SOMEHOW THIS CARTOON reminds me of Adam Schiff.

THE SCHIFF SHOW management team knows it has been shafted. Adam Schiff's summary to call more witnesses has devolved into a threat to re-impeach President Trump as soon he has been acquitted.

This farce will continue until the 2020 election returns the House of Representatives to Republican control.

ANOTHER RANDOM [IMPEACHMENT] THOUGHT: Will 'Shifty' Schiff and 'Nadles's Nadler blame each other for the soon-to-come acquittal? Or will they gang up on 'Nasty' Nancy?

My (totally uninformed) guess is that they'll gang up on Nancy Pelosi for the simple reason that progressives appear to be constitutionally incapable of blaming themselves for anything.

IT MUST BE FRIDAY because Ammo Grrrll is up.

WHOA! I'M ALMOST A WEEK LATE. Here's my favorite from last week's Week in Pictures from PowerLine:

Now go see the rest.

NOT THE BABYLON BEE: Lawmaker introduces resolution recognizing CNN and the Washington Post as ‘fake news.’

RANDOM [IMPEACHMENT] THOUGHT about Adam Schiff's response to a question about the whistleblower's relationship with him and his staff.

To quote Shakespeare: "Methinks thou dost protest too much."

SHOE EXPLAINS Democrat-media collusion.

ADAM SCHIFF IS A DUMB SHIT. Paraphrased from his testimony at yesterday's impeachment Q&A session: "Read the classified document yourself to determine whether or not it should be classified."

Sorry, Adam, but the ladies and gentlemen of the Senate don't get to make the classification rules to suit you.

IT'S DESPERATION TIME: Trump's accuser is back and she wants the President's DNA.

AMERICAN GREATNESS: It's time to revoke woke privilege.

THE DIPLOMAD: The world is going to end ... again.

What has been driven home in the last several years is how once venerable institutions have fallen to the progressive onslaught and become purveyors of hysterical, politically motivated rubbish. The schools, universities, the media, Hollywood, the legal profession, the law enforcement and intel agencies, the political parties, even the military all have degenerated to varying degrees in the face of that onslaught. We are awash by and adrift on a sea of fake news all designed to cow us into giving ever more power to the permanent bureaucratic elites.

Our progressive (self-identified) 'elites' have done a very good job over the years to dig a deep hole in which to bury the truth. President Trump has done an excellent job in exposing their efforts, as the Democrat impeachment hysteria is showing. The next step in recovering the truth and filling that progressive hole is, in my opinion, to use the next election to make Congress deep red.

ADAM SCHIFF MEETS DILBERT: You're jealous of my stupidity.

I WAS WRONG. They want war.

Read it all. Including the comments.

YES. YES THEY DO. "Do they [Democrats] detest President Trump that much?"

'I CRY LESS THAN A DEMOCRAT': Support pro-life; buy one of these onsies at the Trump campaign website.

SEEN ON A LOCAL CHURCH MESSAGE BOARD: "Earth orbits the sun; Christians orbit the son."

They're very good at pithy statements.

THE STATE OF THE DEMOCRAT PRIMARY APOCALYPSE: gloomy and getting gloomier.

Bernie Sanders surges in Iowa and New Hampshire as well as nationally, Warren continues to stumble, Biden continues to unimpress, and Buttigieg continues to ignore the propeller beanie hat stuck to his head.

Is it time to buy popcorn futures?

RANDOM THOUGHT: As I drive around, I never cease to be amazed at the number of drivers so anxious to get to the next stoplight.

THEY'RE SO IN THE DARK THAT EVEN A DIM BULB IS DAZZLING: Adam Schiff dazzles the press.

THE DEFINITION of cruel and unusual punishment.

POLITICO: How the gun show became the Trump show. I have to admit a wee bit of surprise at one aspect of the article: there was more unhappiness with Trump's disdain for the niceties than I would have expected. But then I'm usually a year or two 'ahead of the curve' on social/cultural/political issues ... I believe the unhappiness will decrease as the Left continues to flaunt its true colors.

Don Surber also takes note in his post about writing off gun owners.

COMPETENCE 'TRUMPS' DIVERSITY: CNN's Jeffrey Toobin complains about 'white men' filling Trump's legal team.

I EXPECT VIRGINIA WILL GO BLOOD BRIGHT RED IN 2021: Six more gun control measures advancing in Virginia Houseof Delegates.

DEMOCRAT DESPERATION has reached a new high.

Expect much more over the rest of the weekend and next week.

THE BABYLON BEE HAS HAD A GREAT WEEK:

Democrats warn that American people may tamper with next election.

Hillary Clinton accidentally posts condolences for Tulsi Gabbard's suicide one day early.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accidentally strangles herself tying her shoes.

In major deal, the Babylon Bee purchases competing satire site CNN.

Enjoy them all.

THE SOLEMNITY TRAP:

It’s hilarious that the Democratic Senators running for president are stuck in Washington, D.C. attending the entirety of the impeachment trial. There’s no need, other than a political one, for them to do so.

Why, then, do Sanders, Warren, Klobuchar feel compelled to be at the trial at all times, to the detriment of their campaigns? Because Democrats have to maintain the pretense that there’s something serious and solemn about the trial House Democrats have forced the Senate (and the nation) to endure.

In my book, anything that keeps Congress from 'working' is a good thing.

WASHINGTON POST: The impeachment 'mess' is the fault of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL is going so well that the mainstream media will have plenty of time for commercial breaks....

THE EPITOME OF STUPIDITY [euphonious intentionally]: The city of Austin [TX] is having a gun buyback without the 'buy'.

Gun dealers, though, are doing well.

AND NOW, let the impeachment clown show resume....

RANDOM [IMPEACHMENT] THOUGHT [7]: Watching the persecution prosecution, I'm reminded of what Instapundit always says about the Left: "All the Democrats have to do is not be crazy, and they can’t even do that." A similar point that I'm fond of making is this: "Democrats will always accuse the Right of doing that they would do themselves under the same circumstances."

It seems to me that both statements are just flip sides of the same coin: the Democrats are in fact crazy, and so ensconced in their own heavily fortified 'reality' bubble that they are truly incapable of recognizing that Republicans do not behave according to their expectations.

THE EARLY YEARS OF LIBERALISM: Start here and keep scrolling forward.

A POST-MODERN IMPEACHMENT IMPLODES thanks to 'Shifty' Schiff and 'Nadless' Nadler. Good work, guys. Thanks for ensuring that President Trump gets another 4 years.

And thank you, Speaker Pelosi, for your outstanding selection of an impeachment management team....

RANDOM [IMPEACHMENT] THOUGHT [6]: As we prepare for today, I would merely note that the Democrat persecutiion prosecution has dug their hole so deep that they can see nothing but dirt.

Time for the White House defense team to start filling in the hole. Leave the Democrats' managers in it...

THE ORATOR IS AN IDIOT: The untalented Mr. Schiff and his unwatchable vanity.

The 'Deep State' is having convulsions now that Trump has called them out as the vain, imperious, incompetent bullies that they are. They know that their very existence (jobs, security, etc.) is at risk.

TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE, House GOP aims to help plant 1 trillion trees. Hell, there are days I think I have that many in my back yard....

If they personally planted the trees, I might find it worthwhile.

NOT A WINNING ARGUMENT: If you fail to impeach, you're guilty of treason.

Jerrold Nadler's an idiot, but we already knew that.

AND THIS GUY claims to be a journalist? Since when did (poor) satire become journalism? Oh, wait ... when (poor) actors became congresscritters?

RANDOM [IMPEACHMENT] THOUGHT [5]: The prosecution's (hopefully) final day has begun. Summary of the prosecution so far - "Orange Man Bad. Impeach Orange Man."

I don't expect it to change.

OH, BY THE WAY: Capitalism is ending poverty worldwide.

You could see the Left's shocked face if their bubble wasn't opaque....

I like Tapscott's final sentence "[E]ven more astonishing is how little notice this reality gets among Western elites," but that sentence would be even more accurate by deleting the single word 'this'.

ELIZABETH WARREN PROMISES that if elected president at most half of her Cabinet will be competent. The rest will be diversity decorations.

A WORD FROM SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM [R-SC]: “To my Democratic colleagues, you can say what you want about me, but I’m covering up nothing. I’m exposing your hatred of the president.”

MORNING GREATNESS: Welcome to the impeachment thunderdome.

I wonder what the ratings were for yesterday’s trial. Will people who were not persuaded by the much ballyhooed House clown show now come over to the Democrats way of thinking? I am not sure so but the purpose isn’t just about persuasion: the Democrats want to damage vulnerable GOP Senators and get some more witnesses so they can keep “hunting” for damning evidence against Trump. This isn’t about “protecting the constitution” it’s simply another political tactic to get rid of the president and amass more power. If there is one thing painfully obvious about the Democrats that Trump’s election has laid bare: Democrats will use their power to undermine the will of the people if it isn’t to their liking.

Now go check out Liz Sheld's other links.

RANDOM [IMPEACHMENT] THOUGHT [4]: It just dawned on me that the lead impeachment manager is Inspector Clouseau.

Only not as funny....

STRAINED? ONLY STRAINED? NOT DIVORCED? "The man [Schiff] has a strained relationship with the truth..."

RANDOM [IMPEACHMENT] THOUGHT [3]: Finally we've gone from "no one is above the law" to "is a quid pro quo as clear as 2+2 is 4".

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ has thoughts on capitalism, billionaires, and power. Stupid thoughts.

But she did offer one honest thought:

So I don’t want your money as much as we want your power. The people, not me.

I’m sure AOC did mean the people, but I’m also 110% certain she believes she will become a celebrated leader of those same people. So the power may go to “the people” but in AOC’s mind it immediately gets delegated to her.

As I've noted time and time again, "It's about control. It's always about control."

FLIP-FLOP: Impeachment, then and now.

I THINK I'LL HAVE ANOTHER DRINK: The Doomsday Clock is at 100 seconds to midnight.

ELIZABETH WARREN ON PRESIDENT TRUMP: The voters like him; they really, really like him.

THE MORNING BRIEFING: President Trump's biggest pro-life move yet.

This should cause a MSM nervous breakdown: how do they cover President Trump without covering the March for Life?

I WOULD PAY TO SEE THIS: Sen. Rand Paul [R-KY] has offered his Senate gallery pass to President Trump to attend his impeachment trial.

RANDOM THOUGHT: I liked Dilbert better when he wore a tie.

‘OUTLET CHALLENGE’ prompts safety warnings. So copper conducts electricity ... who knew?

The comments are amusing. Especially the references to the Darwin awards.

I'M MORE INTERESTED in why the second sock never disappears.

THERE WERE SIX BUT HE OPENED HIS MOUTH AGAIN: The top seven lies Adam Schiff has told to boost impeachment.

What bothers me is not that Schiff lies (that's a given) but that I sincerely think he actually believes those lies.

WHY NEWSPAPERS will never die. I'm not so sure that they'll live on as fly swatters, but bird cages will always need liners, fires will always need starting, and there's always a need for easily available packing material.

RUSSIA! RUSSIA! Adam Schiff warns weary senators that Russia could attack the U.S. while Trump steals the 2020 election.

House Democrats launched into lengthy arguments that broke little ground, if any, in President Trump's impeachment trial Wednesday -- as the head impeachment manager, California Rep. Adam Schiff, suggested that Russians could attack the U.S. and insisted that removing Trump from office was necessary because the integrity of the 2020 election could not be "assured."

Watching the first two days of this impeachment farce has convinced me that (1) President Trump should be acquitted 100-0 and (2) Adam Schiff should be immediately be involuntarily committed to Bellevue for psychiatric evaluation.

WEATHER ALERT: Beware of falling iguanas.

Baby it's cold outside.

THE NARRATIVE is not listening to Democrats.

ISN'T 'REEDUCATION' WHAT GULAGS ARE FOR? Democrats and the ‘reeducation’ of the American people.

THE 2019 JAMES Q. WILSON LECTURE: Resisting the socialist siren.

The video is long, but well worth watching.

NOT WITH OCASIO-CORTEZ AT THE HELM: All the Democrats have to do is not be crazy, and they can’t even do that.

YOU BETCHA, SWEETIE: Alyssa Milano correctly identifies gun rights protesters assembling peacefully as ‘Trump’s America’.

Even a stopped clock....

THE LAST LAST WORD on the Virginia Second Amendment rally.

IT'S ONLY HATE SPEECH if their opposition does it.

CRIME AND (NON)PUNISHMENT IN SAN FRANCISCO:

Hoping to document such a [smash & grab] robbery, “Inside Edition,” a television program, placed GPS trackers inside items in a car parked in an area well known for theft. The items were a $250 speaker and a purse. “Inside edition” also placed video cameras throughout the car to be able to record the expected smash and grab.

Sure enough, as Fox News reports, two people soon robbed the vehicle. A man smashed open the car’s back window, pulled out the purse, and threw it to his female accomplice. He then removed the speaker.

The “Inside Edition” crew used its tracker to find the thieves. They confronted the duo as they entered a train station.

The show’s reporter told the man that “five million people” will view his theft. The man responded that he was going to call his mother.

Eventually, the man abandoned the speaker. “Inside Edition” then tracked the stolen purse to a garbage can.

But while all of this was going on, thieves broke into the crew’s car and stole the camera equipment. As a result, five million people won’t see either theft, and “Inside Edition” is out thousands of dollars worth of equipment.

Heh.

RANDOM [IMPEACHMENT] THOUGHT [2]:

I was right. From two days ago:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BREAKING NEWS: The Democrats' opening statement in tomorrow's impeachment trial.

To paraphrase former CBS newsreader Dan Rather, "Fake but accurate."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Adam Schiff's opening statement is just now telling us the truth, that Democrats are impeaching President Trump for two terrible crimes: (1) 'cheating' to win the 2016 presidential election, and (2) 'planning to cheat' to win again in 2020.

REMEMBER: It's about control. It's always about control.

IF YOU AREN'T PAYING ATTENTION TO THE LATEST UFO NEWS, you should be.

I'm beginning to wonder if UFO sightings correlate with with the beginning and end of Congressional sessions....

RANDOM THOUGHT: When will the MediScare fearmongers finally understand that the annual Medicare enrollment/re-enrollment period is over?

WHINY WOKESTER: Why wasn't history what I think it should have been?

KURT SCHLICHTER ON SEN McSALLY [R-AZ]: Her inner fighter pilot has finally surfaced.

RANDOM [IMPEACHMENT] THOUGHT: I'm still trying to process what I saw (and I stayed tuned until the bitter end at 2 am) but my first reaction is that the average collective IQ of the impeachment managers (I'm talking about you, Schiff. And you, Nadler) must be at least 10 points below that of a moron.

FIGHT FIRES WITH FACTS. Not fake science.

I KNOW SHE'S STUPID, but I thought at least Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could tell her left hand from her right hand.

TRUE STATEMENT: "Journalists are often awful people, and nearly always spineless conformists."

THE AMERICAN THINKER: The mystery of 'Q'.

I have no idea whether it's meaningful or utter bullarky, but it is amusing.

MAKE NO MISTAKE. We are about to see the impeachment of what can only be called the American Ruling Class.

IMPEACHMENT IS FOREVER. So is ugly.

Enjoy every word.

FOUR PILLARS: Educating for America.

WIN, WIN, WIN: Immigration problem solved.

And solved cheaply....

CDC STUDY: The laziest states in the U.S.

Notice the stunning stupidity of the question: "[O]ther than your regular job, did you participate in any physical activities or exercises such as running, calisthenics, golf, gardening, or walking for exercise?" Did they stop to think to ask about the physical activity involved in your regular job? Of course not, because their regular jobs involve almost no physical activity.

This is exactly why I ignore almost all health-related studies/advice.

MAYOR PETE: Portrait of the B.S. artist as a young man.

ANOTHER FAST FOOD WORKER gets canned for dissing the police. Probably another Harvard graduate....

THANKS TO DEMOCRATS? Unfortunately not.

I'd like to blame former President Obama and/or the Democrats, but ...

According the U.S. Debt Clock the dramatic increase in the national debt started with Obama, but has consistently increased at $1.2T/year ever since.

And it's impossible to blame the Democrats in Congress, either. During Obama's tenure, the 111th Congress was Democrat controlled; the 112th and 113th Congresses were divided; and the 114th Republican controlled. During Trump's tenure (so far) the 115th Congress was Republican controlled; the 116th was divided; and the 117th is up for grabs.

Short of starting over, I'm not convinced there is a solution....

EXCEPT HE DID: Progressives upset President Trump didn't honor Martin Luther King, Jr on Monday.

SANITY AT LAST: Court refuses to kowtow to personal pronouns.

Good. As I've noted before, the personal pronouns I use are he/him, she/her, and it/its.

THE SCHIFF EFFECT: a sieve holds water better than he holds secrets. Is it any wonder that President Trump doesn't share secrets with Congress?

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Serious atheist thinkers are re-examining strict naturalism.



Linked from Instapundit here.

THE LAST WORD on the Virginia Second Amendment rally.

SENATE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL SET TO BEGIN TODAY: Here is the proposed process.

IT'S HARD TO LISTEN when you live in an echo chamber.

ONE LAST IRONY from Virginia's gun rights protest rally:

Watching Virginia create a fenced in 'freedom zone', entrance guarded by armed men and metal detectors, not even considering the irony that no one could possibly be considered 'free' while only being allowed to protest from inside a cage and after being searched by state agents.

Nothing happened inside or outside the 'freedom' fence. And the protestors picked up their own trash.

Could it be that there is still a Tea Party?

BREAKING NEWS: The Democrats' opening statement in tomorrow's impeachment trial.

To paraphrase former CBS newsreader Dan Rather, "Fake but accurate."

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: Free speech terrifies us.

Tell them to take their 'huggy bears' and go home....

NO VIOLENCE, NO INJURIES: Gun rights rally in Virginia capital ends. Here's why.

RANDOM THOUGHT: How long until the MSM accuses the rallygoers of intimidating Antifa thugs into not coming to the protest?

DON SURBER on this weeks news highlights.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES reveals the Democrats' platform.

Now go see the rest.

THE DIPLOMAD writes on the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

In sum, he [Martin Luther King] was a great man with a great vision. His successors, many of them frauds of the first rank, largely have not been faithful to that vision of liberty and color-blindness, and we all have suffered for it.

Read it all. You may be surprised.

VICTORY GIRLS: The view from Richmond today.

Much more here.

DONALD TRUMP stumbles(?) into a foreign-policy triumph.

Stumbles? It's a 'stumble' to reject Deep State conventional wisdom in favor of God-given common sense? It's much more plausible to believe that our virtuous intellectual superiors in the 'governing class' (read as Deep State) stumbled into a deep hole years ago and have been digging furiously ever since.

President Trump offered them a ladder to climb out, which they ungraciously have refused, so it's time to take out the shovels and fill in the hole.

Read it all.

Linked from Instapundit.

ANALYSIS, CORRECT: "Senator Warren is a gifted storyteller."

ANOTHER TWITTER TWEET TWIT SELF-IDENTIFIES: Verified 'journalist' on Twitter calls police on Target manager over a toothbrush.

Maybe if he gave up his smart phone he could afford to go to the dentist....

HELP US, OBI-WAN KENOBI COCAINE MITCH. You're our only hope.

NO PARTICIPATION TROPHIES FOR YOU: Millennials upset.

Just because it's the Babylon Bee doesn't mean it's wrong.

IF YOU'RE A DEMOCRAT, get yours today.

VIRGINIA GUN RALLY: “I’d rather be an American than a Democrat”.

Stay tuned....

MEDIA AND THE LEFT trying to turn law abiding gun owners into frothing, racist, white supremacists. They're gonna be surprised when the 'frothing, racist, white supremacists' turn out to be on their side.

Except they won't: it'll all be Trump's fault....

THE TRUTH COMES OUT: Democrats believe you're guilty (of something) until they allow you to prove your innocence.

“EVEN A PIG KNOWS NOT TO SHIT WHERE IT SLEEPS.” Vermont's climate protestors demonstrate (yet again, for anyone paying attention to them) their profound ignorance.

THEY LIVE IN A DIFFERENT WORLD: What I learned from dating a communist.

A world from which they cannot will not escape.

WHY HOUSEWIVES should not take math classes:

It applies to feminists as well, but feminists (either sex) who can do math is a null set.

THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD: Wrong pen.

THIS IS YOUR BERNIE CAMPAIGN: Sanders field organizer in Iowa bailed out by regional field director after arrest.

The Sanders campaign has not commented.

AMMO GRRRLL comments on 'deadnaming'. Personally, I always thought 'deadnaming' referred to Democrats voting from cemetaries.

REP. BRIAN MAST [R-FL] SPEAKS; silence ensues.

The video is here. Watch Congress embarrass itself.

ENVIRONMENTALISTS WANT to take your food, your home, and your children.

But other than that, you're free to live the life they choose.

CALIFORNIA: When ideology and reality conflict, ideology wins.

GO FULL SOCIALIST. PLEASE GO FULL SOCIALIST. The Democrats could 'Bern' it all down.

Make sure normal Americans fully understand your insanity.

SO ... ‘DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION?’: Kellyanne Conway spars with CNN's Chris Cuomo over impeachment.

UNLESS REPUBLICANS RETAKE THE HOUSE. The never-ending impeachment.

And they will.

ABOUT TIME: Virginia gun groups sue over 'state of emergency' gun ban at Capitol rally.

Somehow I don't think the Left is going to be happy now that we're using their own tools [lawsuits] against them. That sword cuts both ways.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Has anyone noticed that GEICO's Pinocchio sounds a lot by Elizabeth Warren?

NON SEQUITUR: It's decision time. My suspicion is that it will be between 'fire' and 'ice' for most popular.

RANDOM THOUGHT: One reason why I like Fox News and Fox Business is that their on-air personalities are genuinely happy.

[Update] And they're far less inclined to tell me how to live my life.

FINALLY: Somber impeachment ceremony concludes with impeachment dancers.

JOE BIDEN JOINS THE DEMOCRAT PRIMARY: Wait, wait ... I'm a victim, too.

THAT VACUUM BETWEEN HIS EARS MUST CAUSE TERRIBLE HEADACHES: Michael Moore slams Elizabeth Warren for 'helping Trump’s re-election'.

What a maroon!

I WAS JUST THINKING:

If only 11 million people have ObamaCare, how will the 24 million people Democrats claim will die if it is repealed? Will an additional 13 million people be randomly shot?

If Donald Trump deleted all of his emails, wiped his server with Bleachbit and destroyed all of his phones with a hammer, would the mainstream media suddenly lose all interest in the story and declare him innocent?

If women do the same job for less money, why do companies hire men to do the same job for more money?

Each ISIS attack now is a reaction to Trump policies, but all ISIS attacks during Obama’s term were due to climate change and a plea for jobs.

Welfare, food stamps, WIC, ad nauseam are not entitlements. They are taxpayer-funded handouts, and shouldn’t be called entitlements. Social Security and Veterans Benefits are entitlements because they were earned and paid for, at least in part, by the recipients. The others were not.

If liberals don’t believe in biological gender then why did they march for women’s rights?

How did the Russians get Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC to steal the primary from Bernie Sanders?

Why is it that Democrats think super delegates are fine, but they have a problem with the Electoral College?

If you don’t want the FBI involved in elections, don’t nominate someone who’s being investigated by the FBI.

If Hillary’s speeches cost $250,000 an hour, how come no one shows up to her free ones?

If Democrats don’t want foreigners involved in our elections, why do they think it’s all right for illegals to vote?

Now my head hurts, I’m going to quit thinking for a while!

From my email.

THEY'RE SCARED OF US: Virginia Governor to declare state emergency to prevent lawful carry at Second Amendment rally.

As they should be.

SO ARM OUR EMBRYOS: The Left admits they're just not used to killing people who might fight back.

Yes, of course it's the Babylon Bee.

BERNIE SANDERS: a clear and present danger to the public welfare.

POST-DEBATE ANALYSES....

WARNING: Gang of known criminals holds meeting to discuss how much of your money to steal.

ELIZABETH WARREN announces her presidency will include free year of Disney+, ESPN, and Hulu.

SANDERS CLARIFIES his gulags will be Democratic gulags.

Just because it's the Babylon Bee doesn't mean it isn't accurate.

EXCELLENT QUESTION: How radical are Bernie Sanders and his supporters?

AS I POINTED OUT in an earlier post: Dollar General is a part of Americana worth saving and celebrating.

THE DEMOCRAT PRIMARY FIELD moves ever whiteward.

The Democrats don’t care about people, they care about power over specific voting blocs that they can make beholden to them with unfulfilled promises. Diversity and wealth equality are merely rhetorical cudgels they like using to hit Republicans with, especially during election years. They standard Dem dig against the Republican party is that it’s just a bunch of old white rich guys.

But they believe it worked for Republicans, so why not for them? It's all about regaining control.

ANOTHER TRUMP REGULATORY WIN: California forced to withdraw outdated pollution control plans.

THEY DON'T LIKE BEING DISENFRANCHISED: Ex-White House [Democrat] press secretaries, foreign service officials demand return of briefings.

KURT SCHLICHTER has some thoughts for Democrat politicians:

Here’s an idea that our Democrat politician friends might want to try if they want to stop being back-stabbing garbage people. It’s kind of a radical notion and a little outside the box, but here goes: How about, just once, you stop sucking-up to the foreign bastards who are attacking our country and take America’s side?

I agree with him: "The least you could do is show a little respect to the people trying to clean up your party’s mess."

NANCY PELOSI: I impeached the President ...

... and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.

WHAT WE’LL MISS WE MISSED by not having Tulsi Gabbard on the debate stage tonight.

ELIZABETH WARREN forgot that 'climate change' today, which was 'global warming' in the 90's, was 'global cooling' in the 1970s. By the 2030's we'll have gone full circle. Of idiocy.

VODKAPUNDIT comments.

ON ELIZABETH WARREN'S WEALTH TAX: My wealth, such as it is, isn't in a Scrooge McDuck vault, it's invested in the economy; i.e. people and things. Taxing it is akin to firing people and producing fewer things for people to buy. (I guess she thinks that's a fair trade - fewer working people need fewer things....

RANDOM THOUGHT: According to Bernie, if you disagree with Medicare for All you must be greedy and corrupt. In fact if you disagree with Bernie on anything you must be greedy and corrupt.

If I had a dollar for every time he said 'greedy and corrupt' I'd be a multimillionaire.

VODKAPUNDIT is drunkblogging the Democrats' debate.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The Democrat presidential candidate will be someone randomly chosen from the Milwaukee phone book.

And yes, I am watching the Dimocrat Democrat debate.

[Added] And yes, I do have better things to do....

WE DEMOCRATS MUST ELECT NEW VOTERS. It's their fault our debate stage is 'too white'.

Now do you understand why the Democrats favor unlimited immigration?

I remain unconvinced that their new voters will remain loyal to their preferred candidates....

I'LL BET THE BAN DOESN'T INCLUDE THE LAWMAKERS OR THEIR SECURITY GUARDS: Virginia lawmakers have voted to ban guns from the State Capitol building.

SO WHAT'S NEW? Twitter is a progressive bubble.

This is only marginally interesting to me inasmuch as it's long been known in the business world that committees almost always move to the extremes in the process of reaching a consensus. I remember reading about the phenomena as much as 30-40 years ago.

Maybe someday I'll spend a little time digging around through my records to see if I can find the original papers....

WOULD YOU BUY A USED CAR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS FROM THIS MAN?

California weighs creating public brand of generic prescription drugs.

THANK GOODNESS: the next Democratic debate (9-11 pm tonight on CNN) will not require viewers to use a color television.

And be sure to stock up on popcorn; the best reality show of 2020 is coming in November.

HOPEFULLY, VERY FRAGILE: How fragile is Iran's regime?

2020 may be the year it breaks.

UPDATE: Is it breaking?

AS LONG AS YOU CONTINUE TO TREAT THEM AS VICTIMS THE 'HOMELESS' PROBLEM WILL NEVER BE SOLVED: California's homeless crisis could be is migrating to Austin.

IMPEACHMENT STRATEGY? Speaker Pelosi's Democrats threaten democracy in the name of protecting it.

OH? Not a 'whiff of scandal' during the Obama administration?

NOW WE KNOW who Greta Thunberg's puppetmasters are.

Linked from Instapundit here.

#DEMAND VOTER ID: I'd suggest that replacing 'Russia' with 'Democrat' would be more appropriate.

RAND SIMBERG: Space is too important to be left to government monopolies.

Agreed, but with a caution: I think there is a place for a government 'monopoly' in the development of initial infrastructure/technology/skills, but once those tasks are complete it's time to back away and let economic forces prevail.

CHICKEN V. EGG: Is Pajama Boy a vegan?

THE DEEP STATE IS STILL DEEP: FISA court selects former Obama admin lawyer, left-wing blogger to oversee FBI's surveillance reforms.

How blatent can you get?

DEMOCRAT BLUES: Curiouser and curiouser.

We haven't seen anything yet.

GOOD NEWS; BAD NEWS: The blue state exodus is coming into focus.

In a depressing example of irony, the influx of new voters from blue states into red ones has been bringing with it a surge of liberal, Democratic voters. This has led to some traditionally red states becoming increasingly competitive for the Democrats. (Texas is probably the best example, though the tide there hasn’t fully turned yet.)

The grim humor in this is that these migrants seem to fail to realize that the conditions they were fleeing in those blue states were a direct result of the policies put in place by liberals. Higher taxes, more oppressive governmental regulations and “woke” policies that are more tolerant of crime and damaging to traditional values made many of those places basically unlivable. But by coming into red states, where lower costs of living, more freedom, and better security were waiting, and voting the way they always have, they’re basically bringing their own poison with them into their new pool.

That's a strong argument for the Red states to implement Instapundit's 'welcome wagon' idea.

Here's more.

HARD TO BELIEVE THEY'RE SERIOUS: “Remember, students. You are not an individual, but a mascot of a notional group....”

THE TRUTH ABOUT "MEDICARE-FOR-ALL" IS UGLY. This is how ugly.

COMING TO A DEMOCRAT PRIMARY NEAR YOU: a serious nationwide popcorn shortage.

ROGER KIMBALL ON Iran and the Ukrainian Flight 752 shootdown:

Aristotle identified four sorts of causation: formal, material, efficient, and final. Iran’s foreign minister has just introduced a fifth category, akin to what some specialists call the Chewbacca defense: rather than offer a rational and compelling explanation one instead resorts to “intentional distraction or obfuscation.”

It's the coverup. It's always the coverup.

DR. OZ IS THE PERFECT EMBODIMENT of popular medical wisdom over my lifetime - mostly wrong.

BLACK DEMOCRATS SEEM TO BE LARGELY COLOR BLIND when it comes to evaluating this cycle’s crop of candidates. It's the [white] progressives who are not.

THE PC REBELLION HAS BEGUN: Dry up, you sorry little prudes.

BUT, BUT ... ORANGE MAN BAD: Anti-Trump 'journalist' falls for old joke, then doubles down.

SORT OF OBVIOUS, DON'T YOU THINK? Pelosi knows she made a mistake withholding impeachment articles.

MEGA-HYPOCRISY EXPOSED: You must be vegan because I can't give up my airplane,

“There are things that I can’t avoid. I flew a plane out here today,” said the Golden Globe-winning actor [Joaquin Phoenix]. “But one thing I can do is change my eating habits, and so I just want to urge all of you to join me in that.”

'You're just little people; I'm not.' Does anyone seriously believe that Phoenix is going vegan?

HOW VERY TRUE: Online shopping has lots of pluses – but one big minus.

FROM THE AMERICAN LEFT: Dammit, Iran, you're not following the script!

Never mind that following the script means almost certain death for the Iranian leadership; it's far more important to demonize President Trump.

IT WOULD BE A SMART MOVE ON THEIR PART: Democrats more likely to nominate ‘No One’ than Elizabeth Warren.

But I'm sure Warren 'has a plan for that'.

GRASPING AT STRAWS: Pelosi insists clinging to impeachment articles worked; McConnell ‘cover-up’ exposed.

Too bad her state banned straws....

THE DIPLOMAD: Soleimani deserved to die. Period.

NOT COMPETITION, ally.

THE WEEK THAT WAS: 5 – 11 January News Summary.

COMING SOON: Life in the People’s Republic of Virginia New Zealand.

QUICK! TELL GAVIN NEWSOM SO HE CAN AUTHORIZE WELFARE BENEFITS: Robots out of work as automated businesses close in Bay Area.

He's already taken care of illegal immigrants.

Obviously robots are to become America's next victim group....

THEY'LL GET NEITHER: Democrats will need both impeachment and Bloomberg to win the presidency.

SHERIFF DAVID CLARKE: The Democrat’s hatred of President Trump and America itself is appalling.

I SURVIVED WORLD WAR III:

And Donald Trump is still our President.

TEXAS GOV. GREG ABBOTT: We'll pass on that resettlement thing, thanks. I hope he's talking about resettlement of Californians.

HEY, WANNABE SJW'S: Go to Hong Kong, be a real SJW.

THEN WHY AREN'T THEY LEAVING? More than a Third of Young Americans Think Other Countries Are Greater than the U.S.

If you spend 16 years being told every day that America is rotten, that many of its (white) people are evil and out to oppress others, and that our history is a lie, what are we to expect when these robotic, propagandized automatons are asked if they think the United States is the greatest?

It is time to demolish the whole rotten-to-the-core education establishment and start over.

Here's why. Luckily my grandchildren will be mostly spared this crap, but I do fear for their children.

WORLD WAR III ISN'T OVER; it's just moving to a different venue.

ON TO THE SENATE: Let's get the impeachment over and move on to more popcorn as we enjoy the Democrat lemmings marching over the election cliff.

The last lemming 'wins'.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN ON TRUMP: 'This Idiot' has united Iran with airstrike on Soleimani.

He should look in a mirror if he wants to see a real idiot.

AGAINST TRIBAL AMERICA: Racialism, from any side of the political spectrum, is a recipe for disaster.

WHERE THERE ARE LAWYERS, THERE ARE LAWSUITS: Following CNN-Sandmann settlement, beef erupts between Covington students' lawyers.

TRUMP STANDS WITH THE PROTESTORS IN IRAN.

THE ANSWER IS YES: Does Elizabeth Warren prefer dead people to armed citizens?

Senator Elizabeth Warren, candidate for president of the United States, prefers dead Americans to live ones if living people means someone was able to carry a gun. She is perfectly OK with you and yours being gunned down in church, in a movie theater, in a school, or anywhere else on the planet so long as it also means no one was able to carry a gun to protect themselves.

Also, dead people vote Democrat more consistently....

JOE BIDEN: just another Democrat 'bag' man.

Joe Biden says he is 100% in favor of banning plastic bags in the U.S. At this point, it might be better to ask Biden and the rest of the Democrats running for president what they would allow Americans to have. It would likely be a short list.

Democrats are fueled by authoritarian urges; they are no friends of liberty.

NOT SATIRE THIS TIME: CNN is unhappy that the Babylon Bee has more viewers laughing at CNN than CNN has viewers. The Bee responds.

GOOD: Iran's options in showdown with America are all bad.

PJ MEDIA: Does California want to secede?

California certainly marches to the beat of a different drummer. They treat the federal government as a rival fiefdom, setting their own environmental laws, their own immigration laws, their own fuel standards -- as if the seat of power in the United States was in Sacramento.

I'm okay with California seceding. We could set immediate immigration limits on Californians, and as an American I'm reasonably sure I'd be better off.

BUT ... BUT SHE'S ON OUR SIDE NOW. CNN forgives reporter who tweeted about “fags” and lesbians in college.

COWARDS INDEED: Congressman who lost legs to IED walks to podium to torch Democrats for being 'cowards' after Soleimani hit.

HOW ... TERRIBLE. A Republican altered a photo of Nancy Pelosi!

TANSTAASD: There ain't no such thing as a sane (progressive) Democrat.

BLOOMBERG VISITS VIRGINIA to scold gun owners.

Despite a Democrat government, I don't think little Mikey will have much any chance to win Virginia's electoral votes.

MOSTLY THEY JUST LOOK LIKE RUN-OF-THE-MILL TWITS: It's #Nonbinary Day.

The author is right: "Being 'non-binary' is the new hipsterism."

KURT SCHLICHTER handicaps the Democrat losers.

THERE ARE MANY, MANY GOOD ONES in this week's PowerLine Week in Pictures, and here is my clear favorite:

Now go see the rest.

TRUMP WINS IN COURT:

Last month, a federal district court judge issued an injunction against using $3.6 billion dollars of Pentagon funds to construct more border wall. Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in a very brief opinion, reversed that decision and lifted the injunction.

Quick, spend it fast before future courts can interfere.

DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MICHAEL BLOOMBERG gazes in horror upon the salts and fats his future serfs are still permitted to eat.

How dare they eat bread when they must eat cake (as he does).

Democrats live in a sad and joyless world, and so must we.

ELIZABETH WARREN: The U.S. will build no new houses or buildings unless carbon neutral. I live in a log cabin. Is it carbon neutral enough?

Oh, and a question: How much carbon does it take to build a 'carbon neutral' building?

BAD REPUBLICAN. Bad, bad Republican.

POLITICAL HUMOR: State of the Democrat primary race today.

TREY GOWDY: The impeachment trial is not about Trump. It's about making the Senate majority Democrat.

MISSING VIDEO: Footage of Epstein cell on night of first alleged suicide attempt deleted.

That sort of explains why Epstein's 'suicide' wasn't treated as a crime scene, doesn't it? Funny how all those errors go in the same direction....

RASHIDA TLAIB [D-MI] blames Detroit pollution on ‘environmental racism’.

Tlaib was a state legislator from Detroit before she became a congresscritter. So why did she wait until now to complain?

MORE FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: ‘No Zionists’ and ‘no straights’: tweets from teacher rattle elite New York city school.

MAYBE IT'S JUST ME: Democrats seem disappointed that Trump won't bomb Tehran.

If you’re wondering whether I am implying that Democrats wouldn’t care if American troops were in harm’s way if it would help them defeat Trump in November, I am not.

I’m saying it outright.

He's not alone.

TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME AT ITS WORST: '1.5 Less MAGAbillies in the World'.

ADMITS DEFEAT: Speaker Nancy Pelosi to move articles of impeachment to Senate next week.

SHOULD TRUMP have pinned some blame on former president Obama for Iran's missile attack? PowerLine's Paul Mirengoff says 'no'. I disagree, and I'll take Obama's former Attorney General's position: when they're down, hit them again.

MORE DEEP STATE CORRUPTION: Stefan Halper a FBI 'confidential human source' (read spy) investigating Trump campaign prior to his election.

I SUSPECT THE STATE OF VIRGINIA is about to find this out.

FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is right.

BEARING ARMS: Barring gun sales to people on lists is a bad idea. Depends on the list; I might be okay with it if the list was of Democrat registrants.

AMMO GRRRLL: Democrats are begging Republicans to reopen insane asylums in 2021.

OOPSIE! Germany's green energy faceplant.

ISN'T THAT THE POINT? Ilhan Omar thinks these new Iran sanctions are “economic warfare”. (She should be careful with that pencil in the accompanying photo; it has a sharp point and she could hurt herself.)

THE DAWNING OF NORMAL AMERICA HAS ARRIVED: It's all about control.

Let the mockery continue....

THERE’S NOTHING FAIR about the fair workweek.

I'M GRATEFUL the Trump administration is spending so much time unpacking liberal courts.

ANN COULTER makes a fair point about the Iran imbroglio:

Just in terms of American Lives Snuffed Out, the greatest threat to our country, hands down, comes from Mexico. Doesn’t “national security” have something to do with keeping Americans alive?

Mexican heroin killed at least 14,000 Americans last year. Mexican fentanyl and methamphetamine killed about 10,000 to 14,000. Hispanic drunk drivers -- Mexicans or other Hispanics given safe passage to the U.S. through Mexico -- kill about 3,000 Americans every year.

That’s not to mention the random murders, the Kate Steinles, the cartel and gang killings, and even the occasional mass murder committed by Mexicans in the U.S.

Maybe we are spending to much time worrying about Iran (and North Korea for that matter).

SCREECHES WITH FIST suggested on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the timing of the operation targeting the Shia militia terrorist commanders in Iraq was ... because IMPEACHMENT!

SANCTUARY CITIES: A legal victory for the Trump administration. It doesn't mean that sanctuary cities will go away, but it does mean that we won't have to pay for them.

ABOUT TIME: Tennessee proposes bill to force student athletes to play as biological gender sex.

BEE ME: Iran to replace state-run television with MSNBC broadcast.

Thanks to PJM's Morning Briefing column for the link.

BUT THERE IS A REALLY STUPID ONE: There is no clever Democrat impeachment strategy.

IT USED TO BE SCIENCE FICTION. 'Assisted suicide' is providing human spare parts.

THIS COULD BE INTERESTING: Celebrity doctor Drew Pinsky mulls run against Adam Schiff in California.

FOR TECH-WEARY MIDWEST FARMERS, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity. I hope we'll soon see something similar for tech-weary automobile owners.

THE DIPLOMAD has some very interesting thoughts on the recent dispatch of General Qasim Soleimani.

Go read them.

AS PART OF MY GRADUATE EDUCATION, it was became clear that mathematicians were 'off center'. 'Woke' mathematicians are certifiably insane.

GOOD EXCELLENT NEWS: Terrorists in Iraq, fearing U.S. targeting, are fleeing and hiding after Soleimani.

HOUSE REPUBLICAN proposes using tax code to combat climate change.

It's certainly a better approach than the Obama administration's picking and choosing winners and losers (Solyndra, anyone?) but I'm still skeptical. I'd prefer the government get the hell out of the way and leave private enterprise alone.

FOR WHOM? Bernie Sanders claims Medicare for All 'will create more jobs in health care than we will lose'.

I think we already have more than enough health care nannies.

IT LOOKS LIKE the Ukrainian airliner may have been accidentally(?) shot down in Iran.

SO 'HATE AMERICA' IS PATRIOTIC? CNN's Brian Stelter says patriotism 'alive and well' at network.

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: Democrats grasping at straws to impeach Trump now regret banning straws.

IRAN'S MULLAHS may be right.

IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE. It's Machiavelli. And I suspect our President understands Machiavelli.

THAT MUST HURT.

HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED because our governing elites were incompetent?

I SUSPECT A PIQUE FIT ON THE PART OF THE PROSECUTION PERSECUTION: Was it something he said?

WHILE THIS POST IS FROM 2013, I suspect the capability is still there. And I wouldn't be surprised to see it used in the relatively near term.

WELL, NOT YET ANYWAY: Democrats' proposed gun control bill doesn't ban all private indoor gun ranges.

VIRGINIA GOV. RALPH NORTHAM: Oh, no, we're only considering sensible gun regulations. Like...

* banning the most commonly produced and owned rifles in the United States

* banning magazines that can hold more than ten rounds of ammunition

* requiring background checks on most transfers of firearms

* fining gun owners who fail to report lost or stolen firearms

* prohibiting individuals convicted of misdemeanor assault and battery
   of a family member from owning a gun.

* banning bump stocks and binary triggers

* turning state-owned and leased buildings into gun free zones

* rationing handgun purchases to one per month

* stripping parents of their ability to decide when their child is
   responsible enough to access a firearm.

* weakening firearms preemption law by allowing localities to ban firearms
   from permitted events.

But other than that....

SOLYNDRA isn't the only solar power boondoggle sponsored by the Democrats when they were in power.

DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN: Once again, liberals prove just how miserable they are.

NOT SURPRISED: Austin [TX] homeless policy may be implicated in the city’s first murder of 2020.

AND THEY WONDER WHY WE HATE THEM? CNN settles with Nick Sandmann, but refuses to apologize.

ANYONE WHO BELIEVES California is a model for anything should never be allowed within miles of the White House: Mike Bloomberg sees California as model on climate change, guns.

JOE BIDEN ON OBAMACARE: We had to pass the bill so that you can find out we didn’t know what was in it. Normal Americans already knew that, but the Democrats passed it anyway. The same is true with 'Medicare for All' but the Democrats want to pass it anyway.

ILHAN OMAR: Treasonous, or just stupid?

That's an Occam's Razor (when there are multiple hypotheses that explain a phenomenon, always choose the simplest) question: Thus, stupid.

FAKE NEWS YOU CAN TRUST: Authorities investigating dangerous breach in Hollywood bubble.

Yes, it's the Babylon Bee.

BREAKING: McConnell readying vote on 1999 Senate trial rules.

It's time for Pelosi to wave the white flag. 'Cocaine Mitch' was ready and she lost her gamble.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The progressive Left has been hysterical about President Trump violating the War Powers Act. That's utter bunk; pest control is not addressed in the Act.

CNN ATTACKS BABYLON BEE: ‘The internet is only big enough for one fake news site.’

ELIZABETH WARREN: Michael Bloomberg is 'skipping the democracy part' of the primary. Um, Elizabeth, he still has to win the votes. Isn't that the 'democracy part'?

ILHAN OMAR doesn’t speak for us.

THE INVERSE MIDAS EFFECT: Everything he touches turns to Schiff.

YOU BROKE IT; YOU FIX IT: Trump - homelessness is 'not a federal problem'.

DEMOCRATS: If you want to guarantee a Red state, try to take our guns.

BLACKS AND HISPANICS LEAVING THE DEMOCRAT PLANTATION want to be white.

It's racist to not want to be a victim....

IRAN HITS BACK, firing over a dozen ballistic missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq. My suspicion is that Iran will have some very large potholes in their territory soon, perhaps within hours to days.

IRAN CAN'T EVEN CONDUCT A FUNERAL without U.S. assistance.

Heh.

MSNBC GUEST: You can't inverview white working class voters; it's racist.

ABC NEWS:

Fake: ABC peddles hysterically wrong map of Australian wildfires.

But accurate: 24 Australians arrested for deliberately setting fires this season.

Does the right hand know what the left hand is doing? Where are the editors?

CNN: U.S. HAS NO ALLIES IN IRAN CONFRONTATION. State Department: Um, can you read?

ELIZABETH WARREN: ‘I actually don’t know why’ fundraising is declining.

Surely it couldn't be because she's a lousy candidate. On the other hand, I'm confident that she doesn't know she's a lousy candidate.

MICHAEL MOORE (BEGS) TO WRONG ALLIGATOR: Eat me last.

ALIENS EXIST: And 'it's possible they're here right now'.

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS WINNING: What liberals mean by World War III.

SELECTIVE SERVICE WEBSITE CRASHES as young America fears being drafted into the Army after the death of Qasem Soleimani.

[A] draft for an 18-25 year-old could conceivably cramp a young adult’s style. There’s not much in the way of Instagram-worthy stuff in the middle of a desert or on a ship in the middle of an ocean. There’s not enough time in the day to play video games. And, well, SnapChat is a bit of a security risk when you are in the sandbox. So, yes, I can understand why a generation is thinking doomsday is upon them and crashing the Selective Service servers.

What they fail to understand is that the military doesn't want them.

AMERICAN THINKER: the 'transgender' endgame.

I'm not particularly religious, but this is appalling.

WOKESCOLDS FEAR Americans aren't paying attention to fake news.

The Babylon Bee is under fire from people who think the rest of us are idiots and don't know the satire site is joking. Twitchy reported that the Bee article called, "Democrats Call For Flags to Be Flown at Half-Mast to Grieve the Death of Soleimani," has more social media engagement than The New York Times and CNN get in a week on their most popular articles. This has sent the left into a tailspin of hysteria with blue-checked Twitter scolds screeching about "fake news" and "election tampering."

So satire (from the Right) is now 'fake news'? Wokescolds clearly believe normal Americans are as dumb and biased as they are. More here.

TRUMP IS CLEARLY WINNING: "[Iran] had to start a Go-Fund-Me page for terrorists."

DON SURBER'S Week in Review.

OH, PLEASE. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for president? What a comedy show that would be.

GREATEST HOLLYWOOD AWARDS-SHOW MONOLOGUE EVER: “You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything.”

And the Golden Globe attendees were forced to eat a 'plant based' meal before the awards ceremony....

I haven't watched the video yet as I hate wasting my time on the Hollyweirds, but this time I just might.

UPDATE: Is it really a surprise that the “first vegan Golden Globes” produced indigestion?

THANK ADAM SCHIFF: Trump raises record $46M during impeachment quarter.

I'M NOT THE LEAST BIT SURPRISED: The Greens made Australia's bush fires worse.

IT'S A TWOFER: The Trump Doctrine humiliates both foreign enemies and domestic liberals.

Welcome the Trump Doctrine.

THE DOWN SIDE of higher education.

BUT THEY CAN TYPE WITH TWO THUMBS: Two in five adults can’t fix a single household problem without Google.

Why am I not surprised?

'AT LEAST NERO PLAYED THE FIDDLE': Gavin Newsom’s celebration of what progressives ‘accomplished’ in California gets nuked.

IT'S TIME SOMEONE TOOK NOTE: There is something fundamentally wrong with Democrats.

DONALD TRUMP IS DOING SOMETHING RIGHT if the 'Squad' has the sadz.

ON THE SOLEIMANI KILLING, Democrats practice the 'BUT Maneuver'.

BLOOMBERG LOOKS LIKE THE PERFECT DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE
FOR PRESIDENT. Every failure is someone else's fault.

Which explains why he's rising in the polls....

THE YEAR IN REVIEW: The top 12 get-Trump bloopers of 2019.

BEN STEIN: To whom do we owe our freedom?

THE GREATNESS AGENDA: Obama sent them cash — Trump turned them into ash.

THE MOST IRRITATING PERSON OF 2019 IS ... Donald Trump.

[T]here has been no person in the year just passed that has caused more irritation to so many deserving people than Donald Trump. And for that I thank him, while also looking forward to four more years.

Four.More.Years. Such a pleasant thought....

THE DIPLOMAD: Good News - Soleimani is as dead as dead can be.

President Trump should take the Diplomad's advice very seriously.

CONSERVATIVES ACCUSED OF MAKING LIBERALS LOOK BAD by simply reading list of things liberals believe.

From America's new news source of record.

2020'S FIRST POWERLINE WEEK IN PICTURES has arrived. Here's my fovorite:

And for your additional enjoyment, here's a last-minute addition:

And a reminder: Epstein didn't kill himself.

NOT PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT IF IT'S ON A DEMOCRAT (Adam Schiff, anyone?): YouTube jokesters claim they fooled Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA).

AMMO GRRRLL takes on the Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin. Rubin loses bigly.

THE LATEST PROGRESSIVE BIG IDEA: Abolish the police.

At first glance, this proposal makes no sense, but think for a moment. Without police, order, such as it would become, would be enforced by those with guns. Without police, the utterly stupid restrictions now hamstringing police officers would no longer apply and order would be restored (eventually) by those with guns.

If the progressive SJWs are lucky, those with guns will be the very ones whose weapons they're demanding be taken. If not, the thugs and criminals will have easy pickings....

OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE (and get killed in combat) but not old enough to smoke.

I think there ought to be a single staged process for formal entry into adulthood. Say 16 to drive; 18 to drink and/or smoke and 21 (or high school graduation, whichever comes first for full legal rights (entry into contracts, military service, etc.), except perhaps voting where I could be persuaded to require some kind civics knowledge test before being allowed to vote..

SMART LADY: Tulsi Gabbard is positioning herself to pick up the pieces after the Democrats implode in the 2020 election.

A PLANT-BASED alternative to vaping.

Linked from Instapundit.

AMERICA, you can't do a damn thing. Oh?

WHAT 'WHITE PRIVILEGE' means in small-town West Virginia. And in most of 'non-woke' America.

Read it all. Please.

SHOT: Virginia governor calls for 18-officer team to enforce his proposed “assault weapons” ban.

CHASER: Firearms, ammunition, and magazines are flying off the shelf. And the customers are paying cash.