GET OUT AND DON'T COME BACK: What Dartmouth's president should have told bullying students.

WHY I LOVE ENGINEERING -- and avoid left turns.

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane. The fundamental problem with liberalism is that Liberals think the rest of us are as incompetent as they are.

THE RIGID DOGMA OF SECULAR LIBERALISM:

We’re so lucky we live in such a tolerant, enlightened society.

There are backward parts of the world where women are stoned to death for wearing the wrong kind of dress. There are some backwaters stuck in the Middle Ages where gays are publicly hanged. These actions are to punish the “perpetrators” for their deeds. But another purpose is to set an example to others: if you don’t follow our established laws and norms, there will be consequences, and you will suffer. This mentality is stuck in the Dark Ages, where thought is monolithic, where conformity is demanded, and where punishment is swift, public, and extreme.

Good thing we don’t live in a place like that!

Instead, we live in an enlightened world where Brendan Eich, founder and CEO of Mozilla, is forced to resign for his views on traditional marriage. And it’s not just his personal beliefs: he even donated a whole $1,000 to support his beliefs, six years ago. This sort of behavior cannot stand. Repent, Mr Eich, or accept your public flogging!

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OH, MY: A gun-rights rally in Connecticut? What's next? Liberty?

IN CHICAGO, a new civil right is born. What happened to that expected bloodbath when Illinoians were finally permitted to carry concealed?

IGNORE PEER PRESSURE; do the math.

Just a thought: is ObamaCare a byproduct of our abysmal education system? Or recent push toward an even more abysmal education system a result of ObamaCare's success?

THE SEARCH for CNN’s missing brain. The assumption is that it once had one. I'm not sure that was ever true.

BEST OF THE WEB: Justice Thomas was right.

SOME THOUGHTS on the global warming hysteria.

BOWDOIN COLLEGE publicly displays pictures of naked female students posing in groups. And an underpants-clad male statue was 'threatening' at all-female Wellesley College.

What are they serving in college cafeterias these days?

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane. I'm just finishing up my 2013 annual coerced giving (i.e., income tax) paperwork to find that -- as usual -- my Social Security income is 85% taxable, which is infuriating. For 30-plus years, I've paid my FICA tax out of my (taxable) employment income, and now in retirement it's taxed again!

I'm convinced Government isn't going to be satisfied until every working stiff's entire paycheck goes directly to the government, whereupon it will give back a modest cost-of-living stipend.

Plus, of course, incentives for voting 'correctly'....

WHEN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IS ANTI-AMERICAN: Obama has succeeded in weakening the nation.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Gun advocates credit new concealed carry laws for sharp drop in Chicago murder rate.

FADING DREAM tests faith of prominent D.C. congregation. I suspect the rise of the secular monarchy in D.C. has had something to do with it.

PUNCH BACK and purge them all!

AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN, BARACK.

Sainthood takes a miracle.