TWENTY-FOUR REASONS to regret leaving Texas. Mine are numbers 1, 3, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 18, and 23.

HEH: WalMart fact-checks the New York Times. The Times ought to outsource its layers upon layers of fact-checkers and editors to Walmart; they'd get a better product at much lower cost....

AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF 'THE WON': A dangerous fool.

A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE: the cockpit of the SR-71 Blackbird. There were none left on active duty when I was at the Skunk Works, but we had several mothballed on the tarmac.

A view of the RSO cockpit is here.

And start here for a virtual tour of the National Museum of the United States Air Force.

SCOTT OTT on the secrets to a successful move.

Hint: it involves keeping the shirt on your back and leaving everything else behind.

MORE HEALTH CARE PLANS you may like but won’t be able to keep. Insufficient opportunities for government control, graft, and other corruption regulation.

TRUESBURY: “What could be the (D)ifference?”

Linked via Instapundit.

VIDEO: Space-X tests new steerable ‘fins’ on its Falcon 9 rocket. Tom Corbett, here we come.

WHEN THE OPPORTUNITY ARISES, throw out the incumbent. Fresh blood is always better.

THANKS, OBAMA.

PRESIDENT OBAMA sends drone to Middle East.

Sunni Muslim insurgents in Iraq captured their fourth town in a little more than 24 hours late Saturday, hours before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in the Middle East to try to shore up Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's faltering government.

Sarcasm intended.

WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? Louisana Gov. Bobby Jindal:

"Are we witnessing right now the most radically, extremely liberal, ideological president of our entire lifetime right here in the United States of America, or are we witnessing the most incompetent president of the United States of America in the history of our lifetimes? You know, it is a difficult question," he said. "I've thought long and hard about it. Here's the only answer I've come up with, and I'm going to quote Secretary Clinton: `What difference does it make?'"

Indeed.

JONAH GOLDBERG: Government "of the Bureaucrats, by the Bureaucrats, for the Bureaucrats.

But not for you.