Wednesday, May 21, 2014

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 CafĂ© 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....