ANOTHER CHAPTER of Liberals behaving stupidly: Gun bill championed by Democrats sharply limits rights of gay gun owners. Aren't liberals supposed to champion gay rights?

GEEK TOYS: iCandy.

WANT A CREDIBLE VOICE ON GUN CONTROL? Listen:



Now substitute 'health care' for 'guns' and listen again. It's all about control.

EVEN POLICE OFFICERS prefer armed citizens. Which is exactly what my concealed-carry instructor (a police officer himself) told the class several times during training.

MICHELLE MALKIN: Back-door amnesty.

REFLECTIONS of a medical ex-practitioner:

A fundamental principle in medicine is that if you get the diagnosis wrong, you'll probably apply the wrong therapy. A corollary is that if the therapy isn't working, increasing the dose may make things worse. That's where we are with ObamaCare.

There is no shortage of evidence [that] ObamaCare will, deliberately and by design, destroy what — while imperfect — has served very well. We have gotten to this point after years of good intentions making bad problems worse. To double down on the very therapy that has brought the system to its present sorry pass is a toe-ticket to the morgue.

Read it all.

ST. BONIFACIUS says no to drones (below 400 ft AGL). I would infer that there are no RC aircraft enthusiasts living in St. Bonifacius....

OBAMACARE cannot succeed while remaining Obamacare. So Republicans must make plans for a market-based replacement when it inevitably collapses.

TWIT TWEETS LIBERAL HYPOCRISY. From the Washington Post (naturally).

NOT-SO-EXPERT GOVERNMENT. Back in the good old days (when I was working), I'm reminded of a common aphorism at the office: "A committee is only as smart as its dumbest member." And I once saw a mathematical proof to that effect.

GUN CONTROL'S 'HIGH CAPACITY' MAGAZINE ARGUMENT: Plausible, or Propaganda?

MARK STEYN on tolerating pre-sensitive facts.

THE STUPID THINGS People with a Ph.D. say on Airplanes. Strike 'People with a Ph.D', replace it with 'Liberals', and the post would be just as accurate.

FINALLY. A touch of green is in the air.



It seems like forever, but looking back at past Aprils, spring is pretty much on schedule.

OBAMACARE'S FAILURE:

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius cancelled the law’s government-run long-term care insurance program, the CLASS Act, last year after she admitted it was financially unsustainable and Congress formally repealed it in January’s fiscal cliff deal. Enrollment in Obamacare’s high-risk pools for individuals with pre-existing conditions was so low that that program was also cancelled. The nation’s best health care providers, chosen as models of cost savings, have dropped out of Obamacare’s unworkable Accountable Care Organization program. The tax credits that were meant to help small businesses afford coverage, have proved to be so complicated that only 7 percent of the 4.4 million businesses the program was designed to help, have claimed the credit. And no one expects the Obama administration to have health insurance exchanges up and working by this year’s October deadline.

But other than that, everything's working just fine.

MEDICAID FOR FELONS. It seems like a small and reasonable thing to do, but here's the core concept writ large:

As Bloomberg’s recent soda campaign so aptly demonstrated, once health care becomes a public expense, personal choices become a public concern. Taxpayers can expect to be nagged about small poor life choices like opting for a bigger beverage or a higher-calorie meal choice.

If you are unwilling to take personal responsibility, someone else will take control. And they will not have your best interests at heart.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Confessions of a Counter-Revolutionary.

It's come to this since Obama took office....

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

Frankly, I don't know what it is about California , but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I'm not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine , even comes close. When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington , we're Number One. There's no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine Waters, and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on 'Macbeth'. The four of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of blab. You don't know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words.

It's old, but it does explain California quite succinctly.

LEGISTORM: Hill staffers upset. I'm amused. The government doesn't respect my privacy, and they expect me to respect theirs?

CALIFORNIA: Where is the Pension Fairy when you need her? (Maybe Walt Disney could ask Tinkerbell to help....)