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U.S. Air Force Four-Star General George Babbitt played with The Ventures when they first began! It’s fun to hear “Walk, Don’t Run” and watch him as he revels in the opportunity to play with them 38 years later.

The video is the coolest thing you will see this year.

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You can lead a Dem to data but you can’t make him think.

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Last week, Joe Biden joined the bandwagon of Democrats (started by Elizabeth Warren this year) promising to name a public-school teacher to be Secretary of Education if he wins the presidency. It’s an easy commitment to make in front of a teachers’ union audience, and it wouldn’t be all that odd to do it—several past presidents of both parties have named former public-school teachers to the job.

But the promise is another example of a thoroughly bipartisan misconception about the work of the federal education department. Even if they haven’t been former teachers, nearly every education secretary since the Department of Education was created in the Carter years has been someone with expertise or experience in K-12 education—whether as an educator, administrator, reformer, or policymaker. But the Department of Education actually has a lot more say over higher education than primary or secondary schooling, and its work has suffered from the lack of focus on higher ed over the years. If we must have a Department of Education, it could at least be run by someone who knows something about higher education.

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And you, the American taxpayer, are paying his salary.

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Stringent fuel economy regulations imposed on cars in the 1970s had made it practically impossible for automakers to keep selling big station wagons. Yet many Americans still wanted roomy vehicles.

The answer, Mr. Sperlich and Mr. Iacocca realized, was to make family vehicles that were regulated as light trucks, a category of vehicles that includes pickups. The government had placed far more lenient fuel economy rules on light trucks, as well as more lenient safety and air pollution standards.

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Except, of course, for those who refuse to subject themselves to the TSA by flying.

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Strikes me as disqualifying himself as a Presidential candidate.

Not to much to ask that a candidate for President NOT BREAK THE LAW.

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Not sure what the point of that is — if they had money, they wouldn’t be here illegally — but you gotta admit that Trump’s team is full of surprises.

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That didn’t take long.

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Cyber-criminals have struck for the second week in a row, this time on a small Florida city called Lake City, according to the WSJ. The city has agreed to pay ransom to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars after a ransomware attack crippled its systems.

Perhaps this will motivate communities to PAY ATTENTION to basic security.

But I’m betting not. A profit opportunity for the Dark Web.

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Ah, jeez, that old chestnut? Haven’t they done enough damage to our public schools?

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And they call Trump impulsive.

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My, what a surprise.

A fisking we will go, a fisking we will go….

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Granted that there is a public health government interest in vaccination, nevertheless it seems to me that as long as the vaccinations are freely available the only people who might suffer from lack of vaccination are the people who refuse to get vaccinated. Vaccinations are rather like seat belts in that respect.

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Citing Newsom’s tweeted video (below), Monica Showalter writes: “I thought it was satire, something cooked up by his political enemies. You couldn’t put out a less attractive video than the one Gavin Newsom did for illegal aliens on Twitter, advising them himself on how to obstruct ICE from any deportation maneuvers. And sure enough, he wasn’t hacked — it really was blue-checked he.” I yield to Monica’s American Thinker post “California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom puts out a video for illegals on how to obstruct ICE.”

Quotable quote: “And more creepy still, [Newsom] cites the ‘three strikes’ law, as if to acknowledge that illegals commit quite a few crimes while they are here sopping up the services.”

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I guess Democrats only obey the laws they like. Must be mice.

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There’s gotta be a law against that.

I would love to see some U.S. Marshals perp-walking this proglodyte into Federal court.

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The Deep State has minions everywhere.

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The ‘asset forfeiture’ scam needs to be stopped and stopped soon.

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Hey, if they want to stay and get shot, it’s their call.

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A rogue Democratic aide stole a massive trove of political data and used it to harm Republicans by “doxxing” them in what prosecutors call the “largest data theft in Senate history.”

The theft was made possible, and could have been much worse, because of myriad blunders by the Capitol Police and multiple Democratic congresswomen.

Jackson Cosko was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison. Prosecutors called his offense an “extraordinary” and “vicious” crime where the ex-Democratic aide stole a senator’s data, mined it for blackmail material and then published the home addresses and phone numbers of Republican senators during the 2018 hearings for now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Isn’t it amazing how, with all of the complaints about Republicans that Congressional Democrats make, it’s somehow always a Democrat that goes to jail.

UPDATE: What Dem Criminal? Nets Ignore Ex-Staffer Sentenced After Doxing

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Democrats in Texas did that a while ago. It was pretty entertaining.

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Looks as if the anti-Trumpers aren’t the only ‘resistance’ in town.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released a list of criminal illegal aliens who were released from jail due to sanctuary city policies, many of whom went on to commit other crimes.

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Maryland banned “high capacity” magazines and a variety of “assault weapons” via the Firearm Safety Act of 2013. That Act also required would-be handgun buyers to submit fingerprints to the state police as a part of the registration scenario.

On March 27, 2017, Breitbart News reported the criminal use of “high capacity” magazines was at a seven-year high. In other words, the ban had only impacted law-abiding citizens. Criminals still had – and still used – the prohibited magazines.

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All Ponzi schemes eventually bottom out.

Ace of Spades turns over a rock.

The guys at Powerline have been pursuing this for years.

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A group of Senate Democrats spearheaded by Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) have demanded that the United States grant amnesty to foreign nationals living in the country on Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

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What better way to stop illegal immigration than to promise them free health care?

Next step: Free money.

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Sometimes the lobbyists lose one.

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District officials voted to fire a Texas English teacher Tuesday, following tweets to President Donald Trump about illegal immigrants in the Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD).

Unfortunately, school officials in major Texas cities are as Blue as in any coastal area.

“The Board approved her ‘proposed’ termination, in the words of the Board president, Jacinto Ramos, Jr., ‘…based both upon Ms. Clark’s conduct, and the fact that the public reaction to her conduct has been highly negative and, therefore compromised and diminished her effectiveness as a teacher within Fort Worth ISD,’” Bond said.

In other words, she’s a troublemaker and so she has to go. Apparently her effectiveness as a teacher is judged by how ‘woke’ she is.

I shouldn’t have to remind everyone not to send their kids to a government school.

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James Freeman’s June 4 WSJ Best of the Web column is “Democrats vs. Nuns.” In the column he alerts us to this news: “More than two years after Barack Obama left the White House, there’s still no cease-fire in a legal war on women of faith. The non-profit law firm Becket said [on Tuesday] that a group of nuns will once again have to defend their beliefs in a San Francisco federal courthouse [on Thursday, June 6].”

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The look of delight on Nancy Pelosi’s face is the thought of all those new Democrat voters.

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Two attendees of the Bronx Community Board 11 meeting, including the board’s chairman and district manager, say that military veterans Silvio Mazzella and Anthony Vitaliano walked out of a private meeting with Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Ocasio-Cortez reportedly held a closed-door meeting with her constituency in the Bronx Wednesday, when two military veterans allegedly walked out on account of the congresswoman’s anti-American rhetoric.

Good for them.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo were nowhere to be seen at the Thursday morning dedication for the new 9/11 Memorial Glade, a monument dedicated to recovery workers affected by toxin exposure following the 2001 terror attacks.

De Blasio’s office said the event conflicted with the mayor’s schedule, but the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate was spotted at a nearby gym about 30 minutes prior to the start of the ceremony, the New York Post reported.

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Trump is once more shaking the box in order to get a result he likes better.

This will also have the effect of sticking a thumb (maybe two) in the eye of those companies that rushed to move their production operations to Mexico after NAFTA.

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Tennessee Republican Rep. John Rose temporarily blocked a disaster relief bill in the House by objecting to an unanimous consent vote Thursday, delaying $19.1 billion dollars of aid.

“I am standing in a House chamber that is virtually empty. Nearly all of my 431 colleagues are absent as the Speaker of the House seeks to pass a $19 billion spending bill,” Rose said on the House floor. “Our nation is $22 trillion in debt, trying to pass nearly $20 billion in new spending while the majority of Congress is not even in Washington reflects another act of irresponsible big government.”

This is the third time the Democrat leadership in the House has attempted to pass this spending bill via ‘unanimous consent’, and it would have worked had there not been vigilant Republicans present to stand in the way of this chicanery. If the bill has majority support, have a vote. That they can’t face a vote suggests that the bill doesn’t have majority support, and they’re trying to pull a fast one.

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Between January 1 and May 19 of this year, New York Police recorded 176 hate-crime complaints, an 83% increase over the same period in 2018, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The pretend hate-speech offenses that the Left throws at Trump,  De Blasio is actually guilty of.

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Tungsten is just as heavy and a lot harder. That’s why anti-tank penetrator rods are made of it, when they can’t get depleted uranium.

There’s a thought: Depleted uranium….

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This could get quite entertaining, not to mention instructive.

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And these are the sort of people that we’re supposed to put in charge of our health care. Oy.

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[New York] City Department of Education brass are targeting a “white-supremacy culture” among school administrators — by disparaging ideas like “individualism,” “objectivity” and “worship of the written word,” The Post has learned.

A presentation slide obtained by The Post offers a bullet-point description of the systemic, supposedly pro-white favoritism that Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza claims must be eradicated from the DOE, and provides just one insight into his anti-bias training efforts.

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California rushes toward the cliff….

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My, what a suirprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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That would complete the destruction of the California economy. The population of the state would be reduced to those wealthy enough to buy and drive electric cars and the underclass who would survive by serving them.

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The Trump administration has officially pulled a $929 million federal grant to the California High-Speed Rail Authority after terminating a 2010 agreement.

In a release, the Federal Railroad Association – a component of the US Department of Transportation – said that California’s rail authority “repeatedly failed to comply with the terms of the FY10 agreement and has failed to make reasonable progress on the project. Additionally, California has abandoned its original vision of a high-speed passenger rail service connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles, which was essential to its applications for FRA grant funding,” according to CNBC.

The FRA added that it “continues to consider all options regarding the return of $2.5 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds awarded to CHSRA.”

Since Governor Newsome has already said they won’t complete the project, but will continue work so that they can get the Federal money, this is a no-brainer … which, of course, doesn’t mean that California public officials won’t whine about it.

Larry Ellison apparently agrees with me:

“Trains leave when you don’t want to leave, from a place you don’t want to leave from, and take you to a place you don’t want to go to, at a time you don’t want to get there, and then you have to get into a car and go wherever you’re going. It is a crazy system.”

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God forbid that the police should use technology to help catch criminals.

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I guess Asians are honorary white people now.

Public schools are subject to political maneuvering just like any other government program.

Don’t send your kid to a government school.

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A proposed hike in Illinois’ annual registration fee for electric vehicles, from $17.50 to $1,000, is being called unfair by current EV owners, and a sales disincentive by manufacturers — just as the new technology is beginning to gain broader traction.

“It’s outrageous,” said Nicoletta Skarlatos, 56, of Chicago, who bought a Tesla Model S five years ago. “I thought Illinois was progressive and would want to encourage EV ownership.”

Illinois is progressive, and these ‘progressive’ politicians have realized that electric vehicles are toys for the rich — and what do they do with the rich? Soak ’em!

The justification for the dramatic hike? Electric vehicles don’t provide the state with any gas tax revenue.

And tax revenue comes before everything. Democrat pols to taxpayers: Pay us now or pay us later, you’re gonna pay us.