OBAMA’S ‘TRANSFORMATIVE’ PRESIDENCY: ”The question raised by the Catholic Church's battle with ObamaCare is whether anyone can remain free of a U.S. government determined to do what it wants to do, at whatever cost.”

Older Americans have sought for years to drop out of Medicare and contract for their own health insurance. They cannot without forfeiting their Social Security payments. They effectively are locked in. Nor can the poor escape Medicaid, even as the care it gives them degrades. Farmers, ranchers and loggers struggled for years to protect their livelihoods beneath uncompromising interpretations of federal environmental laws. They, too, had to comply. University athletic programs were ground up by the U.S. Education Department's rote, forced gender balancing of every sport offered.

With the transformers, it never stops.

WHAT A SURPRISE: World Bank Report Shows Large Public Sectors Reduce Economy. Mitchell is wrong on only one point: the real solution is not to restrain government growth, but to reduce government size in absolute terms.

OLIVER NORTH: Freedom from religion for our military. And then what?

RADICAL ISLAM: If You See Something, Shut Up: “Criticizing Islam is now a punishable offense in several European countries.” It’s close to that in the United States.

LATEST MORTGAGE BAILOUT: Victims get 6%; ‘profiteers’ get 94%.

ED FEULNER: A Job Too Good to Be True. If you live in or near D.C., the disparity is obvious.

NO BIRTH CONTROL LEFT BEHIND: ‘To Stop the Multiplication of the Unfit’. There’s more than just women's health and religious freedom at stake.

DREAM CHASER, a possible Shuttle replacement, is in Louisville, CO, for final assembly in preparation for testing at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. It is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program to eventually deliver supplies and people to the International Space Station.