BE ARMED AND READY – the asymmetrical battlefield could be here at home.

I'm ready.

IRAN SAYS IT'S 'CLOSED THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ' - Inquiring minds respond 'With what?'

RANDOM THOUGHT: Now that there is a new Department of War administered by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth it's time for an new Department of Defense with Kristi Noem being its first female Secretary of Defense.

DEPORT DEMOCRATS. Better yet, send them to Guantanamo and pay Cubans to take care of them.

Win, win ....

AFFORDABLE FOR WHOM? Virginia Democrats vote themselves 178% pay raise amid affordability push.

GOOD. VERY, VERY GOOD: Mood is ‘horrific’ inside CNN as staffers brace for change.

If you're in NYC, you might put yourself on Mamdani's 'snow shoveler' list....

May be a bit late, though....

WELL, THEY ARE SWAMP DWELLERS AFTER ALL. Democrats' 'State of the Swamp' counter event features a stage full of frog people.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The graveyard of destructive ideas.

OUR MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM’S HISTORIC WIN was just too much for sports writers to bear.

GET ACTIVE AND EAT REAL FOOD: Masculinity’s comeback makes America thrive.

NEW YORK’S FIRST FREE GROCERY STORE shows yet again that socialism doesn’t work.

But, but ... next time we'll get it right.

BERNIE SANDERS WAS ASKED ABOUT GROWTH — and his socialism fell apart.

ROBBER MEETS ROAD: New York City cannot afford democratic socialism.

THE MOST MINMANAGED, UNDERTILIZED, AND UNDERVALUED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY in conservative media is ... Rush Limbaugh.

HEH: SUPREME COURT ORDERS CNN TO RESPOND to petition filed to hold CNN and the mainstream media accountable for spreading falsehoods during President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial.

I suspect Bari Weiss (CNN's new leader) is pleased...

IMPRIMIS: Learning from Minnesota's Somali fraud scandal.

As if that's possible. And based of Gov. Walz's appearance at today's Congressional investigation, I'd predict 'impossible'.

FOCUSED ON THEATRICS: Activists override government move at NYC monument.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Shut up and sing!

CALIFORNIA GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM: A thoroughly detestable creature.

REPUBLICANS LOVE AMERICA; Democrats only love power.