IEEE SPECTRUM: Detroit's IT Systems “Beyond Fundamentally Broken”. The legacy of liberal lunacy....

VIK KHANNA: Public Health needs to rethink gun control.

Linked from The Truth About Guns blog.

MICHAEL GOODWIN: The S.S. Obama is sinking fast. Even Democrats are beginning to abandon ship.

MIDLAND (TX) INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT becomes first commercial airport to be certified as a spaceport. And two California firms are moving there (heh).

OH, WAIT: Maybe I'm not a victim, now that you've got the video.

JEFF JACOBY: Prosecutorial Political Discretion.

BOEING'S 'SPACE TAXI' will include tourist seating. Oh, to be younger (and richer).

BUT ONLY if they can retake the Senate: GOP charts agenda for the majority.

DEFENSE NEWS: Bet on the F-35.

MICHAEL BARONE: Which party is weaker? The Democrats, clearly, but with the assistance of the 'Democrats with bylines' mainstream media, it's going to be a tossup.

IF YOU ENJOY FIREWORKS, you'll like these images from the Hubble Space telescope. You can click the image for an enlarged view.

BOEING, SPACE-X are winners of NASA 'space taxi' contracts. Boeing is the last of the 'old guard' and Space-X the upstart.

WHY #GAMERGATE MATTERS: As one who is completely outside the gaming community, I'm not terribly interested in the 'scandal' itself, but I did find this Instapundit comment interesting:

The “social justice warrior” crowd isn’t about social justice. It’s about using race-and-gender talk to keep people in their place. In exchange for this, they get to cement their position on one of the lower rungs of the New Class.

'Social justice' is little more than moral preening.

AREN'T THE ROADS CROWDED ENOUGH? Humanoid Robot Nao Learns to Drive Its Own Car.

JEFF JACOBY: An election tsunami?

It’s not hard to understand why so many members of Congress come to regard incumbency much as medieval kings regarded the crown — theirs by divine right. The Economist noted recently that while 30 percent of Europe’s monarchs have been replaced since 2012, less than 4 percent of US House seats are seriously competitive in the November midterms. Kings and queens aren’t as hard to extricate as congressional incumbents.

I'd be happy if there is one, but I won't pin my hopes on it.

WELL, WE ALWAYS KNEW Democrats favor redistribution.

I'M NOT SURPRISED: Faith in the Republican Party's ability to fight terrorism is at an all-time high. But I am somewhat surprised that the Democrats rank as high as they do.

ANDREW KLAVAN: Is ISIS Islamic?

THE DEMOCRATS' "War on Women" has come home to roost.

OBAMA: A narcissist 'surrounded by sycophants'.