WHO NEEDS A DOCTOR when you have a smart phone?

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

The unanswered question is whether or not it will be used to empower the patient ... or control him.

A TRIP THROUGH THE LIBERAL MIND: "Just know this. In the world of the liberal you are not yours. You do not own yourself, nor do you own the fruits of your labors. The government owns you. The government will decide how the money you earned is distributed. You will be allowed to keep enough to keep you happy – to keep you working. The amount you are allowed to keep will be referred to in Washington as a 'tax expenditure.' The rest of the money you have earned, which will be referred to as 'your fair share,' will be spent to create more and more government dependency."

IT'S NOT ABOUT EDUCATION; it's about indoctrination: The shaky science behind Obama's universal pre-K.

VIRGINIA approves a two-year moratorium on drone flights in the state.

Virginia is one of several states to consider regulating drones this year as the Obama administration looks to begin permitting their widespread use domestically in 2015, despite worries from groups on both sides of the political spectrum that they could be used by the government to intrude on citizens’ privacy.

The assembly’s bill would outlaw general government use of drones, except for National Guard training and for emergency purposes, such as searching for missing children or seniors.

Wise. It's not that I don't trust the government, but I don't trust the government. Until strict privacy rules are in place, I prefer to keep the government droneless (in the widest possible sense of the word 'drone'.)

A NOTE on single-payer health care: "I recall that when I was stationed in the UK in the early 1990s, at considerable expense to the taxpayers the Navy paid for US service members to have our children in private hospitals because NHS hospitals did not meet the Navy's minimum care standards."

I'll support ObamaCare when I can reasonably expect to share a semi-private hospital room with any of my elected government officials....

CALIFORNIA DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATION: a toxic blend of political correctness, anti-Americanism, and bureaucratic senselessness.

WHISTLES, PENS, AND BODILY FLUIDS -- but no guns.

DON'T GET SICK: Obama's Health Insurance Premiums are Going Through the Roof.

Pay the penalty (if you must), and pay cash.

THE LEFT’S OVERREACH on guns has been very good for the NRA.

MEDIA: "The entire reporting of the news has gotten so fake, reading the above just reinforces how vacuous it all is."

GUN RETAILER ABANDONS CALIFORNIA -- for Texas.

Finally. It looks like it took the Second Amendment for Americans to start 'punching back'. Shield Tactical is departing California; Magpul is leaving Colorado; Olympic Arms is no longer selling to any New York government agency; and Ruger is encouraging customers to contact their legislators.

It's about time.

TAR & FEATHERS isn't enough.

Last week the Massachusetts Department of Education issued directives for handling transgender students – including allowing them to use the bathrooms of their choice or to play on sports teams that correspond to the gender with which they identify.

The 11-page directive also urged schools to eliminate gender-based clothing and gender-based activities – like having boys and girls line up separately to leave the classroom.

Schools will now be required to accept a student’s gender identity on face value.

“A student who says she is a girl and wishes to be regarded that way throughout the school day and throughout every, or almost every, other area of her life, should be respected and treated like a girl,” the guidelines stipulate.

According to the Dept. of Education, transgender students are those whose assigned birth sex does not match their “internalized sense of their gender.”

They said gender nonconforming students “range in the ways in which they identify as male, female, some combination of both, or neither.”

“The responsibility for determining a student’s gender identity rests with the student,” the guidelines dictate. “One’s gender identity is an innate, largely inflexible characteristic of each individual’s personality that is generally established by age four…As a result, the person best situated to determine a student’s gender identity is that student himself or herself.”

The new rules would also prevent teachers and administrators from telling parents with which gender their child identifies.

It's getting to the point where sending one's child to a public school is -- or should be -- considered child abuse.