CARS THAT THINK: Tesla hands self-driving technology to select customers.

It’s like handing off DVD players to the first non-engineers ever to see them—guys who will not read the #$%^! manual and who will not use a ballpoint pen to set the digital clock so it won’t flash “12:00” forever and ever.

I'd read the #$%^! manual if the first 375 pages weren't chock full of 'safety' warnings and the 10 pages of useful information (like what the blinkin' lights mean and where the fuse box is) were organized coherently and logically.

SCOTT WALKER'S ObamaCare alternative chooses pragmatism over purity. It's a good first step, but a first step only. I'm still looking for health insurance to move away from the tax exemption of employer-based plans and open up group plans to professional, fraternal, and other voluntary associations.

YEAH, RIGHT: Veterans' mail incorrectly 'placed in shred bins'.

WYOMING MAN files suit over massive EPA fines for building pond. I hope he wins, wins big, and every dime of his winnings comes from the salaries of the EPA bureaucrats.

Remember, this is your EPA.

AMMO GRRRLL on the socialist paradise of Cherokee Lizzie, Class-Envy Bernie and Disparate Impact Barry:

[B]eing the arbiters of Cool, the gatekeepers guarding the trends, the fads, the politically-correct speech code, is less trouble and less dangerous than facing down angry mobs. Sometimes, “in the course of human events” and all that, angry mobs – even nuns! – can be pushed far enough to fight back. And decide for themselves what is Cool. May the time not be distant.

Amen.

FIVE YEARS? For most progressives, five days is a step too far.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON has thoughts on the absurd and not-so-absurd of immigration reform.

IS THERE a gender-neutral term for 'idiot'? Yes. 'Diversity Coordinator'.

THE NASCENT BIDEN CAMPAIGN has picked a campaign slogan.

A POX ON VOX: John Hinderaker's final comment about Vox founder, editor-in-chief, and former Washington Post employee Ezra Klein ("[H]e just isn't very bright.") is spot on and representative of the entire Vox organization.

Vox does, however, provide a small window into the historical illiteracy of the progressive 'reality' worldview.

JEB BUSH just lost my vote. We need a Republican candidate who will stand up to these lice, not cater to them.

'TIDAL WAVE' of EPA regulations threatens U.S. 'fracking' revolution. Progressives won't be happy until the United States is as poor as the rest of the world.

THE MOVEMENT to surrender on amnesty is well underway.

I'm willing to grant permanent residency to those illegals who have lived - and worked - here quietly and within the law for years. But citizenship? No. Not until they leave and then get in line to return legally.

TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY: Anti-abortion groups demand Portrait Gallery remove Planned Parenthood founder bust.

Well, the progressives demanded -- and got -- the removal of the Confederate battle flag (and various Civil War statuary); shouldn't they also demand the removal of reminders of their clearly racist heroine?

I BLAME PROGRESSIVES: Race baiting + entitlement = very angry people.

FIVE YEARS AGO, the New York Times was dumber than the average American. Has anything changed?

RETURN FIRE: Liberals use PC terminology to obscure reality and advance their narrative. Here's how to punch back.

INFLATABLE HABITATS: from the Space Station to the Moon and Mars? And Instapundit cheers: privately-owned space stations are just over the horizon.

Given the state of the world today, this may be an example of 'just in time' manufacturing.

ELECTION 2016 IS COMING.

The folks who are getting the free stuff don't like the folks who are paying for the free stuff, because the folks who are paying for the free stuff can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff.

And the folks who are paying for the free stuff want the free stuff to stop.

And the folks who are getting the free stuff want even more free stuff on top of the free stuff they are already getting!

Now the people who are forcing the people who pay for the free stuff have told the people who are receiving the free stuff that the people who are paying for the free stuff are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.

So the people who are getting the free stuff have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for the free stuff by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their free stuff and giving them the free stuff in the first place.

We have let the free stuff giving go on for so long that there are now more people getting free stuff than paying for the free stuff.

Now understand this.

All great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason? The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them.

The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 238 years ago. The number of people now getting free stuff outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff.

In 2012, they were 47%. Now they are dangerously nearing 51%.

THIS WOULD BE A PERFECT ANALOGY for the progressive worldview except for the fact that progressives believe that they've already evolved.