doesn’t grow on trees, someone has to pay for it.

Money trees only grow in the fertile land of unicorns and rainbows. Because bullshit.

NOTHING USEFUL: What will they learn at college?

WHEN YOUR CAT WATCHES TOO MUCH MASTER CHEF:

Found on the internet.

DEREK HUNTER: Journalism keeps finding new and creative ways to get worse. Generally when you find yourself in a deep hole, it's time to quit digging. Journalists seem to be determined to burrow all the way to China.

SHORT ANSWER, NO: Can Facebook be saved?

JUST DON'T LET THEM BRING THEIR POLITICS WITH THEM: New Yorkers fleeing to Florida over high taxes.

Texas failed to do so, and look at Austin now. I left (permanently) in 1995.

YOU ONLY THOUGHT STEM classes were safe from the social justice warriors.

Even in engineering education, some are busy 'virtue signaling' their peers.

DON'T THEY HAVE ANYTHING (ANYTHING?) BETTER TO COMPLAIN ABOUT? CNN's Cuomo hits Trump's lack of aging in office, suggests he 'doesn't care' like other presidents.

HEATHER MAC DONALD: Trump is not the one dividing us by race, his rivals are.

FROM THE NEW PAPER OF RECORD: Bernie Sanders arrives in Hong Kong to lecture protesters on how good they have it under communism.

Beto is on the next flight to warn them about America's racism.

I SUGGESTED in an earlier post that the New York Times was headed for the 'dustbin of history'. It's happening.

TRUMP IS EVIL, PART ELEVENTY THOUSAND, SOME ODD: Workers had to get paid to see President Trump speak to them at Royal Dutch Shell's new $6 billion ethane cracker plant.

STEVEN HAYWARD: The Left discovers eco-fascism.

BUT TENTS AND TARPS ON THE SIDEWALK ARE OKAY: Amid homelessness crisis, Los Angeles restricts living in vehicles.

DEMOCRAT GOVERNANCE, POSSIBLY? Fox News investigates how streets of San Francisco were overcome by sewage, needles and misery.

The last Republican mayor of San Francisco left office in 1964.

JUST AS POLITICIANS WANT TO REPLACE THE ELECTORATE, Corporate CEOs want to replace shareholders.

How can we virtue signal if you keep wanting to hold us accountable?

WIN-WIN? The gun control compromise the Left will never accept.

FOR ANIMAL LOVERS: Feel good story of the day.

MORE CLINTON EMAIL HYPOCRISY: Clinton IT aide who defied subpoena says he created a cryptic gmail account and sent it nearly all of Hillary’s emails.

I'm sure they exist somewhere. Maybe President Trump could get them as part of the China trade deal....

THE NEW YORK TIMES: If history won't cooperate with our narrative, we'll rewrite it (history, that is).

Will the 'dustbin of history' be kind to the Times? I doubt it.

CRICKETS: What you hear when you ask rich pro-taxers to volunteer to pay more.

Listening, Bernie? Liz? Kamala?

ADDED: President Trump donates his entire salary as President to charity.

I DIDN'T KNOW HARRY REID WAS A REPUBLICAN: Harry Reid rips Dems over 'Medicare-for-all,' border policies.

Life's not as nice when others get to tell you what to do, is it Harry?

KURT SCHLICHTER: Ignorant Liberals need to go visit America.

They did, but were afraid to get out of their car.

CIVILITY WATCH. I hope Ed Driscoll makes this a continuing item at Instalpundit.

JUSTICE DONE RIGHT: Brazil police sniper kills armed man holding dozens hostage on bus in Rio de Janeiro.

DO GOVERNMENTS have a duty to reduce racial gaps? No, they have a desire ... for control.

HARVARD CLIMATE LOON: Keto dieters are killing the planet because bacon and butter.

Or something.

KAMALA HARRIS: Too ignorant to be president.

And a liar to boot....

GUESS WHO? They lie. Consistently, every day.

Thankfully they are both behind paywalls so most normal Americans (you and me) can go about our lives without being assaulted by the stench.

HE'S ONE HELLUVA GRANDMASTER AT TROLLING LIBERALS: Trump tweets promise not to build 'Trump' properties in Greenland.

IT'S HARD TO TALK ABOUT THE HORRIBLE THINGS THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN: Two years after losing an anti-gun lawsuit, University of Texas professors won't talk about campus carry.

CALIFORNIA CRAZY. At the presidential candidate level:

Kamala Harris' poorly thought out gun control proposals.

Kamala Harris' hypocrisy on guns.

And at the state level:

An utterly insane 'ammunition law'.

Maybe we should just forget about reopening insane asylums and just give the crazies one-way bus tickets to California....

YEAH, RIGHT: You should totally trust our elite institutions.

JULY 2019: claimed to be the hottest July ever.

Read the comments, which are decidedly against the 'hottest month ever' claim. Note that the claimers are the climate-change 'experts' who spend their time in air-conditioned ivory towers; the naysayers are you's and me's who actually spend their time outdoors in the 'climate'.

'LOST' ANGELES: How liberal policies helped turn a homeless problem into a full-blown crisis. From the comments:

I have personally seen this mess grow for years. Yes, there are some mentally disabled, but the majority of the homeless are not, and believe it or not, they are homeless because they want to be. Go offer one of them a job and see what the response is. They are with like-type people who share their love of drug addiction. This problem will never be solved in Los Angeles or anywhere else as long as the homeless continue to get free money, food, tents, and needles. Stop rewarding those who are not able to display personal responsibility. Take those who have mental problems and drug addiction and civilly commit them to institutions. Build more mental institutions, not housing units because the majority of the homeless want to be on the street, not in a housing unit. Quit being political and become practical...

More reason to permit - even encourage - involuntary committment to mental health facilities.

INCONVENIENT FACTS: Mass shootings aren't becoming more common – and evidence contradicts stereotypes about the shooters.

Of the four inconvenient facts, three strike me as fairly clearly myths; the other - mental health - is, to me, not a myth. It strikes me as obvious that all mass shooters are nuts; but equally obvious that not all nuts are mass shooters. The problem is how to distinguish the former from the latter.

I think President Trump has roughly the correct idea, which is to use the 'gun control' hysteria to address the root causes (largely mental illness, in my opinion) more generally.

And that includes reopening mental hospitals (formerly insane asylums) and encouraging involuntary committment under judicial supervision.

WORDS TO REMEMBER:

Never underestimate anyone who is unbound by reality or standards of decency. That’s not only Tlaib and Omar, but every Democrat and nearly the entire media.

Taken from this post about two of our Congressional guttersnipes.

SO TELL ME AGAIN which party is racist.

THE LEFT'S HYPOCRISY exposed in two tweets.

MORE BREAKING NEWS from America's new paper of record: 'Antifa' activist unable to join protest after forgetting ski mask in Mom’s car.

ANOTHER PILE-UP AT THE INTERSECTIONALITY TRAFFIC CIRCLE: Palestinian Authority bans LGBTQ activities in West Bank.

ILHAN OMAR withdraws support from bill to save the Earth after learning that’s where Israel is.

From the Babylon Bee, America's new paper of record.

DON'T ASK where the money goes. Just assume it's wasted.

OOPSIE: Britain’s blackout was caused by an outage at a wind farm. More proof, if any is needed, that mega-generating farms, remote from the consumers they serve, are inherently unstable.

The solution is obvious, if un-PC. Give up on gigawatt power stations, build more modest (preferably nuclear) generating plants in/near the cities they service, and interconnect them into realistically sized regional networks.

Until that happens, the Progressives' land of rainbows, unicorns, and free-money trees had better plan on more - and bigger - 'oopsies'.

MARINES USE ARMORED VEHICLE to defend Navy ship from small boats off Iranian coast.

I'm interested in seeing what a chain gun can do to one of Iran's patrol boats....

TOO BAD THEY'RE NOT RATIONAL: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D(umb)-RI] has some thoughts.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES, Al & Fredo Edition, has posted. Many good ones, but this is still my favorite:

Gun control is racist?

IF THE SUICIDE VEST FITS, WEAR IT. House Democrats could retaliate against U.S. and Israel ambassadors after banned visit.

The last paragraph explains it all: "Omar and Tlaib had planned to visit Jerusalem and the West Bank on a tour organized by a Palestinian organization aimed at highlighting the plight of the Palestinians."

POWERLINE: Yes to acquiring Greenland!

Isn't climate change worth sacrificing a few hundred billion?

ARE YOU SURE you want Medicare for All?

GUN CONTROL REALLY WORKS WELL, DOESN'T IT? Cops keep getting shot by criminals who aren't allowed to have guns.

A MESSAGE FOR 200-PLUS HOUSE DEMOCRATS: "The men who wrote the Second Amendment hadn’t just finished a hunting trip. They had just liberated a nation."

WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: My confession about guns.

AMMO GRRRLL: We will bury you. (Not.)

BINGO! “We don’t have a problem with White Supremacy. We have a problem with Leftist Supremacy.”

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN reminds you what life would be like under left-wing rule.

In a word, ugly.

BREAKING: President Trump has expressed serious interest in buying Greenland.

I'd suggest a trade - California for Greenland - but unfortunately California is on the wrong coast....

Update: Not for sale.

"WE CHOOSE TRUTH OVER FACTS." Biden's 'gaffe' is the Left's truth.

Michael Ramirez understands. For committed progressives, the narrative is everything. Anything that doesn't support the narrative must be ridiculed or ignored.

FEEL-GOOD STORY OF THE WEEK: Frontier flight attendant helps calm crying baby.

The comments were more kind than usual, but there were still far too many cranks who seem to believe they have a right to go through life undisturbed by reality. Here's a response to one of the "Me, me" cranks:

Actually, he was taking care of the other passengers. By being a kind person who serves his customers, he calmed the baby down so others didn’t have to listen to an upset child. This is a great way to assist others and provide a quiet, peaceful flight for everyone. What did it hurt? Everyone is such a glass half empty in this current society of meanness and disrespect for others.

I wonder if the cranks in the comments realize that they were once babies....

JOE BIDEN: There are at least three genders.

Not enough for progressives; one too many for conservatives.

LINDSEY GRAHAM politely explains to idiot reporters why he needs an 'assault weapon'.

TAKE NOTE: They will still hate you even if you disarm.

SALENA ZITO: Rats may infest our cities, but there are bigger barriers to a better life.

BARNEY & CLYDE on the cost of government.

BEARING ARMS: A racially motivated attack the mainstream media is ignoring.

This is why I don’t trust the media. This is why you can’t trust them on guns or any other issue. It’s because they will ignore inconvenient stories and focus on the ones that they can use to try and take away your rights.

You get crickets when the facts don't support the narrative.

PURE EVIL: Sister of slain El Paso couple isn't happy [an understatement] with local Democrats for not welcoming President Trump to their city.

Apparently some of the El Paso citizens aren't sufficiently 'woke'....

I REPORTED on the gay Republican organizer of a clean-up of Rep Elijah Cummings' district in Baltimore in a post last week.

The Baltimore Sun was not happy.

LIBERAL DILEMMA.

SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP: the contemptible Bernie Sanders.

MANDATORY ETHNICS STUDIES as a condition of high school graduation in California? Here's a small part of the curriculum guide for the class:

At its core, the field of Ethnic Studies is the interdisciplinary study of race, ethnicity, and indigeneity with an emphasis on experiences of people of color in the United States. Further, it is the xdisciplinary, loving, and critical praxis of holistic humanity – as educational and racial justice. It is from communities of color and our intergenerational worldviews, memories, experiences, identities, narratives, and voices. It is the study of intersectional and ancestral roots, coloniality, hegemony, and a dignified world where many worlds fit, for present and future generations.

The field critically grapples with the various power structures and forms of oppression, including, but not limited to, white supremacy, race and racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, islamophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia, that continue to impact the social, emotional, cultural, economic, and political experiences of Native People/s and people of color.

Ethnic Studies is xdisciplinary, in that it variously takes the forms of being interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary, undisciplinary, and intradisciplinary. As such, it can grow its original language to serve these needs with purposeful respellings of terms, including history as herstory and women as womxn, connecting with a gender and sexuality lens, along with a socioeconomic class lens at three of its intersections.

If you can, get out of California now!

Note: I used this link in an earlier Shadow's World post and it's importance cannot be overemphasized.

A REMINDER FROM EL PASO: Politicos, Gun-Grabbers, Nuts, and Heroes.

HOW MUCH would 'Medicare-for-all' really cost?

To paraphrase the late Sen. Everett Dirksen [R-IL], "A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."

SHOULD ONE-ROOM SCHOOLS COME BACK? Why isn't every kid an 'A' student?

IT WASN'T MILK AND HONEY, it was Chick-fil-A.

#RESISTANCE is mandatory.

Yes, it's satire (I think).

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE FARMERS? "It's enough to eat a little less.... That will be better for the whole world."

A GAFFE? Really?

THE NEWS IS STUPID AND SHALLOW. But that's not news.

IS 'KNIFE CONTROL' NEXT? Gang member accused of stabbing rampage that killed 4, wounded 2.

PROFESSOR CALLS TO GET RID OF GRADES because they are 'capitalism in action'.

[Professor] Wolff’s main quarrel with grading stems from the fact that he believes it to be a tool of an oppressive capitalist force.

"It chiefly serves employers,” he says, adding that “today’s economic system precludes teachers engaging so carefully, repeatedly, and thoroughly with students. Capitalism’s enterprise organization — a small minority of employers (owners and their top executives) directing and controlling a large majority of employees — is replicated in private and public educational institutions.”

“That organization and its financial constraints combine to preclude the interactions among teachers and students that real education requires,” says Wolff, who believes that grades represent a “power” that a teacher has over a student.

Wolff insists that “meritocracy redirects the blame for capitalism’s failures onto its victims” and that “grading is the method” by which schools perpetuate a meritocratic society.

Gist: The 'professor' fears meritocracy will leave him jobless....

RANDOM THOUGHT: If Democrats win in 2020 we will know that the Zombie Apocalypse has arrived.

TREES TO THE RESCUE: "Planting more trees has long been offered as a potential solution to CO2-induced global warming ... at an infinitesimal fraction of the cost of crazy, unworkable schemes like the Green New Deal."

The post is brief, and the comments are hilarious. Click on the comment link and read them all.

OPEN QUESTION: Are Democrats' minds so closed than nothing can get in or so open that their brains have fallen out?

MICHAEL RAMIREZ visits the faculty lounge.

IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN, get out of California now!

OOPS! Democrats fearing 2020 election scramble for panic button with loser candidates.

They're working very hard to ensure Walter Mondale's 1984 defeat by Ronald Reagan was not the worst in Democrat history.

A CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST just threw down a challenge to liberals who are up in arms about President Trump’s recent remarks about Baltimore.

As Democrats and the talking heads on the left continue their bashing of the president as a racist for stating the obvious on the shameful conditions in Rep. Elijah Cummings’ Maryland district, one Trump supporter is taking action — and challenging the critics to join him.

Scott Presler, a gay Republican from Virginia Beach, announced a trash clean-up day in Baltimore as a way to push back on the anti-Trump rhetoric, calling on volunteers to join the effort.

More here.

Update: The cleanup happened on Monday, August 5. To my knowledge, it was never picked up by any MSM national news service.

HAS ANYONE SEEN THIS IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA? This legally armed military man rushed into action to protect children during El Paso attack.

I've seen it on Fox, but nowhere else.

A LIZ WARREN SUPPORTER goes on a killing spree, and the next day [Joaquin, brother of Democrat presidential candidate Julian] Castro thinks this is appropriate?

Check out the comments.

AND HE CEMENTS MY VOTE FOR TRUMP: Biden says he's coming for assault weapons.

He is was the only Democrat candidate I would even consider voting for.

YES, They do want to take our guns.

Of all of the worn-out lines ... one remains true: most proposed legislative "fixes" to gun violence largely end up just punishing people who obey the law.

My reward for having done everything right is to be left more vulnerable to attack from those who don't?

As arguments go, that one moves me not at all.

Me, neither.

Here's another, from last year.

'WOKE' POET #resists act of kindness. Twitter not amused.

EARNESTLY STUPID, PART III: Democratic socialists convention erupts due to 'sensory overload,' gendered pronoun usage.

N.B. If I keep using this lede, I'm gonna run out of Roman numerals in no time....

Update: If you can stand to watch, here's the video.

ER, HOW MUCH IS 1+1? Math professor who argues against ‘truths and knowledge’ to host Carleton College convocation.

OH, COME ON. WHAT UNIVERSE DOES HE LIVE IN? Mayor Pete says ‘white nationalist terrorism,’ NRA to blame for shootings.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ explains 'Medicare for All'.

CHARLIE MARTIN: What we aren't hearing about west Baltimore.

What we are hearing is "the virtue preeners [making it] clear that they honestly don't give a good godd*mn about those people; they just want to score on Trump."

WHEN IS A FASCIST NOT A FASCIST? When the progressive language police are in charge.

SALENA ZETO on real rural America, not the media version.

CULTURE SHOCK in small-town America. Or for me, why I'l never move back to a city.

SHORT COMMENTS on 24 wannabe Presidents.

NOTHING MORE THAT A TAX GRAB: Andrew Yang's 'Freedom Dividend'. Sure, you'll get some money, but the governing class will get something much more valuable - control.

STEVEN HAYWARD: Axioms and animadversions (third bullet).

Listening to the metaphysicians of the Democratic Party handing out fundamental human rights like Halloween candy summons to mind another axiom from Burke: “What is the use of discussing a man’s abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician, rather than the professor of metaphysics.”

For 'professor of metaphysics' read 'Democrat presidential candidate'.

The second bullet is simply the Law of Large Numbers writ in political terms. Voter fraud may be effective at the (very) local level; not at state or national levels. The chief effect (i.e., 'Russian collusion') is to sow discontent with the process.

And Google is at least as guilty, if not more so, than the Russians.

IS THIS THE STRATEGY behind Austin's mad homeless camping policy?

If so - and I suggest it is - it only confirms Democrat/progressive hypocrisy.

GLENN REYNOLDS: Make the Supreme Court lots bigger.

I could perhaps consider Reynolds' suggestion if the 50 justices to be appointed to the new Court were (a) not lawyers and (b) term-limited. There is, after all, no Constitutional requirement that Justices be lawyers.

RANDOM THOUGHT on 'gun free zone' signs. They might as well be replaced with 'target rich environment' signs.

Those, at least, would be more accurate.

FROM JAIL? Michael Avenatti is still considering a 2020 Presidential run.

Or to avoid jail?

REAL VEGGIE BURGERS: Innovative new process converts vegetables into meat by feeding them to cows.

Yes, Snopes, of course it's the Babylon Bee.

EARNESTLY STUPID, PART II: Professor demands ADA bar dentists from helping ICE.

And the children. But never mind that; it's more important to hate Trump.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES, dark psychic forces edition, posted yesterday. To my mind it's not as good as usual - I had a hard time finding a favorite - but I think that's because it's really, really hard to find anything funny about a political Left that is so aggressively, earnestly stupid.

That said, here's my favorite:

Now go see the rest.

DON'T THEY REMEMBER HE'S THEIR MESSIAH? Obama frustrated that Democrat presidential field keeps criticizing him.

Don Surber has more.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ on the sinking ship that is Baltimore.

“SHE WENT BACK WITH ME”: Omar and Pelosi mock Trump in Africa.

But did they learn anything? Or fix Africa?

Obviously not.

VERIFIED DEPLORABLE: T’was a Nice Republic, While It Lasted.

Heh.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: Republicans want government as we know it 'dismantled'.

Damned straight. We want it returned to 'We, the People'.

EXPERT WARNING: We have only 12 years left until they change the timeline on global warming again.

The scientific consensus is that roughly 10-12 years from now, the world will be flooded with new doomsday predictions. This can all be avoided if we overhaul the economy and become socialists, according to non-political, unbiased sciencey type guys.

Yes, it's the Babylon Bee.

ROAD TRIP: A picture postcard round every bend.

Plus, there's are plenty of socialist paradises for those of the 'hate America' persuasion.

BE CAREFUL; YOU MIGHT GET WHAT YOU ASKED FOR: So you want Canadian health care?

I'm fine with that so long as Republicans can opt out.

OH MY GOD: White robots are racist.

THE [UNION] ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: Maybe they realize it’s a bad idea to bring this up.

I DIDN'T KNOW THAT: According to the Washington Post, hamburgers are now Russian assets because Donald Trump likes them.

ONLY IF YOU LET THEM: the political power of changing language.

[T]he victim junkies at our state-sponsored Colorado State University have updated their Inclusive Language Guide. This is an arbitrary and ever-changing list of words and phrases they’d like scrubbed from our collective vocabulary.

All I can say is: This list takes the cake as being the craziest, most insane, deranged, demented, and dumb list made by uppity ladies and gentlemen going to war with us normal people in the peanut gallery to gyp us of our speech and sell our freedom down the river.

More absurdity:

All this silliness can’t drive you nuts because, “Originally referring to mental illness, the terms “crazy” and “nuts” referred to people who were often institutionalized against their will.”

Which is adequate proof that mental institutions should be brought back and these loons should be the first occupants....

RANDOM THOUGHT: If you believe healthcare is a human right, you're either a liar or too stupid to be allowed outside without an adult escort.

No one has a 'right' to another's labor - that's called slavery and was adjudicated in the Civil War (FYI, the slavers lost).

CNN'S DON LEMON: If you don't agree with me you must be a bigot.

A TIME OF CHOOSING: Trump makes his case for reelection.

Read it all.

LIBERALS BELIEVE President Trump can predict the future.

Well, at least as far as the 2020 election is concerned, he can. But that's an easy prediction.

HEH: Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD] Baltimore home burglarized.

THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH ABOUT TRUMP — he’s doing what he said he would do.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Menacing invective against Trump creates a dangerous civil climate.

And Democrats call Republicans violent....

I'VE DONE ALL THE DAMAGE I CAN DO; TIME TO LEAVE THE SINKING SHIP. ‘Squad’ member’s chief of staff leaves amid controversies, campaign finance complaints.

WHY I VOTED FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP: He says the things you can't say.

And why I'll vote for him again. Tweet on, Mr. President.

PJ MEDIA'S MORNING BRIEFING: Obama's Legacy Is President Donald J. Trump.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Democrats are the party of "I can't"; Republicans are the party of "I can".

Added thought(s): Or "I won't/I will"; "I'm crazy/I'm sane"; "I'm stupid/I'm sane". And I'm sure you can think of other "I/I" comparisons.

DEREK HUNTER: These people are crazy.

But one of these people will be the nominee of the Democratic Party and stand a chance of being elected President of the United States next year. That’s not only crazy, it’s scary as hell.

Agreed.

NON SEQUITUR: the not-so-great social experiment.

FOR GOOD REASON, the answer is obvious: Critics slam CNN Democratic debate (day 1) for ignoring Mueller.

Responding to critics, CNN asked on day 2 and the almost uniform response was "Impeach!"

HILLARY CLINTON: the fix was in from the start.

Maybe that's changing.

DONALD TRUMP is moving the Overton window back to normal.

‘DEMOCRATS MUST DEFEND EACH OTHER’ ON BALTIMORE because they’re destroying America’s cities.

True, and Stephen Green's observation at the end is spot on.

ELECTRIC VEHICLE FUNDING is a green pipe dream awash in red ink. True, and it's also true of all the Democrats' environmental pipe dreams.

YOU'RE NEVER GONNA BE THE DEMOCRAT NOMINEE by being this honest.

DEMOCRAT DEBATE: Republicans are racist. Republicans do math. Therefore math is racist.

Ergo, we reject math. Besides, we have a free-money tree.

THE RETURN TO SERFDOM. I like Glenn Reynolds' summary: "Being held in contempt is bad. Being held in contempt by obvious hypocrites is worse."

THE WACKY PACK TAKES OVER: Democrat prospects are bleak.

All they have to do is not be crazy....

CA(T)PITALISM:

When Trump acquired the dilapidated building that became his first major real estate deal—the Grand Hyatt Hotel on 42nd Street—he solved the building’s rat infestation during renovations by rounding up stray cats in New York City and moving them into the building. The rat infestation was eradicated quickly—without a government program!

Vote the feline ticket in 2020: Shadow/Daisy for President/Vice President.

Afterthought: Was Trump exploiting impoverished cats?

IT'S WHY they call them 'Baltimorons'.

EVIDENCE ASKED FOR, evidence found.

OBVIOUSLY RACIST! Pro-Trump activist has dozens volunteering to pick up trash in Baltimore.

I'M NOT SURE EITHER: Marianne Williamson Not Sure What She’s Doing Up Here With All These Crazy People.

Yes, Snopes, it's the Babylon Bee. Linked from this Instapundit post.

YESTERDAY I posted the 'before/after' Google searches about the Day 1 candidates; here are the 'before/after' Google searches from the Day 2 candidates.

I think it's clear that Democrats are not comfortable with their so-called 'first tier' candidates and are searching the 'lower tier' candidates for something better.

GREEN NEW DEAL: A slogan and a random collection of dumb ideas.

HOW CAN YOU DECRY CLIMATE CHANGE IF YOU DON'T CREATE IT FIRST? A-listers flock to Google summit in private jets, mega yachts to talk climate change.

NO JOKE: Babylon Bee sics lawyers on Snopes over 'fact checks'.

A PREVIEW of the Green New Deal in action.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY and societal engineers. I've seen this nonsense beginning to take root within my own professional organization (the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers, IEEE) and I'm seriously thinking about giving up my (50+ year) membership.

CHICAGO STUDENTS WON’T BE ABLE TO GRADUATE without the Government approving their plans.

This is a repeat of an older post, but it seems an appropriate reminder now that the Democrat presidential primaries are underway.

A PLEASANT THOUGHT: hanging up on robocalls. I'm not sure it can be solved by legislation, though - unless the callers can be forced to pay for calling. And pay more for calling without permission.

INTERESTING: American Center for Law and Justice has obtained Obama DOJ’s immunity agreements with Hillary Clinton’s attorneys.

There's pretty clearly some rats in the woodwork. The question is whether they'll be brought to justice.

BRITAIN'S UNCERTAIN BREXIT: "[The 'remainers'] apparently have no objection to authoritarian rule—provided it is their own, of course."

VICTORY GIRLS: American Gomorrah.

MARRIAGE MYSTERY: Ilhan Omar splits with her husband and moves into luxury penthouse as she heads for second divorce with father of her three children.

So much confusion. So much illegality.

PRESIDENT TRUMP forces Democrats and the MSM to defend Al Sharpton. And Sharpton himself assists Trump.

JUDGE DISMISSES DNC HACKING LAWSUIT AGAINST TRUMP TEAM: claims 'entirely divorced from the facts'.

SALON: It's time to take the gloves off. Don't bother with the link to Salon unless you want to punish yourself with the ravings of a rabid animal.

POWERLINE: the Mifsud mystery.