ANOTHER BEHEADING: ISIS beheads American journalist. ISIS followers are not even remotely human; they're rabid animals and should be treated as such: put down (killed) as quickly and cleanly as possible, and the whole area quarantined to prevent future outbreaks.

Let's not make the mistake of granting them human rights. Or animal rights for that matter; they're rabid animals and should be treated as such.

IT HAS BEEN A WHILE: US Air Force's Secretive X-37B Space Plane Passes 600 Days in Orbit.

BIDEN: “It’s time to take back America!” Yes. From the Democrats.

RICH STATE, POOR STATE: Real Per Capita Income by State (2012).

Not surprisingly, the most prosperous place in the U.S. is the District of Columbia.... In the Age of Obama, lobbyists reign supreme. A few blue states are prosperous ... [b]ut most of the country’s wealthiest states are red or purple: in addition to the Dakotas, Wyoming (#3), Nebraska (#6), Iowa (#7) and Kansas (#11).

Kansans are smart, but you can't tell that to the average liberal.

It is noteworthy, too, that states like New York, California and Illinois have much more income inequality than states like the Dakotas. If we saw the same data using medians instead of averages, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Nebraska, etc. would look even better. The average person is remarkably better off in those states.

You apparently have to plow through the data to get a sense of the rightness of the above statement; it isn't obvious from the chart.

And finally, this conclusion:

While one should rarely draw sweeping conclusions from a single data set, these numbers do cause one to wonder: the blue model has plainly failed at the state level, so why would anyone want to implement it at the federal level?

The 'blue state' model is essentially a feudal plantation model; it has the rich (plantation) owners surrounded by their servants, with a few shopkeepers leavened in to fill the niches.

OBAMA: the definition of narcissism.

YEAH, RIGHT: “We need a national conversation…”

What we really need is for the pontificators, pundits, politicians, and 'experts' to shut up and listen.

MICHAEL BARONE: Obama's segue from constructive tax proposals to low-grade demagoguery.

He's always been a low-grade demagogue; he just concealed it better in his first term.

NEVER.