A MOST TELLING OBSERVATION about tonight's Presidential address: "Trump talked about protecting Americans, Pelosi and Schumer talked about protecting government employees."

That tells you where their priorities lie.

REP. DAN CRENSHAW [R-TX] blasts Democrat's cowardly comments about Trump supporters.

DONALD TRUMP continues to lead the libertarian revolution.

WALLS DON'T WORK. Oh? Tell those dead immigrants.

BOOK REVIEW: Thomas Sowell's Vision of the Anointed:

Thomas Sowell makes an important contribution to classical-liberal and conservative thought by scrutinizing the ways in which a self-consciously elite, or “anointed,” group uses ideas to maintain its power in American political life. Sowell regards American political discourse as dominated by people who are sure that they know what is good for society and who think that the good must be attained by expanded government action. This modern-liberal elite exerts its influence through institutions that live by words: the universities and public schools, the media, the liberal clergy, the bar and bench. Its dominance results from its command of the information that words convey and the attitudes that words inspire.

People who live by words should live also by arguments, but as Sowell richly documentsthe modern-liberal elite is not so good at arguing as it is at finding substitutes for argument. Sowell analyzes the major substitutes. Suppose that you doubt the necessity or usefulness of some great new government program. You may first be presented with a quantity of decontextualized “facts” and abused statistics, all indicating the existence of a “crisis” that only government can resolve. If you are not converted by this show of evidence, an attempt will probably be made to shift the viewpoint: outsiders may doubt that there is a crisis of, say, homelessness, but “spokesmen for the homeless” purportedly have no doubts.

There may also be an attempt simply to declare victory by relabeling current political proposals as inherent rights: it will be announced, in vague yet dogmatic terms, that everyone has a right to decent housing and that government is therefore compelled to provide it. If necessary, substantiation for this new right can be discovered in a Constitution that means whatever the latest school of jurists decides that it means.

If even these methods fail to win you over, attention will be redirected from the political issue to your own failure of imagination or morality. It will be insinuated that people like you are simplistic or perversely opposed to change, lacking in compassion and allied with the “forces of greed.”

Now go read the whole review.

NONE OF IT GOOD: Ocasio-Cortez has certainly taught me a thing or two about what passes for higher education.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: Facts don't matter.

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR: Send in the clown.

WHAT ARE THEY AFRAID OF? CNN’s Don Lemon suggests Trump’s speech should be censored before Americans hear it.

CHAI FELDBLUM is finally out at the EEOC.

I suggest leaving all the positions unfilled and without a quorum until the EEOC fails from disuse.

WASHINGTON POST: “What [is] so wrong with using a word we cannot use?”

ANTI-SEMITISM is breaking out among Congressional Democrats.

No it isn't. It's always been there, it's just that Trump Derangement Syndrome has brought it to the fore.

CAROL BURNETT is what we need and what we all have lost.

I miss her too.

WHAT DO DEMOCRATS MEAN when they say they support border security?

To Democrats, the only “border security” they will really support is liberal activists locking arms in a self-destructive game of red-rover where illegal aliens are greeted with a sandwich, a bottle of water, and voter registration forms.

Read it all.

KURT SCHLICHTER on strong dancing women.

AN EPIDEMIC of erasures, redactions, omissions, and perjuries.

A CALIFORNIA DREAM for paid leave has an old problem: how to pay for it.

Isn't that what printing presses are for?

Update: Oops, credit cards ... only the federal government can print money.