KRAUTHAMMER on Demagoguery 101.

GREENLAND: maybe this global warming thing isn’t so bad after all.

HUCKABEE DECIDES not to run (on Fox News, moments ago). I rather suspected that would be the case. It'll be interesting to see how the other candidates, potential candidates (Palis?), and the polls respond.

HEH. THE WAGES OF (UNION) SIN: “[P]ublic employee unions in Wisconsin may just choose to decertify instead of facing the yearly recertification votes required by Gov. Scott Walker’s budget bill. The [Milwaukee] Journal-Sentinel reports: ‘Under Walker’s legislation, public employers could no longer collect membership dues on behalf of unions and workers would no longer have to pay dues to unions if they decline to do so. All that leaves little incentive for unions to keep their official status.’ Instead, government unions may reorganize as voluntary organizations that would advocate on other issues important to members."

CELLPHONES TAKE THE WITNESS STAND: you may have a Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate yourself - but your cell phone doesn’t.

RAND PAUL: Making health care a ‘right’ turns doctors into slaves.


Not quite true, as a doctor still retains the right to quit practicing medicine, but close enough for all practical purposes (that's engineering-speak for essentially correct).

“I WAS VERY ANTI-BUSH. I’m a Democrat, I’ve got the canceled checks to prove it, and suddenly I’m the enemy? Me? Me?” Heh. That light at the end of the tunnel was an oncoming train. And judging by the tax money it needs, it must have been Amtrak (the Obama Express).

Linked from Instapundit.

MORE REASON to lock the cell phone in the trunk of my car. Just how far will the nannies go?

Just a thought: if the warning were for say, Times Square, wouldn't it be faster to just grab a bullhorn and shout "Get the hell out!" (4 syllables and 16 characters, excluding the exclamation point).

Update & bump to top: Chris Muir isn't fond of the idea either.

FIRST THERE WAS THE LASER, now there’s the anti-laser.

TALKING POINTS MEMO asks if there are any pro-choice Republicans left in Congress. That’s a fair question. So is this: Are there any pro-life Democrats left in Congress?

I don’t have answers to either question.

GOOGLE’S BLOGGER OUTAGE makes the case against a cloud-only strategy. Amen to that. I’ve never been a fan of “cloud computing” since in its essence, it is nothing more than a return of the “dumb terminal” strategy that pre-dated personal computers/computing.

SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT: ban the World of Warcraft.

MITCH DANIELS FOR PRESIDENT?

[There was] no real news came out of last night’s Indiana state Republican Party dinner. Cheri Daniels gave a well-received speech, but offered no insight into which way she is leaning. If anything, Mitch threw cold water on the possibility of a run saying, “You ought not underestimate the fact that there’s not one woman involved – there’s five,” referring to Daniels four daughters.

The reason for his families hesitation has been amply demonstrated this week with the Indianapolis Star, New York Times, AP, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, all doing profiles of the Daniels family, including his divorce and remarriage to Cheri. The Post reported that a rival campaign even offered up contact info for the other man’s ex-wife. Daniels potential rivals clearly want the Daniels family to know that the primary will be every bit as dirty as they think it could be (emphasis added).

Meanwhile, CBS News reports that if Daniels should run, he has an impressive list of endorsements lined up including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. CBS also reports that former First Lady Laura Bush has called Cheri personally with support.

My sympathies are with the Daniels family. What decent family would want to subject themselves to the vicious slander sure to come from the opposition just to run for public office? Nevertheless, I hope Daniels has the courage to to so - and the willingness to “punch back twice as hard”.

From the Washington Examiner’s daily email.

AIRSHIPS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY


Long-duration, heavy-lift designs breathe new life into the world's oldest aircraft technology.

IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN 700 DAYS since Senate Democrats have voted on a budget.

IS MICHELE BACHMANN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT? In a word, yes. If you want to encourage her, answer ‘No’ to this poll and then contribute $50 or more to her campaign.

A FEDERAL JUDGE has refused to block a new Indiana law that cuts off public funding for Planned Parenthood.

CALL IN THE EPA: Study finds cell phones caused mysterious worldwide bee deaths.

Surely the EPA will ban cell phone usage under the auspices of the Endangered Species Act ....

Historical note. Science fiction author Robert Heinlein anticipated the ill-effects of microwave radiation 69 years ago in his short story Waldo (1942), and again in his juvenile novel Red Planet (1949).

WHAT EVER MADE YOU think cats aren’t tech savvy?

SOME CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND MYTHS just won’t go away.

SPRING FLOWERS:




My photography skills don't do justice to the beauty of our neighbor's plants.

A NEW ENTRANT INTO BROAD AREA SURVEILLANCE:

Northrop Grumman has announced the start of in-house system tests of the first development multifunction active sensor in preparation for flight tests in June. The sensor, an X-band active electronically scanned array radar, is the central intelligence-collecting component of the broad area maritime surveillance (BAMS) aircraft, based on the Global Hawk.

Unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) are coming on strong; the Navy is planning a 65-aircraft buy.

NATIONAL REVIEW looks at Obamacare.


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