THE BEST WAY TO HONOR MLK: Pass federal voting rights laws (and never need to vote again).

Instead pass a two-part voting responsibility act. Part one, proof of identity to enter the in-person voting booth. And part two, proof of civic responsibility, by which I mean understanding the civic responsibility of a citizen of the United States, after entering the voting booth.

For the latter, since civics is no longer taught in public schools, I'd suggest something similar to citizenship tests required for newly naturalized citizens, or drivers licensing exams. Provide a publicly available civics database of multiple-choice questions, one of which must be answered as part of the ballot and counted as part of the ballot. If the answer is correct, the ballot is counted; if not, it is not counted and discarded -- no do-overs allowed.

NEIL YOUNG TO SPOTIFY: It's me or Joe Rogan, not both.

Spotify to Neil Young: "Goodbye and good luck."

MATT TAIBBI: Joe Biden's awesome first year. [Note: it's a paywalled website.]

SO MANY CHOICES: The dumbest Biden.

THE DIPLOMAD: Can we wait another three years and survive?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Conspiracies as realities, realities as conspiracies.

THE DAILY GOUGE, January 19th. When you get to the end, I would note that lions, gators, and bears can all be shot and killed. Progressives, not so much. [That may be changing.]

Stop by the Daily Gouge every so often and skim through their archives.

ALL THE DEMOCRATS HAVE LEFT IS RACISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, AND WHITE SUPREMACY: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel speculates ‘white supremacy’ is to blame for Texas synagogue terrorist attack.

CAPITOL PUNISHMENT: Everything they told you is a lie.

Everything that we are being told [about Jan. 6] is a lie and Americans are being persecuted to support that lie.

You can watch here, but it's essentially pay-per-view.

YOU BE THE JUDGE: Show us your papers, or not?

Not.

BIDEN KEEPS SINKING: Rasmussen's Presidential Approval Index hits a new low of -33.

I may have been optimistic on January 8th:

My guess is that rock bottom for Biden is minus 40, assuming that the Biden base (strongly approving) drops to the 15% level and the middle drifts more to the disapproving side. More likely in my estimation is that the Biden base will remain and disapprovals will increase, with the bottom being in the minus 32 to 35 level.

He's already in the minus 32-35 level and it's not even the end of January....

THE 'LEADERSHIP' who run our nation's public school Gifted and Talented programs aren't.

Surprise, surprise....

TELL ME IT'S NOT SO! Everything is worse under Biden.

THESE PEOPLE ARE NUCKING FUTZ. University language guide says 'grandfather,' 'housekeeping,' 'spirit animal' are 'problematic' words.

When we closed the nuthouses mental institutions way back when, the inmates all went to university -- which eventually became today's nuthouses mental institutions.

Why any reasonably sane parent would let his or her child to go to one of these 'institutions' today is beyond me.

CNN'S JIM ACOSTA: I still have 'marks on my back' from standing up to Trump.

Obviously self-inflicted....

A NEW RECORD FOR SLOW JOE:

From the Rasmussen Reports Presidential Approval Index today. Minus 32.

NEW YEAR, SAME INFLATION: from Rep. Andrew Clyde [R-GA]

It might be a new year, but there’s nothing new about President Biden’s continued crises. Last week, consumer prices skyrocketed 7% – hitting a four-decade high. Due to the Biden Administration’s careless economic policies, you and your family have experienced surging prices for months with no solution in sight. Some of the key price hikes hitting wallets across the country include:

Gas: Up 49.6%
Propane, kerosene, and firewood: Up 33.8%
Rental cars: Up 36%
Beef: Up 18.6%
Fresh and frozen chicken: Up 11.5%
Eggs: Up 11%
Coffee: Up 6.9%
Eating out at restaurants: Up 6.6%
Rent: Up 3.8%
Hotels: Up 27.6%
Steak: Up 21.4%
Tires: Up 12.4%
Bacon: Up 18.6%
Fish: Up 10%
Furniture: Up 13.8%
Ammunition Up 82%

Unfortunately, soaring prices aren’t the only concern crippling our economy. These latest inflation numbers come shortly after the worst jobs report of Biden’s presidency, as only 199,000 jobs were added during the month of December – drastically missing expectations of 420,000. Yet Biden falsely claims he has added more jobs in a year than any president in history. This bald-faced lie ignores the fact that the coronavirus pandemic and government shutdowns pulled the plug on millions of jobs. So while many jobs simply returned after plugging our economy back in as restrictions eased, there is still an ongoing work shortage due to both the Democrats’ continued incentivizing of folks to stay home and President Biden’s unconstitutional vaccine mandates. The reality is Biden hasn’t created millions of jobs – he has hindered job growth and economic prosperity while stumbling over talking points that claim otherwise.

Americans know the only thing Biden can truly take credit for is creating multiple crises – including hyperinflation, labor shortage issues, and widespread supply chain failures. It’s no wonder that the President has a dismal 33% approval rating. Yet rather than alleviating burdensome inflation or actually adding jobs to the economy, Biden is focused on taking over our elections.

In a bizarre attempt to distract from President Biden’s laundry list of crises, Democrats are championing an election reform bill, the so-called “For the People Act,” that aims to federalize our elections processes, ban voter ID, and fund incumbent campaigns with Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars – supposedly to improve election security. In fact, Senate Democrats' thinly veiled attempt to destroy 200 years of precedent by removing the filibuster is nothing more than a dangerous stunt to solidify the Left’s control of elections. President Biden and Vice President Harris even visited Georgia last week to harp on our state’s election laws and label anyone who disagrees with their goal of Washington-controlled elections as a racist. This slanderous smear is wildly inappropriate and fails to acknowledge that Georgia has less restrictive but more secure voting laws than Biden’s home state of Delaware.

This latest pivot speaks volumes to how severely out of touch Democrats are with the American people. Rest assured, my Republican colleagues and I are hard at work to highlight the Left’s hypocrisy and advocate for commonsense solutions to all of Biden’s crises, including chaos at our southern border, surging crime, and harmful inflation.

MANY THANKS TO THE DIPLOMAD for [re]stating the obvious in his inimitable fashion.

THE END: 'Indefinite' hunger strike over failed voting bill ends after 8 days.

On the bright side, we know know how long idiots can 'maintain their principles' (and get hungry).

PRESIDENT[ISH] BIDEN'S FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE

The data is from Rasmussen's Presidential Approval Index, recorded daily since his inauguration.

The approval index is the difference between those who strongly approve of the President's performance and those who strongly disapprove, usually about 30% of those polled each. Note that he has never had a positive index.

Here is the subset of those polled who approve his performance. Biden started 50-50, then mid-year started the drift down to where he is now -- about 40%. The strong approvals have declined more rapidly, from 35% or so initially to 20% today.

The bottom line is the difference between 'approve' and 'strongly approve', which has steadily increased. Not only are fewer people approving the President's performance, even fewer are strongly approving. Time's arrow is clearly moving the wrong way for the Biden administration.

Next up is the subset of those polled who disapprove of his performance. The trend is clear, up about 10%, starting mid-year. What is somewhat startling is that the difference between 'disapproval' and 'strong disapproval' is relatively constant at about 10%. For every increase in 'disapproval' there is a corresponding increase in 'strong disapproval'.

What is somewhat surprising is that the indifferent, that is, those neither strongly approving nor strongly disapproving, has slightly increased, from about 25% to around 30% today. I don't remember the originator (it was from the mid-60's drug culture) but the phrase "tune in, turn on, tune out" comes to mind.

Oh, well. It's clear that the first year of the Biden administration is a disaster; the interesting part will be whether the average American will continue to 'tune out' or the disapprovals will keep increasing. I will continue to hope for both.