HOSPITALS courting primary-care doctors. So you can expect your insurance copays to jump to the emergency-room levels and enjoy the tender ministrations of the registration martinets.

Lucky you.

FLIGHT RISK FOR BOEING: "The NLRB’s move ... substitutes the government’s judgment for that of the company. This is neither good law nor good business."

You don't say....

SPYING ON SATELLITES: "[C]onsidering how hard the intelligence community works to keep details of its space arsenal under wraps, it’s not hard to imagine the two Frenchmen have pissed off a lot of spooks unaccustomed to having regular people spy back."

I doubt the intelligence community is terribly worried about their satellites being tracked even though the image quality is quite good (the "processed" video of the ISS is spectacular).

MICHAEL BARONE: Government Looks to Past, Free Enterprise to Future.

"WHEN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION last week released the results of the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress -- 'the Nation's Report Card' -- the bottom line was depressingly predictable: Not even a quarter of American students is proficient in US history, and the percentage declines as students grow older. Only 20 percent of 6th graders, 17 percent of 8th graders, and 12 percent of high school seniors demonstrate a solid grasp on their nation's history. In fact, American kids are weaker in history than in any of the other subjects tested by the NAEP -- math, reading, science, writing, civics, geography, and economics."

Depressing, though I am a little surprised that civics did better than history in the assessment.

KNOW HOW TO MAKE GOD LAUGH? Make plans.

The best plan for a president to improve the economy is to get the hell out of the way.

INCENTIVES MATTER. Some are positive; others, not so much.