THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: Umm ... not yet. A Webb telescope discovery "calls the whole picture of early galaxy formation into question.”

AMMO GRRRLL: Bored and looking for a man good at banging...

Read it all.

FROM A U-2: Pentagon releases a close-up image of the Chinese spy balloon.

WITH THEIR USUAL INSANITY. How will the trans cult react to this proposed bill in Florida?

Woke companies are going to have to think hard about covering gender transitions as part of their health insurance when they'll have to cover detransitions as well.....

IS THE TIDE FINALLY TURNING? University of Texas sued by conservative professor for stifling academic freedom, threatening professors, and limiting free speech.

THE INSANITY CONTINUES: Biden has a new gambit to ban gas stoves.

We can't ban climate change so we'll ban gas stoves instead....

AMMO GRRRLL isn’t forgetting historical amnesia.

Buy the book.

BY DEMOCRAT STANDARDS, THEY PROBABLY ARE: Democrats think Fetterman and Feinstein are still fit to serve.

President(ish) Biden, too....

WELL, HE'S A BIDEN: Hunter Biden just made the Republican's investigation easier.

THAT'S FINE WITH US: Chicago claims lax gun laws make Atlanta too dangerous to host the Democrats’ National Convention.

Feel free to not come.

THERE SHOULD BE SOME LEFTOVERS AVAILABLE FROM TEXAS: Syracuse University to hire at least four new DEI staff.

TO MY SORROW, there can be no common ground with the Left.

DID STACEY ABRAMS RESIGN? "I'm surprised [Biden's] not President of the Galaxy.”

SHE'S RIGHT, BUT SHE GOT THE COLORS WRONG: MSNBC's Joy Reid thinks a national divorce would leave those in red states 'trapped in an apartheid hellscape'.

ANALYSIS, TRUE: Academia is a cancer.

RULES, RULES, STUPID RULES: Austin man threatened with fines for code violations after suspected drunk driver plows through spare bedroom.

Democrats, especially those of the progressive variety who have overrun Austin, seem to have an unbreakable lock on stupid....

CRUEL, YES; PARODY, NO: Biden EPA administrator's advice to chemical poisoning victims in East Palestine, OH, sounds like cruel parody.

INCOMPETENCE UNCHAINED: My close encounter with NPR.

Malicious incompetence, at that....

CHESTERTON'S FENCE: A lesson in second-order thinking.

It's the unintended consequences, stupid! A lesson well-understood by any semi-competent systems engineer.

YOU DON'T SAY: People don’t want to be squelched by big business or big government.

Unless they're Democrats; then they want others squelched.

GROUNDHOG DAY: Mayor Pete surfaces in East Palestine, declares everything A-OK, and retreats to his cave in Washington, DC.

POWERLINE: Special counsel crosses the Rubicon? To paraphrase John Hinderaker, "I cling to an ever-diminishing confidence in the integrity of our institutions.

And diminishing to zero the longer Democrats remain in power....