TRUMP ON CHILD CARE POLICY: Points for taking it on, but National Review recommends improvements.

WELCOME to drive-in theaters. They were a staple of my childhood. I miss them.

THE INFERNAL INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE practices Catch-22.

AIRLANDER 10 takes flight. World's largest aircraft finally takes to the skies for a successful maiden voyage .

Check out the link: many pictures, plus a short video of the 302 foot long 'aircraft' taking off on its maiden flight.

The Airlander 10 is -- for all practical purposes -- a spinoff of a concept airship for a much larger vehicle I worked on as a staff engineer at Lockheed Martin in the early 2000's.

More Shadow's World airship posts are here.

"CAJUN NAVY" of privately-owned boats patrolling flood-stricken Louisiana to save people and animals. Obama still vacationing at Martha's Vineyard.

ELECTION 2016:

From my email.

HILLARY SAYS she doesn't want to "essentially abolish the Second Amendment."

Her actions say otherwise.

BLAME FEMINISTS: Men really did greater things when boobs were harder to see.

KEEP IN MIND what it means to be #NeverTrump.

NASA RESEARCHERS find southwest natural gas leaks cause of methane emitting hot spot. Environmentalists have a hissy.

LOCKHEED MARTIN hopes to turn your kids into astronauts.

Right now, a one-way trip to Mars is looking better and better....

THE SPEECH Trump must give to expose Hillary.

OBAMACARE ARCHITECT: Aetna pulling out of exchanges is politically motivated. Yeah, right. Losing money is a 'political act'.

Ol' Zeke reminds me of an old Aggie Harvard joke: When informed he was losing money on each sale, the Aggie Harvard grandee replied "Yes, but I make up for it with volume."

WHEN RULERS DESPISE THE RULED: It’s like The Hunger Games, where the Capital City and its hangers-on flourish and the provinces starve.

THOMAS SOWELL: Black lives matter; black success doesn't.

WASHINGTON D.C. TEACHERS TO WALMART: We don't need no stinking help.

TIM KAINE TO THE WEALTHY: You’ll be better off after we tax you more.

You go first, Tim. Get back to me when you can show me how much better off you are.

VENUS MAY HAVE BEEN PRETTY PLEASANT a billion years ago. So we've probably got a few years before global warmening takes us....

"IN AMERICA, I see a place where the grandchild of Southern sharecroppers can achieve success. That’s why I’m not a Democrat."

IS THIS THE PERSON you want in the Oval Office?