IEEE SPECTRUM: Light reveals the spin of electrons. An interesting article nonetheless, but I originally read the hed as "Light reveals the spin of elections", which is still true....

MALLARD FILLMORE, telling it like it is. If only our Presidential candidates had the courage to do the same....

REMEMBER: "[W]hen leftists say they want a 'conversation about race', they mean—you shut up and confess your white guilt. Oh, and raise taxes."

THE LEFT, THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT, AND THE POOR: "[I]t seems pretty fair to me to suggest that [liberals] should put their money where their mouth is, instead of demonstrating their 'compassion' largely through a willingness to redistribute other people’s money." Skim through the comments as well; Instapundit readers are enthusiastically 'punching back twice as hard'.

And finally, click through to Megan McArdle's complete post.

OBAMA INSULTS CHRISTIANS, apparently out of ignorance. Not ignorance, arrogance. He knows nothing, but he knows it with certainty.

NEXT STEP: Print the whole aircraft.

HEH: "I'm uppity in the morning."

APPARENTLY Ceres needs a garage door repair mechanic....

DIOGENES had no luck either.

THE IRS: An agency riddled with tax cheats.

File under "rules are for little people, not us". And vote accordingly.

BYRON YORK: Jeb Bush's disastrous defense of the Iraq War.

Forget Jeb Bush. And forget this nauseatingly obvious hypothetical 'gotcha' question. The correct answer, which I wish someone with big brass balls ovaries on the Republican team would smash back to the questioner is this: "It's a stupid hypothetical, since if we had known then what we know today -- that Iraq had no significant arsenal of WMD -- the question of invasion or no would never have occurred."

N0T IF MY VOTE MEANS ANYTHING: Virginia may join a multi-state cap-and-trade program in order to comply with EPA emission rules.

JEFF JACOBY: When U.S. troops leave too soon.

History is lost on liberals.

A GOVERNMENT that robs Peter to pay Paul can count on the support of Paul. But that support from Paul is no good if Peter is allowed to vote on the robbery.

HEH: Hawaii's $205-million Obamacare exchange will shut down. Along with Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Maryand, Vermont, Minnesota, and (coming soon) California. Only seventeen states (plus DC) opted to develop their own ObamaCare exchanges; so only 10 are left and two of them (Washington and Rhode Island) are struggling.

Hopefully King v. Burwell will put ObamaCare out of its our misery.

WASHINGTON RESEARCHERS make jet fuel compound from fungus found in rotting fruit and leaves. My back yard is available for a pilot refinery....

DID THEY EVER HEAR OF STOCKPILING? If they can't have your guns, they'll go for your ammunition.

I'VE JUST REACHED my alloted three score and ten; now I'm left to wonder if my parents bought the extended warranty....

STARSHIP TROOPERS: the new art of war.

I've written about Robert Heinlein on Shadow's World a number of times, most recently regarding his novel Starship Troopers here and here. This distillation of Heinlein's views on war is the best I've ever seen, short of reading the book. (And I recommend reading the book.)

SEN. MIKE LEE'S IDEA FACTORY: quietly fomenting a conservative policy revolution.