NOVEMBER 12, 2014: European Space Agency Sets Date for Comet Landing.

TOO YOUNG TO DIE; too old to worry:

When should we set aside a life lived for the future and, instead, embrace the pleasures of the present?

Actually, that's the wrong question. The right question is "When did we give up the right to live our lives freely, for better or worse, as we choose?"

ELECTION DAY IS NOVEMBER 4: Should you be allowed to vote?

ENTITLEMENTS AND CRONY CAPITALISM: ObamaPhone use in Maryland has grown 100-fold in 3 years.

Six-hundred-and-forty-five thousand Maryland residents had so-called ObamaPhones in 2012 — one hundred times as many people as there were in 2009, and double the number in that state who are supposed to be eligible for the program based on their income.

Ten bucks a month times 12 months times 645,000 (one in 10 Marylanders, by the way) is a fair chunk of change. Most of which goes to the crony capitalists who cozy up to the regulators.

THE ‘COMMON CALORIE’ REVOLT: Schools and students fight the tasteless, small lunches required by Michelle Obama’s signature initiative.

JACK DUNPHY: the allure of victimhood.

How dare you question her ... can't you tell she's a victim?

ANDREW KLAVAN: Cowls in the Hood.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Versailles in California. Life is good -- if you can afford it.

SPACE: to explore? Or pioneer? I still vote to pioneer.

HATE SPEECH: the Left’s term for an ‘opposing viewpoint’.

WELL, OF COURSE: Global warming, er, climate change, er, climate disruption causes ebola. And Jesse Jackson is there to make a buck.

DRUDGE on President Ebola Obama.

WASHINGTON D.C. passes concealed carry law. Yes, and the first licensee should complete his registration paperwork in ... let's see ... 2017 or so.

IT'S NOT just free speech:

The thinking at the IRS apparently is that we can’t have people educating others on inconvenient issues like the First Amendment’s freedom of political expression, the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms or Article II’s requirement that the president faithfully execute the laws.

The media will be all over this story in 3 ... 2 ... uh, 2 ....

A LOOK at the unintended consequences of political correctness run amuck: The Vogue of "Social Responsibility".

YOU CAN BUILD THAT! -- if the bureaucrats will let you. This seems to me to be an under-written story about an under-appreciated population.

Republicans would be well-advised to take their concerns seriously.

FALL FOLIAGE 2014: Week One. The acorns started falling about a week ago, so here is the first of my weekly photos as the foliage changes at our house.

Since we've had what everyone seems to think was a cooler-than-normal summer, the common thought is that we're due for a colder -- and earlier -- winter. But looking back, I notice this year's first photo is only a week earlier than the one last year.

I guess the trees aren't watching the Weather Channel.

RESCUEBOTS, UNITE! Snake robots and a quadcopter fuse together in this chimera drone [video].

THE GREAT AMERICAN GOVERNMENT CASHOUT: Top Senate aide goes work for the hospital lobby.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES -- Holder trouble edition -- is up. They're good, but still this one is my favorite.