THE IDIOT STATE RETURNS: Mask mandates return in wealthy blue state county.

POWERLINE: Never let a crisis go to waste.

Make no mistake: the restraints on our freedom that various governments imposed, using covid as an excuse, were not a mistake. They were not inadvertent. They were not due to an excess of caution. They were malicious, the expression of a conscious desire to expand government power at the expense of the rest of us.

Read the whole thing.

HEH: "Zohran Mamdani gets BOOED out of a restaurant in Staten Island."

DON'T LET HIM RESIGN; FIRE HIM: This ought to be considered his resignation.

HOW LONG until Canadians petition to join the United States?

"WHEN DONKEYS FLY BACKWARDS": Sen. John Kennedy [R-LA] answers the question "When will the Republicans cave on the Shumer Shutdown?"

Watch the video -- Sen. Kennedy is hilarious, as usual.

DONALD TRUMP JR. TO NEWSMAX: I don't watch 'RINO' Fox News.

He's not alone. I'm sick of constantly being told that I can't see some Fox news stories unless I give them my email address so they can push their unread and unwanted garbage into my inbox (and yes, I actually read their 'privacy' statement).

YOU'RE FIRED!: Strongly worded letter to follow.

PROFILE of a dumb reporter. (These days, is there any other kind?)

GO FOR IT, MR. PRESIDENT: $2 trillion in shutdown savings.

And thank you, Sen. Joni Ernst.