TRUMP AND RYAN compete for control of the GOP. America - and the Republican Party - would be better off if the two factions would quit competing and start cooperating.

LOCKHEED MARTIN joins the hypersonic race.

A RAMIREZ CARTOON: Our 'virtual reality' President.

It would be funny if it wasn't true.

LOCKDOWN: Sheltering in place in the U.S. Capitol.

I [walked] away from the Capitol trying to imagine, as a national slogan for America, "They sheltered in place." I couldn't quite conjure that. I did not want to.

Shelter In Place. Not a pleasant thought, is it? Yet it's pretty much standard progressive policy: punish the innocent; never the guilty.

A 1908 MODEL T: What's the year, make, and model of your vehicular cloud?

And I intend to keep it that way.

"I WOULD MUCH RATHER BE DOING WORK:" How welfare hurts those it's supposed to help.

HEH: “[I]t takes a special kind of academic fathead to ruin Thin Mints. But we have people up to it.”

THOSE DOCTORS telling you to drink skim milk were probably wrong. More succinctly -- and accurately, any advice derived from a goverment-funded study is probably wrong.

CONGRATULATIONS ARE ON ORDER: Life Fellow G. David Forney Jr. will receive the 2016 IEEE Medal of Honor “for pioneering contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and the development of reliable high-speed data communications.”

A well-deserved (and overdue) honor. What's interesting to me is that Forney's doctoral dissertation Concatenated Codes (1966) was a precursor to my own dissertation, Concatenated Convolutional Codes (1978), where I investigated the same error-correcting structures applied to convolutional (trellis) codes.

MELANIA TRUMP for First Lady: "She is beautiful, intelligent, speaks five languages, and will represent the nation well. Best of all, she won't put 20 friends on the White House payroll."

SANDERS TO CHARITIES: Drop dead.

After all, who needs charities when you have socialism?

UPDATE: more here.

WHO'S PULLING DONALD TRUMP'S STRINGS? The answer is here.

DILBERT: Millennial Madness.

THE LEFT lets the veil drop. It's about control, not compassion.

A GRAVE INJUSTICE: New Jersey bans Catholic Church from selling grave markers on its own cemetaries.

No union for churches....

THE NEW DARK AGES ON CAMPUS: How protestors, professors, and administrators are consciously working to destroy free thought and free expression at America’s universities.

Linked from this Instapundit post.

HOW FAST THE FALL: How the world’s first Syrian astronaut became a refugee.

MAKE IT COST REAL MONEY: How to improve Twitter and destroy the curse of left-wing virtue signaling.

THE PLEASURES OF FLYING: coffins have more legroom.

GLENN REYNOLDS (INSTAPUNDIT): Clinton acolytes can't seem to grasp that Beltway-insider status doesn't exempt from prosecution.