RANDOM (PLEASANT) THOUGHT: If bigots were outlawed there'd be no Democrat party.

A MESSAGE FOR DEMOCRATS: 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors' do not include hurt feelings.

ADAM SCHIFF: We have to impeach Trump to find out what bad things he's done.

Schiff makes maroons look intelligent.

ARMING SCHOOL STAFF keeps kids safe. Here's what it was like before Democrats.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: Blunder Woman (last item).

POLLING PREFERENCES: "I don't think polls capture 'we loath you cynical, evil bastards' very accurately."

RANDOM THOUGHT: I find it somewhat amusing that all the (progressive) Democrat candidates are demanding higher taxes, yet not one is willing to write a check to the U.S. Treasury unless they can force the conservatives to do so as well.

ANOTHER REASON I'm glad to be retired.

It's not just managers; it's any male who has any supervisory responsibility for female co-workers. And I'm betting there are more and more women worried about their male subordinates.

TRUMP HAS MADE AMERICA LESS RACIST: Anti-black and anti-Hispanic prejudice has declined since 2016. I would almost bet that a similar study would show that anti-black and anti-Hispanic prejudice increased during the Obama administration.

MIND YOUR OWN DAMN BUSINESS: Texas asserts sovereign immunity against Congress.

VENEZUELA NORTH: Canadian government imposes social justice on all universities.

VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS: They’re gonna put you all back in chains!

No, thanks.

YES. These people are nuts.

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR: The stuck pigs are beginning to squeal.

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR: The stuck pigs are beginning to squeal.

PREDICTABLE: Philadelphia's soda tax bombs.

The Laffer curve strikes again. It would be nice if the health and safety nannies would learn to mind their own business and not ours. It would save money, too.

LIBERAL SHOCKED TO FIND she must obey the law.

Thirty days is the slammer seems about right to me....

MUCH ADO ABOUT VERY LITTLE: I've been watching the TV talking heads bloviating about whose economy - Obama's or Trump's - has been better, so I decided to look for myself using my personal economic data: my retirement savings accounts. I keep pretty good data, so I've been able to track the growth year-to-year, factoring out the deposits/withdrawals made during each year.

The results? My 'economy' grew at 5.9% the last two years of the Obama administration (2015-2016) and 9.3% during the first two years of the Trump administration (2017-2018).

So the Trump administration has been pretty good for my personal economy.

But here's the interesting part. It has also been very volatile, with a 2-year interval high of 18% and low of -12% (single year, +27% and -29% respectively). But when averaged over three administrations (Bush, Obama, and Trump) the numbers are 9% (2-year) and 10% (1-year), respectively. Within each individual administration the variance was within +/- 1%.

Moral of the story: the economy doesn't really care which administration is 'in charge' (possible exception - socialists, democratic or otherwise); it will adjust and continue humming along in it's usual 7-10 percent growth range as it has been doing for nearly 100 years.

ELECTION UPSET IN AUSTRALIA: "With only a few exceptions, left-leaning parties have been in retreat just about everywhere."

Good.

THERE SHOULD BE SOME JAIL CELLS WAITING: The Steele Dossier and the ‘VERIFIED APPLICATION’ that wasn’t.

It looks like Attorney General William Barr is interested.

Still more.