UNLESS YOU'RE A PROGRESSIVE: Gender is no credential for the White House.

Then it's the only credential.

ONE REASON not to elect a woman President: too many shoes.

BREAKING NEWS: Global warming now causes global cooling.

If you waste enough time listening to the environauts you'll find that everything bad is caused by global warming climate change climate disruption. Including, probably, Islamic terrorism.

DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS:

The rest of PowerLine's Week in Pictures is here.

WHY I'M ADDING SAY UNCLE TO MY BLOGROLL: "We say more dumb shit before noon than most people say all day."

THE WEEK President Obama was first inaugurated, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed at 8,078; NASDAQ closed at 1,477. Yesterday, the DJIA closed at 18,197; the NASDAQ at 5004. Those were increases of 125% and 239% respectively. During that same period of time, my personal wealth has grown by 152%.

And I thought Republicans were the party that looked out for the Wall Street wealthy....

RAMIREZ ON THE ECONOMY: it grew!

WHAT A SURPRISE: Progressives are racist (too?). I've been wondering, for years now, when members of the 'victim party' would be recognized as the racist bigots they are ... it looks like it's beginning to happen.

SALLY KOHN: A victim of her(?) privilege. She(?) forgot the hashtag #lesbianprivilege.

Here's a question I've always wanted to ask: can a lesbian be a feminist? Or does one have to be gay?

More at Twitchy.

CARLY FIORINA, Clinton slayer? Not a question; a fact. I've been watching Fiorina over several interviews now, and damn, ... she's good. Very, very good.

If there's to be a first woman President, Carly Fiorina should be that woman.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ): it’s “not right” that someone must work 50 hours per week to escape poverty. Instead they should be born rich (like he was) and escape poverty that way.

Looking back over my working life, I'd guess that I averaged something north of 50 hours/week for 45 years. And I did manage to escape poverty....

Bonehead.

I KNEW IT: Liberalism is incompatible with common sense.

LIGHTS OUT? New York City reportedly under federal pressure to take down Times Square billboards.

The federal government is too damn big, too damn intrusive, and too damn stupid.

WHY 'SELFIE STICKS' were invented.

BERNIE SANDERS' CAMPAIGN SLOGAN: "A horseless carriage in every garage." With emphasis on 'horseless' -- just the carriage.

WHY I NEVER LIKED CROSSWIND LANDINGS:



You fly straight down the runway with the aircraft nose cocked into the wind; then just as you flare for landing, you straighten the nose, drop the upwind wing, use plenty of opposite rudder and 'skid' the aircraft into the ground. Then you level the wings and allow the nose to come down. It takes lots of practice, as the video makes clear.

SHE MADE BE EXPENSIVE, but she's easily bought.

WHAT'S A 'GROUSER'? I don't know either, but the Curiosity Rover has a Martian rock stuck in one.

DOOM & GLOOM IN THE LAND OF UNICORNS: ObamaCare emergency room visits up.

Three in four emergency room doctors said patient visits have increased since the Affordable Care Act's requirement to have health insurance went into effect....

That's not the news some healthcare advocates had hoped for. The thought was that by expanding health coverage to more people, they would get their ailments treated earlier by primary care doctors and could avoid visiting emergency rooms....

But instead of pulling back on emergency room care, the newly [ObamaCare] insured now have a plan to pay for those visits so they're not responsible for the entire bill. And that seems to be driving the change in patient load....

It was obvious at the outset, but thinking is not a strong suit for progressives.

AFTER YOU, KOFI: Eat more bugs, stop global warming. "A maggot for you, a maggot for me you, a maggot for you, ...." [Apologies to Abbott and Costello]