PANDORA'S BOX

PANDORA'S BOX.

SOME EMBARRASSING QUESTIONS about the ObamaCare...

SOME EMBARRASSING QUESTIONS about the ObamaCare employer mandate delay.

With our congresscritters home for the Independence Day break, perhaps we should be asking them.

MORE AND MORE AMERICANS are becoming concealed-carry...

MORE AND MORE AMERICANS are becoming concealed-carry permit holders. Most won't actually carry, at least not regularly. But the numbers will increase the uncertainty in the minds of those who belong to the criminal class.

WONKBOOK: Congress Is Lazy

WONKBOOK: Congress Is Lazy! The Washington Post's Ezra Klein seems to think that's a bad thing.

NEWT GINGRICH: ObamaCare and the ...

NEWT GINGRICH: ObamaCare and the Spirit of the Fourth of July.

TECHNOLOGY NEWS: "NASA has successfully pressure-tested...

TECHNOLOGY NEWS: "NASA has successfully pressure-tested a large cryogenic fuel tank made of composite materials. The space agency calls the test results obtained at Marshall Space Flight Center a 'game-changing' step toward a new generation of lighter rockets."

And it is. A precursor, the Lockheed Martin X-33 VentureStar SSTO (single-stage to orbit) technology demonstrator program was cancelled when its first-ever cryogenic composite fuel tank failed in 1999.

I was on the hangar floor when the 1999 second tank failure occurred.

UNEMPLOYMENT REPORT: "the Taco Bell that had 30 40 hour workers

UNEMPLOYMENT REPORT: "the Taco Bell that had 30 40 hour workers now has 40 30 hour workers.”

CHARLOTTE HAYS: The Royal Presidency

CHARLOTTE HAYS: The Royal Presidency.

The time has arrived for the American people to remind Obama that the United States is a Republic, not a Kingdom.

SEN. DURBIN on freedom of the press

SEN. DURBIN on freedom of the press: 'We've got 'em in the tank; let's keep 'em in the tank'. Instapundit's response is a thing of beauty.

OBAMACARE'S SUCCESS depends on the young being stupid

OBAMACARE'S SUCCESS depends on the young being stupid. For that matter, so did his
election(s).

Related: more on the 'young being stupid'.

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane on abortion and

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane on abortion and immigration reform. The reason Democrats are so insistent on immediate amnesty in the immigration debate might stem from James Taranto's 'Roe Effect'. They need immigrants who are more likely to vote Democrat to replace those potential voters who were never born.

Abortion politics are self-defeating; as are celibate religions.

SPACEFLIGHT: A brief look

SPACEFLIGHT: A brief look at the future of NASA's Space Launch System/Orion crew capsule.

OBAMA’S CLIMATE ACTION PLAN

OBAMA’S CLIMATE ACTION PLAN: Emphasize what won't work; penalize what will work.

Or, as Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was talking about Obama's African tour when she quipped: “I encourage him to note what life looks like in parts of the continent where people do not have — or cannot afford — access to energy.”

Only Obama will never lower himself to go to such parts of Africa -- as former President George W. Bush just did.

THE FUTURE OF FLIGHT: Planes that never need to land

THE FUTURE OF FLIGHT: Planes that never need to land.

CHINA unveils secret quantum communications experiment

CHINA unveils secret quantum communications experiment. For anyone interested in the general topic of quantum communications, go here.

THOMAS SOWELL: At the heart of the left's vision

THOMAS SOWELL: At the heart of the left's vision of the world is the implicit assumption that high-minded third parties like themselves can make better decisions for other people than those people can make for themselves.... But, as someone once said, 'A fool can put on his coat better than a wise man can put it on for him'."

Read it all.

THE DAYS AFTER: Did something happen at Gettysburg?

THE DAYS AFTER: Did something happen at Gettysburg? Read the comments.