POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES: waitlist edition. Many good ones, but my favorite is this:

Click above to see them all.

FAA’S ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW finds no problems with Space-X launch site near Brownsville, Texas.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which had raised concerns about possible impact on habitat for some endangered species, ultimately concluded that "the project is not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any listed or proposed to be listed species nor adversely modify piping plover critical habitat."

But wildlife officials don't expect the project to be harmless: Two individual cats, either from the endangered ocelot or jaguarondi species, could be lost as a result of the project in spite of efforts to avoid just that with measures such as posting warning signs along the road leading to the launch site. And federal wildlife officials also anticipate that more than 7 miles of beachfront used by nesting sea turtles could be disturbed by security patrols, though driving is already permitted on the beach.

You can bet the environmentalists will go bonkers, though.

SPACE ENTHUSIASTS make contact with NASA'S abandoned ISEE-3 spacecraft.

More here.

THE SCOREKEEPER punches back. Good.

SPACE-X unveils manned version of Dragon spacecraft. Video here.

SCORES OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, caught by authorities in Texas trying to sneak into the country via the Rio Grande Valley, are being flown, bused and then abandoned in places like Arizona, New York and Maryland instead of being sent back across the border.

Populating the states with future slaves voters for the Democrat plantation....

GODZILLA: 2009-2016.

UNLESS REPEALED, YES. NEXT QUESTION? Will ObamaCare spell the end of employer-provided health insurance?

For those of you too dumb to recognize the obvious, ending employer-provided health insurance is the whole point of the so-called 'Affordable' Care Act.

GUN CONTROL, done correctly: Marine veteran on lunch break fatally shoots suspected store robber.

JUST ANOTHER OBAMA RECOVERY SUMMER: Consumer Spending Sees First Fall in a Year.

CHINA'S YUTU ROVER no longer roving, soon to be no longer.

BUT THEY'RE still smarter than Harry Reid.

IT'S NOT JUST HARDWARE ANY MORE: Ford recalls 695 000 vehicles for airbag and transmission software updates. I never thought I'd live to see the day my vehicle could be recalled for a software update.

What's next? Plugging the car into a USB port on my PC for an update download? Or will it be done wirelessly?

YOU'VE GOTTA BE EFFING KIDDING ME: HHS board rules transgender Medicare recipients can seek coverage for sex-change surgery.

Is there anything the deep pockets of the average American taxpayer can't be forced to pay for?

HEH: First it was cell phones whose radiation would kill you; now it's your car.

"THIS KIND OF SICKENING HYPOCRISY should cause every Democrat to look in the mirror and ask: what has my party become?"

But it won't.

DIAPER NAMES:

I know you have been laying awake at night wondering why baby diapers have brand names such as "Luvs", "Huggies," and "Pampers', while undergarments for old people are called "Depends".

Well here is the low down on the whole thing.

When babies crap in their pants, people are still gonna Luv'em, Hug'em and Pamper em.

When old people crap in their pants, it "Depends" on who's in the will!

Glad I got that straightened out so you can rest your mind.

From my email.

WARNING LABEL for sugary drinks passes California Senate. What we really need is a warning label for stupid politicians....

LORD OBAMA AND THE PROGRESSIVE LEFT:

Obama represents their utopian dreams where an anointed technocracy, exempt from the messy ramifications of its own ideology, directs from on high a socially just society — diverse, green, non-judgmental, neutral abroad, tribal at home — in which an equality of result is ensured, albeit with proper exemptions for the better educated and more sophisticated, whose perks are necessary to give them proper downtime for their exhausting work on our behalf.

With emphasis on the 'proper exemptions' for the true believers.

NOW THAT'S A POLICE CAR:

The article is here.

JEFF JACOBY: How political insiders control the ballot. And of course the rules they've created to keep outsiders off the ballot don't apply to them -- Conyers got a federal judge to put him back on the ballot. And he'll probably win; Michigan's 13th congressional district includes Detroit.

FRIDAY NIGHT CAT BLOGGING: Please welcome Rusty.

He joins Shadow, Daisy, and Diamond as the newest member of the cat family.

DURING SEQUESTRATION the federal government downsized the wrong employee.

CUSTOMERS TO RESTAURANT: If my gun isn’t welcome, neither is my money. Apparently money talks more loudly than misplaced fear; the restaurant reversed its decision.

WHEEL OF FORTUNE HOST Pat Sajak tweets on climate change; drives progressive Left to apoplexy.

THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH about climate change: the cat wags the flea on its tail, not the converse.

PRESIDING OVER A COLLEGE'S FINAL DAYS. Higher education is tough these days; it's even tougher if it's a small college.

DOES THIS look like the body of a weak foreign policy? By comparison with this, yes.

TODAY'S ENGINEER: How to Get Started as a Consultant. It's too late for me, but perhaps someone a bit younger and less risk averse can use the advice.

OF COURSE: Barack Obama Marks Death of Maya Angelou With A Picture Of ... Barack Obama.

Linked via Instapundit.

VIRGINIA HAS A $300M REVENUE SHORTFALL, so the obvious answer is to expand Medicaid. The Democrats may have won the Governor's mansion, but thankfully the House of Delegates is solidly in Republican hands. Gov. McAuliffe has gone to the Democrat playbook threatening to shut the government down, but I don't think the Virginia Republicans will back down -- and they'll make sure he's blamed for shutting the government down.

THE BUTTERFIELD EFFECT: Your (tax) money belong to us.

ANDREW KLAVAN: a post-Memorial Day thoughtabout the 'glory' of war.

HEH: The MSNBC apology tour.

HOW DARE YOU QUESTION ME; I'm a reporter!

WILL U.S. MARINES have to evacuate Americans from the scene of Hillary Clinton's greatest triumph? Most likely, yes.

OBAMA'S AMERICA:

From the Scorekeeper (#11).

MICHELLE OBAMA calls it ‘unacceptable’ for Congress to worry about edible school lunches. Because she knows that expensive and inedible is better for you.

Nothing like having a government know-it-all butt in to every facet of our lives....

EVEN A CACTUS is smarter than Harry Reid. And almost as prickly.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Government-run health care always puts system first, patients second last.

If only it were just health care. But the fact of the matter is that whenever the government interferes with the free market, the system comes first; the citizens last.

THIS TIME, they really are our girls.

THE OBAMA WATCH: "a picture of an administration that is hopelessly superficial, dishonest, and incompetent."

ANOTHER CALL for big-government regulation.

If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.

RACISM THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS:

Racism, it seems, is a mutable element that rises and falls with President Obama's fortunes, receding to a small sliver of cranks in the early months of 2009, before he had a chance to mess up much of anything, then welling up again when he began pushing health care, and reaching gale force in the 2010 midterms, causing a massive resurgence of Ku Klux Klan sentiment that elected record numbers of non-white Republicans to high statewide office, and completely took over states such as Wisconsin, where Confederate feelings have always run high.

Read it all.

WILL THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA cover the House committee hearing on the International Panel on Climate Change [IPCC]?

[T]he House Committee on Science, Space and Technology chaired by Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas is holding a hearing Thursday on the reliability, or lack thereof, of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

As Washington Examiner columnist Ron Arnold makes clear in his column today, the hearing will have experts who are critical of the IPCC and who are supportive of its work.

Check Friday's editions of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other mainstream media outlets. Odds are they will either ignore the hearing completely or report only on evidence presented that supports the false consensus of the 97 percent.

Not a chance; the Committee is chaired by a (gasp!) Republican.

THAT WOULD BE GOOD: Most important casualty of Veterans Affairs scandal could be Obamacare.

FOREIGN POLICY in the Obama administration. Uh ... wait ... make that just 'policy'.

BEST . WEDDING . NOTICE . EVER:

Linked from PowerLine.

JOHN EDWARDS, chasing ambulances again. I guess Obama took the bloom off of chasing the presidency.

TOWNHALL: The Left Hates Prosperity. Not so; they just want to make sure the right people (themselves) prosper.

WHAT POLITICIANS are really telling us....

AT LEAST IT WASN'T REPUBLICANS: Global warming caused Godzilla to attack Tokyo back in the 1950's.

BACON: I knew there was a reason I prefer charcoal.

SO I LIED. Sue me.

AND ONE FINAL Memorial Day post.

FOR MEMORIAL DAY, The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

KANSAS SEN. PAT ROBERTS calls out Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and slaps him down hard. Watch the entire video.

COUNTY FAIR FOOD: breakfast and lunch together.

I wonder if it tastes as good as it looks....

THEY'VE NOTICED: Democrats Privately Calling Obama 'Detached', 'Flat Footed', 'Incompetent'.

AND NOW back to regularly-scheduled posting....

MEMORIAL DAY IN MANASSAS. This year, instead of our usual visit to Arlington Cemetery and Rolling Thunder, we went to the National Cemetery in Quantico instead. Here are a couple of pictures:

I was surprised. The Quantico cemetery is large, but mostly drive-through and there is very little off-road parking. It was jammed with people, though it may not seem so from the pictures.

While we were there, we saw a motorcycle riding couple (obviously Vietnam era from Rolling Thunder yesterday) leaving coins on the headstones of some of the graves, so I inquired about the tradition. It's simply a sign of respect from a soldier to a comrade who has died. The denomination of the coin symbolizes the relationship.

The couple also told us about Honor Flight and Wreaths across America. I've had the distinct honor of meeting a few of the WWII veterans at the World War II and Korean War memorials in the past. Next year we hope to be more involved than we have been in the past.

Finally, on the way home, we crossed paths with this lady:

She was simply standing (by herself) quietly holding the flag for passers-by to see. Nothing more. It was a very somber -- and moving -- sight.

MEMORIAL DAY: A carnation lay atop the grave of an unknown Revolutionary War soldier. A reminder.

MEMORIAL DAY:

Friends,

This Memorial Day weekend, in cities and towns all over America, small red paper flowers will be worn and carried by Americans honoring our veterans.

The paper flowers symbolize the poppies WWI veteran John McCrae wrote about in his famous poem, “In Flanders Field,” after being struck by the beauty of the bright red blooms that emerged from the graves of his fellow soldiers.

But it was a Georgia teacher named Monia Michael who began the tradition of wearing the red flower in remembrance of those who sacrificed their lives to protect our freedoms.

She had read a copy of McCrae’s poem in Ladies' Home Journal and then wrote her own poem that said:

Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet – to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.

Those flowers became her torch. Millions of people, all across the world, have now worn paper poppies to honor the courage of servicemen and servicewomen.

We should all find our own way to carry on the torch of freedom.

May we never forget the lives of each solider; it is their blood that has kept us free. And it is their sacrifice that calls each of us to cherish the gift of liberty.

Please join me in pausing to remember those who have fallen.

We are so grateful that our nation has warriors who defend and protect us from harm.

May God bless you, may God bless Texas, and may God bless the United States of America.

An email message from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

ANOTHER MEMORIAL DAY REMINDER:



President Ronald Reagan recites a letter found on a fallen soldier from WWI.

MARK LEVIN remembers our fallen heroes on this Memorial Day.

MEMORIAL DAY 2014: the Gettysburg address.



As read by Johnny Cash.

DO TELL: Obama fails to show his vaunted ‘competence’.

NO, MOTHER JONES, Oklahoma isn't 'drying up' and its leaders aren't trying to block climate science education, they're trying to promote it. You blockheads just aren't paying attention.

FORTY-NINE IDIOTS -- excuse me, Democrat Senators -- sign letter urging NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to change the name of the Washington Redskins. This email has made the rounds before, but it's worth revisiting:

Here is an email sent to Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune after an article he published concerning a name change for the Washington Redskins.

Dear Mr. Page...

I always love your articles, and I generally agree with them. I would suggest, as in an email I received, they change the name to the "Foreskins" to better represent their community, paying tribute to the dick heads in Congress. And here is some other political correctness to consider:

I agree with our Native American population . I am highly insulted by the racially charged name of the Washington Redskins. One might argue that to name a professional football team after Native Americans would exalt them as fine warriors, but nay, nay. We must be careful not to offend, and in the spirit of political correctness and courtesy, we must move forward. Let's also ditch the Kansas City Chiefs, the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians.

If your shorts are in a wad because the reference the name Redskins makes to skin color, then we need to get rid of the Cleveland Browns. The Carolina Panthers obviously were named to keep the memory of militant Blacks from the 60's alive. Gone. It's offensive to us white folk.The New York Yankees offend the Southern population . Do you see a team named for the Confederacy? No! There is no room for any reference to that tragic war that cost this country so many young men's lives.

I am also offended by the blatant references to the Catholic religion among our sports team names. Totally inappropriate to have the New Orleans Saints, the Los Angeles Angels or the San Diego Padres.

Then there are the team names that glorify criminals who raped and pillaged . We are talking about the horrible Oakland Raiders, the Minnesota Vikings, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Pittsburgh Pirates!

Finally, let us address those teams that clearly send the wrong message to our children. The San Diego Chargers promote irresponsible fighting or even spending habits. Wrong message to our children . The New York Giants and the San Francisco Giants promote obesity, a growing childhood epidemic. Wrong message to our children.The Cincinnati Reds promote downers/barbiturates. Wrong message to our children .The Milwaukee Brewers - well that goes without saying..... Wrong message to our children.

So, there you go. We need to support any legislation to rectify this travesty, because the government will likely become involved with this issue, as they should. Just the kind of thing the do-nothing congress loves....

As a die hard Oregon State fan, my wife and I, with all of this in mind, might also suggest changing the name of the Oregon State women's athletic teams to something other than the 'Beavers'.

And finally, I would suggest that in 2014 and 2016 the American voters change the names in the Senate and Presidency to something other than 'Democrat'.

WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS: Europe Wants a Supercomputer Made From Smartphones.

[I]n the tablet and smartphone age, it was probably only a matter of time before someone decided to make supercomputers out of the engines of present-day digital life. The thinking goes that because ARM cores are designed to run on small smartphone and tablet batteries, a supercomputer built around them could yield more speed with less power. In an age when high-performance computing, or HPC, is often constrained by heat production and electricity consumption, that could mean a more scalable machine.

ARM is an acronym within an acronym; it stands for Acorn (the original manufacturer) RISC [Reduced Instruction Set Computing] Machine and is essentially an architectural standard for the computing hardware inside your smart phone.

The 'Wheels Within Wheels' title is just a recognition of the 'circularity' of computing architectures over my lifetime: from small, simple computers to big, centralized computers; to personal computers; to networks of personal computers (the 'cloud'); to smart phones; to networks of smart phones.

Round and round she goes, and where she stops nobody knows....

SEND IN THE CLOWNS DEMOCRATS....

YOU MUST BE KIDDING! Taxpayers (i.e., we) paid $5.6M for climate-change games.

Unfortunately, no. It's simply more proof that progressives live in an alternate reality.

THE TRUTH ABOUT GUNS: New Jersey law would ban many common hunting rifles. If I lived in New Jersey, I could soon become a felon, as my old (~60 years, as my Dad gave it to me on my 10th birthday) Remington semi-automatic .22 would now be an 'assault weapon' because it has a greater than 10-round tubular magazine.

Interestingly, my new Henry .22 lever-action rifle, also with a greater than 10-round capacity, would not be banned (and I can fire it nearly as fast as I could the semi-automatic). And I can easily make a 'speed loader' for it out of a piece of 3/8" I.D. plastic or metal tubing.

The anti-gun nuts are indeed 'nuts'.

UPDATE: PowerLine notes that it's a litmus test of sorts for NJ Gov. Chris Christie.

RESIGN. Just resign.

AMBASSADOR CHRIS STEVENS was unavailable for comment.

The general rule for comments like these is that if there is a choice between malice and stupidity, choose stupidity. But with the Left, especially the progressive Left, I'm beginning to believe malice is the correct option.

Or most correctly, both: malicious stupidity.

'SPACE HACKERS' prepare to reboot 35-year-old spacecraft. I wish them good luck.

ED DRISCOLL: Soft Pink Eloi on the Outside, Ravenous Morlocks in their Hearts.

Follow the Tim Russert link at the bottom if you have the courage to take a (Twitter) stroll through the putrid muck that constitutes the soul of the progressive Left.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures is up: trigger warning edition. My favorite:

A close second was the 'Tigger Warning', which should be a required warning on damned near every progressive web site.

FROM THE SCOREKEEPER (#15): "NC BBQ Restaurant With Prominent "NO GUNS" Sign Robbed at Gunpoint". Obviously the robber couldn't read....

EXCELLENT QUESTION: "Exactly which elite, liberal institution does have to live up to the Left's values?"

None that I can think of....

THE VETERANS SCANDAL: Socialized Medicine on Trial. It's more that socialized medicine; it's socalism itself that's on trial.

As Instapundit has noted, our 'best and brightest' are neither.

KEEPING UP WITH THE DRONESES: Walking Dogs, Watching Sea Life, And More. Here's a drone trip down memory lane for my wife and I, since we lived in that part of New Mexico for many years.



Also click on the link above to watch the drone walk a dog (or to be more accurate, watch the dog walk a drone).

DO THE MATH: How Opportunity Costs Multiply Tuition. In my case, the opportunity cost of my doctorate was about $180,000 -- and I worked at least half-time during my entire graduate school enrollment.

I did well during my subsequent career, but even now that I'm retired, I'm still not sure the additional education overcame the opportunity costs associated with it. That said, there are still good reasons for additional formal education -- the challenge is one, and the need to get a ticket punched another -- but earning higher wages is not one of them.

SCIENCE IS SCIENCE -- except when it isn't. I would only add that the cartoon applies equally with the change of two words: 'government' in place of 'corporate' and 'control' in place of 'profit'.

THOUGHTS ABOUT LIFE:

I'm not saying let's go kill all the stupid people. I'm just saying let's remove all the warning labels and let the problem work itself out.

I changed my car horn to gunshot sounds. People move out of the way much faster now.

You can tell a lot about a woman's mood just by her hands. If they are holding a gun, she's probably angry.

Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers. Now they drink like their fathers.

You know that tingly little feeling you get when you really like someone? That's common sense leaving your body.

I don't like making plans for the day because then the word "premeditated" gets thrown around in the courtroom.

I didn't make it to the gym again today. That makes five years in a row.

I decided to change calling the bathroom the 'John' and renamed it the 'Jim'. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.

Dear paranoid people who check behind shower curtains for murderers: If you find one, what's your plan?

From my email.

A SMALL STEP TOWARD ADULTHOOD: I Lived A Completely Gun-Free Life — Until Now.

I would feel much more comfortable about her small step if instead of denigrating the NRA, she wrote that she and her husband had taken NRA-sponsored classed in gun safety and that they regularly went to a gun range to train, train, train.

Otherwise I'd prefer they continued to live a gun-free life.

HMMM. Maybe we're not in the midst of an 'income-inequality crisis' after all.



Instapundit also notices.

Somewhere I read that science draws supported conclusions from observed data; 'liberal science' draws supportive data from observed conclusions.

This seems to be another example of conclusions driving the search for supportive data.

RULES ARE FOR LITTLE PEOPLE: "A federal judge put Michigan Rep. John Conyers, one of the longest-serving Democrats in Congress, on the primary ballot Friday hours after state election officials declared him ineligible."

In a somewhat related post, Instapundit said everything that need be said about politics: "Give a politician power, and they figure out a way to turn it into corruption."

THE IRS BACKS OFF -- for now -- on plan to stifle Tea Party groups. But like the Sand People in Star Wars, "they'll soon be back, and in greater numbers."

BECAUSE THEY'RE NO LONGER WELCOME ON EARTH? Private Space Firm Wants To Store Religious Texts On The Moon.

REFORM CONSERVATISM needs a presidential champion.

Question: What, specifically, constitutes 'reform' conservatism?

NANCY PELOSI, fire your fact-checker ... and lay off the Botox.

SO CRAZY I wouldn't be surprised if the Obama administration tries it.

TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER SPOKEN: The buck never stops with Obama, but the credit always does.

HASHTAG #LikeABoss: the DNC must be angling for the clueless vote.

GOOD QUESTION:

Originally posted on Twitter.

WHO GETS BETTER TREATMENT? Veterans? Or illegal immigrants?

AMMO GRRRLL: "You call it nuthin’. I call it home."

JAY CARNEY explains why the obama administration knows nothing - they watch MSNBC.

THEY ARE -- THEY'RE CALLED 'KILTS': Skirts should be a fashion option for men.

YOU SHOULD BE THANKING ME: especially if you're an illegal 'immigrant'. And Glenn forgot to add this image of Queen Michelle.

SELECTIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT: Prison For D’Souza, Beach Time For Corzine. Add in a few tablespoons of hypocrisy: D'Souza is a 'person of color'; Corzine is a 'privileged white male'.

Who did the more lasting damage?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Politics Have Trumped Ethics In The Obama Administration. That's assuming they had any to start with, which I sincerely doubt.

THOMAS SOWELL: Poverty and Snow Storms.

There are no magic solutions, at least none that I know of. Common sense, common decency, work and honesty are about all I can come up with. These things are not fancy or new or politically correct. But they have a better track record than much that we are doing today.

Well said. Read it all.

MICHAEL BARONE: "End crony capitalism. Sell federal land. Limit tax breaks for the rich. Elect a president able and willing to negotiate solutions on entitlements and taxes."

CAL THOMAS: Veterans Affairs scandal shows failure of government-run health care. It's a good thing that ObamaCare isn't 'government-run health care' (at least according Bob Beckel, Fox News' resident Democrat co-host of The Five).

WASHINGTON EXAMINER EDITORIAL: Tea Party brings GOP back to its Main Street roots.

Didn't I post a similar thought yesterday? Why, yes. Yes I did.

WHY?

Guess who's making the demand?

HEH: 'Fair Trade' isn't.

FOX NEWS OPINION: Barack Obama is a king, not a president.

Well, he's certainly a wannabe who thinks he is.

VIDEO: Angry man not quite angry enough to hold anyone accountable for VA fiasco.

Check the video. In one minute, 44 seconds, there's not a single actionable statement made, but there are 9 "I's" and one Commander-in-Chief -- a self-reference about every 10 seconds.

His press conference wasn't about the Veterans Administration, it was about him.

French railway orders trains too wide for station platforms. It'll only cost an additional $70M to trim the railway station platforms to accommodate the wider trains....

OF COURSE your health records are private.

According to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA], your medical records, without your express permission, can be disclosed to doctors, hospitals, insurance agents, billing clerks, marketers, researchers, the IRS, damn near anyone in the state or federal government, and the NSA (who 'honestly' steals them).

But if I want to know if my wife's doctor has finally gotten around to refilling a prescription so I can pick it up, I can't.

Feeling better now?

RON FOURNIER: How Obama Became the superhero of Excuses.

IS IT GLOBAL WARMING, GLOBAL COOLING, OR GLOBAL IDIOCY?



I vote for the latter.

EPIC INCOMPETENCE: the new correct Obama narrative.

I had the (mis)fortune to tune in to Obama's VA press conference; it seemed his every third word was "I". The man's arrogance is astonishing.

THE QUESTION isn't "Who is running this country?", it is "Who should be running this country?"

SPECIAL REPORT ONLINE (5/21/14): At about 24:00 into the video, host Bret Baier asked his panelists (Steve Hayes, Ron Fournier, and Charles Krauthammer) "What has Obama done right?" ... crickets, except for Charles Krauthammer. And he had to struggle to find something to say.

NO. NEXT QUESTION. Is college adequately preparing students for the workforce?

LONG AFTER HIS DEATH, Che Guevara ... is teaching a new generation of students about the failure of communism.

University of California-San Diego students have run the “Che Café Collective” for 34 years, a vegan co-op and concert venue boasting “exorbitantly low” prices and volunteer staffing. But it’s consistently in the red, costing the student body nearly $1 million over the years, and isn’t kept up to fire or safety codes. School officials are threatening to cut off funding, which would shut down the campus fixture, but a band of students is fighting back.

How rich is that? Capitalism is keeping communism alive.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Every active spacecraft between the sun and interstellar space.

Interesting. Even limited to just active spacecraft, I thought there would be more.

MARIJUANA: First legalization, then lawsuits.

Oh, but we live in interesting times. The tort lawyers managed to (mostly) kill off tobacco smoking; can they kill marijuana as well?

SHOCKING (NOT): (Liberal) Media Priorities (are not) Voter Priorities.

You can't eat rainbows and unicorns....

MAINSTREAM MEDIA GIANTS like USA Today and NBC News are reporting yesterday's Republican primaries as the end of the Tea Party. What they fail to understand is that the GOP 'Old Guard' now is the Tea Party; in the 4 years since the 2010 mid-terms, Tea Party independents, conservatives, and Republicans are steadily -- and successfully -- moving the GOP back to its roots.

OBAMA DESIGNATES a new drug corridor through central New Mexico.

President Obama made the announcement ... setting aside 498,815 acres of land as the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument. Unlike national parks which must be approved by Congress, the president has the power to designate national monuments.

I thought I recognized the Rabbit Ears in the picture. As students at New Mexico State University, we spent many enjoyable days driving and hiking through the Organ Mountains. With its designation as a national monument though, I'd be very hesitant to go there again.

HOW TO #BringBackOurGirls in four easy steps. Step 1: identify and locate threat. Step 2: make rubble. Step 3: bounce rubble. Step 4: leave.

VOTING ONLINE? Not in the forseeable future.

Excellent! My choice would be one day of voting, midnight to midnight, in person, with picture ID, and on paper ballots. Absentee ballots only for those who physically can't make it to the polling station in the allotted time.

We'd have a few less voters, but (hopefully) those who showed up would be the ones who took the time to consider the issues and vote intelligently.

SCRATCH TWO MORE fast-food joints from my list of acceptable eateries. "Have It Your Way" meant something, especially back in the day when a hamburger was prepackaged and taken off a warmer. "Be Your Way" and "Live Mas" aren't food choices; they're lifestyle recommendations.

Thank you very much, but I don't need -- or want -- your lifestyle advice. There are plenty of other fast-food joints out there willing to just sell food, and I'll be going their way....

MALLARD FILLMORE on the mainstream media.

THE REAL WAR ON WOMEN: A victim speaks.

RONALD REAGAN-ERA CLEANUP of General Services Administration shows how to fix Veterans Affairs.

It's amazing what a few targeted firings will do to improve morale....

TIME FOR A PANIC ATTACK: National landmarks threatened by climate change. Almost positively maybe guaranteed to possibly happen in ... oh, about 84 years.

Instapundit tweets (#21) "So what's the downside?" [Click here for more.]

MICHELLE OBAMA TO HIGH-SCHOOL GRADUATES: monitor your parents for thoughtcrime.

Who's the racist?

JEFF JACOBY: The U.S. legal bubble can't pop soon enough.

I can think of other ways to thin out the herd....

WHY 'INEQUALITY' is a loser for Democrats. Click through to read it all.

The uber-rich liberals can spend a lot of money on Democrat campaigns, but as a voting segment are rather small. Perhaps that explains the Democrat fixation on 'comprehensive' immigration reform -- they're running out of poor, uninformed voters to keep them in power.

HOW THE WEST won the Great Hashtag War of 2014.

It didn't work in Benghazi either....

THE CLIMATE MAFIA: just thugs in (fake) lab coats.

GLOBAL WARMING 101: Ian Rutherford Plimer is an Australian geologist, professor emeritus of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne, professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide, and the director of multiple mineral exploration and mining companies. He has published 130 scientific papers, six books and edited the Encyclopedia of Geology.

Here's what he has to say:

Okay, here's the bombshell. The volcanic eruption in Iceland ... Since its first spewing of volcanic ash has, in just four days, negated every single effort you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet - all of you.

Of course, you know about this evil carbon dioxide that we are trying to suppress - it’s that vital chemical compound that every plant requires to live and grow and to synthesize into oxygen for us humans and all animal life.

I know ... it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up till midnight to finish your kids "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, vacationing at home instead of abroad, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your 50p light bulbs with £5 light bulbs ... well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just four days.

The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in just four days - yes, FOUR DAYS - by that volcano in Iceland has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And there are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud at any one time - every day.

I don't really want to rain on your parade too much, but I should mention that when the volcano Mt. Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it spewed out more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire human race had emitted in all its years on earth.

Yes, folks, Mt. Pinatubo was active for over one year - think about it!

Of course, I shouldn't spoil this 'touchy-feely tree-hugging' moment and mention the effect of solar and cosmic activity and the well-recognized 800-year global heating and cooling cycle, which keeps happening despite our completely insignificant efforts to affect climate change.

And I do wish I had a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud, but the fact of the matter is that the bush fire season across the western USA and Australia this year alone will negate your efforts to reduce carbon in our world for the next two to three years. And it happens every year.

Just remember that your government just tried to impose a whopping carbon tax on you, on the basis of the bogus 'human-caused' climate-change scenario.

Hey, isn’t it interesting how they don’t mention 'Global Warming' anymore, but just 'Climate Change' - you know why? It’s because the planet has cooled by 0.7 degrees in the past few years and these global warming bull artists got caught with their pants down.

And, just keep in mind that you might yet have an Emissions Trading Scheme - that whopping new tax - imposed on you that will achieve absolutely nothing except make you poorer. It won’t stop any volcanoes from erupting, that’s for sure.

But, hey, relax. Give the world a hug and have a nice day!

From my email.

AIRBUS AND KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES have completed a 10-hour flight from Amsterdam to Aruba using sustainable jet fuel, the longest biofuel flight to date. The aircraft took off with a 20% blend of sustainable fuel made of used cooking oil for the 10-hour flight from Amsterdam to the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba.

I'm planning on going back to visit the island of my birth, but I don't think I really want to fly in an airplane powered by French fries....

IF IT WAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR GRANDPA: Aerospace Corporation says it won’t cut corners on Space-X certification.

BY THE WAY, Toyota took thousands of jobs from California to Texas. And it wasn't just Rick Perry's smile that did it.

A GOOD QUESTION: What does Barack Obama do with himself all day?

Watches MSNBC apparently....

LOCKHEED MARTIN uses 3D printing to lower satellite construction costs.

THANKS FOR removing yourself from the marriage-eligible population.

THE SCOREKEEPER is too good to pass up today. Some keepers:

(#2) "Who would have predicted that Barack Obama's "Arab Spring" would turn into Muslims slaughtering Christians, Jews and other Muslims."

Anyone not of the Left.

(#20) "Oddly enough, being killed in your mother's womb is not torture."

The unborn would have a better chance if they were reclassified as pets, plants, or endangered species.

(#21) "Sadly, 9/11 has become $9.11."

It's all about the Benjamins.

SO YOU THOUGHT news outrage just happened?

AFGHANISTAN: Operation Enduring Handout.

Another state added to the growing list of welfare states....

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON:

What do we do in the face of 19th-century evil that is unapologetic, has lethal weapons at its disposal and uses savage rhetoric to goad us? Twitter it to death?

I long ago concluded that the majority of Twitter users are twits. It appears that conclusion is correct.

LESSONS FROM THE VA SCANDAL: This is what government-run health care looks like. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

DEREK HUNTER: "There is no cure for the common stupid." It is depressing to have to acknowledge that the octane rating of even regular gasoline is higher than the average progressive's IQ.

AERO-X HOVERBIKE to go on sale in 2017.

A mere $85,000. Start saving now....

PAUL GREENBERG: Shut Up, They Explain.

GRASPING AT STRAWS, California's Gov. Moonbeam uses state's wildfires to lecture on climate change. I lived there for 5 years, Jerry. The wildfires are an annual occurrence caused in large part by your government's idiotic regulations preventing the clearing of deadwood and establishing firebreaks to contain/control nature's annual spring cleaning.

HARRY REID: Yes, let's amend the Constitution to elect only Democrats.

‘FOSSIL FREE’ isn’t folly free; it's just moral preening.

"Power" bikes ... how cute. Do the bikes move them from one venue to another as well?

THAT WOULD BE NICE: European Court Grants the Right to Be Forgotten.

SPRING LEAVES, Week Ten. The final photo.

Over the past week, the white oaks have finally filled out and our house is once again almost fully hidden in the forest of trees surrounding it.

Last week's photo is here, and you can continue back in time from there.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES: hashtag edition. My favorite, though:

No paddles allowed.

SELF-BECLOWNING: Higher education is becoming a joke -- a bad joke.

UNDER OBAMACARE, she pays $987 a month.

$987 times 13 months is $12,831 -- that's more than I've spent on medical care in the last 10 years. Government 'regulation' of health care is a scam of epidemic proportions.

MORE FROM THE SCOREKEEPER:

(#2): "This is what happens when you put the Treasury in the hands of people who got an allowance instead of those who worked at McDonald's."

(#8): Seems to be the definition of the word 'progressive'....

(#12): The fight was to claim the honor of being 'first victim'.

IF ONLY IT WERE A DREAM.

THE LEADING CAUSE of oil spills is ... environmentalists.

THE ACADEMIC ECONOMY HAS GOTTEN SO BAD some colleges are even closing their gender studies centers.

Linked, happily, from this Instapundit post.

OPERATION POUTY FACE gets parodied. By Ann Coulter.

Liberals outraged.

GREAT MOMENT IN EUPHEMISMS: "Employers May Start Paying You To Buy Health Insurance." Meaning they may pay you a little more in salary while kicking you off employer-sponsored health plans into the ObamaCare exchanges.

Didn't see that coming, did you? I didn't think so.

VIDEO: The day the cat fought back.

And you thought there were no guard cats....

BOB OWENS: An Open Letter To A Hack Journalist. To call him a 'hack' is being kind.

WASHINGTON POST: [Conservative] Americans aversion to [political] science carries a high price.

The adjectives I'v added [in brackets] indicate Gerson's implicit assumption that if you're skeptical of the Liberals' political science of global warming climate change climate disruption, then you must be a religious bible-thumping conspiracy theorist afraid of GMO foods, cell phones, vaccinations, and evolution (to name just a few).

And yet Gerson himself exhibits a quaint quasi-religious faith in highly complex computer models that can't even correctly predict the past. He doesn't seem to be able to recognize that science, true science, is based on human observations, common sense, testable hypotheses, rigorous testing, and yes ... vigorously expressed skepticism.

Not faith.

THE NEXT OBAMACARE LIE: If you like your [employer-sponsored] health plan, you can keep your [employer-sponsored] health plan.

THE HOLOCAUST REVISITED -- An open thank you note to Ed Schultz. MSNBC, naturally.

VOX(DOT)COM EXPLAINED: These are the 'toughest questions' the 'smartest thinkers' are explaining. (And by the way, VOX, there are 168 hours in a week; what are those 'working mothers' doing in their 63 hours of free time?)

THREE QUARTERS of ObamaCare enrollees were previously insured.

Now they're paying more for the privilege of being insured less.

THE TERRIBLE TRUTH about income inequality.

Washington corruption -- in the pattern of Vladimir Putin -- is driving inequality and sinking family incomes. Higher taxes may catch your family doctor in the near future but politicians will still find a way to exempt their supporters among the very wealthy.

Politicians offering ordinary voters a free ride on taxes, subsidized health care and other enticements are really picking their pockets by giving the country away to the oligarchs.

It's not capitalism; it's cronyism -- aided by a powerful, but corrupted, government.

THE ONLY REASON WHITE MALES ARE ADMITTED: “If I understand college administrators correctly, colleges are hotbeds of racism and rape that everyone should be able to attend.”

Someone has to be the scapegoat.

COLORADO GUN-GRABBERS smoking their own (newly legal) product. There's a reason why it's called 'dope'.

Covered with a heavy dose of bureaucratic arrogance, incompetence, and ass-covering.

OBAMA FACES LIBERAL ANGER: The poor guy can't even keep his own people happy.

Usually when both sides are pissed off, it's a sign that you're doing something right. With Obama though, it's simply more proof of massive incompetence.

THE ICE IS MELTING. THE ICE IS MELTING! Yes ... in about 1,000 years.

BOKO HARAM: because of climate change disruption U.S. oil greed.

Of course.

YES, YOU CAN land on a dime.

LIBERAL WRITER on 'The Unbearable Whiteness of Liberal Media'. Instapundit takes note: "[L]ooking down on other white people from less-elite backgrounds is one of the ways these folks make up for their shrinking salaries and influence."

BERNIE SANDERS (SOCIALIST-VT) declares Koch brothers responsible for Veterans Administration scandal. If the Koch brothers were even (1/100)th as powerful as the idiots Democrats claim, we'd be living in a conservative/libertarian paradise.

As a side note, I saw - for the first time ever - the Wall Street Journal's Jason Riley on Fox's Special Report connect the VA scandal to the massive ObamaCare incompetence. The connection is completely 'obvious to the most casual observer' (as I used to think as an engineer when asked idiotic questions by my customers) but has never, not once, been mentioned in any of the mainstream media sources I'm aware of.

FROM THE SCOREKEEPER (#9): "At 108, he is what every American should aspire to be: Independent, self-reliant and armed."

NORTH CAROLINA MAN fends off pistol-wielding home invader with AR-15.

Responding to a friend who suggested that he should have fired 30 rounds to protect himself, Haith [replied] that he “only needed one [shot] well placed”.

“Ammo is too high.”

Heh.

THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU THINK YOU'RE 'ENTITLED': Longtime congressman John Conyers (D-MI) doesn't qualify for primary ballot.

Self-importance is not real importance.

BYRON YORK: Democrats mistake 8 million sign-ups as happiness with Obamacare.

Just because I sign up for service with the only cable company in town doesn't mean I'm happy with it.

STUDY: Shorter men live longer. That's because it's easier for us to stay out of the line of fire....

“[D]URING THE PERIOD FROM JANUARY 2011 TO MARCH 2014, there have been slightly more single-family housing starts in Houston (95,037) than in California for the entire state (94,993)."

Gee, I wonder why....

ECONOMICS: What Subway Teaches Us About the Minimum Wage.

WASN'T THE TEA PARTY supposed to be dead?

THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF OBAMACARE EVER:

“We have to break people away from the choice habit that everyone has,” said Marcus Merz, the chief executive of PreferredOne, an insurer in Golden Valley, Minn., that is owned by two health systems and a physician group. “We’re all trying to break away from this fixation on open access and broad networks.”

"[I]t will probably end up being the best description of the Obama administration and progressivism in the end. If only government took away the 'choice habits' from Americans, then we could establish Utopia on Earth!"

HEH: "When it comes to Hillary and brain damage, what difference, at this point, would it make?"

OBAMA FOREIGN POLICY: Even our 'allies' are jumping ship to cut their own deals.

WHEN A CHOLESTEROL TEST becomes a vice instead of a virtue.

Moderation would be much easier without the health nannies' continual fear-mongering.

ANDREW KLAVAN on a culture of death.

MARK STEYN: Life in the expedited lane. The wheels of justice grind slowly. Michael Mann will get his comeuppance, though maybe not in my (or his) lifetime.

PowerLine has much more: "Michael Mann is a liar and a cheat".

For added emphasis, read Steve McIntyre's post as well.

RANDOM THOUGHTS: Liberals emote; conservatives produce.

MASTERS OF PROJECTION: Academics develop experiment to determine who is racist/sexist only to find themselves.

Or to find, as is all-to-common with academic research, the results are worthless (i.e., easily obtained with 5 minutes of actual, you know, thought).

IEEE INSTITUTE: Are Recent Grads Working on What Matters? No, but with age comes wisdom....

INMARSAT will offer free basic tracking services for all commercial passenger aircraft "equipped with an Inmarsat satellite connection -- most of the world's long-haul commercial fleet."

THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET IS MELTING. The bad news is that it cannot be stopped. The good news is also that it cannot be stopped; now the global warming climate change climate disruption alarmists can quit screaming "Armegeddon!" and get on with their lives.

'GAMIFICATION': gaming in the workplace.

Playing video games instead of doing your work might sound like a surefire way to get in trouble at the office. But some employers encourage game playing, and even use it as a path to promotion.

Gamification—a relatively new word that stands for applying game-design thinking to non-game applications—has been used in several industries and is now making its way into offices. Gartner, a research firm based in Stamford, Conn., predicts that nearly 2000 global organizations will be using gamification to train their employees and track their performance by the end of this year. And in February, IEEE announced that its experts predict that over the next six years, gaming will be integrated into more than 85 percent of daily activities, which include tasks in the workplace.

It's stuff like this that almost makes me grateful I 'retired' way back in 2009.

IT'S NOT MURDER if Ambassador Stevens died of smoke inhalation. Either the Democrat spin machine is desperate or Eleanor Clift is an idiot.

Or both.

RANDOM THOUGHTS: 'Pop' 'culture' is an oxymoron. Realized after having the misfortune to tune my car radio to a discussion of Jay-Z & Beyonce this morning.

GET A SUNTAN: Women who don't sunbathe are twice as likely to die early than women who do.

Vitamin D: Pills are quicker, but tans are nicer.

DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS have enacted over $58B in tax increases since 2011. What would be interesting to find out is how much taxable income (i.e., the number of taxpayers) has fled the states in the same time period.

IT'S ONLY YOUR MONEY: Four failed ObamaCare exchanges cost taxpayers a half-billion (yes, with a 'B') dollars. So far.

At $250 each, that's only 2 million medical appointments wasted.

GUESS WHO? "When it comes to complete and utter BS, the man is an artist."

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Occam's Razor.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012: The Day Obama's Presidency Died.

MARK STEYN: #BringBackOurBalls.

EAT MORE MOZZARELLA CHEESE: we need more civil engineers to repair our crumbling infrastructure.

Linked from Instapundit, where it is pointed out (in the comments) that "98% of violent crime occurs within 24 hours of bread use."

Which leads to the question "Is our crumbling infrastructure a result of civil engineers (ab)using bread?"

FORMER TREASURY SECRETARY TIMOTHY GEITHNER claims in his new book that the White House on more than one occasion tried to put words in his mouth or outright asked him to bend the truth.

I should be surprised, but I'm not. For this administration, it's all spin, all the time.

USING SOCIAL MEDIA the right way.... (If it's not immediately obvious, scroll back a few days.)

ANOTHER BLUE-COLLAR UNION asks Senate Democrats to support the Keystone XL pipeline. But $100 million envirobucks is hard to beat....

REPUBLICANS: If you want to win Ohio in 2016, take Cleveland first.

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: All Tweet, No Action. Time to break out another box of those weapons-grade hashtags, I guess....

IF 2/3 OF ELECTED WASHINGTON, D.C. IS DEMOCRAT and Obama says ‘Washington’s not working’ ... he’s talking about Harry Reid and his Democrat Senate cohort.

THE LIBERAL'S TIME ZONES.

HOW 2014 BECAME the year of the gun-toting candidate.

It can be, for some people, an ‘eff you’ item.... “Right? We’re going to show you it’s not about the gun—it’s about whose hand the gun is in. The gun becomes destigmatized, because in the hands of a law-abiding citizen, it’s an item for self-defense.

There's a lot of truth to that statement. My new AR-15 is a beautiful weapon and a joy to shoot, but it's a lot of rifle for someone who no longer hunts and now only shoots at paper targets. Nevertheless, just in case at some point in the future I need it, I'll have it.

VIDEO: What are Democrats afraid of? Judge Jeanine Pirro's opening remarks are always good, but in this one she's in especially high dudgeon.

SPRING LEAVES, Week Nine. Only in the back yard does it now not look like full summer.

The white oaks still aren't fully leafed out, but by next week spring will be over for the trees and summer begun. Last week's photo is here, and you can continue to click back in time from there.

HYPOCRISY ALERT.

GEORGE WILL mocks #BringBackOurGirls hashtag activism as an exercise in liberal self-esteem.

I do think that Julie Pace does a point in saying that the 'social media' may possibly have an effect in driving government(s) to actually do something. But that was true prior 'hashtag activism'; witness the Tea Party in 2010, which had a much longer-lasting effect, and was accomplished by much more than posting 'selfies' from the basement.

THE KOCH BROTHERS: What can't they do?

Follow the Charles Cooke links for a glimpse into 2014's Orwellism.

ONE WAY TO 'DRYDOCK' A SHIP:



From my email: claimed to be a beach-side salvage operation on the west coast of India. True or not, the helmsman is very good.

WHAT'S WRONG with a firing squad?

"FORM YOUR OWN OPINION: Just ask the internet." Stupid ad for a smartphone.

Well, maybe not. It got me to comment on it.

POWERLINE: A quick look at the Republican Benghazi committee members.

Here's the House resolution establishing the committee.

WHY LOIS LERNER should be granted immunity. On the other hand, she tried to take away my freedom. Why should she be allowed to keep hers?

CLASSY, MSNBC, really classy.

THESE ONE LINERS might be why NBC retired Jay Leno!

"I was going to start off tonight with an Obama joke, but I don't want to get audited by the IRS."

On NSA surveillance: "We wanted a president who listens to all Americans - now we have one."

On a new IRS commissioner: "He's called 'acting commissioner' because he has to act like the scandal doesn't involve the White House."

On closing the Guantanamo prison for terrorists: "If he really wants to close it, turn it into a government-funded solar power company. The doors will be shut in a month."

Concerning the Benghazi, Associated Press, and IRS scandals: "Remember in the old days when President Obama's biggest embarrassment was Joe Biden?"

On Obama saying he didn't know about the IRS scandal: "He was too busy not knowing anything about Benghazi to not know anything about the IRS."

"The White House has a new slogan about Benghazi : Hope and change the subject."

"It's casual Friday, which means that at the White House, they're casually going through everybody's phone calls and records."

"It is not looking good for President Obama. Today his teleprompter took the fifth."

"Fox News has changed its slogan from 'Fair and Balanced' to 'See, I told you so!'"

On Obama's commencement address: "He told the young graduates their future is bright unless, of course, they want jobs."

On a Chicago man who set a record for riding a Ferris wheel: "The only other way to go around and around in a circle that many times is to read the official report on Benghazi."

On White House claims of ignorance on the scandals: "They took 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' out of the Pentagon and moved it into the White House."

"These White House scandals are not going away anytime soon. It's gotten so bad that people in Kenya are now saying he's 100 percent American."

From my email, with a ring of truth...

LEFT-WING HATE GROUP labels Common Core critics 'right-wing extremists'.

OBAMA: I'm not on the ballot, but -- I've got one more campaign to run....

Well, he can run for Senate in Illinois in 2016 to replace Republican Mark Kirk, or in Hawaii in 2018 to replace Democrat Mazie Hirono. Since it might be a bit unseemly for a sitting President to run for Senate, my money's on a 2018 run from Hawaii.

Of course, there's also the Secretary General of the United Nations. Ban Ki-moon's term ends December 31, 2016. I'm sure they would wait until January 22, 2017....

POLICING FOR PROFIT: another reason for dramatically reducing the size and scope of government.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ON THE IRS SCANDAL: We know nothing ... and we're determined that you know nothing as well.

HAS THE DEMOCRATS' WAR ON WOMEN turned into a war on Democrat women? Swords can cut both ways, you know.

FUNNY HOW those pesky unintended consequences keep cropping up in the Liberals' wet dreams....

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE: Our condolences to Harry Reid:

The Editors would like to extend our condolences to Senator Harry Reid and his family as they go through this difficult time. While we can only guess at the exact nature of the psychiatric or neurological trauma the Senate majority leader has suffered, we assume that it is severe, judging by his symptoms, the most prominent of which is his new habit of taking to the Senate floor to deliver speeches that sound like they ought to be coming from a man wearing a bathrobe in front of a liquor store in Cleveland.

There's more. Read it all.

EVEN LIBERALS ARE BEGINNING TO AGREE: ObamaCare employer mandate will disproportionately hurt low-wage workers.

MORE NONSENSE FROM ACADEMIA: 'Diversity' means segregation.

Newspeak.

NYC MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO'S BUDGET: it's only someone else's money.

AMAZING: Cassini Spacecraft About To Celebrate 10 Years In Orbit Around Saturn. Follow the link for the photos.

Back then (1970s-80s, when Cassini and its predecessors were conceived, designed, and built) the U.S. could do things. Because it's nuclear-powered, today Cassini couldn't be built without the EPA requiring a galactic-wide environmental impact statement.

Well, maybe only a solar-system wide one....

MOTHER'S DAY THOUGHTS from Ammo Grrrl.