THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY’S (EPA) Clean Power Plan, which aims to reduce carbon pollution, contains an antipoverty transfer program to help offset the harm it does to the poor.

Hmmm. So the EPA admits that its Clean Power Plan will harm the poor (among a whole bunch of not-so-poor), but just a wee bit more taxpayer cash will (partially) offset the harm caused.

Wouldn't it be simpler, cheaper, and better to just flush the Clean Power Plan down the toilet where it belongs?

CNN: Can executions be humane? Can someone explain to me why they should be?

WE SHOULD THANK EPA CHIEF Gina McCarthy for pointing out that her agency is no longer necessary: "The very good news is that we see that this river is restoring itself."

Now they can get back to the important stuff: regulating your barbeque grill.

OFTEN WRONG, BUT NEVER IN DOUBT: Next time government gives you dietary advice, consider doing the opposite. Always do the opposite. It's safer and you'll live longer.

ARKANSAS CUTS state contracts with Planned Parenthood. Despite being warned that states moving to defund Planned Parenthood may be in conflict with federal law. As a great American once said, "Damn the torpedoes; full speed ahead."

THE FUTURE OF THE WEB looks a lot like bitcoin. More than you ever wanted to know....

LIVE FROM CLEAR LAKE IOWA: Democrats on parade. "[T]the crowd in Clear Lake was not really in touch with reality." No, they're in touch with 'reality'.

EPA CHIEF TOURS SCENE OF TOXIC SPILL in Animas River to figure out how to blame it on climate change. Or Republicans. Or both.

ALLEN WEST: The unlearned lesson from Ferguson.

It's a lesson that progressives and their foot soldiers, now charmingly calling themselves 'victims', have been unlearning for centuries.

NOW WE CAN build a real space station....

THE BATTLE TO ERASE HISTORY: The second Battle of New Orleans.

FOR DEMOCRATS, law is useful only when it can be used as a weapon (against non-Democrats).

Much more here.

OK, SO POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES is up. This week's selection is so good I couldn't choose just one favorite. Here are three:

This one had to have been done by a Marine or former Marine because I saw a pickup truck just yesterday with a bumper sticker that read "The Marines: for when you absolutely, positively have to destroy something overnight".

Now go see the rest.

WHY INTELLECTUALS HATE CAPITALISM: They’re jealous.

Those who can, do; those who can't, whine. Progressives whine.

HERE WE GO AGAIN: UAVs may have negative physiological impacts on local wildlife.

Way, way back in time (the early 70's) there was much hullabaloo about those damned rockets scaring/killing off all the wildlife where Kennedy Space Center now stands on Merritt Island. Today the area is a nature preserve teeming with wildlife.

History is not kind to progressive causes; perhaps that's why theyre always trying to erase it.