VIRGINIA HAS A $300M REVENUE SHORTFALL, so the obvious answer is to expand Medicaid. The Democrats may have won the Governor's mansion, but thankfully the House of Delegates is solidly in Republican hands. Gov. McAuliffe has gone to the Democrat playbook threatening to shut the government down, but I don't think the Virginia Republicans will back down -- and they'll make sure he's blamed for shutting the government down.

THE BUTTERFIELD EFFECT: Your (tax) money belong to us.

ANDREW KLAVAN: a post-Memorial Day thoughtabout the 'glory' of war.

HEH: The MSNBC apology tour.

HOW DARE YOU QUESTION ME; I'm a reporter!

WILL U.S. MARINES have to evacuate Americans from the scene of Hillary Clinton's greatest triumph? Most likely, yes.

OBAMA'S AMERICA:

From the Scorekeeper (#11).

MICHELLE OBAMA calls it ‘unacceptable’ for Congress to worry about edible school lunches. Because she knows that expensive and inedible is better for you.

Nothing like having a government know-it-all butt in to every facet of our lives....

EVEN A CACTUS is smarter than Harry Reid. And almost as prickly.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Government-run health care always puts system first, patients second last.

If only it were just health care. But the fact of the matter is that whenever the government interferes with the free market, the system comes first; the citizens last.

THIS TIME, they really are our girls.

THE OBAMA WATCH: "a picture of an administration that is hopelessly superficial, dishonest, and incompetent."

ANOTHER CALL for big-government regulation.

If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.

RACISM THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS:

Racism, it seems, is a mutable element that rises and falls with President Obama's fortunes, receding to a small sliver of cranks in the early months of 2009, before he had a chance to mess up much of anything, then welling up again when he began pushing health care, and reaching gale force in the 2010 midterms, causing a massive resurgence of Ku Klux Klan sentiment that elected record numbers of non-white Republicans to high statewide office, and completely took over states such as Wisconsin, where Confederate feelings have always run high.

Read it all.

WILL THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA cover the House committee hearing on the International Panel on Climate Change [IPCC]?

[T]he House Committee on Science, Space and Technology chaired by Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas is holding a hearing Thursday on the reliability, or lack thereof, of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

As Washington Examiner columnist Ron Arnold makes clear in his column today, the hearing will have experts who are critical of the IPCC and who are supportive of its work.

Check Friday's editions of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other mainstream media outlets. Odds are they will either ignore the hearing completely or report only on evidence presented that supports the false consensus of the 97 percent.

Not a chance; the Committee is chaired by a (gasp!) Republican.

THAT WOULD BE GOOD: Most important casualty of Veterans Affairs scandal could be Obamacare.