WISCONSIN: Gov. Walker should order power (and heat) be turned off.

More here. And go here for updates.

NEA CAN'T TEACH KIDS TO READ, but it will teach them orgasms.

"IF [ENERGY EFFICIENT] TECHNOLOGIES were so good, they wouldn’t need to be imposed on us by law.”

THE MEGLOMANIACAL STYLE in American politics.

We are ... living with what results when personal charisma magnified by media adulation trumps executive management experience, demonstrated knowledge, proven judgment, the proven ability to coordinate and lead in crisis, practical private sector business experience, and the ability to forge a workable compromise.

Read the whole article.

CONGRESS: when you win, you win; when you lose, you win.

NOW PUT A 'DNR' TAG ON IT: ObamaCare vital signs starting to fade.

FOR A MERE $15,000, the finger-pointers are getting a bit carried away.

Linked from Instapundit.

NEXTGEN: efficiently moving aircraft to the next runway where they can't land. Former Air Traffic Controller Don Brown writes about the NextGen [air traffic control system], arguing that the limiting factor of air traffic capacity in the US is the fact that the vast majority of America's passenger traffic must travel on 100 runways as the result of our hub-and-spoke air transportation system.

My suspicion is that NextGen will enable a return to the old 1970's model for point-to-point air transportation.

DEMOCRATS: Obama 'failed to lead' on budget talks.

IS HARRY REID STUPID? Not when compared to a block of concrete.

IF WE CAN'T .... Good questions all.

AMERICA’S 401(k)s ARE DISASTERS, but are pensions any better? I dunno. My 401(k) is in pretty good shape, even after the recession, but I’m a strong saver (or as my kids put it, remarkably cheap).

More at Instapundit.

SHUTTLE DOWN*: Discovery completes her final mission.

* Yes, that's a reference to the Lee Correy book.

HOW DARE YOU break my narrative. More here.

AGED VOYAGER 1 does in-flight gymnastics for science.

She might be old, but she’s still got it where it counts. The 33-year old Voyager 1 probe, flying out near the edge of the solar system conducted a roll program, spinning 70 degrees counterclockwise, and held the position by spinning gyroscopes for two hours, 33 minutes. Voyager performed its in-flight gymnastics on March 7, 2011 and scientists hope the maneuver will help answer the question of which direction is the sun’s stream of charged particles turns when it nears the edge of the solar system.

Voyager's communication system was my first real job as a communications engineer in the mid-1970s.

GET USED TO BROWNOUTS. We’re going green - whether you like it or not.

WEST VIRGINIA SENATOR JOE MANCHIN: Obama has 'failed to lead' on budget. PJ Tatler: No, he hasn't bothered to try to lead.

STILL RISING: Number of healthcare reform law waivers climbs above 1,000. Wouldn't it be easier just to count the number of companies that haven't been granted a waiver?

JUAN WILLIAMS on National Public Radio: “The rank hypocrisy of his remarks was telling for me. They will say things to your face about how there’s no liberal orthodoxy at NPR, how they play it straight, but now you see it for what it is. They prostitute themselves for money.”

Williams may still be a liberal, but he's one I can respect.

NPR "APPALLED" by exec's comments on O'Keefe tape.

No, they're appalled his comments became public.

MAMMA GRIZZLY ALERT: the day Sarah Palin kneecapped feminism.

METRO IS FOR LITTLE PEOPLE; not those of us with important public responsibilities.

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.

WE'RE EXPECTING 3-4" of rain tonight and tomorrow. Does that mean March rains bring April flowers? I'm ready.

UNION WORK RULES: It's the productivity, stupid! This is an older post that explains rather succintly why private sector unions are declining with such rapidity. And Simberg is correct; I remember (back in the 60's) having to wait for a union technician to remove a cover plate (four screws) on an equipment rack so that the engineer and I could install a new receiver in a downrange satellite tracking station.

While the vignette is only indirectly relevant to the Wisconsin public union controversy, it does illustrate the union mind-set: if it's not covered by a union rule, it won't get done.

Linked from a Washington Examiner post.

AS GAS PRICES RISE, is it time to 'drill, baby, drill'? To which a liberal will reply, " Yes, if by "drill, baby, drill" you mean tap into the Strategic Oil Reserve.