RANDOM THOUGHT [while doing some bathroom maintenance]: If you were a young pine tree, how would you feel about growing up to become toilet paper?

Now you know what it's like to be a plebe in Joe Biden's America....

'I'M COMFORTABLE WITH ZERO': Manchin to Sanders on size of Democrats' Build Back Better bill.

OH, BUT IT IS; it just wasn't supposed to be made public: "It’s Not Our Job to Sell Your Agenda for You!"

HEH: "Our political class is addicted to shaming. It was better when they were just a bunch of drunks."

TO BUILD STRONGER FAMILIES, reframe the fight over Mayor Pete's parental leave.

Recently, the media disclosed that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg took two months of parental leave following the adoption of twins.... To defend his absence, the left and Democrats had to loudly declare the importance of parents spending time with their children. They had to advocate for families spending time together and note the importance of parent-child bonds.

Agree with them wholeheartedly on these points. Then challenge them on the very policies they have pushed for years that discourage family formation by extending adolescence, making housing more expensive, and deemphasizing the role of fathers. It is time for conservatives to change the strategy of screaming “Stop” while standing athwart history and say [instead], “No, we’re not doing that. We are doing something completely different.”

Then turn the fight to policies that encourage, not discourage, strong families.

And be sure to tell the Progressives that their Social Security (and welfare) payments will
depend on them.

THEY WILL CHEAT EVERY TIME: Lawsuit claims Virginia county is violating election law amid governor race.

Finally the Republicans are learning how to do offensive lawfare....

IT'S BEDTIME FOR BONZO -- and America. Sleep well.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Defund the Feds.

All the Feds, but I'll settle for one agency at a time....

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE! Hospitals accept natural immunity as reason for staff to defer mandated vaccine.

Is science -- real science, that is -- making a comeback? That (I hope) and the power of "No."

I PREFER 'AND': Is the First Family corrupt, or merely crazy?

BIDEN EXPOSED? Cabinet secretary tests positive for COVID days after meeting with president who was spotted maskless.

But, but ... he's been vaccinated -- three times! He doesn't need a mask....

RESIGNATIONS AREN'T ENOUGH; THERE MUST BE INDICTMENTS: The Loudoun bathroom teen rape situation just keeps getting worse.

More here, with a word to the wise: "Parents should remove their children from any schools that maintain these misguided policies. In the meantime, trust no one in any school administration to tell the truth — or to protect your kids."

MICHAEL RAMIREZ on the Biden spending train.

From the comments (which I usually don't bother reading), the ignorance idiocy of the Left is stunning.

SO HAND THEM THEIR FINAL PAYCHECKS AS THEY WALK OUT THE DOOR: Netflix transgender employees walking out to protest Dave Chappelle special.

WITH PROGRESSIVES, EVERYTHING'S A CRISIS: New York City declares racism public health crisis. For you, not the progressive leadership....

BETTER? OR SOFTBALL? Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe abruptly ends interview, tells local Virginia reporter 'You should've asked better questions'.

Like "What's your preferred ice cream flavor?"

COLIN POWELL and the crisis of the boomer elite.

SO WHAT'S NEW? Secretary [of Transportation] Mayor Pete is a disaster.

Fully two of the nine months he’s been “on the job” were spent with him not on the job and no one noticed. The President and Democrats in Congress are fighting to push through a couple of “infrastructure” bills, and infrastructure is his responsibility, and he hasn’t been around for 60 days…and it wasn’t noticed until last week? There is no better argument for eliminating the whole damned department.

You better be stocked up on whatever you need/want for Christmas. And a reminder -- coal is in short supply too.

LECTURES FROM LIMOUSINE LIBERALS: The same people who sat at home praising essential workers as heroes now repay them with exclusion and sneering condescension.

They've always been about 'exclusion and sneering condescension'; COVID-19 just made it visible to the unwashed masses.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Calling CNN's Brian Stelter 'Mr. Potato Head' is an insult to the toy.

And potatos....