AH DEMOCRATS:  Lori Lightfoot Wanted Chicago Teachers to Get Students to Campaign for Her.

IT’S OKAY BECAUSE WE HATE HAVING HER IN THAT JOB:  Karine Jean-Pierre Hates Her Job Right Now.

BECAUSE THEY’RE FUNCTIONALLY A THIRD WORLD SH*THOLE?  Why California Wasn’t Prepared for Floods from Massive Storms.

FBI RAID NOW:  Biden: Classified Documents Found in Locked Garage are Safe Because His ‘Corvette’ is Also In It.

ANY TIME YOU CAN GET THE HARPIES OF THE VIEW UPSET IS A GOOD DAY:  Frustrated Joy Behar: “Just As We’re This Close To Getting” Trump, “Somehow” the Biden Classified Docs Appear.

MR. FANG FANG BANG BANG IS BEING HIS CHARMING SELF:  Eric Swalwell Throws Tantrum After Deservedly Being Kicked off Intelligence Committee.

YEAH, BUT BRANDON HAS TO APPEASE HIS PAYMASTERS:  More Than Half of House Democrats Vote With Republicans to Ban Biden From Selling Oil Reserves to China.

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED SHOCKED FACE:  #Twitterfiles Part 14 – “Russiagate scandal was built on the craven dishonesty of politicians and reporters”.

TO BE HONEST NOTHING ABOUT THE JUNTA EVER MAKES SENSE:  ‘This Doesn’t Make Any Sense’: WH Press Corps Torches Jean-Pierre Over Biden Classified Document Case.

OUR LEADERS ARE BEYOND THAT: OMG, It’s Not A Parody.

OPEN THREAD: Be here now.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What happens when you land on the wrong aircraft carrier?

UH OH: Space Force official: To beat China, U.S. has to spend smarter.

DEAD AFTER CARDIAC ARREST: Lisa Marie Presley, Daughter of Elvis and Priscilla, Dead at 54.

NEW YORK DEMOCRATS INTRODUCE SANTOS ACT WITH PENALTIES FOR CANDIDATES WHO LIE ABOUT QUALIFICATIONS.

Who knew that New York Democrats were so interested in shrinking government?

● Biden’s lies, outright fabrications repeatedly dismissed, downplayed and softened by media.

● Busted: NYT Says Connecticut AG And Senate Candidate Blumenthal Lied About Vietnam Service.

● NYT: Covering The Elites, Or Covering For The Elites? (With John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Brian Williams, Rachel Dolezal, “Also Gary Hart, nee Hartpence, and of course Bill de Blasio, nee Warren Wilhelm.”)

● Jim Treacher: Why does Donald Trump keep saying Obama was born in Kenya, when even Obama has stopped claiming that?

● Article Cites Elizabeth Warren As First Woman of Color Hired by Harvard Law School.

● FBI Investigating Whether Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother.

HOW IT STARTED: Guam Elects First Republican House Delegate Since 1993.

How it’s going: Hank Johnson: I think someone planted those classified documents on Biden too.

THE TWITTER FILES, PART 14: How Democrat “Congressional Trolls” and the Corrupt Propaganda Media Invented a “Russian Bot” Scare to Explain Why Normal Americans Were Calling for the Release of the Devon Nunes Memo Debunking RussiaGate.

VDH: What Caused the Political Hysteria?

The Left has gone mad over former President Donald J. Trump — past, present, and future.

The current Democratic Party and NeverTrump “conservatives” assumed that Trump was and remains so obviously toxic that they do not have to define exactly what his evil entails.

Accordingly, they believe that any means necessary are justified to stop him. And furthermore, these zealots, when out of power, insist such extraordinary measures should not be emulated and institutionalized by their opponents, much less ever boomeranged back upon their creators.

In this context, the Republicans retaking control of the House of Representatives once again raises the question of whether they should reply in kind.

Given the current investigation following the Mar-a-Lago raid, should there also be a mirror-image special prosecutor to examine President Joe Biden’s lost stash of classified documents in his insecure office following his vice presidency?

Can House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., ever be considered too inflammatory, given that his predecessor, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., tore up the president’s State of the Union address on national television?

Sure he can — as with global warming countdowns have long since expired, Democratic party operatives with bylines have a total sense of amnesia when it comes to gaffes and inflammatory rhetoric emanating from their bosses in DC.

ONCE NAUTICAL FOLKLORE, NOW SCIENCE: Extreme ‘Rogue Wave’ in The North Pacific Confirmed as Most Extreme on Record. I doubt it’s the most extreme, given how big the ocean is and how few recording buoys there are.

Relatedly, pilots have for years reported strange sights at high altitude above thunderstorms, which for years were pooh-poohed by scientists but are now being confirmed.

I PREFERRED THE ZAPPA VERSION: Joe’s Garage.

WILLIAM S. CONSOVOY, RIP:  Will Consovoy, a lawyer’s lawyer, has died at the age of 48.  This is huge loss for the conservative movement.  Will’s death was not unexpected.  But I was hoping he would survive long enough to see the fruits of his labors in the Harvard/UNC cases currently pending before the Supreme Court.

WISDOM FROM A LENNON:

JOHN HINDERAKER: Suing to stop race discrimination.

NEWS HUNTER BIDEN CAN USE: New insights on the neural mechanisms underlying compulsive drug use during cocaine addiction.

BALDILOCKS ON THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION: Watching the Wicked Prosper. “These documents and all the others are from Biden’s time as vice-president – which means that, unlike Trump, Biden had no constitutional authority at that time to declassify said documents, much less toss them in a cardboard box next to his old-man car. However, we all know that Biden will not pay any legal penalty for this, just like Hillary Clinton paid no penalty for storing classified information in an unsecured server at her home. Meanwhile many to most Americans – like me – can barely pay their rent/mortgage, put gasoline in their vehicles, or buy food. Oh, yes, and there’s the IRS waiting to insert its tentacles into those of us who are not part of the nomenklatura.”