BLASTS FROM THE PAST: 4 years ago and five years ago today. And still relevant.

THE THIRD-BRAND CANDIDATE: "Coke, Pepsi, or Kasich?"

He seems to have a bit of a problem understanding that people like Coke and Pepsi....

FOX BUSINESS: Are Social Security benefit increases coming?

THE DEMOCRAT DEBATE explained.

LOOK AT how many pages are in the federal tax code.

This growth in the tax code has not come without consequences. "Over the decades, lawmakers have increasingly asked the tax code to direct all manner of social and economic objectives, such as encouraging people to buy hybrid vehicles, turn corn into gasoline, purchase health insurance, buy a home, replace that home's windows, adopt children, put them in daycare, purchase school supplies, go to college, invest in historic buildings, spend more on research, and the list goes on," according to the Tax Foundation's chart book, "Putting a Face on America's Tax Returns."

Do we really need this much government interference in our daily lives?

JOSH EARNEST: A government shutdown is okay ... if Democrats do it.

AMMO GRRRLL: 'Free' college will not end well. She's right on all counts.

CAPITALISM IS ORGANIC:

The point is not just to mock this particular person, although I have to admit that being totally ignorant about agriculture, economics, and history all at once is quite a feat. The point is that the development of modern industrial capitalism really was a logical, natural development continuing in a direct line from the very earliest, most primitive forms of production and trade. Specialization, markets, a medium of exchange (otherwise known as “money”), division of labor, economies of scale, savings, investment, credit, capital—all of it evolved naturally as solutions to problems that arose from a simple agrarian existence.

Can Progressives learn? Not likely (without starving first).

ANOTHER COLLEGE FALLS to social justice warrior intimidation. Higher education is well down the path to self-immolation.

On the bright side, it could save me a whole bunch of tax dollars.

Related item here: Portland Community College Professor Wants a 'World Without Whiteness'.

SO DO I: Jeff Bezos wants "Millions of people living and working in space."

On one hand, I wonder if I was born 100 years too early; on the other, I wonder if civilization will last another 100 years.

WHY SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS HATE THE FIRST AMENDMENT:

THE $15 MINIMUM WAGE: designed to keep people unemployed, dependent on the government, and voting Democratic.

THEY ALREADY DO. NEXT QUESTION? Will Robocars make you puke?

JUST WHEN YOU THINK university administrations can't get any stupider, comes this: DePaul University bans chalk because it can be used to spell ‘Trump.’ Follow the link, and take note of Glenn Reynolds' response, which is mine as well.

NEWT GINGRICH endorses a Georgia spaceport.

TWEET OF THE DAY: "Wish Hillary and Bernie would shut up about politics and do what they do best - entertain us" -- @ benschwartzy

NVIDIA TO SUPPLY robocar brains for RoboRace Formula E Series.

My reaction is the same as in this comment: "So, when self-driving cars start showing up on our highways, how many people will be not wanting to 'lose to a stinking machine'? Trying to outsmart a self-driving car even has some appeal to me, and I left my teen years over half a century ago. Self-driving cars are clearly more logical than human drivers, and therefore should behave more sanely. It's the mix of the logical 'coolly calculating algorithm' with the illogical 'carbon-based nervous system' that scares me."

THE QUESTION would be easy to answer if Progressives could think, even semi-rationally: Why is it easier to buy a gun than it is to buy the NRA’s mascot outfit?

BILL WHITTLE: Appropriate this!



I like the idea of making the culture warriors give up all the 'white culture' they've appropriated from us; then see how how they feel about 'cultural appropriation'.

ENVIRONMENTAL 'PROTECTION' AGENCY: Yes, we have standards; they just don't apply to us.

CLINICAL LAW PROFESSOR questions indoctrinating students with social justice morality and requiring pro bono by students, not faculty and administrators. It's that last phrase (in italics) that's telling about progressives: Do as I say, not as I do.

BELABORING THE OBVIOUS: college isn't alway worth it.

The 'progressive' college experience is never worth it.