THE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS is ruining America. Strangely, his 'upper middle class' is my 'rich' -- and their nanny-state government factotums.

DAWN SPACECRAFT approaches the asteroid Ceres:

The pictures will get better as Dawn begins to orbit.

IGNORING REALITIES, Obama sticks to his comfort zone.

A week after his State of the Union address, political observers are still trying to figure out what President Obama's game is. That's because rhetorically and substantively, he seems to be in another world.

And that's the point: he is -- literally -- in another world. In the not-too-distant past, Obama would have been a prime candidate for commitment to a mental health institution.

SMILE FOR THE CAMERA! NASA spacecraft almost to Pluto.

OBAMACARE 2.0: More government spending perpetually chasing the costs imposed by more government mandates.

ACTUALLY IT'S $3,999.999.999,999.95: Obama proposes $3.99 trillion budget.

FAT WARS: Obesity-fighting implant approved by FDA.

OBAMA'S WORLD: a 'Life of Julia' for everyone. Stated more succinctly, Americans are too infantile to live their own lives without government intervention.

ANOTHER CASE OF MY BEING RIGHT: A new study suggests the economic return on a college degree may be a lot more modest than you think.

FEAR A DRONE ATTACK? Here's a solution.

For when it's out of shotgun range....

PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: Stanford threatened with lawsuit over MLK Day protest. I know Stanford's got the bucks, but I'd like to see the protestors sued, individually and severally.

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Has Robocar Safety Been Hyped?

SO TELL US SOMETHING WE DON'T ALREADY KNOW: Obama lacks plan to stop Islamic State grand vision.

SPACE COMMERCIALIZATION: Google, Fidelity fuel SpaceX with $1B investment.

CHEAPER GASOLINE: Obama didn't build that.

Not even close.

WISCONSIN GOV. SCOTT WALKER surges in Iowa poll.

UPDATE: Walker won. Walker is, right now, my favorite candidate.

REMY: I need a hashtag!

OBAMA'S BUDGET: Bad policy, bad politics.

HEH.

TROJANS: they're not just software any more.

INSTAPUNDIT on Western cultural sensitivity: "Because no culture is any better than any other ... who are we to say that killing everyone in an enemy held city and building a pyramid of skulls outside is wrong ... ?"

"THE GOAL OF PROGRESSIVISM is not to make the world rational; it’s to make the world Portland.”