MORNING EXAMINER: Accountability, Obama style. "[N]o wonder public trust in the federal government has plummeted since Obama became president."

GOOGLE announced that it is investing $10.7 million in a company, Airware, that builds autopilots for unmanned aerial systems. I'm pretty sure I'm not ready to fly in a Google-powered aircraft....

RELATED: Drones causing an increase in 911 calls to report UFOs.

A FISH ROTS FROM THE HEAD and



the IRS did exactly what President Obama told them to do.

MORE: A Culture of Intimidation.

GANG OF EIGHT: We trust the Obama administration to faithfully execute the proposed immigration laws. They may; I don't.

WHITE HOUSE: the lights are on, but nobody's home.

AMERICA WOULD LIKE TO KNOW: Questions for the President.

Mr. President, on Wednesday you gave a brief statement on the IRS abuse scandal, in which you said that acting commissioner Steven Miller had been asked for and had handed in his resignation. You suggested that this was the beginning of accountability in the IRS abuse scandal. But an hour later, Miller told IRS staff that he was merely ending his term a couple of weeks early, and that he expected an “orderly transition” to the next commissioner. In light of Miller’s remarks, Americans are wondering if you, Mr. President, really held Mr. Miller accountability for anything, or if you allowed him to depart on his own terms. Is Mr. Miller’s account accurate? Do you believe that he has undermined your effort to hold the agency accountable? Related to that, this morning America woke to the news that Ambassador Susan Rice is in line for a promotion to become your next National Security Adviser. Mr. President, do you think she deserves a promotion, after misleading the American people about the origins and nature of the terrorist attack in Benghazi that left four Americans dead? And related to that, your spokesman, Jay Carney, has insisted that the White House only made “stylistic” changes to the Benghazi talking points. But the emails released last night show much more involvement, and that changes were made at a deputies meeting conducted inside the White House. Carney’s statements clearly were not accurate, and he speaks on your behalf. Looking at these three cases, what conclusion should Americans reach about your view of holding your subordinates accountable for their actions?

I can give you my conclusion -- and it ain't pretty.

CAPTAIN OF CDMA: Qualcomm cofounder Irwin M. Jacobs wins the 2013 IEEE Medal of Honor for his pioneering work in digital communications.

Before there was Qualcomm, there was Linkabit, and before that there was the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Deep Space Network, where I was introduced (through Jacobs, Viterbi, Gilhousen, et.al.) to digital communication theory.

As a side note, CDMA (code division multiple access) is an outgrowth of direct-sequence spread spectrum, widely used by the military for 'stealth' communication systems.

IF YOU BIKE TO WORK, just don't be a jerk about it.

HOUSE VOTES to repeal ObamaCare in 229-125 vote. They're within striking distance of a veto-proof margin. Next stop is to win the Senate in the mid-terms.

IT GETS WORSE.

The IRS official who led the tax-exempt organizations unit when Tea Party groups were targeted is now in charge of the IRS office responsible for ObamaCare.

And

The Justice Department temporarily lost track of two known or suspected terrorists who were in the witness protection program -- and allowed others on the no-fly list to board commercial flights.

Is grossly incompetent too strong?

TECHWISE CONVERSATION: The future of the 'disassembly' line.

OH, YES, the IRS is clearly nonpartisan.