WHY I WILL INSIST on a physical metal key on my next car (assuming I ever get a next car).

FROM POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures, a clear favorite:

There are many good ones this week following the Rittenhouse acquittal. Go see them.

PROGRESSIVES (AND IDIOTS, BUT I REPEAT MYSELF) HATE IT WHEN THEY'RE PROVEN WRONG: Jerry Nadler wants to sic the DOJ on Rittenhouse following acquittal.

DANA LOESCH responds to David French's fear of open carry.

Where I live there are a number of people who openly carry. They don't frighten me, they assure me that there is someone to help if I need additional protection.

AMMO GRRRLL HAS THOUGHTS: That Was The Year That Was.

POWERLINE'S Geek in Pictures. Some good ones from all over geekdom.

I especially liked the 'We're number one!' charts although to be honest, too many are a bit depressing.

IT WORKED FOR ME: The effects of Vitamin D and COVID-related outcomes.

That plus zinc.

UNDER THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, the gentry class is thriving.

The rest of us, not so much....

INSTAPUNDIT: The war on parents. The Left doesn't like disobedient children parents.

And parents don't like disobedient 'educrats'. I fear it's going to get worse before it improves....

NBC NEWS HAMMERED for declaring parents aren’t qualified to make decisions about school curricula.

Not hard enough. Not nearly hard enough.

DISOBEDIENT VOTERS AREN'T OBEYING OUR DIKTATS: The White House sees you as the problem, and themselves as victims.

RITTENHOUSE WAS RIGHTLY AND CORRECTLY AQUITTED, but free states must defend the right to self-defense.

I REMEMBER HAVING THE MISFORTUNE to see some of the Rittenhouse prosecutor's closing argument: Rittenhouse should have laid down his rifle and confronted his aggressor with fists. He may have been beaten up, but no one would have died, right?

Right?

"I'm gonna beat you senseless but it probably won't kill you" is okay. That prosecutor is an idiot.

HAVEN'T WE TOLD YOU BEFORE THAT MANDATES ARE JUST FOR LITTLE PEOPLE? Snapchat shows UW-Madison chancellor indoors without wearing mask in violation of COVID mandate.

And Fauci. Of course Fauci....

GET 'EM STARTED EARLY: NYC may let 800K non-citizens vote in elections.

You know where this is going, right?