JLENS to hover above Washington D.C. We had two above Camp Victory in Baghdad when I was there in 2006 and 2008; the ground station for one was in my 'back yard'.

I'd be interested in knowing just how they plan to do it, though. Not only is 10,000 feet of cable a lot of cable (JLENS is tethered), it is also a potential hazard to the aircraft in the area flying below that altitude.

UNEMPLOYMENT RATES up in 90 percent of U.S. cities. At the rate people are bailing out of cities (see Detroit, where the rate is one person leaving every 22 minutes), this one's somewhat hard to believe.

RELATED: Chicago's next?

RANDOM THOUGHTS on Sen. Al Franken from the retirement lane: Americans paid a terrible price to remove Franken's 'comedic talent' from Hollywood....

SWISS PILOT thrills EAA AirVenture show by soaring with jet pack.

OBAMA: It wasn't Bush's fault after all; it was Reagan's fault.

Delusions.

THOMAS SOWELL: "If the things that the Left wants to control — institutions and government policy — are not the most important factors in the world’s problems, then what role is there for the Left?"

THE FUTURE OF OBAMACARE. Well, it will keep the costs down....

NEW YORK'S "GREENEST" SKYSCRAPER is actually its biggest energy hog.

THOMAS SOWELL on the Left’s central delusion: Its devotion to central planning has endured from the French Revolution to Obamacare. And no amount of evidence will shake that delusion.

I WAS REALLY, REALLY EXCITED ABOUT OBAMACARE until I realized everything I thought about ObamaCare was totally wrong.

AN EMERGING TREND IN MEDICAL CARE.

The doctor might be the same, but her bill’s going to be higher.

A strong trend of hospitals buying up physicians practices as well as hospital mergers is threatening to also drive up costs to patients — at least in the short term.

A key factor in that consolidation trend is doctors now are willing to work for someone else to get rid of the hassle of paperwork, fighting with insurance companies, increased overhead costs, and other duties that keep them away from patients.

“What you hear over and over again is: ‘I just want to practice medicine,’ ” said Shane Jackson, president of physicians staffing service LocumTenens.com.

Jackson and others said the trend toward doctors working for hospitals is being fueled by middle-age and older doctors who like the idea of spending less time on non-medicine-related work, and younger doctors who “place a lot of value on work-life balance.”

I'm hoping that more and more doctors will simply reject health insurance altogether and go to cash-only fee for service. Perhaps then health 'care' will return to the catastrophic health insurance model.

IMMIGRANTS ARE ASSIMILATING, just like always. And the 'immigration problem' is, in actuality, a border control problem.

MARK STEYN on 'Weiner worship'.

TERRAFUGIA TRANSITION makes first public flight at EAA AirVenture.

THOMAS SOWELL: Progress in race relations isn’t achieved by having minority leaders.

MORNING EXAMINER: Is there anything the Republican establishment won’t let Obama get away with?

SPENGLER: Dumb, dumber, and ... dumberer.

Liberals, as a group, have several unfortunate tendencies. The first is that they know it all (demonstrably false). The second is to believe that everyone is (or should be) like them; i.e., if something is good, or desirable for them, then it must be good, or desirable, for all. The third is their unreasoning fear of risk; for them, no risk is too much risk. The fourth is a complete inability to comprehend that actions always have unforseen consequences. And the last is aquasi-religious faith that only government can protect them from their own actions.

Or, as Instapundit put it very succintly, "Lefties generally assume that everyone is as messed up and irresponsible as they are."

As individuals, I would advocate leaving them alone as they will self-Darwin soon enough. In government, however, Liberals are downright dangerous, as the Obama response to Egypt (And Syria. And Iran. And ....) is clearly demonstrating.

ACCORDING TO OBAMA, the Keystone XL pipeline will create 'only 50 permanent jobs'. On Fox News' Special Report, the Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes wryly noted that "it's 50 more than Solyndra created."

HUH? Obama pivots to jobs (again), then downplays the number of jobs that could be created by the Keystone pipeline.

ELIOT SPITZER, “Umpire of Capitalism.” On the bright side, maybe his election will drive Wall Street to, say, Dallas.

WHY IT MAY BE EASY for Huma Abedin to stand by her man. The thought occurred to me as well.

WHAT’S ‘PHONY’ IS OBAMA’S ECONOMY: The administration's scandals are very real.

PURDUE PRESIDENT MITCH DANIELS: “Academic freedom ... does not immunize a person from criticism and certainly does not confer entitlement to have one’s work inflicted upon our young people...."

HEH: Among our credentialed-but-not-educated elite, sometimes even the credentials are phony.

BORED WITH OBAMA. No one's listening, so it's time to bring out the race card again.

Peggy Noonan agrees that no one's listening.

MORE COLORADANS than ever are packing heat.

PROOF THAT DEMOCRATS ARE BRAIN-DEAD: Congressional Black Caucus wants Sheila Jackson Lee to head Homeland Security.

OBAMA: It's legal because I say it is.

UM, BECAUSE HE KEEPS BRINGING IT UP? Why is it Obama’s responsibility to lead a national conversation on race?

JACK LEW: There can't be a scandal if I don't ask. I watched the interview; Lew was dancing furiously to avoid answering Chris Wallace's questions.

MORE POWERLINE CARTOONS: The 'Oscar Mayor' Weiner edition.

DETROIT: using ObamaCare to ease the pain of bankruptcy. Shifting the burden to those 'evil rich taxpayers' one bankruptcy at a time.

SHOCKING: John Kerry owns a Republican yacht!

ANOTHER REASON to disconnect from cable services.

[WARNING: annoying advertisements; turn your sound off.]

PRESIDENT ASTERISK: A reminder why the Obama IRS scandal may be worse than "a cancer on the presidency."

Linked from this Instapundit post.

LIVING NEAR FAST-FOOD OUTLETS might boost obesity risk. Especially if you're black. Or poor. Or both.

So I'm waiting for a law requiring all fast-food restaurants be located exclusively within wealthy, white, gated communities....

JUST IN TIME FOR 2016, NBC to Air Mini-Series Maxi-Commercial on Hillary Clinton.

Question: Will the Democrats continue to protest the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision now?

OCCASIONAL THOUGHTS from the 'twitter'verse:

‘Feisty’ President Obama says he’ll spend ‘every minute of every day’ rebuilding economy.

Iowahawk discovers real reason Kerry was yachting during Egypt chaos.

Brit Hume retweet sums up John Kerry’s peace plan with one zinger.

Much more at Twitchy.

EXPLAIN TO ME AGAIN why Liberals cannot possibly be racist.

Read the comments on this one.

SNICKER: Weiner goes limp in new post-scandal poll. "[H]is numbers have turned flaccid."

MEMO FOR FILE: It's not wise to try to rob a gun store armed with a baseball bat.

OBAMA: It's time for me to elect a new citizenry.

Arrogance. Narcissism. Ugly.

HOW APPROPRIATE: Homeland Security's future home is a former mental hospital.

CVS TO INVITE ObamaCare ‘Navigators’ into stores to push universal health care sign-ups.

I've been a 13-year customer at my local CVS, but there are other pharmacies nearby and this might push me over the edge.

PHONY SCANDALS: Take note of Sarah Palin's expression when she's introduced by Greta Van Susteren; it tells us all we want to know.

Another item to note is Greta's mention of 'search engines' in lieu of the mainstream media. In terms of media, I've noticed I'm tending to rely more on the British tabloids for serious news than I am on the Washington Post, New York Times, NBC, ABC, and CBS.

SCIENTISTS PROVE mice can be MSNBC pundits.

UPDATE & BUMP: In the Green Room, they're shocked if they say anything untoward (and given treats if they exhibit 'politically correct' behavior?).

AHA! George Zimmerman isn't a 'white Hispanic', he's a Peruvian American.

UPDATE & BUMP: Ace explains. More here.

HEH: Obama administration enlists celebrities to entertain America during ObamaCare train wreck. The result will be the same as it was on the Titanic.

WATCHING THE SUNDAY NEWS TALK SHOWS....

Picture from my email.

POWERLINE'S week in pictures. Here's a sample:

HAS PRESIDENT OBAMA been taking lessons from Wally?

AUTHORITIES IN TURKEY clear kestrel suspected of spying for Israel.

'PART-TIME, INTERMITTENT' JOBS: ObamaCare call center will not offer healthcare benefits to employees.

A NOVEL IDEA: No work, no pay.

THIS MUST HURT: "The president takes almost as little responsibility for his own actions as Anthony D. Weiner, the disgraced sexting addict and former congressman running for New York City mayor."

Read the rest.

DETROIT AND ANTHONY WEINER are the endgame of American politics. Democrat politics, for sure. Republican politics? Hopefully, but not assuredly, not.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: Is there any part of American life in which they won't interfere? Well, with the exception of criminal mischief on the part of their allies, that is.

IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

COMET ISON: the next 'comet of the century'?

NEWT GINGRICH: Why hasn't America progressed on race?

I agree that the problem(s) Gingrich outlined are largely cultural, exacerbated by intrusive and wrong-headed governmental policies. Unlike Gingrich's seven solutions, though, I see a single solution, and that is getting government permanently out of the business of trying to remake society.

POWERLINE: the economics of mass low-skilled immigration.

ANN COULTER: Unsung Black People.

LIBERTARIAN: Because anarchy is so ... progressive.

"IT’S TIME to delay Obamacare from going into effect — and then, in 2017, to repeal it."

LISA AIRPLANES is gearing up to restart flight testing of its Akoya amphibious light sport aircraft.

The €300,000 ($396,000) Akoya can operated from ground, water or snow. The aircraft is equipped with emergency parachute, hydrofoils, skis and a retractable landing gear. It has a range of 2,000km (1,080nm), a maximum speed of 135kts (250km/h) and consumes 5.6 litres of fuel per 100km.

I want one.

PRESIDENT OBAMA talking to reporters alongside Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang: “...we discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the words of Thomas Jefferson.”

And (theoretically, at least) this guy was a constitutional law professor....

WE'RE LOSING MONEY, but it feels so good. Reminds me a bit of the old joke about the Aggie who sells his product at a loss: "Well, yes, I do lose a bit on each sale, but I make up for it in volume."

SMART KNIFE detects cancer in seconds.

PEGGY NOONAN: Damage control at Fortress IRS. It isn't about the IRS; it's about protecting Obama.

INVEST YOUR MONEY or pay off your kid's student loans? Instapundit thinks you should invest your money, but our President disagrees. What do you need retirement savings for when you've got Social Security and ObamaCare?

INSTAPUNDIT: Should the Third Amendment prevent government spying? Glenn Reynolds appears to believe it should, and I agree.

By the way, the camera on my PC is pointed at the ceiling; NSA, count the humps and bumps to your heart's content.

LINCOLN MEMORIAL is shut down after vandals splash paint on it.

The news is sad enough, but even worse is the quality (if you can call it that) of the Washington Post's readership as evidenced by the comments.

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OPERATIVES join Holder campaign against Texas: Sources say RNC donations are being used to re-impose federal mandates struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Give generously to Republican candidates, but not one damn dime to the Republican establishment.

SEEN ON DRUDGE: "Weiner Roasting". The man does have a way with words....

FULL MOON 'disturbs a good night's sleep'. I'm waiting for Democrats propose a law requiring the moon to be full only during daylight hours.

REMEMBER ALL THOSE CUTE VIDEOS of excited dogs welcoming home their owners after being away for months? Well here's one you'll never see: cat welcomes owner back after six month absence.

A CHART TO BEHOLD: It's not the percentages that are stunning; it's the fact that the IRS has identified 65 million pages of documents relating to their 'investigation' of Tea Party group applications for tax-exempt status.

U.S. TO DEMOCRATS: No, Really, We’re Okay with Some Abortion Restrictions.

Click through to Mead's original post.

IT'S NOT THE ECONOMY, it's Obama.

Their [Obama's speeches] purpose is to improve the political economy of Barack Obama, not the fortune of the United States.

The phrase to keep in mind is “phony.” Both press secretary Jay Carney and the president used it to describe the IRS, Justice Department, and NSA scandals. After addressing each of these stories, and going so far as to say he was deeply concerned about the activities at the IRS, the president seems to have decided he is tired of answering questions. He has adopted the age-old tactic of dismissing inconvenient news as false and irrelevant. The thinking must be that forceful denials will discredit congressional investigations into the administration and lead the news media to downplay additional scoops. It’s worked before.

Not this time.

A SLUSH FUND for Democratic political canvassing.

BIZARRO DRONE would deliver peace and Oxycontin instead of missiles.

No argument from me; 'bizarro' is certainly the right word.

THERE'S ALWAYS A CRISIS: Collision Between Water and Energy Is Underway, and Worsening. For the environmentalists, every problem, potential or real, is a crisis.

I'm disappointed that the IEEE keeps falling for this faddishness.

SPITZER, WEINER, AND FILNER -- and the media thinks the Republican bench is weak?

HEH: Not even the IRS employee union wants ObamaCare. Hey, if I can't keep mine, you shouldn't get to keep yours either.

CAN OBAMACARE get the young blood it needs to live?

No. Next question.

"MY SON IS DEAD. How could that be phony?"

OR HE COULD go into politics.

EVEN LIBERALS ARE WAKING UP: Poll finds more Americans want ObamaCare repealed.

THE INEQUALITY PRESIDENT: "If only Mr. Obama understood that before a government can redistribute wealth, the private economy has to create it."

SO VOTE to defund ObamaCare and save the nation.

THE PLANTATION THEORY: It is time to retire a dumb idea and the rhetoric that goes with it.

Williamson's 'risk' argument is, I think, a valid one. Not too long ago I had an email 'conversation' with a 'Social Security Defender' over at the Daily Kos website. In every email exchange, data was met with the emotional objection "that's too risky".

In progressive circles, emotion apparently trumps all data.

TALKING POINTS MEMO: Florida To Resume Voter Purge Following Supreme Court VRA Ruling.

Wrong. 'Florida To Resume Non-Voter Purge Following Supreme Court VRA Ruling.' There. Headline fixed.

MORNING EXAMINER: Obama, and liberalism in general, are fresh out of ideas. Even the Washington Post's shining light, Dana Milbank, finally gets it: “But even a reincarnated Steve Jobs would have trouble marketing this turkey: How can the president make news, and remake the agenda, by delivering the same message he gave in 2005? He’s even giving the speech from the same place, Galesburg, Ill.”

THE CITY'S BANKRUPT, but Detroit’s City Council spends time weighing in on Zimmerman case.

Just when you think they've hit rock bottom, they bring in dynamite and backhoes....

SNICKER: Spirit Airlines Uses Carlos Danger in New Ad.

Weiner's weiner deflates....

OBAMA: the Grassy Knoll Guru.

SOUTHWEST 737 landed nose first in LaGuardia accident. Having done that once myself, I can assure you that it's not a good thing.

POLL: Race relations have plummeted since Obama took office. Race relations aren't as bad as the Jim Crow 50's, but Obama's getting us there....

'NATION'S GUN SHOW' adds shows, features Obama 'countdown' clock to 2016.

Heh. I've lived in the Washington metro area for nearly 13 years, and I don't ever remember the 'Nation's Gun Show' being this frequent or this aggressive.

NASA TELESCOPE snaps first photos of mystery region on the sun.

REMINDER TO YOUNG PEOPLE: ObamaCare needs you! To pay up.

IN HEELS, NO LESS: South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley firing guns.

PIVOT? OR SPIN? When you 'pivot' as often as Obama has, it looks suspiciously like spin.

IF OBAMACARE IS SO AFFORDABLE, why are insurers backing running away?

EXCEPT FOR LIBERALS. Dog-whistling Dixie over and over is wearing thin.

I MAY HAVE JUST PERFORMED A CRIMINAL ACT. I cleared the cookies on my computer.

AT HOME, ENJOYING MOTHERHOOD. Where are the alpha females?

OUR CHOICES: Middle class or 'meddle' class.

DETROIT: Ayn Rand's Starnesville come to life.

I finished (re)reading Atlas Shrugged not too long ago. Rand's description of Starnesville is a near-perfect match to the pictures of the now abandoned parts of Detroit.

What I find most unsettling is that the rest of America isn't far behind.

THE GROUNDS for standing your ground.

If, God help us, a 'duty to retreat' is formulated into law, then every public park in America has the potential to become a gangbangers' heaven. Don't believe me? Then go and enjoy any state/national forest/park on the Arizona border with Mexico.

25 FACTS about the fall of Detroit that will leave you shaking your head....

OH MY, the dildo has been hunted to extinction. It must have been that Navy corpse-man who fired the fatal last shot....

WE HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE and it is WeinerSpitzer.

NEWT GINGRICH: A conversation about Detroit.

ERIC HOLDER: Let's replace 'Stand Your Ground' with 'Lay Down And Die'.

MORE IDIOCY IN DETROIT: Michigan Circuit Judge Rosemarie Aquilina ruled Detroit bankruptcy is unconstitutional, saying "the filing did not honor President Barack Obama's work for the city, who she said 'took [Detroit's auto companies] out of bankruptcy'. Aquilina said she would send a copy of her order to Obama."

Where on God's green Earth do we find people this dumb? [I know, I know, ... Detroit.]

IS THERE anyone on the Left who doesn't lie?

Maybe. But I wouldn't bet on it.

DOCTORS ARE skeptical and confused about ObamaCare. They're not the only ones.

A REMINDER: "The simplest reason why Romney lost [the 2012 Presidential election] was because it is impossible to compete against free stuff."

The article was originally written in November of 2012; it's making the email rounds again, and is still worth a long, thoughtful read.

THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER:

The Tom Toles cartoon in today's Washington Post takes the Brits to task for the 'expense' of their monarchy. It's worth reminding him that the monarchy costs the British something on the order of $55.6 million per year. The U.S. Presidency costs the American taxpayer roughly $1.4 billion per year.

I would also point out that Toles' "neither one gainfully employed" snark applies to the U.S. and Obama presidency as well.

BEING A LIBERAL means you don't have to grow up.

QUIT WHINING; you voted for ObamaCare: Professors must take invasive physical tests under new health care regime.

WOULD FORCING a high-salt diet on liberals bring their collective IQ's up to sub-normal?

ANDREW KLAVAN: A National Conversation About Complete Crap.

BYRON YORK: Are Republicans fooling themselves about Obamacare?

If the 'Affordable Care Act' (ObamaCare) does go into effect in 2014, there will be healthcare for those who can afford to pay cash, and 'deathcare' for the rest of us.

IF YOU'RE ALIVE, thank a neutrino.

MORNING EXAMINER: Republicans are willing to shut down government to stop fraudulent Obamacare subsidies. I'd be willing to shut down government 'just because'.

OBAMACARE LOOPHOLE could leave doctors holding the bag for unpaid claims. "[A] research firm specializing in health care and higher education ... suggests that small practices might want to consider refusing exchange plans, if they can, so that they don't, you know, go broke."

YEAH, RIGHT: The free market killed Detroit.

BARACK OBAMA: I was for 'Stand Your Ground' before I was against it.

IF THIS doesn't scare hell out of you, nothing will:

[ObamaCare] navigators will have access to sensitive data such as Social Security numbers and tax returns, there will be no criminal background checks required for them. Indeed, they won’t even have to have high-school diplomas.

Obama's new and improved NSA....

IF IT'S SO DAMNED IMPORTANT, fund it yourselves: Latino groups say they lack funding for Obamacare outreach.

HEH: "If there were a contest to see who did their job better -- Eric Holder or a toilet paper holder -- the winner would be the latter."

MSNBC <=> STUPID (CONT'D ): "MSNBC’s Martin Bashir argued that the British people are excited over today’s birth of the royal baby because they need a morale boost to overcome the economic woes wrought by conservative fiscal policy."

RUNNING OUT THE RACE CARD: The Obama Administration’s Race-Baiting Campaign.

SWIVEL HIPS: Obama's semi-annual pivot to jobs.

REMAKE DETROIT ... or empty it. I'd recommend emptying it -- but I'm not sure I would want those former Detroiters in my back yard.

FROM MY EMAIL: Put me in charge . . .

Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away.

If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.

Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine.

If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, or smoke, then get a job.

Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried.

If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.

In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the "common good.."

Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules.

Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem," consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.

If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices.

The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.

Published in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco , TX on 8 Nov 2010.

This was added in the email chain that led to me: "AND while you are on Gov't subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes, that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov't welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job."

That last item really speaks to me. If you don't contribute (i.e., pay taxes), don't vote.

DOUG GILES on why Obama continues to stir the Trayvon pot: “If you don’t like what people are saying about you, change the conversation.”

Read it all.

NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Colored Progressives. Next step: NAAP. Oh, wait, that's the Democrat party.

ZONATION: Black Men Named Trayvon Get Killed all the Time.

DOES BADGERING PATIENTS improve health outcomes? Nope. About all it does is piss off the patient.

MSNBC: Detroit is the result of a too-small government that doesn't tax enough.

I told you liberals are stupid.

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: California’s biggest insurer for small business declines to participate in the small-business exchanges.

There's no mandate for suicide -- yet.

NY FOOD STAMP RECIPIENTS are shipping welfare-funded groceries to relatives in Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. And it's almost certainly better targeted and more effective than government aid.

QUOTES OF THE DAY: on Detroit.

The best thing government could do for Detroit is to plow under half the city and return it to farmland.

MOVE OVER NSA, here comes the Obamacare Big Brother database. If nothing else, the 2014/2016 elections will be, um, ... interesting.

MSNBC <=> STUPID. Again. MSNBC host wears tampon earrings to protest Texas abortion bill.

Sen. McCain, please unbundle cable....

OBAMACARE: passed by Congress, signed by the president, upheld by the Supreme Court, affirmed by Obama’s reelection -- and collapsing on its own.

FIVE MOVIE STARS whose careers are in trouble. Movie 'stars'? Four of the five I've never even heard of....

RAND PAUL: A union cloud over Obamacare as broken promises infuriate the president’s base.

ROBOT GYMNASTICS and other feats of daring.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES -- bankruptcy edition.

IF OBAMA HAD ...

LIBERAL MALFEASANCE led to 'Stand Your Ground' laws.

JANET NAPOLITANO'S appointment as president of the University of California -- A Disastrous Choice: "Her appointment is the plain and cynical declaration that UC is dedicating itself to a certain kind of hackery that triumphs over scholarly principle."

Instapundit's been predicting for a while now that the 'education bubble' is about to burst. I think the Napolitano appointment shows that higher education, at least, hasn't gotten the message yet.

TOTO, I don't think we're in America any more.

PARENTAL NEGLECT: "My child is 'gifted'. He's also 29, unemployed, and living in my basement."

DAVID SOLWAY: The Snob Factor among Conservatives. While I agree with much of the post, I am less inclined to ascribe the rift to snobbery than I am to fear of (political) unemployment.

BIG SURPRISE: White House immigration ‘FACT’ not so factual after all.

Facts? Never let facts interfere with the narrative....

AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: Five ways to generate at least 5 million new jobs by 2020.

I'm not convinced. As the commenters correctly note, none of the '5 ways' addresses the underlying problem, which is (liberal) culture.

JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON: Boycott oranges; oranges are grown in Florida.

44 YEARS AGO AT 10:56 PM EDT:

 

"Here Men From Planet Earth
First Set Foot Upon The Moon
July 1969 A.D.
We Came In Peace For All Mankind"

 

IF YOU BELIEVE Trayvon Martin was attacked in public, your crusade against Stand Your Ground is especially misguided.

But liberals never let facts interfere with the desired narrative.

(OVER)REGULATION NATION: Does your rabbit have a license?

FINALLY: I've always wondered how they did that.

Via Ann Althouse.

THE WASHINGTON POST'S Harold Meyerson rails against WalMart:

On average, Wal-Mart pays its workers $12.67 an hour — which means that a huge number of its 1.4 million U.S. employees make a good deal less than that.

And a huge number make more than that.

[T]he Bentonville behemoth compels thousands of its employees to use food stamps to feed their families and Medicaid to pay their doctor bills. It compels taxpayers to pick up a tab that wouldn’t even exist if the company paid its workers enough to get them out of poverty.

I shouldn't have to ask, but does Meyerson understand that the alternative to low wages is no wages? Welfare and unemployent payments are also on the taxpayer tab....

Since Meyerson is so adamant about paying a 'living wage' I'm sure he is willing to demand the D.C. City Council require all employers pay a minimum $12.50/hour, including D.C.'s own employees.

"THE MOST POISONOUS UNTRUTH being peddled in the wake of the George Zimmerman acquittal is the claim that American justice is racist."

The idea that the criminal-justice system discriminates against blacks — and that this bias explains blacks’ disproportionate presence in custody — is a staple of civil-rights activism and of the academic Left. Every effort to prove it empirically, however, has come up short.

Read it all.

CANADIANS are apparently considering purchasing Detroit. They could get the Pistons, Red Wings, and a first-ever NFL franchise, the Detroit Lions.

Yes, it is tongue-in-cheek.

MARK STEYN: "[I]n Michigan, reality is unconstitutional." And 'denial' is a river in Egypt.

IS THERE A SILVER LINING to Tom Perez’s confirmation as Secretary of Labor?

I'm not optimistic. That the Obama administration cannot be trusted is obvious to anyone with two functioning brain cells to rub together, yet we continue to let Congress to grant them even more power.

SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, MR. PRESIDENT: Obama says Americans should search their souls, wring out bias.

OUCH!

Battleground Texas has not explained why it assumed that one must speak in Spanish in order to connect to Texas Latinos. As newcomers to the state President Obama’s campaigners may not be aware that Texas was once a part of Mexico, and Latinos and Latino culture have been part of the fabric of the state for centuries. They are welcome to brush up on their Texas history while they are here. It’s usually taught in the seventh grade.

The Twitter attack that started this is here.

DEMOCRATS AT WORK

More McCoy cartoons here.

OH, ABOUT THOSE HEALTH INSURANCE REBATES? Most of the money goes back to your employer (who paid most of the premium). You get what the suckers in a class-action lawsuit get -- used.

BLOOMBERG TO NYC POOR: We'd rather you starve than eat 'unhealthy' food.

Here's a thought: have them climb 5 flights of stairs before being able to eat the 'uhealthy' stuff.

UNDER OBAMACARE, almost the only ones who will be able to keep their doctor and their health plan are the ones who have no doctor or health plan. But the good news is that they will be able to keep them....

OBAMA TO DETROIT: the election's over, I'm in; drop dead.

CHICAGO PASSES tough new gun laws; shootings continue nightly.

WELL, HE'S HALFWAY THERE: ObamaCare Is the Right’s Worst Nightmare. Correctly stated, ObamaCare is America's worst nightmare.

FLORIDA GUN DEALER offers free gun to George Zimmerman. And an ATF inspection is scheduled in 5...4...3... .

AS I THINK I'VE SAID SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE, 'progressive' is a synonym for 'stupid'.

TECHWISE CONVERSATIONS: We’re Being Enslaved by Free Information.

What I find interesting about this article is the similarity to the excise tax proposal I linked to here.

THINK PROGRESS goes bananas [nothing new there] because McDonalds has the temerity to try to help their low-wage employees learn to budget.

And their 'recommendation' is ... what? Unemployment? Welfare? Nope. Reading the nuance between the lines, which is what liberals do so well, it is for McDonalds to go out of business.

Which results in ... unemployment ... and welfare.

HEH: "Turn Detroit into a national park, to show our kids the wonders of 'Government Help'.”

My suggestion for revitalizing Detroit is to move Congress there.

PEGGY NOONAN: A Bombshell in the IRS Scandal.

This is the moment things go forward or stall. Republicans need to find out how high the scandal went and why, exactly, it went there.

To quote an American hero: "Let's roll."

OBAMA IN 2012: "‘We refused to let Detroit go bankrupt.’ Until after the election....." More here.

HEH:

Shamelessly stolen from Instapundit.

WHAT'S NEXT? Targeting mothers for giving parenting advice to their daughters?

Via Instapundit.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Alaska challenges Obama administration over ANWR. If Obama can just ignore Congress, then why shouldn't states just ignore him?

In fact, why shouldn't we all -- individuals, towns, cities, states -- just ignore him and dare this petty dictator to do something about it?

DETROIT: Liberalism's inevitable end [with pictures].

BIG LABOR FINDS OUT: If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.

WHAT TO DO when the sun goes out.

HUH? Barefoot running shoes?

REPEAL 'STAND YOUR GROUND': it's benefitting too many blacks.

OBAMA: 'Top Down' government and 'Trickle Down' economics -- the worst of both worlds.

COLORADO DEMOCRAT afraid to let his kids play with Nerf guns after Zimmerman verdict. I pity his kids; the man's really screwed up.

"AFTER GOV. RICK PERRY signed the bipartisan HB2 [20-week restriction on abortions] into law today, Planned Parenthood reports that it will now close three of its operations in Texas. Clinics in Bryan, Huntsville and Lufkin will now shutter."

"How can this be, if only 3% of Planned Parenthood’s business is abortion services?"

STRUGGLING ARTISTS: Nancy Pelosi may want you to pursue your dreams on my nickel; I don't.

THE DOJ'S Zimmerman tip line gets it's first call.

Many more tips here.

ARMED CITIZEN PROJECT sponsors gun buyback to arm more people.

A buyback program I can support.

I'D PAY for one located outside the White House.

MICHELLE OBAMA’S AMERICA: Schools now rely on junk food sales to make ends meet.

The Michelle Obama-backed Healthy and Hunger Free Kids Act and its restrictive regulations mandating the number of calories and nutrients in every kid’s meal have caused school districts to lose money due to a huge drop in school lunch sales.

While a few school districts are opting out of the program altogether, others have been subsidizing their operating losses with increased sales of fatty, sugary, calorie-laden junk food.

You can't make this stuff up.

CHARLIE DANIELS: The Press and Paula Deen.

ALCHEMISTS' DREAM of making gold is discovered. Start with two neutron stars, and ....

AND THIS IS SOMEHOW A SURPRISE? People not “well designed” to continuously monitor autopilots.

BATTLEGROUND TEXAS, a Democrat political action group asks (in Spanish) how gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott plans to communicate with Latina (women) voters. Here's his response.

IEEE SPECTRUM: Japan prepares to restart nuclear power plants.

OBAMA MAY snub Putin over Snowden asylum. Somehow I doubt that Putin really cares what Obama does.

COLORADO TOWN mulls issuing licenses to shoot down drones. I assume shotguns are still legal in Colorado (provided they don't have 30-round magazines).

My question: Will there be a drone season, or is this year-round?

RANDOM THOUGHT from the retirement lane: the U.S. would be better off if we opened the Mexican border and fenced off California.

NANNY BLOOMBERG'S latest move: hide the elevators. And by all means hire some hidden elevator inspectors to ensure that they're properly hidden.

UNEXPECTEDLY: IRS Chief Counsel Was Involved in Targeting Tea Party Groups.

OH, MY: Now the Uncertainty Principle is ... uncertain.

U.S. AIR FORCE combat aircraft no longer grounded.

The ability for the Air Force to get its planes airborne again comes after Congress authorized the Defense Department to shift about $7.5 billion from lower priority accounts to more vital operations. The Air Force said the restored flying hours represent about $208 million of that allocation authorized by Congress.

“If recent reprogramming measures can put our pilots back in the air, I fully expect the Air Force can also find a way to also end furloughs for this fiscal year,” U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., said in a statement. “Today’s announcement proves the military’s pain from sequester could have been mitigated all along had my bill to give flexibility to the Department of Defense been rightfully considered.”

More proof -- if any is needed -- that the sequestration need not have been as harmful as the Obama administration would have us believe.

LEGAL INSURRECTION: The Feds want George Zimmerman in jail, any way they can.

CAN YOU NAME THIS OLD TOOL? Do you know what it is? Hint: it was used by physicians ....



It's a tobacco smoke enema (1750s-1810s), used to infuse tobacco smoke into patient’s rectum for various medical purposes, primarily the resuscitation of drowning victims. A rectal tube inserted into the anus was connected to a fumigator and bellows that forced the smoke towards the rectum.

The warmth of the smoke was thought to promote respiration, but doubts about the credibility of tobacco enemas led to the popular phrase "blowin'smoke up your ass".

It has been reintroduced by the Obama Administration as an integral part of the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare).

SMELL-O-VISION: Coming to a Living Room Near You? Thanks, but I don't think so.

ROBERT HEINLEIN on progressives: "Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable sub-human who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."

Treat them with dignity but don't let 'em vote.

COMMENTS ON the George Zimmerman verdict, and guns.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Health Plan Cost for New Yorkers Set to Fall 50%: State officials estimate as many as 615,000 individuals will buy health insurance on their own in the first few years the federal health law is in effect.

My guess is that their estimate is at least a factor of 10 too high. And the cost a factor of 2 too low.

NEWT GINGRICH: After ObamaCare.

President Obama's decision to postpone the employer mandate has opened the floodgates of hostility to the individual mandate.

A recent poll indicates only 12% (one out of every eight Americans) favor implementing the individual mandate next year.

In a free society laws cannot be imposed on an unwilling country by 12% of the people.

In that simple fact lies the beginning of the end of Obamacare.

So just ignore him, and in three more years, our national nightmare will be over.

'DRONECLEANERS' deliver pants by quadcopter.

FLAT TAX? FAIR TAX? SALES TAX? VALUE-ADDED TAX? No, let's go back to the excise tax.

It's a novel idea that bears looking at.

NO RACISM HERE: Black Man With Pistol Permit Shoots White Teen, Is Acquitted. Move along, now. Nothing to see....

SKIP THE AMNESTY: a doorway without a wall cannot stand. Get control of immigration first; then let's discuss amnesty.

OF COURSE they're going to ban fireplaces, fire pits, and back-yard barbeques in private homes too. Aren't they?

WHY OBAMA’S SMART-GOVERNMENT INITIATIVE IS DUMB: You can't do dumb things smartly.

THE WASHINGTON POST'S Eugene Robinson: racist in his own mind. Despite not a scintilla of evidence, Robinson declares that George Zimmerman was racist, and the jury verdict unjust:

When Sanford, Fla., police arrived on the scene, they encountered a grown man who acknowledged killing an unarmed 17-year-old boy. They did not arrest the man or test him for drug or alcohol use. They conducted a less-than-energetic search for forensic evidence. They hardly bothered to look for witnesses.

Why should they have? As the trial proved, the killing was a clear case of self-defense.

Only a national outcry forced authorities to investigate the killing seriously. Even after six weeks, evidence was found to justify arresting Zimmerman, charging him with second-degree murder and putting him on trial.

National outcry? By whom? The only voices I heard were the race mongers. Evidence was 'found'? Found? More like created from whole cloth.

Jurors knew that Zimmerman was an overeager would-be cop, a self-appointed guardian of the neighborhood who carried a loaded gun. They were told that he profiled Martin — young, black, hooded sweatshirt — as a criminal. They heard that he stalked Martin despite the advice of a 911 operator; that the stalking led to a confrontation; and that, in the confrontation, Zimmerman fatally shot Martin in the chest.

Okay, let's take these one at a time. 'Jurors knew.' No, that's what they were told by the prosecution.

A 'would-be cop'. Aspiring to be a police officer is a bad thing?

A 'self-appointed guardian of the neighborhood'. Hardly; he was a member of the local Neighborhood Watch, a program originally started by the police way back in 1972 (before Robinson's time, obviously). Due to my advanced age, obviously, I can remember back when every parent in a neighborhood was a 'self-appointed guardian of the neighborhood'.

Who 'carried a loaded gun'. For those of us who do choose to carry, yes, it is loaded. And Zimmerman was fully authorized to do so.

He 'profiled Martin'. It's profiling to report someone who is acting suspiciously? OMG ... better tell Homeland Security.

He 'stalked Martin despite the advice of a 911 operator'. Not according to the trial transcript, which, assuming he can read, Robinson should have read.

The 'stalking led to a confrontation'. And according to the trial transcript, it was Martin who confronted Zimmerman, not conversely.

Zimmerman 'fatally shot Martin'. That's the first factual statement Robinson made; but just to add a few additional facts, the shooting occurred only after Zimmerman was attacked, was being beaten, and in fear of his own life.

Eugene Robinson is the racist bigot; not George Zimmerman.

FIRST GERMANY, now Spain cuts green energy losses. New markets opening up for coal producers?

TEENS CHASE kidnapping suspect on bikes, save 5-year-old girl. Not mentioned: the teens are black.

A CRANKY HARRY REID snaps at students. One student: “You’re almost making me want to switch to the other party.”

WASN'T IT SUPPOSED TO BE THE OTHER WAY? Obamacare Could Push Nearly 1 Million Americans From Work to Welfare.

SADLY, YES: Was the world a better place 100 years ago?

INSIDE THE IMMIGRATION BILL: Details, bureaucracy and pork. The 'details' are irrelevant to the problem, the 'bureaucracy' is massive, and the 'pork' is inevitable.

THE RISE OF PART-TIME AMERICA:

As Clinton famously said, "It's the economy, stupid." ObamaCare is just making things worse.

RIGHT HAND, LEFT HAND: As Eric Holder's Justice Department decides to investigate George Zimmerman over possible civil rights violations, FBI documents show no Zimmerman bias.

Waiting ... FBI (unexpectedly!) uncovers new evidence of Zimmerman bias.

IT'S TIME to leave the government plantation: "At the heart of liberalism is the idea that only a great and powerful big government can be the benefactor of social justice for all Americans. But the left is only concerned with one thing -- control. And they disguise this control as charity."

SURPRISE: "Cause and effect don’t stop with politicians’ intent."

PLAYING THE RACE CARD: "It’s about keeping blacks — and guilty white liberals — heated up and on the plantation ...."

HITLER learns of the Zimmerman verdict.

IMAGINARY WAR ON COAL claims more non-imaginary victims.

ANOTHER OBAMACASUALTY: Wegman's grocery store chain axes health benefits for part-timers due to ObamaCare.

ANOTHER REASON the 'smart grid' may be a dumb idea. Which explains why I have a back-up generator and transfer switch to isolate my home from the grid. Fossil fuel can't be hacked and can be hand pumped if need be.

ZIMMERMAN PROSECUTOR Angela Corey threatens libel after criticism. I watched her on television immediately following the Zimmerman verdict. To call her performance 'self-serving' would be a kindness.

Instapundit has it right, I think: "With public officials, there’s usually an inverse relationship between competence and thin-skinnedness."

SO, FLATWORMS ARE SMARTER THAN LIBERALS: Even a flatworm is smart enough to turn away from pain.

MEMES: What if your gluten intolerance is all in your head?

POOR CHRIS MATTHEWS: his idol is proving to have feet of clay.

SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER: Unfair to Delay ObamaCare Mandate on Businesses While Leaving Families on the Hook.

Give 'em hell, John.

CHRISTOPHER BEDFORD: The (real) life of Julie. The Left does not like real people; they keep asking those damned inconvenient questions.

MAKING PRO-CHOICERS LOOK BAD, one riot protest at a time.

WHY IS MSNBC losing in the television ratings?

[T]he nighttime hours from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM are too erudite, too sophisticated and too earnest to hook a wide swath of viewers.

Oh, please. Liberals can't tell the difference between 'sophisticated' and 'stupid'?

POWERLINE: What is it with liberals and food?

MORE: Dietetically incorrect: salt edition.

How long before 'gluten-free' dies a well-deserved death?

THINK PROGRESS says solar power will soon be cheaper than coal. Well, of course; if I tax one and subsidize the other, pound-for-pound I can make feathers more expensive than gold.

UNCLEAN AT ANY SPEED: Electric cars don’t solve the automobile’s environmental problems.

I posted a less comlprehensive version of this same article here.

IN AMNESTY PUSH, Obama abandons fight against income inequality. In the progressive's fantasy world, one need only wish for something and it is so. In the real world, things are a bit more complex.

WOULDN'T YOU KNOW IT: Future Space Regulations Likely Dictated By ... Insurers.

NAVY'S X-47B DRONE makes first arrested carrier landing.



History.

[UPDATE] Twice successful, X-47B aborts third aircraft carrier landing and diverts to Wallops Island.

DELAY OBAMACARE? Hell, No.

The American public voted for Barack Obama twice. They should be made to care about the policy choices they have enabled by having those policies go into effect exactly as the Democrats intended.

I would agree, except ... I didn't vote for Obama, and I don't particularly want to be thrown under his wrecked train.

Now if we could selectively implement it on just those who voted for Obama....

EZRA KLEIN: You can’t deny global warming after seeing this graph.

Let's see; the Earth is something over 4-1/2 billion years old, and we're obsessing over 150 years (0.000000033%) of available data? So yes, I believe I can safely deny global warming alarmism after seeing the graph

Look at the data and I think you can safely say that the Earth is probably slightly warmer than it has been in my lifetime. Beyond that? Meh.

Read the comments for a quick view of what the people who think they know what they're talking about are talking about.

DON'T THESE LEGISLATORS have something better to do? Apparently not ... they're Democrats.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON ON 'HATE THOUGHT': It matters not what you said; it matters what we think you thought.

CHICAGO: We don't want honest citizens interfering with our criminals' right to carry concealed arms.

WHAT BOONDOGGLE? White House/Jay Carney unaware of $34M military HQ in southwestern Afghanistan that troops won't use.

My brother emailed "What? Did the White House cancel it's newspaper subscriptions due to the sequester?" My thought is that it never subscribed in the first place (I'm not sure Democrats can read).

TWISTED LIGHT sends data through optical fiber for first time. When I read this, somehow I'm reminded of my television cable package, where I've got 500+ channels of utterly worthless garbage.

ALTRUISM SUCKS when it's your own money.

PATHOLOGICAL LIAR: Pelosi says Obamacare employer mandate not delayed.

IMMIGRATION REFORM: the House bill or nothing. No compromise with the Senate.

GOT JUNK? Turn it into a drone.

BEST OBAMA DESCRIPTION EVER: "President Obama has declared that he is not bound by mere law. All he is missing are mirrored sunglasses and a big military hat."

Now you can go on and read about the soon-to-come ObamaCare disaster.

POWERLINE: On airline crashes and pilot training.

Read it all.

PAYBACK TIME: Hit the IRS where it hurts -- in their budget.

MCCONNELL TO REID: You, Sir, are about to become the Worst.Senate.Leader.Ever. About to become? Dude, that ship sailed six years ago.

WALMART scraps D.C. store plans. As they should. If I owned WalMart, I'd simply walk away, but it would be 'just desserts' for WalMart to build its stores just 1 foot outside the District line in Maryland, and just across the Potomac in Virginia.

And hire only [D.C.] nonresidents.

I recall an old story of an irate voter sending his Congresscritter a telegram: "Go to Hell. Strong letter follows." That's a tradition that needs to be reinvented.

NEW PURITANS: California regulators look to curb beach bonfires, citing climate change. Fun is strictly forbidden unless specifically authorized by regulators.

HEH: Florida accidentally bans all computers and smartphones.

A really wise man (conservative, naturally) once said "You can never do just one thing." So it's probably a good idea to think carefully about what you're planning before you, you know, attempt it.

DEMOCRATS: "busy pouting and drawing crayon mustaches on [their] photo[s] of Newt Gingrich."

OBAMACARE IS MUCH EASIER TO IMPLEMENT when the Government ignores its own laws. So ... can I just ignore the individual mandate?

KILL THE IMMIGRATION BILL: "[I]t would be better if Republicans won more Hispanic voters than they have in the past—but it’s most important that the party perform better among working-class and younger voters concerned about economic opportunity and upward mobility. Passing this unworkable, ramshackle bill is counterproductive or irrelevant to that task."

JUST IGNORE THEM: New York school drops Michelle Obama lunch plan after kids complain they're starving. I'm seeing more and more cases where Americans are just ignoring the Progressives' recommended mandated solutions for America's ills.

Civil disobedience on a massive scale....

WELL, YES: "The country's in the very best of hands." It is if you want to guarantee that the progressives never have another chance to run the country.

WILL DOCTORS PROMOTE OBAMACARE? The head of the AMA thinks so. I'm not so sure. I doubt my doctors will; and the AMA doesn't represent all -- or even most, as best I can tell -- medical professionals.

I suspect those who want to tell you how to live will; those who want to treat your illnesses, won't.

REPEAL THE 16TH AMENDMENT and abolish the IRS: "[T]he ground for repeal is becoming more fertile with every new twist in the current IRS scandal. As Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., told Breitbart News, 'the information that the IRS has on file on people goes pretty deep into personal lives. It is being leaked out and given to people for very specific political reasons. I think this is something that should be the most chilling thing for Americans to understand.' That is the kind of power no federal agency should have."

THE FUTURE OF FLIGHT will be 3-D Printed Planes.

ON VACATION here in Nova Scotia, I've seen signs in the grocery stores indicating that when you buy fish, it'll be tagged with the name of the fisherman who caught it. As long as it doesn't come with an affidavit by some government functionary attesting that it died happy....

OBAMACARE'S 'dirty dozen' implementation failures. But other than that, everything's going swimmingly.

"THE CONSEQUENCES of too much sun, it’s becoming clear, are likely to be less serious than the chances of not enough. Too much sun gives you wrinkles and an elevated chance of skin cancer — but skin cancer is easy to diagnose and usually easy to treat if it’s caught early. Too little sun increases your risk of ovarian, colon and other cancers that are much harder to spot, and often more serious."

Real science, not progressive pseudo-science.

MORNING EXAMINER: Immigration reform is dead and Obamacare implementation killed it. Can you ask for better news?

ASSOCIATED PRESS: Temporary jobs becoming permanent. No shit, Sherlock. Now explain to me why you're surprised.

UPDATE & BUMP: America's second-largest employer is a temp agency.

THE MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY'S REPUTATION continues to suffer.

WELCOME TO THE CLUB: Democrats “Nervous,” “Concerned” About “Complex,” Confusing, “Train Wreck” ObamaCare.

CALIFORNIA PRISON DOCTORS sterilized women to cut welfare costs. Now ask yourself the next obvious question: What will the ObamaCare doctors do to cut ObamaCare costs? Hmmm?

WHAT IS ISLAM? This is exactly the same observation I make in 2006 during by orientation before going to Iraq for the first time.

OH, GOOD: Broke cities looking to unload expensive retirees on ObamaCare taxpayers.

"BIG GOVERNMENT reduces all of us to the status of children. We have no responsibility for anything in our lives; therefore, government must take care of us. All we have to do, like children, is give up the freedom to make our own choices — good or bad."

NOW YOU CAN self-report income to obtain ObamaCare subsidies. So when can I also self-report income for tax purposes?

HEH: Kids Cheer as School District Opts Out of Michelle Obama’s Lunch Menu.

This is the way to get the Government out of our knickers -- just ignore them.

SHOULDN'T THE HEADLINE READ "Armed Invaders To Attack...

SHOULDN'T THE HEADLINE READ "Armed Invaders To Attack Innocent Polar Bears In Their Homes"?

Isn't it an infringement of the bears' Fourth Amendment Rights?

HEH: [T]he people they’re suing...

HEH: [T]he people they’re suing probably have a “Living Wage” bumper sticker on the back of their Tesla."

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE: Who Will Fight for Us...

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE: Who Will Fight for Us? Not the Obama administration, certainly.

RIGHT AFTER THE 2014 ELECTION: FBI Still Hasn't...

RIGHT AFTER THE 2014 ELECTION: FBI Still Hasn't Contacted IRS-Targeted Tea Party Groups About Investigation.

POWERLINE'S The Week in Pictures

POWERLINE'S The Week in Pictures. Here's my favorite:

I've advocated that Americans just ignore Obama, but maybe this is the better approach. It worked in 2010 with the Tea Party....

ANOTHER PRO-CHOICE CLASS ACT....

ANOTHER PRO-CHOICE CLASS ACT. For the Left "Have you no shame?" is a non sequitur.

On the brighter side, the post did produce this comment: "Lefties don’t want the government in women’s wombs, yet they support Obamacare, which puts the government in every possible orifice, cavity, and pore."

MAJORITY OF AMERICANS feel...

MAJORITY OF AMERICANS feel blacks are more racist than whites and Hispanics.

If Progressives were an ethnic group, they would be the hands-down winners.

ADDED: I'm not the only one who noticed.