THOSE PESKY UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: Robot revolution sparks new crime surge alert.

Our Ruling Class is beginning to become aware of some of the 'benefits' of artificial intelligence.

FIXED THE LEDE: From Golden State to Failing Failed State: California's stupidest idea yet.

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN 'OUT THE DOOR': Columbia professor who blocked Jewish student during encampments given promotion.

I'VE BITCHED ABOUT THIS FOR YEARS: Sacramento exported its pollution to neighboring states, and charged California consumers for the privilege.

Read the whole thing, including the links.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT 2025: Dave Barry's Year in Review. Click through and enjoy the whole thing.

YEAH, RIGHT ... Pelosi says she didn't intend to tear up Trump's 2020 State of the Union speech.

'UNBELIEVABLE SECURITY LAPSE': Lawsuit raises big questions on Trump's security.

It's becoming clearer and clearer that there are lice in the upper echelons of the Secret Service. And probably in the FBI and CIA as well.

FROM SATURDAY'S Week in Pictures.

I'm waiting for the Gruber to drop on New Year's Eve. Now go see the rest.

THE PURCHASERS SHOULD BE ARRESTED AND TRIED FOR SEDITION: Billboards urging troops to defy Trump are popping up near military bases in Florida.

LOS ANGELES MAYOR expresses concern over surge of Latino recruits in Border Patrol.

Just because they're Latino, they shouldn't be helping secure the border?

THE OBAMA LIBRARY is ugly for a reason: transparency

Scott Adams explains.

WE'RE JOURNALISTS: We only use sources that we trust....

"One of the reasons I think trust in media has fallen to so, so low is remember what the media is.... It's a reflection of 'I always say I'm as good as the sources I have, not necessarily the sources I want at times.'"

[...]

"We may be reporting what the 'experts' tell us," he said. "But if the public doesn't trust those experts, and then we in the media are quoting those experts, they don't trust us."

Maybe they should quit 'trusting their sources' and look in other mirrors....

PUT DEMOCRATS ON THE SPOT with small but popular affordability issues.

Dare the Democrats to take a hard stand in favor of Bangladeshi tech support, dunning us for 25% tips on our lattes, and subscriptions to our own Toyotas.

Republicans, stand up, push legislation, and speak out. Loudly.

FORMER BROWN UNIVERSITY STUDENT pulls back the curtain on the Ivy League.

Brown University lawyers up after bungled response to mass shooting.

You would think there'd be consequences. And there will; tuition will go up in order to pay all those legal fees....

IT’S BEEN A QUIET WEEK in Lake al-Wobegon.

WHY NOT? The U.S. sends troops into Latin America, but not to Venezuela.

Here's why. That's a Lockheed Martin U-2S Dragon Lady used to find, fix, and spy on enemy targets.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: pseudo-recessions.

Don't let this happen in the 2026 mid-terms....

NEWSMAX: Trump eyes Japan-style mini cars for U.S. streets.

They should be required in urban cities -- especially NYC. It would take regulatory changes, but that only shows how overweening our government regulatory structure is....

CALIFORNIA GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM [D] LOSES MORE CALIFORNIA BUSINESS and wants to take away your farm.

SCIENCE SHOULD NOT BE ABOUT ‘STORIES,’ but about truth.

ONE TEST SHORT OF A PILOT'S LICENSE and a catastrophe in a major U.S. city.

AMERICAN GREATNESS: “Stupid in America” turns 20.

DON SURBER ON IMMIGRATION: Assimilate or go home. You're Americans in America now.

ECOLOGY: Nature is better than environmentalists.

More experience perhaps?

Linked from Instapundit here.

LEFTISTS SEETHE as JD Vance works out with Navy SEALS. Vance responds with hilarious meme:

Vance, another 1; Leftists, still 0.

BOSTON DEMOCRAT MAYOR MICHELLE WU says Somalis to thank for city’s ‘every achievement'.

So let make them migrate to Boston.

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION probably just saved Washington state residents from unnecessary rolling blackouts.

But maybe they shouldn’t have.

A STATE WHICH HAS NO LOYALTY TOWARD ITS CITIZENS has no right to loyalty from them.

JACK SMITH JUST MADE THE MOST RIDICULOUS CLAIM about his investigation into Trump. Read the comments; they are brutal.

[VIP] OKAY, THE HOAX IS OVER: Cloudy days ahead for the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

I'm sick and tired of checking my iPhone's weather app to be told how dangerous it is outside. It's also annoying to find out that if the temperature is less than 34 degrees I should watch out for snow/black ice on the road when it's sunny outside.

It's much easier to just look out the window. Save money and get rid of the safety nannies at the National Weather Service. Just report and let me decide.

I WAS ONE OF THE FIRST VICTIMS of the DEI nonsense.

THE INFURIATING NONSENSE teachers learned at a recent NEA conference.

I’M A RACIST, HE’S A RACIST, SHE’S A RACIST, wouldn’t you like to be a racist too? [Editorial note: 'YT' is an acronym for white people]

THREE OF MY 4 CATS ARE BLACK. So am I racist?

AND FINALLY, COURTESY OF ARKANSAS GOV. SARAH SANDERS, pound sand:

After issuing a proclamation closing state offices for Christmas, Sanders received a letter from the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), a group focused on the separation of church and state, calling for her to reverse the move and claiming it was unconstitutional.

In a response letter, obtained by Fox News Digital, Sanders told FFRF she "will do no such thing."

"You say that my communications as Governor must be neutral on matters of religion," Sanders wrote. "I say that, even if I wanted to do that, it would be impossible. Christmas is not simply an ‘end-of-the-year holiday’ with ‘broadly observed secular cultural aspects,’ as your letter states. It’s not gifts, trees, and stockings that make this holiday special. Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, and if we are to honor Him properly, we should tell His miraculous, world-changing story properly, too."

Good for her. If there's ever to be a woman president, she should be it.

RED STATE: The Trump administration's 'Merry Christmas' X posts set the gold standard on political greetings.

You can (should) miss the first two videos, but be sure to watch the rest.

INSTAPUNDIT: Merry Christmas to all.

POWERLINE: Memories of Christmas past.

HOW U.S. TROOPS celebrate Christmas abroad.

I had a short tour (as a civilian) at Camp Victory in Iraq (back in 2006 as I recall). I leaft on Christmas day, having to forgoe the traditional Christmas dinner at the DFAC (dining facility) of ham, green bean and corn casseroles, mashed potatos, stuffing, dinner rolls, and gingerbread cookies (at least that was on the menu).

What I remember most was the decorations in the offices and housing facilities: decorated Christmas trees, some with lights, wreaths, Santas, reindeer, candy, cookies -- all supplied by families of the soldiers stationed there.

BRAVO BLUE: My Christmas 55 years ago.

THOMAS SOWELL on Christmas.

TRUMP'S CHRISTMAS EVE CALLS: A reminder of what the Christmas spirit looks like.

ELON MUSK: Fate loves irony.

HAVE YOURSELF a merry little Christmas.

More here.

RANDOM MUSING: On holidays (Christmas, New Year's Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, etc.) and special days like 9/11 and Pearl Harbor I usually pause posting 'normal' stuff and limit myself to remembrances. This year is no different with the exception that I'm finding it harder to find worthy stories.

What follows are the few that I've seen this year.

MARY, DID YOU KNOW? The most misunderstood Christmas song.

THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR wishes you a Merry Christmas.

IT'S THAT SEASON: H-E-B Grocers' computers fail, so they take an opportunity to spread unexpected Christmas cheer.

THE MAGIC BEGINS: Christmas eve.

SEND IN THE MARINES. Powerline comments on the Supreme Court ruling on National Guard deployment.

HE'S GOT THE IDIOT VOTE LOCKED UP: Eric Swalwell's incredibly cringey California Governor ad shows just how clueless and out of touch Democrats are.

OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: We need more people ready to fight, military chief says.

The cartoon says it all.

YES, OF COURSE: Is the Deep State trying to frame Trump as a 'malignant narcissist'?

If you want to see 'malignant narcissism' just look to your Left ... it's their home.

A VIEW FROM THE WINDOWS on Winter Solstice.

Finally, Finally ... days are getting longer. If only it'd get warmer.

HOW TO STOP PROGRESS(IVES): Turn out their lights.

Heh.

I CONTRIBUTED. HAVE YOU? Wreaths Across America Continues its mission to remember, honor, and teach.

VERIZON REFUSED TO UNLOCK MAN’S IPHONE, so he sued the carrier and won.

THE WEEKEND'S GUN TRAGEDIES show why you must buy even more guns. And ammunition.

And carry if you can.

THIS IS WHAT 'SECURE' MEANS when Liberals talk about voting.

DEEP BLUE STATE deals massive blow to trans agenda, axes LGBTQIA+ mandate.

GERMANY’S “WELCOME CULTURE” COLLAPSES: Majority now want immigration halted and deportations ramped up.

Linked from Instapundit here.

LOVELY: Ten dollar gasoline coming soon to California.

IT'S A BIT LATE FOR ME, but let the punching back twice as hard begin.

IS BROWN UNIVERSITY protecting a suspect in the campus shooting?

No, they're covering their collective asses. I'm sure there'll be more to come....

I BELIEVE IT: More holiday terrorist attacks are coming.

AI KEEPS GETTING DUMB AND DUMBER, and I've got the receipts.

I once described AI as the world's first Garbage-In/Garbage Out device that generates its own garbage, but in some cases, that might prove optimistic.

He's right, and that's one reason why I never (knowingly) use AI for anything. Even Duck Duck Go, which I occasionally use for a search, has an AI augmentation which I keep turning off permanently keeps coming back. Every time I do a search, I have to turn the damn thing off (again!) and then repeat the search.

THIS IS GEORGIA: The “stolen election” really was.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Can the Dark Ages return?

Since we're already nearing sunset, my guess is 'yes'.

IMPRIMIS: Lawlessness is a choice.

TRUMP WANTS TO RAISE MONEY AND HEGSETH WANTS WARRIORS; an ancient institution might please both.

EMAILS REVEAL FBI AGENTS did not believe they had probable cause to raid Mar-a-Lago.

SEAL WISDOM: 'Find, Fix, Finish' drug smugglers at sea.

I'D SUGGEST you check out the White House's Media Bias web site regularly. Here's the latest.

IMPRIMIS: Today’s firestorm and the Declaration of Independence.

A NEW BARBARISM HAS EMERGED: Time to make America civilized again.

DEMOCRATS, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE LEADERS, not followers.

GOP SUPERCUT VIDEO takes up Jasmine Crockett's [D-TX] challenge on finding a 'clip of a Democrat invoking violence'.

IN ALASKA: A pilot turned an old plane into a two-bedroom apartment.

AMERICAN GREATNESS: Immigration gone wild.

TIME MAGAZINE’s MAN MEN OF THE YEAR continue to knock it out of the park.

Into foul territory. The Washington Post offers proof.

SENATE FRAUD HEARING displays how Trump Derangement Syndrome blinds Democrats to deep corruption in federal contracting.

THERE’S NOTHING FUNNIER than fussy, furious Euroweenies.

WHY ARE DEMOCRATS’ BACKGROUNDS always fake?

Fake is their reality. Democrats are well-known for rewriting history, so why not rewrite personal history as well?

WOKE WARS HEAT UP IN DEMOCRAT SENATE PRIMARIES. The party continues its identity politics clown show.

SOUNDS GOOD TO ME: Minnesota to lose Medicaid funding.

If only it expands beyond Minnesota....

UNITED STATES seizes massive crude oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran. For multiple years, the oil tanker has been sanctioned by the United States due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations.

Stay tuned ....

SO, MR. PRESIDENT, CROSS THE RUBICONl Threatening to prosecute your opponents when they give up power is a bad idea.

REFORM, OR RISK: Fixing California's frightening and broken mental hospitals.

ERASING BIDEN'S DEI LEGACY one font at a time.

NEW YORK MAYOR-ELECT ZOHRAN MAMDANI is about to cannibalize the Democrat party.

'Cannibalize' is a bit weak; 'destroy' is better.

HOT AIR: It's always lies.

TEXAS DEMOCRAT’S TAKE ON TAXING ELON MUSK shows just how radical they’ve become.

The radicals are no longer on the fringe — this is who the Democrat Party is.

X [TWITTER] RESPONDS to the European Union's fine.

MEMO TO THE GOP: Stop enabling your destroyers.

POOR GOV. TIM WALZ [D-MN] IS SCARED, and it’s Trump’s fault.

MAYBE AMERICANS don't want to be 'protected' by an overweening federal government.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES Minnesots meltdown edition has my favorite:

Now go see the rest.

PRESIDENT TRUMP pays tribute to slain National Guard soldier Sarah Beckstrom.

HERE'S WHAT THE MEDIA won't tell you about Trump's poll numbers.

VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO former insider turns snitch. Here's an excerpt:

The regime I served is not merely hostile — it is at war with you, using drugs, gangs, espionage, and even your own democratic processes as weapons. President Trump’s policies against the Maduro criminal regime are not just justified, but necessary and proportionate to the threat. He may even be underestimating what the regime is prepared to do to hold onto power. They have contingency plans for every extreme scenario to ensure they never relinquish control.

Read it all.

CALIFORNIA'S ASSEMBLY BILL (AB5) smothers it's gig (freelance) economy's big boost.

WELL, THEIR VOTERS ARE DEMOCRATS. Democrats think their voters are idiots.

IS BOTH AN OPTION? Is SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson not that smart, or is she extremely partisan?

ERIKA KIRK TELLS FORUM it's not a gun violence problem we should be worried about — it's something worse.

FADING ECHOES: Pearl Harbor survivors' absence marks new shift in remembrance.

EXACTLY 84 YEARS AGO, Japan woke the sleeping giant with its attack on Pearl Harbor. Today that giant is waking again; only this time the attack is from within.

RANDOM THOUGHT: 'University' is the Left's most dangerous weapon against civilization.

IDIOCRACY: English has been taken over by 'Woke'.

Best comment (so far): Has the concept of “White supremacy” become synonymous with “civilization”? Do a find/replace and prove me wrong.

MINNESOTA GOV. TIM WALZ FILES HURT FEELINGS REPORT over 'dangerous' name-calling.

If the shoe fits....

DEMOCRATS HUMILIATE THEMSELVES AGAIN with another Epstein drop.

They can't help themselves.

PR JIU JITSU: The Trump administration should agree to a full, independent investigation of the boat strike — but with one condition.

THE DEMOCRATS always take sides against normal people like us. "Time to take our own side in this fight because no one else will."

TWELVE YEARS IS ENOUGH! How to end Obamacare and improve coverage.

I'm old enough to take advantage of traditional Medicare: hospitalization plus an 80/20 split on traditional medical coverage. It worked in my youth and it's working now.

NO COURTS NEEDED: A squatter removal cottage industry has grown out of California’s housing crisis.

BOOKMARK THIS SITE. The White House's media offender of the week.

It appears to be updated regularly.

HERE COMES THE CLOWN: Did a Democrat Senator just call for a military coup against Trump?

I never voted for him and am forever glad I'm no longer a Virginian.

NO ROOM FOR THIRD WORLDERS: "[Y]ou don’t have to go home, but you just can’t stay here.”

GOOD FOR HER: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday that after speaking with President Donald Trump, she will recommend a full travel ban "on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies."

SECRETARY OF WAR PETE HEGSETH: Putting narco-terrorists 'at bottom of the ocean'.

Next up, a Democrat-sponsored lawsuit alleging the Trump administration is drugging innocent fish....

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION threatens blue states' food stamp benefits over withheld data.

About time....

TRUMP: Somalis should go home and fix Somalia.

They can afford it; they've already stolen millions of dollars from Minnesota taxpayers.

[VIP] REMEMBER WHEN KIDS USED TO ROAM FREE? Society's greatest villain (Karen) is to blame for that going away.

Surprised it's not the internet? Me, too. That said, we did have our own run-in with Karen back when out daughter was a teen. We had set up a basketball goal on the sidewalk in front of our house (in a cul-de-sac) so the kids in the neighborhood could play. Anonymous Karen (or Kayden, if male) objected, called the police, and made us take it down. In the 4-1/2 years we lived there we never saw anyone on that sidewalk (except me, when I walked our dogs).

CAN WE THANK TRUMP? Hurricane season ends with no landfall in the United States.

Even hurricanes are afraid of him....

THE BABYLON BEE reports the news (again).

HOIST WITH HIS OWN PETARD: Sen. Chuck Schumer [D-NY] says three of his New York offices were targeted with bomb threats.

Wasn't it Sen. Schumer who stood on the Supreme Court steps and said "I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price." Why yes, yes, he was. And the whirlwind came back destroy him.

Just desserts.

THE HISTORY OF JIHAD AND CRUSADE with Victor Davis Hanson.

This is a podcast, not a post. It's long (about an hour), but very, very good if you are interested in history. Both Hanson and Ibrahim (a former student of Hanson) are subject matter experts.

WHY TRUMP’S NEXT PR PIVOT must be total, absolute political WARFARE on socialism.

ALASKA MAN MONDAY: Just for the halibut.

The video at the end is a bit off-sync, but the meaning is clear. Watch it anyway.

THIS IS A SURPRISE? Claims that Afghans were 'vetted' contradict federal investigations.

Maybe to Dumbocrats Democrats....

THEY BROKE AMERICA AND BLAME TRUMP: A country waking up from an abusive relationship.

Long, but worthy. Read it all.

[VIP] EXCLUDING FATHERS: New feminist blueprint for a man-free childhood.

[T]hese days, the attempts to eliminate fathers are by design. And now, in the United Kingdom, it seems to be a matter of policy. In a column at the New English Review, author Janice Fiamengo has some startling news.

Reaction in North America has so far been muted to what is being hailed as a significant victory for anti-father groups in Britain.

As reported by The Guardian newspaper in almost giddily triumphant prose, “The family courts will no longer work on the presumption that having contact with both parents is in the best interests of a child.”

This may be a significant victory for anti-father groups, and, amazingly, there is such a thing as "anti-father groups." But it's a slap in the face of the human family structure, a structure that goes back thousands of years.

If you can, read the whole thing.

FROM POWERLINE's Week in Pictures, my favorite:

There are many more; go see them.

THERE: I fixed it.

They're 'woke' reporters; English is a second language.

A QUESTION FOR TRUMP: Is it time to take a page from Abraham Lincoln?

ZOHRAN MAMDANI'S still begging the working class New Yorkers for money.

Wait until he's Mayor; then he won't have to beg, he'll just take it.

JUNIPER AND HIS BROTHERS ARE EXPANDING THEIR NETWORK.

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: The white coat has become a prop in the Democrat media playbook.

Maybe HHS Secretary Kennedy can change it back, but I'm not sanguine....

CHARLIE McCARTHY IN A BLUE SUIT: The puppet show than ran America.

THE A'S ARE BOUGHT, NOT EARNED: Harvard report warns of ‘damaging’ grade inflation.

AN EX-SLAVE answers the affordability crisis.

Read it all.

[VIP] THERE’S AN ANGER IN THE COUNTRY, simmering, slowly coming to a boil. What happens when it boils over?

The left has been pushing, pushing this for months, for years. They vilify Republicans, they call us fascists, they call us Nazis, they call us racists. Sooner or later, the rest of the people, the rest of us, will decide we’ve had enough. The rest of us will decide, no more burned businesses, no more murdered women, no more judges letting criminals run free after 10, 30, 60 arrests. No more unchecked thousands of “asylum-seekers” from every third-world hellhole on the planet. No more.

But the far left won’t give up. They won’t stop. They will escalate. Sooner or later, the rest of us, the great silent majority, will decide, fine, we’ll match you, tactic for tactic, blow for blow.

We'll simply kill you and be done.

YIMBY (YES, IN MY BACK YARD): Most YIMBYs don't have back yards.

Read it all.

PARTICLE FOR MEN: "aesthetic science for [narcisstic] men".

There. Fixed it. And yes, their television commercials do rankle.

WHY DO YOU THINK KAMALA HARRIS SELECTED TIM WALZ AS HER VP CHOICE? Is Minnesota the nation’s most corrupt state?

DIFFICULT BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE: Want to reduce violent crime against women? Get more of them to carry a gun.

NEW YORK’S ASSAULT ON THE NRA — and free speech — gets a court bailout.

The Supreme Court now has the the responsibility to ensure that government officials cannot evade accountability when they use their power to punish protected speech.

AMERICA IS COMING AROUND TO MY POINT OF VIEW: Stage four is a million armed Trump supporters show up in Washington, DC and shoot everyone who gets in their way.

SOCIALISM IS FOR MORONS: Sen. John Kennedy [R-LA] explains the socialist resurgence as only he can.

SO KILL THEM. Crime is extremely concentrated in a small number of individuals who repeatedly harm others.

The other option is to incarcerate them, but our progressive 'betters' won't permit that.

WINTER HAS COME FOR SURE: Our forsythia finally surrendered on Thanksgiving day.

It looks like I ended my Falling Leaves 2025 series a bit too early.

TRUMP TAKE NOTE: The Jackson plan for dealing with nullifiers and insurrectionists.

HOUSE DEMOCRAT'S UNWISE RESPONSE on whether he'll do FBI interview over 'illegal orders' video.

He should cooperate -- or else.

NATIONAL TEACHERS UNION training educators to prioritize ideology rather than academics.

These are your teachers if your district is unionized.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? University of Minnesota labels whiteness a 'pandemic', demands 're-education'.

Another reason to save money and not send your children to college.

AMERICAN GREATNESS: Can the lost generation be found?

Do we really want to find them?

SEDITIONIST BLUE FALCON DEMOCRATS stunned to be held accountable for their behavior.

To paraphrase a favorite 60's protest song, 'The times they are a'changing'.

THE ERASURE OF WOMEN'S DIGNITY: The boundary violation at the heart of transgender demands.

MAKING NYC MORE AFFORDABLE (FOR HIMSELF AND HIS CRONIES): Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani could get 16% pay hike under new proposal.

BAD NEWS for those six Democrats who made the 'illegal orders' video.

Good news for the rest of us.

TWO FINAL THANKSGIVING POSTS:

Being grateful is key to understanding Thanksgiving.

A Thanksgiving Day guide for Americans of class and taste.

YOU DON'T WANT AI TO GOVERN SOCIETY. Here's why.

GIVE THEM SMARTPHONES: The Devil’s plan to ruin the next generation.

[VIP} FINALLY, SOMETHING INCREASINGLY HARD TO FIND IN TODAY'S POLITICIZED ENVIRONMENT: Thoughts on Thanksgiving.

It is, unfortunately, a VIP post. A pity that current culture has come to this....

THE RIDICULOUS WAY leftist 'educators' celebrate Thanksgiving.

FIVE THINGS to be thankful for in 2025.

THANKSGIVING IN ACADEMIA: A day of mourning.

ALARMING POSTS FROM ARMY JAG OFFICER show just how dangerous the Seditious Six's video really is.

'SHE' WASN'T FEMALE? One guess why world's strongest female winner was stripped of (her?) title.

CRAZY TENNESSEE DEMOCRAT HAS MELTDOWN, runs for Congress, won't win, and will blame the 'patriarchy'.

In today's crazy environment I'm not so sure she won't win....

THE JOBS AMERICANS WON’T DO? The lost workforce generation.

All the Democrats can manufacture are slogans.

WHO'S RUNNING THIS COUNTRY? President Trump or the judiciary?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Insurrection Chic.

I LOVE IT: Major foreign propagandists utterly exposed after X glitch reveals account locations.

Since the data is available, I think it should be mandatory that all Twitter posts be tagged with at least the country/state of origin.

OREGON PRINCIPAL RANTS ABOUT ICE: She forgets history, "thinks America is the world's flophouse -- not a country worth saving."

If you're sending your children to 'public' school in this Blue state, it's likely a case of child abuse.

KEEP DOGE GOING: sanity brings savings.

DOGE should be a separate organization, solely under the President's control, embedded in every government organization.

NEWSOM'S WAR ON SUBURBIA enters the tactical-nuke phase.

Except his suburbia, of course....

LIBERALISM: "I don’t judge someone by the color of their skin, but by the content of their Bloody Mary."

THE LEFT isn't 'nobody'.

And apparently the judiciary agrees....

RACE ISN'T A COLOR; it's an ideology.

Long, but eminently worthy.

[VIP] BUZZ'S BEDTIME STORIES: A story about our men and women in uniform.

It's consistent with my experience at Camp Victory in 2006.

[VIP] THE EASY FUTURE ELON MUSK IS PREDICTING actually sounds like a nightmare.

Read the comments; that's where the action is.

DEMOCRATS: You don't pull the pin on a grenade and then hold it.

[VIP] SCOTT PINSKER: Marriage, politics, MTG, and how to kill the economy.

You'll have to scroll down a bit to get through the promotional material, but it's worth it.

[VIP] SUNDAY SMILES comments on our political class.

If you're a VIP member, go see the rest. You'll have to scroll down a bit.

BLOTTING OUT THE SUN? What could possibly go wrong?

The possibilities are endless.

PRESIDENT TRUMP dubs Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI] a scam victim after being denied funding for chimate change junket.

He doesn't support narcissistic nincompoops feathering their own nests.

IT'S NOT YOUR (WOKE) BUBBLE ANY MORE. Uniiversity of Texas professors ponder exit due to academic freedom worries.

It belongs to MAGA now....

THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN: College students stream southward.

IF THEY CAN'T LEARN, sue the bastards into bankruptcy. It'll also support another Trump charity, saving me some money....

FROM THIS WEEK'S PowerLine Week in Pictures edition,my favorite:

Now go see the rest.

TRUMP RIPS AWAY PROTECTED STATUS FOR SOMALIS IN MINNESOTA and vows to ‘send them back’, Ilhan Omar should be the first to go.

IF YOU CAN'T TAKE THE HEAT, GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN: Marjorie Taylor Greene announces resignation from Congress after President Trump withdraws endorsement.

IT'S CALLED THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS. Why government toilets stink.

The answer is to privatize everything except that which only a government can do.

NO. NEVER. NEXT QUESTION. Will you bow to an AI overlord?

A COLLEGE STUDENT speaks truth to power.

NOT IF, WHEN. If an AI bubble bursts, which party will pay the political price?

HE'S UP FOR REELECTION THIS YEAR: Unearthed FEC records expose vulnerable Democrat senator's hypocrisy on taking cash from billionaires.

God willing, he'll lose. I'll help.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Reality caught up to ‘climate change’.

Hopefully sooner than later, it'll catch up to the near-religious 'artificial intelligence' cult as well.

SAD, YET HILARIOUS: "[A] teacher earning a graduate degree has a NEGATIVE effect on student achievement."

My wife taught successfully in elementary schools for close to 30 years with merely a BA degree and teaching certificate. Never once did she succumb to entreaties to get a bachelors, masters, or doctoral degree in education.

Here's why she was successful.

TRUMP'S NEW HOMELESS POLICIES boost work, sobriety, and real recovery. Democrat homeless policies did nothing except increase sloth, addiction, and dependency.

PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA just how much money government pours into 'nonprofits'.

Politicians and NGO leaders use fancy words and promise results. They list the good causes they are supporting. They primp and preen about how much they care and what they are doing. sement

And the results? A massive wealth transfer from taxpayers to an NGO complex that exists to support itself and keep its allies in power.

Linked from Instapundit where he supports abolishing nonprofit status entirely. So do I-- especially those that feed of government funding.

YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS: "[I]t is precisely democracy untethered to constitutionalism or fundamental rights that is most vulnerable to demagoguery and authoritarianism."

MORE EVIDENCE that Democrats should be kept in locked cages bubbles (they do that pretty well themselves) and only let out on short leashes.

It's leashing them that's hard.

THE PARTY OF INTOLERANCE is on full display of late.

[VIP] MAMDANI NOT EVEN IN OFFICE YET and already begging for money. For himself, not New York city....

FROM TWITTER:

Without mass deportation, the communist cannot lose.
With it, he cannot win.
It is everything to him.
It’s his entire foundation.
Remember that.
On this issue, we must win.

What he said.

JOY REID ADMITS she'd freak out if she saw male genitalia in the women's locker room. (Think about how men would feel if they saw her in a men's locker room....)

Just another 'rules for thee, just not for me' (former) mainstream news anchor.

ZOHRAN MAMDANI just declared NYC a city of ... international law?

DON'T TELL DEMOCRATS: How to hijack the MAGA movement.

Oh, never mind. They won't can't listen.

CNN ANCHOR finally notices what conservatives have known for years.

ANOTHER 'HIT' ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Trump warns DEI mandates are creating 'Woke AI'.

As I've said before, artifical intelligence is only as good as the people who program it. Faster, yes. Smarter, no. Unbiased? Don't be silly.

[VIP] FINALLY, THE LIGHT (AN ONCOMING TRAIN) AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL: Is AI's promise just a House of Cards?

I think maybe I've posted on artificial intelligence recently. Why, yes. Yes, I have.

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT. A light-hearted look at getting older.

HE WAS PREPARED. What was so different this time about Trump’s election?

FOUR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS shot in rural Kansas.

Too bad it didn't occur in New York City where Mamdami's social worker police team would have handled it without any violence....

BTW, the shooter was killed; the officers survived.

EDUCATION OFFICIAL: Parents do NOT know best.

Notice that the author used 'official' instead of 'expert' in the post above. That's probably because he knows its definition comes from the two words; 'ex', meaning has-been, and 'spurt', which is a drip under pressure....

[VIP] BUZZ'S BEDTIME STORIES: God and Midway island.

Back in the mid-60's, enroute to our tracking station in the Marshall Islands, our aircraft landed at Midway to refuel. As we descended, the pilot announced that passengers could see Midway out the window. My reaction? "We're going to land on that postage stamp?" A few minutes later, flying (very) low over the ocean, I saw land and almost simultaneously heard the 'thump' of the landing gear on the runway.

Having to island hop a few times during that tour, that 'see land, hear thump' became somewhat easier to bear.

RANDOM THOUGHT: There's no such animal as a Democratic Socialist.

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY [D-LA] has more words for Sen. Chuck Schumer [D-NY] and his fellow Democrats.

Trump 'tarriffied' China so high that the Democrats can no longer afford testicles and backbones....

WE COULD USE A REAL BATTLESHIP AGAIN. In 1952 North Korea shot at an American battleship. Guess what happened next.

THE SECOND AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: They're gonna get it, and they're gonna regret it.

BEST NEWS EVER FOR CALIFORNIA STUDENTS: University of California faces a strike by more than 60,000 employees.

FIX HEALTHCARE: The simplest way to make American life affordable again.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The Democrat party is an insane asylum run by its (most insane) inmates.

WHERE CATS COME FROM:

They are magical....

TIME TO PURGE the GOP of backstabbers, sissies, and narcissists.

SURPRISE! Here's where your taxes to help 'homeless people' actually go.

Not surprised. Not the least bit surprised. The middle man always gets the most grift.

FREE SEX COSTS EVERYTHING: How the sexual revolution broke marriage, men, and women.

FALLING LEAVES, Week 8: Our forsythia has admitted that winter is indeed here.

Now is time for the usual pond and fire pit views

The difference from last week is that mostly the remaining leaves have come down. From the fire pit photo, it's clear that the elephant ears and flowers along the walk have gone until spring.

Along the street, the flowers along the fence have gone for the year, and the trees are bare.

Winter is here, so until Spring, then.

WAY TOO MANY IDIOTS:

Brought to you by the internet.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures is up. My favorite:

Taking advantage of today's zeitgeist for personal self-improvement.

Now go see the rest.

NY GOV. KATHY HOCHUL is thinking of drinking the socialist hemlock.

Destroying New York one tax at a time.

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY [R-LA] accurately describes Democrat politics.

On Schumer: "I think his testicles are on back order from China,"
On AOC: "My experience with her is if you scratch the surface, you just get more surface."
On the filibuster: "{A] senator’s job, I have learned, is not just to advance good ideas,
it’s to kill bad ideas."

The Senator is a Republican treasure.

GLENN REYNOLDS: The Washington Post’s admission about Zohran Mamdani’s dark side comes a bit too late.

SEATTLE'S SURRENDER IS COMPLETE: Voters choose a communist for Mayor.

What will she do when Trump turns the money spigot off? Will Soros pick up the tab? Or her parents?

IT WON'T BE LONG before Jack Smith gets a whiff of the stink bomb his spying victims snuck into a bill.

Frankly, I'm somewhat surprised that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson [R-LA] is upset.

[VIP] DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS: Islam?

PAMPERED FIRST LADY, perpetual victim.

It's easier to be a victim than to have to work for a living.

RED STATE'S MORNING MINUTE: Republicans need to flip the script on Lucy.

THERE IS A SECOND RATIONAL DEMOCRAT: House Democrat accuses fellow Democrat of violating a 'free and fair election' in stunning public move.

CHUCK SCHUMER WAS WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES to prolong the Schumer Shutdown.

To belabor the obvious: "The Schumer Shutdown was never about principle—just inflicting pain for political points."

I find it amusing to note that it's Trump's fault for not acceeding to Democrat demands to extend their own COVID subsidies....

YES, A REAL ONE: CNN anchor says conservatives 'live in completely different information world'.

GRADE INFLATION PRODUCED MAMDANI’S PROLETARIAT: Unemployable college graduates blame capitalism, but the real culprit is higher-ed subsidies.

I think the average Ivy League grad voting for this mayor is highly annoyed that their education is not that valuable, and the person down the street who knows how to drill for oil and gas, who’s moved to Texas, has a more valuable profession.

Emploment generally goes to those capable of producing tangible results; feeling good about yourself is not a tangible result.

CLICK ON THE VIDEO: Sen. John Kennedy [D-LA] demolishes both Katie Porter and Chuck Schumer. The video is here (voice quality is good, the image is iffy).

WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE A UN GLOBAL CONFERENCE: This latest environmental hypocrisy is the most audacious yet.

The UN's hypocrisy knows no bounds.

GARY SINISE DONATES BIG BUCKS to turn vacant church into 'place to go when the PTSD hits'.

We donate to his foundation about this time every year. This year it will be larger than usual. You should donate too.

AFTER 20 YEARS SPENT GRACING OUR LIVES, Daisy Mae has left to reunite with her brother Shadow in the kitten's heaven.

Thank you for being part of our lives, Daisy Mae. Now rest. Rest in peace.

SUPREME COURT ANSWERS THE QUESTION. What you call 300,000 Venezuelans without legal residence in the United States?

Deportees.

AMUSING, EVEN THOUGH IT'S PATHETIC: Democrats want to starve their own voters. While they demand to keep them healthy....

SEN. JOHN FETTERMAN [D-PA]: GOP not to blame for ACA subsidies expiring.

One of the very few remaining normal Democrats....

HOTAIR'S Sunday smiles. Post-election last week, this one's an obvious choice:

But there are many, many good ones this week. You'll have to scroll down a bit, but be sure to go see them.

IT'S EVIL! DON'T TOUCH IT! Just when you thought you hated the media enough....

Read it all the way to the end.

THE BABYLON BEE VENTURES INTO NEWS REPORTING AGAIN: Mamdani assures New Yorkers there’s no problem too large for government to make worse.

DEMOCRATS ARE EVIL, not stupid.

I might quibble over that last part ... thinking in terms of a Venn diagram, I suspect there's a considerable overlap.

THE LAW IS AN ASS: Which is bad enough, but artificial intelligence enables it to lie.

EXCEPT DEMOCRATS: No one is above the law.

GOOD FOR THE DEMOCRATS: The circular firing squad might only be getting started.

IS BIOLOGY --and common sense -- finally coming back?

MAYBE TOTALLY LEGALIZING VICE was not such a great idea after all.

BRAVO BLUE: Veterans you should remember today. See also Sappers in the Wire for more Vietnam era heros. Honor them.

ON THE 11th HOUR OF THE 11th DAY OF THE 11th MONTH: A Veterans Day call to
restore the warrior corps.

DEAR YOUNG AMERICANS: I'm begging you not to take Trump's 50-year mortgage.

It's called rent -- without any amenities.

BORN PERFECT: The girlboss and the death of growth.

There are good women bosses out there (I had one when I worked at Lockheed Martin) but they're rare -- and decidedly unwoke.

THE FLOOD OF STUNNING NEW EVIDENCE that J6 was a Fedsurrection can’t be ignored.

SO IS GEORGIA: Dear New York City refugees, Tennessee is full.

So stay home and deal with your 'success'....

FIVE ARRESTED after protesters allegedly force way into Toronto student group event with Israeli soldiers. Here's the video.

[VIP] ZOHRAN MAMDANI: Stupid or evil?

Is both an option? If not, I'll go with 'evil'.

THE BENEFIT OF INSIDER TRADING: Nancy Pelosi [D-Grift] earned more than $130 million in stock profits, return of 16,930%, during time in Congress.

That's roughly 15 times what an initial investment 40 years ago would have earned.

OH, THIS IS RICH:

You're welcome, Democrats.

[VIP] THE DOWNFALL OF AMERICA'S CITIES: over-(mis)educated, under-informed voters.

SOCIALISTS REPORTEDLY PUSHING MAMDANI to make NYC a BDS (boycott, divest, sanction Israel) battleground.

[Demands include] an end all city contracts with companies doing business with Israel, and withdrawing all funds from banks lending money to the Jewish state...

I think that's a great idea. Let all the people, companies, and institutions with Israel-related investments take their money and leave. Then see what's left of NYC.

DEMOCRATS ARE HOPPING MAD after the Supreme Court allows Trump administration to pause SNAP benefit payments. Here's what they didn't tell you:

I think you can safely thank President Biden for that.

YES! Trump calls for ending Obamacare.

FALLING LEAVES 2026, Week 7: Fall is finally! here. Our forsythia, which has reliably predicted the onset of Fall for the last several years, has just begun to turn and lose its leaves.

So now that Fall is firmly established, let's turn to the two usuals - the pond and fire pit views:

In both cases, what was green or yellow last week is now either brown or gone. Those at the top of the ridge where we live have been bare for at least a couple of weeks; now those lower down in the valley have turned. Maybe next week I'll walk (drive?) down to document the change there.

The back yard, such as it is, and house area are almost completely devoid of leaves now. I did notice this morning that there are now 4 squirrels over by the barn arguing about acorns (don't know why, there are plenty). Percival J. Cat was fascinated, though he's smart enough (now) not to interfere.

Turning to the other side of the house, the trees across the road from our driveway look pretty dismal; the only green on that side of the road is from the evergreens -- pines, mostly, and they're down 30-40 feet from the road on the ridge line.

HERE WE GO AGAIN: Oregon judge says President Trump can't use National Guard at ICE
because Trump.

I hope President Trump plays some form of the Jackson doctrine: fight back aggressively on the legal front and ignore the lower courts' diktats until the casea wend their way through the Federal court system to the Supreme Court. Then obey if (and only if) the final decision goes against the administration. Trump has his own legal team, and I suspect his exeutive orders have been fully vetted and declared both legal and constitutional by them before they were signed by the President.

After all, Blue states have already ignored the Supreme Court. Without penalty, I should add.

FAFO: Tough shit. But you earned it.

MR. PRESIDENT, first, take away NYC's subsidies, then let them burn it down.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The Democratic party isn't.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES (Socialism Edition) is up. The obvious favorite:

There are many good ones this week; go see them all.

I THINK IT MEANS SOMETHING that they’re asking this question in the New York Times: Did liberal feminism ruin the workplace?

It most certainly did. Luckily I had the wherewithal to retire when I was forced out.

YES. YES, IT IS: Time to close the public schools?

NEW HAMPSHIRE'S FIRST TRANSGENDER LEGISLATOR just pled guilty to child exploitation.

Why am I not surprised?

SO HE LIED: Obama’s shocking admission changes everything about the Democrat party.

This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who's been paying attention over the last 10 years.