BEFORE COMPASSION KICKED IN, there was greater equality — how could that be?

KAMALA HARRIS: ‘assault weapons’ don’t belong in ‘civil society’. But infanticide apparently does.

Never mind that abortion kills far more humans than gun violence every year.

EXPERTS: If there's weather outside, it's because of global warming.

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, it's nice to know my saving is financing your spending.

Uh, wait ... did I really say that? Well, sorta ... your spending enables the companies I invest in to make more money, which they return to me in increased dividends and higher stock prices. Now if the government would quit spending so much, you could spend more of your money and I could save more of mine.

And maybe become one of those hated billionaires....

I AM A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT -- and 'Medicare for all' is a bad idea. Having been struck by the 'get-a-clue' bat, even some Democrats are beginning to pay attention.

Hard to believe, I know, but it's happening.

A NEW APPROACH for subway systems? The Boring Company is on it.

MISSED OPPORTUNITIES: Why aren’t bills on infrastructure, tax reform and free speech lined up like planes on a runway?

As much as I dislike Democrats, they do know how to hang together and move a train....

VICTORY GIRLS: Five issues President Trump should address at the State of the Union speech next week.

FIRST DEMOCRAT PRIMARY DEBATE: Kamala Harris v. Kamala Harris on eliminating private health insurance.

Lose-lose for sure.

LIBERAL SOCIAL DARWINISM in action. I have no problem with Darwin Awards for liberals, but in this case it's the kids, not the parents, who are the 'winners'.

And credentialed does not imply educated....

STRAW & ORDER: Washington Post reporter goes 'on patrol' with the enforcer of DC’s plastic straw ban. The story is behind the Post's paywall, a place I will not go.

IT'S NOT JUST NEW YORK STUPID EVIL: Virginia Democrat pushes bill that would allow abortion up to the moment of birth.

The Repeal Act ... would repeal restrictions on third trimester abortions, allow abortionists to self-certify the necessity of the procedures, eliminate informed consent requirements, repeal health and safety standards for abortion clinics, allow late term abortions to be performed in outpatient clinics, waive ultrasound requirements, and eliminate the 24 hour waiting period for abortions in Virginia.

And Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is okay with that.

Judging from the insanity on the Left, I'm beginning to be willing to accept post-birth abortions to keep the progressive population down....

MORE: Gosnell - the exoneration.

MICHAEL BLOOMBERG falls into his own giant carbon footprint.

It's getting harder and harder to not notice the Left's rules never seem to apply to the Left....

WELL WRITTEN AND THOROUGH: When is a climate model useful?

When I was teaching -- and as a system engineering lead in industry -- I would always emphasize that a model was at best an abstraction of the most well-known, well-understood, and prominent characteristics of the system being modeled.

That being said, the point I always tried to make (and that most of my students and coworkers missed) was that the less well-known, less well-understood, and less prominent characteristics not modeled were exactly the ones most likely to make the model crash and burn in the real world.

Remember that as you read Charlie Martin's post.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Women are the leading cause of abortions, so we must ban women.

Makes about as much sense as gun bans....

CANADA TO BERNIE: single-payer socialist medicine sucks. You can get to the back of the line for free - where you will stay until you die.

GOLLY, GEE: New Yorkers shocked to find food prices rising after minimum wage hike.

Who could have seen this coming?

THE STATE OF THE UNION WOULD BE A FINE TIME FOR AN ANNOUNCEMENT: President Trump can build the border wall without declaring emergency.