MEMORIAL DAY: America's Honor.

WHAT TO SAY on Memorial Day.

IF THAT'S A 'MAN', Hillary can have him.

IN A SANE WORLD, these people would be institutionalized.

GREEN IS GOOD; just not for the environment.

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: a parade of incompetents.

VENEZUELA: what happens when socialists run out of other peoples' money.

TRUMP WANTS TO BUILD A WALL; Obama already did.

THE LONG DECLINE OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY:

From my email.

THE 'PROGRESSIVE' ELITE IN A NUTSHELL: "Their virtue is presumed, their critics are despicable, and a self-flattering story always trumps the truth."

BARACK OBAMA, Pajama Boy in Chief.

SHOE nails it.

LEMMINGS.

THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY of America's founding is looking less and less likely.

From my email.

HEH: "[I]t’s good to see SJWs calling out such cesspits of violence and reactionary sexism as Hollywood, college campuses, and literature, which have been dominated by the left for decades. They’re admitting that their ideology deserves a lengthy timeout from politics and other potions of influence for another four, eight or more years, until the culture of corruption has been thoroughly dismantled and reformed."

CYNICISM comes early these days.

Justifiably....

FEELING THE BERN: Burlington College closes due to “crushing weight of debt” acquired by Jane Sanders. Jane Sanders is Bernie's wife, and was President of the college when the 'crushing debt' was incurred.

Socialist-leaning millennials, please take note ... this could happen to you.

INSTAPUNDIT: It's called 'summer'. Happens in Africa every year too.

TWEET OF THE DAY: The time has never been better to abolish the Department of Education. Just flush it right down the toilet of your choice.

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION forces transgender bathroom rules on every school in America. The (hopefully) last paroxysm of progressive stupidity.

Even though it could never happen before Obama leaves office, it's time to file impeachment charges against that sorry son-of-a-bitch.

NATIONAL REVIEW: Obama’s Hiroshima Visit Is Hypocrisy.

HEATHER MAC DONALD: The Danger of the “Black Lives Matter” Movement.

SURPRISED? Wendy’s moves to self-service ordering as minimum wage rises.

I'm not.

TOMORROW: Into the lyin's den.

EXPLAINING the Democrats' support of free college.

UNEXPECTEDLY (AS USUAL): ObamaCare program isn't working.

HUCKABEE TO #NEVERTRUMP REPUBLICANS: fall in line or get out of the party.

The '#NeverTrump'ers are in a snit because they know the real Republican party (we voters) have shown them the door and invited them to not let it hit them in the backside as they exit.

Again, I think the Donald got it more nearly correct when he pointed out it's the Republican party; not the Conservative party.

AS THE ECONOMY GOES DOWN, Obama's approval goes up. Hard to believe, but here's the data from the last 12 months:

The signs are not good....

IT WAS A PARODY THEN; now ... not so much. "Kids say the darnded things" was much better when Art Linkletter did it with real kids.

FIRST DO NO HARM: E-cigarettes and the Food & Drug Administration.

If you can't do harm first, then you can't 'fix' it....

UNEXPECTEDLY, OF COURSE: Bronze plans to disappear from ObamaCare exchanges.

ECONOMIST REMOVED from American Airlines flight for doing math.

FAKE INDIAN, er, 'Native American', on warpath against white man.

I guess it's not cultural appropriation if you're a progressive....

POWERLINE: What the hell happened?

I think the answer is that conservatism cannot exist without populism; the desire for 'free stuff' is too strong.

THE TRUMP TRAIN is picking up steam.

RIGHT ANGLE: Out of the blue and into the red.

UNEXPECTEDLY: another ObamaCare exchange struggles.

REPUBLICAN BUREAUCRAT: conservatives in need of political asylum. The author mistakes the Republican establishment for the Republican party. I don't think it was either Democrats or Independents who overwhelmingly voted for Trump in the Republican primaries and caucuses.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures is up. Here's my favorite this week:

But I like this one about Bernie's 'universal care' platform.

Go and see them all.

OH, MY: Is President Obama guilty of cultural appropriation?

FUTURE NEWS: University of Missouri closed due to snow(flakes).

HUH? Feminists are in favor of sexual assaults?

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL is stealing my thunder: Is Taxing Harvard, Yale And Stanford The Answer To Rising College Costs?

Well, close enough.

THEY DESERVE EACH OTHER: Give D.C. back to Maryland.

WATCH AS Mercury transits the sun on May 9th.

But carefully, if you value your eyesight....

RYAN TO TRUMP: I'm not ready to support you yet.

TRUMP TO RYAN: I'm not ready to support you either.

I'm with the Donald on this one; it's time for the Republican 'establishment' to get on the Trump train and work with him to "make America great again".

THE DONALD ISN'T ALL BAD: He may be the presidential candidate that would get humans to the Red Planet sooner rather than later.

AMMO GRRRLL weighs in (pun intended) on 'TrigglyPuff'.

HEH: Five ways to think about our Trumpian moment.

ELECTION BOTOX ALERT: for both political parties.

LIBERALS' KIDS get the golden ticket while yours get scraps.

Be grateful for scraps, because that's the best you're gonna get....

WE FOUGHT a war on poverty, and poverty won.

HEH: “'Vegan death threat' ranks right up there with 'French military offensive' on the oxymoron scale.)"

THE (21ST CENTURY) AMERICAN WAY: Expanded government power without anyone taking responsibility.

FINALLY THE OBVIOUS is entering the public's awareness: Democrats need minorities to remain poor and resentful.

Can't have 'em off the plantation....

Unfortunately I'm seeing the Republican establishment treating their voters with the same disdain ... it's time for a 'Trump tsunami'.

FEELING THE BERN: "Call the government."

Heh.

THE OBAMA JUSTICE DEPARTMENT’S insane attack on North Carolina.

I think Hinderaker's correct in his argument. North Carolina should just ignore the Justice Department ("Go to hell; nasty letter follows."), then sue when the feds try to defund the state.

MISCELLANEOUS MUSINGS about the Trump victory.

She's right.

THEY DID IT! Space-X successfully lands rocket on ocean platform for second time.

UPDATE: Here's the video.

YES, BUT ... to what channel?

HISTORY: Secret atomic role of WWII-era aircraft carrier revealed.

A TALE OF TWO TRIBES: “Climate refugees” vs. EPA victims.

It's not a crisis if the government is responsible.

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, ObamaCare is creating more entrepreneurs.

HEH: Hillary produces her first pro-Trump ad.

DONALD TRUMP is the internet’s revenge on lazy elites.

Here's proof.

PREDICTION: Syria’s largest city and onetime moderate opposition stronghold of Aleppo WILL fall to the regime of Syrian president Bashar Assad in the next few weeks.

SPACE-X TO LAUNCH a Japanese telecommunication satellite and attempt another first-stage rocket landing on a barge in the Atlantic. However, they admit that they don't expect to succeed in the landing attempt:

Given this mission's (Geostationary Transfer Orbit) destination, the first stage will be subject to extreme velocities and re-entry heating, making a successful landing unlikely.

Here's hoping they succeed anyway.

CHOICES: "Great thing about the general election? America will be free to choose between a big government NY liberal and a big government NY liberal!"

Tweet of the Day from the Washington Examiner's morning newsletter.

POWERLINE ON HILLARY CLINTON: "The lady, if I may call her that, lies with the frequency, skill and conviction of a pathological liar."

If only this were news....

#SOCIALISM: What it's like to eat in a country that's on the verge of collapse.

Socialism is a political system where everyone gets an equal share of nothing. I'm reminded (again) of this quote from Robert Heinlein:

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as "bad luck.”

Vote for Bernie (or Hillary) and you, too, can have bad luck.

POT CALLS KETTLE BLACK: "Obama: Trump not 'equipped' to be president."

YECCH! Sewer robots sift data from raw human waste.

TWEET OF THE DAY: "I've discovered an inverse relationship. The longer I'm a parent, the more I'm annoyed when someone who isn't a parent tells me how to parent."

From the Washington Examiner's daily email.

DELIVERY DRONE gets a spot at the Smithsonian alongside Wright Flyer, Shuttle Discovery.

JEFF JACOBY: Let's not forget -- or devalue -- the Holocaust.

RESEARCHERS: Odds Humans Are Alone In Universe One In “10 Billion Trillion”. Which is an odd way of saying that it's almost certain we're not alone in the universe....

HMMM: These three Earth-like planets may be our best chance yet at detecting life.

THE SUPREME COURT: Guns are good. Even stun guns.

MALLARD FILLMORE: a $15 minimum wage is 'win-win'.

VODKAPUNDIT: the truth about parental leave.

There's a reason why it's not 'MEternity'.

DOES THE WHITE HOUSE CYBERSECURITY TEAM have a clue?

A lot of smart people are working on this, and we still see the same mistakes over and over. The "notion" that human behavior can be re-engineered is "probably wrong'.

It always starts out as a technology problem and ends as something else. Often the technology is the smallest part of the problem.

They might, if they conclude that more technology isn't the answer. My bet is they won't.

BECAUSE GOVERNMENT: why government investments fail.

TECHNOLOGY: DNA creates tiniest thermometer yet.

RANDOM THOUGHTS from Thomas Sowell:

As this country continues to degenerate, we hope that it never reaches the desperate stage where only a military coup can rescue it from catastrophes created by feckless politicians. But, if that day ever arrives, we can only hope that the military will do their duty and step in. It is one of the few institutions dedicated to something besides individual self-interest.

I don't agree with all of Sowell's thoughts in this Townhall column, but he's always worth reading.

DONALD TRUMP AGREES WITH OBAMA WHITE HOUSE: Walls work.

THE CLUE BAT STRIKES: From the news last night, Jane Sanders (Bernie's wife) thinks superdelegates are an insurance policy for the establishment.

Heh.

PAVING THE ROAD TO HELL with good (read stupid) intentions:

A professor recently wrote a candid essay in which she confessed a secret: she didn't want to write a letter of recommendation for a student, solely because this student has different views (presumably) about gun rights.

Arrogant, intolerant, and oblivious to her biases (and how destructive they are), she is everything that is wrong with modern higher education.

Instapundit has what I think is a simple solution to the SJW liberal bias in higher education: make the university responsible for repayment of student loan debt. Don't think they can afford it? Think again. Those numbers are billions (with a 'B').

I'd add just one tiny refinement: make the department granting the degree responsible for payback. Then sit back and watch the number of SJW degree-granting departments plummet.

STARCHIP ENTERPRISE: an infinite force meets an infinitesimal object.

FACULTY RESTROOMS: The New Civil Rights Frontier.

HEH: "Hillary is the Cod Liver Oil of candidates. Except that Cod Liver Oil is at least good for you."

AMMO GRRRLL on progressives and parasites.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Is NATO Worth Preserving?

Read the comments.

DIARY OF A MAD VOTER: How Trump can win the black vote to win the election.

SPACE-X SAYS it will fly a spacecraft to Mars as soon as 2018.

More at Popular Science.

NO LONGER SEXIST: House committee votes to require women to sign up for draft.

Feminists should be careful about what they wish for....

GOP INSIDERS: Trump nomination could hobble the party for years.

As if that's a bad thing....

WHY DOES the U.S. Air Force want to destroy the struggling U.S. space launch business? Read the entire post, then go to the Lexington Institute mission statement:

The Lexington Institute believes in limiting the role of the federal government to those functions explicitly stated or implicitly defined by the Constitution. The Institute therefore actively opposes the unnecessary intrusion of the federal government into the commerce and culture of the nation, and strives to find nongovernmental, market-based solutions to public-policy challenges. We believe a dynamic private sector is the greatest engine for social progress and economic prosperity.

Now explain the contradiction.