BOLDEN: NASA needs to take more risks. In today's risk-averse culture? Good luck with that.

POWER FOR THE WORLD: All we need is the wind, the water, and the sun.

• 3.8 million wind turbines, 5 megawatts each, supplying 50 percent of the projected total global power demand

• 49 000 solar thermal power plants, 300 MW each, supplying 20 percent

• 40 000 solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants supplying 14 percent

• 1.7 billion rooftop PV systems, 3 kilowatts each, supplying 6 percent

• 5350 geothermal power plants, 100 MW each, supplying 4 percent

• 900 hydroelectric power plants, 1300 MW each, of which 70 percent are already in place, supplying 4 percent

• 720 000 ocean-wave devices, 0.75 MW each, supplying 1 percent

• 490 000 tidal turbines, 1 MW each, supplying 1 percent.

Read the details. The plan is completely unrealistic.

TOP DOWN EDUCATION: Obama Rewrites 'No Child' Law.

NEIL ARMSTRONG: U.S. space program is 'embarrassing'.

THE MORNING AFTER: pundits pile on Gov. Rick Perry. Did they watch the same debate I did?

HOPE AND CHANGE: "[Obama] has given us change, but it is destructive change. He has given us hope, but it is hope that the nightmare he has engineered will soon be over."

JACKIE GINGRICH CUSHMAN: Fairness and equality are not the same.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: By putting our deck chairs on the stern, we'll be the last to go down.

QUOTE OF THE NIGHT from the Republican debate comes from former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson: "My neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready projects than President Obama."

E.J. DIONNE: GM is back, thanks to Uncle Sam.

Uh, huh. And how much money is still owed to the taxpayers?

BUT YOU STILL HAVE TO HAVE AN AIRPORT: NASA competition could lead to air taxis anyone can afford.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Can Israel Survive? They can -- and will. If the Arab world doesn't get a clue, and soon, they will be subject to a devastation equaled only by their own rhetoric.

OBAMA'S ECONOMY -- Running Out of Excuses. There's always the Tea Party. Oh, wait ... that's already been tried.

CAL THOMAS: misunderestimating Texicans. The allusion to the difference between bulls and steers is priceless.

HMM. SEA LAUNCH is back.

LIGHTSQUARED UNVEILS system designed to fix GPS interference.

So their solution is to make us pay for a problem they created. Makes sense ... to anyone with political connections.

YOU DON'T SAY: big government equals big money.

MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME: the biggest driver of U.S. government revenue. Thanks to the good folks at Political Calculations for the data.

THE MAN who would be King.

Obama talks like he wants to succeed Ban Ki Moon and play like he’s king of the world when he’s done as POTUS. I don’t doubt that’s his goal. He sees the world through Rockwellian glasses, in which “freedom from want” is a legitimate human right, and we don’t ever have to put our foot down and tell Palestine that it cannot negotiate for itself someone else’s land.

Let him. Then defund the UN and move their headquarters to FEMA trailers in Somalia.

WHAT TO DO WITH OBAMA: ignore him.