THE SCOREKEEPER is too good to pass up today. Some keepers:

(#2) "Who would have predicted that Barack Obama's "Arab Spring" would turn into Muslims slaughtering Christians, Jews and other Muslims."

Anyone not of the Left.

(#20) "Oddly enough, being killed in your mother's womb is not torture."

The unborn would have a better chance if they were reclassified as pets, plants, or endangered species.

(#21) "Sadly, 9/11 has become $9.11."

It's all about the Benjamins.

SO YOU THOUGHT news outrage just happened?

AFGHANISTAN: Operation Enduring Handout.

Another state added to the growing list of welfare states....

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON:

What do we do in the face of 19th-century evil that is unapologetic, has lethal weapons at its disposal and uses savage rhetoric to goad us? Twitter it to death?

I long ago concluded that the majority of Twitter users are twits. It appears that conclusion is correct.

LESSONS FROM THE VA SCANDAL: This is what government-run health care looks like. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

DEREK HUNTER: "There is no cure for the common stupid." It is depressing to have to acknowledge that the octane rating of even regular gasoline is higher than the average progressive's IQ.

AERO-X HOVERBIKE to go on sale in 2017.

A mere $85,000. Start saving now....

PAUL GREENBERG: Shut Up, They Explain.

GRASPING AT STRAWS, California's Gov. Moonbeam uses state's wildfires to lecture on climate change. I lived there for 5 years, Jerry. The wildfires are an annual occurrence caused in large part by your government's idiotic regulations preventing the clearing of deadwood and establishing firebreaks to contain/control nature's annual spring cleaning.

HARRY REID: Yes, let's amend the Constitution to elect only Democrats.

‘FOSSIL FREE’ isn’t folly free; it's just moral preening.

"Power" bikes ... how cute. Do the bikes move them from one venue to another as well?

THAT WOULD BE NICE: European Court Grants the Right to Be Forgotten.

SPRING LEAVES, Week Ten. The final photo.

Over the past week, the white oaks have finally filled out and our house is once again almost fully hidden in the forest of trees surrounding it.

Last week's photo is here, and you can continue back in time from there.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES: hashtag edition. My favorite, though:

No paddles allowed.

SELF-BECLOWNING: Higher education is becoming a joke -- a bad joke.

UNDER OBAMACARE, she pays $987 a month.

$987 times 13 months is $12,831 -- that's more than I've spent on medical care in the last 10 years. Government 'regulation' of health care is a scam of epidemic proportions.

MORE FROM THE SCOREKEEPER:

(#2): "This is what happens when you put the Treasury in the hands of people who got an allowance instead of those who worked at McDonald's."

(#8): Seems to be the definition of the word 'progressive'....

(#12): The fight was to claim the honor of being 'first victim'.

IF ONLY IT WERE A DREAM.

THE LEADING CAUSE of oil spills is ... environmentalists.

THE ACADEMIC ECONOMY HAS GOTTEN SO BAD some colleges are even closing their gender studies centers.

Linked, happily, from this Instapundit post.