JLENS to hover above Washington D.C. We had two above Camp Victory in Baghdad when I was there in 2006 and 2008; the ground station for one was in my 'back yard'.

I'd be interested in knowing just how they plan to do it, though. Not only is 10,000 feet of cable a lot of cable (JLENS is tethered), it is also a potential hazard to the aircraft in the area flying below that altitude.

UNEMPLOYMENT RATES up in 90 percent of U.S. cities. At the rate people are bailing out of cities (see Detroit, where the rate is one person leaving every 22 minutes), this one's somewhat hard to believe.

RELATED: Chicago's next?

RANDOM THOUGHTS on Sen. Al Franken from the retirement lane: Americans paid a terrible price to remove Franken's 'comedic talent' from Hollywood....

SWISS PILOT thrills EAA AirVenture show by soaring with jet pack.

OBAMA: It wasn't Bush's fault after all; it was Reagan's fault.

Delusions.

THOMAS SOWELL: "If the things that the Left wants to control — institutions and government policy — are not the most important factors in the world’s problems, then what role is there for the Left?"

THE FUTURE OF OBAMACARE. Well, it will keep the costs down....

NEW YORK'S "GREENEST" SKYSCRAPER is actually its biggest energy hog.

THOMAS SOWELL on the Left’s central delusion: Its devotion to central planning has endured from the French Revolution to Obamacare. And no amount of evidence will shake that delusion.

I WAS REALLY, REALLY EXCITED ABOUT OBAMACARE until I realized everything I thought about ObamaCare was totally wrong.

AN EMERGING TREND IN MEDICAL CARE.

The doctor might be the same, but her bill’s going to be higher.

A strong trend of hospitals buying up physicians practices as well as hospital mergers is threatening to also drive up costs to patients — at least in the short term.

A key factor in that consolidation trend is doctors now are willing to work for someone else to get rid of the hassle of paperwork, fighting with insurance companies, increased overhead costs, and other duties that keep them away from patients.

“What you hear over and over again is: ‘I just want to practice medicine,’ ” said Shane Jackson, president of physicians staffing service LocumTenens.com.

Jackson and others said the trend toward doctors working for hospitals is being fueled by middle-age and older doctors who like the idea of spending less time on non-medicine-related work, and younger doctors who “place a lot of value on work-life balance.”

I'm hoping that more and more doctors will simply reject health insurance altogether and go to cash-only fee for service. Perhaps then health 'care' will return to the catastrophic health insurance model.

IMMIGRANTS ARE ASSIMILATING, just like always. And the 'immigration problem' is, in actuality, a border control problem.

MARK STEYN on 'Weiner worship'.

TERRAFUGIA TRANSITION makes first public flight at EAA AirVenture.