DON’T LOWER THE VOTING AGE, raise it. I'd rather see a minimum 'maturity level' for voting - one Bernie Sanders and his socialist coterie couldn't pass - but given that impossibility, maybe age is an acceptable surrogate for a certain level of civic and economic sophistication.

I guess we'll just have to live with - and ignore - the Bernie Sanders coterie of society.

WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THIS ISN'T A TOTAL WASTE OF MY MONEY? Feds spend $267,946 studying ‘older same-sex partner caregivers’.

ROGER L. SIMON: Why I'm for Bernie in the Democratic primaries.

Yeah, Bernie is a lunatic, but at least he's upfront and doesn't try to hide it like the rest of the Democrat maroons.

OBVIOUSLY HE'S HAD ENOUGH: University lecturer whose controversial tweets about terror attacks and feminism sparked outrage among students quits his post then attacks 'smug little minds'.

Smart man.

THE LIBERAL LEFT destroys social media. And everything else in its path....

EXCUSES, EXCUSES: Northam’s KKK Costume Raises the Question: Was Lynching Really So Bad?

My bad; the post is really about Ilhan Omar and her supporters in Congress....

AMERICAN GREATNESS: When intersectionality collides with itself.

Get another bowl of popcorn.

SEVEN REASONS conservatives are losing the culture wars: "'You can't win a war you're not fighting' — and most conservatives are just betting that somehow, some way, everything will turn out fine, even if we don't seriously address the problem. That is not a safe bet when you’re dealing with the sort of people who sit around and try to think of ways to destroy the Boy Scouts in their spare time."

SHE'S HALF OF AL GORE: Like most climate hysterics, Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t practice what she preaches.

Guess which half. (Ann Coulter knows....)

A FEW LOOSE ENDS, mostly on the climate change laugh list.

OK, SO LAY OUT YOUR CARDS: Mark Warner says there's 'enormous' evidence of Russia-Trump collusion.

Show me the evidence; otherwise you're blowing hot air.

That goes for you, too, Adam Schiff.

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY and Tucker Carlson's monologue on problems in rural America.

While I agree with much of what Carlson and Mirengoff have to say, I do think that Mirengoff is off-base with this:

Carlson notes that job opportunities in traditionally male jobs are shrinking in rural America, while jobs in traditionally female jobs are holding steady. But is that the entire story? Men are not barred from jobs in schools and hospitals. Nor are they barred from learning skills that will help them land jobs in other flourishing sectors (italics added).

The italicized part is exactly the problem. Remember Hillary's admonishment that out-of-work coal miners could 'learn to code'? Progressive dogma to the contrary, coal miners can 'learn to code', but there are few such jobs requiring those skills in coal country - and the people who live there don't want to leave. Kevin Williamson of National Review had a similar lament about problems in his childhood home of Odessa, Texas a few years back. Traditionally male jobs in the oil fields were drying up (pun unintended) and the men, and their families, didn't want to leave.

Another example, this one personal. I'm a highly skilled engineer (PhD level) who could - even at my age - relatively easily find professional employment in almost any major city in America. But in rural north Georgia where I now live, I'm (professionally) unemployable - there are no employers. I'm retired, so it's no matter. Sure, I'd like to have a part-time consulting gig, to keep my skills up, but to do that I'd have to move back to the city - which I'm loathe to do.

So perhaps the solution, at least in part, is for employers to move more of those (traditionally male) jobs to where the potential employees are. And for the know-it-all government agencies to pull their collective heads from their collective asses and facilitate the transfer.

YES, IT IS A MATH PROBLEM.

And the answer is ... ??

JUST KILL HIM and let God sort it out. Send him to the Supreme for final judgement.

Linked from Instapundit.

ELECTION 2020: playing the Trump card. Click through and read the entire article.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

This is the difference between a 4.1% Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and a 1.4% GDP.

I prefer 4.1%.