AND THEN THERE WERE THREE: Marist poll shows 33% approval for Trump among non-white voters.

WILLFUL BLINDNESS: Washington Post attacks Second Amendment sanctuaries.

POWERLINE SPECULATES about Biden's running mate. I don't think we need worry.

'DRAWBRIDGE' MICHAEL BLOOMBERG'S amazing talent for insulting voters.

JOURNALISTS? Nation looking for right phrase to describe media that behaves like some kind of adversary of the populace.

TRIAL IN THE SENATE: the cataclysmic disaster the impeachment Democrats have overlooked.

Nothing in politics ever works out quite as anticipated. But a cataclysmic disaster, a veritable Schiff Storm, is looming for the Democrats in November 2020. They have walked right into it without ever seeing it coming squarely at them.

Read the whole thing.

DON SURBER So our president is Rosalind Sargent-Burns?

ON JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS AND RACISM: ‘Forget the bigot in the pick-up truck, biggest impediment to his career was modern-day liberals.’

THE PARTY OF FIVE: 'Woke' but asleep at the wheel.

VIOLENT CRIME DROPS as concealed carry numbers increase.

Correlation does not imply causation, but that's the way to bet.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Why is it that the more progressives demand to help the worse life becomes?

SO TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL: The obsessive intolerant despicable do-nothing-but-obstruct Democrats.

A POX on progressive virtue signalling.

TIME FOR A 'HAIL MARY'? Why Michelle Obama may jump into the race.

If Hillary would jump in, it would be a 'Hell Mary'....

YOU DIDN'T BUILD THAT: Twitter responds to Elizabeth Warren's finger wagging. "Warren has no interest in reality when she has a 2020 nomination to try and win."

POWERLINES WEEK IN PICTURES has posted, and this has to be the favorite.

Now go see them all.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Don't price workers out of their jobs.

If your aim is to help low-income workers, there are much better ways to do it than to crank up the minimum wage. Oren Cass has argued for an expansion of earned income tax credits. Andrew Yang argues for a need-blind universal basic income. Whatever the merits of these proposals, at least neither one will mess up opportunities for willing, low-skilled workers.

That’s what matters most. Although a minimum wage increase sounds compassionate, making workers too expensive for their jobs is anything but. It is cruelty masked as sympathy

Liberal 'compassion' stinks.

U.S. LIFE EXPECTANCY has declined for the third year in a row.

[A] new study looked at more than 50 years' worth of data on US life expectancy from the US Mortality Database and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's WONDER database.

Results showed that, in the 1970s, the country experienced a rapid and significant jump in life expectancy. But by the 1990s, that increase started to level off.

In 2011, US life expectancy plateaued, and three years later it started to drop.

From Wikipedia:

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. Together with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 amendment, it represents the U.S. healthcare system's most significant regulatory overhaul and expansion of coverage since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.

PPACA's major provisions came into force in 2014. By 2016, the uninsured share of the population had roughly halved, with estimates ranging from 20 to 24 million additional people covered. The law also enacted a host of delivery system reforms intended to constrain healthcare costs and improve quality.

But correlation doesn't imply causation ... does it?

More at Instapundit.

'TIS THE SEASON: The Christmas wars begin again.

AND NOT JUST ON THE RELIGIOUS FRONT: Black Friday fights.

'Tis the season ... to be jolly?

JUST WAIT UNTIL NOV.4, 2020: If a SCOTUS vacancy opens up next year, how will Lindsey Graham walk back his promise to hold the seat open?