Wednesday, April 11, 2012

FORMER NASA SCIENTISTS TO NASA: stick to science, not politics.
CATHOLIC CARDINAL: Yes, it’s a sin to comply with the ObamaCare mandate.

Obama: Yes, it's illegal not to comply with the ObamaCare mandate.
ANDREW KLAVAN: It's good to be evil. And evil to be good.
HEH: Obama's campaign staff 'almost universally white'.
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S LANDMARK HEALTH-CARE INITIATIVE, long touted as a means to control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion to the nation’s budget woes over the next decade.... And that's just pocket change in a $3.4 trillion annual budget.
GO AHEAD, make my day. Gay rights groups and their allies are pushing to make gay marriage a part of the official Democratic Party platform at the national convention in Charlotte this summer.
THE BUFFETT RULE: it's not about money; it's about 'fairness' (class warfare 'fairness').
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY fines school bus contractor almost $500,000 for ‘excessive idling’.

Best comment: "Excessive idling? You can observe that in virtually every office within the Federal Governmment."
WILL THE NEXT SPACE STATION be a distillery? Depends on the taste.
OBAMA: It's constitutional if I say it is.
AN EXAMPLE of crony capitalism from the 'Show Me' 'Who, Me?' state.

Linked from Instapundit.
RUSSIA PLANS TO SEND two lunar rovers to Moon after 2020 and a landing station after 2022 as the first steps to form the future manned lunar base there. The U.S. should -- but probably won't -- be there to welcome them.
RANDOM THOUGHTS from Thomas Sowell. Here are some favorites:
Have you noticed that what modest economic improvements we have seen occurred during the much-lamented "gridlock" in Washington? Nor is this unusual. If you check back through history, doing nothing has a far better track record than that of politicians intervening in the economy.

With all the talk about people paying their "fair share" of income taxes, why do nearly half the people in this country pay no income taxes at all? Is that their "fair share"? Or is creating more recipients of government handouts, at no cost to themselves, simply a strategy to gain more votes?

In an old Western movie, John Wayne encounters a black man. Wayne tells him, "I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body. I would shoot you as quick as I would shoot any white man." That is what equality is supposed to mean
. Read the rest.
SLIMEY SPIES: tinkering could tailor snails to spy. The next time you see a snail, you could be on candid camera.
FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION: It's wise for the Left to learn that the sword slices both ways.
OBAMA STILL SMOKES: but he has gone to a cheaper brand.
REAGAN VS. OBAMA: Social Economics 101.
ATV-3 'EDOARDO AMALDI' docks with the International Space Station. The photography and video are superb.