IT'S THOSE EVIL REPUBLICANS AGAIN: Lead poisoning is killing inner-city Baltimore. True enough, but the lead in question isn't from paint.

WHO’DA THUNK IT? ‘Diverse’ cities are the most segregated.

JUST NOT part of the progressive/liberal news narrative.

COLBERT I. KING: What really ails our cities. King, along with Charles Krauthammer, is one of the few rational editorial voices left at the Washington Post. But I don't miss him enough to resubscribe.

PAMELA GELLER’S abuse of free speech. I prefer to think of it as two down, more to come.

BEING A PURITAN PROGRESSIVE means never having to say you're happy.

Linked from Instapundit.

KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS: Liberals should be treated like children - seen but not heard.

-- Art Linkletter.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA TO MINORITIES: Your identity belongs to us.

Fausta's response (in Lateeena): "Bésame el culo."

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.