POLITICAL CALCULATIONS: Is it time to bail out of the stock market? For what it's worth, despite my advanced age, I'm still in it for the long haul....

WORRISOME: Maybe North Korea does have the capability to put a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile.

MSNBC ON THE GOSNELL ABORTION TRIAL: It's not news.

GUN CONTROL MADE EASY. According to the latest release of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), the soon-to-be-released fifth edition of the 'psychiatric bible', the odds will probably be greater than 50 percent that you’ll have a mental disorder in your lifetime.

And once you're found to be mentally 'unhealthy' and have your gun rights taken away, you'll never get them back.

ENVIRONMENTALISM FALLS FLAT: Plaintiffs 'experts' disavow their own work.

YOU DON'T NEED TO SAVE FOR RETIREMENT since it will be government-provided.

Welcome to Cyprus.

BLOOMBERG: the Obama budget. The graphic is interesting, but essentially worthless since it shows only the size of the change and not the size of the total budget allocation. It would be useful, perhaps, if it were in terms of percentage change.

The discussion is here.

THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY released personal information on potentially thousands of farmers and ranchers to environmental groups. Obviously it was done to 'protect the children'.

FIRST FLIGHT of Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket a success. Now NASA has two viable commercial vendors for ISS resupply missions.

FUND LOBBYISTS, not the sick.

OBAMACARE'S FINE PRINT: You may be out of a job.

TANSTAAFL.

TWENTY QUESTIONS.

IT'S EARTH DAY: time to expand your carbon footprint.

THOSE EVIL GUN MANUFACTURERS are forcing guns into the hands of babes.

YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT YET, but ObamaCare made first contact with your wallet on April 15th.

GABRIELLE GIFFORDS: A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip. To put it bluntly, bull. To imply, as Giffords has, that NRA members (of which I am one) are somehow indifferent to the deaths at Sandy Hook is borderline libel, and to argue that any of the 'gun control' measures rejected by the Senate would have made any difference is utterly ridiculous. Not one of the mass shootings Giffords mentions -- Newtown, Aurora, or Blacksburg -- would have been prevented by any of the measures before the Senate. The shooters is all three cases were terminally nuts, and mental health was not included in any significant way in any of the measures the Senate rejected.

Had armed citizens been present, on the other hand, the above massacres might not have happened.

GETTING GREENER: Here's todays update on the spring 'greening'.



Last week's update is here.

INSTAPUNDIT: "A fish rots from the head." Follow the link.

THE 'NEW NORMAL': the inevitable result of electing fools to leadership.

USEFUL IDIOTS. Methinks 'useless' would be a better descriptor....