A FEDERAL JUDGE has refused to block a new Indiana law that cuts off public funding for Planned Parenthood.

CALL IN THE EPA: Study finds cell phones caused mysterious worldwide bee deaths.

Surely the EPA will ban cell phone usage under the auspices of the Endangered Species Act ....

Historical note. Science fiction author Robert Heinlein anticipated the ill-effects of microwave radiation 69 years ago in his short story Waldo (1942), and again in his juvenile novel Red Planet (1949).

WHAT EVER MADE YOU think cats aren’t tech savvy?

SOME CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND MYTHS just won’t go away.

SPRING FLOWERS:




My photography skills don't do justice to the beauty of our neighbor's plants.

A NEW ENTRANT INTO BROAD AREA SURVEILLANCE:

Northrop Grumman has announced the start of in-house system tests of the first development multifunction active sensor in preparation for flight tests in June. The sensor, an X-band active electronically scanned array radar, is the central intelligence-collecting component of the broad area maritime surveillance (BAMS) aircraft, based on the Global Hawk.

Unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) are coming on strong; the Navy is planning a 65-aircraft buy.

NATIONAL REVIEW looks at Obamacare.


Sorry, no link to the magazine available.

BLOGGER IS BACK: posting will resume anew.

WELL, THEY’VE ruined a lot of other perfectly good words.

ANOTHER RANDOM THOUGHT: Has it occurred to anyone that the environmental movement always emphasizes risks that support their political ambitions for more environmental regulation - and ignore those that don’t (nothing to see here; move along now)?

Following that train of thought, mightn’t it be better for the American public to have smaller, less ‘regulatory-able’ federal and state governments? With a lessened ability of activists to achieve their ambitions via regulation, we might then be privy to more realistic risk assessment of our lifestyle choices.

FLORIDA LEGISLATURE accidentally outlaws sex. I’d recommend that the legislators get real jobs, but the evidence suggests that they’re not qualified.

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: 50th anniversary of the first American manned spaceflight by Alan Shepard.

“THE FUNDAMENTAL FLAW at the core of ObamaCare is the mistaken belief that the government can spend your dollars more effectively than you can. This tragically pessimistic belief views all Americans with suspicion as either incompetent or unrighteous but either way in need of big-government control.”

Read it all.

AUGMENTED REALITY: when ordinary reality just isn’t enough. Progressives' Nirvana.

THIS IS AMUSING: follow this link (www.DNCcrybabies.com).

MAYBE THIS GREEN ENERGY THINGY isn’t so great after all. It’s a lesson the environmentalists are just beginning to learn - you can never do just one thing.

JEFF JACOBY on raising the national debt ceiling: "[R]eaching the federal debt limit will not plunge the federal government into default. 'Hitting the ceiling means that we can spend only what we collect in taxes,' wrote former Assistant Treasury Secretary Emil Henry in The Wall Street Journal..... Federal tax revenue for 2011 is expected to be $2.2 trillion, while net interest on the debt will cost $225 billion. With so much money coming in, the United States will have no trouble paying its creditors."

So tighten the belt. We can live on a mere $2.2 trillion.

WHEN JIMMY CARTER IS YOUR BEST-CASE SCENARIO, you're in trouble.

UNCIVIL WAR: States’ Attorneys General Rip Into Union-Controlled NLRB in Letter.

As Attorneys General of our respective states, we call upon you ... to withdraw immediately the complaint ... against Boeing. This complaint represents an assault upon the constitutional right of free speech, and the ability of our states to create jobs and recruit industry. Your ill-conceived retaliatory action seeks to destroy our citizens’ right to work.

Unless you work for a union, of course.

I SHOULD BE HAPPY: "the principal function of our national government is to transfer wealth from the young and the middle-aged to the elderly. Such transfers currently account for around $1.159 trillion, nearly one-half trillion more than we spend for national defense, and far more than any other category of the budget."

Read the comments, especially the one by Gregory Czapanskiy.