CALIFORNIA GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM: A thoroughly detestable creature.

REPUBLICANS LOVE AMERICA; Democrats only love power.

A VACUUM BETWEEN THE EARS? Newsom steps on multiple rakes as he reveals something that might stall his presidential run.

THE BENEFITS OF COMMUNISM DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM: "The garbage in NYC is piling up so fast the rats are taking Ozympic."

Said by Steve Forbes on Fox Business this morning.

SUNDAY SMILES: Here are two of my favorites this week.

There are many others, including the UK's Amelia^* in the collection. Go see them.

^*For more on Amelia's history, go here.

RANDOM THOUGHT: I wonder how long it will take for Zohran Mamdummy Mamdani's Jim Snow 2.0 Shovel Brigade to complete its DEI training/shovel safety inspection before the first snowflake is lifted from the ground?

THE STORY YOU WON’T SEE ON THE EVENING NEWS: When compassion guides the badge.

SUSAN RICE'S TERRIFYING VOW if Democrats take back power.

Republicans should preemptively use the Democrats' Golden Rule: "Do unto others before they do unto you."

GAVIN NEWSOM WANTS TO RUN THE COUNTRY, but he can't keep track of his own birth certificate.

Then he can't vote. I find that appealing.

DEMOCRATS WARN VOTER ID will disenfranchise key voting demographic of people too stupid to get an ID.

Not that that's a bad thing. And yes, it is America's News of Record.

'JIM SNOW 2.0': Mamdani requires multiple forms of ID if you want to help clear NYC streets.

Given that he's shutting down all traffic in NYC starting tonight, I wouldn't be surprised to see his minions out tomorrow confiscating illegal snow shovels....

DOUBLING DOWN ON STUPID: Gavin Newsom and AOC trash Trump at European summit as they [atttempt to] raise their 2028 profiles.

Asked about a wealth tax, Ocasio-Cortez responded "We don’t have to wait for any one president to impose a wealth tax... That needs to be done expeditiously." I'd ask her "How about a 'sudden wealth' tax?" 100% sounds good to me.

OPEN CARRY FOR ME ... Portland [OR] city council member wants to open carry after anti-ICE protest.

Just not for thee.

MAYOR ZOHRAN MAMDUMMY MAMDANI STRIKES AGAIN: NYC seeks emergency snow shovelers for blizzard, requires IDs not needed to vote.

THE COMING REVOLUTION DOWN SOUTH: Will Cuba be free soon, and if so what happens next?

Personally, I think they'll get rich selling antique automobiles to wealthy Americans.

HEH: Every Iranian a billionaire.

It would only take about 600 U.S. dollars....

NAME CHANGE REQUIRED: The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is now the American Association for the Advancement of 'Science' (AAA'S').

My own professional organization, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) became the Institute of Electrical and Electronic 'Social Engineers' (IEE'SE') a few years back ... so I quit.

RANDOM THOUGHT about Presidential campaign tag lines. President Trump has a good one that's lasted almost 10 years: 'Make America Great Again'. I hope his successors retain it.

Here are some tag lines for future potential Democrat presidential candidates:

Harris: Make America cackle again
Pritzger: Make America fat again
Newsom: Make America greasy again
Ocasio-Cortez; Make America stupid again
Spanberger: Make America smirk again
Buttigeig: Make America gay again

Here are some other potential candidates: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Sens. Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly of Arizona and Chris Murphy of Connecticut, and former Commerce Secretary. Gina Raimondo.

Try one yourself.

ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY AND AN UTTER LACK OF DECENCY: Why Khanna could do it.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Zohran Mamdani should change his name to Zohran Mamdummy.

HUGH HEWITT IS WRONG: President Trump should not ease up on deportations.

At least not until the criminal^* aliens are gone. Then perhaps it's time to take a pause and reflect on next steps. Certainly (encouraged) self-deportation should be a primary option, allowing them to be vetted for citizenship and able to return legally.

^*in the sense of beyond simply crossing the border illegally.

FROM SHADOW'S WORLD ten years ago. Carbon-free sugar.

NYC MAYOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI: We have to tax you to pay for all the free stuff we're gonna give you.

And take a bit off the top to 'facilitate' the transfer, of course.

BIDEN WON GEORGIA IN 2020? Watchdog says Fulton County had more votes without ballots than Biden’s ‘win’.

In a way, I'm pleased that the Democrats' cheating won the 2020 election, because the 4 intervening years of the Biden administration taught now President Trump how corrupt the Deep State actually is and redoubled his determination that this administration -- and Cabinet -- will fix it.

SUSIE MOORE from Red State's Morning Minute:

I've been thinking about the Obama Presidential Center...and when I say "thinking," I largely mean recoiling in revulsion. Why would anyone want to have their name and legacy associated with such a gawdawful eyesore? The styles we choose — be they fashion, interior design, or architecture — reflect something of our nature.

I'm not sure what former President Obama thinks the aesthetic of his presidential center says about him, but I can tell you what it says to me: cold, gray, aloof, angular, ugly.

Not that I expect I'll ever get the warm fuzzies about our 44th president, but I'm not sure how much harder he could have worked at choosing a structure that's unwelcoming and foreboding. Yuck.

Yuck indeed....

INDIANA, HERE WE COME: Chicago Bears move one step closer to ditching Illinois.

And I think I saw somewhere that the Seattle Seahawks are up for sale....

VIA INSTAPUNDIT: "Congress was not meant to be a crooked nursing home."

A MAN JOKED ABOUT MOVING INTO BILLIE EILISH'S MANSION. Her response is breaking irony detectors.

LEE GREENWOOD TO NEWSMAX: 250th Anniversary celebration will unify US.

Color me skeptical. Skeptical but hopeful.

STOP DOWNPLAYING the threat of AI to our jobs and society.

NYC SHARIA UPDATE: ‘Palestinian’ activist calls to ban dogs as pets.

Kurt Schlichter responds: "In such a scenario, John Wick is the moderate solution."

In my neck of the woods too....

[VIP] MINNESOTA ATTORNEY GENERAL KEITH ELLISON IS WRONG; illegal immigration is like breaking and entering a home.

Add fraud and it becomes burglary....

A NOTE TO SALEM MEDIA: You've already told me with your privacy statement that you're going to glom on to every bit of information you can find on my computer every time I click on one of your web sites and there's not a damn thing I can do about it, so quit wasting my time reminding me every time I stop by....

KURT SCHLICHTER: Let’s liberate Cuba and gut America’s Left.

AWFLs -- AND MORONS -- ON THE MARCH: Local police are now getting the ICE treatment.

HOUSE PASSES GOP ELECTION OVERHAUL requiring proof of US citizenship.

Only one House Democrat (Rep. Henry Cuellar, [D-TX]) voted in favor of voter identification. For the rest, it's all about control; nothing else matters.

EXCUSE ME, but California Democrats stole how much again?

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Educatioal technology is booming, but so is ‘brain rot.’

As predicted....

"DEPORT THE RACISTS". That would be most of the Progressive Left.

Picture lifted from this PJMedia post.

SUNDAY SMILES: Amelia is on our side.

For more on Amelia's history, go to the Sunday Smiles link. Then continue down for the meme cartoons of the week.

THE DEI CASUALTIES ARE MOUNTING UP ON CAMPUS: California State University professor warns scrapping SAT in name of ‘inclusivity’ has left students unprepared.

SORRY, BUT YOU BROKE IT, YOU OWN IT: Minnesota demands taxpayer cash after ICE operation caught murderers, sex offenders.

Don't expect normal America to pay for your lunacy....

TIME TO GIVE PAIN A CHANCE: It is right and proper to laugh at the suffering of journalists.

Here's the entire Kurt Schlichter column.

AND THAT'S A BAD THING? Podcasters panic over more 'diabolical' successor to Trump in future.

YOUR TINFOIL HAT UNCLE WAS RIGHT AGAIN: "Some of us are old enough to remember when people were sane."

Not enough of us, unfortunately.

SO WE HAVE DEMOCRATS openly suggest it's okay to shoot ICE agents.

So can we normals now openly suggest that it's okay for police to shoot ICE rioters?

OBLIVIOUS TO THE OBVIOUS. Study argues AI chatbots have anti-gun bias. There's a reason for that.

NYC GETS ITS FIRST FREE GROCERY STORE -- What could possibly go wrong?

PRACTICE? How does the Left come up with so many stupid Democrats?

And education. Don't forget education.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Normal Americans are rapidly becoming an endangered species.

VIRGINIA IS WHAT HAPPENS when gun owners lose elections.

While I'm glad that I managed to get out before Virginia's fall from grace, it does sadden me to think that my favorite gun range in Culpeper is probably now defunct.

HAVING A PHOTO ID TO VOTE — It’s so simple, even a Congressman can do it. Here's how.

Just for troll's sake, in the comments (Pillage Idiot, scroll down) points out that MSNOW (formerly MSNBC) is upset that Rep. Cloud [R-TX] 'illegally published a photo of the secret voting machines used in the House.

KARENS CONTROL THE DEMOCRAT PARTY: Sen. John Kennedy [R-LA] explains.

WHY NOT? Free Virginia, make D.C. square again.

[VIP] KURT SCHLICHTER: Our choice is to give their demands the attention, respect, compassion they deserve -- none.

THANK ZOHRAN MAMDANI: Freezing deaths, garbage piles in largest sanctuary city.

But illegal aliens are safe there (if they didn't freeze).

THESE THREE RED STATES are the best hope in schooling.

ON BUDGET, AHEAD OF SCHEDULE (AND WITHOUT TAXPAYER DOLLARS: A ballroom built the Trump way.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE: The Washington Post's biggest problem is that the Washington Post readers don't read the Washington Post anymore.

PREDICTION: There will be no more Super Bowls hosted in California.

ANOTHER TRUMP WIN: Much to the chagrin of Big Left and the vast school-based graft it operates, hordes of high-needs foreign students are vanishing from public school enrollment.

THAT DOG DON'T HUNT NO MORE: When it comes to climate and energy, let’s retire the politics of fear.

IT'S BEGINNING: [At least some] academia has reached the F.O. part of the equation.

NEVER MISS A CHANCE TO STEAL YOUR ATTENTION: OpenAI will reportedly start testing ads in ChatGPT.

And your privacy. And your money.

A MASTER CLASS in evasion, contradiction, and hyperbolic fearmongering from Democrat Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries over election integrity.

FRACKING MADE AMERICA ENERGY-ABUNDANT — the facts the activists ignore.

Longer, but very good.

PURITANISM PROGRESSIVISM: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be having fun.

THIS IS A BAD THING? In Minneapolis, school leaders fear declining attendance during ICE surge will also lower state funding.

WE FINALLY HAVE A TRANS ATHLETE whom the media isn’t gushing over. He (but biologically she) is competing in the women's division.

MONKEYING WITH LANGUAGE: The one word Liberals mangled even worse than racism.

IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN: Men are going to strike back.

WHAT A SURPRISE/SARC/: Illegal immigrant households' welfare use nearly doubles that of US-born households.

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION finally tells Boasberg to pound sand.

President Trump should quote President Andrew Jackson: "The court has made its decision; now let them enforce it."

FAR LEFT HAND MEETS FAR LEFTER HAND: Sen. Jon Ossoff [D-GA] says Trump administration imitates rhetoric of 'history's worst regimes'.

He's up for reelection and as I've already said, I'll crawl over broken glass to make him a one-term Senator.

"IT HAS BEEN DAWNING ON ME AND OTHERS that some significant fraction of our apparent economy amounts to storefronts that provide little to no actual goods and services.”

Academia comes to mind....

THE GRAMMY AWARDS took their fair share of the cartoons on Powerline's Week in Pictures but they were varied, with many good ones. My personal favorite is in the 'varied' section:

Now go see the rest.

BONUS:

This one isn't from Powerline, but I'm of the age where I'm going to need that spot soon.

AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD is eschewing satire again.

PROOF THAT PROGRESSIVES ARE COMPLETELY FREAKING NUTS: New York teacher has a very communist solution for keeping businesses in the Big Apple.

They really, really fear their 'slaves' leaving the plantation... .

MODERN BLUE STATE AMERICA is basically a foreign looting operation.

Linked from Instapundit.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Midterm palpitations.

Follow his advice, Mr. President. And welcome back, Dr. Hanson.

TRUMP CAN WIN THE FOREVER WAR by taking out the mullahs.

And the Iranian Revolutionary Guard....

POUR DRAINO ON IT AND LET IT WASH AWAY. TheWashington Post circles the drain.

I did note a warning that when used "It's possible that pressure may build up inside the pipe, causing the hot, caustic solution to spurt out of the drain." Judging from employee reactions, Draino may be exactly what owner Jeff Bezos is using....

TWELVE ARRESTED, INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE 'PROFESSOR': New York Police Department takes care of business after anti-ICE Wacktivists stage 'protest' at Columbia University.

SMH (shaking my head). Columbia University is Ground Zero for the terminally stupid.

MINNESOTA TURNING RED THIS YEAR? Will this be the year the land of 10,000 lunatics finally turns red?

I'm not certain lunatics constitute a majority in Minnesota, but combined with illegal aliens and the congenitally stupid, it might.

DEMOCRATS’ DEFUND-THE-POLICE PLAN FAILED, so here they go again. Minneapolis protests risk repeating anti-law enforcement crisis from 2020.

It's Sen. John Kennedy [R-LA] opining, so be sure to read the whole article.

I AM SO TIRED of debating people who deny reality.

Practically, it's impossible to debate them; their bubble is impenetrable of anything short of a nuclear weapon....

FAFO: Deputy AG Blanche announces the arrest of a self-proclaimed 'Antifa terrorist' who threatened ICE agents.

I almost hope he's an immigrant; then we can revoke his citizenship and ship him to whatever rathole he calls home (after serving his sentence, of course.)

HOW BILLIE EILISH obliterated the Palestinian narrative at the Grammys.

LOUDON COUNTY VIRGINIA SCHOOL BOARD simulates parent 'terrorist' attack after 'student' fatality.

Loudon county is deep blue, openly woke, profoundly weird,and its school board hates parents. The death was obviously an accident, and the 'student' was 20 years old. The average student age at high school graduation is 18, and I graduated at 17. None of my fellow graduates was over 18; the one who might have quit school at 16, which wasl legal at the time.

I SIGNED UP FOR THREADS, and wow, leftists are even crazier than I thought.

THE WASHINGTON POST guild organized a fundraiser for 300 axed 'journalists'.

At $300,000 in donations, that's about $1,000 per person, roughly twice what they're worth.

THEIR OWN: This is who they're protecting.

EDUCATION EXPERTS warn against Mamdani's proposed gifted program changes.

I'm somewhat neutral on this one, since (a) I've always been skeptical of the worth of 'Gifted and Talented' programs, and (b) I hate both education experts and Mamdani.

MY DONOR LIST IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR VOTE: Sen. Jon Ossoff [D-GA] wants ID for his campaign events — but not federal elections.

He believes his party can manufacture the votes needed to put him over the top in his 2026 reelection. I know I'll crawl over broken glass to prove him wrong.

CALIFORNIA NEEDS A GOVERNOR, not a TikTok influencer.

MORON PRACTICE: How did Democrats get so stupid?

TROLL KINGS! Conservative group sends San Francisco lefties into a rage with ICE Super Bowl billboard.

"NFL teams can't win without defense. Neither can America."

THAT'S INSULTING TO REAL MORONS. If you get your morals from musicians, you’re probably a moron.

MAKE AMERICA America again.

IMPEACHMENT CALLS: Federal judge’s ‘unhinged’ order in migrant case ignites Republican fury.

SECTION 5.56 OF THE U.S. CODE MAY APPLY: The Democrats' empty threats of oppression.

THEY SHOULD HAVE THEIR LAW LICENSES (AND DEGREES) YANKED: Trio of Minnesota law professors decry arrest of Don Lemon.

THIS IS UNSETTLING: AIs are now talking with one another behind our backs.

FOLLOWING AMERICA'S LEAD: Denmark unveils legal reform to allow the worst foreign criminals to be deported.

BOSTON’S MAYOR WU HAS A GREAT IDEA, if destroying the nation is a great idea.

Socialism is about being generous with other people's money.

THE GOVERNMENT as currently constituted is just a money laundry for political types.

PHILLY DA’S ‘HUNT YOU DOWN’ WARNING to ICE draws calls for DOJ criminal probe.

The FBI should pursue felony charges.

THE CURIOUS CASE of the Alcatraz coyote.

If the coyote is smart, he'll feast on the birds and forget about mating. And die fat and happy....

THEFT IS POPULAR: I suppose it is only natural for Californians to wonder why [illegal] immigrants should be the only ones to turn government into a racket.

GENERALLY TRUE: Rednecks are in.

Reminder that in almost any emergency situation, but especially in natural disasters, one redneck friend or neighbor is worth 1,000 PhDs.

The link is here.

JUST FOR FUN, ICE should send a brigade of Native American officers to Minneapolis.

Imagine the optics: A bunch of middle-aged white people screaming at Native Americans, “Go away! This isn’t your land! We don’t want you here! Go back where you came from!”

Native Americans would probably get a karmic thrill out of booting illegals out of their country....

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S WARNING: Play civil war games; win civil war prizes.

WORDS THAT LIGHT MATCHES: Jacob Frey’s Minneapolis problem.

STOP ICE: We were not kidding.

They're nuts.

WOKE PROGRAMS are about 'helping' Western bureaucrats who are supposedly 'helping' poor asylum seekers.

RANDOM OBSERVATION: Hillary deposed Qaddafi and slave markets appeared in Libya. Biden bugged out of Afghanistan and now the Taliban announce return of slavery to Afghanistan.

And you think our domestic Taliban isn't planning the same for us?

ENLIGHTENING ISLAM: Is it even possible?

Looking at the developments in each culture since the 14th century, I come to the conclusion that Islam is still waiting for its Martin Luther.

That italicized part is exactly the question I brought in a pre-deployment briefing way back in 2006. Which proves nothing beyond the simple fact that common sense and rational thought are at least 20 years ahead of the ken of of our ruling/intellectual classes.

COMPLIANCE IS MANDATORY. Logic is optional.

HEH: "If I'm on stolen land why the F am I paying property taxes?"

Good question....

STAVATTI AEROSPACE has put forward an alternative vision for the US Navy’s Next Carrier Air Dominance (NCAD) program.

Dubbed SM-39 Razor, the aircraft features a low-observable triple-fuselage layout, a configuration intended to help limit wave drag during sustained supersonic flight.

FUTURE HOUSING FOR NYC'S HOMELESS? United Nations promises bankruptcy by July unless Trump gives it lots of cash.

I SUSPECT PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL will predict 6 more weeks of winter

when he emerges from his burrow tomorrow morning.

BECAUSE HE'S BEEN TOO EFFECTIVE? There’s a revolt at CNN over Scott Jennings.

BOY MAYOR JACOB 'STOMPY FEET' FREY slams ICE 'bullies'.

Every time I see/hear about Frey I'm reminded of this nursery rhyme:

There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very, very good,
But when she was bad, she was horrid.

Isn't that little curl cute?

PROTECT OUR OWN; let the rest of 'em rot.

SAD: The end of the road for the little diner that could.