POWERLINES WEEK IN PICTURES has posted, and this has to be the favorite.

Now go see them all.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Don't price workers out of their jobs.

If your aim is to help low-income workers, there are much better ways to do it than to crank up the minimum wage. Oren Cass has argued for an expansion of earned income tax credits. Andrew Yang argues for a need-blind universal basic income. Whatever the merits of these proposals, at least neither one will mess up opportunities for willing, low-skilled workers.

That’s what matters most. Although a minimum wage increase sounds compassionate, making workers too expensive for their jobs is anything but. It is cruelty masked as sympathy

Liberal 'compassion' stinks.

U.S. LIFE EXPECTANCY has declined for the third year in a row.

[A] new study looked at more than 50 years' worth of data on US life expectancy from the US Mortality Database and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's WONDER database.

Results showed that, in the 1970s, the country experienced a rapid and significant jump in life expectancy. But by the 1990s, that increase started to level off.

In 2011, US life expectancy plateaued, and three years later it started to drop.

From Wikipedia:

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. Together with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 amendment, it represents the U.S. healthcare system's most significant regulatory overhaul and expansion of coverage since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.

PPACA's major provisions came into force in 2014. By 2016, the uninsured share of the population had roughly halved, with estimates ranging from 20 to 24 million additional people covered. The law also enacted a host of delivery system reforms intended to constrain healthcare costs and improve quality.

But correlation doesn't imply causation ... does it?

More at Instapundit.

'TIS THE SEASON: The Christmas wars begin again.

AND NOT JUST ON THE RELIGIOUS FRONT: Black Friday fights.

'Tis the season ... to be jolly?

JUST WAIT UNTIL NOV.4, 2020: If a SCOTUS vacancy opens up next year, how will Lindsey Graham walk back his promise to hold the seat open?

HE'S LOBBYING HARD(LY) TO RETURN TO THE NFL: Kaepernick speaks at 'Unthanksgiving' celebration, criticizes U.S.

HEH: Kaepernick’s workout may have yielded a tryout, just not for him.

BABYLON BEE SCANDAL: Writers forced to admit they are not real journalists.

SLAVERY? We are a (tiny) footnote in the history of slavery.

TRUMP WINS AGAIN: Climate protesters block stores and disrupt Black Friday shopping.

There's nothing better for Trump's reelection than having a bunch of progressive dolts pissing off normal Americans....

WHY “GREEN” ENERGY is a terrible idea.

Obvious, but math is difficult for progressives.

COLORADO REPEALED THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES so this will work.

A WHITE SUPREMACIST? If Trump is 'racist' for questioning (Rep. Maxine [D-CA]) Waters' IQ, what is Waters for questioning Ben Carson?

WHY I WILL NEVER DARKEN THEIR DOOR: Starbucks barista writes 'Pig' on police officer's cup.

POWERLINE'S Loose Ends take on Britian's Jeremy Corbyn is priceless: "Corbyn’s unelectability ought to be an object lesson for Democrats here. But probably won’t be."

LEFTISTS PROTEST NEW MISTER ROGERS FILM for controversial message of being nice to everyone. It's the Babylon Bee, of course.

My wife and I went to see the movie and while I found it a bit overwrought in its portrayals (Roger's niceness; the journalist's nastiness), it was a well done, excellently performed, and very enjoyable movie.

HEH: “Bare-Chested Hillary would not have been as effective.” Go see why.

I LOVE IT: The woke attack on Pete Buttigieg. The Left has run out of things on the Right to attack, so now they're beating up on each other. Welcome to the corner of Intersectionality and Intersectionality.

BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION FOUNDER SAYS the 2020 election is Trump’s to lose.

Trump is clearly making inroads into the minority communities.

IN RESTORING CIVICS, start with the basics.

Just don't let progressives define the 'basics'. Stick with facts.

ADAM SCHIFF: the Democrats' sacrificial lamb.

Well, the Democrat symbol is a donkey jackass. Adam Schiff fits.

SO MAUREEN DOWD is the black sheep in her family.

AMMO GRRRLL writes on her Thanksgiving.

THE WORD OF THE YEAR IS ... politically correct.

Well, yes and no. Read the whole thing.

I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY: Minority voters unhappy Democrat ‘Establishment’ opposes charter schools.

WE HAD ROAST BEEF:

Plus, there were no leftovers. Congress, unfortunately, will bring back plenty of leftovers.

Linked from Victory Girls.

THE PRESS has another pity party.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS when you don't follow the script: Three women accuse Gordon Sondland of inappropriate behavior.

The Democrats' script, of course.

MORE TRUMP DERANGEMENT: Newsweek, suckered by Trump, grudgingly corrects Thanksgiving story.

THOMAS SOWELL writes on activism.

You can find more Thomas Sowell quotes here. The site belongs to a Sowell admirer, who posts quotes from his books regularly.

A THANKSGIVING LETTER to college students. 'Woke' college students.

I GUESS HER DONORS want to keep America laughing.

THANKSGIVING FOR DUMMIES ... Sorry, I mean college professors.

THEY VOTED DEMOCRATIC. Now they support Trump.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING:

Unless you're a Democrat. There are many more at PowerLine's Thanksgiving in Pictures edition.

Go and see the rest.

RECENTLY PARDONED TURKEY found dead after claiming to have dirt on Hillary Clinton. The official cause of death was deemed suicide.

PLEASE EXPLAIN why weed is okay but menthol cigarettes are not?

That's a question I'd like answered.

COURT FILING: Obama holdover heading Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment under investigation for ‘illegally leaked’ classified document.

ALL THE DEMOCRATS HAD TO DO WAS NOT BE CRAZY, and they couldn’t even manage that.

AMERICAN GREATNESS: A Shameful Abuse of Congressional Power.

This entire impeachment inquiry has been a disgrace, a shameful abuse of powers, and the authors of it should be punished as only the voters can do. If it goes one faltering step further, they will be.

Which is why I favor both term limits and dissolution of the civil service - don't let the corruptocrats embed themselves in government.

BE THANKFUL conservatives have a sense of humor.

Donald 'Rocky Balboa' Trump has set up shop in the heads of the brainless and taken control. The next five years should be lots of fun for conservatives.

MY GORGEOUS CHEST is Trump's greatest troll.

Donald Trump is an absolute master of tweaking the progressives. Of course it's pretty easy to do since they hate nearly everything not 'woke'.

GLOBAL WARMING’S APOCALYPTIC PATH: It comes in waves, and it’s impossible to predict what will happen after the current wave of increasingly unhinged climate change activism breaks.

It may be a while. If these are the climate change 'warriors', Heinlein's Crazy Years have yet to peak.

ILHAN OMAR'S housing proposal is a joke. An expensive joke.

BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY MORE OF THEM: Billionaire wants to soak the poor.

Besides, if they're taxed enough they won't be able to buy any of those things that are bad for them - like sugary soft drinks.


ADDED THOUGHT: Bloomberg's campaign slogan ought to be "Put The Nanny Back In The Nanny State".

DEVIN NUNES and the non-farming 'woke' crowd.

Twitter is a sewer that Nunes should stay upwind of. These people are humorless Social Justice Zealots who know nothing of farming or farmers. They think food comes from Whole Foods. The cows know real butter from margarine. These people are margarine.

No, they're sewer rats.

TRUMP SIGNS BILL supporting Hong Kong protesters (quietly).

TODAY’S DEMOCRATS can’t even run a show trial right.

THANKSGIVING HOSTS should offer moderators and special rooms for impeachment talk.

The progressive media really is batshit crazy.

AMERICAN GREATNESS: The indispensable Tucker Carlson.

THE DIPLOMAD: Happy Thanksgiving! And by the way, "I have never before seen such a pitiful collection of candidates for the highest office in the land as the bunch the Dems and their media acolytes seek to push on us."

BRIT HUME: The difference between Mike Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren/Bernie Sanders is that Bloomberg is trying to buy the election with his money and Warren/Sanders are trying to buy it with yours.

YOUR EMAILS are ruining the environment.

If that's true, think about how much carbon we can save by banning the emails that occasioned the response. Can we ban spam? And (especially)Twitter?

I DIDN'T KNOW CNN was headquartered in East Virginia.

LOOKING FORWARD TO A PROGRESSIVE THANKSGIVING: Nation's progressives give thanks that they have so much to be angry about this year. Among them:

- White people
- Pronouns
- Personal responsibility
- Satire that does not affirm their viewpoint
- Billionaires
- Old tweets
- 32-ounce sodas
- Plastic straws
- People who hold a steady job
- Appropriating other cultures
- Excluding other cultures
- Bush
- Obama
- Trump
- Babies
- Kanye West
- America

Satire but accurate.

OH, MY GOD: Transpeciesism.

THE CIVIL WAR ON THE LEFT is a compendium of smaller items, my favorite of which is this:

Eat mor chikin beef.

A NATIONAL NIGHTMARE exposed.

Trump threatened to turn over the rock and expose the creepy-crawlies underneath to the harsh light of day.

Follow the link and read it all.

RANDOM THOUGHT: "Wellness" is an euphemism for "follow our progressive dictates."

DARK MONEY IS BAD ... unless it goes to Democrats.

JUST ANOTHER MSM SNIT FIT: CNN and MSNBC refuse to carry live White House event for Conan the dog from the Baghdadi raid.

ADAM SCHIFF: Impeachment by inference?

SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: possibly the next governor of Arkansas?

WELL, THEY'RE AGAINST EVERYTHING: Elites are against western civilization.

RACHEL ALEXANDER: The emotionalism of the Left.

Those on the left claim they hold their views because they are intellectually superior to those of us on the right. But studies have shown that liberals are more emotional than conservatives. Perhaps this is the real reason for their views. If you look at the positions liberals take on issues, it’s easy to see how their emotions drive them, crowding out logic and facts.

Read it all.

IS AMERICA TOO CROWDED? Not yet, but ...

How can we help the Third World in any meaningful way if we’re bankrupt and coming apart at the seams, if we become a Second or Third World country ourselves?

That's an important question.

CHANGING THE VOCABULARY AGAIN: It's no longer 'free stuff'; it's now 'public goods'. But they still have to take steal our money to pay for it.

ANOTHER CRASH at the corner of intersectionality and intersectionality.

SORRY, but these are the new rules:

Trump praised the hero dog who hunted down the terrorist, so that means dogs are bad now and terrorists are good. You can’t like dogs anymore. In any dispute between a Trump dog and a terrorist, you have to root for the terrorist or else you love Trump. If you still like dogs after today, you have to wear a MAGA hat all the time.

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

HMMMM ... Gaia worship with a large side order of nihilism.

BUREAUCRACY BONANZA: Warren’s much-hyped plans would create at least 20 new federal agencies. So that's where all those laid off healthcare insurance workers will go - they'll fit right in.

The better to take care of control you....

GOOD LORD, do the Democrats go out and actively search for crazy?

REPUBLICANS SHOULD RELAX. Democrats are doing everything possible to secure another four years for President Trump.

Republicans, don't get overconfident, but sell the Democrats all the rope they need to hang themselves.

FIRE THE ADMIRALS to encourage the others.

Well said.

YES, PLEASE: Abolish the Ivy League?

I had originally written this comment as an unlinked 'RANDOM THOUGHT' but it seems more appropriate here: Our 'elite' universities have become nothing more than insane asylums with nuts clamoring to get in. If you're not already insane you won't gain admission (though why any sane person would even bother is beyond me).

IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE: 'Adam Schiff really does think that many Americans are idiots'.

BREAKING: Donald Trump is still President of the United States of America.

Not the Deep State bureaucracy.

HONG KONG DEMOCRACY BACKERS win big as voters flock to polls. Unfortunately it's more symbolic than real.

THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE INSANE? What we learned from two weeks of impeachment hearings.

YOU DON'T SAY: Socialist politicians can be crooks too.

Not surprised....

DAN RATHER: CNN's 'reliable source'.

TRUMP’S DISRUPTIVE ENERGY versus the Deep State.

With just about any other president, the deep state’s victory would be all-but-assured. With Trump, hedge your bets.

Read it all.

BECAUSE HE'S ENVIOUS: Bernie Sanders really, really, really hates billionaires. He can't really, really, really hate millionaires any more because he is one.

I'd really, really, really like to see Bernie's 2018 and 2019 tax returns - especially the charitable donations sections.

WOMEN CAN MAKE CHILDREN, but only men can make men. True. I would also suggest that it takes men to make women as well.

Linked from Instapundit.

BLOOMBERG ADDRESSES THE vital shortage of white, Medicare-eligible men in the Democrat presidential primary.

Heh. My question: When will Hillary address the vital shortage of white, Medicare-eligible women in the Democrat presidential primary?

CHRIS MATTHEWS ASKS TULSI GABBARD: 'Why Are So Many Democrats War Hawks?'

Clearly, Matthews sees from which side the wind is blowing in the Democratic Party, and he's quickly trying to reposition himself. Knowing Democrats, they'll undoubtedly fall for it. They're the party of, for, and by useful idiots, after all.

Read the whole thing.

PEGGY NOONAN REMINDS US why Trump won.

The simple truth that people like Noonan miss is that credentials, including military service, no matter how sterling or impressive, do not necessarily bespeak wisdom or future achievement, any more than exquisite manners, as Jane Austen has taught us, bespeak a true gentleman.

Judging from the impeachment hearings, it appears to me that 'credentials' are a mark of self-important, pompous, narcissistic, arrogant blockheads.

ONE MORE REASON to print their diplomas on toilet paper.

THIS IS A BAD THING? Washington post-impeachment will make the President hellbent on the destruction of the civil service.

CONCRETE THERAPY for snowflakes.

OUTREACH TO THE OTHER PARTY? HOW DARE YOU! Democrats furious as video of Buttigieg saying nice things about Tea Party emerges.

The Tea Party movement was not racist in the least, particularly by comparison to today’s Democratic Party. And as for the GOP being a wholly owned subsidiary of the Tea Party — if only!

As one who attended the very first Tea Party rally in Washington DC, I can assure you that any Democrats making such assertions are liars.

IMPEACHMENT: The Empire Strikes Back. Click through the link at Instapundit to read the entire CRB post; it's long but well worth the time.

THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE: Beware the intellectuals.

The entire education establishment - from kindergarten through graduate school - is corrupt. It's the worst at the collegiate level.

Read it all.

DAY BY DAY: It's funny how the truth hurts.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Schiff ruined 'perfect con' by holding public impeachment hearings.

Well, no ever accused Shiff of being smart.

CNN PEDDLES FAKE NEWS ABOUT DEVIN NUNES and he’s now seeking legal action.

I wonder if he could sue CNN into bankruptcy. And if so, where would all those Democrat party operatives with chyrons (and their government-funded leakers) go?

THE TRUTH HURTS: The trouble with Tulsi.

RAND PAUL'S PENNY PLAN fails again.

Obviously Congress believes infrastructure must be paid from new taxes.

MORE PROOF THAT PLASTIC DOESN'T DECAY: Archaeologists finally discover the Holy Grail, confirm it was actually just tiny plastic cup.

IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS produce shocking evidence of moral corruption. Well, to my mind 'moral corruption' is a wee tad overwrought. 'Amusingly stupid' is more appropriate.

WINNING was Trump's high crime and misdemeanor.

Obviously the Deep State is very concerned that American is winning - without their consent.

MICHAEL MOORE:'I am the center. I am the mainstream idiotstream now of the Democrat party'.

He's also fat, ugly, and stupid. And with the exception of fat, he is indeed the perfect representative of the idiotstream wing of the lamestream Democrat party.

BOEING MOVED TO CHICAGO - and crashed.

ELIZABETH WARREN'S "freeloading billionaires"?

Warren isn’t stupid, unlike so many Democratic presidential contenders. She knows she is dead wrong, but, because of her overweening lust for power, she doesn’t care. She and her husband are wealthy beyond the dreams of almost all Americans, but, to fuel her burning ambition, she lies about 600 people who are even richer than she is. This woman must never come near the presidency.

I'm inclined to question Hinderaker's assertion that Warren 'isn't stupid'. How else do you explain her Medicare for All proposal?

'WOKENESS WOES' Gas turbines have become by far the best choice for add-on generating power.

Except that California is already banning natural gas.

ONCE AN IDIOT, ALWAYS AN IDIOT: Al Gore is here to bore us all again with climate change hysteria.

WHITE IS GOOD, unless it's bad.

WELL, it's called an election.

AMMO GRRRLL returns home (hilariously). But there is an important point from her at the very end.

It is Veterans Day and I just listened to a moving and inspiring speech by the President. Every word about the veterans and not one word about himself. He is a better speaker than Obama by a country mile. Just one more thing for which he gets no credit.

As usual, read it all.

KURT SCHLICTER: Pardons, military discipline, and the burden on our troops.

It's complicated.

VICTORY GIRLS: In praise of the freeloading billionaires.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: From impeachment to the Democrat debate, the same old, same old monotony.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ BELIEVES THERE'S TOO MUCH DIVISION IN THE COUNTRY. Addition and subtraction are hard enough.

HEH: This is one of the few reasons I'm happy to be finally retired. And I was only forced into it once a year....

WINTER ADVICE from PowerLine's Week in Pictures:

Now go see the rest.

ON THE IMPEACHMENT FIASCO, The Diplomad was prescient: An American coup d'etant?

This was posted in January of 2017.

HOW TO IDENTIFY your emotional triggers before they cause real harm.

My suggestions: understand that (1) your 'triggers' are your problem, not mine, and (2) the world does not revolve around you.

In plain English, GROW UP.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Foreign policy would be better served if the State Department's Foreign Service Officers were limited to travel by (sailing) ships and horseback and communication by written letters.

TUCKER CARLSON ON THE PROGRESSIVE LEFT: strident, intolerant, unbelievably dumb.

DRAMATIC COLOR FOOTAGE shows a bombed-out Berlin a month after Germany’s WWII defeat (1945).

I was in Berlin in the early 60's (1963 as I recall) and as a U.S. citizen was allowed to tour East Berlin. We went on a locked tour bus, no cameras allowed, through the Berlin wall at Checkpoint Charlie and drove for about an hour around the center of East Berlin. Eighteen years after WWII had ended, many, if not most, of the destroyed buildings you see in the latter minute of the video were still there, still destroyed.

The difference between East and West was astonishing. Most of West Berlin had been rebuilt, and most of East Berlin had not. It's understandable why so many East Germans were so desperate to get over, under, or through the Wall.

POWERLINE: the epic hypocrisy of Tom Steyer.

Very long and detailed. But read it anyway.

OBVIOUSLY HE'S OVER THE TARGET: Rep. Jim Jordan [R-OH] attacked by Ohio newspaper in shocking personal column.

BILLIONAIRE KEN LANGONE calls Elizabeth Warren a 'phony and a liar'.

What truly offends me is Elizabeth Warren's 'you didn't build that shtick'. You can't believably tell me Ken Lagone didn't pay his 'fair share' of the costs of education and roads and bridges and whatever else infrastructure she seems to think that successful business men and women avoided paying for.

IT MUST REALLY HURT CNN TO REPORT THIS: FBI official altered document in fake Russia probe.

THE DIPLOMAD COMMENTS ON AN IMPEACHMENT MIRACLE as the Demcrats make the blind walk an the lame see!

So what did we see and hear? Well, we saw and heard our intrepid career Foreign Service Officers in full pompous lecturing glory. I am ashamed to have been in their ranks. They really had absolutely nothing to offer in terms of any "high crimes and misdemeanors" committed by our President. I hear a lot of "I assumed" and "I presumed" and "I thought," etc. It all came across as a bunch of low to mid-rank careerists and sloppy political appointees upset that they had been bypassed or ignored by the President and that the President had the temerity of setting and conducting foreign policy without necessarily relying on all the talking points and memos prepared by the layers and upon layers of bureaucrats that, unfortunately, surround that office. The President is his own man, and that is an unforgivable sin for the herd of swamp creatures in DC.

Now go read the rest. It gets better, if that's possible.

THANKS TO TRUMP, the Mullahs are going bankrupt. Economic warfare may be slow, but it appears to be working.

IF TRUE, I'd surely like to see those films.

SYCOPHANTS WHO FLATTER CHILD CLIMATE ‘ORACLES’ deserve unrelenting ridicule.

Remember, mockery works.

MAYOR PETE'S CHRISTIANITY: It seems Mayor Pete understands as little about the Religious Right as he does about salvation and the Bible. Which isn't as much as he'd like you to believe.

Instapundit's Stephen Green notices.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: 'Coup' concerns suddenly don't seem so far-fetched.

BERNIE SANDERS: We should consider ‘prosecuting’ fossil fuel executives. Sarah Hoyt has a sharp response.

IF AN EARTHQUAKE CAN'T DO IT, perhaps China can.

GIVING GOVERNMENT VAST SNOOPING AUTHORITY is one thing Democrats and Republicans both like.

True enough. Read it all.

VICTORY GIRLS on the Democrats' latest primary debate:

The Democrat primary race looks right now like a perfectly polite and proper square dance. Do they not realize that Trump is going to bring a disco ball and a jackhammer to the general debate stage?

Read it all.

ANN COULTER: No wonder the social media companies are so hellbent on purging conservatives from the internet.

ENERGY SECRETARY RICK PERRY: 'Not once was the name Burisma mentioned to me'.

NOW THAT MAD MAGAZINE HAS CEASED PUBLICATION, Alfred E. Neuman is looking for a new gig.

JUSSIE IN THE NEWS.

Fact: Jussie Smollett sues the city of Chicago for malicious prosecution.

Future fact? Jussie Smollett offered job at CNN after fabricating news story out of thin air.

Sarah Hoyt wonders if the city of Chicago should sue Jussie Smollett for malicious stupidity.

QUESTION: How can the President 'subvert' foreign policy?

Answer: He can't.

WHEN THE VILLAIN IS OBAMA, news suddenly becomes not worth reporting.

More tweets.

CNN'S DON LEMON: Anyone who still thinks Trump did nothing wrong is 'mental'.

Lemon's right, it is mental - on the part of the beholder. It's called 'projection'.

DEMOCRATS please keep the impeachment clown show going.

IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS: Ego and the Ambassador, and a mistake by President Trump.

The Diplomad is unimpressed:

I hate false bravado. The whole "we are the hostages of Tehran, the martyrs of Tripoli" shtick in defense of the Foreign Service was almost more than I could bear. I have never heard a military man or woman do something similar. Braggadocio is not a trait of the best of our military, and should not be a feature anywhere else in our bureaucracy. It was all rather embarrassing, particularly given that both the hostages in Tehran and the dead in Tripoli were abandoned to their fate by lefty Democrat policies and administrations--something I wish the Republicans had pointed out.

On Ambassador Yovanavich:

She had the nerve to claim that Trump was undermining HER position as Ambassador, and, thus, of course, he was undermining US foreign policy! She breathlessly informed us that after about two-plus years at her post, Ukrainians were asking her if she was going to be replaced. Horrors! Ukrainians can do math. They knew that her usual tour likely would be coming to an end. The President does not need to undermine her; he can yank her out any time for any reason or even for no reason. Ambassadors, as well as FBI and CIA Directors, etc., serve at the pleasure of the President. Period. She must have thought she was King Louis XIV, you know, 'L'état, c'est moi'. But to be kind, let's just agree that she is just another in a long line of State officials who seem to have forgotten that the President sets and directs foreign policy, not State.

Read it all.

AVAILABLE: YOUR OWN BULL-SCHIFF T-SHIRT:

At the Trump store. Get one before they run out....

OH, MY: Trump's a Democrat?

THE UNRAVELING BEGINS: Burisma reportedly indicted for money laundering.

WHY KANYE WEST is leaving California:

For entrepreneurs and visionaries, California’s regulatory climate is more than just frustrating—it’s innovation-killing.

He's helping California go bankrupt one capitalist at a time....

RANDOM THOUGHT:

Such a small man for such a large chair.

THANKS OBAMA, but these patronizing lectures are getting old.

Instapundit comments: "The change that’s mostly needed is the addition of 20 or 30 IQ points, plus some experience in a real job, to the activist left. And even Barack can see that."

SOME THOUGHTS on the impeachment clown show.

I enjoyed this comment: "[H]ow did so many once-masculine fields, ranging from sports journalism to the CIA, become dominated by prissy, self-important weasels?"

An excellent question.

LAWSUIT: Schiff colluded with Politico to leak false info to further sham impeachment.

On Monday, Kash Patel, a White House official serving on the National Security Council (NSC), filed a $25 million lawsuit against Politico, alleging that Adam Schiff, the California Democrat, leading the sham impeachment against President Trump, “weaponized the media” with defamatory information to advance his goal of removing the president from office.

I'd rather he sued Schiff himself....

HEH: Ukranians demand President Trump investigate suspicion of U.S.-Ukraine corruption.

WELCOME TO THE INTERSECTIONAL CESSPOOL: 'Stay in your lane.'

EMINA MELONIC: How I never learned math.

SORRY, PROGRESSIVES: Education is not about your ‘lived reality’.

MEAT POLLUTION? Vegan sues Burger King for cooking vegan burger on meat grill.

Perhaps that's why vegan burgers taste like real burgers.

RANDOM THOUGHT: I tuned in briefly to see the 'I think, I feel, I presume' impeachment hearing is underway.

OH NO. The demand for white supremacists has exceeded the supply. I suspect Antifa might have some available....

THE REASON DEMOCRATS ARE ANGRY: the man that they keep telling themselves is a bumbling moron has been besting them .

Instead of 'besting them', the phrase 'beating them like a rented mule donkey comes to mind.

CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS, DRYWALL AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN, three things that don’t hang themselves.

A CLEAR UNDERSTATEMENT: Ben Carson accuses Maxine Waters of ‘shamelessness’ and lacking ‘basic manners’.

A NEW POLITICAL DIVIDE - blue jeans.

Whatever, but the 'deplorable' stores I shop at mostly sell Wrangler jeans. I buy whatever fits.

A REPUBLIC but only if we can keep it.

As we consider the impeachment of Donald Trump, I hope that both sides will keep their grievances in perspective and remember that it is only “a Republic” if we can keep it. Or in the lingo that millennials understand, “Democracy … means sharing a country with assholes you can’t stand.” Thank you for that, Bill Maher. Ben Franklin and Abe Lincoln are nodding and smiling.

It's long but well worth the time to read.

FOR DEMOCRATS, REALITY IS WHAT THEY PRESUME IT TO BE: Ambassador Sondland admits he has no evidence Trump tied Ukraine military aid to investigations other than his 'own presumption'.

JUST HEARD on Tucker Carlson Tonight: Tucker asked his guest what would happen to the Democrats when impeachment failed and President Trump reelected in 2020.

The response: "They're going to lose their minds. I know it's a short trip, but..."

MORE FROM THE DEMOCRATS' CESSPOOL: Establishment-backed DNC candidate discriminated against employees based on age and race.

AND THEN THE IMPEACHMENT BEGAN: Obama aides allegedly left ‘You will fail’ notes for Trump White House staffers.

HEH: Spin doctors are not real doctors.

WHY DEMOCRATS don't want the public to know origins of Ukraine probe.

CHRISTIAN WOMAN spends 10% of paycheck at Hobby Lobby in lieu of tithing.

DAMNED RIGHT IT WILL: Understanding ‘Medicare for All’ could make seniors vote red.

Older Americans have much to lose and little to gain with Medicare for All or a stepping-stone approach, such as the public option. They have paid into the existing system over their entire working lives, and they will balk at having to subsidize benefits for others if it jeopardizes their own care or sense of security.

Seniors, like me, take note.

POLL: Majority want impeachment hearings to continue as long as possible so Congress will be too busy to meddle with our lives.

It's a lovely thought, but it's Babylon Bee.

RANDOM THOUGHT on Ambassador Sondland's testimony: I've only been watching intermittently, but Sondland strikes me as an arrogant narcissistic ass who is more interested in protecting his own..

I'VE ASKED THE SAME QUESTION: Why don't environmentalists just buy the land they want to protect?

The answer is "because it's against the rules." It's a long post but worth the read.

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING. California tried to fine a company $10,000 for ordering blind people Ubers and Lyfts without a permit.

AMERICAN GREATNESS: So much hot air about California’s wildfires.

To hear Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tell it, the wildfires that ravaged California throughout October were the result of climate change. And nothing else.

Once again, the climate change alarmists show they haven’t the first clue about climatology, meteorology, forestry, or history for that matter — especially U.S. history.

Read it all.

ELIZABETH WARREN gives up on Medicare for All.

By planning to pass single-payer in year three of her presidency, she’s acknowledging it will never happen at all.

Reality is slowly - ever so slowly - beginning to sink in.

SEXISM IS TO BLAME for the latest Charlie's Angels movie flop.

WOW. CORY BOOKER DOES SOMETHING RIGHT: pushes for greater Democratic support for charter schools.

MORNING GREATNESS: Pelosi says it’s ‘dangerous’ to let voters decide on Trump.

At least we are getting some honesty from the Left, who traditionally has concealed their tyrannical ambitions. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wrote to her lunatic colleagues, “The weak response to these hearings has been, ‘Let the election decide.’ That dangerous position only adds to the urgency of our action, because POTUS is jeopardizing the integrity of the 2020 elections,” Pelosi explained. Really? How is he jeopardizing elections? Pelosi further claimed that the facts surrounding of the case were “uncontested” which is absurd as most of the testimony is comprised of hearsay and gossip.

Damn those deplorables for not voting in their own self-interest. Bad serfs! Bad, bad serfs....

DUKE NUKEM drops a biological bomb!

More breaking news from Don Surber:

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) denied Monday evening that it was he who ripped the massive fart live on MSNBC during an interview with Chris Matthews on Hardball.

Too bad because had it been his, it would have been the most intelligent sound he has made this year.

Best comment: T]he first real breaking story on Hardball.

My thought: It happened on MSNBC. I'm surprised anyone noticed.

AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION now requires authors to use singular ‘they.’ I'm reminded of a long-ago college professor who once said that students majored in psychology largely in order to understand their own problems. I think you can see why.

DEMOCRAT VOTER: When I hear Warren talk, ‘I want to slap her.

She's not the only one.

ANY EXCUSE WILL DO: Blame the impeachment flop on Botox.

UNLESS YOUR A DEMOCRAT: Guilty until proven innocent.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Watching the impeachment inquisition with Ms. Williams and Col. Vindman, it seems clear to me that Col. Vindman is a REMF, a wannabe warrior.

I would also point out that President Trump was a front-line warrior in the business environment and continues to be so in the political world.

MR. VINDMAN has his Barbara Boxer moment. Military not happy - to say the least.

RANDOM COMMENT ON TODAY'S IMPEACHMENT HEARING: Lt. Col. Vindman apparently said 'It is my job to coordinate U.S. policy' during his testimony today. It was apparent (to me, at least) that Vindman believes that 'coordinate U.S policy' means 'create U.S. policy'.

He misunderstands: the President creates policy; the 'interagency' implements it.

THEY MUST BE OVER THE TARGET: Hillary Clinton calls for White House adviser's removal, says his presence is an 'emergency'.

CLEARLY CORRECT: Joseph Stalin warns Democrats may be going too far left.

REALITY IS BEGINNING TO SET IN: Top Democrats concede they're losing the impeachment battle.

RANDOM THOUGHT on the 'Medicare for All' hoopla. It seems that most of the Democrat presidental candidates believe all Americans want single-payer (i.e., 'free') government-sponsored health care.

No one ever asked me....

IMPEACHMENT BIPARTISANSHIP: Left and far Left.

I DID NOT: Did you know this about Marie Yovanovitch?

GRAND POOBAH OF FARCE: Trump should pray Schiff’s House carnival never ends.

IN GENIUS MOVE, Trump supports impeachment, forcing Democrats to oppose. And they would, thinking they won.

RANDOM THOUGHT: I caught a glimpse of the 'grand entrance' of the impeachment participants at the Capitol this morning and thought that has to be a damned big sow to feed all those suckers at the government teat.

I DIDN’T WITNESS ANYTHING ... but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

The impeachment clown show continues.

DEEP STATE BUREAUCRATS: It's my stapler!

We are to believe that crying EPA employees, out-of-the-loop ambassadors, holier-than-thou law enforcement chiefs, and jobless assistant deputy undersecretaries for blah-blah affairs are the victims of a rogue president who must be removed from office for hurting their feelings and challenging their authority.

Read it all.

COLIN KAEPERNICK: "This turkey may be cooked."

STACEY ABRAMS: The elecctoral college is racist. She must have forgotton she was running for the Governor of Georgia, not the President of the United States.

OCASIO-CORTEZ STEPS ON RAKE, gets timely history lesson.

Even being slammed in the face by a rake handle cannot get the attention of a concrete blockhead.

BERNIE SANDERS GOES FULL OCASIO-CORTEZ: 'Time for us to become the party that fights for queer liberation,'

Heinlein's 'crazy years' was was part of a work of fiction; not an instruction manual.

MOST OF OFFICIAL WASHINGTON: unimaginative and wrong.

ELIZABETH WARREN'S WEALTH TAX: "There can be a point where envy turns to hate."

Democrats jumped that shark long ago.

ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR shreds the political Left during Federalist Society speech.

They [the Left] were spoiled by the corruption of the Obama years when Democrats were above the law and constitutionality was based on the whim of Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and Loretta Lynch, not the actual Constitution. It's clear from Barr's speech that he's on the side of the Constitution and rule of law, and that makes the left very afraid.

Read it all; then watch (or click through to read) the full speech.

DON'T LISTEN TO HIM: Obama warns Democratic candidates that voters 'don't want to see crazy stuff' from them.

THIS IS A SURPRISE? Google actively blacklists, interferes to control search outcomes. "The moral of this story seems to be: For honesty and integrity … search elsewhere other than Google."

A VULTURE CAPITALIST enters the Democratic race.

On the bright side, a 'vulture capitalist' will probably certainly do less damage to America than a Democratic Socialist.

NO, EUROPE ISN'T ANTI-SEMITIC: The Trump Administration will fight a European mandate that Jewish-made goods carry ‘warning labels’.

Nope. 'Warning labels' aren't anti-Semitic. Good to know.

COLLEGE FOLLIES: North Carolina State 'University' silent after fascists spray paint pro-Trump student.

These days a liberal arts education isn't worth the money spent to obtain it. Especially if it's a 'woke' institution.

JEREMY CORBYN IS DUMB: Arresting ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi would have been ‘the right thing to do’.

Please explain how that's done to a man with a suicide vest and willingness to use it. And in enemy territory.

CLASSIC OCASIO-CORTEZ: Does she realize she just gave away the real reason the Democrats are trying to impeach the president?

I doubt it, but in any event Rep. Al Green [D-TX] beat her to it.

THE REAL UKRAINE CONTROVERSY: an activist U.S. embassy and its adherence to the Geneva Convention.

Hmm. I didn't watch that much of Yovanovitch’s testimony today, but I don't recall anything of this brought up by either side.

THOSE THAT COULD, LEFT: What happened to California Republicans?

VICTORY GIRLS explain the First Amendment.

BLOWING THE WHISTLE ON THE WHISTLEBLOWER: A ruling-class prodigy has made his mark spying on Americans for the CIA and Adam Schiff.

PETE BUTTIGIEG has a $1 trillion plan to drive up housing, college, and labor costs.

If you really want to help the middle class - and everyone else for that matter - you'd do what President Trump is already doing: deregulate and get the government the hell out of our lives. But that's antithetical to the Democrat way, which is to overtax and overregulate until there's nothing left to tax or regulate.

THIS GUN CONFISCATION THING JUST ISN’T WORKING OUT: New Zealanders are keeping their guns and buying more.

IMPEACHMENT FOLLIES: There's this thing called due process that we ought to try.

Except that sanity is not a Democrat strength.

AWKWARD SILENCE: Ambassador Taylor, do you know whether Hunter Biden offers anything other than the fact that his dad's the former vice president - or at the time was the vice president?

That silence was the response of someone who knew the answer but didn't dare admit it.

THE DIPLOMAD COMMENTS ON THE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS: New whine in an old battle.

THOUSANDS DEAD as missile carrying blue confetti for gender reveal party accidentally detonates its nuclear payload.

A bit too enthusiastic, perhaps? (And yes, it's the Babylon Bee.)

'WOKE' HISTORY ISN'T HISTORY? Whatever happened to teaching history?

BECOME A TERRORIST. How to get into Harvard without good S.A.T. Scores.

Today it's good enough - and quicker - to just be a terrorist wannabe.

NOT IF YOU LIKE COMEDY. Inpeachment got boring.

SCHITT SCHIFF SHOW: Impeachment going forward on Calvinball rules.

I agree with VodkaPundit: laugh at them.

THE RETURN OF THE MORON VOTE: Democrats know who their key constituents are.

[A]re there enough of them? Well, I have my doubts. Donald Trump has roused an astounding number of Republicans and Independents. He even has the support of some self-respecting Democrats. Moreover, my agents across America tell me that he continues to attract a growing number of Americans who rarely vote. They are tired of Democrats calling America a racist country or an anti-immigrant country or a militarist land or any of the other anti-American canards. In the coming presidential election as in the last, I believe the Democrats are going to lose. There just are not enough Morons out there.

I believe the author's claim that some voters are taking off their Moron caps, but I wonder if he hasn't underestimated the Deep State, which is full conniving bloodsuckers eager to retain their bureaucratic sinecures.

THE REAL MYSTERY about Ciaramella and Vindman. Easily understood when you realize there's one set of rules for the Democrat 'governing class' and a separate set for everyone else.

AND YOU THOUGHT YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS WERE PRIVATE? Google’s “Project Nightingale” is accessing patient medical records across twenty one states. And they didn’t get permission from the patients! Or their doctors, apparently.

You can thank ObamaCare's electronic medical records requirement for facilitating this atrocity.

More here. Note that CNN chose not to address the patient/doctor permission aspect.

DON SURBER: The liberals are preparing for Turkey Talk 2019.

I'd suggest responding by having all the TV's in the house being 'hardwired' to Fox News....

SMART MOVE: Airport revenues soar after allowing travelers to pay to turn off CNN.

And for the betterment of mankind....

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Here’s what you need to know if you missed Season 2, episode 1 of the Impeachment Follies:

1. The optics were awful. There were two old, dusty bureaucrats speaking gobbledygook, diplo-gibberish reporting what the derp state gossip was around the water cooler. They offered no first hand knowledge, neither of these men had ever met or spoken to the president.

2. This hot mess is not easy to understand unless you’ve been following it from the beginning. If a regular normie wanted to tune in to see what the president did to merit an impeachment inquiry, they were out of luck. This was no Law and Order episode with a gotcha moment.

3. Bill Taylor, an acting Ambassador to the Ukraine dropped a rumor we had not heard before: Taylor said he heard from a staffer that the staffer had overheard a phone conversation where Ambassador Sondland said Trump cared more about the investigations than he did about the Ukraine. Or something like that. Anyway, this staffer will get to testify in a secret tribunal about what he overheard, it won’t be for public consumption. If he has a successful audition, he might be allowed to speak in public.

4. Derp state bureaucrats Taylor and Kent seemed to really, really care about the Ukraine. I mean like super deluxe care. And they were super deluxe worried that Trump’s foreign policy and demand for investigations into corruption would be dangerous for Ukraine, the Russians would move in, people would die. But where were these clowns when Obama refused to send lethal aid to the Ukraine and instead sent them Kotex and Luna Bars? Did they run and squeak to Congress about that? Did they speak up when Obama kicked back while Russia invaded Crimea?

This is the Deep State: We are the [self-appointed] governing class. We alone have the knowledge, skills, and intelligence to govern and you mere mortals and your elected officials cannot be allowed to challenge our superiority.

The 'wizards of Oz' are fighting desperately to keep that curtain tightly closed lest they be revealed as the arrogant, narcissistic idiots they truly are.

5. Schiff said he doesn’t know who the whistleblower is. If so, how would he know if the whistleblower’s name was revealed at the hearing?

6. I don’t think Wednesday’s events changed any minds and that’s bad news for the Democrats. Nancy Pelosi is going to have to put this to a vote and if the public support isn’t there to impeach the president, her members will have to make a choice to risk their seat if they want to support the Democrat party or watch another impeachment attempt fail.

From Liz Sheld's Morning Greatness post over at the American Greatness website, which I highly recommend you bookmark.

UPDATE: Instapundit agrees with what I just wrote (in italics) above.

MIKE ROWE ON WARREN'S WEALTH TAX: "It's not a new thing. It's as old as hate."

And the 'free stuffers' in America will swallow it hook, line, and sinker.

IS HILLARY RUNNING AGAIN? "Let’s just hope we don’t find ourselves falling down the rabbit hole into Hillaryland."

CAPITOL BUILDING to be decorated as giant circus tent for duration of impeachment hearings. It's only a one-ring circus, though; Adam Schiff isn't sufficiently competent to manage three rings.

UPDATE: See the clown.

GOOD RIDDANCE: Greta Thunberg to set sail back to Europe sooner than expected.

AUSTIN [TX] half-asses its homeless problem.

I read the whole post - and watched the videos. As a former Austinite, I am saddened by what has happened to my former home and extremely grateful that I left when I did.

ELIZABETH WARREN is not a tough smart woman. And certainly not presidential timber.

HERE'S HOW NBC NEWS COVERED THE IMPEACHMENT HEARING: Drag queen sashays into Trump impeachment hearings.

And that's our mainstream media....

AN OPEN LETTER to Greta Thunberg.

Here is a hard truth to ponder, Greta: if the great producers of this world whom you excoriate were to withdraw their productivity, wealth and talents—in short—their minds from the world today, your generation would simply perish. Why? Because as children you have done nothing as yet, with your lives besides being born. This is what we expect of children until such time as they can be producers by learning from their elders. You are understandably social and ecological ballast.

Now read it all.

CANADA’S SELECTIVE CULTURE OF FORGIVENESS: "If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can be forgiven for his habit of wearing blackface, why can’t Don Cherry [a Canadian sportscaster] be forgiven for a ham-fisted rant on patriotism?"

THE SCHITT SCHIFF SHOW: "We are witnessing constitutional government dissipating before our eyes."

SCRATCH THEM FROM MY LIST OF FUTURE CELL PHONE PROVIDERS: T-Mobile forces its employees to use ‘transgender language’.

10:00 AM: The Adam Schitt Schiff Show has begun.

OCASIO-CORTEZ calls for boycott of 'Sesame Street' after discovering show is sponsored by numbers.

UC BERKELEY INSTRUCTOR calls rural Americans 'bad people' who deserve 'uncomfortable' lives.

We need to quit subsidizing these deranged self-appointed 'elitist' twits.

HMM. USAF wants the F-35 and F-22 to link with the X-37B space plane.

DISGUSTING. ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING: California woman claims homeless man dumped bucket of hot feces on her.

Heidi Van Tassel said that the disgusting incident took place near the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Tassel said she was getting into her car when a man, who appeared to be homeless, attacked her.

"It was diarrhea. I was soaked, and it was coming off my eyelashes and into my eyes," Van Tassel said. "Paramedics who came to treat me said there was so much of it on me, that it looked like the man was saving it up for a month."

She added that the feces got inside her car as well.

"He just kept pouring it and splattering it all over me," she told NBC4.

Van Tassel was rushed to Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital and tested for infectious diseases caused by contact with feces — something she will have to do every three months.

The man who attacked her was identified in court records as Jere Blessings, a transient with "schizophrenia and psychotic disorders."

It's time - past time - to bring back mental institutions.

UPDATE: He's back on the street already.

BYRON YORK: Democrats have a Col. Vindman problem.

The president is remarkably freewheeling, unbureaucratic, and certainly not always consistent when it comes to making policy. But he generally has a big goal in mind, and in any event, he is the president of the United States. He, not the interagency, sets U.S. foreign policy.

Clearly America has a 'Deep State' problem. The bureaucracy seems to think it runs the nation, not the American people through the election of their President.

Read the whole thing. Then drain the 'Deep State' swamp.

UPDATE: More proof the 'Deep State' exists and is corrupt.

FLAKE NEWS: Student newspaper forced to apologize for practicing real journalism.

Instapundit has a scathing response.

MEDIA HYPOCRISY in plain view.

LONG READ: How Trump can declare war on the homeless-industrial complex.

But thought-provoking.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Socialism guarantees failure and suffering – so why do so many Americans support it?

LEFTISTS ARE TRASH. Never forget that.

MIKE ROWE on higher education.

We're lending money we don't have to kids who are never going to be able to pay it back to train them for jobs that don't exist anymore. That’s nuts.

He's right.

BRING IT [GLOBAL WARMING] ON: Al Gore promotes global warming workshop as Arctic blast is set to bring record cold temps to US 40 days before winter season begins.

The high today (in north Georgia!) is 34 degrees; tomorrow will be worse.

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES: California Democrats are showing us the future.

HANOI JANE: Climate change deniers don't matter. Of course they don't matter; she's busy virtue-signaling her employers.

Her father must be rolling over in his grave....

WHISTLEBLOWER, MEET WHISTLEBLOWER: ICIG complaint alleges Trump-Ukraine whistleblower may be soliciting illicit donations.

MORE VETERANS DAY: Michael Ramirez reads the progressive mind....

FINALLY, FOR COMBAT VETERANS: The Wars They Carry.

HONORING OUR VETERANS: the Anthem Veterans Memorial.



It's something I'd like to see.

IN BRITAIN ON REMEMBRANCE DAY: WWII Dakota aircraft drops poppies over the White Cliffs of Dover.

MARTA HERNANDEZ: Honored to Serve My Country.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ: Thank you, veterans.

FALLING LEAVES, EPISODE IX: Well, it's over for 2019. Here's the usual pond view, and there's almost no change from last week - perhaps a few more leaves gone, but that's all.

This view is of the south 'lawn'. No leaves to speak of, but still plenty of brush on the slope which will never go away given its steepness.

Here's the north 'lawn', taken from approximately the same place as the picture above. It's still steep along here, but not so badly the brush can't be cleared out. You can see that the leaves are all on the ground.

The final picture is along our street. The sky is clear and leaves are all gone. The road is visible along this stretch, but in some places the road has disappeared under the leaves.

That's it for this year. See you again in the spring.

Last week's pictures are here.

SATIRE BUT ACCURATE: Suicide Hotline volunteer shocked when Hillary Clinton tried to ‘place an order’.

ANOTHER RANDOM THOUGHT: So President Trump is being impeached for trying to ensure that Ukraine will not pay off Hunter Biden with U.S. tax money?

UNLESS YOU REALLY, REALLY WANT TO WORK FOR STARBUCKS. Your fancy education is not helping you get ahead.

MEET THE PRESS found that voters in early primary states don't give a shit about the Democrats' impeachment jihad.

Liberal bubble: dinged, but not yet burst.

WHY I’M LEAVING NEW YORK CITY: Y’all want salad for Thanksgiving.

Maybe salad is all they can afford?

CALIFORNIA POWER OUTAGES: a look into the future.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The progressive Left seems to be suffering from a massive recto-cranial impaction....

WILL THE DEMOCRATS' go-for-woke strategy cost them the 2020 election?

Yes. But encourage them to go for it anyway.

CALIFORNIA GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM: President Trump should have no say in how the state manages its forests because he doesn’t “believe in climate change.”

Newsom's tenuous grasp on reality has dissipated completely.

WHY LOW-POLLING DEMOCRATS still have a chance.

My guess is that if the Democrats are going to win in 2020, it will have to be a candidate who hasn't declared yet. The only declared candidates who might even have a chance are (in my book) Tulsi Gabbard and John Delaney, and both are polling in the low zeros.

FINALLY: A [small] victory for the forces of good.

TRUMP'S TRUE CRIME: He made people laugh at Congress.

Yes. Now join him. Mock them. Mercilessly.

TAKE THE TIME TO WATCH: Donald Trump, Commander Brexiteer:



It's worth every minute.

GOOD GUY GAL WITH A GUN kills armed burglar with AR-15 rifle.

CNN CHIEF MEDIA CORRESPONDENT BRIAN STELTER has demonstrated yet again why he is perhaps the most indispensable name in cable news.

WELL, YES: California's wonky insurance and land use regulations make the state's wildfires deadlier and more destructive.

On the brighter side, Mother Nature's earthquakes should put out the fires as California slides off into the Pacific ocean....

ER, IF MEN COULD GET PREGNANT THEY'D BE WOMEN: "Virginia Senate Minority Leader Dick Saslaw told Democratic voters on Sunday that the U.S. would have more abortion clinics than Starbucks in the U.S. if men could get pregnant."

I got out of Virginia just in time.

UPDATE: I got out of Virginia just in time.

SECOND UPDATE: I knew I got out of Virginia just in time.

THE GRAND LIE of Elizabeth Warren's healthcare plan.

ELIZABETH WARREN answers the big question.

HEH: Texas is luring jobs away from California with promises of electricity.

California plans to fight back. It’s now working on a wall to keep people and jobs from leaving California. The planned wall should extend along the entire California border, except for the southern part.

AN OPEN LETTER to Elizabeth Warren.

Read the entire letter.

FORMER TIME EDITOR AND CEO OF CONSTITUTION CENTER(!) wants to cancel the First Amendment and pass hate speech laws.

From the same jackasses who once heralded 'many truths' and morphed it into 'my truth' now have gone to 'my truth is the only truth'....

THE COMING WAR over kinky Katie Hill's congressional seat.

I don't much give a damn about her sex life, but the fact that she distributed those photos to where they could be posted on the internet for all to see tells me all I need - or want - to know about her character.

And it's a character that I most emphatically don't want in a congresscritter - or any other position of power over others.

NEW YORK GOV. ANDREW CUOMO: ‘We didn’t have hurricanes’ before climate change.

Color me surprised. I guess all those storms I lived through as a kid in south and central Texas (and my wife lived through as a kid in Florida) were just high winds and heavy rain....

MORE EDUCATION NOTES: Univesity cuts humanities budget even as it employs 15 people with the title of Vice President or higher.

Stability will be achieved when there's one student, one Vice President. Faculty? Who needs faculty when you have administriviators?

I have to admit, though, that I'm not disappointed with cutting the humanities budget since it typically includes all the 'victim studies' majors.

IT'S TIME TO TAKE EDUCATION BACK FROM THE LIBERALS: First Common Core high school grads worst-prepared for college in 15 years.

More here and here.

Initially I was a supporter of Common Core; then the 'educationalists' hijacked it. I still think there's a need for a minimum standard of what a citizen should know (by educational [grade?] level) to be able to effectively participate in American society. I'd suggest those standards be limited to English (first), history (American), civics and government (American), math (last) - and rigorously limited to verifiable fact, not current 'opinion'. Every other subject should be taught (or not) at local discretion.

To achieve that goal I'd let (demand) that any government-provided money follow the child to wherever the parents choose.