NEW CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS (CNO) WANTS INEXPENSIVE WAYS TO HIT HOUTHIS, and I have some thoughts.

It would certainly take the pressure off a carrier battle group.

SPACE? Katy Perry and 4 other women, return safely from 'spaceflight'.

Blue Origin should be renamed 'Vanity Space' and Texas should be ashamed of having granted them a place to play in the spaceflight sandbox.

TRUMP: Harvard has 'lost its way,' doesn't deserve federal funding.

Cut off all funding. It's a private university, let it pay for its insanity from its own ($55 billion) endowment.

WHEN LEFTIST POLICIES FAIL: New Mexico National Guard deployed to Albuquerque to fight juvenile crime, fentanyl.

CDC SAYS U.S. autism rate continues to rise.

A new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the autism diagnosis rate has increased among US children, continuing a long-term trend that experts have largely attributed to better understanding of and screening for the condition.

Call me cynical if you wish, but this 'news' strikes me as the progressive Left HealthScare^TM industry defining autism down to retain power, funding, and control.

SHE HAS A MIND? Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer explains what was going through her mind when she hid her face in Oval Office.

She didn't want America to see her hypocrisy....

WELCOME TO Philip K. Dick's nightmares.

I UNDERSTAND STARBUCKS MAY BE HIRING: David Hogg's gun control group 'March for our Lives' lays off majority of full-time staff.

THIS STUFF IS SICKENINGLY FAMILIAR: The erosion of my home town. Not just your hometown; all of Amerca.

Linked from Instapundit.

STANFORD ACTIVISTS charged with felonies for building takeover.

Make them suffer. There must be jail time and permanent expulsion.

HEINLEIN'S CRAZY YEARS -- we're living in them.

MESSAGE RECEIVED: Thousands of illegal immigrants leave US voluntarily amid Trump self-deport push.

THE PASSWORD IS: Oligarchy!

Our oligarchy....

YOU GO, GIRL! First illegal alien Muslim city councilor heads to prison on corruption charges.

To jail, that is....

COULD PRESIDENT TRUMP BE ONE OF THEM? Declassified document fuels growing speculation of extraterrestrials among us.

If so, welcome....

WHY WE DON'T NEED CANADA AS A 51ST STATE: Canada's new Prime Minister is as dishonest as the old one.

2025 SPRING LEAVES, WEEK 6: Since the forsythia has fully filled out, today we start with my traditional first two, the pond view followed by the view of the fire pit and barn.

What a difference a week makes. The tulip magnolia now nearly completely blocks the left side of our pond. Along the fire pit, the trees are still not showing leaves, and the ground cover is still mostly dormant. The grass in front of the barn has begun to green up and the plantings along the walkway are more active but I'm still waiting for the elephant ears to show up.

The dogwoods showed up during the week, massivly blooming, and are already in somewhat of a decline as the leaves are beginning to show. Seems like they're in a helluva hurry to start summer....

Looking across and down our 'main drag' it is apparent that the trees have begun to wake up. We're seeing the yellow pollen showing everywhere and it doesn't seem to have peaked yet. Maybe we'll see leaves next week.

Until then....

'SELF-DEPORT' gets my early vote for phrase of the year.

THE POVERTY of the criticism of Trump’s agenda.

Victor Davis Hanson's full post is here.

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY DOES MATTER: Wanting or not wanting to work in factories doesn't matter.