BIDEN ADMIN PLEDGES GOAL OF ZERO TRAFFIC FATALITIES ... and how do you suppose it'll accomplish that?

By raising the prices of gasoline/diesel to heights no one can afford....

SCOTUS DUDE to look like a lady woman?

It would not surprise me at all....

WASHINGTON POST applies carefully reasoned rhetoric to convince anti-vaxxers to change their minds.

For progressives, 'reality' is on Twitter and their laptops/smartphones. I'd really enjoy it when they find that Twitter, their laptops and smartphones don't deliver food to their homes; fuel to their planes, trains, and automobiles; heat to their homes and apartments; and electricity to power their appliances. Trucks do.

I'd really enjoy their collapse except for one minor factor -- I happen to live in the real world that surrounds their fantasy world.

THIS IS HIGHER EDUCATION TODAY: Admissions counselor says Republican applicants are part of an 'oppressive group'.

If Leftists weren't as stupid as they obviously are, they'd increase admission rates for Republican candidates so as to inculcate them into the 'one true faith'....

IT CAN'T COME TOO SOON: The coming dethronement of Joe Biden.

WRONG. New scientific paper claims octopuses are actually aliens from outer space.

The aliens are actually progressives.

RANDOM THOUGHT ON UKRAINE, ETC. We're in in world of hurt, led by an administration that can only be (charitably) described as morons striving to become idiots.

REST IN PEACE, RUSSELLMANIA (RUSTY)

Died 1/28/2022 (of cancer). I'll miss him.

DON'T LISTEN TO HIM: James Carville slams 'emotional' Democrats for wasting cash on unwinnable races.

YES, send your kids to college.

It used to be that the exit criteria for mental institutions was sanity; today it's insanity.

INSTAPUNDIT PREDICTS THE DEMOCRATS will nominate Donald Trump for the Supreme Court.

Well, sort of seriously, so he can't run for President again....

DEAR J6 COMMITTEE: I will not be intimidated.

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION goes to college.

What used to be a classical liberal education has morphed into a non-classical 'woke' education which utterly destroyed its present value. A classical liberal education was --and remains -- valuable to those who could afford the price of graduating without an immediately valuable economic skill. For example, our Founders, almost without exception, were classically educated, learned little of immediate economic benefit to themselves and yet that knowlege gave us our founding documents

It was the Morrill Act, the ability to gain immediately useful economic skills beyond those available through secondary education, that allowed me to go to college. And the added advantage was that I had access to at least some of that classic liberal education in terms of the elective requirements at that time.

But no more. Even in the hard sciences (mathematics, engineering, physics, chemistry, etc.) liberal 'wokeness' has infected their curriculum.

[But] there is evidence that hope exists. Findings from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reveal that college enrollment “dropped by more than 2 million from 2011 to 2019” before the pandemic. In 2020 alone, undergraduate enrollment fell 4.5 percent—the largest decline in several decades.

Could it be that young people have been wildly oversold on the importance of a bachelor’s degree? With welders now earning $150,000 annually and free of student debt, a day of reckoning may be on the horizon. Perhaps more and more students will see that a two-year technical program or trade school is a more rewarding path.

I rather suspect that Mike Rowe's television shows 'Dirty Jobs' and 'How America Works' will help make that so.

Two final notes: First, classical liberal education -- what I tend to call a Great Books of the Western World education -- is available online for those interested in the topics and not caring about being 'credentialed'.

And second, now that I'm retired and moved outside the urban and engineering 'bubbles' I used to inhabit, I'm heartened to find that the tradespeople (see Mike Rowe above) I deal with on a regular basis are much more knowledgeable (and capable) than the average 'credentialed' Harvard graduate.

DAY BY DAY nails it:

The cartoon is here.

EXCLUSIVE FROM AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD: Biden's list of potential SCOTUS nominees.

Surprisingly, they're not all black women.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Every time I hear or see the word 'expert' I'm reminded that its definition is a 'has-been drip (under pressure)'.

DENNIS PRAGER EXPLAINS why the masked and unmasked have disdain for each other.

POWERLINE has more 'loose ends' to consider.

I didn't know potholders were racist.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Savor the Democrats' humiliation.

COVID-19 HAS INFECTED ABOUT 20% OF AMERICANS, but the true percentage likely higher.

Let's be honest about this. As infectious as it's claimed to be, after over two years it is virtually certain that every American not isolated on a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has been exposed multiple times. That so many -- perhaps as many as 80% -- haven't been infected says something important.

And that is that normal healthy humans don't infect easily.

OBVIOUS ANSWER, NO: "Are we any better off on these three issues that we crucified Trump over?"

WHARTON STUDENTS reveal the disconnect between elite college kids and reality.

I asked Wharton students what they thought the average American worker makes per year and 25% of them thought it was over six figures. One of them thought it was $800k. Really not sure what to make of this (The real number is $45k).
— Nina Strohminger

Yes, really.

THE COMMONSENSE CASE for right to repair.

It's gotten so bad that my new car warranties can be canceled if I don't buy their company branded oil (yes, oil!) and oil filter to change the oil in my cars.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN 'TALENT IS OVERRATED'? You get the talent desert that is the modern Democrat party.

BEATS ME: Why does anyone take the trans movement seriously?

Maybe because the inmates have taken over the asylum?

JORDAN PETERSON: Why I am no longer a tenured professor at the University of Toronto.

Just walk away. Let them rot.

HOW LEFTIST GLOBAL WARMING POLICY will wreck your truck.

Well, maybe -- until those very same Leftists can no longer get food -- or packages delivered, or their appliances serviced, or lawns mowed....

THE BEST WAY TO HONOR MLK: Pass federal voting rights laws (and never need to vote again).

Instead pass a two-part voting responsibility act. Part one, proof of identity to enter the in-person voting booth. And part two, proof of civic responsibility, by which I mean understanding the civic responsibility of a citizen of the United States, after entering the voting booth.

For the latter, since civics is no longer taught in public schools, I'd suggest something similar to citizenship tests required for newly naturalized citizens, or drivers licensing exams. Provide a publicly available civics database of multiple-choice questions, one of which must be answered as part of the ballot and counted as part of the ballot. If the answer is correct, the ballot is counted; if not, it is not counted and discarded -- no do-overs allowed.

NEIL YOUNG TO SPOTIFY: It's me or Joe Rogan, not both.

Spotify to Neil Young: "Goodbye and good luck."

MATT TAIBBI: Joe Biden's awesome first year. [Note: it's a paywalled website.]

SO MANY CHOICES: The dumbest Biden.

THE DIPLOMAD: Can we wait another three years and survive?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Conspiracies as realities, realities as conspiracies.

THE DAILY GOUGE, January 19th. When you get to the end, I would note that lions, gators, and bears can all be shot and killed. Progressives, not so much. [That may be changing.]

Stop by the Daily Gouge every so often and skim through their archives.

ALL THE DEMOCRATS HAVE LEFT IS RACISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, AND WHITE SUPREMACY: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel speculates ‘white supremacy’ is to blame for Texas synagogue terrorist attack.

CAPITOL PUNISHMENT: Everything they told you is a lie.

Everything that we are being told [about Jan. 6] is a lie and Americans are being persecuted to support that lie.

You can watch here, but it's essentially pay-per-view.

YOU BE THE JUDGE: Show us your papers, or not?

Not.

BIDEN KEEPS SINKING: Rasmussen's Presidential Approval Index hits a new low of -33.

I may have been optimistic on January 8th:

My guess is that rock bottom for Biden is minus 40, assuming that the Biden base (strongly approving) drops to the 15% level and the middle drifts more to the disapproving side. More likely in my estimation is that the Biden base will remain and disapprovals will increase, with the bottom being in the minus 32 to 35 level.

He's already in the minus 32-35 level and it's not even the end of January....

THE 'LEADERSHIP' who run our nation's public school Gifted and Talented programs aren't.

Surprise, surprise....

TELL ME IT'S NOT SO! Everything is worse under Biden.

THESE PEOPLE ARE NUCKING FUTZ. University language guide says 'grandfather,' 'housekeeping,' 'spirit animal' are 'problematic' words.

When we closed the nuthouses mental institutions way back when, the inmates all went to university -- which eventually became today's nuthouses mental institutions.

Why any reasonably sane parent would let his or her child to go to one of these 'institutions' today is beyond me.

CNN'S JIM ACOSTA: I still have 'marks on my back' from standing up to Trump.

Obviously self-inflicted....

A NEW RECORD FOR SLOW JOE:

From the Rasmussen Reports Presidential Approval Index today. Minus 32.

NEW YEAR, SAME INFLATION: from Rep. Andrew Clyde [R-GA]

It might be a new year, but there’s nothing new about President Biden’s continued crises. Last week, consumer prices skyrocketed 7% – hitting a four-decade high. Due to the Biden Administration’s careless economic policies, you and your family have experienced surging prices for months with no solution in sight. Some of the key price hikes hitting wallets across the country include:

Gas: Up 49.6%
Propane, kerosene, and firewood: Up 33.8%
Rental cars: Up 36%
Beef: Up 18.6%
Fresh and frozen chicken: Up 11.5%
Eggs: Up 11%
Coffee: Up 6.9%
Eating out at restaurants: Up 6.6%
Rent: Up 3.8%
Hotels: Up 27.6%
Steak: Up 21.4%
Tires: Up 12.4%
Bacon: Up 18.6%
Fish: Up 10%
Furniture: Up 13.8%
Ammunition Up 82%

Unfortunately, soaring prices aren’t the only concern crippling our economy. These latest inflation numbers come shortly after the worst jobs report of Biden’s presidency, as only 199,000 jobs were added during the month of December – drastically missing expectations of 420,000. Yet Biden falsely claims he has added more jobs in a year than any president in history. This bald-faced lie ignores the fact that the coronavirus pandemic and government shutdowns pulled the plug on millions of jobs. So while many jobs simply returned after plugging our economy back in as restrictions eased, there is still an ongoing work shortage due to both the Democrats’ continued incentivizing of folks to stay home and President Biden’s unconstitutional vaccine mandates. The reality is Biden hasn’t created millions of jobs – he has hindered job growth and economic prosperity while stumbling over talking points that claim otherwise.

Americans know the only thing Biden can truly take credit for is creating multiple crises – including hyperinflation, labor shortage issues, and widespread supply chain failures. It’s no wonder that the President has a dismal 33% approval rating. Yet rather than alleviating burdensome inflation or actually adding jobs to the economy, Biden is focused on taking over our elections.

In a bizarre attempt to distract from President Biden’s laundry list of crises, Democrats are championing an election reform bill, the so-called “For the People Act,” that aims to federalize our elections processes, ban voter ID, and fund incumbent campaigns with Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars – supposedly to improve election security. In fact, Senate Democrats' thinly veiled attempt to destroy 200 years of precedent by removing the filibuster is nothing more than a dangerous stunt to solidify the Left’s control of elections. President Biden and Vice President Harris even visited Georgia last week to harp on our state’s election laws and label anyone who disagrees with their goal of Washington-controlled elections as a racist. This slanderous smear is wildly inappropriate and fails to acknowledge that Georgia has less restrictive but more secure voting laws than Biden’s home state of Delaware.

This latest pivot speaks volumes to how severely out of touch Democrats are with the American people. Rest assured, my Republican colleagues and I are hard at work to highlight the Left’s hypocrisy and advocate for commonsense solutions to all of Biden’s crises, including chaos at our southern border, surging crime, and harmful inflation.

MANY THANKS TO THE DIPLOMAD for [re]stating the obvious in his inimitable fashion.

THE END: 'Indefinite' hunger strike over failed voting bill ends after 8 days.

On the bright side, we know know how long idiots can 'maintain their principles' (and get hungry).

PRESIDENT[ISH] BIDEN'S FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE

The data is from Rasmussen's Presidential Approval Index, recorded daily since his inauguration.

The approval index is the difference between those who strongly approve of the President's performance and those who strongly disapprove, usually about 30% of those polled each. Note that he has never had a positive index.

Here is the subset of those polled who approve his performance. Biden started 50-50, then mid-year started the drift down to where he is now -- about 40%. The strong approvals have declined more rapidly, from 35% or so initially to 20% today.

The bottom line is the difference between 'approve' and 'strongly approve', which has steadily increased. Not only are fewer people approving the President's performance, even fewer are strongly approving. Time's arrow is clearly moving the wrong way for the Biden administration.

Next up is the subset of those polled who disapprove of his performance. The trend is clear, up about 10%, starting mid-year. What is somewhat startling is that the difference between 'disapproval' and 'strong disapproval' is relatively constant at about 10%. For every increase in 'disapproval' there is a corresponding increase in 'strong disapproval'.

What is somewhat surprising is that the indifferent, that is, those neither strongly approving nor strongly disapproving, has slightly increased, from about 25% to around 30% today. I don't remember the originator (it was from the mid-60's drug culture) but the phrase "tune in, turn on, tune out" comes to mind.

Oh, well. It's clear that the first year of the Biden administration is a disaster; the interesting part will be whether the average American will continue to 'tune out' or the disapprovals will keep increasing. I will continue to hope for both.

DOUBLING DOWN ON CRAZY: Democrats don't have 'bad leaders', they have 'bad followers'.

MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS CRITICIZED for saying parents shouldn't tell public schools what to teach their children.

The purpose of public education in public schools is not to teach kids only what parents want them to be taught.... It is to teach them what society needs them to know. The client of the public school is not the parent, but the entire community, the public.

The arrogance of the Left knows no bounds.

COMMUNITY COMPACTS: Another excellent reason to avoid 'elite' colleges and save money.

DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST JAMES CARVILLE: Democrats whine too much… quit being a whiny party.

'Whiny' is being kind; 'crybully' is a better term.

GOOD NEWS from the Build Back Better supermarket:

Found on the Fox News cartoon page.

ALL THE MORE REASON to shut down California at the borders and lock the gates: California should abolish parenthood in the name of equity.

Serious or satire? The comments are about equally divided. Those who lean toward satire point to the Plato, Swift (A Modest Proposal) and Huxley (Brave New World) references as proof. I lean more to the Hillary Clinton's It Takes A Village side; it's always struck me that progressives read satirical books as 'how-to' manuals.

SNOWMAGEDDON IN GEORGIA:

Here's the Weather Channel report:

And here's ground truth:

Way back (way, way back) in the dark ages of my youth this was called a 'dusting'....

MORE POWERLINE Loose Ends.

WELL ... YES: Has the Omicron wave peaked?

But not to worry -- 'anothercon' is being prepped for the midterms....

FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS slaps down Washington Post editor:

Washington Post editor Eugene Robinson called @GovRonDeSantis anti-lockdown stance "outrageous to say the least, & frankly it is criminal.”
@RuthlessPodcast asked the Gov for his reaction.
DeSantis: “I’m not worried about what some corporate shill from Amazon is saying about me.” — Christina Pushaw 🐊 (@ChristinaPushaw) January 15, 2022

"Don't care" is the only acceptable response to crybullies.

THE DEMOCRAT STRATEGY TO REDUCE CRIME is to decriminalize it.

Might work if you love mayhem.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES has many good ones, but this one simply stands out:

Now go see the rest.

THE LEFT CONTROLS ALMOST EVERYTHING, so why are they so afraid?

GOOD NEWS: it's snowing. The bad news is that it isn't snowing on environmentalists.

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN is reportedly planning to push his police reform agenda via an executive order as early as this month.

Some (many) years ago, in reading about the Spanish Inquisition, I came across the statement "We're going to have to kill you to save your soul." More recently a similar statement, “We had to destroy the village in order to save it” was used in reference to the Vietnam war.

Both, apparently, are falsehoods which over time have a memorable phrase taken as fact, and I'm reminded of them every time the Biden administration tries to use executive orders to accomplish his destructive goals.

[Related] Sarah Hoyt has coined a new phrase in response to the Biden administration's overuse of executive workarounds: JUST GO, BRANDON.

I like it.

MIDTERMS COMING UP! U.S. Government to end daily COVID death reporting.

Any questions?

AND HOW MANY DIVERSITY FACTOTUMS? University lays off 100 professors due to COVID.

TEXAS GOVERNOR TO AUSTIN BUSINESSES: Feel free to ignore Austin Mayor Adler's COVID orders.

AS SOON AS THE NEED IS OVER: The White House has a shipping update on those 500 million COVID tests.

I'VE BEEN PREDICTING THIS FOR A WHILE NOW: Philadelphia carjackers shot by legally armed drivers 3 separate times so far in 2022.

My only thought is that the armed citizens should spend a bit more time at the gun range.

And take the advice of the Dalai Lama.

HOWARD DEAN (REMEMBER HIM?) the perfect illustration of Democrats' ongoing hysteria.

Listen, Democrats gonna Democrat.

Without their reliance on hyperbole and unfounded scare tactics, dishonesty, disingenuousness, bald-faced lies, politics of division, and blatant hypocrisy, Democrats and their policies would be dead in the water. Call them stupid — which they are not [? - Ed.] — but Democrats are well aware that everything I just said is true.

Thing is? They don’t give a damn.

I would recommend bringing back insane asylums, but we already have -- they're called blue cities, and in some cases, states. Our only recourse left is to vet those who leave carefully before allowing them to reenter normal society.

UNREAL: The miserable life in woke Silicon Valley.

There is no way I could or would work in that environment. Thankfully I'm retired -- and just in time, because I saw the nose of that camel pushing into the Washington D.C. tent when I said 'to hell with it' and left.

HYPOCRISY UNLIMITED: Democrats pause angry demands to end the filibuster in order to filibuster Ted Cruz's Nord Stream 2 sanctions bill.

Red State also noticed.

FIRST THERE WERE rocks; then there were rules; then there were electric cars; then there were accidents; then there was urban planning; and now traffic cameras are racist.

Is there anything left in America that isn't racist?

DAY BY DAY: A rational implementation of checks and balances in real America.

The uncropped cartoon is here.

I'M LISTENING TO THE SWEARING-IN NOW: Glenn Youngkin and company start things off by going scorched Earth in Virginia.

NOW ACCIDENTS ARE RACIST, and it's all you rich white people's fault.

GLENN REYNOLDS: Team Biden's plan to ensure scientific integrity should start with itself.

Team Biden has no integrity. Scientific, political, or otherwise.

BECAUSE THEY'RE OUR KIDS, NOT YOURS: Texas school district tells teachers not to ‘out’ their trans, non-binary students to their parents.

THEN: Recall, remove & replace every last Soros prosecutor. Now: Try, convict & imprison.

THIS IS WHAT AN INSANE ASYLUM LOOKS LIKE ON THE INSIDE: [Tenured] Michigan professor wearing a space helmet tells students they are 'vectors of disease' in Zoom rant.

And you seriously want to expose your child to that? To pay to expose your child to that?

More via Instapundit.

EMBARRASSING: Quotations from Chairman Dementia Joe.

WELL, according to Big Hysteria (news, weather, government), WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! tonight. At 4 am, to be exact. So we're going out for a last breakfast this morning, just in case.

(And I'll fill the bathtub with water, to flush the toilets when the power inevitably goes out.)

BUT WHERE WILL THE WOKESTERS GO AFTER GRADUATION? Call to favor ‘skills’ over sheepskins in federal hiring.

SEEN ONLINE: "In the coming New Year, 2022, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union address will occur on the same day. This is an ironic juxtaposition of events. One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to an insignificant creature of little intelligence for prognostication. The other involves a groundhog."

Timing is everything....

YEAH, RIGHT. Ammo Grrrll assures us that "this time it will work for sure!"

FILE UNDER 'THEY HATE US BECAUSE WE WON'T OBEY': Bless their little authoritarian hearts, Democrats support punishing the unvaccinated.

THE PUSHBACK CONTINUES: Minnesota backs off on race discrimination.

WHAT ISSUE was at the heart of the Civil War and is it relevant today?

It wasn't slavery, and today it's more relevant than ever.

HYPOCRISY UNLIMITED: Democrats pause angry demands to end the filibuster in order to filibuster Ted Cruz's Nord Stream 2 sanctions bill.

Red State also noticed.

VICTORY GIRLS: 'Mass formation psychosis' is merely moral panic on the part of the Left.

TEN STATISTICS that will ruin your day. Numbers 3 and 10 bother me.

WILL YOUR COLLEGE DEGREE be a good investment?

Probably not, unless it's skills-related.

And even then, at the graduate (masters/doctorate) level, it's probably iffy. Many years ago I looked into the cost/benefit of my own graduate degrees. The masters degree was net positive in that I was able to qualify for a job I wanted, the doctorate was net negative, to the tune of about $80K in then-year dollars. (But then, I can, if I wish, call myself Dr. So-and-so.)

Even today I see data that indicates a PhD is still a net negative except as an entry ticket into certain professions, or (as in my case) proof that I could climb that intellectual mountain.

Added thought: If you think of your degree -- especially a bachelor's degree -- as a door opener and not much else, you can't go far wrong.

IT'S BACK: Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

IT'S A GREAT DAY FOR AMERICA; not so much for Biden.

MULTIPLE DRIVERS carjacked in broad daylight in midtown Manhattan.

Well, why not? You can't shoot them, and even if they're caught they'll be back out on the street in hours.

SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER fact-checks President Biden:

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell delivered the following remarks yesterday on the Senate floor regarding President Biden’s speech in Atlanta the day before. In part, McConnell fact-checks Biden. In part, he criticizes the sense and sensibility of Biden’s remarks. I think McConnell’s speech is as good or better than any of the columns I have seen exposing the disgusting demagogy and outrageous falsehoods of Biden’s speech.

Biden is a terrible President and the (progressive) Democrats are garbage people.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PUT IDIOTS IN CHARGE: Washington state refuses help from unvaccinated county workers to clear snow affecting supply chain.

ANOTHER RECORD FOR THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION:

From zero to minus 31 in less than a year. That's quite an 'achievement'....

UPDATE: He's even beating my modest expectations....

HUBRIS, MEET NEMESIS: Politicizing COVID from the start.

Politicizing the pandemic is a euphemism. In truth, thousands of Americans have died needlessly because of weaponized disinformation about China's culpability, vaccines, useful drugs, lockdowns, racial preferences, and long-care facilities.

It's Victor Davis Hanson. Read it all.

IS BOTH AN OPTION? Is Kamala Harris really dumb or really dishonest?

After reading the post, I have to go with 'both'.

ECHOING MY LONG-HELD BELIEF: Forget easier, we need to make it harder to vote. Morons, imbeciles, idiots and progressives should be discouraged from voting.

PARENT INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION, the Democrats’ Achilles’ heel.

I looked for GOP talking points for the 2022 midterms, and what I found were inflation, rising crime and illegal immigration as major issues. I would suggest that an issue that the Republicans Stupid Party should hammer on in the midterms is education (parental involvement, vouchers, CRT, mandatory masking and vaccination of students, remote 'learning', etc.).

Unless we take back education, the America we know and love is doomed.

INTERESTING: Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan for Senate?

THEY HATE US. They really, really hate us.

YET ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION of why the GOP Establishment so richly deserves its label as the “stupid party.”

DEMOCRATS SHOWED ME THE DOOR: Former Ohio sheriff switches parties to join Republicans.

There seems to be a lot of that going around.

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR: Bernie’s takeover is coming soon.

MORE FROM AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD: Ten upcoming fabricated media narratives for 2022.

I'm not sure, but I think two of them have already come to pass.

HEH: "Moonbat-on-moonbat attacks! Pass the popcorn. It’s like the Iran-Iraq War — isn’t there some way they can all lose?"

Read it all.

SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS is going to make a helluva good Governor of Arkansas.

MEMO FROM MY REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN: The truth that deserves to be told.

What started as a day to contest the 2020 election results due to troubling irregularities quickly spiraled into an infamous riot that has filled our airwaves and TVs for the last year – leaving little room to report on President Biden’s self-inflicted crises that continue to plague the American people. Those irregularities continue to this day, with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s announcement of pending subpoenas over strong evidence of illegal ballot harvesting.

Yet as we reflect on the last year, I’m concerned by the lack of sufficient reporting and information surrounding the truth behind January 6th – the truth that deserves to be told.

January 6, 2021 was a very troubling day in our nation’s history – I know because I was there. Determined to protect the chamber from rioters, I stayed on the House floor with several of my Republican colleagues and helped Capitol Police barricade the doors. I also heard the shot when an officer discharged his pistol that killed Ashli Babbitt.

Throughout my service as a three tour Navy combat veteran, I’ve seen the results of violence up close, and I do not believe it should be used as a form of political protest. But we must also have honest conversations about what truly transpired and what can be done to prevent another January 6th from ever happening again.

Unfortunately, this has been all but impossible in the current political climate, as our mainstream media lies about and berates any discussion that does not fit the Democrats’ narrative.

Due to their bias and intolerance, I quickly became a favorite target.

For the last seven months, the D.C. media machine has falsely claimed I was attempting to “whitewash” January 6th by simply pointing out in an Oversight hearing that video evidence of individuals walking through the Capitol in an orderly fashion – in contrast to violent protestors – indicated the event was a riot and not a planned insurrection. In that same statement, I condemned the violence of that day, which made their attacks even more insidious – yet totally unsurprising.

Moreover, according to both current and former law enforcement officials, the FBI agreed with this position, noting back in August that after the arrests of over 570 individuals (over 700 to date), that “…there was no grand scheme with Roger Stone and Alex Jones and all of these people to storm the Capitol and take hostages.” But again, this information doesn’t fit the Left’s “Republicans are the enemy” narrative.

Americans deserve answers, but Democrats have subverted the truth at every turn.

My Republican colleagues and I warned that if a Congressional investigation was not carefully structured in a fully bipartisan manner, that there would be dire consequences. That is exactly what has happened. First, the Democrats removed Republican members from the House Select Committee on January 6th that they did not like, leading Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy to remove all Republicans from the now sham committee. Since then, all nine Democrats on the Committee have continued to abuse their power to harass both members of Congress and private citizens, as well as gain access to communications records dating back as far as April 2020 that have nothing to do with that day’s events.

The Select Committee has had very little time, it seems, to gain access to the Department of Justice’s trove of 14,000 hours of video footage, investigate who planted pipe bombs at Republican and Democratic party headquarters, determine who directed Capitol Police to remove barricades and thereby allow hundreds of protestors through the doors of the Capitol, or conduct a review of the egregious failures by senior leadership of the Capitol Police to pass on intelligence that left rank and file officers stranded without any direction or communication. It is further puzzling, why after a year, no clear adjustments have been made to security protocols at the U.S. Capitol, except for useless magnetometers positioned around the House floor, and why the police force remains roughly 400 officers below authorized staffing levels – especially with the President and Vice President scheduled to be at the Capitol complex later this week.

These questions and others will likely never be answered in the short term, as Speaker Pelosi continues to block investigations into specific concerns, including why she refused six requests by Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irvine to deploy the National Guard in the early hours of the siege.

Additional questions and frustrations surround the number of individuals that have been arrested for committing non-violent crimes on January 6th, such as parading or trespassing. All Americans should be infuriated that many of these crimes carry sentences far lower than the year many detainees have already spent in pretrial confinement in the D.C. jail.

While the liberal media has turned a blind eye to reports of neglect, nothing can hide the Left’s desire to persecute their political dissidents through solitary confinement, insufficient medical care, and other inhumane conditions. Congress must swiftly investigate these atrocious allegations – failing to do so signals to the American people that House Democrats condone this egregious abuse of power and violation of civil liberties.

President Reagan once said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

I have always supported an honest and thorough investigation of the events that transpired on January 6th, but I stand against all theatrics that slander Republicans as domestic terrorists in order to use the heavy hand of government to castigate and silence the Democrats’ political rivals. Furthermore, I refuse to allow the Left to vilify President Donald Trump’s voters, as well as use the events of January 6th as a distraction from the dangerous policies of the Biden Administration, including the border crisis, energy crisis, crime wave crisis, and hyper-inflation, that have destroyed our economy and thrown our nation into turmoil in just the first year of President Biden’s tenure.

Now is the time for all Americans to be unified in rejecting Big Government Socialist authoritarianism and partisan gamesmanship and to stand strong in defense of our great Republic, our Constitution, Civil Liberties, and Freedoms.

Well said.

D-WORDS that need to be banned.

I would add one more -- Democrat.

YES, THE CRASH is arriving: "I don't care how many candlelight vigils and musical performances you have from the cast of Hamilton, you're not going to convince most normal and sane people that our government last year was almost overthrown by a guy wearing a Viking hat and speedos."

SARAH HOYT: Right for all the wrong reasons.

RANDOM THOUGHT: As the progressives continue their takeover, the Democrat party should rename itself the Baizuo party.

It's a fitting description.

HEH: It's beginning to look like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema aren't the only Democrats against killing the filibuster.

I'm almost interested in forcing a vote to see how many Democrats will join Schumer in going over the cliff....

MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS: explaining the Left’s inability to think rationally about coronavirus.

The idea behind mass formation psychosis is not that people are literally hypnotized.... Rather, it’s a way to express the collective irrationality being shown by millions of people who will literally do anything to try to “stop the spread,” no matter how ineffective the measures being promoted are.

And it's not just COVID; all the Left's favorite bugbears -- Trump derangement, systemic racism, critical race theory, election fraud, etc., etc. -- are examples of their collective irrationality.

POWERLINE'S GEEK IN PICTURES: disapproval edition. Lots of interesting statistics.

My personal favorite is 'The Immutable Law of Multiplicative Idiocy'. Over my working lifetime I've been in enough committee meetings to verify its validity many times over.

BARE SHELVES BIDEN SAVED CHRISTMAS -- but not the new year.

SUPPLY CHAIN WOES CONTINUE: Shelves are empty again. Why?

AMERICANS WAVE GOODBYE to blue cities and states.

I recommend that real America put 'hazardous waste' signs on all roads entering the blue-bubble zones.

SAVE THE CHILDREN: Fire the teachers unions.

It is time for a Ronald Reagan moment. In the first year of his presidency, in 1981, he fired thousands of illegally striking air traffic controllers. He broke the back of a militant union that put public safety at risk by refusing to show up to work.

And while you're at it, cancel all government unions.

AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD: Legal experts ask Justice Sotomayor to recuse herself from case due to her being an idiot.

If this hasn't happened already, it should.

NOW THEY TELL US: The CDC and other government agencies grossly overhyped the covid epidemic. Well, they didn't tell us, exactly, but the data does:

If you follow this simple procedure [look at the death certificates], you immediately realize two things: 1) most “covid deaths” involve people who have already lived longer than the average life expectancy in our state, and 2) when you look at the various maladies listed on the death certificates, in a large majority of cases covid was the least of the decedent’s problems.

Allahpundit at Hot Air claims CDC Director Rachelle Walensky's 75% comment in the above linked post was limited to breakthrough cases in the previously vaccinated elderly. Technically he/she may be correct, but there is no disputing that the vast majority of COVID-related deaths have been in the elderly with comorbidities population.

YES, IT'S ALL ABOUT CONTROL (AND POWER): Democrat desperation has now become dangerous.

EVEN THOUGH I LIVE IN GEORGIA, Florida is looking better and better.

And my old home of Austin, Texas is looking worse and worse.

Linked from these Instapundit posts.

RANDOM COMMENT: I stopped at my local Exxon station today to fill up the pickup, ready with a Biden 'I did that' sticker on the seat to put on the pump. Didn't need it; here's what I saw:

They're getting very popular hereabouts....

SAVE THE CHILDREN: Fire the teachers unions.

It is time for a Ronald Reagan moment. In the first year of his presidency, in 1981, he fired thousands of illegally striking air traffic controllers. He broke the back of a militant union that put public safety at risk by refusing to show up to work.

While we're at it, lets cancel all government unions.

SALENA ZITO: COVID-19 allowed too many to pervert their power.

Power is a wretched force when in the wrong hands.

She is absolutely right. Read it all.

THE MISERY of the diversity protection racket.

After reading it all, I'm of the opinion that the fundamental reason that minorities are dissatisfied is that there are far too many DIE ('diversity, inclusion, equity' -- my take) goons buffoons inhabiting the hallowed halls of education.

SORRY DEMOCRATS: Civil war isn't likely even if you're trying to provoke one.

If you think that you are on “the side of history” but events don’t cooperate with this lazy progressive narrative, you will be pitched into an existential crisis. This outlook cannot abide the fact that we have lived in a 50/50 nation for nearly 30 years now and are likely to continue to be closely divided for a long time to come. Progressive leftists cannot understand or accept this (or any) level of dissent.

It's Steven Hayward (of PowerLine fame) in the New York Post. I hope he's right, but I still worry.

THE DIPLOMAD is back! A welcome return.

I LIKE IT: CNN to be renamed the 'Collapsed News Network'.

NOT MUCH: What voters think about Biden's decision to prioritize race, ethnicity for COVID-19 treatments.

And these are Democrats....

THEY'LL BE THE ONES WHO CAN GET JOBS IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR: Half of teachers are considering quitting their jobs.

Republicans should show some spine and use this to push (a) push for vouchers and (b) end teacher certification requirements.

THEY DON'T LIKE BEING TOLD THEY'RE CROOKS: Washington state Gov.Jay Inslee [D(umb)] is “announcing my support for legislation currently being written that would outlaw attempts by candidates and elected officials to spread lies about free and fair elections when it has the likelihood to stoke violence.”

THEY'RE BACKPEDALING AS FAST AS THEY CAN: Now they tell us.

I'm not sure of the province of the quote, but "the collapse starts slowly, then suddenly." I hope think we're entering the 'suddenly' phase.

NOT WHO YOU MIGHT THINK: Who are the insurrectionists?

BUT ... BUT YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO ANYTHING WITHOUT 'EXPERT' HELP: Mike Pompeo has a healthy lesson for Americans to hear.

MORE BUREAUCRATIC COVIDIOCY:

Hospitals across the U.S. are turning to foreign nurses as healthcare workers are fired over vaccine mandates.

Nearly twice as many military members died from suicide from July through September than from coronavirus since pandemic's start.

Biden administration guidance prioritizes race in administering COVID drugs.

It will never end until real America tells the bureaucrats to shut up, go away, and goes back to normal life.

BLACK PEOPLE IN LOS ANGELES lack access to guns as the wealthy rush to buy them.

Must be those 'wealthy' white supremacists....

AS I NOTED in my earlier post, the death rate from the omicron coronavirus variant is almost zero.

RED STATE: the continuing COVIDiocy.

JOHN HINDERAKER has thoughts about the Democrats' emphasis on January 6th to distract from the fact that voter fraud is an important part of the Democrats’ electoral strategy.

The consensus behind election integrity is strong, and the fact that the Democrats’ “reforms” are intended to facilitate voter fraud is obvious. Let’s fight this issue at the ballot box in 2022.

He's right.

DR. DOOM ON OMICRON: In a few weeks we're going to have a hard time keeping everyday life operating.

I don't think so. In a few weeks, we're going back to pre-pandemic normalcy where when you get sick you stay home for a few days till you're feeling a bit better, then get back to life. It's already starting.

AMMO GRRRLL waxes philosophic, and it's hilarious.

I'M A GLOBALIST; I'M ELIGIBLE TO RUN FOR ANYTHING I WANT ANYWHERE I WANT. Nicholas Kristof, 37 years a columnist for the New York Times, vows to challenge ‘politically motivated' ruling that he's ineligible for Oregon governor bid.

A PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE tweeted that this upcoming semester he will be 'ungrading' and 'unteaching.'

Satire? I'm not convinced.

SURE, IT'S ALL FOR THE STUDENTS: Chicago teachers' union delegate vows to report members who show up for work.

MAYBE SHE SHOULD RETHINK HER FEALTY TO DEMOCRAT IDEALS: COVID school policies set me adrift from my tribe.

NON SEQUITUR on Facebook's meathead improvement program.

COVID LOGIC FROM THE LEFT: a pandemic of the uneducated.

PEOPLE ARE DYING, but not the ones you think for the reasons you think.

Expect it to get worse -- and your insurance rates go up.

RANDOM THOUGHT about January 6th and our gentry ruling class: Rioting with our approval is 'mostly peaceful protest'; rioting without our approval is 'INSURRECTION1!.

SOME THOUGHTS ON THE CORONAVIRUS 'PANICDEMIC'. Here are four charts taken from the data I've been maintaining since the start of the coronavirus panicdemic (that spelling is on purpose) in May of 2019. These charts are strictly from the Biden administration -- January 21, 2021 through January 6, 2022 -- and not the entire data set.

On January 21, 2021 there were a total of 25,171,717 confirmed cases and 419,603 confirmed deaths, for a cumulative death rate of 1.67% since I started maintaining daily data on May 14, 2019. Starting from that point, here's the data through January 6th of this year. The first two charts are cumulative.

Confirmed cases (infections) and deaths both show a basically linear rise (red dashed lines) over time; about 97,000 cases and 1,200 deaths daily.

Until the omicron variant popped up, roughly in early to mid-December.

At that point confirmed cases rose sharply -- and are still rising at this posting -- at a rate of roughly 320,000 cases/day (up 230%), but the death rate has increased only modestly to about 1,400/day (up 16%).

The number of daily deaths has varied wildly (this data has been smoothed) over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, but has been remarkably consistent as a percentage of cases as shown in the chart below.

The blue line is the cumulative percentage, computed daily as the cumulative deaths/cumulative cases. It's been consistently in the 1.6%-1.7% range, and is just now beginning to drop as the omicron strain becomes dominant.

Red dots are the daily death data points, and the green dots are the 7-day smoothed data from the chart above.

My thoughts, for what they're worth, in no particular order:

The 'COVIDiot Panicdemic' was brought to you to maintain its power and control by the mostly Democrat deep state in accordance with Rahm Emmanuel's "never let a crisis go to waste" philosophy. That's not a conspiracy theory, just an observation about the greed and inflated sense of superiority (hubris) of America's gentry class.

It is likely that of the 800-thousand plus deaths over the last nearly three years, half or more were with COVID, not of COVID. Here's some recent anecdotal evidence.

COVID has primarily been a killer of the aged and infirm. If I'm reading the data correctly, almost 90% of the deaths were of people over age 50; 65% over age 65.
According to Stastica about 16.6% (55 million) Americans are over 65; they 'contributed' 64% (about 550,000) deaths to the COVID count. The other 83.4% (275 million) Americans only 'contributed' 310,000 (0.113%) deaths.

Given the last chart on percentage of fatalities, the COVIDiot Panicdemic' is over. Even with skyrocketing infections with the omicron varient, fatalities are down, way down, in every demographic, nearing 0.2% in January. COVID has become a mild seasonal endemic to be treated as we have colds, flu, etc. in the past.

I've been tracking the 'panicdemic' almost daily for nearly three years now. Lockdowns didn't work, masking didn't work, and now vaccines aren't working. Mandates from above didn't, don't, and won't work. Theraputics, frowned on and uniformly dissed by our gentry ruling class, do work.

It's time to tell them -- gently if possible, ungently if not -- to shut up, go away and get back to normal life.

And now back to regularly unscheduled blogging....

ELECTIONS CANNOT BE LEFT UP TO THE STATES: Rep. James Clyburn [D-SC] defends federal takeover of elections.

Just because you’ve got one little nugget that was true back in 1876 doesn’t mean that that is true in 1976 .... This country has matured. This is not the same country it was over 200 years ago. We as a people must mature right along with it."

Yeah, left to themselves, those foolish citizens serfs might vote for Republicans....

NONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE BLACK. And that is a shame.

Read it all; it's not what you might think from the lede.

IF WE CHOOSE TO REBEL, you'll know it.

For certain....

WHERE IS 'ROCK BOTTOM'? Biden’s net favorable rating now lower than Trump’s.

Much lower. Here's the data, taken from Rasmussen's Presidential Approval Index for the first year of each of the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations:

In passing, note that the Trump approval index crossed above that of Obama at the beginning of the second year and remained above for the remaining three years despite the Democrats' continuing war against Trump.

So, what is Biden's rock bottom? Biden's base (those strongly approving) seems to be around 20%, slowly declining to (my guess) about 15%. Those strongly disapproving seem to be remaining in the 45%-50% range, slowly creeping up, and without much distance between 'disapproving' and 'strongly disapproving' -- about 8% or so.

The middle, those who neither strongly approve nor strongly disapprove, seems to be hovering about the 30% level.

My guess is that rock bottom for Biden is minus 40, assuming that the Biden base (strongly approving) drops to the 15% level and the middle drifts more to the disapproving side. More likely in my estimation is that the Biden base will remain and disapprovals will increase, with the bottom being in the minus 32 to 35 level.

More to come as time flies....

DESANTIS CALLS MEDIA’S JAN 6 COVERAGE ‘nauseating,’ and a ‘politicized Charlie Foxtrot’.

For those of you unfamiliar with the military, 'Charlie Foxtrot'is slang for a poorly-managed operation, or 'clusterfuck'.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures plays the dating game this week. But first, my favorite by a country mile:

Now go see the rest.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY: Man herds sheep into giant COVID syringe shape to promote shots.

Why be cruel to these animals? There must be plenty of sheeple to abuse....

BALONEY. Liz Cheney says Jan 6 Committee goal isn't to prevent ‘Trump 2024’.

CLEARLY NOT: Has Dr. Fauci learned his lesson?

He should be immediately removed from his position as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), forcibly retired and forever denied any future position of medical authority.

BECAUSE FREELOADERS VOTE FOR THEM: Democrats reject work ethic, embrace freeloaders.

DOING SOMETHING RIGHT: Texas election audit identifies nearly 12,000 foreigners suspected of registering to vote.

LOCKDOWNS KILL: A 40% increase in working age (18-64) non-COVID deaths.

True -- And I've seen it, and felt it, in my own small neighborhood.

JANUARY 6 IN PICTURES: Democrat-Media overreach edition.

AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD: Unvaccinated man feeling left out as all his vaccinated friends have COVID.

HOW FAR WILL THE LEFT GO to keep criminals out of jail?

Only as far as the entrances to their gated communities (example, the Jan. 6 'insurrection').

AMERICAN THINKER: Should Donald Trump run in 2024?

As far as Trump running again, to me age is not an issue. But I do agree with the author that America would be better served with someone else running for President (DeSantis?) and Trump devoting his energy to building up the Republican base (Congress, governors, mayors, district attorneys, and state representatives) to ensure that America will remain 'great again'.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Thinking about my earlier on Florida turning red post, I worry that with red states turning redder, blue states will turn bluer and we'll soon be in Kurt Schlichter's Kelly Turnbull dystopia.

That scares me.

ELECTORAL 'INTEGRITY' FOR ME; just not for thee.

'SCIENCE' FACT: COVID stopped global warming in its tracks. Seen anything in the mainstream media lately? SCIENCE FACT: The Climatistas forgot the sun was shining.

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO FACEBOOK: The 'Heroes Of Liberty' children's books and Ronald Reagan are disruptive content and must be canceled.

SIX BASIC CONCEPTS liberals don't get:

1. Science is never settled.
2. Stimulus spending stimulates only government growth.
3. Welfare spending doesn't cure poverty; it creates it.
4. Racism cannot be eliminated with racism.
5. Biological sex is not a choice God has granted us.
6. Reality is not fungible.

Because they never grew up. Now read the whole thing.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Who are the real insurrectionists?

And why isn't Attorney General Merrick Garland going after them?

Because reasons....

I CAN'T IMAGINE WHY: Joy Reid is losing her 7pm show at MSNBC.

It's not firm yet, but I get the sense that the bottom line isn't supporting her....

KURT SCHLICHTER: Democrats please throw us into the filibuster briar patch.

I suspect he's right but the Law of Unintended Consequences (i.e., there are always some) pops up in some really strange places. I'd prefer a less confrontational approach although I'd really enjoy sticking it to 'em in 2024 and beyond....

DIARY of a traumatized journalist.

It's satire -- I think.

JOURNALISM, THEN AND NOW

Seen on Twitter here.

LARRY P. ARNN: The way out.

Here are two questions pertinent to our times: (1) How would you reduce the greatest free republic in history to despotism in a short time? and (2) How would you stop that from happening? The answer to the first question has been provided in these last two disastrous years. The answer to the second has begun to emerge in recent months. Both are worthy of study.

The answer to the first question is that it wasn't a short time; the answer to the second question can be put in a single word -- resist!

BENNY HILL HAD HIS THEME MUSIC, and now [Dr!]Jill Biden does, too.

LIZ CHENEY REVEALS the true purpose of the J6 Committee: impeachment by another name.

IMPRIMIS: Zuckerbucks and the 2020 election. Read the whole thing; it's worrisome to say the least.

And I'll point out I'm from Georgia. I watched the Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb, and DeKalb county results in real time; they were obviously highly suspicious. And nothing -- nothing! -- was done.

RETIRED [THANK GOD] GENERAL TO TRUMP SUPPORTERS IN THE MILITARY: Stop listening to the My Pillow guy and get edjumacated¹.

Mike Lindell is smart; Gen. Steven Anderson is not.

¹The misspelling is intentional.

HEH: Florida is turning red.

Maybe Instapundit's Welcome Wagon project isn't as necessary as we thought, though I'm inclined to support it anyway. Instapundit does.

More here.

HAPPY INSURRECTION DAY!

I'm waiting for the photoshop of them raising the flag at Iwo Jima....

Linked stolen from this Instapundit post.

HE FLIES AIR FARCE FORCE ONE:

Linked from this Daily Gouge post.

BLUE AMERICA has a messaging problem.

No they don't; they're finally being open and honest. They hate us. They really, really hate us.

PROGRESSIVISM ON STEROIDS: A dry run for tyranny.

OOPSIE: Virginia traffic jam provides reminder of limitations of electric cars.

WELL, HE'S JUST TRYING TO PROLONG CALIFORNIA'S LOCKDOWN: Rep. Eric Swalwell the latest blue-state Democrat spotted maskless in mandate-free Florida.

SHE (AND THEY) WILL FAIL: Liz Cheney reveals the true purpose of the J6 comittee.

"PUSHBACK": Fauci says CDC may update new quarantine guidance again due to criticism. Because politics, not science:

The greatest danger from the new variant isn’t that it’ll kill the infected but that it’ll send so many of them to their sickbeds simultaneously that entire industries will break down. Including ones that civilization can’t do without, like police and firefighters.

These numbnuts couldn't find their asses with both hands tied behind their backs - and we pay them to tell us what to do?

RAND PAUL quits YouTube censorship. Read the comments.

Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has been forced off Twitter; she is now calling for all Congressional Republicans to abandon Twitter as well, a recommendation I strongly encourage. (I would quit Twitter myself, but to my credit I never started.)

RACE DISCRIMINATION IN COVID TREATMENT: It isn’t only New York.

Cautionary note, which I think is universally applicable: Whenever people explicitly say they do not discriminate, it typically means they do. The more they repeat the phrase, the more flagrant the discrimination.

NOTHING: The really, really hard thing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accomplished in 2021.

Can she outdo herself in 2022? I expect so.

Reminder: I never use 'AOC' to refer to her; AOC is reserved for the Association of Old Crows, a respected organization of electronic warfare professionals to which I belonged before retiring in 2015.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ spotted in Miami Beach as New York City records record COVID cases.

You would think that on an annual salary of $174,000 she could afford a better boy toy....

IT'S TIME to abolish teachers unions.

No, it's time to abolish all government unions.

THE HELL WE DON'T: MSNBC host claims that Americans are uninterested in the cost of the lofty Build Back Better social policy package.

NO, THANKS: Living in a winter Fauci wonderland.

No. Never.

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR presents its Idiot of the Year awards (2nd edition).

The first edition is here.

WHICH ONE(S)?: Biden’s broken promise.

SOYLENT GREEN and other things to look forward to if our 'elites' get their way.

POWERLINE'S Loose Ends. Many good points, but this is a clear winner:

More proof (if any is needed) that men make better women....