FROM POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES, my favorite.

Forever is 3-1/2 years. Hope for the best; the alternative is worse. Now go see the rest.

IS THE TEA PARTY returning?

YES. Follow the science.

Real science.

NBC CONFRONTING 'WORST-CASE SCENARIO' as experts blame 'woke' protests for Olympics ratings nosedive.

No surprise at all, and I blame NBC (and all the 'woke' MSM) for encouraging it. I hope they lose money. Lots of it.

'Wokeness' shouldn't pay.

WHY GETTING YOUR CAR FIXED is about to get even more expensive.

Sorry, but in my opinion the real problem is that you can't get your car repaired without having to go to the dealer. With every car now run by computer, only the dealers have the diagnostic software - and they're not letting go.

TWO PURPORTED REVELATIONS appear to bode ill for conservative media’s flagship network [Fox News] and establishment Republicanism.

There’s a sense of a troubling entrenchment on the right suggesting that former conservative behemoth FNC and the braintrust of the GOP no longer consider the best interests and choices of the American people a top priority.

I'm suspicious of the first revelation (about Fox News), although I've added Newsmax and others to my daily reading list, and the second (that the RNC has gone 'deep state') is the reason why all my political contributions now go to Donald Trump for distribution at his discretion.

RANDOM THOUGHT: I hate to say it, but I'm at the point of beginning to want to leave the United States of Wokeistan and move somewhere more welcoming.

(And take my money with me.)

DeSANTIS BLASTS BIDEN: "I am standing in your way."

It's a YouTube video, so there's an initial ad, but watch anyway.

KEVIN DOWNEY: Democrats vs. the Constitution.

Constitution? They don't need want no stinkin' Constitution.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT for restaurants.

All business owners, actually.

BULLARKY: Richmond [VA] mayor blames legal gun owners for soaring homicides.

AND THEY'RE ALL ON THE LEFT: These 12 high-profile politicians got caught violating their own COVID rules.

PREDICTION - THEY WON'T: The GOP should revolt against lame duck Pelosi’s dictatorship.

A LEXICON of leftist Newspeak.

LEFTIST ARROGANCE has no bounds.

A DAY IN THE LIFE of a low- no-information voter.

LAUREN BOEBERT [R-CO] OPPONENT is a veterinarian who works in Wyoming and claims her hospital is filled with COVID patients.

Twitter is awash with this kind of astroturf nonsense.

But of course Jack Dorsey won't ban it....

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Wokeness is many things, but increasingly it seems a cover for careerism, profiteering and utter incompetence.

Emphasis on utter incompetence.

NOW LARGE GROUPS of vaccinated people are deemed too risky.

The DNC-MSM needs the fear porn for ratings to overcome their post-Trump slump. And President Klain’s administration needs to keep up the pressure on Americans because their ideology is built around the moral equivalent of war and “never let a crisis go to waste,” and are hanging onto the pandemic as a way to control and manipulate citizens.

Far too many of us are fools for even listening to them.

FAIR WARNING: IT WORKS THE OTHER WAY TOO. A 'no buy' list for conservatives and other hate groups?