CURIOSITY’S 1-TON TOUCHDOWN: The Mars rover will rely on dead reckoning and radar to land on the Red Planet.

If successful, it'll be the first rocket-assisted vertical landing on another planet.

IT'S ONLY YOUR MONEY: Obama stiffs California city $35,000.

CHARLIE DANIELS: "Muslims don't believe in same-sex marriage either, but have any of the stalwart mayors attacked any Muslims or Muslim businesses or told them they were not welcome in Chicago, Boston or San Francisco?"

Good point.

AN 'ANTI-RISK' CULTURE: Are we all dependents now?

RAND SIMBERG ON NASA's commercial crew contract awards.

ELIZABETH WARREN (and Barack Obama): Let's be more like communist China.

RETURN TO GAIA: The Earth is warming; and human activity is involved. The real question is "Does it matter?" The answer is probably not.

AWESOME NEW SCOOP ON ROMNEY — his high school report card. The munchkins are really busy. I'm glad I'm not running for office -- they might find out I was introverted in first grade.

TEN MOST AMAZING FLYING MACHINES EVER: still #1 -- the SR-71.

IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!


From my email.

ANDREW KLAVAN: "[W]hen activists and government officials feel justified in attempting obnoxious boycotts and illegal vendettas against a business like Chick-Fil-A merely because it puts forward traditional beliefs, I am reminded of the deep, vicious and steadfast intolerance of those who claim the mantle of tolerance."

Read it all.

FATHER KNOWS BEST -- but only if he toes the (politically correct) line.

OBAMA'S SIGNATURE MOVE: unsealing private records. He's also pretty damn good at keeping his own personal records tightly sealed from public view.

Question: does anyone seriously believe Obama could have won an election for streetsweeper if his opponent were to have been as aggressive about finding dirt as Obama was?

THE WORD IS OUT: Harry Reid has no brain.

THOSE 'UNNAMED SOURCES' are busy today.

OH.MY.GOD. Global warming is causing street lights to melt. Or something.

USDA: You can't deduct your marijuana expenses to qualify for food stamps.

GOOD RIDDANCE. Viral video of man picking on Chick-fil-A worker gets him fired.

Odds are he was already a sanctimonious jerk, and his employer used his video as an opportunity to get rid of him. Good for them.

THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN: like demagoguery, only dumber.

WOULD THAT I COULD AFFORD IT: Commercial suborbital spaceflights should bring in between $600 million and $1.6 billion in revenue in their first decade of operations.