BLUE DOGS TO OBAMA: ‘Time to Approve Keystone Has Come’. Obama still has his base; it's just no longer the Democrat base.

A GOOD BEGINNING: Chicago Public Schools lays off nearly 850 employees.

STEVE DEACE: The Libertarians Were Right.

"THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION has made mistakes that can’t be corrected — at least not anytime soon and not without a fearful toll in human lives. The citizens of the world allegedly desperately wanted Barack Obama in 2008. How do they like the world he helped make?"

MARK STEYN: "[T]he bozo leviathan blunders on. Big Politically Correct Brother sees everything . . . and nothing."

Justice is blind. Now it's deaf and dumb as well. But it doesn't profile.

WAY BACK IN THE 60'S, we didn't abolish insane asylums, we just renamed them 'universities': Berenstein Bears, Franklin the Friendly Turtle Perpetuate "Racist," "Socially Dominant Norms" to Children.

Linked from National Review Online.

CAPITALISM V. SOCIALISM: which do you prefer?

ORGANIZING FOR ACTION (President Obama's personal 'community organizing committee') to put a bumper sticker on your car declaring your love for ObamaCare. Here it is:

Greg Gutfield (of Fox News' The Five) has a different take:

More here.

LOWERING THE CRIME RATE by legalizing crime.

JUST WHO in America has a race problem?

NEWT GINGRICH: There's a 'level of illegality and bureacratic arrogance' in the government taken from Obama's attitude.

Fish ... rot ... head. More needs not be said.

PEGGY NOONAN: The surveillance state threatens Americans' love of country.

The price is a now formal and agreed-upon acceptance of the end of the last vestiges of Americans' sense of individual distance and privacy from the government. The price too is a knowledge, based on human experience and held by all but fools and children, that the gleanings of the surveillance state will eventually be used by the mischievous, the malicious and the ignorant in ways the creators of the system did not intend.

I feel that almost everyone who talks about America for a living—politicians and journalists and even historians—is missing a huge and essential story: that too many things are happening that are making a lot of Americans feel a new distance from, a frayed affiliation with, the country they have loved for half a century and more, the country they loved without every having to think about it, so natural was it.

This isn't the kind of thing that can be quantified in polls—it's barely the kind of thing people admit to themselves. But talk to older Americans—they feel they barely know this country anymore. In governance its crucial to stay within parameters, it's important not to strain ties, push too far, be extreme. And if you think this does not carry implications for down the road, for our healthy continuance as a nation, you are mistaken. Love keeps great nations going.

Read it all.

HEH: What happens to ObamaCare if insurers decline to participate?

MSNBC RATINGS COLLAPSE 'unglues' Chris Matthews: "All of Obama's MSNBC minions and all of Obama's Tweety McTingles' are frustrated at not being able to put Obama back together again."

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane. This picture of the Marine holding Obama's umbrella is a sad reminder of the low esteem this President has for the military under his command. Rather than get wet, hold his own umbrella, or have one of his staffers hold it, he tasks his Marine honor guard.

The arrogance and narcissism of the man is astounding.

HEH: First-Time Buyers Bolster Gun Makers. And those first-time buyers become second-time buyers, and third-time....

I have to admit Obama has been a marketing genius for gun manufacturers.

BACK TO THE FUTURE: cargo-carrying airships.

THE ACCOUNTING HAS ARRIVED....

From the Washington Times (5 June 2013)

THE OATH KEEPERS ON EDWARD SNOWDEN. I'm not surprised, and frankly less worried about them than I am of the unchecked arrogance of the Obama administration. As I noted in an earlier post, it's not the data, it's who controls it that matters.

THE ALL-SEEING EYE: I smiled, because the video cameras on my computers are all pointed at the ceiling where NSA can quietly watch the paint peel.