ANOTHER DAY, another dishonest attack by the Left.

THIS IS Maureen Dowd’s brain on drugs. She has (had?) a brain? Who knew?

THERE'S NO MORE ROOM FOR SQUIRRELS: In case you’ve been distracted by all the other scandals and debacles, ObamaCare is still a disaster.

PROBABLY TRUE: Bergdahl deal could be first step to emptying the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

It's also a distraction from the VA scandal ... oh, look! A squirrel.

FROM MY EMAIL:

On Fox News' Bret Baier's facebook page today, he asked if the "trade" for the release of serviceman Bowe Bergdahl for the five Taliban Gitmo detainees should have been made.

One great response....

NO! Will trade Obama, Pelosi, Hillary, and Reid for the Marine in Mexico though.

Add Biden and make it five.

HARRY REID ON FREED TALIBAN PRISONERS: “I’m glad to get rid of these five people”. Well, of course; he's not in danger of getting his head chopped off....

HEH: Native American coal doesn't stink.

There's a certain schadenfreude to watching 'victims' clash....

UNIONS LIED, hippies’ lattes died.

THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION is seeing increased opposition to Common Core among its members.

And Michelle Malkin is leading a parents' grassroots revolt: "If the Common Core cheerleaders and rebranders in both parties think their bad ideas won’t ever come back to haunt them at the polls, they are in for a very rude awakening."

Michelle is a staunch opponent of Common Core, correctly so I think, but I would differ with her on one small point. I think there is -- or can be -- a consensus of Americans as to a minimum set of skills and factual knowledge (not opinions) a student must demonstrate at each grade level in order to be considered a functioning adult in American society upon graduation.

Common Core went off the rails when it became prescriptive, substituting process for skills and (politically correct) fantasy for fact. That's the point when parents rebelled. Here's Peggy Noonan on the rebellion:

The irony is that Core proponents’ overall objective—to get schools teaching more necessary and important things, and to encourage intellectual coherence in what is taught—is not bad, but good. Why they thought the answer was federal, I mean national, and not local is beyond me. Since patronizing people you disagree with is all the rage, I’ll have a go. The Common Core establishment appears to be largely led by people who are well-educated, well-meaning, accomplished and affluent, and who earnestly desire to help those in less fortunate circumstances, but who simply don’t know enough about normal people—how they live, how they think—to have made a success of it. Also they don’t seem to know that intelligent Americans, exactly the kind who quickly become aware of and respond to new federal schemes—sorry, I meant national ones—have become very, very wary of Washington, and the dreams of its eggheads.

Finally, here's all you need to know about why parents are outraged with Common Core. Critical thinking skills, a hallmark of Common Core process, is just another liberal buzz phrase for politically correct thought.

LET'S CHARGE POLITICIANS for wasting our time. I like the idea, and I'd extend it to all solicitors.

MR. PRESIDENT, you can't have it both ways. Although he clearly thinks he can....

INCENTIVES FOR ENGINEERS.

IT'S A PLEASANT THOUGHT, but more and more it appears that Obama's on their side.

PHONY LISTS and dead patients wouldn't fly in a free-market health care system.