ASTEROIDS WILL NO LONGER BE SAFE, now that lobbyists have them in their sights. That ought to scare them away....

MISMANAGEMENT? or simple thuggery?

THE FIVE MINUTE NRA SPEECH that would change the gun control debate forever. It should be the Democrats and Republicans in Congress giving the speech, but it won't happen because the gun control debate isn't about guns, it's about control.

IF THEY JAYWALK, can they be considered fair game for drivers?

THE WHITE HOUSE'S POLITICAL COWARDICE:

A former agent blasted President Obama for blaming the Secret Service for the decision to shut down White House tours, calling it “an act of political cowardice” on Your World with Neil Cavuto this afternoon [14 March]. Dan Bongino explained that the agency’s job is to provide security for the White House; it does not determine who comes in. “To say that this was the Secret Service, and that they somehow injected themselves into a political decision — well, do they get to tell [the president] to stop taking vacations and to stop going golfing as well?” Bongino said. “This doesn’t even pass the smell test.”

It does if the smell test is "Does it stink?"

JUST ANOTHER CONCEALED CARRY SUCCESS that you'll never hear about in the major media.

DO WE HAVE A DEBT CRISIS? After four years, Congressional Democrats have finally produced a budget that never balances, increases spending by 62% over ten years, and adds $7 trillion to the national debt despite raising taxes by $1.5 trillion.

Both my Virginia Senators voted for this budget. This weekend, they will get an earful from me.

MARS ROVER 'CURIOSITY' earns NASA/JPL the 2012 Collier Trophy.

GLENN REYNOLDS has an interesting idea for post-secondary education: a college without a faculty. Given the ubiquity of distance learning, it's certainly within the realm of feasibility, but it seems to me being a case of keeping the least useful and highest cost part of the collegiate experience and 'outsourcing' the rest.

NO SH*T, SHERLOCK: "Intellectuals ... have all too often been in the vanguard of those promoting envy and resentment of the successful."

NOTE TO UNION TEACHERS: If you want to be treated like professionals, act like professionals.

VIDEO: George H.W. Bush’s first flash mob. At Texas A&M University.

THE NEW PURITANISM: "Let my conscience be your guide."

Escaping the Puritans is a task never finished.

THERE'S NO CHANCE of a 'grand bargain'.

GUN CONTROL, it turns out, is largely culture control.

And it's time to take culture back.

CPAC 2013: here, here, here, and here.

IF YOU'RE A NEW YORK TEEN WITH A DISTENDED BELLY THESE DAYS, it had better be because you're pregnant.

AFTER ALL, IT'S THE GOVERNMENT'S MONEY: U.S. to let spy agencies scour Americans' finances. It's not spying if it's their money.