CHARLIE DANIELS: The Press and Paula Deen.

ALCHEMISTS' DREAM of making gold is discovered. Start with two neutron stars, and ....

AND THIS IS SOMEHOW A SURPRISE? People not “well designed” to continuously monitor autopilots.

BATTLEGROUND TEXAS, a Democrat political action group asks (in Spanish) how gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott plans to communicate with Latina (women) voters. Here's his response.

IEEE SPECTRUM: Japan prepares to restart nuclear power plants.

OBAMA MAY snub Putin over Snowden asylum. Somehow I doubt that Putin really cares what Obama does.

COLORADO TOWN mulls issuing licenses to shoot down drones. I assume shotguns are still legal in Colorado (provided they don't have 30-round magazines).

My question: Will there be a drone season, or is this year-round?

RANDOM THOUGHT from the retirement lane: the U.S. would be better off if we opened the Mexican border and fenced off California.

NANNY BLOOMBERG'S latest move: hide the elevators. And by all means hire some hidden elevator inspectors to ensure that they're properly hidden.

UNEXPECTEDLY: IRS Chief Counsel Was Involved in Targeting Tea Party Groups.

OH, MY: Now the Uncertainty Principle is ... uncertain.

U.S. AIR FORCE combat aircraft no longer grounded.

The ability for the Air Force to get its planes airborne again comes after Congress authorized the Defense Department to shift about $7.5 billion from lower priority accounts to more vital operations. The Air Force said the restored flying hours represent about $208 million of that allocation authorized by Congress.

“If recent reprogramming measures can put our pilots back in the air, I fully expect the Air Force can also find a way to also end furloughs for this fiscal year,” U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., said in a statement. “Today’s announcement proves the military’s pain from sequester could have been mitigated all along had my bill to give flexibility to the Department of Defense been rightfully considered.”

More proof -- if any is needed -- that the sequestration need not have been as harmful as the Obama administration would have us believe.

LEGAL INSURRECTION: The Feds want George Zimmerman in jail, any way they can.

CAN YOU NAME THIS OLD TOOL? Do you know what it is? Hint: it was used by physicians ....



It's a tobacco smoke enema (1750s-1810s), used to infuse tobacco smoke into patient’s rectum for various medical purposes, primarily the resuscitation of drowning victims. A rectal tube inserted into the anus was connected to a fumigator and bellows that forced the smoke towards the rectum.

The warmth of the smoke was thought to promote respiration, but doubts about the credibility of tobacco enemas led to the popular phrase "blowin'smoke up your ass".

It has been reintroduced by the Obama Administration as an integral part of the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare).

SMELL-O-VISION: Coming to a Living Room Near You? Thanks, but I don't think so.

ROBERT HEINLEIN on progressives: "Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable sub-human who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."

Treat them with dignity but don't let 'em vote.

COMMENTS ON the George Zimmerman verdict, and guns.