GREEN SUPREMACY: the viciousness of the 'environmentally righteous'.

I’D CALL THEM GHOULS, but that’s unfair to ghouls everywhere.

COLLEGE: What's the Point?

Via Meadia is far too kind on the value of a liberal arts degree: "Employers want people who can write, who can intuit what others are thinking, who can learn from others." That's true. But try to find a recent college graduate who can do even one of the above....

NEWT GINGRICH:

President Obama often speaks of the need for a “balanced approach” to reducing the deficit. But when his administration defends air traffic control disruptions and half-million-dollar electric lemons in the same week, you have to wonder about his sense of “balance.”

Read it all.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Why Read Old Books?

So we can understand today?

PRESIDENT OBAMA IDENTIFIES HIMSELF.

President Obama walks into the Bank of America to cash a check. As he approaches the cashier he says, "Good morning Ma'am, could you please cash this check for me?"

Cashier: "It would be my pleasure sir. Could you please show me your ID?"

Obama: "Truthfully, I did not bring my ID with me as I didn't think there was any need to. I am President Barack Obama, the President of the United States of America."

Cashier: "Yes sir, I know who you are, but with all the regulations and monitoring of the banks because of impostors and forgers and requirements of the Dodd/Frank legislation, etc., I must insist on seeing ID."

Obama: "Just ask anyone here at the bank who I am and they will tell you. Everybody knows who I am."

Cashier: "I am sorry Mr. President but these are the bank rules and I must follow them."

Obama: "I am urging you, please, to cash this check."

Cashier: "Look Mr. President, here is an example of what we can do. One day, Tiger Woods came into the bank without ID. To prove he was Tiger Woods he pulled out his putter and made a beautiful shot across the bank into a cup. With that shot we knew him to be Tiger Woods and cashed his check.

Another time, Andre Agassi came in without ID. He pulled out his tennis racquet and made a fabulous shot whereas the tennis ball landed in my cup. With that shot we cashed his check.

So, Mr. President, what can you do to prove that it is you, and only you, as the President of the United States?"

Obama stands there thinking, and thinking, and finally says, "Honestly, my mind is a total blank ... there is nothing that comes to my mind. I can't think of a single thing. I have absolutely no idea what to do and I don't have a clue.

Cashier: "Will that be large or small bills, Mr. President?"

From my email.

THE REAL REASON ammunition is in such short supply.

I'm prepared, though I'd prefer to have a few hundred more rounds available.

THE SPENDING CUTS CAME and no one noticed.

[G]overnment programs aren't tools for improving the country. They're tools for acquiring the main goal of the political class: more power, which leads to more patronage, more graft (legal and otherwise) and a boost to their all-encompassing sense of self-importance.

So cut more. Much, much more.

VIRGIN GALACTIC'S SpaceShipTwo makes history with first rocket-powered flight. I'd sign up to fly if I had the $200K fare to spend....

GUN MAKERS head for greener pastures.