AL GORE'S RECORD is unblemished by success.

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: Lockheed Martin has something ‘magical,’ costly as hell, and totally secret up its sleeve.

THEY COULD BE REAL SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATES if they taught "reading, writing, and arithmetic" the old-fashioned way. University of Pittsburgh teaches high school students, teachers to be ‘social justice’ activists.

CHALLENGING THE EVIL BORG: Unearthed emails shed light on Biden DOJ memo calling concerned parents 'domestic terrorists'.

A SEQUEL: There's another big beautiful bill in the works.

SO MICHELLE WON'T NEED A DIVORCE? Actually Obama can be indicted.

FOND MEMORIES: The one big beautiful bill may bring back the station wagon.

The first car I drove after getting my driver's license was a station wagon....

KURT SCHLICHTER: Can we get out of this without a civil war?

No. The best we can hope for is a non-violent civil war.

JOHN STOSSEL on Big Green deceit.

WHEN THEY BECAME DEMOCRATS: When did men become drama queens?

WHO [THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION] IS NO LONGER ON FIRST: The Trump administration rejects WHO pandemic regulations.

America takes care of its own; the rest of the world can pound sand.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: When the world woke up.

CONSEQUENCES VS. OPPORTUNITIES: White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller comments on 1 million illegal aliens self-deporting.

BLUE STATES: The primary reason people in blue states can't have nice things.

IT'S THE MATH, STUPID: A 'red wave' in California ain't gonna happen.

NOW GET A REAL JOB: Kamala Harris will not run for California governor.

I underatand Stephen Colbert's slot on CBS may be available next yesr....

FINALLY, REALITY STRIKES: People are being involuntarily committed, jailed after spiraling into “ChatGPT Psychosis.”

THE JOURNEY from immigration squish to immigration hardliner.

GOVERNMENT IS NOT: Faith is a force that allows people to keep going, even when everything else has washed away.

ABOUT TIME: The climate alarmism grift is dying.

Actually about 40-50 years past time....

SO, YOU WANT TO BE A LEFTIST? Here's how.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The graveyard of progressive misadventures.

KURT SCHLICHTER: It's gerrymandering season and there's no bag limit.

Go for it....

I ENTHUSIASTICALLY ENDORSE both actions.

FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS responds to Democrat obsession with Alligator Alcatraz.

Since Donald Trump was elected, Democrats' singular focus has been running across the western hemisphere to visit their criminal illegal alien base - whether it's at an ICE facility in New Jersey, a prison in El Salvador, or in an alligator and python-surrounded facility called Alligator Alcatraz.

It's instinctual, really. Democrats always run to defend criminals; they don't give a damn about the families of those impacted by those same criminals.

It's been that way as long as I've been politically aware. Democrats have always sought cheap labor -- slaves, really -- to work their plantation.

SIX MONTHS INTO TRUMP 2.0, I stand corrected.

IT NEEDS A BIGGER BACKHOE: DNC Chair Ken Martin admits party has hit rock bottom.

GOALPOSTS, MOVED: College Board shortens SAT as student performance declines. They don't need to read or write -- that's an AI task.

Strongly recommended: The Marching Morons because that's exactly where 'woke' is headed.

THOUGHTS on debating a 'wokester'.

It's futile. Linked from Instapundit.

ASK ME IF I CARE: Can private donors keep NPR and PBS afloat?

Actually I do. And I prefer that they can't.

THE BABYLON BEE reports the news again.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Revenge or justice?

Embrace the healing power of 'and'.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Donald Trump believes he was saved by Providence to Make America Great Again. He clearly was.

Read it all.

ONE OF THE FEW BENEFITS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: AI will target the white-collar workforce before it comes for blue-collar jobs (video).

With a little luck, it will destroy the Ivy League....

THE BABYLON BEE REPORTS NEWS AGAIN: Hunter Biden warns that without illegal immigrants, the price of prostitutes and crack will skyrocket.

Linked from this Instapundit post.

AN 'UPGRADE' BY KEVIN O'LEARY: 'Only a Moron' would behave like Stephen Colbert.

'SIT DOWN': Gavin Newsom steps on a rake after ICE-related announcement from California Bishop.

Freedom is not dispensed by Gov. Newsom....

SUFFOLK COUNTY [MA] District Attorney tries to float 'Chelsea Man' narrative, gets outed by ICE.

It's not obvious from the story where this ends, but hopefully the rapist is still in jail, will remain in jail until trial, and - if released - ICE will be on hand to remove him to whatever hellhole he came from.

WHY IS THE MINNESOTA SHOOTER saying Tim Walz will cover up his real motive?

Obviously the shooter is bat-guano crazy, but there's obviously more to this than meets the eye and my bet is that the Democrats won't come out looking good.

AMERICAN GREATNESS: The war between Trump’s chemotherapy and the Biden cancer.

FINALLY, SOME ACCOUNTABILITY? DNI Tulsi Gabbard says whistleblowers are now 'coming out of the woodwork' on Russiagate.

AMMO GRRRLL writes on summers in Arizona and other topics.

VOTER ROLLS SHOULD BE SMALLER, not bigger.

Not in the U.S. yet, but coming soon I fear. I'd also suggest excluding (at least) federal government employees from the vote. Their income (less graft) is 100% on the taxpayer dime.

ONCE IS HAPPENSTANCE, TWICE IS COINCIDENCE; THREE TIMES IS ENEMY ACTION: Another Biden regency politburo member takes the Fifth Amendment in House probe.

The lede is from Ian Fleming, in the James Bond movie Goldfinger.

BECAUSE CLIMATE CHANGE: When you've got enough money to indulge your fantasies....

SUICIDAL EMPATHY AT WORK: Making the whole world a third world, one nation at a time.

TRUMP: 'No Amnesty' -- but ...

For those illegal aliens who are here but have no criminal history I would consider allowing them to stay provided (a) they - and their families - register with the government, (b) cannot ever vote in any election, (c) cannot be counted as citizens in the census, (d) cannot receive any government services, and (e) are immediately deported as a result of any criminal activity.

If they desire to become U.S. citizens, then they must leave for their home countries and then get in line with the rest of the legal immigrants.

TEXAS' BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK SUFFERING STAFF SHORTAGES - or is it?

Being a government agency, I'm sure there is more than a bit of fluff and featherbedding in the National Park Service. My granddaughter is a (seasonal) Park Ranger, having worked in the Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve in Alaska, Zion National Park in Utah, and now in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. According to her it's a good job, with a bit of wildlife management, rescue, and police activity as part of the job. That said, I would be a bit concerned if she were to go to Big Bend National Park, given that it is right on a Mexican border that is ill-patrolled.

HAS SHE EVER MET A TRUE CHRISTIAN? Failed candidate Stacey Abrams claims true Christians should have progressive values.

NOT GEORGIA, THANKFULLY: Electricity bills projected to jump 20% in coming months for these 13 states.

Although both North Carolina and Tennesse are less-than-a-30-minute drive from our house....

A PRETTY BOY, BUT A REAL MAN? Eric Swalwell offers despicable words about ICE and 'Real Men.'

SOUND ADVICE, just not from Barack Obama:

If the Democrats wanted to remain a national party, a viable alternative, they should be listening to the few remaining sane people in the party, like (and I can't believe I'm saying this) Senator John Fetterman (D-PA). Instead, the Democrats are embracing the lunatics. The party has ridden out of the left lane, through the ditch, across the bean field to land smack dab on Wacko Street in Crazy Town.

His advice? "Toughen up" -- whatever that means.

SHE COULDN'T FIND ONE ON A MAP: National Public Radio CEO says rural communities rely on public broadcasting.

HOW STUPID, DENSE, AND ANTI-AMERICAN can Zohran Mamdani actually be?

He's a Democrat. Does that answer the question?

'MORAL' CONCERNS? Progressive officials plot to boot ICE from city building amid moral concerns.

It's Portland, obviously.

HILARIOUS 'THEN' VS. 'NOW' REDDIT POSTS from fired State Department employee.

I would only add that for the brain to be involved there would have to be one.

MARINES STEAL A GOOD IDEA FROM THE DRUG CARTELS. Marines test ‘narco sub’ with an eye on war with China.

Marines are smart. And Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is smart for encouraging his military to test their ideas.

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CIVIL WAR just escalated.

As long as they continue shooting themselves I'm fine with their war.

STUPIDITY SHOULD BE AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson can't sleep at night ... because democracy.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: the roots of Leftist rage.

I DUNNO, SHE'S SAID SOME PRETTY DISGUSTING THINGS: Is this the most disgusting thing Michelle Obama has ever said?

KURT SCHLICHTER: Elon Musk will come back in the Republican tent.

I suspect he's right. Musk is too smart to be a pawn on the Democrat chessboard.

NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (NEA) teachers union puts leftist politics over education priorities.

What a surprise....

A LEFTIST PROFESSOR SLAMMED HER "EVIL" UNIVERSITY AS A "COLONIALIST LANDLORD," but said she continues to work at the school because she views it as a place in American society where she can amass power.

That's the state of higher 'edjumacation' today. By now she should have been kicked out the door with a note pinned to her backside to never darken the doors to academia again. If not (and I suspect she hasn't), she should be fired, have her citizenship (if any) revoked, and be deported to a more suitable environment. I understand Alligator Alcatraz is a nice way station enroute to wherever she it sent....

WELL, YES: Did Adam Schiff commit mortgage fraud?

As recent history supports, Democrats are almost always guilty of the very things they accuse Republicans of doing.

THE SECRET SERVICE left Trump exposed to the deadly threat in Butler, Pennsylvania.

I thought as much as I watched the rally in real time. I don't fault the agents on the ground; they did their jobs professionally under trying conditions. Rather I believe that there were those in the upper echelons of the Secret Service who intentionally set the conditions in Butler such that a fanatic never-Trumper would have an opportunity.

The same for the attempted assassination at Mar-a-Lago.

SOUNDS LIKE A PERSONAL PROBLEM TO ME. George Santos says he likely won't survive prison.

Perhaps he should have thought of that before he broke the law.

SERIOUSLY, THIS CLOWN IS A PROFESSOR? California professor arrested, accused of throwing tear gas canister at federal agentss during marijuana farm raid.

Oh, right, it's California....

SELF-DEPORTATION WORKS! Capturing a bat indoors in nearly impossible, but we've done it a couple of times before. Last night, about 11 pm, we had another 'illegal immigrant' in our bedroom. Not wanting to stay up another hour or two to capture the critter, we chose to kick the cats (who probably brought it in) out, close up the room, open a window, remove the window screen and depart for another bedroom.

By morning, it had self-deported.

NO, MAKE THEM BUY IT THEMSELVES. Let’s give blue cities enough commie rope to hang themselves.

PROJECT 2029: Fascist fantasyland.

Disney's Fantasyland on steroids....

WELCOME TO THE LAND of fruits, nuts, and flakes.

SHORT ANSWER -- NO: Will John Brennan ever tell the truth?

AMERICA'S 'USEFUL IDIOTS' — the Left calls for revolution as the ultimate virtue signal.

A perfect illustration of the 'make someone else pay for it' crowd....

JAMIE DIMON: Democrats Have 'big hearts and little brains'.

Change 'little' to 'no' and his statement would be correct.

THINGS JUST GOT EVEN CRAZIER with the judge who blocked Congress from defunding Planned Parenthood.

It's time to start impeachment proceedings against the Democrat-appointed judiciary.

DEMOCRATS APPEAL TO HUBRIS: You won't believe who Democrats believe can save their party.

Nemesis will not be far behind....

TRUMP'S WINNING TEAM now includes ... killer whales?

And alligators.

Don't forget alligators....

CHATGPT AND ITS LIKE have swept through academia: Artificial Intelligence’s great brain robbery.

The author suggests ways the universities can fight back but I'm more inclined to Cyril Kornbluth's 'Marching Morons' vision of the future.

FROM POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures, my favorite:

And a bonus from Indepence Day:

Now go see the rest.

AMMO GRRRLL: Millions will die in the streets!!(!)

FIXING HARVARD is about fixing a bunch of societal rot in America.

Linked from Instapundit.

ZOHRAN MAMDANI, ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ AND ELIZABETH WARREN -- identity thieves.

EXCEPT DEMOCRATS. No one is above the law.

AS THE DEATH TOLL RISES IN TEXAS, Democrats choose to be black-souled, evil ghouls.

And that's being kind.

SPOILED BY PEACE: Generation Z and the entitlement of freedom inherited.

I'm a little less generous than the author. Rather than 'spoiled by peace', I'd just say 'spoiled'.

AMUSING [TO ME AT LEAST]: Delta flight makes emergency landing on remote island after engine issues.

Way back when, in my distant dark ages, Lages was a routine stop for military passenger flights returning from the Mediterranean.

THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION have not been kind to the Ivy League-indoctrinated 'experts' and their degree-holding wannabes.

It's Victor Davis Hanson, so read it all. I will leave you with his final thought: [T]he reputation of our predictors, prognosticators, and experts has been radically devalued to the point of utter worthlessness.

PROJECTION MUCH? Stacey Abrams' latest fantasy.

So, start with winning an election, usually the last one you're gonna get to have for real. Number two, you have an expansion of executive power. The president decides he wants more than he's supposed to have. Number three, you start to make the Congress complicit. So you weaken them and you neutralize or neuter the judiciary. Like, oh, I don't know, the Supreme Court giving you unfettered power and saying, "We don't have the ability to stop things." Uh, then you move on to firing all the people who know how to make government work.

So you gut the civil service. And you do that because you wanna break democracy so people forget the stuff that used to get done, so you can't get your Social Security check, so the CDC doesn't know what diseases are anymore.

Then you put in place these loyalists, people who are only responsive to you. You put them in charge of the FBI so they go after your enemies. You put them in charge of, uh, the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, so they can signal to their friends and tell them all about the evil plans that you have. Then you make certain that you break how we communicate. So you criticize the media, and you create your own echo chamber of propaganda. You call it truth even though you know you're lying. Then you go to the next step, and I call that step seven. 'Cause at step seven, you have to blame someone. You have to blame people for the broken government, for the broken promises. So you go after DEI.

You go after the vulnerable, the dispossessed. You go after any community that doesn't look like what you think power should be. While you're doing that, you make certain that you, in step eight, you eliminate anybody who could help them. So you sue law firms that do pro bono cases.

You go after philanthropies and accuse them of giving money to the wrong people. You go after colleges and universities that can teach people possibly what else they should know. You get to step nine, and you start to private — you start to encourage and incentivize private violence. You send the U.S. Marines into spaces they should not be. You send the National Guard in. You kidnap people off of the streets and pretend that's normal, because that's how you quiet dissent.

Because you make everyone afraid that if they don't do what you want, they might be next. And once you've done those nine steps, step 10 is easy. That's when you decide there won't be new elections, because everyone's either afraid, poor, broken, or complicit.

She's been way too much time looking in the mirror at herself.

'MOST' U.S. KIDS 'Do Not Read Proficiently'.

To be fair, neither do most adults.

AT THE SMITHSONIAN, now even Mickey Mouse is (what else?) racist.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON IN IMPRIMIS: American virtues.

FOR OBVIOUS REASONS: Why the angst about artificial intelligence (AI)?

Known only to those capable of rational thought....

I WAS CHASED OUT OF MIT and it was all because I'm Jewish.

My recommendation: don't give up; take your research and find a better school.

TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR told my class ‘we’re not born with a sex,’ it’s assigned.

If I recall correctly, it used to be Southwest Texas State Teachers College. insert Southwest I recalled correctly ... and teachers' colleges have steadily gotten worse, as, unfortunately, have most institutions of 'higher' learning.

BRIEF INTERLUDE: Unused Independence Day posts.

WOKE EDJUMAKASHUN: Three tries and Randi Weingarten's July 4th tweet still got it wrong.

KAMALA HARRIS' FOURTH OF JULY POST: Is the woman brain dead like Joe? [Brain dead seems to describe most of the progressive wing of the Democrat party.]

JUST HALF OF DEMOCRATS call themselves patriots. The other half are illegal aliens.

SARAH HOYT assures us that our memes were still there.

EXPERT TO NEWSMAX: https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/george-zambelli-fourth-of-july-fireworks/2025/07/04/id/1217656/Never mix fireworks and alcohol. Seriously? You need an 'expert' for that?

Now back to regular programming....

PJ MEDIA'S MORNING BRIEFING: Former President Reagan really nailed it when he said liberals 'know so much that isn't so'.

Follow the links and read the rest of the briefing.

STOMPING HIS LITTLE FEET: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threatens 'grave implications' if GOP moves forward with $9.4B in rescission cuts.

GENERATION Z ISN’T JUST ONLINE — They’re living in parallel realities.

TRUMP 2.0 IS A WRECKING BALL and he's wrecking the right stuff.

I WAS THERE when 89-year-old Chuck Yeagar climbed into an F-15 and broke the sound barrier for his last time.

MONKEY WRENCHES, LIKE DOUBLE-EDGED SWORDS, work both ways.

As Vodkapundit recommends, spend a pleasant afternoon with a cocktail, making false reports of ICE activity where illegals gather.

DELUSION IN BEZOS-WORLD: The Washington Post, never a source of calm, rational commentary, has gone off the deep end.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Now that the Biden administration is safely in the rear view mirror, I'm reminded of Milton Friedman's famous quote, "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

Thank goodness the Biden administration lasted only 4 years....

SENATOR JOHN FETTERMAN [D-PA] dropped a very unapologetic patriotic Fourth of July post and took a swipe at members of his own party for their lack of pride in America.

The Democratic Socialists need to take note of what a real Democrat looks like.

With that note, normal blogging will resume on Saturday.

250 YEARS OF FREEDOM: A Republic to honor and celebrate.

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: What we celebrate on the Fourth.

MYRNA FLORES: A proud immigrant's call to celebrate freedom on Independence Day.

CHARLES GLASSER: Today is the real 'No Kings' day.

God bless the USA.

BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC: U.S. Army field band.

VIDEO: The vote to declare independence.

THESE TRUTHS REMAIN ETERNAL: Instapundit (via Ed Driscoll) also quotes President Calvin Coolidge.

JULY 4, 1776: The REAL ‘No Kings’ Day.

Democrats not excepted....

AMMO GRRRLL also wants the original.

THE ETERNAL MEANING OF INDEPENDENCE DAY

Future President Abraham Lincoln spoke on the 102nd anniversary in 1858.

If they [new arrivals] look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration [loud and long continued applause], and so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world.

Calvin Coolidge celebrated the 150th anniversary in 1926.

If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.

Words to remember as this year passes.

INDEPENDENCE DAY 2025: Republicans vs. Democrats.

Despite the Democrats, the American dream is back.

NOT-S0-RANDOM THOUGHT: Today is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. More to come....

WE SHOULD BE THRILLED that Joe Biden is back home on the beach in Delaware and Kamala is wandering around somewhere in California.

THE SKY IS FALLING! DoD ends satellite data-sharing on weather.

So maybe the weather forecasts on my iPhone will get more accurate as the meterologists learn to look out the window....

ONE BIG 'UGLY' BILL PASSED: The inspiring effect Hakeem Jeffries had as he gave final rant on the floor of the House.

I'm sure he -- or his words at least -- will support MAGA Republicans in the 2026 mid-term elections.

SO DON'T TRY TO ESCAPE: Illegals at Alligator Alcatraz in Florida might get injured if they try to escape.

I feel for the poor alligators who have to eat the escapees....

KEEP OUT THE GARBAGE: No visas for foreigners who hate us.

It's a start, but only a start.

IT'S EASY TO SEE RED when you find out you're going to have to pay for it.

PJ MEDIA'S LINCOLN BROWN: Everyone is a target now.

Which explains why next week I'm going down to the county courthouse to renew my weapons carry license. I let it lapse because the rural sleepy village where I live used to be quiet but recent events have convinced me that even the rural areas like where I live are no longer safe.

I blame Democrats....

PROF. NICHOLAS GIORDANO: I found real intellectual diversity far away from elite colleges.

Hint: keep our 'elite' colleges and universities in a galaxy far, far away....

MARXISM, STRAIGHT UP is the future of the Democratic Party.

Watch the video clip.

IT’S NOT ABOUT RACE — Just ‘whiter neighborhoods’ paying more taxes.

So 'wealthier' whites aren't white?

SERIOUS QUESTION: What is college good for?

Based on the current state of our 'elite' institutions, I'd have to say not much beyond massive debt and inflated egos.

PROBABLY NO LONGER A HOTEL AGAIN, EITHER. New York's historic Roosevelt hotel is a migrant shelter no longer.

I HOPE KAMALA HARRIS keeps chasing parked cars.

If she runs in place real, real fast she might catch one.....

REMEMBER HAL? Disturbing signs of AI threatening people spark concern.

Toldjah so....

ON TUESDAY it's Alaska Man Monday.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Republicans are MAGA (Make America Great Again); Democrats are MAMA (Make America Miserable Again).

LESSON FROM NEW YORK: Elect the third world, get the third world.