FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY: Hillary Clinton visits the foreign country of Texas.

HERE'S AN IDEA FOR WORLD PEACE: Let NASCAR sponsor a 'Taliban 500'.

STENY HOYER (D-MD): ObamaCare is going to be, at worst, neutral in the midterm elections. And at best, the Republicans will win a veto-proof majority in both houses of Congress.

THEY'LL GO TO THEIR [POLIICAL] GRAVES insisting they never lied about Benghazi.

HEALTHY PEOPLE fart more. Now that ObamaCare mandates healthy people, I can see the headlines: "ObamaCare increases global warming."

“IT’S HIGHLY UNUSUAL for an administrator or director of a Cabinet-level department to request an IG stop an investigation.” From which I think you can safely infer that something's not on the up-and-up.

Plus the fact that it's the EPA....

OBAMA TIP-TOES past the graveyard of his foreign policy.

[T]he President and all the people around him totally failed to understand the first thing about Vladimir Putin and his foreign policy agenda. They were caught utterly flatfooted by his move on Ukraine. To both the average layperson and the seasoned foreign policy professional, this looks like a major misreading of a major issue. Many will wonder how an administration that was listening in to Angela Merkel’s cell phone calls could have misread Russia so comprehensively.

They were are so invested in the fantasy world they call 'reality' that they cannot fathom that the adults are no longer playing childrens' games.

THOMAS SOWELL: Demonizing the Helpers.

With the education establishment, I'm having trouble deciding whether it's more about retaining control or protecting incompetence. But then neither choice makes the establishment look good.

WHITE HOUSE BENGHAZI DEFENSE detonated by email bomb. All that's left is to investigate the smoking ruins.

And they will be investigated.

EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR has been declared a national day of some food. What's yours?

EPA CHIEF promises to 'go after' Republicans who question agency science.

That reads like a threat to me. It's time to abolish the EPA.

CHANGE 'OBAMACARE' to 'progressive' and you've more than adequately described their 'reality' world.

HEH: "Democratic Senate blocks federal minimum wage bill."

TWENTY-THREE (23) PERCENT: the cost of the ruling class. Oh, and that's before taxes.

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CONTROVERSY: Is a burrito racially or culturally insensitive?

Does that mean I can't put up my luminiarias this coming Christmas Winter Solstice Holiday Eve?

More here. Follow the link.

INCOME INEQUALITY EXPLAINED: "Administrators control the money, so naturally they wind up with more of it."

It's not confined to just education. Think government as well.

VICTORY GIRLS on Cliven Bundy and Racism.

LOSER WHINES, does 'stompy feet' dance.

THOUGHT CONTROL disguised as 'manners'.

Instapundit has a point: the Right should start redefining the Left's favorite terminology to demonstrate the vapidity of their thought processes. I'd start by redefining 'microagressive behavior' as 'whining'.

I still like "Sod off, swampy" though.

JONAH GOLDBERG: The myth of the wild. The environmentalists' pristine wilderness is not what they think it is.

'PLAYING POLITICS?' Sen. James Inhofe, (R-OK), says the EPA may have delayed issuing a regulation limiting carbon emissions from new power plants so the rule would not be finalized until after the midterms.

'May' have delayed? May? What's the problem with accurately writing just plain 'delayed'?

MEGAN MCARDLE bashes MSNBC's Chris Hayes: "Poor People Have Carbon Footprints, Too."

A bashing that is well deserved.

SO SUE THE BASTARDS. Sue them personally and individually. Make 'em pay for their hubris and arrogance.

Much more here.

UPDATE: Another reason to sue the bastards.

NEWSPEAK RETURNS: "Some people just need to man person up already and quit whining about words they don’t like."

INSTAPUNDIT: "It’s beginning to seem as if campus hate-crime reports are usually fake." True that. When Leftists can't find real hate crimes to be outraged over, they have to manufacture them.

LOIS LERNER: Contempt charge would be 'un-American.' Uh, huh. And what she did is pro-American?

INVENTION AWARDS 2014: A Personal Electric Airplane That Won't Need A Runway.

Doesn't look like it'll fit into a garage, though.

AMERICAN SPECTATOR: The Gospel According to Mark Steyn.

OH, MY: "... university policy took precedent [sic] over Constitutional rights".

More idiocy from overly-edjumacated shmoes.

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane. Yesterday we got 2-3/4 inches of rain. Today it's supposed to really rain.

OBAMA ON FOREIGN POLICY: I don't have time to explain my complex, nuanced Obama Doctrine, so let me explain the Bush Doctrine instead.

The Obama Doctrine can succintly be explained as the "Strawman Doctrine" (i.e., he doesn't have one). Here's an example:

SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA TO ME: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) will introduce a bill this week to cut off aid to the Palestinian government unless it recognizes Israel’s right to exist. It should be 'until', not 'unless' and all future appropriations should be contingent upon the Palestinian government living up to that recognition.