POWERLINE: The case for mandatory nametags.

With the plethora of company IDs, almost any urban downtown is a mandatory ID environment.

"ECONOMIC PATRIOTISM means not turning the US economy and government into an unAmerican slough of cronyism, graft, and redistribution. President Obama is an economically unpatriotic President."

DODO'S ARE EXTINCT, but on the bright side....

WATCH THE CRIME RATE DROP: Legal Carry in D.C. Until Further Notice.

More here.

THE SCOREKEEPER (#16): "Democrats nominated a black man so they could use his race to protect their socialism from criticism."

Context: lying about ObamaCare, and sometimes correlation is just correlation.

BECAUSE THEY'RE RIGHT: Let's guillotine climate change skeptics.

WHITE HOUSE fuming over Israeli criticism of Kerry.

National Review Online has taken note: Diplomacy Doesn't Get Any Smarter Than This. And the NRO commenters have redubbed 'smart diplomacy':

A better phrase might be "smart-assed diplomacy". I have never heard any Israeli official ever refer to Kerry as a superluous, arrogant caricature of a diplomat, a butt-boy for Hamas. I don't think any Israeli official would ever say such a thing, but it is true.

"Supercilious, arrogant caricature" accurately describes the entire Obama administration. The only adjective missing is 'thin-skinned'.

MEET THE PEOPLE Obama doesn’t want to come to America. They would probably vote Republican....

INSTAPUNDIT: "If today’s immigrant wave were likely to vote Republican, all right-thinking people would be demanding deportations and a mile-wide belt of barbed wire and minefields along the border."

CATO Institute: The War on Work.

THE WEEKLY STANDARD: A New Disorder.

SKIP IMPEACHMENT: Congress should vote to overturn and/or defund Obama's executive orders.

I notice, though, that the White House is seriously hyping impeachment (look! a squirrel) even though no one, including Republicans, is even considering it (though I would note that it's increasingly clear that impeachable offenses have occurred).

RIGHT WING’S WORST NIGHTMARE: The master stroke that turns red states blue. Salon lost me with this statement in the third paragraph:

Most notably, both Clinton and Obama really did try to reach out to Republicans — and were both soundly rebuffed for their troubles.

Clinton made no real effort to 'reach out' until after the 1994 mid-terms; President 'I Won' has never reached out of the Oval Office.

Salon has mistaken kool-aid for tea....

A DO-OVER? Romney in a landslide. The regret is becoming palpable.

DRONE 'ATTACKS' Seattle's Space Needle: police report it's still standing.

Related: Professors Object to FAA Restrictions on Drone Use. My knee-jerk reaction to any professorial complaint is to dismiss it immediately, but in this (rare) instance they're right.

IS THE Obama administration losing touch with reality? Were they ever in touch with it?

K-MAX drone helicopter a success in Afghanistan.

HELLBUGS FOR HAMAS: US Army working on pocket-sized surveillance drones.

'Hellbug' is from a science-fiction story published in Analog many years back. Just add a .50 caliber single-shot weapon to it and it becomes a precisely targeted anti-terrorist weapon.

SMOKING IS HEALTHIER THAN FASCISM. Anything is healthier than fascism.

THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES of progressive economics.

A reminder: the progressives' 'reality world' has no unintended consequences. Our world does....