ELUSIVE VIRTUES: Why do some parts of the world seem to defy efforts to achieve any degree of unity and peace?

A long but worthy post, the gist of which is this: "The periodic outbreaks of Islamic radicalism have been around a lot longer than modern democracy and much more resistant to change."

CYBER WAR: U.S. escalates online attacks on Russia’s power grid. It's not just Iran that's been warned.

I GUESS IT'LL HAVE TO BE WAR THEN: Iran "permanently closing diplomacy with the United States."

Neither President Trump nor I have any objection.

I'M SO OLD I remember when America fought against 'godless communism'. Today the Democrat Socialists are fighting for it....

DEMOCRATS: There's no border crisis, but it's all Trump's fault.

THAT CAN'T BE, SAN FRANCISCO IS A SANCTUARY CITY: Violent crime up sharply in San Francisco BART stations.

CHANGE 'SLOW' TO 'NO' AND I THINK YOU'VE GOT IT: Slow learners on the Left.

DEMOCRATS WERE THE PARTY OF SEGREGATION YEARS AGO, and they still are today.

The more things seem to change, the more they remain the same.

THE DEMOCRATS' 2020 BUMPER STICKER:

VOTE DEMOCRAT: You too can be a victim

The first "See me; I'm a victim too" carnival starts tomorrow in Miami.

DEMOCRATS TO AMERICA'S VETERANS – You're too dumb to choose.

The lede could be changed to DEMOCRATS TO AMERICA and the article would still be accurate.

ESPECIALLY POPCORN.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: [I]t was 'literally easier' for her to be elected to Congress than to pay off student loans.

Well, of course. To be elected to Congress, all she had to do was dupe a few thousand useful idiots; to pay off her student loans, she had to get a job.

'MS. LEWANDOWSKI' makes Democrats look stupid foolish.

ANOTHER GREAT MOMENT in progressive insanity. Maybe it's just me, but my sense is that progressivism is hellbent on achieving the ultimate Darwin Award.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The new new normal.

Here's the Democrats' new normal:

... “Medicare for All,” wealth taxes, top income tax rates of 70 or 80 or 90 percent, a desire for a Supreme Court full of “wise Latinas” like Sonia Sotomayor, insidious curtailment of the First and Second Amendments, open borders, blanket amnesties, reparations, judges as progressive legislators, permissible infanticide, abolition of student debt, elimination of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau and the Electoral College, voting rights for 16-year-olds and felons, and free college tuition.

And now Trump's new new normal:

... free-market capitalism but within a framework of fair rather than unfettered international trade, a smaller administrative state, less taxation and regulation, constitutionalist judges, more gas and oil, record low unemployment, 3-4 percent economic growth, and pressure on colleges to honor the Bill of Rights.

I prefer the latter.

HERE'S A THOUGHT: Make the Democrat Party pay reparations for slavery.

MORE REASONS to make Democrats pay.

AMMO GRRRLL: It's come to this.

Yes, unfortunately, it has....

FINALLY: thoughts on toxic femininity.

DISMANTLING OBAMACARE: one executive order at a time.

Here's more.

KILL THEM: How to respond to the pirates of Iran.