WELL, THEY ARE: Why CNN (!) says Democrats are garbage.

Maybe it’s the fact that Joe Biden’s approval rating is now somewhere south of toenail fungus. Or that Kamala Harris polls worse than expired milk. Or that their so-called “coalition of the ascendant” has imploded into identity-obsessed infighting and political malpractice.

Choose your own reason. There are more.

ARAB NATIONS for first time pressure Hamas to disarm and relinquish power in Gaza. There is no two state solution. Give Gaza to Israel and let them deal with it as they wish.

UPDATE: OVERCOME BY EVENTS. The "decision has been made ... we are going to occupy the Gaza Strip."

AGREED: Damn those unwanted political text messages.

I hope the changes will also affect the other daily spam texts I get on my mobile phone.

NOT MUCH: What will Artificial Intelligence do for our happiness?

Before I retired from the new business sector in the defense technology industry, we had an adage that 'to err is human, to really fuck things up requires a computer'. All artificial intelligence is doing is speeding up the process.

I'M A BIT LATE. This edition of PowerLine's Week in Pictures is from last week. There's no single theme, and too many good ones for an easy selection. My favorite, of many:

That said, go see them all. And enjoy!

EVEN CNN knows that Illinois was the dumbest place for Texas Democrats to flee. But Texas Democrats didn't.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Support the Democrats' right to speak freely and make damn fools of themselves.

To be fair, they're damned good at it....

IT'S HARD NOT TO LAUGH AT LUNATICS. Stephen Colbert finally makes us laugh.

MILTON FRIEDMAN explains free markets: I, Pencil

There's a longer antimated version of 'I, Pencil' here. It's worth the time but you do have to skip through several commercial breaks.

Linked originally from this Instapundit post: How is food made?

IN 20 MINUTES it will be 3 o'clock central time. Texas Governor Greg Abbott drops bombshell on Democrats who fled state: return today or be removed and face felony charges.

[Permanent] removal would be good enough for me.