IT'S ABOUT WHAT MY LYIN' EYES KEEP TELLING ME: Presidential net worth before and after being elected.

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN: The Left's suspension of disbelief.

SCHIFF FOR BRAINS misleads Congress.

I'm going to have a hard time watching the news the next two years with that bug-eyed miscreant on television every night.

ONLY IF WE EXHALE: Is it time to tax the air we breathe?

AS IF YOU DIDN'T ALREADY KNOW, Mazie Hirono is a bigoted idiot.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Trump's re-election chances may be better than you think. I hope he's right, because it will take 8 solid years to reverse the damage caused by Democrats over Obama's term in office.

CALLING JOURNALISTS "schmucks with Underwoods' insults typewriters.

SO THERE IS NO GOD? How to design your own atheistic personal philosophy.

I'm agnostic; willing to accept the possibility, but not personally involved. I figure I'll find out soon enough.

HE COULD HAVE BEEN A LITTLE MORE CREATIVE: Sebastian Gorka Calls Abilio 'Jim' Acosta a 'Dickhead'.

Heh.

THIS IS WHERE I PART WAYS WITH THE DO-GOODERS: When the shelter sues to take your pet away. While I have always adopted my pets from animal shelters, I would never sign on to such nonsense.

This is the worst kind of moral preening from the far-Left do-gooder class that has apparently taken over environmentalism, animal rescue, public health, child care -- just to name a few. As a commenter from a previous post noted, "We really need to hire a better caliber of ruling class to sneer down at us."

I'm reminded of an axiom I learned long ago in my engineering career: "Perfection is the enemy of good enough."

WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED? Democrats immediately reject Trump's offer to end shutdown.

MORE: Trump takes "no" for an answer.

RANDOM THOUGHT: President Trump should deliver the State of the Union speech from the Super Bowl at halftime.

DAY BY DAY and MICHAEL RAMIREZ capture Nancy's reaction to President Trump's shutdown offer yesterday.

AMMO GRRRLL STARTS 2019 with good oral hygiene and other news.