A MOST PLEASANT THOUGHT: We can only hope.

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION explains Afghanistan.

AND YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD AT LEAST SOME PRIVACY: Your every move is tracked if you have a cell phone.

POWERLINE'S POLITICAL LEXICON is updated (again).

The woke Left never stops....

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: “We are in the middle of a revolution that we don’t even know we’re in.”

It's time for a Washington-crossing-the-Delaware moment....

NO, IT WAS BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T NEED A BULLHORN: Democratic Rep. Gloria Johnson suggests she avoided expulsion from the Tennessee legislature because she is white.

ALVIN BRAGG'S CLOWN CIRCUS is embarassing banana republics.

JOE BIDEN: tax cutter for the rich.

You did pretty well if you are in the top 20%. [I would note that the top quintiles contain a significant fraction of small business ownership so there is a bit of 'trickle-down' which isn't obvious in the charts.]

READING THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION is like reading a trade journal for an industry that knows it is in decline, along the lines of daily newspapers or buggy whip makers.

On the bright side, the Left is determined to bring back buggy whips. Climate change, you know.

THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: 'a cesspool of narcissistic insular self-gratification'.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Nashville's good guys with guns show that America's courage is not [yet] extinct.

Let's keep it that way.

FROM POWERLINE'S "Loose Ends" blog post:

The mainstream media is struggling with how to cover the [gender identity of the] Nashville shooter, because the highest sin on the left today is using the wrong pronoun. So was the shooter male or female? Yes. Entire "news" stories are being written without any pronoun at all [and] The New York Times is twisting itself into a pretzel.

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