WATCH FOR the strings.

FEEL GOOD STORY OF THE DAY: Even the Babylon Bee couldn't have made this one up.

THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS is tonight, so I thought I'd post this pre-SOTU:

It's taken from the Rasmussen Reports Approval Index history for the last three presidents. Each line starts with each President's initial inauguration and continues (in Biden's case) through today.

I'll wait until next Thursday and see how much effect, if any, today's State of the Union speech has had.

ANOTHER THE DAILY CHART: White House hypocrisy by the numbers.

In the'olden days' women would be home watching soap operas; now they're in the office making soap operas....

HEH: California man arrested for smuggling greenhouse gases into the United States.

What, air conditioning is more important than global warming? In California?

MORE VOTING FROM THE CEMETERY: Dianne Feinstein secured $1 billion in ‘pet projects’ — the year after her death.

THE FEDERALIST: Nine ways the Biden administration is using ‘Bidenbucks’ to rig the 2024 election.

While deceptively marketed as a heroic effort to enhance “American democracy,” Biden’s directive is far more partisan than the White House and regime-aligned media are willing to admit. The order instructed hundreds of federal agencies to interfere in the electoral process by using U.S. taxpayer money to boost voter registration and get-out-the-vote activities. More specifically, federal departments were told to collaborate with so-called “nonpartisan third-party organizations” that have been “approved” by the administration to supply “voter registration services on agency premises.”

You can safely bet that those 'nonpartisan third-party organizations' are all liberal fronts....

EXACTLY. Bring back our knobs.

I want a car that's safe -- not distracting -- to drive.

THE DAILY CHART: fake green.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Hillary Clinton needs to lay off the chardonnay.

BIDEN'S LATEST EFFORT gaslights the American people on food delivery fees.

But ... but the government will deliver your food for free. Until other peoples' money runs out....

THE GOP IS CHANGING and that's good.

THERE'S ONLY ONE TERRIFYING REASON for a woke indoctrinated military and this is it.

In the last several years, wokeness has come to infect our military just as it previously had our universities, news outlets, and the entertainment industry.

I’ve begun thinking of our postmodern military not as a useless Woke Force but as a Third World military: a force that isn’t any good at fighting foreign wars but is perfectly suited for putting down domestic undesirables.

Do I exaggerate? In 2021, Woke Army Sgt. Cindy Bronson had a message for her fellow Americans in case martial law is declared: “Understand that if active duty military actually get deployed within the United
States, that weapon is not just going to be pointed at other people, other countries, it’s pointed at you.”

I worry. So should you.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY now has a competitor in the Game of Dumb. Meet Alaska Man Monday.

BILL MAHER GOES SCORCHED EARTH OVER BIDEN’S AGE: ‘Walks like a toddler with a full diaper’.

NY congresscritter Jerry Nadler shows how.

POWERLINE WRITES on liberal fragility.

I enjoyed the final quote that 'there is likely before long to be an effort to screen out conservative applicants to elite laws schools so that they don’t have an Ivy League credential'. They needn't worry; our gentry liberals have already done a thoroughly professional job of destroying the credibility of the Ivy League.

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH —- EVs emit more particulate matter than gas-powered vehicles.

But won't all that additional smog slow global warming, er, climate change?

'GOD HELP US ALL': Austin [TX] 'at the brink of disaster' as police shortages hit crisis level.

Because the Austin City Council certainly won't.

BEHIND THE BLACK: The growing resentment to unjustified authority.

What these volunteers discovered when they tried to tell people what to do was the growing anger and resentment in the general population to these petty rules as well as the control freak mentality of anyone associated with our government. The volunteers must have thought it was 2020 again, and they could boss people around by exerting an authority they did not have, and that when they did so everyone would meekly bow to their lordly authority. Instead, they discovered people are now pushing back, telling them essentially to go to hell.

The story provides some important cultural lessons. First, the public is sick of being bossed around. It won’t tolerate rules any longer that make no sense. And it will now tell these bossy control freaks so, in no uncertain terms.

There are a few people in my neck of the woods who need to learn this lesson.

COMMON SENSE THOUGHT CONTROL: Progressives are proof that common sense isn't.....