RANDOM THOUGHT: There was once a time, long ago, when it was thought that history was written by the winners. Not so today. With progressives in charge, history is being written by the losers....

GOOD RIDDANCE: Gavin Newsom's 'water czar' calls it quits.

Because he thought his job was to save the world from climate crisis, not to see that Californians had adequate water supplies.

THE TRANS FIASCO: Will there (ever) be an accounting?

[M]aybe the point is to discredit thousands of years’ worth of civilization, to alienate millions from the most basic elements of our culture, and to create a large army of dysfunctional, mentally, physically and emotionally crippled people, so that self-reliance becomes a thing of the past and government control is seen as the only alternative.

Not in the short term, certainly, but the pressure is mounting.

PROBABLY YES: Is a 'woke military' to blame for lagging recruitment?

IT'S THE BABYLON BEE but this one may be prescient: CDC declares gay orgies an 'essential activity'.

JUST SPITBALLING HERE: Team Biden’s refusal to admit we’re in a recession is just another reason Americans don’t trust our institutions.

Read the whole thing.

JUST IN TIME FOR THE MIDTERMS: Phantom COVID and monkeypox panic!

Heh! "The Democrats have now become the 'don’t say gay' party."

GROOMING FUTURE VOTERS: Kamala Harris wants LGBT teachers to love openly in their classroms.

I'd rather they stick to reading, writing, and arithmetic. Leave the rest to me.

THE MUTATION OF JOURNALISM INTO POST-JOURNALISM. Journalism wanted its picture to fit the world. Post-journalism wants the world to fit its picture, which is a definition of propaganda.

I've noticed. I wish I could blame it on the Biden administration, but all the 2020 election did was to bring Leftist propaganda into the open. Mainstream news -- print, online, and on television -- are deliberately slanted to scare. Ads, too. You're gonna die! -- or be canceled as racist, sexist, homophobic -- if you don't obey our recommendations commands.

AND SOME FORMERLY EMPLOYED TEACHERS: Covid taught 1 million parents there are alternatives to failing public schools.

ADVICE FOR THE WOKE: “Pick up a wool blanket or two. In the war between platitudes and physics, physics is undefeated.”

LEFTISTS REALLY DON'T LIKE LAUREN BOEBERT'S [R-CO] PROPOSAL for more time to read bills before voting on them.

Boebert's GED is worth more (far more) than a Harvard PhD....

WHY AMERICANS DON'T TRUST GOVERNMENT: Team Biden denies we're in a recession.

After all, they're not. And they don't care about anyone but themselves.

IF YOU'RE FROM OUT-OF-STATE: Help Stacey run, er, ruin Georgia.

RATHER OBVIOUS, DON'T YOU THINK?

Linked from here.

NUKES, NUBS, AND CONERS: the unique social hierarchy aboard a nuclear submarine.

Linked from Instapundit.

WIN-WIN: China threatens to shoot Pelosi out of the sky if she approaches Taiwan.

KURT SCHLICHTER: How to cross-examine climate change cultists.

It does require some modest preparation though.

SINKING SHIP: PowerLine's recession deniers edition of its Week in Pictures has a clear winner this week:

Now go see the rest.

THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY to let your Congressman know you oppose gun control. Not just gun control, but every issue that you might care about.

Good points, all. My only 'but, but ...' is that I won't give them a phone number (I have a burner phone for that purpose) since the only time they want to contact me is to ask for ... demand, rather ... money for their reelection.

I’VE BEEN WONDERING WHY THE OPEN BORDER. Now it’s clear they think they’re importing meat.

Now THAT would stop our border invasion cold....

WHAT BASE INGRATITUDE: Paraphrasing Winston Churchill, "I wish Joe Biden no ill, but it would have been much better had he never lived."

PUT YOUR COFFEE DOWN AND PREPARE TO LAUGH: Tucker Carlson asks viewers for best alternative names for monkeypox.

VOTE REPUBLICAN unless you want your state taken over by coastal progressives.

CNN'S VAN JONES: Joe Biden's Presidency has been great if you just remove all the 'nutty' stuff.

He's probably right; if you remove the 'nutty stuff' all that's left is the Trump presidency....

I KNEW THOSE UKRANIAN BIO LABS WERE WEAPON-RELATED. Ukraine’s mutant bio-lab supersoldiers.

SHE'S MAKING ALL THE RIGHT ENEMIES. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' press secretary punishes Washington Post reporter.

SOMEONE NOTICED: 'College is a scam.'

The only ones who seem to have not noticed are college educated and college bound 'womxn'.

BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BE EMPLOYED? Why men are avoiding college.

FORTY-ONE INCONVENIENT TRUTHS on the new energy economy.

Suck it up, wokesters....

Linked from Instapundît.

LIFE WAS BETTER when people ran restaurants.

And answered the phone....

“CRY ME A FRICKIN’ RIVER.” Democrat cities get a taste of life at the southern border.

WE'D LOSE: What if they gave a war and our military was woke?

THE DIPLOMAD writes on gay pride in Spain, ZOMBUS, and a new definition of 'BS'.

Enjoy.

SHE GETS IT: "It’s hard for me to express the contempt I feel for the pretentious fools who peddle this stuff and the privileged saps who swallow it."

A CLEAR THREAT to our democracy.

'JERK' IS BEING POLITE: He's a jerk.

There's another word beginning with the letter 'a' that suits him better.

BIDEN'S WHITE HOUSE: The economy is doing great because we're not (yet) facing famine.

OF COURSE! Beverly Hills will defy the Los Angeles county mask mandate if it is reinstated.

The hoi oligoi are far too important to be subject to the same mandates as the hoi polloi.

SURPRISED? These people are crazy.

I'm not. Society has been coddling them for years.

MORE EVIDENCE of the pointlessness of wind and solar power.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Don't let them reset society to make you into a bug-eating serf.

OF COURSE THEY DID: Did our health experts lie about Covid vaccines?

It's always been about control, not health.

"SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!" There's a time and place for cannibalism(!?).

FALSE WOMBS, real wounds.

TOMORROW. IT'S ALWAYS TOMORROW: A climate change activist guide to doomsday.

BAD NEWS FOR STACEY ABRAMS is very good news for Georgians.

I DOUBT IT: Can the Federal Communication Commission actually stop robocalls?

But it sure would be nice if it could.

YOU DON'T SAY: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's recent comments that electric vehicles (EVs) are cheaper than traditional alternatives were misleading.

JUST AS THE CONGRESSMAN PREDICTED: Lee Zeldin's attacker, charged with felony, immediately released.

Apparently his release didn't poll well, so he was rearrested on federal charges....

SELF-DRIVING TRACTORS could fuel the future of farming.

Some California farmers are going a little greener by opting for eco-friendly tools and transitioning to electric-powered, driverless, tractors. The company rolling these high-tech tractors out, Monarch Tractor, says this can help farmers save money, increase production, and help with the agriculture industry's growing labor shortage.

I have only one minor quibble: California has no labor shortage, it has a woke surplus.

THE SUPPLY CHAIN IS GETTING ANGRY. Independent truckers protesting new labor law shut down port of Oakland.

WHAT A JERK: Al Gore compares 'climate deniers' to Uvalde police officers.

No wonder Tipper divorced him.

NOW ALL WE NEED IS A PANDEMIC: Biden administration announces new pandemic response division.

BIDEN'S COVID DIAGNOSIS: two interesting analyses from Red State.

It seems to me that the powers-that-be behind him (whoever/whatever they are) are preparing the battlefield for a 25th Amendment removal from office....

JUST FOR GRINS: Cartoons from my 'unpublished' file.

Enjoy.

YES, YES, AND YES: Does Biden have Covid, cancer, and dementia?

THE JANUARY 6TH COMMITTEE ISN'T WORKING; let's go back to monkeypox.

Or maybe back to Old Reliable?

The cartoon is from this week's edition of PowerLine's Week in Pictures. Of course you'll want to go see the rest.

HOMOPHOBIC TELESCOPE reveals first hi-res images of deep space.

You'd think that's a Babylon Bee headline, right? Nope. It's real.

EXPERTS INSIST sea levels are rising.

They aren't.

GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS [INSTAPUNDIT]: What would happen if we had a war and nobody showed up?

WELL, IT'S NADLER: Jerry Nadler's lesson on guns goes all kinds of wrong.

NEW YORK COUNTY confirms rare case of polio. As a polio survivor myself, I hope it remains rare.

HAS HE VISITED BRANDON FALLS YET? Transportation Secretary 'Pothole Pete' Buttigieg is glad to have a President who can ride a bicycle.

THIS IS HOW REPUBLICANS SHOULD FIGHT BACK: Newly elected Republican Mayra Flores demands an apology for racist attacks on her.

This doesn’t sound like an apology to me.

Also, the racist pervert you hired to target me with filth has ZERO space on his “blog” for ads, so we know this is a lie.

If you were a real man, you would apologize in person and resign. Pero eres poco hombre.

She has [the female equivalent of] balls; I wish more Republicans did....

LET’S TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER (and the lies they tell us). The link is to Instapundit; follow it and then read the comments at both websites.

SARAH HOYT: I'm not a widget. Widgets are fungible; humans aren't (despite the best efforts of Progressives to make them so).

Linked from her Instapundit post.

NYC MAYOR ADAMS wants Feds to help pay for overflow of illegal immigrants in the city.

Hey, we're just helping you by replacing all those taxpaying New Yorkers who have been fleeing the city....

SYSTEMIC RACISM isn’t the problem; systemic wokeism is.

A REAL EXISTENTIAL THREAT: If Neptune’s orbit moves 0.1%, it could destabilize the solar system.

Something I worry about a bit more than climate change....

WELCOME TO OUR [SOUTHERN BORDER] WORLD. NYC mayor joins northern Dems complaining about illegal immigrants putting a strain on city resources.

OVERWROUGHT BUT FUNDAMENTALLY ACCURATE. The four corners of deceit: government, academia, science, and the media.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Who will the Deep State get to do the tyrants dirty work?

DON'T WORRY, we'll find them as soon as the fake ballots are loaded: In Baltimore as many as 12 flash drives containing votes from Tuesday's primary election cannot be located.

MICHIGAN WOLVERINES FOOTBALL COACH JIM HARBAUGH draws outrage over pro-life remarks.

I wonder what's more important -- a winning football team or a few dozen trampled wokesters?

INSUFFICIENT: Pennsylvania school board settles lawsuit and will pay $300K for censoring critics.

It should never be for less tham $1M and only then after taxes and legal fees. And I agree with many of the comments that at least some of the award must be paid by the individuals sued.

CLEVER TROLLING OR NO? Full circle for feminism?

My gut reaction is 'real'.

SO SEND THEM MORE -- LOTS MORE. Immigrants bussed from Texas and Arizona welcome in nation's capital, say residents.

EVERYTHING IS STUPID is a perfect description of the progressive movement. Read on.

THE DESTRUCTION OF WISDOM: The Biden regime is decoupled from both the past and reality, and quite capable of destroying Americans’ lives as they have known them.

Each time Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Merrick Garland, Antony Blinken, Deb Haaland, Janet Yellen, Lloyd Austin, Pete Buttigieg, Alejandro Mayorkas, or Jennifer Granholm speaks to the public, the people concludes two things: these people are either crazy, incompetent, or ignorant of ancient human nature, and they were appointed to their positions for reasons that have nothing to do with either experience or competence.

That's the Understatement of the Year. It's Victor Davis Hanson; read the whole post in all its gory detail.

HIS CRIMES. What is Adam Schiff hiding?

NO, OUR PUBLIC GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS are not breaking; they're broken. We're just now learning how badly.

Read the comments.

THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM: How the best of intentions created today’s academic disasters.

It's long been known -- and mostly ignored by politicians and the Left -- that good intentions almost always lead to bad policy.

[Added and bumped to top] I'm reminded of the 60's counterculture of my younger days. We survived the psychedelic phase then; we'll survive the secular phase today (I hope).

PROGRESSIVE PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER IN A BLUE STATE: Things are as bad as you've heard.

This is 'progressive' activism.

JUST NOT SOON ENOUGH. Fauci confirms he's retiring -- in 2025.

But he needs that much time to hide 50 years of misdeeds....

DR. JILL BREAKS OUT THE [WORLD'S SMALLEST] VIOLIN FOR PRESIDENT JOE: He had so many hopes.

I LOVE IT: Semiconductor shortages chipping away car safety features.

Maybe someday soon I'll be able to buy that (unsafe but cheap) basic car that can go from
point 'A' to point 'B' without all those expensive, unreliable gewgaws mucking up my trips.

FLASHBACK: Leftist rage about the Supreme Court.

[I]t looks like the change in constitutional doctrine (they so desperately wanted in 2016) is going to be President Trump’s most significant legacy. No wonder leftists are so miserable right now. They think they are entitled to the Supreme Court.

Be careful what you wish for ... you might get it. Just not the way you thought.

COMRADE "MOLOTOV" RETURNS with a welcome to Soviet America.

REGIME PROPAGANDA: Ray Epps and the New York Times:

If it smells like a rat, looks like a rat, and behaves like a rat, it is overwhelmingly likely that it is a rat.

If you like Deep State conspiracy theories, this one has quite a few connected dots.

HERE'S THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION'S LATEST AND GREATEST: Raise gasoline prices to encourage more Americans to buy EVs. [Note this is a PJMedia subscription article.]

I have an equally stupid idea that I'm almost afraid to post for fear that the Biden administration might take it seriously, but here goes anyway: Give away EVs in the midst of a summer heat wave with electricity prices skyrocketing and brownouts/blackouts almost inevitable.

TOTAL BULLSHIT: Four factors can explain why so many people are rejecting 'Science'. As one comment noted, "Reading that article made me dumber." That's correct, so read at your own risk.

One note: PNAS stands for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Sciences was a joke when I was an academic back in the late 70's/early 80's -- it has obviously gotten worse.

CRITICISM IS VIOLENCE: LGBTQ+(whatever) group condemns social media's right-wing bias (tweets) and demands increased censorship (silencing) for 'safety' (to protect their fragile egos).

AMID HIGH GAS PRICES, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tells Americans to switch to electric cars.

A question for Pothole Pete: "Where does the 'E' in EV come from?"

SOUTHWEST FLIGHT ATTENDANT awarded $5 million after being fired over her abortion stance.

It wasn't enough, and I hope the appeals judges up the ante. These 'woke' ogres need to feel real ... personal ... pain.

DAMNED RIGHT WE ARE: American voters are ‘biggest, most reliable killer’ of climate agenda.

And proud of it....

STACY MCCAIN has historic thoughts on 'Our Democracy'.

When Democrats talk about “our democracy,”
what they really mean is their democracy.
Your votes don’t count.

He's right.

EXCELLENT! Democrat donors are wasting big bucks on longshot Beto O'Rourke/Stacey Abrams campaigns.

I don't object to donors(?) wasting their money buying incompetent candidates; I do object to them buying crooked election officials.

GOOD LORD: Go to college in California, graduate as a trans-person.

At taxpayer expense....

GET CRACKIN', REPUBLICANS: NOW is the time to start stacking the deck in our favor.

By any means necessary....

GOV. GREG ABBOTT (TX) AND GOV. DOUG DUCEY (AZ), send more illegals to Washington DC -- and add New York City to your destination lists.

I'd also suggest Chicago, Seattle, Portland, and Sacramento....

GOOD GRIEF, WAS IT THAT LONG AGO? 53 years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first men to walk on the moon.

I was 24, my wife, 23. We had been married about a year, lived in Hawaii, and watched the 'first step' on the moon on our little 5" screen Sony MicroTV.

SHE SHOULD KNOW: Betsy DeVos calls for the Department of Education to be abolished.

MOCKED [DESERVEDLY] ON TWITTER: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez caught on camera pretending to be handcuffed.

Ilhan Omar as well.

ARE CAT NAMES RACIST TOO? Dog names are racist.

These 'academics' (?) need to get real jobs. Or be forced into them. Or welfare. Welfare doesn't require any skills either, and it's a helluva lot cheaper....

LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE VIOLENCE. Humor has no place in a woke society.

'WOKE' COLLEGE PROFESSORS call on archeologists to stop identifying ancient human remains by gender.

Since they're usually skeletal remains, they're not identifying them by gender; they're identifying them by sex. 'Gender' isn't physical....

'Woke' is a synonym for 'stupid'.

YES. NEXT QUESTION: Will the Biden administration bring back mask mandates and lockdowns?

VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS is losing one of her longest serving aides and her chief speechwriter.

Well if she's her chief speechwriter it's certainly no loss.

DON'T ADMIT THEM? Eleven percent of law students had suicidal thoughts in 2021. What can law schools do?

CONSUMMATE NEVER TRUMP GRIFTER becomes 'Never DeSantis' grifter right on cue.

It’s all about the money and always has been.
That’s what the swamp is all about.

And control. Don't forget control.

IF YOU'RE GOING TO DELAWARE THIS SUMMER, be sure to visit the Brandon Falls historic site.

DEMOCRAT HYPOCRISY KNOWS NO BOUNDS: If you marry a white guy you ain't no Latina.

I CERTAINLY HOPE SO: Twitter’s lawsuit against Elon Musk looks like a loser.

FLORIDA SHERIFF: Man will ‘absolutely not’ face charges for defending home with ‘AK-47-style’ weapon.

The homeowner could spend a bit more practice time at the range, though....

NOT EXACTLY MY CUP OF TEA: Gavin Newsom’s [profoundly] weird idea of ‘freedom’.

It's Victor Davis Hanson, so read it all.

NO SHIT, SHERLOCK: A Biden takeover of elections guarantees bad government.

POLITICAL DEMOGRAPHY: "The GOP is trading soccer moms for WalMart dads."

[T]he progressivism of the Democratic Party has become a form of conspicuous consumption for the wealthy, the professional class, and the overeducated. This is an observation that has become increasingly obvious over the years. The Biden administration has served to add an exclamation point to it.

Particularly the overeducated diseducated.

WATCH! Sen. John Kennedy [R-LA] piles damning facts on Biden's 'deeply, profoundly stupid' energy policy.

It's worth every minute.

BUT IT'S PLENTIFUL ON THEIR PLANTATION. Hopelessness is all the Democrats have left.

CHEKHOV'S GUN: Having brought onto stage the weapon of political intimidation, the Left intends to use it at every turn.

I think mandatory 90 day prison sentences on (stale) bread and water would have a very salutary effect if our justice system could be persuaded to implement them.

WHAT A COMPLETE BOZO. Fauci admits that COVID-19 vaccines do not protect 'overly well' against infection.

And yet we're still not dead....

COMRADE MOLOTOV ON POLITICS: A pox on both your houses.

PROGRESSIVES HAVE RUINED SCIENCE. You're a scientist? So what?

'Progressives' have devalued science to the point that my engineering doctorate, if issued today, would hardly be worth the paper it's printed on.

TOLDJA SO: They’re trying to scare people with infectious new [coronavirus] variants that don’t actually do any harm.

MICHAEL MOORE pens his own 28th Amendment to ‘repeal and replace’ the Second Amendment.

Why doesn't he just move somewhere where guns are restricted -- like North Korea or China or Russia?

NOT SOON ENOUGH: A popular uprising against the elites has gone global.

WILL SHE EMIGRATE TO THE U.S.? In the UK, anti-woke warrior princess enters Conservative leadership race.

We could use her here.

ONLY BECAUSE IT WAS HIS FLIGHTS THAT GOT CANCELED. Transportation Secretary 'Mayor Pothole Pete' Buttigieg announces new investigations of airlines amid rising passenger dissatisfaction.

YES, I'M LATE, but this is the best PowerLine Week in Pictures ever. Here's why:

Now go see the rest.

BUT INCOMPETENCE IS NOT ONE OF THEM. Five reasons Joe Biden will not be 2024 Democrat presidential candidate.

IT AIN'T DEMOCRATS: New survey shows which party Americans trust more with educating their kids.

NAILED IT: "The Democrats don’t have any good politicians because they don’t have any good ideas."

On second thought, maybe the converse is true.

GOOD; NOW DON'T REPLACE THEM. More than 300 Virginia state employees resign amid Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s new telework policy.

CONCENTRATING ON THE IMPORTANT STUFF: Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA] demands government control of charger cords.

SEEMS RATHER OBVIOUS TO ME: Electric car survey finds biggest reason preventing people from buying.

IF YOU NEED ANY MORE PROOF THE LEFT IS DESPERATE: NYC releases PSA for what to do in case of nuclear attack.

And remember to stay indoors and isolated until we complete your voting....

IN PLAIN ENGLISH, THE MID-TERM ELECTION IS COMING: Is the U.S. quietly experiencing its worst wave of COVID ever?

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and Eric Swalwell is a genius.

WE'RE SOLIDLY IN HEINLEIN'S CRAZY YEARS: Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assassinated while giving campaign speech.

AMMO GRRRLL: Move over, Lia Thomas, we have another swinging ... appendage ... competing in womens' sports.

SOW THE WIND AND REAP THE WHIRLWIND: Ousted progressive DA replaced by former employee turned top critic.

IT'S OVER. Joe’s a lost cause: No plan, no hope from Biden.

And more accurately, I think, faint hope for America.

WHO'D HAVE THUNK IT? Newspapers report misinformation to promote racial engineering.

Um, almost anyone with a brain larger than a peanut?

PORTLAND'S summer camp for Antifa rioters.

Taxpayer funded, of course.

MALLARD FILLMORE strikes again.

FISH STORY? Is that pregnant 10-year-old girl who can no longer abort because of the evil SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade real?

It looks awfully suspicious....

PowerLine also noticed.

DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR FLOUTS OWN RULES (AGAIN!), vacations in state he blacklisted for his own employees.

So who paid for his security detail?

FLIGHT FAILURE II: Transportation Secretary 'Mayor Pete' Buttigieg's flight canceled again.

Hopefully, behind the squabbling and finger-pointing, there is some actual leadership being practiced by Secretary Buttigieg.

Fat chance.

Travel hint: never book a flight with 'Mayor Pete' on board....

MAGA LATINX LATINA: Mayra Flores [R-TX] is already making all the right people mad.

So let them seethe and cope.

DEMOCRATS FEEL THE AGONY OF DEFEAT -- and it's awesome.

More, please.

I'M AFRAID THE REPUBLICANS ARE TOO LATE: Democrat alleges capitalist-evangelical plot to ‘dumb down’ the youth.

The Democrats already beat 'em to it. Dumbing down the youth, that is; they have the teachers unions....

I DON'T THINK we have long to wait.

IN OTHER WORDS, EXISTING LAWS FAILED: Police flagged Highland Park shooter ‘clear and present danger’ in 2019.

And the automatic Democrat response is to double down on failure....

SOON-TO-BE EX-REP. ERIC SWALWELL [D(umb)-CA] compares soon-to-be reelected Rep. Lauren Boebert [R-CO] to the Highland Park mass shooter.

Boebert naturally slaps him down a notch or three, but what I find interesting about this article is this comment from the [Democrat] Highland Park mayor:

It’s one of those things where you step back, and you say ‘What happened?' ... How did somebody become this angry, this hateful to then take it out on innocent people?

This, from the leadership of a party that for literally decades has trained its adherents to hate anyone who dares disagree. Tell me which party it is that calls others racist, sexist, homophobic, ... , even Nazis if they dare disagree.

THE LOOK of hypocrisy.

YES, PROGRESSIVES DO HATE US. July 4 fireworks drastically drop US air quality and cause health risks. But burning down Portland doesn't....

It might surprise progressives (and meteorologists) that life is the leading cause of death.

AMMO GRRRLL attends to Jane’s vagina, er, AK-47.

I HAD HOPED WE WERE RID OF HIM: Zuckerbucks 2.0 may be coming to an election office near you.

THE JAN 6TH COMMITTEE dumpster fire continues.

TELL ME AGAIN about white supremacy.

It's great phrase for virtue signalling/moral preening without the need for, you know, actual action.

LICKING BEN & JERRY’S: It shows what can be achieved when there’s a backlash against anti-Israel bigotry.

I would call it less of a 'victory' and more of a 'work-around' but it does highlight the need for strength and resolve by the West.

GREEN DREAMS DASHED by the cold waters of reality: “I wasted 20 years of my life chasing utopian energy.”

MAYBE HE DOESN'T LIKE BASKETBALL? Why have you never seen Clarence Thomas at an NBA game?

Hint: You've never seen me there either.

SEN. PATRICK LEAHY [D-VT] breaks a hip. Which is sad, but not the point of the article, which is about America's 'woke gerontocracy'.

What does it say about America that so much of its senior leadership is senior in all senses of the word? It says that the “public service” in the United States today is so comfortable and lucrative that people can’t bring themselves to surrender the reins of power once they get them. The reason why America is turning into a gerontocracy is the same reason why six of the fifteen richest counties in the country are in Virginia and Maryland, right outside Washington, D.C.

Public service in the United States has become a lucrative exercise in mutual back-slapping, with numerous well-heeled lobbies eager to pay a cash-strapped Congressman outlandish speaker’s fees after he gets them what they want on the legislative floor. And once you’ve climbed aboard the gravy train, it’s hard to get off.

They're not leaders; they're co-conspirators.

Term limits, anyone?

GOOD LORD! I'm beginning to think that Washington DC should be nuked from orbit and whatever remains moved to Omaha. Genderfluid [whatever that is] puppy begins work at Department of Energy.

And he (it?) works in the Office of Nuclear Energy....

A REMINDER FOR THE LEFT: July 4th is the first Independence Day; there's room on the calendar for a second....

OKAY WITH ME: Dobbs ruling 'triggers' not-real men to get vasectomies.

These are 'men' whom I'd prefer never be allowed to have children.

AMMO GRRRLL on the worthlessness of 'activists'.

FINALLY, IT'S COMING TO THIS: “Take that restorative justice bull**** and shove it up your ***es!”

I suspect vigilantism is in the offing and it's going to be very painful for the gentry class.

WE NEED MORE TRUMP REPUBLICANS to fight like hell to save our country.

All that is true. But there is more -- much more -- that must be done. We must also prosecute, convict, and sentence malefactors to the harshest possible jail terms.

MALLARD FILLMORE explains the 2022 midterm elections.

Unfortunately, I fear he may be right.

WHY THE SUPREME COURT RULING in West Virginia vs. EPA is so important.

AMERICA FIRST LEGAL sues Loudoun schools for its ‘mafia tactics’ against students and parents.

The group is asking for an end to the policies some parents find offensive, a “special master” to monitor the system, and for the system to pay for private school education for students pulled out of public school until the changes are made.

It's not enough. At a minimum, the school system and all the individuals involved should be sued, individually and severally, for all they're worth and their teaching credentials revoked permanently.

And that's still not enough to satisfy me....

WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED? FOIAs reveal progressive money fueling FBI, DOJ, Leftist activist and election official coordination.

We have a 'government' comprised of thieves, thugs, grifters and poltroons.

THE CRYBABY LEFTIST MIND: Our self-appointed moral and intellectual superiors are loathsome creatures, so low that as a friend of mine once said, they could walk upright beneath a snake's belly.

It's Victor Davis Hanson, so read it all.

WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF LIES; fill 'er up.

Notice the pump is on 'supreme'.

DONKEY POX: the disease destroying America.

This was on a T-shirt I saw in one of those embedded ads you always see online.

SO QUIT SINGING AND I WON'T HAVE TO: Pink tells supporters of SCOTUS abortion decision to 'never f---ing listen to my music again'.

Not that I've ever heard him/her/it....

JUST POTHOLES: No more racist roads.

NOW IF OUR JUDICIARY WOULD JUST PUT HIM AWAY FOR A FEW YEARS: Man assaults 7-11 worker; jiu-jitsu master ties him into a pretzel.

BUT DID HE SAY ANYTHING REMOTELY SENSIBLE? Our alleged President has spoken.
(a fisking)

LET'S REMOVE THE 'IVY LEAGUE' SCHOOL: Ivy League school removes Lincoln bust and Gettysburg Address after 'complaint'.

Nuke it from orbit and ... you know the thing.

TWEETS OF THE DAY: To answer the last tweet, ketchup is made by Heinz which sounds 'German-ish' which means Nazi which is racist. So ketchup is racist.

And thanks to David Hogg for agreeing to not burden the rest of us with his progeny....

IT'S YOUR FAULT I'M A FOOL: Incontinent ex-trans man sues over penis removal.

THE MIDTERMS ARE COMING. Load up the cash cannon.

AGAINST THE GREAT RESET: 'The Great Regression'. It's Victor Davis Hanson at his best.

JULY 4TH POSTSCRIPT: There's nothing the progressive Left won't attempt to destroy.

HASN'T HE EMBARRASSED HIMSELF ENOUGH ALREADY? Howard Stern says he may run for president.

HAS THAT RED WAVE FINALLY ARRIVED? The 'cut to the chase, let's get something done' people seem to be coalescing in the Republican party.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PUT DEMOCRATS IN CHARGE: Violent crimes are on the rise in six of America's major cities and set to outpace the already historic levels of 2021 violent crime.

Atlanta is one of the six and Buckhead, a suburb of Atlanta, is already trying to secede...

IF THEY ARE, THEY PROBABLY WON'T BE DEMOCRATS FOR LONG: Are some Democrats catching on to the scam?

Unfortunately the Republican party isn't much better, though with Trump populists now on board, it might -- emphasis might -- improve.

NOW EYEROLLING is based in White supremacy.

Why don't the Wokesters just declare that anything they don't like is akin to White supremacy and spare the rest of us of having to anticipate their next secular grand revelation?

RACCOONS LEARN FROM THEIR MISTAKES. Democrats don't.

And even flatworms turn away from pain. Democrats, not so much.

YES, AND THEN BOUNCE THE RUBBLE. Go ahead and gloat.

BIDEN ADMINISTRATION: We'd rather kill migrants than close the border.

I DO AND I'M PLEASED. The Los Angeles Times worries: I don't know about all these Blacks owning guns.

They may not know it yet, but they're on my side. Ed Morrissey, I think, concurs. (Linked from Instapundit.)

HOPEFULLY NOT: With progressives in charge, will Stein's Law give way?

BILL MAHER drives a stake through Leftist hearts.

TRUST PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS? Never!

It's about control. It's always about control.

JUST MAKE SURE HE FOLLOWS THROUGH. Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong announced during a London concert on Friday that he will be giving up his U.S. citizenship.

REPUBLICAN ACCUSED of praising 'White [Right to] Life' at Trump Rally.

HERE’S A SIMPLE PREDICTION. Not a single government will be re-elected anywhere in the developed world over the next three years.

Read on; it's a delightful mélange of obviousness.

THE REALLY STUPID PARTY STRIKES AGAIN: ‘Feminists’ propose ‘sex strike’ after Supreme Court abortion ruling.

I was going to say that'll decrease the number of abortions but what rational male would want to have sex with a feminist?

REAPING THE WHIRLWIND: It’s your fault, and you’re not going to like it.

“YOUR TERMS ARE ACCEPTABLE.”

I'm on the verge of issuing the same warning to my bank.

SMITH & WESSON: fighting back.

CONSISTENCY HAS NO PLACE IN THE LEFTIST MIND: “We went from men can get pregnant – pride month – to men should have no say in pregnancy, really fast.”

ARE PRO-ABORTION LEFTISTS really this stupid or just disingenuous?

Ordinarily I'd trust Occam's Razor (never attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance) and say garden variety ignorance. But here I have to go with pure malice aforethought.

SO WHAT PRIVILEGES IS THE BLOVIATING FATHEAD GOING TO GIVE UP? Michael Moore: I 'cannot in good conscience' continue to accept 'full citizenship' privileges. I didn't notice him listing any but I'd suggest voting and freedom of speech....

I'VE SEEN IT WITH MY OWN EYES: Companies promoting diversity as a corporate strategy turn off minorities.

As far back as when 'affirmative action' became a thing...

STAFFING CRISIS leads to shortage of nursing home beds in U.S.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ: Spineless.

IT'S INDEPENDENCE DAY, SO LET'S TAKE A RESPITE FROM THE 'NEWS'. WWII Vet: The things we fought for and the boys that died for it -- all gone down the drain.

Final final. I missed posting it yesterday but it pretty accurately describes my feelings about this year's Independence Day....

FINAL THOUGHT: Happy Independence Day?

Or unhappy Dependence Day?

LISTEN TO MR. JEFFERSON read the Declaration of Independence.

And pay attention.

I REGRET EVER HAVING VOTED FOR HIM: Mitt Romney drops a dark, depressing July 4th message.

Our gentry sucks.

FINALLY, ON A POSITIVE NOTE, THE ETERNAL MEANING OF INDEPENDENCE DAY:

Lincoln's explanation of the meaning of Independence Day.

An excerpt from President Calvin Coolidge's speech on the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

May next year be better. Regular 'programming' resumes tomorrow as I find time.

REQUIEM FOR FREEDOMS LONG GONE? On a more somber note, are we celebrating Independence Day? Or, are we celebrating that once, we were independent?

"Let’s not lament that once we were free. Let’s celebrate that we will be again." And with that I will go out and watch the fireworks.

ORDINARILY I ENJOY THE 4TH OF JULY, but this year, the first of the Biden Administration, has been, shall we say, disappointing at the least. Here are some examples:

NPR (National Public Radio) scraps its traditional reading of the Declaration of Independence to instead discuss "what equality means." Instapundit takes note: "When will NPR decide to end its broadcasts altogether to make amends for its flawed founding?"

Arizona Democrats promote 'Fuck the 4th' event to 'mourn' Supreme Court abortion decision. Eventually they deleted the tweet and 'kinda-sorta' apologized....

The City of Orlando said people 'probably don't want to celebrate' July 4th; they finally backtracked and the Victory Girls took note.

On a somewhat brighter note, PJ Media columnist Kevin Downey offers five tips on how to have fun and annoy your liberal neighbors.

BECAUSE CRITICISM HURTS HIS FEELINGS: Why a gun control activist deleted his tweet about the Supreme Court abortion ruling.

Snowflake.