Wednesday, May 04, 2016

THE SUPREME COURT: Guns are good. Even stun guns.
MALLARD FILLMORE: a $15 minimum wage is 'win-win'.
VODKAPUNDIT: the truth about parental leave.

There's a reason why it's not 'MEternity'.
DOES THE WHITE HOUSE CYBERSECURITY TEAM have a clue?
A lot of smart people are working on this, and we still see the same mistakes over and over. The "notion" that human behavior can be re-engineered is "probably wrong'.

It always starts out as a technology problem and ends as something else. Often the technology is the smallest part of the problem.
They might, if they conclude that more technology isn't the answer. My bet is they won't.
BECAUSE GOVERNMENT: why government investments fail.
TECHNOLOGY: DNA creates tiniest thermometer yet.
RANDOM THOUGHTS from Thomas Sowell:
As this country continues to degenerate, we hope that it never reaches the desperate stage where only a military coup can rescue it from catastrophes created by feckless politicians. But, if that day ever arrives, we can only hope that the military will do their duty and step in. It is one of the few institutions dedicated to something besides individual self-interest.
I don't agree with all of Sowell's thoughts in this Townhall column, but he's always worth reading.
DONALD TRUMP AGREES WITH OBAMA WHITE HOUSE: Walls work.
THE CLUE BAT STRIKES: From the news last night, Jane Sanders (Bernie's wife) thinks superdelegates are an insurance policy for the establishment.

Heh.
PAVING THE ROAD TO HELL with good (read stupid) intentions:
A professor recently wrote a candid essay in which she confessed a secret: she didn't want to write a letter of recommendation for a student, solely because this student has different views (presumably) about gun rights.

Arrogant, intolerant, and oblivious to her biases (and how destructive they are), she is everything that is wrong with modern higher education.
Instapundit has what I think is a simple solution to the SJW liberal bias in higher education: make the university responsible for repayment of student loan debt. Don't think they can afford it? Think again. Those numbers are billions (with a 'B').

I'd add just one tiny refinement: make the department granting the degree responsible for payback. Then sit back and watch the number of SJW degree-granting departments plummet.
STARCHIP ENTERPRISE: an infinite force meets an infinitesimal object.
FACULTY RESTROOMS: The New Civil Rights Frontier.

Sunday, May 01, 2016

AMMO GRRRLL on progressives and parasites.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Is NATO Worth Preserving?

Read the comments.
DIARY OF A MAD VOTER: How Trump can win the black vote to win the election.
SPACE-X SAYS it will fly a spacecraft to Mars as soon as 2018.

More at Popular Science.
NO LONGER SEXIST: House committee votes to require women to sign up for draft.

Feminists should be careful about what they wish for....
GOP INSIDERS: Trump nomination could hobble the party for years.

As if that's a bad thing....
WHY DOES the U.S. Air Force want to destroy the struggling U.S. space launch business? Read the entire post, then go to the Lexington Institute mission statement:
The Lexington Institute believes in limiting the role of the federal government to those functions explicitly stated or implicitly defined by the Constitution. The Institute therefore actively opposes the unnecessary intrusion of the federal government into the commerce and culture of the nation, and strives to find nongovernmental, market-based solutions to public-policy challenges. We believe a dynamic private sector is the greatest engine for social progress and economic prosperity.
Now explain the contradiction.