IS IT TIME TO RETHINK YOUR MASTERCARD? The payment giant that wants to be your digital ID.

I certainly am.

POWERLINE has five examples of woke insanity.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Keep failing, Democrats.

We enjoy failure theater.

IT’S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR. Time to [try to] frighten everyone to death for every thunderstorm in the Atlantic basin for the next three months.

Finally 'journalism' has noticed what's been obvious for at least the last 10 years. Hurricane Erin is a case in point -- it's not expected to come ashore; only wind and rain as it passes by North Carolina later this week -- and the weather nannies are already in a panic.

Read the comments. My favorite (by far) is that of 'johnny b goode': "Less government will lead to an enormous improvement in the weather!"

HOW TO WIN the Democratic Party’s 2028 nomination -- and destroy America! -- in three easy steps.

Republicans have a better way to win America back. As Kurt Schlichter proposed, 'just do it'. Or as Admiral David Farragut said during the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864: "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"

STEVE HILTON, California's last hope.

It's possible, I suppose, but I still wouldn't move back.

FROM POWERLINE'S all-in-for-crime edition of This Week in Pictures, my clear favorite:

Now go see the rest.

YES. ABSOLUTELY: Bring back long-term institutionalized mental healthcare. I'm reminded of a long-ago 'crazy' joke:

Driving down the road next to a fence around the state mental hospital, his car had a tire blow out. Pulling over to the side of the road along the fence, the driver stopped, got out of his car, opened the trunk and began pulling out the jack and spare tire.

As he was changing the tire, a man walked over from the institution to the fence and stood by, watching silently. After mounting the new tire, the driver of the car reached for the lug nuts, not finding them. After a fruitless search, the man behind the fence finally spoke up: "Why don't you take one lug nut off the other three tires and use them? Then you can drive to the nearest gas station and get the missing ones replaced."

The driver thought about it for a second, then said "That's a great idea. Thank you." He paused for a second and then asked "Do you mind telling my why you're on that side of the fence and not this side?"

The man behind the fence replied "Mister, I'm crazy, not stupid."

I would suggest that perhaps we should add long-term institutionalized stupid care, but then we already have Congress....