HEH. THIS WOULD BE FUN: President Trump could end most birthright citizenship with this 1 simple trick.

More: The political upside of losing the birthright citizenship case.

I suspect the upside may be greater than the downside....

THE SOCIALISTS ARE COMING ... for the Democrats.

The takeaway is the last sentence: "[T]he stupid Republicans may be saved by the evil Democrats."

[VIP] THE BEST PLANES EVER: And every one American designed and American built.

For the over-literate computer types out there, I would add that the SR-71 was designed by slide rule and drafting board.

I still have mine....

SO KILL IT. Iran's theocracy has given way to an IRGC military dictatorship. And put a stake through it's heart.

HER 15 MINUTES OF FAME ARE OVER: Has the ‘revolution’ already passed AOC by?

IT'S MOMENTS LIKE THIS -- Captain Jim shared his final flight before retirement in the cockpit with his daughter, First Officer Julia -- that warm the heart.

I'VE GOT A PLETHORA so here are some more cartoons to enjoy.

No more enjoying television....

The difference betweeen socialism and 'democratic' socialism....

Trump hatred is misplaced....

Another commandment ignored....

The bartender is college-educated....

More to come -- eventually.

MIRANDA DEVINE: Democrats are in desperate need of a new leader as Communists overrun their party.

But all they've got is a Communist wannabe (Obama).

THE LAST SANE DEMOCRAT: Fetterman pummels Mamdani's SCOTUS defiance.

JUST TAKE A LOOK: Are you aware of just how crazy and radical the Democratic Socialist program really is?

WORST PRESIDENT EVER: Mr. Obama, are the slaveowners in the room with us right now?

FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY: The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Update: Apparently some things are cultural and not subject to easy change.

YOU SHOULD LOOK IN THE MIRROR, LADY: This New York Democrat says companies like Apple 'think they are governments' and 'want to have totally unchecked power'.

MAXIMUM JAIL SENTENCES REQUIRED: Seven nabbed after anti-Trump graffiti, deliberate slashing stuns the National Mall.

MY THOUGHT EXACTLY. Let Make New York suffer.

SOME CARTOONS TO START THE WEEK:

Enjoy.

I'M GLAD I NO LONGER LIVE IN VIRGINIA. Virginia judge blocks 'assault firearms' ban.

The state will appeal the decision, obviously, but at least my weapons are safe in the free state of Georgia.

NO MATTER WHO THE NEXT (REPUBLICAN) PRESIDENT IS, Usha Vance should be his/her Vice President.

WHAT'S NEXT? The pond scum-loving Left loses its reflecting pool. The last sentence of the post sums it up perfectly. "Democrats: Always petty. Never pretty."

TENSION ON THE BENCH: Justice Alito is none-to-pleased with Justice Sotomayor's angry dissent on the asylum case.

Democrats are always angry. When the lose; when they win. Always.

THEY WON'T LISTEN. Socialism bankrupted her family in Venezuela. Now, she’s warning American students.

WE COULD LEARN A LOT FROM OUR FOUNDERS who fought a middle east war centuries ago.

And won!

SOMEONE FINALLY FIGURED OUT THE OBVIOUS: DEI is make-work employment for otherwise unemployable neurotics and anti-social types.

HELLO MOTHER, HELLO FATHER: A letter home from a woke detention summer camp.

THAT'S ONE WAY OF GOING OUT OF BUSINESS: Florida tattoo shop refuses service to military and veterans for being 'war criminals'.

FINALLY, SOME JUSTICE: Eight protesters having ties to Antifa were sentenced to decades in federal prison on Tuesday for their roles in a violent July 4, 2025, ambush outside an Alvarado TX immigration detention center.

Update: [T]hey tried it in a small town. Hat tip, Instapundit.

I'D CALL IT 'JUST DESERTS'. What if violating the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) meant jail time?

DEFEND SOCIALISM -- if you can.

IT'S OFFICIAL: The Democrat party is a socialist skinsuit.

THE AMERICAN MIND: How to think about the American Revolution.

Via Hillsdale College's monthly publication Imprimis.

SOON-TO-BE-FORMER SEN. JON OSSOFF [D-GA]: Just when you thought Democrats couldn't stoop any lower.

HEH:

My daughter's friend in grad school, upon being asked by a member of her dissertation committee why she didn't include a Marxist perspective. "I grew up in the Soviet Union. I don't practice recreational Marxism."

'Nuff said. Linked from Instapundit.

IF YOU THINK YOU'RE HEALTHY it means you haven't been watching enough television.

It's time for Congress to step in and ban pharmaceutical advertising. Ambulance chasers, too.

WELL, OF COURSE: Joy Reid says no Black Americans she knows are celebrating 4th of July.

The only Black Americans she knows live in her bubble....

THEY CAME AT NIGHT: Trump reveals vandals sliced 350-foot gash into Reflecting Pool bottom.

I ALSO FAVOR BANNING MILLENNIALS FROM CONGRESS. Bless your heart, Jon.

At least until they've grown up....

“LET’S GET OUR HANDS ON SOME OF THAT LOOT.” Democrats surging on taxes.

'POETICA' JUSTICE: What a woke NYC coffee shop told a Jewish congressman just got the DOJ's attention.

Instapundit update.

The woke mind virus is akin to rabies and should be treated the same way -- eradication.

PUNCHING BACK? Elon Musk is now taking action after Ro Khanna vows to investigate him for his USAID actions.

After the DOGE accusation, Musk should take him for all he's worth.

NEW TAX STUPIDITY: Will the last productive person to leave California please turn out the lights?

Same as the old tax stupidity. Democrats never learn.

IT SHOULD SURPRISE NO ONE that the Democrats love socialism.

[N]one of us should be surprised that CNN’s polling has found that Democrats love socialism and hate capitalism. The average Democrat voter now is AOC, and like AOC, they don’t want to shut up about the little that they know about the real world.

Their knowlege is underwhelming....

SEE THE NEXT UNITED KINGDOM PRIME MINISTER: His name is Larry.

Update: installing Larry's new door.

SO WHO CARES? Joy Reid vows she will no longer vote for Democrats who refuse to pledge ending ties with Israel.

So she won't vote for John Fetterman. Big deal.

ADAM SCHIFF'S latest Elon Musk wealth grab fantasy.

Are there any non-idiots remaining on the Left (Fetterman excepted)?

CYNICAL PUBLIUS: Possible reasons why Trump signed the Iranian Memorandum of Understandins (MOU).

It's the second reason I favor.

IT’S NOT A BAD IDEA: Ban all NGOs.

It's one I've proposed in the past. Linked from Instapundit.

AUSTIN METCALF IS DEAD and Karmelo Anthony is 'too poor' to fund appealing his conviction. Break out the tiny violin.

JUANITA BROADDRICK is dead on target.

THERE ARE MANY GOOD MEMES in PowerLine's Week in Pictures this week, including soccer, trillionaires, the Obamalisk, and election returns. That said, my favorite is this one:

Now go see the rest.

LYING AND CHEATING IS EMBEDDED IN THEIR DNA: Texas Democratic Senate nominee Talarico reportedly courted Silicon Valley donors.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Replace 'tax the rich' with 'tax the stupid'. There a lot more of them so even $10/head should bring in as much as a 5% wealth tax on billionaires.

Remember how Bernie Sanders was famously in favor of taxing millionaires -- until he became one?

WELL, YES. Were Democrats always this dumb?

Recommended reading: The Marching Morons by Cyril Kornbluth.

AN OBELISK TO NARCISSISSM: Now we know why the Obama Center is so ugly.

The left's devotion to Obama has never been about substance. It's a cult of personality, and all these years later, it’s still going strong.

See also Beauty is obvious; ugliness comes with a lecture.

YES, WE DEMOCRATS WANT A WEALTH TAX: Just not on us.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Iran war misconceptions.

The key to negotiating an end to the war is to always remember that Iran’s regime —- its theocrats, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, military leaders, and elected officials -— has no history of telling the truth or abiding by any agreement it signs.

So the only means of enforcing concessions is to use disproportionate force each time Iran inevitably violates the terms of the armistice.

So bomb them BACK into the pre-historic Stone Age.

I'M INTERESTED, BUT IT'S TOO DARN COLD: North Dakota could overtake Texas and Florida as a tax-friendly state.

SAD, INDEED: From 'Trooping the Color' to 'Trooping the Coroner'.

IF TRUMP BUILDS IT they will come. The Left hates Trump so much that it's trying to sabotage the Reflecting Pool.

If Obama builds it they will run....

OUR CAMPUSES ARE CORRUPT — and higher education is due for its comeuppance.

HEH: Pride night in major league baseball.

If This Goes On --

RANDOM THOUGHT: Free speach does not confer an obligation to listen.

A START: University indoctrination centers are being abandoned.

Maybe even a good start....

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE says Fulton and Gwinnett counties went around Georgia election law -- now it's suing.

Good luck with that -- the Atlanta metro area is solidly Blue.

JUST SAY NO. Iran's unprecedented 'whole-regime' delegation at US deal talks signals one goal.

ANTIFA ANTI-ICE BRIGADE charged.

Peaceful protests are one thing; violent protests are criminal and should must be treated as such.

PUNCHING BACK IS GOOD: Charlotte school learns expensive lesson after smearing student over Charlie Kirk tribute.

FROM THE DEMOCRAT'S PLAYBOOK: You'll own nothing and be happy.

Whether you like it or not....

FROM LAST WEEK'S PowerLine Week In Pictures, a view of the elitist mindset:

There are many others, topped by the Califraudia primary election memes. Go see them all.

ONLY JEALOUS PINKO LOSERS begrudge Elon Musk his well-deserved success.

Americans call them 'Democrats'.

POLITICS BEFORE PROFITS: Stop corporate ‘rackets’ from shortchanging Americans’ retirement income.

My retirement assets are doing quite well, thank you very much, but I hope it's from growing the economy and not by advancing a leftist political agenda.

[VIP] SMART STATES WIN CHEAP ENERGY; dumb ones fail America.

I THINK THEY'LL HAVE TO: Can bombs bring Iran back to the negotiating table?

This time it has to be complete capitulation, not negotiation. Otherwise, parking lot....

SO WHAT IS LEVERAGE FOR? These people are nuts!

[VIP] KURT SCHLICHTER: Savages versus civilization.

I wish we were more civilized....

HOW DEEP ARE THE NEWSOMS IN IT? This deep.

THE POLITICS OF ENVY: They doesn't want to earn anything; just steal it.

BY ANY MEASURE, California is a failed state — and a national embarrassment.

Democracy is dead in California.

THE REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN. Players on a MLB partner team refuse to wear 'Pride' jersey.

'Partner teams' used to be called 'farm clubs' but I guess that's too rural for the MLB sophisticates...

SALENA ZITO: 'It's Only a Matter of National Security'. America's Workforce Academy's mission to fill the workforce gap.

CALIFORNIA’S INSANE ‘Prove You’re Gay’ law.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Fiery but mostly peaceful riots are the language of the unheard.

SEATTLE’S SOCIALIST MAYOR doesn’t plan on limiting her attacks to the rich.

Her father (who supports her financially) doesn't seem to mind. He lives in New York.

THE “BOOM BELT” is basically America’s new economic engine.

Linked from Instapundit here.

EVER WONDER WHY LEFTISTS ARE SO CRAZY? A new study just confirmed the Left's worst-kept secret.

IT'S TIME TO REINTRODUCE IRAN TO AMERICAN BOMBS: Iran announces Persian Gulf Strait Authority, sets stage for tolls.

METAPHOR ALERT: Obama Presidential Center’s $470M safety net under scrutiny.

If taxpayers have to bail it out it should be turned into an American Museum of Progressive Failure.

GRAHAM PLATNER'S greatest vulnerability isn't what you think it is.

MASSACHUSETTS 'HOMEBASE' PROGRAM: a hundred million dollars for (illegal) migrants.

If you work -- in the private sector, obviously -- get out now.

ABOUT TIME: The FBI is finally going after the services that enable cybercrime.

BOOMERS (1946-1964): A generation of Scrooge McDucks?

As a pre-Boomer (a year early) my parents lived through the Depression and the economic restrictions of WWII and I spent the formative years of my life hiding under my desk at school during nuclear war drills to survive (?) mutual assured destruction (MAD).

Do you think that may -- just may -- have something to do with our 'Scrooge -ish' behavior?

HASAN PIKER GOES FULL STALIN: cheers plan to throw Republicans in prison.

Even if he could, they would still be outnumbered by Democrats....

ANTI-AMERICANISM: It’s the law!

AMERICA AT 250: Remember the Tenth Amendment?

OBAMA’S PRESIDENTIAL CENTER looks like his ego cast in stone.

Heh.

IS ANYONE SURPRISED BY THIS? “Mental illness is emerging as its own political identity and is most heavily aligned with leftist political ideology and causes.”

So Democrats are batshit crazy. Who knew?

MIRANDA DEVINE: Pete Hegseth’s warning to Europe – be smart or be invaded.

BERNIE'S STUPID SCHEME to 'socialize' artificial intelligence must be stopped.

Translation from Bernie-speak: "I want my (un)fair share."

After all, he's not a billionaire.

R-I-I-I-G-H-T: Election fraud "is against the law, so nobody would ever do it."

DEMOCRATS WILLING to throw Black voters under the bus to gain power.

They'll throw anyone under the bus who gets in their way.

SO WHAT'S NEW? Hillary Clinton is back and lying again.

Hillary Clinton suggests rural voters are too stupid to show ID to vote and Black and Latino Representatives can only be elected if voters are segregated by race.

Of course, since she is herself both dumb and racist.

BE SURE TO INVITE THE REVOLUTIONARY GUARD. Khamenei funeral finally set for July.

NOT SO RANDOM A THOUGHT: AI search engines are effing worthless. They don't search for what you want; they search for what they know you should want.

To the extent I can, I keep mine turned off. Unfortunately it (thinks it) knows better and keeps turning itself back on....

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE: Everyone is talking about this photo.

Those aren't from the latest tranche of UFO photos?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Stop destroying civilization!

BY THE TIME YOU REACH RETIREMENT AGE YOU SHOULD HAVE STOLEN ENOUGH: Chip Roy has a plan to drain Congress of its elderly swamp creatures.

SOME OF THE MORE PUBLIC IDIOTS IN AMERICA: The Left has plans for seizing and spending Elon Musk's money.

Basic economics is beyond their ken.

IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD: potential big hurdle to a U.S.-Iran deal.

Give them to Israel for disposition....

IT DOESN'T LOOK LOOK LIKE Spencer Pratt is going away anytime soon.

Good for him....

THE SCUM ALSO RISES: Graham Platner makes history as first vanity oysterman with Nazi tattoo to win U.S. Senate nomination.

DON’T PANIC about Trump’s Iran strategy just yet.

Longish, but it's Kurt Schlichter on his (Trump's) miltary/economic strategy.

CALIFORNIA IS WHERE the Democrats test out all of their insanity.

Just a thought: Should Maine be renamed 'East California'?

HEH: Platner’s "certainly good enough getting other people’s money to qualify for employment in Washington."

THEY ALREADY HAVE; WE CALL THEM 'DEMOCRATS': Humanoid robots will soon fill U.S. homes.

POORLY, I SUSPECT: Let's see how this experiment plays out.

HEINLEIN: “A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore.” The same applies to so-called 'journalists'.

ESPECIALLY BY OUR INFERIORS: Americans have had enough of being lectured.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Now that Fox News has gone to 'live updates' on its web site it's not worth bothering with any more. I'm moving to Newsmax

VIRAL INFLUENCER: How Bill Gates’ billions shape U.S. medical research.

I think I've discovered why health care has gone downhill over the last 20 years....

ARE YOU NOW OR OR HAVE YOU EVER ... been anti-American?

HEH: It’s fun having a POTUS enjoying himself.

Linked from Instapundit here.

SAY NO to the "warmth of collectivism."

GO PRATT: Spencer Pratt is still in the fight, and he'll do more than get by with a lot of help from his friends.

[VIP] ENERGY DENSITY: The physics rule renewables can never escape. The metrics are here, here, and here on X (Twitter).

Closely related.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Iranian endgames.

The only acceptable solution to Iran is to obliterate the Mullahs and their Revolutionary Guard and send them to meet their 72 virgins wherever Allah resides.

BECAUSE THEY'RE DEMOCRATS? Why are male-identifying Democrat candidates all creepy weirdos?

ANOTHER HUGE VICTORY: The transgender movement's grip on American medicine is loosening fast.

If you want to be transgender, fine. But do it on your own dime. Not mine.

'MOMMA' IS IN FEAR FOR HER LIFE from the long arm of the legislators.

How long must this woke mind virus continue to exist until normal America decides to kill it, stomp its remains into dust, and then salt the Earth it has been ground into?

MAKE AMERICA BEAUTIFUL AGAIN: The deeper agenda behind Trump’s Reflecting Pool glow-up.

And it should be the tag line for the next Republican presidential candidate.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Who put the 'Dim' in Dimocrats?

THE FIRST (AND ONLY) COMMANDMENT FOR CONGRESS:

From the Non Sequitur cartoon site.

NOW THAT THE ELECTION HAS BEEN CALLED (FINALLY):

YOU DON'T SAY: California is ground zero for election fraud in the United States.
Linked from Instapundit here.
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OF COURSE THE CALIFORNIA VOTE WAS RIGGED! Here’s why it’s obvious.

SHORT ANSWER, NO: Can California still be saved? Confine it and let it rot.

IMPRIMIS: Launching a second scientific revolution.

It's worth a try. I hope it succeeds.

HOPEFUL SIGN: A seismic third-world revolution.

Linked from Instapundit.

LATEST UPDATE: Children are more adult than grown-up progressives.

I tend to agree, based on the comment sections I occasionally choose to read on various blog posts.

JONATHAN TURLEY: Eight years after Kavanaugh, Democrats have stopped believing all women.

They lied when they said they did believe.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Today the accepted definition of credentialed progressive idiot is 'expert'.

FORCE MULTIPLIER? Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group gets new Seahawk drone.

BATSHIT CRAZY. What in the actual hell is a Democrat these days?

IS CALIFORNIA'S VOTE RESERVOIR depleting?

Apparently not.

THE FUTURE OF WORK belongs to people who master Artificial Intelligence.

Or maybe to Artificial Intelligence for mastering people.

I'm reminded of the science fiction book The Marching Morons:

In 1988, real estate agent and con artist John Barlow is placed in suspended animation after a freak accident. He is revived in the distant future, in a confusing world filled with hypersexualized advertisements, vapid entertainment, and people who exhibit erratic, nonsensical behavior. Shortly after being revived, Barlow is introduced to two men, Tinny-Peete and Ryan-Ngana, who inform him that the lamentable state of society is the fault of the "morons", the world's vast population of unintelligent people, who greatly outnumber the much smaller population of intelligent people.

Sound familiar? I hope I'm wrong, but I suspectthe morons have won, and the best those of us who aren't morons can do is to slow the decline. At my age it ain't worth the trouble. Good luck.

THE EGO has landed crashed.

THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON: Harvard’s slide into stupidity.

'Slide' is being kind; 'dive' is more appropriate....

Instapundit agrees.

MY ANSWER IS 'NO': Is going to college still worth it?

WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE THEY DON’T: Bill Maher says artists quitting America 250 concert makes it look like Democrats ‘don’t love America.’

BECAUSE IT IS NOT AND NEVER HAS BEEN DECENT. Why is the 'Party of Decency' running so many questionable characters?

They've just come out from behind the curtain.

BREAKING: California is beyond redemption.

SEATTLE MAYOR acknowleges she's an idiot.

YES! Trump signs order to make it easier to fire 8,000 federal workers.

But as Stephen Green points out, those are rookie numbers. He still has over 2 years left to finish up, though....

AND NOW ON TO POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures with the latest midterm election update:

Go see the rest.

DECEMBER 6TH WAS D-DAY, the day of the Normandy invasion and 81 years after World War II began to crumble in 1944, and I missed it. So here are a couple of reminders.

THE GUNS WERE GONE AT POINTE DU HOC ON D-DAY, so the Rangers went looking.

LOOK AT THEM. Really look at them.

SECRETARY OF WAR PETE HEGSETH remembers those who fought during 82nd D-Day Commemoration at Normandy.

CLOWNS HAVE EGOS TOO: Clown show in Congress.

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE: Mayor Katie Wilson says she'll 'act now' after locals fortified streets with planters.

But that's the Democrats' way....

BECAUSE SHUT UP. Dozens of anti-ICE protesters won't face state charges for storming Minnesota church service.

Read it all, then imagine the result if it had been Christians invading a Muslim mosque.

On the brighter side, federal civil rights charges remain pending against 39 people who interrupted worship to protest immigration enforcement. It's Minnesota, so they'll get off too, but at least they'll be paying some legal fees....

FROM POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures, a personal favorite:

Now go see the rest.

HERR PLATNER is taking Democrat credibility down with him.

Assuming the Democrats had credibility to start with, they appear to be fine with that....

DEMOCRATS SOLD THEIR SOULS FOR PLATNER, but they're not going to like this new shock data.

They have souls to sell?

NOT SHOCKING: Poll shows AOC voters don't like America, prefer foreign countries.

Then they should move there. I would add that one-way tickets are cheaper....

STRAIGHT OVER THE CLIFF: The increase in crazy.

One does have to marvel at the stunning timing of all these "incidents" suddenly flooding the news cycles for the last 18 months or so. That surge in what Sky News Australia's brilliant Rita Panahi has dubbed "Lefties Losing It" is, shall we say, difficult to ignore. Funny how the explosion in reported incidents tracks almost perfectly with the left's increasingly tenuous grip on, well, everything — the media, the narrative, the whole carefully-tended garden of approved opinions. Purely coincidental, I'm sure.

Next stop, Crazytown. Except ... we're already there.

WHICH NGOS ARE ORGANIZING THE NUTWARK NEWARK PROTESTS, and how are they doing so?

It's just now showing up on network televisions, so read the whole post.

It's well past time to tax all NGOs, good and bad alike.

WITH GRAHAM PLATNER IMPLODING, Former Gov. Janet Mills reminds Maine voters that she's still on the ballot.

CALIFORNIA ELECTION RESULTS still undecided as Los Angeles begins counting ballots.

How much of their 873,000 registration reserve will the Democrats have to activate to win?

GLENN REYNOLDS [INSTAPUNDIT] The Left's violence is what insurrection looks like.

KURT SCHLICHTER: The Democrats’ soon-to-fail 2026 midterm campaign to turn America into a more gender-confused version of Cuba.

SLEEP IN YOUR OWN BED: Gen Z may be angry, but Boomers are not the enemy.

Quit whining. As a (bit too) early Boomer, we didn't whine about what the Greatest Generation left us, we lived with it, and made it better. If you don't like what we left behind, then fix it yourselves and make it better -- it's your bed now.

[VIP] TRUMP GAVE HIM A SECOND CHANCE; he used it wisely.

NOW IS THE TIME to go back to kinetic action with the specific purpose of crushing the Islamists. Not Muslims, Islamists.

TOP SENATE DEMOCRAT backs scandal-plagued candidate in bid to 'take back' the Senate.

Unfortunately Shumer will not be up for reelection until the 2028 elections. If he's smart he'll retire then, but it's a safe bet that he isn't.

TIME TO CHANGE the Islamic Regime in Iran.

Just the Mullahs, IRG and Basij. But they should be exterminated and whatever remains be ground into salted Earth.

TEXAS JUST WON A BORDER FIGHT that common sense settled years ago.

Unfortunately common sense isn't. It's rare.

THESE MONSTERS are the foundation of today’s Democratic party.

NOT STUDENTS. WHO 'OWNS' UNIVERSITIES? Academic armageddon advances.

LOOK: Trump administration unveils latest improvement to nation's capitol after graffiti mess.

Democrats will have to accelerate the decline after President Trump leaves office in 2028 (assuming they win).

ONE WITH TEETH: To restore public order, Chicago must enact a nuisance ordinance.

JUST DESSERTS: Scott Pelley fired at CBS News.

Scott Pelley is a pompous ass. His firing is well deserved.

NO EBOLA ON AMERICAN SOIL: Trump opens emergency treatment center in Kenya to contain the spread.

Apparently Kenya objects. I guess they don't want ebola either.

I'm sure the Democrats are happy; they really, really want a pandemic in the U.S. in time for the midterm election. They tried monkey pox; it failed. Then hantavirus; it also failed. Now ebola is (almost) their last chance before the election.

NEWARK MAYOR IMPOSES CURFEW around Delaney Hall after clashes over immigration detention center.

It looks like New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill failed to 'calm things down' but I will give her this -- she did authorize New Jersey police to replace the ICE/Border Patrol agents who had been protecting the detention center.....

UPDATED: Police at New Jersey ICE facility arrest at least 20 agitators in another chaotic scene. Paid thugs. They should be jailed until their paymasters can be found, arrested, jailed, tried, and sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison without any chance of parole.

DON LEMON DISCOVERS RULES after a church service gets disrupted.

But, but ... he's a Democrat. Rules don't apply to Democrats. I'd like to see him tried, convicted, and sentenced to jail time. But that won't happen, so I'll be happy with having his 'journalist' card revoked.

JUDICIAL WATCH scrutinizes 873,000 inactive voter registrations in California.

Translation to the obvious: they're not 'inactive'; they're the Democrats' cheating reserve.

UPDATE: With the election in progress today you can count on the reserves being called into service within the next day/week/month or so as ballots are being 'counted'.

SHE'S CAUGHT THE PRATT! The audio works just fine, but the video doesn't. Nevertheless it's still good.

Linked from PowerLine here.

MAY ALL SIDES LOSE: The imminent Democrat party civil war.

LANDLOCKED NATION steps up to guard world's most critical oil choke point for U.S.

SOME SOMALIS ARE OUR FRIENDS: Breakaway Somaliland now challenging Iranian, Houthi dominance in Red Sea.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Savor our victory over the establishment.

HARD, VERY HARD, BUT POSSIBLE? Bringing back normality.

RANDOM OBSERVATION: Once upon a time, America's oldest apparatchik, Bernie Sanders, railed against millionaires. Now that he is one himself, he attacks billionaires and "oligarchs."

THE GREATNESS OF JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS: "It may well be the most vital and energetic explanation of the American founding since Madison, Hamilton and Jay collaborated on The Federalist Papers."

The link in the post is to text that is small and hard to read. I've been unable to find a readable text link, but a downloadable pdf is here. His address is also available on YouTube here but you'll have to skip through a number of advertisements.

SERIOUSLY? YES, SERIOUSLY: Tom Steyer vows to make women second class citizens when he's Governor of California.

Absolutely disqualifying. Why should young girls suffer injuries because they’re forced to compete against boys? Or lose out on medals and scholarships? This is peak beta male behavior. Tom Steyer is a clown. All that money and he can’t buy common sense.

To call Steyer a clown is to insult professional clowns.

FROM POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures, my favorite this week:

Now go see the rest.

AND AWAY WE GO: Entering the Promised Land.

AOC SLAMMED BY SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVES after 'pull up to the South' rally comment.

Speaking at the "All Roads Lead to The South" rally on May 16, the prominent "Squad" member claimed the U.S. was not a true democracy until the 1960s when the Voting Rights Act was passed, and took direct aim at the Supreme Court, accusing the high court under Chief Justice John Roberts of being "part of that long history of regression and repression in America."

Ocasio-Cortez then issued a highly controversial call to action, demanding that "the North" travel to red states like Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee and Mississippi to fight what she described as political injustice.

She doubled down on social media following the event, writing, "If you're not from these states, it's time to pull up."

Only after they've visited our Welcome Wagon.

WHY DO SO MANY ATTACKS ON TRUMP involve individuals with mental health issues?

Democrats?

I see two fundamental options: (1) we can either kill them as the rabid and incurable animals they are or (2) confine them involuntarily to mental hospitals. My personal preference is the latter but current trends lead (to me, at least) toward option 1. Are there any state-run insane asylums left?

FRANCE HAS A NAVY? French Navy seizes Russian shadow fleet oil tanker.

They must be really desperate for oil....

FEEL THE BERN? Bernie Sanders (and AOC) spent lavishly on private jets, limos for their ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour.

Because their 'work' is so damned important ... understand?

GARY SINISE ON LEAVING CALIFORNIA and the power of his vets foundation.

His foundation does great work, is humble about what it does, and I donate every year. You should too.

HERE'S AN INTERESTING ARTICLE that (partially) explains the huge disparity between Shadow's World views and views of Shadow's World posts (typically thousands to one). And from what I can make of the 'stats' page, most are from Windows operating systems, Google Chrome browsers, and from out of the United States (97%). So the internet universe is infested with bots that (to my mind) scrape the internet for information bits that can be sold.