LIGHTS OUT? New York City reportedly under federal pressure to take down Times Square billboards.

The federal government is too damn big, too damn intrusive, and too damn stupid.

WHY 'SELFIE STICKS' were invented.

BERNIE SANDERS' CAMPAIGN SLOGAN: "A horseless carriage in every garage." With emphasis on 'horseless' -- just the carriage.

WHY I NEVER LIKED CROSSWIND LANDINGS:



You fly straight down the runway with the aircraft nose cocked into the wind; then just as you flare for landing, you straighten the nose, drop the upwind wing, use plenty of opposite rudder and 'skid' the aircraft into the ground. Then you level the wings and allow the nose to come down. It takes lots of practice, as the video makes clear.

SHE MADE BE EXPENSIVE, but she's easily bought.

WHAT'S A 'GROUSER'? I don't know either, but the Curiosity Rover has a Martian rock stuck in one.

DOOM & GLOOM IN THE LAND OF UNICORNS: ObamaCare emergency room visits up.

Three in four emergency room doctors said patient visits have increased since the Affordable Care Act's requirement to have health insurance went into effect....

That's not the news some healthcare advocates had hoped for. The thought was that by expanding health coverage to more people, they would get their ailments treated earlier by primary care doctors and could avoid visiting emergency rooms....

But instead of pulling back on emergency room care, the newly [ObamaCare] insured now have a plan to pay for those visits so they're not responsible for the entire bill. And that seems to be driving the change in patient load....

It was obvious at the outset, but thinking is not a strong suit for progressives.

AFTER YOU, KOFI: Eat more bugs, stop global warming. "A maggot for you, a maggot for me you, a maggot for you, ...." [Apologies to Abbott and Costello]

CEILING FANS? CEILING FANS!? After attacking light bulbs and wood stoves, the Obama administration is trying to regulate our ceiling fans.

What? Do I have to install a thermostat to turn off my ceiling fans when the temperature is within a DOE-approved range?

SURPRISE: higher wages don't grow on trees.

ANOTHER REASON why you should never, ever pay attention to unsolicited 'health' tips. Aside from the fact that they're always wrong, they're incredibly stupid.

HEROISM is the last 50 yards.

THE FORCE IS STRONG IN THAT ONE: Attempts to strike down Prof. Mike Adams have only made him more powerful.

WESLEY PRUDEN: An ususual field crowds the Republican pool:

There’s two Cuban-Americans who speak fluent Spanish, a Baptist preacher who speaks fluent old-time values, a black man and a white woman, and “a big mule” from the Republican establishment with more than his big toe in the water. There’s more to come, including an Indian-American governor. They all appear to be comfortable in their “gender,” and if Bruce Jenner, a newly discovered transgender conservative, Republican and Christian can be persuaded to run the party would have left no stone unturned.

Contrast that with the "dead white old folks home" contenders on the Left.

Added: Well, the Left does have a potential "Native American" backstage....

THE MORAL CODE of the progressive milieu: It has to be legal because I want it to be.

THE DIFFERENCE between bullying and free speech: if a conservative does it, it's bullying; if a progressive does the same, it's free speech.

DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS: Two heavily armed jihadis were dispatched by one Texas cop with a pistol.

Reading this, I was reminded of this very old Texas Ranger (the state law enforcement agency; not the baseball team) joke:

After several days of rioting in a small town in west Texas, the Mayor telegraphed the Governor asking that a company of Texas Rangers be sent to quell the riot. The next morning a single Ranger stepped off the daily train. Upset, the Mayor demanded to know where the rest of the company of Rangers were. To which the Ranger replied, "Well, you told us there was only one riot."

One riot, one Ranger. The finest of Texas tradition.

OOPS! Well, so much for all that global warming hysteria.

A LESSON about government oversight -- and government overseers.

OH. MY. GOD. A reminder of what we have to look forward to....