AS CALIFORNIA GOES, so goes the nation: Californians paid up to 88 percent more for individual health insurance this year than last. But that's okay, because subsidies.

The little teensy overlooked detail is that the 'subsidies' are paid out of the taxpayers' other pocket.

WHY WILLIE NELSON would be a great governor for the new state of Central Texas. I know a number of current and former Texans (including me) who would be happy to see Austin fenced off from the rest of the state....

SMARTER THAN THOU: Neil deGrasse Tyson and America’s nerd problem.

One part insecure hipsterism, one part unwarranted condescension, the two defining characteristics of self-professed nerds are (a) the belief that one can discover all of the secrets of human experience through differential equations and (b) the unlovely tendency to presume themselves to be smarter than everybody else in the world.

Prominent examples include MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry, Rachel Maddow, Steve Kornacki, and Chris Hayes; Vox’s Ezra Klein, Dylan Matthews, and Matt Yglesias; the sabermetrician Nate Silver; the economist Paul Krugman; the atheist Richard Dawkins; former vice president Al Gore; celebrity scientist Bill Nye; and, really, anybody who conforms to the Left’s social and moral precepts while wearing glasses and babbling about statistics.

Ouch. Read it all.

UNFORTUNATELY there's no 'human nature' in the Liberals' reality world.

THE WORLD'S ILLS? It's all the fault of Thomas the Tank Engine.

There are too many people in the world who desperately need to be told to sit down, shut up, quit whining, and get a life.

ONE BOX OF SUDAFED OVER THE LINE: Florida Woman Arrested for Trying to Relieve Allergy Symptoms.

The bureaucratic mind: we can only protect you by jailing you.

POWERLINE: Inversion therapy for liberals.

Even if Congress were to be so foolish as to prohibit the current “inversion” strategy, nothing prevents American corporations from relocating overseas for real. I’m sure most Apple executives ands engineers would find Switzerland a pleasant place to live and work.

They'll only get it after it's too late.

WALTER E. WILLIAMS: Please Stop Helping Us.

GOOD LORD, what planet does VOX.com reside on?

OBVIOUS ON DAY ONE: ObamaCare Was Designed to Punish Uncooperative States.

BEING AN IDIOT? What was Kerry doing?

NOT SURPRISING UNLESS YOU'RE A LIBERAL: Most Hispanics favor deportations. Liberals might understand if it was expressed in terms they understand: "not in my back yard".

A NEW MEANING FOR THE TERM 'SELFIE': Hamas rocket attacks Gaza's own Al-Shifa hospital.

SO TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL: Former IRS official Lois Lerner refers to some in the Republican Party as '---holes' and "crazies'.

IT'S NOT A LIE if it serves the cause. Remember "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice"? That was sooo 'then'; today lying in the defense of 'the cause' is a virtue.

SO TELL ME AGAIN which party is extreme.

I KIN 2 REDE: A Twitter exchange for the ages.

NO THANKS TO THE FAA: Model drone finds elderly man missing 3 days alive.

NARCISSM, ARROGANCE, OR JUST PLAIN STUPIDITY? Woman in labor can’t cross street because of Obama’s motorcade. My vote is for stupidity, though with Obama....

BUT IT WAS JUST A 'SPEAK-O': I didn't really mean what I just said.

Oh?

Update: Still more.