IT’S A LITTLE LATE NOW, but yesterday odds were 2:1 that Hillary would blame her email troubles on climate change.

PRUDEN ON POLITICS: Hillary Clinton’s Nixon moment.

Hillary’s emails, which last week were an irritant, have become an annoyance that threatens to become a problem that could become catastrophe. Her allies on Capitol Hill and her friends in the media haven’t bailed, not yet, but suddenly the allies have a case of the nerves, like a man in the theater who gets a whiff of what he thinks may be smoke and starts looking to locate the exits.

I suspect the ‘distancing’ is from fear – fear that they too will be exposed....

UPDATE: Hillary ‘one-upped’ Nixon: It’s my server and no, you can’t see it.

KEEP THE WARTHOG: These planes could someday replace the A-10.

IEEE INSTITUTE: A history of hacking.

In the early 1900s, Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi developed a wireless telegraph that could broadcast radio-telegraphic messages on a specific wavelength to establish private communications channels.

Marconi’s invention posed a threat to the wired-telegraph industry. In response, the Eastern Telegraph Co. hired John Nevil Maskelyne [see photo, above right], a British magician and inventor who had experimented with wireless technologies, to monitor Marconi’s work. According to an article in New Scientist, Maskelyne was able to build broadband receivers capable of intercepting Marconi’s so-called secure transmissions without knowing their frequencies.

In June 1903 Marconi held a public demonstration in London to show how his device could receive a message from a station nearly 500 kilometers away. But before he could receive the message, an intruder delivered this to Marconi’s receiver:

Rats rats rats rats.
There was a young fellow of Italy,
who diddled the public quite prettily.

The message went on to further mock and insult Marconi.

And you thought hacking was a new phenomenon.

JESSE JACKSON backs Garcia over Emanuel for Chicago mayor. If Rahm loses, I understand Hillary is in need of a ‘fixer’.

That said, though, I’m not sure the Jackson endorsement is bad for Emanuel....

Linked from this post: Apocalypse Newark.

MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY: Draw biosensors on your skin.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Standing up for Congressional prerogatives is ‘offensive’. I’m somewhat surprised it isn’t racist hate speech as well.

A SPORTS ANALOGY for the Obama administration.

A WAR of Obama’s making losing.

ASSAULT A POLICE OFFICER, get shot.

Original post here.

TOUGH CHOICE: the Evil party or the Stupid party. “I’m with Stupid” is not exactly my bumper sticker of choice....

FLOPEROO: ‘Cover Oregon’ ObamaCare exchange officially goes belly up.

WE SHUT DOWN KEYSTONE XL; now let’s shut down rail transportation.

They’re pissants, but very creative pissants. Have you noticed how gun control morphed into bullet control?

SLOW LEARNERS CAN LEARN: Even a plurality of Democrats want to move on from Obama.

HEALTH CARE: King v. Burwell's very existence says a lot about ObamaCare.

DAWN ARRIVES: first spacecraft to orbit the asteroid Ceres. New Horizons, another NASA spacecraft is scheduled to orbit Pluto this summer

MALAYSIA FLIGHT 370 did not disappear. An excellent summary of the progress, or lack of it, to date.

ATF MISFIRE? Guide indicates bullets at center of firestorm already banned; agency blames 'error'.

It would be useful if in the video they actually showed the bullets being banned – mistaking a .22 caliber rimfire rifle/handgun cartridge for a .223 caliber center-fire rifle cartridge is a pretty egregious error.

HINT: a .22 caliber cartridge would damn near slide out the barrel of my .223 caliber AR-15 if it were to be pointed downward.

LET THE RIOTS BEGIN: Another ‘unarmed’ black teen killed by police.

NI CON MUCHO: Peak millennial narcissism reached?