IRS SURPRISE for some ObamaCare subsidy recipients next year.

If you bought into ObamaCare, you bought a pig in a poke and are about to find out the pig is a skunk.

REALLY? Global Warming Concerns Grow. Compared to when?

Here's the little factoid I find interesting:

About half of Republicans considered the economy more important than the environment, while nearly two-thirds of Democrats said the environment should take priority.

Republicans have jobs; Democrats have 'free stuff'.

WHO CARES? It's other people's money: "Federal health insurance officials can't tell Congress how much the government has spent since 2010 selling Obamacare ...according to the Government Accountability Office."

WHAT HAPPENS when you provide price competition to a police gun buy-back program?

BARACK OBAMA is not a Muslim; he's a golfer. Read it all.

REASON actually asked the NYC climate protesters what they want to do.

YES, SIR, the science is settled.

BUT, BUT ... IT'S JUST COMPOST: The #ClimateMarch is trashing New York city. Best comment: "It would be easy to call all environmentalists pigs, but that would demean a noble animal.

Heh.

SEN. KIRSTEN GILLEBRAND'S weight critic is revealed. Male, a Democrat, and - conveniently - dead.

U.N. AVIATION BODY (ICAO) to mull space safety as 'space taxis' ready for flight. Mulling opportunities for graft would be a more accurate description.

MICHAEL BARONE: Immigration reformers should learn from history.

There’s an obvious lesson here for immigration policy. Immigration can promote social mobility, but not always. The United States got high-skilled immigrants in the Ellis Island period largely by happenstance. Today Canada and Australia profit from upward mobility because their immigration laws admit only those with high skills.

I think Barone's wrong on this one. The U.S. used to be an upwardly mobile society because immigrants were encouraged, almost required, to be productive. That is no longer the case.

US NAVY'S TRITON UAV makes first cross-country flight.

HEH.

'FREE STUFF' isn't enough. LA’s brilliant plan to boost voter turnout: bribery.

ACCOUNTABILITY(!?) Broken culture, risky reforms leave unethical VA execs on public payroll.

The constitutional problem ... is rooted in a 1985 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held most civil service employees have a property right to their jobs. That right can only be negated if the employee has a meaningful right to respond to the charges.

Amazing. Utterly amazing. For all practical purposes, civil service laws constitute a 'ruling class protection act'. Where is the 'citizen class protection act'?

LEGAL ISSUES facing UAVs on the farm.

Technology that allows farmers to use drones to scan their fields for blight and pests is available now but its use remains illegal.

That status comes as the unmanned aircraft industry waits for federal regulations to be developed for commercial use of drones. Some experts have predicted that industry could create thousands of jobs and generate more than $75 billion for the U.S. economy.

Any farmer using drones in any commercial capacity is breaking the law and risking fines, said Peggy Hall, a specialist for agricultural and resource law at Ohio State University Extension.

“I think it’s fair to say the technology is far beyond the law, and we’re trying to play catch-up here,” Hall said.

The Federal Aviation Administration is developing rules that would determine how and when the drones can be used....

One would think that -- on farms especially -- one would allow farmers to use drones to find out what works, what doesn't, and then write regulations based on experience. But no, that would make sense.