SERIOUS QUESTION: William Buckley (founder of National Review) has been quoted as saying "I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.”

So, serious question: Would you rather be governed by the Biden administration or some 2,000 people randomly selected from some national telephone directory?

I know what my choice would be.

WELL, HE IS A DEMOCRAT: Charlie Crist is such a putz.

IMPRIMIS explains inflation.

PJ MEDIA'S MORNING BRIEFING is being written by Megan Fox this morning -- hilariously.

IN A TEXAS BORDER TOWN, Democrat officials are re-registering as Republicans. Here's the full article in the New York Times.

Unrelated, but my father was born in Sanderson; his father was a railroad engineer for the train line that passed through there.

GLENN REYNOLDS: How today's 'elites' manipulate control the working class.

It only works as long as the working class is unaware -- and I don't that is (or will ever be) the case again.

POWERLINE'S (a bit late) Week in Pictures, recto-cranial impaction edition. My favorite:

Now go see the rest. Oh, heck -- here's another:

Now go see the rest.

ACCORDING TO HOYT: Gone fishing. Might as well do something as panic ensues....

HERE'S AN INTERESTING ARTICLE: A student sleuth found evidence that our University practices reverse racism; here's why I advised him not to publish it.

When I was teaching, I had a similar student advisee -- academically brilliant, but socially awkward (to be considerate) -- and I still wonder if I gave him good advice.

JOHN KERRY: A climate change distraction.

It must take great skill to be this worthless.

CONGRESS has tested positive for mid-terms.

QUARANTINED:

Why Biden spent the weekend in Delaware....

A POWER GRAB BY THE GLOBALIST ELITES: What is the Great Reset?

Read it all. Carefully.

AN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AFRAID OF ITS CITIZENS: Terrifying truck drivers result in fences going back up on Capitol Hill.

Linked from Instapundit (with more) here.

THAT MUST BE A SURPRISE TO MICROSOFT: Bill Gates [Foundation] funnels $1M to push ‘math is racist’ narrative.

HEH. Day by Day calls him resident Biden. Seems like a pretty accurate assessment to me.

RANDOM THOUGHT ON THE UKRAINE CRISIS: We do live in 'interesting times'. On one side, a madman; on the other, a moron.

BLUNTLY PUT, Ukraine is the fault of the gentry West.

DEMOCRATS, THIS IS WHAT YOU GOT when you voted Nov. 3, 2020.

Are you happy now?

GO AHEAD AND SEND MY TERMINAL TO UKRAINE: Elon Musk says SpaceX’s Starlink satellites active over Ukraine after request from embattled country’s leaders.

My terminal is still on order, but I'll happily give up my space in line to send another terminal to Ukraine. It's the least I can do.

MALLARD FILLMORE: She must be watching 'The View'.

PJ MEDIA'S CHARLIE MARTIN: A quick-and-dirty Durham explainer. It's worth a careful read for the intel information.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: the gathering storm in the West.

THE DIPLOMAD UNLOADS ON UKRAINE AND CANADA (MOSTLY CANADA). I have to admit to being remiss on visiting the Diplomad regularly as I missed the following posts of his thoughts.

In the order in which they were published you can find them here, here, here, and here.

Read them all.

THE GEEK IN PICTURES: What happened in January 2021?

TRUDEAU BENDS HIS KNEE ... to the truckers?

American truckers should pay attention to the Canadian success: park in public areas; have a block party; decorate the Capitol fence with humorous signs; and make no attempt to go through it.

MLK HAD A DREAM; Critical Race Theory is a nightmare.

YES, WE DO have a serious media.

I would like to laugh, but it really isn't funny.

THE DIPLOMAD: Two words linked in perpetuity.

SO IT'S HUNTER BIDEN'S FAULT? CBS News blames the Ukraine crisis for inflation and rising gas prices.

EFF UP ENOUGH (LAST ITEM) and people notice.

Even Californians.

RUMOR HAS IT THAT SHE'S A CANDIDATE TO replace Rachel Maddow.

This explains a lot about Jen Psaki.

SAMIZDATA quote of the day.

It's only the first; read the comments for more.

THE DUMB LEADING THE DUMBER: We are an unserious country.

Wait ... I got that lede backward. It should read 'The Dumber Leading The Dumb'.

DEMOCRATS, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW? Oil prices break $100/barrel. You voted for it, you got it, you own it .

Unfortunately, when the tsunami hits, it doesn't distinguish between the innocent and the guilty. And it's the innocents who will bear the burden....

WE'RE GOING TO PRINT MORE (WELFARE) MONEY just for you.

DEMOCRATS ARE BUILDING A WALL to keep protesting truckers out.

I hope the truckers will bring chains and locks to keep the Democrats in....

EVEN HIS OWN TEAM wants to rebut President Biden's State of the Union speech.

You can't make this shit up.

GENTRY-CLASS PROTESTORS get participation medals instead.

RASMUSSEN APPROVAL INDEX for President Biden from his inauguration through February 21, 2022.

The green line is total approvals; the red line is total disapprovals. The difference today (Feb. 24th) is 15 points.

Usually in a crisis (Ukraine, anyone?) the President's approval goes up. It'll be interesting to see what happens over the next week or two.

PORTRAIT OF A MASKED COVIDIOT:

'Nuff said....

SO TRUE: Checking boxes is the chief day-to-day function of the whole diversity racket.

Along with building new boxes to check....

I WANT ONE: Democrat Congressman suggests the redistribution of trucks. And a flatbed trailer, too.

IF I DON'T GET MY WAY it must be white supremacy.

They're the reasons why idiots are called 'idiots'.

SO GEESE ARE NAZIS? Canadian MP thinks there's a crazy hidden message in Freedom Convoy honking.

IF NOT NOW, WHEN? We must save our Nation from elitist authoritarians.

Read it all. Then act.

DECOLONIZE UNIVERSITIES. Don't go.

NINETY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD QUEEN ELIZABETH II continues 'light duties' with COVID, yet American kids must isolate and quarantine.

Is there something wrong with this picture?

SO MUCH FOR THE PEONS. Money talks and mandates walk.

Peons are replaceable.

FORCED? “As mask mandates fall, more and more people will be forced to do their own balancing of risks and benefits.”

I don't think the journalidiots (new word) at the Washington Post realize that most Americans (who are not 'woke') actually prefer it that way.

PROVE CANCEL CULTURE WORKS: Cancel liberals.

THE MSNBC SHIP is mired in the mud (in both senses of the word) and the tide is rising.

BECAUSE TRANSPARENCY IS SOOO LAST ADMINISTRATION: Why is the CDC hiding so much Covid data?

AND A WORSE 'WOMAN': Lia Thomas is a bad man.

CALIFORNIA TYRANTS SELF-IDENTIFY: Only the vaxxed can work.

For the rest, there's plenty of room on the beaches, streets, parks, and underpasses....

DOUBLING DOWN OF STUPID: Vax mandates don’t work but we’re sticking with them anyway.

The most rational explanation, but one Mayor Adams can't express out loud, is that we're gradually trying to return NYC's woke covidiots to some semblance of sanity.

BECAUSE CNN ONLY REPORTS MISINFORMATION: CNN stoped reporting on its favorite boogeyman.

I SAID they were credentialed, not educated. Here's proof.

THANKS, GUYS, FOR PAYING ATTENTION to my suggestion. DC trucker convoy plans on shutting down Capital Beltway.

IT SHOULD: This seems to have attracted unfavorable attention from the [Tennessee] legislature.

I would certainly hope so, since my granddaughter is a student there.

OH, YES, the vaccines are 'highly effective'. High COVID Priest Fauci says so....

THIS RESPONSE to a story about the Democrats' toxic brand in rural America explains perfectly why the Democrats' brand is so toxic.

The argument that rural voters are reacting to 'lies and conspiracies' is nonsense written by someone who's never been out of his family's basement. The fact is that we have televisions too, and see all to much of life in urban centers. Roberts and his sycophants have lived outside their cloistered wassl or held a real job.

The comment about Fairfax County in Virginia is especially irritating. Yes, the 'immigrants' to Fairfax tend to be younger and ethnically diverse. But highly educated? Utter nonsense -- in any rational interpretation of educated, the better statement is highly credentialed.

I would disagree with the author on a single point -- the Democrats should definitely not send David Roberts into rural areas to drum up votes.

WHAT IS A WOMAN? Ask the question; watch the left-wing gender ideology collapse.

BECAUSE THEY WOULD LOSE THEIR ABILITY TO VIRTUE SIGNAL: NBC reporter frets Democrats won't get their base used to 'back to normal' life. Case in point The View's Joy Behar.

AN IMMORAL POSITION: Los Angeles County to fire 4,000 unvaccinated deputies amid crime wave.

In an unrelated post, I suggested that Occam's Razor (never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity) was relevant. In this case, Occam's Razor doesn't apply -- this is malice evil, pure and simple.

NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS SUBWAY SAFETY PLAN calls for outreach workers -- including nurses.

Have they thought about allowing/encouraging passengers to carry concealed? That would be far more effective....

RANDOM THOUGHT: Today is National Wish We Had A President day.

Update: so celebrate.

HE [PRESIDENT BIDEN] isn't all there.

He never was and still a "majority" of morons voted for him.

EVER NOTICE government only moves fast when it's against its own citizens?

You have to scroll back one cartoonto get the full impact.

SO I PRESUME IT'S OKAY to post "Fuck Joe Biden and the ass he rode."

DREAM ON: Biden's State of the Union address will turn this midterm disaster around.

YEAH, WE'RE GONNA CHANGE THE NAME FROM 'PANDEMIC' TO 'ENDEMIC' and do nothing different.

WHY OUR GENTRY CLASS doesn't like transparency.

CONFIRMED: HILLARY IS RUNNING AGAIN. Ghislaine Maxwell’s family ‘fears for her safety’ after Epstein “pimp” Jean-Luc Brunel found hanged.

A YEAR WITHOUT RUSH LIMBAUGH: Five lessons he left us. Here's the gist:

[W]e are the most dangerous people in America – to the left. They may at the moment control the institutions, the levers of power, and much of the media, but we have them surrounded. And they know it.

Read it all.

GOOGLE IS ADOPTING PRIVACY CHANGES on Android similar to the ones Apple made on iPhone that cost Facebook billions of dollars.

My iPhone is already set to 'max privacy', my Android phone is rarely used, and I've never been on Facebook, so if Facebook goes bankrupt (it won't) I won't be the least bit unhappy.

SEEMS SORT OF OBVIOUS TO ME: America’s ruling regime doesn’t fear disinformation. It fears truth.

Linked from Instapundit.

ADAM CAROLLA on why our gentry elitists don't wear masks: "You know how I talk out of my ass ... Well, I can breathe out of it too."

That explains why their diapers are hidden out of sight....

EVEN IN AND FRANCISCO: Pushing back against wokeism.

THANKFULLY FORMER REP. MAX ROSE [D-NY] claims U.S. is the 'Saudi Arabia of White supremacist ideology.

Are these Democrats really as stupid as they sound?

I'll go with Occam's Razor here: never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity.

MORE PLEASE: Ten times legal gun owners thwarted crimes in life-threatening situations.

CANADIAN TRUCKER ON JUSTIN TRUDEAU: He doesn't understand the 'working class'.

But, but ... Trudeau doesn't need to understand -- or talk to -- the working class; he knows what's best for them. His job is to rule; their job is to obey.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Government-funded work is the last resort of the worthless.

Yeah, I know it's an overstatement, but after watching Canada's Justin Trudeau, America's Joe Biden, various Governors (Newsom, Pritzker, Cuomo/Hochul, Walz, Brown, Whitmer, Inslee), big city mayors (Garcetti, Lightfoot, Adams/DeBlasio) and other local apparatchiks (think woke school boards) it's hard to believe that any of the above could possibly hold a real job for any length of time.

In my over 50 years of employment I've seen more than a few worthless employees quietly moved upstairs to positions of more visibility and less actual authority. I think that's been largely true in politics as well; elect the useless mayor, where he may have some actual authority, to a, say, legislative spot where individual authority is much diminished.

Unfortunately, there's only a limited number of such spots available, and not enough movement of the current incompetents. Instapundit favors enlarging the House of Representatives; based on the increasing need to house 'woke' incompetents I'm inclined to agree (though perhaps I'd prefer state and local legislative bodies).

AMMO GRRRLL TAKES A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE: the Vikings, the Super Bowl, and the Canadian Truckers.

[T]he stupid, avaricious politicians, the craven media stars, the occasional has-been actress or Diversity Drone – all believe they have a sacred duty to run the lives of the “little people” who stock their grocery shelves, fix their hair, repair their high-end vehicles, grow their organic kale, and shlep it to market by truck, etc.

So if those snotty elites say that masks are for the servant class so as not to breathe their deplorable cooties upon the maskless diners at The French Laundry, or the fake Georgia governor, Anastaceyia Abrams (Stacey for short) at a classroom photo op, then, the Permanently Masked Ones better obey.

But the Great Awakening is happening, and we won't.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Vladimir Putin is living rent-free in Joe Biden's head.

The Biden Administration is desperate for a war in Ukraine to distract Americans from its almost(?) criminal ineptitude. I seem to remember the Administration almost gleefully announcing that Putin would invade at 3 am on the 16th of February ... (check my calendar) ... over three days ago.

I seriously doubt Russia will invade Ukraine -- not in the near term, at least -- Putin's having too much fun making the Biden Administration look like the jackasses they are on the world stage.

I'll even offer a bit of (totally uninformed) speculation on my part: Russia and Ukraine will settle without U.S. 'help'. Russia will get a bit of separatist Ukraine; Ukraine will agree to never try to join NATO; and the Russia/Ukraine border will becoma a free trade zone similar to that of the European Union.

IT'S OVER: The great awakening has come.

I'm reminded of an aphorism sometimes attributed to Ernest Hemingway: slowly at first, then all at once. I'm now convinced that the great Left-Right pendulum has hit peak Left, stopped, started to swing back, and is rapidly gaining momentum.

I hope I'm correct.

ACCORDING TO HOYT: You short-sighted goat-fornicating pre-K dropouts.

It's longish, dead on target, and hilarious. Read it all.

'THE VIEW' COHOST JOY BEHAR plans to mask up indefinitely in public places.

May I suggest she use a paper sack for a mask? Held in place with duct tape?

YOU'LL NEVER GUESS who's in charge of the $60 million in Black Lives Matter assets. Well,

To the rescue comes the Bill and Hillary Clinton cavalry. The Washington Examiner reports that several Clinton associates have taken up key positions at BLM, including Democratic Party fixer Mark Elias. It was Elias who funneled money to fund Christopher Steele’s discredited anti-Trump dossier and served as Hillary’s 2016 campaign general counsel.

Elias’s newly formed law firm is reportedly located at one of BLM’s addresses and states in its short-year 2020 Form 990 that its finances are now in the care of the Elias Law Group.

I'm surprised, too.

TOILET FLUSHED: NFL was 'aware' Eminem was going to kneel during Super Bowl halftime performance.

My earlier random thought about Super Bowl LVI wokesterism causing it to swirl around the toilet bowl is here.

DOUBLING DOWN: Biden names two scientists to replace bullying top advisor Eric Lander.

LUNATIC TRUDEAU SUPPORTERS are getting dangerous.

It's what happens when you let the Left close the nuthouses insane asylums.

THANKS ELON: Fight the power.

Now I have no idea whether or not Musk had anything at all to do with the Starlink terminal installation, but I would not be the least bit surprised if he did.

RANDOM THOUGHT: It happened so slowly I didn't notice when incompetence and government became synonymous.

NEW ORLEANS MOTHER AND IRAQ WAR VETERAN pulls gun on man trying to enter her car.

I can understand why she didn't (paperwork is such a bitch!) but still she should have shot him.

TOWNHALL: America is better than this.

Yes, America writ large is better, but our leadership (if you can call it that) is much, much worse.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Military diversity, equity, and inclusion lives up to its acronym.

IN AN EARLIER POST, I suggested the term 'Twitler' as a new name for progressive Left politicians and their factotums at all levels of government.

Now it's time to add 'Twitwits' to my lexicon for the mindless ingenuity of their progressive followers. Here's an example.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ IS AN IDIOT: says Texas turning blue is inevitable during campaign stop.

More proof (if any is needed) that Boston University is no longer an educational institution; it's a woke kindergarten.

NOT FALL GUY; FALL PERSON: Kamala Harris dispatched to Munich conference to talk Ukraine.

By the bye, Munich is where Neville Chamberlain gave Czechoslovakia to Hitler.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Why ideology is the ancient enemy of civilization.

GLENN REYNOLDS (INSTAPUNDIT): The Left is losing its war on parents. Key graf:

[T]he people who are supposed to be our society’s leaders, the best and the brightest, the level-headed non-extremists of the establishment — are frankly more than a little bit crazy.

Read it all.

YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP: Washington Post is now claiming that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is a white supremacist conservative.

DAGEN MCDOWELL (on Fox Business channel) today referred multiple times to Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as 'an ego with a haircut'.

The lady has a way with words....

TUCKER CARLSON: How long until Canadian-style tyranny comes to America?

Long, but important. Read it all.

THIS IS HARD TO BELIEVE: Finnish lawmaker being charged for expressing her religious views.

PRIME MINISTER PAJAMA BOY TRUDEAU turns Canada's House of Commons into screaming circus.

Bigots gotta bigot....

OH.MY.LORD. Transit agency becomes an 'anti-racist mobility agency'.

YES, LET'S play by the rules.

It's that double-edged sword thingy again....

RANDOM THOUGHT: Freedom is the new F-word.

WELL, WELL, WELL ... Look who's back on Spotify.

But is anyone listening?

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY (R-LA] speaking about Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau:

If you're going to be a smartass, first you gotta be smart.
Otherwise you're just an ass.

Seen on television today.

TWITLERS (TWIT + HITLER): My new name for the 'woke' progressive Left; particularly those in public office.

RANDOM THOUGHT: If the national IQ were to be measured in terms of Super Bowl ads and halftime entertainment, it would now be circiling the toilet.

I HOPE THERE'S A LAWSUIT IN THE WORKS: City of Boston apologizes for ‘accidentally’ emailing out names of unvaccinated employees.

THE DIPLOMAD WRITES on the Canadian truck convoy. Read.

JOE BIDEN: Stupid or liar?

I don't think the two words are incompatible.

YES, OUR 'STRONG LETTER' IS ALREADY WRITTEN: Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterates vow for swift response if Putin invades Ukraine.

INTERESTING NOTE: It took six months (i.e., Super Bowl LVI) to break the Dish/NBC network impasse ... money talks. Lots of money talks louder.

Sarcasm intended.

HEH:

Appreciating the hypocrisy of the socialist Left....

BABYLON BEE: Clarence Thomas surprised to hear how important Black representation on SCOTUS is.

Satire? Or straight reporting? You make the call.

MORGAN ORTAGUS: Answering the call to service.

POUND SAND: GiveSendGo mocks Ontario government’s effort to freeze Freedom Convoy Donations.

“Know this! Canada has absolutely ZERO jurisdiction over how we manage our funds here at GiveSendGo,” the site said in a statement on Twitter. “All funds for EVERY campaign on GiveSendGo flow directly to the recipients of those campaigns, not least of which is The Freedom Convoy campaign.”

Push Punch back.

LIBERAL CNN PUNDIT doesn't even bother trying to spin Biden's reaction to inflation.

CNN isn't up to Olympic-level spinning....

RANDOM THOUGHT: 'Mixed messages' is Biden administration Newspeak for incoherent.

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR:

San Francisco man claims city practically pays to be homeless.

Questions: How much in taxes and how many bureaucrats does it take to keep a person homeless?

ONLY AFTER NANCY PELOSI OPENS UP HER MANSION: Should Bay Area residents house the homeless (in their homes)?

IT'S OVER: Polling gets Democrats to finally begin their COVID retreat.

AMMO GRRRLL HAS THOUGHTS about America then and now. Her thoughts are mostly about her father and the military, but this comment stood out, especially today:

“Consistency has never been a mark of stupidity. If they were merely stupid, they would occasionally make a mistake in our favor.”

That said, read it all.

ME TOO:

Linked from here.

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN: Idiots come in all colors.

FIRST IT WAS SEN. KENNEDY [R-LA] insulting garden pests, now Sarah Hoyt is insulting walnuts.

WE NEVER SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN RID OF MENTAL HOSPITALS: Ice fishing could lead to prostitution.

AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD: Jen Psaki says everyone will have to show proof of vaccination before receiving free crack pipe.

Related: I haven't received my free (but unreliable Chinese-manufactured) coronavirus test kit either....

WHITE HOUSE issues warning (get out now; we won't protect you) to Americans in Ukraine and sounds new alarm on possible Russian invasion (soon).

'All hat, no cattle' as we used to say when I lived in Texas. All the Biden administration can do is talk, bully, blame, and whine; it's completely incapable of actually doing anything.

Reminder: Never underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Our next President should must abolish every department in the government that has any of the words 'diversity, equity, inclusion' in its name.

HOW MUCH LONGER will the Democrats with bylines (i.e., mainstream media)continue to support Joe Biden?

NEWSMAX: The White House is dispatching Vice President Kamala Harris to Europe to lead the response to the Ukraine crisis.

To pick up Hunter's final paycheck? Or because she hasn't gotten her cut yet?

Added. A quote just heard on the news: "She couldn't empty water from a boot if instructions were written on the heel."

And another thought. Now we know why our military has deployed to Ukraine -- to bring her out when the shooting starts....

EVEN IF HE WINS, it won't make a significant difference.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Handbook for carrying a firearm in your vehicle.

In my neck of the woods it should be for NOT carrying a firearm in your vehicle.

THESE PEOPLE ARE BATSHIT CRAZY: Wisconsin Democrat says parents who want 'a say' in children's education should homeschool or pay for private.

WASHINGTON STATE REPRESENTATIVE exempts Native Americans from life jacket bill because they're 'very used to our cold waters'.

I identify as Native American....

EASTBOUND: U.S. truck convoy being planned could be headed for Washington DC.

I hope it will be long enough to shut down the I-495 beltway around Washington.

OLD BETO: "HELL YES, WE WILL TAKE YOUR AR-15." New Beto: Hell yes, we won't take your AR-15.

KURT SCHLICHTER: The GOP must adopt a 'No Prisoners' agenda for 2023.

[T]he application of the Democrats’ new rules during the pre-new president interregnum may make the Democrats yearn for the old rules. They will cry, we will laugh. But, after they have sufficiently suffered – for they must suffer to train them that they never, ever get a free pass – we can discuss going back to the old rules.

Republicans, this is life and death. Do not go soft.

And read it all.

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY [R-LA]: "More people trust Dr. Pepper than Dr. Fauci." Seen on Fox's Faulkner Focus today.

BERNIE SANDERS ON DEMOCRATS' STALLED AGENDA: 'We have not been addressing the needs of the American people.'

What he fails to understand is that it's the Democrat agenda that is 'not addressing the needs' of the American people. He should move back to Russia (if they would have him -- which they won't).

BREAKING: Sen. John Kennedy [R-LA] insults garden pests.

Watch the video.

CAN YOU SAY 'MIDTERMS'? There is a simple reason why Biden officials are revising the Covid hospitalization numbers.

A little early perhaps, but expected.

THE ENTIRE ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF OF LOUDON COUNTY SCHOOLS should be fired immediately. Without exception.

I wouldn't complain if they fired all the teachers as well....

EUROPE SHOULD CUT OFF ZUCKERBERG PREEMPTIVELY: Facebook threatens to cut off Europe after huge losses.

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said, “I can confirm that life is very good without Facebook and that we would live very well without Facebook.”

Goodbye, Facebook. And good riddance.

MEDIA: Go truck yourself.

Read it all.

CNN: The most busted name in news.

Kudos if you can watch it all the way to the end. I couldn't.

BIDEN CABINET MEMBER resigns after admitting to disrespectful behavior.

Apparently Biden's 'immediate firing' diktat only applied to the little people in his administration.

INTERESTING MEDICAL NEWS: Researchers discover two treatments that induce peanut allergy remission in children.

I have a granddaughter with peanut allergies, so perhaps there's a cure in her future.

CANADIAN TRUCKERS emulate national hero Terry Fox. And how did these supposed trucking “yahoos” behave? Very well, thank you.

As Tucker Carlson reported, the evidence shows the truckers shovelling snow from sidewalks, playing pick-up hockey, cleaning up trash, and singing the national anthem. The chasm between the working class and the permanent political class, the salt of the earth and the pontificating aristocrats, laborers and loafers, patriotism and virtue-signalling, honor and dishonor, truth and lies could not have been clearer.

The question needs to be posed. Who are the real yahoos? Who are the real defacers and defamers? Who are the real thieves and grifters and hypocrites? Who are those who inspire genuine disgust?

The answer is self-evident. Read it all.

IN GEORGIA STACEY ABRAMS RECEIVES BACKLASH for posing maskless with room full of young masked children.

Apparently her race card was rejected and she wound up having to apologize.

MASK KAREN SCREECHES; gets ignored.

Gov. Youngkin [R-VA] has class; I wouldn't have been so kind.

GLENN REYNOLDS: Truckers are starting a working-class revolution.

If truckers quit their jobs, society would immediately collapse. If politicians quit their jobs, the world would become a better place. We need truckers more than anybody else.

The Left is going bonkers because it's now obvious that the laptop class is worthless.

AMMO GRRRLL: Make new friends and keep the old.

NO SURPRISE: Study finds enhanced jobless benefits prolong unemployment.

CARJACKERs gets carjacked.

It's a pity the carjackers didn't go after a bigger truck....

OF COURSE NOT: Will Democrats ever learn?

HERE’S A PLEDGE you’ll want your congressional candidate to make.

SOME NEWS to brighten your day.

AFGHAN OPIUM PRODUCTION skyrockets under the Taliban.

I wonder if the Mexican drug cartels are okay with that. If they're not, I wouldn't get in the way....

REMINDER: CNN is a clown network run by creeps.

Tucker Carlson agrees. Hilariously.

HAVE WE REACHED peak stupidity yet?

Don't hold your breath (heh).

KURT SCHLICHTER: Will we end up invading Canada?

I think the more realistic scenario is that the 'deplorables' and 'unacceptables' (i.e., normals) will combine to take their respective countries back. Governments may have bigger guns, but we normals have many more.

NINE RESPONSES you should use when the mask police come for you.

Short summary: "I'm too important to follow my own rules." Or "Rules are for 'little people'. I'm not little people."

THE TIDE IS TURNING: New York City high school fires teacher for 'politically charged' tweet about gunned down cops.

UNMASKING the lab leak 'conspiracy' theory. The video is about 10 minutes long.

THE DIPLOMAD IS ON A ROLL: Here he is on cancel torpedoes, Canada's 'unacceptables', and peaceful revolts.

POWERLINE'S MIDWEEK IN PICTURES:

Here's another I like:

Now go see the rest.

A SCHOOL SHOOTING you won't be hearing about.

CENSORSHIP is the real pandemic.

PSAKI DIDN'T SPIN HARD ENOUGH: Unexpectedly the U.S. lost 301,000 jobs in January.

A gain of 200,000 was expected.

THEY SHOULD BE THE THOUGHTLESS POLICE: The Thought Police are here.

ONLY PROGRESSIVES CAN BE BLACK: Virginia's Black Caucus blocks GOP delegate from joining because he's 'not Black enough'.

CRAP DOESN'T SELL WELL: Facebook suffers biggest one-day value drop of any US company in history.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ AND THE SQUAD have a cancel-student-debt conflict of interest. And that's why it has no chance of passing muster in Congress.

Or anywhere else, for that matter.

ACCORDING TO HOYT: Truckers are RUSSIAN AGENTS! And other nasty things.

HISTORY REPEATS: "We need to must protect the helpless unwashed masses from themselves!"

Censorship is bad unless self-described “progressives” are doing it.

STUDY: Weed makes you stupid.

Now we know why the Democrats are the stupid party. Not that there was ever any doubt....

SECONDED: Please make a dumb car. My next car is going to be a 1960's era Ford F-150 pickup (assuming I last long enough to afford one).

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ tells Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to make Arizona Republican Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's life as difficult as possible.

Schumer should tell her to go to the back of the room, put on her dunce cap, sit down, and shut up. But he won't, he's got no backbone. Or balls.

BECAUSE THEY HAVE NONE THEMSELVES. Democrats are obsessed with tearing down values.

Bringing everyone down to their values....

KEEP ON TRUCKIN', working class rebels.

Even Gov. Ron DeSantis is on board. I haven't moved yet, but the thought is there....

MORE: Truck on, USA.

Even more.

ANOTHER 'ARTIST' SELF-CANCELS: Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young leaving Spotify.

'STEALTH' OMICRON VARIANT BA.2 is circulating in almost half of U.S.

Expect the pandemic to begin about Labor Day.

If it's not Omicron-S (for stealth) it will be something else.

Margolis isn't wrong.

WEST COAST, MESSED COAST™ – Where do we get our reputation back?

First, at the polls in the elections of 2022 & 2024. Then to the courts to sue those bastards for every dime they can beg, borrow, or steal. Homelessness should be in their future.

INSTAPUNDIT COMMENTS: "The left is an endless fount of astonishingly stupid, socially destructive ideas, promulgated with a psychotic sense of moral urgency. They should be told to shut up and sit down until they can function as adults."

His comments were about this post, which is in fact an 'astonishingly stupid idea'.