CURIOSITY'S FIRST BIRTHDAY: NASA has high hopes the Mars rover's winning streak will continue.

HIGHER EDUCATION is a government-created cartel. And government wants to keep it that way.

IEEE SPECTRUM: The Making of Facebook's Graph Search.

HUH?

Republicans are not giving special Obamacare exemptions to churches. Translated into American English, Republicans are unwilling to grant exemptions and waivers to bad policy to their friends; they want to fix the policy.

Racial polarization is all the GOP’s fault. Translated into American English, it's racially polarizing to woo (and win) minority voters from the Democrat plantation.

MESSENGER: Goodbye, Earth.

TOO BIG TO FAIL: Megabanks are a creature of government, not of unbridled capitalism.

WATCH WHAT YOU SAY, your robot may be listening.

MEGYN KELLY reportedly taking over 9 p.m. slot in Fox News prime time lineup. Please, no. Let her replace Shepard Smith in the 7 p.m. slot.

AN OCEAN OF DOUBT. So sink a few oil tankers; that should take care of the problem....

AMAZON FOUNDER says he clicked on Washington Post by mistake. If the Chinese published it, it must be true.

DETROIT MANAGER: We Could Have A Clean Balance Sheet In 14 Months. The $64 question is whether Detroit can keep that clean balance sheet. My guess is not without hiring a new citizenry....

THE NUCLEAR OPTION: How Journalism 'Professionals' Killed the Washington Post. My daily subscription is worth about what I pay for it; that is, zero.

YOU JUST THOUGHT you could move to escape poverty. Today the Jeffersons wouldn't have a chance.