IF YOU LIVE IN A RED STATE, BEWARE: High-tax California proposes raising rates for millionaires.

As they escape, don't let them bring their culture with them.

ABOLISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS and give the money to the parents.

The school system my two granddaughters attend spends about $8,500/student per year. It's a good school system (for public schools) but that's a hell of a lot more than the average private school tuition.

The money should be allowed to follow the student to whatever school -- public or private -- that the student chooses to attend.

THIS SHOE CARTOON is cute.

And it leads to a question I've been wondering about for several months. One would think that, given the close quarters, filth, and squalor in which they live, the homeless population in the big, Democrat-run cities would have been decimated. Yet it has not (or at least not been reported).

Why? Are they, like those who eat at Roz's diner, immune to any kind of virus? If so, why? And why isn't this being investigated?

So many questions, so few answers.

A FITTING PUNISHMENT (FOR BOTH SIDES): Democrats warn hydroxycholoroquine may save your life but then you'll have to live in a reality where Trump is still president.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for July 31, 2020:

Daily deaths remain high and relatively stable (Georgia data has also been consistent over the last week); the daily reported cases (not on the graphs I post) appear to have peaked, averaging about 65,00 per day for the last 2 weeks. Georgia data is showing the same trend.

My estimate of the number of uninfected Americans and daily death rate continue to decline, now at 21.167% and 0.0600% respectively.

Georgia coronavirus case data remains high (about 3,500 cases daily) but seem to have peaked in mid-July; the same is true for daily deaths, still high, but seems to have peaked about 10 days later (early this week).

PROMINENT ENVIRONMENTALIST called a 'white supremacist' and censored by Forbes for writing sensibly about climate change.

'EXPLANATORY DELUSIONAL' JOURNALISM: How Bill Barr made Trumpism possible.

THIS GUY IN PORTLAND definitely wins for worst move by a rioter ever.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ explains Nadler's Judiciary hearing.

Well done.

TIE POLICE HANDS, and you will see lots of citizens with AR-15s. Two things to learn:

First, people in Democrat-run cities have learned that their leaders won't defend them. And second, the 2nd Amendment is here to stay.

The question is "Will progressives learn?" At the pointy end of an AR-15, maybe.

COPS PULL OUT: Democrats in need of convention protection can now call a hippie.

Or Antifa....

DEMOCRATS: The worst brand name in American history.

Keep that firmly in mind -- even after November 3rd.

DON'T GIVE A SOCIALIST A COOKIE: If you give a socialist a cookie, he’ll take you for all you’re worth.

YA THINK? Democrats starting to panic that voters will blame them for riots.

GRANDMA DID IT: Portland rioter who threw explosives reportedly gets identified in the most humiliating way possible.

THIS FROM CNN? Focus groups show Midwest swing voters solidly behind Trump.

BARR TO NADLER: "You're a real class act."

He's right.

DEMOCRATS REFUSED TO LET BARR SPEAK because they know he’s right.

[T]here was not one successful line of questioning that left Barr with no good answers. Had such a moment occurred, not only would it have been newsworthy, it would have been plastered on every screen in the country. That would have been gold. But the Democrats knew there was no gold to be mined here, so instead they threw yellow paint on a pile of something else and the media ate it up with relish.

Take a wild guess as to what 'something else' is. And be sure to go see the Democrats embarrass themselves.

COVID CRAZY: The 'plague doctor' comes to town.

AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD IS ON A ROLL:

Portland Police Raise Millions By Letting Citizens Throw Tear Gas At Antifa For $5 A Pop

With Statues Gone, Pigeons Forced to Poop on Rioters

Governor Newsom Enraged After Hearing Churches Singing Down In Whoville

California Converts Carpool Lanes Into Rioters' Lanes

Democrats Warn Hydroxychloroquine May Save Your Life And Then You'd Have To Keep Living In A Reality Where Trump Is Still President

And for added amusement, a reader-proposed headline: "Newsom now requiring cardboard cut-outs is stadiums to wear masks".

I WASN'T ON HIS SHOW ENOUGH, so it must be sexual harassment.

ABSOLUTELY: Abolish public schools and give the money to parents. And it would have the added benefit of abolishing (government subsidized) teacher unions.

IT'S TIME for some looong prision terms.

Antifa rioters are the Democratic Party’s shock troops, playing a role analogous to that of the Ku Klux Klan in the late 19th Century. And, like Klan members in the Deep South, Antifa criminals in Democrat-controlled cities are rarely punished.

And now that federal charges have been filed we might see them.

NSFW but it accurately describes Biden's America.

OH, MY. Now follow the link to the Twitter account.

PERSONALLY, I think he just joined Facebook.

NOT THE SHARPEST TOOL IN THE DRAWER, but bonus points for honesty.

Somehow I don't think the Canadians will want to extradite him....

RANDOM THOUGHT: Is there a vaccine to prevent progressivism yet?

RED STATE: The dangerous cost of safety.

POWERLINE: Has our Orwellian nightmare come true?

Maybe, maybe not. I suspect the poll respondents mostly come from the ranks of those employed in politically sensitive ('woke') environments -- media, Hollywood, government, education, big business -- all busily virtue-signaling each other.

But non-woke America -- small businesses, truckers, farmers, the retired, etc. -- is a much larger America, and by and large, they're really getting pissed off.

LOOTING -- YOU CAN'T SAY THAT: Say revolutionary mass-goods redistribution agents instead.

Thank your resident progressives.

THEY WOULDN'T GIVE HIM A LUNCH BREAK so he ate their lunches.

Note: by the time this posts there will be close to 5,000(!) comments, 95% or so critical of Nadler and the Democrats....

IT'S GOOD to be a blue-state governor.

FROM AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD: Froot Loops changes its name to the more politically correct LGBTQ+ Loops.

THIS BOOK reminds me of Attorney General Barr and (about half of) the House Judiciary committee.

I'll leave it up to you to guess which half....

THESE PEOPLE ARE SO STUPID THAT COMPARED TO THEM, MORONS ARE GENIUSES. Portland hits feds with $500 fine every 15 minutes fence stands outside besieged courthouse.

GET WOKE, and (with a little help from real America) go broke.

I'M A BIT LATE (AGAIN) with PowerLine's Week in Pictures. There are many, many good ones, but the Democrats' tax strategy is a favorite.

Now go see them all.

ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR had fun with Democrats at the Judiciary committee hearing today.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for July 28, 2020:

Daily deaths remain high and relatively stable; and I have suspicions that the data is being manipulated (again). The data shown above is just over 1,000 death today; my other (backup) source is showing nearly twice that. Since both (theoretically) use the same state sources, something clearly isn't right. (The cumulative counts also differ by nearly 10,000).

My estimate of the number of uninfected Americans and daily death rate continue to decline, now at 24.652% and 0.0611% respectively.

In Georgia, the number of confirmed cases and daily deaths remain high, but appear to be stabilizing. Georgia remains open.

CAN THE PRESIDENT really delete illegal immigrants from the Census count?

Based on today's House Judiciary hearing (chaired by lead moron Jerrold Nadler), Attorney General Barr seems to think so -- and he credits Congress for giving the Trump administration the power to do so.

WHY THE CURRENT CULTURAL REVOLUTION isn't like the '60s.

A half-century after the earlier revolution, today’s cultural revolution is vastly different — and far more dangerous.

Government and debt have grown. Social activism is already institutionalized in hundreds of newer federal programs. The “Great Society” inaugurated a multitrillion-dollar investment in the welfare state. Divorce rates soared. The nuclear family waned. Immigration, both legal and illegal, skyrocketed.

Thus, America is far less resilient, and a far more divided, indebted and vulnerable target than it was in 1965.

Read it all - it's Victor Davis Hanson.

JUST LEAVE THE 'KARENS' BEHIND: How Trump can win over soccer moms in 2020.

THIS COULD GET INTERESTING: Police won't work at Democratic National Convention because of new restrictions.

It's that pesky double-edged sword thingy. Again.

SHE'S HALF RIGHT: Former Sanders campaign co-chair Nina Turner compares voting for Biden to eating half a bowl of shit.

PROBABLY NOT AN NRA MEMBER: Armed protester accidentally shoots members of his own group.

I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN SURPRISED IF IT WASN'T SATIRE: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pulls an all-nighter studying for Covid test.

EXPLAINING WHY CITIES SUCK: Goodbye, Washington DC.

LOOSE ENDS: The popcorn shortage is real!

REBUILD AMERICA, restore the university.

Public universities should be reminded of the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules....

A LOCKDOWN I CAN SUPPORT: It's time for the climate virus hysteria to shelter-in-place.

POWERLINE: 'Minnesota nice' isn't.

Minnesota is one of the few states I've never visited. I plan to keep it that way.

BLACK AND MINORITY LIVES would improve if politicians supported charter schools.

It's Thomas Sowell, so read it all.

PORTLAND'S WALL OF MOMS are not heros.

#CANCEL DEMOCRATS: GOP Representatives push resolution to ban Democratic Party over past slavery ties.

Heh. Louis Gohment is absolutely brilliant in punching back twice as hard. Read it all and help trigger the Democrats....

THE BIG SURGE IN CORONAVIRUS DEATHS is a media-fed myth.

THE DIPLOMAD on the lunacy of slavery reparations.

Who is black and entitled to reparations? Joe Biden tells us that a black person who doesn't vote for him is not "really" black. Is that the criteria we will use? Putting that aside, we still have the question before us: who is black? How many "black" people in the USA are 100% black? Not many. So will we set up South African style panels to determine racial percentages? Will reparations get paid out in accord with those percentages? What do we do with somebody such as Obama who is descendant of white slave owners on his mother's side, and black slave owners and traders on his father's? Does he still get some form of reparations? Or does he pay them?

Do read the whole thing.

IT'S (REAL) SCIENCE: Pediatricians unanimously agree the U.S. should reopen schools.

Watch the video for the look on the MSNBC host's face at the end.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for July 24, 2020:

The days remain 'interesting'. Cumulative deaths are still rising and daily deaths remain higher but remain relatively stable over the past few days. [Note the scale change (again).]

My estimate of the number of uninfected Americans and the daily death rate continue to decline, now at 30.150% and 0.0621% respectively.

Since the number of confirmed cases appear to be 'spiking' it's worth taking a brief look at the current testing (next graph).

As of today, there have been a total of nearly 50 million tests performed nationwide, only 4 million (~8%) of which are positive. The green triangles represent the number of daily deaths (right axis) with the dashed line being a 2-week rolling average. If the daily deaths were plotted on the same axis as the test data it would be indistinguishable from the horizontal axis.

Georgia remains open but the number of confirmed cases remain very high (~3,700/day over the last week) and daily deaths remain high (mid-70's) for three of the last 4 days.

NEW YORK GOV. ANDREW CUOMO: Eating a sandwich at a bar will prevent coronavirus; eating chicken wings will not.

Riots prevent coronavirus too, so can I presume that bar fights are okay?

GREAT NEWS: Minneapolis city council decides not to pay armed vigilantes to replace police.

Just in case you need it, a reminder that the inmates there are running the asylum.

ENOUGH WHINING about Trump’s mean tweets.

The fact is that Trump is a human being, not a Golden Corral – you don’t get to pile up only the stuff you want on your plate and leave the stuff that you don’t want on the steam table. If you want a fighter, and we did and do want a fighter, then you can’t start freaking out because he throws a punch.

Leaving aside that Trump is not a bully who starts these fights ... the fact is that we didn’t elect Donald Trump to be President Feelgood Happy Time. We elected him to take a sledgehammer to the garbage establishment whose corruption, incompetence, and greed impoverished, insulted, and sometimes even killed normal Americans, regardless of which half of what the great Michael Walsh labeled the Bipartisan Fusion Party sat in the White House. And when you elect a sledgehammerer – and Trump is the John Henry of American politics – don’t come to me shaking your head muttering, “Goodness gracious, I expected him to be more subtle.”

"Mr. President, #KeepTweeting."

BIDEN HAS A PLAN: Spend all the your money.

MANY TIMES. MANY, MANY TIMES. Has anyone else noticed that Democrats routinely accuse Republicans of being guilty of what they have been doing themselves?

CEREMONY HONORING GOVERNOR CUOMO'S COVID-19 RESPONSE to be held at now-vacant nursing home.

It's satire, of course, but this one hits a little too close to home.

CHICAGO: where TDS trumps citizen safety:

The issue is how Mayor Lori Lightfoot has embraced her Trump Derangement Syndrome to the harm of her constituents.

Under no circumstances will I allow Donald Trump’s troops to come to Chicago and terrorize our residents.

— Mayor Lori Lightfoot (@chicagosmayor) July 21, 2020

Of course, she’s not alone. We’ve seen the same sort of rhetoric from the West Coast. Mayors and governors would rather watch their cities and states burn than accept help from Trump. After all, Orange Man bad.

So, sorry to those 14 people shot last night. You’re just collateral damage in the fight to oust Trump from office.

Read it all.

PROJECTION: Joe Biden basically accuses Americans of being stupid and racist.

#DEFUNDPUBLICSCHOOLS, take those budgets and issue them to parents as vouchers.

I wholeheartedly agree, and Victory Girl Darleen Click explains why more concisely and with far fewer 4-letter words than I possibly could.

Go read it all.

EXPECT MORE: Maryland county Police Chief resigns citing “reforms” that will make cops and residents unsafe.

HE'S GOT THE EXPERIENCE: San Francisco Giants hire Kaepernick as head kneeling coach.

SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL [R-KY]: The lawless left’s attack on America’s bedrock beliefs.

REST IN PEACE: Longtime Townhall columnist Mike Adams has died.

Sad.

RANDOM THOUGHT: If COVID-10 and the BLM riots have taught us anything, it is that government (at all levels) is too big, too intrusive, and totally incompetent.

SO YOU REALLY WANT VOTE-BY-MAIL? New Jersey's warning.

Paper ballots. In-person.

THE BABYLON BEE EXPLAINS: How to identify a peaceful protestor.

They do a much better job of explanatory journalism than Vox....

I WORRY MYSELF: Deepfakes threaten the 2020 election.

Pay attention. Don't take anything for granted.

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Texas and Florida (and Georgia, for that matter) are proof that New York was (and still is) an unmitigated disaster.

ANN COULTER: Democrats are the Antifa party.

‘SYSTEMIC RACISM’: The perfect excuse for political failure.

BUT, BUT ... I KNEEL BEFORE YOU: Portland mayor meets with the mob and is told to resign. Mayor Wheeler is a moron who has successfully made the downscale move to imbecile.

DRS. FAUCI (NIH) AND REDFIELD (CDC) need to be fired and their respective institutions #canceled. These HealthScare^TM 'professionals' are determined to make the United States a health nirvana where the Days of Wine & Roses will last forever.

AND WHERE WERE THE POLICE? Leftist violence in Denver.

Watching....

I'M STILL SHAKING MY HEAD OVER THIS ONE. Fauci: New York ‘did it correctly’. If New York's coronavirus response was 'correct' I'd hate to find out what an incorrect response might have been.

Allapundit at Hot Air responds: "Surely we’re not at a point of such despair in America on how to combat COVID-19 that feeding nursing-home residents into a viral woodchipper is now part of a 'correct' course of action."

POWERLINE: The Left’s never-ending purity implosion. Keep it up and they'll be as pure as Ivory soap. Oh, wait -- Ivory soap is white.

SAY WHAT? Federal officers sent to protect federal office buildings don't have 'riot training' so the rioters have been 'rejuvenated?

MSNBC'S CHRIS HAYES projects:

The Republican Party is a political party incapable of governing the nation without ushering in death, devastation, and national humiliation. Just the facts.

Replace 'Republican' with 'Democrat' and the quote would be accurate.

IT WASN'T RED OCTOBER: What happened the one (and only) time submarines battled?

FROM THE PRESCIENT NEWS SERVICE: New York Times accidentally publishes Ghislaine Maxwell obituary ahead of schedule.

SO AM I: Mr. President, I am starting to get scared.

WOKESTERS: If America sucks so bad, you're free to leave.

Please do so.

WHO BENEFITS? This is about the election, not the virus.

The swamp runs deep, the news is fake, and the war is real.

QUICK ANSWER, NO. Were the lockdowns effective at all?

But ... Science! "A potential protective effect of smoking was identified in a recent evaluation of 17 million adult patients within the National Health Service of the United Kingdom, with 5,683 COVID related deaths. In their analysis, current smokers were associated with a reduced risk of COVID-19 related mortality."

I knew I shouldn't have quit smoking. And safety nannies should shut up and go to their rooms for a loooong timeout.

MORE CHRONICLES of the crazy time.

THE HYPOCRISY knows no bounds.

SEATTLE’S descent into Hell.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for July 21, 2020:

It's been an interesting few days. Cumulative deaths are still rising; daily deaths are up, but stabilizing.

My estimate of the number of uninfected Americans and the daily death rate both continue to decline, now at 32.596% and 0.0650% respectively.

Georgia remains open but, I fear, not for much longer. The number of confirmed cases remains high (~3,400) but the real news is a dramatic spike in daily deaths (78 today) although it's most likely just late reporting of deaths over the weekend.

A CLEVER WAY to get the Black Lives Matter paintings off the streets.

Except that it requires an administration with a modest respect for its citizens; something that is not exactly a hallmark of Democrat-run cities.

BY THE NUMBERS: Whither coronavirus?

Are we going to see this cycle of shutdowns and spiking “cases,” the vast majority of which are harmless, for years to come?

I think we will -– unless, of course, Joe Biden wins in November. In that case, I expect that coronavirus hysteria will quietly fade away. People will still get sick, and a few of them, generally the aged and infirm, will die. But for the government and the press, it will be back to business as usual. And maybe someday there will be an effective and widely deployed vaccine. Don’t hold your breath. Meanwhile, I am not yet convinced that the net effect of governments’ anti-COVID actions, at all levels, has been, or will be, positive.

Even a guarantee that the pandemic will go away isn't enough to entice me to vote for Biden.

IMPRIMIS: Four months of unprecedented government malfeasance.

SHE DID THE RIGHT THING: My wife's great Starbucks dilemma.

IT'S NOT ALREADY? Will 2021 be 1984?

BLACK AMERICA’S REAL PROBLEM: RINOs.

I would say not just black Americans -- all Americans.

DEMOCRATS, the party of science (fiction).

THE CDC GETS SOMETHING RIGHT: People with dirt on Clintons have 843% greater risk of suicide.

Yes, it's the Babylon Bee, but it is often right.

EX-NBC SPORTS COMMENTATOR claims he was fired for being straight. Read the whole thing, but I think the safe answer is that he was fired for being an idiot in public.

AS DO THOSE FROM CANCER, HEART DISEASE, MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENTS, SUICIDES, ETC: Daily COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. continue to rise.

Pay attention to your headline, guys: the fact is that the fatality rate is still falling.

I THOUGHT it was about Joe Biden.

IT'S COMING: Brace for the backlash.

I feel it coming, too.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ: Keep fiddling, Democrats.

BUREAUCRATS AND ENTITLEMENTS: The roots of our partisan divide.

LANE SCOTT: Set yourselves free, conservatives. Government won't. Government can't.

RANDOM THOUGHT: If the coronavirus and the BLM riots have taught us anything, it is that government at all levels is too big, too intrusive, and totally incompetent.

I DON'T THINK SO, BUT IT MAY BE CLOSE: The revolution is winning.

We must take back education, though.

A NO-BRAINER: Private schools are adapting to lockdown better than the public school monopoly.

So support school choice.

TO QUOTE INSTAPUNDIT, SKYNET SMILES: As 'cancel culture' activism peaks, big tech and its algorithms quietly fuel the flames.

THE ANSWER IS YES: Is 'safetyism' destroying a generation?

This is just the crescendo; it's been building since the late 1960's.

IT'S SCIENCE: Experts unanimously agree US should reopen schools.

Not progressive 'science'....

AMMO GRRRLL writes on communities and tribes.

I'VE NOTICED: It's getting harder to get exact change. I guess it's because I use a credit card for so many purchases that I rarely carry any change in my pocket. (And my wife thinks the dollar bill is the smallest unit of U.S. currency....)

IT DIDN'T WORK IN SEATTLE, BUT MAYBE OKLAHOMA: Elizabeth Warren declares herself warlord of eastern Oklahoma autonomous zone.

Warren maneuvering for Vice President perhaps?

CDC DIRECTOR DR. ROBERT REDFIELD suggests prison-like structure for students returning in the fall.

Here are the guidelines.

They've got our kids in prison and aren't about to let them out. It's jailbreak time. Support school choice; let the money follow the student and defund these idiots.

ONE MORE REMINDER that the Wuhan virus is not exactly the Black Death.

IMPRIMIS: Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, has thoughts on the current crisis. He is not kind to our government mandarins, particularly those of our centralized health bureaucracy.

He's also right.

FROM MY EMAIL:

A 74 year old man coming back home from work at 2 AM while most men his age are retired in their vacation homes.

He comes back after a long day that probably started before the sun rose and gets back home exhausted with his tie open and hat in his hand feeling that an accomplished day is finally over.

That amazing man is in the age of many people’s grandfathers, great grandfathers or my grandfather when he passed away, but this man just came back home from work, for me, for you.

This man, left his massive gold covered mansion where he could retire happily and play golf all day long.

But this man put his wealth aside and went to work for free, for $1 a year, for me, for you, for us, for AMERICA.

While other presidents became rich from the presidency, this man LOST over 2 billion dollars of his wealth during this short 4 years of his life.

He put aside his amazing retirement lifestyle for getting ambushed every single day by the media and the Radical Left Democrats that trash this man who works for them until 1 AM for free!

He doesn't do it for money or power, he already had it. He is doing it so their houses will be safe, so their schools will get better, so they will be able to find jobs or start a new business easier, so they will be able to keep few dollars in their pockets at the end of the month while other presidents before him made sure to keep digging in their pockets and empty them for taxes.

Look at this picture again, that man is at the age of your fathers, grandfathers or maybe YOU! Where is your respect? Honor? Appreciation? Are you THAT BLIND? THAT BLIND to not see a thing this man is doing for you and for your family?

THAT BLIND that after all his work for minority groups in America you keep calling him a racist? I am the son of an Auschwitz Survivor and someone who lost 99% of my family to the camps and ovens of Nazi Germany. And I’m no fool! DONALD TRUMP IS NO RACIST OR ANTI-SEMITE!

Are you THAT BLIND to not see how much this country developed in last 4 years?
President Donald J. Trump, I want to thank you with all my heart. I am so sorry for blind hatred you have been made to endure.

You are a good and generous man. I KNOW THIS. What I don’t know and think about often is what kind of people is it who can be so hateful in their hearts to spew such hate and evilness, not just at you but at your family too?

Or people mocking and making jokes of you because you’re not a professional politician groomed in speech making and straight faced lying.

Or attacking your wife and young son.

People so sure they have not been manipulated.

People who believe their hatred is their own. But for why, they can’t articulate.
What kind of people are these?

WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE ARE THESE??

People not realizing they have been manipulated and brainwashed by such a deep rooted EVILNESS MOTIVATED BY AN EVIL MEDIA AND DEMOCRAT PARTY.

The American People are in a bad place right now.... in their hearts and souls. God help us.... Trump is not the problem.

The Progressive Left is.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures: buy Goya edition. There are many good Goya 'toons, but my favorite has to be this one (which I divided into two in order to insert the comment). Here's gun-control America:

And here's real America:

Which vividly illustrates the (lack of) maturity of the Left.

That said, now go see the rest.

WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT? America's reporters and editors are liars.

A sound adage holds that you should never assume malice when stupidity is a sufficient explanation. Here, the only explanation is malice. No one is as stupid as America’s reporters and editors pretend to be. The sooner their companies go out of business, the better.

Well said.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ: Yes, let's replace the national anthem.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for July 17, 2020:

Compared to Tuesday's update, it does seem that the number of daily confirmed coronavirus cases is rising. The updated trend line is clearly higher. Daily deaths are still up, but seem to be stabilizing.

My estimate of the number of uninfected Americans, now at 36.646%, continues to decline, clearly more sharply. The daily death rate, now at 0.0679%, continues declining.

Georgia remains open. Daily newly reported cases remain in the 3,000+ range and the 7-day rolling average of deaths remain in the mid-20's.

THE ONLY REASON to wear a mask.

I WONDER WHY ... Adam Schiff dreads criminal investigation led by federal prosecutor.

AND EVERY CUSTOMER HAS THE ABSOLUTE RIGHT TO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THEM: Walmart, and every private business, reserves the right to make customers wear a mask.

I have many other options; I'll simply quit doing business with them until the silly ban is lifted. And probably afterward.

My real question is "Why now? Why have you waited until the pandemic is over? Which it is." I strongly suspect it's merely virtue-signaling to their peers and the Karens of the world.

NO. JUST NO. Florida cities want power to impose local gun laws.

THE DIPLOMAD: So much progressive fakery.

SO BENDING THE KNEE DIDN'T WORK? NYPD Chief who knelt with protesters ends up violently assaulted by the mob.

Who would have guessed?

SO QUARANTINE NORTHERNERS: CDC chief says Northerners heading South for vacation may be to blame for surge in coronavirus cases, not state reopenings.

And while we're at it, quarantine 'experts'.

FEATHERING HER OWN NEST: Ilhan Omar’s payments to husband’s firm hit $1 million in 2020 cycle.

THANK YOU, GOV. KEMP: Georgia governor bans cities, counties from mandating masks.

IF THE EXPERTS HADN’T BEEN REPEATEDLY DISHONEST AND WRONG, maybe the public wouldn’t have tuned them out.

But, but ... they're experts! They know everything. And they're virtuous. They have only your best interests at heart....

Bullshit.

CANCEL CULTURE punishes Goya Foods over pro-Trump remarks.

Oh? More here.

AS EXPECTED: 'Defund the Police' is backfiring against the Left.

THE 'EXPERTS' have spoken.

Believe the 'experts'.

'ACADEMIC' CALLS ON COLLEAGUES to repudiate ‘white supremacist’ university.
Of note: "Faculty members who sign [Megan] Lamkin's pledge are scheduled to meet on
September 22."

It should be outdoors, off-campus, and the attendees enjoined from ever returning.

THIS IS GOING TO GO WELL: Seattle to hire ‘social justice’ advocates for administrative roles.

HACKERS SUSPECTED as Biden posts complete, coherent thought on Twitter.

WELL, SO MUCH FOR SHOPPING AT WALMART FOR THE DURATION: Walmart, Sam's Club make masks mandatory.

That's gonna hurt -- WalMart much more than me....

THE LOUDER THEY ARE, the harder they fall.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for July 14, 2020:

The number of daily confirmed coronavirus cases may or may not be rising; comparing today's result with last Friday's is inconclusive to me. Daily deaths are up a bit, but appear to be stabilizing.

My estimate of the number of uninfected Americans, now at 40.765%, continues to decline, and I think more sharply. The daily death rate, now at 0.0710%, continues to decline.

Georgia is still open. Newly reported cases have been at about 3,000/day for a week now, and the 7-day rolling average deaths have increased from 12 to 22 over the last week. Still, Gov. Kemp is keeping Georgia open.

JOE BIDEN EMERGES. Sees shadow...

THE BABYLON BEE IS AHEAD OF THE CURVE AGAIN: Governors reinstate lockdowns to combat recovering economy.

I HAVE A SUGGESTION for a new name of the soon-to-be-former Washington Redskins: the DC Democrats.

VOTE FOR BIDEN and you'll find out.

MICHAEL BARONE: The most dishonest, biased news coverage of our lifetimes.

Expect worse in the months to come.

IF PELOSI SAID IT, IT MUST BE TRUE: 'We have to knock the statues down to find out if they're racist'.

NO KIDDING: Fauci is a Deep State fraud.

IT'S CALLED 'PUNCHING BACK' -- HARDER: Let’s take this opportunity to drive a stake through the heart of academia as we know it.

THEIR REALITY IS NOT THE REALITY:White House Correspondents Association president accuses White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany of 'denying reality' during press briefings.

Key thought: "[M]aybe if the news media decided to do their jobs in a professional manner, they wouldn’t need to be treated like spoiled children throwing a tantrum."

GUESS WHAT? Demoralize the police; crime soars.

I AM WAAAY LATE on my weekly links to PowerLine's Week in Pictures. Here's my favorite from their Independence Day edition:

And from this week's Mount Trumpmore edition, this one:

Now go see them. They're good. Trust me.

ACCORDING TO HOYT we're living in an upside-down world. The rightside-up world is still okay if we look for it.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for July 10, 2020:

I think we're beginning to see the number of daily confirmed coronavirus cases rise, which I've been expecting (it took the riots to make visible) for several weeks now that the lockdown is ending. Daily deaths are also up, but have remained fairly stable at less than 1000/day.

The estimated number of uninfected Americans (expectedly) continues to decline, now at 44.901%. Since I don't track that number daily, it's hard to tell but my instinct is that it is beginning to fall more rapidly. Despite the sharp increase in confirmed cases, the daily death rate continues its steady decline, now at 0.0750%

Georgia is still open, but with reported cases hitting a new high and the number of daily deaths beginning to show a rise, Gov. Kemp is going to be under increasing pressure to 'dial back' the reopening. That will be a bad move, but not unexpected.

My last update is here.

NON SEQUITUR: Things can be worse than imagined.

DECEASED CAT gets voter registration application in the mail.

If whoever is really interested in registering cats to vote, they can send forms to Martha Washington, Daisy Mae, Russell Maniac, O Reo, Tux Edo, and T. Shadow. All are RepubliCats (they know which bowl they're fed from) except T. Shadow, recently deceased, who may have changed his registration to DemoCat.

I THOUGHT SO: Only Black Lives Matter.

IT'S AS HIGH as three percent?

I DIDN'T LIE TO YOU. I just hung up the telephone.

GOOD RIDDANCE: Eric Ciaramella crony and impeachment figure LTC Alexander Vindman retires.

RACIST, TOTALITARIAN DICTATORS ARE FINE -- as long as they're not white.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ: Susan Rice prepares for Veep job interview.

REPUBLICANS: sheep in elephant costumes.

I'll vote a straight Republican ticket in November, but in the meantime, I voted for the challenger over the incumbent in every Republican primary race, from top to bottom. Maybe they will/did get the message.

BOO! Texas Gov. Greg Abbott flinches.

I'M NOT READY to go back to restaurants. I tend to agree, not because of fear safety, but because I really am tired of all the damned masks, 'social distancing', and virtue-signaling Karens. Please, y'all, go back to your basements and cower there.

The comments, though, indicate I'm in a clear minority. Good for them.

HAS IT? The time has come to ARM.

I'm convinced it has.

AMMO GRRRLL writes about 'excellent choices'.

THIS TIME THE RULING CLASS GOVERNING APPARATCHIK TOOK IT DOWN: Jeffrey Epstein statue installed in front of Albuquerque city hall.

LAST WEEK (June 30th) I linked to a DiploMad post titled "The West is breeding ravens."

On July 3rd, TownHall made it visual.

NO MORE SUICIDES: Federal officials have hired top-rated Italian body guard Hillena Clintonelli to protect Ghislaine Maxwell.

Of course it's the Babylon Bee.

SOME REFLECTIONS FROM INDEPENDENCE DAY:

THE DIPLOMAD: The 4th now more than ever. Click through to read the comments.

AMERICAN GREATNESS: A magnificent speech.

SARAH HOYT: Fly the flag proudly.

CALIFORNIA TO THE PEOPLE: No fireworks. THE PEOPLE to California: Watch this.

I was somewhat annoyed (to say the least) that all channels (including Fox, to my everlasting regret) cut away from President Trump's fireworks display on the National Mall shortly after it began. Shame on them all.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for July 7, 2020:

Since Friday's update, the coronavirus toll remains relatively stable. The cumulative toll continues to increase slowly as the number of daily deaths remains low. We had 3 days over the weekend of very few deaths, followed by the predictable Monday spike of delayed weekend reports.

That said, the estimated number of uninfected Americans continues to decline, now down to 48.317%. The daily death rate continues its decline, now at 0.0783%, and the rolling average continues its steady decline now that the June 25th 'bump' has fallen out.

Gov. Brian Kemp has kept Georgia open. As was the case at my last report, the number of newly confirmed cases remains quite high, but deaths remain low.

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO STOP LETTING THESE IDIOTS RUN RUIN OUR LIVES?

With murders up nearly 80% in Chicago last month, [Mayor] Lori Lightfoot blames guns.

[NIAID Director Anthony] Fauci says country headed in wrong direction as Trump pledges control.

NFL to play black national anthem before 'Star-Spangled Banner' during opening week.

Kurt Schlichter has the answer.

I FIND THIS THOUGHT SOMEWHAT AMUSING: With a second pandemic lockdown (almost certainly) in the planning stage, how will the 'woke' establishment enforce it given their plans to defund the police?

Update: No fireworks? Watch this.

Will the woke apparatchik get the message? Unlikely....

YALE TO BECOME DUMMER UNIVERSITY? Sounds about right to me.

Although they did misspell "dumber"....

BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS are set to abolish the suburbs.

Well, my wife and I long ago decamped to the relative sanity of rural America, but we will be sorry to see the suburbs go as our children and grandchildren live there. Still, it's up to them (mostly) to end this madness.

POWERLINE: Hail to the Redskins Wokeskins.

Here are some suggestions taken from a Facebook post in response to a Clarence Page op-ed in the Chicago Tribune:

Dear Mr. Page:

I agree with our Native American population. I am highly jilted by the racially charged name of the Washington Redskins. One might argue that to name a professional football team after Native Americans would exalt them as fine warriors, but nay, nay. We must be careful not to offend, and in the spirit of political correctness and courtesy, we must move forward.

Let's ditch the Kansas City Chiefs, the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians. If your shorts are in a wad because of the reference the name Redskins makes to skin color, then we need to get rid of the Cleveland Browns.

The Carolina Panthers obviously were named to keep the memory of militant Blacks from the 60's alive. Gone. It's offensive to us white folk.

The New York Yankees offend the Southern population. Do you see a team named for the Confederacy? No! There is no room for any reference to that tragic war that cost this country so many young men's lives. I am also offended by the blatant references to the Catholic religion among our sports team names. Totally inappropriate to have the New Orleans Saints, the Los Angeles Angels or the San Diego Padres.

Then there are the team names that glorify criminals who raped and pillaged. We are talking about the horrible Oakland Raiders, the Minnesota Vikings, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Pittsburgh Pirates!

Now, let us address those teams that clearly send the wrong message to our children. The San Diego Chargers promote irresponsible fighting or even spending habits. Wrong message to our children.

The New York Giants and the San Francisco Giants promote obesity, a growing childhood epidemic. Wrong message to our children. The Cincinnati Reds promote downers/barbiturates. Wrong message to our children.

The Milwaukee Brewers. Well that goes without saying. Wrong message to our children.

So, there you go. We need to support any legislation that comes out to rectify this travesty, because the government will likely become involved with this issue, as they should. Just the kind of thing the do-nothing Congress loves.

As a die-hard Oregon State fan, my wife and I, with all of this in mind, suggest it might also make some sense to change the name of the Oregon State women's athletic teams to something other than "the" Beavers (especially when they play Southern California. Do we really want the Trojans sticking it to the Beavers???

I always love your articles and I generally agree with them. As for the Redskins name I would suggest they change the name to the "Foreskins" to better represent their community, paying tribute to the dick heads in Washington DC....

Take heed, Wokesters; it's payback time....

HAPPILY I FLED THE STATE YEARS AGO: 'Stop letting the inmates run the asylum!'

I PREFER 'SWAMP MONSTERS': Redskins change name to 'Lizard People' to better represent population of Washington, D.C.

WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG, didn't your parents read you the Boy Who Cried Wolf?

Florida's Miami-Dade and Broward counties reach record high level of cases; mayor says residents 'not listening'.

THANK GOD: “A lot of people who never noticed are noticing that the government is made up of idiots and nothing happens if you break their rules.”

It's about time....

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for July 3, 2020: Since Tuesday's update, everything remains stable, despite the Deep State's best effort to create more panic. The rolling average of daily deaths continues to decline and the cumulative toll continues to flatten.

The estimated number of uninfected Americans continues to decline, which is a good thing as it is an estimator of herd immunity, now down to just under 52%, at 51.732%. The death rate continues to decline, now at 0.0828%, well below the accepted average seasonal flu death rate of about 0.1%.

Georgia remains open. The number of newly confirmed cases remains quite high, but the death rate remains quite low (only 7 today) and is declining again.

DEMOCRATS prepare for Independence Day.

While Americans celebrate Independence Day with fireworks, barbecues, and merrymaking, Democrats celebrate Dependence Day by staying inside and weeping over all the freedom going on outside. The celebrations conclude with the reading of the Communist Manifesto and the singing of "Imagine".

Just don't let their tears flood your home....

BLACK LIVES MATTER:

"Hands Paws up, don't shoot."

IN TEST RUN FOR DEFUNDING POLICE, Seattle's 'police-free' zone lasts 23 days.

UNFORTUNATELY, IN CORPORATE AMERICA striking the right attitude for your peers is more important than doing your damn job well.

LARRY ELDER: Random thoughts while not out 'protesting'.

CALIFORNIA IS AMERICA'S GREATEST EXPORTER OF POLLUTION. Here's how.

THEY DON'T NEED TO THINK; THEY ALREADY KNOW IT ALL: The intelligentsia that cannot think.

WELL, THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED IN NATIONAL PARKS ANY MORE. Tourists flock from around country to view ancient ruins of CHAZ.

Masks required....

TRUMP: Black Lives Matter is a 'symbol of hate'.

Correct.

ANTIFA TAKE NOTE: Record-setting gun sales could leave stores dry.

It's not your twits that are buying....

ABC 'NEWS': Going to national parks is racist.

KEEP THE STATUE; remove the city.

ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES. Harvard graduate who threatened to stab those who say ‘All Lives Matter’ fired by Deloitte.

Some of those consequences are unwanted.

REALITY PREVAILS DESPITE THE NARRATIVE: Seattle Mayor admits CHOP Antifastan caused crime wave, ‘alarming’ spike in COVID cases.

But will they learn? Frankly, I doubt it.

BUT, BUT ... REOPENING IS BAD! Georgia COVID-19 deaths hit 3-month low.

JUDICIAL WATCH sues D.C. for equal access to paint city streets.

I have a number of suggestions....

RANDOM THOUGHT FOR THOSE WHO LOVE 'WORK AT HOME': Home can be in Bangladesh....

KAYLEIGH MCENANY IS NOT A JOURNALIST; she's a 'mainstream media journalist's' worst nightmare.

UMM, NO. NOT ON MY WATCH. LA city councilwoman tried to have LAPD chief order officers to take a knee during protests.

FINALLY: School choice wins at the Supreme Court.

AMERICAN GREATNESS: Seattle police easily clears CHAZ/CHAD after weeks of violent anarchy.

Derek Hunter at TownHall calls it right: the 'social justice warriors' are just cartoon warriors.

Push back; a house of cards cannot stand alone.

INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY: only six months left to save the world.

Quick summary: "It would be an utter catastrophe if the world were governed by experts."

SKYLER gets it.

Related, for Day by Day fans.

THE PROGRESSIVE LEFT doesn't need CIA help to look stupid.

THE STRATEGIES OF DEMENTIA POLITICS: Stoke chaos, obstruct economic recovery, and hide Biden in the basement till Election Day.

It's Victor Davis Hanson -- a must-read.

TUCKER CARLSON delivers historic challenge to GOP. The video is a must-watch.

PEACEFUL PROTESTER shoots motorist peacefully during peaceful protest.

It's a good thing it was 'peaceful' ... what if it were 'violent'?

MICHAEL RAMIREZ: Who would you prefer patrolling your neighborhood?

DNC TWEET ABOUT JULY 4TH AND MOUNT RUSHMORE is reason alone never to vote for them again. Here's the tweet.

Never again. Never.

BECAUSE IT CAN'T BE US: Seattle city council member blames ‘capitalism’s brutality’ for CHOP murders.

After all, we/re on the right side of (our just erased) history.

AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD strikes again: Government announces lockdown of all fast food restaurants to prevent heart disease.

WORLD’S WORST ‘FACT-CHECK’: Democrats didn’t start the Civil War or Ku Klux Klan.

BURN THEM ALL DOWN AND START OVER:

ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT calls on Penn State to require ‘structural racism’ courses.

BASHING ADMINISTRATORS while the university burns.

MOMENTUM BUILDING in states to require campus ‘intellectual diversity.’

THREE IDEAS to end the rot on college campuses.

POMONA STUDENT posts anti-semitic rant, gets pass.

The Left has crossed the intellectual Rubicon; the only way left to clear the rot is to raze the structures and start anew.

BABYLON BEE: Reporting tomorrow's news today.

FROM POWERLINE'S "Loose Ends" series:

A number of colleges have rescinded admissions for students who they subsequently discovered had indulged in insensitive (or worse) comments or behavior some time in their youthful past. I note in passing that the leader of the effort to topple the statue of Lincoln in Washington DC is a Harvard student. Will he face any discipline from Harvard for this advocacy of criminal vandalism? Hypothetical: How would Harvard react if a conservative student advocated vandalizing the Martin Luther King memorial on the Capitol Mall?

I'd suggest 'with a full scholarship'....

MAYBE WE'LL FIND OUT IF LAWYERS HAVE USEFUL SKILLS: Is a law school meltdown coming?

NO, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, IT'S A SELF-INFLICTED WOUND. Kayleigh McEnany's just twisting the knife a little.

OR ANYONE WITH A MODICUM OF COMMON SENSE EITHER: Princeton’s president isn’t fooling the Black Justice League.

IT'S A GOOD THING I don't care much for basketball -- it'll be much easier to quit watching.

EVERYTHING you ever wanted to know about white privilege.

WOMEN'S SOCCER IS NOW DEAD TO ME: National Womens Soccer League players kneel during National Anthem.

I won't be watching any more.