POST DEBATE: Kamala Harris won seems to be the consensus. Oh?

UNREAL: Busted for defending your own home.

TO PREVENT WILDFIRES, California's entire power grid is subject to planned blackouts. So freezing in the dark is preferable to being burnt alive....

The choices of progressivism.

IT’S NOT A BRIBE when you use other people’s money.

Just remember that while you're busy spending other people's money, other people are busy spending your money.

RANDOM THOUGHT as the Democrat presidential debate continues: Beware of Democrats bearing gifts (of 'free stuff').

THE EMPTY RADICALISM of the climate apocalypse.

Keep in mind as the Democrat presidential primaries grind on....

THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE TURN SLOWLY, but turn they do.

Comey, Brennan, McCabe, Bruce Ohr and his wife, they are all facing either criminal referrals or likely criminal referrals. And this is going to be a slow, drawn-out process all the way to the 2020 elections.

Don't forget Clapper....

AND THE WINNER of the first Democrat debate is ... President Trump.

Tonight let's go for two.

ELUSIVE VIRTUES: Why do some parts of the world seem to defy efforts to achieve any degree of unity and peace?

A long but worthy post, the gist of which is this: "The periodic outbreaks of Islamic radicalism have been around a lot longer than modern democracy and much more resistant to change."

CYBER WAR: U.S. escalates online attacks on Russia’s power grid. It's not just Iran that's been warned.

I GUESS IT'LL HAVE TO BE WAR THEN: Iran "permanently closing diplomacy with the United States."

Neither President Trump nor I have any objection.