Friday, April 19, 2013

VERY UNLIKELY. Keep clicking the 'previous' button for more.
WHAT NONSENSE: Jet Propulsion Laboratory suspends June open house, cites sequestration. For a two (weekend) day event? Following a budget cut of 2 cents on the dollar? Oh, come now.
3-D PRINTING: first it was guns; now it's cars.
ONLY FORTY YEARS AGO.



The first portable telephone call.
MONA CHAREN: Obama Doesn't Care About Dead Children. No, he doesn't. He cares about Obama, control, and ... Obama.
NORTH KOREAN CARRIER GROUP departs to attack California & Hawaii....



From my email. I'm somewhat reminded of The Mouse that Roared.
'BIG GOVERNMENT' immigration policy: a step in the wrong direction.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Postmodern Prudes. I would call it hypocrisy, but hypocrisy presupposes some modest degree of self-awareness, which simply does not exist in the liberal mind. Rather I think it is simply childishness, a total unawareness that actions have consequences.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

ANN COULTER: If Rubio's Amnesty is So Great, Why is He Lying?

Good points by Ann. I don't think Rubio's lying so much as trying to finesse the obvious solution (close the borders to illegal immigration; encourage self-deportation; and fix the current obviously nonfunctioning immigration process) in a roundabout way to confuse the liberals.
MAYORS AGAINST GUNS ... because they can't pass a background check themselves.
JEFF JACOBY: Things will be the same again.
HERE'S A QUESTION: "Would you and I, as well as our nation, be better off if you repaired my computer and I gave you $200 in cash and we agreed not to report the transaction to the agents of Congress? I'd answer yes and no. Yes, because there'd be more transactions, more jobs and greater wealth. No, because we'd be criminals."
A REMINDER about domestic terrorism.
DOOMSDAY CONFIRMED: it did happen during the Obama administration.
THOMAS SOWELL: Immigration Sophistry.
HURRAH! It's Tax Freedom Day.

On the down side, 'debt freedom day' won't come in my lifetime....

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

TOO LATE, SUCKERS! Union expresses buyers' remorse over ObamaCare.
PAUL GREENBERG: Shut Up, He Explained.
THE LOGIC OF BACKGROUND CHECKS: Would a Broader Screening Requirement for Gun Buyers Reduce Violent Crime?
Three sources accounted for almost nine out of 10 crime guns: friends or family (40 percent), the street (38 percent) and theft (10 percent). It is hard to see how any national background check requirement, even one applying to all private transfers, can reasonably be expected to have a significant impact on these sources.
Thus the answer: probably not.

ADDED: Congress agrees.
NASA DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR LORI GARVER: a role for private sector in NASA’s asteroid mission plans. I'd have more confidence if the headline read "a role for NASA in the private sector's asteroid mission plans."