FOUR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS shot in rural Kansas.

Too bad it didn't occur in New York City where Mamdami's social worker police team would have handled it without any violence....

BTW, the shooter was killed; the officers survived.

EDUCATION OFFICIAL: Parents do NOT know best.

Notice that the author used 'official' instead of 'expert' in the post above. That's probably because he knows its definition comes from the two words; 'ex', meaning has-been, and 'spurt', which is a drip under pressure....

[VIP] BUZZ'S BEDTIME STORIES: God and Midway island.

Back in the mid-60's, enroute to our tracking station in the Marshall Islands, our aircraft landed at Midway to refuel. As we descended, the pilot announced that passengers could see Midway out the window. My reaction? "We're going to land on that postage stamp?" A few minutes later, flying (very) low over the ocean, I saw land and almost simultaneously heard the 'thump' of the landing gear on the runway.

Having to island hop a few times during that tour, that 'see land, hear thump' became somewhat easier to bear.

RANDOM THOUGHT: There's no such animal as a Democratic Socialist.

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY [D-LA] has more words for Sen. Chuck Schumer [D-NY] and his fellow Democrats.

Trump 'tarriffied' China so high that the Democrats can no longer afford testicles and backbones....

WE COULD USE A REAL BATTLESHIP AGAIN. In 1952 North Korea shot at an American battleship. Guess what happened next.

THE SECOND AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: They're gonna get it, and they're gonna regret it.

BEST NEWS EVER FOR CALIFORNIA STUDENTS: University of California faces a strike by more than 60,000 employees.

FIX HEALTHCARE: The simplest way to make American life affordable again.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The Democrat party is an insane asylum run by its (most insane) inmates.

WHERE CATS COME FROM:

They are magical....

TIME TO PURGE the GOP of backstabbers, sissies, and narcissists.

SURPRISE! Here's where your taxes to help 'homeless people' actually go.

Not surprised. Not the least bit surprised. The middle man always gets the most grift.

FREE SEX COSTS EVERYTHING: How the sexual revolution broke marriage, men, and women.

FALLING LEAVES, Week 8: Our forsythia has admitted that winter is indeed here.

Now is time for the usual pond and fire pit views

The difference from last week is that mostly the remaining leaves have come down. From the fire pit photo, it's clear that the elephant ears and flowers along the walk have gone until spring.

Along the street, the flowers along the fence have gone for the year, and the trees are bare.

Winter is here, so until Spring, then.

WAY TOO MANY IDIOTS:

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POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures is up. My favorite:

Taking advantage of today's zeitgeist for personal self-improvement.

Now go see the rest.

NY GOV. KATHY HOCHUL is thinking of drinking the socialist hemlock.

Destroying New York one tax at a time.

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY [R-LA] accurately describes Democrat politics.

On Schumer: "I think his testicles are on back order from China,"
On AOC: "My experience with her is if you scratch the surface, you just get more surface."
On the filibuster: "{A] senator’s job, I have learned, is not just to advance good ideas,
it’s to kill bad ideas."

The Senator is a Republican treasure.

GLENN REYNOLDS: The Washington Post’s admission about Zohran Mamdani’s dark side comes a bit too late.