MARS ORBIT VIDEO

MARS ORBIT VIDEO shows view we would see circling the Red Planet.



Watch at the very bottom of the video; in the last second, you will see one of the Martian moons transiting from top to bottom.

RAND PAUL on immigration

RAND PAUL on immigration and border security: "You can’t keep refilling a tire that has a hole in it."

REINTRODUCING 'CROSSFIRE'

REINTRODUCING 'CROSSFIRE' ON CNN: Is this really a good idea? According to this commenter, probably not: "I wonder why some sensitive liberal hasn't suggested name changes for Firing Line and Crossfire. All those gun-related show titles could influence the chilllldrun, you know."

ADMINISTRATION delays key ObamaCare

ADMINISTRATION delays key ObamaCare insurance mandate. Until after the 2014 election.

Coincidence? I think not.

ROSS DOUTHAT: The Great Disconnect

ROSS DOUTHAT: The Great Disconnect.

D.C. gridlock has given the political class an excuse to ignore the country’s most pressing problem — a lack of decent jobs at decent wages, with a deeper social crisis at work underneath — and pursue its own pet causes instead.

After all, gun control, immigration reform and climate change aren’t just random targets of opportunity. They’re pillars of Acela Corridor ideology, core elements of Bloombergism, places where Obama-era liberalism overlaps with the views of Davos-goers and the Wall Street 1 percent. If you move in those circles, the political circumstances don’t necessarily matter: these ideas always look like uncontroversial common sense.

Step outside those circles, though, and the timing of their elevation looks at best peculiar, at worst perverse. The president decided to make gun control legislation a major second-term priority ... with firearm homicides at a 30-year low. Congress is pursuing a sharp increase in low-skilled immigration ... when the foreign-born share of the American population is already headed for historical highs. The administration is drawing up major new carbon regulations ... when actual existing global warming has been well below projections for 15 years and counting.

Read it all.

WHITHER UCAS?

WHITHER UCAS? U.S. Navy Is Cautious On Carrier-Launched UAV.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON explains why I prefer to drive

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON explains why I prefer to drive.

WHY IS WENDY DAVIS A ‘HERO,’ but

WHY IS WENDY DAVIS A ‘HERO,’ but not the women who stand up to Planned Parenthood’s abuses and lies?

What Wendy Davis and her supporters did Tuesday night was not only not heroic, it was dangerous. Setting the particular legislation aside, the legislative process is there to protect us all from each other. It channels our energies, our anger both righteous and not, into a peaceful process by which we make choices and govern ourselves. No one always gets everything they want, but in theory at least, everyone has a fair shot to be heard. The system isn’t perfect but it has served us pretty well for quite a while now. Disrupting that process rips the social contract. It mocks the rule of law. It may unleash lawlessness that can get out of control. No one, least of all the president of the United States, should encourage such action or call it “something special.”

Obama and Davis and their supporters are aborting the very system by which voters have entrusted them with power. Unchecked, the consequences of disrupting that process can be dire.

Nothing else matters to them for whom the ends justify the means.

A NATION OF HERBIVORES

A NATION OF HERBIVORES. No wonder I'm disgusted.

THE IMMIGRATION BILL doesn't look so good

THE IMMIGRATION BILL doesn't look so good when you read the fine print. It's little more than a pork fest in 1200 pages.

PROGRESSIVES [THINK THEY] KNOW BEST

PROGRESSIVES [THINK THEY] KNOW BEST: Obama puts ideology ahead of democracy to impose his agenda.

IMMIGRATION QUESTIONS for your member of Congress

IMMIGRATION QUESTIONS for your member of Congress. Expect a lot of 'hem & haw'.

REASON: Obama's Climate Five-Year Plan

REASON: Obama's Climate Five-Year Plan. Central planning utterly destroyed the former Soviet Union; what reason do we have to suggest that it won't do the same here?

THEY SAID THE SEQUESTER WOULD BE SCARY

THEY SAID THE SEQUESTER WOULD BE SCARY. Mostly, they were wrong.

Before “sequestration” took effect, the Obama administration issued specific — and alarming — predictions about what it would bring. There would be one-hour waits at airport security. Four-hour waits at border crossings. Prison guards would be furloughed for 12 days. FBI agents, up to 14.

At the Pentagon, the military health program would be unable to pay its bills for service members. The mayhem would extend even into the pantries of the neediest Americans: Around the country, 600,000 low-income women and children would be denied federal food aid.

But none of those things happened.

Don't forget: the Obama administration tried --and failed -- to make it scary.

UNHAPPINESS IN UNIONVILLE? Boeing's appointment

UNHAPPINESS IN UNIONVILLE? Boeing's appointment of Dan Mooney to head its Charleston (SC) design center may mean the Charleston facility could be “formidable competition” for Washington state when it comes to future work.

HEH: Kentucky's (Democrat) Secretary of State to challenge

HEH: Kentucky's (Democrat) Secretary of State to challenge Sen. Mitch McConnell in next year's election while simultaneously backing away from President Obama's administration.

HOUSE IMMIGRATION BILL DRAFTER:

HOUSE IMMIGRATION BILL DRAFTER: I Don't Know What Everything Means in My Bill.

Why should he? What he does know is that, as a member of the political class, it won't apply to him.

Instapundit speaks for the citizen class.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY (and many more): "They are not the elite, they are the elect."

SENATORS PROPOSE ‘blank slate’ approach to tax reform

SENATORS PROPOSE ‘blank slate’ approach to tax reform. Oh, bull. All this will do is set off a lobbyist frenzy at the pork trough. If they were even semi-serious, they'd propose scrapping the current tax code and replacing it with either the flat tax or the fair tax.

OBAMA'S FOOD POLICE close

OBAMA'S FOOD POLICE close the school vending machine loophole. The next step is to close the 'bring your own lunch' loophole. Oh, never mind....