WHITE HOUSE REPORT CARD: Biden repeatedly shows he’s losing it.

Not losing, lost.

HISTORY HAS A WAY OF MAKING FOOLS OF THE IGNORANT: Sunny Hostin is descended from slavers.

I wonder if she's willing to pay reparations? Somehow I doubt it.

RIP JURISPRUDENCE — President Séance judged too senile to get in trouble.

Unfortunately for America he's also too senile to get lost....

BECAUSE IT ONLY WORKS FOR PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY ... WORK: The dean of Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine claims White people get more from Social Security because of 'structural inequity'.

I'M PREPARED TO BE UNIMPRESSED: Don't drop the H[arvard] bomb.

Especially since this twerp was admitted.

THE TIME FOR CIVILITY HAS PASSED. It's now or never.

OVER THE EDGE: The Left has pushed the envelope.

It's Victor Davis Hanson, so read it in entirety.

I'M PREPARED: Thank the green-energy cult for major blackouts this summer.

But not to thank them....

THE DAILY CHART: Unpopular Biden policies. The chart for popular Biden policies is still unavailable.

YESTERDAY: Biden to send troops to stop Texas from protecting the southern border.

TODAY: Biden, during visit to overwhelmed border, urges Republicans to back Senate bill: 'Time to act'. He was in Brownsille, that very section of the Texas-Mexico border he sent troops to stop Texas from building its own cargo container/razor wire barrier to prevent illegals from crossing.

I watched his press conference today. His solution to the border crisis was to spend gobs and gobs of taxpayer money to process, shelter, and speed up the legalization of those crossing and who have crossed the border already.

He didn't propose to spend one damn dime to prevent them from crossing (illegally, of course) in the first place.

Joe Biden is the worst President in American history. He needs to be removed (legally) ASAP.

WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED? They will turn on you.

Not surprised, but a bit worried -- and preparing.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS are now 'newcomers'. The Demo(n)crats have become barking-at-the-moon mad -- literally.

IT'S ABOUT TIME the Right became more aggressive at lawfare.

A prominent civil rights attorney grifter deleted his viral tweet that attacked a female New York City hospital worker hours after her lawyer threatened defamation lawsuits in a Fox News segment against those who defamed her.

A few million dollar settlement seems appropriate to me....

THEY WON'T USE THE 25TH AMENDMENT TO REMOVE BIDEN; they have a vested interest in keeping him in office their jobs.

ANOTHER IMPEACHMENT CALL: Impeachment skeptic calls to remove Biden via 25th Amendment.

DAMNED IF I KNOW: What were the Democrats thinking?

The question presupposes that Democrats can think....

NO, HE'S TOO DAMN DUMB FOR EITHER. Has Joe Biden become possessed or is he just high as a kite?

RANDOM THOUGHT: Having just had to listen to her on television, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is living, breathing proof that the Democrat party is the insane party.

THE PATTY MELT: a symbol of American greatness.

Yes, it's a bit late (okay, way late) -- but it's still a great story.

JUST BECAUSE I'M A PROGRESSIVE SNOWFLAKE doesn't mean I don't want your money.

INSTAPUNDIT: America needs more McJobs.

Where else will Federal bureaucrats go after President Trump fires them? Unfortunately there won't be any left for them when they're fired; Bidenomics has already forced retired seniors back to the workforce to take them.

HE'S MAD BECAUSE THE REPUBLICANS DIDN'T INCLUDE HIM. Obama accuses Republicans of fueling 'anger' with its 'elitist economic agenda'.

IT'S GONNA BE A REALLY TOUGH JOB: Can Trump clean the Augean stables on the Potomac?

For those of you who don't recognize the phrase, here's the definition of Augean stable.

JET ZERO: the Space-X of aviation.

MORE FROM POWERLINE'S LOOSE ENDS: White Supremacy isn't just for whites anymore.

THANK GOODNESS FOR GENERAC: Here come the blackouts.

We've already had a few here in the last two weeks....

QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS: The frightened Left.

An impeachment inquiry looms and the shrieks of outrage are beginning.

The Left is now suddenly voicing warnings that those who recently undermined the system could be targeted by their own legacies.

So, for example, now we read why impeachment is suddenly a dangerous gambit.

Turnabout is fair play, and I hope Trump plays it good and hard.

BUT THERE'S ALWAYS IRMAA: Social Security is running out of money.

What interests me is not that Social Security is running out of money but that a 'typical newly retired, dual-earner couple will see their Social Security checks reduced by $17,400 annually.'

Let's do the math [FWIW, I learned math when it still involved numbers]. As of 2024, maximum benefit is $3,822/month, or $45,864 annually. To receive that amount, the recipient would have to be 66 years old and earned the Social Security maximum for the prior 35 years.

So a 23% reduction in benefit would be $10,549 each, or $21, 098 for that newly retired dual income couple. My wife and I were solidly upper middle class when we retired and I suspect our social security income is higher than average. That said, the 23% reduction for us would be only about $12,000.

So to claim a $17,000 reduction for a 'typical newly retired dual-income couple' is more than a bit disingenuous, it's a lie.

Then there's the income-related monthly adjusted amount (IRMAA), meaning the 'you make too much money outside of Social Security' tax, which is an additional 17% ($5,000) reduction in our Social Security income.

Many more such reductions and we'll owe Social Security every year....

AND JOE BIDEN IS TAKING A PAGE FROM VENEZUELA'S PLAYBOOK: How poor can Venezuela get?

VICTORY GIRLS: Biden activates 'climate corps' to do nothing for the environment.

What’s interesting about all of this is that the Biden Administration truly believes that twenty thousand young people are just itching to sign up for jobs that involve ... work. Outside. Hard work at that. Work that doesn’t involve prancing down streets, waving signs and chanting slogans.

Oh. Well, then, never mind.

HINDSIGHT IS ALWAYS 20/20: What can't global warming do? "Snow now means it’s getting warmer."

It would be more accurate to say that weather is a sign of climate change.

WE'VE NOTICED: Social Security Administration burdens seniors with push for clawbacks in overpaid Social Security benefits.

My wife and I are two of the ones paying. And after having to pay exorbitant IRMAA (income-related monthly adjustment amount; read as an additional 'progressive' income tax) fees. In my wife's case, the 'clawback' is greater than one full month's Social Security payment.

Talk about government incompetence ....

RI-I-IGHT: The U.S. is tracking a small, high-altitude balloon that is drifting across the country but poses no threat to national security, U.S. and the military said.

ONLY DONORS? Biden’s cheat sheets at fundraisers worry donors.

IN THE NAME OF ENVIRONMENTALISM they're coming for your cats and dogs.

I have to wonder if they've thought about the damage done by non-domestic (wild) animals....

The kindest thing you can say about these enviro-freaks is that they're nuts.

RANDOM THOUGHT: DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is simply affirmative action sans merit and morals.

HE HAS CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES? Pence announces $20m investment to defend conservative principles.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Whoever said crime doesn't pay never met a government bureaucrat.

DISEASE 'X': Coming just in time for the 2024 election.

Plan on it.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our establishment's alternate realities.

For what it's worth (not much, I know) I would highly recommend at least the first few chapters of Heinlein's (1970) book I Will Fear No Evil to begin to understand our current 'woke' -- and severely disfunctional -- society.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR.: Can we please stop pretending there aren't animals among us?

They're rabid animals and should be treated accordingly.

APTERA: A solar-powered EV that never needs to plug in for a recharge.

Aptera is a bit late; the 'solar-powered' car was first described in 'Let There Be Light', a short story in Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 book The Man Who Sold the Moon.

CITY JOURNAL: The moral blindness of identity politics.

Long, but worthy.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The mindset of our anti-Semites.

PAYING THE DANE-GELD: Weakness invites aggression.

AMMO GRRRLL: HOW the heck did this HAPPEN?

Had to have been when I wasn't looking....

KURT SCHLICHTER: "The destruction of evil is the only possible moral choice. Anyone who thinks differently needs to grow up."

THEIR 'INVESTMENTS' ARE FROM YOUR INCOME: The ten most insane requirements of the Green New Deal.

From the ten most egregious nutcases in Congress....

PENGUINS REPLY "MOLON LABE": Iran declares Antiartica its property.

POWERLINE: A white coat supremacy reader.

In the pandemic, “... we had entered a frightening new era of medicine, where the training and expertise of one’s physician are secondary to the rigid rules and edicts of government bureaucrats.”

I suggest reading Ward Moore's Caudecus Wild to get some sense of where this 'white coat supremacy' may lead.

MOST DEMOCRATS ARE SURPRISED; MOST NORMALS ARE NOT. We are well beyond hypocrisy.

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

USING THEIR VERY DIM BULBS: "The Harvard-educated elitist geniuses will run the country according to their infinitely brighter intellectual and moral lights."

PROOF THAT KNUCKLEHEADS [THINK THEY] ARE IN CHARGE: Hawaii Supreme Court says the spirit of 'Aloha' supersedes the U.S. constitution's Second Amendment.

THEY'RE LOOKING IN THEIR OWN MIRROR: CNN thinks we're a bunch of sourpusses.

VIA INSTAPUNDIT: Why is there so much military interest in the moon?

I'd suggest reading Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress for the answer.

IT'S CALLED 'WOKE': We actually do have an established religion.

And it's not a good one....

NO SHIT SHERLOCK: We are on the razor's edge of many things that soon may blow up.

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

AND THE END OF EXCELLENCE AS AN ACADEMIC GOAL. The end of history as an academic discipline.

TRUMP SAYS: Illegals will vote in 2024!

Perhaps so, but I'm much more concerned about the longer term. I've been around long enough to know that the 'free stuff' crowd trends strongly Democrat and the illegals are -- or will be -- a significant portion of that group.

YET ANOTHER TRANS SHOOTER and I think I know why.

Transgender-identifying people have exploded in number, the Left has been pushing transgender ideology on society, mental illness has been reclassified as “neurodiversity,” and a victimhood mentality and narrative of “cisgender” people being oppressors has permeated our educational institutions.

Read it all.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Our incompetent elite are opening up have opened up America to attack.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: A culture in collapse.

What is happening to us is ... almost exclusively the wage of the progressive project.

Read it all. It's important.

MAYORKAS' BONE-CHILLING RESPONSE to impeachment proceedings.

"When behind closed doors, we told him, 'You are getting ready to be impeached.' He said, 'You're not going to like who comes next.' I asked him if that was a threat, and he smiled."

The full post is (unfortunately) behind the PJ Media VIP firewall.

#JOURNALISM: They want us to be weak, frightened, and easily led.

One hour of watching television commercials should convince anyone....

WHY SHOULD YOU EVER LISTEN TO ANYTHING A GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRAT HAS TO SAY AGAIN? Fauci's latest admissions are the death of expertise.

Reminder: the definition of expert ['ex', meaning 'has-been' and 'spurt', meaning 'drip under pressure'] applies especially to government-designated experts.

WITH PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS: A new way to teach mathematics.

It's not enough for the schools to just instill theory. The purpose of education, as I keep saying, is to produce young adults with marketable skills. Those industrial arts programs did that. So does this Wasilla High School program.

Read it all.

“IT WAS NOT A GOOD IDEA.” Now we know who thought it was a good idea for Biden to deliver his angry speech.

It was 'Angry Joe' himself.

CIVIL WAR II? If a new civil war does come, it will be on account of the intransigence of the same party that started the first one.

I'm hopeful it will be resolved peacefully by the 2024 elections, but I'm not sanguine about it.

SEN. JOSH HAWLEY [R-MO] sets Biden's climate agenda on fire during hearing:

HAWLEY: Let's talk a little bit about who's really benefiting from this administration's climate agenda, and from these draconian electric vehicle mandates. So, Mr. Turk, you've already alluded to this. I know you know the answers to these questions. Currently, one nation accounts for 60 percent of the world's electric vehicle production. That nation is?

TURK: China

HAWLEY: One nation accounts for 76 percent of the world's lithium battery production. That nation is?

TURK: China

HAWLEY: Yet, your administration, the president's administration, the mandates that you put in place require that two-thirds of our new vehicle sales in just the next eight years be electric vehicles. Your policies are driving us and our supply chains into the hands of our greatest geo-strategic enemy, enriching them, enriching their government while forcing Americans to pay for electric vehicles that on average cost $7,000 more, on average than a traditional vehicle, are more expensive to repair and insure, require more frequent replacement of everything from tires to component parts.

So, Mr. Turk, why is it good for the American worker that we force our supply chains to a country that is our greatest rival and adversary, and why is it good for the American consumer?

Read the whole thing.

BECAUSE BLACKS ARE FLEEING THE PLANTATION? Democrats talk about illegal immigrants the same way they used to talk about slaves.

THEY'RE CONTROL FREAKS: How bureaucrats ruin everything from dishwashers to gas cans to cars.

IT CAN'T COME TOO SOON. Is this the beginning of the end of the $2,000,000,000,000 dollar administrative state?

[That's 'trillion' for those who can't count the number of zeros without taking their shoes off.]

"WE MUST NORMALIZE MASSACRES." But only if they're against groups disfavored by the Left.

IT MUST BE GLOBAL WARMING: NYC sees first snow accumulation in two years.

OK, this one's aged a bit, but it's still food for the aliens amongst us....

THEY'RE NOT DESIGNED TO KEEP YOU WELL. They're designed to keep you dependent.

SPEAKER JOHNSON'S SPINE STIFFENS as Senate Republicans try to surrender on the border.

And he won. Keep it up, Mr. Speaker.

NO, THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE A VIABLE PLAN A. Do Democrats have a viable 'Plan B' for the run-up to the 2024 election?

Well, other than cheating....

NOT SO: That’s ‘President Magoo’ to you, buster!

Mr. Magoo was both blind and oblivious but he was at least coherent....

YES, THEY DO WANT TO KILL YOU: Mayorkas personally rejected RFK Jr. Secret Service protection.

To update the Christmas song,

You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not pout
I'm telling you why,
Santa Claus Mayorkas is coming to town
He's making a list
He's checking it twice
He's going to find out
Who's naughty and nice,
Santa Claus Mayorkas is coming to town

The progressive Left really, really, really wants anyone who opposes them out of the way....

WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED? Sen. Rand Paul [R-KY] claims there may be an anti-Trump impeachment trap in the Ukraine aid package.

LOOKS TO ME LIKE FULTON COUNTY LAW IS A SELF-LICKING ICE CREAM CONE: Judge suggests that this week's hearing could mean bad news for Fani Willis.

THE WHITE-COLLAR CLASS derided mass layoffs among the blue-collar workers. Now it’s about to feel their pain.

I won't suggest that they 'learn to code' because that job's already been taken by Artificial Stupidity Intelligence. Instead I'd suggest they learn how America works.

HERITAGE FOUNDATION TO DAVOS ELITES: You are part of the problem.

I disagree. The Davos elites are not part of the problem, they are the problem.

THEY GOT THAT PART RIGHT: Climate, COVID liars whine that ‘expert’ is now an ‘insult’.

Well, they brought it on themselves.

Reminder: 'Expert' is derived from two words, 'ex', meaning 'has been' and 'spurt', which is a drip under pressure....

PANIC SETS IN: Democrats are running on nothing but fear.

Fear is all they have. And unfortunately for real America it's very useful in maintaining control.

AND NOT JUST ABOUT THE COLD: Bitching works.

GLENN REYNOLDS: Why I love the blue-state refugees moving to my red state.

They're welcome in my neck of the woods too -- as long as they leave they ditch blue-state baggage as they leave.

NO NEGOTATION: Republicans, stop trying to do immigration deals with Democrats. Close the borders (plural) to all illegals and stuff that decision down the Democrats' collective throat.

CLARITY ON THE BORDER: The 'compromise' won't didn't work.

And I agree about Kristi Noem....

SINCE WHEN HAS ARMED SHOPLIFTING BEEN ENSHRINED IN LAW? Shoplifters open fire on security guard in New York City’s busy Times Square hitting an innocent bystander in the leg and sending tourists fleeing for cover.

SO IS SHE AFRAID SHE MIGHT BECOME PRESIDENT? Kamala Harris angrily attacks special counsel’s report detailing Biden memory lapses.

NO SURPRISE HERE: 'The View' host says she 'deserves' reparations despite enslaver background.

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY [R-LA] ON BIDENOMICS: "Bidenomics just means paying more for a worse life."

THE GREAT TAKING: You don't own what you think you own.

Maybe it's time to reconsider investing in physical gold....

MORE PLEASE: Florida bank robber holding 2 hostages at knifepoint shot and killed by sniper.

IS THERE AN OPTION TO STAND? Southwest ridiculed after proudly showing off cramped new seating.

PREDICTABLE UNLESS YOU'RE A PROGRESSIVE LOON: Artifical Intelligence is baking in political bias.

THEY FORGOT THE DUCT TAPE. So that's how the Boeing door panel blew off.

HMM: Did the Galileo Project just find the remains of an interstellar craft?

Linked from Instapundit.

THE TRUTH OUTS: John Kerry, Biden's 'Energy Czar', admits the market doesn't support green energy.

Keep this thought firmly in mind: "[P]oliticians don’t spend their money. They spend yours."

AFTER 5,000 YOU HAVE TO GET A PERMIT: New Senate anti-murder bill caps murders at 5,000 per day.

OUR WORST SUSPICIONS ABOUT COVID HEALTH OFFICIALS have just been confirmed.

NOW IT'S THE TIRES: Here's the next damn way the Left will go after your car.

I wonder if the Left has ever thought about airplanes. Ever noticed the rubber smoking when an aircraft lands?

BECAUSE THEY'RE ALSO CORRUPT SCUMBAGS: Our alleged President is a corrupt scumbag and the ruling class is okay with that.

EMBRACE THE HEALING POWER OF 'AND': Is Biden malicious, incompetent, or conniving?

BLUE CITY BLUES: Legalize shoplifting, businesses flee.

I predicted this over 20 years ago when the 'takers' began to outnumber the 'makers' politically.

NOT IN 'OUR DEMOCRACY': Can universities coexist with free speech?

REAL SIGNS for real people.

But they're about to be banned because humor is strictly prohibited in progressive America.

COMMON SENSE from Thomas Sowell.

You'll have to scroll down a bit from the top. But it's worth the trip.

A QUESTION I'VE BEEN ASKING FOR YEARS: What if global warming is a good thing?

URINE LUCK: Ever wonder why pee is yellow?

And you will laugh at the end.

ONLY IF YOU PAY ME Departing Californians asked to withhold criticism of their home state.

Just because I left years ago doesn't mean I don't deserve reparations....

IMPRIMIS: Lessons from the great Covid cover-up.

GIVE WAR A CHANCE: America first as America fights.

ZOOZVE: A moon that isn't.

KURT SCHLICHTER: We are sitting ducks and our leaders do not care.

They only care about themselves.

AFTER COLLEGE: The coming collapse of American higher education.

NOW WE KNOW WHY THEY WANT AN OPEN BORDER; they're desperate for slave labor.

I MAY HAVE POSTED THIS MONTHS AGO: The U-2 Dragon Lady as you've never seen her before.

But it's worthy of repeat; the pictures are spectacular.

THE MORNING BRIEFING: Election in El Salvador is a triggering event for American communists.

Moving to El Salvador is looking better and better....

MAYBE CALIFORNIA WILL BE CLEANED UP YET: Roads turn into raging rivers as life-threatening storm targets 37 million Americans in California.

MIKE WALLACE IS TRASH; Morgan Freeman is not.

RANDOM THOUGHT (by my wife): Biden is giving old people a bad name.

AMMO GRRRLL EXPLAINS storing gold bars and cash under the mattress.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The only difference between artificial intelligence and human stupidity is that artifical intelligence is faster.

EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT SHE HAS NO TAIL, that's my Wanda.