KETANJI BROWN JACKSON, the AOC of jurisprudence, has thoughts about court neutrality.

She has thoughts? Really?

LAGUARDIA SINKHOLE: Even the ground under Mamdani’s New York City wants out.

Heh.

NO ONE GETTING PAID $26,153.85 every 2 weeks ($680,000 annually) to solve the homeless problem is going to solve the homeless problem.

THE CHOICE FACING CALIFORNIA CONSERVATIVES: despair or fight.

I think they misspelled 'fight'; it should be 'flight'. Fight has been overcome by events (OBE).

YES, OBVIOUSLY: Assault on 'ghost guns' about more than firearms.

It's about keeping criminals armed....

AN AMERICAN HERO: Fox News' Johnny 'Joey' Jones reenlists in the United States Marine Corps.

If there's an opportunity for me to serve, there's no reason why a no-legged 40-year-old staff sergeant should be able to put the uniform on, other than these men believed it. And the goal here is to open that door for anyone else that has something left to give.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth led the swearing-in ceremony at the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT as you go to an Ivy League school to get your moron certificate.

And pay an exorbitant sum for the privilege....

FEW AND FAR BETWEEN: retirement options for the middle class.

Could the Trump IRA be a game changer?

STOSSEL: Data center freak-out.

AOC and Bernie Sanders have introduced a bill that will pause new center construction.

That's just dumb.

If our economy was allowed to develop at the speed of Bernie Sanders, we would be significantly worse off...

Question for the record: "Why should anyone (company, individual, whatever) be dependent on government largess for power?"

JUST DO THINGS: Never mind the progressive Left. Even if it means telling the Leftist judiciary "you made your decision; now try to enforce it."

It's called 'taking a play from the Democrat playbook'.

NOT NEARLY ENOUGH: What do immigrants owe us?

Here's a thought: (1) If they're here illegally, and with criminal records, kick them out. No if, ands, or buts. Out. Forever. (2) If they're here illegally, but with no criminal records, then let those who wish to stay and become citizens pay a nonrefundable charge equivalent to the fees (legal and otherwise) paid by legal immigrants. That charge must be paid over a fixed period of time or goodbye, no refund, no return.

WELL, SHE'S RIGHT. Karen Bass accuses Spencer Pratt of tapping into 'a general sense' of anger.

And she (and her fellow Democrats) are also responsible for that 'general sense' of anger....

RANDOM THOUGHT: President Trump is putting a Trump face on America; the Democrats are putting on a Clown face. The next presidential election is going to be a 'makers' versus 'takers' election, and right now I think the 'takers' have the edge.

Update and boost to top: Need I say more?

KURT SCHLICHTER: The GOP's midterm reversal of fortune.

Read the comments; some are quite lengthy and all are worthy.

AS STUDENT SCORES PLUMMET, teachers’ union head rants against Trump. Randi Weingarten's 15 minutes of fame is waaay past due. So's her union's. It's time to discard them both. Forever.

CAPITALISM: The one thing that works.

FIRST DEFINE 'ULTRA-PROCESSED': The debate needs less fear and more clarity.

I approve this discussion. Follow the link.

TRUMP'S DEPORTATION PUSH meets reality (i.e., small town plumbing).

So put detention campsin big cities with adequate infrastructure.

After all, that's where the illegal aliens are....

TRUTH: Health bureaucrats need to stay employed, your fear is their job.

Just watch almost any television commercial interruption.

DONALD TRUMP takes a page from Rudy Giullani's mayoral campaign playbook.

DEMOCRATS GAVE THEM PERMISSION: Why assassins almost always go after Republicans.

BUT KINDLY. VERY KINDLY. Trump makes a Greenland deal.

HE CERTAINLY HAD THE CAPACITY: Happy 80th birthday to the greatest alcoholic who's ever walked on planet Earth.

DEMOCRATS NOW WANT to abolish the Virginia government.

I agree with them. Once done, replace it with a Republican administration.

BUT KINDLY. VERY KINDLY. Trump is making a Greenland deal.

WE NEED TO STOP letting Democrats casually commit felonies with no consequences.

PREDICTING THE NEXT GOP SCANDAL AND OPPORTUNITY — and how Trump could finally crush the mainstream media.

Risky, perhaps, but I'm all for it if it'll keep me from mashing the 'mute' buttion every time I turn on the television.

NOTHING LIKE SWINGING HARD AT AN OBVIOUS FOUL (FOOL?) BALL: Democrats say 'Heil Platner!'

THE EV BUST CLAIMS FIVE MORE VICTIMS -- and they aren't even EVs.

MY ANSWER to Stephen Green's exit question: Enjoy life.

THE DEMOCRATIC MODEL: Corruption as a feature, not a flaw.

How do you think they're getting so wealthy? Or as it has been said more succintly: "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

WHEN BILLIONAIRES (TRY TO) ABOLISH ECONOMICS, they find they can't. Economics isn't about money.

The appeal of the post-scarcity narrative is understandable. It offers a vision in which economic tensions dissolve, and policy becomes a matter of distribution rather than discipline. But that vision rests on assumptions that collapse under closer inspection. Technology can expand the frontier of what is possible and available. It does not eliminate the need to choose among possibilities and evaluate trade-offs. It does not erase the importance of how resources are allocated, how incentives are structured, or how information is conveyed through prices. If anything, the arrival of powerful new technologies makes sound economics more important — not less.

Elon Musk (and many of his associates) have been reading far too much of Isaac Asimov's robot series.

THE PRESS SHOULD TAKE A HINT AND QUIT INVERVIEWING HER: AOC takes page from Biden playbook in dodging interviews with national press.

At least he suffered from dementia; she doesn't. Her problem is that she has only a fraction of his intelligence. And that's not saying much.

NO SHIT: America has a serious literacy problem on its hands.

Thanks to woke 'edjumacation'.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Good riddance, Thomas Massie.

DEMOCRATS DON’T FEAR GUNS. They fear armed Americans.

Agreed.

HAVE FUN storming the castle, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL]. We'll just keep passing the popcorn and reminding people of this whenever Democrat Party leadership starts screaming raaaaacism for drawing maps that don't rely on race.

WELL, THE GREEN BAY PACKERS ARE INVESTOR OWNED: Crowdfunding campaign to buy Spirit Airlines racks up more than 335 million in pledges.

"THIS IS THE RAISON D'ETRE OF THE CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRAT PARTY: graft, sloth, parasitism."

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The four horsemen of the new antisemitism.

MAYORKAS: It wasn't my fault!

The hell it wasn't. At best he was a willing pawn; at worst he was an enthusiastic participant.

NBC NEWS GRIPPED BY HANTAVIRUS PANDEMIC HYPE -- Avoid the network for 2 weeks to stop the spread of idiocy.

Why only two weeks?

That said, I will take some of the necessary precautions and place NBC News into quarantine and keep this outlet shut down. The last thing we need is another outbreak of needless restrictions, useless masking, and enduring the wave of screeching Karens in store aisles. We have already survived that apocalypse in this country.

No need to do it again.

THEY'RE JUST PLAIN UGLY INSIDE AND OUT: 'Comedian' Pete Davidson faces backlash over Charlie Kirk joke at Netflix roast.

THE CRASH OUT over the Viginia redistricting ruling commences, and it's only going to get worse.

The Democrats may not realize it (yet), but they are inciting the second American civil war.

SOME REALLY GREAT NEWS: Faint meow leads to a miracle post-tornado kitten rescue.

The picture is adorable.

AT LEAST ENGINEERING HAS RETAINED SOME MODICUM OF COMMON SENSE: The Rutgers School of Engineering pulled the plug on a planned convocation speaker after his anti-Israel social media posts surfaced.

BECAUSE THEY'D CHOOSE TO LEAVE THE DEMOCRATS' PLANTATION? Why are Democrats so afraid of Black voters having a choice?

Wow! Read it all.

RANDOM THOUGHT: We're moving toward a second American Civil War and the Democrats will lose again.

FAIR WARNING: They're telling you exactly what they'll do but is anyone listening?

SHE'S CLEARLY GOT VACUUM BETWEEN THE EARS: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doubles down on lunacy.

[VIP] IF YOU ELECT DEMOCRATS, more people die.

DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY: "Our education system is irredeemably awful, and needs to be blown up so that we can start over from scratch."

IT'S OFFICIAL: The climate scam was a scam all along.

Now that the climate scam is over what will the Left bring up next?

THE END OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS WE KNOW IT: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

THIS IS MORE LIKE THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: Elon Musk may be exploring a takeover of the bankrupt Spirit Airlines.

That was the first thing I thought of when Spirit Airlines announced it was closing. Look out, American and Delta....

THE (SELF) CHOSEN ONE? Instead of saving the Democrats, Obama blames Trump for marital ‘tension’.

IT'S NEAR AUSTIN, SO WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? This university in Texas says they're still peddling DEI.

DESPITE THE LEFT'S BEST EFFORTS, history is real.

FINAL THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Obvious to almost everyone -- except them.

YGBFKM: Judge apologizes to suspect accused of attempting to assassinate President Trump.

KURT SCHLICHTER: The Left can't win. That's objective reality.

No, but they can damn sure make life miserable for the rest of us.

I'M NOTICING that more and more the Babylon Bee is turning from satire to real news. Herewith are some examples from David Strom's Sunday Smiles:

Homeless Declare Victory In Gavin Newsom’s Fight Against Homelessness

A.I. Calculates It Will Be More Efficient To Just Let Humanity Destroy Itself

Op-Ed: If We Stop Discriminating Based On The Color Of People's Skin, The Racists Will Have Won

Democrats Deny Inciting Violence And Say Anyone Who Thinks They Do Must Be Eliminated By Any Means Necessary

Make your own call....

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER NUT JOB: Pittsburgh man arrested for threatening to kill Trump.

OUR SELF-COLONIZED NATION: “Every successful system accumulates parasites.”

Getting rid of them will be hard, as embedded as they are, but necessary. I hope America is up to the task.

ADIOS ARTICLE III. Our courts are guilty of failing to do their job.

POWERLINE'S Week In Pictures accurately describes the Democrat party:

Of the rest, too many are just headlines describing the insanity of the world around us. Go see them anyway.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE will slowly seduce us into our own demise.

He's right.

THAT’S NOT LEGAL: Blue jurisdictions are rationing homeless services based on race.

No matter; they have to serve their own first.

Linked from Instapundit here.

MERIT IS THE NEXT RACISM: Nothing scares Democrats more than the idea of merit.

SAME OLD, SAME OLD: Target Trump.

HE DOESN'T BACK DOWN: SpaceX lawsuit forces California agency to admit bias against Elon Musk and back down.

They did.

DEMOCRATS' RANTS show their enemies list is serious business.

When they tell you what they plan to do, believe them!

CALIFORNIA is an unfunny joke.

But I'm sure the unicorns will come back to frolic in the tulips if we just give them a few more dollars.

MORE GLOBALONEY: The Ice Age is on the way.

For those of us who can remember back that far, we've gone forward about -60 years (that's minus, meaning back to 1966).

EXCELLENT!: Blast Kills 14 Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON admits Chicago discriminates in hiring city employees.

In favor of incompetence....

SHE'S UGLY INSIDE AND OUT. Katie Porter's gubernatorial campaign pushes ‘f*ck Trump’ message, ‘kill people’ claim right after WHCA dinner shooting.

More from that malicious, evil idiot.

MORE MEMES from Sarah Hoyt. Having cats myself, the obvious best is the one about changing the bedsheets. But then, all cat memes are good.

VIRGINIA SENATORS want to inflict Virginia's tyrannical gun strategy on the entire country.

As Senators, I'm sure both Kaine and Warner have armed security details. Take them away and see how they like it. As Democrats, they 'know' their lives are important and must be protected. Well, mine is too -- more so to me than theirs -- and I carry. Ain't giving that up.

PRESIDENT TRUMP is a better rug merchant than the Iranians.

SIT THIS ONE OUT, BOOB, ER, TIM: Kash Patel turns tables on Gov. Walz in response to viral tweet on Minnesota fraud raids.

HEH: If you can't say something nice about someone, you must be talking about a Democrat.

SEN. JON OSSOFF [D-GA] had plenty to say about Trump — until someone tried to kill him. Trump, not Ossoff, unfortunately.

Ossoff is Georgia's soon-to-be-former Senator if I get my say in November.

AMERICA’S PROBLEMS start here.

Linked from Instapundit here. Be sure to read the comments.

A related Twitter (X) post is here.

THE SUICIDE OF EXPERTISE: Americans might look back on the last 50 years and say, “What have experts done for us lately?”

I think the proper question is "What have they done to us lately?"

DOUBLING DOWN ON STUPID under the supervision of their 'homelessness experts'.

IMPRIMIS ON BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP: Are we subjects or citizens?

I think it's clear that Democrats prefer 'subjects' to 'citizens'.

IN LAST WEEK'S POWERLINE Week in Pictures the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) got plenty of attention up front, but this one really tickled my fancy:

That said, there were many, many other good ones. Go see them all.

[VIP] MURDEROUS, GREEDY, AND PSEUDOINTELLECTUAL: The Democrats' favorite streamer proves it doesn't want to help the poor, just punish the rich.

AI DATA CENTERS: the new populist target.

It's an interesting article, mostly well thought out, but Shapiro misses on one point: not all of us want AI embedded in our lives. For example, I have to turn it off whenever I want to do a computer search for something on the internet. I wish I could keep it off unless I wanted it for something specific, but no, it keeps turning itself back on.

BUT, BUT ... THEY WANTED IT IN SOMEONE ELSE'S BACKYARD. Voters in New York City are getting what they voted for good and hard.

ON CONCEALED PUNISHMENT: the mailbox test.

INSTEAD OF BODY ARMOR the agents will wear NICE armor.

IF YOU CAN, DO. If you can't, teach. If you can't teach, teach teachers. Back when I was an undergraduate, that was widely quoted in the STEM departments I inhabited.

Full disclosure: My wife is a retired school teacher. She taught all primary grades, in three different states, over a 20-year span. She was widely regarded as an excellent teacher. She did not graduate from a College of Education; instead she obtained a teaching certificate when she realized her first degree choice (social work) was a scam.