UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES? Putin's Crimean adventures could hasten Eastern European energy independence.

YIKES! Naked truths about wearable electronics.

I'M THE PRESIDENT: Laws are for the little people. And I will change them as I need.

INSTAPUNDIT: Former Politico reporter discovers that working retail is hard. Ruling class 'wannabe' gets his well-deserved comeuppance.

Read the comments at Instapundit as well.

OBAMA'S FOREIGN POLICY: Speak Loudly and Carry a Small Stick.

More realistically, the article's title should just read 'Speak Loudly'. That would encompass all of Obama's policies, foreign and domestic.

MORNING EXAMINER: Federal dietary guidelines are really about climate change.

Washington D.C. is a bozo magnet.

KELO VS. THE CITY OF NEW LONDON, NINE YEARS LATER: "The desolation that is Fort Trumbull is a grim reminder that where property rights aren't secure, neither is freedom — and without freedom, there is nothing the government can't destroy."

HOW PRETTY IS THAT? A 'glory' on Venus.

FLOWERS BY DRONE?

HEH: down the slippery slope.

SCIENTISTS FIND cosmic ripples from birth of universe.

Astronomers have discovered what they believe is the first direct evidence of the astonishing expansion of the universe in the instant following the Big Bang -- the scientific explanation for the birth of the universe some 13.8 billion years ago.

But who (or what) 'kicked the ball' to get it rolling?

PROPERTY OWNERS DO HAVE RIGHTS: Supreme Court victory vindicates property owners beset by Big Green's 'rails-to-trails' movement.

VERTICAL TAKEOFF/VERTICAL LANDING ROCKETS ARE REAL. Here's Morpheus, a NASA prototype, and Grasshopper, the SpaceX prototype.

JUST THINKIN': During the Bush administration almost every nightly news broadcast kept a running total of the number of U.S. and NATO casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.

With the advent of the Obama administration, that running total has mysteriously disappeared. How many Americans know that six U.S. soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan on March 4 of this year? Or that

Before Tuesday's crash, there had been 149 NATO fatalities in Afghanistan this year, 119 of them US soldiers, according to the independent icasualties website.

The annual total peaked in 2010, when 711 NATO troops died.

Little people only count when there's a Republican administration.

LIFE IN A BANANA REPUBLIC: Obama Refuses to Deport Fugitive Brothers Who Funneled $90,000 to His Campaign.

JIM GERAGHTY: Why Liberals Can't Govern.

THOMAS SOWELL: If liberals cared about minority children, they would embrace charter schools.

But they don't: "Charter schools take power from politicians and bureaucrats.... That is obviously offensive to those on the left, who think that our betters should be making our decisions for us."

THE OFFICIAL first day of Spring is March 20th this year, but given what happened today I'm starting my official annual 'signs of spring' watch a couple of days early. Here's what it looked like outside early this afternoon:

I'll be posting pictures every week about this time until there is a full, green, leaf canopy over our house. Hopefully next week we'll at least be able to see the yard.

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LIBERALISM: the final proof that modern liberalism is all about hating people, not helping people.

THE BEST 'DEAR ABBY' EVER:

Dear Abby,

My husband has a long record of money problems. He runs up huge credit card bills and at the end of the month, if I try to pay them off, he shouts at me, saying I am stealing his money. He says pay the minimum and let our kids worry about the rest, but already we can hardly keep up with the interest.

Also he has been so arrogant and abusive toward our neighbors that most of them no longer speak to us. The few that do are an odd bunch to whom he has been giving a lot of expensive gifts, running up our bills even more.

Also, he has gotten religious. One week he hangs out with Catholics and the next with people who say the Pope is the Anti-Christ, and the next he's on his knees 7 times a day with Muslims.

Finally, the last straw. He's demanding that before anyone can be in the same room with him, they must sign a loyalty oath. It's just so horribly creepy! Can you help?

Signed,
Lost
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Dear Lost,

Suck it up and stop whining, Michelle. You're getting to live in the White House for free, travel the world, and have others pay for everything for you. You can divorce the jerk any time you want. The rest of us are stuck with the idiot for 3 more years.

Signed,
Abby

From my email.