MICHAEL BARONE:  “The first test of government is to provide a stable order in which people can live their lives. California’s liberal Democrats seem to be flunking that test.”

WHY DO LEFTISTS WORSHIP POLITICIANS SO? ‘Cuomosexuals’ lament fall of groping gov: Cuomo was my shamelessly sexy God.

As the late Bill Rusher of National Review liked to say, “Politicians will always disappoint you.” From FDR on, the left’s idolatry of them is quite a weird cult.

MICHAEL BARONE: “The Manhattan Project didn’t look like America. Undertaken today, it would be criticized for failing to meet diversity and inclusion guidelines.”

SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY WANTS AN EQUITY-BASED “HONORS” PROGRAM FOR ITS “BIPOC” STUDENTS:  There’s a good chance that whatever it comes up with will violate Proposition 209. 

MANUFACTURED CRISES: 40% of migrants released in TX border city test positive, officials say.

I MISSED THIS STORY ABOUT BARBARA BOXER GETTING ROBBED WHEN IT HAPPENED: I guess that’s the point: It’s easy to miss a story the media aren’t interested in telling you about. But these days it’s getting harder and harder to avoid stories about rising crime  (Yes, perceptions of newsworthiness tend to be corrupted by a political usefulness bias … I bet you’re not surprised.)

OF COURSE IT DOES: ABA Votes To Push Congress To Make It Easier To Discharge Student Loans in Bankruptcy.

SMOD 2024 DROPPING TRIAL BALLOONS, APPARENTLY: Would extinction be so bad?

SHE’S NOT GOOD ENOUGH, SHE’S NOT SMART ENOUGH, AND GOSHDARN IT, PEOPLE JUST DON’T LIKE HER: Kamala Harris is utterly flubbing her job as veep.

WE NEED A COMPLETE AND TOTAL SHUTDOWN OF NEW YORK STATE UNTIL WE CAN FIGURE OUT JUST WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON THERE. John Nolte: Andrew Cuomo Is 7th Powerful New York Democrat Ousted in Disgrace Since 2006.

NO, BUT THEY SHOULD: Media won’t pay a price for cheering Cuomo’s draconian COVID policies.

Andrew Cuomo is gone, resigning over his sexual-misconduct scandal. But will his departure lead to a reassessment of his draconian and irrational COVID-19 policies from a press that fawned over his performance? Don’t count on it.

The media coverage revealed that liberal America prefers the authoritarian style Cuomo presented. He knew better and wasn’t afraid to use his position to force others to comply. And the media ate it up. People who questioned the need for and effectiveness of restrictions and whether the government had authority to impose them were derided as right-wing reactionaries.

A New York Times headline blared: “Andrew Cuomo Is the Control Freak We Need Right Now.” Forbes praised Cuomo’s news conferences as “assertive and reassuring, calming and urgent” and gushed that Cuomo was “a truly inspiring leader who brings out the best in us.” The Washington Post, while acknowledging that Cuomo was and remains a power hungry “bully,” praised his assertive, supposedly truthful communications style. Rolling Stone’s cover approving proclaimed, “Andrew Cuomo Takes Charge.”

In what now seems eerily prescient and embarrassing, other papers reported on Cuomo’s sex appeal to women and a YouTuber coined the phrase “Cuomosexual.” Cuomo won a lucrative book contract and an Emmy.

Yet most of the mainstream media rarely questioned the substance of Cuomo’s policies. They barely raised a peep over his disastrous order that from March 25 to May 10, 2020, compelled nursing homes to readmit hospitalized COVID-19 patients without checking if they still had active infection. In fact, the facilities were instructed that they could not deny admission “based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19” and were “prohibited” from testing prospective admissions for COVID-19.

The Cuomo administration intentionally hid the cost of this blunder by falsifying Department of Health reports and stonewalling Freedom of Information Law requests for the number of nursing-home admissions and deaths that resulted from the policy for over eight months.

Embarrassing indeed. Why do the lefty media always have to puff people up into bogus heroes?

MORE AND MORE WE’RE FINDING JUST ABOUT ANYTHING CREATIVE WAS DONE BY NEANDERTHALS:  This Controversial Cave Art Really Was Painted by Neanderthals, Study Confirms.

Casts look at 23 and me. My people are glad of the recognition at last. We’re not brutish cave-people. We’re the strong and silent type. Also — casts look at husband’s 23 and me — we’re coming back, via a sophisticated breeding program…..

MY SHOCKED FACE IS GETTING A WORKOUT:  Video Surfaces of Hunter Biden Telling Prostitute The Russians Have His Laptop and Sex Tapes: “They have videos of me doing crazy f***ing sex f***ing, you know”.

OH, SHE IDENTIFIED AS THEIR MOTHER … THAT’S OKAY, THEN:   ‘Mom’ of 3 who got over $200K in donations for rent admits she’s just the sitter.

OH, BUT THEY’RE CLEAN AND ARTICULATE SOPHISTICATED AND VACCINATED:  Party Hearty.

I, ON THE OTHER HAND, AM OPPOSED TO UNIONS:  “Good Union Jobs”.

Theoretically there’s nothing wrong with the idea (kind of like “true communism”) but in practice all it does is distort the job market and work as a barrier to competition and innovation. Oh and all too often they’re the tool of collectivists. Even in the early 20th century when — arguably — the semi-literate immigrant workforce needed someone to fight for them, the unions were bully boys and mostly-criminal. Now? In a highly diversified workforce with tons of opportunity?  “True unionism has never been tried.” But the false one has caused enough trouble. Let’s bury it. I get why the democrats like it. Deep six unions and they lose most of their donations. But what actually is wrong with the heads of anyone to the right of Lenin who thinks the fifties were some kind of promised land?

Free minds and free markets. And individual contracts.

THE DEMAND FOR RACISM GROSSLY EXCEEDS SUPPLY: When You Look For Racism Everywhere, You’re Bound To Find It.

So, of course, people manufacture it.

THE ONLY JUSTICE AVAILABLE IN THIS FALLEN WORLD:  How The Free Market Brings Justice.

It’s not perfect. It’s not forgiving. But it exists.

TOOK THEM LONG ENOUGH:  American Parents Waking Up To Classroom Takeover.

It was complete thirty years ago. If your kid is a commie moron, thank a teacher.

BAH:  Biden To OPEC: Please PLEASE Give Us More Oil!

Sarah to the country: Listen up, boys, ignore the sad buffons de derriere* of the Junta and frack for your lives. Frack, boys, frack. Frack like you never fracked before. Fracking will end Putin, and corner China, and if the chauves-souris de la lune* come for you, frack in their faces.

*French language deliberately murdered. It’s the mood that I’m in.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  July Consumer Prices Jumped 5.4% While Core Inflation Remained High.

At this point, the seventies are a best case scenario.

HEY, OREGON PEEPS, DO YOU LIKE YOUR KIDS BEING UNEMPLOYABLE?  Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Signs Law Removing Basic Literacy and Math Skill Requirement for High School Graduates.

WELL, IT’S LIKE THIS: THEY DON’T THINK THEY DO, BECAUSE THEY GOT AWAY WITH FRAUD:  Joe Biden and Democrats Have a Growing ‘Independent Voter’ Problem in 2022.

And they’re ready to enshrine fraud. My guess is they’re going to find there’s a critical shortage of the jackboots they’d need to stay in power.

BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE:  Investigation: Medical Education And Research Crumbling Under Racial Identity Politics.