RIGHT HAND, LEFT HAND ... NO BRAIN: State Dept Launches ‘Free the Press’ Campaign Same Day DOJ Asks Supreme Court To Jail Reporter.

WITH ALL THE MEDIA ATTENTION focused on Cliven Bundy's alleged 'racism' it interesting to note that Bundy is not the first to have a 'range war' with the Bureau of Land Management.

REPUBLICANS: our priorities are your priorities. With Democrats, it's the opposite: your priorities are our priorities.

SATURDAY NIGHT VIDEOS: Gun rights and political correctness run amok.

Enjoy.

CAUSE FOR CONCERN: Health-care costs are rising — and the experts aren't sure why. Well, they could take a careful look at the middle of the third paragraph:

According to Altarum, [health care] expenditures started to rise more quickly in the middle of 2013.

And guess what really got the nation's attention starting the middle of 2013? That's right -- ObamaCare.

Failure to see the obvious is the primary reason that 'expert' has been defined as a has-been drip under pressure.

PROOF THAT SYSTEMS INTEGRATION IS HARD (as someone with over 20 years experience can attest): Oracle Assails State’s “False Narrative” Explaining Cover Oregon Debacle.

A lesson that government know-it-alls should -- but probably certainly won't -- learn.

OUR NEW RODNEY DANGERFIELD: Chuck Hagel’s Russian Counterpart Won’t Return His Calls. Follow the link.

Every Cabinet-level department in this administration is just another ring in the Ringling Bros., Barnum and Obama circus.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES: Word salad edition. My favorite:

Also, PowerLine discovered the location of President Obama's real birth certificate....

AFTERBURNER: ‘Five Alarm Fire.



Linked from Pajamas Media.

AMMO GRRRLL strikes again. Bill Maher is the target.

IT AIN'T CHEAP, but jeez, it splits wood.

HOSTILE, BOORISH JACKASS FROM ACADEMIA displays his tolerance.

YEA, THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, I will fear no evil ... for I am the meanest son-of-a-bitch in that valley.

Linked from Instapundit.

THIRTY-EIGHT REPUBLICAN(!?) LAWMAKERS demand equal treatment under the law.

Politicians demanding to be held to the same laws they pass for the rest of us? Stranger things must have happened, but I must admit I'd be hard-pressed to find an example.

ONLY $140 MILLION WASTED: Cover Oregon officially calls it quits.

BUT AREN'T DOCTORS PART OF THAT OBSCENELY RICH 1%? ObamaCare's premium grace period may end up costing doctors, hospitals.

They should be grateful for the opportunity requirement to 'give back' part of the wealth they stole from the 99%....

STANDARDZ: I don't know about engineering, though. The Laws of Physics are particularly unforgiving when you try to mess with them.

SUNSEEKER: Watch A Solar Plane Fly Over Milan Countryside. It's not clear to me whether this is truly a solar-powered aircraft or just a glider capable of taking off by itself.

THE DEMOCRATS are in trouble in Oregon.

This is a tough one for me. Sure we need good Republican senators (and this woman certainly appears to be a good candidate), but perhaps we need good pediatric neurosurgeons more.

DEATH PANELS: More deaths from bad care at Veterans Affairs health facilities. More to come when ObamaCare is fully implemented.