"HASN’T THE TIME COME to ask whether any person of good will can continue to be a Muslim? We keep hearing that the terrorists and their supporters are a minority, although polls are disquieting at best. But if there is a Muslim majority that does something beneficial to counterbalance the evil of terrorism, where is it? The cardinal rule of epistemology is, by the fruit we know the tree. What is the fruit of Islam? The world’s patience, one hopes, has limits."

FIRING THE GRIZZLY: a fully 3D printed rifle.

ON TRAVEL: blogging will be intermittent the next several days.

BLOOMBERG’S LATEST FITNESS PLAN: Slow elevators to make people take the stairs. Best comment: "So, handicapped people in wheel chairs have to take slow elevators. Why does BloominIdiot hate handicapped people?"

HARRY REID is a nasty little demagogue.

SEN. TIM SCOTT agrees.

ANOTHER OBAMACARE CASUALTY: families.

DESPITE OBAMA'S BEST EFFORTS: "it's 'Brown Jobs,' not 'Green Jobs' that are growing."

ACCORDING TO DEMOCRATS, Obama's constitutionally empowered to Do Good For The People [if] he thinks Congress is dragging its feet too much [on amnesty].

Obama could unilaterally amnesty “those with a longtime presence in the United States or those with U.S.-citizen family members.” National Journal ... is more specific in listing candidates for the next administrative amnesty: “parents of ‘Dreamers’ or parents of children who are citizens because they were born here, people who are employed, people who are caregivers, and so on.”

Another means of accomplishing the same thing would be to grant Temporary Protected Status to all Mexican and Central American illegal aliens (some 80 percent of the total), based on unstable conditions in their countries. Alternatively, the administration might send the message that any illegal alien applying for asylum will be approved, waiving the statutory one-year deadline after arrival to file such applications.

Whatever the pretext, the supporters of amnesty are clearly moving toward support for extra-constitutional measures.... The implicit suggestion is that, with regard to immigration, the nation is in a state of emergency that justifies the chief executive to rule by decree.

If Congress permits such policies, the United States can kiss it's status as an independent nation goodbye.

WHEN PAY RAISES aren't necessarily good things.

THOMAS SOWELL: “A fool can put on his coat better than a wise man can put it on for him.”

THE PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR who tweeted an insult about fat Ph.D. candidates must design — and then undergo — obesity sensitivity training.

While he has not been terminated the university, his punishment is rather severe considering that he is a tenured professor.

As a former professor myself, I believe it's not severe enough. Is it time to rethink tenure?

STARING INTO the fiscal abyss.

Between Detroit’s bankruptcy, the multiple bankruptcies in California, the acquisitions of Newsweek, the Boston Globe and most famously the Washington Post at fire sale prices, the media inventing racism-driven stories out of whole cloth, leftwing sexual predators and misogynists either running for office or already in office in major cities on both coasts, and a gaffe-prone president trying desperately to implement his agenda piecemeal through executive orders, we may very well be witnessing the wholesale collapse of the large portions of the century-old “Progressive” model.

As Instapundit is fond of noting, "What can't continue, won't."

OBAMA TO GIVE Presidential Medals of Freedom to President Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Oprah Winfrey. Best comment: "If I got the Presidential Medal of Freedom from a guy who got a Nobel Peace Prize for nothing, I’d probably phone that ceremony in."

HEH: Darrell Issa is winning the Internets.

THE FEARMONGERS ARE HARD AT IT AGAIN: Is sequestration putting Earth at risk?

This is utter and complete bull...arkey. And aside from the obvious, this is a military system. Isn't that the Liberals' goal in sequestration -- defenestration of the military?

SURPRISED? NOT ME. Taxes rising faster under Obama than under any other president.

NOT AT MCDONALDS YET: the $325,000 Frankenburger.

WHY I AM A REPUBLICAN:



Here's a second video announcing the Free at Last PAC.

RELATED: Battleground Texas.

IT HICCUPS OF THE WEEK. Among others, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey loses, Port of Virginia wins.

FIVE QUESTIONS for Obama's 3 p.m. press conference today. My bet is that none will be asked, or if asked, answered.

UPDATE: More questions.