NOT EVERYONE IS ENAMORED OF RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS: The risk of progressives talking.

What does it mean to say you're trying to protect a group when its members say they don't require your protection?

It means you're a bubble-bound overeducated bigot.

THOSE GREEN NEW DEAL solar panels don't work too well under 12 feet of snow: Reporting from the polar vortex.

When did Al Gore move to Minnesota?

TRY LOOKING UNDER A ROCK: Where in the world does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez live?

SURPRISED? Virginia's green new deal exposes what Democrats really care about and it's not the environment.

HEY LIBERALS, YOU SUCK! Pack up your dogma and leave.

Peacefully, preferably. And remember which side believes in the Second Amendment.

RECOVERY:

Have you looked at Trump's economy lately?

INEPTOCRACY:

Originally posted in 2012 ... but Obama won anyway.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Autopsy of a dead coup.

Only like the Phoenix, it'll return unless a stake is driven through its heart, the corpse cremated, the ashes buried deeply, and the ground above salted.

Even then I'd be forever wary.

FROM THE COMMENTS following this PowerLine post: What is Socialism?

In sum, socialism depends upon egotistical know-nothings, whose vanity and egos exceed their intelligence, to tell those people who have actually accomplished substantive achievements, how things should allegedly be run, according to their fatuous and messianic totalitarian Leftist vision.

Related from Sarah Hoyt at PJ Media: the progressives' wealth distribution is in reality poverty distribution.

"I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS": Even some Democrats are askance at progressive opposition to Amazon being forced from New York city.

"We've only just begun", to quote a favorite song from the Carpenters. The Democrat crack-up, that is....

INSTEAD OF INVESTIGATING PRESIDENT TRUMP, Rep. Adam Schiff [D-CA] should answer questions about his own conduct.

A POLITICAL CIVIL WAR: Left v. Lefter.

Somewhat related: The first paragraph of the above post caught my eye, because it highlights a favorite gripe of mine.

I like to say that half of the problems with the world today are linguistic, specifically, softheaded thinking follows soft language. Back when we referred to “the jungle,” it was something we wanted to cut down, but now it is the rain forest, and we can’t touch it. No one much cared about trash when we took it to “the dump,” but now it is called the landfill, so we have to sort our trash like we sort our whites and clothing of color for the washing machine.

I don't agree that the problems are linguistic; they're a result of Victor Davis Hanson's progressive hubris. When I was (much) younger and it was called a 'dump', the poor were allowed to scavenge freely to find discards that were still useful at some level, or could be taken apart, rebuilt, or resold for scrap - in other words, made economically useful. Now it's a landfill, and the poor must be kept out, lest they disprove the progressives' bigoted assumption of their inferiority.

IN A COMMENT to this post, it was argued that the blue-to-red state diaspora lowers the average IQ in the red states. I'd quibble with that; I think it lowers the average IQ in both states.

NO, THEY'RE CANCERS: Socialists are nothing more than parasites. Organisms can live with parasites; not cancers.

FIRST WE HAVE A NARRATIVE, then we gather the data, then we adjust the data to support the narrative.

THE ONLY TWO THINGS protecting the American people from domestic threats are the Constitution and President Trump.

They stay. Come hell or high water. They stay.

OCASIO-CORTEZ DECLARES VICTORY over the modern-day equivalent of slavery.

SOME REALLY STUPID PEOPLE: Our catastrophically clueless Congress.

I'm embarrassed to admit that some of his questions I couldn't answer myself. But I do have an excuse - age-related dementia.

THIEVES STEAL inoperable firearms from the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) show in Las Vegas.

Weapons without firing pins are usually called 'hammers'. Or 'clubs'.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ'S ECONOMICS PROFESSORS should be fired. It's not just them, it's the whole damned 'higher' education system that should be fired.

Except possibly the STEM departments, and even there a very thorough inspection for progressive rot should be mandatory.