BE SURE TO THANK THE DEMOCRATS: Pension tidal wave is about to crash down on taxpayers. And thank Republicans, too; they're almost as guilty.

Then bend over to get your reward....

THE FEDERAL RECORDS HACK: a cyber Pearl Harbor?

[T]he lesson is that we should probably think twice before entrusting the federal government with our own information. Because if the feds can't protect their own sensitive data, on behalf of people who work for the federal government, how good a job are they likely to do on behalf of the rest of us mere citizens?

Good question: My SF-86 shows someone so straight he could be used for a ruler, but as a 52-year security clearance holder, I know many, many top-level clearance holders whose backgrounds are not nearly so pristine. Most (99-plus percent) are absolutely trustworthy, but a few are vulnerable.

HEH. Nancy Pelosi to Barack Obama: Drop dead.

The bloom is off the rose.

IT'S OUR LAND: The case for Israel is rooted in more than security.

GUN NEWS: mostly stupid, possibly bad.

NO SHIT, SHERLOCK: Clinton Foundation donors have a bribery problem.

AS CRIME SOARS IN BALTIMORE, the police are partly to the blame.

Nonsense! No police officer in his (or her) right mind is going to risk life, limb, and future knowing that their 'superiors' are willing to sacrifice them on the alter of political correctness at the first available opportunity.

The good people of Baltimore demanded an end to aggressive policing; now let make them suffer the consequences.

JON STEWART explains energy independence in a way that even environmentalists should be able to understand.



But the most dedicated will continue to willfully ignore the obvious.

HAS THE federal government ever had sex? Nope; they prefer rape.

OH, JOY: Congress looks to protect grid from hackers. God help us if they do as good a job as OPM has done protecting employee privacy.

On the (heh) 'bright' side, the EPA and its environmentalist friends want everyone off the grid 'to protect the environment'....

CARLY FIORINA FOR PRESIDENT: Here are the reasons why.