THOMAS SOWELL on the high cost of liberalism:

Liberals don't talk -- or perhaps even think -- in terms of the actual consequences of their policies, when it is so much more pleasant to think in terms of wonderful goals and lofty rhetoric.

Progressivism -- all emotion, no brain.

OBVIOUSMAN STRIKES AGAIN: "Biofuels produced from waste products left from harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline in terms of carbon emissions, according to a $500,000 study paid for by the federal government (my emphasis) and published in the journal Nature Climate Change."

But that won't stop the environmentalists from going ballistic.

Deep down in the emotions where they keep their 'reality world' they know they're right.

IT'S PUNDAY! Bad, bad, Punday.

IT IS SPRING, INDEED. Outside this morning, I notice that the beech trees have finally started unfurling their leaves. Around here, that's the definitive sign of spring.

A POSSIBLE REASON I gave up reading science fiction a few years back.

Linked from Instapundit.

NOW WE KNOW what Hillary Clinton accomplished as Secretary of State.

EXCELLENT! Mia Love wins GOP nomination for Utah seat.

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.



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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.

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