NOT JUST any idiot.

THIS IS the America I know and love.

The dash cam video is from a state trooper escorting Marine home.

COUNT ME IN as part of the 30+ percent group in the over-65 age category. I want nothing more than to be out of Medicare.

PRESIDENT OBAMA should write a check to the U.S. Treasury for $182,998. That’s how much more he would have owed had his “tax the rich” plan passed.

FLIGHT DESIGN to produce a low-cost alternative to Cessna 172/183 singles. Maybe it’t time to rethink letting my pilot’s license lapse.

ENDEAVOUR is proceeding towards launch on April 29. My son and granddaughter are driving down to Cape Kennedy to see it. It will be her first - and hopefully not her last. Early in my career, I was at the Cape for a Saturn launch - but I was working and never actually saw it.

FINALLY SPRING. Images from around the neighborhood.

THE ROAD TO HELL is paved with stimulus funding.

GASOLINE PRICES are skyrocketing. I paid $3.92 a gallon (for regular) this afternoon, compared to $3.52 this time last month. That’s an 11% per month inflation rate; roughly a 250% annual increase. Expect to hit $6 a gallon by the end of August.

Hyperinflation, anyone?

GABRIELLE GIFFORDS cleared to attend husband’s shuttle launch. You can bet your bottom dollar that President Obama will also attend.

MORE NANNY-STATE MADNESS: don’t hit the pinata! (Smack the author instead.)

MORE THOUGHTS: Earth Day was conceived by urban cave dwellers who’ve never worked an honest day outdoors. (or a dishonest day, for that matter).

THERE'S A REASON why it's called the "Clown News Network."

PRESCRIPTION for what ails you.


It's been around for a while, but today it just feels right.

YESTERDAY WAS ‘EARTH DAY’ and hardly anyone noticed.

The President did issue an Earth Day Proclamation - quietly, at the end of “a three-day campaign-style trip logging 10,666 miles on Air Force One, eating up some 53,300 gallons at a cost of about $180,000. And that doesn't include the fuel consumption of his helicopter, limo, or the 29 other vehicles that travel with that car.”

HAVE A HAPPY Easter egg, er, ‘Spring Sphere’ roll.

WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER PAY FOR? Gender, women’s and sexuality studies, or skills training at a non-traditional ‘for-profit’ college?

We know which way the Democrats lean.

SUCKERS: That’s what you get for trusting me.

WASTE, ABUSE, AND FRAUD: “In other words, we do have a problem with waste, abuse, and fraud. We have wasted years in developing our own rich resources, an effort that not only would insulate us from the political shocks from political turmoil in oil-producing regimes but would also employ hundreds of thousands of Americans in high-paying jobs. This administration in particular has abused its power, even to the extent of defying a court order, to keep American production from getting more domestic oil to the country and lowering prices through the hardly-mysterious mechanism of supply and demand. And the fraud involved is the idea that we elected a brilliant President — instead of one who apparently needs an entire task force to understand the most basic concepts of free markets and pricing.”