UNEXPECTEDLY: Biden’s Diesel Fuel Supply Crisis Could Soon Cripple America in Ways Never Before Seen.

Diesel doesn’t get as much of the limelight as oil and gas, but it should because diesel fuel is the industrial lifeblood of the United States, and the price of diesel alone probably has a more significant impact on inflation and the prices you’re paying at the grocery store over any other factor. Without ample amounts of diesel, semi-trucks don’t move, farms are shut down, and critical manufacturing sectors are crippled.

As Bloomberg noted this week, “The US has just 25 days of diesel supply, the lowest since 2008, according to the Energy Information Administration. At the same time, the four-week rolling average of distillates supplied, a proxy for demand, rose to its highest seasonal level since 2007.”

The Biden administration has remained strangely silent, probably hoping that the dismal news doesn’t hit the mainstream because it’s a total political time-bomb waiting to go off, especially as the midterm elections are so close.

Related: Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.

BIGLY BUFF UPDATE: Our First Look At What Fully Upgraded B-52 Bombers Will Look Like.

INSIDE THE SHAMEFUL CANCELLATION OF JIHAD REHAB:

The title was a big point of criticism. “Jihad Rehab” was what the center was called when [director Meg] Smaker first heard about it in Yemen, but coming from her, it might sound flip. “Jihad” means struggle in Arabic — including a spiritual struggle — and critics have said that the association with violence is racist and disrespectful. (Smaker’s own subjects freely use the word to mean waging war to defend fellow Muslims.) And to many critics, the word “rehab” reeked of a presumption of guilt for men who had never been charged with crimes, possibly because they were tortured at CIA dark sites and at Guantanamo. (After Sundance, Smaker added several text cards to ensure that viewers understood what one of the detainees said about his unlawful detention. She also changed the film title to “The UnRedacted.”)

In fact, Smaker’s film is nothing less than a nearly two-hour indictment of America’s deeply shameful experiment with unlawful imprisonment. She makes abundantly clear that the subjects were held without trial and subjected to torture sessions that included waterboarding, beatings, and, allegedly, sexual assault by a female guard while a detainee was pinned to the ground by male guards. “Americans torture — they never tire of it,” one of the men tells Smaker. She apparently earned the trust of these four men because they all speak freely and honestly about things that many people consider to be crimes. (One man went on to say that he did not think 9/11 was a big deal until he saw people jumping to their deaths at the World Trade Center; then he experienced a terrible shame.) The earnestness of their conversation, the way they seem to search for the right words, and their occasional laughter or tears suggest subjects who were completely at ease with Smaker and what she was documenting. A fifth subject who was clearly not comfortable with it dropped out halfway through.

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More serious, however, was Abigail Disney’s reversal. The granddaughter of one of the founders of the Disney empire and a ubiquitous presence in the documentary world, Disney was a fierce advocate for the film — and a financial backer. After a screening session months before the Sundance announcement, Disney wrote Smaker, “This film is SOOOO good and SOOO gorgeously shot and SOOOO well edited that you must take in this one thing before you read on: WOW WOW WOW. You have made something great.”

After the film’s premiere in late January, Sundance posted a public letter apologizing for having “harmed” the filmmaking community, though it never specified what the harm was. Rave reviews started to pour in nevertheless, but in ways that just made things worse. Variety, IndieWire, and other industry stalwarts praised the film’s compassionate and intimate look at the lives of the former detainees, but rather than vindicate Smaker, the reviews seemed to prove that the entire industry was biased. A pressure campaign later forced several of these publications to change their stories to avoid using the word “terrorists.”

And it kept getting worse. A viewer must have taken photos of the end credits during the premiere, because one by one, people who had worked on the film were tracked down and accused of being Islamophobic. One person, who had done nothing but advise Smaker on how to get her hard drives through U.S. customs, was told that she would be publicly outed as Islamophobic if her name remained in the credits. Calls also went out to the composer, consultants, advisers, and even people in the special-thanks section of the credits. Shortly after, people started to ask that their names be removed. Finally, Disney buckled.

“First and foremost, I am truly sorry,” she posted in a public apology at the end of February. “A film I executive produced, Jihad Rehab, has landed like a truckload of hate on people whom I sincerely love and respect. I failed, failed, and absolutely failed to understand just how exhausted by and disgusted with the perpetual representation of Muslim men and women as terrorists or former terrorists or potential terrorists the Muslim people are.” (Contacted by email, Disney declined to comment.)

Lengthy, but well worth a read.

THIS IS CNN: School closures: Jake Tapper surprised a thing Democrats wouldn’t discuss wasn’t discussed. “Because [Randi Weingarten] is a reprehensible human being. Stop gaslighting America [Tapper] and tell the real story. Why did red states open schools so much sooner than blue states? CNN was the PR arm of the various teacher unions.”

UPDATE: Elites: blame somebody else for learning loss. “We all know why: if there were, the Establishment™ would look just as bad to everybody else as it already looks to us. Once you lose your residual respect and deference for the Establishment you can never go back. This is already happening with so many of us and the powers that be are terrified that the trend will continue.”

SAN DIEGO ER SEEING UP TO 37 MARIJUANA CASES A DAY — MOSTLY PSYCHOSIS:

Kyle’s now in recovery, but his is a story that is becoming familiar to more and more American families. Someone begins showing classic signs of hardcore drug addiction. Eventually, they suffer a full psychotic break. But the only drug history is for cannabis.

“We’re now counting 37 cannabis-related diagnoses a day,” Dr. Roneet Lev, an addiction medicine doctor at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, said about her emergency department. “It’s been steadily increasing over the years. When I started in the 1990s, there was no such thing. Now I see 1 to 2 cases per shift. The most common symptom is psychosis.”

“We probably see 20 THC-induced psychoses for every amphetamine-induced psychosis,” said Ben Cort, who runs a drug and alcohol treatment center in Colorado. One study showed an increase of 24% in cases of psychoses in emergency departments in Colorado in the five years following marijuana’s legalization in that state in 2012.

Since then, legal marijuana has been transformed into a potent and unrecognizable product.

“When I speak at parent nights at schools, most adults still think it’s like the weed we smoked when we were teens in the ’80s, [which had] between 3 to 5% THC per gram of flower,” said Laura Stack, an advocate against cannabis abuse in Colorado. “We never had today’s high-potency concentrates, vapes or edibles.”

Laura’s son Johnny was driven into acute psychosis by years of high concentrate THC usage. He believed his dorm room was bugged and that the mob was after him.

Earlier: How Weed Became The New Oxycontin.

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE: Awkward! Zoned-out Biden, 79, gives excruciating pause when MSNBC host asked if Jill wants him to run again in 2024 — before dodging question by saying First Lady thinks he’s doing ‘important work.’

BIDEN: "It's my intention to run again."

Q: "Dr. Biden is for it?"

BIDEN: *silence*

Q: "Mr. President?"

BIDEN: "Dr. Biden thinks that uh, my wife thinks that uh, that I uh, that, that we're, that we're doing something very important."

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— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 21, 2022

Given how much editing NBC and its sister networks must do to get usable footage of Biden, that they allowed this to air could be a preview of how the networks will start treating him post-midterms.

UPDATE: The media bail on Biden: “All polling points to Biden’s majorities in the House and Senate being wiped out come the November midterm elections. When that happens, and I mean the very next day, these innuendos and grumblings for Biden to step aside will become full-bore primal screams, and he won’t be able to survive them.”

(Updated and bumped.)

I NEED TO BORROW SARAH’S SHOCKED FACE: Sacheen Littlefeather was a Native American icon. Her sisters say she was an ethnic fraud.

You might not know her name, but you’ve probably seen the video that made her famous. In 1973, actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather took the stage at the Oscars dressed in a beaded buckskin dress in place of Marlon Brando, after he was awarded Best Actor for his role as Vito Corleone in “The Godfather.” Claiming Apache heritage, she spoke eloquently, to a backdrop of boos, of the mistreatment of Native Americans by the film industry and beyond.

The blowback was swift and brutal.

Iron Eyes Cody and Elizabeth Warren could not be reached for comment.

(Via Newsalert.)

GREAT MOMENTS IN SPYWARE: TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens. The project, assigned to a Beijing-led team, would have involved accessing location data from some U.S. users’ devices without their knowledge or consent.

KINSLEY GAFFE: Biden warns Republicans will ‘tear down’ his accomplishments if they win midterms.

Related: Three million people may lose their jobs because of the government’s economic incompetence.

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Dis-Truss-Ted Edition.

BIRTH OF AN UNPERSON: Hu Jintao: The mysterious exit of China’s former leader from party congress.

There are a lot of questions and no answers so far from the Chinese government.

Mr Hu, 79, appeared reluctant to move. If that is the case, why?

What did he say to the man who replaced him, Xi Jinping, which prompted a nod from China’s current leader? And what did he say to his protégé, Li Keqiang, as he tapped him on the shoulder before being ushered off stage?

The two most likely reasons for his departure are that it was either part of China’s power politics on full display, with a leader representing a former time being symbolically removed, or that Hu Jintao has serious health problems.

NEW VIDEO FROM AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Californians Move to Texas, Episode 3: The Church.

BRENDAN O’NEILL: Britain is a political wasteland.

DEMOCRATS IN THE BUNKER:

But the headline Monmouth chose to encapsulate its findings crystalized these disparate factors into a single, overarching grievance against Democratic governance. Joe Biden is, according to voters, just “not paying enough attention to [the] most important issues.”

What issues? Inflation, obviously, which is the single most important issue on all voters’ minds, regardless of party affiliation. Crime is another, as is immigration. Both issues matter more to voters today than they did a month ago. If there’s a common banner under which these seemingly disparate issues can be filed, it is a general sense of precarity. Voters who don’t feel safe in their homes or on their streets, who are concerned about the capacity limits of America’s social services, and who don’t know what the money in their bank accounts is going to be worth tomorrow will prioritize those concerns over just about everything else. Only 31 percent believe the president and his party are focused on those “bread-and-butter concerns.” They’re right. But that’s just what the voters that the White House is courting want.

There is a popular Twitter account that goes by the handle “Mueller, She Wrote.” The account is managed by a former employee at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Dr. Allison Gill; and she was fired for it. An internal audit of her conduct at the VA turned up some discomfiting questions “about how she could record a podcast and perform live shows while claiming to have post-traumatic stress disorder,” as Politico reported. But creating speculative “Resistance” fiction has proven a lucrative alternative to government work. It’s clearly much more personally rewarding, too.

“If you’re wondering why Twitter is so quiet today,” Gill wrote, it’s because so many of the people who constituted “Resistance Twitter” during Donald Trump’s presidency spent the day at the White House. Given how politically engaged these people are, it’s a safe bet that their agenda at the White House today was dominated by politics. For some participants, it’s the first time they’ve been in the president’s proximity since September, when the White House inexplicably threw a party for itself to celebrate what a great job Democrats had done to contain inflation. You’d think they’d have learned their lesson.

It’s tempting to question the competence of a political operation that would so indulge an unrepresentative sample of people who dominate an unrepresentative platform like Twitter. Are the president’s advisers cosseting Joe Biden in a cocoon of admirers? Is the administration settling into an information silo that filters out the many mounting signs of imminent disaster on the horizon? Maybe. But there appears to be an insatiable appetite among the president’s supporters for news and information that distracts, if only for a moment, from the pervasive sense of impending doom.

Also among the gang: “The White House invited Dylan Mulvaney — the transgender activist who went viral for documenting ‘days of girlhood.'”

Dylan has been a breakout sensation for making a series of TikTok videos documenting his “days of girlhood.” Dylan, you see, is a grown man pretending to be not even a woman, but a young girl. A sort of auto-pedophilia, I guess, and apparently just the sort of person that Joe Biden needs to meet so that he can sniff the hair of an exotic “child.” After 8 decades of sniffing cis-girls, the aging president needs ever stranger thrills to keep him interested.

Dylan is a perfect match for the insanity of our times.

Dylan’s rise to stardom has been meteoric. A few months ago he was an adult male with nobody to celebrate him, but since creating videos of himself pretending to be a female child prancing through forests he has become not just a TikTok sensation, but a cultural icon fit to sit down with the President of the United States.

Biden’s administration indeed takes most of its cues from DNC-MSM journalistic Twitter. But the gathering of “Resistance Twitter” and trans activists in the White House also seems eerily reminiscent of  another stunt by the Democratic Party on the eve of its 2010 shellacking: Stephen Colbert Testifies in Congress, in Character:

During questioning, subcommittee members had some trouble navigating Colbert’s faux-serious turf. Conyers, who’d asked Colbert to leave at the beginning of the hearing, pointed out that Colbert’s spoken testimony differed significantly from his written one.

Rep. Lamar Smith, a Republican, told Colbert that he would take his jab at congresspeople not reading bills as an implicit endorsement of GOP House members’ “Pledge to America,” which demands — among other things — a 72-hour window to give representatives time to read bills before voting on them. Colbert confirmed this assumption with his always straight face, saying, “I endorse all Republican policies without question.”

Smith then asked, “I know you’re an expert comedian, an expert entertainer … but would you call yourself an expert witness?” Colbert cited Rep. Lofgren’s invitation to him following their day working together in the fields. Smith asked if one day of farm work made him an expert, to which Colbert replied, “I believe one day of me studying anything makes me an expert.”

As they say at Sen Blutarsky’s old fraternity, “I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part. And we’re just the guys to do it.”

WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF VIOLENCE? Florida gov. candidate Charlie Crist’s top staffer resigned citing a ‘family matter.’ He was actually arrested. Crist campaign said that Austin Durrer departed to deal with a ‘family matter’ days after his domestic violence arrest.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: I was fired from NYU after students complained that the class was too hard. Who’s next? Maitland Jones Jr., who taught at New York University from 2007 to 2022, writes:

Organic chemistry is a difficult and important course, a rite of passage for future medical doctors, scientists, and many engineers, professions that require the ability to reason well from a set of new data. No longer is “orgo” a memorization course — those of us who teach it aim to produce critical thinkers, future diagnosticians, and scientists.

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All went well at first as students prospered in the problem-solving setting and younger faculty began to adopt it. But about 10 years ago, I noticed that students were increasingly misreading exam questions. My careful attention to the wording of problems did not help much. Exam scores began to decline, as did attendance in the traditional large lecture section of the course then COVID hit.

Coteaching with two excellent professors, Paramjit Arora and Keith Woerpel, I commissioned and paid for a series of 52 videos to substitute for canceled in-person lectures. Students rarely watched them. They performed abysmally on exams that would have seemed too easy only a few years ago. A few did attend the zoomed office hours, but they were the best students in the class, not the ones who needed help.

Exams that should have yielded a B average dropped to C- or worse. Single digit scores became common and we even had zeros on exams, something that had never happened before. Despite those declining scores, about 60 percent of my students still got As and Bs this past semester. At the same time the bottom was dropping out under the poorly performing members of the class; the top students, while still deserving their excellent grades, were no longer being stretched. Previously, they would be getting 90s, now they were routinely getting 100. Their A grades would not change of course, but they were not being challenged and thus not learning as much as they should. It wasn’t their fault, it was ours.

Student evaluations, once highly useful, have become just another social media opportunity to vent. Evaluations are now often personal and sometimes profane. The good ones swell your head, and the bad ones upset you. It’s a pity that their usefulness has disappeared.

My coteacher and I began to receive anonymous emails, often just short of threatening. In the fall of 2020, we were accused of being insufficiently sensitive to the stressful issues of the day. We were urged to make “accommodations,” such as online, multiple choice exams. This spring some students sent a petition to the NYU deans evidently complaining about procedures and grades in the course. The deans never revealed the contents of the petition to me so I was unable to refute it in any way. After several months of silence on their part, on Aug. 2 the deans fired me over the objections of the chemistry department. The administration summarily dismissed the grievance I filed.

The point is not that I was unjustly treated. My reputation as a chemist and educator has not been seriously damaged. NYU is still using the videos I had made and the approximately 200 problems I developed for the problem-solving version of the course. In any event, I had been teaching for many years and the time for me to step aside was probably upon me.

What is overwhelmingly important is the chilling effect of such intervention by administrators on teaching overall and especially on untenured professors. Can a young assistant professor, almost all of whom are not protected by tenure, teach demanding material? Dare they give real grades? Their entire careers are at the peril of complaining students and deans who seem willing to turn students into nothing more than tuition-paying clients.

More details on Jones’ firing from Reason’s Robby Soave: NYU Chemistry Professor Fired After Students Said His Class Was Too Hard.

But the question isn’t whether students deserve good teachers—of course, they do—but whether good teachers should feel compelled to pass students who fail to demonstrate mastery of an extraordinarily important and complex subject matter.

“Celebrated organic chemistry professor Maitland Jones Jr. had high standards, and we can’t have that in 2022,” writes the leftist author and teacher Freddie deBoer. “NYU students—who are, by any rational measure, some of the most privileged people on planet earth—organized a petition and got him fired. I hope you never get treated by one of the doctors who emerges from this mess.”

As deBoer adds, “NYU students: the world is a hard, tragic place, and its pains will catch up to you sooner or later. Experience its inevitable hardships so that you grow resilient against them, or don’t, and suffer more later. It’s up to you.”

CHARLIE CRIST CAMPAIGN MANAGER ABRUPTLY DEPARTS BID FOR FLORIDA GOVERNOR: “Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist’s campaign manager exited the team less than three weeks out from the midterm election. Campaign manager Austin Durrer is leaving to focus on a ‘family matter,’ and Sydney Throop, who previously worked on Crist’s congressional campaigns, will take up the mantle, a spokesperson told Florida Politics. ‘I’ve never seen this happen 20 days before an election. I hope he is OK,’ Christina Pushaw, a spokeswoman for Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) reelection campaign, wrote on Twitter.”

UPDATE FROM GLENN — HE’S NOT OKAY: Revealed: Crist campaign manager arrested on domestic-violence charge. That’s the “family matter.” BTW, they knew about the arrest when they said that: “The campaign manager for former Rep. Charlie Crist’s (D-Fla.) bid to unseat incumbent Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appears to have been arrested in Maryland this week, before the campaign said he would leave to handle a ‘family matter.’ Austin Durrer, who has worked for Crist since 2016, was arrested Tuesday in Cambridge, Maryland, on second-degree assault charges in a case classified as ‘domestic violence,’ according to Dorchester County court records obtained by Fox News Digital. Durrer was released on $10,000 bond after his arrest, and the court ordered him to surrender firearms and vacate his home. Durrer’s trial is slated for Dec. 7. Based on the charges in the case, he faces up to 10 years imprisonment.”

STOPPED CLOCK DEPARTMENT: George Moonbat is right on this one.

I revile George Monbiot. He is a columnist for Britain’s The Guardian whose writings are endlessly warning about the coming climate change apocalypse. These pieces convince nobody who isn’t already a member of the cult, so his tactic is perpetually scream louder and louder in the vain hope that sheer volume will substitute for reason and logic.

I follow him on Twitter because I sometimes suffer from happiness and low blood pressure, and he sets things right by outraging my sensibilities and making me despair, once again, for the salvation of mankind.

So imagine my surprise when I read a tweet of his that not only sparked my curiosity, but led me to the conclusion that contrary to my prior opinion, he is not always wrong.

Read the whole thing.

THE TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE TWINS: Fetterman’s Wife Is Giving Off a Creepy Jill Biden Vibe.

MARK JUDGE: Radiohead Within the Forest Dark.

The clearest connection between Radiohead and Dante was Rachel Owen. Owen, who died from cancer in 2016, was an artist and medieval scholar who wrote her doctoral dissertation on Dante. Owen was also Thom Yorke’s partner for twenty-three years. The two met as art students at Exeter University and had two children together before separating in 2015. In his book Radiohead: Life in a Glasshouse, British journalist John Aizlewood notes that the composition of “In Limbo” off the band’s 2000 masterpiece Kid A was partly inspired by “the Dante’s Inferno audiotape Rachel Owen played in the car as she studied for her PhD at… University of London.” When Kid A was launched, fans went to the Radiohead website to find this quotation:

now must thou cast off all sloth…. for sitting on down or under blankets none comes to fame, and without it he that consumes his life leaves no trace of himself on earth, as smoke in air or foam on the water.
rise, therefore,
conquer thy distress with the soul, which conquers in every battle
if it does not sink with its body’s weight. there is a longer stair which must be climbed. 

This is a quote from the Inferno (XXIV, 46-55). While the press and people like Colbert have emphasized Radiohead’s activism around issues like climate change and the band’s explorations of living in the postmodern age of technology, celebrity, and mass culture, the band itself has offered a wider vision of their art. In 2003 they released Hail to the Thief, an album whose title seems an indictment of the recent election of George W. Bush. Of course, Thom Yorke was not a fan of President Bush, but in an interview he argued that the album had a deeper reach:

If the motivation for naming our album had been based solely on the U.S. election, I’d find that to be pretty shallow. To me, it’s about forces that aren’t necessarily human, forces that are creating this climate of fear. While making this record, I became obsessed with how certain people are able to inflict incredible pain on others while believing they’re doing the right thing. They’re taking people’s souls from them before they’re even dead. My girlfriend—she’s a Dante expert—told me that was Dante’s theory about traitors and authority. I was just overcome with all this fear and darkness. And that fear is the ‘thief.’

The above quote has striking relevance when considered in light of the recent grisly turn the sexual revolution has taken. One can be liberal or even a conservative accepting of gay marriage and minding one’s own business and still see something demonic in the surgical mutilation of teenagers undergoing questionable sex reassignment surgery –—as well as the “drag shows” that are put on for children. Reread Yorke’s words: “I became obsessed with how certain people are able to inflict incredible pain on others while believing they’re doing the right thing. They’re taking people’s souls from them before they’re even dead.”

Read the whole thing.

OH SURE, BUT THAT WAS TASTEFUL AND NECESSARY FOR THE PLOT: Meghan Markle did oral sex scene on 90210 two years after leaving Deal or No Deal ‘bimbo’ gig.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What Were the Top  20 One-Hit Wonders of the 1990s? (Video).

JAMES CLYBURN THROWS BIDEN UNDER THE BUS: Top Democrat Admits ‘All of Us Knew’ Their Party’s Policies Would Cause Inflation.

WHY KARI LAKE IS THE NEXT REPUBLICAN STAR:

As a local news anchor in Phoenix for 20 years, she entered the race with built-in name recognition and a reservoir of credibility that have stood her in good stead. It’s a little as if Walter Cronkite, back when network anchors were still near the height of their powers, up and decided to jump in the Democratic primary against President Jimmy Carter in 1980.

Then, there’s the fact that Lake loves the microphone and camera, and they love her back. She has communication skills that an army of consultants could never impart to a candidate with less experience. Lake has basically had more than 20 years of media training, and it shows.

At a rally with Tulsi Gabbard this week that involved a sit-down conversation with the former Democratic congresswoman on stage, Lake could have been mistaken for the celebrity MC. She was fluid and in control. Not a word was out of place. She seamlessly interwove pleasant chitchat with her campaign message, which, with an emphasis on the border, education and water issues, hardly sounded radical.

TV news-anchoring is about connecting with the viewers and projecting authority, and these are attributes that are directly transferable to the political realm. If you seem unflappable, people will think you are unflappable, and that creates a sense of command.

Lake has made a point of snapping back at the media constantly. Knowing how valuable these exchanges are for motivating Republicans, her campaign is careful to get them on video and spread them widely. The latest such moment had Lake taking a question about her election denialism from a reporter and turning it around by citing chapter and verse regarding Democrats denying the legitimacy of Republican presidential victories since 2000. This doesn’t excuse anything Lake has said, but it showed moxie — and in how she pulled it off — practiced showmanship.

On top of all of this, she is running against perhaps the worst Democratic gubernatorial candidate in the country, the Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, whose campaign is currently consumed with trying to justify her refusal to debate Lake. Hobbs emphatically lacks Lake’s star power and in fact, feels more like a candidate for the board of the Central Arizona Water Conservation District than the highest elected office in the state.

Read the whole thing.

HMMMM: Jon Gabriel: We Are No Longer Conservatives; We Are Restorationists.