STANFORD UNIVERSITY to open a center for the study of bad science. Penn State climate 'researcher' Michael Mann to be first candidate studied....

As Instapundit usually says, "Heh."

BREAKING NEWS: The Koch brothers are living rent-free in Harry Reid's head. On the bright side, there's plenty of room....

SENATE DEMOCRATS join House in pressing Obama again about final Iran nuclear deal. I suspect the Boy Emperor is not happy that his minions are crowding his turf.

BECAUSE THEY CAN: Why do weak nations like Russia provoke stronger ones like the United States? "Putin defines power not by tanks or GDP, but by a state’s willingness to gamble to use whatever power it has. He assumes that others less reckless than he would rather rationalize their unwillingness to use their superior economic and military assets than run the risks of employing them."

With Obama, Putin's probably right.

BUS DRIVER blames gin-soaked raisins after driving kids back to school.

[A] Pennsylvania bus driver who took children back to school instead of driving them home after classes ended has acknowledged eating gin-soaked raisins.

Police in Columbia County say they've filed charges including DUI and reckless driving against [the] Benton Area School District driver.

The grapes of wrath.

WE'LL FIND OUT IF HILLARY DOESN'T RUN: What Happens If Mutant Killer Space Bunnies Switch Off Gravity?

A REPORT on the Arrogance of Power. PJ Media has more, including video clips.

AS DREARY AND PREDICTABLE REPRESENTATIVE of the low-wattage, affirmative-action branch of that enterprise [academia] as any cultural pathologist could wish for.

DON SURBER'S Daily Scoreboard:

From the Los Angeles Times: "Electric cars can go only half as far in freezing weather, AAA finds."

So we cool the Earth's temperatures in these buggies so we can get stuck in the snow.

And we're the intelligent species?

Read the rest -- and the comments.

SPOILED, WEALTHY COLLEGE STUDENTS more likely to support terrorism.

Bill Ayers, anyone? Bernadine Dohrn? Kathy Boudin? Diana Oughton? All spoiled, wealthy brats, Weather Underground terrorists, and current heros/heroines of the Left.

WESTBORO CHURCH founder Fred Phelps dies.

The original is here.

Interestingly enough, here's a Westboro church counterprotest.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Black market thrives with high cigarette taxes.

PAUL GREENBERG: Of Sex, Age and Politics.

"AMERICANS RODE in wagon trains across this country, tossed the Brits’ tea in the Boston Harbor, outfought the superpower of the 18th century to get our freedom, pounded the Indians, Mexicans, and Spanish into the ground to fulfill our Manifest Destiny and then for an encore, we saved the planet in WWI, WWII, and the Cold War."

So why is America creating a generation of wimps?

HEH: Barack Obama banned in Moscow.

WITHOUT FURTHER COMMENT:

HISPANICS souring on Obama? "They have been finding out that Obamacare has been about as competent and functional as government in Mexico."

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES: Reset edition. My favorite: