A VIRTUAL STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH:



Bill Whittle on gun control. As usual from Whittle, a brilliant video.

HEINLEIN: an armed society is a polite society. And a safer society.

SCIENCE SANITY prevails (once outside the Obama administration).

MUSINGS: Why isn't Obama resigning in disgrace and other quick takes on the political scene.

ANGRY AT TED CRUZ? Republicans should remember what who he represents. For good or ill, the debt ceiling debate is done, but I would suggest that the Republican 'establishment' consider this quotation:

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

And this one:

This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.

There is an election in 2014, and conservatives are not happy with the Republican aristocracy.

FEDS TO ALASKANS: Wildlife is more important than human life.

The new normal.

OBAMACARE: Growing up means grossly overpaying for health insurance.

Good luck with selling millenials with the “Democrats don’t stink as much as Republicans” message after watching the sheer incompetence of HHS and the White House over these last several months of the rollout.

IRS SCANDAL is merely the tip of a titanic iceberg of rogue agency problems.

WASHINGTON POST columnist Eugene Robinson continues to practice incoherence with this column on the minimum wage. Where to begin?

It's better to zero the wages of 500,000 workers in order to give small raises to 25 million others.

Extending unemployment benefits will create 200,000 jobs.

Sequestration was a Republican ploy to destroy 900,000 jobs.

And

The $800,000,000,000 stimulus created (or saved) 1,600,000 jobs (at $500,000 each; do the math).

Other than that, his column was spot on.

OBAMA DELIVERS the foreign policy he thinks America deserves. Never mind the little people who will suffer because of it.

GREENPEACE CO-FOUNDER: No scientific proof humans are dominant cause of warming climate.

Oops.

MICHAEL GERSON: A golden age of physics. A nice science interlude to politics, with this exceptional misunderstanding:

At every level, from top to bottom, we gain knowledge of the world only by cutting our ties to common sense and intuition. The largest things are hidden from our view. The smallest things defy any coherent mental picture. There is, in fact, a strangeness at the heart of all things.

It is precisely this 'common sense and intuition' that enabled our golden age of physics.

RICHARD COHEN: "an [Obama] administration that values the sound of policy over its implementation." A nice use of language in an otherwise unremarkable column.

MCAULIFFE'S COMMERCE SECRETARY is under federal investigation. Usually it takes a year or so before a new administration is alleged to be corrupt. The McAuliffe administration must have been preapproved.

EVEN DEMOCRATS balk at Obama's minimum wage hike. Perhaps they're finally coming to the realization that Obama's redistributionism is all about ensuring that all Americans (well, all excluding the ruling class) have an equal share of nothing.

PIERS MORGAN STAFFERS happy for cancellation? It's a question, not a statement, but I'm inclined to believe it. Morgan was such a jerk on-screen that it easy to believe his off-screen persona is at least as bad.

NOW THEY TELL US: Most ObamaCare state exchange sites were deemed 'high-risk' before launch.

There's no clown shortage; it's just that Government pays better.

OBAMACARE. Now you can follow your dreams.

CBO REPORT: Increased domestic spending may be behind military cuts. More pay for bureaucrats; less for warriors. Is that any surprise?

RELATED: Cut warriors, not bureaucrats (among other topics).

NEW YORK TIMES: The Right Minimum Wage: $0.00. That was then (1987); this ($10.10) is now.

Linked from PowerLine.

IRS SCANDAL is merely the tip of a titanic iceberg of rogue agency problems.