KURT SCHLICHTER: It's time to rethink your 'never Trumpism'.

BIDENOMICS UPDATE: That's gonna leave a mark.

I would only note that my number for groceries is consistent.

UPDATE: Powerline has much more.

IDAHO GOVERNOR BRAD LITTLE: No, we aren't playing the pronoun game here.

RED STATE'S Thursday morning minute. There are several stories; read them all.

"THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME YOUR PRONOUNS. I USE CORRECT GRAMMAR:” TalkTV host gives 'epic' response to guest who states preferred pronouns at start of interview.

I'D BE OKAY WITH THAT if they were also exempt from taking welfare: "Black people should be exempt from paying taxes."

WE ARE RULED BY MALEVOLENT CLOWNS. Because the earth is boiling and we are doomed, and we must shoot the sky.

ON ABORTION: 'Voters don't care' what [former VP Mike] Pence says.

TEXAS STILL HAS GOOD ROADS: Eclipse visitors were supposed to overwhelm Texas and its roads.

THE BIDEN INFLATION INDEX as seen by my household budget. The chart below is my personal inflation index, the average monthly dollar amount spent in grocery stores (averaged over the first three months of 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024). Budgeted is in red; the actual amount spent is in blue.

The year 2021 can be safely assumed to be indicative of the Trump years, since the Biden administration didn't begin until the end of January. Then 'Bidenomics' took over.

Wow. Just wow. If only my income had kept up....

Trump 2024.