TREAT THE LEFT AS IT DESERVES — as crazy people beneath attention, much less contempt.

I still like contempt....

A FINE MESS IN BRITIAN: Parliament has taken back control from the people. But they cannot avoid the people for too long.

I find it somewhat amusing that the so-called 'governing class' can do a 180 - or 360, or anywhere in between - on a dime when they run full speed into their own hypocrisy.

ONLY IF DEMOCRATS WIN: DNC Chair Tom Perez says 'democracy as we know it' at stake in 2020 election.

REALITY SINKS IN: Marianne Williamson discovers the Left is as mean as a pit of vipers.

“I know this sounds naïve,” she said in an interview ... but “I didn’t think the left was so mean. I didn’t think the left lied like this.”

The politics of the left are animated by those who want to manage, control, and bully. All require a certain level of malice. Decent people, kind folks, don’t want to run other people’s lives. They have no need to call those they disagree with racists, bigots, and white supremacists. Neither do they feel compelled to force society to conform to their schemes.

And "lower than a viper's belly in a wagon wheel rut" to paraphrase a quote from an earlier post.

REALLY GOOD THIS WEEK: PowerLine's Week in Pictures. I have five or six favorites - here are the two best:

and

Now go see the rest.

YOU DON'T SAY: Elizabeth Warren's energy plan is unplugged from reality.

Elizabeth Warren is herself unplugged from reality....

KURT SCHLICHTER: More dumb arguments about gun control.

TRUTH: Ignorance of the past leads to arrogance about the future (heard on Hannity last week).

CONTEMPT FOR VOTERS AS IGNORANT AND BIGOTED unites English-speaking elites on both sides of the Atlantic.

Collective insanity. The world's governing elites (and their enablers) believe themselves to be so smart, so knowledgeable, so ...caring ..., that they must control our every thought and action.

They're wrong. And they're having a collective temper tantrum because we know they're idiots.

WE SEE IT AS SATIRE, the Left sees it as 'how-to' instructions: 'Down with capitalism!' cries man in Guy Fawkes Mask ordered on Amazon.

PLUMBING THE DEPTHS OF INSANITY: Wesleyan University president insists 'safe spaces' promote 'intellectual diversity'.

MAYBE CIGARETTES WEREN'T SO BAD AFTER ALL: Centers for Disease Control issues warning about vaping.

Hint: marijuana involved....

More here.

PRESIDENT TRUMP HONORS BASKETBALL GREAT JERRY WEST; New York Times cries "Racism!".

Um, NYT, some basketball players are white.

IT'S A MATTER OF JUDGING RELATIVE RISK: The case for high-speed police car chases.

IN THE CLIMATE MODELS: Where's the hot spot?

If an engineer built an aeroplane and said it could fly 600 miles and the thing ran out of fuel at 200 and crashed, he wouldn’t say ‘Hey, I was only off by a factor of three’. We don’t do that in engineering and real science.

Conclusion: "A model is a theory, a hypothesis. A model that is falsified by observation is a wrong hypothesis. That really is all there is to it."