A SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS ON GLOBAL WARMING? I don't think so.

MEMO TO JEFF SESSIONS: It's time to clean house in the Department of Justice.

A NOTE TO OBAMACARE DEFENDERS: Health insurance is not health care, and ObamaCare is neither.

Let's go back to the insurance model - it, at least, worked.

YOU'RE NOT: I can’t be the only one who doesn’t give a damn.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES explains why 'repeal and replace' failed.

Go see the rest; it was a good week.

IT'S BEEN A MONTH since I started my annual spring leaf watch, and hardly anything has happened. Here's today's picture from outside on the terrace deck:

There's a bit more green as finally some buds are beginning to show, but the 4-week March cold snap pretty well halted any further growth. For comparison, the March 5 picture is here.

IN TODAY’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY, insanity isn’t optional; it's mandatory.

DON SURBER: "Stifle it, meatheads."

Second the motion.

MASSACHUSETTS SHERIFF: Arrest city officials who harbor and conceal illegal aliens.

Yes! Yes, and yes. My only improvement would be to strike the word 'city' from the lede.

WHO CARES, AS LONG AS HE'S NOT HERE: Where in the world in Barack Obama?

STUCK ON STUPID: Men must halt; women must walk. And women in pants must ... ???

THIS could get interesting.

A POINT DIFFICULT TO ARGUE:

A little girl was leaning into a lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the collar of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, all under the eyes of her screaming parents

A biker jumps off his Harley, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch. Whimpering from the pain the lion jumps back letting go of the girl and the biker brings the girl to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly. A reporter has watched the whole event.

The reporter addressing the Harley rider says, "Sir, this was the most gallant and bravest thing I've seen a man do in my whole life."

The Harley rider replies, "Why, it was nothing, really. The lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger, and acted as I felt right."

The reporter says, "Well, I'll make sure this won't go unnoticed. I'm a journalist, you know, and tomorrow's paper will have this story on the front page. So, what do you do for a living, and what political affiliation do you have?"

The biker replies "I'm a U.S. Marine, a Republican and I voted for Trump".

The journalist leaves. The following morning the biker buys the paper to see if it indeed brings news of his actions, and reads, on the front page:

"U.S. Marine assaults African immigrant and steals his lunch"

Truer words were never written. From my email.

WORRIED LIBERALS would like to redraw the order of presidential succession. They're losing power; they know it; and they're going bat-shit crazy (not that it was a big leap from just plain crazy).

A CRACK IN THE WALL: Joe Manchin reportedly will defy Democrat filibuster and vote for cloture on Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court.

Even though I like Joe Manchin - and there are other cracks in the filibuster wall - I hope the filibuster succeeds so that McConnell can nuke it before the next Supreme Court nomination.

NIKKI HALEY TO THE UN: ‘The days of Israel bashing are over’. High heels, used properly, can hurt. (It's a trivial exercise in mathematics to prove that a 120-pound woman in heels can do more damage to a floor than a 12,000 pound elephant.)

AT MSNBC: Barack Obama's press secretary just landed a brand new job.

Even Obama flunkies have to eat....

TWIT TWEETS, gets hypocrisy exposed.

Punching back is a beautiful thing.

HISPANIC CONTRACTOR wants to build Trump's wall.

Heh.

ACCORDING TO EXPERTS, taxpayers spend 6.1 billion hours a year just to comply with the federal tax code.

Some of that 6 billion hours is mine....