ONLY THE GOVERNMENT is allowed to help the homeless -- but they won't.

ROMNEY TAKES THE LEAD ... in Wisconsin? It's beginning to look a lot like 1984.

CLEARLY THOSE 'TEXICAN' HICKS lack a nuanced appreciation of the complexity of the situation, not understanding that any man would have done the same.

MARK STEYN: When is a word a codeword for racism?

NBC: how does that crow taste? Especially without salt?

RANDOM THOUGHTS on the 'obesity epidemic' from the retirement lane. Have you noticed that the progressive strain of liberalism isn't happy unless the rest of us are miserable?

FLAME ordered to flame out.

OBAMA IS DOING JUST FINE. He's got a lock on progressives. Related mockery here.

A GOOD REASON to carry a cell phone.

GOOD QUESTION: Do we really know whether we have too few or too many STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) students to meet the future innovation and competitive needs of the US? My sense is that we probably do, notwithstanding the fact that STEM graduates appear to be better-suited for living and working in the rest of the real world.

FIGHTING OBESITY: now it's movie popcorn and milkshakes. The real obesity epidemic is in government ... it's already beyond morbidly obese.

WHEN HOPE DOESN'T WORK, try fear instead.

WHICH IS WORSE? rabid dogs or gun controllers? I have more respect for rabid dogs.

SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS about the NRO transfer of 'space telescopes' to NASA.

EUROPE'S AIRLINE CARBON TAX isn't doing too well.

X-37B OTV to land today?

THOMAS SOWELL: It's not socialism, it's fascism. Read it.