SHE'S LEARNING. Tulsi Gabbard accuses Democrats of becoming ‘racists they claim to hate’.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: 'Woke' moral bankruptcy leads inevitably to real bankruptcy.

THE WAR ON RURAL COMMUNITIES: Energy colonialism will worsen the urban-rural divide.

I'd add that when push comes to shove rural America will feed rural America first and let urban America starve.

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY [R-LA] shares more trademark truths.

With humor.

IT'S GETTING HARDER TO ESCAPE AND EVADE. This AI knows who you are and who all your friends are (and is telling the IRS).

DEPRESSED? You must be a liberal.

KURT SCHLICHTER: "Never, ever, take your red [state] for granted, or the next thing you know you’ll have a socialist human hairstyle for a Democrat governor too."

SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE IN THE NEWS:

Cuts are coming to both.

Social Security to go broke in 10 years.

Biden’s Social Security pledge will likely mean huge middle class tax hikes.

As a not-too-recent retiree, I'm hopeful (no, not really) that our political class will soon have the courage to touch these 'third rails'.

If you're interested in social security, consider my series of posts on social security privatization over the last several years. They're in no particular order given the way Blogger's search function works.

THE DAILY CHART: From bank run to panic.

Read the comments; then thank your friendly Biden administration.

DOESN'T SAY MUCH FOR HUMANS, DOES IT? OpenAI’s GPT-4 exhibits “human-level performance” on professional benchmarks.

YOU CAN'T SAY IT BETTER THAN THIS: “Woke” is just a short way of saying stupid, crazy, and vicious.