MINE WERE 'PRE-WRECKED' BY BIDEN'S LOUSY ECONOMY: Airline labor shortages may wreck your summer travel plans.

TWO FAVORITES from this week's edition of PowerLine's Week in Pictures. Here they are:

Now go see the rest. They're good.

IT WOULD BE HELPFUL if Leftists like President Biden and New York Governor Kathy Hochul read an occasional history book.

THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS ALIVE AND WELL, so we'll tax it to death.

My Congressman, Andrew Clyde, has responded with a counterproposal to eliminate federal excise taxes on firearms and ammunition because no American should ever be taxed on their enumerated rights, on the theory that if the government can tax an individual's constitutional right, it's not really a right at all.

I find his logic appealing.

AMMO GRRRLL writes on the new bipartisan (unfortunately), unconstitutional, much-worse-than-useless Gun Control Act.

EUGENE VOLOKH AT REASON: How should courts evaluate gun regulations after Bruen?

THIS IS THE 'TOLERANT' LEFT on gun control.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Why the Left will cut Biden loose in 2024.

I know they want to, but can they?

KURT SCHLICHTER: The case against Donald Trump 2024.

Schlichter also wrote on the case for Donald Trump earlier this month.

After reading the for and against, my conclusion is that Trump proved to be a great President, America is better off because of him, and would probably be even better off after a second term. But -- and this is a big but -- he would be fought tooth-and-nail by the Deep State establishment for the full four years of his second term.

I will certainly vote for him if he chooses to run, but I hope he chooses instead to let Trump-without-the-mean-tweets (Ron DeSantis) run in his place and concentrate his efforts on finding and supporting Trumpian conservatives at the Congressional, state, and even local levels to build a solid conservative bench for the future.

That would be a worthy legacy.

JANUARY 6 COMMITTEE delaying hearings until July due to ‘additional work’.

I was going to say that obviously they're going to delay until just before the mid-term elections, but no, they chose to double down on insane.

DO SOMETHING!: Why is it that Republicans always add 'stupid' after 'something'?

At least they closed the 'boyfriend' (which is sexist) loophole....

RANDOM THOUGHT: Among those 'sponsored ads' you can't avoid when online I just saw one titled 'Benefits of diagnosing a flat head early'. Too bad Adam Schiff [D(umb)-CA] missed out.

DEAR GOD, NO! Warnock leading Walker by 10 points, Kemp and Abrams tied, according to new poll.

I like Georgia, but not that much....

JUST IN TIME FOR THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS: The COVID ratchet shows up.

NEVER LET A GINNED UP CRISIS GO TO WASTE: Increase funding to protect abortion clinics while abandoning pro-life pregnancy centers.

I think I'd solve the problem by permanently, irreversably, by sterilizing everyone, male, female, and whatever lies in between, who favors abortion as a method of birth control.

PENNSYLVANIA GOV. TOM WOLF'S ENTHUSIASM for Red Flag laws makes a great case against them.

Read the whole thing.

WHAT DO DO? The arrows are killing you but they're also plugging the holes. Read it all.

Where governments are involved, I think starvation is the better option. At least until the desired size is reached.

WOMXN, LATINX — Let’s call the whole thing off.

Otherwise we're discriminating against the blind who can't see the 'distinction'.

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION: Unless a miracle happens, we're D.O.A. and our final destination is dead ahead.

Read it all; then help make a miracle happen.

RISE IN PHILIDELPHIA CARRY PERMITS leads to rise in justified homicides.

From the comments: "Justified homicides are a way of bypassing the Soros DA's...".

Good job, progressives, for helping us keep the recidivism rate down.

WHEN GOVERNMENT HEALTH NANNIES GET THEIR WAY: French government bans outdoor events in a heatwave beause they can't trust the people to take care of themselves.

IF YOUR STATE HAS A 'MONEY FOLLOWS THE STUDENT' LAW, TAKE IT AND RUN FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOL EXIT: Official child abuse.

If it doesn't, demand it in the next election.

IF DEMOCRATS RETAIN CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT, THEN YES: Will your smart devices and apps have a legal duty to report on you?

But only if you're not a protected (by Democrats) class....

RANDOM THOUGHT about ballot counting in Democrat-controlled precincts.

I couldn't find the Abbott & Costello skit online, but it goes like this: The pair has a wad of dollar bills which they've agreed to split down the middle. Bud Abbott has the bills and begins counting them out to Lou Costello: "One dollar for you, one dollar for me. Two dollars for you, one, two dollars for me. Three dollars for you, one, two, three dollars for me ...."

Substitute votes for dollars and you've got the Democrats' process.

WELL, WHEN YOU CANCEL PILOTS.... Why are thousands of flights being canceled at American airports?

Also canceled: flight attendants, airport staff, baggage handlers, and other service personnel.

BECAUSE THEY HAVE SUCH FRAGILE EGOS: NYU nursing school launches course on how to care for LGBTQ+ patients.

NUKE IT FROM ORBIT: Fox & Friends weekend host Pete Hegseth vows to send back Harvard University degree.

And salt the earth after filling in the crater. It's the only way....

WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED? Rep. Adam Schiff [D(umb)-CA] was involved in the latest Capitol complex breach.

Apparently the'Colbert 9' were let go without so much as a slap on the wrist....

[RELATED] Rep. Jake Auchincloss’s chief of staff Timothy Hysom caught defacing posters outside the Capitol complex office of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. No charges filed; not even a hand slap.

Probably high 5's in Democrat enclaves....

IF YOU LIKE STUPID, HERE'S FIRST-CLASS STUPID: Lefties want to burn down the homes of the “defenseless” country boys now.

Where does he think all those guns that he's demanding be confiscated are to be found?
I suggest he be sure to bring an ID so we'll know where to ship his body.

Assuming we care enough to do so; land and backhoes are plentiful in rural America.

GLENN REYNOLDS has a random thought.

Heh.

RELIGIOUS SECULAR FANATICS: The Biden brain(?) trust.

COULDN'T HAPPEN TO A MORE WORTHY GROUP OF PEOPLE: The Washington Post is a hot mess.

BECAUSE THEY'RE NO LONGER VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS: The View's Joy Behar thinks it's important to remember Juneteenth because voting rights are systematically being taken away from blacks.

THE COMING BLACKOUTS: Don't say you weren't warned.

One of the older sayings in modern politics is that the first responsibility of the government is to “keep the lights on and the trains running.” If they fail at that job, they have failed the nation entirely. And they’ll probably wind up with a revolt on their hands.

Not 'probably'.

SARAH HOYT: How about an all tax holiday? I like the cut of her jib.

Be sure to read the comments.

NO, HE'S NOT THE BABYLON BEE, but Larry Elder is just as accurate.

With respect to the difference between a Harvard professor and an idiot, I'd suggest a slightly more general question: What's the difference between a Harvard graduate and a kindergarten dropout? Answer: a whole lot of wasted money.

There's a reason why he's an ex MSNBC host: Enraged Keith Olbermann calls for Supreme Court's dissolution after New York concealed carry ruling.

He's an idiot.

HOPE IS ALL THEY HAVE and they're running on empty.

NON SEQUITUR: The path of least persistence.

On the bright side, Congress doing nothing is probably the best outcome for America....

THERE'S ONE BRIGHT SIDE to the pro-choice promise of a "night of Rage".

At least ... the gasoline for their Molotov cocktails will be much more expensive this time around, thanks to the Biden administration’s energy policies.

Silver linings and all that....

THAT WAS QUICK (2 PM EDT). President Biden calls on Congress to restore Roe v. Wade after SCOTUS overturns decision.

But expected....

LET THE RIOTS BEGIN: Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.

HEH, TOO:

Linked from Instapundit.

THIS ONE IS HARD TO BELIEVE: Clinic turns male blood donor away for refusing to say whether he is pregnant.

Because diversity, equity, inclusion. Now shut up.

JAPANESE WOMEN HAVE BOOBS; feminazis not amused.

IT'S A START: Texas and Arizona send 79 buses full of illegals to Washington DC.

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY PETE BUTTIGIEG says the feds have power to force airlines to hire more workers amid travel delays.

Well, with the coronavirus 'panic'demic they sure as hell proved the federal government has the power to force airlines to fire workers....

He's just pissed off that his flight was canceled. What a wimplet....

GUN CONTROL: The massacre spree that never was.

DAMNED RIGHT IT HAS: Has Biden's economy changed lives?

Mine included....

'WOKE' MATH is an oxymoron. Read it and weep for our children.

STEVEN F. HAYWARD: Biden's bottomless energy foolishness stupidity.

It is impossible to exaggerate the ignorance and hubris — and greed — of the Biden leftists about energy.

I'll concede greed as common to both parties, but ignorance and hubris are Democrat specialties.

HEADING FOR THE ABYSS: The Left is criminal, racist, and sometimes fascist.

Conservatives need to understand the utter bad faith with which the Left conducts itself, and stand up bravely to defend our country from the ravages of the Left.

It's a longish essay, but read it all.

QUIT COMPLAINING: I can afford high gas prices; you can walk.

JUST NOT AFGHANS WHO WORKED FOR US: Biden administration will allow certain Afghans who worked for Taliban into the U.S.

MEET THE AMERICAN who invented the motor home.

And I thought it was Tom Swift with his House on Wheels -- in 1929.

PROGRESSIVE 'SQUAD' MEMBER REP. AYANNA PRESSLEY [D-MA] wants voting age lowered to 16, gun buying age raised to 21.

We'd be better off by raising the voting age to (at least) 21 and lowering the age to buy guns to 16.

BUT, BUT ... WE'VE GOT WIND AND SOLAR: Rolling blackouts are on the way.

And that's the best case.

DON'T TELL ME IT AIN'T ORGANIZED. The order beneath the chaos in San Francisco.

And don't try to tell me the 'authorities' don't know who's behind it....

GUNS AROUND ME BUT NOT AROUND THEE: Biden dismisses idea of arming teachers.

The irony of it all. Here is a man, who personally owns two shotguns and is 24/7 surrounded by armed men and women, some with select-fire [fully automatic] weapons [of war], telling children in classrooms across America that they can't have a single teacher armed with a semiautomatic, limited capacity handgun to protect his/her children.

Imagine that.... --

YES, let's demand Apple pay its 'fair share' of taxes.

CNN ANCHOR 'PUSHAWED': "The state everyone is moving to?" DeSantis press secretary Cristina Pushaw response to CNN anchor Bill Weir for mocking Florida’s government over not pushing COVID-19 vaccines for children under the age of five.

For the record, 'pushawed' is an anagram for 'washed up', which Weir certainly has been and hung out to dry.

RANDOM THOUGHT: If you see racism everywhere you look, it probably means you are the racist.

SO NOW OUR NATIONAL PARKS are racist.

These progressive morons really, really need a good long stay in a insane asylum mental treatment institution....

PROTECT YOURSELF AGAINST MONKEYPOX, wear an onion on your belt.

No, it's not The Onion.

THE NEW NEO: The definition of 'urban'. I linked to it via this Instapundit post. Read the comments at both websites.

HIGH PRICES (AND CONTROL) FOR YOU; stock options for me.

Our Biden administration hard at work to improve our lives....

PROTECTION FOR ME, you're just a replaceable peon.

THE FEDERALIST: Republicans should look to Florida for a lesson in dealing with mainstream media.

BUT OTHER THAN THAT: Six major problems with the green transition that progressives turn a blind eye to.

FROM AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD: Biden administration to provide grief counselors at all gas pumps.

MALLARD FILLMORE: That's the plan.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON writes on the selfish Californian.

He's right. It was noticeable 40-plus years ago even before I moved there (briefly) in the late 90's.

A BIT LATE, but PowerLine's Week in Pictures identifies a new pandemic: carownervirus.

There are many good ones, so make it a point to go see them.

SHE GOT THE PARTY WRONG but to her credit she's right on target about 'cleansing'.

Projection is a progressive strong suit....

HERE'S THE LATEST Biden Approval Index:

He's improved a bit since his all-time low of -34 on Tuesday, but his middle (those who neither strongly approve or disapprove) is still hovering in the low-to-mid-30's. Strong opinions (for and against) remain nearly 3:1 against.

AMMO GRRRLL writes on 'pointless beauty'.

HEH. BERNIE SANDERS THINKS the Democrats need to spend trillions more or lose the mid-term elections.

More radical Democrats, more trillions of dollars in government spending, more hysteria. This is a recipe for Democratic victory in 2022?

That's all they have left -- bribery.

AND REPUBLICANS ARE WHITE SUPREMACISTS? African-American immigrant votes for (Republican) Mexican-born woman.

THE NEW YORK TIMES has posted the Biden variant of the Democrats' stealth “Dump Feinstein” campaign.

I'm amused by the reference to Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes. Its readability level is 3rd grade, but that may be too high for Democrats.

AMERICAN HEROES: A would-be school invader in Alabama failed when the doors were locked and police weren’t cowards.

An aggressive (and violent) response works. Read the whole thing.

RANDOM THOUGHT: There was a time when justice meant punishing actions; today's (social) justice means punishing thoughts, not actions.

WOKE MONSTERS TO HISTORY: Bend your knee!

CRACKS? WHAT CRACKS? 'Many Democratic lawmakers’ are concerned by Biden’s leadership, feel U.S. is ‘falling apart’.

Former DNC chair Howard Dean implied Biden hasn’t achieved enough of what he has promised. "We need to have specific examples of how we’re dealing with things; it can’t just be pie-in-the-sky and kumbaya," he said.

Pie-in-the-sky and kumbaya is all they have. The cracks are soon to be chasms.

WELL, YES: Are we the baddies?

Self-awareness is not a Democrat strong suit.

OH, NO, we're not promoting violence.

No. Never.

AND THEY EXPECT US to worry about a January 6th show trial?

CDC DIRECTOR: Monkeypox spread through 'sustained face-to-face contact', so now the CDC wants to have its authority to issue mask mandates restored.

The U.S. case total (so far) is 49; Hawaii has 3 cases and health officials are concerned it may be 'spreading unchecked'.

It's clear that mask mandates are in the plan for the mid-terms.

THIS IS A SURPRISE? Why the red wave is building.

To tsunami levels, I hope. It would do my heart good to see the Congress washed out to sea to join Atlantis at the bottom of the ocean.

DEMOCRATS want to ban telling the truth.

Biden's 'Ministry of Truth' isn't about combatting disinformation, it's about promoting it.

Notice that the acronym for Biden's Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) differs in only one letter from Putin's KGB. Coincidence?

RANDOM THOUGHT about how to become a millionaire. Start as a multimillionaire; then elect Joe Biden as President.

YOU ONLY THOUGHT YOU'VE SEEN STUPID: Biden threatens oil companies with 'emergency powers' if they don't boost supply as inflation spikes.

First you try to put them out of business, then threaten them for not producing more?

'Insane' and 'Progressive' are synonyms....

WE HATE YOU: "Now THEY know how it feels to be afraid."

REALITY INTRUDES IN LA-LA LAND: Have we reached a turning point against wokism?

Surely Starbucks is a leading indicator....

YEAH, WE'VE NOTICED: Dow Jones Industrial Average drops nearly 900 points as inflation sinks in.

PERSONALLY I DON'T THINK THEY'RE SMART ENOUGH. Americans say the Biden administration is doing it on purpose.

But they're certainly capable and venality can overwhelm stupidity.

FIVE IMMIGRANTS AND 2 NATIVES made it rich quick and did not go all PC and hate the country that enabled their success.

And all the immigrants arrived here legally.

ARMED CALIFORNIA MAN arrested near the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

This post dates back to the original report but Instapundit did such a good job of adding the complete context that I've decided to highlight it given that the insane protestors bullies are not only continuing to disrupt the Kavanaugh family but have now targeted Justice Amy Coney Barrett and her family.

It's time to start shooting back -- and I mean that literally. Here's why. And not one of those attacks was initiated by a Republican or NRA member.

WHAT? You expected something more?

IT’S NOT HARD TO LAUGH AT CLOWNS, and it’s a [Biden administration] clown show all the way down.

WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED? Many general education college programs don’t lead to decent earnings.

After all, Starbucks and McDonalds can afford to hire only so many employees...

THEY'RE ALSO THE ONES who work for the government. See, for example, NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci.

THE VIEW CO-HOST JOY BEHAR: Gun laws will change 'once Black people get guns in this country'. They already do; see, for example, Chicago.

What Behar is afraid of -- rightfully so -- is that Black families are taking matters into their own hands by legally acquiring weapons (i.e., guns!) to protect themselves from the chaos outside their homes since the paternalistic leftist government they support and whose job is ostensibly to ensure their safety by keeping thugs off the streets won't.

Blacks are no longer going to vote for leftist politicians who claim to care but don't.

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THIS IS WHAT my grandchildren are being subject to.

Needless to say, I'm pissed.

JUST WHEN YOU THINK THEY'VE RUN OUT OF STUPID THEY GET A TRANSFUSION: Medical school launches transgender nursing program, cites women's need for prostate exams.

"GREEN" ENERGY IS A CATASTROPHICALLY BAD IDEA. Here's why.

A HEARTWARMING HEADLINE: No more 'green crap'.

I guess soylent green will have to wait....

GLENN REYNOLDS: Nixon's Revenge. Reflections about Watergate, then and now.

My take is that the political war hasn't changed one iota; it's just that polarized (cable) news, the internet, and Twitter have made it much more transparent that the war is purely about control of the proletariat now that progressives have taken control ofthe Democrat party.

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY [R-LA]: The Biden team seems to have given up on doing anything about inflation and high gas prices.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) sums up the Biden Administration’s response, as only he can. It’s hard to beat Kennedy when it comes to the folksy quotable. “When I feel inadequate, I just look around. On really bad days, I see liars, and frauds, and meatheads in every direction.” Kennedy said this is what the Biden-Harris D.C. has given the American people.

I differ on his 'really bad day' quote. Those are the good days.

OF COURSE THERE ARE NO BOTS ON TWITTER: "Within mere seconds of each other, dozens of accounts tweeted appreciation for Biden and Democrats in Congress for passing a $1.9 trillion spending bill."

CIVILITY BE DAMNED: Professor built technology to go after pro-Trump social media content.

It takes two to get peace, only one to make war. If war is what progressives want, war is what they're gonna get.

THEY'RE SETTING US UP FOR MID-TERM LOCKDOWNS: CDC raises Monkeypox alert, recommends masks during travel.

Umm, here's a primer on monkeypox transmission.

SO HOW MANY ARMED BODYGUARDS DOES HE HAVE? Filmmaker Michael Moore continues calls for the Second Amendment to be repealed: 'You don't need a gun'.

WASHINGTON POST OP-ED WRITER JONATHAN CAPEHART asks if it's time for Black people to 'flee the country'.

He's crazy, of course, and I blame progressives like him for dividing the country into racial groups and demonizing whites.

KURT SCHLICHTER: No compromise on guns.

None. Never.

JEN RUBIN: Let's be clear; I was never a conservative.

She just identified as one.

THEN: “Capping off a four-week fight over the true percentage of bot content on the platform, Musk’s attorneys warned the current Twitter board that Musk would terminate the deal if Twitter continued to stonewall him on that data.”

NOW: Twitter to give Elon Musk internal data on spam and fake accounts.

Twitter tried to 'fire hose' Musk's demand. I doubt it'll work and it will be really interesting when he releases his bot percentage analysis of the data.

POWERLINE: the banality of liberal rhetoric.

The Democrat way is to always double down on failure, increase taxes to pay for doubling down (and refill Democrat coffers).

And then rinse and repeat....

NEWS FROM NEW MEXICO: Candidate who attacked US as 'AmeriKKKa' and called to 'deconstruct' police wins Democrat primary.

I am glad I graduated when I did and moved on before the state was overwhelmed by batshit crazy progressives.

IS CHUCK SCHUMER culpable for the death threat against Justice Kavanaugh?

Yes. Yes, he is. Impeach him. Then arrest, try, convict, and jail him.

A NEW LOW FOR BIDEN:

Rasmussen's Biden Approval Index reports a new low today: -33. On the same day of his administration President Trump's rating was -7.

IF, LIKE ME, YOU'RE IN DESPERATE NEED OF A PALATE CLEANSER AFTER LAST NIGHT'S J6 GARBAGE DEBACLE, here it is: Kind-hearted man saves kitten on road — then gets ambushed by rest of the litter.

Linked from Sarah Hoyt on Instapundit.

MALLARD FILLMORE logs in....

TREASURY SECRETARY JANET YELLEN calls inflation 'unacceptable,' pins blame on everything but the root cause -- the administration she serves.

THEY HAVE NOTHING LEFT: Democrats admit the real reason for the sham January 6th committee.

I'M WAITING: Miley Cyrus to perform halftime show at Jan. 6 committee hearings.

I'm sorry to have to announce that it's the Babylon Bee; otherwise the hearing might be worth watching.

RANDOM THOUGHT: For the most part, MSM journalists are actually Democrat presstitutes.

POWERLINE: Does America need a Queen? It's an interesting thought, but unfortunately that time has long passed.

REP. ERIC SWALWELL [D(umbest)-CA] spent nearly $60,000 onluxury travel in six weeks.

He knows he's on the way out and determined to leave as little loot behind as possible.

JUST IN TIME FOR THE MID-TERMS: Monkeypox might now be spreading exponentially.

Except that monkeypox is typically spread by close physical contact (HIV/AIDS, anyone?)

YOU. WILL. BE. HAPPY. A promise? Or a threat?

A threat. Read the comments as well.

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY: Nothing’s feeling new.

It's Instapundit's daily open thread. Some of the comments are hilarious (and there are many).

AND I'M SURE THE WORLD WAITS WITH BATED BREATH to see him/her/it shake his/her/its boobies.

IN A MEAN GIRL COMPETITION these lunatics would win hands down every time.

CHRISTOPHER F. RUFO: Laying siege to the institutions.

In war there can be no bystanders. This is war. Civil war, mabe, but war nonetheless.

POWERLINE has more Loose Ends.

It's hard not to laugh....

THERE WAS A HUGE MISTAKE IN THE 2020 CENSUS: Guess which party it favored.

Three guesses; the first two don't count.

EXPERTS (noun): People who are wrong about everything.

PowerLine's new 'wokespeak' dictionary. (My own personal definition of expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he (she) knows everything about nothing.)

YOU'RE NOT GIVING ME MY OWN DISTRICT so you must be racist.

Click through and read the whole thing.

AWWW: Joe Biden is angry that he's now more unpopular than Donald Trump.

Well ...

... he's been more unpopular than Trump for almost a year.

His average in the Rasmussen Presidential Approval Index for 2022 is -25.7.

SO CANCEL THE WHOLE GENTRY CLASS: When Libertarians become 'woke'-itarians.

WHAT IS A WOMAN? The shallowness of the transgender ideology.

SUDDENLY IT'S SAFE TO TAN. Avoidance of sun exposure is a risk factor of a similar magnitude as smoking, in terms of life expectancy.

SO -- What happened to that Supreme Court leak investigation?

VICTORY GIRLS: The debt we owe.

Election day, if we're smart enough -- and care enough -- is when we begin to pay back that debt.

PEAK FUTILITY? No, peak stupidity on gun control.

Never mind ... that the homicide rate has risen during the last two years after a long period of decline, as a result of the Black Lives Matter movement, the defund the police movement, and general hostility to law enforcement. Democrats are entirely unconcerned with this increase in homicides, which vastly exceeds the total number of mass shooting victims, because they find political advantage in promoting the myths that have led to the increase.

Democrats are stupid, uncaring, and totally incapable of learning anything.

BEYOND WORDS: President Biden on Monday took aim at 9mm handguns, appearing to suggest that the "high-caliber weapons" ought to be banned.

Umm, Mr. President, the only thing smaller than 9mm in handgun ammunition is the .22LR (long rifle), which is my favorite for target practice and killing snakes and other small rodents.

You might want to learn a few things lest you continue to make a blithering idiot of yourself.

D-DAY PLUS 78 YEARS: Seventy-eight years ago today, Allied armies crossed the English Channel to save the world from (real) Nazi tyranny. Here are two accounts.

The day that saved the world.

D-Day at 78.

Read them both; they're important.

WHITE HOUSE MORALE SINKS as sky-high gas prices, inflation draw comparisons of Biden to Jimmy Carter.

I lived through Jimmy Carter, and Jimmy Carter is looking better and better....

IF YOU'RE A TENURED ACADEMIC -- and conservative -- here's a 'do something' that might work: spread the pain.

DAVID HARSANYI: The trouble with do-somethingism on guns is that 'something' is always doubling down on the somethings that never worked in the past.

With the Democrats it's always that we didn't do enough something so we must do more something. Another way of saying it is that we must punish the innocent harder.

Until morale improves....

SHE'S RIGHT; DEMOCRATS DO HATE US: Vice President Kamala Harris, at a funeral for Buffalo shooting victim, says America experiencing 'epidemic of hate'.

BIDEN CALLS 9MM HANDGUNS ‘HIGH-CALIBER WEAPONS,’ says there’s ‘no rational basis’ for owning them.

Disarm his Secret Service entourage and see how long 'no rational basis' lasts.

WOKESTERS FIRST: Elon Musk to pause Tesla hiring; cut staff by 10%.

OUR GENTRY CLASS -- all of them -- is corrupt.

Cancel them.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ: Oh, for the good old days....

BUH-BYE WASHINGTON POST: The one retweet that ignited an internal dumpster fire.

This may be the final straw that broke the proverbial camel's back. We can hope.

THIS IS ON YOU, Georgia Dimocrats (not a typo). You voted (cheated?) for these bozos. Stacey Abrams and Raphael Warnock are responsible for pushing the White House on canceling student loan debt.

For the sole purpose of improving their election chances....

AMERICA'S ECONOMIC 'BAD LUCK' began with cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline.

CHOOSE WISELY, REPUBLICANS. If Republicans collaborate with Democrats to betray us on the Second Amendment they will loose the midterms.

I wish I could feel confident in our gentry Republicans but I'm not....

THE LOS ANGELES TIMES: Never let mere facts interfere with a good (biased) story.

LET'S FACE IT: These people are just plain EVIL.

'STAKEHOLDERS' SUCK: The elitists who want to would rule the world.

THE DIPLOMAD writes on the freaks' war on children.

GUNS -- AND PEOPLE WILLING TO USE THEM: One policy that seems to work when it comes to protecting our schools.

The politically correct term is 'School Resource Officer' but the weak link is the willingness to aggressively go after the shooter the instant the first shot is fired.

FOX NEWS REPORTER BILL MELUGIN shuts down ‘absolute hack’ who distorted his report on Texas school shooting.

If you get your news from any mainstream or progressive source, you can almost count on it being counterfactual....

SOME THOUGHTS FROM THE MAY 24TH PRIMARIES:

GOV. RON DESANTIS: the big winner from Tuesday's mid-term primaries?

I -- along with many others -- agree that Trump lost because the election was stolen (and remain pissed off), but it is time to move on and punish the miscreants after the 2024 election by banishing them forever from the public eye.

AFTER THE DELUGE: Takeaways from Georgia's primaries.

If these are any indicators, the Democrats will be in real (and well deserved) trouble after the November mid-term election.

A REMINDER for progressive immigrants.

And they're not teddy bears either....

TAKING OUT THE TRASH: What we get wrong about recycling.

On the brighter side, commenter David Lundeen: "I found a benefit to recycling. Here in the mountains we have to take our trash to the dump and are charged by the pound. Except recycling stuff is free."

It's true where we live, too.