CIS-LUNAR SPACE: Plans being devised for human outpost near the Moon.

[Note to progressives: the term 'cis' does not exclusively belong to you.]

CLIMATE ACTIVISM: the great free speech issue of or time.

What is outrageous ... is not the debate – no matter however flimsy, dishonest and self-interested the government-funded alarmists may be – but rather the Democrats’ attempt to shut the debate off by trying to imprison those who won’t toe their line. This is the most blatant violation of the First Amendment that we have seen in a very long time.

This is why I like Donald Trump's take-no-prisioners, punch-back-twice-as-hard attitude; if the FBI can be called to investigate climate skeptics, then it should also be called to investigate the climate activists as well.

CAREER POLITICIANS (and other political vermin) created Donald Trump. In a sense, Bernie (BS) Sanders is correct about the 'one-percenters' -- it's just that the one-percenters aren't the millionaires and billionaires; they're the inside-the-beltway political class.

THE OBAMA EXPERIENCE, shout loudly and carry a small stick, doesn't work.

BERNIE SANDERS is selling atavisms.

TRIUMPH THE INSULT DOG ends campus political correctness as we know it.

SOME QUESTIONS for the climatistas.

BUT FIRST, take note of the caveats: Why I would buy a smart gun.

He can say that because he knows none are available, and none are likely to be available any time in the near future.

LIBERAL 'COURAGE': Resignation of EPA official who stayed silent on Flint was 'courageous'.

Courageous is not a term I would have chosen....

HACKING APPLE: FBI offers to help law agencies access phones.

Apple is hoist with their own petard. Heh.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures is up. The cartoons were so good this week that it is hard to limit my favorites to just two:

Go and see the rest.

INSTAPUNDIT: "[T]he 'Blue Model' may be rotting, but it offers more opportunities for graft and self-importance than the traditional Anglosphere approach. Which explains both the rot, and the rot’s popularity among the rotten sectors of American politics."

From the comments: "Hot air talks. Money walks. Surprise."