Thursday, December 31, 2015

Saturday, December 19, 2015

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES is up. There are many, many good ones, but this proved to be my favorite.


Go and see the rest.
A DEMOCRAT'S CHRISTMAS: Part One and Part Two.

Friday, December 18, 2015

JUST IN TIME FOR STAR WARS: Cosmic lightsaber slices through clouds.


The power of the Force.
YES, BERNIE, run as an independent. Please.
STAR WARS: Revenge of the Social-Justice Warriors.

Reminder: here's that 'trigger warning' for the SJW crowd.
JACK DUNPHY: Who is Rahm Emanuel's designated patsy?
NATIONAL REVIEW: Is Bruce Jenner allowed to think for himself?

Of course not. Progressivism's defined victims can not - must not - be allowed to think for themselves.
DON'T VOTE FOR BERNIE -- yet. Everything is not yet free.
SO WHAT'S NEW? Obama more concerned with protecting the rights of Islamists than protecting the American people.
HEALTH NEWS: Drinking coffee tied to lower risk of death. With the amount of coffee I drink, I'll never die.....
GEORGE WILL: To commemorate the Paris climate conference, let's celebrate ... coal.
In May 1945, Aneurin Bevan, a leading light among British socialists, said: “This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.” Genius was not required. Socialism — command-and-control government of the sort that climate fine-tuners recommend for the entire planet — soon accomplished this marvel, with coal rationed and the price of fish soaring.
Heh.
WHILE RACING TO REUSABILITY: SpaceX is launching its most powerful rocket for the first time this weekend.
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT shows contempt for property rights. In just 3 western states (Nevada, Utah, and Idaho) the federal government owns a total of 503,000 square kilometers of land - about 70% of the total land area of those states - and they want more?

And did I mention that the Environmental Pollution Protection Agency wants to extend its control to the rainwater puddles in our back yards?
"REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS, channeling U.S. troop frustration at having their hands tied in the war on the Islamic State, are calling for the ages-old "rules of engagement" to be rewritten to allow wider attacks on the terrorists."

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson understands.
RENEWABLE ENERGY: Could it be the cost?

Plus there's this gem from the comments: "If Government money that is currently directed for scientific research for AGW study was suddenly reversed and was paid to de-bunk AGW, you’d soon have 97% consensus that man is not causing the earth to warm up."

Thursday, December 17, 2015

YOUR EPA has got you your wallet covered. Sleep well.
BECAUSE THE PROLES ARE SMARTER THAN THE ELITES: Why the war on guns has failed.
YES. NEXT QUESTION: Are mandatory electronic medical records causing doctor burnout? Plus they're pissing me off.
THE EVIDENCE is piling up that higher minimum wages kill jobs.
UNICORNS AND RAINBOWS ARE MUCH MORE CONGENIAL: The Democratic Party’s disconnect from reality.
MIKE ROWE TO BERNIE SANDERS: Stop telling everyone college is the only thing.

Listen to Mike Rowe; he's smarter than Bernie and John Kerry combined.
MORE PROOF THAT LIBERALS ARE CRAZY: Professor blames white privilege for the existence of Michigan.

He's right on one small point - he is a racist bigot.
BREAKING NEWS FROM THE LEFT: Guns use terrorists to kill Americans. Well, that's what they think.
ABOUT THAT BORDER WALL....


Found on Facebook.
FINALLY REVEALED: The JV team is in the White House.
CHIPOTLE: Serving up all-natural locally sourced illness.
Chipotle doesn't just sell you a burrito. They sell you a status symbol, a mark of social responsibility and higher consciousness. When you eat there, you're not just fed, you become a better human being.
Hospitalization is a status symbol of your social consciousness.....
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY: Save the environment; give gift cards for Christmas. (Just put them in big boxes and use lots of wrapping paper.)

More proof (if any is needed) that government is too damn big and intrusive.
INSTAPUNDIT: "Leftism is a religion. It’s just a shitty one that promises heaven on earth, while always yielding something closer to hell."
HILLARY CLINTON: ObamaCare is forcing Americans into part-time work. And her solution is ... what?
THE SCOREKEEPER: Enough with the debates.
JEFF JACOBY: 'Mismatched' black students pay the price of affirmative action.

Truth. As a former college engineering professor, I can attest to the correctness of his argument.
BEN CARSON'S STRENGTH: I'm not surprised that a surgeon recognizes the necessity of sacrificing some tissue to save the life; nor am I surprised that so few progressives understand.

Kudos to Hugh Hewitt for asking the question.
POWERLINE eviscerates the climatistas.
THE NEW STAR WARS MOVIE is about to hit the theaters this week. Here is a a 'trigger warning' trailer for progressivism's precious little snowflakes.

The Farce awakens....
MILITARY RECRUITMENT: The few, but Republicans outnumber Democrats by 2 to 1.

Is it time for a coup?

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

NATIONAL REVIEW: Obama's misconceived ISIS strategy. There's only one thing wrong with National Review's post - it assumes that Obama has a strategy.
HILLARY CLINTON: I don't have horns. Just a forked tail tongue.
TECHNOLOGY: A new camera system can locate objects hidden around a corner and track their movements with centimeter precision.

Now we need a bullet that can turn corners....
BULLSEYE: Two of Saturn's many moons line up for a special Cassini spacecraft photo op.



Enceladus and Tethys.
DELTA, AMERICAN AND UNITED AIRLINES ban hoverboards as a fire danger.

I wonder if Malaysia Flight 370 carried a hoverboard in its cargo bay....
AMMO GRRRLL plays the victim card. (And recommends Sig Sauer for shooting.)
A THOUGHT FOR THE GUN CONTROLLERS:

HAH! “Eating lettuce is over three times worse in greenhouse gas emissions than eating bacon...”
BE AN ASTRONAUT: NASA accepting applications for future explorers.

I guess it's too late for me to try again....
YES, LET'S PASS THE 'OMNI'BUDGET:


What happened to regular order?
TOP OBAMA AIDE VALERIE JARRETT heads initiative to curb anti-Muslim sentiment. The unicorns in their 'reality' world hate Muslims?

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

HE'S THE SMARTEST MAN IN THE ROOM. So ... what's his IQ?
RAND PAUL strikes back. In defense of Donald Trump....
YA THINK? Seven years of Obama "has discredited government as an instrumentality to improve people's lives."

Monday, December 14, 2015

SO MANY REGULATIONS, SO LITTLE TIME: Obama rushes through permanent regulations costing $118 billion in final months.

Ensuring his legacy as the worst President ever....
IEEE SPECTRUM: Testing Einstein's theories with satellites stuck in eccentric orbits.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Global warming summit to produce '300,000 tons of C02' as 50,000 people travel to Paris from across the world. Scroll down through the pictures of our 6 ton-per-person 'elites' serving us proles spending our tax dollars.


MORE: The Washington Examiner recently asked whether the research serving as the basis for the climate summit in Paris is "settled science" or "junk science." Here are the readers' responses:
Global warming has been going on for thirty thousand years.

"Consensus" is not science.

It is settled science. But humankind does not have the moral capacity to fix it or stop it, and therefore must adapt to it. This will not be cheap, either.

The only "proof" for anthropogenic climate change are computer models that have been mathematically proven to be flawed. Journalists should be following the power and money to see what is driving this hoax.

'Junk Science'!

It is a "Faith-based Science." The scientists who propagate these ideas are unable to explain why when human activity in the past - which was negligible - cannot explain prior climate changes of massive proportions we should be quick to jump on human activity as the most responsible factor for present changes based on questionable observations.

When the government pushes something this hard, it's about money and taxes.

I'm still waiting for the oceans to rise. When the oceans begin rising like Al Gore told us they would be by now, then I'll believe in climate warming.
It's all about control -- and the graft and corruption that accompanies it.
A RESPONSE to the Morning Examiner's Question of the Day: The question was about whether Donald Trump's call for a ban on Muslims entering the countrry was motivated by publicity or was the expressing of a sincere, if politically incorrect, proposal to deal with radical Islamic terrorism. One reader's response:
Interesting that your first story in yesterday's edition was how crazy Trump's proposal was to ban all Muslims and then your second story pointed out that terrorist groups were using the refugee program to send terrorists into the United States. The reason Trump is so popular is because he says things that make sense to normal Americans who have to deal with the problems our government inflicts on us.
Italics are mine.
IF OBAMA HAD BEEN PRESIDENT IN 1941....


The Washington Post agrees: Obama would have lost WWII.
Writing that Obama seems "petulant" and "out of ideas" in his response to world events, [Washington Post columnist Richard] Cohen said Monday that "if the Obama of today and not Winston Churchill had led Britain in World War II, the Old Vic theater would now be doing 'Hamlet' in German."
Heh.
FANTASYLAND: It's not just for Disneyland.
AMMO GRRLLL: Some thoughts for the 'marginalized':
Grow up; shut up; and get a life. Your massive, gratuitous rage will only raise your blood pressure and shorten that life. If you think your life will be improved away from the racist, rape-culture-y hellholes of Harvard Law or Dartmouth or Princeton, for the love of God, feel free to give up your spot to the next poor soul. Hey, maybe even to the applicant with 400 more SAT points than you whose place you took because of the color of your skin. Maybe she would have cured cancer instead of pretending to worry about John C. Calhoun.
Sound advice....
AMAZON RELEASES VIDEO showing Prime Air prototype in action. Neat, but do you have to purchase the landing zone card?
HUMAN CARGO: Airbus has a patent to make aircraft cabins lnto human shipping containers.

More at Instapundit.
CONGRATULATIONS: Indiana school turns the tables on hardcore atheist jackasses.

And thank you, Indiana!
SOUND ADVICE for Muslim immigrants. And not just in Australia....
POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES: Trump this.


The others are equally good. Go see them.
JOHN KERRY urges 'public shaming' to enforce new climate agreement.
Kerry has 5 luxury homes, a 76-foot yacht, a sport utility vehicle, and a private jet.
So, yes, lets shame John Kerry. Shaming is not just for little people....
STAR WARS QUESTION: Why is Democrat-controlled Hollywood such a racist hive of scum and villainy?

Monday, December 07, 2015

PROGRESSIVISM: "violence-free donuts and free range stupidity..." From the comments to this tweet.
JUDGE JEANINE PIRRO pulls no punches. Be patient; the video seems to take its time loading.
JUST IMAGINE Obama was President on December 7, 1941.
WASHINGTON TIMES: Is it now time to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment?

Yes. Yes, it is.

Wednesday, December 02, 2015

THE SPREADING VIRUS: Hamilton College edition. What rock did these twits crawl out from under?
HEH: Gun background checks break records on Black Friday.

Barack Obama is proving to be the best gun salesman ever -- he helped me buy three, and a fourth is coming soon....

Thursday, November 26, 2015

GEE, THAT VETTING PROCESS worked really well, didn't it?
OBAMACARE: It's still too early to say 'death spiral', but the prognosis isn't encouraging.
AS IF OBAMA CARES: Palestinian terror kills another American.
BUT WILL HE USE IT TO PAY HIS TAXES? Thanks to Obama and de Blasio, Al Sharpton gives himself $170K raise.
A GREAT IDEA: Poland's foreign minister proposes forming army out of the Syrian men arriving in Europe.

But with a snowball's chance in hell of happening....
THE COLLEGE PROBLEM begins in high school. And is exacerbated when the students arrive in college.
FEDS TO STATES: You have no right to deny settlement services to Syrian refugees. States to Feds: You have no right to settle terrorists in our midst.
NAMING NAMES: So -- if we're going to erase politically incorrect history, shouldn't we at least be consistent?
SPACE-X authorized to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station.
DESPITE LOST REVENUE, CVS executive says snuffing out cigarettes a 'good strategic decision’. Yes, pissing off a large minority of your customer base is always a good decision.
A COWBOY THANKSGIVING:


From PowerLines Thanksgiving Day in Pictures. Go see the rest.
PUNCHING BACK? Crimea goes dark after power lines from Ukraine cut.
D.C. MAYOR'S REASON FOR GUN-CONTROL: "I don't like guns." Never mind that Second Amendment to the Constitution thingy....
DUFFELBLOG: Pardoned White House Turkey Defects To ISIS. That was quick.
POLITICIZING THANKSGIVING: The DNC offers talking points; tongue-in-cheek, the Wall Street Journal responds.
BLOCKING OBAMACARE: In a shorter summary, the Obama administration is opposed to insider regulation and crony capitalism … unless it refers to their insiders and cronies.
QUIT WHINING and go to work (on Thanksgiving or whenever)!
IT'S THANKSGIVING:

TRIGGER WARNING: Top 10 Firearms Deals on Black Friday. My next purchase is going to be #3.
OKLAHOMA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT rebukes whiny 'safe space' students: "This is not a day care. This is a university!"

Sit down and shut up!
STRANGE DAYS: I’m starting to miss Dubya.

It took seven years?
FIVE WAYS to survive Thanksgiving dinner sitting across from your sanctimonious left-wing relatives who studied the DNC talking points.

ANOTHER WAY: unleash your microaggressive 'trigger' cats.
HEH: “Throwing [other peoples'] money at the problem is not always the answer.”

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

BEYOND PARODY: Climate change summit as 'powerful rebuke' to ISIS.
GEORGIA SHERIFF: If 'God Bless' offends you, leave.
'AUDITORS': NASA not ready for dangers of deep space.

Meh. If we had today's health and safety nannies back in the early 60's, the Mercury astronauts would have never gotten off the ground.
UNEXPECTEDLY, OF COURSE: As exchanges falter, team Obamacare fights for an insurer bailout.
MORE LAME VIRTUE SIGNALING from President Faily McWorsethanCarter Obama.

So tell us what you really think....
GOOD FOR THEM: Lockheed Martin seeking out veterans for jobs.
VETERANS ADMINISTRATION keeps finding new ways to fail U.S. veterans.
OBAMA IS getting serious about ISIS.
DON'T PISS OFF THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS: Environmental concerns prevented bombing of Islamic State oil wells. Environmentalists vote Democrat.
PRESIDENT OBAMA, meet Hasna Aitboulahcen.
HIS SMUG IS SHOWING: With Americans shaken by terrorism, Obama defaults to snide lecturing.

Lecturing (wrongly) is all he knows how to do.

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

BARACK OBAMA: The man our Founders warned us against.
TELL THESE PRIVILEGED TWITS to shut up and study for finals.
OBAMA’S SYRIAN REFUGEE DEBACLE: Characterizing Republicans as xenophobes won’t hide the fact that president’s foreign policy failures created refugee crisis.
SIXTEEN GOP HOUSE MEMBERS, all veterans, have signed onto a letter to members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, encouraging them to consult with lawyers before executing any presidential order to transfer Gitmo detainees to the U.S.

I would recommend consulting with a (constitutional) lawyer before executing any Presidential or Executive order.

Monday, November 23, 2015

OBAMACARE IS A JOB-KILLER: Here’s the proof.

Economics 101.
IS THERE ANYTHING THAT DOESN'T OFFEND OUR PRECIOUS LITTLE SNOWFLAKES? University suspends yoga class, citing 'cultural issues' that may offend students.
D.C.'S TOP COP: 'Take the gunmen out'. With what? Washington D.C. has the toughest anti-gun laws in the nation.
WASHINGTON POST: We only check facts from the other side.....
NORTH CAROLINA voluntary gun surrender event produces big results: one (1) BB pistol and one (1) hunting knife. On the bright side, almost 1000 liberals signed a 'pledge of non-violence' for the future.

I wonder if the signers know their addresses are in the phone book....
JEFF JACOBY: National Review at 60.
POWERLINE: Hitler learns about the 'poop swastika'.
CLASSROOM FIREPOWER: Ohio teachers now allowed to carry on campus.
A REMINDER: Trump and Sanders are only symptoms. Failed leadership is the disease.
I WAS WRONG about President Obama being in a bubble: he's in his 'safe space' instead. Poor little snowflake....
DOWN WITH WILSON, UP WITH CHE: Wimpy colleges surrender to lunatic fringe.

I think it's more accurate to say they are the lunatic fringe.
WITH LIBERALS, truth is optional (unless it supports their narrative).
'CAITLYN' JENNER, CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE: disliked by the Right because he thinks he's a she; and by the Left because she's a Republican.
ADULT LEADERSHIP ON CAMPUS: “Anyone here five minutes from now won’t be here tomorrow.”
‘CULTURAL APPROPRIATION’ — the bugbear du jour. So as a white male I shouldn't be dining at a Mexican restaurant? Is Tex-Mex okay?

This is tribalism at its worst.
DEMOCRATS UNVEIL NEW STRATEGY: Take unpopular positions.

They want to elect new voters....
OBAMACARE INSURERS ARE SUFFERING. It won't end well.

Sunday, November 22, 2015

PEW REPORT: With good public policies, self-deportation of illegal immigrants is feasible.
SO WHEN IS the million Muslim march on Mecca And Tehran?
400 MILLION YEARS AGO, cavemen must have done something really bad: Ancient Tropical Forest Found in Norway.
PUTIN IS BETTER AT PR THAN OBAMA: Putin cares whether people like his country.
JUST BEFORE PARIS CLIMATE SUMMIT, Britain slashes wind & solar subsidies.

Unexpectedly ... (as usual).
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION wages war with the zeal of a sleepy llama.

Apologies to llamas everywhere....
I WONDER: Is there an academic who is not an invertebrate?
DAVID BROOKS(!?) on Obama, compassion, and the refugee crisis.

That perfect pants crease is wearing off....
NO CONFIDENCE: Disapproval of Obama’s handling of terrorism reaches 54%. It's not just about terrorism; it's about him. Here's his Rasmussen approval index for the last year:


The moron vote is steady at 25%, and has been that ever since the bloom came off the rose way back in 2009. Disapprovals were steady in the mid-30's until after the 2012 elections when they slowly but steadily began to rise. That rise has accelerated since June as the undecideds have begun to turn away.

For additional evidence, check out this electoral map. From personal experience, I can assure you that Virginia is - at least unofficially - colored red.
OBAMA AND KERRY: mistaking stupidity for cleverness. The complete article is here.
“YES, VIRGINIA, they are in that much trouble and even they know it.”
BEWARE OF Obama putting boots on the ground in Syria.
MISSOURI: Cowardice in action.
THE DEMOCRATS' NEW TAGLINE: "Miss me yet?" From the linked post, this statement:
I’m going to go ahead and assume that the Democrats are being intentionally dishonest, because the alternative is that they are incapable of intelligent thought.
Never assume malice when stupidity is an adequate explanation. It's a simpler version of Occam's Razor.
COLUMBIA STUDENT in anguish because she has to read books by white people. Even worse, dead white [men] people.
PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: Nevada girl makes school pay after they denied her pro-life club.
HILLARY: Obama's prisoner.
REFUGEE HYPOCRISY? Christians deported amid DC debate on Syrians. In the current administration, sympathy is reserved for the terrorists, not the terrorized.
BYRON YORK: Obamacare death spiral a gift to 2016 GOP candidates.

But will they use it? Effectively? I'm not convinced.
WELCOME TO the Social Justice Warrior Entitlement Mob Tracker. Your single source for monitoring collegiate student stupidity.

Saturday, November 21, 2015

'SCIENCE' ORGANIZATION'S LETTER condemming the Republicans' NOAA probe was written by an environmentalist.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is a 'political' science organization, not a real one.
ERICK ERICKSON: Make hashtag, not war. What wimps! I remember the 60's, when the cry was "Make love, not war." Back then it was physical on both sides of the comma.
WHAT HAPPENED to the Republican governors? I think perceived leadership qualities plus a coherent worldview will trump executive experience this election cycle.
LAWS AND “GUIDELINES” are for little people, not our Lord Protectors.
THIS SHOULD SET THE DEMOCRATS' PANTS ON FIRE: Rand Paul wants guns in D.C.
HEH: White Student Union proposed at the University of Illinois. As noted, it probably isn't real, but it is welcome evidence of someone(s) punching back.

Good for them.
CARLY FIORINA: This is a war we must wage and win.
PEAK OIL? NOT YET: Big new oil find in Gulf Of Mexico. And it's too late for the Obama administration to do anything about it....
FROM 14,000 FEET BELOW THE SURFACE OF THE ATLANTIC: Amazon CEO delivers historic NASA Moon rocket engines to Seattle Museum.
AFTERBURNER: How liberals cause terror attacks.
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: Planned Parenthood announces $20 million effort to defeat Republicans.
NON-MUSLIM TERRORISTS seize hotel in Mali and take hostages:
Terrorists having nothing to do with Islam, armed with AK-47s and hand grenades, screamed “Allahu akbar!” as they attacked the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali. The non-Muslim terrorists have killed at least three people and are holding approximately 170 hostages. In an ecumenical gesture, the terrorists allowed hostages to leave if they were able to recite from the Quran.
Islam is a religion of peace. Hillary told me so.
CONFIRMED: 26 percent of men have “man periods”. But there's a solution....

"I CAN SEE Carly [Fiorina] as a war leader just fine."
TRUTH: We see it nearly every television commercial break.
NRA SLAMMED for not supporting law giving Attorney General arbitarary power to deny rights. As Instapundit noted, "The NRA is the only organization that's always blamed for crimes its members didn't commit."
WANT TO BE A UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT? “Must be willing to accept a large salary and suck up to alumni. Advanced degree preferred. Gutless wimpery required.” For faculty and staff as well....
PERHAPS BECAUSE HE THOUGHT FIREWORKS HAD ALREADY BEEN BANNED? GQ editor confuses fireworks for mass shooting.
POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES: My favorite:


There are many others. Go see them all.
HILLARY CLINTON: Muslims are ‘peaceful and tolerant’, have ‘nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism’.

R-i-i-i-ght.
UNIVERSITY GROUP hosts "White Privilege" retreat.
[T]he only way to build a stronger and inclusive university campus is to shame the white children into acknowledging they are personally responsible for every imaginable evil that has befallen the world – from global warming to that episode of “Happy Days” when Fonzie jumped over the shark.
Read the whole thing and see if you can figure out if there is any 'there' there.
GLOCK UNVEILS tiny pistol that is easy to hide.


More than adequate for the occasional terrorist....
A MODEST PROPOSAL for the microaggressive minions of the 'progressive' Left.
A REMINDER FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA: the 'refujihadis' (refuge jihadis) who have already waged war on American soil.

Friday, November 20, 2015

NOT THAT IT MATTERS, but the Democrats held a presidential debate last Saturday. All three candidates lost.
FALLING DOWN DUMB: Blind girl denied use of cane in school because it's a tripping hazard. Just not for her.
RANDOM THOUGHT: It used to be that I thought Liberalism was all about control; now I'm leaning to thinking it's all about other people's money. (Or most likely both: controlling other people's money.)
SEATTLE: Fight the evil Koch Brothers with your neighbor's money!
AND NOW PRINCETON: "How long will it be before these various, misguided students simply demand the erasure of all of United States history so that nobody’s no snowflake's special feelings are hurt?"
SURPRISE! "Smart" guns aren't. They're an easy way to get killed.
THE PINK GUARDS: The rise of the teacup totalitarian.

Time to kick ass and take names....
REASSURING: Who are we letting out of prison?

If we must let them out, do it in Syria and let them ply their 'trade' there.
SO LET'S BLOCK SOMALI REFUGEES TOO: More Somali-Americans have traveled to join ISIS and Al-Shabab than any other ethnic minority.
QUENTIN TARANTINO: I demand to be protected by the very police I call murderers.
YA THINK? A lot of Americans think that Islam is at odds with their values.


Surprise, surprise....
PROGRESSIVE LOGIC: When we argue for the annihilation of terrorists, the terrorists win.
TOWERING ARROGANCE AND STAGGERING INCOMPETENCE: Our Bitter And Graceless President.

Peter Wehner is being kind.
MICROMANSIONS: Tiny, energy-efficient, homes are bucking the trend toward bigger and bigger houses.

Read and weep. I'm a Life Senior Member of the IEEE, and I'm sorry to say that the Institute has become just another social justice/environmentalism flack.
NASA CHIEF CHARLES BOLDEN: Government climate scientists won't be intimidated. But they might will be embarrassed.
MIKE ADAMS compares journalists to used car salesmen ... and journalists lose.
DISPATCHES from the education apocalypse. Grab your popcorn and enjoy.
THE ANSWER IS 'YES': "They can’t be this dumb, can they?"
OVERHAULING THE VA is the only chance to save it.
More than 200,000 U.S. veterans have died waiting for health care through the Veterans Administration (VA), according to new government documents.

Naturally, the federal government has decided to reward the people responsible. This month, a House committee revealed that the Department of Veterans Affairs handed out $142 million in bonuses in 2014, the same year the public learned that veterans on VA waiting lists had died.
Why is it so hard to understand that massive bureaucracies are (at best) venal, craven, and incompetent?
WHY NOT?


I understand the Lincoln bedroom is available....
TOWERING ARROGANCE & MONUMENTAL INCOMPETENCE: Obama gets really angry .... at Americans. Our Moron-in-Chief doesn't like being called out of his 'reality world' bubble....
ANOTHER NAIL IN THE COFFIN: Nation's largest insurer may exit ObamaCare due to losses.

Unexpectedly, of course. Funny how reality keeps intruding into the progressive 'reality world' bubble....
A PORTENT of things to come? Good news if true.
THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION comes to America's college campuses. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
AMMO GRRRLL takes on America's precious snowflakes. Go and read it. Now.
POINT: Most Americans would welcome Syrian refugees living in their town.

COUNTERPOINT: Majority do not want U.S. to accept Syrian refugees in wake of Paris attacks.

Who do you believe?

AND FINALLY, Al Qaeda terrorists entered U.S. through refugee program.

All three of these posts are on the same page at the Washington Free Beacon.

UPDATE: And in the news this morning, France PM says Paris attacks ringleader used migrant crisis to get into country.

Thursday, November 19, 2015

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION responds to Syrian crisis.

More here.
NOT GOOD: My life with a transgender husband.

As I've said before, there are two sexes and one gender - crazy.
PAUL GREENBERG: The farce continues.
THOMAS SOWELL on the economics of poverty and inequality.
ANDREW KLAVAN: The narrative vs. the reality.
For the left to accept that the precepts of Islam may not be reconcilable with western values would be for them to accept that multi-culturalism is wrong, that the moral relativism that underpins multi-culturalism is wrong, that the values of the west, which they have disparaged so long, are not, in fact, values at all but morals — the human expression of an objective moral order — and that that moral order was discovered in the west through the grace of (eek!) a religion not to be named, and that that religion comes closer to the moral truth than Islam and indeed maybe closer to the moral truth than any other religion, which in turn raises the possibility that that religion (not to be named) is actually a true religion...
Too bitter a pill for the Left to swallow.
"I COMPARED my ObamaCare options to my current plan, and surprise, surprise ... ObamaCare lost."

Oddly enough, I'm (almost) grateful I'm qualified for Medicare, since it's still pretty much the old-style catastrophic insurance indemnity plan I want, and (I assume) ObamaCare-compliant (though I didn't check to see if it offered free contraception and abortion coverage).

Since it's also open enrollment for 2016 Medicare, I've been looking at the Medigap, Medicare Advantage, and Medicare Part D (prescription drug coverage) plans, and my initial assessment is that they are typical ObamaCare: overpriced and underperforming.
IN MOCKING REPUBLICANS, President Obama reveals how little he understands our enemy.
BUT, BUT ... IT'S A REPUBLICAN LAW: Attorney General Loretta Lynch ducks question on enforcing sanctuary cities law.
SPACEPORT AMERICA now open for business.
UNDER OBAMA, America is the JayVee team.

Heh.
THEY'RE NOT IN HIS 'REALITY WORLD' BUBBLE: Obama won’t read intelligence on groups he doesn’t consider terrorists.
THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE A ONE PERCENT: But one percent of nothing is still nothing. Read/watch and weep.
IF YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT GUNS, it's best not to display your ignorance in public.
THOMAS SOWELL: Random Thoughts.
BEN CARSON and the Democrats' 'War on God'.
SERIOUSLY: the greatest energy chart ever.

SCIENCE: Why the plume of Enceladus is surprising NASA scientists.
A TOUGH VOTE:


Perhaps Martin O'Malley?
IF ANYTHING NEEDS FIXING, it's our governing class contempt for the electorate. While the article is specifically directed toward Jeb Bush's "Mr. Fix-It" ads, it applies to our ruling class as a whole.
MAKING THE SEASON JOYFUL MISERABLE: Government tries to kill holidays, while its regulations kill people.
JUST SAY 'NO' TO WINDOWS 10: Microsoft confirms unstoppable Windows 10 tracking.
THE BOTTOMLESS IGNORANCE of Barack Obama. 'Bottomless' is correct; every time I believe he can't possibly be any more ignorant, he proves me wrong.

I should know better; he's the product of an elite education.
LEAKED MEMO shows Obama is actively planning to circumvent a federal court injunction that suspended part of last November’s deferral-based amnesty initiative.

He believes his empire knows no boundaries.
GOOD ADVICE: First, you stop the bleeding.
NASA: Mars’ moon Phobos is slowly falling apart. So when will the Obama administration call for an emergency program to rebuild Martian infrastructure?

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

NOTE TO MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: "...sweat is colorblind."
PROJECT AMERICA RUN II: One Life, One Flag, One Mile.
LATE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: PowerLine's Week in Pictures, Missouri loves company edition. Two favorites this week:



I had a hard time choosing this week. Go and see the rest.
AMMO GRRRLL ON RED STATE/BLUE STATE: "What say we take back Blue and make the electoral map into another swimming pool? And begin the Long Slow March back to e pluribus unum."
THE NEW IVORY TOWER: not worth the price of admission.


Kiddie college.
'GENERATION TANTRUM' goes quiet when actual evil strikes.
IT'S OVER; the leaves have dropped.


My last picture is here.
GUESS WHAT? You're not actually a hero. More likely, you're an idiot.
IT'S ALL ABOUT THEM: Black Lives protesters say Paris attacks took spotlight.

Tough shit.

RELATED: Mizzou students explain ....
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION lays ground for crony capitalism.

Crony capitalism is just another term for government control.
MY WIFE AND I returned to our house to find the telephone knocked off the hook and cat vomit on the handset. My wife's response? "Obama must have called."
IT'S TIME to quit explaining and start shooting: "Fanaticism needs no rationalizations for murder."
A GOOD START: House moves to impeach IRS commissioner John Koskinen. It won't happen, of course, but I'm pleased to see the Republicans try.
HIGH OBAMACARE DEDUCTIBLES make mandated insurance practically useless. What ObamaCare has morphed into is what my parents called catastrophic (hospitalization) insurance at 10 times (or more) the cost back then (in constant dollars).

(RELATED): COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE is a comprehensive mistake.

And for that matter, so is comprehensive immigration reform.
THE S.S. ST. LOUIS, common sense, and Obama. To paraphrase a bumper sticker from years past, in the Obama administration (and progressives generally), common sense isn't.
GOOD RIDDANCE: Two terror suspects killed, 7 arrested in raid targeting Paris attack mastermind.
MICHAEL RAMIREZ on safe spaces.

Our colleges and universities are 'graduating' a new generation of welfare recipients because no employer in his right mind would ever hire one of these precious little snowflakes.
OBAMA: I'm thinking I'll spend my last year in office focused on gun control. If he meant ISIS/ISIL I'd be all for him. Unfortunately that jackass means our Second Amendment.

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The University Gone Feral: "[F]ascist, authoritarian, infantile — and incompetent."
A TRILLION HERE, A TRILLION THERE, and pretty soon you're talking real money. (With apologies to Sen. Everett Dirksen.)
AND YOU THOUGHT cats are useless. Can your dog do this?
OBAMACARE UPDATE: New York’s biggest ObamaCare co-op goes broke.

Unexpectedly.
AND HERE WE SEE THE YOUNG POLICE CAR, hunting for the first time without its mother.

Friday, November 06, 2015

Thursday, November 05, 2015

IT LOOKS like it's nearly over for 2015. Because of our impending move, I've been remiss in my usual weekly photo shoot.


The color changes were indeed spectacular this year, but the peak occurred between this photo and the one from last Monday.
RUSH LIMBAUGH: The conservative-media revolution has forced the liberal media to abandon any pretense of objectivity.

Monday, November 02, 2015

90 DAYS OUT: How are the Republican candidates doing?
IN SUPPORT OF DONALD TRUMP:
For decades, conservative intellectuals have upbraided their liberal counterparts for the latter's presumption that average people are basically stupid (and thus need government programs to guide them through life). Ironically, it is now conservative intellectuals who seem to think that average conservatives who support Trump must be basically stupid. What it shows is that intellectuals of both parties are hopelessly out of touch with reality.
Truer words have never been written.
WE ALREADY HAVE: Could America Elect a Mentally Ill President?

And the current one isn't taking his meds....
BILL GATES: Proof that you can be both rich and stupid.
HILLARY CLINTON cannot tell the truth.
WITH MORE TO COME: Nearly Half of ObamaCare Co-Ops Have Failed. But they work just fine in the progressive 'reality' world, where rainbows and unicorns abound and everyone is healthy, happy, and above average.
CATS ARE NEUROTIC, and yes, they want to kill you.

Sunday, November 01, 2015

KILL 'EM ALL, and let God sort them out. My sentiments as well.
DRIVING WHILE BLACK: A Survival Guide. It's the same guide I use driving while white.
IT'S WAR: Feminists versus dudes in skirts. Real women don't seem to care.

Heh.
LIES UPON LIES: The sad state of the movie 'Truth'.
NO, IT'S NOT THE ONION: Students in California school district now guaranteed ‘C’ grades for doing nothing.

Progressives run amok....

Saturday, October 31, 2015

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Enjoy the night of the Living Chocolate.
GASLIGHTING: A Democrat specialty.



Watch until the end for the reason.
TELL ME IT ISN'T SO: Financial fraud in ObamaCare co-op?
STILL LOOKING for the 'affordable' in the Affordable Care Act.
MICHAEL BARONE: Free stuff can turn out to be a bad buy. Even in the short run, free stuff is never free.
IT'S HALLOWEEN! And Powerline's Week in Pictures is up. My favorite is this response to the PC social justice warriors who want to destroy Halloween:


The rest are just as good; go now and see them.
HOW MANY IS 'SEVERAL'? Obama administration open to allowing Assad to remain in power for several months.

Hint: January 20, 2017 is 15 months away....
RNC TO NBC: Sod off, swampy.

Friday, October 30, 2015

THE MEDIA’S Potemkin Village starts to topple: "The MSM is shaky right now, no question. So put your shoulder to the wheel and knock it over."
WITH ZERO EVIDENCE, CNN links Carly Fiorina’s falling numbers to her attack on Planned Parenthood.

Evidence? We don't need no stinkin' evidence; we're the lamestream mainstream media.
THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY wants you to dress your kids up in energy-themed costumes for 'Energyween'. Okay, how 'bout as an oil well? Or a coal mine?

Anyone who thinks government is underfunded is a fool. Ben Carson is right. Hold the debt ceiling where it is and make the government quit this silly crap.
BRAVO FOR THEM: "The campaign managers for the three outsider campaigns -- Carson, Fiorina and Trump -- agreed to force the RNC and the networks to stop this nonsense and hold a debate."

I hope a few others -- Rubio, Cruz, Christie, perhaps Lindsey Graham -- join in.
NO. Are annual medical exams really necessary? But they are useful in scaring the populace into submission to liberal dogma.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE of 'tolerant' liberalism. Threats of violence are the last refuge of scoundrels.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS are no place for bullies -- unless you're a teacher.
OBAMACARE HAS CANCER. And if it’s not treated quickly and aggressively, it will die.

Wrong on both counts. ObamaCare is cancer. And it should be killed as quickly and aggressively as possible.
AMMO GRRRLL RETURNS with thoughts on the precious little snowflakes (emplasis on 'flakes') of the progressive Left.
CAN PAUL RYAN tame a reckless establishment? Maybe, even hopefully, but I suspect only after the 2016 elections give him a new Congress and President to work with. Otherwise we'll be living in the United Socialist States of America.
#VETERAN LIVES DON'T MATTER: At least not to Hillary Clinton.
FOOD POLICE FAILURE: 1.4 million kids reject Michelle Obama's lunches, starves schools of $1.2 billion in lost revenue. The pity is that $1.2 billion doesn't come out of the (federal) government's coffers.

Explain to me again why government isn't too big, too powerful, too intrusive ... and far too expensive.
CARLY FIORINA: Clinton presidency 'bad for women'. Bad for feminists too, although they have yet to realize it.

Thursday, October 29, 2015

THE MOST OPEN & TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION EVER: Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) battles NOAA over subpoena for climate study records.

One would think that if the agency were confident of its study, it would be eager to have its analysis fact-checked. It is, after all, the scientific method.
CARSON: PC culture is destroying the U.S.

Punching back.
FIRST THEY THOUGHT SHE WAS DOUR, now the 'ladies' of The View think her smile looks demented.

Their hate of a woman not their own is palpable.
JEFF JACOBY: So what if Ben Carson is a creationist?

Let's remember that John F. Kennedy was a Catholic, and I'm old enough to remember the expressions of concern that he would be the Pope's president. Mitt Romney is a (gasp!) Mormon, and anyone with enough gray matter to rub between thumb and forefinger knows he would have been a better President than our current one.
OH, REALLY? The world still needs the United Nations. There may be a need for a United Nations, just not this one.
UNITED KINGDOM'S VULCAN BOMBER makes its final flight.
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS: Union lies may squash successful Colorado education reforms. Union lies and liberal dogma....
THE COST OF REDUCING GLOBAL WARMING by one (1!) degree is now estimated at $365 billion (yes, billion) annually.

That's not pocket change.
PUMPKINS: the new cause of global warming. What grim-faced creatures are the new Puritans of the environmental Left.

There is no joy in their world....
FINALLY: Benghazi committee gets classified White House records. Despite the Democrats' earnest desire, Trey Gowdy isn't going to get tired and walk away from the investigation.
BILL WHITTLE: Let's talk about Donald Trump.
13 TO GO: Utah 10th ObamCare startup to close. The way things are going, it may not be necessary for the next President and Congress to kill ObamaCare; just bury the corpse.
SPACEPORT AMERICA: Welcome to the ghost town that Virgin Galactic built.

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

SEN. TOM COTTON (R-AR) Foreign Policy and the Constitution.

Read it all.
INSTAPUNDIT: Obama's Nobel 'peace' prize.
In Iraq, Obama took a war that we had won at a considerable expense in lives and treasure, and threw it away for the callowest of political reasons. In Syria and Libya, he involved us in wars of choice without Congressional authorization, and proceeded to hand victories to the Islamists. Obama’s policy here has been a debacle of the first order....
Read it all. And remember it all when you go to the polls next.
HEH: Europe now wishing for a Second Amendment.
IT'S NOT A DEMOCRACY; it's an 'ignocracy'. And Judge Judy does not sit on the Supreme Court (although given the quality of Obama's appointees, perhaps she should).
"NOTHING TO SEE HERE if you don’t want us auditing you…"
WHOSE SHRINKING ISLAND? The blue areas tell me exactly where the Syrian refugees should be resettled. The red areas tell me where they will be resettled.
I, MAMMAL! The key identifying characteristic of a progressive is he/she/it is batshit crazy (coupled with the fundamental belief that the rest of the world must be as crazy as he/she/it is).
WHAT'S HAPPENING with Carly Fiorina? It will be interesting to see how the polls change after tonight's debate.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY: We can't have our precious little snowflakes talking to reporters who might try to embarrass them us.
FILE UNDER PROGRESSIVES ARE 'TOO' CRAZY: The word ‘too’ is sexist and hurts women.

No wonder the precious little snowflakes are afraid of global warming -- they'll melt.

Monday, October 26, 2015

AUTUM LEAVES 2015:

Well, I guess I was wrong when I wrote about the color changes last week. Here's this week's photo, and the color changes are dramatic.


I guess all the leaves falling we've been experiencing over the past weeks was Mother Nature telling all the leaves unwilling to cooperate with a spectacular fall colors show to drop off and get out of the way.

Sunday, October 25, 2015

JEFF JACOBY: Would Rabin have pulled the plug on a 'peace process' that failed?

Unfortunately, I'm slowly coming to the belief that for there ever to be a lasting Mideast peace, the West will have to bomb the Islamists into submission oblivion and then recolonize.
#BLACKLIVESMATTER: Comey, complete and unexpurgated. From the comments:
If obama [sic] and the Democrats are going to increase the rate at which their zoo animals kill each other, I'm not going to get in the way. And if the innocent ones get tired of being victims of failed Democrat policies, they're welcome to consider changing whom they choose as leaders.
Well said.
NEW YORK CITY is going to the rats. And not the ones in City Hall.
SCIENCE: Sand causes cancer. If that's true, then there are two things we must do: (1) increase fracking, to pump that dangerous stuff well underground, and (2) encourage more progressives to move to the blue coastal areas where the hurricanes and rising waters can wash their bodies away after they die of cancer.

There. Problem solved.
HOT AIR: The Banana Republic of America.

Truer words ....
HEH: Is there anything that hasn't gone to hell in the Age of Obama?
AMERICAN HISTORY: From the melting pot to the salad bowl, with emphasis on the rotten apples in the salad.
SHOULD TEACHERS be allowed to carry guns in schools? The consensus, both in the article and in the comments, appears to by "Yes."

Saturday, October 24, 2015

CARPETBAGGERS FOR HILLARY:
The Washington, D.C., suburbs in Northern Virginia have almost singlehandedly transformed Virginia from a deep red state to a swing state in the past two decades and if Hillary Clinton wants to mimic President Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 success in the commonwealth, she will have to turn out the government contractors and bureaucrats who now populate the city.
Call it the 'free stuff' bureaucracy....
POOR MANAGEMENT IS NOT A CRIME: The Department of Justice found “substantial evidence of mismanagement, poor judgment, and institutional inertia leading to the belief by many tax-exempt applicants that the IRS targeted them based on their political viewpoints.”

But it wasn't criminal.

Hogwash! Tell that the Wall Street executives now facing possible criminal persecution prosecution.
Corporations can only commit crimes through flesh-and-blood people.... It’s only fair that the people who are responsible for committing those crimes be held accountable. The public needs to have confidence that there is one system of justice and it applies equally regardless of whether that crime occurs on a street corner or in a boardroom.
Unless it's a government boardroom.
I FIND IT AMUSING that the progressives (also known as liberals, Democrats, and media) are forever railing that those evil Republicans are protecting the Wall Street millionaires and billionaires who are stealing from the poor and middle classes to enrich themselves.

And yet ... under the Obama administration, from January 2009 until now the DJIA has risen 101%, from 8778 to 17647, the NASDAQ has risen 219% from 1577 to 5032, even as average household income has declined and remains essentially flat today.


Now, repeat after me, the Republicans are the party of the rich.

I guess I should be happy, since while I'm hardly a Wall Street billionaire, I've seen my savings more than double since Obama became President.
‘MAN-MADE’ CLIMATE CHANGE endangering shrimp, lobsters, crabs. Mostly it's endangering climate-change enthusiasts.
POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES is up. This week it's the 'Back to the Future' edition. My favorite:


Unfortunately the Democrats are succeeding....