AWOL in France:

ONE DEAD, 84 HURT after smoke fills DC metro station. That hits close to home; I do occasionally go through the L'Enfant Plaza Metro station enroute to work.

A 'NEW' DEMOCRAT STRATEGY to benefit the middle class -- tax the rich.

How ... original.

UPDATE: More from the Washington Post.

TAMMY BRUCE: Let's get serious about Islamic terrorism.

[T]he serious conversation should be this: What obvious and sensible changes governments must implement to keep this from becoming horribly “normal” and if we are to have any chance of stopping the enemy:

First, Islamists who go to the Middle East to train and fight with a terrorist army must not be allowed to return to any Western nation.

Second, acknowledge this is a world war and stop treating terrorism as and equating it with regular civil crime.

Third, imprison the terrorist enemy in military prisons, ending their ability to “radicalize” civilians in prison.

Fourth, as in war time, arrest those who spread propaganda for the enemy, recruit for the enemy and support the enemy. For those wringing their hands that we must put up with it in a free society, hogwash. It’s a crime to encourage or solicit murder. And if one is associated with and a supporter of an active enemy, it’s also treason.

Common sense.

A PILE OF DUNG would be more appropriate.

GREEN SCIENCE: Fracking causes cancer. Uh, no it doesn't.

SMALL NORTH CAROLINA CITY removes sculpture of soldier kneeling before a cross. After being threatened by a lawsuit from the Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

I have to wonder if the city would have been sued if the sculpture had been of a soldier kneeling before an Islamic crescent. Somehow I doubt it....

MSNBC HOST Melissa Harris-Perry gets taken to woodshed on radical Islamism.

JUDGE JEANINE PIRRO: We need to kill those hell-bent on killing us.

Even Woody Allen recognized that sometimes physical force is necessary.

WITHOUT FURTHER COMMENT, go here.

COYOTE CAPTURED IN UPPER MANHATTAN; later released in Bronx. We can't have coyotes running loose in Manhattan; send them to the Bronx where they belong.

WAVE ELECTIONS: What they mean.

COMES THE DAWN: Working in a gun-free zone is unsafe.

SPACEX ROCKET-RECAPTURE BID thwarted by hard landing.

Pictures from the landing attempt are here. That's a damn small target to 'hit' from the edge of space. I'd call it a complete success.

LISTEN UP OBAMA, students don’t want your free education. Neither do taxpayers.

HMM: maybe not. But it would require strong conservative leadership at the community college level to ensure that students progress on schedule and that terminal (associate) degree holders leave with immediately marketable skills.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Multicultural Suicide.

SUPREME COURT JUSTICES don't belong at the State of the Union pep rally. For that matter, neither do the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It ought to be the President, Congress, possibly the Cabinet secretaries, and CSPAN. For everyone else, television.